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-Lurid Crime Tales-
9 Teenagers Arrested Over Brutal Assault Of 3 U.S. Marines
[DAILYWIRE] Sheriff’s deputies in San Clemente, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, arrested nine teenagers over the brutal assault of three U.S. Marines last Saturday.

San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan announced that Orange County Sheriff’s Department had charged the teenagers, five of whom were accused of assault with a deadly weapon and the other four with misdemeanor assault and battery.

"They think they have the people they are looking for," Duncan stated. "Not to say that there might not be a few others out there. They feel pretty confident that they have the main perpetrators. ... They had some videotape that wasn’t readily available to the public that had a lot better images of the individuals involved."

"In today’s age, you’re going to get caught — people are going to record it," Duncan continued. "I hope this serves as a learning lesson for young folks in the community not to let themselves get out of control when something like this happens."

As many as 40 young people were involved when the three U.S. Marines near a California beach Saturday night were attacked in a horrific moment caught on now-viral video.

The Marines were enjoying time off from their service at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside at approximately 10 p.m. along the beach in San Clemente. One of the Marines, Hunter Antonino, said a piece of debris hit him in the face, prompting him to ask the group to stop lighting fireworks.

"They were lighting off fireworks, they were being belligerent and obnoxious and annoying other people, so I went up to them and told them to stop," he recalled. Antonio said the group then followed the Marines as they returned to the pier, whereupon Antonio and another Marine informed the group that they were Marines so the group would leave them alone.

Instead, the group savagely attacked the Marines. One individual punched a Marine in the back, prompting the Marine to turn and charge at him, sparking the melee. Video shows two of the Marines lying in the fetal position on the ground as the group kicked them and hurled racial epithets at them. The Marines were kicked in the head and upper body.

Although the Marines were maimed, they refused to go to a hospital, according to Orange County Sheriff’s deputies. Antonio thought he may have suffered a concussion.

"This is San Clemente, Marines are always welcome here, always going to be celebrated, always taken care of, and that is why this is so particularly tragic," Duncan said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How could nine punk kids manage to beat up three Marines? What’s the Corps coming to?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/01/2023 1:49 Comments || Top||


#3  "As many as 40 young people"
Note the determined lack of mention of any ethnic or racial category. It always "youths".
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/01/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  "...a gang of nearly a thousand youths entered the Grand Hotel in pursuit of two leather clad 'Rockers'"

- The Who, Quadrophenia
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  oh...the marine may have "shoved" someone. So by all means, throw fireworks at them and then beat them down with a mob. Totes legit as the feral "lockdown yutes" are releasd onto the populace this summer. Enjoy.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/01/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm a "law and order" guy thru and thru, but it seems as if the Marines bit off more than they could chew. They were vastly out-numbered and should have just left the beach.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/01/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  I salute the Marines. Vastly outnumbered, they did not run! They went down fighting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||

#8  I doubt if the kids in San Clemente are the type of "feral youts" you might have in mind. Southern Orange County is just not that way. Far more likely these were spoiled white brats, entitled you might say, to do whatever they please. Fueled with beer and marijuana, they ganged up on the marines and beat the crap out of them. Not to say the marines were perfectly innocent in all this. All in all, I would say it was boys being boys in one of the more shameful ways.

Marines in future might be wise to venture into San Clemente in groups larger than just three. But I wouldn't be surprised if the base commander orders them to stay out of San Clemente altogether, at least for a while until things cool down.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't imagine anything like this happening in Oceanside.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:22 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Rainbow flag is burned at LA elementary school where furious parents have vowed to BOYCOTT Pride event as protests escalate - with transgender teacher forced in hiding amid concerns for his safety
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An intruder broke into Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood over the weekend and set the Pride flag on fire

  • A full-time teacher, who is a transgender man, discovered its remains in a plant pot, which was also broken
    Could be real, could be yet another fake...
  • He has now been removed from the school by the Los Angeles Unified School District over concerns of his safety, reports the Los Angeles Times
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 04:44 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  I believe that is an Armenian neighborhood, isn't it?
Posted by: Secret Master || 06/01/2023 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  A full-time teacher, who is a transgender man, discovered its remains in a plant pot, which was also broken

Bullshit.

Bypassed the security systems, set a fire without tripping smoke detectors, and all so well done there was no visible damage whatsoever and nobody knew anything happened until she unlocked her classroom door and immediately noticed her burnt flag.

It's like Leon: The Professional out to save his plant or some shit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 12:02 Comments || Top||

#3  If it's OK to burn the American flag, why not a 'Pride' flag?
Posted by: Raj || 06/01/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  If it's OK to burn the American flag, why not a 'Pride' flag?

A lot of people are surprised when informed that the SCROTUS has declared desecration of the USA flag, panhandling and nude dancing to all be forms of "free speech."

It will make for a gnarly case if the court ever has to try to thread the needle that burning Old Glory is AOK, but torching a pride flag is "hate speech."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Check Josie’s geolocation data.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Box of donuts says she burned it at home, showed up to her classroom, dropped the pot and, uhem, planted the burnt ends.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I see that swksvolFF has been observing these kinds of people long enough to understand their modus operandi.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||

#8  False flag burns a rainbow flag. Not even all that imaginative.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  "...forced into hiding", or he could just put his pants back on and leave his playing dress up to after school locations? His choice it seems?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/01/2023 17:10 Comments || Top||

#10  a transgender man
WTF is a transgender man?

Is that a Bruce Jenner or the ultimate tom-boy?


How about we brand people with their assumed gender and pronouns so the rest of us know WTF is going on?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/01/2023 17:30 Comments || Top||

#11  This is a female, and conveniently not pictured in the article.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 18:14 Comments || Top||


Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey bans transgender athletes from competing against women in college sports as concerns about athletic fairness grow across the nation
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's bill is aimed at 'protecting female athletes at all levels'

  • The law comes two months after Ivey signed a bill making it a felony to provide sex-altering medication to children in the state

  • The move is the latest to try and stop trans athletes from competing in women-only events
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 04:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:



Chick-fil-A goes WOKE, commits to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion agenda
[The Post Millenial] "Chick-fil-A, Inc.'s commitment to being Better at Together means embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in everything we do."

The uber-popular fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A has recently published its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statement, which appears to be a complete abandonment of its long-held Christian values. A statement recently released on the company website states that one of its "core values" is "that we are better together."

Chick-fil-A's statement continued: "When we combine our unique backgrounds and experiences with a culture of belonging, we can discover new ways to strengthen the quality of care we deliver: to customers, to the communities we serve and to the world. We understand that getting Better at Together means we learn better, care better, grow better and serve better. Chick-fil-A, Inc.'s commitment to being Better at Together means embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in everything we do."

On Tuesday, Chik-fil-A revealed it was appointing Erick McReynolds to serve as the new vice president of DEI, prompting many furious reactions on Twitter from conservatives who say the fast-food giant has officially "gone woke," per The New York Post.

The restaurant was at the center of controversy in 2012, when the restaurant's chief executive officer, Dan T. Cathy, who is now the chairman of the company, made a series of public statements that appeared to oppose same-sex marriage. Now, the restaurant has caved on its values, going all-in on DEI talking points.

It was recently revealed that the company's chairman purchased "shoe-shine" packages for its store managers, which was apparently meant to remind them to feel "contrition, humility, shame and embarrassment" for the history of slavery throughout the US.

A video shared on social media showed the awkward exchange between the company's chairman and a black man on the stage of what appears to be Passion City Church. Cathy takes the brush and scrubs the man's chooses, and then gives him a hug in an apparent expression of remorse for the history of slavery throughout the US.
[Does that mean they'll open on Sundays now?]
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice timing 👌
Posted by: JHH || 06/01/2023 0:10 Comments || Top||


#3  I know a lot of people love them some Chick-fil-A, but I never found it any better than any other fast food, which is to say, not very good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Been to one Chick-fookin-A in my life and only because it was walking-distance from a hotel I was staying in.

Another company that is hard to boycott since I don't patronize it in the first place, so, I suppose the best one can do is bash them on public fora about their wokeness.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm starting to think Evangelicals are suckers for anyone who will put a Bible citation on a napkin.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 7:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I like the chicken nuggets and waffle fries, and their Market Salad (with fresh berries and apple chunks) but their customer service is the best I've ever seen.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Cathy takes the brush and scrubs the man's chooses, and then gives him a hug in an apparent expression of remorse for the history of slavery throughout the US.

I thought we were talking about blacks here, not hispanics?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/01/2023 8:37 Comments || Top||

#8  #6, you are right, their customer service is better than any competitor and lots of upscale restaurants. They are always busy and their drive thru lines are notorious for spilling out into the street.

So why the sudden need to play the CEI game?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#9  ...its a mass hysteria of flagellation among upper income whites as a substitute for their rejection of basic Western Civ and Judeo-Christian heritage. It mirrors the old church approach of trying to atone for sins one has never committed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/01/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||

#10  If there is any hysteria in Corporate America, it's the fear that any and all who do not toe the narrative will be cut off from access to capital during very tough economic times. This is not organic but is 100% being dictated and forced. Chick-Fil-A has been a target of the Left for decades. How many genders we up to now?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/01/2023 9:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Did I say "toe?"
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/01/2023 9:45 Comments || Top||

#12  They certainly appear to have drifted from Their Jonesboro Baptist roots. I am certain the old man is spinning in his grave.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Maybe the pressure to yield to this woke mob of shakedown artists is just too much.

Yes, I've heard from others that their customer service is top-notch...for what it's worth.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

#14  With the Covid Debts, crashed economy, and nuked financial system, there must just be a couple wells left to dip from, and this is the ring to kiss.

'Do the Shoe Shine' was definitely cringe. How much of this is financially necessary to service debt, and how much is fried chicken is racist which is what we serve, I'm sure is well documented and sealed, but know they will have political officers in key HR positions.

I have yet to see a product improve or even maintain previous standards after Kissing the DIE.

When we combine our unique backgrounds and experiences with a culture of belonging, we can discover new ways to strengthen the quality of care we deliver: to customers, to the communities we serve and to the world. We understand that getting Better at Together means we learn better, care better, grow better and serve better. Chick-fil-A, Inc.'s commitment to being Better at Together means embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in everything we do.

Thanks Kamela Bot.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 11:32 Comments || Top||

#15  You try to shine a man’s Jordan’s and he will likely punch you in the face- unless you are CEO.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:48 Comments || Top||

#16  Dammit, just fry the chicken.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#17  Curious if this sparks employee turnover. A lot of Christian kids chose to work there versus elsewhere due to their perceived corporate values. If I worked there I’d be looking for another job
Posted by: Griter Slash1619 || 06/01/2023 13:46 Comments || Top||

#18  Colonization complete. As in colon-ized.
Posted by: KBK || 06/01/2023 21:35 Comments || Top||


Bud Light Just Keeps on Digging, Donates $200K to National LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce
[REDSTATE] It’s one thing to intentionally create what was arguably the worst marketing decision in history but it’s a whole different ballgame when a company doubles and triples down — while simultaneously trying to win back formerly loyal customers who can’t stop buying the company’s product fast enough.

I’m talking about Bud Light, of course, which has now lost roughly 30 percent in sales since hooking up [no pun intended] with a 26-year-old man pretending to be a teenage girl — Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested...
— who first gained notoriety on TikTok, as he chronicled his first "365 days of womanhood." Mulvaney’s act is disgusting, yet at least a few folks in the Bud Light marketing department bought it — hook, line, and sinker.

As the boycott against Bud Light grew stronger, and more costly to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the panicked beer maker put out a statement announcing that the Mulvaney fiasco wasn’t really a campaign at all, while laughingly saying "only one can" featuring Mulvaney was produced.

Not to nitpick, but who the hell cares if it was one can or a million cans? The number of cans was irrelevant. The fact that Bud Light risked decades and countless millions of dollars building brand loyalty, only to throw it away in the name of "woke," not to mention, via the Mulvaney character, was insane.

Then we find out that Bud Light is set to sponsor three different Pride events in the coming months.

To be fair, deals for those events were probably signed before the Mulvaney disaster hit, but with the everyman beer brand practically on life support and Anheuser-Busch InBev stock taking a beating, one would think A-B InBev could have arranged to have Bud Light dropped from the publicized list of sponsors, while agreeing to still pay the sponsorship money.

The company then tried to, in effect, give away free Bud Light beer, and in one transparent act of desperation, Budweiser hilariously announced a deal with Harley Davidson.

Posted by: Fred || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I'm waiting to see if there are any fireworks on Jun 16th at Dodger Stadium with Drag Queens outfit Sisters of Perpetual Indulgency being invited and honored! Clayton Kershaw doesn't dig it and Williams from St Louis and others are starting to come forward but Bass from Toronto already apologized since it "appeared" that he was backing the Target and Bud Light boycotts...well..he is in Canada.
Posted by: Omiting Theting7288 || 06/01/2023 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for the nazis to sue for an appreciation day of their own.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Keeps digging?

They don't care if they kill the brand. Need to (re)visit Vonnegut's "All the King's Men".

This is a narrative from higher up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  They don't care if they kill the brand.

Exactly. The people involved all have their Golden Parachutes™ or are mercenary paid consultants -- like rats carrying the plague they will just swim to another boat when this one sinks.
Posted by: magpie || 06/01/2023 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  You can kill a brand as a write off to play games with the corporate earnings. I worked at GM when they did that with Oldsmobile twice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  #1 Skidmark, "not do them" is acceptable to me.
Posted by: Tom || 06/01/2023 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  The fact that they have a Chamber of Commerce means they have the jump on us. We need to organize before they get to the Beef Jerky manufacturers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Oh geez.
If you weren't sure about my comment about going full retard for GROQMER+ month, check out what Glamour just dropped; story at WZ.

I bet they are sacrificing babies to ward in a horrible disaster in The South so they can get video of rednecks taking their cans of emergency water.

Not to save the brand, but to make a point.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 16:14 Comments || Top||

#11  *warning

The Glamour cover is one of those "The longer you look the worse it gets" activities.

Putting HD bikes on Buttwiper cans feels like mockery, and IIUC, HD is also on board this crazy train.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Another one that’s in England, swksvolFF:

Pregnant transgender man Logan Brown stars on cover of Glamour UK’s Pride issue

Cut off her bosom, kept her uterus, added testosterone to the mix. And while she pretended to be a boy, the baby daddy pretended to be a girl. That poor child is totally screwed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/01/2023 20:57 Comments || Top||

#13  If you rebooted the Flintstones with that cast, the dinosaur characters would be shaking their heads in disbelief.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 21:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Gross.

It's artillery.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 21:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
San Francisco launches $6 million ad campaign that paints it as 'quirky and fun' to lure tourists back to the city plagued by homelessness, brazen drug taking and rampant theft that has led retail giants like Nordstrom to shut stores
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • San Francisco is pumping millions of dollars into a tourism campaign that it hopes will revitalize its pre-pandemic travel appeal

  • SF has failed to win back the same number of tourists that it was seeing in 2019

  • The ad campaign comes amid an ongoing surge in violent crime, homelessness, and stores shuttering in the city
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 05:12 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't compete with Las Vegas on all counts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/01/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "Come for the human feces dodge relay. Stay because of the carjacking!"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/01/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Its like Call of Dooty and Pokemon Go! wrapped up in a self injecting nasal spray.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I read recently the commercial real-estate crisis, was getting worse, according to SFGATE "The availability rate, which includes both vacant space and leases ending soon, has already hit 34.6%, indicating that the overall vacancy rate is poised to rise even higher next quarter and possibly through the end of the year." Apparently BART (the Bay Area Rapid Transit system) is facing failure without a $5bn subsidy because of massive fare revenue decline. Add to it the retail store exodus and the ongoing crime/public safety issues and SF has become the sucking chest wound in the already steep glide slope future for California citizens.

Now add the latest insanity from a state already facing a 31 billion dollar deficit. $1,200 a month unemployment checks for ILLEGAL aliens, paid for by the businesses through point of sale taxation via the unemployment insurance fee, so the cost added to all retail sales directly. This on top of full medical coverage and a package of other support like federal government cellphones. Had enough yet?

https://freebeacon.com/california/california-senate-approves-300-weekly-checks-for-unemployed-illegals/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/01/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  When the bottom finishes falling out of commercial real estate, there won't be enough revenue left from the diminished pool of rented space to maintain the physical plant of the empty space. When those tall buildings deteriorate and become unrentable, it won't matter if the market rebounds.

Pretty soon, cities like SF may remember poop clogged stree4ts as "the good old days."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Will they selling quirky souvenirs like pre-worn clothes, lab supplies and candles that smell like urine?
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, come see SanFrancisco! But only after you've visited Detroit.
Posted by: Tom || 06/01/2023 13:11 Comments || Top||

#8  SF. Come for the marxist pervo show, stay for the hep-c.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 13:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Link at Ace's to a Daily Star UK article explores the behavior of sea gulls nicking peoples' drugs.

I bet that is Quirky!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 13:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Baltimore, New York, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Democrats kill cities. It is now a proven fact.

San Francisco used to be an extremely beautiful city. Take a look at Hitchcock's movie Vertigo sometime. The city has wonderful architecture, pleasant weather and the natural beauty of San Francisco Bay. It was liberal, maybe a bit quirky but ultimately civilized. People there used to dress in nice clothes, enjoy dinner in fine restaurants, go to ballgames and the opera. They say it gets cold and foggy but it's never freezing cold, never hot and humid.

But politicians like Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom imposed their Marxist lunacy and now the city is ugly and dying. This is what Newsom wants to do to the whole state. Then he'd like to go on and do it to the whole country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2023 13:57 Comments || Top||

#11  When the bottom finishes falling out of commercial real estate

We may be close. Trailing daughter #2 and her very tall husband popped down today for a quick visit — when her employer told everyone last fall that due to the company’s permanent work-from-home status Dallas employees were free to live anywhere in the country as long as they could get to the office for occasional in-person team meetings, td#2 and her husband took the opportunity to sell their house and move to Chicago, which they’ve greatly enjoyed. However, she was just informed that they will soon have regular mandatory in-person team-building social get-togethers in addition to approximately monthly meetings...and I strongly suspect there will be more of both over the next few years, making living out of town much more expensive than originally planned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/01/2023 20:46 Comments || Top||


Bees attack!!!
[YouTube] A desperate Arizona resident rolled around on the sidewalk as a swarm attacked him. Cops arrived to help but they later fled when the bees started attacking them too. John Fisher tells Inside Edition his dog Pippin was stung 50 times while he was stung 250 times. Eventually, firefighters hosed the victim down to get rid of the bees. The latest nightmare bee attack comes after an LAPD volunteer police officer was attacked by an angry swarm.
Specialist interviewed in the video says this is normal bee behaviour when they feel their nest is threatened, and there are more bees around because it’s been rainy.
Posted by: Omiting Theting7288 || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  more bees around because it’s been rainy

So Man-Made Global Climate Change is helping to overcome Colony Collapse Disorder?

Somebody ought to tell Greta and John Kerry.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  For the younger crowd, or those with failing memories - Colony Collapse Disorder, a big thing 10-15 years ago.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  No mention if these were AFRICAN killer bees.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  The Walter Matthau and John Bellushi killer bees sketch was one of my favorites.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The 'Most Important Virus You've Never Heard Of' Surged This Spring
[Epoch Times] Human metapneumovirus, or hMPV, has risen across the United States this winter and spring, according to recent data published by the U.S. CDC. The percent of tests positive for hMPV increased 19.6 percent for antigen and 10.9 percent for PCR tests at the start of March, when the virus surged this year, the CDC data shows. Around the same time, the percentage of positive COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, stood at 7 percent and 2 percent, respectively.
Did the CDC forget to report on covid, or has it finally disappeared?
The virus, discovered in 2001, can cause upper and lower respiratory disease, but it especially impacts older people, young children, and those with compromised immune systems, according to the CDC. It says that cough, fever, nasal congestion, and shortness of breath are the primary symptoms.
Maybe, just maybe, it has been confused with covid?
But it noted that "clinical symptoms of HMPV infection may progress to bronchitis or pneumonia and are similar to other viruses that cause upper and lower respiratory infections. The estimated incubation period is 3 to 6 days, and the median duration of illness can vary depending upon severity but is similar to other respiratory infections caused by viruses."
I wonder how that virus responds to the common covid tests, like the ones the government was giving away?
The virus causes generally mild symptoms for most people and goes away on its own, without any need for additional treatment.
More like the common cold, except with a fever.
Dr. John Williams, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh, said that hMPV isn’t well-known and claimed it is "the most important virus you’ve never heard of." And blood tests, he said, show that most children have had it before the age of 5.

RSV, influenza, and hMPV are " the three major viruses," he told CNN. "Those are the big three in kids and adults, the most likely to put people in the hospital and cause severe disease, most likely to sweep through nursing homes and make older people really sick and even kill them."
COVID-23, anyone?Gitcher new trial vaccine here!
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 07:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  the most important virus you’ve never heard of

AKA, our new excuse for lockdowns and tyranny.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/01/2023 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I don’t think there would be enough compliance to lockdown red states again. Blue cities can get people to pay for groceries and/or not push each other onto the subway tracks. Another lockdown would be supported by DC think tanks and cable news, but it won’t happen in Ohio.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  It isn't real until we see the hysteria on the nightly news.
Posted by: Tom || 06/01/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Puts a chip down on "High Concentration within Migrants."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/01/2023 14:27 Comments || Top||


L.A. County Gives Crack Pipes to Homeless to Prevent Fentanyl Deaths
[Breitbart] Los Angeles County has begun distributing pipes used for smoking crack, methamphetamine, and opioids to the homeless population, hoping to discourage them from overdosing by injecting themselves with fentanyl.

The Los Angeles Times reported on the grim phenomenon Tuesday, which has divided homeless advocates:

By a line of ragged RVs slung along 78th Street in South Los Angeles, a seven-member team passes out glass pipes used for smoking opioids, crack and methamphetamine.

Part of the front line of Los Angeles County’s offensive against the deadly fentanyl epidemic, the group hands out other supplies: clean needles, sanitary wipes, fentanyl test strips and naloxone, medication that can reverse an overdose.



Fentanyl, which is laced in everything from weed to heroin and meth, was present in more than half of the nearly 1,500 overdose deaths of homeless people in 2020-21. In response, Los Angeles County this year increased its harm reduction budget from $5.4 million to $31.5 million.
...a six-fold increase. Where did the money come from?
Most of the money covers staffing and programs; officials said that only a fraction of county funds — no state or federal money— goes to pipes.

Some believe that the pipes merely facilitate addiction; others argue that they slow the rate of drug intake.

The risk in fentanyl overdoses is that addicts inject typically their entire supply of the drug in one sitting; smoking a drug takes longer and lowers the chance of an overdose, supporters of the pipe program say.

Elsewhere, the Times notes, new Mayor Karen Bass is struggling to beat homelessness. Some people agree to move into hotels under her Inside Safe program, but they are often replaced on the street. Others refuse to go.

As Breitbart News noted earlier this year, Bass set a goal upon taking office several months ago of removing 17,000 homeless people off the street — roughly 40% of the city’s homeless population — in her first year.

Anecdotally, she has had some success: the area around Venice Beach has fewer homeless people living in tents than it once did at the nadir of homelessness under Mayor Eric Garcetti. But the problem remains staggering.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 06:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are those available to quirky tourists as well?
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Fentanyl smoking deaths in 3-2-1...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  One way to rid themselves of the homeless.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/01/2023 13:46 Comments || Top||

#4  ...but then hundreds of bureaucrats and their livelihood would disappear.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/01/2023 18:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't Obama pull something similar?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 22:03 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Suspected Chinese spies, disguised as tourists, tried to infiltrate Alaskan military bases
[USAtoday] ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Chinese citizens posing as tourists but suspected of being spies have made several attempts in recent years to gain access to military facilities in this vast state studded with sensitive bases, according to U.S. officials.

In one incident, a vehicle with Chinese citizens blew past a security checkpoint at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, several soldiers told USA TODAY. The vehicle was eventually stopped, and a search found a drone inside the vehicle. The occupants claimed they were tourists who had gotten lost.

Many of the encounters have been chalked up to innocent mistakes by foreign visitors intent on viewing the northern lights and other attractions in Alaska, officials say. Other attempts to enter U.S. military bases, however, seem to be probes to learn about U.S. military capabilities in Alaska, according to multiple soldiers familiar with the incidents but who were not authorized to speak publicly about them.

Not all who appear to be tourists in Alaska, are, in fact tourists, one Army officer said. Instead, they are foreign spies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 10:42 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Hunter Biden misses the business development opportunity of a lifetime.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean China is actually a threat to US national security? I thought the #1 threat was domestic terrorism/white extremism. Or was it climate change? Or parents of school kids in Laudon County, Virginee?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Likely a Chinese site survey team.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess they decided balloons were too much trouble...back to old-fashioned HUMINT.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/01/2023 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  "We're here to greet Air Force One. We have an appointment"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/01/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Consider the thousands of single, military age males from China who have entered illegally in the last couple of years.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/01/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  "HOLLYWOOD!"

/Obscure?
Posted by: Raj || 06/01/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||


Retired NYPD sergeant helped Chinese spies stalk dissidents and threaten to kill their wives and kids unless they returned to prison in the homeland as part of Operation Fox Hunt, trial hears
[DM] A former NYPD sergeant is accused of helping Chinese spies embedded in New York and New Jersey track down dissidents on behalf of their government and threaten to harm their families unless they returned to the 'homeland' to go to prison as part of a program dubbed Operation Fox Hunt.

Michael McMahon is on trial in New York City along with Zhu Yong and Zheng Congying as acting as Chinese agents to track down dissidents who had fled and intimidate them into returning.

The trial began today with opening statements from US federal prosecutors.

McMahon was working as a private investigator after retiring from the NYPD when he was contracted by the Chinese government to track down victim Xu Jin and intimidate him, according to prosecutors.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 04:36 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


North Korea's 1st Spy Satellite Plunges Into Sea After Rocket Failure
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "We're searching for Capitalist Submarines!"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/01/2023 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  All this so Kimmie could try to put a bootleg Samsung phone in orbit to take a selfie.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/01/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Can you hear me Major Hong? Can you hear me Major Hong?

Satellite sinks below the surface.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  ussa military.

laughing stock of the world.

drag queer shows.

lgbtq.ueer recruiters.

rainbow flags.

third world weapons.

beaten by goat herding rapists.

beaten by the taliban. again.

the horror. the horror.

russia is laughing their butts off at ussa.

wagner would slaughter any branch of the ussa military
Posted by: ACA JOE || 06/01/2023 22:46 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
All Infected in COVID Outbreak at CDC Conference Were Vaccinated
Did they wash their hands every two hours and avoid touching their T-zone?
[Epoch Times] A COVID-19 outbreak unfolded at a superspreader conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) despite most attendees being vaccinated. About 1,800 CDC staffers and others gathered in April in a hotel in Atlanta, where the CDC is headquartered, for a conference focused on epidemiological investigations and strategies.

On April 27, the last day of the conference, several people notified organizers that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC and the Georgia Department of Public Health worked together to survey attendees to try to figure out how many people had tested positive.

Approximately 80 percent of attendees filled out the survey. Among those, 181 said they tested positive for COVID-19. Every person who reported testing positive was vaccinated, a CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.
Unexpectedly.
The CDC said the survey results "underline the importance of vaccination for protecting individuals against severe illness and death related to COVID-19" because none of the people who said they tested positive reported going to a hospital.
Road apples - no one could ever prove that pipe dream. But CDC data shows the variants in place since January, 2022 killed less then 0.4% of those infected. Actually, 0.37% fatalities last January, with 800,000 cases per day at the time. Plus the conference clowns were probably healthier than average.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They are the super spreaders.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||


The NIH has poured $1 billion into 'Long Covid' research
[STAT News, hat tip to Epoch Times] The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long Covid, an effort to help the millions of Americans who experience brain fog, fatigue, and other symptoms after recovering from a coronavirus infection.

There’s basically nothing to show for it.
In the century-plus that we’ve been plinking around with the condition currently known as chronic fatigue syndrome (in the U.S.) or myalgic encephalomyelitis (in Britain and where British English is taught as a foreign language) (ME/CFS), we’ve also discovered very little, though they’ve changed the name regularly in an attempt to capture the latest understanding of the thing. In the US they actually renamed it systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID) when the CDC or NIH got involved — around 2015 — but it didn’t stick. I suspect in the end they’re going to discover Long Covid is just a special case of the general thing.
The National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatments — despite a clear mandate from Congress to study them. And the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism, especially one intervention that experts and advocates say may actually make some patients’ long Covid symptoms worse.
Some people have noticed some overlap between long covid and vax injuries.
Instead, the NIH spent the majority of its money on broader, observational research that won’t directly bring relief to patients. But it still hasn’t published any findings from the patients who joined that study, almost two years after it started.

There’s no sense of urgency to do more or to speed things up, either. The agency isn’t asking Congress for any more funding for long Covid research, and STAT and MuckRock obtained documents showing the NIH refuses to use its own money to change course.
Maybe they know something they'd rather not disclose?
"So far, I don’t think we’ve gotten anything for a billion dollars," said Ezekiel Emanuel, a physician, vice provost for global initiatives, and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. "That is just unacceptable, and it’s a serious dysfunction."
And par for the course.
The NIH said it chose to fund a large-scale research program instead of small-scale studies to make sure data and processes could be shared across different groups of patients, adding that clinical trials will be launching soon. In these trials, standardized study designs will allow the agency to test multiple treatments across multiple sites. If there are signals a drug works, the agency said it can pivot to devote more resources there.
Hand waving, smoke, and mirrors.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Notice you hear almost nothing about fibromyalgia or Morgellon's syndrome since COVID came along?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2023 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  But here's the Next Big Thing
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  They are like a Muller Report with a bigger budget. They can’t publish anything that is peer reviewed as it will either incriminate them or fail under scrutiny. They know the answer and will purposely never find the truth.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 12:36 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Hundreds of UFOs have been spotted 'all over the world', Pentagon chief admits as NASA unveils findings into first ever study of unexplained phenomena in the skies
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
I would have guessed assembly errors and an escaped ball bearing rolling across the lens.
  • Pentagon reveals expert 'NASA embeds' now cleared for classified UFO briefings

  • NASA astrobiologist recommends search for alien 'artifacts' in our solar system

  • FAA official asks NASA to help reduce 'stigma' for scientists studying UAP data

  • READ MORE: Dramatic footage shows black 'half-football-field-sized' triangular UFO hovering over California military base for 10 minutes before vanishing

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 04:49 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stanford Medical Professor: ‘Aliens 100% Live Among Us’
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2023 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  ...another border failure. Quick have Fauci blame the next bio weapon leak on 'aliens' among us.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/01/2023 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I suggest reading this book for well-written take on the UFO/aliens phenomenon, especially if you grew up reading/watching a lot of sci-fi (like I did). It helped a bunch.
Posted by: Crash Thusock6623 || 06/01/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #1: The Clintons, Hunter, Fedderwoman, Bootiegig, AOC, VP Harris, Shift4brains....need I continue.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#5  It will take extraordinary proof to convince me that ETs, or their artifacts, have made it to Earth. So... "Bah! Humbug!"
Posted by: magpie || 06/01/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Unexplained is not necessarily the same as not from Earth.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/01/2023 17:50 Comments || Top||

#7  I think we will one day discover that Bigfoot is just a robot controlled by aliens that reside on the other end of a spinning lighted carnival tunnel.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/01/2023 18:22 Comments || Top||



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