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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Elderly Asian Couple Attacked By A Black Gang, Their Machete-Wielding Son Comes To The Rescue
[DEFIANTAMERICA] A frightening scene caught on camera as an elderly Asian couple is attacked and robbed returning home from grocery shopping. Then a hero emerges, their own son — wielding a machete.
What's with the anti-Asian hostility prevalent among Wakandans?
Feral yoots (and former yoots) feel preferentially permitted to run amok. Not everyone has Hassidic Jews or elderly white people to attack, so they have to make do with the local variety of victims. We had a link in comments the other day showing that during the 2020 lockdown, 69% of attacks on Asians in America took place in California cities (LA and San Francisco with a few in San Jose) followed by 20% in the great city of New York, followed distantly by 7% in Washington State. Perhaps in 2021 the game is spreading to new Progressive locations.
Surveillance video showed four black people approach an elderly couple of Asian heritage and attempt to rob them while beating them.

The son of the couple, who did not want to be identified and did not want his neighborhood revealed, said the incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. PDT on Monday
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The four savages above were in Oakland of course.

Note that Oakland scores almost as many anti-Asian attacks as LA - and of course that's because these attacks are committed in the main by blacks. Also some Hispanics and a few white attackers but mainly urban feral blacks.

Denying this is yet another preposterous lie we're being fed by our Race Communist media fabulists
Posted by: Shairt B. Hayes1533 || 04/04/2021 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Tribal exclusion. What are your questions ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope that machete wasn't over 4 inches long! Did he pass a background check before the store let him have it! OMG, I'm literally shaking at the thought of an uncontrolled machete. I'm being triggered!

I'm turning the sarcasm dial from 11 back to zero now.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/04/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Confucius say, "Ever be ready
"To fight evil with well-honed machete!
"Yankee-land's glorious mosaic
"Brings chaos and havoc
"And no law but that of Serengeti!"
Posted by: Gerthudion Scourge of the Faith7547 || 04/04/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Benihana time.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/04/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||


15-year-old boy arrested in attack on Tacoma Asian couple that was caught on video
[KOMONEWS] Tacoma police said Friday that they have arrested a teen suspect in connection with a suspected hate crime case in which an elderly Korean-American couple were attacked nearly five months ago, an assault that was captured on video and widely shared on social media.Authorities did not identify the 15-year-old boy because he is a juvenile. Police said in a written statement that the suspect would face a second-degree assault charge for the incident, which occurred on Nov. 19, 2020.

Investigators used the video to identify the teenager, and realized he was scheduled to show up on Friday for a detention review hearing at Remann Hall for an unrelated robbery charge. Officers were at the courthouse waiting for him, then took him into custody.

Although the video was shared to social media last year, Tacoma police said they were only made aware of the footage on Tuesday.
another Alternative White Supremacist™
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wakandan rite of passage.
Walkabout, Wakandan style
Posted by: Phavigum Omiting1374 || 04/04/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  So police have arrested the White Black supremist. What should we expect now from the Uber Liberal State Of the Left coast DA now? Release w/o bail?... therapy? Or some other bs handling.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/04/2021 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  This is Tacoma. Expect the asian couple to be charged with assaulting the poor boy's fists.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
University researcher: ‘Intelligence is a White man's mythology'
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2021 13:13 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  how about we just call her a dumb bitch
Posted by: Chris || 04/04/2021 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Leads to the question that if intelligence is a white man's mythology, why bother with 'higher' education? Seems to consume a lot of resources better applied elsewhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/04/2021 15:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Graduate Assistants have to make themselves stand out somehow if they’re to become postdocs someday, never mind step up on the first rung toward tenure. But with that sheepskin in philosophy, she’ll be perfectly qualified to drive for Uber Eats, as long as someone generously buys her a car.

Graduate Assistant, Philosophy

As a philosopher of mind, biology, and cognitive science, my research focuses on the phenomena of cognition (anticipatory dynamics) and life (far from thermodynamic equilibrium steady-state maintaining dynamics). The central thesis of my work is that these two dynamics necessitate one another. I compare and contrast the merits and explanatory scope of conceptual and formal models of life and mind, and explore the implications of these considerations for some of the major outstanding questions in the cognitive and biological sciences and in the philosophy of mind.


Ms Andrews is wrong, though. Intelligence as she describes it is not a myth of the white male but of Western academia, which prioritizes academic intelligence over all other kinds, leading to paying a person with imbecile level social intelligence to assist a professor, whether grading undergrad papers using the provided answer key or stapling multiple copies of the handouts for the professor’s next symposium.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2021 18:32 Comments || Top||

#4  And yet people actually do vary in their ability to retain information, generalize, and make associations. They also vary in their ability to apply information meaningfully.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/04/2021 19:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Well... at least she's beautiful.
Posted by: Ebberetle Chavilet9598 || 04/04/2021 22:05 Comments || Top||

#6  That face of hers just reeks of A$$ HOLE.
Posted by: Clem || 04/04/2021 22:06 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Biden administration put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a Baltimore plant that ruined millions of doses of its vaccine
[NYTIMES] The Biden administration on Saturday put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a Baltimore manufacturing plant that ruined 15 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, and stopped the facility from making another vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca.The extraordinary move by the U.S. Health and Human Services will leave the Emergent BioSolutions facility solely devoted to making the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine and is meant to avoid future mix-ups, according to two senior federal health officials. Johnson & Johnson confirmed the changes, saying it was "assuming full responsibility" for the vaccine made by Emergent.

The change came in response to the recent disclosure that Emergent, a manufacturing partner to both AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, accidentally mixed up the ingredients from the two different vaccines, which forced regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines.

Federal officials are worried that the mix-up will erode public confidence in the vaccines, just as President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.......
is making an aggressive push to have enough vaccine doses to cover every American adult by the end of May. At the same time, there is deep concern about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine, amid a health scare that has prompted some European countries to restrict its use.

AstraZeneca said in a statement that it would work with the Biden administration to find an alternative site.

The ingredient mix-up, and Saturday’s move by the administration, is a significant setback and public relations debacle for Emergent, a Maryland biotech company that has built a profitable business by teaming up with the federal government, primarily by selling its anthrax vaccines to the Strategic National Stockpile.

A front man for Emergent declined to comment, except to say that it would continue making AstraZeneca doses until it receives a contract modification from the federal government.

Experts in vaccine manufacturing said that in the past, the F.D.A. had a rule to prevent such mishaps by not allowing a facility to make two live viral vector vaccines, because of the potential for mix-ups and contamination.



Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Press on the A-Z vaccine - if it leads to bleeding then it leads to headlines.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 04/04/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  A-Z is considerably cheaper than the other two.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2021 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  The key phrase here may not be "Johnson&Johnson", but "Baltimore".
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/04/2021 8:11 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 A-Z is considerably cheaper than the other two.

That's because A-Z used crank window technology compared to the other two.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/04/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  That photo of Joey...looks like he's trying to pull an AOC imitation.
Posted by: Clem || 04/04/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Slow Joe pic is wrong. You won't see his eyebrows lift nor brow furrow. Nothing moves from Cheeks up. Doubt it's Botox; Likely Parkinsons...
Posted by: Phusolet Gloluper1146 || 04/04/2021 18:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Biden's gait is classic Parkinsons.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Feds just booted A-Z from using the Baltimore plant.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/04/2021 18:36 Comments || Top||

#9  But, but, Joey said he was running for re-election....
Posted by: Clem || 04/04/2021 21:59 Comments || Top||


NYPD officers instructed to let adults smoke marijuana in nearly all outdoor, public spaces
[JustTheNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
So let me get this straight
I can not smoke #1 in a public place, because it is tobacco and may
cause cancer via "2nd hand smoke"
But I can smoke #2 in a public place, because it is cannabis, causing perception distortion, may cause cancer via '2nd hand smoke'.

A little distorted perception on your part isn't it (?) new (now very old) york.

Oh, oh, I forgot, its because you are dems...


Posted by: Varmint Smith5115 || 04/04/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Iowa Governor Signs Bill Into Law Letting Residents Buy, Carry Guns Without Permits
[Epoch Times via ZERO] Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law on Friday lifting some restrictions to buy or carry a handgun in the state for law-abiding citizens.

The NRA-backed legislation named "House File 756" will take effect on July 1 and eliminates the requirement for law-abiding Iowans to obtain a permit to purchase a handgun from private non-licensed sources. Additionally, to carry a weapon, people will no longer need to have a permit as well.

Individuals will still have to follow federal law and go through an instant background check to buy from licensed sellers each time they purchase a gun.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 08:36 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. And I know more are in the pipeline across the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/04/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Suez Canal backlog is CLEARED: More than 400 supertankers stuck in shipping traffic jam are freed after week-long backlog which cost billions didn't cost me a thing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Traffic on the canal, a conduit for over 10 percent of world trade, had begun moving again on Monday

  • It comes after the 200,000-tonne Ever Given was refloated, after it became jammed blocking the vital route

  • Egypt's Suez Canal Authority has now said that the traffic back-log that built up on the canal has cleared

  • The wedging of the Japanese-owned, Taiwanese-operated ship had created tailbacks north and south totalling over 420 ships, with billions worth of cargo sitting in the canal, waiting for the Ever Given to move
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Moving of S-400 missile systems was reportedly filmed in Voronezh region, south Russia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yawn. Not our monkeys. Not our circus
Posted by: Sheart Creresing9257 || 04/04/2021 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Russia, finally, putting its house in order?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2021 4:12 Comments || Top||

#3  What's this sudden fascination with 'filming goings on in Russia' again?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/04/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  ^To distract public attention from bending over & spreading it for China?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Maverick John "Tokyo Rose" McCain has gotta be loving this....f'in putz.
Posted by: Clem || 04/04/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  "road trip!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 18:26 Comments || Top||


Russian tanks rumble towards Ukraine border - panic over video footage on motorway
[MSN] A video has emerged from Russia showing a massive convoy of tanks and trucks speeding towards the Ukrainian border. Despite the heavy military presence, Russian President Putin said only humanitarian aid was being delivered to the region, which he described as being caught up in an internal conflict.
Tanks always "rumble" even if they're on trains or trucks.
The terrifying footage showed tens of tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks amongst traffic near the city of Krasnodar in southern Russia.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was "gravely concerned" at the situation while US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
lent support to Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a 50-minute phone conversation yesterday.

Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other in recent weeks for a spike in violence in the eastern Donbass region where tensions have risen between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed seperatist forces.

Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah!
I see that another round of Molotov's "humanitarian supplies" are taking place. I wonder if we'll see Ukrainians start producing Putin Borscht?
Posted by: Nomad || 04/04/2021 5:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I honestly don't care, stay the fuck out of it
Posted by: Chris || 04/04/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||


Cyber
'Huge Sale Breach' - Personal Data Of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online
[ZERO] Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a low-level hacking forum, according to Business Insider. Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million users in the US, 11 million in the UK, and 6 million in India, had their Facebook IDs, full names, phone numbers, locations, birthdates, bios, and in some cases, email addresses, leaked online.

Insider journalists examined the leaked data and confirmed several Facebook users' data matched up with the leaked data on the list.

Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users' phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook's password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user's phone number. -Insider

Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, has been one of the first to post about the leak. He tweeted Saturday morning:

All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked. I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 08:15 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

Please, please, NOTHING is free.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I still always laugh when people say they can't trust me because I'm not on FartBook or StinkedIn.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/04/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  So, your name and a phone number are floating around the innertubes for free. But there are still a bunch of sites that want to sell that information for a monthly $12.95 subscription...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/04/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ I have always found 'private' people, people who mind their own business and avoid celebrity.... are the most trustworthy of people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/04/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5  trustworthy?
Maybe not, but known, controllable risks within certain limits of performance expectation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 18:25 Comments || Top||

#6  I de-friended (dumped) Fakebook 4-1/2 months ago because of their shenanigans (selective censorship and other things) in the 2020 election. F$ck em.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||

#7  I sent the Farcebook link to a friend (and virulent Farcebook hater). His response was multiple HA HA HA's.
Posted by: Clem || 04/04/2021 22:03 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan fought the horse, and the metaphor won
Hattip 3dc.
[Twitter]
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan Arrests Former Top Palace Aide in Security Clampdown
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Jordanian security forces arrested a former adviser to King Abdullah, a member of the royal family and others on "security related" grounds, the Petra state news agency said.
... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe?
US-educated Bassem Awadallah,
... Basem Ibrahim Awadallah, former head of the royal court and former planning minister...
a long-time confidant of the king who later became minister of finance, and Sharif Hassan Ben Zaid,
... the former royal envoy to Saudi Arabia...
a member of the royal family were detained along with other unnamed figures, Petra said. It gave no details.

Arrests of brass hats and royal family members are rare in Jordan.

Awadallah was a driving force behind economic reforms before he resigned as chief of the royal court in 2008.
Al Ahram adds:
Jordanian King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein was asked to halt actions used to target the country's "security and stability", the military said on Saturday.

In a statement published on the state news agency, it said this was part of a broader, ongoing security investigation in which a former minister, a member of the royal family and unnamed others were detained.

Jordan ex-crown prince says he’s being held under house arrest, denies coup plot

[IsraelTimes] As top officials are arrested, Hamzah bin Hussein issues video accusing the monarchy of corruption, stifling dissent; says his internet, phones cut.
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Creeping Iranists?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 18:28 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon: Countries Report Increased Cases After Using Vaccine
h/t Instapundit
[Epoch Times] - The Hong Kong government recently rolled out a large-scale vaccination plan against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as COVID-19, but it’s been mired by frequent reports of serious adverse reactions. In just one month, 13 people died in Hong Kong after being inoculated, 11 of whom had been injected with the Sinovac vaccine, a Chinese domestically made vaccine.

The CCP has not reported a single case of serious side effects or death after it announced the administering of 100 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine in China on March 28.

But there are four strange phenomena of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, analyzed as follows.

No Deaths Reported in China

...CCP’s National Health Commission announced on March 28 that more than 100 million doses of its domestic vaccines had been administered in China, but it did not report any deaths or serious side effects. At the same time, however, any comments about the adverse effects of the vaccines are quickly deleted from China’s internet.

Outbreak Intensifies in Countries Using Sinovac Vaccines
...In the United States and Israel, where the BioNTech [Pfizer] vaccine was also chosen as the main vaccine, the epidemic also slowed down significantly after vaccination.

However, the number of confirmed cases in Chile, Turkey, and Pakistan, which chose to receive the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, has increased.

Chile administered nearly 9 million doses of the Sinovac vaccines in February, with an average of 47 doses per 100 people, making it the country with the highest vaccination rate in South America. However, the number of positive test results recorded in Chile rose instead of fell, and a new high of 7,626 cases was recorded in a single day on March 26, leading to a tight supply of hospital beds and a recent lockdown of the capital city of Santiago.

Turkey started to administer Sinovac vaccines in mid-January and at least eight million people have been injected with the vaccine, accounting for more than 10 percent of the population. But their case numbers also rebounded in late February, with 37,303 new cases recorded on March 30, the highest single-day figure since the outbreak on March 11 last year. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on April 2 that there would be a curfew during the weekends throughout the month of Ramadan.

In addition, Pakistan, which has been using the Chinese vaccine since early February, is now experiencing a third wave of the pandemic, with the national positivity ratio rising to 11 percent, the highest level since the outbreak. More than 20 cities have been "closed" due to the severity of the outbreak.

Adverse Reaction Rate Similar to Placebo

At present, the Sinovac vaccine has only released clinical study data for Phase I and Phase II, and the relevant data show that the rate of adverse reactions is only about 20 percent, a lower figure than other vaccines. Dr. Dong Yuhong, a European virologist and chief scientific officer in a Swiss Biotech company, said that, from an academic point of view, there are two questionable points about the Sinovac data (pdf).

First, in various other COVID-19 vaccines, the ratio of side effects in the vaccination group is usually significantly higher than that in the placebo group. But the ratio of side effects post-vaccination of Sinovac was similar to that of the placebo injection. Some side effects were even lower in the vaccination group than in the placebo group.
I'm sure it's merely a coincidence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2021 13:16 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cost containment.
They're reusing needles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/04/2021 18:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like if you want to get a vax, the US Pfizer vaccine is the one to get.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 04/04/2021 19:45 Comments || Top||



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