Ford Motor Co. plans to reveal the all-new Ford Bronco on July 9, which falls on the birthday of Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson.
Simpson, a former football star, is known internationally for being in a white Ford Bronco that aired on live TV leading a massive police chase on June 17, 1994, after being charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
"I gotta believe this is a mistake. Didn't anybody look at the calendar?" said John McElroy, veteran industry observer and Autoline.tv host. "Ford Motor Co. does not want to correlate the launch of such an iconic and important vehicle with a police chase with a notorious" person.
"Everybody in the world knew that O.J. was fleeing in a white Ford Bronco."
The chase, a 60-mile slow-speed pursuit, was carried live on national TV. It was watched by 95 million people, according to KNSD-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Diego
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Grammy winner Ariana Grande has registered a new song titled My Hair on an online music database for copyright reasons, according to The Sun's Bizarre column. The Florida-born R&B belter - turning 27 next week - co-wrote the track with Victoria Monet, Tayla Par, and Tommy Brown, all of whom worked on her fifth studio album Thank U, Next.
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[Bloomberg] India’s Dharavi, the continent’s most crowded slum, has gone from 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... hotspot to potential success story, offering a model for developing nations struggling to contain the pandemic.
Authorities have knocked on 47,500 doors since April to measure temperatures and oxygen levels, screened almost 700,000 people in the slum cluster, and set up fever clinics, official data show. Recognizing the need to isolate residents in the tenement where as many as eighty share a toilet, those with symptoms were shifted to nearby schools and sports clubs converted into quarantine centers.
Fresh daily infections are now down to a third compared with early May, half the sick are recovering, and the number of deaths plummeted this month.
The numbers are in stark contrast to the rest of India, whose daily tally of new infected cases has quadrupled since early May. Located near Mumbai’s financial district, Dharavi’s dogged approach to "chase the virus" borrows ideas from clusters such as those in China’s Wuhan or South Korea, and could be a template for emerging markets across the world, from the favelas of Brazil to shanty towns in South Africa.
"It was next to impossible to follow social distancing," said Kiran Dighavkar, assistant commissioner at Mumbai’s municipality, who is in charge of leading the fight in Dharavi. "The only option then was to chase the virus rather than wait for the cases to come. To work proactively, rather than reactively."
Officials were initially worried as positive diagnoses rose, but it meant these people could be quarantined before their symptoms worsened. Dighavkar and his team made it clear that screenings and testing would continue even as the count increased -- their objective was to keep deaths limited.
Testing by the municipality and private clinics has covered the equivalent of about 1.4% of Dharavi’s population compared with 1.2% for Mumbai, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data from various government departments. About 850,000 people reside in the roughly 2.5 square kilometers that comprise Dharavi, allowing for more focused screenings than in the broader city sprawl that’s home to 20 million.
"We were able to isolate people at early stages," Dighavkar said. "Unlike in the rest of Mumbai, where most patients are reaching hospitals at a very late stage."
The strategy has helped reduce mortality and improve recovery. About 50% of Dharavi residents who tested positive eventually recovered, better than Mumbai’s 46% rate. Of the 77 Dharavi Covid-19 deaths, only six have been in June. Fresh infections are down to an average 20 a day from 60 in early May. India, meanwhile, added almost 12,000 cases on June 14.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture Barbara Oteng-Gyasi invited blacks in the United States to "re-settle in Ghana if they feel unwanted" during a ceremony commemorating the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
According to the Independent Ghana news outlet, Oteng-Gyasi made the offer during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor Floyd.
"Racism in America continues to be a deadly pandemic, for which for more than 400 years now, our brothers and sisters in the United States of America have yearned for a cure," she reportedly said.
"We continue to open our arms and invite all our brothers and sisters home. Ghana is your home. Africa is your home. We have our arms wide open ready to welcome you home," she added, according to the report.
"Please take advantage, come home build a life in Ghana, you do not have to stay where you are not wanted forever, you have a choice and Africa is waiting for you," she said.
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much easier to sit on the plantation and complain
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[AlAhram] A Russian court found former U.S. marine Paul Whelan
...worked as security for a Michigan auto parts company until his fateful trip to Moscow. Previously the Marine Corps sent him away with a bad conduct discharge in 2008 for larceny from the USMC. It has been suggested he is but a simple con man, which would explain why the Russian prosecutor thinks he is a spy...
guilty of spying for the United States on Monday and sentenced him to 16 years in jail, a move the U.S. ambassador to Moscow called an egregious violation of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... that would harm ties.
Whelan, who holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish passports, was detained by agents from Russia’s Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... in a Moscow hotel room on Dec. 28, 2018.
Russia says Whelan, 50, was caught red-handed with a computer flash drive containing classified information. Whelan, who pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." , said he was set up in a sting and had thought the drive, given to him by a Russian acquaintance, contained holiday photos.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan told news hounds after the verdict that no evidence had been produced to prove Whelan's guilt and demanded he be released immediately.
"His conviction is a mockery of justice," said Sullivan.
He said the ruling would not have "a good influence" on already poor ties between Moscow and Washington, but that dialogue would continue.
Vladimir Zherebenkov, Whelan's lawyer, said his client had been told when detained that he would be part of a prisoner swap with a Russian national held in the United States.
When asked about such an idea, the Russian Foreign Ministry told the RIA news agency it had proposed prisoner swaps to the United States many times but gave no further details.
Moscow has repeatedly called on Washington to secure the release of two Russian nationals - convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, a pilot serving 20 years in the United States for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the country.
Zherebenkov said Whelan had no objection to the idea of formally asking Russia to pardon him, something that if granted could secure his release.
Whelan will serve his sentence in a maximum security prison, Moscow's city court said. His trial was closed because authorities said it involved the discussion of state secrets.
State prosecutors, who accused Whelan of having at least the rank of a U.S. military intelligence colonel, had asked the court to sentence Whelan to 18 years in a maximum security prison.
[BBC] North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office with the South near the North's border town of Kaesong.
The move comes just hours after the North renewed threats of military action at the Korean border.
The site was opened in 2018 to help the Koreas - officially in a state of war - to communicate. It had been empty since January due to Covid-19 restrictions.
In a statement, South Korea warned it would "respond strongly" if the North "continues to worsen the situation".
The destruction of the office, it said, "abandons the hopes of everyone who wanted the development of inter-Korean relations and peace settlement in the Korean Peninsula".
"The government makes it clear that all responsibility of this situation lies in the North."
Tensions between North and South Korea have been escalating for weeks, prompted by defector groups in the South sending propaganda across the border.
[Jpost] One Indian officer and two soldiers were killed in a standoff with China troops in the Galwan Valley along the China-India border on Monday night, according to The Times of India.
Senior military officials are meeting at the site to attempt to defuse the situation. China claims that Indian soldiers crossed the border and attacked Chinese troops, according to AFP.
Would this be the new border Chinese soldiers created by moving the markers deeper into Indian territory, or the original border that is de facto some distance back in China now?
The two sides have been locked in a standoff in the western Himalayas for weeks.
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Daily mail article saying Twenty Indian soldiers are killed and 43 Chinese troops are injured or dead after brutal hand-to-hand fighting with stones and batons broke out at border point in Kashmir.
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The Hindustan Times has an article datelined June 17th on the subject. I’ll work that up for the midnight rollover — to be posted under India/Pakistan, so look for it there. This nonsense has been going on for a while.
[American Military News] This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission.
A Chinese ship rammed a Vietnamese fishing boat operating in the Paracel Islands, Vietnamese state media reported Friday, in what may be the first case of China enforcing its unilateral fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea against vessels of another nation.
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported that Wednesday's incident happened near Lincoln Island, a rock in the Paracels that is occupied by China but claimed by both China and Vietnam.
The boat's captain told Vietnamese authorities in central Quang Ngai province that a Chinese ship numbered 4006 chased and then rammed his boat, forcing all of its 16 crew to jump overboard.
After the Chinese took some crew back to pump water out of their listing boat, the Chinese seized one ton of fish, a global positioning system, and other equipment worth in total 500 million Vietnamese dong ($21,000), Tuoi Tre reported.
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Ancient maps located in Vietnam's Quang Tri proince and in the ancient citadel at Hue, noted that the Paracel Islands were a Vietnamese possession. The Islands themselves served as a French foreign legion outpost during the French occupation. The islands were visited quarterly by South Vietnamese troops until they were invaded and occupied by Chinese troops. Why Vietnam has not taken its case to the ICJ is a mystery. Granted the Court isn't worth much, but Vietnam has done little to publicize its historic claim to the Paracels.
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She's really trying to aggress her way to legitimacy, hmm?
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Just thinking out loud...
I wonder if she had Pudge whacked?
Snuggling up to the US has to make the Generals (and China nervous). There is a rumor on the net that Dennis Rodman will be returning to Earth from his homeworld. I can totally see Kim, Dennis and Donald all yucking it up together in a suite at Mar-a-Lago, much to the enragement of the ChiComs.
If anybody wanted to move on Pudge, now is time since you can blame it on the virus. Besides, I bet this ain't the first hole she dug.
She's so sweet, svelte...a media darling
[Breitbart] North Korea’s communist regime spent much of the weekend publishing vitriol against the South in its state media arms, declaring on Monday that unspecified "retaliatory measures" were on the way for Seoul. The measures will be "entrusted to our army," Pyongyang asserted.
Last week, the regime stopped using a direct phone line established between it and the government of South Korea in 2018, insisting that diplomacy with South Korea was untenable unless South Koreans stopped sending humanitarian aid and leaflets with news about the outside world into the country.
[NYPOST] French President Emmanuel Macron rejected racism in a speech to the nation but insisted he will not allow history to be rewritten and statues of La Belle France’s colonial leaders removed as protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police spread around the world.
"I will be very clear tonight, compatriots: The Republic won’t erase any name from its history. It will forget none of its artworks, it won’t take down statues," Macron said during a televised speech Sunday — the first time he had addressed Floyd’s death.
Protests in La Belle France have focused on the country’s role in colonizing Africa.
Macron vowed to be "uncompromising in the face of racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination."
The French president acknowledged that a person’s "address, name, color of skin" can bear on their chances at succeeding in French society and urged a struggle to ensure that everyone can "find their place" despite ethnic origin or religion.
Macron also said everyone in the country "should look at all of our history together," including its history with Africa, with an aim to find the "truth" instead of "denying who we are."
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[JPost] - The Knesset approved in second and third reading on Tuesday night the novel coronavirus-era emergency powers bill, the emergency powers will come into effect on Wednesday at 6 a.m.
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Is it because of relaxed adherence to isolation rules? To natural cycle of virus? To low development of 'herd immunity' in the first wave? There is so MUCH data out there but the data quality is so poor - we could probably be really understanding this beast if data were reported honestly.
[National Review/Bongino Report] Researchers at the University of Oxford announced Tuesday that they had found the first proven life-saving coronavirus treatment, after a clinical trial of dexamethasone, a low-cost steroid treatment, cut the risk of death by one-third for coronavirus patients on ventilators and one-fifth for those on oxygen. Has Trump noticed yet? Maybe it's OK? "This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality, and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough," Dr. Peter Horby, chief investigator on the study, said in a statement. Head researcher Dr. Martin Landray added that the drug's low cost would lead to an even greater impact.
"There is a clear, clear benefit. The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient. So essentially it costs £35 to save a life. This is a drug that is globally available," he said, emphasizing that for every eight patients on ventilators that are treated with the drug, one life could be saved. Well, maybe, but it's not a vaccine!
The only other drug that has shown promise in a clinical setting for treating coronavirus is remdesivir, an experimental antiviral treatment that has shown promise in treating patients early in the infection's onset.
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Once Trump mentions dexamethasone (approved for medical use in 1961) science will conclude that it will significantly increase mortality.
[RedState] Last week, Lancet had to retract the most highly-touted hydroxychloroquine study to date, which was used as evidence for entire countries to change their stance on the drug. The study, which was obviously flawed on its face (I commented well before it was exposed that the groupings made no sense), turned out to be produced by a shell company, with unverified data gathered by non-scientists.
Whether giving people 3x the usual dosage of most other studies played a part is now a very real question.
But when that study flopped, another study was immediately latched onto. It’s called the RECOVERY trials and was done in the UK. Supposedly, this study was the counter to the fake study published by Lancet. It was the proof that "well yeah, that other study was bad, but this one got the same results." Well, not so much.
Edmund Fordham wrote a piece on what is an emerging controversy, in which it appears the lead of the RECOVERY trial took hydroxychloroquine for another drug, resulting in a high death rate.
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The Edmund Fordham piece linked in the article is absolutely scathing about the hydroxychloroquine arm of the RECOVERY study discussed in this article and the one above, and well worth reading in full.
[AlAhram] The United States on Monday withdrew emergency use authorizations for two antimalarial drugs favored by President Donald Trump to treat the new coronavirus, effectively shutting the door on the politically charged treatments.
Not really, but at least the authorities have registered their severe disapproval.
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) were authorized in March after they were found to inactivate the virus in test tubes, and early small studies appeared to show they worked well in humans, too.
Since that time, however, larger, better-controlled experiments have found that the two medicines are ineffective in treating COVID-19 or in preventing infection among people who have been exposed to the virus.
[DISRN] The incident occurred on Third Avenue near East 16th Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood at about 3:30 p.m. on Friday, the New York Post reports.
The attacker walked away nonchalantly after knocking the elderly woman down, at one point staring back at her as he continued walking.
The young attacker is black and the elderly victim is white. She is reported to be injured but expected to recover. It is not clear at this time what the motive was for the attack.
[NYPost] Police have collared the heartless cur who knocked an elderly woman to the ground in a random attack.
Video footage was released of the attack Monday night, and by Tuesday morning, police had 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage in custody on a charge of assault, cops said.
Police sources said cops recognized the attacker, who has had dozens of run-ins with law enforcement.
I wonder if he is out because he was released for fear of COVID, or if he just kept getting set free instead of held on bail.
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A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an apparently random attack on a 92-year-old woman in Manhattan four days ago, authorities say.
The suspect, Rashid Brimmage of the Bronx, was charged with assault shortly after he was taken into custody Tuesday. Police believe he is the person seen on disturbing video shoving the 92-year-old woman named Geraldine to the ground on Third Avenue between 15th and 16th streets on Friday afternoon.
The woman hit her head on a fire hydrant as she was pushed. Jarring surveillance footage captured the attack. It shows the woman walking along the street. A man is seen approaching her from the opposite direction.
A senior law enforcement official tells News 4 Brimmage is a recidivist with 100 prior arrests who has gotten a desk appearance ticket for his most recent ones because of bail reform. He is an NYPD co-response client, which means police have responded with social workers when dealing with him. Brimmage has an extensive history of being emotionally disturbed in police encounters as well.
He’s been arrested three times since February for alleged assaults. On March 9, he allegedly punched a 29-year-old man in an unprovoked attack at a pizza shop in Manhattan. A few weeks before that, Brimmage allegedly punched a 39-year-old female at a Dunkin’ Donuts in the Bronx. On Feb. 4 he allegedly punched a 39-year-old man in the face at that same Dunkin' Donuts. In the latter two cases, he received desk appearance tickets.
Brimmage is currently a suspect in a grand larceny that happened on Feb.19 at the 116th St. train station in which a woman had $120 stolen from her purse, the senior law enforcement official said. He's also a transit sex crime recidivist.
Police fear Brimmage will receive yet another desk appearance ticket for the latest incident, freeing him to attack at random again, the senior official said.
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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.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Grammy winner Ariana Grande has registered a new song titled My Hair on an online music database for copyright reasons, according to The Sun's Bizarre column. The Florida-born R&B belter - turning 27 next week - co-wrote the track with Victoria Monet, Tayla Par, and Tommy Brown, all of whom worked on her fifth studio album Thank U, Next.
...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...
[BIZPACREVIEW] Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture Barbara Oteng-Gyasi invited blacks in the United States to "re-settle in Ghana if they feel unwanted" during a ceremony commemorating the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
[BBC] North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office with the South near the North's border town of Kaesong.
[NYPOST] French President Emmanuel Macron rejected racism in a speech to the nation but insisted he will not allow history to be rewritten and statues of 
"This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality, and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough," Dr. Peter Horby, chief investigator on the study, said in a statement. Head researcher Dr. Martin Landray added that the drug's low cost would lead to an even greater impact.
