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This is the worst choice of a backup since Caesar picked Brutus and Cassius.
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Personally, I think the Powers that BE in the demoncrat party know they are toast this year. What better way to get someone with some influence in the party that has a shit-ton of baggage out of the way but to put her as a sacrificial lamb for the coming Trump landslide.
Neutralizes her and keeps any real options for 2024 safe from a humiliating defeat.
[Mil.Com] A former Air Force officer has been sentenced to two years behind bars for her role in a nationwide scheme to defraud the military's health program, Tricare, of billions of dollars.
Maj. Romeatrius Moss, 40, pleaded guilty Oct. 15, 2019, to accepting kickbacks for referring patients at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, to civilian pharmacies that specialized in compounded medications; she faced up to five years in prison.
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Moss admitted to giving service members and other patients at the base medical clinic pre-printed prescription pads and encouraging them to ask their doctors for specialty medications -- compounded personalized prescriptions for pain and other ailments.
She then sent the prescriptions to specific pharmacies and received a portion of the Tricare reimbursement paid to the pharmacies for those scripts.
Moss was sentenced Monday to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release; she was also ordered to pay $622,459 -- the amount she made in the scheme -- in restitution, according to the Justice Department.
As part of her plea agreement, she also must give up her $750,000 house in Enid, Oklahoma; a 2016 Porsche Cayenne; and a 2000 Fleetwood Pace Arrow recreational vehicle.
[Ynet] - About 100 employees of Israel's cultural institutions - including artists, actors, musicians, dancers, and behind-the-scenes workers - are demonstrating in front of the Prime Minister's House on Balfour Street in Jerusalem. According to the protesters, they are demonstrating against the incompetence of the government and what they call the destruction of the culture industry in Israel. But no seamstress. Why no seamstress? I feels for them, I does.
[MSN] The House's No. 2 Democrat announced Monday the lower chamber will not return for votes in Washington until mid-September after negotiations between Democratic leaders and the White House on the next coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... relief measure collapsed last week, leaving millions of jobless Americans without immediate relief.
According to the schedule released by House Majority Leader the mealy-mouthed Steny StinkyHoyer ...Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or mango, or whatever he is. Number Two, anyway... on Monday, the House will not convene for votes until September 14. Members will be working in their home districts and conducting committee work for the first two weeks of September. Lawmakers were initially scheduled to return September 8.
Hoyer said politicians would have 24 hours notice to return for votes on legislation related to the coronavirus.
"While President Trump declares that 'it is what it is,' it is clear that the Trump administration and Republicans have completely failed to get this virus under control, which has resulted in devastating economic impacts," Hoyer said in a statement. "I continue to urge Republicans to work with us to take immediate action to provide desperately needed relief during this coronavirus pandemic before we can begin the August district work period."
Late last month, House leaders canceled its traditional August recess and said the chamber would remain in session in anticipation of a deal on the next coronavirus relief package. But talks between Democratic leaders and the White House deadlocked Friday, and President Trump rolled out a series of executive actions over the weekend to circumvent Congress.
The orders cover four areas: extending supplemental unemployment payments of $400 a week, providing student loan relief to borrowers, halting evictions and deferring payroll taxes. But the action is expected to be challenged in court, and it's unclear whether states will sign on to Mr. Trump's plan for the federal government to provide $300 in weekly unemployment benefits and states to provide the final $100.
[NYPOST] The opposition leader in Belarus said Tuesday that she has fled to Lithuania following widespread protests against the contested re-election of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko.Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a 37-year-old former English teacher who took over her husband’s campaign after he was tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... , told supporters that the decision to leave the country was her choice and made to protect her children.
"It was a very hard decision to make," she said. "I know that many of you will understand me, many others will condemn me and some will even hate me. But God forbid you ever face the choice that I faced."
"So, people, take care please — no life is worth what is happening now. Children are the most important thing in our lives," she said.
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To Gothamite Mavis Gallant,
Bonne fete, though she didn't much rant.
That France should go fascist
Would give her a rash,,,
In the Seventies. Even. I can't.
What a mess! One suspects Jackson Pollock's
Subconscious possessed a third bollock:
"I'm tired of this dreck!
Shall we die in a wreck...
Er... a seminal, spattering frolic?"
There once was a Dutch prosti-- Buddha
Who never appeared in the nude.
Instead, she would dance
In Scots officers' pants
And a couple of slices of gouda.
[RedState] Thanks to the Seattle City Council’s Monday vote to cut her salary and gut the police department, Police Chief Carmen Best is resigning, effective September 2nd.
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s police chief says she is stepping down, a move made public the same day the City Council approved reducing the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.
Carmen Best, the city’s first Black police chief, said in a letter to the department that her retirement will be effective Sept. 2 and the mayor has appointed Deputy Chief Adrian Diaz as the interim chief, KING-TV reported Monday. Councilmembers had approved the cuts Monday.
"I am confident the department will make it through these difficult times," Best said in the letter. "You truly are the best police department in the country, and please trust me when I say, the vast majority of people in Seattle support you and appreciate you. ... I look forward to seeing how this department moves forward through the process of re-envisioning public safety. I relish the work that will be done by all of you."
In an email to police Mayor Jenny Durkan said she she accepted Best’s decision "with a very heavy heart."
"I regret deeply that she concluded that the best way to serve the city and help the department was a change in leadership, in the hope that would change the dynamics to move forward with the City Council," Durkan wrote.
Durkan and Best planned a Tuesday morning news conference.
The mayor picked Best in July of 2018 to lead the department. She had been serving as interim chief.
A military veteran, Best joined the department in 1992 and had worked in a wide variety of roles, including patrol, media relations, narcotics and operations and deputy chief.
Cuts to the department have been supported by demonstrators who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly opposed by Durkan and Best.
Measures that would cut less than $4 million of the department’s $400 million annual budget this year passed out of committee unanimously last week. On Monday, only council member Kshama Sawant voted against the budget package, saying it does not do enough to defund the police.
Seattle currently has about 1,400 police officers and the reductions fell far short of the 50% cut to the department that many Black Lives Matter protesters are seeking. Several council members on Monday said the changes were a starting point in a long process to reimagine policing and public safety.
The City Council also cut Best’s roughly $285,000 annual salary and the pay of other top police leaders, although the final cuts to Best’s salary were significantly more modest than those approved last week. The council plan also takes officers off a team that removes homeless camps.
"While we can’t do everything in this summer rebalancing package, we have set the path forward for tremendous work in front of us as a council and as a city," Council member Teresa Mosqueda said.
Durkan and Best had urged the council to slow down its discussions about police budgets, saying the issue could be taken up in earnest when the 2021 city budget is considered. They also said any layoffs would disproportionately target newer officers, often hired from Black and brown communities, and would inevitably lead to lawsuits.
Durkan has proposed cutting about $20 million from the police budget this year largely because of reduced revenues amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, the mayor sketched out a plan to reduce the police budget by about $75 million next year by transferring parking enforcement officers, the 911 call center and other areas out of the department.
"It is unfortunate Council has refused to engage in a collaborative process to work with the mayor, Chief Best, and community members to develop a budget and policies that respond to community needs while accounting for — not just acknowledging — the significant labor and legal implications involved in transforming the Seattle Police Department," Durkan said in a statement after the vote.
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Never love or hate anything that can't love or hate you back.
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in her press conference today she gave glowing praise to her successor, and also said that he's the best man for the job he won't be in long...
so either she expects his fun meter to peg quickly or the city clowncil will jettison him.
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Texas — Last week, a hearse carrying the body of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Marco A. Gonzales slowly wound its way south from the Central Texas hospital where he died of Covid-19, through small towns along the way where mourners lining the roads saluted their last respects. Gonzales, to be buried in the small border city of Del Rio where he worked, was one of at least three front-line Border Patrol agents in Texas to have died of Covid in recent weeks.
There was 20-year veteran Agent Enrique J. Rositas in McAllen and also Agent Agustin Aguilar of Eagle Pass, who will be buried this coming weekend.
Their bodies, burials, and mourning wives and children offer powerful rebuke to a recalcitrant national media and state and federal office-holders who have largely refused to acknowledge a dangerous ongoing development in the Covid-19 pandemic life cycle: their fates reflect that a significant percentage of the current hospitalization spikes in the border states of California, Arizona, and Texas are due to a kaleidoscope of legal and illegal border crossings by Covid-sick patients seeking U.S. treatment.
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Border crossing migrants have always been disease carrying vermin.
Nothing changes.
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Border counties have twice the infection rate of the rest of Texas and three times the fatality rate - not sure if the fatalities are all reported back to the initial county but I doubt it.
[JPost] - The massive explosion in Beirut is shows Hezbollah uses of Lebanese civilians and cities to cover for their terrorist actions, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told 12 ambassadors of UN Security Council member states at Israel’s northern border on Tuesday.
Ashkenazi made thinly-veiled hints that Hezbollah was responsible for the blast and that the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the Beirut port may have belonged to the terrorist organization. Israel has long held that Hezbollah controlled the port.
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BLM rioters who showed up at a black man's home in the middle of the night, wearing masks, harassed him, attacked him when he came out to confront them, and even shot at his house?
Nazis, Klan, no real difference between them.
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That was no black man, Rob, that was a police officer. He became white, no matter his skin colour, the moment he decided to put on the uniform.
[JPost] - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Tuesday that four new cases of coronavirus had been confirmed in the country, 1 NEWS reported.
All of the cases are from community transmission and are in South Auckland, the site added. They are also all members of the same family.
It has been 102 days since the country's last case of community transmission.
According to Health Director-General Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, the first family member to be diagnosed was a person in their 50s from South Auckland, who had no history of overseas travel. Following that diagnosis, three of the other six people living in the home were diagnosed with the disease. "Curiouser and curiouser" said Alice
Heads up and happy hunting to you and your lads, Dron66046!
[KhaamaPress] The Indian intelligence sources have claimed that the Death Eaters trained in Afghanistan are planning to carry out attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score cur,rently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... The Death Eaters have allegedly been trained by Pak commandos, Special Service Group, of the Pak military in Afghanistan, according to India Today.
The outlet claimed that it has obtained a report of the intelligence bureau which indicates that Pak agency ISI and Army are pushing more Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... /Afgan and Pathani Death Eaters in the Valley to mix-up other terrorist outfits.
It also added that the terrorists’ new strategy escape from security forces includes limited use of mobile.
According to the inputs the Talibani and Afghani terrorist commanders are using female over ground workers (OGWs) who will be staying in houses of poor people in Jammu and Kashmir, according to India Today.
According to the report, the Pakistain Army would facilitate the infiltration of 20-25 these trained cadres through the Line of Control and five to six such cadres through India-Nepal border.
[KhaamaPress] Two back to back explosions left at least ten civilians dead in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the local officials confirmed.
Jamal Naseri, a spokesperson for Kandahar Police, confirmed that the two explosions took place late on Sunday night in Arghistan district.
According to Naseri, the first explosion took place Shanarai area of Arghistan, targeting a civilian vehicle which left at least 8 civilians dead.
Naseri further added that the second blast took place in Burj area of the district which killed two pedestrians.
No individual or group including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... has so far grabbed credit for the two explosions. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the local authorities blamed anti-government armed elements for the blasts.
Talibs and other murderous Moslems frequently use improvised bombs to target the security personnel and government staff but majority of such attacks kill or wound ordinary civilians.
[KhaamaPress] A second explosion took place in Kabul city, less than 24 hours after a similar explosion killed or maimed at least 7 people.
Ferdaws Faramurz, a spokesperson for Kabul Police Headquarters, confirmed that a kaboom took place in the 9th district of Kabul city earlier today.
Faramurz further added that the earth-shattering kaboom took place in Makroryan area of the city at around 8:00 am local time, targeting a Toyota Land Cruiser type vehicle.
He also added that the earth-shattering kaboom left at least two people maimed. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... he did not elaborate further whether the victims are civilians or personnel of the government.
No individual or group including Taliban ...Arabic for students... has so far grabbed credit for the incident.
This comes as a similar explosion killed 2 people and maimed at least 5 others in Company Bazaar area of Kabul city at around 3:40 pm local time on Sunday.
[ToloNews] The source said that Ghani also signed another decree on the release of the prisoners of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces who are imprisoned in government prisoners.
This comes after the Loya Jirga--the grand assembly-- in a resolution issued on Sunday approved the release of the 400 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners in an aim to quickly start the intra-Afghan talks and bring about a ceasefire and an end to the nation's war.
The resolution, which has 25 articles, was issued at Sunday's Loya Jirga session. President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , former president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... , and other political figures also called on the Taliban for an immediate start to the intra-Afghan talks.
The members of the Loya Jirga in the resolution welcome and support the lasting peace with dignity to bring peace and stability to the country.
The resolution also states that if imported muscle are among the 400 Taliban prisoners "they must be handed over to their countries with valid guarantees."
It also said that the release of the remaining Taliban prisoners must come with the assurance that the direct talks between the government and the Taliban will start "without any excuses."
The resolution also called for an immediate and long-lasting ceasefire and called on the international community and the Unites States to implement their commitment regarding this.
The statement also said that the people and the government of Afghanistan must be assured that the released Taliban prisoners "will not return to war and their activity will be monitored."
The resolution urged the international community to cease direct and indirect intervention in Afghanistan’s affairs and to cease their support for terrorist groups.
They urged the Taliban and Afghan government to end the violence and conflict in the country and to solve the rifts through negotiations.
It also pointed out that the "Islamic values, the role of scholars, basic government institutions, democracy and the two-decade achievements of Afghanistan "must be preserved and strengthened."
The resolution also stated that the members of the Loya Jirga believe that women, as half of the body of society, should have a legal and political status and play a constructive role and participation in all stages of the process.
The Loya Jirga members also believe that the Constitution is a national guarantee which must be preserved, but, if necessary, it is possible to amend it, in accordance with the mechanism provided for within it, the resolution said.
The resolution mentioned that the Afghan cops are guardians of the national illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country and must be "supported and strengthened."
According to government data, out of the 400 prisoners in question, 156 of them have been sentenced to death, 105 of them are accused of murder, 34 of them are accused of kidnapping that led to murder, 51 of them are accused of drug smuggling, 44 of them are on the blacklist of the Afghan government and its allies, 6 of them are accused of other crimes, 4 are accused of unspecified crimes.
The list of 5,000 prisoners was given to the Afghan government by the Taliban to be released ahead of intra-Afghan negotiations, which are now expected to be held in Doha.
So far, the government has released 4,600 of the prisoners on the Taliban list, and an additional 500 that were not on the Taliban list. These last 500 were freed during Eid in response to the Taliban’s announcement of a ceasefire.
#1
4-Obama appointees
3-Clinton appointees
1-G.W. Bush appointee
1-G.H.W. Bush appointee
1-Trump appointee
Did Sullivan show bias? Was a mandamus an appropriate way to resolve the claim of bias? Should Sullivan have acted as an umpire who adds more innings? Did Sullivan follow the law as established by SCOTUS? Did Sullivan act appropriately by trying to appoint Gleeson to act as what is essentially a special prosecutor. Did Sullivan act properly by establishing an amicus process to gather more information to decide whether or not to dismiss the non-case of the Justice Department? Was exculpatory Brady material withheld from Sullivan's?
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Seems that way magpie. There is a tortured interpretation of the law by the appeals court which seems only to protect Sullivan from what Is a "very hard slap for judicial abuse in the appeals court" and to insert more delays into the judicial process. There seems to be little recognition of the earlier decision made by the panel of three judges.
I'm reading comments in other places and in stories about the ongoing hearing. They are not very favorable towards the D.C. District Court of Appeals. I doubt that they care.
More of "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." Lawfare at nearly the highest level.
#4
Back before the fall of the Roman Empire, or something like that, a federal judge in my corner of the world had a case against what we would now call a black activist pending before him. Probably after a cocktail or two, that judge was heard to say "I'm going to get that [African-American]." His impartiality was reasonably called into question, and a second federal judge (a really great one) chose to disbelieve the first judge's denial. Story here. Other than the races being reversed and Judge Sullivan being a touch more subtle about his intentions, I don't see much difference.
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Other than the races being reversed and Judge Sullivan being a touch more subtle about his intentions, I don't see much difference.
The difference is that Flynn is a white male Trump guy.
The one group of people in this country with zero protections and rights.
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Aside from affording Sullivan protection from the overt scolding as a partisan operative in this case, the judges seem likely to scurry to find a thread to return this case to Sullivan for more delaying tactics, while keeping the gag order in effect as long as possible. The are desperate for a Pardon by Trump to use for ammunition in the upcoming election as a proof of both corruption and a validation of the Russia-hoax ruse for just a little while longer. Another institutional veil slips and the clarity that Washington is so much more like Imperial Rome besides the neo-classical architecture remnants built when we were a confident, proud and united nation.
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This was just posted by a news site:
https://saraacarter.com/doj-lawyers-reveal-explosive-news-of-possible-evidence-that-led-barr-to-drop-charges-against-michael-flynn/
"The Justice Department attorney Jeffery Wall, along with Powell argued and answered questions of the panel that was grilling them on all the details of the case. It was during the trial that Wall hinted at the new evidence in support of Flynn.
He told the judges that Barr’s decision to drop the charges against Flynn, were in part, due to information that the DOJ hasn’t yet shared with the public. Wall said “the Attorney General sees this in the context of nonpublic information from other investigations.”
“It may be possible that the attorney general had before him information that he was not able to share with the court and so what we put in front of the court were the reasons that we could, but it may not be the whole picture available to the executive branch,” he added. “The attorney general made that decision or that judgment on the basis of lots of information. Some of it is public and fleshed out in the motion. Some of it is not.”
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He told the judges that Barr’s decision to drop the charges against Flynn, were in part, due to information that the DOJ hasn’t yet shared with the public.
Then Barr just double dog dared them. If and when he releases it, it will further erode any legitimacy of the courts if they continue to play this game.
[USGS] The largest earthquake that has occurred, as of this release, is a magnitude 4.6 at 8:56 AM PDT on August 10. This earthquake and the associated swarm are located approximately 8 miles from the southern end of the San Andreas Fault. This area has also seen swarms in the past — most recently, in 2001, 2009, and 2016. Past swarms have remained active for 1 to 20 days, with an average duration of about a week.
During this earthquake swarm, the probability of larger earthquakes in this region is significantly greater than usual. The southernmost section of the San Andreas Fault is capable of rupturing in large magnitude earthquakes (magnitude 7+), but the last earthquake that strong was more than 300 years ago. In a typical week, there is approximately a 1 in 10,000 chance of a magnitude 7+ earthquake on the southernmost San Andreas Fault. That probability is significantly elevated while swarm activity remains high.
The following three scenarios describe possibilities of what could happen from 10 August to 18 August. Only one of these scenarios will occur within the next week. These scenarios include the possibility of earthquakes on and off the San Andreas Fault.
Scenario One (Most likely, about 80% chance): Earthquakes continue but none will be larger than magnitude 5.4 within the next 7 days.
The most likely scenario is that the rate of earthquakes in the swarm will decrease over the next 7 days. Some moderately sized earthquakes may occur (magnitude in the range M4.5-M5.4), which could cause localized damage, particularly in weak structures. Smaller magnitude earthquakes (M3.0+) may be felt by people close to the epicenters.
Scenario Two (Less likely, about 19% chance): A larger earthquake (magnitude 5.5 to 6.9) could occur within the next 7 days.
A less likely scenario is a somewhat larger earthquake (up to a M6.9). Earthquakes of this size could cause damage around the Salton Sea area and would be followed by aftershocks that would increase the number of smaller earthquakes per day.
Scenario Three (Least Likely, approximately 1% chance): A much larger earthquake (magnitude 7 or higher) could occur within the next 7 days.
A much less likely scenario, compared with the previous two scenarios, is that the ongoing swarm could trigger an earthquake significantly larger than the M4.6 that occurred on the 10 August (i.e., M7.0 and above). While this is a very small probability, if such an earthquake were to occur, it would have serious impacts on communities nearby and would be followed by aftershocks that would increase the number of smaller earthquakes per day.
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The Salton Sea is a scary toilet. It was once supposed to be the Riviera of the California desert.
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Salton Sea is indeed a dump. It was not a natural creation - coming from a breach in the Colorado River levees, fed by the "New River" - sewage/chemical drainage from Mexico
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It was a really nice place when I was there as a kid in the '50s, MM.
Drove through there about 10 years ago and both you and Frank are being nice about it.
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Apparently Gaia is in agreement with comments 1-3.
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In the other side of the country, there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake early Sunday morning centered around Sparta, NC. It was the biggest since 1916. 5.1 magnitude earthquake. It was fairly shallow in origin.
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Bombay Beach is a 50s post apocolyptic museum. Do stop by the Ski Inn for a decent cheeseburger and cool beverage. It's also at the lowest elevation of any bar in N America.
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I've heard the theory that at one time the Gulf of California extended north to include what we now know as the Salton Sea. From what I've heard, it used to boast excellent fishing and was a swinging hot spot of a resort. Like most of California, it is subject to seismic activity.
From https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Sonny_Bono_Salton_Sea/about.html... The courses of the New and Alamo Rivers run through the Refuge, providing fresher water to the Salton Sea. However, because the Sea has no outlet, the salt content of the water has increased steadily over time. Due to agricultural runoff and rise in the level of the Salton Sea, most of the original Refuge area has been covered completely by the salty lake. At present, only about 2,000 acres are farmed and managed for wetlands. Rye grass is grown on the Refuge as food for wintering geese in the area. However, as farming practices have changed, less water is being used on neighboring crops and therefore runoff into the Salton Sea has decreased over time, lowering the shoreline and further increasing salt content. In 1998, the Refuge was renamed after Congressman Sonny Bono, who helped inform the U.S. Congress of the environmental issues facing the Salton Sea as well as acquiring funding for this Refuge to help it respond to avian disease outbreaks and other habitat challenges at the Salton Sea.
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^ A subject of much discussion due to the repeated claims of a Spanish shipwreck in that region that is exposed from time to time by the winds. That search continues.
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[PJ] OAKMONT, Pennsylvania — Long before you find yourself standing in front of the Smoke N’ Guns shop, the delicate aroma of coffee beans and hand-rolled cigars beckons your senses as you walk along Allegheny River Boulevard.
Outside the shop, four black leather chairs spread a respectable 6 feet apart are waiting for either the overflow of customers or locals such as Marcello Frollo to hold court. He enjoys a rolled cigar along with his double espresso as he listens to the cars rumble along the brick-lined street.
Inside, the store is a visual delight, with a coffee bar and a handful of tables and chairs at the entrance. Boxes filled with the best cigars money can buy are stacked high, and an impressive walk-in humidor is designed to keep them preserved at the perfect temperature.
In the back, a balcony overlooks the rest of the store and spans its entire width. A glass display case with an array of long guns hangs along the wall. In the center, begging to be held, is a Tommy gun. Gregory "Gooch" Ionadi, the owner, waits to help you find the gun you need or want to protect yourself.
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The economy is even more distorted than usual, but that's on the distorters, not the economy.
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Well, my wife who refused to allow a gun in the house when we had kids decided this year that we'll be careful around the grandkids and she wanted something in tune with the times.
Bought her a S&W M&P .380 Shield for her B'day.
Now we'll work on proficiency.
[Zero] Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua recently asked the governors of each province in China to make sure the sown areas of agricultural crops would not shrink and crop yield won’t be reduced this year. At a food security meeting held in Beijing on July 27, he warned that governors would be punished if they failed to uphold the promise, including with dismissals.
And when Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited northeastern Jilin Province on July 22, he told the local government to treat grain production as a priority task. The top officials’ emphasis on food supplies raised questions about whether China is facing a severe food shortage this year.
In early July, the government organ China National Grain and Oils Information Center released its estimates that the corn supply gap in the 2020-2021 fiscal year would be 25 million metric tons—more than double the previous estimated 12 million metric tons.
On Aug. 5, the Center estimated that China would import six million metric tons of wheat in the 12 months from June 2020 to May 2021, which would be the highest amount in the past seven years. The Center said the wheat would likely come from France, Russia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan.
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Not only that, food warehouses destroyed in Beirut and other places in the ME. Been drought as well with crop failures and Africa has had problems as well.
Another anarcho-communist front group wants its day in the sun.
[The Jewish Voice] The group that takes credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 has a new and even more outrageous plan in mind. They intend to "occupy" the White House, Zero Hedge pointed out.
The announcement was made by a radical online magazine called Adbusters :
It’s been nine years since we set off the political earthquake of #OccupyWallStreet, laying siege to NYC’s Zuccotti Park and inspiring thousands of similar protests around the world.
The Occupy anniversary arrives September 17th, 2020. And it may be the perfect day to trigger another global big-bang moment — a massive collective action of the sweetest kind of disobedience.
The why hardly needs recitation. Because, for these nine years, the shadows have only grown longer. Inequality has soared. Not a single Wall Street CEO spent a night in jail for his role in the 2008 financial meltdown. Politicians and corporate criminals continue to savage the public trust with impunity. And all the while, this howling void of a president, his sins too many to name, sits smugly atop a corona death-toll that may surpass two-hundred thousand Americans by Christmas.
I put this challenge to one of my clients last month, who gave me the same line of bullshit - 'Name one.'. He initially choked, for a good three minutes, then offered up some weak tea that's more 'difference of opinion' than a lie or a sin, according to that over the top descriptor.
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It's time for people opposed to this shit to let them set up their camp and then blockade it in the extreme. See if they can go 50 days without food and water.
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I wonder if these and other BLM/Antifa type clowns will step aside as quickly as they would have Trump step aside when the election results come back.
[Substack.com] Here in the United States, we have become inundated with tales of COVID-19 doom and gloom. In America, the mainstream narrative is rife with hopelessness. We are told that there is simply no way to stop this virus without repetitive lockdowns, healthy quarantine, even of asymptomatic individuals, and universal mask mandates. And even with all of those extreme policy measures put in place, the politicians and public health officials tell us that we will have to wait for a vaccine for the country to even think about our "new normal" following the COVID-19 pandemic.
There’s one country that they don’t seem to want to talk about - Sweden. And for good reason. Sweden debunks the hysteria. Sweden shows how unnecessary all of the interventions to "fight" the virus are. Sweden shows us that a rational, evidence-based approach to the pandemic is now thriving.
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No doubt it was released from China. The "we'll just add in a little more heart disease here, a little more hair loss there," is for the weak minded.
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Except for those with "Excel derived" immunity.
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A bioweapon remains a possibility until it is conclusively to not be a bioweapon. That's how possibilities and theories work (especially when we know so little about the origins of something). That doesn't mean it necessarily is one. Just that we can't eliminate the theory as a possibility.
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The biggest problem is that the Media and Politicians lie about the virus to promote various agendas. The best way to defeat the virus it to get rid of the Media and the Politicians.
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Well it's lucky Sweden got it out the way quickly rather than drag it on and evade herd immunity as the rest of the west has disastrously done, while also killing more by a) shutting down non-covid treatment and b) shutting the economy.
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I wonder why all the "covid-sceptics" always site Sweeeeeden as a glorious example of herd immunity, but none cites Brasil - which has also forgone lockdown?
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Herd immunity or not, countries waited way to long to start the lockdown. COVID is now just like the flu and will be with us for a very long time. Open up, let it burn through because you can't contain it.
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Brazil is right behind the US, in deaths per capital, but ahead of Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, U.K., and Belgium. Riddle me that.
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I think it was about three months ago we decided that Sweden's die was cast.
Sweden's die was cast long before Xi's gift. The reason they had a relatively low number of casualties (only 10 times of their neighbors) is because they already practice distancing. For example, 40% of Swedish households are single person.
They're simply dying out - replaced by immigrants.
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grom, you do realize Brazil is pretty much a shithole. Might be why they have so many cases because of the nastiness of the slums.
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#5, no. The theory that covid-19 is a Chinese bioweapon has not been debunked. The CCP is innocent until proven guilty but their behavior is undeniably suspicious.
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#19. (a) Actually, slum dwellers have better immune systems than you (or I). Google gnotobiotic.
(b) Indian slums are not much different from Brazilian - but the two countries have very different covid stats. Hint, it's not due to HCQ, as Brazil adopted it enthusiastically.
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The lockdown was a mistake. Now government is doubling down rather than admit it was wrong. So when an actual pandemic comes along with a virus that really is scary, no one will believe government. It'll be much worse than it needed to be.
[Washington Examiner] A protester in Belarus died after an unidentified explosive device blew up in his hands.
The incident occurred on Monday, marking a bloody turn to the second night of protests in the country over the nation's recent presidential election, which opposition leaders see as a sham.
Police have attempted to disperse protesters with flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets.
On Sunday, it was announced that President Alexander Lukashenko won 80% of the vote, but because of a lack of poll oversight, many have been left to question the legitimacy of the result. Lukashenko has been president since 1994.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Lukashenko's main rival, has yet to concede the race.
[Breitbart] American businesses hired workers at a blistering pace in June, data from the Labor Department showed Monday.
U.S. employers hired 6.7 million workers in the month, the second-highest monthly total in records going back to 2000, according to the Labor Department’s monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary or JOLTS report. The highest total was hit in May, when businesses hired 7.2 million workers.
Job openings rose 9.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted 5.9 million, beating economist expectations. Despite the rise, openings remain well below the pre-pandemic level of about 7 million.
Job openings moved much higher during President Trump’s first year in office. Openings had stagnated in 2015, rarely rising about the 6 million mark and making little progress over time. Between December of 2016 and July, openings rose by over 1 million and had not fallen below 7 million until December 2019.
Manufacturers hired 441,000 workers in June, down from 523,000 in May but above the year-ago level of 326,000. Durable goods makers hired 268,000 in the month, down a bit from 286,000 in May. Job openings rose to 336,000, up from May but below the pre-pandemic level.
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The "shut down the economy to get Trump" game was mis-timed. Hence the current "it's (COVID) only getting worse" drumbeat from the press.
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They need a second wave to coincide with the election.
Most of the comments on MSM COVID articles that allow comments are highlighting the lack of danger from COVID and the recklessness of the government over-response.
They need to admit they over-reacted and get on with protecting vulnerable while letting the near zero risk (99.5%) get on with it.
[WGN9] CHICAGO — Hundreds of looters targeted businesses in the Mag Mile and River North areas late Sunday into early Monday, clearing out stores as 100 people were arrested and 13 police officers injured during skirmishes throughout the night.
SWAT team members with rifles descended on Garfield Park near Madison and Karlov Monday afternoon after more reports of looting, and an officer was injured.
CPD Superintendent David Brown said social media posts following a police-involved shooting in Englewood Sunday afternoon sowed the seeds of chaos.[WGN
[Mayo Clinic News Network] - Acute symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, are now widely known. What is not known, however, is what symptoms and complications may linger long after an initial COVID-19 infection. Early research shows the disease attacks more than just the respiratory system, affecting multiple organs with blood clots and inflammation.
"This is a disease that has a number of mysteries involved, compared to the usual respiratory virus," says Dr. Gregory Poland, a COVID-19 expert at Mayo Clinic. Because it didn't evolve but was created as biological weapon in a lab, Doc.
...What's just starting to emerge, according to Dr. Poland, is this idea of COVID-19 "long-haulers," which is a term used to describe people who develop long-term and ongoing complications.
"We're really seeing a number of reports of people who report long-term fatigue, headaches, vertigo (and), interestingly enough, difficulties with cognition, hair loss, cardiac issues, and diminished cardiorespiratory fitness. And I think what we're going to find out is that a large portion—not all, but a large portion of that—is likely to relate to the significant cellular-level damage that this virus can cause," says Dr. Poland. A friendly advice to all you "covid-skeptics". Exercise some care where you express your, deeply held, beliefs about "unnecessary lockdowns" & "totalitarian, useless, masks". A woman losing hair to Covid 19, just might kill you - I ain't kidding.
Some of the possible long-term effects can affect even patients who are asymptomatic or have mild cases of COVID-19."I think it's an argument for why we take this disease so seriously," says Dr. Poland. "People who are thinking, especially young people: '(It's a) mild disease, you know. I might not even have any symptoms, and I'm over it.' Whoa. The data is suggesting otherwise. There's evidence of myocardial damage, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, decreased ejection fractions, pulmonary scarring and strokes. In fact, I'm beginning to think that the documented lethality of Covid 19 is due to its premature escape. Further engineering was supposed to tone it down - so the virus (posing as an ordinary cold) could infect most of the population before its long term effects were discovered.
..."We're going to see more and more of the longer-term consequences come out, and we're going to need to study those as vigorously as we did the acute symptoms. Catalog them, understand them and then do clinical trials to figure out how best to treat them," says Dr. Poland.
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Men die younger, because women make us want to.
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The worst long-term symptoms of COVID are CDC, NIH, WHO, Fauxi and Birx. Or is it Brix? The media changes it's "mind" hourly. They could just settle on "scarf woman."
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Married men die later, cause she won't let him get away without more suffering?
You understand a 100 years ago women had about the same life expectancy as men. Needing children for your family social security (cause the state didn't offer it), child mortality rates meaning more tries to secure that old age protection, and birth complications all had major impacts upon that calculation. Then the oppressive patriarchal medical establishment reduced the mortality rate of the latter two factors. With the vote, the ladies addressed the first factor. Then they opted out of doing the dirty and dangerous jobs of the society to insure the death rate calculations would always skew in their favor.
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I'm not unrealistic enough to expect to even die happy.
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Then they opted out of doing the dirty
And here we are...
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Other than hair loss the list of lingering side effects was exactly what I experienced after having double pneumonia. It took a long time to very gradually rehabilitate myself with sad and pathetic weights and even sadder walks since running was then far in the future.
I couldn't have even begun any of that without supplementing my diet with zinc, selenium, magnesium and potassium daily. My hair did go from black to grey in a relatively short time. I am a limited sample to be sure, but I know what happened.
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Any studies comparing the long-term effects of the COVID compared to the Asian/Hong Kong/seasonal flu effects?
Any older studies on the long-term effects of the 1957 Asian flu, the 1968 Hong Kong flu or any subsequent seasonal flu pandemics?
I bet not. Not enough researchers to do the work 50 years ago or media panic to drive the interest. So we really have nothing with which to compare COVID-19.
Except carefully tabulated COVID death rates compared to CDC estimates.
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The lung damage is real. I've seen the images on a relative. It will have a longer lasting effect, unlike flu.
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For now, we have no reason to trust researchers and their opinions. Not enough time has passed for long term studies. Not that they have any credibility anyway.
The moment Trump was escorted out of the briefing room by Secret Service - agent seems to say, “We have shots fired outside.” pic.twitter.com/cJkkxwYLXm
Trump returns to lectern in WH briefing room after USSS escorted him away. Says there was a shooting outside the WH. Trump: Somebody has been taken to hospital. Seems the person was shot by the Secret Service
The Secret Service can confirm there has been an officer involved shooting at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. Law enforcement officials are on the scene. More information to follow.
The Secret Service provided details of the shooting in a tweet late Monday. A 51-year-old male allegedly approached a Uniformed Division officer who was standing at his post on the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. The man told the agent he had a weapon and, while he approached, took off in a sprint and "in a drawing motion, withdrew an object from his clothing," the statement read.
"The suspect then crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon," the statement read. At that point, the agent fired his weapon and struck the subject in the torso.
That intersection is right outside the White House grounds.
The Secret Service said in a tweet that a male subject and a USSS officer were both transported to a local hospital. "At no time during this incident was the White House complex breached or were any protectees in danger," the agency said, adding the investigation is ongoing.
A law enforcement source told Fox News it appears the wounds to the suspect in the officer-involved shooting are not fatal.
There was a brief, joint presser late Monday night with the Secret Service and the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department that stressed that the investigation was in its early stages. City police will play a supporting role.
No doubt the details will soon be revealed, but in the meantime the question, dear Reader, as always is: jihadi, Antifa, or nutter?
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whoever it was, he must've made the media uncomfortable, because the story dropped off the radar faster than a fifth of vodka in front of hill-dawg
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never heard that saying before, but that's some country ass shit an I like it.
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whoever it was, he must've made the media uncomfortable, because the story dropped off the radar faster than a fifth of vodka in front of hill-dawg
Yeah. Some comments started talking about how Trump disappeared into his bunker at the slightest hint of danger. That stopped, too.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their attacks in southern Idlib on Monday, as their artillery and missile units heavily targeted the positions of the jihadist rebels in Jabal al-Zawiya.According to local reports, the Syrian Army, with help from Russian reconnaissance drones, launched a number of artillery shells and missiles towards the jihadist defenses around the town of al-Bara’a, which is located along the front-lines.
In the past few weeks, the Russian Air Force’s reconnaissance drones have increased their flights over the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate; this has coincided with the Syrian Army’s intensification of artillery and missiles strikes in the Jabal al-Zawiya region.
The Syrian Army also struck a number of sites inside the nearby al-Ghaab Plain, which has become one of the main targets for the military since the jihadist rebels of the Hurras al-Deen Group attempted to infiltrate their positions twice in the past two months.
On Sunday, Ottoman Turkish drones were seen circling the Syrian Arab Army’s positions in the Jabal al-Zawiya region and eastern part of Idlib; this was followed by shelling that was mostly conducted by the jihadist rebels in Ariha and other areas.
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Youth? The youth that shot first? The youth who is late teens/early 20’s? The youth the neighbors called police on because they were threatened? That “youth”? https://t.co/e6hJrwsVSc
EU Preparing Sanctions against Turkey for Violating Libya Arms Embargo
Two individuals from Libya are also implicated for providing ships, aircraft, and other logistics for the transport of weapons to Libya...#Libya#LibyaReviewhttps://t.co/4DTzVGexEO
[Jpost] The map "divulges the little-known fact that in 2010, Hezbollah stored ammonium nitrate intended for making explosives in a house purchased by a French Lebanese professor."
A leading expert on the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah’s operations across the globe presented last week the first-ever interactive multimedia tool chronicling the Shi’ite organization’s malign activities.
The Washington Institute thing can be explored here. It is, indeed, exhaustive.
"Hezbollah is active not only along the Blue Line, not only in Syria, but in other military conflicts throughout the region and in terrorist activity around the world," Matthew Levitt, the Hezbollah expert, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
[EN.ANNAHAR] International leaders from 36 countries raised a total of $298 million on Sunday as they met virtually to discuss aid for Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... at a donor conference organised in Gay Paree by French president Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... "The objective of this conference is for us to unite today to definitively pool our resources in the coming days and weeks to address the needs of Beirut's population," said president Macron as the conference began.
He later pointed that aid given to Lebanon should come with reforms under the watchful eye of the UN and "directly to the Lebanese people", away from the corrupted hands of the Lebanese government.
"It is up to the authorities of the country to act so that the country does not sink, and to respond to the aspirations that the Lebanese people are expressing right now, legitimately, in the streets of Beirut," Macron said during the virtual conference.
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[MSN] Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.69448 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.69243 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... said Sunday she's confident presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... will choose a Black woman as his running mate ahead of his anticipated announcement in the coming days.
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"...if he knows what's good for him."
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Maxine, I wouldn't count on Joe to tell the truth. He has often climbed a tree to lie instead of staying on the ground to tell the truth. At other times, he just doesn't seem to know what he is saying.
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...Interesting bit of tea leaf reading from www.hotair this afternoon - full article is behind a paywall, but the short version is this: Whoever the VP nominee is, they get a star turn on the podium on night 3 of the convention.
Kamala Harris has been confirmed for night 4.
Time to thank her and give her a case of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat? Stay tuned...
(BTW, I think it's going to be Rice. She's the least bad option, but when she takes over for Joe she'll be a shadow president for the Obamas.)
Mike
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^ I agree with a Rice pick. Why waste a future talent in a lost election? She's tainted and won't help him pick up any state, but she IS loyal, and a natural liar
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Tonight, all programs are cancelled on Turkish state-funded propaganda outlet TRT News so they can discuss developments in the Mediterranean on the Gündem Special program between 21:00 and 23:00 local time.
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...The last time these two wonders of the ancient world went at it, both sides managed some stunning blue-on-blue incidents, including a destroyer on each side and several aircraft. Will be interesting to see how they screw it up this time.
And they will.
Mike
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Both countries have serious problems at home.
Time for a diversion or two.
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More Euro squabbling and tribal trouble making. Something to watch at a distance and stay out of.
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NATO question: if the alliance defends its members against attackers, then doesn't that mean that NATO must respond as if Turkey is an enemy if they attack Greece?
Time to evac all US personnel and equipment from Turkey, especially the B61 nuclear bombs, before they become hostages. Move it all to Crete, Souda Bay Naval Base is already there, with US forces routinely interoperate there. Time to expand and make the presence permanent, and pull all that off Turkish soil. Plus its in a great strategic location in the Eastern Med.
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^considering in 1974 all Turkey got was a slap on the wrist for violating human rights... I wouldn't expect any NATO response other than a strongly worded letter.
Just learned that the Minnesota Freedom Fund that collected donations after the death of George Floyd to bail out protesters paid $350,000 to bail this twice-convicted sex offender out of jail. Yup. https://t.co/ivosohY5QI
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Tunisia prime minister-designate Hichem Mechichi said on Monday he will form a technocrat government without political parties, due to the disagreement between parties in the North Africa country.
Mechichi’s decision will likely put him in confrontation with the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party, the largest party in Parliament, which announced its rejection of a government without political parties.
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“We already made a few phone calls. Don’t worry...”
Antifa rioters in north Portland have access to more than $1.3m in bail money, as well as pro bono lawyers. This is one reason even the extremely violent suspects get released so quickly to riot again. #PortlandRiotshttps://t.co/x66ZYflPPD
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My search-fu is weak this morning. Anyone want to explain the umbrellas?
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...to hide ID via shielding. Judges set bail. You can burn through 1.3M really fast if they set it high enough. They can demand full surety, no 10 percent down. They can also void bails or call for their forfeiture upon return visits. They're part of the insurrection.
[FoxNews] Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's bike shop in Austin, Texas, is cutting ties with local police.
Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop will no longer purchase, re-sell or service police-issued Trek bikes, even though the City of Austin had already greenlighted the request, due to "the current evaluation of community policing in Austin."
"Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve," Mellow Johnny's in Austin said in a statement. "We chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history. We have had to make these choices before when we felt companies whose products we sold put kids at schools at risk of violence. We lost sales due to this choice."
The store had previously cut ties with Vista Outdoor over its connection to the National Rifle Association.
Despite its latest decision, Mellow Johnny's said its shop is not "anti-police."
"We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now," Mellow Johnny's said in the statement.
Mellow Johnny's opened in Austin in 2008. There is another Mellow Johnny's in Fort Worth, Texas, under different management, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported
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Despite its latest decision, Mellow Johnny's said its shop is not "anti-police."
"We do believe our local police force will protect us from the very threats we are receiving right now," Mellow Johnny's said in the statement.
Wonderful logic.
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Anathema! But... can it be,
When I've snubbed to the umpteenth degree,
Adding nails to the coffin,
As happens so often...
That someone gets deader to me?
The exception is the description of Kurtz: "Mistah Kurtz. Him dead. Him gah damn dead..."
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...Fortunately, I don't look to confessed liars, cheats, and con men for moral lessons.
Mike
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Not to worry. Lance will soon issue a statement that "management of the shop is completely autonomous."
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apparently, Lance lost his remaining testicle. Snark O'The Day
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Surely this shop can do what it wants, but I would like to tune back in in about a year to see how the shop is performing. A mistake, IMO, but we will see.
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I ride a 40 year old Specialized StumpJumper, the original mountain bike. It's too heavy and only 18 speed. Still, If they came out all Woke today, the bike is long paid for an still works. If I had to replace it I mint have to hunt around.
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Dammit, Frank G, ya beat me to it! I gotta get up earlier!
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... snapped at a news hound who questioned whether city officials went too easy on looters from protests in recent months.The exchange took place Monday after widespread violence and looting took place downtown in the early morning hours following a police-involved shooting that left a man injured. More than 100 arrests were made, and 13 officers were hurt during the unrest, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a presser Monday morning.
"It almost sounds as though you’re saying this is — the reason [this is happening] is because the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they’re going too easy on the looters from the last time around," a news hound asked during a presser with Lightfoot and Brown.
Brown began to respond but was cut off by Lightfoot, who accused the news hound of trying to "bait" them with the question.
"No, no, don’t — do not bait us," Lightfoot said. "Do not bait us. This is a serious situation. People are concerned about their safety. Officers are concerned about their safety. So don’t bait us."
Lightfoot added that the city is aggressively searching to identify the people responsible for the unrest.
"When we do [identify them] and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that this is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period," Lightfoot said. "Don’t try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other — we’re not playing that. We are in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response. That’s what we’re saying, period."
The question asked likely revolves around Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx's decision last month to drop charges against hundreds of protesters who gathered in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Foxx said at the time that violent mostly peaceful offenders, including some looters, would be prosecuted, but up to 817 protesters who had minor charges against them would get off scot-free.
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In other words, "How dare you blame us!". The most irresponsible Mayor in US History.
[FOXNEWS] New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo on Monday said "you’d have to be blind" to think calls to further calls to investigate the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... deaths linked to state nursing homes amid the pandemic are "not political."Cuomo, during a presser Monday, said he "wouldn’t do an investigation" into the nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic in the state of New York.
"I wouldn’t do an investigation whether or not it’s political, everybody can make that decision for themselves," Cuomo said. "I think you’d have to be blind to realize it’s not political."
He went on to say, "Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political affiliations and look at who wrote the letter in Congress and look at what publications raise it and what media outward networks raise it."
[FoxNews] Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean, who recently lost her elderly in-laws to COVID-19, told the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Monday that she was taken off the list to testify at a hearing geared toward understanding why and how the pandemic took root in New York nursing homes.
She said she believes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo or his administration were behind the decision.
In a statement sent to Fox News Senate Majority Communications Director Mike Murphy said, "There are so many families that suffered because of this awful pandemic.
“We had so many brave families that wanted to share their heartbreaking stories including the ones that testified today and at last week’s hearing,” he continued. “As was made clear if you couldn’t testify in person we will accept all written testimony to be part of the written record.”
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Political? Like when you blamed Orange Man Bad for lack of response then wasted the USN hospital ship, the Javits Center Hospital and all those respirators? You're a lying punk Sonny Boy.
Feds should do the investigation. Cum-ho won't
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Cuomo knows even HE can't drum up that much whitewash..
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New York’s true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount. Unlike every other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.
That statistic could add thousands to the state’s official care home death toll of just over 6,600. But so far the administration of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused to divulge the number, leading to speculation the state is manipulating the figures to make it appear it is doing better than other states and to make a tragic situation less dire.
How big a difference could it make? Since May, federal regulators have required nursing homes to submit data on coronavirus deaths each week, whether or not residents died in the facility or at a hospital. Because the requirement came after the height of New York’s outbreak, the available data is relatively small. According to the federal data, roughly a fifth of the state’s homes reported resident deaths from early June to mid July — a tally of 323 dead, 65 percent higher than the state’s count of 195 during that time period. Via Instapundit
[Jpost] Many foreign workers and truck drivers are missing and assumed to be among the casualties of the Beirut port warehouse blast, complicating efforts to identity the victims, the city's governor said on Sunday.
"There are a lot missing whom we cannot identify. They are truck drivers and foreign workers," Marwan Abboud told the Al Jadeed television channel. "No one is identifying them -- this is a difficult task that takes time."
Syria's government has said that around 45 of the more than 158 people confirmed killed in the blast were Syrian nationals. Syrians comprise the biggest foreign labor force in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , working in construction, agriculture and transport.
[Jpost] Erdogan, who became president in 2014 and ruled The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... since, has sought to strengthen Turkey's regional role as well as a leading state in the Islamic world.
A Ottoman Turkish magazine, Gercek Hayat, (True Life) praised the Islamic restoration of the Hagia Sophia church back into a mosque and declared the need to re-establish a Ottoman Turkish caliphate, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.
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... , who became Ottoman Turkish president in 2014 and has ruled Turkey since, has sought to strengthen Turkey's regional role as well as a leading state in the Islamic world.
The magazine described the remake of Hagia Sophia into a mosque as a step in the direction of establishing a caliphate that will reach Jerusalem.
"After Hagia Sophia Church opened to worship as a mosque, discussion returned to the Caliphate, along a route from Mecca to al-Quds (Jerusalem) and beyond," the magazine stated. "The shining landmark along the way is Istanbul, through the shrine of Hagia Sophia... The Philippines, Niger, Indonesia are the Land of the Caliphate, coordinating the world’s Moslems..."
The recent decision to turn the 1,500-year-old cathedral back into a mosque was another important victory for Erdogan, who is seeking to bring back the glory of Ottoman Empire.
Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations at the Wiesenthal Centre noted that "the Hagia Sophia takeover as a mosque was also led by a more worrying Ottoman Turkish NGO - the IHH (International Humanitarian Relief Foundation)."
The organization was responsible for organizing a humanitarian flotilla, which included ten ships, with the clear intention of breaking the legally imposed Israeli blockade on Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... back in May 2010.
Curiously enough, perhaps in another act of usurpation the magazine included the famous saying by Hillel the Elder: "If I am not for myself, who will be? / If I am only to myself, what am I? / If not now, when? - likely reinterpreting it to support Erdogan's expansionist agenda.
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So after the ongoing abattoire of the 20th century there is an emperor in China, a Tsar in Russia and a sultan in Istanbul.
[Jpost] PHOENIX - Former lawman Joe Arpaio, the nationally known Arizona sheriff who found common cause with President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... on a hard-line stance against illegal immigration, narrowly lost his bid to regain his old job, vote tallies showed on Friday.
Arpaio, 88, who billed himself as "America's toughest sheriff," trailed his former chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, by 6,280 votes out of 443,056 ballots cast in Tuesday's four-way Republican primary, according to the county elections department.
Hopefully Sheriff Arpaio’s former deputy learned all his master had to teach, and so electing him is like getting a younger Arpaio. Because 88 is a tad long in the tooth to be saddling up and chasing after bad guys.
The latest results showed Sheridan with 156,396 votes, compared with 150,116 for Arpaio, leaving the former long-time sheriff of Maricopa County no chance of closing the gap with just 2,385 ballots still to be counted.
In the November general election, Sheridan will face incumbent Democrat Paul Penzone, who ousted Arpaio from office in a 2016 landslide victory.
Arpaio, damaged by a series of court judgments that cost local taxpayers more than $178 million to date, went on to lose a race two years later to fill the seat of the late Republican U.S. Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... A federal judge in 2017 found Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt of court, ruling that the sheriff had willfully violated a 2011 injunction barring his officers from stopping and detaining Latino motorists solely on suspicion that they were in the country illegally.
Trump granted Arpaio clemency before he was to be sentenced, marking the first pardon of his presidency. Sheridan also was cited for contempt by the same judge, but was not prosecuted.
In his comeback bid this year, Arpaio vowed to renew controversial policing tactics he which includes Phoenix. Those policies included housing county jail inmates in tents and regular immigration enforcement sweeps that landed Arpaio in hot water with the federal courts.
Political strategists were watching the Arpaio race for signs of how receptive his get-tough messaging on immigration and law and order - echoing Trump’s - would be to voters in a crucial swing state for the Nov. 3 national elections.
Trump carried Arizona by 5 percentage points in 2016.
[IsraelTimes] The Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip will see new arrivals through Rafah border crossing with Egypt for the first time since May, the Paleostinian embassy in Egypt announces.
The border will open from August 11 to August 13, the embassy says.
The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,-run Health Ministry in Gaza says it is preparing quarantine facilities and coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... tests for those returning.
All new arrivals in the Gaza Strip will be required to spend at least 21 days in quarantine, the Health Ministry says.
There are currently 10 cases of the novel coronavirus in the Gaza Strip, all of which have been contained in quarantine centers delegated by Hamas for new arrivals.
Gaza has so far been spared any reported community spread of the virus.
Egypt and Hamas sealed the Rafah crossing in March for those trying to leave Gaza. There has been no announcement as to when Gazooks will be allowed to exit the Strip and enter Egypt.
[FoxNews] As the U.S. surpasses 5 million coronavirus cases, awaits a vaccine and debates sending kids back to schools, Texas emergency room physician Dr. Natasha Kathuria told "Fox & Friends" her state might see another surge in cases.
With the Lone Star State recording its highest seven-day positivity rate since the pandemic began, the Austin-based doctor says hospitals are at about 80 percent capacity in the big cities as Texas surpasses 500,000 positive cases and more than 8,800 deaths, the Houston Chronicle reports.
"We've seen this wave hit Texas pretty hard, and we're holding steady right now. We've seen a slow decrease in hospitalizations, but our death counts are still up there," Kathuria, Global Outreach Doctors board member, told co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
Earhardt asked about reopening schools in the fall as a new report found more than 97,000 children tested positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks of July.
"I can guarantee that number is actually much higher," Kathuria said of cases in youth. "We don't really test kids that often. They're usually asymptomatic, they have very mild symptoms, but they're still shedding this virus, so that is going to artificially be low no matter how good we are about testing right now."
But the doctor is worried that sending kids to schools and sending them home could affect parents and grandparents who go to work and travel, which could worsen the spread.
As health officials prepare for a vaccine, Kathuria said, "our biggest concern is 'are people actually going to get the vaccine?'"
Instead of just focusing on a vaccine, she believes the focus should be on prevention.
"We have the PCR test,
...the slow but accurate one...
we have the antibody test,
...fast, but high false positives and false negatives...
but we need better rapid, at-home testing available where someone can just take it like a pregnancy test and we have the technology for it," Kathuria said. "We just need to push for it and lower our restrictions on different testing methods and not set the bar so high so that we can really control this. Our best armor for this is prevention right now."
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For the last 84 days, new cases per Worldometer average 42k, or 3.56 million new cases. In that same period, the number of "serious/critical' runs between 16k and 18k - virtually flat.
A little less than 1,000 per day (average) expire. I didn't track the 'recovered', which I suppose is those discharged from the hospital.
So I conclude that of the new cases each day, about 1-2,000 got into 'serious/critical' and about 1,000 of the serious/critical' expire, and the other thousand or so - recover.
Or - of the 42,000 new cases per day, around 40,000 do not go to the hospital. That's 95%, which is consistent with other reports from more learned folks.
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Infection 'Hot Spots' centered on the protest sites, ya reckon?
CHAD is in my box of secondary evidence. So far, there isn't a mass exodus from a plague ward.
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Check along the border areas of Texas , large numbers colonizers with various disease coming across. Time of the twin fences with mine fields inbetween.
[FoxNews] Attorney General Bill Barr accused the media of pushing their own "narrative" instead of reporting facts on the ground when it comes to coverage of civil unrest in cities across the country following George Floyd's death.
In an interview with Mark Levin on Fox News' "Life, Liberty & Levin," Barr lamented that while people are "rushing the police" and "throwing rocks," the media reports on "peaceful demonstrators" instead.
"They are projecting a narrative. When the word ’narrative’ came into currency I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative suggests that there’s no objective truth," Barr said. "There’s no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own narrative. And you get to where the press can justify presenting a story that doesn’t really correspond to objective truth but ’it’s our narrative, we have a narrative you have a narrative.’"
Barr went on to say that he was "appalled" by coverage of the violence because "it's happening right out in the streets," in public view.
"Anyone with eyes can see what’s happening. They see the violence, they see these groups of agitators in their black outfits, and their helmets, and their shields, which incidentally have the — have the hammer and sickle on them most of the time, rushing the police, causing violence, throwing rocks, people showing up with the rocks and frozen bottles," Barr said. "That’s happening. It’s happening in front of people."
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Pathological lying is a mental disorder in which the person habitually or compulsively lies.[1][2][3]
It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrück.[2] Although it is a controversial topic,[2] pathological lying has been defined as "falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime".[1]
Some psychiatrists distinguish compulsive from pathological lying, while others consider them equivalent; yet others deny the existence of compulsive lying altogether; this remains an area of considerable controversy.[5]
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Barr lamented that while people are "rushing the police" and "throwing rocks," the media reports on "peaceful demonstrators" instead.
Well yeah, this is what the MSM has come to. And those who watch MSNBC, CNN and the rest of these media outlets will swallow this slop. The MSM has been geared towards destroying Trump instead of reporting the truth. Truth has taken an extended holiday with the MSM in the U.S.
"The whole aim of the media and practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Menchen" (with some license).
The media is now a left-wing political activism organization. This has been widely applauded among journalists. Any pretense of objectivity has been dropped. The mask is off.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Tehran has cautioned against politicizing the devastating blast in Beirut, arguing that Washington should drop sanctions on Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... if it is serious about helping the nation recover from the catastrophe.
"If America is honest about its assistance offer to Lebanon, they should lift sanctions [against it]," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday during a news conference. "Give the money directly to Hezb'Allah. You can trust them"
In response to a question about French President Emmanual Macron’s visit to Beirut, the front man remarked that "some countries have been trying to politicize this blast for their own interests." Macron has faced criticism for using his visit to express sympathy with anti-government demonstrators. He also claimed that the country’s future "is being decided now."
Washington announced last week that it had begun to deliver aid to Lebanon in the aftermath of the earth-shattering kaboom. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the humanitarian relief is at odds with US sanctions imposed against Hezbollah, which is part of the Lebanese government. As a result, the Pentagon has claimed that it needs to be more cautious when administering aid to Lebanon, and expressed "concerns with whom the aid would go to."
Beirut has been rocked by demonstrations following Tuesday’s explosion, which killed more than 200 people and turned a huge swath of the city into rubble. On Saturday the US Embassy in Beirut expressed solidarity with the anti-government protesters while urging all sides to "refrain from violence."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, the al-Akidat Tribe in Syria announced the establishment of the (Al-Akidat Army)
...a few days ago, when they were merely armed tribals going after Kurds because someone knocked off their chief, Rudaw spelt their name Agaidat...
and immediately began operations against the U.S. Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of the Euphrates.
During a meeting in the city of Deir Ezzor, the sheikhs and notables of the al-Akidat Tribe stressed the need to unify the positions regarding what is happening in the Syrian Jazeera region (east of the Euphrates) after the attacks carried out by the Syrian Democratic Forces, with help from the Coalition.
In a statement obtained by Sputnik, the sheikhs and notables of the al-Akidat Tribe addressed the circumstances into which the situation and matters had turned at this stage and the crimes of the "SDF gangs with US-Zionist support, which crossed all red lines."
Yeah, yeah. You might want to remember, O tribal sheikhs and notables, that in living memory Allah has ensured that Israel always wins.
The statement said, "This militia used some criminals, fragmentation and assault on the sanctities of the homeland and society, plundering the nation’s wealth and liquidating national symbols represented by targeting Sheikh Mutashhar al-Hafl in cold blood and in broad daylight."
They continued: "As a result of the above, and in response to this, the notables and elders of the al-Akidat Tribe will meet to discuss these matters, and take the necessary measures to respond to the occupier, his tools and terrorist gangs, and liberate all of the Syrian lands, so that Syria remains the leader of the Arab nation, under the leadership of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... The statement would say: "In response to the urgent desire of the Akidat sons to move and organize ranks to get rid of the American occupation and its tools , the elders and notables of the al-Akidat Tribe decided to form a political council for the tribe from the tribe’s notables and elders, whose task is to manage its affairs in coordination with the relevant authorities in the state and form the al-Akidat army."
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You do get good cement but you have to collect it from fast moving mudflows called lahars. Imagine trying to stand in 3+ feet of flowing concrete at 60+ mph.
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Sure, and Spain and Portugal want their Jewish exiles to provide documentation of 500 year old bloodlines to renew their citizenship and move home. Imagine their shock that some Sephardi Jews can actually document their lineage, even if they haven’t screeched up in big, expensive cars to line up for the privilege.
Checkout day at the @ICMarkHopkins. the "guests" wouldn't abide by the rules. city paid ubers & cabs moved them to a different luxury hotel - w/ fewer rules & slightly lower price. I'll reveal which when I have the go-ahead. I wonder what hazardous materials they're removing... pic.twitter.com/97QsJwBtqU
Turkey gave new vehicles to HTS, the "former" AQ affiliate/designated terror org in Idlib. Many think Turkey's folding them into the SNA.
NATO and the West ignored Turkey's support for HTS (and previously Nusra, ISIS.) Will they object if HTS has a 4th rebrand and becomes SNA? pic.twitter.com/ALCklQhHqz
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I won't go out with a girl who doesn't carry a leaf blower.
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Anyone care to place a small wager on if the FBI is looking at these people?
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Fashion wear for the chic anarchists and communists?--this is so bourgeoisie (sarc). Gotta look fashionable while burning down buildings, destroying other people's stuff and assaulting others.
Video of the family reunion in the airport can be seen at the link.
[IsraelTimes] ’My soul felt reborn,’ one relative says at Abu Dhabi airport ceremony; tweeting about reunion, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed hails his country as ’homeland of coexistence’.
In a further sign of the United Arab Emirates’s effort to position itself as a regional center of religious tolerance, the country’s government organized the reunion last week of a Jewish Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ite family that had been separated for 15 years.
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[Jpost] Attack along the southern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border fence killed Maj. Eliraz Peretz and St.-Sgt. Ilan Sviatkovsky.
Ten years after Maj. Eliraz Peretz and St.-Sgt. Ilan Sviatkovsky were killed in an exchange of fire with bully boyz in the southern Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has arrested one of the Paleostinians involved in the attack.
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Michele C. Torres, a 33-year-old registered nurse, was arrested & charged w/multiple offenses at the north Portland #antifa riot. She is a "protest medic" who has been helping rioters. In March she started a GoFundMe COVID campaign to raise funds for PPE. https://t.co/aWI8m46MEppic.twitter.com/qN33LBCDMd
Demetria Hester, 46, a celebrated Portland BLM leader, was arrested & charged at the north Portland #antifa riot. She has a long criminal history in Washington state that includes charges for prostitution, theft, assault & domestic violence. #PortlandRiotshttps://t.co/08fUkFvVsdpic.twitter.com/Z4CXpG8tuI
[Military.com] The Air Force One of the future might be getting a major speed boost.
An aerospace company called Hermeus on Thursday announced a contract with the US Air Force and the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate to develop a hypersonic aircraft for the presidential fleet.
While the next Air Force One, a modified 747-8, is due to be delivered by Boeing next year, the Hermeus contract looks toward its eventual replacement.
Hermeus said it won the contract after designing, building, and successfully testing a prototype of an engine capable of propelling an airplane to Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound — about 3,300 mph. Mach 5 represents the delineation between supersonic and hypersonic speeds.
The company completed those tests in March, Aviation Week reported.
Hermeus plans to build a demonstrator vehicle over the next five years, with commercial aircraft envisioned in about a decade, Skyler Shuford, its cofounder and chief operating officer, said in 2019. A press release announcing the Air Force contract said part of the project would focus on integrating Air Force requirements into the airplane's designs. I suspect it will be prototyped as Air Force Two...maybe Three...
3 hours ago several #LNA airstrike were conducted between sdadda bridge and Sdadda castle, targeting a Turkish air Défense missile platform + radar + jamming tower. Resulting in the destruction of the targets.#Libya#HoR#Turkeypic.twitter.com/PjPrrdg8i8
Unconfirmed reports, should stay (untold) until it became confirmed...#Egypt and #Greece don't act depending on rumors and social media! https://t.co/ySkqpg39Zv
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They each cover a lot of space. A movement of twenty miles one way or another wouldn't make much difference. So a movement of twenty miles one way or another needn't be considered an iron-clad tell.
And if you had a couple of them, you have to put them someplace and with their coverage, it hardly matters as long as they're both not in the exact center of the area to be defended. I'd wait for some leaked email or something as to what is expected, as opposed to the deployment suggested on the box.
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Meanwhile Israel smiles and tunes up their F-35I fleet.
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Wouldn't be surprised if the Juice let the Egyptians in on the secret to defeating Russian air defense systems. But then, maybe it's not that much of a secret.
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Yeah, Greece and Egypt are the ones who want to escalate. Uh-huh.
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[Jpost] Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested for suspected collusion with foreign forces under the national security law Beijing imposed on the global financial hub in June, his top aide said on Twitter.
"Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time," Mark Simon, a senior executive at Lai's media company Next Digital, which publishes local tabloid Apple Daily, said early on Monday.
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.
[Mil.Com] A former Air Force officer has been sentenced to two years behind bars for her role in a nationwide scheme to defraud the military's health program, Tricare, of billions of dollars./arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/GSXU2O5UE5H5BG7BPPS3JO5NYM.JPG)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
[USGS] The largest earthquake that has occurred, as of this release, is a magnitude 4.6 at 8:56 AM PDT on August 10. This earthquake and the associated swarm are located approximately 8 miles from the southern end of the San Andreas Fault. This area has also seen swarms in the past — most recently, in 2001, 2009, and 2016. Past swarms have remained active for 1 to 20 days, with an average duration of about a week. 
[Washington Examiner] A protester in Belarus died after an unidentified explosive device blew up in his hands.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[MSN] Rep. 
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
...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...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
John 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[FoxNews] Attorney General Bill Barr accused the media of pushing their own "narrative" instead of reporting facts on the ground when it comes to coverage of civil unrest in cities across the country following George Floyd's death.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
