Jonathan Martinez Garcia, 17, was seen smiling during his sentencing Wednesday as the court heard in harrowing detail how he ambushed the teacher
Martinez-Garcia waited until her back was turned before trying to choke her with a 'rope or string', he then slammed her head against a table, knocking her out
The victim, identified only as Sade, told the judge that she believed she was going to die during the horrific attack which left her covered in bruises
His mother described him as a 'good student.' She said he hadn't been diagnosed with any medical or mental disabilities,' but told police that he seemed 'depressed and disconnected' in recent months.
In the arrest report Martinez-Garcia talks about the attack on his teacher with detectives.
He said: 'I don't know why I attacked her, she was good to me.'
Martinez-Garcia's public defender, Ty Gaston, argued that his behavior was caused by severe side effects of an asthma medication, Singulair, which caused mood changes, night terrors and hallucinations.
Singulair manufacturer, Merck, is facing a slew of lawsuits that allege the company coovered up links between its asthma drug and the severe effects on patients' mental health.
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Not hard to see him as a young Anton Chigur, right down to the "I only smile when something bad is about to happen" look.
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We have to admit we're seeing a growing number of seriously violent Mental Health/Illness incidents, here in the USA.
Where are the BRAINIAC's on this problem?
Is the lack of published research, because it would cause issues for certain politically supported "New Normal" issues.
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Did he suck on his inhaler just before sentencing? Going full Richard Ramirez is not a good follow up to the witness impact statements.
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We have to admit we're seeing a growing number...
Well, one hundred years ago this wretch would speedily get, as Judge Roy Bean said, "a first class trial followed by a first class hanging". Also the news story would not be amplified by the megaphone of a 24-hour news industry amplify stories about the 'worst of us' at top volume.
[Sandra Rose] A popular Mexican TV doctor who regularly appeared on "Mexico Today" as a "vaccination expert" died suddenly from a myocardial infarction, according to reports.
Dr. Alfredo Victoria Moreno was only 42 years old when he died in his sleep early Monday. He was a vocal advocate of COVID mRNA vaccines.
Dr. Alfredo’s massive global fanbase took to social media to mourn his untimely death. They referred to his passing as a "tragedy."
The physically fit medical doctor and public health specialist had no preexisting medical conditions. He regularly appeared on TODAY ("HOY!") to administer vaccines to the show’s staff on the air.
Dr. Alfredo encouraged his 440,000 Instagram followers to get vaccinated. He also had a large following on TikTok and he ran the website provaccines.com.
Anti-vaxxers added Dr. Alfredo’s name to the long list of young people who "died suddenly" of heart attacks or strokes within the last 2 years.
[Leading Report] Senior JP Morgan board member and billionaire, James Crown reportedly vowed to expose damning evidence regarding financial crimes involving Joe and Hunter Biden before his unexpected death from "blunt force trauma" in Colorado from a car accident.
Investigators confirmed that James Crown, a businessman and former intelligence agent who was once considered part of Barack Obama’s "inner circle", was killed on Sunday, the day of his 70th birthday, following a "car accident."
Crown’s death was quickly ruled an accident by the coroner in Pitkin County and the investigation has been closed down.
James Crown’s death follows the recent settlement of JP Morgan Chase involving Epstein victims, which claim they helped enable Epstein’s illegal activities.
This follows whistleblower Dr. Gal Luft, the co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which reportedly was going to reveal explosive information on the Biden Crime Family, who has gone missing.
[New Scientist] A company called Moolec has created transgenic soya beans called "Piggy Sooy" in which a quarter of the protein is pig protein rather than plant protein.
[NYPOST] Anheuser-Busch has fired back at 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... ’s claims she was left high and dry in the aftermath of their disastrous campaign with the transgender influencer.
The beermaker, which has taken a $20 billion hit since its partnership with Mulvaney sparked a nationwide boycott, responded to the allegations Thursday after the influencer posted a lengthy video blasting the company for doing nothing to help her as she faced online torment.
The brewing giant said it is "committed to the programs and partnerships we have forged over decades with organizations across a number of communities, including those in the LGBTQ+ community," a spokesperson told The Daily Beast late Thursday.
The statement did not mention Mulvaney by name.
It came after the 26-year-old social media star posted a video to her 1.8 million Instagram followers earlier Thursday, saying she felt "a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone" and that Anheuser-Busch has done nothing to support her as she’s been ruthlessly dragged through the mud in the months following the failed campaign
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Relevance melting away like a lavender bath bomb.
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Tyrus has it right when he says Mulvaney is guilty of "woman face". He is a performer who acts out the caricature of of women he's seen in the movies.
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When we see the names of some of these organizations in the MSM, which I believe shall be within 6 months, it'll be over.
Recruiting.
'Must declare' AND keeping the homeless out of the empty dorms.
Seems like relaxing AA is also a strategic play.
[Breitbart] A group of Georgia Republicans, working with two Democrats, are looking to pass legislation that would give in-state college tuition to illegal aliens enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Georgia State Reps. Kasey Carpenter (R), Dale Washburn (R), Bill Werkheiser (R), and Penny Houston (R) are sponsoring HB 131 to open in-state college and university tuition rates to about 15,000 DACA illegal aliens.
I suspect most do not have the skills for college level work.
Democrat Reps. Long Tran and Pedro Marin are also sponsoring the bill.
“It’s a no-brainer,” Carpenter told Axios of the legislation. Carpenter tried to pass the same bill last year but the effort ultimately failed to gain traction with enough Republicans.
Should Republicans in Georgia successfully pass the legislation, it would put them on par with Republicans in other states in recent years that have helped secure in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
This year, Republican legislators in Indiana — who have a supermajority — are considering a similar policy, while Republicans in Arizona, last year, helped get a law over the finish line that reverses a ban on in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
Likewise, many red states like Texas, Kansas, Utah, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kentucky have long allowed illegal aliens to take advantage of in-state tuition rates.
Such a policy in Georgia would almost certainly attract more illegal aliens to the state. Already, about 750,000 illegal aliens and their United States-born children live in Georgia.
[Gateway] Fox News agreed to pay a $12 million settlement to former Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg.
...also described as a mere talent booker. It has been claimed that Fox News decided to get rid of Mr. Carlson partially because of a discrimination lawsuit she filed filed, claiming she was bullied and subjected to anti-Semitic remarks while working for Carlson.
Abby Grossberg filed lawsuits against the outlet in March after she left the company.
Grossberg filed a lawsuit alleging the company’s legal team urged her to answer "I don’t know" to questions in the company’s lawsuit with Dominion voting machines.
Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News shortly after Grossberg filed her lawsuits.
Grossberg’s lawsuit was originally filed in the Delaware Superior Court where the Dominion case was settled for $787 million.
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It was reported she never actually met Tucker, and was not on staff all that long. My guess is this is just Fox trying to get off the entire Tucker subject in the news, but for the life of me cannot imagine the cash flow debacle this adds to, and wonder when shareholders who aren't in the Murdoch family ask WTF happened to my money?
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya killing at least 51 people, police said.
The Friday evening accident occurred at a location known for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of Londiani, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of the capital, Nairobi.
Officers at the scene counted 51 bodies, but more people were believed to be trapped in the wreckage, Rift Valley police commander Tom Odera told The Associated Press.
[AFRICANEWS] Gunmen killed at least 20 people this week in an ambush in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the latest episode in a communal conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives in the past year, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
According to the human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... NGO, the ambush was carried out on Monday by "Mobondo" Lions of Islam against a truck carrying mainly traders from the Teke community, near the village of Mulunu, in the Kwamouth territory (Maï-Ndombe province), north-east of Kinshasa.
"The assailants then set fire to the vehicle", wrote HRW in a statement posted on its website.
A conflict broke out in June 2022 between the Teke, who consider themselves to be the originators and owners of villages located along the Congo River over a distance of around 200 kilometres, and the Yaka, who came to settle after them.
"The simmering conflict degenerated into widespread violence after many farmers, mainly Yaka, rejected an increase in customary royalties by Teke chiefs", recalls Human Rights Watch.
Groups calling themselves Mobondo "recruited mainly from the so-called 'non-native' Yaka, Suku, Mbala, Ndinga and Songo communities, and targeted Teke villagers with machetes, spears, shotguns and military assault rifles", the NGO continues.
The Congolese security forces carried out operations "but were unable to put an end to the violence", it notes.
The violence has resulted in "hundreds" of deaths and forced "thousands" of people to flee their homes. "Insecurity is preventing many pupils from sitting their end-of-year exams", while the voter census for the December elections has so far been unable to take place.
HRW points out that at the end of April, the government set up "a commission of enquiry into abuses committed by the security forces".
But, it says, "hundreds of surrendered assailants were transferred to military training centres without ever having had their profiles thoroughly examined".
In addition, "the government has tasked certain individuals - described as the 'intellectual authors' of the communal violence in a national police wanted notice - with mediating between the communities in conflict and helping to demobilise the Mobondo militiamen".
"Instead of putting an end to the atrocities, the lack of accountability for the alleged perpetrators and instigators of the crimes is reinforcing mistrust between the communities and leading to new atrocities", deplores Human Rights Watch.
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[AFRICANEWS] Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... has had his appeal to be included on the electoral role in the Ivory Coast rejected by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), his party announced in a statement on Friday.
Gbagbo lodged an appeal with the CEI on June 8.
"The claim by His Excellency Laurent Gbagbo, president of the African Peoples' Party - Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI), has been rejected," the statement said. Having been struck off the electoral roll, Mr. Gbagbo had lodged an appeal with the IEC on June 8.
The former president was acquitted by international justice of crimes against humanity committed during the 2010-2011 post-election crisis, but is still facing a 20-year prison sentence for the robbery of funds from Abidjan's central bank in 2011.
Gbagbo was convicted in 2018 leading to the loss of civic and political rights and his removal from the electoral roll.
According to the blurb, the former president "considers this non-registration [on the electoral roll] as a political manoeuvre aimed at removing him from political life" and "diminishing the ardor and mobilization of PPA-CI murderous Moslems and supporters for the upcoming local elections" on September 2. His party considers "that the CEI is under the control of the Head of State", Alassane Ouattara ...the former president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... , "and his regime".
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the document adds that Laurent Gbagbo "is not affected by this situation" and "intends to fight".
In September, eight million voters are due to go to the polls in the country to re-elect municipal and regional councils, while a presidential election is scheduled for 2025.
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[Shafaq News] The Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the United States earlier this year before it was shot down did not collect intelligence while flying over the country, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Steps taken by Washington to stop the high altitude device from potential information gathering as it crossed the US in early February played a role in that outcome, according to Pentagon front man Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.
"We believe that (the balloon) did not collect while it was transiting the United States or flying over the United States, and certainly the efforts that we made contributed," Ryder told news hounds at a briefing.
The balloon was downed by an American fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, after it was tracked crossing the continental US on a course that took it over sensitive military sites.
The incident inflamed already tense relations between Washington and Beijing, significantly setting back American efforts at that time to restore hampered communications with China.
The US ultimately linked the balloon to an extensive surveillance program run by the Chinese military, and US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... has since alleged the device was carrying "two boxcars full of spy equipment."
China has repeatedly claimed the device was a civilian research airship that was blown off course by accident and after its detection issued a rare statement of "regret" over the incident, which resulted in the postponement of a planned trip from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing. That trip took place last week, more than four months later.
When asked about the Pentagon’s statement during a briefing Friday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the "so-called spy balloon" was a "total smear against China."
At the time of the incident, Washington had signaled that the balloon did not present a significant intelligence gathering risk.
A senior defense official in early February said the device was assessed to have "limited additive value" from an intelligence collection perspective, but that steps were being taken to protect against such collection.
Parts recovered from the downed balloon have since been the subject of extensive investigation into their capabilities, including whether they were able to transit any information gathered back to China in real time.
Ryder on Thursday did not get into specifics regarding recent reports that the Chinese high-altitude balloon was using US surveillance technology, but said such a situation would not be surprising.
"We are aware in previous cases, for example, things like drones and other capabilities ... where off the shelf, commercial US components have been used," Ryder said.
The balloon continues to stoke tension between Washington and Beijing, even as the US last month said that "both sides" were seeking to move past the pause in communication that followed the "unfortunate incident."
Biden sparked Beijing’s ire last week when he told guests at a political fundraiser that Chinese leader Xi Jinping "got very upset" after the US shot down the balloon because "he didn’t know it was there" and then compared Xi to "dictators" who become embarrassed when they don’t know what’s going on.
China slammed the remarks, which came on the heels of Blinken’s visit, as an "open political provocation" and repeated their denial that the balloon was meant to spy over the United States.
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Because doing it for no good reason at all is exactly what US gummint would do.
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The position is that the US DoD couldn't use a balloon to gather intel, so no one else could either.
("And besides, we could buy an 'intel gathering option' for the F35 for a mere $150B, so that would be more effective.") (I just made all that up, BTW.)
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But, far, far more important to the Pentagon these days, did the balloon use the appropriate pronouns when describing secrets back to its homeland?
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Why do I immediately think of Maxwell Smart saying, "Would you believe..."
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Shoot down the friendship balloon with a gender reveal SAM. That should keep the woke Pentagone amused...
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NK shoots missile after missile. Hamas should salvos of rockets to no condemnation. We shoot down one friendship balloon and everyone loses their mind.
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Who made them utter such nonsense, quite literally the most ridiculous assertion imaginable and worse, drawing attention back to the whole risible response to begin with! This is clownish ineptitude, even for the Puppet Show.
[RedState] Almost exactly two years ago RedState broke the story of the defection of CCP counterintelligence official Dong Jingwei to the United States. The “terabytes” of data Dong, the highest-ranking Chinese defector ever, brought with him to the United States included information and data showing “that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in addition to evidence confirming that the People’s Liberation Army managed the Wuhan bioweapons program (and others).” While it was essentially ignored by the mainstream media and dismissed by the professional former spook crowd, it was a huge story – so huge that RedState was hit with a DDOS attack just hours after it was published.
Over the next few weeks, RedState published a series of articles outlining some of the specific information and evidence Dong brought to the U.S. and the corroboration that had occurred to that point. There were denials of the defection by Beijing and a few articles mentioning it, mostly in international outlets, but the small amount of related coverage in U.S. media generally didn’t directly mention Dong. (See the June 26, 2021 story, “Reactions to RedState’s Exclusive Reporting on Chinese Defector Dong Jingwei Show Disturbing Pattern.“)
However, China expert Gordon Chang told Tucker Carlson that he believed that Dong Jingwei did defect, and I appeared on Newsmax to tell the story.
There hasn’t been any reporting about Dong since, leading to speculation about his whereabouts or if he’d been “disappeared.”
RedState can now confirm that Dong has been in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) protection program since his defection. A Defense Intelligence Agency source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, provided this update:
As of June 2023, Dong Jingwei is participating in one of DIA’s protection programs. He has voluntarily participated in debriefing meetings since his arrival, and continues to do so.
The source further explained that debriefing meetings will likely last for years for many reasons, including the position Dong held in the Chinese Communist Party, the type and quantity of information he provided, the lengthy process of corroborating highly technical information without jeopardizing operational security, and the potential use of some of the information in ongoing U.S. counterintelligence activities. In addition, since Dong is voluntarily participating in debriefing meetings and is not compelled to do so on a particular schedule, debriefing can move forward at an uneven pace. But, those debriefing meetings have borne fruit, as will be shown below.
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As of June 2023, Dong Jingwei is participating in one of DIA’s protection programs. He has voluntarily participated in debriefing meetings since his arrival, and continues to do so.
The 'Silver Bullet' conducting the Klingon's domestic safehouse business.
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My recollection at the time was that he didn't want to deal directly with the CIA and FBI because he didn't feel that they were secure, and he knew of penetrations. Cue a couple of years later, and we hear about ... penetrations. Hmmm.
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I bet his handlers are made fun of by their coworkers. It is hard to stay away from references to 16 Candles.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure".
Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an exiting account to see their favorite tweets.
I noticed this last night, so I resurrected the identity I set up years ago, then ignored because that’s not where I live on-line.
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" Musk said in a tweet.
He added that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", affecting user experience.
Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter's data to train their large language models.
"We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now," he said.
In a letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro in May asked the tech giant to conduct an audit of its use of Twitter's content, alleging the Windows developer violated an agreement over using the social media company's data.
The company has initiated a range of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Musk's ownership and to increase subscription revenue by making verification check marks a part of the Twitter Blue program.
Earlier in the month, Twitter had announced plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising.
Twitter has also begun charging users to access its application programming interface (API), used by third-party apps and researchers.
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Outside of pharmaceuticals, OTC meds, first aid and sickroom stuff, 99% of what "drugstores" carry is stuff you can get at the dollar store or big box.
A bottle of shampoo I get for under $10 at Walmart is $26 at CVS. Seriously. I don't use cosmetics, but they are among the most stolen items from chain drug stores, so I imagine the pricing is insane, and not Crazy Eddie insane wither...
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It would be interesting to see a plot of the closing locations on a heat map of shoplifting rates.
Store locations that were viable in 2019 should still be viable.
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Walgreen's and CVS (formerly Eckerd's) have coasted for a long time on the twin points of (1) there's a lot of people that want to get something without leaving the neighborhood, and (2) there's a lot of people that don't want to go to the giant box store, with the giant packed parking lot, and having to walk all over the world to get something. That may be finally be winding down.
Walmart and Dollar General have both been experimenting with 'market' stores, which are basically a grocery store without all the big box add ons. Generally speaking, when your grocery store starts selling clothes, the whole thing starts getting out of hand. That's refered to as 'lateral expansion', the notion that if your customer leaves without spending every dollar they have, then you've failed at marketing.
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I went to Walgreens recently to ask about passport photos. They wanted, like, $18 for two pics. After I caught my breath and politely expressed my outrage at such a cost, I checked at Wal-Mart...less than $7.50. Done deal.
So, I can't have much compassion for Walgreens, and I would bet their pharmacies were not filling prescriptions for Ivermectin, too.
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Poorly priced cosmetics deserts are upon the city dwellers.
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I'm a military retiree, with Tricare for Life (medicare, backed by Tricare). Tricare covers my prescriptions. Although my long term prescriptions are covered through Express Scripts, any short term prescriptions like antibiotics, come from Walgreens. Luckily I don't live in a downtown blue city.
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"USAID awarded $21.8 billion to Ukraine throughout fiscal years 2022 and 2023, roughly 41 percent of the 53.4 billion it spent during that period. Mysteriously, a portion of USAID funding earmarked for Kiev was sent to Kenya and Ethiopia via other agencies, with the award description stating projects in Africa were “partially funded with response funds and Ukraine supplemental funds.”
[The Defender] Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts — including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas and popular Substack commentator eugyppius — explain how leading public health experts could prescribe so many terrible pandemic response policies.
And it’s true. The so-called experts certainly have made themselves look foolish over the last three years: Public health leaders like Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Anthony Fauci make false claims, or contradict themselves repeatedly, on subjects related to the pandemic response, while leading scientists, like Dr. Peter Hotez in the U.S. and Dr. Christian Drosten in Germany, are equally susceptible to such flip-flops and lies.
Then there are the internationally renowned medical researchers, like Dr. Eric Topol, who repeatedly commit obvious errors in interpreting COVID-19-related research studies.
All of these figures publicly and aggressively promoted anti-public health policies, including universal masking, social distancing, mass testing and quarantining of healthy people, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
It seems like an open-and-shut case: Dumb policies and dumb people in charge of those policies.
This might be true in a few individual cases of public health or medical leaders who really are incapable of understanding even high school-level science.
However, if we look at leading pandemic public health and medical experts as a group — a group consisting of the most powerful, widely published and well-paid researchers and scientists in the world — that simple explanation sounds much less convincing.
[GEO.TV] The United States rejoined UNESCO on Friday, reversing its withdrawal during the Trump administration, the UN's cultural agency said.
Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... announced in 2017 that he was pulling the United States out of UNESCO, alongside Israel, accusing the body of bias against the Jewish state, a decision that took effect in 2018.
An extraordinary session of the UN body's General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for the return of the United States, an AFP news hound present at the vote said, with around 132 members voting in favour, 10 against and 15 abstentions.
Dissenting voices included Iran, Syria, China, North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... and Russia, whose delegates appeared to seek to delay the vote through several statements on procedure and suggested amendments.
The United States, a founding member of UNESCO, was a major contributor to its budget until 2011, when the body admitted Paleostine as a member state.
That triggered an end to the contributions under US law, leading up to the formal withdrawal announcement six years later.
Audrey Azoulay, a former French culture minister who has headed UNESCO since 2017, made it a priority of her term to bring the US back.
"This is a great day for UNESCO and for multilateralism," Azoulay said on Friday.
"Thanks to the momentum it has recovered these past years, our organization is again moving towards universalism with the return of the United States," she said.
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Maybe they ought to give us a folding chair to sit in for the next couple of years. No need to redecorate. We won’t be staying.
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[The Defender] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust on Wednesday announced plans to fund a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that will be tested on 26,000 people at 50 sites in Africa and Southeast Asia over the next four to six years.
Gates committed $400 million to the trial and Wellcome — the largest funder of medical research in the U.K. and one of the largest in the world — committed an additional $150 million.
The trials will test the M72/AS01 vaccine, developed by pharmaceutical giant GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) with partial funding from the Gates Foundation.
Experts told The Washington Post the news was "huge." The Guardian heralded the announcement as "gamechanging," while STAT called it "promising."
But Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense told The Defender that the planned trials for the TB vaccine raised red flags.
"I’m concerned that they’re planning on conducting the trial in underdeveloped nations," Hooker said. "It seems almost prototypical that the underserved have to be guinea pigs for the rest of the world."
He added, "Fifty percent is incredibly low efficacy for such an ’important’ intervention to go to essentially everyone in the developing world."
TB MORE COMMON AMONG POOR
Everything bad is more common among the poor.
GSK developed the vaccine and ran smaller, "proof-of-concept" phase 2b trials on it in 2018, reporting a 54% efficacy rate. But the vaccine maker didn’t move forward with the large-scale trials needed for a license.
Instead, it passed the license to the Gates Medical Research Institute, a nonprofit biotech spinoff of the Gates Foundation dedicated to developing "novel biomedical interventions" to treat global health problems.
The existing vaccine for TB, the BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccine, was developed in 1921 and is effective at stopping TB infection among children but has limited efficacy in adults.
Recent estimates suggest up to 25% of the global population carries a latent (asymptomatic) TB infection, which may later become active among 5-15% of latent carriers. People with latent infection cannot spread the disease.
TB kills 1.6 million people per year, primarily in low and middle-income countries. It is treatable and curable with antibiotics. Drug-resistant strains have emerged, but those also are treatable and curable using second-line drugs.
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I guess there are 2 ways to look at these Uber $$$ Rich doings.
Either they are trying to do something good with their Wealth.
OR.
They are working to accomplish something like the Georgia Guide stone steps, whch was conveniently destroyed during, what some call, the Planned-demic.
Which BTW oddly no serious investigation outcome was ever reached after several years now.
[NBC] A British biotech firm this week got the green light from U.S. regulators to release over 2 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and California as part of an expanded effort to combat transmission of diseases like Zika, dengue fever and canine heartworm. Dengue fever running rampant in the Cotswolds and the Lake District, the impact on tourism and fly fishing is horrendous.
The experimental public health effort, which still requires final approval from state regulators, follows the 2021 release of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys by British biotech firm Oxitec. Salman Pak and Wuhan have obviously fallen from favour within the BIO research community.
Oxitec said its genetically modified male, and thus non-biting, mosquitoes "find and mate with invasive female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, mediating a reduction of the target population as the female offspring of these encounters cannot survive," thus reducing the overall population. Population reduction? Yes, yes, yes I am following the science.
In a news release announcing approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, Oxitec described its release in Florida in 2021 as a "success." Nothing like COVID mind you, but still a success.
"Given the growing health threat this mosquito poses across the U.S., we’re working to make this technology available and accessible," Grey Frandsen, CEO of Oxitec said, adding that the company will now apply for approval from California and Florida regulators.
In Florida, Aedes aegypti are relatively rare but account for the vast majority of mosquito-transmitted disease, Oxitec said. The invasive species was first detected in California in 2013. A human test population with aging immune systems is required.
"We made significant progress during the pilot project last year, we look forward to continuing this important work during this year’s mosquito season," Andrea Leal, director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, said in the Oxitec news release.
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Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses, and other disease agents. The mosquito can be recognized by black and white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of its thorax. Wikipedia
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WIKI - Oxitec was founded in 2002 as Oxford Insect Technologies in the United Kingdom by Luke Alphey and David Kelly, working with Oxford University's Isis Innovation technology transfer company.[3] In August 2015, Oxitec was purchased by U.S.-based Intrexon for $160 million,[4][5][6] and by US-based Third Security in early 2020.[7] That would be the late David Kelly, who reportedly took his own life in 2003.
The company's first engineered insect was the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella). It was experimentally released in Arizona in 2006.[8] It then modified Aedes egyptii, followed by a series of field trials in multiple countries.
Grey Frandsen was appointed CEO in 2017.[9] He is an American who led start-up initiatives in the U.S. government and the private and non-profit sectors on matters relating to national and global public health security, biotechnology and crisis response.[10] Frandsen led the company's transition to its 2nd generation technology in 2018.[11][12][13] During the 2010s, Oxitec established partnerships with agricultural industry[14] leaders and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[15] Frandsen was named one of Malaria No More's 10-to-End innovators in 2019.[16]
[Armstrong Economics] Another conspiracy theory debunked.
Alex Jones warned us long ago the government "was making the frogs gay," and he was correct, but his delivery did not go over well.
Robert F. Kennedy brought up atrazine while on the Joe Rogan podcast and explained the very serious matter. Atrazine is a legal herbicide used to kill weeds in the US. Farmers in the US are also permitted to use Atrazine to repel pests.
This chemical has been linked to leukemia, lymphoma, and numerous cancers.
It is banned throughout the world, but America permits its usage and insists it is safe. Atrazine has become the most commonly found chemical in US drinking water.
#3
Atrazine does it's job pretty well because it indeed is some nasty stuff. I do think that it was misused and overused in the past, but farmers are being much more careful with it these days.
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[Regnum] OceanGate, whose bathyscaphe crashed while diving into the wreckage of the Titanic, continues to sell tickets. The next runs are scheduled for 2024.
To be fair, the company president who approved all the construction shortcuts will not be supervising the next build. And it was fairly conclusively demonstrated that the shortcuts he chose are a tad too risky.
"Intrepid travelers will embark on an eight-day expedition to dive the iconic wreck, which lies 380 miles offshore and 3,800 meters below the surface," OceanGate reports .
Those wishing to dive to the Titanic will pay $250,000 for this.
As IA Regnum reported , the bathyscaphe of OceanGate Expedition disappeared on June 18 in the Atlantic Ocean. On board were OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman , and French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet.
Rush, according to Fox News, admitted several years ago that he broke some rules in the construction of the Titan submersible. American financier Jay Bloom said he repeatedly expressed doubts about the safety of the dive after Rush suggested that he go down to the Titanic.
Professor of Florida International University Eileen Maria Marty noted that the destruction of the body of the apparatus occurred in just a fraction of a millisecond. The historian of the submarine fleet, captain of the 1st rank and officer of the submarine fleet Nikolai Cherkashin , in an interview with IA Regnum , stated that any submarine, no matter how strong it may be, will be crushed in a split second if its hull is not airtight.
CNN reported that people, most likely, did not have time to realize what happened. One of the creators of the Mir deep-sea manned submersibles, Hero of Russia Anatoly Sagalevich, expressed the opinion that the Titan hull most likely collapsed. Former Royal Navy submarine captain Ryan Ramsey suggested that one of the possible causes of the disaster was the erroneously designed bathyscaphe hull.
Later, the wreckage of the Titan submersible, which crashed while trying to dive to the Titanic, was raised from a depth of about 3,800 m. It took 10 days to do this.
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If it carries 4 paying customers and a pilot, if it cost more than a $1M to build it's a loser, money wise.
(Or we could monetize the old mafia approach, and just stuff them in a 55 gallon drum and drop them onsite.)
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No one can sue them for false advertising if they include the tag line, “Death Defying” at this point.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...the transexual 
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...46th president of the U.S. S 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses, and other disease agents. The mosquito can be recognized by black and white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of its thorax. 
