[Gateway] A Rand Paul staffer was stabbed multiple times with a knife in broad daylight in DC over the weekend.
The news of the stabbing just broke Monday afternoon.
The staffer is alive.
According to charging documents, victim was attacked at random after leaving Sol Mexican Grill.
The suspect, 42-year-old black male named Glynn Neal, reportedly told police the "voices" in his head told him to do it.
"Federal Bureau of Prisons records show Neal was released from prison on Friday — the day before the stabbing." Fox 5 DC reported.
"He spent nearly 12 Years behind bars for compelling two North Carolina women to engage in prostitution through the use of threats." the outlet reported.
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Random victim? Keep track- once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action, and remember what happened to his lawn-mowing Dad.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More on this story from yesterday, with the usual photos and videos.
Audrey Hale, 28, used to be a student at The Covenant school in Nashville: on Monday, Hale attacked the school, shooting dead three children and three staff
Cops said Hale, born female, was transgender - although they didn't specify details: they said 'resentment at having to attend the school' was a factor
Nashville police on Monday evening released footage of the attack showing Hale shooting through the glass door and then stalking the corridors
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Stay silent, gay science, say hons,
As stunning America runs.
Bands of crossdressing feds
Chant, with transgendered reds,
"We do not want your sons... or your guns!"
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The school was founded around 2000 so she could be an alum.
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If K-6, that's some 16+ years ago. That's a long time to just suddenly flip out, and then be very deliberate. And if she did have a bad trauma, who there was at the school back then and caused that trauma? Certainly not the 9 year olds.
And if its true that her car with the shitty windows stickers was seen staking out other similar targets, then the fact she attended this school is just coincidence.
I'm saying answered a call to violence. Not trauma, not flip out, but a hit.
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Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale sent a friend a chilling “suicide note” minutes before slaughtering three children and three adults – writing her: “I’m planning to die today.”
Hale, 28, messaged Averianna Patton, her former middle school basketball teammate, on Instagram at 9:57 a.m. Monday, NewsChannel 5 reported.
“So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I’m planning to die today,” Hale wrote, using the name Aiden, according to messages Patton gave the outlet.
[Once again, we have suicidal ideation from mental illness in conjunction with a mass shooting. It’s not the gun — it’s the mental illness and a society that appears to be producing more and more of it. — Ed]
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“She was under care, doctor’s care, for an emotional disorder,” Nashville police chief John Drake said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“Her parents felt that she should not own weapons,” the chief added.
[Most of the American media outlets headlined this with the news that the suspect had purchased and hidden seven firearms rather than the mental-health information. CNN was a notable exception on this, however. Once again, we have another mass shooting in which mental-health issues were known, and red flags had already appeared. Did anyone take steps to intervene? That question needs to be answered. — Ed]
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It was the only school that was targeted. There was another location that was mentioned , but because of a threat assessment by the suspect — too much security — decided not to in another area of Nashville. So we’re continuing with that investigation as well.
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[Breitbart] When a Texas State Trooper was unable to take his daughters to a daddy-daughter dance, five of his fellow state troopers agreed to fill in so they would be able to attend.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper Curtis Putz was unable to attend his two daughters’ daddy-daughter dance after being struck by a car while investigating a crash in Navarro County during a winter storm in February, FOX 4 reported.
Citing DPS Director Steven McCraw, the Dallas Morning News reported at the time that Putz was injured when a driver was moving "too fast for the conditions, lost control of the vehicle and ran into our trooper" amid freezing rain and ice on the road.
WFLA reported Putz sustained several injuries, including a broken hip, pelvis, femur, ribs, forearm, and shoulder, as well as lacerations to his liver and arteries.
Authorities indicated he underwent multiple surgeries and was at the beginning of a lengthy recovery, per the Morning News.
"Trooper Putz’s condition continues to improve daily, however he faces a long recovery ahead," a DPS statement read. "We ask for your continued thoughts and prayers for him and his family."
A March 21 update to a GoFundPage drive set up to help the family with expenses associated with Putz’s injuries indicated the trooper has been moved to a rehabilitation facility and is "working so hard to get home!!"
[Sacramento NWS:] The next winter storm is making its [way] towards NorCal and will bring widespread rain & heavy mountain snow tonight [27 March] through Wednesday. Give yourself extra time for your commute the next few days. Mountain travel is highly discouraged!
---------------- nice satellite loop at the source
This storm will bring the total season snow to near or over 700" near Donner Pass- likely also will close many of the passes yet again. When storm gets to Utah, the Alta season snow will likely go over 800"- fortunately, since it is a cold system, flooding concerns are minimal for now
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Reno - NV, US, National Weather Service
Affected Area
Greater Reno-Carson City-Minden Area
Description
...WINTER STORM BRINGS STRONGER WINDS WITH RAIN AND SNOW TODAY, COLD AND SHOWERY WEDNESDAY... Gusty south to southwest winds will precede and accompany the main cold front today. Widespread wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph in valley locations with gusts exceeding 60 mph in wind prone areas (my backyard) will likely bring difficulties for high profile vehicles, aviation and boating activities.
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Glenmore, the important thing is that the water reach the snail darter or whatever endangered creature they are protecting. If after that the water gets wasted in the ocean, oh well.
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If after that the water gets wasted in the ocean, oh well.
Why are they letting water run into the ocean when the entire planet is threatened by rising sea levels?
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Everybody wants to be cowboy - until its time to do cowboy shit.
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Next-door neighbor had some of his cattle get through his fence to our land a couple of years ago, and we are unfenced to a high-speed state highway; he had to get a bunch of Bree-mounted cowboys to navigate the greenbriers to herd them back before something tragic happened.
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Dammed if ai [heh, that one's on me] can see how (as opposed to why, I insinuated significantly) this would happen, but for months now me browser's input thingy's been amusing me from time to time with a very convincing impression of having had its dictionary and/or "finger-following" rules changed. This morning's themes: 1) certain words ("gay" and a couple of routine mild profanities) absolutely weren't happening, user's devious persistence notwithstanding, unless keyed in letter by letter; 2) unrecognized (or whatever) words were replaced with oddball proper names.
Also, Russian wheat harvest is in, breaking previous record. Wagner troops released from contracts to work in bakeries. Moscow tearooms flooded with delicious pastries.
[ShabelleMedia] The breakaway Somaliland military said that they will carry out an all-out offensive against the SSC-Khatumo forces to retake control of the town of Lasanod.
The front man of the region’s military, Abdi Abdillahi Hassan Abdidhere declared on Sunday that Somaliland has run out of patience and will attack the rival forces.
"Somaliland has been patient as long as it could. We have been folding our hands a lot, so now it time to come out of our bases and recapture Las Anod" said Abdidhere.
He sent a warning to Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... troops in Lasanod and said they will pay the price for invading Somaliland, signaling new war between the two competing regional states.
He said that al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... is in the city and fighting along the SSC and Puntland soldiers, a claim that all sides have similarly rejected as baseless propaganda.
It is the first time that Somaliland has officially announced that it is going to launch offensive after having declared a ceasefire several times since losing Las Anod in January.
The U.N. Security Council last month called for a de-escalation of the conflict in Las Anod, but all calls for calm have gone unheeded as both sides continued exchanging heavy fire.
Tensions continue to rise in the region as heavy fighting erupted yesterday in Laascaanood, resulting in numerous casualties and injuries, according to credible sources who spoke to Garowe Online. Somaliland forces reportedly attacked the city, while SSC forces defended themselves against the attack, leading to a prolonged battle that lasted until dusk.
The exact number of casualties from both sides remains unknown; however, there are reports of shelling by Somaliland forces on the city, causing civilian deaths. In response to the conflict, the Somaliland administration has released a statement indicating that their forces will carry out attacks, effectively putting the recently announced ceasefire by President Muse Bihi Abdi into the end.
The ongoing conflict between the inhabitants of the SSC regions and Somaliland has resulted in over 500 deaths and the displacement of approximately 200,000 people from the Sool regional capital.
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Guardian:
Saudi National Bank chair resigns...
Ammar Al Khudairy’s remarks about Swiss lender spurred investor panic that led to emergency takeover. Mon 27 Mar 2023 The chair of the Saudi National Bank has resigned for “personal reasons” less than two weeks after his comments spurred investor panic over Credit Suisse that ended in an emergency takeover by its larger Swiss rival, UBS.
The Saudi National Bank (SNB), which was Credit Suisse’s largest shareholder, announced on Monday that it had “accepted” Ammar Al Khudairy’s resignation, and that he would be immediately replaced by its chief executive.
The Middle Eastern bank gave little detail regarding the swift replacement, saying only that Al Khudairy was stepping down “due to personal reasons”, according to a statement released to the Saudi stock exchange.
My guess: local organized crime
[REGNUM] In the Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia, unidentified persons fired at a stationary post of the Volga-14 traffic police, TASS reports on March 28, citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.
According to the source, one of the police officers was injured.
The 112 telegram channel says that the post was shelled remotely by several people. After return fire, the unidentified men walked on foot towards the village of Maiskoye.
The life of the injured police officer is not in danger.
As REGNUM reported , in early March, in Ingushetia, a businessman's house was fired from a machine gun when the whole family was sleeping. Unknown people drove up to the cottage in a car and opened fire from automatic weapons.
A traffic police post in the Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia was attacked; unidentified persons fired at it with automatic weapons. One security officer was wounded. The participants of the attack went on foot towards the village of Maiskoe.
In Ingushetia, at midnight from March 27 to 28, an attack was made on a stationary post of the traffic police "Volga-14" near the village of Kantyshevo.
The incident took place in the Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia, one of the police officers who was on duty on duty was wounded, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia writes in its telegram channel.
Presumably, the shooting was carried out from automatic weapons, the policeman was wounded in the leg. A search is underway for those involved in the incident. After return fire, they went on foot towards the village of Mayskoye, according to the telegram channel "112".
[BBC] Six months after sharing a photograph on Chinese social media celebrating her graduate school admission with her bedridden grandfather, Zheng Linghua died.
The 23-year-old had shared the image on the platform Xiaohongshu - sporting pink hair and visibly excited, she announced to the world that she had earned a spot to study music at East China Normal University.
"Grandpa has been my pillar of support since I was little... One of my motivations for applying to graduate school was so that my grandfather could see me get in, and be proud of me," she wrote.
But her joy was short-lived.
Within days, she had become a target of bullying online. Her photograph was shared with false, and often insulting, captions. She then became the target of relentless taunting, with some calling her a "nightclub girl" and an "evil spirit".
It's unclear how Zheng died but last month a friend of hers broke the news on Xiaohongshu: "Because of bullying online and in school, Zheng Linghua's life ended on January 23, 2023".
While so-called cyber bullying happens everywhere, China's collectivist culture and the lack of pressure on social media companies to stamp out abuse lend the phenomenon a particular momentum. A poll of more than 2,000 social media users in China found that about four in 10 respondents have experienced some form of online abuse. It also found that 16% of the victims had suicidal thoughts. Almost half experienced anxiety, 42% insomnia, and 32% depression.
Zheng initially had plans to confront her online abusers with legal action - one of her Weibo posts last September was on "how to sue people who madly attack you from behind the screens?" But she was later diagnosed with and medicated for depression, which she revealed on her social media, sharing details about how she had been battling sleeping and eating disorders. In November, she shared pictures of herself in a hospital ward with the caption: "actively fighting depression".
Her death is just one in a string of deaths that have been linked to online bullying in China.
In January 2022, Liu Xuezhou from the city Xingtai killed himself after a reunion with his birth parents turned sour. As their row played out online, some people accused him of being selfish. The 17-year-old, who was orphaned at the age of four, left behind a note detailing his past experiences with bullying and depression.
History teacher Liu Hanbo from central Henan province died in November that same year after trolls gate-crashed her online classes repeatedly. They hurled insults, played loud music, and spammed the group conversation. Authorities ruled out foul play in Liu's death but said they would investigate if she had been bullied online.
Last month, online influencer Sun Fanbao killed himself - his wife said the 38-year-old was repeatedly insulted by one of his followers and became depressed in the months before he died. Sun shot to fame in 2021 after documenting his 4,000-kilometre trip from Shandong to Tibet on a tractor.
COLLECTIVISM MEETS LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
In collectivist cultures such as China, those perceived as going against the norm tend to be severely punished, experts say. What makes it worse, they add, is a pervasive culture of shame.
"A strong sense of collectivism in China can mean that cyberbullying, when perpetrated as a symbolic act of violence or aggression towards another in a public setting, may lead to drastic measures, such as suicide, to escape that sense of humiliation," says K Cohen Tan, a vice-provost at University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
Reading through the posts and comments, it's hard to know what drew the trolls to Zheng. It could well have been her unconventional pink hair, which appears to have bothered some of her online attackers. Others even suggested she was romantically involved with an elderly man, a possible reference to her grandfather.
Dr Tan says online bullies typically "stigmatise individuals for their personal actions or choices" and that is "later compounded by herd instinct". The combined effect, he says, "leaves victims feeling helpless".
While online vitriol is not always politically charged, the Chinese government "tolerates a specific type of cyberbullying" by right-wing nationalists, says Fang Kecheng, a journalism professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The subjects of such attacks have largely been people who were seen as tainting China's image in the eyes of the world.
Michael Berry, who translated Wuhan Diary - a journal published by writer Fang Fang during her time under Covid lockdown in Wuhan - has been a target of such trolling.
"Some threatened to kill me and my family if we ever came back to China," Dr Berry said in an interview with WhyNot, a US-based magazine. "Many of these messages contained serious threats and spoke of a deep hatred. Some users were sending me threats like this on a daily basis."
Fang Fang too faced a backlash online, with some accusing her of giving foreigners "a giant sword" to attack China.
The New Yorker magazine's staff writer Fan Jiayang and her mother were also attacked by Chinese nationalists online, calling them traitors, after she publicised her mother's struggle with ALS, a motor neurone disease, in the midst of the pandemic.
Many believe social media platforms in China should be held to greater account, as platforms are elsewhere in the world.
"It has been very difficult for victims to seek legal protection and redress," assistant professor Fang says. "There has been very few cases in which the offenders and the platforms are punished."
This is partly because bullying online is not prioritised as a problem by social media companies or Beijing, which instead runs an extensive censorship machine to stifle dissent or any form of a political conversation.
Social media platforms in China reportedly abide by a growing list of censored search terms - in recent times, these have included words like "Urumqi" and "Shanghai", cities where anti-Covid protests have taken place.
"China has robust technological tools for monitoring online content. More of those resources should be redirected toward curbing cyberbullying. [The government] should not condone the culture of fostering online 'hate campaigns'," says Jonathan Sullivan, a China specialist and political scientist at the University of Nottingham.
Some are also calling for more public education on online safety.
Schools should implement emotional and social learning programmes that teach students how to resolve disagreements and make responsible decisions, said Janis Whitlock, who directs the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery at Cornell University.
More fundamentally, mental healthcare should be strengthened in China, Dr Sullivan says.
Experts say nearly three years of strict and abrupt Covid lockdowns may also have increased time spent online, leading to more instances of bullying.
"What else are you going to do if you are locked down for months on end? This in turn, has also led to an exponential increase in online violence and cyberbullying. Part of this comes from the fact that people were out of work, frustrated, and angry," Dr Berry says.
"People felt like they needed an outlet to vent. And in many cases, they turn to 'keyboard justice', unleashing attacks against celebrities and other public figures," he adds.
In one of her last Weibo posts in October, Zheng reflected on so-called "black swan events" that she experienced last year. Among other things, she listed online abuse, internet violence, depression, and graduate school applications.
"Yes, my dramatic life is fast-paced and fluctuates a lot. But these things have helped me muster courage to go through life's ups and downs, and not lose my way… Next year will definitely be better," she wrote.
By then, she had dyed her pink hair black.
Zheng went silent on social media soon after, but up until last month, friends and followers have been leaving comments on her Weibo account, many expressing regret and shock over her death.
"I can't believe this at all. You were such a wonderful human being," one of them wrote.
Another said: "My sadness is unspeakable. I am so disappointed with this world."
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Groupthink is a profound flaw in hive cultures emerging from modern hyper-connectivity though technology! Addiction to connectivity creates hugely disproportionate influence on adolescent minds (my granddaughter's experience on social media was a shocking wake-up call to recognizing this phenomenon). We seem to be allowing a generation of weak-willed, obsessive, timid minds, incapable of actual independent, critical thinking to developing right in front of us?
[Rudaw] Hungary’s parliament on Monday ratified Finland’s bid to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... months after delay. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... is yet to finalise the ratification of the Scandinavian country's ascension to the military alliance.
Sweden and Finland made a joint bid to join NATO a year ago after Russia invaded Ukraine. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Ankara raised objections, accusing the Nordic countries of supporting groups Turkey labels as terrorists, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Hungary has also complained that both countries had unfairly criticised its government’s policy.
The Hungarian parliament convened on Monday to make a final decision on Finland’s NATO bid. Six parliamentarians voted against the proposal but 182 others voted yes. No politician abstained, reported Telex news outlet.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said on March 17 that his country would start the necessary protocols to ratify Finland’s accession into NATO. The Ottoman Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs’ commission has approved the bid. The legislature has to approve the bill before it closes next month as general elections take place on May 14.
Ankara, Stockholm and Helsinki signed a memorandum in June 2022 to address Turkey’s concerns, including extraditing alleged PKK members. Sweden deported a Kurdish refugee to Turkey in December for suspected links to the PKK.
While Turkey has now signalled it will approve Finland’s bid, Sweden is still waiting for a green light and Erdogan has said he expects more from Stockholm.
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A repeat of this story from last Thursday. One wonders why this annual event — see appended article from the Times of Israel, below — is suddenly getting major attention in the Christian press, when it has not in previous years.
[MiddleEastMonitor] Christians could face one year prison sentence for encouraging conversion to their faith, according to a new controversial legislation being introduced in Israel. The legislation which is being proposed by ultra-Orthodox members of Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition would also proscribe Christians from engaging in religious discussion with Jews.
Titled Proposed Penal Law: Amendment — Prohibition of Solicitation for Religious Conversion — 2023, the legislation is introduced by United Torah Judaism's Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher. The law would apply to anyone who would attempt to persuade someone to change their religious beliefs, however the legislation specifically mentions the Christian faith, saying that "recently, the attempts of missionary groups, mainly Christians, to solicit conversion of religion have increased."
Publishing books, other printed literature, online articles, podcasts, or other forms of media that explain the life and ministry of Jesus and His message found in the New Testament would also become illegal.
[IsraelTimes] UTJ-sponsored bill, submitted at start of every Knesset, is not meant to become law, says spokesman — but millions of Christian supporters of Israel globally have taken notice
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An aside for Hupung Untervehr9838 (and all others submitting articles): in future, please put the name of your source in square brackets at the top of the text, for the times when you happen to forget to paste the URL in the Source box. A quick internet search of the text gave me the Middle East Monitor as one of many possible matches, but I have no way of knowing if that is where you actually found it.
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I also loke the brackets just because there are some sites I'm not going to give a click to, and the brackets mention is a heads up.
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Jews will face jail in America
Eh? This was proposed in Israel’s Knesset, what they call their parliament. Who is proposing Jews be jailed for proselytizing in America? And when do Jews proselytize, other than Jews For Jesus, who are actually Christian?
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Voting dem even when it's clear dems are antisemitic is a form of proselytization.
Just not for Judaism.
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Hidden logic at the Burg:
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher 1911-1977 was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.
[NYP] The future of cancer treatment — hailed as the "holy grail" of early detection — is now being put to the test.
Following a radically successful trial on cancer patients, a new blood test that promises to predict tumors more than a year before they begin to form is now being applied in hospitals across the United Kingdom.
"This is the first pan-cancer blood test," said Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs as well as chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, the Indian firm where the test was first developed in 2021. An updated report on their findings was published this month in the journal Stem Cells.
"We can detect [cancer] earlier than other known technologies ... before the tumor has physically formed," Tripathi continued during a new interview with author and medical advocate Deepak Chopra.
"Not only can I actually detect it at this stage — I can actually tell you which cancer and where it is forming, straight from a blood test."
[ZERO] The U.S. government has released the licensing agreement it hammered out with vaccine manufacturer Moderna but has refused to confirm many payment details.
Moderna agreed to pay the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to license spike protein technology the company included in its COVID-19 vaccine, the contract confirms.
Moderna resisted for years acknowledging the work by government researchers on the spike protein but relented in late 2021 and announced the contract during an earnings call on Feb. 23.
Moderna said it provided a "catch-up payment" of $400 million to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the NIH, under the agreement.
Moderna agreed to pay the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to license spike protein technology the company included in its COVID-19 vaccine, the contract confirms.
The newly disclosed contract says that Moderna would pay the NIH a "noncreditable, nonrefundable royalty in the amount of Four Hundred Million dollars."
Portions that would confirm Moderna’s statement that the company would pay "low single digit royalties" on future sales of its COVID-19 vaccines are redacted.
The contract, running 34 pages, has key sections redacted as to future royalties.
One section, for instance, says, "The licensee agrees to pay to the NIAID earned royalties on net sales ... as follows." But the rest of the section is redacted. "Redacted" for what reason ?
The Epoch Times obtained the contract through the Freedom of Information Act.
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NIH research work likely coordinated by Fauci and conducted at Wuhan. CCP paid USD to conduct Gain of Function research. CCP gets paid (portion redacted) for the pandemic antidote. Good work if you can get it.
The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) ; formerly known as the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center) is a component of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) responsible for the production of medical intelligence and all-source intelligence on foreign health threats and other medical issues to protect U.S. interests worldwide.[6] Headquartered at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the center provides finished intelligence products to the Department of Defense, U.S. Intelligence Community, Five Eyes, NATO, allies and partners, as well as international health organizations and NGO's.
Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Assess foreign basic and applied biomedical and biotechnological developments of military medical importance.
Assess foreign civilian and military pharmaceutical industry capabilities.
Assess foreign scientific and technological medical advances for defense against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.
Prevent technological surprise.
Prevent proliferation of dual-use equipment and knowledge.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway] A Rand Paul staffer was stabbed multiple times with a knife in broad daylight in DC over the weekend.
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
Hidden logic at the Burg:
Time will tell. 
[ZERO] The U.S. government has released the licensing agreement it hammered out with vaccine manufacturer Moderna but has refused to confirm many payment details.
