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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Florida boy hauls in two .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifles on fishing trip
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some bad actors storing assets for future usage perhaps?

Keeping the large and heavy pieces well away from prying eyes. The canals don't have a strong current so these would pretty much stay where placed. The barrels would be much easier to keep hidden.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/04/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I would think a Barrett lower would not work well after being submerged in water, mud and sand. There are much better ways to hide/store underground.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/04/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  At least one article I read said they were wrapped in plastic. If the magnet got them, it couldn't have been very many layers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/04/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  This article said they were shrink-wrapped, which implies a certain amount of planning and investment. I don’t have shrink wrap equipment, not even for my kitchen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/04/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Cache for future sniper ops?, Hopefully the divers will see what else is down there if so, and perhaps forensics can help determine why the spot fit the needs of the logistics/support team prepping the AO.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/04/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  So those "I lost it in a boating accident" excuses are legit?
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/04/2022 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Groan...every time I hear this story they are some .05 caliber larger.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/04/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Wonder if the serial numbers were etched off. At least that would help indicate whether a Gun Rights individual had a change of heart or the ditching of evidence from a commission of a crime.
Posted by: Ebbavising Hitler7605 || 02/04/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Winter Olympics guests describe 'dystopian' scenes inside the village after being greeted by bartenders in full hazmat suits and robots spraying disinfectant under Zero Covid policy
  • Winter Olympics begins in Beijing with participants confined to Covid bubble

  • Guests at one of 70 sealed Beijing hotels described atmosphere as 'dystopian'

  • Bartenders made drinks in full PPE while robots sprayed the air with disinfectant

  • 11,000 Games participants and 20,000 local volunteers will be confined inside the bubble until the event finishes, on February 20
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/04/2022 11:07 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  It's finished. Over.
Endemic now.

Harvard medical professor joins chorus demanding US finally drops COVID restrictions as cases fall 40% in a week and deaths flatten

The only Branch COVIDians still thrashing and denying the obvious are Fauxi, Muppet-Brandon and Muppeteer Ron Klain and assorted shitheads like Jolson Trudeau, Governors Whitless and Brylcream and a few million Karens.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I can hardly wait to see how this plays out. Will the Chinese defeat the virus, or the Games?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/04/2022 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like a Branch Covidian totalitarian dream.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 02/04/2022 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Gettin' them anal tests?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/04/2022 18:04 Comments || Top||

#5  And it this what DM has basically been advocating for two years now?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/04/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't matter; I wont be watching anything coming out of China; not even the clips...count me out!
Posted by: Ebbavising Hitler7605 || 02/04/2022 19:54 Comments || Top||

#7  I've never understood the Olympics to begin with. If I watched football only one every 4 years, I wouldn't watch it at all.

And why in the world would we be supporting China after they attempted to poison us all via the Wuhan Flu?
Posted by: Crusader || 02/04/2022 21:29 Comments || Top||


Economy
Gasoline Prices UP
January 31,2022

[GasPricesAAA] Uncertainty over Russia’s intentions toward Ukraine is contributing to higher crude oil prices, which are closing in on $90 per barrel. Russia is a member of OPEC+, and any sanctions based on their actions toward Ukraine may cause it to withhold crude oil from the global market. Higher oil prices will lead to higher pump prices for drivers. The national average for a gallon of gas has risen to $3.36, three cents more than a week ago.

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up about 5 cents/gal since the report above; also up about $1/gal from last year at this time; currently WTI is well above $90/barrel; not directly related but there was a build up in inventory in January in durables (bad for next month's employment)
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As annoying as it is, I'm not in the mood to get laid off again. And yes Skid, I'm a rig guy. Been MWD, Mudlogger, and now I do automation software. Out here on a rig in West Virigina atm.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/04/2022 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  In the 70's they simply slowed the crude oil ships down to drive prices up.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 02/04/2022 2:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Can it get any worse?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 5:13 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 Can it get any worse?

You know better than to ask that question!
Posted by: Nguard || 02/04/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Two simple acts - reenact Trumps fracking authorization and the keystone pipeline, would stabilize prices. But NOOOOOOOOOO. Self Inflicted Wound!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/04/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||

#6  How can we support Chinese solar production if we open the Keystone ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/04/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  BLS report out just now. +467k non farm payroll (that's right an increase - once again the ADP and BLS numbers don't agree well). Unemployment stays at 4.0; average workweek down a bit. In all not too bad.

However, with the inventory build up in January, I fear February's numbers (tb released 4 March) will not be pretty.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/04/2022 8:46 Comments || Top||

#8  FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Crude Oil per Barrel prices over the last 22 years.
In Jan. 2000 it was $45.66 a barrel and adjusted for inflation that would be $73.93.

The highest on record price for a barrel of Crude Oil Barrel since the year 2000, happened in June 2008 when it peaked at $178.36 a barrel.

Note: Yep! it happened under the Obama Admin, which is strongly rumored to be now steering this Admin/Junta.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/04/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#9  in June 2008, W was Prez
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/04/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Gas prices jump in Keystone Pipeline cancellation fallout
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/04/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
Energy giant Shell posts 'momentous' £12BILLION profits as millions face soaring bills and cost-of-living crisis - sparking calls for windfall tax on power companies
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That '70s feeling...
Can stagflation be far behind?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Price controls must come first. Congress must establish a 'sell date' for effective profit taking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/04/2022 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  If you didn't invest in oil in the spring of 2020 you seriously missed out.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/04/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Pie chart says 5% is profit margin.

Rest is expenses, VAT, Green Taxes, and a wholesale costs from 35% to 49% of the bill, +%14, VAT 5%, Green 10%, which makes the Covid procedures plus gov add-ons about 29% of the bill.

Government investigates crises; Government finds there needs to be more government.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/04/2022 15:18 Comments || Top||


Great White North
GoFundMe Pauses Truckers Campaign at $10 Million (Canadian)
[Epoch Times] A fundraising campaign for truckers in the Freedom Convoy 2022 has been Frozen by GoFundMe after it raised over CA$10 million (US$7.96 million.)

"This fundraiser is currently paused and under review to ensure it complies with our terms of service and applicable laws and regulations," reads a message placed at the top of the fundraising page.

The review by GoFundMe appears to be focused on several areas: the identity of the fundraisers, use of the raised funds, and if the fundraising "reflects or promotes behavior in support of violence."
Posted by: Bobby || 02/04/2022 11:39 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We need an alternate payments network
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  There’s the hawala network, Merrick...
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/04/2022 20:43 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
FDA Document on Moderna Vax Approval Disappears
[Epoch Times] A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) document explaining why the agency approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was removed from the agency’s website overnight.

The Summary Basis for Regulatory Action offered more details about how regulators reached the approval decision, and included references to an unpublished analysis that found the rates of post-vaccination heart inflammation were higher than any U.S. agency had found before.

After The Epoch Times reviewed the document and sent questions about it to FDA spokespersons, it disappeared from the agency’s website.

"We are aware of the issue and hope to have the document reposted as soon as possible," a spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email on Feb. 3.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/04/2022 11:45 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Science & Technology
Israeli Study SHows Vitamin D's Power to Fight COVID
[Times of Israel, via Michael Yon] Israel scientists say they have gathered the most convincing evidence to date that increased vitamin D levels can help COVID-19 patients reduce the risk of serious illness or death.

Researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center say that the vitamin has such a strong impact on disease severity that they can predict how people would fare if infected based on nothing more than their ages and vitamin D levels.

Lacking vitamin D significantly increases danger levels, they concluded in newly peer-reviewed research published Thursday in the journal PLOS One.

The study is based on research conducted during Israel’s first two waves of the virus, before vaccines were widely available, and doctors emphasized that vitamin supplements were not a substitute for vaccines, but rather a way to keep immunity levels from falling.

Vitamin D deficiency is endemic across the Middle East, including in Israel, where nearly four in five people are low on the vitamin, according to one study from 2011. By taking supplements before infection, though, the researchers in the new Israeli study found that patients could avoid the worst effects of the disease.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/04/2022 12:17 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No wonder the Palestinians, with barely 1/4 Israel's vaccination rate, have exactly the same COVID death rate per million population as Israel.

Criminal stupidity.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Bret Weinstein has done some great coverage on D.
Posted by: Ebbaise Brown5939 || 02/04/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#3  In conjunction with Sunlight more specifically Far infrared. Sunrise till 11am then 2PM till sunset. Not vitamin D alone.
Posted by: Dale || 02/04/2022 13:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes. The actual sunlight has psychological as well as biological benefits. Whether that's a factor in strengthening the immune system or otherwise improving the body's ability to fight infection we will probably never know, as there's no way to monetize it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/04/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||

#5  wonder how many lives would have been saved if, in say June 2000, Fauci would have said, 'Yes. It makes sense to increase your Vitamin D intake, at least to recommended levels.'

Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/04/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ tens of thousands in this country. At least a million around the world

Multiply the above had the FD@-CDC-WH0 Disinformation Complex recommended HCQ and ivermectin as treatments instead of spreading lies and forcing all of us into their more harm-than-good experimental gene therapies.

Criminal. They have destroyed public confidence in not just public health authorities but pharm@cy and medic!ne itself.

I still cannot believe the sheer insanity of all that has been done to us these last 2 years by these madmen.

Staggering incompetence and stupidity -- and in Fauxi's case, psychopathic cruelty
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Dr Malone fights back.

Now Dr. Malone, Dr. Risch of Yale and Dr. Peter McCullough are threatening litigation against the lies, BS, fabrications and outright slander from idiot Pravda-Media know-nothings.

From Malone's letter to the DM:

"According to overwhelming data from dozens of studies and real-world use, attested to by world-leading, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and physicians, the widespread deployment of two inexpensive and extraordinarily safe medicines, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, in combination with other readily-accessible drugs, would have reduced U.S. COVID hospitalizations by 87.6% (https://www.ijirms.in/index.php/ijirms/article/view/1100) mortality by 74.9% (same reference ).

"Among these world-leading scientists are Drs. Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory, Robert Malone and Harvey Risch, all of whom are widely-published, widely-respected, highly-credentialed experts in their fields, and all of whom have agreed to serve as experts in this litigation. We have also retained Dr. Joel Hay, an expert in health economics specializing in the pharmaceutical industry, to calculate the damages incurred by the State of Florida and other States as a result of the failure to prescribe these medicines.

"Every one of these scientific experts will testify and confirm that millions of hospitalizations and roughly 75%, or 450,000, of the estimated 600,000 COVID deaths, would have been averted if hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin had been widely deployed to combat the pandemic.

"Deploying these safe and effective drugs would, however, have thwarted the rollout of COVID vaccines. As a matter of express statutory law under 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(c)(3), COVID vaccines could not have received Emergency Use Authorizations, which they needed in order to be administered to the public, if there existed any “adequate, approved, and available alternative” for “preventing or treating” COVID.

"As a result, parties with vested interests in the vaccines, which have already garnered billions of dollars in federal funding and generated tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth for vaccine investors, waged a systematic, deceptive, fraudulent, yet highly effective campaign to discredit hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as COVID treatments and to prevent them from being widely used to combat the pandemic."

An astute commenter on Malone's substack notes:

"What's so ironic about all of the outcries [ against Drs. Malone, McCullough, Risch, Kulldorff, Gupta, Bhattacharya, Ioannides et al. ] by scientifically illiterate reporters, musicians, blue tribe warriors, etc, is that all of these people have been digesting and regurgitating nothing but misinformation and disinformation promulgated by captured regulatory agencies like the CDC, NIH, and FDA (here in the US). None of these reporters, musicians, warriors, etc are the slightest bit scientifically literate enough to be able to distinguish between what's misinfo, disinfo or genuine questioning."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 21:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Depending on how many actual "from" COVID deaths occurred, the number of lives saved had HCQ and ivermectin been applied routinely -- as they were in Uttar Pradesh province in India -- is AT LEAST 150,000 in this country and up to 450,000.

Horrific. Simply monstrous.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/04/2022 21:26 Comments || Top||

#9  God, Darwin, Buddha, whomever determined you would be sabertooth tiger Pooh at age 50, hence losing the ability to make vitamin D. So please take 2-5k D3 daily
Posted by: Glatch Thud2820 || 02/04/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2022-02-04
  Gunmen Burn Nigerian Army Personnel Along With Military Vehicle In Ebonyi
Thu 2022-02-03
  ISIS Leader Killed During Raid in Syria by U.S. Special Forces
Wed 2022-02-02
  Iraqi intelligence destroys 80 ISIS IEDs in Ninevah village
Tue 2022-02-01
  The leader of the Hamza Division eliminated in Aleppo province
Mon 2022-01-31
  Cairo court sentences 10 to death over terrorism charges; including Yehia Mousa
Sun 2022-01-30
  DR Congo sentences 51 accused of killing UN staff
Sat 2022-01-29
  Russia insists ‘we don’t want wars’ as it ponders Ukraine-NATO answer
Fri 2022-01-28
  Fighting Rages on Between Libyan Army and ISIS
Thu 2022-01-27
  SDF declare victory in week-long ISIS stand off in northeast Syrian prison, 181 dead thus far
Wed 2022-01-26
  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Announces Retirement
Tue 2022-01-25
  Over 120 Killed After ISIS Mass Prison Break In US-Occupied Northeast Syri, 140+ as of Monday
Mon 2022-01-24
  Egyptian court sentences Mufti of Al-Qaeda affiliate 'Al-Nusra Front' to life in prison
Sun 2022-01-23
  56 IS terrorists killed in northeast Syria
Sat 2022-01-22
  Iran says in talks with Russia to build nuclear power units
Fri 2022-01-21
  Al Qaeda announces death of former Bin Laden associate


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