[Yahoo] Lisa Marie Presley, singer-songwriter and daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died. She was 54.
"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us," Priscilla confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE Thursday evening.
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[Daily Wire] "Eternals" actor Kumail Nanjiani said he’d like to star in more villain roles but was told studios refuse to cast non-white actors into those parts.
"I think that Hollywood now — even though they’re trying to be more diverse — is still weird," the 44-year-old star told Esquire U.K. during a recent interview.
Nanjiani went on to express his belief that restricting certain races from playing these parts, even if well-intentioned, is at the same time hindering those actors who Hollywood studios claim to be trying to help.
"And that’s just as limiting as anything else," the "Silicon Valley" actor said. "I want to play more bad guys."
He mentioned Sebastian Stan, best known for playing the Marvel superhero Bucky Barnes/Winter Solider. Stan also plays a cannibal in the 2022 horror movie "Fresh."
"He does these big Marvel movies, and then he’ll play a psychopath," Nanjiani observed. "I was told that’s going to be hard because people don’t want to cast non-white people as bad guys."
Meanwhile, the actor said he doesn’t believe he would have been cast as Somen "Steve" Banerjee in the new Hulu limited series "Welcome to Chippendales" if it hadn’t been based on a true story. He told Esquire that he believes the part, based on an immigrant from India, would have gone to a white actor instead.
Nanjiani previously discussed the role more in-depth with The Hollywood Reporter, also expressing at that time his desire to depict a villain.
"I’ve never gotten the opportunity to play a character like this, who has such a big arc and a descent into darkness. I’ve always [wanted to play] the bad guy — I don’t mean just guys who were kind of sh**y; I mean a bad bad guy," he said.
"The story itself was so exciting and unexpected," he said of the Chippendales retrospective.
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Remember when these same arseholes complained about the bad guys wearing black hats was racist? Moving the goal posts to the 40 yard line was always the game - gay marriage anyone?
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I pushed buggies at Walmart for a while. I've watched people walk PAST the cart corrals to put a cart on a grass divider. It took 30 mins to clear all 6 cart corrals in the parking lot. To clear the stray buggies took over an hour. People will put far more effort into being a jerk than being nice. Forget laziness, people would rather work to be mean than to be nice.
[DroughtMonitor] A long-term drought, dating back to the 2019-2020 winter, continues across California...However, the intense precipitation in California the past few weeks... has significantly reduced drought intensity in California. Most of the state saw a 1-category improvement this week. The D3 [severe drought] across interior northern and central California that covered over 35 percent of the state two weeks ago, is now confined to a small area adjacent to Oregon. But ...large parts of the state remain in D1-D2 {moderate, extreme}....
======== narrative goes on to highlight some record precip figures and also report on the improvement in reservoir levels which will probably top out above historic averages by mid Spring and even require opening Dams early for some reservoirs, e.g., Oroville which has risen over 100' since Dec 1.
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Of course, they need to release much of the "excess" water to the ocean to help the snail darter.
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Snail Darter hell. That has to happen to maintain the "climate catastrophe" narrative, and that's the important thing.
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Don't worry. Newsom will find a way to blame Climate Change, the people who want to cook with natural gas and the people who have no other choice than to drive gasoline powered vehicles to work. He will also find a way to turn this abundance of rain and deep snow pack in the Sierras into a crisis. Whether we have rain or sunshine doesn't matter. It's all extreme weather, you know. EXTREME. And it's your fault.
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Forget all about investing in California's infrastructure which has been neglected for decades while the population has doubled. We could have flood control projects and more reservoirs, more power plants and freeways, more schools and hospitals but Newsom wants to spend the money on healthcare for illegal aliens and housing for drug addicts. Besides, it's your fault.
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...Probably accurate - the Chinese Navy will be pretty much non-functional when it's over, as well as their Air Force. Comrade Xi will be retiring, one way or the other. And I really think that the Party will have a hard time holding on to power after a defeat of that magnitude.
And on the other hand, we will be easily looking at Vietnam-level casualties, the USN in the Pacific will be crippled, we're likely to be looking at the loss (sinking or CTL) of multiple carriers, and the USAF will be hurting badly as well.
[Defense News] WASHINGTON ― Japan on Wednesday will formally approve U.S. plans for a new Marine quick-reaction force on Okinawa and unveil plans to deepen military cooperation on Japan’s remote southwest islands near Taiwan, according to U.S. officials.
The new Marine littoral regiment would be stationed by 2025 and have advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, anti-ship, and transportation capabilities, U.S. officials said. The formal recognition is slated to come in a joint statement Wednesday after high-level talks between U.S. and Japanese national security officials.
The talks come as Tokyo signals its willingness to take on a more offensive role in the Pacific given its view of China as its biggest strategic challenge, newly outlined in Japan’s defense strategy last month. There are growing concerns in Japan and the U.S. that Taiwan may become a military flashpoint in the region as China regards the self-governing island as part of its own territory.
The joint statement will welcome Japan’s new aim to acquire "counterstrike capabilities" ― part of the nation’s plans to double its defense budget. The planned expenditure would make Japan the world’s third biggest military spender.
Wednesday, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will meet with American counterparts Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will then meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.
[ZeroHedge] After a stellar 3Y, an impressive 10Y (both of which came in far stronger than expected, prompting us to correctly say there were zero jitters about today's CPI print in the bond market), moments ago we got an absolutely blowout, record 30Y auction.
The high yield of 3.585% was fractionally above last month's 3.513%, but stopped through the When Issued by 2.4bps, one of the biggest stop throughs on record which was especially remarkable when considering the powerful rally across the curve going into the auction and lack of concession as the curve had tried to steepen on several occasions, and failed.
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Maybe I'll try. Briefly, the Treasury holds auctions of Treasury bonds each week. This week a LOT of foreign buyers wanted to buy the bonds. So the Treasury was able to offer them a lower rate than usual.
Traders then thought that foreign buyers might also want Treasury bonds with shorter maturities than 30 years also, so they went out and bought a lot of them, which meant that the price of the bonds went up (increase in demand increases price), which means that the yield on the bonds went down.
Hope that is sort of helpful.
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When the SWISS Bankers, the Swiss for Gods sake, post a 143 billion loss, even the most foolish in international banking see a real shit-storm on the horizon, WEF blather notwithstanding, so they run to the last sure thing from the old days. And a lot of clueless morons figure if short-intermediate term treasuries are a safe harbor, then long term must be a great play. Voila, unintended consequences of group-think by highly credentialed financial minds.
A Penticton-based professional diver says retrieving the dead cattle that drowned in Okanagan Lake over the Christmas break will be an extremely complex operation that could be very dangerous.
"It's a full-day operation just to get into the water and perform a dive," professional diver Kevin Aschhoff told iNFOnews.ca. "(The) primary concern is the safety of anyone put in there... it takes time and it takes experience to do something like this."
Aschhoff, who owns Oceantec Scuba in Kaleden, said depending on whether the lake is still frozen or not will make a big difference safety-wise, but even if the lake has thawed, the retrieval operation will still be very complex.
Sometime over Christmas, the cattle wandered onto the lake from a ranch on the Okanagan Indian Band. The cattle then fell through as the ice got thin. Okanagan, where McDonald's gets their meat
Aschhoff said pulling them out is no easy feat.
The professional diver said diving under ice is extremely dangerous because if something goes wrong a diver can't just head toward the surface.
Aschhoff said an ice dive would need a team of at least six, with two divers in the water and two people holding tethers. Once an animal was found it would have to be brought back through the hole cut in the ice.
"Navigating them back to where ever you've cut the access point, would definitely be something that is extremely dangerous, especially when you are working with divers who are tethered themselves," Aschhoff said.
If the lake has thawed, the salvage operation is less dangerous but still highly complex.
"In a shallow bay when 50 head of cattle went through and stirred up the bottom it could be zero visibility," he said. "Where you go along and you feel your way through everything."
[JustTheNews] Chinese officials have described the outposts as "overseas police service centers" that effectively collect intelligence and solve crimes.
FBI counterintelligence agents reportedly raided an office building that contained an alleged covert Chinese police outpost in New York's Chinatown.
The raid last fall was part of a criminal probe from the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, according to people with knowledge of the investigation, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Beijing's outpost is one of more than 100 similar offices around the world suspected of carrying out police activities without jurisdiction or diplomatic authorization.
Officials in Ireland, Canada and the Netherlands have called for the Chinese Communist Party to end police activities in their countries.
"The F.B.I. raid is the first known example of the authorities seizing materials from one of the outposts," the Times stated.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington said volunteers run the outposts to assist Chinese nationals in tasks such as renewing their licenses in China.
"They are not police personnel from China," embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said. "There is no need to make people nervous about this."
However, Chinese state media reports reviewed by the paper show that Chinese officials have described the outposts as "overseas police service centers" that effectively collect intelligence and solve crimes.
Netherlands-based Chinese dissident Lin Shengliang said he and other expats are concerned they are being tracked.
"I am extremely anxious about them," he said. "There are no channels to report this, and there’s nothing we can do about it."
China has a history of surveilling both dissidents and foreign citizens abroad. Last month, the FBI arrested a Chinese national for allegedly harassing a pro-Democracy activist from China at a Boston college. Meanwhile last year, the Federal Communications Commission called the popular Chinese-owned video platform TikTok "a sophisticated surveillance tool."
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OTOH, at least somebody in the organization is doing their real job.
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Somehow, there was no perp-walk of news reporting, and they seized records, but no mention of arrests.
Somehow, my mind's eye sees a less than violent knock on the door, exchange of creds and professional courtesy. A Roger Stone/Mar-A-Lago style raid against a Chinese Intel Op location without prior notice might well get people killed.
#India’s army chief says the border situation with #China is stable but unpredictable after a nearly two-and-a-half-year standoff between tens of thousands of soldiers from both countries in the eastern Ladakh area.https://t.co/OsoWlzKNzs
[BMJ] Celebrating my 1-year survival, but still having a number of long term taste issues. I have been looking for some clear research on the Long Term Covid-19+.
Although this deals with MILD related Covid-19+ infections. At least, the medical field now recognizes it is a real issue and is doing some serious research.
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Fibromyalgia and Morgellons Syndrome scammers hit hardest.
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...Both my wife and I caught it in late December. The COVID effects really weren't that bad - we both were up to speed on our shots, and honestly we'd both had worse colds. If I had been allowed to go to work, I would have had no issues at all.
However.
Within 24 hours of starting the antivirals (Paxlovid) my wife began to experience paranoiac delusions and hallucinations. It got bad enough that, in the interests of her safety, we got her to a hospital...where it took her nearly a week to get back to normal.
Imagine my surprise when the EMTs who rescued her, the local police who assisted, and the ER docs all told me that they see this regularly. It does tend to land rather hard on people who are predisposed in the first place (think bipolar, PTSD, etc.) but it has been seen in people who have none of those things.
I have seen nothing about this in the media. I know better than to post about it on Facebook.
Now, as far as the 'long COVID' - neither one of us has the smell/taste issues, but the 'brain fog' is VERY real (Melissa says given the way people are behaving this may be the zombie apocalypse), and can hit without warning. It's kind of a 'what-was-I-doing?" thing, which is a little disconcerting at 65 MPH.
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They told me that Paxlovid (I think) was OK but ran a risk of rebound, so I went with the other antiviral--and given the disease trajectory might as well have skipped it altogether--a day late, as it were.
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My wife had something like COVID last January, but she tested negative. Nonetheless, she completely lost her sense of smell and is just now regaining it.
We both had COVID in September. I had a much rougher time than she did (thank heavens), and lost eight pounds. Had a Paxlovid rebound.
At the beginning of October, I had an annual health checkup and was doing ok by then. My doc recommended a flu shot. Now, everyone knows not to get SARS2 vaxxed or boosted within two months of having COVID.
But I thought, well, flu shot, different. Mistake!
Three days later I came down with a wicked flu and it took a month for the symptoms to abate. All in all, I lost three months of a lovely New England fall.
I had what seemed to be a head cold last January at the same time my wife did. I didn't think it was COVID and didn't bother testing. But I have to say, 2022 was a poor year for me, I couldn't get out of my own way all year.
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..nah, even slave owners had to cover their "property's" food, clothes, and shelter. Today those same 'bosses' have the taxpayer pick up the cost in the form of various 'assistance' programs.
I wouldn't be too worried. Given how well McD's ice cream machine is down. Just another job opportunity repairing and pulling maintenance on the devices. Learn mechanical repair at 4x the wage.
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.
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