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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago week end WIA-KIA report
[American Greatness] A total of 43 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago; 37 people were injured, and six people died of their injuries, as reported by ABC News.

Between 6:30 PM on Friday and Noon on Sunday, the Chicago Police Department had responded to 35 different calls of shootings across the city. The incidents range from mass shootings to individual shootings, as well as planned attacks and apparently random outbursts.

In the early morning hours on Sunday, a group of people were standing on the sidewalk in the Austin neighborhood when a silver sedan pulled up. Two gunmen got out and suddenly began opening fire, injuring five people between the ages of 18 and 47; although there were no fatalities in this incident, all of the victims were listed as being in serious condition at the hospital.

In a separate incident that same morning, a 27-year-old tow-truck driver who was providing assistance to a customer in the Englewood neighborhood was shot and killed suddenly when a gunman walked up to him and fired several times at close range.

No arrests have yet been made in either of these cases, nor in most of the other shootings over the course of the weekend.

Among the injured are a 3-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. The boy was hit when shots were fired directly into his home in Calumet Heights on Saturday evening; after being taken to a hospital, the boy was listed in good condition. In the West Englewood neighborhood that same night, the girl was shot, along with a 20-year-old woman, while they were standing on a street and apparently shot from a distance.

Overall, over 2,490 people have been shot in Chicago in the year 2021, which marks a 9 percent increase from the amount of people shot over the first nine months of 2020. There have currently been 558 recorded homicides in the city this year, with most of them being due to shootings, also a 3 percent increase from 2020. Of the shooting victims this year, over 250 of them have been children.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2021 10:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  HeyJackass.com uses a slightly different time period to count Chicago shootings, but they report 10 people dead (including one police shooting) and 54 wounded.
Posted by: Milton Hatrack9946 || 09/20/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||


Remorseless [Angry Trans] Colorado school shooter, 20, who killed one and wounded eight when he opened fire at STEM school is jailed for more than a THOUSAND years
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Devon Erickson,
    ...previous hobbies were musical theater, rock band lead singer, and joking about school killings. The guns they used were stolen from his parents...
    20, was also sentenced by a Douglas County District Court judge to an additional 1,282 years

  • Alec McKinney,
    ...the transsexual who is legally Maya Elizabeth McKinney. She’d apparently been planning the massacre for some time. Her father was twice deported back to Mexico, and had a habit of domestic violence ...
    who aided in the shooting, pleaded guilty last year to murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and related charges

  • Judge Teresa Slade told him his lack of remorse throughout the proceedings compelled her to impose the additional years to his sentence

  • Because McKinney was a juvenile at the time of the crime, he could be eligible to apply for parole after serving 40 years

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We are supposed to empathize with angry trans POS, but it's also supposed to be allowed to kill with impunity because trans. Doesn't seem... equitable to me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  What with food prices going they way they are, I don't know that CO can afford to keep him that long. Bet Polis has the Hildabeast on speed dial.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/20/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Unvaccinated people are declaring themselves ‘Purebloods'
[NYPost] Some anti-vaxxers have proclaimed themselves "Purebloods" in a campaign of biological supremacy against those who received the COVID-19 vaccine.

"From now on, I refuse to be referred to as ’unvaccinated,’" said conservative influencer Lyndsey Marie in a post last week. "I want everyone to now call me Pureblood."

Her hashtags included #harrypotter, #pureblood and #unvaccinated.

Marie is most likely referring to a term more recently popularized by the "Harry Potter" series, which saw wizards and warlocks with the most magical progeny assigned as "purebloods" or "half-bloods" — as opposed to "muggles," mere humans who practice magic.
Remember the olden days when there were these things called “jokes” that people didn’t take seriously?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/20/2021 08:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does she remember that the "pure bloods" in Harry Potter were the bad guys?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  While a few ANTI-VAX'ers have refused VAX'd blood. Are there any blood banks refusing to take VAX'd donations?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/20/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  conservative influencer

Uh huh
Posted by: Frank G || 09/20/2021 14:54 Comments || Top||

#4  "muggles," mere humans who practice magic.

Muggles didn't practice magic, muggles had no magic. Mudbloods were Muggles that developed magical powers. How hard is it to check this kind of thing, I though newsrooms were full of 20-somethings?
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/20/2021 17:18 Comments || Top||

#5  conservative influencer

Sure..

Slightly off topic, I have started hearing the "If you have been vaccinated, or are thinking about it, please tell your doctor." bits on those medication commercials.

Which means nothing in and of itself, other than it was a subject many were wondering if/when it would show up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2021 17:48 Comments || Top||

#6  conservative influencer
You need to bear in mind that in the UK, Ms Occasional-Cortex is in the 'conservative' spectrum.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 19:55 Comments || Top||


Texas mom complains about descriptions of anal sex appearing in school library books before her microphone is cut off in board meeting
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Kara Bell took the lectern at the Lake Travis Independent School District board meeting on Wednesday to discuss a book in the middle school libraries

  • She said the book, Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez, contained a scene describing anal sex and including inappropriate language

  • On one page, she said the book reads: 'Put it in her coin box, put it in her cornhole, grab a hold of that braid, rub that Calico'

  • Bell, a former school board candidate, said she does not want her children to learn about anal sex

  • She said she wants the school board to instead focus on education and remove the book from its shelves

  • The next day, officials in the Austin-based district announced they have removed the book and its contents are under review
Definitely not appropriate for middle school, nor for public school libraries. That kind of thing kids can buy with their own money, if they really feel it’s necessary.
I thought this was about the BootyGig documentary
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Huckleberry Finn is rayciss and not allowed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  On the bright side, kids these days barely know how to read and those that do are probably gonna be turned off by this and miss the SJW message I'm guessing dominates the book.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/20/2021 20:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I would be curious to see how many times this book has been checked out.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/20/2021 20:31 Comments || Top||

#4  There are plenty of free stories on the internet of this type, I understand, for those kids interested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 21:18 Comments || Top||

#5  With pictures no doubt.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/20/2021 21:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Pan's not gonna date her!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 23:02 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Brutal images show UFC star Devin Clark's teeth SMASHED and bleeding during his crushing light-heavyweight defeat by Ion Cutelaba in Las Vegas
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are those scars on Cutelaba's head in the 2nd pic or tats? Looks like his brain is out for public inspection.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/20/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Military plane crashes into Texas neighborhood, ejecting crew and damaging multiple homes
[FOX] A military aircraft crashed in a Texas neighborhood late Sunday morning, damaging three homes and displacing the residents, police said.

The crash happened around 11:15 a.m. between the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota in Lake Worth Texas, about two miles northeast of Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

The U.S Navy has identified the aircraft as a T-45C Goshawk jet trainer assigned to Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas.

The two pilots ejected themselves before the crash. One of the pilot's parachutes got caught in powerlines, while the other pilot was found nearby, Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian said.

Both pilots have been transported to medical facilities for evaluation and are in stable condition.

The aircraft had been conducting a routine training flight that originated from Corpus Christi International Airport, according to the Chief of Naval Air Training.

The residents of the damaged homes were displaced and a Red Cross team was on scene to assist them. No injuries were reported.

Multiple agencies, including the Forth Worth police and fire department, were on scene assisting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Algeria: Bouteflika Given State Funeral
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
New Saudi Judicial Costs Law to Reduce Malicious Lawsuits
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
has started implementing new legislation for its justice system to improve judicial services and develop courts.

The new Judicial Costs Law, approved by the Council of Ministers, will reduce malicious lawsuits, encourage reconciliation between litigants, and promote documentation of transactions and contracts.

There will be no court costs for lawsuits related to divorce, alimony, and child’s custody.

There will be free litigation if it is a right guaranteed to all parties involved in cases that are not subject to the new law.

The idea of imposing fees is based on eliminating disparities between judicial costs and the principle of free litigation. The law also aims to contribute to raising the performance level of courts and bring down the number of malicious lawsuits.

There are provisions in the law under which the loser in the lawsuit shall bear the costs of litigation. The provisions of the law will be applicable to all lawsuits and pleas filed in the courts.

There will be exemption for five types of lawsuits. They are general criminal lawsuits and requests related to them; lawsuits and requests related to the execution of judicial verdicts; lawsuits examined by the Civil Status Courts such as divorce, alimony and custody (of children); lawsuits and requests that are within the jurisdiction of the administrative courts established to deal with state agencies, in addition to the suits related to termination of court proceedings.

The law ensures that judicial costs do not exceed SAR 1 million, taking into account of the effectiveness of the amount spent in achieving the objectives of the law.

The law also exempts from payment of judicial costs in a number of occasions, such as prisoners and detainees at the time they are entitled to judicial costs in financial cases that are nothing to do with criminal cases filed either by them or against them; plea for appeal if the court orders to review an appealed judgment, in addition to the request for cassation if it was decided to return the case to the court that issued the judgment, in the event of objecting the verdict.

Those who are exempted from the law included the parties involved in the cases that end in conciliation before the first session is adjourned, as well as claims for special rights that are filed in penal cases if they end in conciliation, in addition to the cases in which the arbitrators’ judgment is issued.

The law clarified that there will be a reduction of costs to one-fourth in the event of reconciliation, in addition to refunding the judicial costs paid when it becomes clear that it was not obligatory for them to make the payment.

According to the law, failure to pay the judicial costs does not prevent the court either from hearing the case or continuing with procedures including issuing of the verdict, and their collection shall be in accordance with the procedures and rules specified by the regulation.

The collected judicial costs shall be deposited in a special account of the Ministry of Finance, and that will be set aside to spend on projects to develop the judiciary and improve the performance of the judicial facility.
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Beheading with sword, "still a bargain, cost wise" Saud justice minister sez...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 4:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Moving to the US system, "You get all the justice you can afford."
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
6 die in shooting at Russian university -- UPDATED
Death toll revised to six.

Updated with a description of the gunfire exchanged between the traffic police officer, the type and gage of the shotgun used, and the age and family name of the shooter: Bekmansurov.

A local news website shows a video showing some of the shootings.

Including an additional report by regum.ru on the failure of the local emergency system.

Added additional information about the start of the shooting.

Additional information about the gunfire exchange between the intervening police officer and the shooter.


MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. Six people were killed and 24 people were injured in a shooting at the Perm State University, press service of the Russian Ministry of Health told reporters on Monday.

"According to the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine, as of 1127 hrs Moscow time, eight people died in the incident at the Perm State University, 24 people were injured and are being treated, 19 of them have gunshot wounds," the report said.

The press service clarified that 25 medical teams are working at the site.

According to the Russian Investigative Committee, on September 20, a student opened fire on the territory of the Perm State University. The shooter was detained, his identity has been established.

Russia’s Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov flew to the scene.

Additional information from my VKontakte page:

Two armed guards were at the entrance to the university. One was shot and killed by the shooter.

Russian traffic police officer Jr. Lt Konstatin Kalinin rushed to the scene with a partner. At first, he helped with the evacuation of students.

After speaking with some students, Kalinin went to find the shooter. He called on the shooter to stop, but instead the shooter fired on Kalinin. Kalinin returned fire, hitting the shooter four times.

Video released on Vkontakte show that the gunfire exchange between Kalinin and the shooter took place inside a university building.

The shooter is identified as Timur Bekmansurov, 18, no patronymic.

Reports say Bekmansurov was carrying a shotgun, possibly a pump action 12 gage. Remote camera photos show the shooter sporting a tactical helmet. Kalinin was armed with a 9mm Makarov pistol.

Reports now say Bekmansurov bought a gun legally, incorrectly identified as a rifle, in May of 2021. It is possible both reports are correct, but the type of gun used in the shootings was a 12 gage shotgun, confirmed through videos of the crime scene.

Local 59.ru news website reports on the motivation of Bekmansurov. The incident was characterized as definitely not an act of terror.

The website also features a video showing several acts of murder.

According to a report by regnum.ru, the university had an emergency system that did not work, because no one was at the phones when calls came in.

A social media post of shows Bekmansurov mugging for the camera with what appears to be a pump action 12 gage shotgun, a tactical vest loaded with shotgun shells and a tactical helmet.

Five die in two separate shootings
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.


A resident of Komi shot four people with a gun

SYKTYVKAR , 20 September 2021 , 16:26 - REGNUM

In Komi, a 47-year-old man shot four people, one of them died. The correspondent of IA REGNUM was informed about this in the republican Investigative Committee.

The tragedy took place on the night of September 18 in a private house in the Kortkeros region. The suspect's 54-year-old sister died from a gunshot wound at the scene. Three people were hospitalized. It is reported that after the deed, the offender took his own life.

According to the Investigative Committee, the suspect abused alcohol and did not work anywhere.

By now, the scene of the incident has been inspected, a complex of forensic examinations has been assigned, other investigative and procedural actions are being carried out aimed at establishing the causes and circumstances of the incident.

Five people died from gunshot wounds in Almaty

ALMATY , KAZAKHSTAN , September 20, 2021 , 16:25 - REGNUM

Five people died from gunshot wounds in the city of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), Sputnik reports.

It is clarified that the shooting was opened by a man born in 1967, whom they came to evict from his house. He started shooting, killing two civilians, as well as two police officers and one bailiff.

The incident occurred at 17:20 (local time) in the Akbulak microdistrict. The shooter was detained, a criminal case is being investigated.


Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 05:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NRA's fault, no doubt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 5:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Have Lori Lightfootsie sue him.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/20/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Odds favor a Muslim or Chechen or both.

Мы увидим...
Posted by: Slats Angusons1352 || 09/20/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Odds favor a Muslim or Chechen or both.

Killer's given name is Timur. Tatar or Mongol.
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Tamerlane's descendant
Posted by: Jomort Thud9644 || 09/20/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Remote camera photos show a young white man.
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Killer's given name is Timur. Tatar or Mongol.

If it turns out to be jihad, we’ll then move it to Page 1.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Family name is Bekmansurov, so prolly not jihad.
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Not so. It's a common name in the Muslim Caucasus. Killer's likely from Dagestan or somesuch.
Posted by: Bob Platypus5932 || 09/20/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Local 59.ru news website reports on the motivation of Bekmansurov. The incident was characterized as definitely not an act of terror.

A social media post of shows Bekmansurov mugging for the camera with what appears to be a pump action 12 gage shotgun, a tactical vest loaded with shotgun shells and a tactical helmet.
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#11  According to one of the Donbass militia VKontakte pages I follow, VKontakte is doing its best Facebook impression by removing posts, photos and videos related to the shooting.
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#12  Deutsche Welle:

The perpetrator, who was an 18-year-old student at the university, used a "traumatic" firearm, according to the Perm State University press service. Such guns are designed to fire non-lethal rubber or plastic projectiles, but can be modified to fire other ammunition.

The student had earlier posted a social media photo of himself posing with a rifle, helmet and ammunition.

"I've thought about this for a long time, it's been years and I realized the time had come to do what I dreamt of," he said on a social media account attributed to him that was later taken down.

He indicated his actions had nothing to do with politics or religion but were motivated by hatred.


The link also has a four minute news video on the story in English.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#13  Well managed, badanov. Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||


Putin's party, United Russia wins 82 percent of single constituency mandates
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

**PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NOT THE FINAL VOTE TALLIES**


MOSCOW , September 20, 2021 , 00:44 - REGNUM

Among single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the State Duma, the United Russia party strengthened its leadership. Such data are provided by the information center of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia, a REGNUM correspondent reports .

After processing 28.12 percent of the protocols of precinct election commissions (PEC), UR was in the lead in 185 single-mandate constituencies out of 225, which was 82.22 percent. After processing 29.31 percent of the protocols, the party further strengthened its position, winning in 189 single-member constituencies.

Next comes the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which so far wins in 15 single-mandate constituencies. Closing the top three is the party "Fair Russia - For Truth", which can receive six "single-mandate" in the new convocation of the State Duma.

Four more parties: LDPR, Rodina, Yabloko and Civic Platform win in one single-mandate constituency.

In the race for the seat of the Penza governor, the leader has been determined

PENZA , 20 September 2021 , 02:55 - REGNUM

In the Penza region, according to GAS Vybory, after the processing of part of the ballots in the early election of the governor, Acting Governor Oleg Melnichenko became the leader of the race - 74.68%. The counting of votes continues, reports IA REGNUM.

In the Penza region, five candidates ran for the post of governor. In addition to Melnichenko, nominated by United Russia, the campaign was attended by the deputy of the legislative assembly of the Penza region Alexander Vasiliev (LDPR), who, after processing about 21 percent of the PEC protocols, gained 4.95 percent, General Director of Helios LLC Aleksey Shpagin (Fair Russia ») - 5.58 percent, deputy of the Penza City Duma of the seventh convocation Pyotr Chugai (party of pensioners) - 2.03 percent and deputy head of Penza Oleg Chaliapin (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - 11.24 percent.

The turnout at the elections on the last day of voting at 18:00 (two hours before the closure of the polling stations) was 54.47 percent.

Reference: as of July 1, 2021, 1,041,875 residents of the Penza region have the right to vote. As part of the three-day September voting, 33 territorial election commissions and 1,067 polling stations worked in the region. In Penza, on election days, vaccines against COVID-19 were organized at some polling stations.

In addition to the governor and deputies of the State Duma, these days the inhabitants of the region elected deputies of the assembly of representatives of the Kamensky and Serdobsky districts, as well as deputies of the representative bodies of individual municipalities.

Leaders in single-mandate constituencies determined in Udmurtia

IZHEVSK , 20 September 2021 , 02:41 - REGNUM

In Udmurtia, according to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the leaders were determined in the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the eighth convocation in single-mandate constituencies after processing part of the ballots. In one district, 24.19 percent of the PEC protocols were processed, in the second - 30.1 percent, the REGNUM correspondent reports .

At DEC # 33, after 24.19 percent of the PEC protocols have been processed, State Duma deputy Andrei Isaev (United Russia) is in the lead - 32.05 percent. Next come the deputy of the City Duma of the city of Izhevsk of the VII convocation on a non-permanent basis Alexander Syrov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - 27.48 percent and the director of the Terra company Pavel Berlinsky (New People) - 8.07 percent.

At DEC # 34, after processing 30.1 percent of the PEC protocols, votes have been distributed as follows: deputy of the Izhevsk City Duma Oleg Garin (United Russia) - 28.82 percent, deputy of the State Council of Udmurtia on a non-permanent basis, assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Vladimir Bodrov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - 23.84 percent, artistic director of the State Unitary Enterprise “The Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue” Askold Zapashny (“Fair Russia-Patriots-For the Truth”) - 11.92 percent.

For the rest of the candidates, no data has yet been provided. The processing of the ballots continues.

Voting took place for three days - from 17 to 19 September 2021. On the first day in Udmurtia, 15.48 percent of voters from the total number of those included in the lists voted.

The turnout in the elections to the State Duma in Udmurtia on the last day of voting at 18:00 (two hours before the closure of polling stations) was 44.51 percent.

Election campaigns in Udmurtia these days were also held in 25 municipal districts, where councilors were elected. There were 1172 polling stations in the republic.

Leaders in the single-mandate district of Mordovia

SARANSK , 20 September 2021 , 02:08 - REGNUM

In Mordovia, at the elections to the State Duma of the eighth convocation in a single-mandate constituency, after processing 0.26 percent of the ballots, the majority of votes were cast for the chairman of the all-Russian youth public organization and the Russian Union of Rural Youth, Yulia Ogloblina (United Russia) - 75.86 percent, reports correspondent of IA REGNUM .

For the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, State Duma deputy Dmitry Kuzyakin, 9.05 percent have been given so far, for the deputy of the State Assembly of Mordovia Yevgeny Tyurin (LDPR) - 5.6 percent. For the other four candidates, no data has yet been provided.

The processing of the ballots continues.

Reference: 225 deputies of the State Duma are elected in single-mandate constituencies, and 225 deputies - in a federal constituency in proportion to the number of votes cast for federal lists of candidates.

The turnout at the elections of deputies of the State Duma in Mordovia at 18:00 (two hours before the closure of polling stations) on the last day of voting was 61.3%. At the same time, on the first day, 25.92 percent of citizens from the total number of those included in the voter lists (152,813 people) cast their votes.

As of July 1, 2021, 602,869 voters were registered in Mordovia, according to the Central Election Commission of the region.

As REGNUM informed earlier , 774 polling stations worked on the territory. In addition to the State Duma deputies, the republic elected the head of the region, deputies of the State Assembly, as well as the city council of Saransk and deputies of village and city councils.

Four candidates nominated for the chair of the head of Mordovia - the interim head of Mordovia, the ex-head of the government of Dagestan and the former Minister of Economy of Tatarstan Artyom Zdunov (from United Russia), deputy of the State Assembly of Mordovia Yevgeny Tyurin (LDPR), State Duma deputy Dmitry Kuzyakin (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) and pensioner Alexander Lemkin - from the "Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice."

Eight parties preliminarily pass through single-mandate constituencies to the State Duma

MOSCOW , September 20, 2021 , 01:37 - REGNUM

Among single-mandate constituencies in the elections to the State Duma, the United Russia party continues to lead. Such data are provided by the information center of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia, a REGNUM correspondent reports .

Follow the developments in the broadcast: "Elections September 17-19, 2021 in Russia - broadcast"

After processing 33.33 percent, UR is in the lead in 189 out of 225 single-member constituencies, which is 84%. Next comes the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which so far wins in 17 single-mandate constituencies. Closing the top three is the party "Fair Russia - For Truth", which can receive six "single-mandate" in the new convocation of the State Duma.

Five more parties: LDPR, Rodina and Civic Platform, Yabloko and Party of Rosta win in one single-mandate constituency.

The scale of violations in Pyatigorsk outraged the head of the Central Election Commission

At a polling station in Pyatigorsk, the camera lens was closed with a mop and a rag at night, creating conditions for fraud with safes in the absence of video recording of violations. The chairman of the territorial commission after this should be immediately dismissed, said the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on September 18 there were reports of violations at the elections in the Stavropol Territory. So, the representative of the candidate for the State Duma deputy Alexei Fokin said that he could not vote in Zheleznovodsk, because there was someone else's signature in front of his name on the voter list. In Stavropol, Artem Gavrilov, a member of the advisory committee of PEC No. 83, complained about obstacles in filming the transfer of voters' books, and also said that there were no seals on the box with ballots.

Voting in the elections to the State Duma is held for three days in a row - from 17 to 19 September. In the Stavropol Territory, elections of deputies of the regional parliament, as well as of representative bodies in Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Zheleznovodsk and Nevinnomyssk, are being held in parallel, the Caucasian Knot statement " Elections 2021 in the South of Russia: the main thing about a single voting day " says .

The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, ordered the dismissal of the chairman of the territorial election commission after a violation was revealed at a polling station in Pyatigorsk.

"We need to immediately, immediately make a decision - dismiss the chairman, transfer cases to law enforcement agencies, and we will carefully monitor this. Cancel everything here [the results of the elections on September 17 and 18] that can be canceled," TASS quoted her as saying today.

The reason for the indignation was the video recording from PEC No. 1085 in Pyatigorsk, shown by CEC member Alexander Kurdyumov. The footage shows how some people cover the camera lens with a mop and rag. "A shadow appears, which is trying to do something with the safes, a friend is actively holding a mop. We switch another camera, which should show the safes. This happens for 5-10 minutes, then the girls abruptly leave, the cleaner opens the camera with a mop quickly leaves the premises. We open the first chamber - there, of course, the safes are like new, with new seals, apparently, "the agency quotes Kurdyumov.

According to the timestamps on the footage, the video was made at about 2317 hrs Moscow time on September 18, when the site number 1085 was closed, said "Notebook Stavropol" today at 0839 hrs Moscow time. The chairman of the TEC of Pyatigorsk, Alexander Borodaev, assured that he was not aware of what had happened.

"Currently, I do not know anything about this," the newspaper quoted Borodaev as saying.

This violation was reported at 0922 hrs Moscow time by the voter, it follows from the publication on the website "Map of violations", which is conducted by the movement "Golos."

"At night they carried out fraud at the polling station, and to hide it, they closed the video camera with a mop!" - the message says. Attached to the publication is a file entitled "Video recording from polling station No. 1085 in Pyatigorsk, where an unknown person is covering one of the surveillance cameras with a mop."

In total, 34 reports of violations in the Stavropol Territory were posted on the "Map of Violations" by 1530 hrs. Almost half of them (16) are reported on violations of the rights of observers, members of the commission and the media on voting days. Official complaints were filed on 15 cases of violations, it follows from the statistics of the "Map of violations".

Independent observer arrested in Armavir for participating in Navalny's rally 

An observer at a polling station in Armavir was detained for 10 days for participating in the rally of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on January 23.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on the first day of voting, September 17, the proxy of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Rostislav Shcherbakov, filed two complaints about violations during the voting in Anapa and was attacked at the exit from the polling station. In the evening of that day, an observer from the candidate for deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Aleksey Glimeydo, was beaten. Doctors recorded minor injuries, the activist sent a complaint to the police. On September 18, an observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Okolizdaev, announced that he was beaten at the exit from a polling station in Novorossiysk. Okolizdaev considered the target of the attackers to be falsification of the voting results.

Kuban voters announced on September 15 that they were forced to vote at work. State employees and workers in enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory are forced to detach themselves from polling stations at their place of residence and vote at their place of work, which makes it possible to control turnout, party representatives argued. Kuban is in the top five regions with the highest number of complaints of violations, said  activist of the "Golos" movement, David Kankiya.

On September 17, security officials detained a member of the electoral commission with a decisive vote Yevgeny Volkov at a polling station, where he, as an independent observer, followed the course of the voting, an observer from a polling station in Armavir told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today .

On the same day, the Armavir City Court ruled to arrest Volkov for 10 days for violating the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation), she said. According to the observer, there has been no communication with Volkov since the arrest, and his phone was seized. Note that 10 days is the maximum term of arrest under this article.

"He was arrested for organizing a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place back on January 23. Until yesterday (September 16), there were no complaints from the police against him," the observer said.

Yabloko observer detained in Volgograd

The police detained an observer from the Yabloko party, Ksenia Klimova, on the territory of the precinct election commission in Volgograd, and after interrogation at the polling station sent him to the police department.

As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported , at the elections in Volgograd on September 17 and 18, observers complained of massive violations related to the on-site voting. The head of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov, demanded to invalidate the results of voting at polling station No. 838, where an observer on September 17 filmed the moment of ballot stuffing. The members of the precinct election commission did not throw in ballots, but voted, the TEC chairwoman said. Today, Yabloko observer Daniil Bagrovsky was quarantined from a polling station due to a slightly elevated temperature. Bagrovsky suggested that he was deliberately removed from the site.

Today at 1010 hrs Moscow time in the Kirovsky district of Volgograd at PEC # 515, the police detained a member of the precinct commission with an advisory vote from the Yabloko party, Ksenia Klimova . She was escorted to the office of the Resource Center for School Volunteering on the first floor of gymnasium # 10, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.

Half an hour later, Ksenia's lawyer and Nadezhda Stepanenko, a member of the TEC of the Kirovsky district of Volgograd with an advisory vote, arrived.

"I am not allowed to see Ksenia, although I am a full member of the TEC. What is happening there is not clear. They say that she is being searched. On what grounds, they do not say," Nadezhda Stepanenko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A police officer came out of the office. She refused to introduce herself and give reasons for the detention of Klimova. The lawyer also declined to comment. After a two-hour interrogation, Ksenia Klimova was taken out of the office. The police escorted her to the lawyer's car and took her to the district police station, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.

Fight and pogrom at a polling station in St. Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG , September 19, 2021 , 20:31 - REGNUM

Just during the counting of votes at polling station No. 803 in St. Petersburg, there was a fight and the destruction of part of the ballots (photos and videos of the events are at the disposal of the editorial office). This was reported by a REGNUM correspondent from the scene.

Police intervention did not immediately help end the riots. Now the PEC secretary is trying to count the spoiled ballots. During the riots, PEC chairman Mikhail Fedorov was removed from office by the deputy chairman Nikita Leikin.

N. Leikin tried to count the ballots on his own, but he was prevented from doing this by the observers who were at the polling station, who called for help from the police and a representative of the TEC.

Twelve cases of ballot stuffing confirmed in eight Russian regions - CEC

By Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS
MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/.

Twelve cases of ballot stuffing have been confirmed in eight Russian regions, Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairperson Ella Pamfilova announced at the CEC information center on Sunday.

"As for ballot stuffing <...> 12 cases of ballot stuffing have been confirmed in eight Russian regions. It's not too many nationwide, it was overhyped by some media outlets," she noted.

According to Pamfilova, such cases were reported in the Adygea, Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kemerovo, Moscow and Saratov regions. "All of those ballots were declared invalid. Probes are underway, which particularly involve law enforcement agencies," the CEC chief added. The chairs of local election commissions in the Adygea, Bryansk and Kemerovo regions, where ballot stuffing was recorded, have been dismissed.

"The Russian Investigative Committee in the Adygea region opened a criminal case against former head of the local election commission Gavrilova," Pamfilova said.

Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Putins' United Russia Party claims a majority of seats in the Duma
Posted by: badanov || 09/20/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ surprise, surprise, surprise

/Gomer Pyle
Posted by: Frank G || 09/20/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Not as blatant as Biden's theft. And their oligarchs didn't interfere the way our$ did: $100 million each from Steter and Soros, $200m from Bloomberg and $500 million from Zuckerberg -- all to ensure their desired outcome.

Russian longevity and fertility rates are increasing.
American longevity and fertility rates are now DECLINING.

America's now the equivalent of Yeltsin's Russia. Whose ruinous, treasonous misrule led to Putin's restoration of order and competence thanks to authoritarianism.

And which is our future, too. Either left illiberalism or right illiberalism, but illiberalism nonetheless.
Posted by: Uneager Unomomp5931 || 09/20/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I would rather have Putin as president than this fool that we have. The others in his party too.
Posted by: Chris || 09/20/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||


#6  Russian longevity and fertility rates are increasing.

Glad to hear that, Uneager Unomomp5931. Please let us know when they reach replacement levels.

As for illiberalism, we’re still at the ballot box stage of things, and the populace continues to vote with their feet for Constitutional bounds on government.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 13:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Looks like the joke is on trailing wife.

Russia has already passed the US and continues to move up.

The US is in free fall. Only massive third-world immigration prevents the US fertility rate from falling off a cliff.

Fertility Rate - Russia
2020 1.82
2015 1.70
2010 1.46
2005 1.30
2000 1.25
1995 1.55

Fertility Rate - USA (all)
2019 1.70

Fertility Rate - USA (white non-Hispanic)
2019 1.61
Posted by: Vortigern Wheger3732 || 09/20/2021 15:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh wait -- those USA numbers are from 2019. The US birth rate surely must be catching up to Russia's, yes?

Oops:
U.S. Birthrate Fell By 4% In 2020, Hitting Another Record Low
May 5, 2021


So now the comparable numbers are
- Russian fertility rate in 2020 = 1.82
- USA fertility rate in 2020 = 1.69 (all races) and 1.55 (white non-Hispanic
Posted by: Vortigern Wheger3732 || 09/20/2021 16:51 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China no like'ee new 'AUKUS' Pacific agreement
[Politico] Beijing is denouncing the U.S. government’s new "AUKUS" technology-sharing working group with the U.K. and Australia as a threat to peace in the Indo-Pacific region.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian on Thursday slammed the grouping as a reflection of "outdated Cold War zero-sum mentality and narrow-minded geopolitical perception" that "intensified" a regional arms race and harmed international non-proliferation efforts.
"How dare you defend yourselves, hegemonic running dogs!"
That rhetoric — including Zhao’s reference to "cliques" designed to target "third party" countries — reflects the Chinese government’s recognition that the U.S. has been able to rally allies in the Indo-Pacific to counter Beijing’s increasingly aggressive moves in the region. The AUKUS deal makes no explicit reference to China, but two U.S. officials noted that the subtext of the announcement is that this is another move by Western allies to push back on China’s rise in the military and technology arenas. But White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday responded to questions about the AUKUS agreement’s focus on China by insisting that it "is not about any one country," adding that "we do not seek conflict [with China]."

Zhao hinted that the Chinese government may accuse Australia of violating its commitment under the Treaty of Rarotonga, which includes prohibitions on the production, possession or acquisition of nuclear weapons.

That tactic would ignore or misconstrue the fact that the AUKUS deal includes equipping Australia with technology for nuclear propulsion, not nuclear weapons. Both President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison emphasized that Australia doesn’t seek a nuclear weapon. The three countries will undertake discussions over the next 18 months to figure out how best to deliver the technology, which the U.S. traditionally has only shared with the U.K.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2021 09:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any thoughts to quit feeding the beast or is that too much of a burden on America's corrupt elite?
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 09/20/2021 14:07 Comments || Top||

#2  I have a couple of ideas involving foreign imports that might provide some relief.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2021 17:29 Comments || Top||

#3  The headline is rassist
Posted by: Jumbo Angaviper3879 || 09/20/2021 18:43 Comments || Top||

#4  @ #4 - I believe the term is "layciss"
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 09/20/2021 19:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Bangkok Billy. Made me laugh. Im embarrassed about it though.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/20/2021 20:28 Comments || Top||


More Fortune Global 500 Companies Pulling out of China
[EpochTimes] More foreign Fortune Global 500 companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, and Ericsson, are speeding up withdrawal from China in September, and thousands of workers are facing unemployment.

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries Co. (Samsung Heavy) is carrying on the capital withdrawal from its Ningbo, Zhejiang Province shipbuilding plant “due to decreased productivity caused by its superannuated facilities,” wrote Korea Herald, a South Korean media in Seoul.

Since Sept. 8 thousands of employees gathered at the Ningbo plant to protest the closure of the factory, and express their dissatisfaction with the compensation package proposed by management.

The protesters held banners that said “Samsung is my home, I want to work! I need to support my family!” and “The government ‘vacate the cage and replace the bird,’ while the employees get the least.”

“Vacate the cage and replace the bird” is an industrial restructuring strategy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proposed by Wang Yang, then Party Secretary of Guangdong Province, in May 2008, indicating relocation or elimination of certain industries in the region and replacement or upgrading of other industries in the same region.

A document from the local government, and circulated online, said that Ningbo government has signed an agreement to reclaim about 476 hectares of the land of Samsung Heavy Industries.

In fact, early in 2020, workers had heard that the government was going to take over the land. “Samsung Heavy’s withdrawal of its investment this time is because the Ningbo authorities unilaterally reclaimed the land and paid Samsung Heavy about $620-770 million as compensation,” said Zhang.

“Ningbo plans to use the land to build a chemical zone,” he said.

The Ningbo officials have not yet confirmed how the land will be used.

“Although the authorities did not mobilize people to boycott Samsung, it was a disguised boycott and expulsion,” said Chinese financial media blogger “Financial Cold Eye” in a Youtube video on September 11.

TOSHIBA AND ERICSSON SHUTTING DOWN IN TWO CITIES
Besides Samsung, Japanese electronics giant Toshiba and Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson are also closing their companies in china.

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba will shutter its factory in the northeastern city of Dalian, Liaoning Province at the end of September, Nikkei Asia said.

Caijing, a Chinese financial media said that on September 11, serval employees of Toshiba Dalian told The Time Weekly that some employees are no longer working there.

Toshiba Dalian was established on September 25, 1991. When the company closes, it will have reached its 30th anniversary.

Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson is closing its R&D center in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and TietoEVRY, a company headquartered in Finland, has agreed to take a 630 of its employees, reported Mobile World Live.

Early in July, Ericsson released its second-quarter 2021 financial report indicating that sales fell by more than 60 percent year-on-year, resulting in a 1 percent year-on-year decline in overall revenue, according to data by Caixin, a financial media in China.

MORE FOREIGN INVESTMENT OF FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 LOOK TO WITHDRAW FROM CHINA
After the outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war coupled with the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the global supply chain has seen the importance of disconnecting from the CCP. “Now it is a major trend for the foreign companies of Fortune Global 500 to move their industrial chains out of China,” said Financial Cold Eye.

Japanese Panasonic Group will close its battery plant in Shanghai, China. Panasonic will focus its investments on Central and South America and Southeast Asia, where it has the largest share, said Nikkei Asia in April.

IBM shut down a research institute in China, which operated in northwestern Beijing’s Zhongguancun area for 25 years, reported Today China on Jan. 24.

Apple, Microsoft, and Google planned to move their production lines to other parts of Asian countries like Vietnam, Thailand, CNBC reported on March 4, 2020.

And global consumer electronics makers HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon are all looking to shift substantial production capacity out of China, reported Nikkei Asia on July 3, 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  It's almost like the Fortune 500 expect President Trump to return to office.
Posted by: Throth Bucket8145 || 09/20/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Story was about Gerbil 500 companies. They are moving pieces around on the chess board but if you believe they are giving up on china, you don't get slave labor at all.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 4:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Story was about Gerbil 500 companies. They are moving pieces around on the chess board but if you believe they are giving up on china, you don't get slave labor at all.

Slave labor can't be employed directly. Even Foxconn won't use slave labor. That segment falls within the purview of Chinese subcontractors. Turning a blind eye comes easier when someone else houses and feeds the slaves. Get a complaint? Switch subcontractors. No severance required.

The problem with China is theft of intellectual property. Outside of literal slave labor, Chinese salaries exceed maquiladora levels. Land prices are in the stratosphere, thanks to its massive property bubble. Previously lax regulatory enforcement against foreign operations is now almost vengeful, as if the Chinese are settling long-held grievances on their backs, even while their Chinese competition gets a free ride. Bottom line is that China welcomes foreign investment, but the grift gets into gear as soon as the investment is complete. If they are long-term thinkers, the Chinese definition is in the ballpark of a year.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 09/20/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  China = paper tiger
Posted by: Patriot || 09/20/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Bottom line is that China welcomes foreign investment, but the grift gets into gear as soon as the investment is complete.

And it has taken the corporate wizards of management how many decades to figure this out and react accordingly? /rhet
Posted by: Phaviling McCoy9291 || 09/20/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Bottom line is that China welcomes foreign investment, but the grift gets into gear as soon as the investment is complete.

And it has taken the corporate wizards of management how many decades to figure this out and react accordingly? /rhet
Posted by: Phaviling McCoy9291 || 09/20/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Major banking instability in China at this time. Many excesses and errors requires reboot that's gonna leave a mark.
Posted by: Dale || 09/20/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#8  The exec's at these companies are like stockbrokers.
They get salary and bonuses to move the pieces around on the board, and it's irrelevant whether the companies make any money.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Scuffle after cattle stray into cannabis cultivation in Lolab, six injured
[GREATERKASHMIR] At least six persons were maimed, three of them critically, after two communities clashed in Lolab area of north Kashmir's
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor.
Kupwara district, reports said today.
[chew chew chew chew] "Hmm? What's over there?"
They said that the scuffle took place after cattle strayed into a cannabis cultivation farm.
[chew chew] "Hmm! Pretty tasty stuff!" [chew chew chew chew]
Quoting the family members, news agency GNS reported that the incident took place in Forest Compartment number 40/41 in Nagmari Bomach between two rival communities belonging to Dardpora and Divar Dilbagh Kakkarpati areas.
"MY CROP! Yer stupid cow's eating my bhang crop!"
Talking to news agency GNS, Mohammad Maqbool Chakbari alleged that the Divar Dilbagh Kakkarpati residents attacked his community members after several of their cattle strayed into bhang cultivation belonging to the former.
"Those cows're higher'n a herd o' kites! What flavor of milk you think they're gonna give?"
"They (Divar Dilbagh Kakkarpati group) attacked us and injured our six persons", Chakbari said, adding that three of the injured have been referred to District Hospital Baramulla in a critical condition.
"Conked him on the nut with a shillelagh, did he? Faith and begorrah! I thought that only happened in Ireland?"
He identified the injured as Mohammad Yousaf Awan, Mushtaq Ahmad Chugta, Mohammad Maqbool Chugta, Gudi Begum, wife of Riyaz Ahmad, Zainab Noor wife of Shah Jahan and Shakeela Begum wife of Bashir Ahmad Shiekh. Abdul Hamid Chugta told GNS that they have lodged a complaint at Police Station Lalpora.
"That's right, officer! Their cows ate all our weed and then they attacked us!"
"The cows did?"
"No! Their owners!"

A police official told GNS that investigation into the incident is going on.
"We'll have to wait until the cows get over their munchies though."
"Say! Try some o' this milk! Verrry tasty!... Like, wow man! Listen to the colors!"

The incident has given fresh impetus to the demand by locals, seeking stringent and fool-proof action against the bhang cultivators in the area, who according to them have encroached upon large patches of forest land.
"And get our cows outta them trees! And tell that policeman to put his clothes back on!"
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That great CBD milk and ice cream...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The steaks have never been higher
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/20/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Gudi Begum, wife of Riyaz Ahmad

Gudi Two-Shoes
Ladi BeGud
Begum, We've Gadda BeGud (OR ELSE)

Or else Elsie's udder brudder will stampede you, Sahib?
Posted by: Glash Grolumble8664 || 09/20/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Deacon.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Bet you can sell the steaks for $400/lb in San-Francisco.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/20/2021 15:30 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe it's sold by kilos this time...
Posted by: Frank G || 09/20/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Gonna say, could have been Northern California.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Muslim ER doctor charged with female genital mutilation of nine girls aged just seven 'was part of secret network which traveled across US to perform agonizing procedure,' Detroit court hears
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Dr. Jumana Nagarwala appeared in court Thursday charged with lying about performing genital mutilation on nine girls, all seven years old

  • Prosecutors accused her of belonging to a group of physicians that traveled across the country performing the brutal surgeries

  • Nagarwala was cleared of mutilation charges in November 2018, after a federal judge ruled that a law banning the practice was unconstitutional

  • Prosecutors put forth a series of new charges in March,
    ..which explains why her name sounds familiar...
    alleging that she lied to the FBI and intimidated others to do the same

  • Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Cause it's a medical emergency that a young girl isn't submitting to the muzz protocols. Maybe Dr. Fauxi can come up with a vaccine for that too. Or would that be rayciss?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 4:27 Comments || Top||

#2  "Paging Larry Nassar, Dr. Nassar please come to the exam room."
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ If Fauxi cannot come up with a vaccine, perhaps he could testify for Dr. Nagarwata as a character witness ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Um, would that be no character squared?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#5  scraping the membrane of the girls' genitalia as part of the religious custom

WTF? "the membrane"??
Posted by: Claling Glusoling6727 || 09/20/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  scraping the membrane of the girls' genitalia as part of the religious custom

Long finger tickle?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  They cut the clitoris (and surrounding skin) off in Africa and parts of the ME, leaving the urethra (supposedly, but some 'surgeons' aren't as skilled and more comes off creating all kinds of health issues). Supposedly removes any pleasure from the act, thereby keeping the girl/woman from promiscuity or 'straying'.

Don't know if that was specifically what these medical ghouls were doing, but wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/20/2021 15:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Can't vaccinate against stupidity.

Course that won't stop Dr. Frauchi from selling a vaccine to stupid people.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/20/2021 15:36 Comments || Top||

#9  "Mo didn't have a clit and now neither do you"

Hadith 7:11
Posted by: Frank G || 09/20/2021 16:21 Comments || Top||

#10  i have a punishment, in kind, in mind!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 09/20/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The future of high-speed internet? Google scientists send broadband across the Congo River via beams of LIGHT in breakthrough that could lead to faster networks in remote areas
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  20 years ago at Nortel I used lasers to mesh a campus.

"In some parts of the world, low visibility caused by things like fog and haze would impair the process"
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  several methods to improve broadband in remote areas and for low cost

which is why the $50 billion in the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a waste
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/20/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Back in 1991, our campus had fiber between each building.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/20/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Curious as to how this compares to an microwave link.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/20/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#5  First guess: somebody in the Democratic Republic of Congo stole the fiber?
The $50bil in the infrastructure bill isn't a waste- It's a payoff.
Pretty much like the rest of the bill.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||

#6  These people ever heard of Rain Fade?
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 09/20/2021 18:53 Comments || Top||


Eli Lilly gets approval for expanded use of covid treatment drugs
[FinanceYahoo] LLY announced that the FDA has expanded the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its cocktail antibody medicine, bamlanivimab plus etesevimab to include the post-exposure prevention (prophylaxis) for COVID-19 indication.

This means the cocktail medicine can now be used (on an emergency basis) to treat certain people who have been exposed to the virus or who are at high risk of exposure in an institutional setting, including a nursing home or prison..
Another in the expanding set of treatments. There are several others. This is one reason why some places with thousands of new cases have only a few fatalities.
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#1  Eli Lilly was in command of an artillery battery (Union) at the battle of Mossey Creek, now Jefferson City, in Jefferson County, Tennessee in December of 1863. He was nearly captured by Confederates commanded by General James Longstreet but managed t extricate his battery and all his men.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/20/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Live database of all (118 so far) Invermectin studies.

Meta analysis using the most serious outcome reported shows 68% [52‑78%] and 86% [75‑92%] improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis.
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/20/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#3  If you need to use Ivermectin and can't get access except in veterinary (horse medicine) form, please do make sure you learn and use the appropriate dosing - you are not a horse and horse dosing will hurt you.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/20/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Not to mention horse pills are rather hard to swallow.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/20/2021 15:31 Comments || Top||

#5  cdc recommends ivermectin for refugees

All Middle Eastern, Asian, North African, Latin American, and Caribbean refugees should receive presumptive therapy with:

Albendazole, single dose of 400 mg (200 mg for children 12-23 months)
AND
Ivermectin, two doses 200 mcg/Kg orally once a day for 2 days before departure to the United States.

that is for a 100Kg person, they would take 20 milligrams = 20,000 mcg, twice a day for two days

https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/overseas-guidelines.html#ipg
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/20/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Most of the veterinary ivermectin I've seen is paste form, comes in a big syringe. Sort of like white peanut butter. You stick the tube in the corner of the horse's mouth and squirt it in. It's hard for them to spit out. Pilling a horse can be a nightmare.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/20/2021 16:38 Comments || Top||



Nomad 32: A Modular Gun Safe That Goes Anywhere You Want - Some Assembly Required
[Guns America] Over 40 million guns were sold in 2020. Of those, five million were likely purchased by first-time gun buyers, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade association.

Stands to reason that millions of people are looking for a place to safely store their newly purchased hardware. Because as the Peter Parker principle remains us, "With great power, there must also come great responsibility" or as comedians Key and Peele say, "With great power comes great responsitrilitrance."

Put bluntly, it is one’s duty as a responsible gun owner to properly secure his or her firearms.

Obviously, there are plenty of options out there, everything from trigger locks to gun cases to strong boxes and cabinets to, of course, gun safes. One’s preferences, needs, and homelife will ultimately dictate which route one pursues.

For me, I recently decided it was time for a major upgrade. Enter Steelhead Outdoors, the Minnesota-based manufacturer of the Nomad series of modular, easy-to-assemble, AND disassemble, gun safes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2021 08:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Errr, the hinge screws are on the OUTSIDE...
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/20/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Put it upstairs in an unused bedroom.
Hard to get to and I can't wait for it to crash thru the floor.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Article says the door stays shut and locked without the hinges.

Also said the door is some 135 lbs, so I hope they didn't skimp on the hinges. Have that door open and a person uses the door to get off the floor, and those are chinesium screws...

A good point. 500 lbs assembled, unloaded.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#4  How's your bookshelf?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/20/2021 23:00 Comments || Top||



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