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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Renowned EU Scientist: COVID-19 Was Engineered In China Lab, Effective Vaccine
[LifeSiteNews] Professor Giuseppe Tritto, an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology, says that the China Virus definitely wasn’t a freak of nature that happened to cross the species barrier from bat to man.

It will not be possible for the Dr. Fauci’s of the world to dismiss Professor Giuseppe Tritto as a crank. Not only is he an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology who has had a stellar academic career, but he is also the president of the World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies (WABT), an institution founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1997.

In other words, he is a man of considerable stature in the global scientific community. Equally important, one of the goals of WABT is to analyze the effect of biotechnologies—like genetic engineering—on humanity.
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Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 08:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing less than a crime against humanity. We used to have the spine to adjudicate and punish that accordingly, but not since about 1946.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  hidden in plain view
Posted by: Enver Clinert7912 || 08/21/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Not unreasonable to speculate that the CCP has a vaccine, had this vaccine and had inoculated key members before the virus was released.

When I speculate that the virus was deliberately and maliciously released with collusion from Democrats to wreck our economy and thereby diminish Trump's chances for re-election, some people talk about my tin foil hat. My response has always been that, of course I have no proof, but I would not put it past them. No one can deny that the timing would be just right for that. Considering their Russian collusion hoax, the Ukraine impeachment and Christine Blasey Ford, I believe I have probable cause for suspicion.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/21/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  The Dems are loving this, sick as they are, but the Europeans, the Aussies, Kiwis, central banks, and the Greta/al-Gore tree huggers are loving this too. Oh, and Bill.

Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  The last thing they want to admit is that they might have had a hand in it.

And the younger ones hopping for a Chinese research grant.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#6  ^But the main thing - nobody wants to go to war with China.

p.s. It will not be possible for the Dr. Fauci’s of the world to dismiss Professor Giuseppe Tritto as a crank.

Remember what they did to James Watson? Tim Hunt?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Nobody wants a shooting war with China but I think a Soviet style Cold War might be appropriate.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/21/2020 17:23 Comments || Top||

#8  The USSR had nothing to sell us. The Chinee are truly screwed if we stop buying their crap.

What were they thinking?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^ They’re truly screwed if we stop selling them food as well.
Posted by: H-T-A || 08/21/2020 21:34 Comments || Top||

#10  In the extreme, if the tree huggers get their way and put the kibosh on fossil fuels, it's going be back to mules and plows tilling the fields. This egesta is nutso.
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 21:48 Comments || Top||


Plandemic Introduction World Premiere
[Freedom Platform] We did it.

The Digital Freedom Platform by London Real exclusively livestreamed what might be the most important documentary you will ever see: PLANDEMIC — INDOCTORNATION.

Created by the team behind the game-changing Plandemic video segment from Mikki Willis featuring Dr. Judy Mikovits that went viral and was banned on every major social media platform for exposing the truth about Covid-19, this new FEATURE LENGTH PIECE which is the most revelatory film on what is driving the vaccine agenda, the various roles of the WHO, Bill Gates, Tedros Adhanom, Anthony Fauci and more.

Going deep into what is really happening with mainstream media, Silicon Valley tech giants, big pharma and our health protection agencies, Mikki’s new film finally connects the dots...

... And we are excited to be able to share this with you...

We believe that this film will fundamentally shift the discourse around Coronavirus, the lockdown and the vested interests involved.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some bromide indicated.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder what happened to Millie Millennial?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 1:18 Comments || Top||


Africa North
A Coup in Mali, Again
Cynical, knowledgeable, useful information.
[AmericanSpectator] Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, president of the West African nation Mali since 2013, reportedly was tossed yesterday by elements of his country’s U.S.-trained army.

Our Africa Command (AFRICOM), American boots and strategic minds in Africa, has sought to engage the bad guys in small operations, while training African militaries in doing the job themselves. Mali has been a case study in the limitations of this approach.
The key issue from the American point of view is whether this latest West African coup, if it succeeds, will facilitate or hamper the continuing banditry in Africa’s vast Sahel. Successive U.S. administrations since Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
’s have insisted it matters to our overall security, as well as the continent’s.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Should Snowden and Assange Pardon the U.S. Government?
[FFF] President Trump is saying that he might issue a pardon to Edward Snowden. For some reason, he hasn’t said the same thing about Julian Assange.
Mr. Snowden was a Russian spy. Mr. Assange happily published the intelligence thievings of a Russian spy. As a result lots of sources were murdered. And Mr. Assange has published the intelligence thievings of a great many others, resulting in more ruined lives and murders.
But a pardon suggests that the person being pardoned has done something wrong. Neither Snowden and Assange has done anything wrong — at least not in a moral sense.
Unmitigated bullshit.
It is the U.S. government — and specifically the national-security state branch of the federal government — that has engaged in terrible wrongdoing — wrongdoing that Snowden and Assange revealed to the American people and the people of the world.

Therefore, the real question is: Should Snowden and Assange pardon the U.S. for having destroyed a large part of their lives and liberty?
Neither man has been horribly murdered, so they’re doing better than most captured spies. They really have nothing to complain about.
Oh, sure, the two of them technically violated the federal government’s national-security laws, rules, and regulations against revealing the dark-side, sordid policies and practices of the national-security establishment. Big deal. Those laws, rules, and regulations are illegitimate, at least in a moral sense. Why should the dark-side, sordid policies and practices of a government be immune from disclosure?
Clearly the writer hasn't heard Winston Churchill’s dictum on truth.
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe I missed something, but 1) the premise of the article's incredibly stupid and 2) Assange is Australian - I'm pretty sure Trump can't pardon a non-US citizen.
Posted by: Raj || 08/21/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  All the stuff Snowden and Wikileaks leaked could have been leaked anonymously thru a string of cutouts. They both wanted the publicity.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  How come Australian Assange publishing Secrets about an illegal system run by the US state while not in the US, is a crime?

The only crime was to embarrass the state.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/21/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  #3: Embarrassing the state is the worst crime ever. You can't do anything worse than embarrass the state, never mind how illegal their actions. So just shaddup, you little nothing person, and follow the orders of your betters and don't embarrass them. /Sarc

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 08/21/2020 21:18 Comments || Top||

#5  @ #3 & #4 - Absolutely.
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 21:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Y’all have forgotten all the local employees and confidential informants in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere whose names and information were leaked along with the embarrassing stuff. And how many of them were murdered as a result, and how afterward others would not come forward because we had been proved untrustworthy.

It would have been easy for Mr. Assange’s team to strip that information out of what was released, but they did not care that what they saw as mere puckish misbehaviour — or speaking truth to power — would have permanent, EVIL impacts on very good people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/21/2020 23:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Poor security?
Posted by: Clem || 08/21/2020 23:59 Comments || Top||


The QAnon conspiracy: What is it and where did it come from?
[BBC] Mr Trump told journalists that he didn't know much about the movement, but added that he'd heard that "these were people who love our country."

The movement is facing a crackdown from Facebook as well as Twitter, who have taken action against thousands of accounts and web addresses linking to videos and websites spreading QAnon's bizarre ideas.

So what is QAnon and who believes in it?

What is it?

At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.

QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed

And wolf will coexists with sheep.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/21/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Only thing I ever heard from it is that Epstein was using it to blackmail people, and some, like Kevin Spacey have been pushed into silence.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 08/21/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Why is Q suddenly the focus of the Left? Smells like desperation.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/21/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#4  All alternative media are the enemy.
Posted by: Dale || 08/21/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Pay no attention to our violent leftist thugs peaceful protesters! Q is the danger
Posted by: One Eyed Snusotle6586 || 08/21/2020 6:01 Comments || Top||

#6  If the left & journalists (same difference) are attacking it, they should be okay.
Posted by: Raj || 08/21/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  SQUIRREL!
Posted by: Frank G || 08/21/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media

Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/21/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Pointing out the glaringly obvious was once just in bad taste. Now it's a hate crime.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#10  That Joe Biden turns into a reptile around little girls, even in the middle of a very public photo op.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/21/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Anything to distrct the public from Antifa communism, BLM Marxism, Harris Socialism, and Biden's dementia.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 08/21/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12  For anyone that has been on that site understands hat it is. But no were do I read Satan worshiping pedophile's, unless that is an accurate description of the deep state. Oh, maybe it is...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/21/2020 19:32 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Hunting season is approaching. What's the Best Distance to Zero A Rifle?
[Outdoor Life] Most hunters dial in their centerfires at 100 yards, but you should sight in a rifle at a distance that fits your shooting capabilities and the game you will be pursuing.

An annual question at shooting ranges around the country is "What distance should I zero for?" And the answer is...

The distance that gives you the most flexibility for putting your bullet on target quickly with minimum measuring, guessing, hoping, or missing.

And that’s rarely 100 yards.

THE 100 YARD PROBLEM
The old 100-yard zero is perfect if your longest shooting distance isn’t much beyond that. Otherwise a 100-yard zero wastes your bullet’s trajectory potential. By 200 yards you’re already needing to compensate for bullet drop. To understand this, let’s look at a trajectory that is considered "flat."

I don’t know what you imagine when you hear cartridge XYZ shoots "flat," but when I was a new shooter I assumed it meant the bullet went like a laser to 300 yards or so. That’s flat! But it’s also impossible. Bullets are not light waves. Gravity begins to pull bullets down the instant they leave the muzzle. If you aimed a barrel perfectly in line with a target 100 yards away with the world’s highest B.C. rating at 4,200 fps, it would miss. Oh, it would be close, but it would still fall under the precise point of aim by about an inch.

An inch is no big deal even if you’re shooting squirrels in the head. But at 150 yards this hyper-velocity bullet would already be down by 2.3 inches. At 200 yards it would be low by 4 inches. Gravity is relentless. Meanwhile, back in our real world where most of us shoot "flat shooting" rifles like .243 Win., .270 Win., 7mm Rem. Mag., and the more recent 6mm Creedmoor, 27 Nosler, and 7mm Remington Ultra Magnum, the drops are even greater. We won’t even bother with the .30/30 or .45/70.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hunt squirrels with PCP pellet rifles...and always zero at 50 yards..(my rim fire CZ .22 cal zero is 50 yards, but I only shoot it at the 100 yard range).
Most shots I get with my pellet rifles are 40-60 yards..rarely beyond 70.
Anybody here zero their shotgun ? LOL
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/21/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  How far away is the average mostly peaceful protester when you have to deal with them?
Posted by: gorb || 08/21/2020 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Zero my .270 Win carbine for 200. It's not like I am going to hit anything cleanly beyond 400 yards.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/21/2020 1:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Max range from which one would wish to carry the carcass.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||


#6  @3

I do the same with my .270. I can reach out to 400 pretty easily and not have a ton of drop. Anything farther than that and I ain't shooting at it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/21/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  For almost 50 years I have used a Ruger M77 in 7mm Remington magnum and a Leupold vari X II 3 x 9 scope.
I always set my zero at 200 yd. At 100 yards the bullet is 1.5 in above sight line. At 300 the drop is 7 in. At 500 yards drop is 41 in. Got 2 caribou at -50F once at 500 yards. I used hand loads to 0.1 gr of powder. Extremes in Alaska.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/21/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I also vote 7 mm Rem Mag. With the results you get, Alaska Paul, you seem to have it dialed in.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#9  M Murcek. I shoot 1" groups at 100 yd. I vary the powder loads for various bullet weights (use Hornadays) to keep the same drops at various yards. 175 gr for moose and bear. Lighter for caribou and wolves. Weigh every powder load, but with new digital scales not a problem. Son's lady used my rifle first time and got a caribou in the chest. The only thing I changed out was the trigger guard. The factory aluminum one cracked, so I got a steel one. Safety is convenient and ergonomic.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/21/2020 14:28 Comments || Top||

#10  300WinMag 190gr sighted in at 200 since that's the best my eyes can do, and typical of shots I get. I used to sight at 300 but anymore my rifle is more accurate than I am.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 08/21/2020 17:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Rutgers are nice rifles. I have a Model 1-H Tropical in 458 Win Mag. Never hunted any appropriate game with it but it's interesting. I have several Remington Model 700s, which some people hate even more than Internet Explorer, but I've never had any trouble with them. One is a Sendero II, 300 RUM with a 26" barrel. It can easily be sighted out past 600 yards though that's a bit much for most shooting.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 18:38 Comments || Top||

#12  My 10 pound Parrot rifle is accurate to a little over a mile but there isn't much left when the round hits..
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/21/2020 19:16 Comments || Top||

#13  The question is, do you have canister rounds for Antifa visitors?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/21/2020 19:29 Comments || Top||

#14  #4 Max range from which one would wish to carry the carcass.
Posted by Skidmark


Hoot! Great snark but in the hills, yup.

Nice to hear an Alaskan shooters perspective Paul, thank you.
Posted by: Eohippus Borgia5809 || 08/21/2020 19:31 Comments || Top||

#15  Years ago some wag in Field & Stream was asked, "What's the proper length for a fishing rod?" The answer:"Wharever length it is after you shear the tip off with the trunk lid..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2020 20:01 Comments || Top||

#16  Years ago some wag in Field & Stream was asked, "What's the proper length for a fishing rod?" The answer:"Wharever length it is after you shear the tip off with the trunk lid..."

Hahahahah...Ain't that the Gd damned truth; especially with kids.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/21/2020 22:01 Comments || Top||

#17  My 10 pound Parrot rifle

Seems a bit up-gunned for shooting parrots, but who am I to say.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/21/2020 23:19 Comments || Top||

#18  I have a Ruger American Rifle in .270 Win. Sighted in at 200. I dislike shooting from a bench as they are hard to find out in the woods and plains of Wyoming. But at 200 yards I can put 5 rounds into the space of my palm from prone, sitting and standing using shooting sticks. I feel that's sufficient for my purposes.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/21/2020 23:38 Comments || Top||



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