[Fox19] Kirstie Alley died following a "battle with cancer," according to her family. She was 71.
"We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered," a statement posted by her children on her official Twitter account said.
"She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead."
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Her bikini is not specified by size, but instead by displacement.
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#3 is Snark of the Day material.
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A single photograph encapsulates the demise of woke masculinity and traditional sports media. What a sad image to put on a magazine cover. Clearly her main exercise regimen involves a fork!
#21
In a chichi salon of Sichuan...
"Madame est très chic!"
"Non! Méchant!"
"Oui! We'll cover those ears
And your pert double rear
So nobody will know you! Personne!"
[FoxNews] The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox infected more than 29,000 people across the U.S.
Mpox cases have plummeted in recent weeks, with just a handful of new infections being reported every week in the month of November, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the height of the outbreak, over the summer, hundreds of people were being infected weekly.
The virus has primarily spread among men who have sex with infected men.
[BBC] Constructed by a mysterious civilisation that left no written records, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a testament to indigenous sophistication.
Autumn leaves crackled under our shoes as dozens of eager tourists and I followed a guide along a grassy mound. We stopped when we reached the opening of a turf-topped circle, which was formed by another wall of mounded earth. We were at The Octagon, part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a large network of hand-constructed hills spread throughout central and southern Ohio that were built as many as 2,000 years ago. Indigenous people would come to The Octagon from hundreds of miles away, gathering regularly for shared rituals and worship.
All of these all these prehistoric ceremonial earthworks in Ohio were created by what is now called the Hopewell Culture, a network of Native American societies that gathered from as far away as Montana and the Gulf of Mexico between roughly 100 BCE and 500 CE and were connected by a series of trade routes. Their earthworks in Ohio consist of shapes – like circles, squares and octagons – that were often connected to each other. Archaeologists are only now beginning to understand the sophistication of these engineering marvels.
Built with astonishing mathematical precision, as well as a complex astronomical alignment, these are the largest geometrical earthworks in the world that were not built as fortifications or defensive structures. And while most people have never heard about the sites or its builders, that may be about to change.
The US Department of the Interior has nominated eight of Hopewell's earthworks for consideration in 2023 as a Unesco World Heritage site. These include The Great Circle and The Octagon in Newark, Ohio, as well Ohio's first state park, Fort Ancient (not an actual fort). The other five are part of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Mound City, Hopeton Earthworks, High Bank Works, Hopewell Mound Group and Seip Earthworks.
#3
Considering that any given monument will eventually be found to be "offensive" to someone who arrives later, (and consequently need to be destroyed) they are a waste of time and effort to create in the first place.
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Been there on a high school trip decades ago. Pretty cool place but didn't run into Georgio or see any UFOs
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Interesting place
One of the Early Editions of Smithsonian Mag, first decade it was published, had an article on Hopewell and the interestingly large skeletons that were found there buried under one of the geometrical mounds. IIRC 7-8 ft skeleton(s) were uncovered as reported by the Smithsonian.
Another interesting factoid: Huge amounts of copper artifacts have been found here.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley has four very interesting entries for being Ohio:
1.) Toucans statues
2.) Parrot/parquet statues
3.) Manatee statues
4.) Mastodon pipes
Rescuers evacuated more people Monday from nearby villages after the eruption of #Indonesia’s Mount #Semeru, with officials warning of danger from cooling lava despite less activity from the #volcano. pic.twitter.com/VKBdQzR1Vr
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] So what’s new? We watched the kidnapping of a group of American missionaries by the 400 Mawozo gang which controls the Croix-des-Bouquets area east of the capital of Port-au-Prince just a year ago.
Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane
Into that power vacuum have moved hundreds of gangs, which operate with near-total impunity especially in the capital of Port-au-Prince
Kidnappings, murders, and gang rapes now common - with relatives of some victims forced to listen to attacks until ransom is paid
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Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane
Um - exactly when did Haiti ever have a 'functioning government'? Probably before I was born.
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Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane
Yet the Dominican Republic survives and keeps sending ballplayers to MLB thrives
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Haiti has no functioning government and yet, World total of foreign aid to Haiti:
Haiti received US$13 billion in foreign aid from the international community from 2011 to 2021.[5] Despite this, living conditions remain poor.[6] According to page 35 of the Greening Aid book there are key questions that arise on where the money flows and why.
#15
I would say the United States should annex Haiti to provide some semblance of order and stability but, then, it was the French who made Haiti what it is so it should be their responsibility now. Either that or we could all step back and watch to see how much worse it can get. My guess would be that sooner or later one of the gang leaders who is bigger and badder than the rest will emerge as the new Papa Doc.
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...At the risk of sounding insensitive, where the hell are these people getting a million dollars?
Here again, only my guess, but might they be the ones whose daughters are being kidnapped and raped until they pay the gangs?
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*Opens new container of brain bleach and pass it around*
[Foreign Affairs] It has been a long time since demonstrators filled the streets of Chinese cities crying out, "We want freedom!" and "The Chinese Communist Party should step down!" But the seemingly unthinkable has happened in recent days as an upwelling of protest erupted against Beijing’s draconian "zero COVID" policies and then morphed into a more general expression of opposition against the suffocating controls that the CCP has imposed on Chinese society.
Do these events threaten the reign of President Xi Jinping, who has just been anointed with a third term as general secretary of the party? Are they a historical tipping point? Or will they prove to be an epiphenomenon that the well-organized CCP will easily bring to heel with more repression? After all, in the wake of the far more tectonic 1989 demonstrations, and even the ensuing Beijing massacre around Tiananmen Square, Chinese leaders not only put the protest genie back in the bottle but also went on to initiate a period of impressive economic growth and stability.
Although the United States has no shortage of China experts, we have never accurately predicted moments of historical inflection in this "people’s republic." Few of us foresaw Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, the mass demonstrations that led to the massacre in 1989, or Xi’s embrace of a neo-Maoist techno-autocracy over the last decade. But our failure to anticipate this most recent spark of dissent is perhaps more understandable; after all, as Xi’s one-party Leninist imperium has gathered momentum, most foreign journalists have been expelled from China. Compounding the problem, Chinese citizens themselves have also been cowed into silence. Without independent polling, a free press, fair elections, and academic freedom, and with Xi now exercising control over every organ through which public sentiment might find expression, it has become difficult for outsiders to gauge public sentiment there.
For those looking into this black box from the outside, it had been too easy to assume that everything is under control and that Xi has found an effective recipe for a durable autocracy. But whatever the outcome of these demonstrations, they indicate that Xi has no more discovered the secret sauce for totalitarian success than did Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro—or Mao himself. The protests remind us, instead, that the people Xi rules, like people everywhere, do not live by bread, shopping malls, video games, and leisure travel alone, and that many do not want to be confined, censored, bullied, detained, or imprisoned. To assume otherwise is patronizing and overlooks the long and august Chinese historical tradition of seeking rights and freedoms.
To hear voices calling for Xi and the CCP to step down suggests that an elusive but important psychological line may have been crossed. But Xi is not a leader who accepts lèse majesté easily, and he will most certainly take umbrage and seek retribution.
[JPost] North Korea said on Tuesday it has ordered military units to fire more artillery shells into the sea, the North's official KCNA reported, following South Korea's ongoing drills across the border. Where is Greenpeace?
The firing comes a day after North Korea said it fired more than 130 shells into the sea off its east and west coasts, some of which landed in a buffer zone near the sea border between the two Koreas, in what Seoul called a violation of a 2018 inter-Korean agreement to reduce tensions.
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Kimmie jacking off into a sock again, metamorphically speaking of course.
SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media firm gave preference to left-wing candidates during Brazil's election this year, without providing evidence.
Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, just days before Brazil's presidential second round runoff vote, when far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was defeated by leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
"I've seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," Musk wrote on Twitter when asked by a user about elections possibly "handled" by the company's previous management. Who could possibly be behind such an effort (sarc off).
#1
Greater truth & knowledge only cost what, $44 Billion to obtain? To bad it wasn't there before the LSD's wasted $4+ Trillon to drag down the USA and other free nations to promoteS and support socialism.
#3
History is about to repeat itself:
The coup that took place in Brazil on March 31, 1964 can be understood as a typical Cold War event. Supported by civilians, the action was carried out by the armed forces. Its origins hark back to the failed military revolt, headed by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), in November of 1935, stirring up strong anticommunist sentiments. The Estado Novo coup, which occurred two years later, was supported by the army (war) and navy ministers. It marked the beginnings of the dictatorial phase of Getúlio Vargas, who had been in power since 1930.
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Connecticut-based Sikorsky lost out on a $1.3 billion contract to produce an aircraft that the Army envisions would replace its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters, failing to win over Pentagon brass with its Defiant-X prototype in partnership with Boeing. The contract was instead awarded to Texas-based Bell, which aims to produce its own V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft. The Marines think they are safe, right? Good enuf for Secret Service and Presidential baggage. The Principal, his family, aides and staffers travel via other means.
#1
The never ending pentagon attraction to shiny new things with amazing retirement opportunities? By all means lets embrace the wisdom of a bifurcated aviation operations system, with differing maintenace, parts, training and sustainment needs, since the helicopter fleet will remain operational for decades to come. Brilliant!
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What's wrong with the Blackhawk?
They are old and like the Huey in the 90s, are underpowered compared to the new things they can produce now. I rather liked the Sikorsky and thought it was a fantastic replacement. The tilt-rotor will no be able to fit in the tight spaces the Blackhawk could. We set down in clearings that were slightly smaller than the diameter of the rotor and it took off smaller branches easily.
I feel the Army is losing some capability with the tilt-rotor. May be faster and more fuel efficient enabling greater range though.
#8
I think it came down to Bell having a better Powerpoint presentation than Sikorsky.
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In one major difference from the earlier V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, the engines remain in place while the rotors and drive shafts tilt. A driveshaft runs through the straight wing, allowing both prop rotors to be driven by a single engine in the event of engine loss.Wikipedia
Sounds like an improvement.
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Who exactly are the designers? Who exactly are the maintainers? Who exactly are the logies? Who are the ops that just got voluntold to become meat servos? Any failure along that chain kills the pilot. Eventually it kills multiple pilots and their crews.
#11
I have a question: When the rotors tilt forward, with the fixed wings, does it become a fixed wing aircraft, and belong to the Air Force?
That's been the criteria...
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That wasn’t meant to be snarky, ed. US MIl has all platforms in all branches. To include Coasties, which I do. Fixed wing, rotary, bullet catchers, and boats.
[WND] Farmers in Germany have been banned from properly fertilizing large areas of their land under strict EU rules pushing the green agenda. The use of nitrate fertilizers has been further restricted for large swathes of farmland in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is now likely to drastically reduce yields.
Although German authorities have implemented the ban, it is ultimately at the behest of the European Union, which is seeking to reduce the amount of nitrogen to tackle ’climate change.’ The policy has already wreaked havoc in the Netherlands.
Now the push has extended into Germany, forcing farmers to use 20 percent less fertilizer. German news outlet Bild reported that a third of the total usable farmland in North Rhine-Westphalia falls under this new restriction.
#2
The land becomes worthless - gets purchased cheap by Bill Gates or other billionaire tyrant - now he owns the food instead of us. And food is the most terrifying weapon in the world. We need a constant supply of it and any interruption will turn us into slaves to anyone who has it.
When you need to kill large numbers of people, famine is the best weapon there is. Accept no substitutes.
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One can only surmise that EU leaders want a famine. It would be a crisis, of course, and we all know how these people love to exploit crises.
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Everybody (who matters) knows food comes from stores. Just as it's flicking the switch that powers the lights.
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This has nothing to do with climate change. NRW has too much nitrate in its drinking water, often more than 50 milligrams per liter. This toxicity limit was set by the EU for drinking water and groundwater because nitrate turns into nitrite in the body and poses an acute health risk. The threshold value is based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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I used to live in a community with similar drinking water issues. Formerly mostly farm land, it transformed into a bedroom town that used ground water for drinking and septic for waste. It finally built a sewer system a few years ago.
#9
So just trundle your John Deere and spreader down to city hall and hit the ‘go’ button.
Old farm joke: while John Deere warrants all their products, they refuse to stand behind their manure spreader…..
(Try your waitress, tip your veal. Or something)
#11
The fertilizer we're talking about is mostly pig manure (Gülle). Too much of it is a problem and due to mass animal farming there is too much of it.
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There are problems like that at Grand Lake St. Marys in Ohio. Chicken production/farming was the problem, not grain farming that adds nitrate fertilizers to the soil. There is more to the story here.
#13
While the Germans are banning things. How about banning American agricultural and petroleum products. That will save the American consumer some cash.
Embattled Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will go on trial for rape in Geneva next year, over a case dating back more than 14 years, the prosecution said on Monday.
Good. He has been protected for entirely too long.
A Swiss national and former professor at Oxford University, Ramadan has faced a string of rape and sexual assault allegations in La Belle France and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... since 2017.
The Geneva judiciary said in the current case Ramadan had been charged with rape and sexual coercion, and would be tried before the Geneva criminal court, confirming information first published by Swiss broadcaster RTS.
The accuser in this case, named simply "Brigitte" by Swiss media, has accused the now 60-year-old scholar of brutally attacking her on the evening of October 28, 2008.
The Moslem convert, who had met Ramadan a month earlier during a book signing, accuses him of subjecting her to sexual attacks, beatings and insults in a Geneva hotel room.
She waited a decade before coming forward, filing her complaint in April 2018.
Her lawyer, Francois Zimeray, told AFP his client was fearful as she brought the case.
"She feels no desire for Dire Revenge but is relieved and is putting her faith in the institutions," he said, adding that he expected the trial to take place during the first half of 2023.
Ramadan’s lawyer, Guerric Canonica, meanwhile alleged on Monday that the prosecution had simply "copied the complaint without considering disqualifying elements."
"It is now up to the judges to re-establish Mr. Ramadan’s complete innocence and we are serenely waiting for our day in court," he told AFP.
Ramadan, who has previously filed a complaint against Brigitte for slander, is a father of four whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund.
He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave when rape allegations surfaced at the height of the "Me Too" movement in 2017.
The Swiss investigation has moved slowly, since Ramadan was initially in pre-trial detention in Gay Paree over other rape allegations and could not be questioned.
After he was released in November 2018, he was put on probation and barred from leaving La Belle France.
Swiss prosecutors went to Gay Paree to question him, and once the probation was partially lifted, Ramadan traveled to Geneva for witness hearings in 2020.
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Some may title him an "Embattled Islamic Scholar," but many who have followed his history will call him more appropriately "a miserable Islamist Muslim Brother sonofabitch.
It used to be pretty hard to get German citizenship, unless one was Jewish. I have no idea if they then allowed dual citizenship.
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The possibilities of obtaining #German citizenship, in addition to another nationality, will be expanded to include more countries in Germany.https://t.co/ITKU8rRBNk
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.
[Fox19] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[JPost] North Korea said on Tuesday it has ordered military units to fire more artillery shells into the sea, the North's official KCNA reported, following South Korea's ongoing drills across the border.
SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media firm gave preference to left-wing candidates during Brazil's election this year, without providing evidence.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
