[IsraelTimes] Agreement with prosecution that spared John T. Earnest
...8chan nutter who succeeded at the synagogue after failing previously at a mosque...
the death penalty left little suspense about outcome.
A 22-year-old former nursing student was denied a chance to address a courtroom before a judge sentenced him Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for bursting into a Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019 with a semiautomatic rifle, killing one worshipper and wounding three others.
Earnest’s attorney, John O’Connell, said his client wanted to make a statement but San Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh refused, saying he did not want to create "a political forum" for white supremacist views.
"I’m not going to let him use this as a platform to add to his celebrity," the judge said, pointing to comments that Earnest made to police when he was arrested, hand gestures to the audience during a previous hearing and his probation report.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, who listened to victims from a front-row seat, told news hounds that Earnest’s planned statement was "more spewing of hatred and propaganda" and that the judge made the right call. The prosecutor asked the judge to reconsider only to guard against any possibility that Earnest alleges he was treated improperly, she said.
Earnest’s court-appointed attorney declined to speak with news hounds. His parents did not attend.
Minutes after the shooting, Earnest called a 911 dispatcher to say he shot up the synagogue to save white people. "I’m defending our nation against the Jewish people, who are trying to destroy all white people," he said.
The San Diego man was inspired by mass shootings at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh and two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shortly before he attacked Chabad of Poway, a synagogue near San Diego, on April 27, 2019. He frequented 8chan, a dark corner of the internet, for those disaffected by mainstream social media sites to post holy warrior, racist and violent mostly peaceful views.
Earnest legally bought a semi-automatic rifle in San Diego a day before the attack, according to a federal affidavit. He entered the synagogue with 10 bullets loaded and 50 more on his vest but fled after struggling to reload. Worshippers chased him to his car.
Earnest killed 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was hit twice in the foyer, and maimed an 8-year-old girl, her uncle and Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was leading a service on the major Jewish holiday.
Earnest’s parents issued a statement after the shooting expressing shock and sadness, calling their son’s actions a "terrifying mystery." Their son was an accomplished student, athlete and musician who was studying to be a nurse at California State University, San Marcos.
"To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries," they said.
His conviction for murder and attempted murder at the synagogue and arson for an earlier fire at a nearby mosque carry a life sentence without parole, plus 137 years in prison.
Earnest also faces sentencing in federal court on Dec. 28., having pleaded guilty after the Justice Department said it wouldn’t seek the death penalty. Defense attorneys and prosecutors are recommending a life sentence.
[thegrio... or something] An Illinois family mourning the death of their 18-year-old son is outraged that no murder charges will be filed in conjunction with his death due to what prosecutors are calling "mutual combat."
Manuel Porties, Jr. was killed Tuesday after being stabbed to death during a recorded, planned fight in Schaumburg, a town located 30 miles east of Chicago.
According to WGN 9, video of the fight shows Porties Jr. being punched in the face by a 17-year-old, who then stabs him in the neck as he lies on the ground.
The younger teenager has not been identified but has been charged with misdemeanor unlawful use of a weapon.
"They're saying that it's mutual combat," said the slain man's father, Manuel Porties. "How is it mutual combat when my son didn't have anything to combat with? The only thing he had was his two hands."
"He stood over my son and finished him," he added, "and that's not murder?"
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It is racist to throw black criminals in jail because it reminds them of slavery. No exceptions for the vic being black since most crime is intra-racial. The ruling on the field stands.
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"The term ‘mutual combat’ is defined as two individuals engaged in a physical confrontation with each other, usually because of an instantaneous quarrel where tempers are at their heights."
Basically they're saying it was self defence.
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[Townhall] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined a request Friday night from NYC teachers to block the city's vaccine mandate. As Ariane de Vogue wrote for CNN, the justice "did not refer the request to the other Supreme Court justices, or comment on her action, likely signaling they agreed with her decision." This is not the first time the Court has refused to provide such relief. In August, Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a request from students at Indiana University to block the school's vaccine mandate. Justice Barrett likewise did not refer it to the other justices.
Teachers who have not received at least one dose by this Friday at 5:00 pm will be replaced, according to an interview Mayor Bill de Blasio gave with Spectrum 1. "If you have not gotten that first dose by Friday, 5 p.m., we will assume you are not coming to work on Monday and you will not be paid starting Monday and we will fill your role with a substitute or an alternative employee," the mayor said.
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I'd say close the schools but the government won't stop taxing to fund the schools whether they are open or not. Might have to bring in some scab teachers but the union will straighten them out.
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[HotAir] When Billy Lemon was trying to kick his methamphetamine addiction, he went to a drug treatment program at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation three times a week and peed in a cup. If it tested negative for meth, he got paid about $7.
“For somebody who had not had any legitimate money – without committing felonies – that seemed like a cool thing,” says Lemon, who was arrested three times for selling meth before starting recovery.
The payments were part of a formal addiction treatment called contingency management, which incentivizes drug users with money or gift cards to stay off drugs. At the end of 12 weeks, after all his drug tests came back negative for meth, Lemon received $330. But for him, it was about more than just the money. It was being told, good job.
“It was the first opportunity where I was like, I have self-worth, still. It’s buried. This person sees it and is willing to give me seven dollars, just to take care of myself. That was very motivating,” he says.
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The better question at this point is why some enterprising, young ambulan..., uh, lawyer file a massive class action suit on behalf of all the people who are willing to not start doing drugs. Can't have any of that discrimination now can we.
Paul Miller, 32, known to his 42,000 Telegram followers as 'Gypsy Crusader,' wept in court as he was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Tuesday The right-wing extremist was stockpiling ammunition and teaching himself to manufacture firearms in preparation for a 'coming civil war,' prosecutors said
‘I’m a political prisoner. It's scary dude,' Miller said in a call from his cell with a fan, which was played by the prosecution at his sentencing hearing
Miller was confident that he would receive a lighter sentence, telling the caller that he would serve '18 months if everything goes okay'
'I was trying to do everything I could for us, trying to help our cause, trying to help our people and they just destroyed my life man, they destroyed everything,'
Initially, Miller was arrested this March for omitting his status as a convicted felon on an application for a concealed-carry permit in 2018
Two additional weapon charges were added after the FBI raided Miller's Fort Lauderdale home and discovered a rifle and 400 rounds of ammunition
Prosecutors asserted that Miller, who 'want[ed] to accelerate a full-on race war in [his] lifetime' was on the precipice' of doing something with the weapons
The evidence against him includes videos he filmed of himself approaching black individuals, calling them the N-word and threatening to attack them
The videos also show him performing Nazi salutes while showing off his weapons and complaining about Jews
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STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
Given he is a CONVICTED FELON and Public Hate Spewing Racist. He has to be the biggest DUMB ASS in town, to have even applied for a Concealed Weapons Permit given his criminal history and Racist Violent prone background.
With that said....
Addressing the AMMO
A mere 400 rounds of ammunition is NOT stockpiling.
That barely meets basic initial home defense supply.
Addressing the RACIST SPEECH, RACIST SALUTES
and etc...
So what is with the Anti-White PRO-BLACK positions, comments and actions of ANTI-FArt/BLOM, US Congress and other (D)&(S) elected city/state level officials then? Isn't the Black Power Clenched Fist Salute equal to a Nazi's?
To me neither is appropriate.
Shouldn't the law be equally applied and (D)'s & (S)'s d investigated also?
[Gateway] Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill had a heart attack and was hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis and blood clots in his lungs.
Marc Lamont Hill is only 42 years old. and a racialist commie
On Wednesday, Hill criticized Orlando Magic player Jonathan Isaac for being outspoken about his decision not to take the Covid jab.
"This sounds smart to people who don't know things," Hill said blasting Isaac.
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One of my co-workers was fully vaccinated, got covid, got blood clots, had a heart attack, too. Dr's determined the blood clots related to covid caused the heart attack. So much for the miracle vaccine.
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Before the vaccines some who contracted COVID got deep vein thrombosis, blood clots in the lungs, heart attacks and strokes due to blood clots in their brains. I lost a close friend that way 11 months ago. He thought he was recovering from COVID, then suddenly got worse & died.
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Keep that warfarin coming.
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I think I posted a link earlier about the usefulness of aspirin in this respect.
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... and got away apparently. During the Viet Nam war, local NG were training in a nearby state park. My cousin who was an Eagle Scout decked himself out in camo, breached their line taking two prisoners, disarming both (non live fire exercise) and marching them back to their camp. He's still the guy you want to have a beer with.
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Must be made up of the gee, thee, them, I don't know who I am sex "special" ops battalion.
You know, Austin's "Woke & Croak" special sex misfits, being "integrated into the military".
Austin the most intellectually deprived (depraved) azzhole ever to lead the US Military, since Benedict Arnold
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That's what happens when you bring *nothing* to a sword fight.
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"unnamed staff sergeant was smoking a cigarette outside an administrative building at Inyokern Airport, when an 'unknown person wearing full ninja garb' armed with a curved sword appeared.
The stranger asked him, 'Do you know who I am?' and 'Do you know where my family is?' to which the staff sergeant replied, 'no.'
Just another day in California.
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[FRANCE24] Venezuela unveils new banknotes on Friday to once again slash zeroes off its currency, battered by runaway inflation that has compounded the country's economic collapse and left many struggling to put food on the table.
The national economy has shrunk by 80 percent since 2013 as the oil price crashed and output dwindled during decades of under-investment, US sanctions, and mismanagement by successive socialist governments.
The latest devaluation is the third in 13 years and gives Venezuela the dubious distinction of becoming the South American country to have removed the most zeroes from its currency.
Seven one-million bolivar notes -- the highest denomination and very hard to come by -- were needed to pay in cash for one loaf of bread in the once-rich oil-producing nation, now battling the world's highest inflation rate.
Consumers have struggled to make payment for even the most basic goods or services and public sector workers have found themselves receiving salaries paid in millions of bolivars that are effectively worth nothing.
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I recall Krugman at NYT saying that while the bolivar was low it was a great investment opportunity. Wonder how much he bought. A lot, I hope.
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Years ago my Insurance Agent, who has no fiduciary responsibility to me unlike a broker, showed me an "International Fund" he wanted me to buy into. Flipping through it I noticed that they invested in Venezuela Stocks (this was under Hugo Chavez's early reign) -- I mentally *snorted* and told him that "I already have a broker so 'No, not interested'."
...a sleekly well fed gentleman of forty who may or may not be the heir to the Russian throne, but who definitely is a Prussian prince...
a descendant of the House of Romanovs, and his wife, Italian citizen Rebecca Bettarini, wed in St. Petersburg’s Saint Isaac’s Cathedral Friday.
According to the Russian Imperial House, this is the first wedding of a House representative to take place in Russia in over 100 years. Romanov and Bettarini — who converted to Orthodox Christianity and was christened Viktoria Romanovna in July 2020, officially registered their marriage in a Moscow registry office in late September. before that she was just "Becky"
The ceremony was attended by several hundred guests from several countries, including Duke Michael of Wuerttemberg, Duke of Anjour Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, the last king of Bulgaria Simeon Borisov von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Joachim Louis Napoleon Murat, Prince Philipp and Princess Isabelle of Lichtenstein, and others.
Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov is a son and an heir of the Russian Imperial House head Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, the only child of Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov and Duchess Leonida Georgiyevna Bagration of Mukhrani.
The legitimacy of Maria Vladimirovna’s title of Grand Duchess is challenged by the other line of descendants of House Romanov, who trace their bloodline to Emperor Nicholas I’s grandson, Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich.
See? And if the Romanovs are ever again asked to reign, they can meet at a certain field at dawn with their seconds to settle the thing.
#2
I had originally thought the story about the guy mauled to death by pit bulls in medias res of a home invasion was the Feel Good Story of the Day.
But as a man who cheerfully self describes as a hater of all things communist, the fact that a Romanov got married at St Isaac's in St Petersburg in 2021, well, that makes everything better.
Rantburg posted a feature story on slavery in the Caucusus September 9th. You can read it here.
[KavkazUzel] Vladislav Platonenko, who managed to escape from labor slavery in Buinaksk, returned to the Pskov region and intends to complain to the police about torture at a brick factory. The police in Dagestan promised to help with checking the plant where Platonenko worked, the Alternative anti-slavery movement reported.
As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on September 19 the "Alternative" movement published the story of Vladislav Platonenko, a native of the Pskov region, who was in labor slavery for a year at a brick factory in Buinaksk.
Platonenko came to Moscow to look for work, but at the station he was offered a job in Dagestan. Finding himself undocumented in labor slavery, Vladislav was beaten and abused, after which he developed memory problems. The man managed to escape together with a resident of Ryazan. In Ryazan, Platonenko turned to the police, but he was advised to go home and make documents. Arriving in Moscow, he lived on the street for four days until he was given the contacts of "Alternative", activists said, announcing an inspection of the brick factory, which Platonenko told about.
Vladislav Platonenko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that he returned home and now lives in the Pskov region with his mother and is applying for a new passport.
"In Ryazan, I turned to the police, but they said: make a passport at the place of registration. Now documents are being processed in the Pskov region, the passport will be ready within a month. Health is better, memory is restored. I will receive documents, restore my health, I will think about work," said Platonenko.
He clarified that during his stay at the brick factory in Buinaksk he was not paid, he was only given food. According to him, about 20 forced laborers worked at this plant, besides him.
"As soon as I get a passport, I will write a statement to the police about torture. In Ryazan, the police told me earlier that they could not accept the application without a passport," Vladislav Platonenko explained.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan promised to provide "Alternative" assistance in checking the plant where Vladislav Platonenko worked, the head of the "Alternative" movement Oleg Melnikov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, having found it difficult to specify the timing of the check.
Since Vladislav had clear signs of bodily torture, the activists "decided to try to open a criminal case," he explained. "Fortunately, there are few such factories left in Dagestan, the problem is more in Kalmykia and the Stavropol Territory," said Oleg Melnikov.
We will remind, on September 4 it became known that a criminal case of a 30-year-old owner of a livestock camp in Kalmykia, accused of illegal imprisonment of a person , was transferred to the court . According to investigators, the accused kept the employee by force, took away his passport and phone, and did not pay his salary. When the victim tried to escape, he was caught up and severely beaten, after which he was thrown into the steppe.
From 2019 to September 2021, two criminal cases were considered in the courts of Kalmykia under the article on illegal imprisonment, the press service of the Supreme Court of Kalmykia told the "Caucasian Knot" on September 16.
Only those who declare themselves a forced laborer can help to get out of labor slavery, Oleg Melnikov told the "Caucasian Knot" in January 2020 after the release of three people in Dagestan. There are criminal articles for slave labor, but they practically do not work, the lawyer Abusupyan Gaitayev confirmed then.
In Dagestan, most of the reported cases of forced labor are related to factories producing building materials. Slaves in Dagestan are a cheap labor force that is lured to the Caucasus mainly by fraudulent means. In fact, they are goods that can be bought and sold, says the "Caucasian Knot" statement "
[AlJazeera] The arrest comes after Saakashvili returned from eight years in exile and a day before key municipal elections in Georgia.
Georgia has arrested former President Mikheil Saakashvili after his return to the country following eight years in exile, as the ex-leader sought to mobilise supporters ahead of national municipal elections seen as critical to the country’s political makeup.
Local media showed a video of smiling Saakashvili being escorted into the Rustavi penitentiary institution on Friday evening.
"I want to inform the public that the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, is arrested. He was transferred to a penitentiary institution," Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told a news conference on Friday.
The announcement came about 18 hours after Saakashvili, who was convicted in absentia and has lived in Ukraine in recent years, posted on Facebook that he had returned to the country. Georgian officials earlier in the day had denied he was in Georgia.
In the posts, Saakashvili called Saturday’s elections “crucial” for Georgia and had called for a rally in Tbilisi on Sunday, promising to join it.
Saakashvili was convicted in absentia on abuse of office charges in 2018 and sentenced to six years in prison. He denies any wrongdoing and says the case is politically motivated.
President Salome Zourabichvili said she would not pardon Saakashvili, the TASS news agency reported on Friday.
Al Jazeera’s Robin Forestier-Walker, reporting from the Georgian capital Tbilisi, said Saakashvili’s return to Georgia was “momentous” and something the former leader had talked about for many years.
“Now it seems he has put all his cards on the table and he’s hoping that somehow this return will have an impact on Georgian politics – which is very fractious at the moment,” he said.
Forestier-Walker said Georgian politics had become increasingly polarised and bitter, and centred around political personalities rather than issues.
"The real issues that are facing this country – a stricken economy, and terrible COVID infection rates – these sorts of things have been underplayed. We have now this mercurial figure from the past re-emerging on the scene trying to shake things up."
Forestier-Walker said the big issue now is whether his return on the eve of these municipal elections is going to have an effect on the result.
"Because these elections are being seen as very important. They are municipal mayoral elections, but they are being seen by the opposition as a referendum on this government. And if the government fails to get enough support, it could be forced into calling early snap elections." Read the rest at the link
[Aljazeera] Taiwan has reported the largest ever incursion by the Chinese air force into its air defence zone, with 38 aircraft flying in two waves as Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained for a year or more of repeated missions by China's air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence zone close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.
The Taiwan Defence Ministry first reported Taiwanese fighters had scrambled against 18 J-16 and four Su-30 fighter jets plus two nuclear-capable H-6 bombers and an anti-submarine aircraft on Friday.
Then in the early hours of Saturday, the ministry said a further 13 Chinese aircraft were involved in a mission on Friday night – 10 J-16s, 2 H-6s and an early warning aircraft.
It said Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them.
The first batch of Chinese aircraft all flew in an area close to the Pratas Islands, with the two bombers flying closest to the atoll, according to a map issued by the ministry.
[Hot Air] The term ‘snail mail' is coming true in a very real way, effective today. As of October 1, the U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class mail delivery. The move is one that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is implementing in hopes of cutting costs.
The postal service will slow mail delivery for 4 of 10 pieces of first-class mail. Mail delivery will be at its slowest pace since the 1970s. Paul Steidler, a senior fellow at the Lexington Institute and an expert on the postal service, is critical of the cost-cutting gesture. He calls DeJoy's USPS overhaul plan "disastrous". The slowdown means that mail delivery of first-class items like letters, bills, and tax documents will take up to five days to arrive in your mailbox. It currently takes up to three days for first-class mail to arrive. You can be assured political mailers will be right on time, though
This may not sound like a big deal but for some snail mail users it will be an unexpected adjustment. Many people handle personal financial matters like paying bills online but not everyone does that. Older people and anyone mailing in important documents with deadlines like tax forms or passport renewals will have to plan accordingly for the long mail time. Bills that are paid by mail may incur late fees with the slower travel time. It can add up.
Steider said that while everything in today's society is getting faster, the postal service is getting slower.
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Bag Balm and chicken wire sales are way down also. Worthless gummit paracytes and AA make work jobs. Their day is DONE! Put some competition back in the game. Hand the mission off to FedEx, Amazon, DHS, or UPS. Competitive bids maybe? Their trucks go by house 2-3 times per day. Deliver mail to residences once or twice per week, business (if any are left) as needed.
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I did notice that a couple of my credit cards recently changed the address to send payments to. I bet it has something to do with trying to stay ahead of these changes.
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with a government service, there is always room for impairment
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The Post Office Ain't Going Nowhere Readers ---
FYI:
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." The Post Office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes. The Post Office is also empowered to construct or designate post offices with the implied authority to carry, deliver, and regulate the mail of the United States as a whole. The Postal Power also includes the power to designate certain materials as non-mailable, and to pass statutes criminalizing abuses of the postal system (such as mail fraud and armed robbery of post offices)
So, Is this News to You...?
The Post Office is a Constitutional Construct,
You want Change, then Change the Constitution !
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Large corporation had a meeting yesterday afternoon and it wasn't good. Purchase your oil and gas now. Huge problems shortly. Certainly big price increases but availability also a noted concern.
#US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit #France next week as the Biden administration tries to smooth over hurt feelings and potentially more lasting damage caused by a new Indo-Pacific security initiative.https://t.co/mBMVO4Ojfi
"Wouldja like some of this here soothing balm for yer butt hurt?"
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Whatcha want to bet Joe Dementia pulls back from this deal because France got it's feelgoods hurt.
The actual intent of all this is to sell Brit 'Astute' class SSN's to Australia, and they're built with restricted US reactor tech. The rest is all smoke. They're not gonna be buying Virginia class boats. They can't afford them.
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Police in #Spain say they have arrested a member of the notorious “Pink Panthers” gang wanted by #Germany over several heists involving the theft of jewels.https://t.co/vtueF2herw
[Rudaw] Turkey has started the removal of 83,000 landmines along its eastern border with Iran as part of a two-year EU-funded project, a spokesperson for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Turkey told AFP on Wednesday.
The 18.6 million euro project, carried out in partnership with the Turkish Mine Action Centre, will make 4.2 million square meters of land safe for local civilians and border management personnel.
Turkey, a party since 2004 to the Ottawa Treaty which bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, agreed to phase out anti-personnel landmines and establish a humanitarian border surveillance system.
The mines were put in place in eastern Turkey "between 1953 and 1996 in order to prevent illegal crossings and smuggling as well as to ensure security against the threat of the PKK", head of communications for the UNDP in Turkey, Faik Uyanik, said.
In the 1990s, the Turkish army intensified the use of mines as part of its fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
"Landmines have earned universal condemnation as the most inhumane tool for controlling borders," UNDP resident representative Louisa Vinton said in a statement on Tuesday.
"We are so proud that UNDP Turkey is currently managing the largest de-mining project under way under United Nations auspices anywhere in the world. The large scale is testament to Turkey's strong commitment to humanitarian border management, in line with EU standards," Vinton said.
In all, 175 deminers backed by 16 mine detection dogs are working in four Turkish provinces for demining operations.
Some of the land cleared by the project will be open for raising livestock and farming, the main local occupations.
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[Scroll.in] The Supreme Court on Friday provided temporary relief to 72 women Army officers who have been denied permanent commission, Live Law reported.
The court said that the officers should not be relieved from their services till the next date of hearing on October 8.
The petitioners' lawyers told the Supreme Court that the women had scored 60% marks in their assessment and were medically fit.
However, they were denied permanent commission because of "disobedience of orders, [for] forging medical documents, poor work ethics, lack of professionalism and un-officer like conduct", Live Law reported.
The lawyers said that their clients' disqualification from permanent commission was against the Supreme Court's order from March, NDTV reported.
The court had said in March that permanent commission should be granted to women Short Service Commissions Officers who score 60% marks in their assessment, meet the Army's medical criteria and obtain vigilance and disciplinary clearance, according to The Hindu.
On Friday, the petitioners' lawyers told the court: "We all have above 60% [marks]. We are all medically fit. And there is no vigilance case against us. We fulfil all criteria for permanent commission."
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to explain why the officers were denied permanent commission. Apparently the Supreme Court didn't read the previous paragraph above: "they were denied permanent commission because of "disobedience of orders, [for] forging medical documents, poor work ethics, lack of professionalism and un-officer like conduct""
"None of these officers should be relieved from service until the next hearing," Justices DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathna said, according to NDTV.
In a landmark verdict in February 2020, the Supreme Court had directed that women officers in the Army be granted a permanent commission, including command postings.
The Army had constituted a special selection board in September to screen women officers. The results for this were declared in November 2020. Women who were not granted permanent commission had moved the Supreme Court.
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I once called a reference listed on a job application. The reference was quite surprised (and told me so) that he was even used as a reference by the applicant. He went on to say, "Don't hire her."
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Uphold Standards:
No Standards, No Base;
No Base, No Level of Competency;
No Level of Competency, No Confidence;
No Confidence, No Security;
No Security, No Defense.
Raises the Question (?)
Who are these NUMB NUTS leading our Defense Forces Today ?
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Fillmore, you from India?
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Any bets on most of them being commissioned with one excuse or another?
[HotAir] -
...For the research, the monitors looked at data through early August, when the study had enrolled 775 volunteers in the United States and overseas. For volunteers who received the drug, their risk of being hospitalized or dying fell 50 percent, without any concerning side effects, compared with those who received placebo pills, Merck said in a news release announcing the findings.
Seven percent of volunteers in the group that received the drug were hospitalized, and none of them died, compared with a 14 percent rate of hospitalization and death ‐ including eight deaths ‐ in the group that received the placebo.
...Just as the vaccines inspired by the pandemic represented a breakthrough, i.e. the use of mRNA to generate antibodies against a novel virus, the new therapeutic involves a breakthrough as well. Instead of attacking viral proteins, molnupiravir scrambles the invader's genes to stop it from replicating. In other words, it hacks the virus. Good luck getting FDA approval (10 years of multi-generation experimentation on rats to prove that it doesn't affect host's genes/protein synthesis)
Finally
Meg Tirrell
@megtirrell
Price of #covid19 drugs/vaccines:
Pfizer vaccine: $19.50/dose x 2 = $39 for primary series
Regeneron antibody drug: $2100/dose
Merck/Ridgeback's molnupiravir (if EUA'd): ~$700/course (US paying $1.2B for 1.7m courses) or $70/pill
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Those prices are the prices of the bribes for their cooperation with the Ivermectin part of the disinformation operation. To pay Merck off for not performing trials with Ivermectin themselves.
These people you're shilling for... if the truth were widely perceived, there'd be trials of those people in little glass cubes and gallows and flights to the middle of the Antarctic to scatter the ashes. Or maybe Venus.
Which I find notable because I've been prescribed a very similar combination of antihistamines and azithromycin for pneumonia about five years ago. It's amazing what can happen if you don't have a psychotic gnome telling everyone to not try the standard pneumonia treatments because the molecular scanner says so.
Researchers around the world have continued breathing new life into a retracted study, which suggested that common antihypertensive medications were harmful in patients with COVID-19.
Published online on May 1, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study relied on Surgisphere data to claim an association between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitor therapy and worse outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular disease.
The journal retracted the paper due to concerns about fraudulent data on June 4, 2020 in a widely publicized move, but the study has continued to rack up citations -- totaling at least 652 as of May 31, 2021, reported Todd Lee, MD, MPH, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
It's strange that the fake study was revealed in June but its recommendations were still being followed in December, when people I know being hospitalized had their ACE inhibitors (that they had been on for a decade or so) discontinued in spite of their known utility in helping kidney function.
(Never mind all the business of whether or not it inhibited spike proteins... do you understand why kidney function is important to pneumonia patients?)
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Oh, and one more thing.... when the government wrote their fucking check to Peter Daszak, they lost all right to complain about how much ANY treatment of the virus costs, whether it's 700.00 or 70,000.00. Have they tried proscribing Google or Microsoft yet?
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#2 Remember the author is an idiot. The thing is, probably, inhibitor of coronavirus replicase-transcriptase.
Judging by the text "induces errors in coronavirus genes", inhibitor of exoribonuclease which does proofreading. And we don't have such enzymes.
Nevertheless, what I added re FDA applies - because enzyme inhibitor may not be narrow-specialization enough to be safe.
(If they produced it BEFORE there were working vaccines/mAb ...)
[TheTimes] Health experts have been left baffled by a big rise in a common and potentially fatal type of heart attack in the west of Scotland.
During the summer there was a 25 per cent rise in the number of
people rushed to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank with partially blocked arteries cutting blood supply to the heart.
Typically the centre, which is the largest of its kind in the UK and treats people from five health board areas, receives 240 patients a month suffering with this form of heart attack, but this rose to more than 300 over May, June and July of this year. Doctors have searched for a pattern among patients to determine if less access to health checks in the pandemic or a history of Covid-19 infection may explain it but have found no obvious trend.
In 2020 I had 2 simultaneous tiny strokes in 2 different parts of my brain, whose cause has yet to be determined. I was concerned these might have been related to COVID, but I had never been symptomatic. My docs refused to test me for COVID during my 48 hours in hospital. A few days after my release I went on my own and got a COVID PCR test which was negative. Sometimes stuff just happens.
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Sometimes random events appear to cluster; it doesn't make them any less random.
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2 hours before my strokes I had just completed a 3-mile walk on a sunny warm day, a typical day's exercise for me. I may have gotten a trifle dehydrated. Stroke specialists said the 2 simultaneous strokes were definitely due to a single blood clot that split into 2 fragments just before lodging in my cerebellum, unless you prefer to believe other mechanisms for the clot formation. Have no symptoms at all now, fortunately. Studies on my head & neck showed healthy blood vessels, no apparent clot sources there. They put me on clopidgrel since I can't take low dose aspirin to make my platelets less sticky, and added atorvastatin which drastically lowered my cholesterol levels. They implanted a cardiac monitor in my chest wall to look out for atrial fibrillation for the duration of its battery life, about 3 years. Am now waiting for the next shoe to drop...
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I saw the pic, it was a side view that didn't seem to have any useful details. I imagine the overhead view from satellites would have been more interesting. Which brings up the question: why move it during the daytime?
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.
[thegrio... or something] An Illinois family mourning the death of their 18-year-old son is outraged that no murder charges will be filed in conjunction with his death due to what prosecutors are calling "mutual combat." 
[Townhall] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined a request Friday night from NYC teachers to block the city's 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Gateway] Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill had a heart attack and was hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis and blood clots in his lungs.
[FRANCE24] Venezuela unveils new banknotes on Friday to once again slash zeroes off its currency, battered by runaway inflation that has compounded the country's economic collapse and left many struggling to put food on the table.
[Aljazeera] 
Bag Balm and chicken wire sales are way down also. Worthless gummit paracytes and AA make work jobs. Their day is DONE! Put some competition back in the game. Hand the mission off to FedEx, Amazon, DHS, or UPS. Competitive bids maybe? Their trucks go by house 2-3 times per day. Deliver mail to residences once or twice per week, business (if any are left) as needed. 
