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Leila Hyams was an American film and stage actress, model, and vaudevillian, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in 1924 during the era of silent films and ended in 1936.
Born: May 1, 1905, New York City, U.S.
Died: December 4, 1977, Bel Air, Los Angeles, U.S.
Occupation: vaudevillian, stage performer, model, film actress
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Hooters (Leila is Lacking) - Hooters' business has continued to dwindle - and it seems that the company is now trying to nip the issue in the 'butt' as it were, courtesy of its new buttock-baring uniforms.
'There's no bottom, there's a CROTCH STRING': Hooters Girls slam 'TINY' new uniform shorts and compare them to 'PANTIES' - as infamous chain shifts its focus to bare derrieres after decades of cleavage flaunting. (Daily Mail)
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The food was mediocre back in the day, and many of the waitresses had no good reason to think anyone wanted to see their not-particularly-appealing chubby bodies in those outfits.
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yes but Leila's showing off a nice kitty purr-purr
BLUF: Even before COVID-19 the trucking industry was 60,000 drivers short as the Baby Boom generation of men started retiring. Now the shortage is around 100,000, and despite significantly increased pay and benefits, not enough are joining up.
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Shutting down trucking schools as 'non-essential' during the Covid hysteria? Having an education establishment designed to feed universities and colleges and not vocational jobs? Increase micro-management by regulations? Drive independent owner-operators off your state highways? Make fuel more expensive cutting profit margins?
If you are a small company under a 100 personnel, go learn the Army lingo for the truck drivers, MOS et al. You can probably pick up some non-vaxxers real easily by offering pay and relocation incentives.
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Some time ago, I read an artical that said the ports in California had new emission requirements for trucks and that about 1/3 of the trucks servicing the ports would not comply, so could not work the ports. So now, we are having a trucking shortage? Who could have foreseen? Your "climate change" warriors score another one.
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Skid's image shows why the 1.3GW capacity is a misleading number. The average 24/365 capacity factor is likely to be about 20-25%. However, in the summer during peak a/c demand the capacity may be in the 70 to 85% range.
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And just think about the benefits for All-Electric Homes...not.
[MilitaryTimes] Another six troops succumbed to COVID-19 this week, continuing a trend that began in August and has continued into the fall. Where last year, most months saw one or two deaths, since late July, there have been multiple deaths a week.
Now totaling 58, the military’s COVID-19 mortality rate has held steady at 0.02 percent, 50 times what it was for most of 2020. At the same time, facing deadlines for mandatory vaccination, the services are slowly marching toward 100-percent vaccination.
[Just The News] The non-partisan government watchdog group Empower Oversight is looking into the origins of COVID-19, and whether the government knowingly or unwittingly contributed monetarily to the Chinese lab at the center of the outbreak.
According to Empower Oversight, the group submitted numerous Freedom of Information Act requests in order to obtain a better understanding of what type of research is being funded by federal agencies, and whether money is being sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and to underwrite gain-of-function research.
The group submitted FOIA requests to three separate federal agencies, requesting documentation concerning government funding that was given to the embattled research firm EcoHealth, which is run by Peter Daszak.
According to the New York Post, Daszak is facing widespread pressure from across the scientific community to resign from EcoHealth following reports of his personal ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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We should be hearing something any day now from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USARIID), DARPA, CIA, BMI, the Salvation Army.... somebody !!!
[Breitbart] As cargo ships congested at U.S. ports, creating an unprecedented supply-chain crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on paid leave to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.
After weeks of people questioning Buttigieg’s whereabouts as crisis after crisis mounted, Politico’s West Wing Playbook confirmed on Thursday that the transportation secretary was "lying low."
"They didn’t previously announce it, but Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies," Playbook reported.
Married gay man takes extended childbirth leave? If the husband is a queer person of colour, we’d have wipe the cultural revolution board — but I can’t be bothered to know more about Lil Petey’s private life.
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Calgon, take me away. This is what it looks like when you are in way over your head. Wailing away and sucking on his Binky crying alternately MOMMY, MOMMY. Perhaps even a good dose of drugs. I don't see this fellow getting smashed on home brew.
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To be fair, the entire Cabinet is not composed entirely of clueless hacks who achieved their positions via 'service rendered'. Some of them are just clueless hacks like the current Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, who is best known for being a female governor of Michigan.
At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days (Fig. 1). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.
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Doesn't support the narrative. Must be lies.
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The faithful will paradoxically see this as evidence they are correct.
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"rare" - ok. But much LESS RARE than risk of severe case of COVID, which is about 5-10x LESS likely than the risk of severe myocarditis in young men who take this vaccine. F---ing liars.
[The Federalist] CNN has now spent a year running political interference for Hunter Biden and the rest of the Biden family to take viewers’ attention away from a series of reports detailing their scandalous corruption that emerged in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
The New York Post, which initially reported its findings on Hunter’s laptop just weeks before the election, was targeted and censored by Big Tech companies. Despite the long list of corroborating evidence, reports, and even a full-fledged government investigation into Hunter’s sketchy business and money ties, corporate media chose to smear the story as fake news and even adopted the Democrat narrative that it was somehow "Russian disinformation."
CNN, in particular, took great interest in not only amplifying Democrats’ lies that downplayed the sordid behavior captured by the Post’s reporting on the laptop, but even boosting Hunter and his dad as legitimate and trustworthy figures.
For a while, the outlet, like many others in the corrupt corporate media, refused to cover the Post’s findings that Hunter rose to the top of a Ukraine energy company while his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, served as the White House’s "public face" to the nation. When CNN finally got around to mentioning that the son of the Democrat presidential candidate may have used his dad’s ties to boost his own overseas business dealings and then offered a cut back to Joe, its anchors, reporters, and even media guests regurgitated the leftist narrative that Hunter and his now-president dad did nothing wrong.
"There’s no evidence that Hunter Biden has done anything wrong," Jake Tapper repeated numerous times during CNN’s brief and biased coverage of the scandal. "There is no evidence that anybody did anything illegal regarding the Bidens and Ukraine, and Joe Biden was carrying out US policy," he added in one segment.
Anderson Cooper, one of the outlet’s most recognizable media darlings, even interjected CNN’s scripted agenda on the Bidens during one of the Democratic presidential debates.
"President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there’s no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you," Cooper said.
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He is being protected for a reason, and the reason goes far beyond Plugs. CNN's involvement provides no insight into the actual reasons (specific access and actions), but it certainly does reveal the sponsor.
The little maniac's primary partners were (and still are) frontmen for the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party.
The entity that he partnered with and that paid him millions is specifically designed to bribe, manipulate and blackmail foreign politicians.
The guy's laptop has 27,000 different files on it that together attest to his and his father's corruption; his family's chaos; and his own extraordinary recklessness and sheer depravity.
Obvious conclusion: The Bidens are in the hip pocket of the CCP.
Our intel community surely knows this. The CNN and other media assholes have surely figured this out.
The reason that they have gone to such ridiculous lengths to deny the obvious is simple: kill the Orange One. Even if it means elevating a demented Chinese stooge and his monster of a son.
[IsraelTimes] Security agency claims separatist terrorist group was backed by Morocco and ’the Zionist entity’
Algerian security services said Wednesday that they had foiled armed attacks planned by a separatist group that was receiving foreign help — including from Israel — local media reported.
The DGSN security agency said police this week broke up a network linked to the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie (MAK), a group that seeks independence for the restive Kabylie region and which Algeria considers a "terrorist" organization, according to a statement carried by local media.
According to Rooters, Algeria’s Ennahar TV said the attack was being planned by separatists aided by "the Zionist entity" as well as a North African country. The second country was not named, but Algeria has previously accused MAK of being supported by Israel and its neighbor Morocco.
The statement from the security agency said 17 people were detained across the northeastern Kabylie region, accused of planning "armed acts aiming to harm the country’s security, with the complicity of domestic parties advocating separatism."
The suspects admitted to having been "in constant contact via the internet with foreign parties operating under the cover of civil society associations and organizations" based in Israel and in a North African country, the statement said.
In August Algeria Algeria cut ties with Morocco, accusing it of "hostile actions."
The move came after Morocco’s envoy to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... in July expressed support for self-determination for Kabylie, a stronghold of the Amazigh (Berber) minority. Algiers strongly opposes any independence aspirations in the region.
Long-tense relations between Algeria and Morocco have deteriorated of late as conflict in the disputed Western Sahara flared last year after a long ceasefire.
Morocco considers the former Spanish colony an integral part of its kingdom, but Algeria has backed the Polisario Front, a movement that seeks independence there.
Morocco’s normalization last year of diplomatic ties with Israel, a quid pro quo for American recognition of Rabat’s illusory sovereignty over the Western Sahara, also stirred new tensions with Algeria, a supporter of the Paleostinian cause.
[IsraelTimes] Ambassador says Washington will continue to oppose Human Rights Council’s singular focus on Jewish state; panel panned for giving spots to abusive regimes like Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , UAE.
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OH! that's right we're coming up on the start of Mid-Term Election campaigning and about 70% of the JEWISH American voters USE TO favor Socialist/Democratic candidates.
But given all all the DC Socialcrats open ANTISEMITIC comments, outright mistreatment of the nation of ISRAEL. Coupled with the Socialcrat's Far Left radical special interest groups (ANTI-FA & BLM...) verbal and physical violence acts against US Jewish citizens.
Do you think maybe, just MAYBE, the DC Socialcrats suddenly remember that there are over 7 Million Jewish Voters and it time to shut the _____ up?
[ABC News] KONGSBERG, Norway -- The bow-and-arrow rampage by a man who killed five people in a small town near Norway's capital appeared to be a terrorist act, authorities said Thursday, a bizarre and shocking attack in a Scandinavian country where violent crime is rare.
Police identified the attacker as Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, who was arrested on the street Wednesday night about a half-hour after authorities were alerted.
They said he used the bow and arrow and possibly other weapons to randomly target people at a supermarket and other locations in Kongsberg, a town of about 26,000 where he lived.
Witnesses said their quiet neighborhood of wooden houses and birch trees was turned into a scene of terrifying cries and turmoil.
"The screaming was so intense and horrifying there was never any doubt something very serious was going on," said Kurt Einar Voldseth, who had returned home from an errand when he heard the commotion. "I can only describe it as a ’death scream,’ and it burned into my mind."
Four women and a man between the ages of 50 and 70 were killed, and three other people were wounded, police said.
Andersen Braathen is being held on preliminary charges and will face a custody hearing Friday. Police said they believe he acted alone.
"The whole act appears to be an act of terror," said Hans Sverre Sjoevold, head of Norway's domestic intelligence service, known as the PST.
"We do not know what the motivation of the perpetrator is," Sjoevold said in English. Classic! This guy should go into journalism.
"We have to wait for the outcome of the investigation."
He said the suspect was known to the PST, but he declined to elaborate. The agency said the terror threat level for Norway remained unchanged at "moderate."
Regional Police Chief Ole B. Saeverud described the man as a Muslim convert and said there "earlier had been worries of the man having been radicalized," but he did not elaborate or say why he was previously flagged or what authorities did in response.
Norwegian media reported the suspect had a conviction for burglary and drug possession, and last year a court granted a restraining order for him to stay away from his parents for six months after threatening to kill one of them.
Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reports that the suspect is a Danish citizen who had lived in Norway his whole life, and had not been working since the early 2000s. The newspaper also claims that a family member had been in regular contact with police over their concerns and had tried to get in touch with other authorities.
The family member told VG he believed the suspect was "mentally ill" and "should have been in a closed ward a long time ago".
The man has since been charged with murder. Police attorney Ann Irén Svane Mathiassen told NRK that officials have interrogated the man, who admitted guilt, but would not disclose whether a motive had been established.
Saying that the suspect had been cooperative, Ms Mathiassen said: "He had explained what happened and what he did. He acknowledged the circumstances of what occurred and said that he was the one who carried out the actions."
The attorney also said the suspect had used other weapons, the details of which she would also not disclose at the time of the presser.
Police identified the suspect as Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen who was a resident of the area, and said he had confessed during questioning. In a deleted YouTube video, he said in English that he was a “messenger” who “comes with a warning,” and continues: “Bear witness that I am a Muslim.”
Kongsberg, a small town of some 26,000 inhabitants, is about 66 kilometers (41 miles) southwest of Oslo.
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As reported by Skidmark’s link, Mr. Braathen’s schizophrenia started to blossom when he was in his later teen years, getting to the point when his immediate family were terrified he was going to murder them.
[Western Journal] As concerns about the global supply chain loom large, people have turned to President Joe Biden for potential solutions in the United States.
However, one of Biden’s proposed solutions to resolve delays is something that already takes place: truck drivers working overnight.
"That means an increase in the hours for workers to be moving cargo off ships and onto trucks and railcars to get to their destination. And more than that, the night hours are critical for increasing the movement of goods because highways are less crowded in the evening, at night," Biden said in a news conference Wednesday.
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Get ready for more traffic jams on an already jammed freeway system (that's infrastructure, you know) as truckers try to drive in the dark while they're asleep. As a former commuter, I can tell you with complete certainty, one jackknifed big rig can ruin your whole day.
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And, with #FJB's luck, these accidents will occur at the worst possible moments.
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...in the worst possible places.
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Robot trucks could drive all night, because silicon never sleeps. (unless you call sleep(), but let's try and focus)
Silliness aside, long-haul trucking is the first place I would expect self-driving vehicles. You would still need a human for the tricky bits, but driving down the highway with a low probability of hitting something is a task robots can do.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian Foreign Ministry says visiting European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... envoy Enrique Mora told officials that his bloc is ’ready to collaborate with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the other parties’.
[IsraelTimes] Soldiers open fire at two suspects in southern West Bank, striking one who succumbs to his wounds; second suspect arrested at scene, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, flag found nearby
Israeli troops rubbed out a Paleostinian man who was throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli vehicles outside of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank on Thursday night, the army said.
The soldiers opened fire on two suspects who were targeting Israeli cars passing near the village of Beit Jala, according to an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson.
One suspect was struck by the gunfire and died at the scene after receiving first aid. The second person was arrested by the soldiers.
No Israeli soldiers or civilians were maimed in the incident.
Israeli soldiers found a Hamas flag at a lookout point where the suspects had allegedly thrown the Molotov cocktails.
Beit Jala, sandwiched between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sits above Route 60, a main traffic artery traversing the West Bank which connects the capital to the Etzion settlement bloc and Hebron.
The shooting transpired almost 24 hours after a Border Police officer was maimed in an apparent car ramming near the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem.
The 20-year-old officer was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical with moderate injuries, but his condition deteriorated overnight to serious but stable, the hospital said.
Police said the ramming occurred while troops were working to move illegal structures built in an area near the West Bank crossing.
The suspect was placed under arrest at the scene of the ramming and transferred to the custody of the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] Day after major ransom attack identified at Hadera center, doctors report minimal progress on solving problem; experts unsurprised, predicting normality is at least 3 months away.
A day after falling victim to the biggest cyberattack in Israeli health history, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center still has no idea how much damage was caused and does not know when they will be able to return to normal operations, according to a bigwig.
Dr. Amnon Ben Moshe, administrative director of the Hadera institution, said that staff still have no access to the main systems used for viewing and updating hospital medical records, and for administration.
On Wednesday, the hospital was hit by a still-unresolved ransomware attack, forcing the hospital to shut down its technology network and causing delays in care.
"We’re in a similar situation to yesterday, when we identified the situation and saw the cyberattacks," he told The Times of Israel.
Questioned on the current situation he said: "We don’t know the extent of the damage." Regarding the timescale for getting back to normal, he said: "We have no idea. We just worked all night."
Cybersecurity experts say the process could be a very long one.
Ido Geffen, a vice president at CyberMDX, an Israeli startup that offers cybersecurity solutions for medical devices and clinical assets, told The Times of Israel that the full recovery of data could take months.
Einat Meyron, a cybersecurity consultant and cyber resilience expert, said: "There is a long road ahead to recovery. We’ve seen similar events in the US, Belgium, and Portugal for example where hospitals were attacked., and they needed about three to six months just to get to a point where they could start working [normally] again."
Channel 12 reported Thursday that the attackers left an email address on the servers that were attacked. An outside company acting on behalf of the hospital made contact with the hackers, who demanded $10 million dollars ransom.
The report noted that as a government hospital they were barred from paying ransoms.
At Hillel Yaffe, some non-urgent procedures have been cancelled, but most of the hospital’s work is continuing, using alternative IT systems, some of which have been installed especially.
Sounds like they’ve hardened themselves enough they needn’t pay, even if they were permitted to.
The ability of doctors to access nationally-held patient records which include their medical background (as opposed to internal hospital records) hasn’t been interrupted. This is because Hillel Yaffe recently introduced hand-held devices that provide this access.
Management praised staff for facing up to challenges well, in a statement on Thursday. "Along with the efforts of cyber and computing experts to rehabilitate the computer systems and investigate the incident, the medical work continues and our teams provide a very good response in the face of the existing challenges."
Cybersecurity experts say that the attack, while serious, could have been worse. "In this attack, we know it came from the internet, meaning an attacker gained access to a password and then was able to get into the network," said Geffen. "The good thing is, no medical devices or critical equipment were affected, as far as we know. In similar attacks in the US and Europe, critical devices that patients were connected to were indeed affected and that is a much worse situation."
He added: "Right now, the hospital is likely in the containment phase, making sure the attack doesn’t spread and trying to ensure all critical operations are still working. Then comes the investigation and recovery phase to determine what exactly happened and try to recover data."
This is a long process if the hospital is to be sure that no "backdoors," namely malware by which unauthorized users can get around security measures and regain access, are left in place.
"This can take months because it’s a careful operation to make sure the hackers didn’t leave any backdoors," Geffen said.
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HINT: Never expect IT Security if auto-update and device health checks are self-reported to technology vendors. Most lab equipment, Xray, CAT, MRI, PET scanners, and even Johnson Controls HVAC systems, call home with performance data.
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Some years back, the VA had a three-day outage caused by a botched data center re-alignment. The hospitals went to paper. In three days they had a warehouse full of docs to enter into the system.
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WRT diagnostic equipment, some older stuff from several of the big makers is so hopelessly abandoned by their manufacturers support-wise that the only safe way to use them is a clean software load at startup every day and a local backup of acquired data every night.
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Yep, big GE MRI scanners.
Rotating 2 hr outages every night to 'bare metal' format disks and reload XP + aps from pristine media.
[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of impoverished families in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip begin receiving Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i humanitarian funds, for the second time since Israel agreed to a new distribution mechanism involving the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Recipients of the money queued from the early hours outside 300 distribution centers spread across the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-ruled Paleostinian enclave.
Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi says the $100 handouts will be provided to "95,000 needy families" in Gaza through the UN.
After the latest flare-up between Israel and Hamas in May, Israel objected to a resumption of the funding under the previous terms, saying money was being used by gangs rather than strictly for humanitarian needs.
The stalemate was resolved in August, when Israel and Qatar announced the approval of a new mechanism to distribute the funds, with money transferred directly to individuals by the UN.
Under the scheme, Israeli-approved recipients in Gaza are issued UN credit cards to withdraw the funds.
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/\ Box stores suffer a temporary loss as costly alternative shipping arrangements are hurriedly arranged. The Chinese junk must continue to float, regardless of the increased cost to consumers. The American consumer must not learn that he can actually survive without this stuff.
Calls for the Orange Man's "Made in America" remain a distant, fading memory. I predict however, Pierre Omidyar's ebay (interesting fellow to be sure) will do quite well in the coming months. I continue to wait and see if Amazon and ebay join forces.
Lets say the Social-Capitalist economy fails.
Just what does CCP need from the rest of the world?
Say it folds and the Social-Capitalists go back to being Communists and just re-adopt MAO, kinda a watered down North Korea type operation.
How could the world punish China in any type of meaningful matter, for defaulting of debt
Answer: Just what the World did when the USSR collapsed. They'll reinvest in them and loaned them $$$$$ and rebuilt them into a Super Power and make "plane loads" of $$$$$.
Come to think of it ...
The CCP does own about $2T in USA debt/bonds and that could play a role in backing our backs.
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China has fallen. They will literally eat their own. North Korea as an example. The merchandise we now receive is literally cheap copies of the real things. High failure rates. Forget warranties if you can get the parts at all. Payoffs and corruption has brought them down as it will here. Look to alternative countries like India or Vietnam to supply products if you are going to outsource these products. China is done. No food, no water, no power, and no hope. Incompetent leadership as we have here. You can only fail so many times. Those that could leave China have. There is a race to the exit door. The Mao Red book is reborn.
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Wall Street is all-in on China taking over the world. Sort of like they were with Japan Inc. decades ago. The pentagon is all-in on China being the bigger boogie-man compared to Russia. The Uniparty is all-in on China, just because. I would like to see them all lose, but it's a tall order...
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Japan was taking over the world and then flatlined for three decades and counting. I hope its worse for the Chicoms.
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#5 I understand that opinion. Their view of the world is and has been incorrect. The same is true of the house and senate. Remember Hillery was so backward with computers. A major upgrade is required. They are at least thirty years behind the times. Then you have the tech savvy but they use that knowledge to benefit themselves. So that limits progress. Share, network knowledge and build, advance and so you have a brighter future for all. Each works as a nanobot, there is the real power.
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The Chinese economy can stagnate for 30 years -- and China can still remain a mortal and even growing threat to us. The USSR was a mortal threat even while -- especially while -- its economy was stagnating and its people were living in near-third world poverty. You have to remember that most of their subjects were living hand to mouth just a generation ago.
Also, China for all its problems is still an extraordinarily wealthy and powerful nation. Yes, their military's hollowed out by corruption and incompetence. But they have Nike's and their technology is very advanced -- and getting better.
Especially their AI: when you have the world's largest and most detailed biometric dataset, your AI alogirithms will learn faster and faster. If anything an economically-declining China is an even more dangerous threat than one that's stable and growing.
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The difference between the Soviets back then and the Chinese now is that the for generations the average Soviet citizen never experience the massive economic leaps the Chinese have experienced since the late '80s. The Theory of Rising Expectations is the belief that human beings ultimately yearn for more than they have. So they are never completely satisfied. After they get what they want, they yearn for a little bit more or something else. The Chinese people now have a taste of that at a level that the Soviet citizen did not. That leads to social upheaval and unrest when things stop or appear to stop 'progressing'. Americans have lived with that up and down for a lot of their history, this will be the first big down for the contemporary Chinese.
[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Amal on Thursday openly accused the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... of launching an "armed attack" on their supporters in the Tayyouneh area, which had during the day witnessed hours-long armed festivities reminiscent of the beginning of the 1975-1990 civil war.
In a joint statement, the two parties said "groups from the Lebanese Forces party deployed in the adjacent neighborhoods and on rooftops from where they practiced direct sniping operations aimed at intentional killing, leaving this number of deaders and maimed."
At least six people were killed and 32 others injured in the violence.
Condemning what they called "a criminal and premeditated act targeted at stability and civil peace," Hizbullah and Amal called on the army and security forces to "shoulder their responsibilities in returning things to normal and arresting those behind the killing operations who are known by their names, as well as the instigators who oversaw this deliberate operation from black rooms."
"They must be put on trial and must receive the harshest penalties," the two groups said.
They also pledged to the families of their slain supporters that they would "follow up on their cause until justice is fulfilled."
The LF meanwhile denied the accusations, calling on authorities to "specify the responsibilities in a clear and frank manner."
"We strongly condemn the regrettable incidents that happened today on the ground, which are a practical result of the polarization that (Hizbullah chief) Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... started four months ago by inciting, in all his speeches, against the investigative judge," the LF added.
"All media outlets and the videos circulated on social media confirm the armed appearances with RPGs and machineguns and the entry into civilian neighborhoods," the party went on to say, in an accusation against the supporters of Hizbullah and Amal.
It added that the allegations against the LF are aimed at "deviating attention from Hizbullah’s invasion of this area and, in previous instances, of other areas."
"What happened today is known to everyone, which is confronting justice through the same coup-like approach, and the use of arms, intimidation, violence and force to derail justice in the case of the Beirut port explosion," the LF added.
In another statement, it called on the army to issue a detailed statement to "clarify the circumstances of what happened, from the very first moment, so that some, especially Hizbullah, do not continue to exploit these tragic incidents to launch accusations in every direction in order to exit the dilemma they has put themselves in."
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... claimed at least six lives and left dozens maimed in and around the Tayyouneh area on Thursday as an escalation of tensions around last year's massive portside explosion turned parts of Beirut's southern edge into a war-zone.
The army deployed tanks and troops to quell street battles that sparked memories of the 1975-1990 civil war for a city already traumatized by last year's blast disaster and Leb ...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... 's worst-ever economic crisis.
The bloody unrest broke out during a demonstration by Hizbullah and Amal Movement. Online videos showed armed supporters of the two groups roaming the area. Another video showed a large number of Hizbullah and Amal supporters entering into a street in the Ain el-Rummaneh area, shouting slogans, hurling stones at a small group of young men and smashing cars. A witness from Ain el-Rummaneh said the group responded with stones before the armed festivities began.
The protesters were rallying against Judge Tarek Bitar, tasked with investigating the massive explosion of poorly stored ammonium nitrate at Beirut's port that killed more than 210 people and destroyed swathes of the capital on August 4 last year.
The judge had in recent days been in the sights of Hizbullah and Amal after he subpoenaed brass hats in his probe.
AFP correspondents said Thursday's violence started with sniper fire from residential buildings targeting the Hizbullah and Amal supporters, who returned fire with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
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The army said it had responded to an exchange of gunfire in the Tayyouneh- Badaro area as protesters headed to the Palace of Justice.
It "raided a number of places looking for the shooters, and detained nine" people in total, including individuals from both sides. One was of Syrian nationality, it said.
The military did not specify who started the firefight.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. Home heating oil doubles, gas doubles to something like 7 dollars a gallon and much higher in California of course. Natural gas and propane going up with electric. Now the prospect of outages looms ahead. Factories shut down. Currently flu is hitting my area very hard. Pink eye, sick outs. This is just the beginning of the season. Those vaxed sicker than most and I really believe they are spreaders.
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I have always said the day would come where it will cost $2500.00 a month to heat a house in the northern US. We're not there yet, but Bidet and crew have three more years.
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Been there done that. "Let em freeze in the dark."
"Whip Inflation Now."
"The Moral Equivalent of War."*
"....malaise..."
Powell, Yellen et al. KNOW this isn't "transitory."
I'll bet my next paycheck that these lying assholes are loading up now on every inflation-friendly stock they can get their hands on, beginning with $SBSW
[AlAkhram] Up to 140 terrorist attacks were carried out in the larger Middle East through September, with Iraq and Afghanistan ranked the most exposed nations to such acts, according to a report.
A recent report by Egypt’s National Centre for Studies (NCS) on the state of terrorism in the larger Middle East during September said that 126 out of the 140 attacks were carried out in countries with political instability in the region, representing 90 percent, while 14 attacks, around 10 percent, were carried out in stable countries.
The report, the ninth by the NCS, placed Iraq at the forefront of terrorism-stricken countries, with 56 terrorist acts carried out there.
The NCS pointed out that both Afghanistan and Syria came in the second and third place in the number of attacks during the past month, with each having suffered 29 and 22 attacks respectively.
Somalia was ranked in fourth place with 16 attacks, according to the report.
The centre said such attacks receded in stable countries, including Pakistain, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , Egypt and Iran.
The report praised the efforts made by the Egyptian security apparatus in quelling terrorist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, adding that Egypt's counterterrorism efforts have forced a great deal of this group’s members to turn themselves in.
The NCS said that all terror attacks in some of the region’s countries — which are suffering conflicts with gangs — were excluded from the report.
I've never seen such a startling contrast between ex-president and new president. Even Carter to Reagan wasn't quite this dramatic. About to find out what the term "grabbing a pussy" means.
[Just The News] "Trump's popularity, his power in the Republican party has grown since he left office. It has not shrunk," said Woodward.
Famed journalist Bob Woodward says he's never seen a former president retain as much political strength as Donald Trump.
"What's going on now really is an iron curtain of obedience to Trump," told CNN. "It's not just polite deference, it is obedience. And it really is an iron curtain because it's so strong."
Woodward spoke after Trump's appearance at a rally Saturday night alongside Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a mainstream Republican running for election at age 88.
"These people, like Senator Grassley, can count," Woodward said. "They can look at the polls. They go to their home states, they talk to constituents. And there's tens of millions of people who support Trump."
During the rally, Trump awarded Grassley his customary "complete and total endorsement."
A strange way of saying democratic support actually means something. The party mandarins are so used to having their way that it's bizarre to have any other way.
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Woodward can be a weasel but he's dialed in, and he fears no one. He has his millions and his sources are everywhere. He doesn't need to spin anything.
[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources announced that the water agreement with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has come into effect after being ratified by the Ottoman Turkish President.
"The Ottoman Turkish president ratified the memorandum of understanding signed between Iraq and Turkey, and thus it entered into force, yesterday, on Wednesday," the Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Mahdi al-Hamdani, said.
"We were officially informed by Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the ratification of the memorandum," al-Hamdani added.
He pointed out that one of the terms of the agreement includes releasing a fair and equitable share for Iraq through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Since last February, the Ottoman Turkish government has reduced the flow of the Euphrates River towards the Syrian and Iraqi territories, amid regional and global warnings of a health and agricultural disaster in the region.
"There has been a positive change in Turkey’s position regarding dealing with Iraq on the water issue, as the government succeeded, in a short period of time, in reaching understandings with Turkey that Iraq had not obtained for decades," the minister stated.
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UN Convention: That the rule of equitable utilization is required by customary international law is shown by the many treaties based on the concept, by international judicial and arbitral awards, and by the near-unanimous opinions of legal scholars. The UN General Assembly codified the rule of equitable utilization in Article 5 of its United Nations Convention on Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. The Assembly approved the UN Convention on May 21, 1997, by a vote of 104–3. Article 5 requires watercourse nations to utilize an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner with a view to attaining optimal and sustainable utilization and benefits consistent with adequate protection in the watercourse. See
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.@ClaudiaWebbe, a socialist Labour Party MP in Leicester, England and a BLM activist, has been convicted over threatening to throw acid on the face of a woman. https://t.co/jtAnr0z70a
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has detained an Iranian and a Turk on spying charges, a bigwig said Wednesday, in the latest espionage case threatening to roil relations between the two neighbouring regional powers.
The two alleged spies were detained as they plotted to kidnap and forcibly repatriate a former Iranian military official from the eastern Ottoman Turkish region of Van, the official told AFP.
Six local "collaborators" were also arrested in operations conducted jointly by Turkey's MIT national intelligence agency and the national police, the official said.
The official did not disclose the suspects' identities or the reasons for their attempted kidnap of the former Iranian military official.
Turkey and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have historically close economic relations but occasionally find themselves on opposite sides of regional conflicts, including in Syria.
In February, Turkey briefly detained an employee of the Iranian consulate in Istanbul in connection with a probe into the liquidation of an Iranian dissident in Turkey in 2019.
Turkish security forces have arrested a network of eight people, including two alleged Iranian agents, in Van province for trying to abduct a former soldier, reported Turkey’s state media on Wednesday
Anadolu Agency reported that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and police conducted an operation on September 24 to chase a group of eight people who they believed were attempting to abduct a former Iranian soldier. The group consisted of six Turkish nationals and two Iranian agents.
The news agency said the network had been provided with a budget of $30,000 - one third of which was supposedly for enticing the wife of the target to help them. She was reportedly threatened by authorities in Tehran, which said her family in Iran would be harmed if she refused to cooperate.
They were caught in Van, which borders Iran, on the first day of the operation after they were allegedly sent to bring the man back to Iran in a car.
[NPASYRIA] Terrorists from Iraq and Syria are gathering in Afghanistan, Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , the Russian President said on Wednesday.
He added that they may try to destabilize the situation in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
"In this regard, it is important to constantly monitor the Afghan border and get ready to confront the holy warriors. For this purpose, the law enforcement and security parts must coordinate their work and do special joint operations if needed," he noted.
Putin pointed out that the situation in Afghanistan is not easy and it is complicated simply because of ISIS actions.
"Last September, the probable emerging threats to Central Asia, Caucasus and other areas were discussed in detail in both the Collective Security Treaty Organization and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits," the Russian President indicated.
"We are going to discuss the issue in the next Commonwealth of Independent States summit as well."
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[LIBYAREVIEW] On Wednesday, an gang reportedly kidnapped Major General Rashid al-Rajbani, Head of Libya’s Internal Security Agency, from inside 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 Mitiga Airport, according to social media reports.A well-informed source claimed that an gang, allegedly affiliated with Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba, attacked one of the planes on the runway, and kidnapped al-Rajbani from inside the plane.
The source confirmed that this move comes after al-Rajbani was forced to resign, and Lotfi al-Hariri was appointed as his successor. al-Rajbani was appointed as head of the Internal Security Agency on the orders of the previous Prime Minister, Fayez al-Sarraj.
Meanwhile, ...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... the Ministry of Interior has not yet commented on the kidnapping incident.
Notably, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has documented a number of cases of illegal arrests and detention, enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings of civilians, officials, journalists, civil society members and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists in Tripoli during the past year.
"Under international human rights law, no one may be arbitrarily arrested or detained. Torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings are strictly prohibited as are abductions and kidnappings," said Jan Kubis, Head of UNSMIL.
"The Mission calls on the Libyan authorities to fully investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Libya must end the entrenched culture of impunity in the country", stressed Kubis.
Libya has sought to emerge from a decade of chaos since the 2011 fall of Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... ’s regime.
A transitional government was formed earlier this year under the auspices of the UN. It has been tasked with leading the country to elections scheduled for 24 December 2021.
Despite political progress in recent months, the security situation in the oil-rich country remains precarious.
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[PostMillennial] A high school teacher in Redmond, Washington was among three individuals arrested by the Redmond Police Department following an operation launched in May investigating child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Lance Ray Egli, a 49-year-old psychologist at Monroe High School, was arrested on four counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes. Egli is also the special education coordinator. Redmond police detectives booked him into King County Jail on Friday, October 8.
Egli is accused of attempting to engage in sex acts with two undercover police officers that were posing as underage girls, 14 and 15 years of age.
The two other suspects arrested during the operation include Jeffrey Ralph Brown, 57, and Garrett M. Swanzy, 46. Both were arrested on charges of communicating with minors for immoral purposes.
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A group of Portland businesses have sent a letter to @tedwheeler & others begging for help with the "rapidly deteriorating conditions" in downtown as a result of violent criminality & homelessness. Portland defunded police last year as part of BLM agenda. https://t.co/kPmxPIxxJF
Good luck with him. You reelected him, now deal with it.
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A group of Portland businesses have sent a letter to @tedwheeler and others begging for help with the ''rapidly deteriorating conditions'' in downtown.
Socialists begging for help from Socialist. That is Socialism. By the way. The police made no arrests during the riot a couple nights ago. They have been defeated. And until buy a gun and ammo and learn a little bit of counter guerilla warfare against these terrorists your world will continue be completely destroyed.
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In Portland and other deep blue urban enclaves, shooting the rioters protesters will probably ruin your own life. Not worth it. If the business is viable, move it. If not. close it.
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Just a hint for the slow learners there: You're doomed. The time to bail was about two years ago. You are now on the back side of the curve.
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#4 Yes, The frog dies in the boiling water. Mismanaged for so long. The elevator goes down to lower levels never visited before. Dr. Who is not available. Check back later. I mean really later. Thank you.
Us hominids evolved during periods of greater warmth and moisture. I keep trying to imagine what conditions must have been like when a walk down the block would include the occasional brontosaur. Enormous body sizes like that in plant eaters implies tons o' plants, and quickly replenished. That would imply a terrarium-like climate, with warm temps and high humidity. At least my opinion; I'm not an agronomist or a biologist. But it's something to think about. Higher temperatures and an increased greenhouse effect might actually be something that would be good for humanity, especially with stable-to-declining populations. [APNEWS] Crucial U.N. climate talks next month are likely to fall short of the global target for cutting coal, gas and oil emissions, U.S. climate envoy John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... says, after nearly a year of climate diplomacy that helped win deeper cuts from allies but has so far failed to move some of the world’s biggest polluters to act fast enough.In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Kerry credited the United States, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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[AMERICANTHINKER] I've never watched The View other than clips of notable segments offering a glimpse into the minds of female progressive media people. One such four-minute mini-discussion took place Tuesday that, I think, reveals that the gun-grabbers have lost the battle for control of the narrative on gun ownership. Gun ownership by Blacks is rapidly expanding in the wake of the St. George Floyd ...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that... riots and the demonization of police that has led to a spike in violent mostly peaceful crime in most major cities.Joy Behar introduced a segment on more Black females buying guns, and a member of the panel, actress Sherri Shepherd, who was a former cast member and is now filling in for Meghan McCain, announced she had purchased a 9 mm gun. The audience laughed a bit nervously, but she elaborated that during the quarantine, she had felt helpless, especially when "a march" was announced in her neighborhood.
She went on to explain that she received firearms safety training and that she practices shooting with her girlfriends. And she purchased the gun, as did some other actresses with her, at one of two Black-owned gun shops in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and felt "empowered."
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Walgreens is closing another five of its stores in San Francisco because of financial losses due to constant shoplifting
Viral videos taken throughout the summer show shoplifters brazenly sauntering out of stores with armfuls of stolen goods
Walgreens closed 17 stores in the past five years due to rising shoplifting cases, leaving 53 stores still open
The surge in shoplifting arose after a local law downgraded the theft of property less than $950 in value from a felony charge to a misdemeanor in 2014
Critics say that city officials are not proposing effective ways to curb such crime
[FOXNEWS] With a domestic approval rating of just 38%, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... is fast becoming one of the most unpopular presidents in modern U.S. history at such an early stage of a presidency. The catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal, a massive crisis on the southern border, and a Socialist-style big government economic agenda have all combined to disillusion American voters.
Is the leader of the free world though faring any better on the international stage? After all, Biden boasted on the campaign trail about "restoring" America’s standing and credibility across the globe after the supposedly reckless approach of the Trump era.
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Yet the Brits and Western Euros begged Americans to vote for Biden so they wouldn't suffer mean Tweets. Enjoy your high energy prices and diminished status.
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I doubt that any American president in the modern era has been more unpopular in the U.K. with those who are directly shaping British policy.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson were considered traitors by many. Madison actually got to taste his unpopularity among the British. Thus the 'in the modern era' caveat.
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Socialists of the world will see in a very clear way that socialism doesn't work unless you have uncle sugar helping pay for a lot of goodies (Defense, luxury goods, etc). They'll see that in their own economies and as the US stumbles and regroups.
Hopefully when we get up and dust ourselves off the socialists will be humiliated, ignored, and unelectable and we can get back to business. America's business is business after all.
[NPASYRIA] Following conducting separate raids in the country, the Russian Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... arrested, on Thursday, 14 people on charges of financing Death Eaters in Syria.
The arrests took place in the regions of Moscow, the Republic of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , Khabarovsk, Kurgan, Penza, Ulyanovsk and Samara, according to Sputnik.
The investigations carried out by the coppers proved that the suspects provided funds on an ideological basis.
The means of communication and tools used to send money and illegal activities, in addition to bully boy religious publications, were all confiscated.
Different kinds weapons and ammunitions were found in the places of the arrests.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against those arrested under the heading "Assistance in terrorist activities."
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[KhaamaPress] Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has created a special commission to expel those who misuse the name of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , do not treat people well, and have nasty backgrounds.
The commission which has been named "filtration commission of forces" is composed of representatives from the defense ministry, interior affairs ministry, and high directorate of intelligence and was officially announced on Wednesday, October 13.
Spokesperson on the ministry of interior affairs Saeed Khostai said that the commission will get functional in all provinces of the country and heads of the intelligence of the provinces will be leading the provincial offices of the commission.
Saeed Khostai though did not disclose details of the unfavorable people, said that these are some people who stand against the government and Islamic system.
The IEA created the commission after button men started entering the houses of people pretending to be the Taliban fighters.
Earlier, it was said the IEA will also send back to provinces the Taliban fighters who are not trained enough to deal with people of Kabul especially the women.
I know it's a pretty far out, unlikely theory, but do you think it's possible events in the United States could have an effect on other countries' economies?
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This is an outrage, I totally disagree with this type of chanting against Empty Shelves Joe Biden (or as his family calls him- Brandon)…. without pitch forks, a blow horn or a dummy burning in effigy. Come on people get organized!
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If you get pitchforks, it's an actual armed insurrection. Even if it's in a foreign country.
What do you want to bet right this moment the FBI is analyzing the video to try and identify american citizens in the crowd so they can be jacked the instant they return to the US.
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This is how it starts, with chants showing the regime has no clothes and people are no alone in their discontent. A tipping point could occur really quickly. The Biden folks better pay attention.
I do wonder why foreign countries would take up the chant. Seems odd and rubs me wrong even if I agree with them.
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As was mentioned by a commenter in another thread, the rest of the world depends on Uncle Sugar to pay for their imaginary socialism. They do know where and how their bread is buttered and they are acting with appropriate alarm.
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[Garden & Gun] Only in the South can the past be woven so passionately into the present. That salient bit of time bending inhabits every form of expression, be it food, architecture, business, music, art, or politics. It’s what Faulkner meant in Requiem for a Nun with his much-lauded epigram: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
Which is why, one crisp late-fall Saturday night many years back, it seemed I had something like an eternity to mull the many profound whorls in the sediments of Southern time that had brought me to my—I hoped temporary—stay in the Ardmore, Alabama, jail.
Jail, or the close prospect of it, has a way of focusing the mind on immediate options and on larger cosmic issues at once. Specifically, I waited for Ardmore’s jolly desk sergeant, beleaguered with a raft of other Saturday-night miscreants, to be briefed by my arresting officers so he could decide whether my offense—the possession of one six-pack of (unopened) beer—merited an invitation to enjoy a night in his facilities, or whether the many bigger fish he had to fry in his rowdy little town might just allow me some bootlegger’s version of a hall pass.
My bench in the anteroom to the holding cells provided an excellent vantage point from which to ponder the South’s apparently endless love of Prohibition. Technically the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933, but in the Deep South, in evocation of our wise Nobel laureate Faulkner, that disastrous piece of law got snapped right back up and re-legislated in a mad patchwork fashion across Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, and even in the South’s reputed no-holds-barred repository of "sin," a.k.a. Louisiana.
The backstory: My home county, Limestone, in which the main part of Ardmore lies, is dry and has been for the almost nine decades since Prohibition’s repeal. Though in Alabama, the legal implementation of Prohibition in 1920 came less as a shock and more as a comfort and confirmation: Fifty-eight of the state’s sixty-seven counties had already voted themselves bone-dry by 1908. That means whole generations have been brought up in a liquor-running paradox. No matter how law-abiding a citizen might be, if he or she drank, that person lived on the far side of the law.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate deployed a group of quick reaction forces to the northeastern province of Badakhshan to maintain security for the people and to protect the borders, local officials said.
The new quick reaction forces are reportedly equipped with modern light and heavy weapons.
Part of the supply the Americans left behind, no doubt.
Local officials in Badakhshan province said that the quick reaction forces have been trained for two months
...perhaps they should be called Instant or RediMix instead...
and are ready to provide security along the borders and beside local residents.
"Afghanistan wants to have a powerful army as other countries have," said Nesar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Badakhshan.
The local officials also called for a strong army in the country.
"Every country has the right to have a powerful army and Afghanistan also needs to have an army that can defend its borders," said Sher Ahmad Jawad, the head of the Vice and Virtue office in Badakhshan.
Several residents of Badakhshan province welcomed the forces. "The forces who are trained will be effective in maintaining security in Badakhshan," Abdul Baes Hakimi said.
Badakhshan is located in the northeastern part of Afghanistan and shares a border with Tajikistan.
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^ Agreed!
The police that stood around and did nothing watching BLoM & ANTI-FArt loot and destroy $$Millions in Private Property, show be shown also.
Maybe the threat of outing and shaming them might get them to start acting like Law ENFORCEMENT. Or quit and seek employment where the laws ARE still Enforced.
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[NewsFront] Armenian media reported about skirmishes in the area of the Martuni settlement between the military of Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
As reported by the Ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan, six Armenian soldiers were injured, three Armenian soldiers were killed.
It is specified that the matter concerns the Nor Shen community, which is adjacent to the positions of the Azerbaijani army.
In addition, it is specified that the Azerbaijanis fired at both the positions of the NKR troops and settlements.
The Ministry of Defense of Armenia, as well as the defense department of the NKR have not yet commented on the situation.
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[Rusvesna] The former security guard of the oligarch Umar Dzhabrailov staged a shootout in Moscow. One of the bullets nearly hit a bystander. This was reported by journalist Anastasia Chumakova on her Telegram channel.
"The shootout right at the entrance to the Lyublino metro station took place on October 10, around 2200 hrs.
Almost immediately, the police detained one of the shooters. He turned out to be the former personal guard of Umar Dzhabrailov, Artur Inziev," said Chumakova.
"A combat AK-47 and other weapons were seized from the native of Chechnya. There are no casualties. The suspect is now in jail," she wrotes.
"The guards of ex-senator Umar Dzhabrailov regularly arrange shootouts in Moscow, and random people often suffer. But they always manage to get out of the water dry: they are smeared out. Because Dzhabrailov is the 'wallet' of important persons in Chechnya, because he is connected with Kadyrov and Delimkhanov.
Inziev, by the way, was previously sentenced to 10 years for extortion from Senator Mikhail Kapura, but calmly left after a couple of years," she notes. View a video of the incident at the link
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 37, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 36, gave $419.5million into two nonprofits that largely donated to Democratic counties
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) profited grants to counties to help fund the election and implemented Democratic-approved practices, such as mail-in voting
Zuckerberg's contributions nearly matched the federal and state funds for COVID-19 related election expenses, which totaled $479.5million
CTCL's grants boosted Biden's dollar per vote value and Biden counties were 3.5 times more likely to receiving funding from the group
On average, Biden counties received $2.85 per vote, compared to Trump counties that only received $0.89
CEIR donated $64.2million of Zuckerberg's money to 22 states and the District of Columbia
[The Last Refuge] The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up. THIS is the central issue.
On October 16, 2020, the EPA reached a settlement agreement [DATA HERE] with California Air Resource Board (CARB)to shut down semi-tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards:
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Florida doesn't have that problem. Just saying.
I doubt 'Brandon' will initiate judicial action concerning interference in interstate commerce on CA's part.
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"all semi tractors have to be current". Who can afford new junk. Truckers that refuse vaccine out. What we are seeing here is public education at its finest. California is a total write off. Go ahead and go AI. With what?. Regressive progressives.
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This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port.
Hmmm. Wouldn't have anything to do with all the money flooding into new EV truck-related companies now, would it?
Where have Brandon, Paul Pelosi and other Dem inside traders been putting their money recently?
Have they been arbitraging California's and their Green New Deal legislation for personal profit -- and destroying our ground logistics system in the process? Inquiring minds want to know
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Are CA policies interfering with interstate commerce?
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Onerous or punitive regulations which prevent the transit of goods explicitly tagged for delivery in another state, from transiting through California.
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Typical corrupt democrat solution. Pay unions massive overtime to stand around 24/7 and wait for a truck to show up for loading. It is not a labor shortage, its a intermodal systemwide driver/truck shortage. All Democrats solutions are the same, to give money to their allies under the guise of some purported solution. If there is any actual improvement it’s coincidental.
[BreakingNewsCA] A team of over 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich have begun legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO & the Davos Group for crimes against humanity. Fuellmich and his team present the faulty PCR test and the order for doctors to label any comorbidity death as a Covid death as fraud. The PCR test was never designed to detect pathogens and is 100% faulty at 35 cycles. All the PCR tests overseen by the CDC are set at 37 to 45 cycles. The CDC admits that any tests over 28 cycles are not admissible for a positive reliable result. This alone invalidates over 90% of the alleged covid cases / "infections" tracked by the use of this faulty test.
In addition to the flawed tests and fraudulent death certificates, the "experimental" vaccine itself is in violation of Article 32 of the Geneva Convention. Under Article 32 of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV, "mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person" are prohibited. According to Article 147, conducting biological experiments on protected persons is a grave breach of the Convention.
The "experimental" vaccine is in violation of all 10 of the Nuremberg Codes which carry the death penalty for those who seek to violate these International Laws. About freaking time. Note that the cycle time recommendation by the CDC was lowered 1 hour after Biden's inauguration.
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Including Davos just makes it clear the plaintiffs are not serious and likely running a con.
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Looked over the 10 listed Codes cited.
While a majority are clearly easy low hanging fruit and violations. A couple few seem to be a bit of a reach.
Who expects to see such a court or trial convened? Since any NUREMBERG type trial will required the consent of the Elite Leadership who are firmly standing behind the WHO, CDC and etc... and making $$$$$$$$$ .
[KhaamaPress] US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... has said that the former civil servants who worked for the Taliban ...Arabic for students... during 1996-2001 will be exempt from the terror-related bans and will be allowed to travel to the United States.
The memorandum for the administration was obtained by Fox News on Thursday, October 14.
As per the memorandum, the civil servants were employed under duress or other situation of hardships and adds that some did so that they mitigate repressive actions by the Taliban in the late 90s.
It further adds that those civil-servants did humanitarian actions and continued to do so with the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and with the new Afghan government established in 2001.
The individuals will not be exempt from screening their background before the Taliban’s first regime-1996 until 2001- nor will they be exempt from the current screening and vetting required for those who enter the US.
The US makes the decision as the country is still struggling to evacuate thousands of US-allied Afghans who worked for them during the past two decades.
In the meantime, a number of high-ranking officials-ministers- of the Taliban de-facto cabinet are still on the US’s blacklist and have bounties on them.
[TheIntercept] To ward off accusations that it helps murderous Moslems spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
The restrictions appear to trace back to 2012, when in the face of growing alarm in Congress and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... about online terrorist recruiting, Facebook added to its Community Standards a ban on "organizations with a record of terrorist or violent mostly peaceful criminal activity." This modest rule has since ballooned into what’s known as the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, a sweeping set of restrictions on what Facebook’s nearly 3 billion users can say about an enormous and ever-growing roster of entities deemed beyond the pale.
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In a scene reminiscent of Jan. 6, extreme environmentalist protesters push police to try to force their way inside the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. They’re demanding the end of fossil fuels. Officers use a taser to force them back. pic.twitter.com/3Mll8ajJZT
[TOWNHALL] Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson offered a prediction about the midterm elections on Wednesday that Democrats won't want to hear.
"There’s going to be a reckoning," the historian said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
"I think whether it’s Mexican-American communities on the border or where I live, or soccer moms mad about what’s being taught in schools, it’s not a top down, woke revolution," he continued. "It’s a grassroots populist revolution. We’re going to see it in the next midterms I think a lot of these institutions are going to rue the positions they’ve taken and the damage they’ve done."
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I'll believe it when I see it. And the 48 hour rule will most certainly apply on election night.
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"There’s going to be a reckoning," the historian said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Not if 'mail in voting' and Dominion voting machines can help it.
Strike yesterday by Israel reportedly hit near a crude oil processing plant south of Palmyra in Syria and a communications tower nearby. Local accounts report 4 SAA soldiers killed and others wounded. Pictures reportedly of an Iranian-backed NDF checkpoint struck by the missiles: https://t.co/fgApLf1AEw
Syrian air defenses responded Wednesday to an Israeli airstrike targeting areas close to the historic Syrian town of Palmyra in the central province of Homs, state television reported.
The reported quoted an unidentified military official as saying the strike occurred shortly before midnight and targeted a telecommunications tower and some posts around it, only causing material damage.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the strikes hit an airbase known as T4, adding that Iran-backed militiamen based in it were targeted.
The alleged Israeli strike in central Syria yesterday night killed nine pro-government fighters, four of them Syrians and five of undetermined nationality, a Britain-based war monitor claims.
The Syrian state news agency SANA earlier quoted a military source as saying that the attack near the city of Palmyra had killed a soldier and wounded three others.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, says the attack targeted several Iranian positions, among them a communication tower, near the T4 airbase east of Palmyra.
It reports that the attack killed four Syrians fighting with pro-Iran groups backing the Damascus government including one soldier, as well as five others whose nationality was not immediately clear.
The Observatory is an opposition-linked group with unclear funding and has at times been accused of inflating casualty numbers.
A Russian general on Thursday said that Syrian air defenses did not engage Israeli jets that reportedly carried out a strike in central Syria because there were two civilian airliners in the air at the time.
Syrian Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit told the Sputnik news site that the strike was carried out by four Israeli F-16 jets.
“The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems since at the time of the Israeli aviation attack, two civilian passenger aircraft were in the zone of destruction of the anti-aircraft systems,” Kulit said.
Russia has repeatedly accused Israel of using civilian aircraft as a “shield” against Syrian air defenses, amid lingering anger over a case in 2018, when the Syrian military shot down a Russian spy plane while responding to an Israeli strike over Syrian airspace.
Pro-Iran militias vow harsh response against Israel over alleged Syria strike.
‘Syria Allies Operations Room’ says several killed, injured in overnight attack near Palmyra, which it says was conducted by Israel, US; Israel closes Golan airspace as precaution.
“The command of the operations room has taken the decision to respond to this attack in retaliation for the lives of the martyrs and the blood of the wounded, and the response will be very harsh,” the groups said in their statement.
The Syria Allies Operations Room maintained that it is in Syria only to assist dictator Bashar Assad and to fight the Islamic State terror group and accused Israel and the US of trying to “drag us into side battles.”
Iran, a close ally of Assad, both maintains its own military presence in Syria and supports a number of predominantly Shiite militias in the country. These militant groups fight alongside Assad’s troops against the country’s opposition, but Israel maintains they also are used to conduct attacks against Israel and to facilitate the transfer of weapons and other materiel throughout the region.
[NYP] The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the woman’s new lover may have snapped because she was clinging to hope that they’d get back together, a high-ranking police source told The Post Thursday.
Officer Yvonne Wu, 31, had recently split with her ex, Jenny Li, 23, but was still spending the night on occasion at Li’s home in Brooklyn — and may have lost it when she saw her there with another woman, the source said.
"She was still staying there on and off. She was still staying there some nights. It’s not that strange, maybe she thought it could still work out," the source said.
Wu, who works at the 72nd Precinct and lives on Staten Island, allegedly opened fire on Li and her 24-year-old new lover, Jamie Liang, at the home on 19th Avenue near 79th Street in Bensonhurst Wednesday night, according to police.
[AlAhram] A Sudanese migrant was beaten, shot and killed in Libya after escaping from a government-run detention center in the North African country, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old who arrived in Libya two years ago was detained and held in the Mabani detention center in the Libyan capital, 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... , one of more than 5,000 migrants colonists detained in a massive crackdown earlier this month.
The man, from Sudan's war-wrecked Darfur region, was beaten and shot before masked gunnies took him to a hospital. He was then transferred to another hospital where he died late Tuesday.
The UNHCR has called for an investigation into the killing and for holding those responsible to account.
Libya holds migrants colonists in overcrowded detention centers where torture, sexual assault and other abuses are rife. Guards at Mabani shot and killed at least six migrants colonists and maimed at least 15 as hundreds staged a breakout and fled the detention center, according to the U.N. migration agency.
Libyan authorities recaptured many of migrants colonists while others sought protection at a UNHCR's facility.
Libya has been engulfed in chaos since a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... in 2011. The county has since emerged as migrant hub for those fleeing poverty and civil war in Africa and the Middle East and hoping a better life in Europe.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch police arrested a 22-year-old man in July on suspicion of threatening to kill caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, according to court documents, the latest in a string of threats against politicians in the Netherlands.
Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant first reported that the court documents allege the suspect, identified as Yavus O.,
...Yavus appears to be a Turkish name...
used a channel on the Telegram messaging app to post incitements to violence. Dutch law enforcement officials shut down the channel this week.
Authorities have charged the arrested man with incitement to a terrorist crime, gathering intelligence for a terrorist crime and threatening a terrorist crime, according to a copy of the charging document seen by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Prosecutors plan to ask at a court hearing next week to have his detention extended while investigations continue.
Dutch media reported last month that Rutte, who is known for cycling around The Hague to get to meetings and visits with the Dutch king, had received extra security amid concerns of a possible attack by members of the criminal underworld.
Rutte, who continues to walk through the city, has declined to comment on any security measures.
On Tuesday, a 42-year-old man was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment for making online threats against Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag and Health Minister Hugo de Jonge.
Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders has lived for years with around-the-clock protection due to death threats.
Yavuz O. posted inciting messages in Telegram groups, also asking where he could find weapons and shooters, the Volkskrant and NU.nl reported.
In one of the Telegram channels, O. posted a photo of the Rutte III cabinet with the King on December 12. "Indeed, thanks to them, the Netherlands is screwed," he wrote with the photo, according to NU.nl. "Would you have what it takes to shoot them all? From a car. Open the window. Gun out. And shoot." He also tried to recruit people to help him. "Get fighters first. Not just any fighters, serious people who want to do something," he said on the messaging app. And: "I'm not looking for protesters. I'm looking for revolutionaries. Shooters/hitters/armed/violence. Everything allowed."
According to the Volkskrant, O. was active in, among others, the public Telegram channel "De Bataafse Republiek," which translates to "The Batavian Republic." This channel was founded by known conspiracy theorists Micha Kat, Joost Knevel, and Wouter Raatgever. It was taken offline by the judiciary earlier this week due to inflammatory and threatening messages shared there.
...diagnoses of autism, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him — Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth. His adoptive father died when he was young, then his adoptive mother died a few months before he ran amok, so really he was a classic school shooter...
will plead guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder rather than going to a full trial, according to reports
On 14 February 2018, then-19-year-old opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 and wounding 17 more
He will be sentenced either to death or life without parole
Previously, Cruz´s attorneys said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, but prosecutors had previously rejected that offer
Cruz will also plead guilty to battering a Broward County Jail guard back in November 2018
Prosecutors could argue that the attack is an aggravating factor when they seek his execution during the upcoming penalty phase
The Public Defender's Office told 7News that they would 'neither confirm nor deny' that Cruz would plead guilty
Cruz's defense team will officially announce their clients' pleas on Friday
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Considering all the other aiders and abettors have gotten off scot free, I'm not so sure Cruz deserves the death penalty.
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if you watched the taped interrogation of this manipulative little shit, it is obvious he will do anything to keep his name in lights. all eyes on him.
as for the loser police dept in Broward County, i was at a hotel in the county a week after this shooting. An officer was at the front desk wanting to look at something in one of the rooms. the desk jockey asked for identification and the office harummphed and rolled his eyes. i felt like saying that's exactly the kind of attitude that allowed those kids to be murdered. an attitude that the public servants are above the law and beyond reproach.
spit.
[KhaamaPress] An Iranian plane boarded with humanitarian aids arrived in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, October 13, and will be distributed to the victims of the recent explosion in Khan Abad port of the province.
Provincial officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan expressed gratitude to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and pledged to be distributing the aids to the victims of the blast.
A jacket wallahwent kaboom! his explosives in a mosque in Khan Abad port of Kunduz
[FOX] Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in California for a non-COVID-19-related infection.
"On Tuesday evening, President Clinton was admitted to UCI Medical Center to receive treatment for a non-Covid-related infection," Clinton's spokesman, Angel Urena, said in a statement on Thursday evening. "He is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing him with excellent care."
University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, Calif., confirmed that Clinton is being treated there, Reuters reported.
A source close to the situation tells Fox News: "It was diagnosed as a urological infection which morphed into a broader infection. As you can see in his statement from his doctors, the prognosis is good and they hope to have him home soon. He’s up and about, joking and charming the hospital staff."
Urena released a joint statement from Doctors Alpesh Amin, chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, and Lisa Bardack, director of Hospital Medicine for UCI Health.
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Hillary Clinton visits husband Bill, 75, in the ICU as he battles sepsis
Dr. Steve always used to say, “Pray for sepsis...” Massive doses of antibiotics and vitamin C should fix it, but in the meantime it’s a bit unpleasant for the patient.
A JCO was among two army men killed in a gunfight with the militants in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, taking the number of soldiers killed this week in the border district to seven, official sources said.
An official source told Greater Kashmir that two soldiers, including a Junior Commissioner Officer (JCO) were killed in the gunfight that broke out today evening in Bhimber Gali area of the border district.
However, an army spokesman said two soldiers were critically injured in the gunfight. “In an ongoing Counter Terrorist operation in general area Nar Khas Forest, Mendhar Sub Division, District Poonch there has been exchange of fire between army troops and terrorists during evening hours on 14 Oct 2021. During the ensuing exchange of fire one JCO and one soldier have been critically injured. The operations are under progress. Update follows,” said the spokesman.
Earlier, the security forces had launched a Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) in Bhata Dhurian and Sanjiote villages near Bhimber Gali following inputs about the presence of militants there.
An official said this operation was launched along with another anti-militancy operation which is going on in Dehra ki Gali where five soldiers were killed on Monday.
He said traffic movement has been suspended on Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch National Highway in view of the firefight.
[AMERICANTHINKER] One of the wonders of the modern age is that fossil fuel allows us to avoid freezing in the winter and overheating in the summer. Climate change fanatics, however, who ignore that the Earth's climate has cycled endlessly between hot and cold for billions of years, desperately want to return us to a pre-modern state. Their efforts are paying off, for the U.S. government is warning of a 54% increase in winter heating bills.Upon entering the Oval Office, Biden immediately shut down the Keystone Pipeline and ended new drilling on federal lands. While Trump had brought America to energy independence and affordable energy, Biden reduced America to a vassal of oil-producing countries.
Thanks to this policy, gasoline prices keep climbing. In my neighborhood, they've increased by almost 78% in just nine months. The same is true everywhere.
Like all Biden policies, this is devastating for the middle and working classes, for it doesn't just make commuting more expensive; it increases the price of every single item in America. Fuel is needed for farming, manufacturing, shipping, wholesaling, and retailing. Every aspect of life becomes more expensive when fuel prices rise, with the middle and working classes bearing the ultimate burden.
All of this is in the name of fighting alleged climate change. That is a faith, not a science. We humans can pollute, and I believe we have a moral obligation to keep our environment clean and healthy, but the whole climate change theory is a joke and a bad one at that.
“No family should have to choose between heating their home or putting food on the table,” Sen. Charles Schumer says as federal officials tell Americans to expect sharp increase in heating bills. https://t.co/Exsipjc0CZpic.twitter.com/EvmP89mJw8
He's just expressing an opinion, not offering a solution. I should go to the gym at least every other day. Standing atop the mass of laws, rules, regulation, taxes and policies you protect, which have caused catastrophic increases in the prices of everything, seeing Sen. Schumer like that, you have a visual display of what sanctimony looks like.
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Open your wallet Charles and give until it hurts.
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Well, I'd like my health back and my job back, but assholes like him spent a decade and a half destroying both and jacking off every night about how much progress they made.
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#5 Yes, but as in the riot years they attack those who they think have anything. Neighbor against neighbor. Friends against friends. Most neighbors are strangers now so: whatever, as the youth say. You can hold out only so long. 24hr guard duty, No water, food, electric, heat, so what's-ya gonna do.
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One form or another of "fracking" has been around for a few years. This old foto shows a crew "shooting a well." Blasts in the oil patches of TX, PA, OK, and Ill, were not uncommon.
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There's a place on the map in PeeAye called Pithole. There's not a town there, but there is a big hole where a nitroglycerine warehouse exploded back in the early days of oil well drilling.
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Stop shutting down pipelines and stopping fracking then, you feckless old fuck.
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Ref #11: Yes, very dangerous work. Many stories were told about nitro factory accidents and well mishaps. The foto depicts the loading of a torpedo. The torpedo was carefully lowered down the hole to a prescribed depth. Then a heaving firing mechanism (piece of iron) called a "go devil" was run down the line to ignite the charge. THe blast created an underground cavity for the crude oil to gravity into and be pumped out. Wells back then were much more shallow. Some less than 1500 feet deep.
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These assholes hate the American working class. The best stimulus program - the most "progressive" policy - is one that lowers the cost of basic goods and services, the essentials that everyone depends on.
In America, that would be the cost of GASOLINE and ENERGY.
If you truly want to put money in the pockets of low- (or no-) income Americans, them you'll support cheap oil and natural gas. You'll support fracking -- the best thing to happen to America and American families in fifty years.
So what do the leaders of the supposed party of the Working Man do?
They support Burn-Loot-Murder, Tranny story hour, union giveaways and Green-Grift. And they oppose the one thing - fracking - that would do more to alleviate the burdens on our poor and working class families than everything else put together. F--kers.
In a separate declaration, antifa member Chad Loder admitted to going to a direct action in riot gear. He also admits to being pulled over when he was driving w/expired tags. Police confiscated his umbrellas & shields & he was arrested. NLG bailed him out. https://t.co/k4UlrBaxavpic.twitter.com/fCj5ivc0E9
[THEHILL] A quick Google check of "Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too... ," when using the "News" search option, reveals the following headlines in this exact order as of Monday afternoon.
"Pete Buttigieg Calls Parenting Twins 'Most Demanding Thing': 'Yet I Catch Myself Grinning Half the Time’ " - People Magazine
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Pushing twins out of his fauxgina was exhausting.
[FOXBUSINESS] Kelly Blue Book said SUVs and pickups are driving the price increase
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That's not all that's suffering price increases. The old F-150 recently experienced a slow radiator leak. A nearby garage wanted $800. parts and labor. NAPA had a replacement unit with lifetime warrantee for $250. I viewed an 'on-line' do-it-yourself video a couple of times and had the laptop at the ready out in the garage. The job took the better part of a Saturday and did not require AC drainage. Net savings, $550. No core charge. A nearby Race Track auto store gladly took the old core.
Yes, I violated the HOA...(residential auto repairs) but have not yet been reported :-)
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1st we were told to hold off buying NEW until Sept./Oct. Now we are hearing the Auto Makers couldn't get all the IC's they need to completely build the vehicles and they are in high demand and short supply.
Do we feel PLAYED yet?
BTW: So what does 2022 hold us?
Some might remember under President Carter. A person with good credit was lucky to get a 14% car loan, with many running 21% interest rates for a year there.
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Ford just announced that their finance arm will no longer look at FICO scores for people taking the 84 month loan option. I mean, what sort of credit score do you expect someone signing a 7 year note for a car to have?
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[AlAhram] Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed US opposition Wednesday to normalization with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , who has seen growing acceptance from Arab nations that have concluded he won the brutal civil war.
Meeting with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... 's administration's policy on Syria was largely focused on humanitarian relief.
"What we have not done, and what we do not intend to do, is to express any support for efforts to normalize relations or rehabilitate Mr. Assad," Blinken told a joint news conference, not referring to Assad as president.
The United States has not "lifted a single sanction on Syria or changed our position to oppose the reconstruction of Syria until there is irreversible progress toward a political solution, which we believe is necessary and vital," Blinken said.
A US law known as the Caesar Act came into force last year that punishes any companies that work with Assad as he seeks to rebuild after a decade of war.
The Caesar Act, accompanied by a slew of US sanctions on Syrians close to Assad, aims to force accountability for human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuses and to encourage a political solution in Syria.
The United Arab Emirates has earlier said that the Caesar Act made it difficult for Syria to return to the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... But individual Arab states have been warming to Assad, with Jordanian King Abdullah II earlier this month speaking to the Syrian leader by phone for the first time since the war.
Syria has also worked with Egypt and Jordan to bring badly needed fuel into neighboring Leb ...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... , from which Syrian troops were pushed out in 2005.
Syria's war has killed around half a million people, displaced millions of others and helped allow the rise of the brutal Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killer group.
Assad has crushed opposition through brute force and an alliance with Russia and Iran, although he still lacks control of northern areas run either by Kurdish fighters or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and its proxies.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Lefties love to talk about greed and "equity," but they never seem to notice its phenomenal growth in the one-party rule of their blue cities.
Here's the story from Los Angeles as the New York Post reports:
A Los Angeles City Council member and the former dean of the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s School of Social Work were indicted Wednesday in connection with a scheme in which the pol allegedly promised to steer lucrative contracts to the school if it gave his son a scholarship and a professorship.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] A member of Libya’s Joint Military Commission (JMC), Lieutenant-General Faraj al-Sawsaa stated that the unification of the Libyan army will take place after the election of the country’s president.
Al-Sawsaa also confirmed that the JMC’s goal now is to remove all foreign forces and mercenaries before the elections. He announced that international observers will supervise the implementation of the agreed Action Plan to supervise the withdrawals from Libya.
The senior officer revealed that the JMC has stipulated that the international observers be from countries that are not participating in the Libyan conflict, and that they be in civilian clothes and unarmed.
"The mercenaries and foreign forces will initially be returned to Benghazi in the east, and 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... in the west before their deportation. We are coordinating with the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... to set dates for the plan soon," he concluded.
On 8 October, the JMC signed a comprehensive Action Plan for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Libya. Such a plan will be the cornerstone for the gradual, balanced, and sequenced process of the withdrawal of mercenaries, foreign forces from Libyan territory.
Sources told Sky News Arabia that the plan includes four main points, the first of which is the withdrawal of foreign forces to agreed points in two cities, provided that they never leave their positions.
The second step includes deploying UN-observers to work on implementing the foreign forces’ withdrawal in a gradual and balanced manner. "Libya has already requested the United Nations and the Security Council to deploy the observers," the sources revealed.
The third step is for the observers to monitor the actual number of foreign forces and mercenaries, and document them accurately.
"Finally, the mercenaries are to be deported from Libya in successive batches according to a timeline, which estimates say will end by 2023," the sources concluded.
Notably, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , welcomed the comprehensive Action Plan for the "gradual, balanced, and sequenced process of the withdrawal of mercenaries, and imported muscle from Libyan territory."
On 5 October, the Libyan Parliament approved a law for parliamentary elections to take place a month after a planned 24 December presidential elections. It also issued the presidential election law on 8 September.
In September, the Parliament announced the withdrawal of confidence from the Government of National Unity (GNU), but kept it as a caretaker government.
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[FOX] In a settlement deal disclosed Thursday, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has had his government pension fully restored.
McCabe, 53, who has been a CNN contributor since 2019, had filed a lawsuit that year, claiming his firing was an effort by the Trump administration to rid the FBI of officials who were seen as disloyal to the then-president. Nearly a year before McCabe was ousted in March 2018, the Trump administration had terminated James Comey, who was the bureau’s director.
In McCabe’s case, the inspector general for the U.S. Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, concluded McCabe had OK’d the release of information to a newspaper reporter and then misled investigators who were seeking information about his role in the alleged leak, The Associated Press reported.
McCabe, who first joined the FBI in 1996, was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, just hours before McCabe had planned to retire from the bureau. The firing prompted McCabe’s pension to be denied, the AP reported.
Trump quickly acknowledged McCabe’s ouster on Twitter, writing: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!"
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He landed a Deep State sponsored job at their CNN disinformation agency after his firing. Yes, same type of position as Trump hater and former Klingon Director John Brennan. He'll now likely get back-pay and a nice 'double bubble pay' mint in his mouth.
Should we be surprised? Not in the least. In fact, I believe this very outcome was predicted here on the Burg.
[AND Magazine] You hear a lot in certain circles about the UniParty. That’s short for the idea that there often does not seem to be much difference between the policies of establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats. They spend a lot of time posturing, but at the end of the day they seem to be more closely aligned than they want you to believe.
This phenomenon is on full display in the state of Pennsylvania right now. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Pennsylvania Democratic Party are taking action to intervene in litigation brought by a county election official. That litigation seeks to have Act 77, the bill that created mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, declared unconstitutional under the state constitution, which according to plaintiffs, requires changes to voting to be an amendment to the state’s constitution.
Here’s the kicker. Act 77 was passed by a Republican-controlled state legislature. It was, in fact, rammed through both houses by the Republican leadership. So, this bill, which the Republican establishment in Pennsylvania so desperately wanted is now to be defended by the Democratic Party.
The Democratic National Committee is riding to the rescue of the Republican establishment to protect it from a lawsuit brought by members of the Patriot base. The Democrats have arrived to save the ’country club’ Harrisburg set from the rank and file of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
In 2019 the Republican establishment in Pennsylvania decided that Donald Trump was a liability. They believed he would drag down the whole ticket in the 2020 elections. At that time Pennsylvania still had a system whereby you could cast a straight party vote. You could simply vote for all Republicans or all Democrats.
The boys in the backrooms in the state capital believed that Donald Trump was so unpopular people would show up and simply vote against all Republicans. They wanted to get rid of straight party voting and require everyone to go office by office choosing whom to vote for individually. They believed — in this way — they could insulate their down-ballot candidates from the "taint" of association with the sitting Republican President.
The party bosses wanted to cut away Donald Trump.
So, they engaged in some good old-fashioned political horse trading. In exchange for Democratic support for ending straight party voting, the Republican establishment gave the Democrats mail-in voting. Never mind that every person on the planet who had ever studied mail-in voting said it would be a disaster and an open invitation to electoral fraud. The important thing was to get clear of Donald Trump.
Act 77 was passed. The establishment got what it wanted. The Democratic Party got what it had always wanted, the ability to steal elections.
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You can have so-called "mail in voting" or you can have a republic. It does not appear that you can actually have both.
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I am happy for both the seller and the buyer and anyone else who wishes to live there. For my money however, the best thing coming out of Nashville is the Briley Pkwy, Route 155.
[Project Veritas] Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Mamaroneck, N.Y.—April 30, 2020] Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In late April, a Project Veritas reporter spoke with Michael Lanza, the director of Staten Island’s Colonial Funeral Home.
"To be honest with you, all of the death certificates are writing COVID on it, they’re writing COVID on all the death certificates," Lanza said.
Lanza said DeBlasio might see inflated COVID death tallies as a way to bring more money to New York City. "Whether they had a positive test or didn’t, so I think again this is my personal opinion, I think like the mayor and our city--they’re looking for federal funding and the more they put COVID on the death certificate the more they can ask from the federal funds."
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Many prominent doctors here and in Europe called this out in mid-March of 2020. UK Pathologist Dr. John Lee said they were vastly overcounting then, and provided specific details in the ways they were doing so.
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April/May, if the mortality rate was as feared/advertised funeral homes and cemetery grounds would have been exhausted or unable to keep up, locations for services overbooked.
As advertised; an example would be "Refrigerated Trucks Parked at Morgue for Overflow!" Well, the stories never said anything about them being used, just there and let the reader's imagination take over.
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.
[Just The News] The non-partisan government watchdog group Empower Oversight is looking into the origins of COVID-19, and whether the government knowingly or unwittingly contributed monetarily to the Chinese lab at the center of the outbreak.
[The Federalist] CNN has now spent a year running political interference for Hunter Biden and the rest of the Biden family to take viewers’ attention away from a series of reports detailing their scandalous corruption that emerged in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
[ABC News] KONGSBERG, Norway -- The bow-and-arrow rampage by a man who killed five people in a small town near Norway's capital appeared to be a terrorist act, authorities said Thursday, a bizarre and shocking attack in a Scandinavian country where violent crime is rare.
[Western Journal] As concerns about the global supply chain loom large, people have turned to President Joe Biden for potential solutions in the United States.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
/\ Box stores suffer a temporary loss as costly alternative shipping arrangements are hurriedly arranged. The Chinese junk must continue to float, regardless of the increased cost to consumers. The American consumer must not learn that he can actually survive without this stuff.
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
[REDSTATE] According to a recent major online news story, "Gas prices are at 7-year highs, and Biden can’t do much about it."
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
[PostMillennial] A high school teacher in Redmond, Washington was among three individuals arrested by the Redmond Police Department following an operation launched in May investigating child sexual exploitation and abuse.
[APNEWS] Crucial U.N. climate talks next month are likely to fall short of the global target for cutting coal, gas and oil emissions, U.S. climate envoy 
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
[FOXNEWS] With a domestic approval rating of just 38%, 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[Garden & Gun] Only in the South can the past be woven so passionately into the present. That salient bit of time bending inhabits every form of expression, be it food, architecture, business, music, art, or politics. It’s what Faulkner meant in Requiem for a Nun with his much-lauded epigram: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past." 
[BreakingNewsCA] A team of over 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts led by Dr. 
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
[TOWNHALL] 
[NYP] The off-duty NYPD officer who allegedly shot her ex-girlfriend and killed the woman’s new lover may have snapped because she was clinging to hope that they’d get back together, a high-ranking police source told The Post Thursday.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch police arrested a 22-year-old man in July on suspicion of threatening to kill caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, according to court documents, the latest in a string of threats against politicians in the Netherlands.
[FOX] Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in California for a non-COVID-19-related infection.
[AMERICANTHINKER] One of the wonders of the modern age is that fossil fuel allows us to avoid freezing in the winter and overheating in the summer. 
One form or another of "fracking" has been around for a few years. This old foto shows a crew "shooting a well." Blasts in the oil patches of TX, PA, OK, and Ill, were not uncommon. 
[THEHILL] A quick Google check of "
[FOXBUSINESS] Kelly Blue Book said SUVs and pickups are driving the price increase
And for the fellow who has no concept of depreciation and absolutely no intention of leaving anything for the wife and kids.... 
...In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
[AMERICANTHINKER] Lefties love to talk about greed and "equity," but they never seem to notice its phenomenal growth in the one-party rule of their blue cities.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
[FOX] In a settlement deal disclosed Thursday, fired FBI Deputy Director 
I am happy for both the seller and the buyer and anyone else who wishes to live there. For my money however, the best thing coming out of Nashville is the Briley Pkwy, Route 155. 
[Project Veritas] Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
