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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NJ inmate freed early due to COVID is charged with murder 2 days later
I look at that face and I think, "Dear Lord! What did they think he was going to do?
[NYPOST] A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with murdering a teenager just two days after his release.Jerry Crawford, 25, was serving time for burglary when he was let out on "public health emergency credits" to parole supervision on Nov. 4, prison officials confirmed to NJ.com Wednesday.

He has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough, 18, who was bumped off in Bridgeton on Nov. 6 — just two days after Crawford got out of South Woods State Prison, the outlet said.

He was charged alongside Yusuf Waites — who had also just gotten out of custody less than a month before the shooting.

Waites, 23, was released from Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Crosswicks on Oct. 10 after completing his sentence on a gun charge, according to the report.

The pair were allegedly caught on surveillance video with Scarbrough shortly before his body was found riddled with multiple bullets less than half a mile from the prison from which Crawford had been released, NJ.com reported, citing court documents.

When Crawford was charged last month, he was already back in jug on gun and theft charges, the outlet said. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
those charges have since been dismissed.

Both men were indicted on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree conspiracy to commit murder for Scarbrough’s fatal shooting.

Waites was also indicted for attempting to kill two other men in a sweeping indictment involving eight other defendants, another killing, a drive-by shooting and a daylight shootout, NJ.com said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Pennsylvania man leads cops to father's head on dinner plate in freezer
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man led cops to his father’s severed head that he kept on a dinner plate in a freezer, police said.

Donald Lawrence Meshey Jr., 32, was arrested Wednesday in the stabbing death and dismemberment of his father, Donald Meshey Sr., 67, by Lancaster police after a woman called cops seeking a welfare check on a relative.

The caller said Meshey told her there was a "cadaver" in one of the beds at the home along with a head stashed in a freezer, police said in a statement.

A responding officer met Meshey at the apartment he shared with his father and was led to the "horrific scene" inside.

"Meshey escorted the officer inside the residence and took the officer to the kitchen, where he proceeded to remove what appeared to be a human head from the freezer to show the officer," the police statement continued.

While being questioned by detectives, Meshey admitted to stabbing his father for two to three minutes with a knife before dismembering his body, which he called a "cadaver doll," police said.

"During the interview, Meshey said he found what he described as a ’cadaver doll’ in his father’s bedroom, which looked and sounded like his father," cops said in a statement.

Investigators were still processing the scene and collecting evidence late Wednesday. An autopsy conducted early Thursday identified the victim as Meshey’s father, LancasterOnline.com reported.

The elder Meshey died from multiple stab wounds, a coroner found.

Donald Meshey Jr. said he dismembered his father’s body and put his body parts in large garbage bags before stashing them in the basement of their home. He moved the head into a freezer on Wednesday before cops arrived, police wrote in an affidavit.

The severed head was kept on a white dinner plate inside the freezer and Meshey used a handsaw to mutilate his father’s body, court documents obtained by WGAL show.

Meshey said he had moved his father’s torso into a 2007 Lincoln Town Car parked outside the residence, the affidavit states.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"... and I smelled the cadaver..."

"Sir, will you please stop saying cadaver?"

"Ok, but there it is in the basement, a doll made from... cadaver."

"Uhh... and what did you do with the knife, sir?"

"I washed it and put it back. Do you wanna see the the cadaver now?"

"Sigh..."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/13/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2 
A real useless user of lager,
beheaded his own dear father.
Of abnormal PSI, he like CSI
and just wanted to say 'cadaver'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/13/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Dear old Dad
He gave good head.

[not a haiku]
.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 17:07 Comments || Top||

#4  If not it sticks to the freeze so what's the story here?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2021 17:38 Comments || Top||

#5  "a ’cadaver doll’ in his father’s bedroom, which looked and sounded like his father,"

What sounds does a headless cadaver make???
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/13/2021 19:43 Comments || Top||

#6  What sounds does a headless cadaver make???

Is that one of those Zen "one hand clapping" kind of questions?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/13/2021 20:01 Comments || Top||


Furious road rage suspect hurls axe into another car's windshield after first ‘chasing her off the freeway and blocking her escape route'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The 47-year-old suspect was driving a Jeep on the Interstate 5 in the Seattle area

  • In dashcam footage, he is shown blocking the victim's car as she tries to escape

  • In one quick move, the suspect exits his Jeep and hurls an ax at the victim's car

  • He is then shown getting back into the Jeep and driving in the opposite direction

  • Police said the suspect was arrested three days later after a spate of other incidents, including him racially abusing someone and an alleged theft
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  paging last action hero crazy axe dude back from the dead covid vaccine to blame
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 08/13/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2 

Axe or what?
Looks like some type of hatchet with nail claw.

BTW: spent a good 10 mins trying to match the image up w/o luck... anybody know?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Several possibilities, carpenters tool, custom survival tool, nail claw hatchet, indestructible box hatchet but my guess is $39 dollars carpenters tool with pants with loop holder.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  When I lived in the Seattle area, it wasn't unusual to see bumper stickers that read "Sierra Club: Kiss my axe"
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/13/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like a shingler's tool.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/13/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
BLM Utah head who called American flag 'symbol of hatred' resigns, citing 'death threats'
The president of the Black Lives Matter Utah chapter announced she's stepping down and has fled the state, citing "death threats" over a Fourth of July Facebook post that called the American flag "a symbol of hatred."

Chapter founder Lex Scott made headlines last month after she argued on behalf of her group, which is not affiliated with the national BLM organization, that people who fly the U.S. flag are hostile toward people of color.

"When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around," the July 4 post read. "When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred."

In a tearful video posted on the group's Facebook page Sunday, Scott announced she was resigning from both her posts as group president and as president of the Utah Black History Museum.

"Over the last month you know that I received death threats like a flood," Scott wrote in an accompanying statement. "This is not new. The only new thing was when someone attempted to climb over my fence and instead of defending myself, I relaxed my body and told myself that I wished they would hurry and get it over with. I did not even want to fight back. The exhaustion of being on defense had worn on me. So prepared to die that I welcomed death and that is not living."
So... What happened? Is she dead now?
She died, but then she got better
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  How many threats were "fakes" she sent herself? It's happened before...
Posted by: magpie || 08/13/2021 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Bet ya the person has got a new gig, more $, time to 'move on to bigger and better" shake down towns.
Posted by: Dino Chomock8984 || 08/13/2021 2:04 Comments || Top||

#3  people who fly the U.S. flag are hostile toward people of color.

No, but we can be a bit short with morons, idiots and commies. Not to suggest, imply or insinuate that you are any or all of those.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/13/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Appears to be a prerequisite for a full transition to the socialist utopian dream.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2021 2:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Where is she emigrating to?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/13/2021 5:20 Comments || Top||

#6 

Has she decided to $$$ Cash In $$$ her BLM earnings like other BLM leadership have?

Scott and the Black Lives Matter Utah Chapter – not connected to the national Black Lives Matter movement – came under fire on July 4 after saying those that fly the American flag are “racist.”


Why is she even in the USA if she HATES US SO MUCH?

MAYBE there needs to be a Return To Africa Go Fund Me.
with the required never to return or be jailed.

IMPORTANT BTW: This BLM bundle of mental issues is NOT to be confused with the 1000% better looking actress Lex Scott.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2021 6:30 Comments || Top||

#7  If it wasn't for fake hate crimes, there would hardly be any at all.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/13/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh, there is no shortage hate crimes. Just not the way media and government want to portray it.
Posted by: Jeretle Hupeart8364 || 08/13/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll be glad when some of these "threats" come to fruition.
Posted by: Chris || 08/13/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#10  ^^^
Nice

Here have some
Posted by: Flomoque Slater5338 || 08/13/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#11  When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do

Ain't that right. Which one will survive is the question.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/13/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm also somewhat amused over what some of these folks classify as 'Threats'.

Looking askance at your purple hair and/or piercings?

There is a copious amount of VERY thin skin amongst the left.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||

#13  The 'Which BLM?' game is going to be tough.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2021 15:54 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
NY woman, 29, is cuffed and thrown in cell after cops caught her walking her dogs without a leash and she couldn't remember her new address
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Dora Marchand, 29, was walking her dogs without a leash on the Upper West Side was arrested last week by park police

  • She has since characterized her arrest as 'unnecessary' and a 'power trip'

  • Marchand also admitted she knew having the dogs off the leash at the park was not permitted and vowing to continue to walk them off-leash in the future

  • Video footage taken by a witness shows her in handcuffs after her arrest

  • Marchand, who moved to New York from San Francisco on July 28, did not have her identification with her at the time of the arrest

  • She spent an hour in the NYPD holding cell while officers verified her identity

  • Marchand was then released with a $200 fine for not complying with officers and $100 for having the dogs off-leash
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Christmas - Talk About Space as the Final Frontier...

This former West Coast (Left Coast) Lady is OUT THERE

And the space between her ears is the Grand Canyon!

Please God tell me I don't know her...Please.
Posted by: Dino Chomock8984 || 08/13/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice to see they have the courage to arrest someone in NY.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Our dog walks off-leash with us all the time. Stays right with us on either my wife's or my left side while walking. She's not aggressive with people or other dogs while off-leash either.

Put her on a leash and she is more aggressive to others. Possibly because her sense of being able to project security has been restricted.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  What are the odds a San Franciscan pulled an attitude on New York cops?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/13/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  My dog is a jerk and turns even the best behaved off leash dogs into jerks. He might be better off leash but he's proven I can't trust him. So I have to walk at 5is in the morning to avoid these people.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/13/2021 15:35 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'I've seen more death than ever': ICU nurse tells news crew she is QUITTING due to 'compassion fatigue' because of number of sick and dying who failed to get their shots
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Jennifer Sartin works for the Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, but resigned from critical care because she 'couldn't take it'

  • Sartin said it's 'mentally straining' that people aren't getting vaccinated

  • Mississippi is among the states with the lowest amount of vaccinated residents and most hospitals here are at or near capacity

  • The Delta variant accounts for 13 percent of cases in the state

  • New US cases have increased more than five-fold over the past month with the seven-day average hitting 113,357 on Thursday
She added: 'When we went from three to eight Covid patients in one week I knew that it was going to be another wave almost - if not worse than - what we did last year.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 07:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:




#4  COVID cabinet approves new restrictions as cases soar
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  From yesterday: Restrictions on Unvaccinated People See Explosion of Fake Vaccination Cards
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/13/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  #5, Yes, people will find a way or wind up in Fema death camps. Hitler showed the way. History repeats itself. The noose slowly tightens. Example, prove you have all ten government mandated boosters. The cost of boosters will go sky high. They have planned this for twenty years.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#7  "But Sweden’s death rate is lower than other European countries that locked down and required masks, like France, Italy, and Spain. So if you aren’t a fan of those policies, you probably see Sweden’s light touch as a success story."
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  News media propaganda. Click bait.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#9  ^The Dailey Fail strikes again. Fake news.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/13/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#10  State run media.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#11  It's meme
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#12  In Mississippi, aren’t the majority of the unvaccinated African-Americans? I sympathize with the lady’s burnout, but the Black community keeps alive memories of medical experimentation, leading to trust issues when it comes to government-touted treatments and vaccines.

Separately, looking at the graphs at the link: while the number of infected is growing again nationally from a summer trough lower than last year’s, the number of dead is growing considerably more slowly from a much lower trough than we saw last year — exactly what growing herd immunity is supposed to lead to.

Finally, I wonder if it will turn out that Nurse Sartin was playing up the situation, as is happening so often recently — we had an article about a Democratic veterinarian running for office claiming to be working in an overwhelmed hospital emergency room recently who turned out to have been extraordinarily economical with the truth.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/13/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Welcome to the zero trust society
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2021 9:57 Comments || Top||

#14  ah , it's just time that we start fawning over and calling them heroes again.
Posted by: Chris || 08/13/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#15  Okay now that's just ridiculous.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/13/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#16  Lol! That "I work in ICU and its terrible" meme is about as convincing as the (sure to come) "Try this one weird trick to beat Covid..."
Posted by: Crusader || 08/13/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#17 

Another perspective from 1941
Posted by: Uleamble Munster9381 || 08/13/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#18  "I just know they are unvaccinated"
How scientific. Watch less MSNBC and perhaps you'll stay sane.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/13/2021 15:13 Comments || Top||

#19  Compassion fatigue. Whatever.

What P2K linked; these stories have been hard and fast for the last two weeks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#20  Wait... you mean that weird trick doesn't work?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/13/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||


First water cuts in US West supply to hammer Arizona farmers
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 06:22 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just do the Democrat way of fixing things just throw money at it. Perhaps a few penny's will get to where it is needed.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Who needs farmers? We all know food comes from grocery stores
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/13/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Raising corn in Arizona?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4 
Why not offer Tax Exempt status too all Vax'd taxpayers until the Pandemic has been "officially" declared over. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The American SOuthwest is vastly overbuilt for the amount of water resource infrastructure extant. 40 years of growth as a tax base and governmental income source, absent dams and catchment basin projects is coming home to roost. Its mostly a f'cking desert, and caps on growth and money on groundwater recharging and vast desalinization from the oceans has always been ignored. (Before you laugh my friends, the Sea of Cortez is 60 miles from the US Border. )
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/13/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Before you laugh my friends, the Sea of Cortez is 60 miles from the US Border.

and Death Valley is a huge catch basin.

See Berserker's nuclear excavation plan for channeling to the gulf.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 16:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Who needs farmers? We all know food comes from grocery stores
...and electricity comes from the wall sockets (until it doesn't)
Posted by: magpie || 08/13/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||


Wildfire bears down on Montana towns as West burns
[NYPOST] A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states.

Several thousand people remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire advanced across the sparsely-populated Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
the Dixie Fire — which started July 13 and is the largest wildfire burning in the nation — threatened a dozen small communities in the northern Sierra Nevada even though its southern end was mostly corralled by fire lines.

The blaze had burned over 780 square miles, destroyed some 550 homes and nearly obliterated the town of Greenville. It was 30 percent contained.

On Wednesday, the Montana fire displayed extreme behavior and had grown by tens of thousands of acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The blaze, which was only 15 percent surrounded, began Sunday and powerful gusts caused it to explode across more than 230 square miles.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  send in some hot coppers!
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 08/13/2021 0:05 Comments || Top||



Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Fighting flares up in Armenia


Posted by: badanov || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


The crash of the Mi-8 helicopter in Kamchatka
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

A commerical MI-8 passenger helicopter crashed into Lake Kuril in South Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge

[KP] The first to help the boats went to the staff of the Kronotsky Reserve, who heard the crash.

According to preliminary data, rescuers managed to find eight people alive , at least two of them were seriously injured. The search for the rest continues. There were 16 people on board, including 13 tourists.

Rescuers from the regional base went to the scene. A helicopter with divers and an aircraft from the Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine are being prepared. Two aircraft of the Vityaz-Aero airline operate on site.

The crashed Mi-8 sank under water. According to the preliminary version, bad weather could have been the cause of the disaster: the helicopter landed in very poor visibility conditions, and there were heavy fogs in this region in the morning. Other priority versions: pilot error and technical malfunction.

One of the victims of the MI-8 helicopter crash in Kamchatka, near the Kronotsky Reserve, was a family from St. Petersburg: two parents and a child. By a happy coincidence, the father survived, the mother and the 17-year-old young man have not yet been found - and the chances of a miracle are diminishing by the second.

As the son of one of the surviving tourists , Mikhail Strelkin, told KP-Petersburg , a large group of acquaintances gathered in the ill-fated helicopter on August 12.

"Mikhail loved extreme, but his wife did not share this hobby": Mother and son from St. Petersburg cannot be found after a helicopter crash in Kamchatka.

“It was only part of the group,” Mikhail explained. "In general, about twenty people went to Kamchatka from St. Petersburg, probably. A month ago, they agreed, called their father, 'well, let's go.' Already on the spot, apparently, they split up; some went on foot, others chose a helicopter flight to the Khodutka volcano. The helicopter, as far as I know, was ordered in advance, back in St. Petersburg.

"If we consider the version that the helicopter hit its nose, then it is very surprising that so many people were saved. While the aircraft is in the water, it is possible to leave it through the escape hatches. But it all depends on the position of the helicopter, if it hits its nose or falls on its side, then there is almost no chance. The blades begin to chop off the beam of the helicopter, it does not float and sinks quickly. Then there are 15 seconds to get out. The survivors were extraordinarily lucky, they probably had strong guardian angels," Stanislav Shtinov, a helicopter pilot of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told KP.

Rosturizm after the crash of the Mi-8 also check compliance with safety requirements in the provision of tourist services in Kamchatka.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Bastrykin instructed to report on the progress of the investigation of the criminal case into the crash of the MI-8 helicopter in Kamchatka

According to open sources, Igor Redkin owns 49.5% of shares in the authorized capital of Vityaz-Aero LLC. The rest of the company's shares belong to the co-owners of the Okeanrybflot fishing company. He is also the founder of the Vityaz-Travel travel company and owns a 50% stake in the authorized capital.

We will remind, Igor Redkin said that he accidentally shot a man in the village of Ozernovsky, confusing him with a bear. After being detained, he withdrew his candidacy from the elections and suspended his membership in the party.

After the helicopter crash in Kamchatka, Rostransnadzor will conduct an unscheduled inspection of the Vityaz-Aero airline.
Posted by: badanov || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  always good to hold in a risk game
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 08/13/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  always good to hold in a risk game

😂
Posted by: badanov || 08/13/2021 0:11 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe that Ted Turner has, or at least had, a huge spread on Kamchatka.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/13/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  We will remind, Igor Redkin said that he accidentally shot a man in the village of Ozernovsky, confusing him with a bear.

If I had a dime...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/13/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||


Economy
July Inflation in USA was unexpectedly high
Unexpectedly, indeed.
[FoxBusiness] Producer prices accelerated at the fastest annual pace on record in July as supply chain disruptions and materials shortages continued to put upward pressure on costs.

The producer price index for final demand increased at a 7.8% pace for the 12 months ended July, according to the Labor Department. The July print was faster than the 7.3% pace recorded in June and ahead of the 7.3% rate that analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting. The reading was the strongest since recordkeeping began in November 2010.

Producer prices rose 1% in July, matching the increase from June. Analysts were anticipating prices would grow at a 0.6% pace.
Posted by: Clotle Jinegum5056 || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  -adding pressure on companies to pass on higher costs to consumers

Strange how they comprehend that but don't understand why raising taxes on business doesn't result in the same effect.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/13/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  "unexpectedly"

I do not think that word memes what you think it memes.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/13/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Unexpectedly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/13/2021 18:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
Tucker interviews Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (video)
[YouTube]


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Hundreds arrested in Berlin protests against Covid restrictions
From 2.August.
[TheGuardian] Protesters defy court order banning marches against German government’s 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...
measures


More than 600 people have been arrested after participating in protests against the German government’s coronavirus measures, officials have said.

About 13 separate demonstrations took place around Berlin on Sunday, despite being banned by a court order and participants saying they would not follow safety rules.

Most of the approximately 5,000 protesters — a fraction of the 22,500 expected before the ban was announced — failed to stick to social distancing rules or to wear medical masks, according to police.

After participants did not heed orders to abide by hygiene rules, police used pepper spray and truncheons to break up the crowds. Water cannon and a tank similar to an armoured recovery vehicle were on hand but not needed, according to police.

Police confirmed that a 49-year-old man, who had travelled from the Rhineland region with his son to participate, collapsed and later died after breaking through a barrier.

A postmortem into the cause of his death has been ordered by a Berlin court.

The head of the Berlin-Brandenburg branch of the German Journalist Union (DJU), Jörg Reichel, was attacked on the sidelines of the protest, after months in which he has attempted to monitor the Querdenker (lateral thinker) movement. The movement is against the government’s attempts to restrict the spread of coronavirus, calling the measures fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
ic, and condemning the vaccine campaign as a form of apartheid.

Reichel, who according to witnesses was pulled from his bicycle and beaten and kicked before passersby intervened, had been acting as an observer for journalists covering the protests, a growing number of whom have reported being verbally and physically attacked by demonstrators.

Monique Hofmann, head of the DJU, said that Reichel, who is undergoing hospital treatment, had been receiving threats from the Querdenker scene for months, and that his picture and name had been circulated on numerous channels associated with the movement on the instant messaging service Telegram.

Several coppers were also injured on Sunday.

Police announced on Monday that three further demonstrations planned later in the day, under the titles "Year of Freedom and Peace" and "Free Life, Free Love", had also been banned.

Organisers have complained that they are being treated differently from other political demonstrations, such as the Christopher Street Day parade that took place in Berlin last month, attracting 65,000 participants. Mask-wearing and physical distancing rules were often ignored at that event.

Wolfgang Schäuble, the president of the German parliament, led condemnation of the Querdenker protests, arguing that the participants’ dismissal of mainstream scientific knowledge on the virus was irresponsible, and appealed to them to respect the evidence.

"If almost all experts globally are saying coronavirus is dangerous and vaccines help, who then actually has the right to say ’I know better’?" he told the Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung. "For me, that is an almost unbearable degree of arrogance." He added: "Look at the science ... don’t be led down the garden path by cheap slogans."

Meet Germany's 'Querdenker' COVID protest movement
From April:
[DW] The trained business administrator Michael Ballweg founded the Querdenker (lateral thinkers) movement in the city of Stuttgart in 2020. Organizing it has become his full-time job, as the movement has spread.The Querdenker include pandemic skeptics, anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown protesters. They claim the COVID-19 pandemic and the federal and regional laws aimed at halting the spread of the virus, infringe on citizens' liberties.

Now, protesters regularly take to the streets in cities across the country.Often the demonstrations turn violent mostly peaceful.

But images of festivities between demonstrators and police do not fit the image the Querdenker like to create for themselves. Michael Ballweg and his followers are always quick to emphasize their peacefulness and loyalty to the German Constitution.

This is exactly what happened in mid-March in Kassel. More than three times the permitted 6,000 participants marched through the streets. Most of them didn't follow social distancing rules of 1.5 meters, nor did they wear face masks. Counter-demonstrators were also on the move. As the situation grew increasingly confusing and violent mostly peaceful. Police were using batons, pepper spray, and water cannon. Photos and video footage of coppers beating demonstrators continue to circulate online.

Christopher Vogel works in the mobile advisory team against racism and far-right extremism in Kassel and has observed the demo on the ground. He considers general criticism of officials' behavior to be unfair, he told DW. The situation was confusing, he said: There were festivities between right- and left-wing radicals, but in between were families with young children and some demonstrators put their children "in the front row, as protective shields so to speak," Vogel recalled. His conclusion: "It was no longer manageable."

Deutschland l Protest gegen Corona-Maßnahmen Berlin, Reichsflagge
No political ambitions

The substance of the movement is "extremely thin," he said. In principle, Querdenker are only concerned with their individual freedom and have no further socio-political demands.

"They just want to get back to normal and have some peace and quiet from the state," Vogel said. If COVID-19 disappears from the front pages, a large part will say goodbye to political engagement.

This assessment fits in with the results of a study published in December 2020 by sociologists at the University of Basel, Oliver Nachtwey. He and his team asked more than 1,100 "Querdenker" about their motives and attitudes. Almost half of them had never participated in a demonstration before 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...
protests.

"In terms of demographics, it's a relatively old and relatively academic movement," is one finding. Less than 10% are younger than 30, and the average age is almost 50.

Almost two-thirds of those surveyed have at least a high school diploma, more than half of them have finished their university education, and 67% consider themselves to be middle class.

23% of the surveyed Querdenker said they had cast their ballots for the Greens in Germany's 2017 federal election. Eighteen percent voted for the Left party and 15% for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). But, that was long before the pandemic. In September's elections, the AfD could almost double votes in Querdenker circles to 27%, while the Greens and conservative CDU/CSU would not get any support at all.

According to the Basel study, the vast majority of Querdenker, say they'll vote for little-known splinter parties in September, such as the Basic Democratic Party of Germany, which was only founded in July 2020. On that party's homepage, there are statements like: "Anyone who claims that freedom prevails in our country is lying. Because freedom does not prevail."

This perceived lack of freedom appeals to the Querdenker: 80% of those polled said they agree with the statement that one can no longer express their opinion without getting into trouble. Around 75% believe the media and politics are in cahoots, and that the government is hiding the truth.

The Querdenker movement is characterized by a strong sense of alienation, the study showed, not only from state institutions and the political system and the established media.

But the Querdenker followers were also found to be not "downright xenophobic or Islamophobic" and in some cases "rather anti-authoritarian and inclined towards anthroposophy."

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FIR against the 8-year-old Hindu boy booked in blasphemy case quashed
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Apparently someone over there is capable of feeling stupid.
Posted by: Fred || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  “FIR stands for First Information Report. It is a written document prepared by Police when they receive an information about a cognizable offence.

In a cognizable offence, a Police officer has an authority to make an arrest without warrant.

It is a complaint generally filed by the victim or someone else on his/her behalf. When the FIR is registered by the Police, a signed copy is also given to the victim or the same person who filed the FIR. Police cannot refuse to register a FIR as it is against the law.”
Posted by: Glating the Rasher of Bacon2870 || 08/13/2021 18:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Police cannot refuse to register a FIR as it is against the law.”

That may be the law, Glating the Rasher of Bacon2870, but in Pakistan if you are the wrong kind of person or the accused is the right kind the police simply won’t accept the complaint.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/13/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, Trailing Wife, same here in the USA.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/13/2021 22:32 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Cookin the Books
Posted by: badanov || 08/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah - heck of a 'correction' but it also begs the question - how many journalist have actually lost their minds because the Covid Vaxx spikes in the Vaxx have started to tear their brains apart; they have lost their sense of reason and perspective....
Posted by: Dino Chomock8984 || 08/13/2021 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2 

OK, I'll ask it....

How many of these infections are due to the Socialcrats Open Border agenda?

Would estimating 1/2 be overstating it?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The new normal. We will have at least eight years of this mess. Spanish flu lasted eight years but with media, medical and politicians involved could last forever.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4  How many of these infections are due to the Socialcrats Open Border agenda?

40 Percent Of Illegal Immigrants Released Into Texas Border Town Test Positive For COVID-19
Posted by: Jeretle Hupeart8364 || 08/13/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Dino, you act like they had a sense of reason and perspective to begin with.They report what they are told to fit the usual narrative.
Posted by: Chris || 08/13/2021 10:24 Comments || Top||

#6  ^^^^
I've got to admire you,
you're still at it.

Posted by: Snavilet Peacock2131 || 08/13/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#7  So its 783 not 5800, and a large percentage of those, perhaps even the majority, may be illegals allowed in without testing, and despite the hysteria, mortality is low, even with the tendency to use comorbidity for monetary purposes?
Its not just lying now, its a fifth column effort by the media to sabotage their domestic enemies, essentially whats left of traditional American citizens! Had enough yet?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/13/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  It doesn't matter what happens, WE are IN CHARGE!

Posted by: Caesar Bucket7310 || 08/13/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Let me guess. Ilsa Koch?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/13/2021 15:28 Comments || Top||


Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds
[Guardian] Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.

The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.

With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development, said lead study author Sean Deoni at Brown University.

In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78, according to the analysis, which is yet to be peer-reviewed.
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#1  The virus destroys the intelligence of adults, why should it not do the same for children.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/13/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  So can anyone tell me, is this with or without The Jab ? 22 points is a very STEEP drop... @ a 70 IQ people can barely tie their shoes.
Posted by: Dino Chomock8984 || 08/13/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Australian aborigines have IQ of 62. Don't know if they wear shoes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/13/2021 2:28 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Some reports indicate the Aboriginals and their culture have been around for 40-60 thousand years. Perhaps lower test scores are the key.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/13/2021 2:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The oldest kids in this study are 18 months old. Take this study with a grain of salt the size of the moon.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/13/2021 5:13 Comments || Top||

#6 

Give this some deeper thought.

Quoting a simple search
"Children under the age of 2 cannot be evaluated with IQ testing. To be tested, children must be verbal and able to talk. Even if a baby is verbally advanced, IQ tests are not designed for children this young.(May 31,2021)"

The oldest kids born since the Pandemic started
would only be about 1 year, 7 months.

So how do you administer a valid IQ test?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/13/2021 6:18 Comments || Top||

#7  They can do neonatal testing for responsiveness (looking for disabilities) not IQ testing. The article is click bait.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/13/2021 6:50 Comments || Top||

#8  #7; Good catch, click bait.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Pandemic babies have higher IQs than the author of this article.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/13/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#10  The same experts who were diagnosing almost every kid in the 90s with ADHD just for being playful and understandably inattentive to half baked 'pedagogical' demands.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 08/13/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#11  #10, yes, that was monstrous ADHD contrived money maker. I'd bet with pandemic fewer referrals from schools.
Posted by: Dale || 08/13/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#12  The Guardian. LOL.

Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/13/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#13  The real agenda of this article: More government intervention.

The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.
Posted by: Jeretle Hupeart8364 || 08/13/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||

#14  g(r)omgoru, I believe I'd rather follow one of the 'low IQ' Aborigine fellows through an Aussie barren outback than a Harvard-grad 'Explorer' any day.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#15  If I could keep up with him, that is.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/13/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#16  Aussie fellow I new once (hearsay) said the 'rough' way to hunt the roos was to chase them all day, sleep in the rough, then just go and pick them up the next morning when they were too stiff to run away.

Aboriginal Hunting and Gathering
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/13/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||

#17  So that's how McDonald's got all that roo meat

. A place that actually was indicted for using kangaroo meat in their 100% beef product, but had enough money to keep it out of the media (and out of court).
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Snusoger8836 || 08/13/2021 23:19 Comments || Top||



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