[NYPOST] The US Supreme Court won’t take up the case of a Texas death row inmate convicted of murdering his family who claimed he didn’t receive a fair trial because of jurors opposed to interracial marriage.
Andre Thomas — who removed his eyes and ate one while in prison — claimed he went before a biased jury in his 2005 trial, where he was sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife and two children in a crime he said God told him to commit.
So he’s a nutter, or pretended to be. It sounds like he didn’t get better while in prison.
Thomas is black and his wife was white. ...and dead...
The inmate claimed the all-white jury convicted him because they didn’t approve of interracial marriage. At least three expressed the racist belief, with one allegedly noting on a questionnaire, "I think we should stay with our Blood Line."
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to toss out Thomas’ case. The court’s three liberal judges chose to dissent, arguing Thomas’s conviction and death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... should be overturned because his attorneys did not try to prevent the three jurors from serving.
"No jury deciding whether to recommend a death sentence should be tainted by potential racial biases that could infect its deliberations or decision, particularly where the case involved an interracial crime," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Sotomayor’s opinion.
Texas officials had asked the Supreme Court not to entertain Thomas’ appeal, claiming his attorneys questioned the jurors "extensively" about racial prejudices prior to trial and decided the jurors could provide an impartial decision.
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...Like Mom always said, "It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye."
[NYPOST] The man who went on an ax-wielding rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s has been busted again — this time for allegedly spraying-painting graffiti in Brooklyn and then swiping a pricey bike to try to flee cops.
Michael Palacios — who was caught on video smashing up the crowded fast-food joint on the Lower East Side during a beef with other patrons in September — was approached by police around 5:40 p.m. Sunday after he was seen spraying graffiti behind 69 Second Ave. in Gowanus, according to police sources.
The 31-year-old messenger ran and snatched a bicycle from in front of a coffee shop and tried to ride off before he was detained, sources said.
The blue bike, valued at $3,500, was damaged in the chase, sources said. Palacios of Manhattan was found in possession of graffiti paraphernalia at the time, according to sources.
While he was in jug, police also blamed Palacios for a graffiti incident in June at the Broad Channel subway station in Queens, sources said.
Palacios was charged with grand larceny, two counts of criminal mischief, possession of stolen property, making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments. In connection with the summer graffiti incident, he was charged with additional counts of making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments.
It's just sick...Sesame Street before this.
[CHD] Pfizer and Marvel this month released a customized Avengers comic book that urges people to become an "everyday hero" by staying up-to-date with the latest Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots.
Pfizer and Marvel’s "Avengers" are co-promoting Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster vaccines with the Oct. 4 release of a customized comic book.
Just as the "Avengers" repeatedly kept the world safe from the fictional supervillain Ultron, people need to protect themselves by updating their COVID-19 vaccination with the latest booster, according to the promotional comic.
Pfizer announced the new comic book in a tweet:
When Ultron wreaks havoc, the Avengers act as the first line of defense. People can help protect themselves by staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations. Head to https://t.co/PfNUYTZlkj to get a first look at Pfizer, BioNTech, and Marvel’s comic book! pic.twitter.com/hwhRateYIB
— Pfizer Inc. (@pfizer) October 4, 2022
The new comic, "Everyday Heroes," shows Ultron — who represents COVID-19 as it keeps evolving — attacking and being successfully fended off by the Avengers — who represent the different Pfizer vaccinations — while a grandpa and his family are waiting at a nearby clinic to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The story concludes with pictures of the Avengers and the family displaying bandages on their left arms, showing they got a Pfizer shot.
In addition to the superhero scenes, Pfizer added a page in the comic both before and after the story that shows people of different professions.
"What makes them everyday heroes?" one of the pages reads. "They know what to do to help defend against COVID-19."
And the comic includes a banner — accompanied by a scannable QR code containing COVID-19 vaccination information provided by Pfizer — that reads, "Vaccinate and stay up-to-date with the latest recommended booster and be an everyday hero!"
The marketing collaboration comes amid sluggish uptake in the U.S. and Europe of Pfizer’s fall Omicron-specific booster shots, according to the Daily Mail, which on Oct. 6 reported that fewer than 1 in 20 eligible Americans had received the shot.
According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 7.6 million Americans have opted to get the updated booster dose as of Sept. 28 — almost one month since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug. 31 granted Emergency Use Authorization for the new Pfizer and Moderna boosters and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Sept. 1 authorized the shots.
Citing data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Reuters on Oct. 7 reported that in the EU, weekly vaccine doses administered were ranging from around 1 million to 1.4 million in September.
Pfizer’s enlistment of Marvel’s Avengers comes after the U.S. Congress opted to not pass additional COVID-19 funding, signaling that the U.S. government will no longer be the primary purchaser of its COVID-19 vaccines.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla downplayed the potential negative impact the government decision might have on his company’s bottom line, stating that Pfizer’s shift into the private market will allow the drugmaker to be "even more competitive" and that its commercial skills are "even better suited" in an open market than in a government-contracting model.
Last month, Pfizer and Moderna aired new direct-to-consumer (DTC) TV commercials promoting their products — but they had to "play with cool with the branding side of things" because neither company’s fall COVID-19 booster vaccine has full FDA approval.
On Sept. 8 the day before the NFL season kicked off, Pfizer launched its booster ad, known as "More," which features a narrator, speaking in rhyme, about the "normal" things that happen in everyday life with the tagline, "the more you want to do, the more we want to do."
Moderna also aired a booster ad in time for the NFL season.
Moderna’s 15-second ad, "Get Boosted this Fall," features text on a colored background that states, "We’re sick of COVID, but we don’t want to get sick with COVID, either" and then urges people to get their boosters.
Moderna’s logo is visible at the bottom throughout the ad, and the company carries over part of its logo within the text as an extra layer of promotion.
In the second quarter of 2022, Moderna generated $4.7 billion in sales, a 9% increase over the same period last year.
Pfizer’s revenue grew by 47% compared to the second quarter last year, to $27.7 billion, and the company’s net income increased to $9.9 billion — a 78% increase over the same period during 2021.
So far in 2022, Pfizer has spent more than $100 million in advertising.
[Defense One] The Department of Defense needs to centralize its data collection mechanisms and standardize terminology across its command-and-control structures to improve oversight of its special operations forces, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday.
Congress requested that GAO review the structure and organization of the U.S. Special Operations Command—or USSOCOM—in a House report that accompanied the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. USSOCOM, which is tasked with overseeing the special operations of all U.S. military branches, had 28 different command and control structures managing special operations forces across the globe in 2021. Which apparently, worked.
GAO said in its report that oversight of USSOCOM’s different command and control structures was hindered by a lack of consistency and transparency surrounding collected data, since "it does not use standard terminology for this data, the data is not readily available and it does not maintain complete data." Basically they didn't understand "the stick was strapped." HuH?
I don’t understand that, but I’m not meant to.
"As such, there is not a consistent way to determine the composition of [special operations forces command and control] structures across the enterprise and maintain accountability of personnel assigned to [special operations forces command and control] structures," GAO added. "Need to Know"
The lack of centralized data collection mechanisms like DCGS?
, in particular, "obscure the understanding of how [command and control] structures are deployed in theater and thus the investments needed to bolster and support the force," according to the report. GAO noted that USSOCOM collects information about its different command and control structures "through ad hoc data collection requests" and often relies on other military commands "to collect and to present information to them."
GAO’s report also found that data on the staffing of command and control structures was incomplete from 2018 through 2021, which hindered oversight of deployed special operations forces. In one cited example, the Naval Special Warfare Command was unaware that it had personnel deployed to the Joint Task Force Indo-Pacific team "until USSOCOM officials learned of the deployment when reviewing personnel reports, due to informal staffing assignments by [special operations forces] commanders." Good OPSEC
GAO said using "a standard terminology and establishing a centralized data collection mechanism" would allow DOD to improve the transparency of the command and control structures of its special operations forces, which "would further enhance oversight conducted by DOD and other entities, such as the Congress."
The report recommended that DOD work to ensure that military officials overseeing special operations forces "establish a centralized data collection mechanism or process to collect and to retain data on a regular basis" about command and control structures. Fix it until it's broke.
It also recommended that the same officials develop a standard terminology to address command and control structures "whether through updated doctrine, guidance or other means." DOD concurred with both recommendations. Gotta have vaccinations, diversity, gender equality and measure sensitivity to gender disphoria.
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...Part of the problem is this: the SF units were - hands down, and no disrespect to the grunts who held down the terrain - the most effective units in the Af and Iraq. Unfortunately, that meant the demand for them increased exponentially, as did their funding and organization, all of which was classified. Put another way, a lot of what GAO was looking for never existed.
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/\ All true, but for a reason. The multi-national SOF effort in both Iraq and AFG was JPEL driven. I suspect you already know what three letter agency ran the JPEL along with all intelligence inputs, priorities, and production that drove it ?
WIKI: The Joint Prioritized Effects List or JPEL is a list of individuals who coalition forces in Afghanistan try to capture or kill. The Task Force 373 is working through the list. According to the Afghan War Diary German troops listed Shirin Agha with the number 3145 and on 11 October 2010 German troops killed Agha. Coalition forces are authorized to kill or capture individuals named on the list.[1][2][3]
According to a document from the 2010 Afghan War Diary the list has 2,058 names. That list provided the intelligence basis for a pace of some 90 night-raids per month in late 2009.
With the exception of the initial phases and follow-on IED road clearing, city and village sweeps, DoD (big Army) played a supporting role.
If it didn't support the JPEL, it generally didn't foking happen.
In the First of Eight Books of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War some mention in Chapters XV-XVI is made of asymmetric cavalry clashes. "as our men were disconcerted by the unusual mode of battle" and "In the whole of this method of fighting...standards were little suited to this kind of enemy"
It would seem that 'special operations' has a much longer history.
A new dating app for conservatives:
[PowerLine] It is called The Right Stuff and is said to be intended for conservatives. It is new, and now is the subject of a very odd story: "Right-wing dating app users on ’The Right Stuff’ contacted by FBI."
Users of a right-wing dating app founded by former Trump staffers have reported that they’re receiving calls from the FBI after answering one particular question in their dating profiles.
[A] third complaint is emerging from users — that answering a profile prompt question that asked "January 6 was..." has led to them being contacted by law enforcement.
A quick scroll through the reviews in the app store reveal several comments complaining of having a phone call from the FBI shortly after filling out the profile.
Is it possible that the FBI is monitoring answers to questions on a dating app to go after people who have a bad attitude toward the January 6 demonstration? How would they do that, without having, as one commenter alleges, "back door access"? The idea seems ridiculous, but the Democrats are obsessed with the January 6 protest, and the FBI has so far seemed willing to indulge the Democrats’ fantasies.
The whole thing is odd. But the app itself may not have much of a future. It is a pain even to register, as I found when I downloaded it. And it suffers from a more fundamental flaw than being monitored by the FBI: apparently there are hardly any women on it.
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Is it possible that the FBI is monitoring answers to questions on a dating app to go after people who have a bad attitude toward the January 6 demonstration?
Not only possible, but likely. "Back Door Access" is unnecessary if they own and operate the site. I suspect it will go dead (be terminated) very soon.
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I looked it up in the Apple Store. Almost all reviews were enthusiastic, the few bad ones being mostly blatant lefty trolling.
The real questions, it seems to me, is whether Peter Thiel would deliberately open up his customers to FBI harassment, and whether the claimed harassment is true or more lefty trollery.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German prosecutors on Tuesday said they had charged a 17-year-old boy with allegedly planning a May school bomb attack that was only narrowly avoided when he was arrested the day before.
The suspect, named as Jeremy R., planned the “right-wing extremist motivated attack” on a school he attended in the city of Essen using explosives and various other weapons, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
“Teachers and a larger number of pupils were to be killed” in the massacre planned for May 13, they said.
Jeremy R., who was 16 at the time of his arrest, had allegedly acquired the necessary materials to assemble pipe bombs and obtained information on the internet about how to build them.
He had also assembled weapons including knives, brass knuckles, machetes, crossbows and arrows as well as firearms, the prosecutors said.
Police in Essen stormed the teen’s room overnight on May 12, uncovering anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim materials as well as his own writings which suggested he was suffering from serious psychiatric problems.
Investigators at the time said they had been tipped off by another teen who informed them that the young man “wanted to place bombs in his school,” located about 800 meters from his home.
School massacres are relatively rare in Germany, which has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe.
But a recent spate of incidents has rattled the country.
A few days after Jeremy R. was arrested, a 21-year-old gunman opened fire at a secondary school in northern Germany, badly injuring a female member of staff before being arrested.
In January, an 18-year-old student opened fire in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany, killing a young woman and injuring three others before fleeing the scene and turning the weapon on himself.
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As much as I like the openness / access to interesting IT devices/tools that the Internet offers.
Maybe there is too much freely accessible Do It Yourself Domestic Terrorist data & supplies available on the Internet?
Heck, right now anyone can download the plans and parts list for a lot of disruptive and harmful handheld portable devices. Or Toxins,? Remember a few years back, the guy that ordered Lab grade Botulism and had it shipped to his house.
[DW] The Swedish climate activist muppet said it would be a "bad idea" for Germany to focus on coal when nuclear power plants were already in place. German politicians looking to extend the running times pounced on the comments.
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..if these people are freezing in the dark this winter, they're coming after ME.
Yup. She's the face, though I'd bet a number of policy makers who used her as marketing would sooner skulk in the dark than place the blame on Grrrrta and risk exposing themselves.
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DooDahMan, I'm sure it's just a meme but I'm afraid she really would pull the trigger.
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I wonder what she said about nuclear power two or so years ago. odds are, like most environmentals she hated it. now she's just trying to save her credibility in the only possible way.
[JP] Looking at "The Expected One," by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, you will immediately notice that the woman in the center of the painting is walking through a picturesque landscape towards a man waiting in the bushes holding a pink flower.
Skipping down:
Peter Russell, a retired member of the local government of Glasgow, Scotland, was the first to notice the "phone" in the Waldmuller. Upon further research, he discovered its true nature. He remarked that the resemblance to an iPhone shows just how much society has changed:
[The Vaccine Reaction] In 2022, researchers have published articles in the medical literature reporting organ transplant failures in people who have recently received COVID-19 shots. These reports include corneal graft rejections and solid organ transplant failures involving the kidneys, livers, lungs, hearts and pancreas.
A study by Japanese researchers published in June in the Journal of Clinical Medicine showed that acute corneal allografts may be rejected by those who have recently received COVID shots. Corneal grafts replace damaged corneas, the outer layer of the eye. Corneal grafts can restore lost vision and, historically, corneal grafts been one of the most successful organ transplants with a very low rejection rate.1
The Japanese study conducted an online search using PubMed and EMBASE, which showed that between April through December 2021, 13 articles were published worldwide showing that 21 patients (23 eyes) experienced corneal graft rejection post COVID vaccinations. All patients experienced graft rejection between one day to six weeks post vaccination.2
All COVID Shots Plus Other Vaccines Associated with Corneal Graft Rejection
The main cause for rejection was corneal edema (20 eyes), then keratic precipitates (14 eyes) and conjunctival or cillary injection (14 eyes). The cornea transplant recipients were evenly distributed between the sexes, with 10 males and 11 females identified in the study with the median age of 68 years old. Some 66.7 percent of the affected patients received one dose of a COVID shot and 33.3 percent received two doses. The shots administered included those developed by Pfizer/BioNTech (eight cases), Moderna/NIAID (eight cases), AstraZeneca/Oxford University (four cases), and Sinovac Biotech (one case).3
Patients who have had multiple corneal transplants, recurrent infections, and autoimmune disease have a higher rejection rate than other patients. Nine of the 23 patients in this study had more than one cornea transplant....
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Recall those patients kicked of the transplant lists because they refused to get jabbed. Wonder if family members will end up with legal recourse against the entities that played that game.
Work on the live virus that causes Covid must be carried out in one of these top level security labs
India currently only has one working lab, but is building five and has ambitious plans for at least nine more
Experts say they could be a concern if harmful research is done there which 'gets into the wrong hands'
More than 40 facilities certified as biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) or BSL-4 have either been built or have gone into construction since 2020, predominantly across Asia.
Many countries believe they were caught flat-footed by Covid and want to get ahead of the next devastating outbreak by studying pathogens that pose a threat to humans.
Russia has set out its proposals for 15 of the maximum security labs and India is aiming for 18 BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs in total. The US is also adding a further highest level biosecurity lab to its existing 12.
India is currently constructing five BSL-3 facilities and proposes at least nine more. Four institutions are planning to build BSL-4 labs with the highest level of security.
At the moment, India has three BSL-4 labs but only one is operational.
Plus India’s Government has agreed to set up four new national institutes of virology, two of which will handle BSL-4 pathogens in future.
Also in Asia, Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Singapore intend to build their first BSL-4 facilities. The US is due to add another BSL-4 lab to its existing group of 12 maximum-biosafety level facilities.
Russia also announced last year that it will build 15 BSL-4 labs, but gave little to no details.
At the moment, there are 63 BSL-4 labs in the world.
Could it be those that are trying to steer the world, feel 7.2 Billion needs to be reduced to a more manageable number for better control?
Question: What percentage of the 1,000 or so filthy Rich and Upper Leadership in the world died from C-19/22 or the Vaccident vs. say their Middle Class?
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.
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
[JP] Looking at "The Expected One," by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, you will immediately notice that the woman in the center of the painting is walking through a picturesque landscape towards a man waiting in the bushes holding a pink flower. 
[The Vaccine Reaction] In 2022, researchers have published articles in the medical literature reporting organ transplant failures in people who have recently received COVID-19 shots. These reports include corneal graft rejections and solid organ transplant failures involving the kidneys, livers, lungs, hearts and pancreas.
