At leapfrogging time in the swamp
There's glomping galore! What a romp!
There's grabbing of... taxes
And scratching of... backs
As some talk of a pump, a la Trump,
Or development deals for a dump
To be paid for someday by the chump
Standing stolidly there on that stump.
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And speaking of imperial monuments...
A stoic might smile at Rome twilit
As purple pales swiftly to violet
And up pops the son:
"Dad, you had a good run...
But I'm flushing this dump down the toilet."
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Or brazen statues...
Give ne your tired, your poor, your sick!
Beside the door I'll flick my Bic.
They'll cut my chicken, learn a trick,
Y be latinx, nunca spic...
Unless of course they think or grump
Or vote for Comandante Trump.
"Well, Al -- mind me calling ya Al? --
You sure were a helluva pal!"
[fat hands squeezing icing:
For Slicing & Dicing!]
"Why, thank you, dear friend... and I shall."
#1
Trump isn't afraid to abandon ideas or policies that aren't valid or to get a better deal. He ditched the "deal of the century", which was kinda crummy to get real results from established nations.
Good on everyone involved to agree to this.
I also want to thank Iran for helping this come to pass with their aggression toward the UAE and Saudi.
#2
Trump brings about peace between Israel and UAE, (and could cure CV-19 and cancer) and the MSM yawns in a backdrop of crickets. Meanwhile, the MSM media drools all over themselves while looking stupid and fawning over the Biden/Harris less than mediocre ticket.
#3
If the case is so strong, it should make itself instead of Voluntary Compliance Under Pain of Government.
Every US authority who nods in agreement with Australian Style Gun Control is green with envy.
Shit, at least in prison you are allowed outside for an exercise period.
At my campfire, everyone agrees it is only a matter of time before something very nasty gets going, and that the critical first moments between detection and isolation will be lost because of this absolute shredding of any moral credibility and authority.
#4
I am reminded of a play I saw with my school class, back before the internet.
I can't remember its name, but it was memorable for a couple reasons. First, my first experience with the Phelps Gangs.
OK, set in the future, stage is a multi-person dwelling. There is some sort of a babysitter, not sure if was like HAL or from control room. Resident were told that the outside was deadly, I forget if it was disease or radiation, considering the era probably nuclear fallout or such. Any rate, the residents were just kind of going through their daily motions, kind of ho humm, until one gets tired of it and finds a way to escape.
He gets outside, and the world is lush and beautiful. He finds a critter, and after a bit of acting the audience realizes he found a bunny and didn't know what it was.
This is the second reason it was memorable. My class thought this was the stupidest thing ever. We were kids, when we weren't in school or bed we were outside. Never heard of a rabbit, what a bunch of bull.
Back to the story, roommate catches him sneaking back in, confronts him over a very serious no-no. He gives 'its a wonderful world out there' speech. Well, she is intrigued enough she sneaks out, brings a flower back in to show all the roommates.
Well, she makes a mistake and the authorities find the flower, now they are in real trouble. The all escape, but the rabbit guy gets killed.
The play's dilemma was that although rabbit man died, they didn't realize how miserable their past existence was and how much happier they are now.
How ridiculous! Absurd! Unpossible!
Except here we are, cheering it on, and the actors in the play are today's children.
[APNEWS] President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Paleostinians for their future state.
The announcement makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state to do so and only the third Arab nation to have active diplomatic ties to Israel.
Trump tweeted a statement from the countries, acknowledging the deal. He then told news hounds in the Oval Office that it was "a truly historic moment."
"Now that the ice has been broken I expect more Arab and Moslem countries will follow the United Arab Emirates," he said.
The recognition grants a rare diplomatic win to Trump ahead of the November election as his efforts to see an end to the war in Afghanistan have yet to come to fruition while efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Paleostinians have made no headway.
For Israel, the announcement comes after years of boasting by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his government enjoys closer ties to Arab nations than publicly acknowledged. Netanyahu has sought to build settlements on lands sought by the Paleostinians and embraced a Trump proposal that would allow him to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank while granting Paleostinians limited autonomy in other areas.
For the UAE, home to skyscraper-studded Dubai and the rolling, oil-rich sand dunes of Abu Dhabi, it further burnishes its international campaign to be seen as a beacon of tolerance in the Middle East despite being governed by autocratic rulers. It also puts the UAE out first in a regional recognition race among neighboring Gulf Arab states.
And for the Paleostinians, who long have relied on Arab backing in their struggle for independence, the announcement marked both a win and setback. While Thursday’s deal halts Israeli annexation plans, the Paleostinians have repeatedly urged Arab governments not to normalize relations with Israel until a peace agreement establishing an independent Paleostinian state is reached.
A joint statement from the U.S., the UAE and Israel was issued immediately after Trump’s tweet. It said delegations would meet in the coming weeks to sign deals on direct flights, security, telecommunications, energy, tourism and health care. The two countries also will partner on fighting the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
"Opening direct ties between two of the Middle East’s most dynamic societies and advanced economics will transform the region by spurring economic growth, enhancing technological innovation and forging closer people-to-people relations," said the statement by Trump, Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the day-to-day ruler of the UAE. It said the leaders had a three-way call discussing the deal.
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After the Sadat assassination, I really didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime. Pleased to be proven wrong.
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Odd that the AyPee calls it a 'rare diplomatic win to Trump'. They must not be paying attention.
Oh, wait...
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I'd like to hear from someone here on the 'Burg who knows more about the situation than me, why this deal with the UAE is so important. I've not thought of them as a huge player, but...?
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They're not a huge player. But they're not the smallest player, either, and hopefully this will lead others to the table. Bringing even one or two more Arab countries to full recognition of Israel will being to completely, finally, destroy the Palestinian "cause".
[What A Finger] Congressman Doug Collins comments exclusively on newly released documents that show the FBI possibly mislead congress on the reliability of the Steele Dossier, and the Congressman calls for Director Chris Wray to step down. — with Newsmax TV’s Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith.
[News with Views] Multiple media outlets attacked Marjorie Taylor Greene, a successful Republican congressional candidate in Georgia.
By successful they mean she won the Republican primary...
Why? As "a conservative wife, mother, and businesswoman who stands with President Trump and against the left-wing socialists who want to wreck our country,"she dared to call billionaire left-wing money bags George Soros the "enemy of the people."
In addition to financing Democratic Party politicians and left-wing organizations such as the ACLU, Soros has subsidized a wide array of liberal causes, ranging from abortion rights to gay rights to legalization of dangerous drugs. Even former members of the terrorist Weather Underground, such as Bernardine Dohrn and Linda Evans, have appeared at functions sponsored by his so-called Open Society Institute or accepted its grants.
But Google the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene and you will be bombarded with stories designed to create the impression this Christian woman is a crazy conspiracy theorist. During the campaign, Tucker Carlson highlighted how one of her campaign ads was taken down by YouTube. Nevertheless, she won the nomination with over 57 percent of the vote and received President Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement. She got the support of the people.
One typical charge from an AP story in the New York Post said she "pushes an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, collaborated with the Nazis."
Many "conservatives" in and out of Congress are scared by these charges and shy away from making them. But as Rep. Louis Gohmert discovered, when he consulted the actual interview and went to the videotape, the theory is not anti-Semitic but true. Soros told the "60 Minutes" show, as Gohmert noted, that, "he had no sense of guilt about the role he played in Nazis’ confiscation of property from the Jewish people during the Holocaust."
In addition to the usual and expected charges of racism, the media said Marjorie Taylor Greene either backed or believed in something called the QAnon "conspiracy theory," which apparently has something to do with the idea that sex predators and perhaps Satanists operate at high-levels in American society and the world.
Regarding the latter, the Satanic Temple, an actual organization, is currently offering a "Satanic abortion ritual." The evil of abortion is considered by many Christians not a "choice" but a modern form of paganistic child sacrifice.
In the matter of child predators, haven’t we learned about Jeffrey Epstein? Or what about:
[FOX] Democrats are waging war against traditions and the Constitution.
Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren put it, "I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College."
Furor over the Electoral College among the left arose from the 2000 and 2016 elections. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, respectively, won the popular votes. But, like three earlier presidents, they lost the Electoral College voting — and with it the presidency.
The Founding Fathers saw a purpose in the Electoral College. It ensured that small, rural states would retain importance in national elections.
[WAPO via New York Post] The 51-year-old man whose shooting by the Secret Service disrupted President Trump’s press conference is a 6-foot-3 former licensed boxer who was previously charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to a report.
Myron Berryman has been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer after allegedly approaching a Secret Service agent Monday evening while claiming to have a weapon.
The officer shot Berryman in the torso when he "crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon," officials said. I'm going with "Suicide by cop" attempt
Berryman, who has lived in Dayton, Ohio, Forrestville, Maryland, and, more recently, Wheeling, West Virginia, was charged in 2012 with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in Prince George’s County, the Washington Post reported.
Sounds like it. There don't seem to be any photos of Mr. Berryman in any of the news stories. Should we assume he is black or a BIPI-POC or whatever the preferred category is nowadays?
Expect much hay to be made from the "fact" that the police callously shot an unarmed man.
[New York Post] It wasn’t a Toronto Chain Saw Massacre — but two blood-covered, chainsaw-wielding men terrorized beachgoers in Toronto over the weekend, according to videos and local reports.
The slasher-film-seeming footage, which was posted on Facebook, shows the duo, blood dripping down their shirtless torsos, pointing power tools toward a crowd at Cherry Beach on Sunday morning.
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Well it's not THAT crazy for Toronto. Well do I remember a summer day on a Toronto beach with my trust chainsaw . . . . no wait. That was my trusty cooler of beer. The chainsaw came about later.
[Breitbart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer stated that 2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) engaged in a "massive cover-up" of alleged sexual abuse against Catholic priests.
He explained that many "law firms and lawyers and people connected to the church hierarchy" financed the Harris campaign.
Schweizer said Harris did "not well at all, particularly on very sensitive, explosive cases, including child sexual abuse."
"Tucker, from 2004 to 2011, she was San Francisco attorney general," he continued. "She did not prosecute a single case of sexual abuse involving Catholic Church priests. To put that in context, of the 50 largest cities in America, all 50 of them prosecuted at least one case during that time period, except for Kamala Harris. And in addition to that, she inherited, from her predecessor, Terence Hallinan, hundreds of pages of internal Catholic documents that included the names of 40 current or recent priests who had been charged by parishioners with molestation."
"Hallinan was using those documents to build criminal cases, and he was also planning to release them after redacting the names of victims," Schweizer added. "Kamala Harris actually deep-sixed that document and froze those documents, and those documents disappeared, much to the chagrin of victims’ groups. So, it’s a massive cover-up. And a lot of the people that financed her campaign to beat Hallinan were law firms and lawyers and people connected to the church hierarchy, who did not want that — those documents to come out."
[IsraelTimes] Cyber criminals from Lazarus group built fake LinkedIn accounts, tried to woo Israeli officials with lucrative job opportunities to gain access to their networks.
The Defense Ministry on Wednesday said hackers from a group linked to the North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n government targeted Israeli defense officials, luring them with fake job offers in a failed attempt
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[Forbes] - While most countries went into lockdown as Covid-19 spread rapidly across the world, Sweden took a different approach and allowed the controlled spread of coronavirus among the population in attempts to achieve herd immunity.
They relied on individuals to responsibly social distance and slow the spread of the disease, but, according to a new study published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141076820945282,
this decision has been a failure.
"It is clear that not only are the rates of viral infection, hospitalisation and mortality (per million population) much higher than those seen in neighbouring Scandinavian countries, but also that the time-course of the epidemic in Sweden is different, with continued persistence of higher infection and mortality well beyond the few critical weeks period seen in Denmark, Finland and Norway," said, lead author Professor David Goldsmith.
Herd immunity is when enough people are immune to a disease, like Covid-19, that the disease can’t be transmitted as easily and thus provides indirect protection
It can be achieved either through vaccination or if enough people catch the disease and develop immunity.
Health authorities predicted that 40% of the Stockholm population would have had the disease and acquired antibodies by May 2020. According to the study, the actual prevalence figure is only around 15%. And, as we know today, there may not be acquired immunity to Covid 19.
...Many experts point out, it’s still too early to tell which pandemic strategy will be best in the long-term.
The authors note it likely won’t be until as many as two years after the pandemic that we will be able to objectively say which method was most effective.
But new evidence continues to emerge that herd immunity may be more difficult to achieve than thought.
For example, clinical and research findings suggest, only severely infected Covid-19 patients acquire antibodies in the immediate and early recovery phase of their illness.
Early research has shown that immunity, even in those who were severely infected, can fade after a few weeks and there have been anecdotal examples of reinfection, but more research needs to be done. Given the numbers of research groups* that look for immune memory (acquired immunity to Covid 19), if there were such - we'd seen reports** by now.
*Real researchers, not people like Ioannidis or Scott Atlas.
** Since Covid 19 research can be pre-published without pear review.
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The authors note it likely won’t be until as many as two years after the pandemic that we will be able to objectively say which method was most effective.
So what was the purpose of the article, again? Point fingers? Shame Sweden?
It is likely that some of this inter-Scandinavian difference in mortality outcomes might have also have arisen from a failure to shield the most vulnerable Swedes from viral infections (40%–50% of their cases have been in the elderly nursing home resident population).
So maybe the moral of the story is to protect the elderly and vulnerable?
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Imagine my surprise when I saw the headline and then correctly guessed who posted it.
#10
Sweden was the socialist promised land to the media for a long time. The journo crowd is bitter and disappointed they are tarnishing that halo now.
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since 1 August, Sweden is averaging only about 2 covid deaths per day
but really given all the issues with different population demographics, different treatment regimes, different protocols on case diagnosis and cause of death, etc. it really is way early to make these kinds of calls
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#12 That's what I asked yesterday: "Why Sweden, why not Brazil?".
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The authors note it likely won’t be until as many as two years after the pandemic that we will be able to objectively say which method was most effective.
If a person jumps from a tall building, do we have to wait for a splat on a sidewalk?
#18
Does percentages of immigrants in Sweden versus neighbors correlate at all to infection rates?
Norway 16.8% of population (2017)
Sweden 24.1% of population (2017)
Finland 7.3% of population (2018)
Iceland 14.1% of population (2019)
Also where those immigrants are from may make a difference (immigrants from other nordic countries would likely have similar living habits to the locals).
Just throwing the idea out there. I don't really know if 24% vs 16.8% is much of a big deal when it comes to transmission rates in a city or not bu tit sounds like it should be.
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#17 Not true. Compare Sweden, and say Denmark on worldometer. The reason you think Sweden finished because at their max they had 102+ deaths per day and now they have 1 or 2 (so you can't see it without placing the arrow). Whereas Danes' max was 20+ and now they've 1 or 2.
So they have the same death rates today. However, 621 Danes died in total vs. 5,770 Swedes.
For math sake, rounding numbers, so say population Kansas is 3,000,000.
32,000 confirmed cases over 6 months. No data on how many tests performed, or a false-positive rate.
800 deaths chalked up to China Flu. No data on how many of them were compromised health wise. People are not in nursing homes on their own accord.
That is a 1% got infected rate.
Of those who tested positive, there was a 2.5% attributed mortality rate.
Finding the percentage of lost population puts the handy calculator into scientific notation.
Living wise, we are opposite of the NYC butthole lickers; free range if you will, but not as much as our neighbors to the south, Oklahoma.
So I ask again, how much more time do the models need so the data fits?
My short answer is one week, when the media makes every single kid who shows up at school and measures a higher than normal temperature gets considered a COVID casualty and the teacher union howls about possible mass casualty events.
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Early research has shown that immunity, even in those who were severely infected, can fade after a few weeks and there have been anecdotal examples of reinfection, but more research needs to be done.
How early? I thought I recalled something about impacts of exposure to the SARS virus (now SARS-1 because COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-2 virus) so I looked, and here is something about a small scale study (each leg <50) published in Nature a month ago:
[scitechdaily] Singapore scientists uncover SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in recovered COVID-19 and SARS patients, and in uninfected individuals.
Singapore study shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all recovered COVID-19 patients.
These T cells were also found in all subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago, and in over 50% of both SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 uninfected individuals tested, suggesting that a level of pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 immunity is present in the general population.
Infection and exposure to coronaviruses induces long-lasting memory T cells, which could help in the management of the current pandemic.
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If immunity fades after a few months, and vaccines are unlikely to be very effective, and herd immunity is not possible, then what's the point of the restrictions? Those who will die will die, but after a year or two in isolation and accompanied by millions of others killed by depression effects and economic implosion.
#27
At this point I don't see how you can have draconian rules around COVID - "because, the deaths!" and not also:
Outlaw tobacco and alcohol.
Install draconian sanctions on obese people.
Outlaw driving / riding anything you can fall from and sustain a fatal head injury.
Strenuous sports.
Flying, commercially or otherwise.
Etc.
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And I can't wait to see the vaccine "requirement" contain an enormous exception for muzz.
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#26 - 28 (a) We will have a vaccine in a few years (the necessary understanding of immunological theory already exists).
(b) Till then, we have passive vaccines - the article I posted here a few days ago.
Until then, you'll have to wear a mask when going into public places - like wearing a condom when you engage in extra pair copulation. Or wearing a seat belt when you drive.
#34
If a point is belabored long enough and often enough, it loses its edge and becomes a blunt finger poking others in the chest. The point and its deliverer become pointless. An irritant for irritation's sake.
#35
Why, even you, and especially you, can be part of the Masquerade!
Or mask parade? Take it from no greater authority than Tom Hanks, who has just done his tiktok lecture shame for the safety dance - stay home, wear a mask, don't go to church, whatever.
You know, this shit tit who have been jet setting around for the last 8 months, with a current jaunt to Beautiful Greece.
On that note, radio commercial pissed me off. Big Insurance making cute commercials quips. Sound fades in, busy noise, hear a lady call for so-and-so, party of whatever. Obviously, it is a restaurant so busy there is a wait. Its noise, people talking, glasses clanking, busy place not a fast food joint.
The joke: "Big Insurance brings you, sounds from the past."
Fug that. Sounds of the past? Not, sounds of the future. Wisconsin Government, you must voluntarily comply to wear a mask while teleconferencing? Or else? Lame and stupid at the same time.
[IsraelTimes] Support of Israel by Biden’s choice for veep considered less important than getting rid of incumbent.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Sen. Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful... , the chosen running mate of Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... , the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, has been a staunch supporter of Israel.
This might disappoint the Paleostinian leadership, which hopes that Biden, if elected, will change American policies favoring Israel. Yet when reached by The Media Line, several high-ranking Paleostinian officials declined to comment on Harris’s candidacy.
Prof. Dalal Iriqat, an expert on diplomacy, conflict resolution and strategic planning at the Arab American University in Jenin and a columnist at the al-Quds newspaper, believes it understandable that Paleostinians evaluate matters based on their interests.
"We shouldn’t be upset by the decision or judge it now, as our top priority is to get rid of [President Donald] Trump," she told The Media Line. "Therefore, we have to accept any alternative."
Iriqat says that in terms of American politics and increasing Biden’s chances of winning, his choice was wise and strategic "given the Black Lives Matter campaign going on in the US, and other movements."
She stresses that for Paleostinians, Trump is the main issue. Since December 2017, when he announced US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the Paleostinian leadership has been boycotting his administration.
"I think we need Trump to go, as there won’t be anyone worse than him," she said.
#2
For What Its Worth..........
A family of Palestinians run my local "Little Store"
When Donald Trump was elected they were Strongly anti-Trump. As time has past, something has happened
While still not rabid Trump Fans they are saying they are voting For Trump (This in spite of moving the US Embassy). The reason given is the Democratic party has gone INSANE.
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Like their opinion matters, or anyone cares.
I do. They're a great contrarian indicator. Especially when grouped together.
[IsraelTimes] Backing Israeli demands, Washington said to push for reduction in troop numbers and other reforms, warning it could shut down force if rest of Security Council refuses.
The United States is warning it may veto a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... resolution extending the mandate of UN peacekeepers in southern Leb
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[The Guardian] - People who have recovered from Covid-19 may lose their immunity to the disease within months, according to research suggesting the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds.
In the first longitudinal study of its kind, scientists analysed the immune response of more than 90 patients and healthcare workers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust and found levels of antibodies that can destroy the virus peaked about three weeks after the onset of symptoms then swiftly declined.
Just like in regular coronaviruses: c.f. The time course of the immune response to experimental coronavirus infection of man (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2271881/pdf/epidinfect00023-0213.pdf)
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No immunity suggests restrictions only postpone the inevitable, and my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant is still closed because it does a large-volume business.
No immunity - no restrictions. You may still wear a mask or stay at home - your choice.
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[TheTimes] Flu and pneumonia are killing five times as many people as coronavirus at present, with Covid deaths at their lowest since the end of March, figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that overall deaths were below average for the time of year for the seventh consecutive week, while deaths from Covid-19 were at a 19-week low.
There were 193 deaths reported in the week ending July 31 that had coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate, continuing three months of falls since a weekly peak of 8,758 in April. It is the lowest figure since 103 died in the week ending March 20, on the eve of lockdown.
By contrast, 928 people died of flu or pneumonia in the last week of July,
#1
If so then it seems this is going to be a disaster for those of Asian descent since this thing attacks their lungs harder and leaves lasting damage each time.
[JPost] - Passive immunization is when you are given antibodies formed by another patient who got the disease and developed them. An active vaccine, in contrast, is when you are injected with a dead or weakened version of a virus that tricks your immune system into thinking that you’ve had the disease, and your immune system creates antibodies to protect you. Actually, nowadays, such antibodies can be produced by the kilogram industrially. See
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005946/eli-lilly-is-testing-a-way-to-prevent-covid-19-thats-not-a-vaccine/
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And the MSM isn't bashing it like the Russian Sputnik V vaccine? Interesting. Anything that doesn't have Roche or GSK or pick-a-pharmaceutical-company's name on it is immediately suspect to MSM ridicule, no matter what "the science" says.
[Ynet] The latest punitive measure comes shortly after IDF strikes several Hamas targets in Gaza after dozens of fires had been started in Israeli communities bordering the Strip for 7th day in a row; Hamas says cutting of fuel is 'grave act of aggression'. I'd double the cutoff time just for the whining
[Jpost] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... officials may be invited to Cairo
Egypt has demanded that Hamas and other Paleostinian groups stop the incendiary balloon attacks on Israel, Paleostinian sources said Wednesday.
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[Jpost] The Tax Authority in Ashdod thwarted an attempt to smuggle tens of thousands of balloons into 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 last week. Now track down the source of funds, materials and do some wetwork
The helium balloons were found in two containers of old clothing items that were headed for Gaza during a customs and security risk assessment operation carried out by the Ashdod customs house in order to prevent the smuggling of weapons and dual-use goods into the Gaza Strip, according to a blurb by the Tax Authority.
The issue was handed over to security officials for further handling. The Tax Authority in Ashdod deals with 90% of the imports into the Gaza Strip and is making efforts to stop the import of balloons in order to prevent the balloon terror from the Strip.
[Jpost] "We will continue to closely work together to stop the financing of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah," says US.
A team of US government officials traveled on Wednesday to 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... amid intense international coverage of the monarchy’s alleged role in financing the Lebanese terrorist movement, Hezbollah.
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#1
That damned military base is a bloody albatross hung on the USA's neck. The US military will fight for Qatar, and has fought for the al=Thani family, despite its long association with the Muslim Brotherhood and international terrorism.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says warplanes, tanks, helicopters hit terror sites after airborne devices spark over 80 fires in recent days; Gantz orders halt to fuel imports into Strip.
Israel attacked targets 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 in the early hours of Thursday morning in response to a spate of balloon-borne arson and bombs launched from the Strip into Israel in recent days.
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[Breitbart] Wednesday on her new podcast, former first lady Michelle Obama called coronavirus an opportunity to think about "how wealth is distributed" to lower-income essential workers. Learning about communist redistribution from the late South African president Madiba.
Obama noted the "power" that would enable what "we" could do to allow such actions. "As long as I get to dip my dick beak in the distribution flow"
Journalist Michele Norris said, "There’s kind of a new COVID vocabulary, isn’t it. There are also words that have always had some meaning, but that take on different meaning now, the word hero, the word essential."
She continued, "I think we will forever think about the word ’essential’ in a different way. And, when we were told to stay home, they got up, got dressed, and went out into the world, risking their lives, to drive garbage trucks, to work in warehouses, to work in grocery stores, to work in hospitals. Often doing invisible, but yes, essential work, and I struggle with it because I’m not sure that we treat them like they’re essential."
Obama replied, "And that’s something that we need to, that’s a part of that reflection, that we need to do, you know. With ourselves, and, and as a community. And we have to think about that, in terms of how wealth is distributed. You know, how, how these essential people are supported. And what does that mean? A lot of these people are broke. They don’t have health insurance. That it, if they were to get sick, as essential as they are, we have not, as a society, deemed it essential to make sure that they can go to the doctor and get the care that they need. And even if they can get COVID care, even if they can get tested, to keep working and doing our stuff, after the effects of the virus have worn off, and they are dealing with some lung issue, or some breathing issue, or asthma, that they don’t have to wait, in a, an emergency room, for hours on end, and then worry, that they can even, afford the prescription medication that they need to survive, I mean we have to think about this. We have to think about the people who are not from this country, who are essential workers. A lot of those folks are still out in the fields picking our corn, and making sure that that food is in our grocery stores, and working in these meatpacking plants, to ensure that the, that the cow that was slaughtered, gets into our bellies."
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Maybe it should be distributed based on how you fulfil a shortage, rather than rent-seeking or it's twin, extortion for failure rewards (although the extortion for failure rewards always leads to rent-seeking).
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I'd love to see the Obama's most recent Federal Schedule A (not the ones where they released them to the public; that's bullshit pumped up numbers). That'll tell me just how much they've decided to 'redistribute' their own wealth. Until then, she can spare me another harpy lecture.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] New York City Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... broke with Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo on trying to lure wealthy New Yorkers back to the city, saying he’s confident that "fair-weather" residents will be replaced by others.
"There’s been an uptick in crime, but it is a problem directly related to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... ," Mr. de Blasio said at a press briefing Thursday. "I think you’ll see a certain number of people who leave and after an appropriate time, after there’s a vaccine, will come back. I think you’ll see some people who maybe decide they want a different kind of lifestyle. I think a lot of those people will be replaced by other people coming in.
"For decades now, as people have left New York City they’ve been replaced, and then some, by more and more people coming in. So, I think that pattern will start again over the next couple of years," he said.
The mayor’s comments came after the governor revealed he was personally pleading with rich New Yorkers to return to their homes in Manhattan.
"I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, ’You got to come back! When you coming back? We’ll go to dinner! I’ll buy you a drink! Come over, I’ll cook!’" Mr. Cuomo said.
Mr. de Blasio and Democratic state politicians want to raise taxes on the wealthy to help offset the state’s $30 billion coronavirus-related deficit, but Mr. Cuomo claimed that could cause the wealthy residents who fled to never return.
Mr. de Blasio said he isn’t interested in making "decisions based on the wealthy few."
"I was troubled to hear this concept that because wealthy people have a set of concerns about the city that we should accommodate them, that we should build our policies and approaches around them," he said. "That’s not how it works around here anymore. This city is for New Yorkers. This city is for people who live here, work here, fight to make this place better, fight through this crisis. So, there’s a lot of New Yorkers who are wealthy, who are true believers in New York City and will stand and fight with us. And there are some who may be fair-weather friends, but they will be replaced by others. But we must build our policies around working people.”
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Mr. de Blasio said he isn’t interested in making "decisions based on the wealthy few."
Once the tax revenue starts drying up, he should have to reconsider it, but he won't. I have to conclude he's trying to destroy NYC; what else would you or I do differently than what he's doing now?
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Get the rich Chinese ? Yeah they would move in but they have their own way of preventing crime against them. " Dis hatchet be for you if taxes don't come down . "
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He's moving their homeless population into over 100 hotels citywide, so maybe that's what he was referring to.
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The voters are getting what they voted for - good and hard. I think that old saw about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time is a good predictor of where they are going.
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in other news, Paul thinks Peter is a right bastard for not wanting to be robbed daily
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I'm sure the plan is to import lots of rich Chinese. Problem is, those able to be imported already figured a way to get their money out of China, they aren't going to turn around and park it here.
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If you play SimCity and your sim-Citizens start moving away, it means you're losing. It kinda sorta works the same in Real Life(tm).
They'll come back if I press the disaster button one more time.
And if he, and those like him in other cities, fully succeed in Curleyization, then every major city in America can go 120% for Biden -- even red state cities.
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There dwelt in the Channel a digger
Whose chick had a helluva figure.
He: "Fiddle-dee-dee!
Sure, she'd be on TV... whatever that is...
If the bastids would hire a jigger."
[WashingtonExaminer] A top GOP senator faced a grilling from a conservative radio show host over not yet subpoenaing ex-officials, such as fired FBI Director James Comey, in his inquiry into the "Russiagate" controversy.
Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was pressed by Hugh Hewitt during his radio show on Wednesday morning. The conservative commentator said Republican voters are frustrated that Johnson and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham have not called in Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, or fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok to testify under oath about what the host called “an attempted coup” against President Trump.
“Well, first of all, I need approval of my committee members,” Johnson said. He added that “it was tough enough” getting subpoenas approved against Blue Star Strategies in his inquiry into the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy and allegations of corruption related to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The Wisconsin Republican also said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had assigned Graham “to really investigate that portion of the corruption.” Johnson emphasized how, with his committee being made up of eight Republicans and six Democrats, “if I lose one, I lose the vote … I had a devil of a time just getting the subpoena authority that I got.”
But in June, Johnson's committee voted to give him the authority to subpoena Comey, Brennan, Strzok, and numerous others, including former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Thus far, Johnson has not subpoenaed any of those people to testify.
"Chairman Johnson is committed to running a thorough investigation into abuses by the Obama administration toward the Trump campaign,” a spokesperson for Johnson told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “Committee members want Chairman Johnson to attempt to get voluntary compliance, and also to be fully prepared for interviews by obtaining necessary documents, before compelling testimony. Chairman Johnson has been working for months to gather documents and information from witnesses on a voluntary basis but will subpoena witnesses when necessary. And as he has mentioned, his patience is wearing thin."
Hewitt told Johnson, “The election is here, and whether it’s you or Lindsey, we’re out of time. You guys have blown the time … We’ve waited three years for someone to put Comey under oath — you or Lindsey — I’ll blame you both.”
When asked if he would publicly commit to bringing a subpoena for Comey up for a vote during the next committee hearing, Johnson said, “Not on a radio show, Hugh.”
Johnson said he was pursuing documents to assist with future questioning, calling Comey “a slippery character, so you need documents to effectively question him.” The Senate chairman emphasized that he had subpoenaed current FBI Director Christopher Wray for a host of documents related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation just a few days ago. He also pointed to the revelations from a newly declassified document from Sunday that showed that the FBI apparently misled the Senate Intelligence Committee in early 2018 about the reliability of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier.
But when pressed by Hewitt about “which Republican doesn’t want to get to the bottom of this” Trump-Russia controversy, Johnson said, “We had a number of my committee members that were highly concerned about how this looks politically.” The radio show host asked for the identity of the “screw-up” on the committee blocking subpoenas, but the Republican senator declined and said, “I’m just not going to be naming names that way."
“I have had it with Republicans in the Senate not calling up anyone that we want to hear from,” Hewitt retorted. “I had the president on yesterday, and he says it goes far beyond the FBI into the intelligence community … Documents don’t matter. Videotape and witnesses matter.”
According to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, Johnson's committee now says no one is blocking any subpoenas for Comey/Brennan, rather there's just a desire to exhaust all options to get them to testify voluntarily.
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Johnson's committee now says no one is blocking any subpoenas for Comey/Brennan, rather there's just a desire to exhaust all options to get them to testify voluntarily.
Yes, yes... all in good time of course, then down the memory hole.
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More of the usual theater. Even if forced to show up, Comey et al will all suddenly come down with acute amnesia. Odds of learning anything new? Zero.
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Ditto what Hewitt and others here have said. D.C. is a self-serving circus. Nearly 4 years have passed since the three-ring circus kicked off against Trump and his administration and nothing has happened to provide justice for the guilty.
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/\ Quite revealing isn't it John. If one had doubts about Washington before, those doubts have all been erased after what we witnessed and continue to witness with the Orange Man's saga.
Donald Trump simply doesn't fit into their fraternity, and we (the deplorables) have been dutifully informed.
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And what do we notice almost immediately, boys and girls?
Dunno what I'm supposed to notice. But what I do notice is that they're all smiling. Considering the piss poor job they're all doing, they have to have a lotta damn nerve to smile like that. I'd be ashamed.
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Hint: their photos are adjacent in the center squares.
[KIRO7] Some members of the African American community say racism prompted Seattle's first Black female police chief to retire.
They are blaming one of Seattle's most diverse city councils ever. They point out there are no Black people on the City Council for the first time since the 1960s. And they believe racism forced Carmen Best to leave her job as the city's top cop.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best wouldn't call out the Seattle City Council.
"Yeah, I'm not using that harsh word," she said.
Neither would Mayor Jenny Summer of Love Durkan ...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone... , her boss.
"They wanted to micromanage and play mini-police chief," was all Durkan would say. "It showed a complete of respect." Lack of a "lack"?
"This is an anti-Blackness issue at the highest level," declared police accountability activist Harriett Walden.
Unlike Best and Durkan, Walden did not hesitate to blame racism among the city's diverse City Council for forcing Best out.
"So people of color, at the end of the day, they don't always stand for us," she said.
Walden says she sees the "anti-Blackness" on the current council.
"That's right," she said. "I see it on this council. Because they wouldn't have done it against O'Toole. I don't care how many people was in the streets marching. There's no way they would have defunded the police department with a white lady."
It was largely due to Walden's strong advocacy that Best was sworn in to the top job almost two years ago.
She replaced Kathleen O'Toole, the city's first female police chief.
But activists said then Best's nearly three decades with SPD would likely not produce radical change.
Rev. Kenneth Ransfer, pastor of the Greater Mount Baker Missionary Baptist Church and among Best's most steadfast supporters, believes she was ultimately wronged by a council led by people of color.
"We have colorism within our own community," said Ransfer. "So I mean the move, to me, was an attack upon a Black woman, one of our first Black police chief(s)."
Reverend Walden says she now wants an initiative to change back to city wide voting for the City Council.
She believes that it will create a more diverse body that cares about the entire city.
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They have a point. After all, the majority of the rioters and looters are white so of course you don't want a black police chief harshing their mellow.
Not only are they white but they are fuggin' ugly.
[gCaptain] In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.
There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week’s huge, deadly blast in the Lebanese capital, but ownership should be among the easiest to resolve.
Clear identification of ownership, especially of a cargo as dangerous as that carried by the Moldovan-flagged Rhosus when it sailed into Beirut seven years ago, is fundamental to shipping, the key to insuring it and settling disputes that often arise.
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You have three minutes to repeat that chain of ownership without looking.
A lot of entities involved. Is maritime shipping always this complicated, or does this look like covering tracks?
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Beirut is a magnet for nefarious commerce. That ammonium nitrate has been sitting in a warehouse for years.
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has Don Lemon posited that it belonged to Trump yet?
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Today in international waters, Iranian forces, including two ships and an Iranian "Sea King" helicopter, overtook and boarded a ship called the 'Wila.' pic.twitter.com/455UQ5jwHT
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Must be a relief to finally have a successful naval action - even if it was against a merchie.
This bit is interesting: The Iranian navy held the vessel for five hours before releasing it on Wednesday, said a US military source. The Wila made no distress calls before, during or after the seizure, the official said.
Engaging in acts of commerce? Payments being made, waiting for the transactions to clear?
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False positives, poor technique combined with everything in China being contaminated with traces of the virus...or battlespace preparation for the coming price negotiations. China will need to import a lot of food in the near future. Any leverage they can get will help.
Tonight was the first night in a while where antifa didn't carry out mass violence in Portland. They shut down the streets around the SE police building but didn't do much beyond standing around shouting. Unfortunate for those who live there but no fires or assaults so far.
[Rudaw] Security forces (Asayish) caught four Russian female Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) prisoners in a failed escape attempt from al-Hol camp on Tuesday, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
"Four Russian women with four of their sons were attempting to escape from al-Hol camp," SOHR reported.
According to SOHR, the female prisoners coordinated their escape with a water tanker driver working for the Syrian Red Islamic Thingy.
Several women have attempted to escape in a similar manner, with the North Press Agency obtaining footage of women hiding in a water tanker in June before being apprehended by authorities.
This is the second escape attempt at the camp in less than a week.
Five women were caught attempting to escape with seven of their children but were also stopped by Asayish, according to SOHR.
Located in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province, approximately 68,000 people live in al-Hol camp. 90 percent are women and kiddies.
Most residents are Iraqis and Syrians, half of whom are believed to have links to the terror group, after they were arrested during the liberation of ISIS territories during the campaign to oust the group from its last holdout in the Syrian town of Baghouz in March 2019.
About 10,000 ISIS-related suspects in the camp are foreign nationals, according to data published by Rojava Information Center.
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[Al Ahram] At least six people were killed and 35 injured in a fight over a plot of farmland in the Egyptian governorate of Fayoum, south of Cairo, in the early hours of Wednesday, al-Ahram Arabic news website and other local news outlets reported.
Initial investigations revealed the brawl in the Agmeen village took place between a group of 19 cousins over a piece of land. The squabble soon escalated into a clash with firearms that lasted for several hours.
Fayoum security directorate dispatched anti-riot forces to stop the fight and police cordoned off the crime site.
The victims were transferred to a hospital and prosecutors are currently investigating the incident.
At least four people have been arrested as authorities continue to search for some of the suspects on the lam.
Weapons used in feuds are often unlicensed and smuggled into the country illegally. The government proposed several initiatives in the past years to encourage people to hand over their illegal weapons since 2011 without legal accountability.
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NEW: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is asking the Washington state Supreme Court to reverse the decision of a King County judge that has allowed a recall effort to go forward that could result in her being removed from office. (via @davidlgutman)https://t.co/cmUCTRS6qu
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This is the only chance, the only recourse that citizens of Seattle have. It's too late for them to sell their homes and move. Nobody would buy a home in Seattle these days. They're stuck so they can either fix it or sit and watch it become Detroit.
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The UK economy has officially entered recession after figures showed a second quarter of contraction That’s what happens when you lock everyone down. It reverses when its opened up again, people being what they are.
GDP was down a shocking 20.4 per cent in the three month to June at height of the coronavirus crisis Not shocking at all, under the circumstances.
UK's hit in the first six months of 2020 was the worst in the G7 with slump set to be the biggest in 100 years Never before has much of the world deliberately closed up shop for the duration. In 1918-1920 the Spanish flu rampaged round the world in four waves, infecting 500 million and killing 17-50 million. Current COVID-19 world statistics are 20.8 million infections and 747,258 deaths since January, where the death rate started flattening in April.
The economy did recover to an extent in the month of June with the ONS finding 8.7 per cent growth
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Sorry, but COVID is just not that excessively dangerous for the VAST majority of people. So your hyperbole that people are dropping like flies is frankly BULLSHIT. Most people need to be tested to even find out if they have had the virus, it's that insignificant.
The 99.95% of the population locked up to save the 0.05%.
The economics of madness from the mad medic touting an expensive "cure" to what wouldn't even be noticed as a problem but the vast majority of those afflicted.
Turkish officers and Hamza are smuggling people to and from Aleppo. Last night, they sent 32 through Barad Nabl area after telling them the route was safe. A mine exploded, injuring many. And now the group is stuck. If they go back to Turkish-occupied territory, they’ll be shot. pic.twitter.com/OGoIbyBxVa
Simona Andrea Arteaga, 39, an "equity & inclusion advocate" & social media model, was arrested at the violent #antifa protest in Portland on 11 Aug. She's charged w/felony assault & more. Photo on left is from FB. Photo on right is booking photo. #BLMhttps://t.co/huryy8EjC9pic.twitter.com/hohPg0DEVG
Zaire M. Welmon, 24, was arrested at the violent antifa/BLM protest in north Portland where he assaulted several officers. He's charged w/4 counts of felony assault, resisting arrest & much more. He was quickly released without bail. #PortlandRiotshttps://t.co/63I6LPcOfmpic.twitter.com/PoCMKQ01Fq
When Matthew Banta, aka Commander Red, was arrested for assaulting police & brandishing a rifle at one in Wisconsin, he was wearing an antifa patch. This type of organized extremism should be covered in the national press but is ignored to maintain the "no antifa" narrative. pic.twitter.com/0jWDeXyNGR
A radical was arrested at an abolish police protest in Waupaca, Wisc. Matthew Banta, 23, was filmed fighting an officer & pointing his rifle at him. During the arrest, Banta bit him on arm. The rifle was loaded & he also carried a knife. He was bailed out. https://t.co/yLwWdeezSxpic.twitter.com/peGtDNmO72
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I suspect one driver of catch and release is that nobody wants to be in any way responsible for what might happen to these creatures at the hands of the other inmates.
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...Oh, yeah. I want to see what happens when 'Commander Red' meets gen pop..
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Waupaca is a nice little town in central Wisconsin. County seat of a mostly agricultural county and has about a 6,500 population.
Odd that they'd have some form of 'abolish police' protest there as the officers and deputies are integral to the area and mostly relatives of the other community folks.
If Antifa wants to 'take it to rural America', they found it here. They also found that rural folks have non-urban issues that concern them a heck of a lot more than some city kid's 'wokeness'.
Plus, there are a good deal of hunters in these rural communities that have incredibly more firepower than what you can load into your Mom's BMW.
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I know what part of his body's gonna be sore and Commander Red when Bubba the cellmate gets through with him.
Police in Asheville, N.C. arrested 6 at a far-left riot where militants were breaking the windows of a hotel. Responding @AshevillePolice were surrounded & ambushed. Asheville is an #antifa hotspot in the southeastern region of the US. https://t.co/G6vooKMhUR
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Likely not the same guy, just non-conformists who all dress and groom (for some value of "groom") alike.
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Frank Zappa used to like to introduce live performances of Brown Shoes Don't Make It that "everyone in this room is wearing a uniform and don't ever forget it."
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[Dhaka Tribune] A murder case has been filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar in connection with a reported shootout in 2017.
The plaintiff, Hamida Akhter, lodged the case on Wednesday afternoon regarding the murder of her husband, salt trader Abdus Sattar, which was allegedly framed as a shootout by OC Pradeep and 28 others.
The 29 people accused include the former OC of the cop shoppe Pradeep Kumar Das and five other members of the police force.
The five are SI Harunur Rashid, SI Imam Hossain, ASI Monirul Islam, ASI Shahedul Islam and ASI Azim Uddin.
Ferdous, 58, chief of the Ferdous Gang, is the main accused in the case. He is the son of late Nurul Kabir of the same area.
Hamida Akhter, the plaintiff in the case, said that her husband Abdus Sattar was killed at around 7am on February 14, 2017, with the help of Ferdous and his followers in Lambasia area of Hwanak.
The police did not file a case regarding the incident, which occurred in 2017, she alleged.
At least three people on Wednesday were killed during clashes with police in the Indian city of Bengaluru overnight over an anti-Islam Facebook post that sparked protests in which a police station was attacked, and a politician’s house.https://t.co/YL5BC4P22M
Unable to quell protesters using batons and tear gas, besieged officers opened fire as they risked being overpowered during the violent mostly peaceful unrest in a Moslem-dominated neighborhood, the southern city’s police chief told Rooters on Wednesday.
A police official said an emergency law prohibiting gatherings had been imposed in Bengaluru, a city of 12 million people best known as India’s Silicon Valley.
For some reason, here in the West we call the city Bangalore.
[Breitbart] The facility provides housing and resources to families who have a child receiving treatment at a local hospital. The suspected vandals allegedly broke into the facility near Lurie Children's Hospital while families were sleeping inside, CBS Chicago reported.
Several windows were left smashed, and the front door to the facility had to be boarded up.
Residents had to be placed on lockdown while the mayhem took place outside. Jerry Nadler wants you to know that no such thing happened. Nancy Pelosi agrees. And when Trump is finally removed for his mean tweets, we can have this mostly peaceful civility everywhere. Right, all you suburban Karens that get the vapors over mean tweets?
[Rudaw] Rivers and forests line the road south from Mariwan, in the Hawraman region of western Iran, to Dizli, a village and tourist spot whose streets are embellished with tea parlours.
Upon arrival, I spot a brand new, three-story house stand pride of place. Two sons from its family moved to the United Kingdom four years ago, my driver, himself from Dizli, told me.
"This family was once destitute, but their situation has improved thanks to the sons who send them money."
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[Federalist] Once Joe Biden named Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate for the upcoming 2020 election, it didn’t take long for the media to begin its latest attempt to gaslight Americans.
In the Associated Press announcement of Biden’s choice, AP writers Kathleen Ronayne and Will Weissert write approvingly of Harris’s "centrist record" as a contributing factor in the decision. Longtime political analyst and lobbyist Doug Schoen praised Biden’s pick while arguing Harris "could help Biden solidify his position among centrist voters and even moderate Republican voters."
Not to be outdone, The New York Times characterized Harris as a "pragmatic moderate." In an additional Harris announcement for the Times, Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon refer to Harris and Biden as "two moderates" who share "center-left politics."
Yet an analysis of Harris’s voting record in the U.S. Senate, as well as policies she has proposed, reveal quite a different story. Her positions form an agenda nearly entirely in lock-step with the radical leftist ideology that has taken over the Democratic Party. Indeed, if Biden wins the 2020 race for the White House, Sen. Harris (D-Calif.) will find herself in a unique position to pose a genuine threat to the values that built the United States of America.
According to a detailed assessment by Voteview, Harris holds a voting record farther left than 97 percent of Democrats in the 116th Senate, and more liberal than 99 percent of the Senate as a whole. Of current members of the U.S. Senate, Harris ranks more liberal than Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) while placing as the Democrat with the most liberal voting record in the chamber aside from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Harris has stated that illegal immigrants in the United States are not criminals — which defines both logic and traditional definitions of standard English words like "illegal" and "criminal" — and once likened U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to members of the Ku Klux Klan for having the temerity to enforce the law.
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What I love about Kamala is they chose her thinking she was a prosecutor when younger so tough on crime will like her, and she was progressive as a senator so progressives will like her...
But the reality Progressives hate her tough on crime years and anyone that likes Law Enforcement hates her progressive years. Then her attacks on civil liberties and her immigration and not really black American history chases off pretty much everyone else in the big Democrat tent.
Worst choice possible if they want to unite their party. Of course if they want to hide bodies that are nearly uncovered, well she might be a good choice in that case.
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She got 2% in the run-up last year before they awarded it to Mista Plugz. The Dems know that they will get trounced in Nov. and why waste a good candidates career. Biden (aka Skeletor) is already dead man walking so no worries there. Kamala (pronounced Commie La) is despised almost universally as RJ indicates. Expendable
[Newsmax] Anyone who believes in the Second Amendment should be wary if Sen. Kamala Harris becomes the next vice president of the United States, sitting a heartbeat away from the White House.
Harris is no better than Beto "hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15s" O'Rourke on the issue of gun control, which should also incentivize Republicans to drive down to the polls and vote in person.
One year ago, Harris tweeted that she would "take executive action to:
"Revoke the licenses of gun manufacturers & dealers that break the law.
"Require anyone who sells more than 5 guns/yr to run a background check on all gun sales.
"Ban the importation of AR-15-style assault weapons."
On May 20 of this year, Harris said she would also ban states from enacting "stand your ground" laws, which permit armed homeowners to defend themselves against the threat of murder, rape, kidnapping or bodily harm rather than retreat.
Speaking to the Michael Bloomberg-founded Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy nonprofit, Harris called such laws "racist" because they often target people of color.
"@KamalaHarris gets it," Everytown reported. "She knows that racist Stand Your Ground laws make communities less safe and that solving America's gun violence crisis requires common-sense, proven solutions. We can't wait to elect her as our next vice president!"
Eliminating "stand your ground" laws would mean that any intended victim would have to retreat from the danger rather than defend his life and that of his loved ones.
Biden's vice presidential pick hasn't escaped the notice of the National Rifle Association. It observed that Biden and Harris were practically Siamese twins when it came to scrapping gun rights.
"Biden Chooses 2nd Amendment-Hating @KamalaHarris as his VP," the NRA tweeted.
"Harris's presidential campaign died soon after announcing extreme gun control agendas. Her plan was to ignore democratic processes & enact gun control by executive order. Biden & Harris will dismantle the 2nd Amendment."
And that's not necessarily hyperbole.
Biden would, according to his campaign website, promote a sweeping gun control program that would include:
Support for a ban on assault weapons, which he mischaracterizes as "weapons of war."
Hold gun manufacturers liable for acts of gun violence.
Restrict the number of firearms a person may possess.
Incentivize states to enact "red flag" laws and gun registries.
When New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA to have the gun rights organization dissolved, Harris sent her congratulations.
"The @NRA bought the president and promotes members of Congress that turn a blind eye to the gun violence epidemic," she tweeted.
"It takes leaders with courage to stand up to them—thank you, @TishJames."
As I recall, the slow-fire strings were 10 minutes each and the rapid-fire were 20 seconds with a mandatory reload. All bulls-eye targets. 50 rounds total, possible score 250. 190 for Marksman, 210 for Sharpshooter and 220 for Expert.
#3
Dems: We'll do nothing to stop riots and theft and mugging.
Dems: We want to take your guns so YOU can do nothing to stop riots and theft and mugging.
Dems, the party that's pro riots and theft and mugging.
I suppose it is a form of decentralised "redistribution" of wealth. Mugging is personal socialism.
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Facebook won't let me share this. Censorship at it's finest.
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#4 Lcpl R.A.Woods tied the Marine Corps record on the "A" range at Camp Pendelton shooting 248 and was sent to Marine Rifle team Camp Pendelton for 6 months.
In August 1965 he mounted out with 1st Marines to Viet Nam.
protests in #Tripoli following the killing of young man by #GNA militias in addition to the poor living conditions in weatern Libyan under the wight of GNA mismanagement, corruption, and terrorist affiliation .#Libya
[ToloNews] At least four people were killed and two more maimed after a boom-mobilewent kaboom! near Farah city police headquarters on Wednesday, local officials said.
Dadullah Qani, a member of the Farah provincial council, confirmed to TOLOnews that the boom-mobile targeted the vehicle of Abdul Qader, the deputy commander of the Farah security department, killing four of his guards and wounding two more.
Footage received by TOLOnews show that children were among those maimed in the blast.
Initial reports from Farah says that 28 civilians were also maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom in Farah.
The explosion happens on the threshold of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
“Explosives placed inside a vehicle targeted a police car around 18:30 in district 4 of Farah city on Wednesday, killing 4 policemen and injured 22 civilians”, Tariq Aryan, a spokesperson to the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement.
[ReclaimTheNet.org] A potential to raise eyebrows for privacy and civil liberty concerns.
Africa is now becoming the testing ground for a biometric digital identity platform developed in a partnership between Mastercard, Trust Stamp, and Bill Gates’ GAVI Vaccine Alliance. While Trust Stamp provides identification authentication through AI, GAVI is an international organization created by tech mogul Bill Gates for supposedly helping underprivileged children access new as well as "under-used" vaccines.
The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa. GAVI and Mastercard have created a digital vaccination record known as "Wellness Pass". Now the platform will be integrated with this Wellness Pass.
The biometric digital identity platform will have the vaccination records from GAVI, a payment system through Mastercard, and AI-based identity authentication via Trust Stamp. As of now, the whole project has been funded via donor funds to GAVI, which amount to nearly four million dollars, and a similar donation amount from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
With the COVID-19 saga in full swing, Trust Stamp’s authentication system is integrated with Wellness Pass. Once the vaccine for coronavirus is made available, it will be integrated into the whole system to keep track of the vaccinations in West Africa. It is worth noting that the whole biometric digital identity platform is launched with a motivation to bolster the markets for vaccines.
Mastercard, which is also in the alliance, says that it is working for fulfilling its vision of a "World Beyond Cash" that it outlined a few years ago.
What’s more, Trust Stamp, the organization providing AI-based authentication, is also looking to commercialize its proprietary technologies.
Mastercard say that Trust Stamp is looking to partner with "correctional systems" to provide authentication services to individuals on parole, without the need for ankle bracelets. What seems to be an effort to improve immunization measures can also be an experiment for fine-tuning the technologies involved before they’re made available for widespread global use.
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"And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. "
#3
So how are the “undocumented“ in America going to be administered their mandatory vaccine? Do they get fraudulent vax ID like they get .GOV ID
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The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa
Ah, what has been referred to as The Slave Coast, perhaps BLM would like to comment?
Apparently that Imam screaming about this a couple months back isn't the kook he was being made out to be.
[Concealed Carry.com] As I sit back and try to not consume any news because it's utterly depressing, I realize that it's my job to do just that and deliver at least some of it to you a couple of times per week. Over the weekend, Riley posted a screenshot in our company chat of an incident that took place on the Indiana streets that has me scratching my head.
The above picture was not a part of what he posted but is from the incident itself. I thought this particular scene was important from the video because it shows two guys with guns in their hands, stopping traffic under threat of force.
Most of the people talking about it don't seem to notice the second guy, only the first.
I had to do some digging to find out what happened, which brought me to the cesspool that is Twitter.
Here's the full, 50 second video from a Twitter post:
[ToloNews] At least four security force members were killed in festivities with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in western Badghis province on Tuesday night, local officials said on Wednesday.
The festivities took place in Qads district after "a huge number of Taliban" attacked the center of the district, said Mohammad Haidar Sharifi, district governor.
"Three Taliban were also killed and four others were maimed in the festivities," he said.
The Taliban has not commented over the festivities.
[Al Ahram] The Sudanese government on Wednesday announced its decision to send police forces to the Red Sea State in eastern Sudan which is witnessing tribal festivities, Sudan's council of ministers said.
"Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Wednesday issued instructions to enhance the security presence by sending central reserve forces to the Red Sea State with the stress on the decision by the local authorities to impose full curfew in the state's capital city of Port Sudan," said the council in a statement.
Hamdok urged all social and civil components in eastern Sudan to abide by peacefulness and avoid escalation, according to the statement.
Since Sunday, Port Sudan has been witnessing armed festivities between members of Bani Amer and al-Nuba tribes, which reportedly left at least 25 people dead, according to unofficial statistics.
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(CNN) ‐ Paul Howard, who handled Atlanta school cheating scandal, the Ray Lewis murder case and the police killing of Rayshard Brooks during his lengthy tenure, lost the runoff election as Fulton County’s top prosecutor.
Opponent Fani Willis, who prosecuted cases for years in the county district attorney’s office, outpaced her old boss in June’s Democratic primary, but neither contestant received 50% of the vote, spurring Tuesday’s runoff.
Willis trounced the incumbent Howard on Tuesday by a 3-to-1 margin, according to county election results. With almost 91% of precincts reporting, Willis had more than 43,000 votes, about 73% of the tally, to Howard’s 15,800.
There were no Republican candidates on the ballot during the June primary.
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Atlanta never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
years ago, people floated the idea of Clark Howard for mayor. Clark wisely said hell no to that idea. It would've been amusing to see the attacks on him from people who previously loved him because he didn't have the right skin color. Which people have openly admitted is a requirement during the last few elections.
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Sometimes backwards, in red/yellow/gold and standing flat — that’s the Buddhist version. The Nazis did theirs facing to the right, in black, and tilted 45* like it was running.
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Without the License plate it's difficult to tell but it is possible the image was flipped. Such sad Nazi's in that are that can't even get their own symbol right.
#3
Agent provacateur, so old school Marxist tradecraft that the 25 year old Vassar graduates in the.media are clueless to imagine it. For those that do know it’s a hoax, they don’t question it because it OUGHT to be true.
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Hey, give them some credit for getting the pic right-side up! Left-right flip used to be common with film, not so much when things are digital.
The house numbers in the original look vaguely correct, so I'm going with the pic being legit. Not that a half-decent digital artist couldn't fake it, but it's quicker just to spritz some spray paint. Curious color choice that yellow, though.
As for the back story, the car is owned by a politically active, young, woke, person of melanin (PoM) and the culprit is...(wait for it)... monkey-wrenching Buddhists. I know, Buddhists! But it's 2020, it's a whole new ballgame.
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The Ceylonese draw a swastika backwards like that, but with an extra bump at the ends. The flipped image is the correct orientation for a Hindu swastika, but missing the four dots.
[ToloNews] At least six coppers were killed and five others were maimed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. on Tuesday, the provincial governor said in a statement on Wednesday.
The festivities took place in Pachiragam district of the province after the Taliban attacked security checkpoints, the statement said, adding that "three Taliban were also killed and two others were maimed in the attack."
The Taliban was pushed back by the security forces, the statement said.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Taliban hast not yet commented on the attack.
[ToloNews] In response to reports of an incident involving armed robbery followed by a gang rape of a girl on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, local officials in Ghazni province have said that an investigation has been launched. The incident reportedly occurred on Monday night in Mullah Noh area of Ghazni’s Andar district.
Pictures shared on social media show that passenger vehicles were stopped by the gunnies, and their belongings were stolen and then a maiden of tender years was raped by the armed thieves.
"One of them asked the passengers to come down, based on the reports, and unfortunately the rape also happened," said Naseer Ahmad Faqeeri, the head of Ghazni's provincial council.
"Our security and intelligence agencies are trying to find out the identity of these thieves," said Wahidullah Jumazada, a front man for the Ghazni governor.
Until now there has been no information about the identity of the victim and also police in Ghazni have said that no one has so far registered any complaint about such an incident.
"This is an unforgivable crime, it is an inhuman and un-Islamic crime, the perpetrators behind the crime should be referred to the law as soon as possible," said Sima Samar, adviser to the president on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. affairs.
"The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has started its investigation into the incident," said Zabihullah Farhang, the head of the media department of the human rights commission.
Both the Afghan government forces and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have claimed to have arrested several suspects in connection with the incident.
On Tuesday, drivers traveling on the route barricaded the Kabul-Kandahar highway to protest the increased insecurity on the road, which connects Kabul to the southern parts of the country.
Kabul-Kandahar highway is one of the most dangerous routes in Afghanistan, where deadly robberies happen along with fighting between the Afghan cops and the Taliban.
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Until now there has been no information about the identity of the victim and also police in Ghazni have said that no one has so far registered any complaint about such an incident.
#5
I don't see what incentive the police have to get involved against the rioters, but they have to know the DA will be rabid to prosecute any "white-supremacist vigilantes," and you know there are some cops who would like to make that pinch.
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I don't see what incentive the police have to get involved against the rioters
#7
Schmidt was deputy DA and was promoted when the DA retired.
here is a piece from an interview earlier in August
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What book influenced or inspired you the most
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered. This is one of the best books on restorative justice that I’ve come across, about doing things differently in the criminal justice system. Danielle Sered writes beautifully about a system that centers what a victim truly needs to heal, and what holding someone accountable for actions that harm others can look like. Her work shows that we can get better public safety outcomes and serve victims of crime better by moving away from an overly punitive paradigm, and incorporating restorative practices and philosophy into our criminal justice system.
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Schmidt was deputy DA and was promoted when the DA retired.
here is a piece from an interview earlier in August
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What book influenced or inspired you the most
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered. This is one of the best books on restorative justice that I’ve come across, about doing things differently in the criminal justice system. Danielle Sered writes beautifully about a system that centers what a victim truly needs to heal, and what holding someone accountable for actions that harm others can look like. Her work shows that we can get better public safety outcomes and serve victims of crime better by moving away from an overly punitive paradigm, and incorporating restorative practices and philosophy into our criminal justice system.
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His predecessor, Rod Underhill, retired about six months before the end of his term, but the fact is that Multinomah County voted Schmidt in, and he would doing what he's doing sooner or later.
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Danielle Sered writes beautifully about a system that centers what a victim truly needs to heal, and what holding someone accountable for actions that harm others can look like.
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No news: Jurisprudence in ruins since
People injured to impuissance;
Judicial ideal
Now for justice to "feel ya,"
Indulge an attraction to nuisance.
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“I have decided to temporarily strengthen the French military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean in the coming days, in cooperation with European partners including Greece. “
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.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[What A Finger] Congressman Doug Collins comments exclusively on newly released documents that show the FBI possibly mislead congress on the reliability of the Steele Dossier, and the Congressman calls for Director Chris Wray to step down. — with Newsmax TV’s Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith.
[News with Views] Multiple media outlets attacked Marjorie Taylor Greene, a successful Republican congressional candidate in Georgia. 
[Breitbart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer stated that 2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) engaged in a "massive cover-up" of alleged sexual abuse against Catholic priests.
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
...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...
[Breitbart] Wednesday on her new podcast, former first lady Michelle Obama called coronavirus an opportunity to think about "how wealth is distributed" to lower-income essential workers.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone...
...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 
[Al Ahram] At least six people were killed and 35 injured in a fight over a plot of farmland in the Egyptian governorate of Fayoum, south of Cairo, in the early hours of Wednesday, al-Ahram Arabic news website and other local news outlets reported.
Dhaka Tribune] A murder case has been filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar in connection with a reported 
[Newsmax] Anyone who believes in the Second Amendment should be wary if Sen. Kamala Harris becomes the next vice president of the United States, sitting a heartbeat away from the White House.
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