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When there are widespread clandestine ops with assets unknown to each other, some form of rapidly identified clothing, color or easily visible symbol is needed to reduce the risk of blue-on-blue mistakes.
If you've ever owned your own business, been an entrepreneur, or wondered what it's like doing so, this is as close to reality as it gets.
The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn't paying proper wages to his Deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.
IRS AUDITOR: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them".
Boat Owner: "Well, there's Clarence, my deckhand, he's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweisers every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally".
IRS AUDITOR: "That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one".
Boat Owner: "That would be me. What would you like to know"?
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Going to send that to my brother who used to own a fishing boat and had to put up with all their B-S. Actually had to pay an 'observer' on his trips.
[Daily Beast] BUJA, Nigeria—Prince Ngoma was just about to depart a mining site in Central African Republic’s (CAR) eastern village of Aïgbado when heavily armed Russian mercenaries in a pickup truck drove in, opened fire, and burned down the houses in the area.
"They didn’t speak a word to anyone, only their guns did the talking," said Ngoma, who was only there to meet a friend. "I saw people screaming and falling on the ground. It was only by luck that I survived."
For about 20 minutes at around noon on Jan. 16, Ngoma said, the Russians opened fire repeatedly before fighters from the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group, which the mercenaries have constantly targeted, showed up and began to fire back, wounding about four fighters and causing the Russians to retreat.
"We counted eight bodies after the Russians had left," he told The Daily Beast. "These were civilians killed at the spot during the shooting."
But the Russians weren’t satisfied. As hundreds of frightened villagers ran to the nearby Yanga community (located 40 miles from Aïgbado), the Russian mercenaries, this time accompanied by CAR government forces commonly referred to as FACA, chased them there and slaughtered as many people as they could.
"The killings went on for two days." Abdoulaye Ishmael, a farmer in Yanga, told The Daily Beast. "Since the incident happened, we've counted up to 70 dead bodies."
The United Nations, through its spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, said it has received reports of the incident involving CAR troops and "other security personnel" and is "currently confirming the number of casualties and displacement." The human rights team in the country known as MINUSCA has been dispatched to the area—and they may be shocked by what they find.
Locals say there are corpses littered in the forest between Aïgbado and Yanga, while fishermen at the Kotto River that passes through Yanga have retrieved 14 dead bodies, including women and children, according to local reports.
[Kansas City Star] The United Nations has received "credible allegations" that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban took over the country Aug. 15, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says.
In a report obtained Sunday by The Associated Press, Guterres said that "more than two-thirds" of the victims were alleged to result from extrajudicial killings by the Taliban or its affiliates, despite the Taliban’s announcement of "general amnesties" for those affiliated with the former government and U.S.-led coalition forces.
The U.N. political mission in Afghanistan also received "credible allegations of extrajudicial killings of at least 50 individuals suspected of affiliation with ISIL-KP," the Islamic State extremist group operating in Afghanistan, Guterres said in the report to U.N. Security Council.
He added that despite Taliban assurances, the U.N. political mission has also received credible allegations "of enforced disappearances and other violations impacting the right to life and physical integrity" of former government and coalition members.
Guterres said human rights defenders and media workers also continue "to come under attack, intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and killings."
[Breitbart] Democrats have complained about so-called “dark money” for a decade, but they benefited from $1.5 billion in “dark money” spending in the 2020 election, compared to $900 million for Republicans, according to a recent New York Times analysis.
“Dark money” is money spent by groups outside campaigns and political parties that do not have to disclose their donors — either because they are organized as “social welfare” organizations under section 501(c)4 of the federal tax code, or as 501(c)3 charities receiving contributions from donor-advised funds that allow many donors to remain anonymous.
Democrats have claimed for years that Republicans are the primary beneficiaries of “dark money,” ever since the Supreme Court decided in the Citizens United case in 2011 that the Federal Elections Commission could not censor an anti-Hillary Clinton film before an election because people organized as corporations, no less than individuals, have free speech rights.
Clinton and almost every Democrat since has run on a pledge to revise the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit the ability of corporations to spend on elections. Meanwhile, however, they have built a dominant “dark money” machine.
The Times‘ Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher note that Democrats even funded “Republican” anti-Trump groups:
The analysis shows that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations that generally align with the Democratic Party spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 — compared to roughly $900 million spent by a comparable sample of 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the G.O.P.
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A single, cryptically named entity that has served as a clearinghouse of undisclosed cash for the left, the Sixteen Thirty Fund,
...bankrolled by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, reporting to DC consulting group Arabella Advisors that manages a network of such groups, and staffed by a Who’s Who of seasoned Democratic operatives...
received mystery donations as large as $50 million and disseminated grants to more than 200 groups, while spending a total of $410 million in 2020 — more than the Democratic National Committee itself.
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The big-money right was fractured over whether to support Mr. Trump’s re-election. Anti-Trump Republicans started new groups that were welcomed into the left’s big-money firmament: Defending Democracy Together, co-founded in 2018 by the conservative pundit William Kristol,
...who now pundits for Progressive pay instead...
spent nearly $40 million in 2020 — $10.5 million of it from the Sixteen Thirty Fund. And Mr. Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud hamstrung Republican efforts to compete with progressive groups that spent heavily to promote early and mail voting.
On the left, the prospect of a second Trump term spurred a new class of megadonors, and helped allay lingering qualms about the corrosive effect of secret money among some Democrats.
Republicans are attempting to catch up, organizing their own “dark money” efforts to oppose President Joe Biden and his policies. However, they have much catching up to do. Biden, who struggled early in the race, raised over $1 billion directly in 2020, versus $800 million for President Donald Trump, who was outspent though he had the advantage of incumbency.
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Liars. These are the flaming assholes who bleated for decades about "big money" was corrupting our politics, how the GOP was the party of "no billionaire left behind," how giant corporations like hAlliBUrToN!!! dominate our politics.
How "democracy does in darkness." Etc etc.
So much ridiculous, day-is-night and up-is-down retarded bullshit.
Such shameless hypocrites. Literally nothing they say can be believed.
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Money is only the root of all evil when it's being spent by other people with other ideas.
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Everyone looks out for their family first. The way to take down oligarchs is to take down their familys. This is what BLM was doing but they did not go high enough up the tree.
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Besoker I’m in blue/blue DeKalb, Brookhaven and I never saw signs like normal. My flannel wearing, Indigo Girls loving, Subaru driving neighbors didn’t post an Ossoff sign
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An ongoing "investigation" can protect its subjects from other outside probes and give the appearance of action while also offering the timeless PR cover of "...cannot comment on ongoing investigations" which offers the appearance of probity and integrity while revealing nothing. Consider the Durham road show and the winding path towards justice or the statute of limitations, depending on the blast radius of actual prosecution.
[BBee] "The Russians are behind the protests" didn't work. On to plan B.
A "freedom convoy" of Canadian truckers is on its way to Ottawa in protest of vaccine mandates. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back at accusations of tyrannical government overreach by claiming the truckers just hate him because he's black.
"As a proud black man, this is the kind of discrimination I have faced my whole life," said Trudeau in a nationwide address over Zoom. "These truckers are a bunch of racist white men. They're probably not even gay."
[Townhall] GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday pushed back against some of his Republican colleagues' claims that President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court is an example of affirmative action, saying instead that he favors making the bench "look like America."
Biden said Thursday he would nominate a black woman to the bench after Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plans to retire, reiterating comments he made as a presidential candidate during a Democratic primary debate in early 2020.
Graham said during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" that selecting qualified people of color to serve in American institutions is not the same as picking someone purely based on their race.
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I could care less about the race, color, creed, or M/F sex of the SCOTUS nominee selection.
BUT HAVING SAID THAT.
Any president deciding to pick only based on that limited criteria
is political and wreaks of Racial Sexual Pandering for votes over applying the best justice for the USA.
MY OPINION
The SCOTUS must always have the BEST US CONSTITUTIONAL Legal Minds ruling on the written US Constitution. Not judges ruling based on their Political handler's agendas, or judges that use the position to liberally interpret and/or add their own ideas of Social Justice to the US Constitution.
BTW:
Given the craziness of this Admin. One has to wonder if the Biden handlers may have looked just to see if there was a Black, Transgender Federal Judge they could nominate. ☻
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Since at least the 1930s there's always been a custom of recognizing the political importance of the latest socially- and politically-ascendant ethnic or other minority in each generation with at least one Justice to represent that group on SCOTUS.
First it was (Irish) Catholics and Jews (F. Murphy, F. Frankfurter), then Black males (Marshall, Thomas), then women.
And now (wise-guy) Latin(a)s and Magic Mulattas.
And (soon) Gheys and Chix wit Dix. And a Non-Citizen Undocumented Hiji de Dios.
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#7 NN2N1, unfortunately Lindsey is not the one up for reelection this year. Tim Scott is.
We reelected Lindsey in 2020--he had laughably weak primary opposition; and in the general, well his opponent was Jaime Harrison, currently the chair of the DNC--which tells you all you need to know. It was truly the election of the lesser of two evils.
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As Tyrus said yesterday on Fox News this will only give ammunition to those opposed to black Americans. They can then claim, with some ammount of credibility, she was only chosen because she is black. It is political.
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“The White House has confirmed that they are considering South Carolina District Court Judge Michelle Childs to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Childs is, as promised by Biden, a black woman.
“Judge Childs is among multiple individuals under consideration for the Supreme Court, and we are not going to move her nomination on the Court of Appeals while the President is considering her for this vacancy,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement, obtained by Fox News. “At the same time, reporting indicating that the President is only seriously considering three potential nominees is incorrect.”
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Just can't make it without old Uncle Joe's hand-me-downs. Great messaging.
[MAIL] An off-duty correction officer was lured to a date with a woman in the Bronx and ambushed by two armed robbers who ended up in the hospital after the victim shot them Saturday night.
The unnamed officer and a young woman were sitting in a car at East 183 Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx at around 6pm, according to the New York Police Department.
The officer thought he was meeting Diamond Sanchez, 21, for a date, police sources told the New York Daily News.
They were sitting at the intersection when two men - Christopher Santana, 22, and Leonel Cuevas, 26 - walked up to them and tried to rob them, sources said.
Santana and Cuevas both ended up in the hospital after the correction officer - whose name and age have not been revealed - shot them multiple times. The pair was arrested along with the young woman, who seems to have been working against her 'date' from the very beginning.
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The people who were shot are the victims. What kind of journalist wrote this? Doesn't she know how to frame stories correctly, particularly when Hispanic surnames are involved?
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Every time I see some title like that I read it as "Master Chef fighting the Covenant..." and I imagine a character that's half Marine Cyborg, half Gordon Ramsay...
The FBI reportedly spent two years considering whether it should have used a clandestine spyware tool from an Israeli firm that can hack into any phone in US
The spyware has been found in the cellphones of the likes of a Human Rights Watch investigator as well as Finnish diplomats working abroad
US government agencies were contacted by the NSO Group, an Israel's notorious cyberweapons firm, multiple times between 2019 and last summer
The two-years where US agencies considered procuring the spyware, dubbed 'Phantom,' happened at a time when NSO became the subject of controversy
The country's top law enforcement agency ultimately did not purchase or procure the spyware software
Critics of the firm had levied accusations of worldwide human rights abuses
The US's interest was due to the fact that the firm's primary spyware does not work on US phone numbers and therefore couldn't be used in investigations Uh huh
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...A funny, funny man and by all accounts a decent one. Everybody remembers the WKRP ep with the turkeys, but for me the hand-down funniest one was where Johnny Fever and a Ohio Highway Patrolman do a reflex test intended to show you how the more you drink, the worse your reflexes get...except the more Johnny drinks, the faster he gets.
Mike
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Having grown up in the Cincy area (go Bengals) I of course watched this show. Loni Anderson was good eye candy but Jan Smithers was stunning.
Anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 500% in San Francisco last year. Half of the reported incidents were allegedly committed by one man, a purported migrant who needed a translator after he was arrested. Now DA Chesa Boudin has released him from custody. https://t.co/EUZUTipp1m
Questions are being raised after a man accused of being involved in over two dozen hate crimes committed against the API community last year was allowed to be out of custody despite the number of charges against him.
According to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, 37-year-old Derik Barreto is the man responsible for more than half of all reported hate crimes against the API community in San Francisco last year.
Barreto is scheduled to appear in court at the end of the month. Prosecutors argued against mental health diversion for the defendant, who has been charged, but is not in custody right now.
Surveillance video from several Chinese-owned San Francisco businesses captured a man on a scooter last summer, smashing windows, sometimes with a slingshot, entering stores, burglarizing, and vandalizing property.
Authorities said Barreto is the man responsible for a string of 27 separate attacks, many in the Ingleside neighborhood, Chinatown, and in the Ocean Avenue corridor, that haunted business owners between April and August of last year.
“His target was the Asian community. So what would have happened if any of those victims were inside the stores and tried to defend themselves? This could have easily escalated into something much worse,” said former San Francisco Mayoral candidate Richie Greeberg.
District Attorney’s Chesa Boudin’s office charged Barreto soon after police arrested him in August with 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools, along with one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.
Barreto was also charged with 31 hate crime enhancements, which authorities said were based on racially charged statements he made.
A judge granted Barreto mental health diversion in September, according to the DA’s office.
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Following his arrest, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Barreto with a total of 33 crimes, as NextShark previously reported. Those included 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second-degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools and one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.
The definition of "hate crime" really loosened up to make headlines. This while old Asians cold cocked from behind and left in a coma on the sidewalk is classified as littering. All depends on which group is doing the hating.
[Newsweek] A woman is accused of using a fatal robbery to carry out a theft of her own, according to police.
Lakiesha Deshawn McGhee, 43, a registered nurse from Bonaire, Georgia, was arrested on Monday and charged with theft by taking and tampering with evidence, according to local paper The Telegraph. McGhee allegedly stole several lottery tickets from a store after the clerk, Sabrina Renee Dollar, 43, was gunned down by robbers.
The incident played out on January 18, when McGhee was a patron at the J&J Dollar Store, a store that sells lottery tickets and operates video poker machines, in Warner Robins, Georgia. Following the fatal robbery, McGhee was reportedly the one who called 911. Despite attempting to help in the aftermath, she was eventually caught pocketing the tickets from the back office. The exact value of the tickets that she stole is unknown at this time.
[AmericanThinker] "COVID-19 in Israel: Serious cases increase tenfold in span of a month, continue to rise," announces a recent headline from the Jerusalem Post.
Elsewhere we learn that Israel’s positive test rate is a staggering 29.63 percent. This means that nearly one-third of all Covid tests taken by Israelis are coming back positive.
Israel is obviously a country in deep Covid trouble with the SARS-CoV-2 virus running out of control in that nation.
Revealingly, Israel happens to be one of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world. Some 80 percent of its adult population have been double vaccinated and some 55 percent have received a booster. Too bad Grom isn't here to tell us why this is good news, but I don't think he's coming back.
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Letter from Israel's leading immunologist, Dr Ehud Qimron of Tel Aviv U., to the Israeli public health authorities:
Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.
You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda “you overcame the plague.” And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.
You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007”, p. 26).
You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people. You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination — and you failed in that as well.
You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults, than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.
You refused to adopt the “Barrington Declaration”, signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common sense programs. You chose to ridicule, slander, distort and discredit them. ...
You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines, and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page. Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did with some of their colleagues. Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.
You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda “you overcame the plague.” And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.
You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007”, p. 26).
You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people. You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination — and you failed in that as well.
You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults, than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.
You refused to adopt the “Barrington Declaration”, signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common sense programs. You chose to ridicule, slander, distort and discredit them. Instead of the right programs and people, you have chosen professionals who lack relevant training for pandemic management (physicists as chief government advisers, veterinarians, security officers, media personnel, and so on).
You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines, and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page. Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did with some of their colleagues. You have ignored many reports of changes in menstrual intensity and menstrual cycle times. You hid data that allows for objective and proper research (for example, you removed the data on passengers at Ben Gurion Airport). Instead, you chose to publish non-objective articles together with senior Pfizer executives on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
Irreversible damage to trust
However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that in the end the truth will be revealed. And it begins to be revealed. The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority. The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.
You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. You made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel, as school principals around the country attest. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health and physical health.
You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease. You promote, in an unprecedented way, a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. ...
Irreversible damage to trust
However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that in the end the truth will be revealed. And it begins to be revealed.
The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority.
The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.
You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. You made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel, as school principals around the country attest. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health and physical health.
You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease.
You promote, in an unprecedented way, a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.
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LINK to translated letter by Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic.
#122 ^TW,
27.1% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 13.7% is fully vaccinated. 3.86 billion doses have been administered globally, and 30.86 million are now administered each day.
You don't think if there were any adverse effects, we'd hear about it by now? I mean, not a few dozens people but a few hundred thousand.
Oops. Actually there are MILLIONS now. 100s, even 1000x more than what we were originally told. So many that Pfizer are trying desperately to shield their data from scrutiny ... for 75 years!
p.s. Before vaccines become available, we seen - here at Ranburg - a "scientific" report that masks don't work, at least once a week. We seen reports that people who recovered from Covid have antibodies six-months later.
Double oops.
We seen reports that HCQ, ivermectin - and, for all I know hair growth cream - cure Covid.
Triple oops.
So, it all may be science for MIT anthropologists. For me, it's no different from AGW science or Christian science or Creation Science
^ ...the signature nasty sign-off, a guns-blazing bad-faith ad hominem attacking fellow 'burgers who've suffered personally from our leaders' blatant lies and incompetence -- that special kick in the gut that can only mark the "good contribution" of...
...g(r)omgoru 2021-07-25 16:29
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One of my retired military pilot buddies sent me a report he was forwarded that indicates the pilot of the splashed F-35 screwed the pooch while attempting the carrier landing. The report indicates that it was due to severe myocarditis and the pilot had a booster 72 hrs prior. "it felt like someone hit me in the chest with a baseball bat..." You can only cover it up for so long...
Myocarditis Following Immunization With mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Members of the US Military.
Jay Montgomery, MD; Margaret Ryan, MD, MPH; Renata Engler, MD; Donna Hoffman, MSN; Bruce McClenathan, MD; Limone Collins, MD; David Loran, DNP; David Hrncir, MD; Kelsie Herring, MD; Michael Platzer, MD; Nehkonti Adams, MD; Aliye Sanou, MD; Leslie T. Cooper Jr, MD
IMPORTANCE Myocarditis has been reported with COVID-19 but is not clearly recognized as a possible adverse event following COVID-19 vaccination.
OBJECTIVE To describe myocarditis presenting after COVID-19 vaccination within the Military Health System.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This retrospective case series studied patients within the US Military Health System who experienced myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination between January and April 2021. Patients who sought care for chest pain following COVID-19
vaccination and were subsequently diagnosed with clinical myocarditis were included.
EXPOSURE Receipt of a messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine between January 1 and April 30, 2021.
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Clinical diagnosis of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination in the absence of other identified causes.
RESULTS A total of 23 male patients (22 currently serving in the military and 1 retiree; median [range] age, 25 [20-51] years) presented with acute onset of marked chest pain within 4 days
after receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. All military members were previously healthy with a high level of fitness. Seven received the BNT162b2-mRNA vaccine and 16 received the
mRNA-1273 vaccine. A total of 20 patients had symptom onset following the second dose of an appropriately spaced 2-dose series. All patients had significantly elevated cardiac troponin levels. Among 8 patients who underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging within the acute phase of illness, all had findings consistent with the clinical diagnosis of myocarditis.
Additional testing did not identify other etiologies for myocarditis, including acute COVID-19 and other infections, ischemic injury, or underlying autoimmune conditions. All patients received brief supportive care and were recovered or recovering at the time of this report.
The military administered more than 2.8 million doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in this period. While the observed number of myocarditis cases was small, the number was higher than expected among male military members after a second vaccine dose.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this case series, myocarditis occurred in previously healthy military patients with similar clinical presentations following receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Further surveillance and evaluation of this adverse event following immunization is warranted. Potential for rare vaccine-related adverse events must be considered in the context of the well-established risk of morbidity, including cardiac injury, following COVID-19
infection.
JAMA Cardiol. 2021;6(10):1202-1206. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2021.2833
Published online June 29, 2021.
Editorial pages 1115 and 1117 Related article page 1196 Supplemental content Author Affiliations: Author affiliations are listed at the end of this
article. Corresponding Author: Jay
Montgomery, MD, Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center,
4954 N Palmer Rd, Bldg 19, Room
4026, Bethesda, MD 20889 (jay.r.
montgomery.civ@mail.mil); Margaret
Ryan, MD, MPH, Naval Medical
Center San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson
Dr, Bldg 6, Room 4V7C1, San Diego,
CA 92134 (margaret.a.ryan6.civ@
mail.mil).
Research
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The data from around the world are unequivocal. For a young man 15-25 the risk of severe myocarditis, or another serious adverse effect from the mRNA jab, is orders of magnitude higher than the risk of severe COVID.
"... So, the blame game is in full swing. At a recent Senate hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci did not even attempt to defend his policies. Instead, he insisted that: 'Everything that I have said has been in support of the CDC guidelines.'
"Dr. Fauci, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has worked closely with the two CDC directors, Drs. Robert Redfield and Rochelle Walensky, throughout the pandemic, but he is now laying the responsibility on them.
"[Fauxi] did the same with his former boss, shortly after Dr. Francis Collins resigned as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"Dr. Collins fiercely defended Fauci throughout the pandemic. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration criticized Fauci's lockdown strategy, calling for focused protection of high-risk older people while letting children go to school and young adults live near-normal lives.
"A few days later, Collins—a geneticist with little public health experience—wrote an email to Fauci suggesting a "take down" of the declaration, and characterizing its Harvard, Oxford and Stanford authors as 'fringe epidemiologists.'
"Fauci agreed with his boss, but when asked about the incident at the recent Senate hearing, he responded that it 'was an email from Dr. Collins to me.' In other words, Fauci himself was just following orders."
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday announced that they have fully secured al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava), following a week-long standoff with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group, with the large-scale conflict having killed at least 322 people.
"As part of the large-scale sweeping campaign launched by our forces against ISIS, we announce the end of the sweep campaign in al-Sina'a prison in Ghweran neighborhood of Hasaka, and the end of the last pockets in which ISIS forces of Evil were holed up in the [prison's] northern dormitories," the Kurdish-led force said in a statement.
The US-led Coalition's Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant (SOJTF-Levant) on Sunday said in a tweet that the detainees "were relocated into an enhanced and hardened facility preventing further ISIS [ISIS] escape."
"This was a huge ISIS failure that ultimately sped up the clock to ensuring that the detainees are in a hardened facility from which they will never escape," Isaac Peltier, commander of SOJTF-Levant said.
Despite the SDF having declared previously, it said that 60 to 90 ISIS forces of Evil were resisting in the northern part of the prison. The Kurdish force had called for their safe surrender, promising "firm" implications in case of further resistance.
In light of the SDF's statement, the group also declared that they had arrested nine suspected ISIS members in the town of Hajin in Deir ez-Zor province.
According to the SDF, communication devices and documents were seized proving the member's intentions to carry out terrorist attacks in the future.
These developments come after the terror group’s major attack on the al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka on January 21. While the organization is fully devoid of territorial control, its daring attacks across Iraq and Syria are raising significant concern about its capabilities.
The terror group's failed incursion in the Hasaka prison has resulted in the deaths of 322 people according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Among them are 246 ISIS members, 79 security forces (Asayish) and prison guards, and seven civilians.
The death toll in fierce clashes since then rose to 332 as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) found over 50 more bodies overnight in prison buildings and nearby areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based group, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, said that 246 jihadists, 79 Kurdish fighters and seven civilian had been killed so far in the IS assault and battles since.
"The newly discovered bodies were inside and outside the prison," Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory, told AFP.
He said the death toll was likely to rise further "because there are dozens of people who are wounded, others who are still missing, and information about more casualties" on both sides.
The SDF announced they had recaptured the prison on Wednesday but intermittent clashes continued until Saturday between Kurdish fighters and jihadists near the jail.
On Saturday, an AFP correspondent saw a truck carrying away piles of bodies from an area near the prison, believed to be those of IS fighters. A bulldozer dumped more bodies onto the truck, which then headed to an unknown location.
Farhad Shami, who heads the SDF's media office, told AFP that the bodies would be buried in "remote, dedicated areas" under SDF control.
Beginning in the summer of 1943 during World War II (1939-1945), U.S. forces in the Pacific launched Operation Cartwheel, a series of amphibious assaults aimed at encircling the major Japanese base at Rabaul, on the island of New Britain in the southwest Pacific. General Douglas MacArthur led the Allied advance through New Guinea, while Admiral William “Bull” Halsey led a simultaneous northward advance in the Solomon Islands. The two-pronged campaign was able to neutralize Rabaul by March 1944, effectively cutting it off from the rest of Japan’s island positions in the Pacific.
[Epoch Times] Two New York-based healthcare workers were arrested for allegedly forging and selling thousands of COVID-19 vaccine cards, allegedly selling fake vaccine cards and entering that information into the New York State Immunization Information System.
"As nurses, these two individuals should understand the importance of legitimate vaccination cards as we all work together to protect public health," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said in a statement.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney told news outlets that DeVuono, who owned Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, and Urraro provided fake vaccination cards. They charged $220 for adults and $85 for children, he said. That says how much some folks do not want the vax.
When law enforcement officials searched DeVuono’s home, they discovered about $900,000 in cash and a ledger showing profits of $1.5 million from the alleged scheme, prosecutors told AP.
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I see a couple flaws in their brilliant plan right there.
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Christopher Flanigan posted an Instagram photo of cops lining Fifth Avenue for the funeral of Det. Jason Rivera on Friday
Rivera died in the line of duty earlier this month
Flanigan wrote in the caption for the picture that it was an 'ideal' condition for 'reciprocity' after a police van ran into a group of protesters in May 2020
People on Twitter are now calling for him to be fired from Coney Island Prep, where he teaches math
His comments came as an actress was fired for a TikTok rant about street closures during the funeral
Forever 29.
[FoxNews] Cheslie Kryst, the 30-year-old winner of Miss USA 2019, jumped to her death from the 29th floor of the Orion condominium building on Sunday morning, according to the NYPD.
Police were called to the 60-story high-rise in the theater district of Manhattan at 7:05 a.m. on a report that a woman jumped from a terrace.
The NYPD said that they suspect Kryst's death was a suicide, but the medical examiner will ultimately rule on the cause of death after an autopsy. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Kryst, a former civil litigation attorney who received her MBA and law degree from Wake Forest University, won Miss USA in 2019.
Kryst worked as an entertainment news correspondent for Extra TV, where she was nominated for an Emmy.
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A friend told me of college course where they mentioned a Chicago medical examiner that once opined that a cause of death was "obviously suicide, shot himself seven (7) times in the heart with a revolver." Back in the Mayor Richard J. Dayley years...
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Something similar back in the 80's. Two guys were found duct taped in the back of a burned out car near Steubenville, OH. The media's take: "If the deaths are determined to be homicides, they will be the nth and n+1th murders of the year.
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Iraqi counter-terrorism forces on Sunday announced that they had launched a major campaign to inspect prisons on the orders of the Iraqi premier Mustafa al-Kadhimi. These measures to secure Iraqi prisons from potential security gaps follow a major prison siege by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava).
"After the recent security developments in the Syrian city of Hasaka, in which ISIS elements tried to escape from the 'Sina'a prison' ... units of the counter-terrorism service launched a major campaign to inspect Iraqi prisons in several provinces, which began on the 22nd of January and continued until the 30th," the counter-terrorism forces announced on Sunday, as reported by state media.
ISIS detainees led an audacious attack on the al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka's Ghweran neighborhood on Friday, January 21st. The facility housed around 5,000 ISIS members at the time of the incursion, and the major escape attempt raised significant concern about the terror group's capabilities, despite their complete lack of territorial control.
An additional 5,000 other murderous Moslems are held by the SDF in other jails.
"The intelligence of the [Iraqi] Counter-Terrorism Service participated in this campaign, which obtained important and precise information related to terrorist cells who are trying to create a foothold in our country," continued the statement.
Iraqi army and the Peshmerga forces are planning joint military operations to pursue and clear ISIS hotspots in the Makhmour district, the commander of the Iraqi army's 4th division, Major-General Abdullah al-Jubouri, said on Sunday.
Al-Jubouri's statements came in a joint presser with Nineveh's Deputy Governor, Sirwan Rozhbayani, during the latter's visit to Makhmour.
"The security situation in the district is stable. Preemptive operations are being deliberated with our brothers in the Peshmerga forces," al-Jubouri said, "the purpose of those operations is to secure the district completely."
Rozhbayani said that the efforts of the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga forces will put an end to the terror of ISIS.
"Our visit to the district aims to gain first-hand information about the demands and needs of the people. The administration of the governorate does not prefer a district other another," he stated.
Long. Posted for those who need to know who is making the political sausage.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s government formation is once again moving forward now that the Federal Court deemed the first session of the new parliament constitutional, paving the way to elect Iraq’s next president and then designating the candidate of the largest bloc as prime minister.
In a statement issued January 25, the Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi announced that February 7 is the date set to elect the president. As a result, Sadrist leader, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , arrived unannounced in Baghdad on January 26. However,
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In US, leftists have displayed Nazi symbols at Trump rallies in order to malign the event. The photos go viral & reinforce liberal beliefs such displays are commonplace. Remains to be seen who this person is but here’s reporting I did on a similar incident:https://t.co/FsYqELv1Ldhttps://t.co/FZXE1ZiRsI
[IsraelTimes] Initial results suggest significantly impaired air transfer from lungs to bloodstream, linked to breathlessness, indicating possible microscopic damage to respiratory system
Researchers have discovered abnormalities in the lungs of long COVID patients who suffered from breathlessness a long time after they were infected, which could not be detected with routine tests, according to media reports.
The pilot study used xenon — an odorless, colorless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive gas — to investigate possible lung damage in patients who recovered from the disease but continued to experience shortness of breath.
Initial results suggested significantly impaired gas transfer from the lungs to the bloodstream even though other tests — including CT scans — came back as normal, raising the possibility that COVID causes microscopic damage to the respiratory system.
Breathlessness is a symptom in the majority of long COVID patients, but it has been unclear whether this is linked to other factors such as changes in breathing patterns, tiredness, or something more fundamental.
The study’s chief investigator, Fergus Gleeson, professor of radiology at the University of Oxford and consultant radiologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We knew from our post-hospital COVID study that xenon could detect abnormalities when the CT scan and other lung function tests are normal.
"What we’ve found now is that, even though their CT scans are normal, the xenon MRI scans have detected similar abnormalities in patients with long COVID. These patients have never been in hospital and did not have an acute severe illness when they had their COVID-19 infection. Some of them have been experiencing their symptoms for a year after contracting COVID-19," he added.
"There are now important questions to answer. Such as, how many patients with long COVID will have abnormal scans, the significance of the abnormality we’ve detected, the cause of the abnormality, and its longer-term consequences.
"Once we understand the mechanisms driving these symptoms, we will be better placed to develop more effective treatments."
While the full study will recruit about 400 participants, the initial pilot had 36 participants making up three groups: patients diagnosed with long COVID who have normal CT scans, people who had been hospitalized with COVID more than three months previously and were not experiencing long COVID, and a healthy control group.
The findings, which have not been peer-reviewed, have been posted on the bioRxiv pre-print server.
ISIS terrorist gangs launched an attack on a security point in Kirkuk governorate, causing casualties among the Federal coppers, a security source told Shafaq News agency.
The source said that the security point is located in al-Riyadh sub-district, noting that two coppers were killed and another was injured in the attack.
Honestly, at this point they’re protesting because they got everything they’d been demanding.
[IsraelTimes] Sudanese security forces fire tear gas in Khartoum at thousands protesting for civilian rule and against a military coup that took place last year, an AFP correspondent says.
Pro-democracy activists have upped calls for protests to restore a transition to civilian rule since the October 25 military takeover led by general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The coup, one of several in Sudan’s post-independence history, derailed a power-sharing arrangement between the army and civilians that had been painstakingly negotiated after the 2019 ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... Today’s demonstrations are taking place in the capital Khartoum, the neighboring city of Omdurman, Gedaref state in the east, and the northern cities of Atbara and Dongola, according to witnesses.
Sudanese authorities warned protesters against heading toward Khartoum city center as security forces seal off streets leading to the presidential palace. But protesters in the capital converge in large numbers as they head towards the palace and police fire volleys of tear gas when they approach, the correspondent says.
In Omdurman, demonstrators are seen carrying the Sudanese flag and chanting "blood is the path to freedom," while in Gedaref, protesters demand the military "go back to the barracks," according to witnesses.
At least 78 people have been killed and hundreds maimed in the crackdown on anti-coup protests, according to an independent group of medics, while authorities have also rounded up hundreds of freedom fighters.
[JPost] I don't think you want the Juice intervening...strategically. But, then again, you're Iranian cannon fodder
Thank you, President Trump.
President Isaac Herzog was confirmed to be safe amid the attack. His visit to the UAE will continue as planned.
Air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthis over Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, as Israeli President Isaac Herzog was conducting an official visit to the country on Sunday night.
The reports of air defenses being activated came out shortly after the Houthis announced that they would be releasing details about a large-scale military operation "in the depths of the UAE."
The Emirati Defense Ministry stated that the attack did not cause any injuries or damage as the remnants of the missile fell in an unpopulated area.
Air traffic movement is continuing normal and all flights are operating as usual, the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority said, according to Emirati state news outlet WAM.
Shortly after the attack, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen announced that it had destroyed a ballistic missile launchpad in the al-Jawf Governorate in Yemen. Footage of the attack on the launchpad was shared on social media by the Emirati Defense Ministry.
Iraqi security forces apprehended five persons wanted by the Iraqi judiciary for connections to the terrorist organization of ISIS, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Sunday.
An SMC statement said that a land force from the third regiment of the Iraqi army's 29th infantry brigade was able to apprehend three ISIS members in al-Heet district, al-Anbar.
The operation was a coronation of the efforts of al-Jazeera Operations Command and the 29th brigade intelligence departments, according to SMC.
"The arrestees are wanted by the Judiciary pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism," said the SMC.
In another statement, SMC said that a security operation carried out by the 11th infantry division in the east of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, resulted in arresting 11 persons wanted for various charges, including a person wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism.
The statement said that a force from the 55th brigade of the 17th infantry division captured a person wanted per Article 4/Terrorism at a checkpoint in southern Baghdad.
[DW] A pipeline intended to carry gas from Russia to Germany still has administrative hurdles to pass, according to a German regulator. Many hope it will remained stalled.
The controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may not be able to start operations for several months, the head of Germany's Federal Network Agency has warned.
Jochen Homann told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "further steps are missing" before a German-based subsidiary set up by Russian owner Gazprom could be added to the commercial register.
"A conclusion will unlikely be possible in the first half of the year," Homann said in an interview to be published on Monday. "That are unpossible"
The mammoth project was completed in September last year, but no gas is flowing. With tensions escalating in Ukraine, both Berlin and Washington have warned that the project could be sanctioned if Russia launches an invasion of its neighbor.
WHY IS THERE A DELAY?
The EU gas directive requires the operation of the pipeline and the distribution of gas to be managed separately.
Nord Stream 2 AG, based in Zug, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , had applied to the Federal Network Agency for certification last year as an independent operator. But that application did not go through, as the rules require the network operator to be registered in Germany.
The new German-based subsidiary set up by Gazprom, Gas for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... GmbH, which is headquartered in the city of Schwerin, must now submit the documents necessary for certification. A Gas for Europe front man said on Wednesday that this would occur "as soon as possible."
WHY IS THE PIPELINE CONTROVERSIAL?
Nord Stream 2 is intended to deliver Russian gas to Germany via a pipeline in the Baltic Sea. It would effectively double German gas imports from Russia.
The US and a number of Eastern European countries have said it will give Russia too much leverage over European energy markets. Gas through the pipeline would also bypass Ukraine, depriving that country of much-needed transit revenue.
Berlin has long insisted that the pipeline is purely an economic issue. But the ongoing administrative delay has prompted hopes that Germany is willing to change course.
Recently, the pipeline has also been a focus of deliberations over potential sanctions on Russia should it invade Ukraine. Fears of such an invasion have been prompted by a massive military buildup at Russia's border to its neighbor.
The US and the EU are threatening new sanctions on Moscow over fears about an invasion of Ukraine. Excluding Russian banks from the SWIFT global payments system has been ruled out, according to reports, so what is left?
[NYPost] Think energy costs are high now? Just wait: President Joe Biden is doubling down on his War on Energy, and that’s sure to keep prices zooming up, up and . . . up.
Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency is writing new rules that will raise costs for fossil-fuel-based power plants. And, as Kenneth R. Timmerman noted in The Post last week, Team Biden has also moved to kill the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline, which would’ve brought Israeli and Cypriot natural gas to gas-starved Europe, helping ease shortages there. This only helps the Russians. What dirt do they have on him?
The prez is also reviving Obama-era loan guarantees for "clean energy" producers, starting with $1 billion in backing for a Nebraska company that will make "clean" hydrogen.
That guarantee could cost taxpayers; think Solyndra, the solar-panel company Team Obama aided to the tune of $500 million before it went belly-up — only with the stakes now twice as high. Favoring such companies also puts traditional energy producers at a competitive disadvantage.
Team Biden seeks to stop yet another pipeline even as gas prices rise.
Meanwhile, a Russian invasion of Ukraine would worsen European energy shortages; Russia provides 30% to 40% of Europe’s oil, gas and coal. Team Biden is working on a plan to get global producers to increase output and divert gas shipments just in case, but many are already near maximum. Brace for worldwide prices to skyrocket even more.
Americans are already paying about $3.33 a gallon for gas at the pump, nearly 40% percent more than a year ago. US benchmark crude oil just hit a seven-year high, $87 a barrel. Home heating fuel costs are up more than 40%.
High gas-pump prices are particularly painful for lower-income workers who can’t work from home and must commute. But rising energy costs also fuel higher price tags for other goods and services — food, clothing, other manufactured products, transportation. Last month’s Consumer Price Index pegged overall inflation at 7%, the highest in 40 years. That, too, hits the poor hardest.
Why destroy our economy to cut emissions — when China and India are spewing away?
Biden’s green agenda clearly deserves blame for pushing up energy prices: He killed the Keystone XL pipeline, threatened to shutter another critical conduit between Canada and Michigan, halted oil and gas leases on federal lands and is discouraging production and investment by vowing an ever-greater crackdown on fossil fuels.
Think about it: Though oil prices were much higher in 2021 than in 2018, US shale producers’ capital investments were down by about a third last year; production fell from 2020, which was already down from 2019. And fewer supplies mean, yep . . . higher prices.
Indeed, the extremists driving Biden policy want higher energy prices — to make renewables seem more competitive.
The green agenda is all about pain and sacrifice in the name of fighting climate change. Yet with countries like China and India pumping out massive and growing amounts of CO2 each year, Biden’s measures can barely dent the rise in global emissions — but they’re doing a great job of inflicting pain.
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Just wait until the EPA finds out about that! They're gonna fine the schist out of that volcano.
[IsraelTimes] A court orders that 15 Paleostinians who were arrested over recent rioting in East Jerusalem remain in jug.
Police say 10 of the suspects, all from the Issawiya and A-Tur neighborhoods, were arrested overnight on suspicion of throwing rocks and other objects at patrol cars last week. The other five suspects have been in jug since their arrests over the weekend.
The festivities between police and Paleostinians in East Jerusalem initially flared in A-Tur during a winter storm Wednesday, a day after a home demolition in the neighborhood.
Iraqi Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed nine suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an IS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday.
IS button men in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on Jan. 21, killed a guard and rubbed out 11 soldiers as they slept. It was one of the boldest attacks by the murderous Moslems in recent weeks and came amid an uptick in violence that stoked fears the group has been re-energized.
Yehia Rasool, the front man for Iraq's commander in chief, said the joint military operations room and the air force identified the cell behind the attack as its members hid in al-Azim, north of Baghdad.
Three airstrikes were launched that killed the nine holy warriors, he said.
A security official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that four among the killed were Lebanese, natives of the northern town of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... . He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to news hounds.
Tripoli is Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... 's second largest city and the country's most impoverished. It has been prone to violence and murderous Moslems who, inspired by the Islamic State group, launched attacks against the Lebanese Army in 2014 in the most serious bout of violence in the city. As Lebanon faces an unprecedented convergence of crises, including a swift descent into poverty, many fear murderous Moslems may seek to exploit discontent among the city's majority Sunni residents.
Lebanon's al-Jadeed TV gave a higher corpse count, saying that five Lebanese were killed in Iraq. One family member appealed in the broadcast to Lebanese authorities to facilitate return of the bodies.
Also Sunday, Iraqi anti-terrorism units carried out an inspection campaign in seven prisons in Iraq holding IS holy warriors. The campaign comes after a brazen prison attack IS murderous Moslems carried out in northeastern Syria that lasted for over a week and in which an unknown number of suspects escaped, the anti-terrorism unit said in a statement.
IS was largely defeated in Iraq in 2017. The group was dealt a final blow in 2019 when it lost its last territory in southeast Syria during the U.S.-led military campaign in cooperation with Syrian Kurdish-led forces.
But thousands of murderous Moslems melted into the desert and have continued to wage attacks, frequently hitting security forces and military with roadside kabooms and firing on military convoys or checkpoints in both countries.
[Dawn] A priest was killed while another was injured after armed assailants opened fire on them in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... on Sunday.
According to a police statement, the incident occurred near Ring Road within Gulbahar cop shoppe limits. The statement said a heavy police contingent had reached the scene and a search operation was underway.
"Evidence is being collected from the scene of the crime and CCTV cameras are also being checked," police said.
The statement added that the body had been shifted to the hospital for conducting an autopsy while further investigation was underway.
"William Siraj was a padre at a church within Chamkani cop shoppe limits," the statement said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... a spokesperson for Lady Reading Hospital said that the injured priest was discharged after being provided medical treatment for minor injuries.
Speaking to the media at the scene of the crime, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Abbas Ahsan said that the attack on the Christian community was tragic.
He added that according to initial reports, there were two attackers involved in the incident. "A comprehensive investigation has been launched," he said. CCPO Ahsan stated that members of the minority community were targeted, adding that it was a "terrorist act".
He said that in the past, police had identified the perpetrators of attacks targeting minorities and said that the same would also be done in this case. The officer said that officials were conducting geo-fencing and looking at other data.
"We are determined to protect minorities," the CCPO said, adding that a team consisting of officials from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Peshawar police had been formed to probe the case.
For a given value of protection, of course...
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took notice of the incident and directed the IG to take necessary steps for arresting the culprits.
He also condemned the fact that religious leaders of the Christian community were targeted, adding that the perpetrators would not be able to escape the clutches of the law.
Which law might that be? Pakistan is a Muslim country, openly submissive to Sharia law. And Sharia law places all unbelievers at the mercy of any passing member of the Master Religion. This time the mercy was withheld.
Khan offered his condolences to the Christian community and the family of the dear departed.
“Sorry your guy was attacked. Had he been Muslim, he wouldn’t have been.”
He also prayed for the swift recovery of the other padre injured in the incident.
The chief minister directed officials to provide the injured with the best possible medical treatment.
Speaking to the media, PTI MPA Wilson Wazir said that the dear departed padre did not face any threats and was coming and going freely.
"Police are investigating the incident and will reach the perpetrators soon," he said. The MPA said that it would be premature to comment on the incident at this time, adding that he had full confidence in the police.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... PPP Senator Sherry Rehman strongly condemned the attacked.
"Terrorism that targets anyone, especially for their faith, is heinous and must be fought against with the full force of [a] clear, concerted policy and state power. No compromise, no equivocation," she said.
[Dawn] WHETHER the US and Pakistain are engaged or estranged, their relations have never been without challenge. In a rare moment, ties are now at a crossroads. Washington does not know where Pakistain figures in its Indo-Pacific strategy. And Pakistain does not know how much space it has for the US in its relations with China.
US-China tensions have created a schism in Pakistain’s strategic thinking. Its decision to skip President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....... ’s Democracy Summit followed by the offer to be a bridge between the US and China signals Pakistain’s desire to be in both camps but also its uncertainty about Washington’s response. A new US ambassador is expected in Pakistain soon, and arriving as he will after his Senate hearing, may bring some clarity to Islamabad’s perceptions of US policies and help its own policy choices.
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And Pakistain does not know how much space it has for the US in its relations with Chin
Y'know the impudence of this article is amusing. Until you remember that Washington's classic stupidity has long committed America to being Pakistain's all-weather sugar daddy.
[Breitbart] I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, is reportedly planning to attend a fundraiser in March for embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who is targeting Trump on the January 6 Committee. Trump just doesn't get it. The people who keep on pulling for him in the face of this kind of thing don't get it either.
Libby was convicted in 2007 of obstruction of justice and other crimes related to a leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. The conviction was widely viewed as a miscarriage of justice, especially because Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage later admitted that he was the likely source of the leak, not Libby. President George W. Bush commuted Libby’s sentence, but despite the urging of then-Vice President Cheney, he declined to issue a formal pardon for his aide.
It was only Trump who pardoned Libby in 2018, taking the political heat for doing so and standing up for Libby’s record of public service. Former Vice President Cheney called Trump personally to thank him for pardoning his long-time aide.
Now, both the former vice president and his aide are participating in a fundraiser for Cheney, who defied her own party to participate in the one-sided January 6 committee, which aims to damage Trump ahead of the 2022 and 2024 elections.
The Hill reported Wednesday (emphasis added):
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is participating in a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in March as the Wyoming incumbent looks to protect her seat against Trump-endorsed Republican primary challenger Harriet Hageman, according to an invitation obtained by The Hill.
Other guests include former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife; former chief of staff to Cheney Scooter Libby; former U.S. solicitor general Ted Olson; former chief of staff to the late Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) Sheila Burke; and former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), among others.
Ironically, Dick Cheney believed that Libby had been the victim of an overzealous prosecutor, a biased Washington jury, and those in the government who wanted to damage the Bush administration because of growing opposition to the Iraq War.
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This is just an attempt to fill Cheney's pockets with some spending money. Even a blind man can see she is out of a job come November.
(Well, out of congress that is.)
[DW] For months, Poland's side of the border with Belarus was off-limits to aid workers and media as displaced people attempted to cross to the EU. Now, journalists are allowed in again, under strict controls. DW went along. Scene-setting description snipped, leaving the information that interests us, dear Reader: NEW EU FENCE
The spokeswoman decided where we stopped and what we saw. At our first stop, soldiers stood in a field in front of a razor wire fence. In the past, she said, there was no need for such barriers at the border because there was good cooperation with the Belarusian border guards. In a private conversation, she even told us that the guards of the opposite sides of the border even took joint canoe trips together.
But now, she said, the Belarusian guards work with migrants colonists to cut the razor wire together and blind Polish soldiers with mirrors to enable illegal border crossings. The barbed wire is soon be replaced by a high fence, she said.
This high fence, popularly known as "the wall," has been officially under construction since January 24. It will consist of 5-meter (16.5-foot) posts topped with barbed wire and equipped with motion detectors and infrared cameras.
About 180 kilometers of the border will need to be paved, at a price of roughly €355 million euros ($396 million). Environmentalists and local residents have long protested the installation, as the fence will cut through the virgin forest at the border — disrupting the habitat of several wild animals.
WARNINGS TO MIGRANTS COLONISTS
We stopped in front of a car parked in the middle of a field. From the loudspeaker on the roof, messages blared out in English, French, Arabic and a Kurdish dialect, telling the migrants colonists on the Belarusian side of the border that they had been cheated, that crossing the border into Poland is a punishable offense and that they should return to Minsk , the capital of Belarus.
We reached Usnarz Gorny. It was near this village that refugees from Afghanistan were stuck in limbo for two months on the Belarusian side of the border in the summer of 2021 — blocked on both sides by the national guards.
The refugees received help from activists and lawyers, they even applied for asylum, but they were not allowed on Polish territory.
VIOLENT BORDER ENFORCEMENT
We saw remains of the makeshift camp that housed the refugees: tents, blankets and bags. The area has not been cleaned up. "We are not allowed to do that," the Polish police spokeswoman said. "All the things are on the Belarusian side." That was also the argument used in the summer of 2021 to explain why Poland could not help people sleeping rough in the forest.
Now the place is deserted. "One day they were suddenly gone, probably taken away by Belarusian authorities," the spokeswoman said. In October, the Polish border agency reported that a group of Afghans had broken through the fence into Poland and were detained.
According to activists, pepper spray was used against the migrants colonists. Then they were reportedly driven back to Belarus. We asked the spokeswoman what she knows about it.
"Anyone who needs help will get it," she said, "and anyone who wants to apply for asylum can do so."
THE EU MIGRANT CRISIS ALONG THE BELARUS-POLAND BORDER
Agata Ferenc, of the Ocalenie Foundation, which supports refugees, was in Usnarz Gorny before the area was closed. Since then, she and some fellow volunteers have been trying to help from outside the restricted zone.
Aid workers still receive about a dozen calls a day from people in need of help who are stuck somewhere along the border. "The first thing they usually ask us is not to inform the border guards," Ferenc said. "They know the border guards will send them back to Belarus if they are found."
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If the CIA was actually worth a damn, they'd be destabilizing Belarus, which would preempt anything happening in Ukraine.
Instead, Biden props them up by refusing to throw hard sanctions, while stringing along The Ukraine. It's almost as if he WANTS a war or at least a large potential re-run of the cold war. Fat contractors, and free boodle to the Euros at the cost of American prosperity and potentially American lives, while pissants like the Germans refuse to lift a finger.
I say screw them. Tell Putin he can have Germany. They are ready to surrender already. That'll keep him busy for a very long time, eating a turd sandwich that large.
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"If only you Poles handled borders
As we do, and followed your orders
Concerning cute creatures
And natural features...
Our troops could return to their quarters!"
[AlAhram] A Cairo court sentenced on Sunday 10 defendants to death on charges of "forming gangs to carry out hostile attacks in Cairo and Giza against police personnel and vandalise public properties and facilities, including power towers."
The court is seeking the opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti on the preliminary verdicts.
The Public Prosecution’s investigation said the defendants between the period of 14 August 2013 and 2 February 2015 led a group that was founded in violation of the law; with the purpose of disrupting the constitution and the state’s laws, hindering the functioning of the state’s institutions, assaulting the personal freedom of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace.
The defendants include Yehia Mousa, the former health ministry spokesperson, who is accused alongside others by Egyptian authorities of orchestrating the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.
Mousa left for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... on the heels of the ouster of late Moslem Brüderbund president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, with media reports stating recently that Ottoman Turkish authorities have prevented him from departing its lands, as Ankara seeks to restore ties with Cairo after years of deterioration.
The religious opinion of the mufti is non-binding but is a necessary procedure before issuing a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... in Egypt, according to the country’s code of criminal procedure.
The court is set to issue its final verdict against the defendants on 19 June.
Of the 10 men, nine were in jug while one was sentenced in absentia, the source said.
They were accused of multiple incidents of violence against police in 2015 — a period that saw a spike in attacks targeting security forces.
Egypt outlawed the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group in 2013 and designated it a terrorist organization, following the military ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi.
General-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led Morsi’s ouster, has since led a crackdown on the group, jailing thousands including its top leader as well as its rank and file.
Morsi died in jug in June 2019, after falling ill during a court hearing.
Cairo has handed down death sentences or long jail terms after mass trials that have drawn condemnation from the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is carried out by hanging.
Egypt carried out the third-highest number of known executions in the world last year, after China and Iran, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
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You're right. I'm so old I confuse ban names all the time.
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Comedy writer Dave Barry posted that his neighbor just finished shoveling the iguanas off his (Dave's) driveway. That's how neighborly they are in Florida.
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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.
[Babylon Bee]
[Gateway] Either this was just your normal group of Trump supporters in matching white facemasks that cover their ears and necks...
I'm sure no one noticed. 
[Townhall] GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday pushed back against some of his Republican colleagues' claims that President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court is an example of affirmative action, saying instead that he favors making the bench "look like America."
[Newsweek] A woman is accused of using a fatal robbery to carry out a theft of her own, according to police.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
He also condemned the fact that religious leaders of the Christian community were targeted, adding that the perpetrators would not be able to escape the clutches of the law.
...... 46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.......
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
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