[Washington Examiner] A man who led Black Lives Matter protests in New Hampshire last month has been indicted on child pornography charges, according to a new report.
Chris DeVries, 37, of Jackson, New Hampshire, led a protest on June 21 dubbed "Skate Away the Hate," which encouraged participants to ride skateboards down a local highway to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
"If we divest funds from police and prison systems, we all benefit," DeVries said during the event, according to the Conway Daily Sun. "Those funds can go to local communities and social services."
DeVries has been charged with six counts of possessing child sexual abuse images, one count of possession of psilocybin mushrooms, and one of falsifying physical evidence, local police said. The child pornography charges carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a $4,000 fine. The drug offenses are punishable by up to seven years in prison
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former Miss Kentucky has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student when she was working as a school teacher.
Ramsey BethAnn Bearse, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct in December 2019 and was sentenced Tuesday.
Authorities said the former West Virginia middle school educator admitted to exchanging photos with the student on Snapchat between August and October 2018. A parent of the male student reported finding the images on the teen's phone, news outlets said.
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none of my high school teachers was particularly hot as near as I remember
it wasn't until I saw teaching assistants in college before I was smitten
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All my grammar, junior and high school teachers had white or blue hair, averaged about 100 years old (it seemed at the time) but were real teachers.
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lord garth, the typing teacher in 10th grade was quite hot. It was a standing joke about the number of fathers that showed up for parent teacher night in her class.
My senior English teacher was quite attractive too.
Of course this was more than 50 years ago so my memory might be playing tricks.
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Couldn't say offhand what I was up to in a given month twenty years later, but I recall precisely certain colors of polyester slacks that contained a certain English teacher. Wasn't even in her class... must've been substituting or something.
[SEATTLETIMES] Police detectives on Thursday morning fatally shot a man who they believe stabbed a 62-year-old man and a dog and tried to stab another person walking nearby, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office, which provides police services for the city of Shoreline. Sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Ryan Abbott said the victim was stabbed at least twice. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he is at death's door but his injuries aren’t life-threatening, said hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg.
The dog, a German shepherd, was receiving care at an animal hospital, where he was reported to be stable and alert, Abbott said.
Abbott said the man was walking his dog on North 175th Street near Shorewood High School when he noticed he was being followed by a man he had never seen before.
The suspect then stabbed the man in the back and, as the victim turned, swiped at him again before stabbing the dog and running away, Abbott said.
The victim ran into his house, where he called for help around 6 a.m., Abbott said.
A second 911 call came in at 6:22 a.m. from a man on North 179th Street who said he had just fought off a stabbing attempt by someone wearing the same clothing as the suspect was wearing, Abbott said.
In the minutes that followed, several other residents called 911 and reported seeing the suspect walking in the area, Abbott said. A K-9 team was dispatched to search for him.
Two detectives confronted the suspect, believed to be in his 20s, at 6:37 a.m. in the driveway of the Linden Highlands apartment complex, Abbott said. They saw he had a knife and ordered him to drop it, Abbott said.
The detectives broadcast that shots had been fired at 6:38 a.m. and immediately started CPR, Abbott said. Shoreline Fire medics arrived and also tried to save the suspect, but he died at the scene.
[NYPOST] Cops have taken into custody one person of interest in the shooting death of 1-year-old Davell Gardner in Brooklyn, a high-ranking police source said Thursday.
Deshawn Austin was picked up on Ralph Avenue near East 76th Street around 8:30 a.m. by the Regional Fugitive Task Force, the source said.
The alleged Hoolie Blood gang member is accused of fatally shooting a member of another gang on Nostrand Avenue near Herkimer Street back in March, according to the source.
He has not been charged in connection to little Davell’s death, but investigators believe he is linked to that crime as well as three non-fatal shootings, the source said.
He is being questioned at the 79th Precinct, sources said.
Davell died when two gunmen opened fire on a Bedford-Stuyvesant barbecue he was at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
The fugitive task force is a team made up jointly of the NYPD and US Marshals Service.
Officials at the federal agency did not immediately respond to a request for information Thursday.
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10 News:
MT. EDEN, the Bronx — Police arrested three people Thursday in connection with the shooting death of a dad gunned down as he crossed a Bronx street with his daughter.
Davon Delks, 21, Laquan Heyward, 25 and Devon Vines, 27, were all arrested on murder charges.
Anthony Robinson, 29, was holding his 6-year-old daughter's hand when he was fatally shot on July 6. Video showed Robinson, hand in hand with his 6-year-old daughter, look to his left at a Bronx intersection and cross when a car paused to let them go. The driver then pulled up and someone in the vehicle opened fire, striking Robinson repeatedly.
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if Black Lives Really Mattered, the mob would be howling for his blood.
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[FoxNews] The military failed him by not looking,' his mother said.
A former Fort Hood soldier declared a deserter until his remains were found near a Texas Army base will be reinstated to active duty, clearing the way for a burial with full military honors, officials said Wednesday.
Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales, 24, a native of Sapulpa, Okla., was last seen driving his personal vehicle outside Fort Hood in Killeen on the night of Aug. 19. His last known contact was the following day. His unit placed him on AWOL status, then declared him a deserter a month later.
He was just days away from being released from the Army when he disappeared.
His mother, Kimberley Wedel, said her son was reinstated this week after the Killeen Police Department, which serves the town adjacent to Fort Hood, found new evidence suggesting her son died before he was “dropped from rolls,” or deemed a deserter, on Sept. 21, 2019, Fox 7 Austin reported.
“The military failed him by not looking,” said Wedel in a separate interview with The Washington Post. “They just assumed the worst and let it go.”
“This is just a relief that he’s not going to be remembered as a deserter. That he gets what he deserves and what he earned,” she also told Fox 7. “His grandfather retired as a major in the military and this has really been hard on him, that the world would believe that his grandson's a deserter. None of [my children] were brought up to ever just run away from problems."
Nine months passed before the Army offered a reward – $15,000 – for information about Wedel-Morales’ disappearance. It was announced a day after Kimberly Wedel sent an email to Fort Hood demanding to know why it never offered one for her son, as they had in the case of Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was reported missing from the base in April.
The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command increased the reward for information on Wedel-Morales to $25,000 on June 15. His skeletal remains were found four days later in a field in Killeen. Guillén’s body was found nearby about a week later, on June 30. Military officials said there is no evidence suggesting the cases were connected.
“They didn’t do any real searching until they got a lead,” Nick Wedel, Wedel-Morales’ younger brother, told the Post. “If an M16 goes missing, they shut down an entire unit to find it. Why don’t they do that for people?”
Wedel-Morales’ family said his remains will be returned to Oklahoma and laid to rest at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, where his great-uncle is buried and his grandfather plans to be interred.
The investigation into his death is ongoing.
Wedel-Morales “was out processing from the Army and was scheduled to be discharged within a couple of days when he disappeared,” III Corps and Ford Hood said in a Facebook update on June 21.
His 2018 Black KIA Rio – the same car he was last seen driving near Fort Hood in August – was recovered by authorities in January. His family saw on Carfax that someone in the Dallas-area tried to take it in for an inspection, Fox 7 Austin reported.
The Army has since said "foul play is suspected."
Wedel said she was told her son may have been shot in the face before he died but the medical examiner has not declared a cause of death, according to the Post.
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Yeah don't take that thing on the road, buddy. If you don't know what you've got, and probably don't know about the dedicated Tesla power stations, you ought not to be driving anywhere too far.
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'Trinity' was the code name for the secret operation that tested the nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert before it was dropped on Japan in 1945
J Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project and physicist who designed the bomb was not confident the test would work
Engineers and scientists involved in the project waged bets on whether the blast would incinerate the entire planet or be a complete dud
Army devised contingency plans for the worse case scenario that involved death, damage to surrounding communities and evacuation of nearby residents
The detonation was four times larger than the expected maximum and was visible as far away as Amarillo, Texas, 280 miles away
Army lied to the public, issuing a fake cover story that the blast was the result of an accidental magazine explosion on base
Ash rained on the surrounding landscape for days afterward
Upon its staggering success Oppenheimer said: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds;' the test director said: 'Now we are all sons of b***ches'
The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, leading to Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of WWII
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Grom, the A-Bomb was always for Japan.
What do you think was for Europe if the War there wasn't over by 1946?
I will give you a hint. It starts with "A" to but it's not atomic.
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Read somewhere that Stalin thought Truman dropped the bomb on Japan as a warning to keep the Red Army out of Western Europe.
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I was born 14 years to the day after the second A-bomb was dropped.
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Dad always appreciated the bomb. He was in the 10th. They were sent home from Italy, told to get their affairs in order and if they were Catholic to get Last Rites administered.
The bomb ended the war.
In 1998 they finally declassified the 10th's plan. They were to be the expendable 3rd wave at 8 am on the docks at Yokohama.
[Twitter] "Just dealt with the cemetery in NJ to do the gravestone for my uncle. The woman told us she had so many family members who were shocked to find covid on death certificate of those who clearly died from Alzhiemers or other things. Shocking conversation."
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No one 'wears out' anymore. They've got to tag something on it. Death is one big pie chart. Move the lines closer on one causality only expands the area of another. There's money in that.
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I'm pretty sure my Mother's death certificate said, "Alzheimer's". I don't know if kidney failure or liver failure was the last straw, but Alzheimer's is what killed her.
People with severe Alzheimer’s cannot communicate and are completely dependent on others for their care. Near the end, the person may be in bed most or all of the time as the body shuts down.NIA/NIH
So if someone is shutting down with a few days to live and "tests" positive for COVID, is the cause of death COVID, or the disease they struggled with for ten years? Eight years? Two years might be harder. So many factors, including test accuracy.
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On the other hand, even if people are fudging the numbers, it's not enough to make a difference. The CDC reported 16,000 deaths from COVID in mid-April and less than 4,000 in mid-June. CDC
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HT Clarice Feldman: @EmeraldRobinson
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BREAKING: Sources inside Trump Administration confirm to me that CDC has been misreporting the data for coronavirus to inflate the numbers.
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Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into England’s coronavirus death toll, having only just realised that anyone who has ever tested positive counts in Covid statistics, regardless of the cause of their death.
In contrast to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where daily deaths are often zero, daily Covid deaths in England remain high, and are falling slowly. Yesterday 66 were recorded.
Now, statisticians have analysed Public Health England (PHE)’s methodology and found that at least some of this is because of a counting method that means that even if someone is run over and killed, if they previously tested positive for Covid they would add to the statistics.
“No one with Covid in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness,”
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Considering the fact there is no single national much less global standard for death BY the Wuhan virus there must be discrepancies and by definition some must be extreme. That's just what happens when the standard is 'use your best judgement'.
While it is by no means anything more than an anecdote at this point, I personally had an elder relative whose death was attributed to the Wuhan virus. He had lived in terribly reduced circumstances for some years and refused all medical attention, preferring to self medicate.
When he was literally on his last legs my cousin took him to an ER only to discover he had stage 4 cancer essentially throughout his body. The ER though he was homeless and said they didn't see people that far gone in modern times.
He developed some sort of respiratory issue in that last week and that was all it took. He lived for 6 days after being admitted. My cousin, upon seeing the cause of death asked point blank if he had been tested for the virus and was told 'there was no need'. The poor soul died of cancer, whether the liver, lung, prostate, or skull I do not know but I do know he died of cancer. An unimaginable end to an equally unimaginable life, rest in peace Christo.
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My mother died of 'Alzheimers' at 97.
My sister quit feeding her 3 days before.
When I asked what she really died of, the Mort said, "Your guess is as good as mine. She was cremated."
This shouldn't be a surprise. DSHS had changed their definition of a reportable case to include probables and then stopped including those after the information was exposed. The guidance came from the CDC. Information was presented to the Collin County Commissioners Court in May.
Meanwhile, the Texas Department of State Health Services removed 3,484 previously reported probable cases from statewide and Bexar County case totals, an agency spokesman said Wednesday.
The San Antonio health department began separating confirmed and probable cases this week, Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the state health agency, told the American-Statesman.
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But the paper also indicates the Rio Grande Valley (Mexico border) is a hot spot. Responding to surging hospitalizations in the Rio Grande Valley, Abbott announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Defense will send a medical task force and additional resources to hospitals in the area.
Antigen tests are FDA-approved rapid detection tests for the coronavirus that can detect the virus and provide results within minutes of administration. They are not the same as antibody tests, which are used to determine whether an individual was previously infected with the coronavirus.
Currently, Texas reports on all antibody testing and molecular coronavirus tests, but does not include results from antigen tests in its totals.
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Frank G., I mean no harm. I download the images to my computer and then upload them here, and I am not aware of their size. I will try and do better in the future!
Via InstaPundit
Impoverished Christians living in China who are receiving aid from the state have been ordered to renounce their faith or have their welfare benefits revoked, according to reports from Bitter Winter, a non-profit organization dedicated to religious and human rights in China.
During a government meeting in the city of Linfen near the northern province of Shanxi, officials from all villages under the city's jurisdiction were instructed to remove crosses, religious symbols, and images from the homes of Christians who receive welfare payments and replace them with images of Chairman Mao Zedong and President Xi Jinping.
For those Christians who refused to comply, the officials were told to withdraw their welfare benefits.
A member of a Three-Self Church located in one of the villages said that officials destroyed all religious symbols pertaining to Christianity within his home and posted a picture of Mao.
An official from a village administered by a city in the eastern province of Shandong invaded a home and posted portraits of Mao and Xi saying, "These are the greatest gods. If you want to worship somebody, they are the ones."
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[NYPost] Prosecutors in Seoul have launched an investigation into Kim Jong Un’s psychopath sister over Pyongyang’s move to blow up a liaison office last month, officials said Thursday.
Seoul Central District prosecutors received a criminal complaint against Kim Yo Jong from a Seoul-based lawyer and started the probe, a spokewoman told Agence France-Presse.
The news will likely infuriate North Korea, which has repeatedly condemned the South in recent months, including directing personal insults at President Moon Jae-in.
Pyongyang blew up a joint liasion office on its side of the border last month shortly after Kim Yo Jong — one of her brother’s closest advisers — warned that the "useless" property would soon be "completely collapsed."
Demolition of the office was ordered by Kim Jong Un, who was reportedly furious over the "dirty, insulting" depictions of his wife in an anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaign initiated by defectors in South Korea.
Lee Kyung-jae, the lawyer who filed the complaint, said the liaison office was South Korean property because it was renovated using the South’s government funds — despite being located in North Korea.
Kim "used explosives to destroy" the South’s "quasi-diplomatic mission building that served the public interest," the complaint said.
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[TechCrunch] In recent decades, Hong Kong has been considered a haven for data centers given its strategic location in Asia, a legal system trusted by international businesses, and reliable internet connectivity. Many virtual private network (VPN) operators keep servers in the city, serving mainland users who want to conceal their internet activity or access websites blocked by the Chinese authority.
But some VPN providers are reevaluating the risks of keeping their servers in Hong Kong upon the enactment of the national security law, which critics warn could compromise user privacy and have a chilling effect on free speech. Under the new legal framework, internet service providers will be required to turn over user data to the authorities.
VPN services are gaining ground globally as they claim to provide better privacy from users’ internet providers and sites visited, although they could be vulnerable to attacks if not properly secured.
In response to the new security rules, TunnelBear, a Toronto-based VPN service acquired by McAfee in 2018, announced it will remove all of its Hong Kong servers "to ensure the safety" of its users.
Other popular VPN services we contacted said they will keep their servers in Hong Kong for now.
But all the VPN companies we contacted said they are closely monitoring the impact and enforcement bodies of Hong Kong’s new security law and will react accordingly to safeguard user interests.
[ClickOrlando] Coin deposits from institutions, like banks, to the Federal Reserve have declined significantly the past few months.
The U.S. mint said its production of coins has also decreased due to measures put in place to protect its employees from the coronavirus.
With Federal Reserve coin orders starting to increase as regions reopen, the coin inventory is at below normal levels.
Officials at the Federal Reserve say they're working to lessen the effects of the shortage to minimize supply constraints and maximize production.
The agency is managing how it distributes the coins it does have and is encouraging institutions to only order enough coins to meet consumer demand.
Federal Reserve officials say they’re confident the coin shortage will be resolved once more of the economy opens and coins go back to being circulated as usual.
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That pesky matter of needing to mint coinage, when you can just go to electronic debit cards or businesses that just round up every purchase. Just another way to begin making theft and bank hacking for the Chinese, Iranians, Russians and other evildoers that much more lucrative. And governments can redirect the costs of a physical monetary system to more useful programs like the Danegeld to our new elite aristocracy, whose grasp of math isn't that good to start with.
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...terrible how the pols can't track literally every dime you have or spend. I'd say penny, but the pols adjusted that with inflation. At least coin has tangible value, paper (and electrons) not so much.
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People aren't out and about with pocket change, or paper money, much now around here (except the older folks like me). They're using the cards instead of the potentially 'dirty' coinage and bills and then wiping them down.
Less coinage being used = PANIC!
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No coins or paper money = easier to track and control you
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/\ Big time! I read recently where they estimate 70% of the Federal Reserve Notes are overseas, mostly $100 bills. The one cool thing about US money is that is never expires whereas in Europe and elsewhere, they change their currency on occasion. And in Europe, there is some concern about the Euro (and their ideas about a digital currency so conveniently discussed during COVID-19 b.s.), so having USD (for now) is a good idea.
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I recently found a bunch of those paper coin rolls. I'm not even sure the local bank would want them since they have those coin counting machines. Even some stores have them.
The banks are low on coinage. After reviewing the little info available, including my WSJ subscription, my conclusion is that people are hoarding cash, and the feds don’t want to publicize it.
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No wonder the gov't is issuing those debit cards for the Economic Impact Payments...no need to cut checks (despite direct deposit) and an easy way to track how money is being spent.
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Corona Virus did not do this. 1 million out of 330 million people, that is less than 1/2 of 1% percent of the US population has been infected, but the brain dead dims shut down the entire US back when much fewer than a million were infected.
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I wonder if we will ever know the true statistics, especially with reports of over- and under-reporting.
Heard one story out of Europe where an elderly person died (from old age). After the autopsy, the family was offered €150 to have COVID-19 be entered onto the death certificate. Family asked, then how about 1500 euros? Crickets.
[DISRN] Nick Cannon on Twatter: "I want to express my gratitude to the Rabbis, community leaders and institutions who reached out to me to help enlighten me, instead of chastising me."
No apologies for what he said about Gentile Whites, though.
[Al Ahram] Pakistain on Thursday validated licenses of 166 pilots working in foreign countries amid a scandal involving "dubious" flying certificates, which caused a global alert.
Pakistain's civil aviation ministry grounded 262 pilots for "dubious" qualifications last month, prompted by a preliminary report into an airliner crash in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in May that found the pilots had failed to follow standard procedures and disregarded alarms.
That crash killed 97 passengers and crew.
The ministry had said earlier that Pakistain has a total of 860 pilots, 107 of whom work for foreign airlines, but updated on Thursday in a statement that it had received requests from 10 countries for validation of 176 pilots.
It said 166 of them have been validated by Pakistain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as "genuine and certified" and the remaining 10 will have their process completed by next week.
The 10 countries where these pilots are employed included United Arab Emirates, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , Malaysia, Vietnam, Bahrain, Æthiopia, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Kuwait, the ministry said. It said the validation had been conveyed to the respective countries.
Out of the 262 grounded pilots, the statement said, the licenses for 28 pilots have been cancelled, and a process of verification for another 76 was underway.
The scandal has prompted the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to suspended two Pak airlines' authorisation to fly to the bloc for six months over safety failure.
Britannia and the United States have also revoked landing rights for Pakistain International Airlines (PIA), and various global safety boards have downgraded the national carrier's rating over aviation safety risks.
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Pakistan on Thursday validated rubber-stamped licenses of 166 pilots working in foreign countries amid a scandal involving "dubious" flying certificates
The reason New York failed to "flatten the curve" and Sweden succeeded probably has little to do with lockdowns...
Coronavirus deaths have slowed to a crawl in Sweden. With the exception of a single death on July 13, no deaths in this nation of 10 million have been reported since July 10.
But the debate over Sweden's approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, which relied on individual responsibility instead of government coercion to maintain social distancing, is far from over.
Last week, The New York Times labeled Sweden's approach to the pandemic a "cautionary tale" for the rest of the world, claiming it "yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage."
To be accurate, Sweden has outperformed many nations around the world with its "lighter touch" approach and was one of the few nations in Europe to see its economy grow in the first quarter of 2020.
Meanwhile, Anders Tegnell, Sweden's top infectious disease expert, continues to defend his nation's approach to the pandemic.
Sweden has become a global lightning rod, but this has less to do with the results of its policies than the nature of its policies.
While Sweden's death toll is indeed substantially higher than neighbors such as Finland, Norway, and Denmark, it's also much lower than several other European neighbors such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain.
Indeed, a simple comparison between Belgium and Sweden‐nations with rather similar populations‐reveals that Belgium suffered far worse than Sweden from the coronavirus.
Comparing the epidemic curve in Belgium (11.5m pop), which locked down early on 17 Mar, and Sweden (10.2m pop), with no lockdown. Chart depicts deaths by date of occurrence, with Sweden per capita adjusted. Total per million: Belgium (844); Sweden (547). pic.twitter.com/W7u5pCQ8MV
— Paul Yowell (@pwyowell) July 11, 2020
The reason Sweden is a "cautionary tale" and Belgium is not is because Belgium followed the script. Early in the pandemic, Belgian officials closed all non-essential business and enforced strict social distancing rules.
[Just the News] A highly anticipated clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine managed in part by the American drug company Moderna has resulted is some adverse effects in more than half of the trial's participants, with one test group reporting "severe" symptoms.
The trial, which is also being sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, administered the vaccine "as a 0.5-ml injection in the deltoid muscle" in two shots spaced about one month apart. Two separate groups received 25-microgram and 100-microgram doses, respectively. A third group with a 250-microgram dose was subsequently added.
The vaccine "induced anti—SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants," the research team reported Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers said that "no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified." Yet a majority of participants still reported at least one side effect.
"Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site," the report states. Fever, joint pain and nausea were also reported.
Side effects grew more common with more (and larger) injections, the scientists write: "Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-μg dose group reported one or more severe adverse events."
Notably, every participant in the two larger-dose groups reported adverse reactions after their second injections. One study participant in the smallest-dose group, meanwhile, was removed due to having developed hives after the first round of injections.
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Maybe not worth while to play with mRNA. Maybe, just maybe, the saving of not developing a bacterial system to produce quantities of antigen is not a good idea?
A very small scale study but the treatment is inexpensive and readily available. Only problem is that many greenies are opposed to any and all radiation since opposition to nuclear power motivates their whole life.
[MedRxIV] Conclusions: In a pilot trial of five oxygen-dependent patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, low-dose whole-lung radiation led to rapid improvement in clinical status, encephalopathy, and radiographic infiltrates without acute toxicity. Low-dose whole-lung radiation is safe, shows early promise of efficacy, and warrants further study in larger prospective trials.
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How is it administered? What isotope is used if any? Or is it some photonic source?
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Take away from Skidmark's link above: The radiation is provided by a large x-ray machine at low dose (to irradiate the entire pair of lungs at once.)
Testing seems to be limited to whether or not the irradiated patent will live for 30 days after the one time x-ray treatment.
The trail is limed to a maximum of 24 patents (16 at first with an additional 8 added later.)
[NYPOST] Photos surfaced on Thursday of the racist slide shown at an internal Red Bull meeting that sparked the firing of three top executives earlier this week. "Racist" in this case meaning "funny." You can't have a senzayuma and still be antiracist.
The slide shows a distorted map from the viewpoint of an ignorant US consumer. "America!!! We’re #1!!!" is emblazoned across the United States, while an arrow pointing to the Caribbean says "cruise ships go here." Canada to the north is labeled "Uninhabited." Mexico and South America are marked "coffee comes from here I think."
Across the Atlantic, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
is labeled "p—ies" and Africa is marked "zoo animals come from here." Farther east, the Middle East is labeled "evil doers" with an arrow pointing to the region saying "bombs go here." Russia is "Communists," while China was labeled "they make our stuff." Japan has an arrow pointing to it, saying: "TVs and cameras." Australia was labeled "kangaroos" and Antartica was "cold." An oblong landmass that could be Greenland or the Arctic Circle is labeled "Santa!" To which I reply "Har har har!"
Employees complained to Red Bull’s human resources about the map, but nothing came of it, according to earlier reports. The leaked slide comes after more than 300 Red Bull staffers signed a June 1 letter to company leaders to protest what they called the brand’s "public silence" regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. COMPANY POLITIX REARS ITS UGLY HEAD...
But two executives blamed internally for the leak of the June 1 letter were let go, the company has confirmed, including Stefan Kozak, chief executive of North America for the Austria-based company, and Amy Taylor, North America president and chief marketing officer. Both had lobbied in recent weeks for more diversity. US Exec: "We Needa Hire More Black People!"
Austrian Exec: "Why?"
US Exec: "Dint you never go to college?"
Florian Klaass, the company’s head of global culture and marketing who was responsible for the offensive slide, was also fired. "Out! Quickly! Before they burn us down!"
All three were told they were losing their jobs on Monday, Business Insider reported. Klaass, who presented the controversial slide at a meeting of Red Bull’s US culture marketing team in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... in February, had been warned not to do it by US colleagues. "You don't know thesde people, Florian! They're vicious!"
"Ach! We survived an Anschluss and a world war! How bad can these guys be?"
In a statement provided to The Post on Thursday, Red Bull suggested that Klaass’ job was eliminated because it is refocusing its culture activities including "discontinuing" many them. "Jawohl! Wir starting mit him!" "We reject racism in every form, we always have, and we always will," the board said in a statement. "Recently, anyway. Eidelweiss, Eidelweiss,
Every morning you greet me
Small and white
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me..."
"Herr Direktor! Look! Torches! Pitchforks! Brownshirts!"
"Wass der Helle?"
"Red Bull has always put people and their dreams and accomplishments at its core and values the contribution of each and every person — no matter who they are. We want everyone who feels this way to be welcome in Red Bull."
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The hilarious part is this map is clearly meant to reinforce the "stupid Americans" trope so beloved of our big city betters.
Didn't save them. The people who take offense at everything took offense at it. These America-hating assholes are now fired and unemployable. Oh, the rich, delicious taste of poetic justice.
[Al Ahram] The fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego Harbor has been extinguished, ending one of the worst infernos to rip through a US warship outside of combat in recent years, the Navy announced Thursday.
``All known fires have been extinguished aboard USS Bonhomme Richard,`` Rear Adm. Philip E. Sobeck said in a statement.
Teams were continuing to check every space to make sure no fire remained and until that process was complete an official investigation into the cause of the blaze that started Sunday would not begin, he said.
``We did not know the origin of the fire. We do not know the extent of the damage. It is too early to make any predictions or promises of what the future of the ship will be,`` said Sobeck, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3.
The news came after the massive ship shifted during the night and listed toward the pier, prompting the Navy to pull off firefighting sailors.
The withdrawal of the roughly 30 sailors on board late Wednesday was out of an abundance of caution and there is no fear of the 840-foot (255-meter) vessel capsizing, said Lt. Cmdr. Patricia Kreuzberger. They were back on the ship within an hour.
The Navy was keeping a close eye on any movements as the ship settles after burning. The fire started in its lower armored vehicle storage area and quickly spread throughout the amphibious assault ship that is akin to a mini-aircraft carrier.
Helicopters dumped more than 1,500 buckets of water on the ship, which had been docked in San Diego harbor undergoing maintenance.
The Navy believes a spark from an unknown source first ignited heavy-duty cardboard boxes, rags and other maintenance supplies that were being stored in the lower vehicle storage area.
The fire traveled upward to the well deck _ a wide hangar type area _ and took off from there, Navy officials have said.
The fire at one point reached up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (538 degrees Celsius), threatening to soften steel.
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The fire started in a trash pile deep in the ship’s vehicle storage area? You lost a billion dollar aircraft carrier and amphibious warfare ship docked in San Diego, where they have trash trucks, to a trash fire? Seriously?
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Washington Examiner] A man who led Black Lives Matter protests in New Hampshire last month has been indicted on child pornography charges, according to a new report.
[AA.TR] Russian Foreign Ministry's comments come hours after British foreign secretary accused Russia of meddling in 2019 elections
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
[NYPOST] Photos surfaced on Thursday of the racist slide shown at an internal Red Bull meeting that sparked the firing of three top executives earlier this week.
