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I salute that effort. I guess the charity that tells me in their frequent mailings that "I can feed a poor elderly Israeli for $2 / month" can close up shop now.
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So some sites are calling this big....big....somebody I've never heard of is pretty much the only one indicted. That says to me, "COVERUP". We all knew he wasn't going to indict any of the real players, so some flunky taking the fall is pretty much just more Kabuki theater from the Deep State.
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Don't worry, Mike. The charges will be dropped or reduced or whatever and you will get a 6 figure book deal.
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09/17/2021 12:59
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I noted that the indictment was highlighted as coming just at the end of the Statute of Limitations period. Not a lawyer, but it would seem that if his alleged criminal conduct was near the expiration, wouldn't the conduct of the others involved also me close to expiration? If so, isn't this a token action to end this huge conspiracy with a charge that will get forgotten and given the DOJ insider (democrat) special treatment? Am I wrong about the law?
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Boy, this Durham guy is a demon investigator. At the speed he goes, he's got, what, maybe four indictments in his career?
And let me be that first to say Sussman didn't kill himself...
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09/17/2021 15:09
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You know it is only the foot soldier that will be punished. And then very lightly.
Robert Kaplan, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, traded millions of dollars of stock in companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Google in 2020
Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Fed, traded in stocks and real estate investment trusts including Chevron, Pfizer, and Phillips 66
The trades were made last year during a time when the Fed took extraordinary steps to buoy US economy and stabilize financial markets during the pandemic
Comments made by Fed regional presidents can move markets and they have a hand in the Fed's interest rate policies
Senior US lawmakers - including Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts - demanded more stringent restrictions after Wall Street Journal reported trades
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell ordered sweeping review of the ethics rules governing financial holdings and dealings by senior central bank officials
[IAN] One of the most consistently repeated trends of COVID has been the premature declarations of victory from areas with a perceived level of "success" in "controlling" the pandemic.
It’s happened in countries all over the world — Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Mongolia — just to name a few examples. They all have been praised for their ability to "control" the virus with masks and public health measures, only to then see cases invariably skyrocket.
Incompetent media reporting and dangerously ignorant "expert" pontifications have been an infuriatingly persistent aspect of COVID messaging, with their incoherent ravings becoming increasingly desperate as time wears on.
On the flip side to inaccurate praise, the incomprehensible inability of experts to get anything right is perhaps best exemplified by Sweden.
"Experts" and the media declared Sweden was the world’s cautionary tale, a dangerous outlier who shunned The New Science™ of masks and lockdowns and stuck to established public health principles and pre-pandemic planning.
Over much of 2020 and into 2021, Sweden was persistently criticized by the media and on Twitter arguments due to comparisons to their neighbors, a standard curiously not applicable to most other countries around the world. Yet as we’ve progressed further into 2021, those same media outlets have suddenly gone quiet as their chosen victors have flailed unsuccessfully against ever increasing outbreaks.
So let’s see what’s transpired recently which resulted in the deafening silence, and examine what that means for The Science™, shall we?
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Sweden 1,446 deaths per million. Better than most USA states, but - considering:
Characteristic Number of households
Single without children 1,925,939
Cohabiting/married without children 1,145,562
Cohabiting with children aged 0-24 984,390
Single with children aged 0-24 285,733
hardly a success story
#3
Sweden as a society gave up on having kids well before COVID. It probably doesn't bother them much that suppressed rates of childbirth is one of COVID's most "successful" side effects.
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09/17/2021 8:30
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Yeah, and I didn't comment to attack G. Just said it as I see it. The two-sided coin of non-mathematical language. Anyone can read anything into it they want. But that's on them, not me.
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09/17/2021 9:20
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#8
It's a valid approach. Deciding to not commit crimes has totally kept me out of jail for 62 years, though the authorities are working overtime to chance that.
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09/17/2021 9:34
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#8 There is difference between censorship on inappropriate language, and censorship on ideas. Of course, some people find some ideas a lot more offensive than (rather feeble I must say) profanity.
#10
COVID's other major side effect is making people stupid. I've never tested positive, both naturally immune and vaccinated and I've had that side effect anyway.
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09/17/2021 9:36
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/\ JAB side effects? Would an escalating disdain for the our government qualify ?
I didn't think it could get any worse. I was wrong again.
#12
^ It's a vaccine! It's a way to curtail your rights! It's a way to fix all future elections! Comint soon, the booster will also be a floor polish and a dessert topping!
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09/17/2021 10:11
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We need a word like rayciss to describe being insensitive to Covidians' religious beliefs. Let the entries begin!
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I'm afraid the article make Israel look bad (in my eyes) compared to Sweden.
Since the article (is a piece of agitprop is really an article?) doesn't actually mention Israel, I'm surprised.
Just kidding, just kidding. Dimona association of mushroom growers is a great comfort to every Jew who remembers.
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Since the article (is a piece of agitprop is really an article?) doesn't actually mention Israel, I'm surprised.
Just kidding, just kidding. Dimona association of mushroom growers is a great comfort to every Jew who remembers.
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Are you actually making the argument that the infection numbers in Israel look good?
#27
The infection numbers look horrendous anywhere that positive test results are the sine qua non of "battling COVID."
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Are you actually making the argument that the infection numbers in Israel look good?
No unvaxxed, I'm making an an argument that the only connection to Israel in that tread is me. But nevertheless your fellow traveler Bobby immediately extended the argument to Israel (i.e. all Jewish people). Think about this, I'm sure it'll come to you - eventually.
#29
A new bug blows through a population. It stresses the system. Over time natural immunity builds up, treatment improves and the whole thing becomes part of the natural background. No surprises here. The only way to really f*^k it up is -- well, you've all seen it.
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So to answer the question, why does no one talk about Sweden anymore? It’s because it’s no longer useful for the media to promote their agenda.
When Sweden’s numbers looked disproportionately bad, it was a valuable tool in the media playbook of masks, lockdowns and endless, condescending fear-mongering. “Look at what happens if you don’t do what we tell you, peasants.”
Now that Sweden has dropped to 40th in COVID mortality rate, and continued to report extremely low recent rates of both cases and deaths, they’re suddenly uninterested.
It’s a microcosm of the disastrous, indefinite mess we’re living through — experts incorrectly, hysterically screeched that masks and business closures and capacity limits were absolutely necessary to keep COVID “under control,” and the media immediately assumed their role as promoters of incompetent groupthink and professional scolds of any who disagreed.
[FoxNews] Probe faults leaders including Kristalina Georgieva, now IMF managing director, who disagrees with findings
The World Bank canceled a prominent report rating the business environment of the world’s countries after an investigation concluded that senior bank management pressured staff to alter data affecting the ranking of China and other nations.
The leaders implicated include then World Bank Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva, now managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and then World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
The episode is a reputational hit for Ms. Georgieva, who disagreed with the investigators’ conclusions. As leader of the IMF, the lender of last resort to struggling countries around the world, she is in part responsible for managing political pressure from nations seeking to advance their own interests. It was also the latest example of the Chinese government seeking myriad ways to burnish its global standing.
The Doing Business report has been the subject of an external probe into the integrity of the report’s data. On Thursday, the bank released the results of that investigation, which concluded that senior bank leaders including Ms. Georgieva were involved in pressuring economists to improve China’s 2018 ranking. At the time, she and others were attempting to persuade China to support a boost in the bank’s funding.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment. Mr. Kim didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
Ms. Georgieva said: "I disagree fundamentally with the findings and interpretations of the Investigation of Data Irregularities as it relates to my role in the World Bank’s Doing Business report of 2018."
The Doing Business report has been a flagship publication for the World Bank, which conducts economic research alongside its primary work of providing financing in poor countries. The report’s annual release drew media coverage around the world, and countries jockeyed to improve their ranking by making policy changes.
For years, the report was viewed as a success because it motivated governments to improve the ability of businesses to obtain licenses, connect to electricity or easily pay their taxes—all factors considered in the rankings.
Chinese officials in 2017 and 2018 were eager to see their ranking improve, and so Mr. Kim and Ms. Georgieva and their staff held a series of meetings to discuss ways that the report’s methodology could be altered to improve China’s rankings, according to the investigative report by the law firm WilmerHale.
The World Bank was in the middle of difficult international negotiations to receive a $13 billion capital increase. Despite being the world’s second largest economy, China is the No. 3 shareholder at the World Bank, following the U.S. and Japan, and Beijing was eager to see its power increased as part of a deal for more funding.
In October 2017, Ms. Georgieva convened a meeting of the World Bank’s country director for China, as well as the staff economists that compile Doing Business. She criticized "mismanaging the Bank’s relationship with China and failing to appreciate the importance of the Doing Business report to the country," according to the investigative report’s summary of the meeting.
An unidentified lead staffer working on Doing Business suggested they could raise China’s ratings by dropping data from either Beijing or Shanghai, since China’s ranking combined data from both cities. Ms. Georgieva asked for a simulation of that strategy, the investigative report said.
The staff later determined the change wouldn’t have the desired effect, investigators said. Other countries’ ratings would benefit as well, reducing the improvement in China’s rating.
Ultimately, the team identified three data points that could be altered to raise China’s score, the investigative report said. For example, China had passed a law related to secured transactions, such as when someone makes a loan with collateral. The World Bank staff determined it could give China a significant improvement to its score for legal rights, citing the law as the reason.
World Bank employees knew the changes were inappropriate but "a majority of the Doing Business employees with whom we spoke expressed a fear of retaliation," the investigative report said.
Although the data-gathering process for the 2018 report was finished, the World Bank’s economists reopened the data tables and altered China’s data, the investigative report said. Instead of ranking 85th among the world’s countries, China climbed to 78th due to the alterations. A series of smaller changes detailed in the investigative report also affected the rankings of Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
When Ms. Georgieva was informed of the changes, investigators said, she thanked one of the senior Doing Business leaders for doing his "bit for multilateralism."
In April of 2018, the U.S., China and other member countries finalized the deal to boost the World Bank’s funding. It isn’t known how much the ranking improvement factored into China’s support. The country had long signaled support for the World Bank’s capital increase.
The Treasury Department, which oversees U.S. participation in the IMF and World Bank, expressed its concern with the investigative report’s findings. The IMF and World Bank are collectively owned by member nations and for both institutions, the U.S. Treasury has the largest ownership stake.
"These are serious findings and Treasury is analyzing the report," said Treasury spokeswoman Alexandra LaManna. "Our primary responsibility is to uphold the integrity of international financial institutions."
Justin Sandefur, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development think tank who has long criticized the Doing Business report, said: "You had enormous discretion by World Bank staff combined with super high stakes for World Bank client countries getting named and shamed in the media, and it was just a recipe for political interference."
Concerns about Doing Business first became public in 2018 when the World Bank’s chief economist, Paul Romer, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he was concerned the report was susceptible to campaigns to alter its data for political purposes. Mr. Romer said that he lacked confidence in a series of methodological changes to the report that had improved the ranking of Chile under conservative governments, but hurt its ranking under socialist governments.
The World Bank denied that the report had been manipulated, and Mr. Romer resigned shortly afterward. He said at the time that he believed the World Bank’s role as an honest broker of economic reports such as Doing Business was in fundamental conflict with its diplomatic mission.
Following the discovery of the additional data irregularities in 2020, the bank halted publication of the report—initially just temporarily—and commissioned the external investigation.
[Intel Hub] Why are companies all over the world suddenly desperate for workers? In my entire life I have never seen anything like this. When the labor shortage started in the United States, a lot of people blamed overly generous government handouts, but that doesn’t explain why the exact same thing is happening in nation after nation all over the globe. There aren’t enough factory workers, there aren’t enough truck drivers, there aren’t enough port workers, there aren’t enough employees to properly staff our stores, and the shortage of doctors and nurses is becoming a major crisis in some areas. During normal times, we were always told that the global economy was not producing nearly enough jobs for everyone, but now for the very first time we are facing an enormous worldwide labor shortage. It is almost as if millions upon millions of people suddenly disappeared from the system.
#2
Cause the people at the top don't understand the intricacies of a market system anymore than a child understands what it takes to flip a switch and the light goes on. They make decisions that have catastrophic effect on that system and then think it can be turned on by a simple decree. How long did it take Europe to recover from WW2 because when you shut down a system as big as our economies, that is what its going to take to 'put things back together'. At least we have the advantage of most of the infrastructure being intact.
#4
Well, as good as Hayek and Friedman were, I think Buckley's "rather be ruled by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book" principle is still sound.
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[ZERO] The EU’s digital policy chief, Margrethe Vestager, has officially warned that countries should not be relying on just a "handful of very big" chip producers to help alleviate the global chip shortage. "That's a man, babyeee"
Instead, European leaders have called for more investment - something that the EU is actively considering - to help with the bottlenecked supply chain, according to The Irish Times.
Vestager told Bloomberg TV that she thought the EU should be aiming for "a much more diversified supply chain".
"It’s important that we focus on the global market... also European production is meant for a global market, because we get the right competitive pressure," she said on Wednesday.
She continued: "We cannot just have it that we depend on very few, very big chip producers."
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen joined the chorus of government officials addressing the issue and asking for "substantial investment" in the industry on Wednesday. She noted that a "European Chips Act" was forthcoming and that it would help further research, design, testing and production.
#3
Well, integrated circuits are shipped in trays, but tube work too. We may all be buying more (vacuum) tubes if the current situation continues apace.
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09/17/2021 8:42
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#4
I am suffering from focal dystonia today. The finger that types the letter s is lazy for some reason...
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09/17/2021 8:43
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/\ I stopped eating cheese grits. It seemed to help for a while.
#6
See. You can come to Rantburg for good health care information.
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09/17/2021 10:27
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Yeah buddy. Getting the government involved in chipmaking will solve all those problems.
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09/17/2021 11:22
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The might of the entire Chinese gummint is behind their chip effort. The copied the x86 architecture and I think their new chip is about a Pentium II performance wise. No accurate information on what the effort cost or what the yields are like. But the "anyone but Murica" foreign tech press is getting dehydrated from wetting themselves.
China wants Taiwan for historical reasons but more practically want TSMC's physical plant and IP more. They may wind up with less usable stuff than the Taliban got from USGov. They will be p*ssed...
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Introducing diversity and therefore resilience into the system is a necessary idea, given the Chinese fondness for economic blackmail and long history as the home of worldwide pandemics. As I recall, someone is building a chip factory in the U.S. for that reason — the Taiwanese?
#10
Ironically, chip making will probably be something that benefits from being don on a space station. That space stations will be nearly impossible to defend is the main drawback.
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09/17/2021 12:32
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They may wind up with less usable stuff than the Taliban got from USGov. They will be p*ssed...
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TW, TSMC from Taiwan is building a chip foundry outside Tucson, and started buying up more land aroud the site. Biggest roadblocks are waiting for custom equipment from the Netherlands (the real bottleneck), the possibly limited electrical system (low water at the hydro plants), and the US government (they think Michigan would be better; I'm not kidding).
Check out battleswarmblog.com for updates.
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09/17/2021 17:15
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Two words - Texas Instruments.
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09/17/2021 17:25
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[Just The News] Austin's note comes at a time when he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are under scrutiny over numerous recent events that they personally have been involved in.
As lawmakers demand answers from the two top Pentagon leaders on issues ranging from the botched U.S. exit from Afghanistan to surreptitious direct contact with an adversary, U.S. defense chief Lloyd Austin shifted focus toward what one insider terms a "convenient fakeout."
Austin on Wednesday sent a memo to all Department of Defense personnel, advising them to be on the lookout for Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), otherwise known as Havana Syndrome.
A 2020 report by the National Academies of Science found "directed, pulsed, radiofrequency energy" was the most plausible explanation for the symptoms, which first were reported by American government personnel stationed in Havana, Cuba.
Although some 200 American officials have reported since 2016 that they were hit with the syndrome, Austin's note comes at a time when he and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are under scrutiny over numerous recent events that they personally have been involved in.
#3
Put him under oath. Let him know things were recorded by foreign allies. Let him either lie and be arrested, or tell the truth and be arrested. Easy-peazy.
#4
^Austin will have no trouble as long as NSA and CIA support him; however, it still appears that the Intel community is at odds with the Military over who will take the fall for Afghanistan.
[Med News Today] "This syncope, which is fainting, and presyncope, which is lightheadedness or dizziness, it’s quite common, and it’s more common in adolescents. I would expect to see more reports or hear more anecdotal reports of this happening as we move to vaccinate adolescents just because it’s more common in this age group than it is in older individuals.
[FOX] The Federal Aviation Administration has placed a two-week flight restriction along a bridge at the southern border inundated with thousands of illegal immigrants, which prevents reporters from flying drones to document the crisis.
"We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says ’special security reason,’" Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted Thursday evening.
Melugin added that Fox News has been using drones for months and there has never been an issue.
"We have reached out to the FAA to ask for clarification on why this TFR was implemented," Melugin tweeted. "We haven’t heard back yet. Will update if/when we do."
"The Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border," the FAA said in a statement Thursday evening. "As with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area."
Over 8,000 migrants are currently waiting underneath the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, waiting to be apprehended and processed after crossing into the United States illegally. Sources tell Fox News that the situation is "out of control" and that the border patrol is overwhelmed.
#2
Dear FOX, find a public parking spot or friendly shopkeeper and park a bucket truck or genie-lift there. Gets above the ground clutter and will not ‘interfere’ with real or imaginary border patrol flights.
#4
So FOX just borrowed a JetRanger from their Houston station and went right back to filming. 'Cause helicopters can fly a long way if you can refuel them along the way.
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But I bet Homeland has Stingers...
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09/17/2021 15:17
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My bad on the FOX helicopter. The Texas DPS took them up in their helicopter. Abbott sticks tongue out at DHS.
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[Newsweek] - Demand for monoclonal antibody treatments have surged as the Delta variant spreads, but hordes of Americans relying on the treatment instead of vaccination is an expensive solution to the pandemic.
A free and effective way of helping to keep COVID-19-positive people out of the hospital, states ramped up access to monoclonal antibody treatments. Amid increased interest, the Biden administration purchased another 1.4 million doses of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment, but the move to fight off a potential shortage of the treatment came at a cost of nearly $3 billion.
Regeneron is selling its monoclonal antibody cocktail to the U.S. government at $2,100 per dose, the same price as Eli Lilly's treatment. That's about 52 times more than the cost of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The only COVID-19 vaccine to be fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer sold its vaccine to the Trump administration in July 2020 for about $19.50 per dose. A two-dose vaccine, the inoculation costs about $40 per person. Moderna's vaccine is priced at about $15 per dose, a total of about $30 for full vaccination, and Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine was only about $10 per dose, according to the Congressional Research Service.
#1
A vaccine that doesn't really prevent the disease and a therapy that treats severe cases, some of which are vaccinated patients. Even if everybody gets the vaccine, somebody is gonna need the treatments.
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#Iraq has signed a deal with Swedish SEAB and Turkey’s Limak to build a 70,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery near the northern city of #Mosul, the oil ministry says.https://t.co/xBvsfWfU0w
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) — The 15th Circuit solicitor held a news conference Thursday afternoon on the deadly trooper-involved shooting that happened over the weekend in the Longs area.
The news conference came hours after meeting with the family of 33-year-old Tristan Vereen who authorities said was shot and killed on Saturday by Master Trooper WB Benton.
During the meeting, the family was shown part of the surveillance video from the yard where the shooting happened, but it didn’t have sound. They said they appreciated seeing the video, but said the angle it was filmed from made it hard to see what happened.
The family held a press conference earlier on Thursday and said they would like to see the rest of the video and they believe that the trooper needs to be held responsible. They added that they believe their loved one was murdered.
"I looked at that video, I saw my son running away, and they pushed him down. He was trying to get away, and they won’t even let him get away. And I say to myself, ’Why did he have to die?’ said Vereen’s father, Nathan Livingston. Because he's a dumbass who tasered and fought a cop?
The State Law Enforcement Division is the lead agency in the investigation of the deadly shooting.
SLED said Vereen was stopped by Benton on Saturday for an equipment violation. The family said it was a cracked windshield.
“My brother Tristan should not have to die because he had a cracked windshield. A cracked windshield. He’s dead. He’s gone. We’ll never see him again. His kids will grow up without him. All because he had a cracked windshield. There’s no justice in that,” said Vereen’s sister, Miriam. no, he's dead because he didn't sit and wait for a fix-it ticket, but fled and fought a cop.
Investigators said Vereen drove away and there was a short chase before he crashed his car and took off running.
SLED said when the trooper tried to arrest Vereen there was a struggle and that’s when Benton fatally shot him.
Richardson said there has been some misinformation circulating and his office wanted to show Vereen’s family the video of the incident. He acknowledged that the family still believes that Benton murdered Vereen.
Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said it’s hard to see everything that happened from the surveillance video because it took place behind a vehicle. But he said Benton used a Taser on Vereen and then put the Taser down. Richardson went on to state that Vereen bit the trooper in the neck during an altercation and then picked up the Taser and used it on the trooper’s neck. That’s when the solicitor said Benton fired his weapon.
“He was in fact armed when he was shot,” said Richardson.
Richardson confirmed that Vereen was shot once in the chest.
Authorities said that Benton suffered injuries during the struggle with Vereen and had to be taken to the hospital. Benton did have to undergo surgery due to the injuries, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The solicitor’s office released pictures showing the trooper’s injuries.
#1
...BOTTOM LINE: Mr. Vereen chose...poorly. Had he just even little-c cooperated, he'd be alive and protesting his innocence. Instead, he is Oz and Blackadder Dead and his family is left protesting what a kind, decent person he was.
Mike
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Guilt or innocence are of no consequence. The Geo Floyd response produces media coverage, statuary, and dividends.
OPEN WIDER LOOK AT THIS SO CALLED "Innocent Baby".
Given his violent history Biting, Use Firearm use during criminal activities, Illegal drug use (eg. Weed laced with PCP), shooting neighborhood animals, and attacks on others. PLUS this "Bath Salts" like attack on a police officer.
ALSO when stop for traffic issues, he declared: “I’m not going back to jail”
The guy clearly drew a line in the sand.
Then forcefully resisted arrest.
When tasering fail to subdue him, he fought with the police officer.
He took the taser from the officer and tasered the LEO at least 5 times.
Now armed and still fighting with police. He went for the Officers neck like a Zombie.
This ain't a Black/LEO issues. This was a clearly crazy dangerous person willing to do anything to avoid capture.
Hell given everything I'd shot him sooner.
A FEW CRIMINAL HISTORY EXAMPLES
1. Nov. 7, 2019 HORRY COUNTY, S.C.
A woman found him naked in her bed with a machete just hours after he bit off a piece of another woman’s ear during an assault. Tristan Marcelus Vereen,, was charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree assault and battery. The woman said she was at Vereen’s house and saw him smokinga “wet joint” .
note: “Wet” marijuana cigarettes cigarettes that have been treated with PCP (phencyclidine) is a powerful hallucinogen or laced with additional illegal substances.
2. 3/21/2015 HORRY COUNTY PD ARREST RECORD
Pointing firearms and presenting firearms at a person,
Malicious injury to animals,
Personal property theft,
Personal Injury to a person
#4
Given the current legal climate not to mention his own criminal history juxtaposed against his freedom this absolutely isn't a black/police issue. It's an issue of somebody too stupid to survive, an idiot given a couple of dozen 2nd chances who when confronted with yet another was 'jes doin' what he had to do'.
#5
Assuming you could get a grant, it would make a good dissertation to study whether the propensity of blacks to panic in police situations is innate or learned behavior. And yes, it's a rayciss proposition either way.
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#6
We really don't see lots of similar stories about Hispanics or Asians. Story in that somewhere
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09/17/2021 8:37
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#7
perhaps Hispanics have fewer outstanding warrants and Asians even less?
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[FoxNews] The number of migrants, predominantly from Haiti, waiting under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas has doubled to more than 8,000 in a single day, with sources telling Fox News that the situation is "out of control" and Border Patrol is overwhelmed.
Drone footage from Fox News shows the number of migrants under the bridge, who are just waiting to be apprehended by Border Patrol, has surged within a single day.
On Wednesday, the numbers were more than 4,000 but by Thursday morning that number had spiked to approximately 8,200, a source told Fox. A source told Fox that Border Patrol was overwhelmed and that the situation is "out of control."
Meanwhile, a law enforcement source said that a large majority of the migrants are Haitians and more are arriving at the bridge by the minute.
It is the latest scene of chaos at the border as the Biden administration continues to struggle to handle a continued and relentless migrant surge, which has overwhelmed authorities and led to Republican claims that the administration’s immigration policies are to blame.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Wednesday that there were 208,887 migrant encounters in August, a slight decline from the 212,000 encounters in July and the second month in a row where the number of encounters breached the 200,000 mark. Fox News first reported the numbers.
Of those encounters, 44% resulted in an expulsion under Title 42 public health protections, but just 19% of the more than 86,000 family unit encounters ended in a Title 42 expulsion.
The 208,887 number for August represents a 317% increase over last August 2020 which saw 50,014 encounters — and a 233% increase over August 2019, where there were 62,707 amid that year's border crisis.
Meanwhile the Biden administration has begun to fly those expelled via Title 42 deeper into Mexico amid concerns that migrants are making multiple attempts to cross the border.
It was also recently dealt a legal defeat when the Supreme Court refused to stay an order forcing it to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols.
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FAA has declared it a flight exclusion zone so news drones can show what's going on. How... Soviet.
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Hmmm... border crossings may already have been no-flight zones.
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So the Texas DPS takes the FOX film crew up in a helicopter to film.
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From Haiti. Lovely.
So now we're about to be swamped by hundreds of thousands of largely unskilled, often mentally deficient young makes drawn from two of the most backward and violent nations on the planet.
Think it's time to get dual citizenship and start scouting foreign retirement destinations
Girl dead, five family members injured in mysterious blast in north Kashmir's Handwara
A 17-year-old girl died while five other members of her family were maimed in a mysterious blast in Tarathpora Ramhall area of Handwara in north 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.... ’s Kupwara district on Thursday.
Quoting official sources, news agency GNS reported that the blast occurred in the house of Ghulam Mohammad Wani, killing his teenager daughter Shabnum Bano on the spot while five other members of the family were maimed who were shifted to hospital.
The injured have been identified as Ghulam Mohammad Wani, 45, son of Abdul Razzaq Wani, Raja Begum, 38, wife of Ghulam Mohammed Wani, Razzaq's wife Janti Begum 70, Rifat, 17, daughter of Ghulam Mohammed Wani and Mukhti Begum, 34.
It is said that some members of the family are dealing with scrap and might have brought home the explosive with the trash.
A police officer told GNS that nature of the blast is being investigated adding "it seems there is no militancy-related angle to it."
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Watch: A #SpaceX rocket ship blasts off from Florida carrying a billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens he chose to join him in the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.https://t.co/i5eeelbvVXpic.twitter.com/7lBFqHKx2B
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China’s foreign ministry on Thursday decried a new US-Britannia-Australia security partnership that will involve helping Canberra acquire nuclear-powered submarines, saying the three countries are damaging regional peace and stability.
China will closely monitor the situation, ministry front man Zhao Lijian told a daily news briefing in Beijing.
UK DEFENSE INDUSTRY WILL GET A BOOST FROM PACT Britannia’s defense industry will get a boost from a new nuclear submarine pact to share US and British technology with Australia, defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday.
Wallace said the pact was not a "betrayal" of the French, whose own submarine contract with Australia was canceled.
"There will be a boost for the British defense industry in this collaboration because we have sub-systems that Australia doesn’t have that we will be able to offer into that"," Wallace told the BBC.
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The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that Australia, Britannia and the US had informed it of their three-way security partnership that will give Australia access to US technology to build nuclear submarines.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that the countries had informed it "that a critical objective of this cooperation will be to maintain ’the strength of both the nuclear non-proliferation regime and
Australia’s exemplary non-proliferation credentials’ and that they will be ’engaging with the IAEA throughout the coming months’."
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To what extent is Australia's political class already beholden to the CCP?
Is China complaining publicly but actually expecting to benefit from this since nuclear sub technology will be transferred via Australia?
If the CCP's influence on Australia is negligible and the complaints are genuine; does the CCP expect Australia to acquire a nuclear deterrent?
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Now RT (ok, ok) is reporting tha France has recalled it's ambassadors from the US and Australia for 'consultations' about cancelling the sub contact. The butthurt is large; appearantly someone's bribe check isn't going to come through.
Or maybe the Aussies just heard about the french extended warranties.
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Now RT (ok, ok) is reporting tha France has recalled it's ambassadors from the US and Australia for 'consultations' about cancelling the sub contact. The butthurt is large; appearantly someone's bribe check isn't going to come through.
Or maybe the Aussies just heard about the french extended warranties.
Had an interesting experience, evening radio news, very pro Biden, was like, "This has been decades in the making." then went on to pronounce the French ambassador's name in an over accent which would make the voice actor for Pepe le Pew sound like HAL9000.
That is, this is not Biden's doing and its about time somebody cheesed off those testy French.
[BREITBART] Barack Obama teachable moment... ’s 2008 presidential campaign manager David Plouffe said Wednesday on MSNBC’s "The ReidOut" that Republican politicians were "speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country," which he claimed got "injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart."
Anchor Joy Reid ...Harvard-educated lefty MSDNC (If you're white you ain't right!) commentatrix, given to fits of hyperbole, bad arithmetic, and faux sophistication... said, "Ron DeSantis — he may be a sociopath. We don’t know what his pathology is, but he’s not stupid. I think that he understands that if he is going to inflict death on schoolchildren, he’s going to have to make it real hard for their parents to vote, right?"
Plouffe said, "So I think that there’s a third of the people out here in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, who voted for the recall. There’s a third of the people who say it should be a personal choice. Yes, the Republicans are making it harder to vote so that third has more power in general elections. But let’s make no mistake, that third or 30%, that hardcore MAGA base, they’re going to drive Republican politics."
He added, "I think these governors, legislative leaders who have stood in the way of vaccinations, who belittled COVID, who don’t want masks in school — here’s the thing, we’re basically two-thirds of the country in support of mask mandates in schools. So again, they’re speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country, you know that gets injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart, all the stuff. Listen, I believe today, Joy, the only country that has a worse COVID outbreak than the United States is Mongolia. So if you can’t make something of that politically as tragic as that is, maybe you don’t deserve to be in politics. I think one thing, Newsom made this campaign about COVID."
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Call me stoopid names long enough and I will surely come to see your way of thinking.
That's in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, isn't it?
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Plouffe doesn't like the Deplorables? The feeling is mutual. I wouldn't be surprised if the 1/3 of the country he speaks of has grown considerably since he was cooking elections.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Wednesday, security patrols from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ’s ’Office of the General Administration of Central Support Authority in the Old City (Al-Madina al-Qadeema)’ arrested 202 migrants colonists of varying nationalities in the Libyan capital.
In a statement, the Ministry of the Interior stated that the detainees were referred to one of the official shelters of the Anti-Illegal Migration Agency, which would take the appropriate legal measures against them.
Libya has become the preferred point of departure for immigrants colonists wanting to cross the Mediterranean towards European shores, ever since the 2011 uprising toppled leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... immigrants colonists who are rescued at sea or seized by the Libyan authorities end up in overcrowded reception centers across the country.
So far this year, more than 20,000 immigrants colonists, including women and kiddies have been rescued. Hundreds of others have drowned or gone missing off the Libyan coast, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), which took office in March has stated that the migration crisis is beyond its control.
Earlier this month, A supposed location was identified in Libya where African migrants colonists were allegedly kept in cages like animals, said Basheer Garba Muhammed, the Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Muhammed claimed that their vital organs such as eyes, kidneys and lungs would thereafter be harvested and sold in the black market to service the medical needs of Europe, according to the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) in Nigeria. These claims have not been verified.
During a meeting with the Governor of Kano State, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, to discuss strategies to curb human trafficking, Muhammed added that many Nigerians are trapped in conditions of sexual and labour exploitation in various African and European countries.
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[MSN] The Minnesota House Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) caucus voted Tuesday night to expel state Representative John Thompson, who has been embroiled in controversies over the summer.
The expulsion means the Democrat won't have access to DFL legislative staff or resources and will be stripped of his committee assignments. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he will remain a state representative, as it would take a vote of the entire House to remove him, and retain salary and benefits unless he resigns or is expelled from the Legislature.
Lawmakers from both parties and Democratic Governor Tim Walz have called for Thompson to step down, but he has repeatedly refused.
In a joint statement, House Speaker Melissa Hortman and Majority Leader Ryan Winkler said, "Rep. Thompson's actions, credible reports of abuse and misconduct, and his failure to take responsibility remain unacceptable for a member of the Minnesota House."
Thompson has come under scrutiny since July, when he received a traffic citation over the Fourth of July weekend.
Following the police encounter, the state representative accused the St. Paul police of racially profiling him, which the department vehemently denied. Police Chief Todd Axtell publicly demanded that Thompson apologize to the sergeant who stopped Thompson for driving without a front license plate.
At the time of the citation, Thompson presented the officer with a Wisconsin license, which raised questions around whether he lives in the legislative district he represents.
Shortly afterward, details of domestic abuse allegations, which are detailed in public records, were revealed. Police calls describe multiple incidences of alleged choking and punching by Thompson between 2003 and 2011. He has denied all the allegations.
On Tuesday, Thompson took to Facebook to address the ongoing controversies. He described 2016 as being "an unbelievably difficult year" following his mother's death and the highly publicized police killing of his "good friend" Philando Castile, a black motorist, during a traffic stop.
"Currently, some are saying because of the past allegations against me that I am not fit to serve in this legislative seat," Thompson wrote. "The fact is, I don't have a hateful bone in my body for anything other than the blatant racism that is being displayed all over the world and that some play as though it does not exist."
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You'd think the facilities' liability insurers would have dropped the hammer on that pretty hard. But I bet the declarations pages of that policy would give a marble statue a migraine.
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Next week's headline: "French Health System in Crisis Due to Worker Shortage"
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86% of Maryland health correction nurses are not vaccinated. Impose Vaccine mandate and loose staff big time. Same thing will happen in all industries. Then they bemoan not having workers. That people don't want to work. Same tired old wheeze. So with Johnson's great society people are put on endless welfare. Domesticated animals have smaller brains than their feral counterparts. So with anyone inactive for so long, smaller brains, very dependent, muscle and brain atrophy. Deliberate dumbing down of population. All they have to do is vote Democrat to keep the program going if they vote at all.
[Ammoland - HT Knuckledragging] This writer has been interested in the percent of fatalities of people who are deliberately shot, for decades. It is not an easy number to quantify. The inverse of that number is the percent of those shot who survive.
According to Battle Casualties and Medical Statistics: U.S. Army Experience in the Korean War, 13.5% of troops shot with bullets in Korea, died. Most of those were from rifle and machine gun fire, hit with full metal jacketed bullets.
In 2014, this correspondent looked at numbers from Wisconsin (young, black, males) and Chicago. The Wisconsin numbers were from 2010, Chicago numbers were from 2013 and 2014.
In Wisconsin, in 2010, the number was 11.4% fatalities for young, black, males. Source: Lethality of shootings in Wisconsin, 2014, Ammoland,
In Chicago, for part of 2014, it was 14.8%. For 2013 it was 17.1 %. Those numbers looked reasonably similar to the casualty statistics for the Korean War.
A 2017 study reveals that is happenstance.
Information collected by Jeff Asher at fivethirtyeight.com shows a significant difference in the lethality of shootings per city. Jeff did a good job in collecting data from different cities over several years.
Asher analyzed 14 cities to determine the percentage of shootings which resulted in death. These numbers were for 2016. In the cities Asher tabulated, the three highest were Baltimore Maryland, 29%; New Orleans, Louisiana, 27.9%; and Newark, New Jersey, at 25.3%. The three lowest cities were Boston, Massachusetts, at 15.3%; Charlotte, North Carolina, at 12.5%; and Cincinnati, Ohio, at 12.2%.
In the middle, were Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 17.6%, San Francisco, California, at 17.1%; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 16.8%. Chicago and New York are 16.3% and 16.5%; Detroit, Michigan, Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee are:
20.7%
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19.7%.
The numbers did not vary much by year, for each location. Consider the numbers in Chicago from HeyJackass.com:
Numbers calculated from the site, for year through July, percent killed:
The significant variation in the numbers by the city can be the result of many factors. Asher noted a large percentage of the casualties in Baltimore, the city with the highest fatality rate, are very close to one of the most advanced trauma centers in the nation. He suggests access to advanced trauma care is not a major factor.
The suspicion of this author is the intention, formed by local culture, is very significant. If the local culture and mythos promote the death of the adversary as the ideal goal, more people will be killed.
If the local culture and mythos promote shooting as a means of avoiding danger and escaping a situation; there will be a lower percentage of fatalities.
Many other factors are difficult to take into account. Everything from population density to age distribution, to the number of shots fired, to police response times and percent of cleared homicides could make significant differences.
These numbers only represent those who are hit. Victims which were missed are not counted. It is nearly impossible to define a miss which was intended to hit separate from a miss by intention or happenstance. In some locations, minor wounds may not be reported, so as to avoid official notice. Such avoidance could make a significant difference in percentages. It is possible a significant number of shots fired in anger are passed off as accidents.
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Many of us having studied the FBI Crime Tables for Assailant vs. Victim. Understand the shooter and victim all too often shared the same Racial and Color Demographics.
Even Rev. Jesse Jackson said it as far back as 1993 "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then (I) look around and see someone white and feel relieved."
However, when the shooting is a Drive-By or related to gang, or surprise criminal activities the tendency is SPRAY not Aim.
Moral of the Story
Head shots and Hip Shots are kill shots.
One is just much quicker than the other.
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It's not so much a gun culture so much as an aiming culture. Take that extra half second, think "front sight, squeeze".
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This problem with placement of holes
Is aimlessness, absence of goals:
"Fo' whom those bells tolls,
Only rich folks and proles?"
Yo, they're tolling for thee! [ducks and rolls]
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I wonder if what we are seeing is not (just) appalling marksmanship, but an alternative judicial system in action. You and I, we have a beef, we have recourse to a legal system. But if Demetrius shorted you on your last purchase, you can't exactly take him to Small Claims Court, so Demetrius gets shot in the ass. More serious transgressions are punished by removal from the board.
Asher noted a large percentage of the casualties in Baltimore, the city with the highest fatality rate, are very close to one of the most advanced trauma centers in the nation. He suggests access to advanced trauma care is not a major factor.
Permit me to suggest that an advanced trauma center is a result of high injury rates locally and not the other way around. One way to test this would be to shut down the hospital and see if people stop killing each other.
Interesting fact: Iron Dome nearly had a 99% interception rate during one of the Hamas rocket barrages of 130 rockets on Tel Aviv following the Hanadi Tower strikes in Gaza during the May war. Only a handful of rockets got through. Iron Dome normally is 85-90% effective.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Former President Trump lambasted Milley in a Wednesday evening statement
Former Acting Defense Secretary Miller urged Milley to resign after he allegedly made an unauthorized call to China behind the former president's back
President Joe Biden meanwhile said he has 'great confidence' in Milley after he admitted to holding calls with his Chinese counterpart working under Trump
Former State Secretary Mike Pompeo said Milley's conduct could be treasonous
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
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
The allegations are detailed in 'Peril', an upcoming book about the 2020 presidential election by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
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Far too many generals are quite comfortable embracing a military coup as a viable action. The dems may very well rue the day they encourages such thinking. But most politicians seldom think in terms of unintended consequences.
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/\ But most politicians seldom think in terms of unintended consequences.
Difficult for them to think beyond fund raising for the next election cycle. The.... "unintended consequences" of career politicians.
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Assuming we ever have a clean election in this country again (I know, I know...) there will be a stampede of retirements one day. Hey, a guy can dream, right?
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They helped you with your dream. Back in the 90s they change the law because of a number of cases of loose zipper syndrome. Now they can be recalled to active duty after retirement to face infractions they committed while on active duty.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Mr. Biden and other liberals are very upset with the unvaccinated. They've laid the blame, with the claim that this is "a pandemic of the unvaccinated."I call BS. This is a "pandemic of the incompetent."
First, the CDC and NIH watched the virus ravage China and did nothing.
Next, they told President Trump that it was xenophobic to stop travel from China.
Next, they told us the virus was not transmitting human to human.
Next, they changed, without reasoning, the reporting requirements for potential deaths associated with the virus to guarantee a higher death total in the U.S.
Next, they misrepresented the data for the projected corpse count in America with a completely incorrect model.
Next, they told us to shut down the country for two weeks to slow the spread.
Next, they told us a vaccine in less than a year was impossible.
Next, they pushed mask mandates with no science to back them up. Excuse me — the high point on masking science is the study out of Hong Kong on hamsters that seems to have been the basis for the start of masking science.
Next, they supported crazy items like mandatory masking outdoors, no swimming in public pools, and wearing a mask in your own home.
Next, they continued to keep businesses closed past the two-month mark, and they fail to provide evidence that closing any business helped slow the spread.
Next, they started paying people extra unemployment benefits while removing all incentives to look for work.
Next, we were told it was more important not to offend China by calling it the Chinese Coronavirus or the Wuhan Flu than it was to find a treatment.
Next, people started to get wise to the incompetence, and they started doing normal things. The incompetents would scream "super-spreader," yet no super-spreader events were ever proven. People began to demonstrate they could manage the virus for themselves.
Next, states and locals started to drop the masking, and those states endured public recriminations, yet the infection rate continued to drop despite the dire predictions of the incompetent.
Next, we were told by a presidential candidate that he had a plan to shut the virus down. This implies that a virus can be shut down and that he actually had a plan to do something effective. Both now seem to be proven incompetent statements from someone with no real clue.
Next, an injection was developed that we were told was a vaccine, and administration of it began.
Next, the control group test data were corrupted by the injection maker by administering the drug to all participants in the trial. This has never been done before.
Next, virus variants were detected in other countries, and specifically, they were detected in South America.
Next, we opened the southern border to all.
Next, the American people found out that Big Government and Big Tech are colluding to block important information that is contrary to the approved messaging about the virus and the "vaccine."
Next, we have legislation called COVID relief, but really, more than 80% of that money went to political paybacks and pet projects having nothing to do with COVID.
Next, the illegal aliens detained at the border were jammed into small spaces and not tested at the border. Many illegals were sent to other states in the dead of night to be tested later.
Next, we are over a year into the pandemic, and we have one treatment approved by the FDA. Despite indications that there are at least three successfully in use around the world — Remdesivir, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine — the FDA has only reluctantly added Remdesivir for people after they are hospitalized.
Next, we find out that the CDC is making policy based on recommendations from the teachers' union. We have yet to learn who else is dictating COVID policy to the CDC. China, perhaps?
Next, we find out that the illegals being dumped in the country are not being tested or reported to the local authorities.
Next, we find out that two of the drugs called a vaccine did not meet the legal definition of "vaccine."
Next, we find out the FDA is trying to change its definition of "vaccine" without comment or notice.
Next, we are told by the current White House occupant that the unvaccinated are a risk to the vaccinated. How can that be if the vaccine works and protects the vaccinated? Or is it not legally a vaccine?
This list took less than an hour to generate. I am sure that readers at AT can expand it.
The current White House occupant is upset that we are not just accepting the standard of incompetence that has been displayed. We are researching options for ourselves; keeping our friends and neighbors safe; and making our own decisions, as Americans have a history of doing.
A virus-like this cannot be contained or shut down. It can only be managed, and part of managing a virus is treatment options. The incompetence and the denial of the FDA, NIH, and CDC to use proper science to validate treatment options continue to hinder our ability to manage this disease.
Please keep this list of incompetence in mind as you try to determine whom to trust in the days and months ahead. This truly is a "pandemic of the incompetent."
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[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] 2018 testimony from former FBI legal counsel James Baker revealed that Michael Susmann, representing the Clinton team, was feeding information to the FBI for use against the trump campaign.
In March and April 2016, around the same time when NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was shutting down “contractor access” to FBI and NSA databases [an effort to stop the frequent FISA-702(16)(17) search abuses that were taking place], Michael Sussmann met with FBI Legal Counsel James Baker – Global Privacy Summit, April 5th, 2016.
With his former DOJ national security credentials Michael Sussmann integrated himself with the DNC’s cyber security team; and following the DNC intrusion (aka Seth Rich) Sussmann introduced the DNC to CrowdStrike. The DNC goal was to identify the extent of the compromise. Crowdstrike then helped the DNC hide the fact that Seth Rich was the extractor of the information -which Rich then gave to Wikileaks- and Crowdstrike then helped establish the narrative about the DNC being hacked.
Someone, likely from the Clinton camp, then killed Seth Rich.
The Clinton team hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump, package it as a dossier, and deliver it to the FBI for exploitation.
Fusion GPS is a political research firm and network of political operatives who sell their mercenary services to anyone willing to pay. Fusion has resources inside and outside government and the capability to exploit FBI and NSA databases containing information about U.S. citizens. Fusion then uses a secondary network of media outlets who they pay to write articles shaped for their purposes. Fusion GPS is operated by Glenn Simpson.
In April 2016, at the same time NSA Director Mike Rogers was shutting down contractor access to the FBI/NSA database; and at the same time FBI legal counsel was meeting with Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann; Hillary Clinton -through Perkins Coie- hired Fusion GPS to target her presidential campaign opponent, Donald Trump.
Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson then assigned Russian expert and CIA research analyst Nellie Ohr to the Trump project. At the time Nellie Ohr’s husband, Bruce Ohr, was the #4 ranking official inside the DOJ National Security Division. Simultaneous to Nellie Ohr’s assignment, Fusion GPS also sub-contracted with Christopher Steele for additional material and internal collaboration with Mrs. Ohr.
Glenn Simpson, Nellie and Bruce Ohr then worked with Christopher Steele on the “Steele Dossier” and the promotion of the content therein to media and FBI allies. We now know that in addition to FusionGPS, Chris Steele, Nellie Ohr (via Bruce Ohr), providing information to the FBI; there was Michael Sussmann representing the DNC also providing information into the FBI for the same purposes.
The FBI, through Peter Strzok and the Crossfire Hurricane team, then closed the loop on the ‘wrap up smear’ by exploiting the information within “the Dossier” to gain a Title-1 FISA surveillance warrant on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
Hiding all of that political surveillance and collusion between the Clinton campaign and the FBI was what made the Trump-Russia story so important; and specifically why they needed to put Special Counsel Robert Muller into place to cover all the background activity.
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...I would imagine the 509th Hydraulics shop is doing some seriously fast talking right now. Mind you, I'm not saying this is a screwup on their part; simply that they are answering a LOT of questions.
Also likely that no matter what the final outcome, this bird is likely going to end its days as a procedures/ground trainer or a museum exhibit.
Mike
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The B1 and B2 is 24+ year old technology and the B-52? even older.
Sure they all have been updated and retro-fited.
But....I hope there is some type of QT Skunk Works hidden out there quietly turning out a China/Russia/Taliban Attitude Changing new weapons.
Since dropping bombs is an antiquated 150+ year old battle concept that started with hot air balloons. An Missiles and Drones are detectable now.
There is no doubt Space based weapons will be the next expensive weapon for congress to hide $$$$$ in.
Then I imagine what 110 mile up Tera-watt laser could do to an enemy installation. While in the proces, destroying the Atmosphere top to bottom with each Burst.
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B21 might be alright. They actually seemed to learn from the endless design creep that made the F22, F35 and Zumwalt Class such disasters. Hopefully the Columbia class is also benefiting from a freeze the design and build it strategy.
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So can the Air Force make it airworthy again?
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I think #2 got it. They're absurdly fragile. Might cost more to fix it than makes sense.
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Probably cheaper to 'clean it up' for display at Wright Patterson in the future.
[TASS] The latest technologies make it possible to teach drones to make decisions on their own and may prove useful in case of a real war threat, the executive director of the research and industrial association Radar mms, Ivan Antsev, told TASS in an interview.
"I believe that in a critical situation, where civilian population has to be protected from a real enemy, the legal aspect may fade into the background and such a technology can be employed, because the lives of our people are the key priority," he said, when asked how soon it would be possible to expect the power of decision-making might be delegated to drones.
Antsev said that currently the machine could be taught anything.
"It is rather a legal and ethical aspect, than a technical one. Both humans and machines can effectively identify a potential threat or a concrete enemy. We can feed into the machine practically anything a human being can do. Practically, because human mentality is far more complex and it includes many moral and ethical aspects the machines are unable to understand for the time being," Antsev said.
He stressed that a robotized system might be loaded with a prototype of emotions, but there could be no certainty that it will not make the same mistakes as humans.
"In this situation the machine and the human being will retain the right to make a mistake. The question is who will be responsible for it. This is a legal question," he added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The judge leading Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... ’s investigation into last year’s devastating Beirut port blast issued an arrest warrant for an ex-minister who failed to appear for questioning Thursday, a judicial source said.
"Judge Tareq Bitar issued an arrest warrant in absentia for former public works and transportation minister Youssef Fenianos," the source told AFP.
Fenianos, 57, headed the ministry from 2016 to early 2020. His whereabouts are unknown, but he is thought to be in Lebanon.
The warrant came a day after more than 140 human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups, survivors and relatives of victims called for an international probe into the country’s worst peace time disaster, as "Lebanese leaders continue to obstruct, delay, and undermine the domestic investigation".
Hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer went kaboom! at Beirut’s port on August 4 last year, killing at least 214 people, injuring thousands, and ravaging entire neighborhoods of the capital.
It emerged later that officials had known the highly volatile substance had been left to linger unsafely at the port for years after it was unloaded in 2014.
But progress in the Lebanese investigation has been slow.
A court threw out a first judge put in charge of the investigation after he charged former prime minister Hassan Diab and former ministers with "negligence and causing death to hundreds" after all had refused to appear before him.
And officials have been working to hamper the probe led by his successor Bitar.
Parliament has refused to lift the immunity of three other former ministers who are also politicians so the judge could question them.
And the former interior minister refused to allow the head of the General Security agency to be interrogated.
Political parties across the spectrum, including powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, have accused Bitar of "politicizing" the probe.
Bitar in August subpoenaed Lebanon’s then caretaker premier Diab for interrogation on September 20 after he too failed to show up for questioning, but he has flown to the US on holiday.
Diab’s government handed over to a new cabinet earlier this week after more than a year of horse-trading over who would next take the reins of the multi-confessional country.
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#1
Beirut has not been the "Paris of the Mideast" for quite some time.
#2
Great cities engage in a danse,
A stately, slow-motion romance:
"Paris," dit Beyrouth,
[arabesque] "Et tu, brute?"
They embrace. [muslimes: "Vive la France!"]
The #EU should still consider imposing sanctions on Lebanese politicians who block the progress of the new government, the EU’s parliament says, calling #Lebanon’s crisis a man-made disaster.https://t.co/47MCMuFr29
#5
FLAWED NEWS-SPEAK
The predeployment of terrorists cells in the USA, happened n years prior to just about any date picked. So calls the PR statement into question.
eg.Fla. Fly school enrollment training, Funding, physical combat training, employment by small Islamic owned businesses, Aircraft plans and R&D for Airport and Airplane security proceedures. etc
Note: Back in 1991-2, Osama bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia after repeatedly criticizing the Saudi alliance with the United States. In 1996 in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the USA.
Comment by Peter Zeihan: The Russian elite is under 100 people. If Covid knocks off a few of them, it is a national security crisis.
[The Guardian] Russian president, 68, self-isolating after announcing outbreak among members of his entourage
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said dozens of people in his inner circle at the Kremlin have tested positive for coronavirus, which has affected more than 7 million people in the badly-hit country.
Earlier this week, the 68-year-old Putin said he was self-isolating after announcing an outbreak among members of his entourage.
“Cases of the coronavirus were detected in my inner circle. Not just one or two but several dozen people,” Putin said, speaking via video link at a meeting of a Moscow-led security alliance.
Putin had been due to attend the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, in person, but instead joined remotely.
As of Tuesday, about 40.2 million of Russia’s 146 million people had been fully vaccinated, according to the Gogov website, which tallies Covid data from the regions.
Russia has several homegrown vaccines freely available to the public, but does not distribute any western-made jabs.
Moscow, the centre of Russia’s outbreak, and a host of regions have introduced mandatory vaccination measures to speed up the inoculation drive, and Putin has repeatedly called on Russians to get vaccinated.
The Kremlin initially set a goal of fully inoculating 60% of Russia’s population by September, but later dropped that target even though free jabs have been available since early December.
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So, via Fauxi, the American taxpayer paid to wreck the world and now they will pay to kinda, sorta, temporarily straighten it out. Seems like such an elegant plan.
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/\ Yes, both will contribute. Some will become the product. Some will unknowingly become the consumers.
[TASS] The advanced S-500 Prometey air defense system is now being rolled out to Russian troops after the completion of state trials, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told journalists on Thursday.
"The state trials have just completed, and the first supplies of this complex have started. That is not yet the full range as the Almaz-Antey Concern requires. The configurations of the complex were discussed," Borisov said. "Until we take down a fully-loaded civilian passenger jet, it's just in trials"
Produced by the Almaz-Antey Concern, the S-500 air defense system is designed to defeat all possible means of an air and space attack by a potential enemy across the entire range of heights and speeds. The specialist training for working with this system has been conducted since 2017. The S-500 will replace the S-400 Triumph air defense system.
The 2021 Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum is being held at the West Siberian Innovation Center in Tyumen from September 14 to 16. It includes more than 30 events — plenary sessions, technology days and presentations by energy companies, round tables, business breakfasts, master classes, conferences, and online platforms. The forum is sponsored by the government of the Russian Federation and the government of the Tyumen region. TASS is the general information partner of the forum.
#1
...Always keep an eye on these things, but this does tend to harken back to the good old days of the Cold War, where every new Soviet system was the Last Word in capabilities.
There's also a distinct possibility that the S-500 is yet another S-300 variant that's been jacked up and had a new nameplate put on it.
Mike
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the S-500 air defense system is designed to defeat all possible means of an air and space attack by a potential enemy across the entire range of heights and speeds.
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It's all about software. And it's constantly being hacked. I would guess / hope that the Israelis hold their EW secrets so close even the Klingons are in the dark.
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I'm waiting to see how many airliners this one can take down. 'Cause it ain't about the hardware, it's all about the operators.
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Actually M, I was thinking about the airliners that the TOR's have knocked down (Europeans and Malaysians over Ukraine, Ukrainians over Iran), but the Vincennces is also one in the loss column.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... ’s cabinet approved on Thursday a policy program that aims to tackle one of the worst financial meltdowns in history.
New Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government met at the presidential palace to agree the proposal, which will now be sent to parliament for approval.
For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
On Wednesday Rooters saw the draft document, which included a resumption of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and a restructuring of the banking sector.
An official source told Rooters the policy program was agreed to without any major changes to the draft.
The Lebanese pound significantly strengthened against the dollar in the past week since the cabinet was formed, selling at around 13,800 to the U.S. dollar on Thursday at the street rate after having reached 23,000 to the dollar last month.
The draft program had said the Mikati government would renew and develop the previous financial recovery plan, which set out a shortfall in the financial system of some $90 billion - a figure endorsed by the IMF.
Lebanon’s financial crisis was dubbed by the World Bank one of the worst depressions of modern history.
The scale of the losses was a main sticking point that brought down the plan last year when major political players and bankers disputed their scale and the talks were eventually abandoned last summer.
With the rate of deterioration in living conditions accelerating over the past year and shortages of basic goods such as fuel and medicine bringing life to a near standstill, some believe the gravity of the crisis could encourage politicians to pass decisions that were previously resisted.
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#Ukraine accuses #Russia of breaching international law by hosting parliamentary elections on the Crimean peninsula and allowing residents of separatist-controlled regions to cast ballots in the vote.https://t.co/Fe6vUhlPqg
#1
Vindictive murderous tyrant isn't he. Has been an ass ever since a bunch of people yelled at him the other day for the unnecessary death of 13 troops.
#3
Maybe DeSantis not as dumb as he appears. If he anticipated the Federales response to Florida's attempt to hog all the Covid monoclonals available in USA. Then he's in win-win situation.
On one hand the anti-vaccination fanatics are pleased (it's the fault of them child-eating Democrats), on the other hand Florida is not out 2100$ per monoclonal treatment.
p.s. According to the ibid article - there are only a few million doses of monoclonal antibodies available in USA.
#7
Either anything that might cause theoretically raise someone's possible likelihood to die of COVID is eeeeevil. Or it isn't. it doesn't seem difficult to see the political cast in there.
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p.s. Anybody told them that antibody treatment is known as "passive immunization"?
You're assuming this conflict is over Immunization vs. No Vaccines. I'm not going to stop taking tetanus shots (for example) just because I know people who got the Pfizer Shot and had heart attacks and stroke and _didn't end up in the VAERS_ database. I also still use antibiotics even though my mom's allergic to pennicillin.
Also, two million doses of this drug could mean two million people who don't have to go to the hospital.
The question you need to ask but haven't is, "why were they limiting this stuff from way back before the vaccines were available even though everyone can now see that it works on a large scale with noone growing hooves or anything or whatever story they're telling this week about ivermectin..."
#9
The last cat I was technically owned by was a stray that I fed on my farmlet in PeeAye. Tame as he was, he bit the hell out of me one day and my only intelligent choice was to get the rabies sequence. Not that big a deal, but I caged the cat and when he clearly was rabies free, I took him in and got him vaccinated. The PA giving me the rabies shots said "Well, at least you can go up against rabid animals for the next 18 months..."
I'm very pro vaccine. I'm also very pro "everyone gets to peel his own banana." It's that second thing that drives some people nuts.
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The question you need to ask but haven't is, "why were they limiting this stuff from way back before the vaccines were available
They weren't limiting it "before the vaccines were available". Producing mAb is much more complicated process than producing mRNA antibodies. Takes a lot longer, and costs a lot more (thus, 2100$ per shot). Look up "Monoclonal Antibody" on wiki.
And the companies that produce it, more or less, stopped once vaccines become available - they didn't anticipate that the ideological conflict will produce demand for their product. After all, mAb as treatment is orders of magnitude inferior to vaccines.
#12
Do not underestimate Ron DeSantis. Biden doesn't. Biden will do anything he can to make life difficult for DeSantis and to make DeSantis look bad. That's because, if it isn't Trump, it's likely to be DeSantis carrying the ball for Republicans in 2024. This is presidential politics, down and dirty. Well, also, Biden and Falsie would be awfully embarrassed if Florida's hospitals were relieved of covid patients while New York and California continue to suffer.
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Bidet's handlers understand DeSantis is a threat. Bidet wouldn't know what or who Ron DeSantis is unless the Florida governor knocked Joe's ice cream cone out of his hand. And he'd forget it happened in a couple hours at most.
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Oh, and, by the way, Ron has way too much class to do anything like that.
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OK, when I say Biden I mean whoever is telling him what to say and do. We all know he has precious little time between breakfast and his afternoon nap to think about DeSantis and 2024.
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We knew you meant that. Still good to state it explicitly for the small sunset of slow learners.
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subset. It's just not my day today...
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They weren't limiting it "before the vaccines were available".
According to an ER doc who's been posting elsewhere, they were limiting its use as much as possible from when the EUA supposedly went into effect last October until about the first week of August.
DeSantis pointed out that out of the people in Florida treated with monoclonal antibodies, more than 50% were vaccinated.
Not unvaccinated. Vaccinated. (This is both emphasis and a correction of my earlier typo.)
So the Biden Administration is attempting a show of force against the unvaccinated -- but it's the vaccinated, who are having breakthrough cases of covid due to the vaccines being, um, rather meh, who are using the bulk of the treatment.
[CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ] New satellite images obtained by CNN reveal North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... is expanding a key facility capable of enriching uranium for nuclear weapons, renovations that likely indicate the country plans to significantly ramp-up production at this once-dormant site in the near future, according to experts who analyzed the photos.
Images captured by commercial imaging company Maxar earlier this week show construction is underway at a uranium enrichment plant located within the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Facility complex -- changes that could allow North Korea to increase production of weapons-grade nuclear material by as much as 25 percent, Jeffrey Lewis, a weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told CNN.
"The most recent expansion at Yongbyon probably reflects plans to increase production of nuclear materials for weapons production," he added, noting the ongoing construction is consistent with previous efforts to add floorspace at the facility, allowing it to house more centrifuges and thus, enrich more uranium on a yearly basis.
"The new area is approximately 1,000 square meters, enough space to house 1,000 additional centrifuges. The addition of 1,000 new centrifuges would increase the plant's capacity to produce highly enriched uranium by 25 percent," Lewis said.
If North Korea were to upgrade the type of centrifuges currently in use at this plant, it "could increase the capacity of the plant substantially," he told CNN.
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But, but, it was an enormous diplomatic success when NKor agreed to stop doing that. Not so much now.
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/\ Yes, I remember the Orange Man walking across the border to shake hands the North Korean leader.
#1
Does this imply that gangs are legal entities with assets that can be attached? I can see the lawyers having fun with that.
"On the day in question, Mr DeShante, when you capped Mr Orangejello in the ass, were you acting as a member of, or an agent for MS 13?"
"Nah, man. I capped his punk ass because he is a whiny-ass bitch."
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Let me get this right. She doesn't have enough lawyers to prosecute gang members in criminal court but has more than enough to prosecute gang members in civil court. Let me guess - the checks are not clearing.
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They can't identify shooters to prosecute under even the (obvious) firearm ban. How will the shooters be identified for civil suits?
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She just wants to look like she's doing something.
Nothing to see here, all kabuki.
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So you 'stay' with your grandmother? We'll just seize grandma's house and car.
You watch. They'll do it.
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Notice it's the CITY getting the gang property, not the victims of the gangs. Also, this will be used against smaller and up-and-coming gangs to protect the established, connected gangs.
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They need that money for all the non-police they plan to hire.
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Use the recent Kabul Airport NEO evacuation physical security model. Hire the terrorists to maintain control. After the undesirables have fled, things should return to pre-civilization normal.
That is the goal correct? The banishment of the undesirables.
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I think the Vice Lords might actually run Chiraq better than Admiral Ackbar is.
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the gangs already run it better than Lightfoot. They aren't worried about LEO, and there is no telling what their drug and other criminal activites bring in revenue yearly.
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no telling what their drug and other criminal activities bring in revenue yearly.
Yeah, the Treasury Dept. has basically been running the victory lap since the IRS busted Capone. No progress at all since then. Story in that somewhere...
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Isn't that like the Texas abortion law?
Should be like the Israeli bulldoze bomber's house law.
Shannon Heroux, 32, from California, shared her story on her @shannon_heroux TikTok account, where her videos about the alleged incident have gone viral
She explained in her first clip she was refused service at a Dunkin' location in Encino after she told an employee that she was deaf and needed to lip read
Instead of pulling her mask down, she said the employee got her manager
According to Shannon, she could tell he was 'going off,' but she couldn't understand what he was saying because he also refused to pull down his mask
The TikToker noted that she had her mask on and was socially distanced, saying she has been discriminated against the entire pandemic because she is deaf
Shannon demanded an apology from Dunkin', and later shared in a follow-up video that she was in contact with the franchise's corporate office
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^ Did you just assume her literacy? [hungry deaf woman cries at corner table for half an hour while she her government-assigned signer draws flipbook]
#3
While I feel bad for her, there were simple alternatives:
Pen and Paper
point to menu thumb up or down
Point to the item.
etc.
Having traveled in several countries I knew not a word, I could gesture enough to order coffee
and a few basic food items. Sure a few waitress giggled, but I ate.
#5
Remove COVID hysteria from the scenario and you basically have a business refusing to accommodate a handicaped person. Didn't the pass some big laws with punitive teeth about stuff like that? The ADA?
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Now I'm a little annoyed as it's clear nobody read the article.
She can talk. They refused to write anything. She was able to speak to them but they refused any method of commication that meant She could upstanding them.
Nobody, nowadays (with whatsapp, etc) is illiterate.
Typical (modern day) West_civ story: people with disabilities (physical or psychological) expect the rest of the world to bend over backwards for their convenience, rather than the vice versa.
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Shannon explained that she has a cochlear implant, an electronic device that electrically stimulates the nerve for hearing, but was not wearing it at that time....'I'm an Uber driver, so I got a ride and I was like, "Hey, I have to order my drink. I have to go,"' she recalled.
Uh huh. While driving for Uber, she doesn't have her device that let's her f*&king hear in?? Ima call bullshit and a gofundme whore, insensitive d*ck that I am
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Nobody, nowadays (with whatsapp, etc) is illiterate.
Based on my last two calls to the IRS (I got ghetto girls both times), I disagree.
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Nobody, nowadays (with whatsapp, etc) is illiterate.
I was in line at an automated check out counter behind a nice scrawny white couple with an EBT card. When they missed what the recorded voice said, they were at sea, couldn't read "Press Here to Hear Message Again." I helped them get checked out.
It's easier than ever to get out of an American public school that "spends $12,000 / year" on students (read that spends it on staff and physical plant) with no idea how to read or do basic math.
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Ima call bullshit and a gofundme whore, insensitive d*ck that I am
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Maybe this comment gets dumped, but I become dyspeptic over people who look at picture books lecturing me about literacy.
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While on vacation a few years back and waiting at the deli with my freshly sliced meat and cheese order in my head while waiting in the long queue. I realized the deli workers were all from Eastern Europe struggling to understand customer orders. I typed the order on my phone and when my turn was up I merely set the phone on the counter. They were happy as heck and quickly filled my order.
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I rarely re-read even books I really love because I feel I'm cheating myself, as I only have time to read so many books. If I ever get a terminal diagnosis measured in weeks or months, I do have a set of books I'll try to re-read.
I guarantee you Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest could not be done as picture books.
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He cherry-picked the definition that suited him. How sweet.
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It’s California. So everyone is more rigid than they need to be.
She’s 32, a TikToker. and an Uber driver. She must be able to read and write in order to read her passenger info; most assuredly she can communicate by text because that’s how Uber drivers communicate. And she has a cause: getting the rules changed so that others will remove their masks so she, and others like her, can lip read — a group that includes only about half the deaf population.
She’s white, so isn’t encountering anti-black prejudice, but among both blacks and Hispanics there is also anti-white prejudice — are the workers and managers in Encino likely to be either black or Hispanic and willing to cause easy problems for a white woman? Not that they were necessarily trying to cause problems — California rules on masking are even probably stricter now that Governor Newsom won his recall, and by definition she has no idea what, if anything, the staff were saying to her while she had her meltdown.
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^ She has people encouraging her to do this. It's sad that a) people are willing to use a disabled person. b) it's sad she's allowing herself to be used.
Maybe the sorts of platforms that make such a thing possible need to be reigned in?
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The general rule is to not trust a self-described tiktoker, especially if you agree with them.
They are more insufferable than the foodie review people.
tiktoker...I think the spelling is appropriate. What used to be called attention whores are going to attention whore, whether it was the roller rink or dumb phone.
#35
I have a friend who sends me tiktok links all the time. I don't watch most of them. I would have to admit that some I have watched were pretty good. Still, I go with Vir Kotto's dictum: "Some bargains come at too high a price."
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Gaijin doesn't mean outsider, it means uncultured barbarian.
Every word for outsider means uncultured barbarian at bottom. As I recall, the word barbarian derives from the Greek idea that foreigners speaking their own language were not speaking a proper language at all, just making mouth sounds like bar-bar-bar.
Given the level of unthinking prejudice the insular Japanese have against outsiders, their disapprobation ought to be a mark for the outsiders rather than against them. Trailing daughter #2 came back from a 9-month internship in Tokyo vowing never, ever to live in Japan again, even though she was offered a job by the company, was watched over like a little sister by the instructors of the Tokyo police Kendo club as they trained her for the equivalent of a black belt, made dear friends, and had all sorts of adventures.
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^ Thank you TW for explaining that pretty much every word in the dictionary has several numbered (ow) definitions. Some so wildly different from the others that only a "literate' person might appreciate the beauty of the written and spoken word. We could deep dive into the whole issue of translation. And then the verbal nuances that even written text can't capture.
But that's all for an uncultured barbarian subset of the human race, eh?
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Maybe I'll print "My Dictionary Is A Picture Book" bumper stickers. They will sell to the exact opposite crowd that buys the "Eschew Obfuscation" bumper stickers.
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And, I might add, I try to be a cultured barbarian, my own self...
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On the 365 Day Murphy's Law Calendar, there's a page that says "In any piece of technical writing, if you come upon a word you don't know, just read on, the article will come out the same regardless."
In retrospect, I see a huge insight there..,.
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Note: Volodya is not up for election this round. He will run again for president in 2024.
As a side note, should he make it to 2024, he will have been serving as ruler of Russia for longer than Nicholas II.
[REGNUM] In the Khabarovsk Territory, on September 17 at 08:00 local time (01:00 Moscow time), 807 polling stations were opened, of which 31 were on the courts.
Residents of the region within three days will elect deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory (ahead of schedule), as well as additional elections will be held for the deputy of the Legislative Duma of the Territory of the seventh convocation in the Transport single-mandate constituency No. 6.
The number of voters in the Khabarovsk Territory is 967,297 people.
As reported by IA REGNUM , in Magadan on September 16 the Center for public video observation of elections was opened, which will receive data from almost all polling stations in the Magadan region. Several western agencies have refused to send election observers.
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Apple and Google under fire for political meddling as they both remove Navalny's app under pressure from the Kremlin on the day Russia goes to the presumed-fixed polls
Hard to fix polls when there are no fewer than 10 separate political parties vieing for spots on the national Duma
[FoxNews] Ex-Google consultant Joe Toscano blasted Facebook for putting profits ahead of people after a pair of "catastrophic" reports indicate the tech giant allows celebrities to break the platform’s rules and executives recognize its photo-sharing app can be harmful to teenage girls.
"The reality is Facebook's just doing business as usual, right? What's Facebook's product? We always got to keep going back to that. What’s their product? The reality is their product is outrage, its scandal, its sex. It's anything that will get you to click," Toscano said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed documents that prove Facebook has privately "built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules" using a program that was "initially intended as a quality-control measure for actions taken against high-profile accounts, including celebrities, politicians and journalists."
A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel has crossed the border from #Syria into #Lebanon. The delivery was organized by #Hezbollah to ease crippling fuel shortages in the crisis-hit country.
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An inefficient way to get diesel given that Lebanon has seaports.
I'm not sure what condition the ports are in though.
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Beirut port closed - SAFETY4SEA
https://safety4sea.com › beirut-port-closed
Aug 6, 2020 Given the recent incident in the port of Beirut, the port is currently closed with all traffic being diverted to the port of Tripoli, Lebanon.
As noted, the convoy is still an inefficient way to ship fuel.
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Given how the 1/6 people who have been arrested are being treated, I think only a moron would show up for this event. Going to guess rookie DC cops and noob feebs have all been slotted to make their bones on this.
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I wouldn't care if they burnt the thing down with everyone of them in it.
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This really smells like a false flag operation to me.
Yep. I can smell it all the way out here in California.
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Protest is "the highest form of patriotism" only until it isn't. I still say only people I would not particularly trust will show up for this.
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Anybody remember when Pelosi was all butt hurt because Trump sent plain clothes agents to keep her people from burning the federal court house in Portland?
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They should have a permanent fence, one that doesn't look terrible or block the view. A moat with lily-pads and a far side designed to be difficult to climb out of would do better than putting up fences and removing them again.
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Everyone should know the 'rally' tomorrow in DC is a FBI setup. Its been mentioned in several platforms (gab, Parler, etc...). Even Trump advised people to avoid it.
Won't stop the FBI setting up some stupid idiot who goes anyway.
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Fencing should be re-instituted throughout DC. Might become a more civil place if a few politicians feared the sharp end of a saber over their lies and distortions.
[AMERICANTHINKER] The news in our country and abroad has been relentlessly bad ever since we entered the calamitous Biden Era just months ago, but there are a few hopeful signs out there still.
One of the best is a story receiving almost no coverage in the larger press: the Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... elections this November. The democratic opposition has agreed to participate after years of boycotting the Maduro regime's rigged voting. The E.U. will send a large team of election monitors, and Maduro has already been releasing some political prisoners in a bid to end sanctions. Some are even predicting that Maduro will be willing to retire from office at the end of his current term in 2024.
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Every time these guys are droned they mysteriously reenter the atmospehre and appear.
Mass shootings increased during the COVID-19 pandemic starting in May 2020, a new study finds
Summer 2020 saw a particularly intense increase, with 88 mass shootings in July 2020 compared to 42 in July 2019 and 45 in July 2018
An average of three more people were injured in 2020 mass shootings compared to previous years
The study suggests that mass shootings may be influenced by social and economic factors, the researchers say
How many of the shooters and victims were gang members? How many had untreated mental illness or drug addictions? As reported, this is a case study of how not to do social research, though possibly the fault lies with the Daily Mail reporters rather than the scientists.
[NationalReview] "I explained his situation — a U.S. legal permanent resident since 2017, and his wife and kids’ visa interview interrupted by closing of Kabul embassy," my reader said. "Her first response was to read to me, verbatim, the text of the auto-reply emails that we have been receiving. ’The U.S. embassy in Kabul is closed, blah, blah, blah...’ I let her do that on the off chance that there might be new information. There wasn’t."
When the woman on the hotline had finished repeating the old, and not terribly helpful information, my reader asked: "How do we get him and his family out of Afghanistan?"
My reader says the State Department hotline operator’s advice was to leave Afghanistan, contact any of the neighboring country U.S. embassies, travel to that embassy, finish the interview process, get the visas, and then buy tickets and fly to the United States.
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OK. Now explain how lactose intolerance fits in to this.
A kinda humorous answer here
tl;dr: short answer is tradition cattle husbandry patterns. If your ancestors didn't live someplace where they could raise cattle, they didn't drink milk and now you can't.
An interesting book on human migrations from a whole genome perspective is Who We Are And How We Got Here. The flow of human species across the planet is much more turbulent and chaotic than the traditional Out of Africa story would lead you to believe.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IAN] One of the most consistently repeated trends of COVID has been the premature declarations of victory from areas with a perceived level of "success" in "controlling" the pandemic.
Covorasterians ? 
[Intel Hub] Why are companies all over the world suddenly desperate for workers? In my entire life I have never seen anything like this. When the labor shortage started in the United States, a lot of people blamed overly generous government handouts, but that doesn’t explain why the exact same thing is happening in nation after nation all over the globe. There aren’t enough factory workers, there aren’t enough truck drivers, there aren’t enough port workers, there aren’t enough employees to properly staff our stores, and the shortage of doctors and nurses is becoming a major crisis in some areas. During normal times, we were always told that the global economy was not producing nearly enough jobs for everyone, but now for the very first time we are facing an enormous worldwide labor shortage. It is almost as if millions upon millions of people suddenly disappeared from the system.
[ZERO] The EU’s digital policy chief, Margrethe Vestager, has officially warned that countries should not be relying on just a "handful of very big" chip producers to help alleviate the global chip shortage. 
Could the calls to China actually have been a carefully planned media diversion ? 
[FOX] The Federal Aviation Administration has placed a two-week flight restriction along a bridge at the southern border inundated with thousands of illegal immigrants, which prevents reporters from flying drones to document the crisis.
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) — The 15th Circuit solicitor held a news conference Thursday afternoon on the deadly trooper-involved shooting that happened over the weekend in the Longs area..jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Harvard-educated lefty MS
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
[MSN] The Minnesota House Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) caucus voted Tuesday night to expel state Representative 
[Ammoland - HT Knuckledragging] This writer has been interested in the percent of fatalities of people who are deliberately shot, for decades. It is not an easy number to quantify. The inverse of that number is the percent of those shot who survive.
Nothing will happen to General Milley, he's in the Vindman camp. 
[AMERICANTHINKER] Mr. Biden and other liberals are very upset with the unvaccinated. They've laid the blame, with the claim that this is "a pandemic of the unvaccinated."I call BS. This is a "pandemic of the incompetent."
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] 2018 testimony from former FBI legal counsel 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
Hezbollah
/\ Yes, both will contribute. Some will become the product. Some will unknowingly become the consumers. 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
New satellite images obtained by CNN reveal 
[AMERICANTHINKER] The news in our country and abroad has been relentlessly bad ever since we entered the calamitous Biden Era just months ago, but there are a few hopeful signs out there still.
