For the first time, prosecutors have unsealed the identities of the men involved in an on-going Portland child sex trafficking case. Malik Owens (left) is charged w/felonies that suggest he was pimping out a child. Read my report co-written w/@MiaCathell: https://t.co/M9n6NzmPR5pic.twitter.com/A2mTR5sfCo
Their shipments won’t be helping clog up our ports for a bit.
[IsraelTimes] Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp., the world’s largest maker of rubber gloves, said Tuesday it expects a two-to-four week delay in deliveries after more than 2,000 workers at its factories were infected by the coronavirus, raising the possibility of supply disruptions during the pandemic.
Top Glove said it has temporarily stopped production at 16 factories in Klang, a town outside Kuala Lumpur, since November 17 to screen workers, with its remaining 12 facilities in the area operating at much reduced capacities.
The government on Monday ordered 28 Top Glove factories in Klang to shut down in stages to allow workers to undergo screening and mandatory quarantine after 2,453 factory workers tested positive for COVID-19.
The health ministry reported 1,511 more cases in the area on Tuesday, but didn’t say how many were factory workers. The cluster contributed to a record daily high of 2,188 cases nationwide, bringing Malaysia’s total cases to 58,847. The cluster in the Klang area is currently the most active in the country with 4,036 cases.
Top Glove says it produces about 90 billion rubber gloves a year, about one-quarter of the world’s supply, and exports to 195 countries, including Israel. It has seen profits soar amid rising demand for its products due to the pandemic.
[IsraelTimes] To fight the worst Desert Locust threat in 70 years, Start-Up Nation delegation flies in with innovative techniques, utilizing drones and nighttime spraying.
Is this strictly a local plague, or is Somalia suffering as well?
Somalia has it's own constant plague...with turbans
[All Africa] The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft.
Justice Kolawole Omotosho gave the sentence yesterday after three years of prosecution of the convicts by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
They include Mohammed Ejaz and Nasser Khan - Paks; Oleksandr Nazarenko and Oleksandr Kashernvi - Ukrainians; Romeo Annang - Ghanaian, Fredrik Omenu - Indonesian; and David Otuohi - Nigerian.
The convicts were arraigned for oil theft alongside four other persons - Victor Mikpayi (Beninois), Francis Ahorlu and Kwesi Attah (Ghanaians), and Victor Azebiri (Nigerian).
But the four others were discharged and acquitted by the court.
They were all docked alongside a company - Asztral Shipping Corporation SA, and a Vessel, MT. TECNE (also known as MT STAR), on four counts of conspiracy, dealing in petroleum products without a licence and tampering with oil pipelines.
When the charges were read to them, all the defendants pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to them.
Their pleas prepared grounds for their trial that lasted three years during which the EFCC presented evidence and witnesses who testified against the defendants in court.
In his judgment yesterday, Justice Omotosho found the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eleventh defendants guilty of all the four charges and sentenced them to seven years imprisonment, with an option of fine of N2 million each.
According to the court, the sentences run concurrently from their date of arraignment.
On the other hand, the first, eighth, ninth, and tenth defendants were discharged and acquitted on the ground that "they were not linked to the commission of the crime".
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[AlAhram] Britannia reduced its foreign aid spending commitment on Wednesday to 0.5% of gross domestic product from 0.7%, causing an immediate outcry from international development organizations and the spiritual head of the Church of England.
The move, announced by finance minister Rishi Sunak as part of an annual review of government spending, will be popular among some voters and media who argue that COVID and the resulting economic crisis mean Britannia should spend less on aid.
"During a domestic fiscal emergency, when we need to prioritise our limited resources on jobs and public services, sticking rigidly to spending 0.7% of our national income on overseas aid is difficult to justify to the British people, especially when we are seeing the highest peacetime levels of borrowing on record," Sunak said in a speech to parliament.
"I have listened with great respect to those who have argued passionately to retain this target. But at a time of unprecedented crisis, government must make tough choices."
The announcement was met with a flood of criticism, including from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican Communion.
"The cut in the aid budget - made worse by no set date for restoration - is shameful and wrong," he said on Twitter, urging politicians to vote against the measure.
Development and environment charities said the move was short-sighted.
"Cutting the aid budget during a global pandemic is like closing fire stations during a heatwave," said Patrick Watt, Director of Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns at Christian Aid. Fisk is dead
Oxfam said the decision would diminish British influence and leadership at a time when both were badly needed.
"Breaking our aid promise risks significantly undermining one of the UK’s genuine claims to global leadership at a time when it will need all the moral authority it can muster as host of next year’s G7 summit and UN Climate Change negotiations," said Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB.
The 0.7% target, originally introduced by Tony Blair when he was prime minister, was a commitment made by the ruling Conservative Party in the run-up to last year's election and repeated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... Prior to Sunak's announcement, former prime ministers Blair and David Cameron ...Empty suit Brit pol, former PM, has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel... had urged the government to retain the target.
Another deserving nomination that will never be considered by the Committee.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize together with the UAE’s de facto ruler Mohammed bin Zayed for their decision to normalize ties.
The nomination is made by British politician David Trimble, who as head of Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party helped broker an end to The Troubles there, netting him and David Hume a Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
Trimble was appointed by Netanyahu a decade ago to sit on the Turkel commission, which examined Israel’s use of force of the Ottoman Turkish Mavi Marmara ship trying to break the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... blockade. The commission found Israel had acted appropriately in fending off attacks on troops during a deadly melee on the ship.
[WashingtonExaminer] A peer-reviewed study measuring the effectiveness of a controversial drug cocktail that includes hydroxychloroquine concluded that the treatment lowered hospitalizations and mortality rates of coronavirus patients. Cavuto: "DON'T take HCQ!!11! You will DIE!"
The study, set to be published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in December, determined that "Low-dose hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc and azithromycin was an effective therapeutic approach against COVID-19."
A total of 141 patients diagnosed with the coronavirus were treated with the three-drug cocktail over a period of five days and compared to a control group of 377 people who tested positive for the virus but were not given the treatment.
The study found that "the odds of hospitalization of treated patients was 84% less than in the untreated patients," and only one patient died from the group being treated with the drugs compared to 13 deaths in the untreated group. Some enterprising lawyers should initiate multi trillion dollar class action lawsuits against Google, Twitter and the networks for actively suppressing HCQ effectiveness for political reasons. From the numbers above, nearly 80% of the deaths and 84% of hospitalizations could have been prevented w/ HCQ treatment. That's 200,000 Americans sacrificed by the left to denigrate President Trump. Spit!
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can't find actual study but, in the past, almost all the studies (both pro HCQ and anti HCQ) have had major flaws e.g. not randomizing by age, symptom severity, etc.
also, this study is not as large as many of the other studies
hope the peer review took care of those issues in this study
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Sounds like the Oxford Covid "vaccine" effectiveness "study", you know the one where they reduced the dosage and got more effect...
A bit like homeopathy.
Of course the people in the (accidental!) low dose group were also much younger...
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I was watching Fox News during Cavuto's show and after Trump noted the apparent efficacy of HCQ. Cavuto went nuts. Haven't any respect for Cavuto since
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HCQ mechanism of action? Suppresses inflammatory response and the subsequent fatal cytokine storm by blocking TNF alpha and IFN gamma and the JAK/STEM pathway. Read the research. The talking heads LIED and people died. It needs to be given BEFORE the cytokine storm inflammation begins which is why all that bullshit “research” failed, they only gave it AFTER it was too late.
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.
...Empty suit Brit pol, former PM, has stated that he is 
