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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Murdered on his first day at work: Colombian security guard, 22, is shot at point-blank range as he tackles armed robber
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 12:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Man, 24, is arrested after two missing girls are 'found in his apartment with nothing but a mattress, roaches, Plan B and condom wrappers' - after missing boy escaped and raised alarm
  • Tyron Scott, 24, of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been charged with four counts of child endangerment after several minors were found in his home

  • Police found the minors after responding to a request about a missing boy in Pittsburgh

  • The boy's brother tipped off police after seeing a video of his brother being attacked on Facebook

  • Boy told police in a Save A Lot parking lot that he had been 'jumped' and forced to strip, sprayed in the face with cologne and forced to drink unknown fluids

  • When police arrived at Scott's residence, they found two other minors in a room with only a mattress, Plan B, and condom wrappers

  • The two girls, who gave police false names, were discovered to be reported missing in McKeesport and Pittsburgh

  • Police also encountered Scott and his daughter

  • Scott reportedly told police that at least two other minors ran away

  • Scott is currently in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing for endangering at least three minors
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 05:53 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WHEN PLAN A
DOESN’T WORK
OUT, THERE’S
PLAN B
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  CNN Assistant Producer?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#3  There are times when the swift, harsh justice of Sharia law starts looking pretty good. How would young Mr. Scott fair under Saudi law, one wonders? Surely he would be minus *some* body part after a few months.

Posted by: Secret Master || 12/30/2021 13:46 Comments || Top||


California man, 25, 'carrying a rifle, ammo, body armor and a "hit list" which included Biden and Fauci' is arrested on his way to the White House and tells authorities 'he's the only one who can free the US of evil'
  • Kuachua Brillion Xiong, 25, is being held at Pottawattamie County Jail

  • Authorities seized an AR-15 rifle, ammunition, loaded magazines, body armor and medical kits from his car on December 21

  • He had initially been stopped by a sheriff for driving aggressively and weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 80

  • Xiong had a TikTok 'hit list,' which included 100 videos of political figures he planned to kill to 'fight evil demons in the White House'

  • Xiong reportedly claimed he would kill Biden and other political leaders including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and Mark Zuckerberg

  • Xiong had recently been fired from his job as a grocery store worker
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 05:41 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  his job as a grocery store worker

Bag boy gets bagged

He had a checker past



Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  But not "Joe Smith." No wonder the media isn't interested...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  IB Times has a photo of the nutter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/30/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  At that age he shoulda been home arguing with the wife about who is unloading the dishwasher.
Posted by: badanov || 12/30/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  At least he wasn't carrying an 'assault rifle'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  bUt HE cRoSSeD STaTe LiNES!!!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#7  His heart is in the right place, he needs to work on his operation plan.
Posted by: Lampedusa Creans7915 || 12/30/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||


Cops on the hunt for fugitive 14-year-old who killed three other teens in convenience store 'revenge' shooting: Father acted as getaway driver before turning himself in
  • A 14-year-old boy is on the run from police after allegedly killing three people at a Garland, Texas convenience store earlier this week

  • Police in Garland are searching for Abel Elias Acosta, who they say fired off more than 20 shots on Sunday, killing three other teenagers in a targeted attack

  • A fourth teen was injured, police said Wednesday

  • The deadly ambush may be retaliation for a 'previous disturbance' against one or more of the victims, police said

  • Acosta, who's described as just over 5-feet tall and 125 pounds, was driven away from the crime scene by his father, Richard Acosta, who turned himself in after

  • The elder Acosta, 33, now faces capital murder charges as he's held on $1 million bond, according to police

  • The victims have since been identified by police as Xavier Gonzalez, 14, Ivan Noyala, 16, and Rafael Garcia, 17
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 05:39 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One one hand, it is nice to see a father playing an active role in his son's life...
Posted by: SteveS || 12/30/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||


The CNN producer for Jake Tapper resigned after being implicated in a Project Veritas sting
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

I misread it the first time as Mr. Tapper himself resigned. Oh well. But kudos once again to the Project Veritas team, especially as they carried it off after their main office was flooded out and rebuilt in the face a nasty FBI harassment campaign aided and abetted by the New York Times..
Posted by: Fred || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I still remember when some over-rated blogger used to say Jake Tapper was the most honestest, fairestest and beliveablestest journalist of all time. Sort of like back when Ashleigh Banfield's glasses were going to take over all of cable news. Remember that?

Good times.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine if we had actual investigative journalists in this country instead of just one.

There would be scalps nailed to the walls of every newsroom.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 12/30/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Is "Jake Tapper" a stage name?
Or an alias (like Carlos Danger) used on a ped0 hookup site?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Cabal of sexual deviants....totally Weirdo Theory. Go watch the Critically Acclaimed Cuties and forget about it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Man Wearing Dress Becomes Jeopardy's Top 'Female' Earner
[PJ] The ability of men to erase women has now expanded to game shows.

On Friday, Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider became, according to NBC News, "the highest-earning female contestant in the game show’s nearly 57-year run."

There’s just one problem. Amy Schneider is a man.
I'll take WOKE teevee game shows for $600. Alex
Amy Schneider is a man who identifies as a woman. Some call that a transgender woman. Despite his identifying as a woman, he is biologically male.

While Jeopardy! doesn’t distinguish between male and female contestants in their hall of fame, he is referred to by female pronouns and as a woman on the show and the Jeopardy! website.

Unlike sports, where men have multiple physical advantages over women, men don’t have an innate advantage over women in Jeopardy!, but Schneider being dubbed the highest-earning female in Jeopardy! history nevertheless erases the achievements of actual women who have competed in the show, like Larissa Kelly, the true highest-earning female in Jeopardy! history.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 02:23 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amy reveals large 'shore leave' tattoo from previous USN Pacific cruise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Amy's got some serious sternocleidomastoids
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 3:43 Comments || Top||

#3  ... though UPenn champeen swimmer Lia Thomas could give Amy a run for his money in the musculature category
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 4:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Rabidly woke feminists created this. They should be publicly shamed into having to come out and clean up their mess.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember now...
A punch in the adams apple of one of these carries an additional charge of 'hate crime'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Har. Har. Har.
*puts $1.50 in jar*
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Dr. Lynette Nusbacher is another one.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/30/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||


Anderson Cooper floats withholding Social Security from unvaxxed, fact-checkers lib-splain
[BIZPACREVIEW] Social media went kaboom! after a clip of CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
anchor Anderson Cooper appearing to suggest that the vaccine-hesitant could be denied Social Security was posted on Christmas Eve and drew a fierce response from Twitter users worried about the lengths to which the government might go to enforce compliance.

But don’t be mad. He didn’t really mean what he said as an endorsement. Outlets like AP have jumped to lib-splain his question as "only a question." Thanks for clearing that up, guys!

The clip was from an August 4 interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, a man who has championed vaccines and has been a regular presence on television since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic and who, like Dr. Anthony Fauci
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
, relishes serving up doomsday predictions about the virus.

During the interview on "Anderson Cooper 360," the host and Gates discussed a variety of topics including the billionaire’s relationship with deceased pedophile Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
, who was found dead in his cell in a high-security prison where he was awaiting trial, and the conversation turned to the problem of coercing the unvaxxed into obedience.

While Cooper did not explicitly call for such a severe measure, many believed that he at least floated the idea which clearly delighted the snickering Gates.
Posted by: Fred || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  F--k these monsters. They have forfeited any and all legitimacy.

They literally don't know what the hell theyre doing now, and are just reacting, blabbing, spasmodically asserting control over a country that no longer believes or respects anything they say
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ You must be referring to democrats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Gates and Anderson in a scene where reality imitating fiction. Remember Mel Brook's scene with the French king shooting peasants as skeet targets (Drifting to the Left) after complaining that "the peasants seem to think I have no regard for them"?
Posted by: magpie || 12/30/2021 2:25 Comments || Top||


#5  In other news, "Used-car salesmen, root-canals enjoy upsurge in popularity."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I propose withholding viewers from CNN. Oh wait, already happening.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/30/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  These CNN people know they have the right to remain silent, correct?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 18:20 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Bestiale || 12/30/2021 23:04 Comments || Top||

#9  "Forgive me, Father Fauci, for I have sinned..."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 23:16 Comments || Top||


Careful vaxxed, boosted and masking families get covid anyway
multiple stories, in Wapo, of several families in wash DC area that now have mild cases of covid but suffer terrible status anxiety because they think people will think they are, well, you know...

boo hoo
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Total Incoherence stage. Absolute shitshow now
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  The off-label (if you will) value of the vaxx was always that it was yet another way for libs to feel superior to others. Now it's sort of like the "baby on board" sticker craze. A fad that some remember nostalgically and everyone else has forgotten.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  I often have a sinus thing at the end of the year. This year, I failed the COVID test Monday (tested positive). Like an unusual cold, and feeling better every day.

Despite a lot of social interaction with seven adults and five grandchildren over four days last week, so far no one else is sick. All, including me, have been vaxxed and boosted, except the four-year old granddaughter. I guess it's my lucky sinuses.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/30/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Newsweek captures similar stories here.

https://www.newsweek.com/let-omicron-spell-end-pandemic-covid-shaming-opinion-1664100
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/30/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  The Medias right now for the fully vax'd pushers who are getting sick:

Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  #2 Now it's sort of like the "baby on board" sticker craze.

Remember "Nuclear-Free Zone" signs?

Soon to be joined by Science is Real
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  I heard from a distant cousin who is visiting relatives in Michigan. She is vaxxed & boosted, but some of the relatives she is visiting aren't. After a couple days of visiting, she came down with a cold and had a + COVID-19 test. Symptoms peaked and faded very quickly in her, as one might expect for a healthy 18 year old. Later the family learned another local relative who is against the COVID-19 vaccination was coming down with something a few days before that, told none about this, attended some family gatherings despite feeling unwell & then had a + COVID-19 test. He is probably the source for her. Not a good time to go to Michigan and hang out with anybody.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/30/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||


Suddenly the Unvaccinated are wanted back…
[CanadaFreePress] Hospitals facing staff shortages suddenly are asking their Unvaccinated nurses to come back.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd ask for back pay and $10K; otherwise they can go piss up a rope.
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  A good roundup of Covidian insanity from across the world is gathered and published on Substack at Eugyppius: A Plague Chronicle
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Insanity: Preliminary UK data: Triple vaccinated SARS-2 positives are more than four times more likely to have Omicron than unvaccinated.

Sanity:
"We should be calling for a total and complete shutdown of vaccinations until our public health representatives can figure out what is going on."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for big Parma refunds and compensation to all unintended or unexpectedly harmed.
Posted by: Dale || 12/30/2021 3:57 Comments || Top||

#5  What Raj said, and watch Big Pharma pull the vaxxes unexpectedly when their legal departments decide there is no upside to continuing to provide them. That will be fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Aye! on Raj's motion.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ ... plus a $1,000 spif for every previously-vaxxed patient they treat
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#8  What Raj said. Let them show their "sincerity" ($$$)
Posted by: magpie || 12/30/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#9  And a spot or two on the Board of Directors or equivalent decision making committee.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#10  It's time to turn vaxx shaming back on the "I will obey" crowd. Same with masks.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Also time to tell the Ozzies, NZ and eurines "Your vaxx hysteria activities are the equivalent of what the Chinese are doing to the Uyghurs, and you can stop now or face a real quarantine.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
CNN Lost Another 38% Of Viewers In 2021
Remember the old Miller Lite commercials? "Tastes Great! Less Viewers!"
[Zero Hedge] - CNN managed a remarkable feat in 2021. The network, currently reeling from a spate of pedophilia related allegations among its staff, succeeded in losing ANOTHER 38 percent of its viewership.

According to Nielsen data, CNN saw the massive drop in weekday prime-time viewership, while MSNBC saw a 25 percent drop in viewership for the same time slots.

The data shows that on average there are 919,000 Americans watching MSNBC, while only 787,000 are still watching CNN.

At this rate the networks will soon be out of business.

At this point, anyone still watching CNN has to be either completely brainwashed or brain dead. The network is now desperately attempting to corral these zombies into paying for its services with subscriptions.

Howard Stern recently posited the question "who the hell’s gonna pay for CNN+?" noting that "people don’t want CNN. I mean are they outta their minds?"

Fox News also saw a decline of 34 percent, but still has vastly more viewers with an average of 2.3 million during prime time hours.

Network news channels also saw significant declines in viewership, with NBC "Nightly News" registering a 14% decline, and both ABC’s "World News Tonight" and the "CBS Evening News" seeing 12% drops in viewership.

The data also revealed that visits to mainstream media news websites plummeted, with unique visitors to the Washington Post’s website dropping by an staggering 44% between November 2020 and 2021, and the New York Times registering a 34% decline in unique visitors.

While analysts claim the decline is due to President Trump leaving office, one might posit that it has more to do with the torrent of bullshit pouring out the mouths of every anchor and talking head visible on the networks, and practically every ’journalist’ woefully attempting to disguise their opinions as real news in the Post and the Times.
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 08:39 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The problem is that if you have a cable TV or satellite package, you're stuck with having CNN as part of the "basic package" and paying for it. Letters to CEOs have proved unavailing.

So maybe I should look into this streaming stuff. Any other suggestions?
Posted by: Tom || 12/30/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  CNN could boost their ratings by broadcasting every meaningful question that asked Joe Biden in 2021 that he answered coherently.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/30/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- that will take about three seconds. What about after that?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/30/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Naked sumo mud wrestling between Brian Stelter and Jeffrey Toobin?

Snark O'The Day Team Award
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Once again, Toobin would have his hands full

Snark O'The Day Team Award
Posted by: Frank G || 12/30/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#6  How much would you put down there are methods in this digital age to get a fair estimate on numbers; should even be able to figure channels 'just left on' like at airports, even vs. accidentally vs. always on at home. Sounds crazy, but so does Alexa telling kids to stick coins in power outlets...which is actually a good critical thinking exercise.

Stetler lost a wrestling match with his trousers, so...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  #s 4 & 5 for tag team snark o the day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  There are youtubers with bigger audiences than that.

At this rate the networks will soon be out of business.

This will never be allowed to happen. Soros and his ilk will fund them forever. Plenty of money out there to keep the mainstream media going with no gas in the tank. They are too valuable as propaganda tools.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 12/30/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 Once again, Toobin would have his hands full
1/3rd full
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe the operative epithet is "needle-d*ck bug-f*cker..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  I don't watch CNN, but Ah'm gettin some ugly visuals.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 12:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Any other suggestions?

Hulu/FX
Netflix
Amazon Prime

A 'smart TV' will have a load of streaming selections. Some subscriptions, some with ads.

Of course, it will also monitor and report what you watch.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#13  I figured they had CNN on in prison.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 17:59 Comments || Top||


LA hospital sparks outrage after DUMPING bodies of 19 dead COVID patients outside in the rain for HOURS before security finally moved them into refrigerated morgue
  • Memorial Hospital of Gardena, in Los Angeles, left nearly 20 bodies of dead COVID-19 patients outside in the rain

  • Employees are seen rearranging the bodies in a mobile refrigerator in footage taken by CBSLA

  • The hospital has a morgue that could only hold six bodies and said it was following protocols by moving the remainder to a mobile unit

  • A witness said she saw employees crying as body fluid leaked onto them as they rearranged the bodies in a recent downpour

  • California's COVID-19 cases are on the rise and the state just broke a cumulative 5 million cases
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 05:57 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, if the LA river was just more like the Ganges...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Have you SEEN the garbage in the LA river?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


Goat 'with the face of a human' seen as a 'warning from God' is born in India
Baaaa

Baal
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thought ValJar was still alive. Reincarnated in India?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  John Candy is alive!
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Candy was more stoat than goat
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Advise you do not mate with goats.
Posted by: newc || 12/30/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Similar incantations frequently uttered by Chicago's picnic ant lady.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Chicago's picnic ant lady.??

You owe me a keyboard, B
Posted by: Frank G || 12/30/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#7  ^#5: H.P.Lovecraft was prescient: The Dunwich Horror
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/30/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Beetlejuice!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 15:11 Comments || Top||

#9  I still say Admiral Ackbar...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 15:15 Comments || Top||

#10  It's a trap! (Trap is a slang term for a transsexual)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 15:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Biden signs $137 million deal with German pharmaceutical company for COVID test strip factory that will take THREE YEARS to build and will start producing 83.3 million tests a month in late 2024 at the earliest
By then all susceptible likely will have died
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 13:43 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I wonder how much the Big Guy will be getting.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/30/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Has anyone actually checked to see if positive for COVID gives a false positive on a pregnancy test?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Any news on how well the US national strategic stockpile of PPE is doing?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/30/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#4  There may be a bright side to this: if the USA runs low on COVID-19 tests, the number of newly diagnosed victims will surely fall.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/30/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Hope the designers have a re-purpose in mind. A private sector investor would.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Baby milk factory. Soon there will be enough muzz there to bomb so that at least one will be necessary.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Ha!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 17:59 Comments || Top||

#8  As if we didn't know already, but this is confirmation. Their only plan is play Covid all the way to 2024 together with fraud. They're just like geckos that can't help biting that electrified mealworm.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/30/2021 21:55 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Bestiale || 12/30/2021 22:51 Comments || Top||

#10  [put the crack-]Pipe down, Hoib
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 23:06 Comments || Top||


Britain
'Make way!' Moment Queen's Guardsman flattens child who stepped into his path at the Tower of London
Sooo many times I've wanted to.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 06:05 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spectators provoking the incidents.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Foreigners living in Russia including journalists will be forced to undergo tests for sexually transmitted diseases or drug use and submit fingerprints under new laws
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 06:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Kinda like Covid VAX cards here.
But only for the natives.
Foreigners fly free.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Now we will probe you, tovarich. So you can travel...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  If the western world had serious countries, simply reciprocating on this kind of behavior, like checking all Russians for STDs, giving anal COVID tests to all visiting Chinese, would end this silliness very quickly. But in our arrogance we hold these dictatorship countries to lower standards.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 12/30/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||


Economy
Cryptocurrency Prices Fall In December, and Investors Blame Omicron, Climate Change
"Climate change" - is there anything it can't do?
[CNBC] KEY POINTS

* Investors have shifted away from riskier investments such as cryptocurrency due to the emergence of the Covid omicron variant.

* ESG investors are also concerned about the use of energy in cryptocurrency mining, according to Lou Kerner, partner at Blockchain Coinvestors.

* Cryptocurrencies tied to the metaverse, gaming and decentralized finance are also pulling investor interest and dollars away from bitcoin, ethereum and ripple, according to Brian Kelly of BKCM.

The rising number of cases of the Covid omicron variant in the U.S. are a major catalyst for the falling cryptocurrency prices in December, according to investors and analysts.

Ethereum is up more than 400% in 2021 but on pace for its worst month since March 2020 as investors reassess their exposure to riskier assets following the emergence of the omicron variant.

Bitcoin is on pace to double the S&P 500, and ripple is more than 200% higher year to date, but both are also down double digits this month.

"With omicron coming along and the U.S. economy stalling a bit, a lot of macro funds that use bitcoin as this pro-cyclical inflation hedge have decided to take profits throughout December," Brian Kelly, CEO and founder of digital currency investment firm BKCM, told CNBC.

ESG — or environmental, social and governance — investing and concerns over energy use have also been a catalyst in recent crypto declines, according to Lou Kerner, partner at Blockchain Coinvestors.

"Today ’proof of work’ from the [cryptocurrency] mining machines is looked upon negatively by a lot of the investment community because of the energy it consumes," Kerner told CNBC. "But if you dig deep, much of the energy is energy that couldn’t be used for anything else. Relative to the massive value we are getting from it, the energy I think will become much less of a concern next year."
This 'energy' is commonly called electricity, and how on Earth it relates to "climate change" doesn't even come close to reaching the level of tenuousness. The sheer level of arrogance of stating electricity can't be used elsewhere demonstrates a fundamental lack of seriousness on at least one party here. I'd rather these analysts say 'I don't know' than to pull yet something else outta their collective asses.
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Court extends remand of accused in Wajiha Swati murder case
[NATION.PK] A court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday extended the physical remand of the key accused in the kidnapping and murder case of American national Wajiha Swati by three days.Police produced the three accused, including Wajiha’s ex-husband Rizwan Habib, his father and employee, before the court on the completion of their previous physical remand.

The investigation officer pleaded that their remand be extended for further investigation. He said the murder weapon and the vehicle used to transport the victim’s body to Lakki Marwat have not yet been recovered from the accused.

Civil Judge Tariq Khan extended the accused persons’ physical remand for three days.

Earlier, the victim’s former husband confessed to abducting her soon after her arrival in Pakistain and killing her and burying her body in Lakki Marwat.

Wajiha had gone missing soon after she reached Pakistain on October 16, the police said. A case was registered with the Morgah cop shoppe on the complaint of her eldest son. The FIR nominated Rizwan Habib as the main accused.
Posted by: Fred || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
What does future warfare look like? It's here already
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 06:46 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Israeli firm to build country's first green hydrogen project
Will Nambia set the pace?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2021 06:37 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hydrogen is a rather risky and costly item to store and transport: I would set up a chemical plant adjacent to the hydrogen plant and convert it to a (room T & P) liquid chemical feed stock or fuel.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/30/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||


CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus
[Gateway] After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.

Via the CDC website:

In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.

This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.
Spusosh Croluck9804 gives us the Global Research post on the subject, commenting:
This is huge, and will be buried I suspect. You can verify the story at the CDC website.

The lab test that has been used for almost two years to identify people as having or having been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is being withdrawn. *It cannot differentiate between COVID and flu viruses.*

Think about what that means for statistics on which the pandemic lockdowns have been based.

I didn’t read the CDC statement, and previous statements on the issue since the CDC announcement at the end of July that the test should be discontinued, as meaning that the test did not differentiate between Covid and influenza, but rather that the original protocol never tested for influenza at all. It seems to me, however, that the real problem with the test is that the original protocol from the WHO and CDC demanded so many amplification cycles that an unknown but very large number of results were reported as positive that should not have been. At the same time, medical staff were pushed to report many patients as having Covid who either were not infected or where Covid was a mild infection, the problem that drove them to seek treatment being something else — with Covid rather than from Covid. So the statistics were being cooked several different ways, and we will no doubt see additional — considerably lower — restatements in the months and year to come.

In other CDC news:
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Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unraveling.

Jig's up, clowns
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  As a result of recent hospital and nursing home culling, Social Security benefits are now expected to be payable in full on a timely basis until December 2037, when the trust fund reserves are projected to become exhausted.

Previous fund exhaustion date was August 2037. Government progress continues.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2021 3:25 Comments || Top||

#3  So much for "no flu" in 2020.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 12/30/2021 4:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I shared this to Facebook and got the "This information is false" statement.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/30/2021 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The MSM, the internet commentariat, and FB continue to muddle the issue.
There is NO one "PCR test for COVID-19 testing". There is NO one "the lab test" There are MANY RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 testing. Only one will have its EUA permit cancelled by the CDC on New Years Day. The others RT-PCR tests still have their EUA's in effect.
The CDC in its infinite wisdom somewho cannot figure out how to put this information up front and make it clear. Go to their website and search for a list of all RT-PCR's which will still have valid EUA's for continued use after New Years Day. I could not find a list, but I was able to find many RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 that will continue to be available.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/30/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Their whole narrative is collapsing in front of us.

Here's a nice summary, with a dozen screenshots indicating how these assholes repeatedly claimed their vaccine would be a dead end for the virus and that it would stop the spread.

And then they changed their very definition of a vaccine, watering it down to mean merely "protecting," not halting.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 14:49 Comments || Top||

#7  COVID is starting to look like a plague on blue places and gullible vaccine rubes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#8  To be fair, Dr. Pruneface Wallensky looks better in an N-95 mask.
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Well. I'm "protected" from violent crime by not making myself an easy victim. Lots of ways to do that, the gummint doesn't like many of them either. But then, statistically, most people are never the victim of a violent crime, despite taking no precautions at all. Sort of like COVID.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Of course, no one knew what would happen. But these smug, power-mad assholes will never, ever utter the words We just don't know.

They didn't know then. They don't know now. They're flying blind, botching the data, changing medical definitions on the fly, moving the goalposts.

And demonizing and siccing their Stasi thugs on anyone who questions their ridiculous ever-morphing Narrative. F--k these people. Resist them.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 14:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Lots of ways to do that, the gummint doesn't like many of them either.

For some reason, I borrowed this one from of the best cinematic masterpieces in human history, Point Break. I carry a Bic lighter in my pocket whenever I buy gas and my inner Paul Kersey is almost hoping someone tries to carjack my ass.
Posted by: Raj || 12/30/2021 15:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Point Break kicks ass.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2021 15:18 Comments || Top||

#13  This has been suspected since nearly the beginning.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Canadian researchers analyze Pfizer 6-month data which indicates that Pfizer’s COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent. Also, an overview of the Pfizer trial flaws in both design and execution.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/30/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||

#15  heh
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/30/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||

#16  AND the Doctor who developed the PCR said it was never intended to be a diagnostic tool
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/30/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||

#17  Careful, that Disease Prevented is a qualitative guess, though a good judo move since the pro-vax has been braying that for a good 6 months now with taking the vax.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/30/2021 18:51 Comments || Top||



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