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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Update - Man shot by Secret Service near White House is former boxer with rap sheet
[WAPO via New York Post] The 51-year-old man whose shooting by the Secret Service disrupted President Trump’s press conference is a 6-foot-3 former licensed boxer who was previously charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to a report.

Myron Berryman has been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer after allegedly approaching a Secret Service agent Monday evening while claiming to have a weapon.

The officer shot Berryman in the torso when he "crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon," officials said.
I'm going with "Suicide by cop" attempt
Berryman, who has lived in Dayton, Ohio, Forrestville, Maryland, and, more recently, Wheeling, West Virginia, was charged in 2012 with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in Prince George’s County, the Washington Post reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2020 08:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No weapon was recovered from the scene of the shooting, officials have said.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Sister says -

“This is crazy. He is a man of God. He would not have a weapon, for sure. His weapon is the word of God”
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  His weapon is the word of God

Jihads. Crusades. Albigensian crusades. Holy Inquisition. Religious wars. Witch burning. Jihads.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm going with "Suicide by cop" attempt

Sounds like it. There don't seem to be any photos of Mr. Berryman in any of the news stories. Should we assume he is black or a BIPI-POC or whatever the preferred category is nowadays?

Expect much hay to be made from the "fact" that the police callously shot an unarmed man.

Posted by: SteveS || 08/13/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#6  you need a license to box? who knew
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/13/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm going with "Suicide by cop" attempt

Maybe hoping to end up as the next BLM poster child?
Posted by: gorb || 08/13/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/13/2020 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm surprised there weren't riots.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/13/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||


Chainsaw-wielding men covered in blood terrorize Toronto beachgoers
[New York Post] It wasn’t a Toronto Chain Saw Massacre — but two blood-covered, chainsaw-wielding men terrorized beachgoers in Toronto over the weekend, according to videos and local reports.

The slasher-film-seeming footage, which was posted on Facebook, shows the duo, blood dripping down their shirtless torsos, pointing power tools toward a crowd at Cherry Beach on Sunday morning.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2020 08:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got a chill thinking about a Toronto beach. Where your toque.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/13/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  "blood dripping down their shirtless torsos"
This has gotta be a gag.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/13/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I was hoping for the first production level rollout of the chainsaw bayonet...
Posted by: Raj || 08/13/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||

#4  2nd guy's tats & low pants suggest narco gang type
Posted by: Punky Clunk8901 || 08/13/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a bad Hollywood gore movie.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/13/2020 18:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Well it's not THAT crazy for Toronto. Well do I remember a summer day on a Toronto beach with my trust chainsaw . . . . no wait. That was my trusty cooler of beer. The chainsaw came about later.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 08/13/2020 20:14 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
More than 20,000 locked-down Melburnians vow to stand on their front porches and unleash a collective scream in bizarre ploy to help deal with restrictions
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 12:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Melbourne, Australia Population 2019: 5.191 million

0.02/5.191 = 0.004 i.e., 0.4%
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  So 10 times more than at risk from covid.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#3  If the case is so strong, it should make itself instead of Voluntary Compliance Under Pain of Government.

Every US authority who nods in agreement with Australian Style Gun Control is green with envy.

Shit, at least in prison you are allowed outside for an exercise period.

At my campfire, everyone agrees it is only a matter of time before something very nasty gets going, and that the critical first moments between detection and isolation will be lost because of this absolute shredding of any moral credibility and authority.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I am reminded of a play I saw with my school class, back before the internet.

I can't remember its name, but it was memorable for a couple reasons. First, my first experience with the Phelps Gangs.

OK, set in the future, stage is a multi-person dwelling. There is some sort of a babysitter, not sure if was like HAL or from control room. Resident were told that the outside was deadly, I forget if it was disease or radiation, considering the era probably nuclear fallout or such. Any rate, the residents were just kind of going through their daily motions, kind of ho humm, until one gets tired of it and finds a way to escape.

He gets outside, and the world is lush and beautiful. He finds a critter, and after a bit of acting the audience realizes he found a bunny and didn't know what it was.

This is the second reason it was memorable. My class thought this was the stupidest thing ever. We were kids, when we weren't in school or bed we were outside. Never heard of a rabbit, what a bunch of bull.

Back to the story, roommate catches him sneaking back in, confronts him over a very serious no-no. He gives 'its a wonderful world out there' speech. Well, she is intrigued enough she sneaks out, brings a flower back in to show all the roommates.

Well, she makes a mistake and the authorities find the flower, now they are in real trouble. The all escape, but the rabbit guy gets killed.

The play's dilemma was that although rabbit man died, they didn't realize how miserable their past existence was and how much happier they are now.

How ridiculous! Absurd! Unpossible!

Except here we are, cheering it on, and the actors in the play are today's children.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2020 16:01 Comments || Top||


Background: Condi Rice plays first round of golf as one of Augusta National's two first female members ahead of the Masters
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Article from 2013
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  That's why it's background, Dude.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Good catch, Mullah Richard — thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/13/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Joe Biden's ideal VP is Condoleezza Rice
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#5  What if Joe Biden chose a Republican to be his vice president?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||


'Only in Florida!' Bobcat and baby alligator battle to the death in amazed guy's back yard
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Different weight classes.
Posted by: no mo uro || 08/13/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  And if the weight classes were flipped, the gator doesn't even get a crack at the bobcat unless it's injured, sick or old.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/13/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Did it taste like chicken?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
[Daily Mail] American climate change expert dies after 'falling into a crevasse when a snow bridge collapsed beneath him' while working on a glacier in Greenland
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey Boss, do we put this one down as Covid or is he a Global Warming fatality?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/13/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  GREENland. Shame on the Danes...just another example of systemic racism.
Posted by: Clem || 08/13/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  snow bridge collapsed...

...due to global warming, over population, pandemic, heat from face masks, expelled carbon dioxide. CV-19, it all adds up right ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#4  it all adds up right ?

He didn't believe what he was pitching.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 0:51 Comments || Top||

#5  He's a bit old to be doing stuff like that. Seriously!
Posted by: 3dc || 08/13/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Ice melts in summer. Global warming alright.
Posted by: Glavinter Greretle1225 || 08/13/2020 1:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Just like the grants for the green scam will dry up now we've moved onto the COVID scam.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 3:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Glaciers do that. Especially in summer. That is why we need to keep heating up the earth to get rid of these evil things!
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/13/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Normal thinking people rope up on glaciers and belay each other going over snow bridges.

The mountains don’t care if you get back or perish. Your safety is up to you. Gaia has no comment.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/13/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#10  i'm sure what made him an expert was that he had all the right opinions
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/13/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Nature, why does it hate us?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/13/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#12  This tragedy is Brennivin for my soul.
Posted by: Ulesing Bucket4222 || 08/13/2020 16:01 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Outcry in Somalia as new bill would allow child marriage
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Moslems just gotta have dat junior nookie.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
At least six killed, dozens injured in family feud in Egypt's Fayoum
[Al Ahram] At least six people were killed and 35 injured in a fight over a plot of farmland in the Egyptian governorate of Fayoum, south of Cairo, in the early hours of Wednesday, al-Ahram Arabic news website and other local news outlets reported.

Initial investigations revealed the brawl in the Agmeen village took place between a group of 19 cousins over a piece of land. The squabble soon escalated into a clash with firearms that lasted for several hours.

Fayoum security directorate dispatched anti-riot forces to stop the fight and police cordoned off the crime site.

The victims were transferred to a hospital and prosecutors are currently investigating the incident.

At least four people have been arrested as authorities continue to search for some of the suspects on the lam.

Weapons used in feuds are often unlicensed and smuggled into the country illegally. The government proposed several initiatives in the past years to encourage people to hand over their illegal weapons since 2011 without legal accountability.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Digital ID, Bill Gates vaccine record, and payments system combo to be trialed in Africa

[ReclaimTheNet.org] A potential to raise eyebrows for privacy and civil liberty concerns.

Africa is now becoming the testing ground for a biometric digital identity platform developed in a partnership between Mastercard, Trust Stamp, and Bill Gates’ GAVI Vaccine Alliance. While Trust Stamp provides identification authentication through AI, GAVI is an international organization created by tech mogul Bill Gates for supposedly helping underprivileged children access new as well as "under-used" vaccines.

The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa. GAVI and Mastercard have created a digital vaccination record known as "Wellness Pass". Now the platform will be integrated with this Wellness Pass.

The biometric digital identity platform will have the vaccination records from GAVI, a payment system through Mastercard, and AI-based identity authentication via Trust Stamp. As of now, the whole project has been funded via donor funds to GAVI, which amount to nearly four million dollars, and a similar donation amount from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

With the COVID-19 saga in full swing, Trust Stamp’s authentication system is integrated with Wellness Pass. Once the vaccine for coronavirus is made available, it will be integrated into the whole system to keep track of the vaccinations in West Africa. It is worth noting that the whole biometric digital identity platform is launched with a motivation to bolster the markets for vaccines.

Mastercard, which is also in the alliance, says that it is working for fulfilling its vision of a "World Beyond Cash" that it outlined a few years ago.

What’s more, Trust Stamp, the organization providing AI-based authentication, is also looking to commercialize its proprietary technologies.

Mastercard say that Trust Stamp is looking to partner with "correctional systems" to provide authentication services to individuals on parole, without the need for ankle bracelets. What seems to be an effort to improve immunization measures can also be an experiment for fine-tuning the technologies involved before they’re made available for widespread global use.
Posted by: Clem || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. "
Posted by: Warthog || 08/13/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe give them electricity too?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  So how are the “undocumented“ in America going to be administered their mandatory vaccine? Do they get fraudulent vax ID like they get .GOV ID
Posted by: Thereck Dark Lord of the Nebraskans7771 || 08/13/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||

#4  The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa

Ah, what has been referred to as The Slave Coast, perhaps BLM would like to comment?

Apparently that Imam screaming about this a couple months back isn't the kook he was being made out to be.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Will he force them to use Mr. Clippy as well?
Posted by: magpie || 08/13/2020 17:06 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Murder case filed against OC Pradeep, 28 others, in Maheshkhali
[Dhaka Tribune] A murder case has been filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar in connection with a reported shootout in 2017.

The plaintiff, Hamida Akhter, lodged the case on Wednesday afternoon regarding the murder of her husband, salt trader Abdus Sattar, which was allegedly framed as a shootout by OC Pradeep and 28 others.

The 29 people accused include the former OC of the cop shoppe Pradeep Kumar Das and five other members of the police force.

The five are SI Harunur Rashid, SI Imam Hossain, ASI Monirul Islam, ASI Shahedul Islam and ASI Azim Uddin.

Ferdous, 58, chief of the Ferdous Gang, is the main accused in the case. He is the son of late Nurul Kabir of the same area.

Hamida Akhter, the plaintiff in the case, said that her husband Abdus Sattar was killed at around 7am on February 14, 2017, with the help of Ferdous and his followers in Lambasia area of Hwanak.

The police did not file a case regarding the incident, which occurred in 2017, she alleged.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
Flu and pneumonia killed five times more Brits than Covid last month
[TheTimes] Flu and pneumonia are killing five times as many people as coronavirus at present, with Covid deaths at their lowest since the end of March, figures show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that overall deaths were below average for the time of year for the seventh consecutive week, while deaths from Covid-19 were at a 19-week low.

There were 193 deaths reported in the week ending July 31 that had coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate, continuing three months of falls since a weekly peak of 8,758 in April. It is the lowest figure since 103 died in the week ending March 20, on the eve of lockdown.

By contrast, 928 people died of flu or pneumonia in the last week of July,
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 03:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If so then it seems this is going to be a disaster for those of Asian descent since this thing attacks their lungs harder and leaves lasting damage each time.
Posted by: gorb || 08/13/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||


UK reels from biggest Covid hit of ANY major economy with GDP slumping a FIFTH as the country officially plunges into recession and Rishi Sunak warns of jobs bloodbath - but glimmer of hope as growth rebounded by 8.7% in June
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The UK economy has officially entered recession after figures showed a second quarter of contraction
    That’s what happens when you lock everyone down. It reverses when its opened up again, people being what they are.
  • GDP was down a shocking 20.4 per cent in the three month to June at height of the coronavirus crisis
    Not shocking at all, under the circumstances.
  • UK's hit in the first six months of 2020 was the worst in the G7 with slump set to be the biggest in 100 years
    Never before has much of the world deliberately closed up shop for the duration. In 1918-1920 the Spanish flu rampaged round the world in four waves, infecting 500 million and killing 17-50 million. Current COVID-19 world statistics are 20.8 million infections and 747,258 deaths since January, where the death rate started flattening in April.
  • The economy did recover to an extent in the month of June with the ONS finding 8.7 per cent growth
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, certain sectors of economy will never recover. And a good thing too - because middle classes should stop trying to imitate the leisure class.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks Prof Lockdown... You killed hundreds of thousands more than COVID killed.

Since July FLU has killed 5 times more than COVID.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry, but COVID is just not that excessively dangerous for the VAST majority of people. So your hyperbole that people are dropping like flies is frankly BULLSHIT. Most people need to be tested to even find out if they have had the virus, it's that insignificant.

The 99.95% of the population locked up to save the 0.05%.

The economics of madness from the mad medic touting an expensive "cure" to what wouldn't even be noticed as a problem but the vast majority of those afflicted.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  "Dying like flies" in the same places they did before Covid.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/13/2020 6:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I wish flies would die. I am tired of chasing them around the house.
Posted by: Clem || 08/13/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Aint that the truth; around here flies are living like COVID patients.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Brazilian state agrees to produce Russian COVID-19 vaccine
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "License approved for Stolichnaya"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/13/2020 6:23 Comments || Top||


#3  ^Chickens coming home to roost?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Or false positives massively prevalent.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#5  False positives, poor technique combined with everything in China being contaminated with traces of the virus...or battlespace preparation for the coming price negotiations. China will need to import a lot of food in the near future. Any leverage they can get will help.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/13/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China warned Washington not to ''play with fire'' on Wednesday as a US delegation wrapped up a historic trip to the self-ruled island of Taiwan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  You gotta have fire if you wanna make steam.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  What are they gonna do? Send us another virus?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/13/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Well, yes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel says it fended off North Korean hack attempt against defense industry
[IsraelTimes] Cyber criminals from Lazarus group built fake LinkedIn accounts, tried to woo Israeli officials with lucrative job opportunities to gain access to their networks.

The Defense Ministry on Wednesday said hackers from a group linked to the 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...
n government targeted Israeli defense officials, luring them with fake job offers in a failed attempt
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/13/2020 07:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Science & Technology
Immunity to Covid-19 could be lost in months, UK study suggests
[The Guardian] - People who have recovered from Covid-19 may lose their immunity to the disease within months, according to research suggesting the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds.

In the first longitudinal study of its kind, scientists analysed the immune response of more than 90 patients and healthcare workers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust and found levels of antibodies that can destroy the virus peaked about three weeks after the onset of symptoms then swiftly declined.

Just like in regular coronaviruses: c.f. The time course of the immune response to experimental coronavirus infection of man (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2271881/pdf/epidinfect00023-0213.pdf)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 05:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds

So there will never be 'herd immunity'? What does that say about a vaccine?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Exactly what you think it says.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  So, lockdowns forever? No thanks.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/13/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Are you in lockdown now?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  No immunity suggests restrictions only postpone the inevitable, and my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant is still closed because it does a large-volume business.

No immunity - no restrictions. You may still wear a mask or stay at home - your choice.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/13/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||


#7  ^Are you in lockdown now?

Partial.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/13/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Reminder...

MSM dictionary entry for "could" says refer to "won't"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Year after year a shakedown for "this years covid vaccine"...

For something that's currently 5 times less harmful than flu (in the UK and probably most of the west except powderkeg NZL)!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||


First 3 Israelis treated with new passive vaccine recover, leave hospital
[JPost] - Passive immunization is when you are given antibodies formed by another patient who got the disease and developed them. An active vaccine, in contrast, is when you are injected with a dead or weakened version of a virus that tricks your immune system into thinking that you’ve had the disease, and your immune system creates antibodies to protect you.
Actually, nowadays, such antibodies can be produced by the kilogram industrially. See
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005946/eli-lilly-is-testing-a-way-to-prevent-covid-19-thats-not-a-vaccine/
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 02:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good news
Posted by: Frank G || 08/13/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Does it works?
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 08/13/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Very, very interesting tech.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/13/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#5  And the MSM isn't bashing it like the Russian Sputnik V vaccine? Interesting. Anything that doesn't have Roche or GSK or pick-a-pharmaceutical-company's name on it is immediately suspect to MSM ridicule, no matter what "the science" says.
Posted by: Clem || 08/13/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ ** subject to ... ridicule....
Posted by: Clem || 08/13/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Who Owned the Chemicals that Blew Up Beirut? No One Will Say
[gCaptain] In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.

There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week’s huge, deadly blast in the Lebanese capital, but ownership should be among the easiest to resolve.

Clear identification of ownership, especially of a cargo as dangerous as that carried by the Moldovan-flagged Rhosus when it sailed into Beirut seven years ago, is fundamental to shipping, the key to insuring it and settling disputes that often arise.
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#1  You have three minutes to repeat that chain of ownership without looking.
A lot of entities involved. Is maritime shipping always this complicated, or does this look like covering tracks?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/13/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Beirut is a magnet for nefarious commerce. That ammonium nitrate has been sitting in a warehouse for years.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/13/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  has Don Lemon posited that it belonged to Trump yet?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/13/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 08/13/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The UK state CONTINUOUSLY ignores the dealing of dodgy migrants.

Boris has got to get on top of the funny money and corrupt migrants that former regimes have let in.

He's got very few lives left already, especially after the dismal handling of COVID by allowing himself to be cajoled by the MSM.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/13/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Confederate monument that had stood in the center of Athens, Georgia since 1872 is latest memorial to be dismantled with almost 90 having been removed across the country since May
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