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Martha Vickers was an American model and actress.
Vickers was born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, into a Jewish family; her father was an automobile dealer. She began her career as a model and cover girl. Her family moved to Hollywood when her father assumed control of an agency in Burbank, California. Vickers was 15 at that time.
Born: Martha MacVicar, May 28, 1925, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Died: November 2, 1971, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Vickers was born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, into a Jewish family;
Could she write? A nice Scots-Jewish American girl whose father owned a business? Reading, writing, ‘rithmatic, and she could probably sell you that honey at the front of Daddy’s car lot for more than the list price, Xyz, or buy that clunker you brought in to trade while explaining all the things you'd neglected to repair.
[JPost] - Taking a third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immunity of recipients nearly tenfold compared to those who received only two doses of the vaccine more than five [months] prior, according to a report published Wednesday by Israeli researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A version of the study had been previously published and reported on, though not peer-reviewed, at the beginning of the month on the online research hub MedRxiv.
The rate of confirmed infections was more than 10 times lower among people who received the booster compared to people who did not. The rate of severe infection 19 times lower.
the URL of the New England Journal of Medicine is https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255
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Very good, but for how long? Seems like doses one and two did much the same but faded in 6-9 months. So I guess we will need at least one booster shot per year, forever. Sad. But probably true.
[Epoch Times] A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital’s dashboard report.
"I think we have to be more blunt, we have to be more forceful—we have to say something coming out—if you don’t get vaccinated, you know you are going to die," Rudyk said in the video. "Let’s just be really blunt to these people." "You know you are going to die". Well, eventually!
Rudyk then asked how post-COVID cases can be included in the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19.
"My feeling at this point in time is that maybe we need to be completely a little bit more scary for the public," Rudyk said. "There are many people still hospitalized that we’re considering post-COVID, but we are not counting in those numbers, so how do we include those post-COVID people in the numbers of patients we have in the hospital?" "Completely a little bit more"?
Also on the Zoom conference call was Shelbourn Stevens, president of New Hanover Regional Medical Center, who said those patients are classified as "recovered."
"But I do think, from our standpoint, we would still consider them a COVID patient because they’re still healing," Stevens said.
Rudyk said she thinks those patients need to be "highlighted as well, because once they're off isolation, they drop from the COVID numbers," prompting Stevens to say that they can later talk offline about "how we can run that up to marketing." Ya think this has happened before?
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This CDC Graph shows new COVID hospital admissions peaking August 26. Perhaps the motivation for the scare tactics of the hospital.
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Our local hospital is sending people to other locations because they say(yea right) they are overwhelmed, HA. Short on staff is the correct answer here.
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Our local hospital is sending people to other locations because they say(yea right) they are overwhelmed, HA. Short on staff is the correct answer here.
[MSN] German police have arrested "several people," including a teenager, over a threat of an attack on a synagogue on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
Hagen police said they arrested four people as a result of their investigation into the threat and had searched several buildings.
The arrests followed a huge police deployment late Wednesday at and around the synagogue in Hagen, a city just east of Düsseldorf. The synagogue canceled an event due to the threat.
North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul had earlier confirmed one arrest, saying that a "youth" had been detained following the incident.
Both Der Spiegel news magazine and the Bild newspaper reported without quoting sources that a foreign intelligence service had passed on a tip that a 16-year-old Syrian was planning an explosives attack on a synagogue.
Terrorism authorities are also involved in the investigation, said prosecutors in Düsseldorf.
POLICE 'LIKELY PREVENTED' ATTACK
On Wednesday, police cordoned off the synagogue after there were indications of what police described as a "possible dangerous situation." Meanwhile, a service planned for Wednesday evening to mark Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday, was canceled at short notice.
Police in Hagen "likely prevented" an attack on the synagogue, Reul said at an inauguration event for new police officers in Cologne.
"There was the risk of an attack on the synagogue in Hagen. Your colleagues likely prevented it."
REMINISCENT OF HALLE ATTACK
Hagen police said on Wednesday night that they were in close contact with the Jewish community. "The people are worried,'' police told dpa.
The event sparked memories of the synagogue attack in Halle. On Yom Kippur two years ago, an armed right-wing extremist tried to force his way into the synagogue there and shot two nearby people dead.
The 28-year-old man who confessed to carrying out the attack was convicted last year and given a life sentence. He had expressed antisemitic and racist views during the trial.
[Mediaite] Retired General Jack Keane appeared on The Story With Martha MacCallum Wednesday, where he came to the defense of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. In the upcoming book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, it’s reported that Milly made secret calls with China in October 2020 and January 2021 over fears former President Trump might start a war. It’s reported that the purpose of the calls was to assure his Chinese counterpart that Trump would not start a war.
While Republicans have become enraged by the reporting, calling Milley’s actions treasonous, and calling for him to resign or be fired, Keane says the calls were nothing out of the ordinary.
"General Milley’s making a phone call to provide reassurances, which is his job," Keane said. "I mean, he's executing his responsibility and he’s doing it in concert with his own advisers and then sharing that with the interagency."
Keane also said that the president not being briefed on the calls was nothing unusual, and believes the whole story is being overblown.
"I don’t see anything that is undermining the civilian control of the military," Keane said. "If you took the facts, that are, I think, being sensationalized in this report, that would be an issue, as you (McCallum) just regurgitated here. But that is not what the Pentagon is reporting. It seems to be pretty much in sync with what we're used to seeing."
One of the main things causing outrage among some is the report that Milly made these calls in secret, making some believe he was undermining Trump, as has been the message in some segments on Fox News’s primetime shows. But Fox’s own Jennifer Griffin reported on Wednesday that the calls were in fact not secret, and that they were coordinated with multiple high-level Pentagon officials. It was even reported that Trump’s Secretary of Defense Mark Esper took the lead in the first call.
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the calls were in fact not secret, and that they were coordinated with multiple high-level Pentagon officials.
Oh, OK. So it was just a routine conspiracy by the military to undermine a sitting president. I feel better now. Kind of like an FBI investigation but with different uniforms.
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Milley's actions are defended on the grounds that he thought Trump mentally unstable and unsafe to have the authority and responsibility vested in the office. That does not exonerate him - there is a legal procedure for replacing the President under such circumstances, but of course it was not pursued.
Mohammad Faghihi, 52, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi, 53, and his sister Faezeh Faghihi, 50, were charged with conspiring to commit an offense against the US
The three allegedly bought genetic sequencing equipment from US manufacturers and illegally shipped it to Iran
According to court documents they laundered nearly $3.5million through a Florida company called Express Gene
Some of the transfer money was used to ship the genetic sequencing equipment to Iran without a license, despite sanctions on Iran
During his time as a professor - from 2013 to 2020 - Faghihi was the principal investigator on several National Institute of Health grants
The family operated a Florida company called Express Gene, which court documents revealed received nearly $3.5million in wire transfers from accounts in Malaysia, the People's Republic of China, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the Miami Herald the former professor was also allegedly in contact with the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terrorist organization which bought several genetic testing machines from Express Gene.
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“What makes DNA so powerful, after all, also makes it potentially dangerous. Someone could use it to change a harmless bacteria into one that makes a deadly toxin.
And scientists have already shown that it's possible to use bits of DNA to construct viruses like polio and Ebola” or a disease that targets racial types
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Watched the video on vidmax yesterday. I was glorious , gave them the ultimatum stood up and walked out without letting them say a word. For once a school board couldn't bring their tyranny down on someone else.
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Interesting discussion of this on Instapundit yesterday, including comment from a local who attended the school board meeting in Hudson.
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Is that why places like literotica dot com have been filling up with garbage writing?
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In watching the video it doesn't appear that any of the school board members were even listening. Most, if not all, didn't even look up from whatever the F it was they were doing.
I wonder if they will notice when the handcuffs come out.
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...This is the second big naval export contract that the French have lost (the other being the USN's FFX competition)- they ain't happy.
Mike
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Back-stabbing, refined and perfected by Charles deGaulle.
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Evidently those French built AIP subs just weren't makin' it. You also have to wonder, if you loaded the Aussies up with Tomahawks, ...
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Heavy discussion on Twitter. It came about when the Australians approached the US about building their own nuke subs to US design in OZ. They had a large contract for new subs from the French that they dropped when Biden said OKAY. The French are very upset.
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When you're talking about submarine hull and nuke plant welding, umm, these are skills that aren't easily aquired, hard to keep up, and don't travel well. They've got to know this.
I imagine a bunch of guys from RN Portsmouth and Electric Boat are going to be travelling in the near future. First you've got to build the plant...
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Australia is also a partner in hypersonic vehicles.
The French contract seemed awfully expensive when considering Virginia block 5 subs cost the US $2.4 billion + Gov Furnished Equipment and never need refueling for the life o the sub. Plus, they are scary armed and capable. The Aussies will get much more capable subs with better weapons and growth potential for less money.
[FoxBusinessNews] U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Pittsburgh have seized two shipments of phony COVID-19 vaccination cards shipped from China.
CBP seized the first of the two international parcels on August 24. CBP officers determined that the parcel of 20 cards had a "low-quality appearance."
CBP said the cards were being shipped to someone in Beaver County, Pa. That individual, whose identity was not released, is not from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or a certified medical entity, CBP said.
Officers intercepted a second shipment of phone vaccine cards destined for the same individual on September 7. That parcel contained 50 fake COVID vaccine cards.
Both international parcels had been shipped from China, CBP said.
To date, CBP said, officers in Chicago, Memphis, Anchorage, Alaska, have seized more than 6,000 counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards.
[DW] In the first half of 2021, coal shot up as the biggest contributor to Germany's electric grid, while wind power dropped to its lowest level since 2018. Officials say the weather is partly to blame. "You chose...poorly"
Despite efforts to boost renewable energy sources, coal unseated wind power as the biggest energy contributor to the German network in the first six months of 2021, according to official statistics released on Monday.
The data comes as Germany looks to speed up its exit from coal-powered plants after years of mounting pressure from climate experts and activists over the country's dependence on coal and its detrimental impact in fueling the climate crisis.
But the latest figures also reveal the challenges that lie ahead with the country's energy shift.
What did the data show?
Data published by the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) found that the production of electricity from "conventional" energy sources rose by 20.9% this year, compared to the first half of 2020.
In total, conventional energy sources — including coal, natural gas and nuclear energy — comprised 56% of the total electricity fed into Germany's grid in the first half of 2021.
Coal was the leader out of the conventional energy sources, comprising over 27% of Germany's electricity.
Wind power's contribution to the electric grid, on the other hand, dropped significantly compared to the previous year — from 29% to 22%.
Wind had been the top producer of electricity, but has now logged its lowest figures since 2018.
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Sometimes the wind blows, sometimes it doesn't.
You have to get up there and grease those fans once in a while, and winterize them too. They turn better that way and don't burn up their gears and bearings (as a few operators have found out).
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the weather is partly to blame.
So climate change is interfering with our attempts to stop it? Kind of sounds like some Sci-Fi movie I saw half a century ago.
BREAKING: A large Florida landlord announces that he will begin requiring all new and existing tenants to provide proof of COVID vaccination, saying, “You don't want to get vaccinated? You have to move, and if you don't, we will evict you.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE LANDLORD’S MOVE!
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grom you made a big deal a few days ago about a man dying after being denied admission to 43 hospitals because they were full of covid patients. Turns oyt it was a lie. Again.
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Bigger lie than your claims about personally knowing 4 people who died of vaccination side effects?
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Nobody attacked you here, g(r)omgoru. Deacon Blue’s link is informational, and being discussed today here.
As for the landlord, it will be interesting to see how his attempt plays out. While I believe Florida has stronger landlord protections in the state law code than, for instance, New York State, the right of exclusion is not absolute. Discrimination claims by the tenants are likely to get a hearing in the courts. Also, I’ve been a landlord: evicting people takes months, during which time the tenants are likely to stop paying rent and start vandalizing the place. I have to wonder if this is as much about vaccination as a tactic to clear apartments to make them available for rent to new tenants at much higher prices.
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It's, for a certain type, all about the angle. If COVID gives that sort an angle, they'll use it. Ruins an intended good for everyone else? People who work angles don't give a sh*t about that.
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I don't believe we will ever eradicate Covid-19. It mutates too fast like the flu or the common cold. This is not polio, smallpox or the measles. Biden and the misguided landlord in this story should know that. I think Biden does know it. I'm sure that Fauci knows it. The CCP opened Pandora's box and we'll never get all the bad stuff back into it. I'll get my covid shot(s) every year just like I get my flu shot because I got the flu one year and I don't want it again.
But, hey, if you don't wanna get the shot then you take your chances. Just don't come crying to me when you get sick and your insurance company cancels your policy.
But I don't believe people like Biden or this misguided landlord care about that. They want to control people and covid is just another tool that allows them to do it. The first clue was when Democrats used covid as an excuse for their votecheat-by-mail scheme in the 2020 election.
We all know that the story of Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's private parts is bogus. But Nicki Minaj has a right to her opinion just like g(r)omgoru does. The problem is that she got booted from twitter and the MSM came down on her like a ton of bricks for what she posted about it. That's scary. Biden is scary.
I fear Biden and the people who are using him and the way they are using covid more than I fear covid.
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“There’s always a risk of, as you get more circulation of virus in the community, that you’ll get enough accumulation of new mutations to get a variant that is functionally different than the ones we’re seeing now,” he told Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski.
“One of the reasons why we want to make sure we get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can is that viruses will not mutate if they don’t have the opportunity to spread and replicate,” he continued.
“So the more dynamics of viral activity you have in the community, the greater opportunity you give to the virus to mutate. So it’s one of those things that you’re vaccinating now to prevent the next mutant coming, the next variant from coming,” he added.
But it's too late, doctor. The cat's outta the bag and you'll never get her back in there. Besides, you have an enormous credibility problem.
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#12 TW. You know perfectly well that I wasn't referring to landlord's motivation but to MM's Crypto fascist (and I don't use terms life fascist or communist lightly) statement.
As to my Covid views - I know they're not popular. But, I spent a lot of enjoyable hours on Rantburg. Abandoning my fellow burghers to the rivers of misinformation and dumb fantasies* seemed dishonorable. Since, most of you ARE vaccinated, I was wrong. Have fun.
*Masks don't work.
Evil liberal doctors poison people who take HCQ.
Fauci rules the world - like, for example, forcing China to lookdown 10 million people city.
Brazil's experience with HCQ is irrelevant.
Passive immunization is cheaper (and longer working) than active one.
"I personally know 4 people who died after receiving Der Jab."
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Lost another friend to covid. He had been vaccinated, caught covid, had to be hospitalized, and died 2 days ago. His son said I could use his name. Bruce Cummings. That makes 5 people I know who were vaccinated and still died from covid. Tell me again how good it is.
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Understand, grom, the vaccine is not the problem. I sincerely hope that companies like Pfizer and Moderna can keep adapting with new vaccines for the new variants that are certainly coming year after year. I will get the jab.
The problem is the way the government is using covid to control people. The more Biden issues unconstitutional edicts, the more people will fear him instead of the virus.
It tells us everything we need to know when hypocrites like Newsom and Pelosi make a big deal of wearing masks in public and then get caught without their masks when they think nobody's watching. It's all a lie.
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Grom, I don't lie. Come over here and call me a lier to my face. You may walk over but you will limp back.
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The problem is the way the government is using covid to control people.
Be your age Abu: they don't need pandemic to gain control - they've been steadily gaining control for a 100 years. By being Covid-sceptic Repubs just give them more ammo & and turn away independents.
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Stop calling me a lier and you won't get threatened.
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What do we call someone who calls someone else a lier without a shred of evidence? Who posts stories that turn out to be lies? I call them useless twits.
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Ref #18. If you desire to spend a lot more...."enjoyable hours on the Burg"...how about backing it off just a tad.
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Blow, lord of the winds and of humours,
Most trusted discerner of rumours,
Head censor in charge,
Honoured Mme. Defarge,
Central planner for Rantburg consumours!
Ban g(r)om, you've [is it just me, or hasn't everybody started doing that?] to ban me too! Oh, shit... he's doomed.
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I'll always be happy to be the ultimate global criminal for believing in freedom and not believing in Mahound.
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Neller served as the 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps from September 2015 to July 2019. He retired from active duty 1 September 2019.
[Advancing Time] In our bizarre economy, we hear many things, and ideas are constantly being thrown out to us. This all tends to flow together and help us develop a strategy as to how we should cope with the changing times. One thing we continue to hear is that a war is being waged to eliminate cash. Not only are most people going along with this but many have embraced the notion.
Some people view carrying cash as dangerous or burdensome. This also dovetails with their desire to spend more than they can afford, when using a credit card it is far easier to continue spending money you do not have. All things considered, when asked, is the war on cash a real thing being directed from those on high, sadly we must answer yes. Cash reflects "options for the people" and it appears those in charge of such things want in gone.
Currencies were developed to facilitate and ease transactions between individuals and businesses. The war on cash is simply another way Washington can continue to show its favoritism towards big business. Small businesses often rely more on small cash transactions and often lack the ability to process other forms of payment. It is ironic that while big businesses and companies like Amazon flourish with each move government makes, the small businesses on Main Street are left worse off.
A cashless society where records are made and kept reflecting every transaction we make even down to buying a candy bar also allows the government to monitor our every move. This is something Big Brother-type governments strongly aspire to under the guise it will extend its ability to protect us or tamp down on crime, tax evasion, and corruption. For some reason, they seem to think this will allow them to collect more taxes, yet it comes at the same time they continue to tilt the tax code in favor of massive companies.
The way the government has handled coins during the pandemic is a clear indication of its unconcern over the role cash plays in our economy. When coin shortages developed, little or no effort to straighten out the mess was instituted. Considering the massive number of coins sitting unused in jars and cans across America it is a situation that could easily be resolved. In fact, coinage has yet to return to full use following the pandemic, and claims of coin shortages persist.
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When cash becomes scarce, it will be so in demand for the most interesting scarce items.
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After they get rid of cash, probably by stigmatizing it as only used by drug dealers, you will not be able to buy or sell without the approval of the government. Want to sell an old couch? Did you pay tax on that?
Police will cease to search for fugitives. Just turn his phone off and he'll turn himself in in a few days to stop starvation. And the graphic nails it, barter will be made illegal, with tough prison sentences. You'll be able to start a war just fine, but trading a bushel of apples for a bucket of milk will be punishable by law.
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At the end of the day, human ingenuity and stochastics will beat any Big Plan™ that needs written down and run by the rules. See: Soviet Union.
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The Texas Bank Robbers' Credo: "Plan's just a list of things ain't gonna happen."
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Been looking into the change shortage and wondering, why and how it happened ?
The Rumors/Comments/Gossip run from blaming everything on the C-19/21, to changing medal composition of coins, to they are changing the coinage to remove a bunch of Old White Men portraits and will go to Numeric numbering (1, 5, 10, 25) and/or removing some PC offensive words.
BTW:
Promoting a coin shortage helps businesses ask you to Round It Up.
Thus making 1 to 99 cents extra on a transaction.
Resulting $$ in their NET pockets or $$$ tax deductions you make for them in their name to charities.
Now apply that to just 1% of the Wally-World 240 million customer visits each week.
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I cashed in $20 worth of nickels and dimes the other day. First thing I was asked was "do I have an account" at the bank I was in. It's legal tender. WTF is wrong with you people? I do have an account there, and once I flashed my debit card, they were fine with it.
Sheesh.
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Last time I checked, they were minting around 43 pennies at the cost of a dollar. Talk about deficit spending.
Back in the 70s while in Italy, the local banks printed script because the 'state' could no longer afford to mint coinage.
No matter what they do, a black market will takes its place and flourish. It has and will be a human practice.
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This discussion had gone around. Since 1982, pennies have been copper cladded zinc. Actual copper pennies are worth much more than a penny. Copper cladded zinc pennies are not worth so much.
Interesting aside, kids who swallow pennies need to go to the ER because they may get a Grignard reaction in their stomach.
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Cashless transactions are easier to track.
Just sayin'.
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I think tracking is certainly part of it. But the main thing is when it's all e-money, it can be their money any time they want it to be. No need for tax increases, just boost it.
Remember Keith Ellison's observation when asked about the country being so broke. 'The country's not broke, haven't you seen the money in IRA's?'
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It's an old history lesson: A gummint that doesn't produce a credible currency is not itself credible.
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At the end of the day, human ingenuity and stochastics will beat any Big Plan™ that needs written down and run by the rules.
Yep. We've been trading as long as we've been human -- maybe longer. The Egyptian bronze age depended on tin from Afghanistan and Wales; outside Cincinnati a burial mound was excavated and a pipe carved from petrified wood was unearthed -- the stone likely came from Arizona.
We'll keep trading; you can't enslave a free man.
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No matter what they do, a black market will takes its place and flourish. It has and will be a human practice.
Yes. A dyed in the blood Communist was explaining to me that there are alternatives to Capitalism. After his pitch, I was like, "You mean black markets?"
[Washington Examiner] Special counsel John Durham reportedly seeks a grand jury indictment against Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer at a Democratic-allied law firm closely linked to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
The charge is said to be related to an alleged false statement to the FBI about a client's identity when Sussmann pushed now-debunked claims about secret communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
Durham "has told the Justice Department that he will ask a grand jury to indict a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on a charge of making a false statement to the FBI," the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing "people familiar with the matter."
The report said Durham’s case against Sussmann, who works at the powerhouse Perkins Coie law firm, "centers on the question of whom his client was when he conveyed certain suspicions" about former President Donald Trump and Russia to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016.
Sussmann "relayed data and analysis from cybersecurity researchers who thought that odd internet data might be evidence of a covert communications channel" during the meeting with Baker, the report said.
Durham has until the weekend to charge Sussmann because of a five-year statute of limitations. Neither Durham nor the Justice Department has commented on the report as of press time. Sussmann has denied wrongdoing.
[IsraelTimes] Public transport halts, airwaves go quiet and roads empty out for 25- hour Day of Atonement; 2,000 police deployed in Jerusalem, search for runaways to go on.
May you all be written in the Book of Life for a year of health, happiness and prosperity, dear friends. For those who are fasting, may your fast be easy.
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I want St. Peter to say "You were a wiseass prick. But I've been told to let you in."
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May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand
[Rudaw] Two Peshmerga were killed and others injured in Duhok province on Wednesday when their convoy hit a roadside kaboom, a security source told Rudaw and the Kurdistan Region’s counterterrorism units confirmed.
The convoy was in the Dinarte subdistrict on the Kani Toze and Naqib village road when the earth-shattering kaboom took place, according to the security source who spoke to Rudaw on the condition of anonymity.
The Kurdistan Region’s counterterrorism units confirmed the incident and casualties in a Facebook post, accusing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of leaving the bomb.
Kamal Eminiki, top Peshmerga official, confirmed to Rudaw that Peshmerga sustained an attack, but he does "not know about the losses."
Shaaban Barwari, mayor of Dinarte, claimed that he was sure it was an attack by the PKK, but he did not have information on casualties.
This is not the first time Peshmerga fighters get killed in the areas where the PKK and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... clash. Several fighters from the forces have been killed since last summer when the tensions between the PKK and Peshmerga forces affiliated to the Kurdistan Democratic Forces (KDP) escalated.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. It is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara which carries out regular attacks against the group at home and inside the Kurdistan Region.
The PKK has not grabbed credit for Wednesday's attack.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... on Wednesday shelled a village in Duhok province’s Zakho district, causing material damage to civilian houses and cars, a villager told Rudaw. Ottoman Turkish forces are continuing their months-long campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the Kurdistan Region’s northern borders.
Early Wednesday morning Turkey bombed Banka Sare village, in the Batifa area near the border with Turkey, Ramazan Banki, who lives in the village, told Rudaw.
Several mortar shells have fallen inside the village. There are no casualties reported, but residents are terrified, Banki said.
The PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and frequently bombards areas in the Kurdistan Region and northern Iraq’s disputed territories on the grounds of targeting PKK positions. In April, Turkey launched two new operations, Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt, within the Kurdistan Region’s northern borders.
Batifa sub-district is an area regularly targeted by Ottoman Turkish shelling. Two tourists from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... were killed in August. At least half the residents of Banka Sare have fled their homes.
Civilian populations and the environment have been devastated by the conflict. Scores of civilians have been killed over the decades and hundreds of villages emptied.
[Garowe] The corpse count from a suicide kaboom in Mogadishu on Tuesday afternoon has jumped to at least 11 people, including soldiers and civilians and several others maimed when a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at a tea shop in Mogadishu's Wadajir neighborhood on Tuesday evening, said the police.
Dadir Hassan, a police officer in the capital Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency (AA) over the phone that the suicide bomber targeted a busy tea shop near a key military base in Mogadishu.
"The preliminary investigations confirmed that the attack was a result of a lone suicide bomber who blew himself at a teashop where security forces and civilians frequented and we can confirm that at least 11 people, including soldiers, were killed and several others maimed," Hassan said.
Several people, most of them civilians, were also maimed in the suicide kaboom and they were rushed to hospitals for treatment, he said.
The police officer added that security forces from different agencies of the government rushed to the scene and investigations are currently underway.
General Dhagabadan military training facility, hundreds of steps away from where the suicide bomber detonated, and there were a large number of security forces present in the area, according to residents who spoke to AA over the phone after the attack.
Somali-based al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom in Mogadishu on Tuesday evening, saying it had killed 11 soldiers and maimed 16 others.
Somali Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble has condemned the "indiscriminate" terrorist attack.
"This barbaric act shows how al-Shabaab turbans are thirsty for the indiscriminate bloodshed of the Somali people, forcing us to cooperate in fighting terrorism," Roble said.
Al-Shabaab has been behind hundreds of terrorist attacks over the years, including a 2017 bombing in the capital Mogadishu that took some 600 lives, the worst attack in the country's history.
[Rudaw] Eight Kurdish men from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... are reported missing after they were arrested in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and deported to Syria.
The group are originally from Paveh in western Iran’s Kermanshah province, a friend of theirs, Zakariya Rostampour, said in an interview with Rudaw’s Kawar Saleh on Wednesday. In the hopes of reaching Europe, the men hired a smuggler, paying $12,000 each to be taken to Italia. They were arrested in Turkey and claimed to be Syrian, hoping they would not be deported, but instead they were sent to Syria.
The men, aged between 35 and 45 years, were travelling singly, without family members. Their family and friends have not heard from the group for 16 days, since they reached the Syrian border.
"I heard one more time from them when they were at the Syrian border. I asked them if they’re alive and they said yes. I also asked where they are and they answered at the Syrian border. The phone call immediately ended after that," said Rostampour, speaking from Istanbul.
Rostampour, who also hails from Iran, said he spoke to the smuggler on Tuesday who had been in contact with an official in Azaz, a town in Syria, north of Aleppo.
"The human trafficker has the latest details. I talked to him yesterday and he said that he has talked to an officer in Azaz. It seems they have been in Azaz. The officer named numbers and said that for each person they need to receive $1,000 to $1,500 and they would be released," he said.
This is the second group reportedly deported from Turkey to Syria and stranded in Azaz. More than 50 Kurdish migrants colonists hoping to reach the United Kingdom from the Kurdistan Region spent nearly 10 days in Syria before the Iraqi government brought them home. They too had told Ottoman Turkish officials that they were Syrian.
Among them was Mohammad Abdulrahman. He told Rudaw that more than 70 migrants colonists were stranded in Azaz. "We had Iranians among us," he said, but does not know what happened to them.
According to Rostampour, friends and relatives of the eight men have asked the Iranian embassy in Ankara for help.
Turkey hosts the world’s largest refugee population, including 3.7 million Syrians and is worried about a new influx of refugees from Afghanistan, fleeing the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... . President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on Tuesday told German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that his country "did not have the capacity to shoulder a new burden of migration."
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[Rudaw] More than 300 people affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have left the notorious al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria (Rojava) to return to their homes in Raqqa on Wednesday, according to local media.
A total of 324 people from 92 families were allowed to exit, marking the 18th batch of residents leaving the camp, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported.
The process of sending the people back from al-Hol will "continue gradually to reduce the economic and security burdens that the Autonomous Administration bears in al-Hol," ANHA cited Sheikhmus Ahmed, who supervises the administration of Rojava's IDP and refugee camps as saying.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol which is home to over 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies from different nationalities.
[KhaamaPress] Chief of Army Staff of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Fasihudin said that they will suppress all who defend the gains of the past two decades under the name of specific ethnic groups or resistance in Afghanistan.
Those who defend democracy in Afghanistan and oppose the Taliban will also be suppressed. "Back to the 7th Century with Hi-Luxes!"
Though he did not directly name any group, he is probably meant the resistance front led by Ahmad Masoud in Panjshir province.
The front which was finally defeated by the Taliban after 15 days, was created by former vice-president Amrullah Saleh and son of the slain Ahmad Shah Masoud.
The chief of Army staff said these people are disturbing security and want bloodshed in Afghanistan.
Fasihudin who was talking to a gathering in Kabul on Wednesday, September 15 said that consultations over creating an Afghan national army are going on and will establish a potent army.
Fasihudin who is also known as the conqueror of the northern province of Afghanistan is one of the toughest military leaders of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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Potent army? Yeah sure just a bunch of LARPERS with abandoned military gear.what secret saucedo the Tal8bam have to create a nation of like minded warring tribes?
Naa it'll remain a hellhole no matter how much the chicoms train them
[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... gave the total amount of 12368246 dollars in cash to the central bank-De Afghanistan bank-that were seized from the residences of officials of the former government.
In addition to the cash, the Taliban has also given the central bank gold bricks on Wednesday, September 15.
The cash and gold bricks were seized mostly from the residence of former vice-president Amrullah Saleh in Panjshir province.
The Taliban has claimed to have seized $6.03 million and about 17 gold bricks but Amrullah Saleh and the resistance front have not commented on the issue yet.
[OneIndia] Six days after the passing away of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, his protege, the notorious Masarat Alam was appointed his successor. Masarat Alam Bhat, who is in jail was appointed as the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
The APHC also appointed Shabir Ahmad Shah and Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar as vice chairmen. One of the key reasons behind appointed Alam as chairman is that he is a hardliner. He started off as a stone pelter and was later groomed by Geelani. He is said to have a good clout among the youth and could instigate violence in the Valley.
However the BJP led government in the Centre has a zero tolerance policy towards separatism and this has left these outfits redundant.
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[OneIndia] At least four civilians were maimed in a grenade attack by forces of Evil on security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and 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 currently 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.... on Tuesday, officials said.
The ultras lobbed the grenade towards a vehicle of security forces at Pulwama chowk this afternoon but the grenade went kaboom! on the roadside.
The injured persons have been rushed to a hospital while security forces have cordoned off the area, the officials added.
There has been a spurt in grenade attacks by forces of Evil in Kashmir in recent times.
Three persons including two women were maimed in a grenade attack at Chanapora area of the city last week.
Security forces detected and defused six grenades planted by forces of Evil on the busy Parimpira-Panthachowk axis of national highway 44 on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] But experts say Tehran would still need more time before actually creating a deliverable weapon; estimate comes with talks stalled between US and Iran over new nuclear deal
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... may be able to amass sufficient weapons-grade uranium for an atomic bomb within a month, a new report warned Monday, as the Islamic Theocratic Republic continues to ramp up its violations of the 2015 accord limiting its nuclear program for sanctions relief.
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[ToloNews] Unknown gunnies stole cash and jewelry from a house in Kabul on Tuesday afternoon, said a member of the robbed family.
The family said the gang identified themselves as Taliban ...Arabic for students... members and entered the house by force.
The thieves kept family members in separate rooms, then left the house, the family said.
Noor Gul, the father, said: "I was eating lunch. A group of six people entered and put each of us in separate rooms and took all the money and jewelry for themselves."
Nangyalai, the eldest son of the family, said the group took many afghanis from his room. He said: "I had just come from the shop when they came. They took my money from this room."
Lawyers said that no one has the right to investigate or search a house without official documents, in accordance with the law.
Subhanullah Misbah, deputy head of the Afghanistan Lawyers Union, said: "According to the laws, no one can search a house without an official document."
But the Taliban members said the group has announced a general amnesty and will never enter a house.
Saaed Khosti, a member of the Taliban's Cultural Commission, said: "We announced a general amnesty. We do not go to people’s houses. People should share information about those who misuse the name of the Taliban."
There have been other reports of searches at houses of people who worked for the previous government or who worked with foreigners before the Taliban’s takeover.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against a narco in connection with a narcotics case registered in Salaya, Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... The case is related to a criminal conspiracy hatched by accused Arshad Sota in Dubai along with Pak nationals for delivering narcotic drugs in Gujarat from Pakistain. In furtherance of conspiracy, 500 kg of narcotic drugs were delivered in three consignments. The last consignment was in the form of supply of 200 kg of Heroin.
Investigation revealed that the consignment of 200 kg of heroin was delivered by earlier Razak Adam Sumra, Karim Md. Siraj and Sunil Vithal Barmase to Indresh Rambachan Nishad at Gandhidham.
Rambachan then concealed the said 200 Kg of heroin between the wooden panels in his truck to deliver it to arrested accused Sukhbir Singh alias Happy an aide of wanted accused Simranjit Singh Sandhu, at Amritsar in Punjab. The said consignment of drugs which was stored in a Kothi in Sultanwind, in Amritsar was seized by STF/Amritsar, Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police and accused persons including Happy were arrested.
[DW] French troops have killed the leader of the west Africa branch of IS according to French President Emmanuel Macron. The group is responsible for scores of violent mostly peaceful attacks in several countries.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday morning that French military forces had killed Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Greater Sahara ...he succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Niger, and Mali... (ISGS).
"It's another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel," Macron wrote in a tweet.
ISGS is active across large swathes of the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , especially the tri-border region between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso known as Liptako-Gourma. The area has been ravaged by bad boy violence that has also targeted children.
Aside from carrying out multiple of attacks on local civilians, ISGS was also responsible for the killing of US soldiers in 2017 and the execution of six French NGO workers in August of last year.
INCREASING VIOLENCE IN THE TRI-BORDER REGION
There are currently around 5,100 French troops present in the region as part of Operation Barkhane. They are joined by soldiers from Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
Due to the increasing violence, La Belle France has repeatedly pushed for support from other European countries. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... given minimal successes and growing criticism at home, Macron has said that the number of French soldiers in deployment will be halved by 2022.
Sahrawi formed ISGS in 2015 following a split from another group, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), at which point he declared his group's allegiance to IS, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) reports.
The group gained attention from IS media outlets in 2019 after carrying several attacks. ISGS has expanded its operations in recent months along the Niger-Burkina Faso border, according to ECFR.
[ToloNews] Two weeks after the announcement of members of a Taliban ...Arabic for students... caretaker government, the Taliban government's acting army chief of staff, Qari Fasihuddin, on Wednesday said they are working to form a "regular" and "strong" army.
Fasihuddin said the plan to form the army will be finalized soon.
"Our dear country should have a regular and strong army to easily defend and protect our country," he said.
Talking to TOLOnews, Fasihuddin said the soldiers and officers of the former government will also be recruited for the new army.
He said the Taliban will stand against any internal or external security threats.
"Those who have received training and are professional should be used in our new army. We hope this army should be formed in the near future," he added.
The Taliban has repeatedly said that former government army personnel will be called back to their duties. In a recent move, the Taliban said they will call back the former government police to maintain Kabul security along with Taliban forces.
The former government security personnel, however, say they have yet to be asked to resume their duties.
A number of former military officers expressed appreciation for the Taliban’s intention to use former government army personnel and said the Taliban should use the skills and capabilities of those personnel.
"They (the Taliban) should make a decision about the fate of the 300,000 army personnel," said Shakorullah Sultani, a former military officer.
Ghost soldiers and their salaries included? One can see how pervious government officers might find that opportunity to continuing pocketing real salaries for imaginary troops attractive.
"It is obvious that without consulting with the former army personnel and without using them, it is not possible," said Wasiqullah Azim, a Kabul resident.
The new remarks of the Taliban government army chief of staff come as residents have repeatedly raised concerns over the fate of the former government's security, defense and intelligence personnel.
Are there any South Dakotans in the house who can share their observations?
h/t HotAir
[NR] - Governor Kristi Noem has cultivated a certain image — that of defiant red-state outlaw bucking the diktats of nanny-state Fauci-ism.
Her profile, in this mold, rose considerably last year when her state of South Dakota emerged as the only one never to enter coronavirus lockdowns, defying the public-health bureaucracy’s warnings of catastrophe with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation alongside fewer deaths per capita than lockdown-happy New Jersey and New York. The governor quickly began to look like a real contender in the nascent battle for the next Republican presidential nod: In February, the Associated Press reported that she raised nearly $1 million in the last quarter of 2020, only around 20 percent of which came from within South Dakota. In March, she headlined CPAC, where she placed second to Ron DeSantis in the event’s 2024 straw poll that did not include Donald Trump. In May, she officially formed a federal political action committee, dubbed the Noem Victory Fund. South Dacota has 2366 deaths/per million compared to, say New York state with 2800 deaths/per million. Given that SD population density (the principal factor in infectious disease spreading rate) is 1/40 of NYS, I'd say little Kristi is an overachiever.
But even as she began to position herself as a national contender in the first months of 2021, Noem’s status as a rising Republican star has been dampened by a number of controversies back home. Most notably, her surprise "style-and-form" veto of House Bill 1217 — a law that would have banned biological males from competing in women’s sports — did serious damage to the young governor’s star power. The move effectively gutted the legislation and hurt her self-styled image as a staunch conservative fighter; Noem was accused of caving to the demands of the NCAA, Amazon, and the number of other powerful left-leaning corporations that had opposed the legislation. For many of those on the right who had viewed her as an island of sanity and courage, the decision was a betrayal.
But some critics in South Dakota now say this was part of an extended pattern for Noem, who has repeatedly sided with big business against social conservatives in the state legislature. Surprise, surprise!
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As soon as we hear about another charismatic "rising star," we should start looking elsewhere for our next candidate. Hint: both Obama and Trump came seemingly out of nowhere to beat their respective parties' heaviest (yeah, I know) hitters.
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Successful at getting elected. I think in the current climate only a moron would expect another truly great president to come out of the horribly flawed system we have at present.
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Bath House was a creature, nay, a creation of the deep state and Trump though if he ignored the deep state it would go away. In that sense, they were two sides of the same coin.
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^I don't know who was creation of what - but I do know a chief executive is supposed to be for everybody - not just the ones who voted for them.
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There's no paradise in this life. Only marxists and other cultists believe otherwise.
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Interesting how the Marxist or commies of any stripe seem never to come up with a better working system than the one they're always denouncing. The one were literally millions migrate to.
[American Thinker] There are a great many things coming from Biden, Fauci, the CDC, the State Department, the military, the Justice Department, and basically the Deep State that make no sense. From Biden and the Deep State, we are getting executive orders, mandates, guidelines, decisions, policies, and edicts that just do not make any sort of intellectual sense. It is not just a difference of opinion. It is not just different politics or a different point of view. Decisions, guidelines, policies, and proposed laws are coming out of Washington D.C., Biden, and the Deep State that one just can't figure out in an intellectual, factual, common-sense sort of way. The only way to explain what is coming from the placeholder at the White House and the Deep State elites is that they are just evil. They are doing what they’re doing because they are evil. No other answer makes sense.
Complete list at article. Skipping down to the BLUF:
When one analyzes these separate issues, it is obvious that it goes well beyond normal political difference. It is not just a difference of opinion, not just a different worldview. It is not just a political power play. It is not simply Democrats vs. Republicans nor conservatives vs. socialists. It is not just the rotten fruit of a fraudulent presidential election. These people are not dumb, not stupid, nor illiterate; that's not it. They know exactly what they are doing. The only thing that can explain these unexplainable decisions is...? evil. The answer of evil makes the only sense, nothing else does. I do wish there was a different answer. But there's not.
[Just The News] The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday heard testimony from U.S. champion gymnasts, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols regarding the sexual abuse they experienced for years at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
As the hearing began, an intermittently tearful Biles told the panel that it felt like "the FBI turned a blind eye to us and went out of its way to help protect" the organizations that enabled her abuse.
"A message needs to be sent: If you allow a predator to harm children, the consequences will be swift and severe," she said.
Senators on the committee called for a hearing on the issue following an Office of the Inspector General report in July by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, who found significant errors, omissions and untruths by FBI personnel in the investigation of Nassar.
Opening the hearing, committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called the FBI's handling of the Nassar case a "stain on the bureau" and "a shocking picture of FBI dereliction of duty and gross incompetence."
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, concurred with Durbin, calling the failure "a serious problem at the heart of the FBI, not a case of a few errant agents."
Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney detailed the abuse she endured from Nassar for years in graphic detail before the committee and excoriated the FBI's failure to pursue a timely and accurate investigation into the rampant abuse.
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A beloved personage in the media. Now telling a story they don't want to hear.
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The FBI central was aware there was a very real problem with the Indianapolis Field Office, and more than one head should roll, and that includes the head of the FBI itself.
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^ Same as "I don't remember." The only correct answer to give if you don't want to be charged with lying to the FBI.
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....Were I the IOC - and I'm not, more's the pity - I would think that there is more than sufficient evidence to suspend the US from international gymnastic competitions for a few years until they can prove they have their shiat together.
THAT would get people's attention PDQ.
Mike
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Look. What happend is nasty, I hope it never happens again. That said we are looking at the end of the era where what went on was "the price of doing business." It was always wrong but back in the day it was how it worked. Clean it up and move on. Can we do similar with slavery? Of course not.
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Lest anyone think i meant otherwise. Punish the miscreants so hard they wish they were being molested.
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beloved personage in the media
Not so much anymore, based on how they attacked her about the Olympics. So perhaps there was more to it than we were seeing - a need to protect the Feebs?
#SDGs #気候変動
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An article in The Guardian that one in four young people (16-25) in the world hesitates to have children because of concerns about climate change. (Bath University survey)
At this rate, the aging of the population will continue, and even social security systems such as health insurance and pension systems will begin to collapse.
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I just wanted to post this someplace and here it is. LBJ and the great society has unanticipated consequences(or intended). Years of domesticated animals is showing the feral versions have larger brains. So indoor confinement. Welfare and so on is having the same impact on humans is my thought. With smaller brains and a deficient educational system we are producing a sub species of humankind. Gavin nuisance is a result of give me more government handouts.
Judges at the International Criminal Court approve a formal investigation into possible crimes against humanity allegedly committed under the leadership of #Philippines President Rodrigo #Duterte in the context of his “war on drugs.”https://t.co/kUnLzV2aRn
[NATION.PK] The UN Human Rights chief Wednesday said that a ban on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose a severe risk to human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... is urgently needed until sufficient safeguards are in place.
Michelle Bachelet released a report titled "The right to privacy in the digital age" that she will also present at the 48th UN Human Rights Council session on Sept. 22.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also called for AI applications that do not comply with international human rights law to be banned.
"Given the rapid and continuous growth of AI, filling the immense accountability gap in how data is collected, stored, shared, and used is one of the most urgent human rights questions we face," Bachelet said.
"Artificial intelligence can be a force for good, helping societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times."
She warned, however, "AI technologies can have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people's human rights."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A prominent South Carolina attorney whose wife and son were murdered in June conspired with a man to shoot him to death so that a surviving son could collect a $10 million insurance payout, a state police agency said.
Alex Murdaugh, a 53-year-old attorney who survived the Sept. 4 shooting, has admitted to plotting with Curtis Edward Smith, 61, to cause his own death, according to a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division affidavit made public on Tuesday.
"Mr. Murdaugh provided Mr. Smith with a firearm and directed Mr. Smith to shoot him in the head for the purpose of causing Mr. Murdaugh’s death and allowing for the payment of a stated death benefit," the affidavit said. Murdaugh’s lawyer was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" Murdaugh was listed as a co-defendant in the case involving Smith, who faces charges including assisted suicide, assault and battery of a high aggravated nature and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, the state police said.
The state police’s announcement is the latest twist in a saga involving the prominent lawyer, whose family members have for decades served as local prosecutors in Hampton, South Carolina.
On June 7, Murdaugh’s wife Margaret, 52, and son Paul, 22, were shot and killed outside of the family’s hunting estate. Murdaugh reported their deaths to 911, which remain under investigation by state police.
The insurance payout was to benefit his surviving son, Buster.
Earlier this week, the state police announced that they were investigating Murdaugh after his former employer, local law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, & Detrick, alleged that he had misappropriated funds.
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There's at least one elusive, unspecified fact floating around, missing from the article.
The lawyer has admitted that he plotted to get killed, so he obviously wasn't. The shooter didn't kill the guy, so I would speculate that he's supposed to be the one who killed the wife and son.
Sort of article that you have to take a weed eater to.
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[PJ Media via InstaPundit] I’ve been skeptical of the Biden administration’s official number of Americans still left in Afghanistan. They’ve said about 100-200 Americans were left behind (still a tragedy) but one U.S. official said that over 5,000 Americans were likely to end up stranded in the country by the time U.S. forces left.
As of yesterday, they are saying there are about 100 Americans still there—which likely means nothing has changed since the withdrawal concluded on August 30.
Punchline:
But Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a stunning admission today. According to him, the "best estimates are that there’s several thousand [U.S.] green card holders in Afghanistan."
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It would be nice to have a reliable break down on what percentage of those I should have sympathy for and what percentage I should not care about because they wrote their own ticket and now they are taking the ride.
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How many afghans with child brides made it to the US while Americans were left behind?
[DanielPipes] Germany's political parties have their differences, to be sure. But they can all agree on one thing: that the upstart civilizationist party called the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) should not have any representation in the Bundestag (parliament).
It's not hard to see why, as AfD's brazen outspokenness in favor of Western civilization, the United States, and Israel intensely annoys them. So, as elections loom, the other parties are ganging together to discredit the AfD. Given that this is Germany, the single most potent method is to tar it with antisemitism. And to do that most effectively, Jews must lead the charge.
That explains why Germany's Central Council of Jews (Zentralrat der Juden, ZdJ) initiated a document that no fewer than 68 other Jewish organizations endorsed. Titled "Jews against the AfD," it calls on Germans to vote for any party other than the AfD. Its message is not subtle: "Vote for an unquestionably democratic party [zweifelsfrei demokratische Partei] on September 26, 2021 and help banish the AfD from the German Bundestag."
The document, issued on September 9, accuses the AfD of "wreaking havoc" in parliament and calls it the home of "antisemites and right-wing extremists" who engage in "racism and misanthropy." To top it all, the signatories even claim to be "convinced that the AfD is an ... anti-religious [religionsfeindliche] party."
Those organizations also include some big and established international names, including the American Jewish Committee, the B'nai B'rith, the Claims Conference, the European Jewish Congress, the Jewish National Fund, Limmud, the Maccabi Games, the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, the Union of Progressive Jews, and the World Jewish Congress.
For starters, it bears noting that all German and American tax-exempt organizations endorsing this statement are very clearly breaking the law by advocating how votes should be cast. The document's headline includes a childish graphic of a downward arrow, reversing the AfD's upward one. Oddly, the ZdJ not once spells out the party's name in this document, just "AfD," its initials, as though mentioning the full name would sully it.
A day later, the organization Jews in the AfD (Juden in der AfD, JAfD) responded to this blast. It started by noting that the ZdJ gets nearly its entire €13 million annual budget from the government – so, of course, it toes the government's line. It also notes that "only state-financed [German] Jewish organizations took part in this appeal. Independent Jewish organs such as the monthly newspaper Jüdische Rundschau and conservative Jewish associations such as Chabad Germany are not represented."
It gets worse. The Central Council of Jews, notes Chaim Noll, a German-Israeli author, "is an unique institution that does not exist in other countries and also is unknown in Judaism. It is one of the state institutions financed by the federal government, it administers the country's Jews. ... That Jews are subject to the government's wishes is the specific tragedy of the Jews in Germany; in other countries, Jewish communities are autonomous."
As for substance, JAfD accurately argues that "the AfD has done more to protect Jewish life than any other party in the German Bundestag." Specifically, it successfully initiated a ban on Hezbollah and the BDS movement, and it is working to defund UNRWA and abolish labeling requirements for Jewish products from the West Bank.
I personally witnessed this when sitting in the Bundestag on March 14, 2019, as a vote was taken urging the German government to vote favorably for Israel in the United Nations. AfD's members voted 89 percent in favor of this motion, about 350 times more so than the ¼ of 1 percent of the ruling parties who joined them.
This spat illustrates a deep truth about Europe's sad Jewish leaders: beholden to the Establishment, they sacrifice most of their Zionist inclinations to stay in its good graces. (For more detail on this pattern, see my article "Europe's Jews vs. Israel.") So avidly do they bow before the government, they even convinced Israel's current ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, to breach diplomatic protocol, openly attack the AfD, and defend Germany's anti-Israel parties.
[NATION.PK] Pakistain on Wednesday rejecting Indian media’s baseless claims about busting of the so-called ’terror module’ said that propagation of false news was India’s state policy steered by its pliant media.
"We emphatically reject the Indian media’s baseless claims that Indian authorities have busted a so-called ’terror module’ having alleged links with Pakistain," said Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad in response to media queries regarding the Indian propaganda against Pakistain.
He said that fabricating unfounded allegations and peddling white lies were part of India’s well-known smear campaign against Pakistain, which had already been fully exposed by EU DisinfoLab and others.
"Propagation of false news is India’s state policy steered by its pliant media."
The Foreign Office Spokesperson said, "The fact of the matter is that in reaction to Pakistain’s recent dossier containing irrefutable evidence of India’s egregious human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and 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 currently 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.... , India is desperately seeking to create a diversion, hence, the continuing insinuations by Indian officials and media."
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I get a lot of use out of Dremel tools. No doubt stuff happens fast at high RPMs. Always wear good safety glasses.
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To do this he had the tool point vertically up and down and the Blade Guard aimed in a way to allow it to not to protect the user as it was designed to? SEE TOOL PHOTO
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Agreed, badanov. You can have all the safety apparel in the world but still need to know how to safely use the tools you have or you'll still get hurt (or worse).
Rule #1 - Don't force the tool to do something it wasn't designed to do.
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I had a Northern Equipment grinding stone rapidly disassemble. Went thru a window and punched a hole in the steel roofing. Not rated for high spin rate.
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Rule #1: Take it easy, don't push the equipment
Rule #2: Look at the plane of motion of the tool; stay out of it. If it breaks, that's where the pieces are going.
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I got whacked in the belly by a thick copper plate I was drilling a hole in when the bit grabbed & jerked the plate hard enough to break the clamp holding it - it left a mark. Glad the press was not a little lower...
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Softer metals want to grab the tool. Story in that somewhere...
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When the material being worked on seems to be grabbing the bit, reduce the amount of pressure applied or work on it from a different angle. Power tool safety 101.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Heroes, all. I know it’s the Daily Mail, but I recommend reading the whole thing — in Reader View if necessary.
US Marine Major Ben Sutphen gave the first eyewitness account of the suicide bomb explosion at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last month
Sutphen was 15 feet away from the explosion trying to disperse the crowd
He is one of 15 wounded service men who survived the horiffic attack
13 US service men and 170 Afghans were killed on August 26 in what was one of the deadliest days in Afghanistan in the last decade
Sutphen said that the Marines had been warned with what Sutphen described as 'the most direct indications of a threat at Abbey Gate'
But he claimed that it was 'nearly impossible' to identify the suspect in the 'very dense' crowd of thousands at the airport entrance
Sutphen was the operations officer of his battalion and insisted that the Marines took every possible safety precaution on the day of the attack.
He explained that they had set up 'armed aerial surveillance overhead at the time' and 'had electronic countermeasures for improvised explosive device all along the corridor that would try to eliminate any electronically triggered device.'
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A complex attack consisting of small arms fire (SAF) as suspected.
Suicide bomber detonated and rooftop 'snipers' engaged their pre-designated targets. US personnel on the lookout for the suicide bomber, but apparently had no counter-sniper or aerial suppression capability available.
And the official 15-6 investigation of what took place, how is that coming along ?
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I dare you ISIS there are 30 of us marines within suicide belt range with no blast walls.
Fortunately, only half of them died because of bullet proof vests.
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No officers among the dead. Which leads to the perennial question: Where were the officers?
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US personnel on the lookout for the suicide bomber, but apparently had no counter-sniper or aerial suppression capability available.
Seriously, can't anyone play this game? This isn't newly-discovered rocket science. Julius Caesar would be familiar with the idea of keeping the barbarian Charlies outside the wire.
[Townhall] This is the latest round of fake news concerning COVID, huh? I’ve been told our hospitals are about to collapse. It hasn’t happened. In fact, this piece of fear porn has been manufactured before. It centers on Intensive care units, which are almost always near capacity, even prior to the pandemic. If they’re not, the hospital loses money.
Enter National Public Radio that peddled a story that wasn’t true at face value. The narrative was that the ICUs are so packed with COVID patients that it resulted in his death. He reportedly visited 43 and was turned away. It wasn’t COVID that killed him; it was a heart ailment. Yet, midway through the story, you can see where things go off the hinges. It’s classic misinformation (via NPR) [emphasis mine]:
Ray DeMonia, 73, was born and raised in Cullman, Ala., but he died on Sept. 1, some 200 miles away in an intensive care unit in Meridian, Miss.
Last month, DeMonia, who spent 40 years in the antiques and auctions business, suffered a cardiac emergency. But it was because hospitals are full due to the coronavirus — and not his heart — that he was forced to spend his last days so far from home, according to his family.
"Due to COVID 19, CRMC emergency staff contacted 43 hospitals in 3 states in search of a Cardiac ICU bed and finally located one in Meridian, MS.," the last paragraph of DeMonia's obituary reads, referring to the Cullman Regional Medical Center.
"In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non COVID related emergencies ... ," the obituary reads. "He would not want any other family to go through what his did."
NPR was unable to reach the DeMonia family. A spokesperson for Cullman Regional Medical Center, who declined to give specifics of Ray DeMonia's case, citing privacy concerns, confirmed to NPR that he was transferred from the hospital but said the reason was that he required "a higher level of specialized care not available" there.
So, they pushed a story without getting the full picture from the family and they got a statement from the original hospital DeMonia was admitted to which shredded the narrative NPR tried to toss out here.
’A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says’ is the headline.
Well, he was admitted. He was transferred because the original hospital wasn’t properly equipped to give him the care he needed. That’s hardly being turned away.
The story is false. NPR probably knew it was false but ran with it anyway because it was a noble lie. It’s still a lie, kids. The liberal media intentionally misleads and knows it can get away with it.
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A causa COVID. Now shut up unless you're a math savant.
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NPR is just an evil propaganda arm.
And Hannah Arendt's comment about the banality of evil has never been more appropriate.
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I did hear 1 thing on NPR while in an UBER about killer rabbits that had me lmao off. I was high af though.
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We keep being told about these mobile morgues. But the media has not shown us one single picture of one. I guess they know they'd be caught out.
Notice that too; or overstocked cemeteries/mass cremation centers, well other than that first couple weeks about "reports are the Chinese are burning millions of corpses." Not even a story of a overhyped maybe.
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So what they think they've got is the world's oldest refrigerator door?
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So what they think they've got is the world's oldest refrigerator door?
It sounds less glamorous when you put it like that, but yeah. Looks to me like kids playing in the mud. There are a number of paleo sites with the outlines of hands, symbols and drawings, but it all looks very deliberate.
Courtesy of Procopius2k, Another Moment In the Greatness of Central Planning:
Re-upping the stunning demolition videos showcasing housing oversupply in China: 15 skyscrapers in China that were part of the Liyang Star City Phase II Project were just demolished after sitting unfinished for eight years due to absent market demand. pic.twitter.com/UByqjk8QXX
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Like how one of the buildings didn't quite fall down. Dealing with that is gonna be a job that sux.
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BTW, just read a piece yesterday about the 'ghost cities' and how it was fine because of room to grow and yada yada. PR type BS.
Evidently the guys in this one decided the construcion was just too far below standards. Else why would you knock them down?
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Looks like Trump caused a great amount of problems and COVID has continued that.
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[REGNUM] The Battle of Poltava, the fortress and villages of the times of Peter I will be recreated by filmmakers in the Belgorod region. Here 70 percent of the new filming "The Birth of an Empire" will be taken, the press service of the regional government reported on September 14.
The film is dedicated to the activities of Peter I after his return from Europe. Filming of the full-length film will take place in the Korochansky district, near the village of Tavrovo-10 and the Muromsky forest park in the Belgorodsky district, the villages of Yablochkovo, Dmitrievka, Grafovka and Dobroe in the Shebekinsky district.
"The Belgorod region is ideal for filming. We will shoot 70 percent of our entire film here, and the rest will be filmed in St. Petersburg, Hungary and Germany. But all the most interesting scenery and locations will, of course, be here in Begorod, because your region is famous for its landscape. It will be a non-classical historical film, but rather even an adventure one, in order to attract a larger audience of viewers," said director Alexei Nuzhny.
Residents of the region will be allowed to tryout as extras. And they will try to keep the scenery to attract tourists.
"It is necessary to make efforts to the regional department of construction, to help the film crew with the beginning of the installation of these objects. It is important for us that after the filming of the film there is a legacy for the region, new tourist routes appear," said Acting Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The premiere of the film "The Birth of an Empire" is scheduled for the end of 2022.
[The Last Refuge] Commies gotta Commie.
When Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services made the announcement earlier this month (LINK) that they were taking full control over Monoclonal Antibody drugs (mAb) in order to begin rationing the highly effective treatment for COVID-19 infection, several people sounded alarm bells as there was the potential for rationing of COVID treatment based on political ideology. Representative Chip Roy of Texas was one of the first to raise concerns (link).
The change in HHS approach followed republican governor Ron DeSantis of Florida promoting the use of mAb and opening up dozens of treatment centers throughout his state. Other governors quickly took notice of the effective action plan of DeSantis in Florida and started to follow that path.
As soon as HHS noticed the red state governors were working on a effective treatment alternative to the vaccine approach, HHS appears to have moved in to block it — thereby restricting the treatment pathway in order to enhance the vaccine approach. [HHS Announcement] Note the alarm word "equitable":
It took a week for the new HHS restrictions to impact the pre-existing orders. However, now Alabama is the first state to draw attention to the problem Joe Biden’s administration is creating by rationing mAb treatment and making determinations on which states should be allowed the "equitable use of the available supply"; a fancy term for "rationing" the life-saving treatment based on alignment with the political ideology of the government in control of it.
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It's hostage taking. Here in Florida, dems will blame DeSantis for whatever FedGov does to their loved ones, because that's all they got. Box wine auntie Bidet lover, when you are breathing your last in a hospital hallway because you don't fit the profile to go on a respirator in ICU, remember, you voted for it.
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^Vaccinated rarely need ICU. In case one does, and there is a problem, I'm sure moral unvaccinated will yield priority - after all, when you make a choice, you chose the consequences.
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I'm not even getting warmed up. Are you saying you will be on the committee that puts me up against a wall?
Bring it.
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I've never tested positive for COVID, going back to before vaccines. I'm vaccinated. Of course I could still get it and die, because that's what our wonderful US gummint let Fauxi fund. But in the meanwhile, I will not be bowing to any athiest number crunchers.
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I am a f*cking lunatic. I embrace that. There is a life beyond numberz. You are free to make bad choices in a truly free world. Thanks, B for sorting it out.
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Seems B's nice Afrikaans comment went away. It lives on in the aether.
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I was not referring to you Murc. I am just growing weary of the daily harshing from another poster.
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G, how is it the same world that must fund gain of function viruses cannot also have people who choose not to get vaccinated? One idiocy vs another, eh?
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Yeah, English degree. Worked as a reporter out of college, drifted into IT, knack for languages, ya know. Not really afraid of the math thugs on the school yard. They don't bring anything I've been unable to manage...
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Any competent state governor should know how to deal with this kind of rationing. Something along the lines of: "Our great state of X has so far administered X thousand doses of monoclonal antibodies to high risk newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients, with good results. Now we are not being supplied properly, by federal edict, to continue our good work. People of X, contact your congressional representatives and particularly the President if you want this bad situation corrected."
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republican governor Ron DeSantis of Florida promoting the use of mAb and opening up dozens of treatment centers throughout his state.
Florida has been ahead of the pack and has done this since the first EUA for monoclonal antibodies was issued in Nov. 2020. Other states have failed abysmally to even provide the minimum of publicity and coordination to get the treatments available to those who could benefit from them. My own state health department didn't even answer my query about this.
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tw feel free to delete any of mine you feel need to be deleted. I just got tired and pissed at continually being called a lier.
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Boy howdy you boys really got into it
Looks like a near Biblical slanging match
All we needed was Raj and i would have paid money to watch this real time
NFL defensive backs have nothing on you guys when it comes to smack
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Now, throw Murat and even .Com into the mix and then we've really got something.
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When I was a newspaper reporter, my boss told me "You don't get blue penciled, you aren't writing enough..."
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It is bad to see an agent of influence loose his influence; Where did we go wrong in his training?
Oh, such a sorry sight, a disgrace; We told him to remove himself from this venue no more than a month ago, Not to bother the nice people here at RB. Now this, it is a disgrace, such vitriol. Our theory is the Covid shots have torn into his brain tissue, minor strokes, blood clots, his irrationalities, hallucinations, misplaced grandeur, omnipotence, loss of civility are signs of a mind off balance, and I am not sure if he will ever recover...
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#3 ^Vaccinated rarely need ICU. In case one does, and there is a problem, I'm sure moral unvaccinated will yield priority - after all, when you make a choice, you chose the consequences.
Making informed choices these days in light of the lack of knowledge, misinformation/disinformation, propaganda, political jockeying make decisions a risky crap shoot for the individual.
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I had a stroke in 1996. My brain blew up a long time ago.
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Sorry MM for your past experience/medical issue.
My comment was directed to/about G; The last serious personality assessment I/FL engaged in with G.
Just as well, intensity does not win hearts and minds, rationality on the subject of Covid is hard to find.
This article illustrates that point.
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I'm cleaning up my act. TW doesn't need the trouble and I get nowhere casting pearls before swine. I'll comment on culture and send hot rock'n'roll links.
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My stroke was a rare one, in the cerebellum. my cerebrum (consciousness, higher function) was not involved. Figured I'd get it out there before some snarkmaster started in on my intellectual impairment - which I have and come by naturally...
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I'll comment on culture and send hot rock'n'roll links.
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Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
- The Girl on the Bus, Joe's Garage
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79 * 80
Both are just right,
* Hot Fishing Lady
- Your poetry needs something... 3 Beers, yeah, that's it... I'm going for some... catch you again on the flip side of the album.
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Me this morning: "Yikes, this is gonna get bad."
Me this evening: "Dammit, I miss all the good stuff!"
Hardly true, though... thank you, each and every one.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kremlin said Wednesday there were no formal discussions on military cooperation with Mali, after La Belle France warned the West African country against hiring hundreds of Russian mercenaries linked to Moscow’s foreign conflicts.
French sources told AFP this week that the Malian government was nearing a deal with the secretive Russian firm Wagner to hire nearly 1,000 mercenaries, an agreement that would underscore Moscow’s growing influence in the region.
"There are no official negotiations," Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds in a conference call Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Malian defence ministry on Tuesday did not deny the discussions between the government and the private security group.
In recent years, Russian paramilitaries, security instructors, companies and advisers have grown increasingly influential in Africa, particularly in the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR).
The Wagner group specifically has been linked to Russia’s role in conflicts in Libya and Syria, where it was accused by several international NGOs this year of having carried out abuses.
"We are in contact — including through the military — with many countries, including the African continent," Peskov added during the call.
But he said "there are no representatives of the Russian armed forces" in Mali.
Wagner was first seen in Mali by AFP at the end of 2019 when a small team was identified in the capital Bamako just after former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had signed a military cooperation deal with Russia.
In the CAR, La Belle France and NGOs have denounced the role played by Wagner, which is allegedly controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... Prigozhin, who has been sanctioned by both the EU and US, has denied links to Wagner and any role in conflicts in Africa.
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Heh. At this point, there's no way she can hurt him financially or reputationally in a divorce. He's gotten whatever he was going to get politically out of his marriage to her.
Well played, old man.
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If the most qualified gets the job then Bob Dole would have been President in 1996 instead of accused rapist and intern sexual deviate Bill Clinton.
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"Sometimes the most qualified person gets the job," she wrote to start the brief profile, a likely nod to her loss to former President Trump when she was the Democratic nominee in 2016.
An acknowledgement to Trump as the most qualified for the job?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A shootout left seven soldiers and five faceless myrmidons dead in Pakistain’s restive northwestern tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, the military said on Wednesday.
The fighting took place during an intelligence-based operation in the country’s South Wazoo region, the site of several military operations and US dronezaps targeting homegrown and foreign bad boys.
"An intense exchange of fire killed five faceless myrmidons while seven soldiers embraced martyrdom," the military said in a statement.
"Cordon and search operation still continues to eliminate any other faceless myrmidons found in the areas."
The military did not specify the date and time of the incident.
But a front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain bad boy group claimed the fighting took place on Tuesday.
"Our Mujahideen fought bravely with Pakistain army’s soldiers on Tuesday night and killed nine of them," Muhammad Khurasani said in a statement.
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Advantage militants, 7-5.
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The sister of #NorthKorea’s leader criticizes South Korean President and threatens a “complete destruction” of relations hours after he said #SouthKorea’s growing missile capabilities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocations.https://t.co/Z0dpxKm4Za
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Inspiration4 is designed primarily to raise awareness and support for the pediatric cancer center, which successfully treated Arceneaux for bone cancer when she was a child.
The mission aimed to raise $200 million for the hospital - Isaacman donated $100 million of his own money to the goal
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SpaceX @SpaceX
Second phasing burn complete. Dragon and the @inspiration4x crew have reached a circular orbit of 585km – a new Dragon altitude record
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Good cause, good step forward for mankind. People whining the money "could have gone to homeless shelters and hate-crime awareness projects" can f*ck off.
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Scott Manley@DJSnM
There's now a record number of humans in orbit - 14 in total - 7 on ISS, 3 on Tiangong and 4 on Inspiration4
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^ If Bezos only knew!
Spam in a camper van, to coin a phrase.
Personally, I think this is cool. Say what you will about Elon Musk being a machine to hoover up government subsidies, but he is busy turning American into a space-faring nation. Something that might come in handy next time a big-ass space rock comes our way.
A solidarity event in Khan Yunis today for Palestinian prisoners serving sentences in Israeli prisons. The three prominent prisoners shown are Ahmad Sa'adat, Abdallah Barghouti and Nael Barghouti. All are likely to be high on the list of a future prisoner swap w/ Israel. pic.twitter.com/NdlWSNRCpI
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[REGNUM] Only a man and a woman can be combined in a Christian marriage. The Catholic Church has not only the desire, but also the ability to change this, Pope Francis said on Wednesday, September 15.
Questions of the relationship of people with homosexual addictions can be regulated by civil laws, but this has nothing to do with the Church and marriage, he noted.
At the same time, believers should not alienate those who are bearers of such values. They (bearers) should be accepted and accompanied on their way, Francis added.
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Make it a civil contract between adults, ie civil union. If you want a 'marriage' do it in religious institution or whatever substitute of your choosing. The state will deal with the first, your 'church' can deal with the second. Henry Tudor (VIII) to the courtesy phone.
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^ yes. If the Lavender Bund hadn't been so deadset on forcing churches to accept their freakshow travesty-marriages -- and instead settled for civil unions -- we'd all be far better off
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This same fellow went on the record a few years ago saying there were actually very few "Christian marriages" due to the extremely high standards set by the religion. Proving a specific marriage invalid is sometimes just a matter of collecting the evidence.
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When the ghey marriage thing got hot, I said "Fine. We'll have ghey marriage. A guy married to a girl will be called 'real marriage.'"
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"The Catholic Church has not only the desire, but also the ability to change this, Pope Francis said..."
Google Translate sucks.
He said: "has neither the desire nor the ability..."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The key defendant in the 2015 Gay Paree attacks trial said Wednesday that the ISIS network which struck the city was attacking La Belle France, and that the deaths of 130 people was "nothing personal."
*Boggle*
Wearing all black and declining to remove his black mask, Salah Abdeslam was the last of the 14 defendants present in the custom-built courtroom to speak.
Nine ISIS button men and jacket wallahs struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Gay Paree on Nov. 13, 2015, beginning at the national soccer stadium and ending with a bloodbath inside the Bataclan concert hall. It was the deadliest violence to strike La Belle France since World War II and among the worst terror attacks to hit the West.
Abdeslam is the only survivor of that cell, most of whose members were French or Belgian. He fled the city after discarding his malfunctioning boom jacket. The two people he called upon to drive through the night from Brussels to Gay Paree and pick him up are among the 20 men on trial. Six are being tried in absentia.
Abdeslam said the attack was Dire Revenge for French Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria and Iraq.
"We fought La Belle France, we attacked La Belle France, we targed the civilian population. It was nothing personal against them," Abdeslam said. "I know my statement may be shocking, but it is not to dig the knife deeper in the wound but to be sincere towards those who are suffering immeasurable grief."
The same network struck the Brussels airport and subway system in March 2016, killing another 32 people. Mohammed Abrini, also on trial in Gay Paree, left Gay Paree the night before the attack in November 2015 but took part in the Brussels attack. He acknowledged his role on Wednesday.
"In this evil that happened in La Belle France, I am neither the commander nor the architect. I provided no logistical nor financial help," Abrini said.
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Nothing personal, man. It's just Islam vs the Infidel.
[NYPOST] A conservative group is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation of Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... for accepting free tickets to Monday’s Met Gala, where she wore a custom gown that said "Tax the Rich."
The self-declared socialist congresswoman drew broad social media scorn for partying at the elite, $35,000-per-ticket event while presenting herself as their rabble-rousing foe.
Thomas Jones, founder of the American Accountability Foundation, wrote in an ethics complaint that he believes Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, broke House rules by accepting "an
impermissible gift" of free tickets to attend the annual gala, which also was attended by fellow New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
Although House rules allow members to accept free tickets to charity events directly from event organizers, Jones argues that the Met Gala doesn’t count because the guest list is curated by a private company, media giant Condé Nast.
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My understanding is Federal employees are limited to gifts from Federal contractors/others with whom they have close and continuing contact of a $25.00 value or less per annum of gifts (read: birthday 🎂 party, Christmas "White Elephant" 🐘).
Executive Branch personnel must declare the gift and turn it in to the GSA/Federal Property Officials
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This buck-toothed bug-eyed twat is certifiably nuts.
Look for her to show up one morning swimming nude in the Tidal Basin and babbling madly about the embraces of love-aliens from space sent to save us all from white supremacist global wormers. With gunz.
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The prohibition is against accepting gifts of value - hard for me to see how a Met Gala ticket is worth anything. Oh, well, I guess I need new glasses.
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Look for her to show up one morning swimming nude in the Tidal Basin and babbling madly about the embraces of love-aliens from space sent to save us all from white supremacist global wormers. With gunz.
I'm afraid it won't be that easy, BoomBoom. She's from a safe district. She's like covid. She's gonna be around for a while. Just have to learn to live with her.
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...along with her two best friends from school (Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana) she fell in love with the romantic idea of being a jihadi wife and brood mare for the new Muslim nation, seduced by messages from early adopter Pak-Scot Aqsa Mahmood. Before running off to Syria they recruited among their English schoolmates for the ISIS cause. Umm Three-Dead-Babies thrived in her chosen environment, marrying a Dutch convert and being promoted to enforcer in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police before it all fell apart. Now stuck in an SDF camp in Syria, she’s doing her taqiyya best to seduce the Brits into bringing her back home for round two....
apologized for joining the terror group and appealed to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... to allow her to return to the UK, saying in her first live TV interview she’d "rather die" than go back to the jihadists.
"I know there are some people, no matter what I say or what I do, they will not believe that I have changed, believe that I want to help," she told ITV’s "Good Morning Britannia."
"But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I’ve made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life," she said.
Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates set off for Syria to join ISIS. She has said she married an bad boy from the Netherlands and had three children, all of whom have died.
Now 22 and living in a refugee camp in Syria, Begum has sought to return home, but the British government revoked her citizenship on national security grounds in 2019 and she has fought unsuccessfully to have her passport restored.
Begum, who wore lipstick, a gray tank top and a Nike baseball cap for the interview, said she had been misled when she went to Syria.
Addressing the prime minister, she offered a critical message: "I think I could very much help you in your fight against terrorism because you clearly don’t know what you’re doing."
"I did not want to hurt anyone in Syria or anywhere else in the world. At the time I did not know it was a death cult, I thought it was an Islamic community," she said.
Sajid Javid, who as home secretary made the decision to revoke Begum’s citizenship, stood by his choice, telling ITV News on Wednesday that it was "absolutely the right decision."
"When I saw what I did and the information I received from my advisers and our intelligence agencies, in the end it was a very clear-cut decision," Javid said.
Begum acknowledged that it might be difficult for some Britons to forgive her, as they have lived "in fear of ISIS and lost loved ones," but noted that "I have also lived in fear of ISIS and also lost loved ones."
Begum has described the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing — in which 22 people died when jihadist Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb — as a "retaliation" for military strikes on ISIS strongholds.
"I do not believe that one evil justifies another evil. I don’t think that women and kiddies should be killed for other people’s motives and for other people’s agendas," she said.
Begum added that when she initially made the remarks, she did not know that women and kiddies were hurt in Manchester.
"I did not know about the Manchester bombing when I was asked. I did not know that people were killed, I did not know that women and kiddies were hurt because of it," she said.
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[REGNUM] At present, Moscow is expecting an explanation from Washington about the US interference in Russian affairs. This was announced to reporters on September 15 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Dushanbe.
According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the concrete facts of such interference were passed on to the American Ambassador, John Sullivan , who "took this document as information," which he promised to verify.
"True, he said that they had no information that someone was violating Russian law, but the information was passed on to him, they are quite serious. That's all. We are waiting for an answer from our American colleagues why this is happening," Lavrov said.
Note that on September 10, Sullivan was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was told that interference in the internal affairs of our country was unacceptable.
[TASS] Information attacks against Russia have multiplied ahead of the 2021 Russian legislative elections, and they continue, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Rossiya 24 television on Wednesday, adding that Russia was ready to rebuff them.
"Attacks have now increased, they have increased manifold in the information-political sphere. They will be continued, but we are ready for that," Zakharova said.
As an example, the diplomat mentioned the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), which "stirred up a scandal" over an alleged non-admission of its observer mission to the election. Zakharova reiterated that Russia had asked it to send 50 observers to monitor the State Duma elections instead of 500. However, the mission opted against sending the observers. More at the link
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being a illegal alien migrant makes you immune or something.
Same thing with the homeless.
And there may be an element of truth to it - in the apparently beneficial effects of UVB and vitamin D.
President Joe Biden said he has 'great confidence' in General Mark Milley after he admitted to holding calls with his Chinese counterpart working under Trump
Press Secretary Jen Psaki called Milley a 'patriot' when defending him
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also expressed his support, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing on Wednesday
She said Biden has 'complete confidence' in Milley's 'fidelity to our Constitution'
Former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, who led the Pentagon at the time of the second call, said he 'would never' authorize the 'secret' comms
General Mark Milley confirmed the phone calls took place in a Wednesday statement via his spokesman Colonel Dave Butler
A new book claims Milley phoned his Chinese counterpart to give reassurances two days after the January 6 Capitol riot
Trump accused him of treason and Republicans are demanding he resign
The book's revelations triggered a wave of concern that Milley had violated the chain of command and endangered national security
All of the above was detailed in 'Peril', an upcoming book about the 2020 presidential election by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
But former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, who would have led the Pentagon when Milley made the January call, said he 'did not and would not ever authorize' the general to have the 'secret' calls.
Miller called on Milley to resign.
'The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest-ranking military officer whose sole role is providing military-specific advice to the president, and by law is prohibited from exercising executive authority to command forces,' Miller told Fox News.
Miller pointed out that the chain of command goes from the president to Defense chief, not through Milley's position.
His former chief of staff Kash Patel told Fox, 'The law governing the Joint Chiefs of Staff specifically forbids the chairman from exercising any operational command authority.'
The outlet also reported the call placed in October was coordinated with then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who was fired shortly after the election.
MARK MILLEY'S STATEMENT ON CALLS WITH CHINA IN FULL
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs regularly communicates with Chiefs of Defense across the world, including with China and Russia.
These conversations remain vital to improving mutual understanding of U.S. national security interests, reducing tensions, providing clarity and avoiding unintended consequences or conflict.
His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability.
All calls from the Chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency.
Also in keeping with his responsibilities as senior military advisor to the President and Secretary of Defense, General Milley frequently conducts meetings with uniformed leaders across the Services to ensure all leaders are aware of current issues.
The meeting regarding nuclear weapons protocols was to remind uniformed leaders in the Pentagon of the long-established and robust procedures in light of media reporting on the subject.
General Milley continues to act and advise within his authority in the lawful tradition of civilian control of the military and his oath to the Constitution.
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What will it take to, as Breece D'J Pancake said, "tip the water bucket?"
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Someone needs to tell General Milley that his job is to win wars against international adversaries — not wage wars against his domestic opponents.
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/\ Excellent post 3dc. Excerpt below, could anything be more obvious, more true:
The totalitarian Left passionately believes there should be an elite core of government bureaucrats, with correct ideology and Party credentials, who are not subject to the whims of voters. There are issues of such importance that idiot voters cannot be allowed to interfere.
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"General Mark Milley confirmed the phone calls took place in a Wednesday statement via his spokesman Colonel Dave Butler." The cowardly bastard will have to appear on stage sooner or later. Tragically, it will before a craven Congress.
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^ failing to heed the warning about entangling international alliances. Should never have become the 'world's policeman'. The price was your republic which was never designed to allow such concentration of power.
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You went abroad seeking monsters to destroy, and ignored the monstrous traitors devouring your house from within
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Stack all of this on top of the Daszak Tape from FEb. 2016 and all the other things having to do with the creation and management of the plandemic and things start looking worse.
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So, if Milley and the Chinese general are BFF's and this is all routine, has Milley given the Chinese general any reassurances about Biden? The CCP has to have a blooper reel of Biden's stumbles, babbling and general incoherence, and if I were the Chinese general I'd be asking Milley (in Mandarin): "Mark, baby, what's up with this goofball? Do you actually take orders from him?" (In fact I'd like to know that myself.)
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What Thing said at #16. Call me paranoid if you want but it's awfully suspicious.
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If Biden is in via election fraud and deep state creatures (that includes Milley) has indisputable evidence that will bring Biden down, Biden will not fire the swamp creatures and survive.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Time magazine named Afghanistan’s Taliban ...Arabic for students... co-founder and current deputy prime minister Abdul Ghani Baradar one of the 100 most influential people in 2021 under the "leaders" category.
The magazine described Baradar as a "charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure" who "stands as the fulcrum for the future of Afghanistan."
The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on August 15 and shortly after announced their interim government which was made up of senior group members.
Baradar was appointed deputy PM, and there are currently reports of conflict and strife within the group over the structure of the government.
The BBC reported on Tuesday, citing Taliban sources, that the conflict was over credit for the group’s victory in Afghanistan, with Baradar believing diplomats, like himself, should get the lion’s share of the credit; while the Haqqani group — a paramilitary group run by one of the most senior Taliban figures and whose leader is the current interior minister — believes fighters achieved the most.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Baradar denied the reports of an internal disagreement in an interview with state TV on Wednesday: "The media says that there is internal disputes. There is nothing between us, it is not true."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Algerian journalist from a local French-language newspaper has been remanded in jug, accused of belonging to a terrorist organization and spreading false information, a lawyer and rights group said.
A judge in Sidi M’hamed district of Algiers on Tuesday evening ordered Liberte journalist Mohammed Mouloudj to be placed in provisional detention, according to the National Committee for the Release of Detainees (CNLD).
Mouloudj is accused of "undermining national unity, belonging to a terrorist organization and spreading false information," lawyer Abdelghani Badi said on Facebook.
The Algerian government last year criminalized the dissemination of what it considers "false news" that harms national unity.
Human Rights Watch has repeatedly accused Algerian authorities of resorting to criminal prosecutions against journalists and others using vaguely worded offences in the penal code.
Mouloudj was arrested on Sunday and his home searched, according to the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH).
Six other people arrested in the same case were also remanded in jug, the CNLD said.
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[NATION.PK] The recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Afghan Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... will certainly affect Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and other hard boyz in Pakistain. The TTP is fully operational across the Pak-Afghan border and along with ISIS, they are carrying out terrorist activities in Pakistain.
Pakistain has been going through unfortunate phases in its history of radicalisation because of many factors. I had been warning about the growing extremism in Pakistain as it has roots in jihad during the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Here is an extract of my speech as the Minister of Interior and it is valid even today and fits in both Pakistain and Afghanistan.
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Prediction: It doesn't actually treat COVID per se, it just knocks down 'quiet' co-morbidities to improve overall survival rate.
Correlation with no corespondence.
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Is this a study that is designed to fail to send a message to those wish to have the freedom to make their own health choices?
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Sadly, we live in an environment where wasting money we are always told is scarce on such a "prove what the narrative demands" deal will g to funded.
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[NYPOST] The death of a 4-year-old boy in his Brooklyn home over the weekend has been ruled a homicide — and his stepdad has been charged with his murder, authorities said.
Little Jaycee Eubanks died of battered child syndrome with recent blunt trauma to the torso, the city Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.
The child’s mother was holding Jaycee when she waved down police in front of her home on Baltic Street in Gowanus around 5 a.m., Sunday, police said.
Officers attempted CPR on the child, who was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital.
He was pronounced dead a short time later, according to police.
Around the same time, someone called 911 stating that a man was attempting to kill himself at the address, authorities said. Police who responded found that it was the stepfather — identified Wednesday as Jerimiah Johnson, 27 — who was taken into custody, cops said.
Cops confirmed Wednesday morning that Johnson was charged with murder and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
He was being held at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn as an emotionally disturbed person, authorities said.
A source with knowledge of the case told the Post Tuesday that the NYPD was alerted to possible abuse of the boy just weeks before he died — but botched the case by not doing a thorough enough investigation.
Workers from the non-profit Safe Horizons interviewed Jaycee and his 6-year-old brother with Special Victims Division officers present — but the cops wrote off the complaint without following protocols that would have spurred a follow-up with the family, the source said.
An NYPD spokesperson said the cops did make a referral for a medical exam, but did not know if one was actually done.
A spokeswoman for New York City Administration for Children’s Services declined to comment on the specifics of the case.
"Our top priority is protecting the safety and wellbeing of all children in New York City. We are investigating this case with NYPD and we have taken action to secure the safety of the other child in the home," the spokeswoman said.
A day after Jaycee’s death, another 4-year-old boy, Aisyn Gonzalez, was discovered unconscious and unresponsive when authorities responded to his family’s apartment on South 5th Street near Berry Street in Williamsburg around 10:15 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
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[JUSTTHENEWS] Apple released a software update Monday to fix a security flaw that can cause the hacking of iPhones and other devices.
Spyware researchers have found a flaw within iPhones that makes them vulnerable to the extremely invasive spyware Pegasus.
According to the Washington Post, Apple released an emergency software update Monday night that patches the exploit discovered by the spyware researchers.
The vulnerability is the first one of its kind to be found in iPhones since 2019. Researchers at Citizen Lab say they found the hack on a Saudi political activist's device. The spyware appears to have made it onto the device without user interaction, which poses a serious security risk for many Apple product owners.
Pegasus was created by the Israeli cyber security company, NSO Group. NSO Group has been known to provide its spyware to numerous countries, many of whom are not allies of the U.S.
Despite discovering the flaw, Citizen Lab declined to name the responsible country that used Pegasus. The group also declined to name the Saudi political activist who was targeted.
“We wouldn’t have discovered this exploit if NSO’s tool wasn’t used against somebody they shouldn’t be targeting,” said John Scott-Railton, a researcher for Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
The hacking technique, known as a “zero-click attack”, had been in use since February and could have invaded numerous products that use Apple’s operating system.
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"used against somebody they shouldn’t be targeting"
So, just who should they be targeting?
Due to the speed that the fix was created, I'm thinking that this wasn't a flaw; it was a back door that was left in place on purpose and then exploited.
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The big risk is not an eruption but a tsunami; such a tsunami would not be a direct result of the eruption, but would be generated by a mega-landslide, mostly underwater. There is a large region of submarine slope instability that could break loose, either from earthquakes associated with eruption, or additional loading from the ejected rock. The worst-case scenario is extremely bad; we really don't know how likely it is.
[NYPOST] Democratic Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland... easily survived a recall effort Tuesday night — avoiding the threat of becoming the second chief executive of the Golden State to be removed from office by voters before the completion of his term in under 20 years.
With 61 percent of the expected vote in, the "no" response to the ballot question of whether Newsom should be recalled had 66.8 percent of the vote while the "yes" response had 33.2 percent.
The final margin was expected to be closer as more votes were counted, but not nearly close enough to trouble the incumbent.
In brief remarks Tuesday night, Newsom said Californians — in voting "no" on the recall — had "said yes to science."
"We said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic," Newsom said. "We said yes to people’s right to vote without fear of fake fraud or voter suppression. We said yes to women’s fundamental constitutional right to decide for herself what she does with her body ... We said yes to diversity, we said yes to inclusion, we said yes to pluralism. We said yes to all those things that we hold dear as Californians, and I would argue, as Americans."
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Indications are it's a serious cheat in several precincts and districts. Likely, it'll be used as a model for the mid-term 2022 elections and beyond.
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A sibling lives in Cali. She sounds somewhat to the right of our dear deceased aunt who was a card carrying member of the John Birch Society when she talks about the day-to-day problems of a rich white person in Cali. Then she issues the big BUT: She won't leave and she won't vote Republican.
You get what you play for.
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If Cali had Michigan's weather, no one would choose to live there
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^ Yes. The black face of the Republican Party will never exist. There are black Republicans but trying to sell that brand is a fools errand.
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It is best a Democrat is in power when the state economy goes belly=up and they are forced to make really hard decisions. If Elder won he'd have been stopped at every turn to fix things, and then he'd be blamed when the state economy collapsed (even if he was long out of power).
Still, having him replace Feinstein with a Republican would have been fun to watch. He got my vote on that issue alone.
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If Cali had Michigan's weather, no one would choose to live there
That's the hell of it.
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I met some people on Tuesday who were life-long Californians. They told me they are Republicans and were looking for a place to escape to and found East Tennessee and have no plans to change it. They bought a house built in 1851 and are renovating it. Very nice people. They just couldn't take the crazyness any more.
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^ Spent 2 years working in Knoxville at Scripps. Loved the entire experience. Finally getting Mrs. Mundi out to see for herself in couple of weeks. I'm confident of what the reviews will be.
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[TASS] Moscow condemns the activity of Western nations in Libya and is not going to share with them the burden of responsibility for the migration crises triggered as a result, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists on Wednesday following a joint meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers, the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils.
According to the top diplomat, the topic of illegal migration emerged after NATO bombed-out Libya and destroyed the Libyan statehood. "Flows of illegal migrants then headed northward through the bombed-out Libya, and when the European Union realized that this burden was too heavy for it, it began to urge everyone else to share the burden of responsibility for the fate of these migrants," Lavrov stressed.
"We are not going to share the burden of responsibility for what we not only had refused to support, but also condemned," the foreign minister pointed out. He also said that the actions from the West had made Libya "a black hole from the country that used to be among the most stable and flourishing from the social point of view."
"That is why, the West must understand that if it keeps supporting reckless schemes like the Iraqi and Libyan ones, if it continues actions that have brought about nothing good and have in no way calmed the situation after NATO’s 20 years in Afghanistan, then probably people will be fleeing the places that the West wanted to make happy through their democratic mission," he summed up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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I take it then, General Keene is also comfortable with the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff exercising command authority over the nuclear arsenal ? 
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[Washington Examiner] Special counsel 
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Back-End to Front-End population control. Removing the elderly and chronically ill while discouraging replenishment of the species. 
Could be a devastating move for the tack & harness industry. 
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
"But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I’ve made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life," she said..jpg)
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[TASS] Moscow condemns the activity of Western nations in Libya and is not going to share with them the burden of responsibility for the migration crises triggered as a result, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists on Wednesday following a joint meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers, the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils.
