A man was caught on camera slapping an elderly Jewish plumber over an apparent parking dispute, knocking his Yamaka [yamulka, a small skull cap] off his head
The incident took place today at 11.50am in the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn
The assailant became aggravated when the back-end of the Hasidic Jewish man's van partially obstructed a driveway
Hate crimes are up by a shocking 101.7 percent in New York City this year, rising from 172 in 2020 to 347 this year.
This wasn't a "hate crime", it was some prick illegally parking, obstructing a driveway, being told to move, saying "no" and then getting instant justice.
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If the guy who got slapped always reliably votes leftist, he got exactly what he voted for.
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Looking at the video taken from above, it does not appear to me that the plumber’s van is blocking the driveway. I saw a young Hispanic man getting off on slapping an old Jew to the ground — the Blacks may have started the game, but the Hispanics quickly joined in the fun.
Orthodox Jews reliably vote Republican, and the Chassids even more so — and they have a long history of mutual admiration with Donald Trump.
If the video had not been popular on YouTube, the police would not have bestirred themselves. But there has been a problem of attacks on Jews in New York City in recent years, so the politicians take notice when forced to do so, passing the buck to the police.
Hattip to Thing From Snowy Mountain. 746 also submitted this article, because great minds. :-)
[SacramentoBee] A college professor suspected in a series of arson fires in remote forested areas of Northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, near the massive Dixie Fire has been charged in connection with one of the blazes in Lassen County and was ordered held Tuesday in the Sacramento County Main Jail.
Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, is believed to have worked at a number of colleges in California, including Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University, where a Dr. Gary Maynard is listed as a lecturer in criminal justice studies specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior.
Sonoma State spokeswoman Julia Gonzalez said Maynard is no longer with the university.
"He was a part-time lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice," she wrote in an email. "He was employed with Sonoma State University in Fall 2020, but did not have an appointment for Spring 2021.
"Mr. Maynard was contracted to fill in for a faculty member who was on leave. He taught two seminars in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies in Fall 2020."
Santa Clara confirmed that Maynard had worked there, as well.
"Gary Maynard was an adjunct faculty member in the sociology department at Santa Clara University from September 2019 to December 2020," the university wrote in an emailed statement.
Maynard was arrested Saturday following an investigation that began July 20 and included a U.S. Forest Service agent placing a tracking device under his car after he had been stopped briefly by Susanville police on Aug. 3.
Maynard, whose middle name is alternately spelled "Stephan" in jail records, made a brief appearance Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, where Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Anderson asked that he not be released from custody.
"There are simply no conditions that could be fashioned that could ensure the safety of the public with respect to this defendant," Anderson told U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman.
"Over the course of the last several weeks, Maynard has set a series of fires in the vicinity of the Lassen National Forest and Shasta Trinity National Forest...," Anderson wrote in a detention memo. "The area in which Maynard chose to set his fires is near the ongoing Dixie fire, a fire which is still not contained despite the deployment and efforts of over 5,000 personnel.
Maynard is charged in a criminal complaint with willfully setting the Ranch Fire in Lassen County on Saturday, and could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on that count.
Newman said the nature of the case suggested there may be mental issues at play and ordered him to remain in jug pending a hearing Wednesday.
"There’s certainly some potential, if not red flags, pink flags," Newman said.
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I got downvoted slightly over at That News Place for Hack(er)s for suggesting that maybe this guy was responsible for the Dixie Fire too. Or that the original fire was arson.
It's hard for me to tell.
Of course, in modern California and the land of the technoligarches, you can be running around trying to burn people to death and that's merely a pink flag rather than a red one.
[AmGreatness] Gary Maynard, the California professor allegedly behind a number of wildfires raging in Northern California, is an anti-Trumper who said in a November interview that President Trump suffered from malignant narcissistic personality disorder and could become violent and destructive in response to defeat. Federal prosecutors allege Maynard, who was arrested Saturday, intentionally tried to trap fire crews with his fires in rural Northern California.
"Donald Trump’s lack of or unwillingness to self-reflect in order to self-improve, and his lack of empathy while being threatened with his first major, public, political and personal defeat, might activate a sense of the need for the use of violence, violent protests by his supporters or outright sabotage of the nation by locking down the economy or some other major act to damage the nation before he is forced to leave office, if he loses," Maynard told left-wing journalist Charles Krause, who writes for The Globalist.
The journalist posted his interview of Maynard, accompanied by grotesque caricatures of Trump, on his blog, Art Profiler.
Maynard compared Trump to the maniacal cult leader Jim Jones, who in 1978 ordered the mass murder-suicide of 918 Jonestown commune members, 304 of them children. The cult members died after drinking Flavor Aid laced with cyanide. The accused arsonist said that Trump "may become the first president to be forcibly arrested and removed from the White House."
"Dr. Maynard explains what to look for in Trump, as the President reacts to his defeat—and how best to avert an irrational act of retribution with potentially far greater consequences and loss of life than Jonestown, between now and Trump’s last day in office two months from now," Krause wrote in the piece’s introduction.
Maynard, 47, has taught at colleges in New York and California, including as an adjunct lecturer in the sociology department at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Last fall, Maynard taught in the criminology and criminal justice department at Sonoma State University. His bio on the university website says he graduated from Bowling Green State University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Stony Brook University, and one of his specialties is environmental sociology. He has master’s degrees in political science, theater arts, and sociology, as well as a Ph.D. in sociology.
His teaching and research focus on "sociology of technology/social media, social psychology, sociology of health, deviance and crime, sociology of the mass media, youth and adolescence, global sociology, environmental sociology, the sociology of sports, the sociology of drug abuse and alcoholism and quantitative research methods."
The corporate media have made a point of linking the wildfires—including the Dixie Fire, the second-largest in California’s history—to climate change.
As we now know, at least some of the fires were likely started by Maynard, although authorities have not released any information about his possible motive.
"Where Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again," federal prosecutors said in a court memorandum arguing for Maynard to be denied bail.
While court documents allege that Maynard is connected to more than a half-dozen dangerous fires in Northern California, he is currently charged with starting only the Ranch Fire. That blaze broke out on Saturday morning, in a remote area where, according to court records, Maynard had just camped for the night. It’s one of three fires officials allege Maynard set in recent days—all of them very close to the Dixie Fire’s northeastern footprint.
Prosecutors also say Maynard wanted firefighters to die in the fires he caused.
"He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire," the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento stated in court papers. "Maynard’s fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires."
Maynard’s alleged offenses "show that he is particularly dangerous, even among arsonists," the federal prosecutors said.
Ironically, Maynard in November was concerned about President Trump’s supposed propensity for violence.
"With vain malignant narcissism—if they brood and burn up in quiet desperation as their power slips away, that is when they decide to say ’Fuck it—let’s go out and take out those who harmed and sabotaged and betrayed me.'" the professor told Krause.
"The QAnon people really, really worry me, that they will see this as the last hour of their movement where they must act to save the world from the communist Democratic party, the one-world government, and the demonic child sex cult that is running the world," Maynard added.
"Donald will not stay quiet or stay still or play nice," the criminal justice professor concluded. "The question then becomes will he get violent or spur on violence? Because he does not care if he ruins the peace and safety of the U.S. society."
In a sickening twist, Krause’s article featured a cartoon by Jim Boden called "Götterdämmerun," a German word for a turbulent ending of a regime or an institution. The picture shows Donald Trump hovering over a building engulfed in flames.
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Jim Jones was a socialist -- and that was at the root of his popularity with the left, and his eventual fate.
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Taught at Sonoma State University - he fits right in there.
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Go Seawolves! (used to be the Cossacks because of Fort Ross, but that was raycist or sumpthin')
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Yep - I was a Cossack. SSU also produced one of the best offensive lineman to ever play in the NFL, Larry Allen who was coached by Frank Scalercio Jr. The program was taking off when Title IX was used as an excuse to gut men's sports on campus. They changed their mascot at the same time because "Cossack" was too male and too violent. Flash forward to today, men have pretty much disappeared from the campus.
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Should have been a "voice vote" so everyone can be unanimous anonymous (We heard Yeah, but we don't know exactly who said it) and (we heard a few Nay...We know Donkeys nay)
[EpochTimes] U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption from the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said.
"There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective about using a religious exemption," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a press briefing on Aug. 10.
The department would make sure that every individual with reservations gets proper counseling on the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy, Kirby said. Both a medical professional and a commander would counsel the individual about the risks of not being vaccinated and how that might affect deployability, assignments, travel, teammates, and the mission.
"We take freedom of religion and worship seriously in the military. It’s one of the things that we sign up to defend," Kirby said. "And so it’s something that’s done very carefully."
Service members also will be able to apply for medical exemptions, Kirby said.
"The primary care physician will be able to help make that determination," he added.
A service member can’t request an exemption just because he or she doesn’t want to take the vaccine, Kirby said.
"You’ve got to go through a process to get that approved. Troops who have pre-existing medical conditions, or on the advice of their physician might not have to take the vaccine," Kirby told Fox News on Aug. 10. "But if you’re just objecting because you’re objecting, once it’s become mandatory, that’s a lawful order, and our expectation is that you’re going to obey that order."
"Nobody is looking for strong, punitive disciplinary measures here. Frankly, we believe that most troops will respond positively to the order, just like they do in every other mission-critical order that they’re issued. But there are tools available to commanders, short of disciplinary action, to try to get soldiers to do the right thing."
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Aug. 9 that the Department of Defense would require all active-duty military members to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Pentagon, more than 73 percent of active-duty military members have received at least one shot of the vaccine to date.
[The Hill via Citizen Free Press] Data to be released Thursday by the Census Bureau is likely to show the U.S. is diversifying at the fastest rate in the nation's history, even as overall population growth slows to the most sluggish pace since the country's founding.
The new figures are almost certain to shine a spotlight on a trend that annual surveys have illustrated over the last several years: The number of white Americans is declining.
The white population in America has grown far more slowly than minority groups for decades. White people are having fewer children and starting their families at a later age than other groups, a long-term trend that demographers have called a baby bust. The opioid epidemic, too, has claimed so many lives that it measurably reduced the nation's life expectancy, especially among white people.
Over the last four years, annual census surveys have shown the white population has declined by more than 1 million - a drop that is sufficient to wipe out the population growth among white people from 2010 to 2016.
The pace of the decrease is accelerating, too. Between 2016 and 2017, the white population fell by an estimated 129,000 people. From 2019 to 2020, that decline sped up to 482,000.
If trends from annual estimates conducted over the last decade hold, the census data released Thursday is likely to show an America that is, for the first time in the nation's history, less than 60 percent white.
Minority groups, however, are growing.
The number of Hispanic or Latino Americans grew by at least 1 million in eight of the last 10 years, and by 10.5 million between 2010 and 2020. The number of Asian Americans grew by about half a million in seven of the last 10 years, up 4.7 million over the decade. And the number of African Americans grew by at least 300,000 in eight of the last 10 years, or an estimated 3.4 million since the 2010 census.
[EpochTimes] Amid a bevy of COVID-19 vaccine mandates being handed down by governments and businesses, there has been a kaboom of fabricated vaccination cards, according to researchers.
"As a segment of the population tries to avoid the new measures, the darknet reacts to the real market and thus demand gives birth to offers," Dmitry Galov, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, said in interview with The Wall Street Journal, referring to the fake vaccine cards.
Forged vaccine cards that claim to be issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been proliferating on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other online marketplaces, according to reports.
In another example, an Instagram account with the username "vaccinationcards" sells laminated COVID-19 vaccination cards for $25 each. A user on the messaging app Telegram offers "COVID-19 Vaccine Cards Certificates" for as much as $200 apiece.
"This is our own way of saving as many people as we possibly can from the poisonous vaccine," reads the seller’s message, viewed by at least 11,000 app users.
On Twitter, one user with more than 70,000 followers wrote, "My daughter bought 2 fake ID’s online for $50 while in college. Shipped from China. Anyone have the link for vaccine cards?"
In La Belle France, after the country’s Parliament approved a law requiring a pass to enter certain businesses, tens of thousands of protesters erupted into the streets over the past several weekends. Around 250,000 people were estimated to have protested over the past weekend in Gay Paree, Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , and other cities against vaccine passports after La Belle France’s top court ruled that most of the health pass law was constitutional.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... there have been sporadic protests in some U.S. cities, including in Lansing, Michigan, the state’s capital, over the recent weekend. Protests are also reportedly planned in New York City over vaccine mandates.
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The very same people who love fake ballots despise this.
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Interesting that google and the media provide top notch useable images to print and fill in. That are good enought for commercial level access. Even what VAX-data is needed in what lines.
But remember there is a state and likely a Fed database tracking who has and who has not actually taken it.
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An agent of influence is an agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial to the country whose intelligence service operates the agent. Agents of influence are often the most difficult agents to detect, as there is seldom material evidence that connects them with a foreign power, but they can be among the most effective means of influencing foreign opinion and actions as they hold considerable credibility among the target audience. Most commonly they serve the interests of a foreign power in one of three ways: either as a controlled agent directly recruited and controlled by a foreign power; as a "trusted contact" that consciously collaborates to advance foreign interests but is not directly recruited or controlled by a foreign power; or as a "useful idiot" that is completely unaware of how their actions further the interests of a foreign power.
The term "agent of influence" is often used to describe both individuals and organizations engaged in influence operations. Individuals engaged in this type of influence operation may serve in the fields of journalism, government, art, labor, academia, or a number of other professional fields. Cultural opinion makers, nationalists, and religious leaders have also been targeted to serve as individual agents of influence.
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Look. Anyone stupid enough to look to social media for information prolly sucks up whatever the press-on nails guy in the White House video says. And those individuals believe you and I are rubes for not going along. It's not possible to reason with tem, don't even try.
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I have a real vaccine card from the place I got my shot. How long do you think it will be before I'm arrested for having a fake card?
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If You got your shot in the A-- (place you got your shot) and are forced to show a picture (of that place),
I'd say not very long (possession & distribution of P-rn-o-graffy and all)
A black family has filed a federal complaint against Mary Lin Elementary (@APSLinRockets) after it was discovered the principal had been segregating the students based on race. Operating on CRT, school believed black kids would do better without whites. pic.twitter.com/0wcbr19UnJ
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The genuine civil rights leaders of the 1950s and 60s are turning over in their graves.
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No .... Obama had rotisserie installed in everyone of their graves because of what he planned to do in his first term, and didn't want to see or hear of any grinding noise reports coming to his office in his second term.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Fox News host Steve Hilton blasted teachers’ unions on "The Next Revolution," saying parents have been stripped of their power when it comes to determining what is best for their children.
This being the very thing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis endeavored to avoid in signing an executive order banning school mask mandates — some districts are trying to skirt the order by requiring masks, but allowing parents to navigate the red tape to opt-out.
"This week, as parents across the country protest cruel, scientifically illiterate mask mandates for kids, [President] Biden’s hapless education secretary Miguel Cardona threatens school closures in response, and Biden himself weighed in against kids, against parents, and against science," Hilton declared.
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Teacher's unions have not improved the educational system; if anything, they've degraded it.
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Lisbon was in the mid 80s today, expects 90s tomorrow and Saturday (normal is low 80s)
Rome was near 100F today, expects similar maxima the next three days (normal is high 80s)
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We have had one above average day here on the Space Coast this month. Forecast is for below average all month. Since I moved here almost 4 years ago there has not been a 100 degree day. Used to get 3-4 every summer in PeeAye.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least one person was killed Wednesday and 25-30 people were feared trapped after a landslide onto a road in India’s Himalayan north, officials said.
"Six people have been rushed to local hospitals with injuries. At least one person is dead," a local police official from Himachal Pradesh state bordering Tibet told AFP.
"We think one bus and or a truck and some cars are also under the rubble. But there is no clarity yet because the landslide... is still happening. The rescue work can only start after the rocks stop falling and the slope becomes stable."
A statement from the state emergencies center said that, according to the local police, "25-30 passengers are stuck or trapped at the incident site".
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Portland, Oregon is unsafe by design. Stop showing your white privilege, you raycist!
[KGW] People who live on Hayden Island say the homeless crisis and crime seem to be getting out of hand. They feel crime is rampant and, according to statistics, they're right. Portland Police Bureau data show crime on Hayden Island is the worst it's been in the last five years. Property crimes like theft, burglary and larceny make up the vast majority.
"I don't feel safe," a resident named Judi told KGW. "It didn't used to be like this."
Oftentimes, Hayden Island residents say they see stolen kayaks and boats pulled up next to two abandoned military vessels and an encampment along Jantzen Beach.
"The beach guys prowl around the marinas but they don't steal cars," said resident Howard Johnson. "That's where you've got to define what you're looking at and who might be doing it."
Police say it’s not just the transient population committing crime; opportunists steal and vandalize and they often get away with it.
Interstate 5 running through the island makes it a prime target; people coming from the south in Oregon or the north in Washington are able to quickly hop on and off the island to commit crimes there or escape being caught.
Residents see cars without license plates all over the neighborhood and believe they're stolen and brought to the area to be stripped.
John Seaman is one of many hit by thieves and has security camera videos of people stealing from his porch in the middle of the night. He said he knows others have had items stolen in the middle of the day.
Judi and her family had to track down her son's car after someone stole it from a parking lot. She said after retrieving it alongside Portland coppers, the thieves returned the following day to try stealing it again. Their other cars have been broken into multiple times, with catalytic converters stolen and windows smashed.
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Right. And we're still as close to a working hypersonic missile as we are to commercially viable fusion. Which is to say "not close at all."
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actually the US isn't too many years from a working hypersonic missile
there have been several tests, some more or less successful
the budget for this is in the $ billions
I think an important motivation for getting this done is to discourage a Chinese attack on Taiwan. If a few platforms in the Pacific were armed with this weapon it would mean a lot in that context.
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[REGNUM] The Uzbek authorities have come to a secret agreement with Facebook that the latter will remove human rights groups that are undesirable for Uzbekistan in this social network, a competent source told REGNUM news agency .
“The Uzbek authorities have shown Facebook that they can seriously impede the work of this social network. For example, about six months ago, Uzbek users complained that access to Facebook was not available or limited. The American network made the appropriate conclusions from this and decided to make concessions, ”said the agency's source.
According to him, the background of the event can be briefly described as follows: Uzbekistan demanded that Facebook install its servers in the republic, but then, after some negotiations, the parties agreed that Facebook, in order not to spend money and create unnecessary inconveniences for itself, would simply sacrifice the fruits of labor of human rights activists: block pages and groups that are objectionable to the Uzbek authorities.
"In order to create a basis for blocking pages and groups, Facebook has developed a mechanism - mass warnings of violations are sent to resource administrators indicated by the Uzbek authorities. At the same time, there are no violations, as such, just nagging on the part of Facebook in order, as noted above, to sum up the base. And after a while the groups are blocked," the source said.
In particular, he said, such popular groups in Uzbekistan as Law and Order, Fergana Valley, Uyat.uz and others were blocked.
"All these groups had tens of thousands of subscribers and were exclusively engaged in human rights activities, which the Uzbek authorities considered dangerous for themselves," the source said. Good thing for the government of Uzbekistan to block free speech in Uzbekistan before the Taliban can, right?
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[LUG-info] The obtained confessions of Roman Protasevich allowed the LPR law enforcement officers to move forward in the investigation of the criminal case initiated against him by the LPR General Prosecutor's Office. This was announced at a briefing in Lugansk Inform Center by the official representative of the LPR Prosecutor General's Office Inna Semenova.
"The confessions received by Roman Protasevich allowed us to make significant progress in the investigation of the criminal case initiated by our supervisory department in May this year," she said.
The LPR General Prosecutor's Office, which, within the framework of the criminal case initiated against Protasevich, is conducting investigative actions into his participation in terrorist organizations, declared its readiness to provide Belarusian law enforcement officers with legal assistance in investigating the criminal actions of the suspect and asked Belarus to provide an opportunity to conduct investigative actions with the participation of Protasevich on the territory of the Republic.
Protasevich is the founder of the Nexta Telegram channel, recognized as extremist in Belarus. Together with his partner, Sophia Sapega, he was detained on May 23 while checking documents at the Minsk airport.
A criminal case was initiated against Protasevich under several articles, including those providing for responsibility for organizing mass riots.
Earlier, Protasevich stated that he was in Donbass at the height of hostilities in 2014-2015, allegedly as a journalist. However, there are photographs of Protasevich, in which he is captured in military uniform with weapons in his hands together with militants of the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion. Boris Rozhin stated in his blog that LPR investigators were satisfied with answers Protasevich had given, subtly indicating he may be off the hook.
Related, a Belarus news presenter, Zenia Lebedeva gave an interview with Sofia Sapega, Protasevich's girlfriend, who stated that the couple were not removed from the plane, but were deplaned normally. Their identities were discovered when Belarus customs performed a routine documents check.
She also claimed that she knew of no Belurus security agents who were on boards the Ryan Air , but that she suspected Protasevich was fingered through someone in his circle. '
In other words, it was not Belarus authorities who notified officials of a potential bomb threat on the bird, but a friend/rival of Protasevich.
The interview of Sapega (in Russian, but translatable):
Sun Guangxin, a Chinese real estate tycoon, has since 2016 spent an estimated $110 million buying up land in Val Verde County in Texas
Worth an estimated $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, Sun has bought 140,000 acres of Texan land near the U.S.-Mexico border, by Laughlin air force base
Sun has set aside 15,000 acres to build a wind farm which would feed into Texas' power grid
His actions have raised eyebrows, given his close ties to Communist party officials in Urumqi - home to the persecuted Uighur minority
It has also triggered claims Sun could equip the turbines with spying equipment, or even let China hold Texas's power grid to ransom
Environmentalists were concerned about the impact of a wind farm on the Devils River ecosystem, 'considered one of the last wild and pristine rivers in Texas'
On June 7 Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act
The bill is designed to stop business entities associated with 'hostile nations' from accessing the Texas grid and other pieces of 'critical infrastructure'
Talk about a contradiction in terms. "Communist Billionaire".
National Infrastructure / Power Grid and etc. should limited to USA OWNED, LOCATED & CONTROLLED ONLY COMPANIES. Simply to avoid a conflict of interest and loyalty issues.
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"We are from Cohnhore" Monty Python sketch you can't find online anymore.
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So Texas doesn't trust their own democrats, feeling they'll happily grow dependent upon this power instead of building and upgrading existent power thus putting Texas future in Chinese hands? Well don't let them connect to the grid or pass a law saying Texa power must come 80% from non-wind sources.
[NYPOST] 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... on Wednesday threatened to respond to US-South Korean military drill it claims are an invasion rehearsal.Senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol condemned South Korea for continuing the allied drills and warned of unspecified counteractions that would make Seoul "realize by the minute" that it had waded into a security crisis.
His statement comes a day after Kim Yo Jong — the powerful sister of leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... — said the drills were the "most vivid expression of the US hostile policy" toward North Korea, adding that Pyongyang will work faster to strengthen its preemptive strike capabilities.
She called Seoul authorities "perfidious" over the South’s joint military exercises and demanded Washington withdraw its forces from the peninsula.
"For peace to settle on the peninsula, it is imperative for the US to withdraw its aggression troops and war hardware deployed in South Korea," she said.
The US and South Korea have not confirmed when the drills will take place, but local media have reported preliminary training was underway this week to set up larger computer-simulated drills from Aug. 16 to Aug. 26.
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North Korea has such issues threats and has for over 50+ years.
As the NK serfdom crumbles and starves, it needs to spew Panic and Hype to keep the growing population in line.
NK communism is basically no more than a modernized Joseon period King/Ruler down to dirt workers type hierarchy.
They are just using new titles and applying the same class structure that controlled a persons life or death without question.
[DW] La Belle France saw its largest protests yet against the country's health pass. In Italia, some anti-vax demonstrators wore the widely condemned gold stars, echoing the badges Nazi Germany forced Jewish people to wear.
Protesters erupted into the streets in La Belle France and Italia on Saturday in opposition to COVID rules that they say infringe on their civil liberties but which officials argue are needed to curb 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.
The protests come as European countries double down on efforts to get wide portions of their populations vaccinated in the face of the spreading delta variant — and in a bid to avoid further lockdowns.
WHAT HAPPENED IN LA BELLE FRANCE?
Demonstrations against La Belle France's health pass and mandatory vaccines for health care workers entered their fourth weekend, with Saturday seeing the largest rally yet.
An estimated 237,000 people turned out nationwide, according to the Interior Ministry. The figure exceeds the attendance a week ago, which saw 204,000 protesters.
While 17,000 people turned out in Gay Paree, much of the focus was in southern La Belle France — where between 10,000 and 20,000 people marched in Nice alone.
In contrast to prior weekends, the demonstrations were largely peaceful. The more major scuffles broke out between protesters and police in Lyon, La Belle France's third-largest city.
The protests come on the heels of a Constructional Council ruling on Thursday. The court approved the government's plan for the health pass and vaccine requirements for workers in hospitals in nursing homes.
La Belle France is currently in the grips of a fourth wave of coronavirus infections. The county has seen a boost in vaccinations since French President Emmanuel Macron announced the health pass in July.
Some two-thirds of the French population eligible for the jab have received one dose, while 55% are fully vaccinated.
WHAT HAPPENED IN ITALIA? Italia also saw thousands turn out against the implementation of the country's Green Pass, which is now required for teachers and for people to attend indoor events.
News agency ANSA reported that "thousands" marched in the city of Milan at an unauthorized protest.
Some within the anti-vaccine movement wore widely condemned yellow star badges reading "not vaccinated," resembling those that Jewish people were forced to wear by the Nazis.
Another 1,500 people gathered in Rome, posters reading: "No Green Pass!" while in Naples, around 100 anti-vax protesters demonstrated against vaccinations for children.
Italia has overseen a successful vaccination campaign, with over 63% of the population older than 12 are fully vaccinated.
WHAT IS THE HEALTH PASS?
The health pass in La Belle France and the Green Pass in Italia are both digital certificates that provide proof of a person's coronavirus status.
They contain data on whether the person is vaccinated against COVID-19, has recently tested negative, or has recovered from the virus.
The pass is already required in La Belle France for those who want to go to the movie theater or attend other major events. Starting on Monday, it will also be required for those who want to visit bars and restaurants, or for those traveling on long-distance trains or on airplanes.
In Italia, the Green Pass is required to enter museums, sports venues, cinemas and for indoor dining. School teachers, university staff and university students are also required to show the pass.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish couple is facing the possibility of having to return to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... where they face a six-year prison sentence after their request for asylum was rejected in Germany.
Sinem Mut and her fiancé Anil Kaya left Turkey in March 2019 after being accused of being members of the Maoist Communist Party (MKP), which Turkey deems a terrorist organization. Mut and Kaya have reportedly denied joining the party. According to the couple, they came to Germany and applied for asylum after realizing they could no longer live a "dignified life" in Turkey.
A German court rejected their application, media reported on Monday, and said they will face deportation if they do not depart Germany by August 21.
"The questions asked in court, as well as what we read in the courts decision, made us live through what we experienced in Turkey again," Kaya said on Twitter after receiving the verdict.
Academics for Peace, a non-profit association founded to support academic freedom and freedom of speech in Turkey, claimed that Mut and Kaya, who were both pursuing post-graduate studies, are "only two of the hundreds of academics who are targeted by Turkeys ongoing and fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... development in recent years."
Ottoman Turkish courts have been accused of applying criminal law and procedures arbitrarily against critics of the government.
Mut and Kaya plan to launch a petition campaign to garner national attention in order to convince German authorities to let them stay in the country.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced an investment of NIS 2.5 billion in the health system in order to fight back against the continued rise in coronavirus cases.
In order to prepare for a significant increase in hospitalized COVID patients, Bennet said, the government will hire 2,000 more doctors, nurses, hospital staff and paramedics.
[JPost] - The Food and Drug Administration is slated to amend the emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer and the Moderna Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to allow immunocompromised people to get a third dose, NBC News reported.
The announcement is expected within the next 48 hours, but the timing could move, according to multiple sources. What did I told you yesterday?
#2
I got the J&J one jab at the beginning of May. What will be the guideline for getting the booster? Will each vax have its own specific booster? Will the gummint still pay?
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Will each vax have its own specific booster?
Probably. Although, eventually, the periodic boosters will become (relatively) cheap and long lasting (before use) protein vaccines.
Will the gummint still pay?
They offering unvaccinated rewards*. So, probably, yes.
*Incidentally, that gives me an idea. What about "If you avoid DUI for six months, we give you 100$."?
#4
My mom always said "You don't get an award for doing the right thing." Times have changed. Of course, in The Marching Morons the bribes were as stupid as the bribees...
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Still waiting for the solicitation letter to the class action lawsuit for people who got the jab as soon as possible and missed out on the bribes.
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OTOH, maybe they'll decide that people who got vaxxed and then got COVID anyway should be culled. That'll be a dis-incentive.
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Welcome to the "New Normal".
Where every year will be "Difficult and Challenging Times."
Which Begs The Questions:
Will the VAX Passport become the official Voter ID for EVERYONE?
Will certain demographic groups be exempted until at until after the 2024 election aka Election Fraud II?
#15
My dream is Fauxi and Algore at half time at the Super Bowl. A 1911 Colt with one round and a bottle of Jack Daniels. Whichever one doesn't "do the right thing" with the pistol gets garroted on national TV.
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If you are not worried about 'The Jab', pass this post.
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I'm a long way from g(r)'s "anything that can be injected in your arm is good" but I'm also f*cking sick and tired of Candace Owen and that crowd. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
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The truth is we don't know the truth.
The mayo Clinic reports reduced effectiveness of vax and long term implications:
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-moderna-delta-biden-e9be4bb0-3d10-4f56-8054-5410be357070.html
Thank you for digging up some very timely data.
Driving the news: The study, conducted by "nference" and the Mayo Clinic, compared the effectiveness of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the Mayo Clinic Health System over time from January to July.
"Overall, it found that the Moderna vaccine was 86% effective against infection over the study period, and Pfizer's was 76%. Moderna's vaccine was 92% effective against hospitalization and Pfizer's was 85%.
But the vaccines' effectiveness against infection dropped sharply in July, when the Delta variant's prevalence in Minnesota had risen to over 70%.
Moderna was 76% effective against infection, and Pfizer was only 42% effective."
The effectiveness is even lower than the CDC reported and UK collected data we discussed yesterday.
Note: Mayo Clinic chose "nference" as its first Clinical Data Analytics Platform partner....
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.
[EpochTimes] Amid a bevy of COVID-19 vaccine mandates being handed down by governments and businesses, there has been 
[BIZPACREVIEW] Fox News host 
...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...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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