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This guy, Trevon Martin and Michael Grey had four things in common. They are black, they had impulse control issues, they tried to take a lawful gun owners weapon away and now they are 6 feet under.
[NYPOST] A West Virginia man allegedly gouged out his neighbor’s eyes after an argument over a loud rooster, authorities said.
Richard Wayne Ellison, 47, of the town Rock, has been charged with murder after police said he admitted to killing the rooster and its owner, 72-year-old Benny Foutch, saying "Lucifer made me do it," according to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
Ellison was reportedly irritated by the noise of the crowing rooster so he stormed onto Foutch’s property Sunday, leading to an argument between the neighbors, police told the outlet.
Police believe Ellison at some point killed the rooster before turning on Foutch and gouging out his eyes.
EMS responders arrived at the scene to find Foutch dead on his porch with "blood coming from his orbital sockets," according to a criminal complaint filed by Detective-Corporal M.S. Horn of the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office.
Ellison allegedly took the dead rooster back home and instructed his son to dispose of it before officers at the sheriff’s office arrived and arrested him later Sunday, according to Horn’s complaint.
"I asked [Ellison] what happened with him and Benny, he then made the hand motion of pressing his thumbs to his eyes," Horn said. "He advised he went up there to kill the rooster because of a movie he had watched and because it was crowing.
"[Ellison] later explained that he pressed his thumbs into Benny’s eyes, he advised that he stayed there until he knew Benny was dead," the criminal complaint continued.
"He made the statement that he killed him, referring to the incident with Benny. He made a reference that Lucifer made him do it. He kept asking me to shoot him, that he deserved it. He then talked about getting somebody in the jail to kill him." "Make it so"
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Damned roosters and their infernal crowing. First St. Peter, and now this poor soul.
[BREITBART] MEDIA RELEASE UPDATE: Additional Charges In Death Investigation At Daybreak
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Investigators have determined after further investigation that this incident is now a homicide. Kenny Whitehead now has additional charges of murder and rape added to his current charges of necrophilia. This case is still actively being investigated. The family of the victim has been notified of her death. Bibb County Sheriff’s Office will not be releasing the victim information due to the charges and nature of this incident.
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I admit an unfamiliarity with the laws of the great state of Georgia, but do they actually draw a distinction between public and private necrophilia?
[(Red)StarTribune] Whatever is being lost by players in technique and nuance might be gained in the decompression of mind and body from the grind of a long year. Uh,No! Why would you ask such a stupid question? Oops, my bad, linked to the Strib by mistake.
A sixth region of New York ready to reopen-governor
[AlAhram] A region in the western corner of New York will become the sixth region to start reopening on Tuesday after hiring enough people to trace contacts of people who test positive for the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo told a daily briefing.
The western New York region will follow the reopening of five regions on Friday -- all of them in central and upstate parts of the state outside New York City, which remains under strict stay-at-home restrictions.
“Seeking to secure the nation’s supply of critical medications, the Trump administration has signed a $354 contract that would create the nation’s first strategic stockpile of key ingredients needed to make medicines,” NBC News reported. “The agreement was signed Monday with Phlow Corp., a generic drug maker based in Virginia.”
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro, a staunch China hawk who is the mastermind behind President Donald Trump’s trade war with the communist nation, said that the move “will not only help bring our essential medicines home but actually do so in a way that is cost competitive with the sweatshops and pollution havens of the world.”
The New York Times reported that the company could see the contract “extended for a total of $812 million over 10 years, making it one of the largest awards in” the history of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
France revises down coronavirus death toll
[AlAhram] France on Tuesday adjusted downwards its death toll for the coronavirus as a result of revisions to how fatalities are registered in nursing homes.
The health ministry put the latest toll at 28,022, compared with a figure of 28,239 published the day earlier.
It said this was due to a revision in the data for nursing homes, where 342 fewer people are now recorded to have died from COVID-19.
Over the last 24 hours, 125 more people were registered to have died of the coronavirus in hospital, it added.
With France now over a week into the easing of its hard lockdown, the numbers of people in intensive care continued to fall by 104 to a total of 1,894.
At the peak of the crisis, this figure reached over 7,000.
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So China is reporting they have up to 30 DNA mutations to the virus so far. This is the weaponizing everyone was afraid of.
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Ref #2: Yes, the Chinese beta testing went quite well. Little doubt they'll soon be able to field the 24-48 hour killer bug. Their labs should be destroyed. Slice of history, ok, here's one:
Operation Grouse - Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of Allied-led efforts to halt German heavy water production via hydroelectric plants in Norway during World War II. It was successfully undertaken by Norwegian commandos and Allied bombing raids. Wikipedia
They continue to flip us off and deny wrongdoing on a near daily basis. We fail to destroy these SOB's at our own peril.
[Wash Examiner] Belgian intelligence confirmed it investigated whether China was using the Maltese Embassy in Brussels as a spy post.
French newspaper Le Monde reported last week that Belgian state security suspected "since the early 2010s" that Chinese intelligence used the embassy, which is located next to the European Commission's headquarters, to eavesdrop on European Union institutions.
British intelligence reportedly told its Belgian counterparts about the spying after a Chinese firm was involved in renovations of the embassy.
If Chinese intelligence infiltrated the Maltese Embassy, the EU was not told about it, a top diplomat said last week. But Belgian intelligence said this week that the alleged espionage had been investigated.
"There were Chinese people who were involved in the renovation of the Dar Malta embassy in 2007, and it caught our attention," Belgium's homeland security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat, told EUobserver on Monday.
The security service said suspicions arose "without a foreign service having drawn our attention to this fact."
"There has never been any evidence that Chinese spy activities have [actually] taken place from this building, and we never said that was the case," it said.
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After the retarded decisions on the construction of the US Embassy in Moscow years ago, this ain't sh!t.
[AlAhram] *Snicker* President Reagan broke the Soviet Union by outspending on weaponry. President Trump is going to break Communist China by forcing them to outspend us in donations to the international organizations they thought they’d purchased for a pittance. “Ya wanna be world hegemon? Then spend like it, paesano!”
[PJ] In a victory for long-suffering champions of less government interference, President Trump just armed the heads of federal agencies with the freedom to cut onerous regulations as a way to get the nation’s crippled economy back on track.
This president has a been a breath of fresh air when it comes to regulations, gleefully chucking away hundreds of pages of them at a time. It’s really nice to see Republicans learning how to play the "never let a crisis go to waste" game for once, but focusing the effort on something that’s actually good for the country, like a sweeping effort to wipe out business-crushing regulations.
Tyler wrote a great piece about the move yesterday and has more here:
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that gives his cabinet "tremendous power to cut regulation." The order gives America’s flailing economy, still half-shuttered by the coronavirus crisis and government lockdowns, important relief as the effort to reopen picks up steam in different states.
Trump signed the order in a cabinet meeting. Before he signed the order, he explained that it involves "instructing federal agencies to use any and all authority to waive, suspend, and eliminate unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery."
This provides a stark contrast in the ways that Republicans and Democrats would prefer to "help" businesses and industries during this crisis.
The Democrats would prefer a seemingly endless series of bailouts and loans, all of which would make businesses beholden to the federal government.
By making over-regulation Public Enemy Number One, President Trump’s Republican party wants to remove layers of federal chains that they believe would hinder a recovery that absolutely cannot take too long if people’s lives aren’t going to be permanently ruined. If the government intervenes by getting government out of the way so that people can make more money then I’ve finally found some government interference that I like.
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Implementation requires funds. Cut their budgets until they can barely make payroll and suddenly payroll protection (for themselves) will become their only mission.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Nice thought, though. And the best gesture of them all would be to start at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
[Washington Examiner] The Trump administration announced a $354 million drug contract with a generic medicine manufacturing company providing "immediate U.S.-based capacity" to produce pharmaceutical ingredients and expand advanced manufacturing capacity, reducing reliance on overseas supply chains.
Phlow Corporation will lead the effort, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. The Virginia-based company is also planning a new manufacturing facility in-state.
"This is a national security issue," Hastings Center health expert and Phlow board member Rosemary Gibson said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "Medicines are our defensive weapons in biowarfare. We can't rely on foreign sources."
She added: "To not act is to make the U.S. defenseless."
Active pharmaceutical ingredients and precursor chemicals for crucial drugs are typically manufactured overseas, often in India or China, leaving the U.S. supply chain exposed during events that lead to drug shortages.
If Mr. Gates has a stake in the success of the Trump presidency, whereas a Democratic replacement would wipe out this investment, is that likely to impact his behaviour in word and deed?
Pity the poor rich polygamist who must choose between staying safely indoors with the one who is clearly his favourite wife and children, or chancing the gods of the copybook headings by venturing out to divide his time between the ladies’ separate but equal households.
[AlAhram] Abu Othman, like thousands of Kuwaiti men, has struggled to split his time between two wives living in separate homes amid the Gulf state's strict lockdown to combat the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... "My life has become so complicated," the 45-year-old, who has 10 children between the two women, told AFP.
It always was this complicated, habibi. You just were too busy to notice.
"I am constantly on the move between them," he said, stressing that he could never choose one wife over the other.
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Oh no, g(r)omgoru. The divorced dad only need amuse his children for a bit. In this case he also has a needy wife who will not be placated with the adult equivalent of a big lollipop and a ride on the rollercoaster instead of proper husbandly appreciation. And both need to be taken care of within 60 minutes...
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Discussion on the Transterrestrial Musing blog at Loverro.
The comments were split between (1) The Wrath of Boeing, and/or (2) Loverro had some private business dealings (stock transactions, maybe) that looked a little too cute...
I would think (2) in the current political climate.
[Bloomberg] Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus after recovering aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, and could have the antibodies that prevent them from falling sick again.
Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 Covid-19 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved, as indicated by a previous negative test result. The so-called re-positive patients weren’t found to have spread any lingering infection, and virus samples collected from them couldn’t be grown in culture, indicating the patients were shedding non-infectious or dead virus particles.
The findings, reported late Monday, are a positive sign for regions looking to open up as more patients recover from the pandemic that has sickened at least 4.8 million people. The emerging evidence from South Korea suggests those who have recovered from Covid-19 present no risk of spreading the coronavirus when physical distancing measures are relaxed.
The results mean health authorities in South Korea will no longer consider people infectious after recovering from the illness. Research last month showed that so-called PCR tests for the coronavirus’s nucleic acid can’t distinguish between dead and viable virus particles, potentially giving the wrong impression that someone who tests positive for the virus remains infectious.
The research may also aid in the debate over antibody tests, which look for markers in the blood that indicate exposure to the novel coronavirus. Experts believe antibodies probably convey some level of protection against the virus, but they don’t have any solid proof yet. Nor do they know how long any immunity may last.
A recent study in Singapore showed that recovered patients from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, are found to have “significant levels of neutralizing antibodies” nine to 17 years after initial infection, according to researchers including Danielle E. Anderson of Duke-NUS Medical School.
Other scientists have found higher levels of IgM, an antibody that appears in response to exposure to an antigen, in children, according to an article published on medRxiv. That suggests younger populations have the potential to produce a more potent defense against Covid-19. The study has not been certified by peer review.
REVISED PROTOCOLS
As a result of the findings in the South Korea study, authorities said that under revised protocols, people should no longer be required to test negative for the virus before returning to work or school after they have recovered from their illness and completed their period of isolation.
“Under the new protocols, no additional tests are required for cases that have been discharged from isolation,” the Korean CDC said in a report. The agency said it will now refer to “re-positive” cases as “PCR re-detected after discharge from isolation.”
Some coronavirus patients have tested positive again for the virus up to 82 days after becoming infected. Almost all of the cases for which blood tests were taken had antibodies against the virus.
[Politico] The head of NASA’s human spaceflight office has resigned just one week before the agency is expected to launch astronauts from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a congressional notification obtained by POLITICO.
Douglas Loverro has served as the associate administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate for just seven months. He took over the job in October after his predecessor, William Gerstenmaier, was demoted and eventually left the agency.
"Doug hit the ground running this year and has made significant progress in his time at NASA," the note from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. "His leadership of HEO has moved us closer to accomplishing our goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024. Doug has dedicated more than four decades of his life in service to our country, and I want to thank him for his service and contributions to the agency."
While the agency officially announced Loverro's departure as a resignation, two officials with knowlege told POLITICO that he was pushed out over disagreements with Bridenstine.
Ken Bowersox, the current deputy associate administrator in the human spaceflight office, will serve as the acting administrator.
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^ I have a cousin who lives in Thousand Oaks. They had some serious fires there like five or so years ago. I said - 'What are they calling it now, Hundred Oaks?' She didn't think it was very funny.
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The dams obviously failed due to COVID-19 in the water so any resulting deaths will be attributed to COVID-19. Maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas....
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Gee, what a coincidence, now the dams are going bad...right in the middle of a so-called health crisis. Of course, like much of the infrastructure in the US, it's probably gone to Hades.
BTW, doesn't the President want to do a little something with infrastructure projects?
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Whitless was just on the ABC News saying, "We're investigating all out legal options'. So, the State will sue the pants off somebody! That'll make it right!
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Legal? Options?
Wut, the water violating stay-in-reservoir executive orders?
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.
[MAIL] Newly released bodycam footage shows the December 2017 arrest of Ahmaud Arbery for shoplifting a TV from a Georgia Walmart. 
Police believe Ellison at some point killed the rooster before turning on Foutch and gouging out his eyes.
[BREITBART] MEDIA RELEASE UPDATE: Additional Charges In Death Investigation At Daybreak
[(Red)StarTribune] Whatever is being lost by players in technique and nuance might be gained in the decompression of mind and body from the grind of a long year.
[Wash Examiner] Belgian intelligence confirmed it investigated whether China was using the Maltese Embassy in Brussels as a spy post.
'We Can't Rely on Foreign Sources'
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
