[Audacy] As lagging vaccination rates have turned Louisiana into one of the nation’s hottest COVID hot spots, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore has recorded a message for those still on the fence about getting the shot.
"Look, if you eat boudin balls and hot dogs, and you trust that, you can take this shot," Honore says in a video posted on Twitter by the Bring Back Louisiana Sleeves Up campaign. "This shot has been proven. It’s based on science."
#5
This argument is similar to a dog chasing his tail. Those against and those who are for. The deck is stacked against those who oppose(media, medical and politicians). I recall Vietnam was this way. I can only reflect old spook saying, " our government is capable of anything". Maybe not his exact words but close. I always wondered how things would be managed with increased populations. We can see the future now. I have said for many years now the WHO wants to reduce populations. This will not end soon. This is just the beginning of the end.
#6
g(r)omgoru if your government told you to eat shit would you? I have a better chance of being struck by lightning than getting covid so by your reckoning I will get struck by lightning
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I am sorry to say I have had another friend die as a result of Vaccine. Each raved they had no problems after shot. Each died within two months of vaccine. Three of who I have had close contact over many years and all within my age range. Many others too numerous to mention here.
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#4 #3 I've asked you once before - if your government tells you NOT to eat $hit, what will you do?
I already detailed to you the way the government _was_ lying and effectively telling us to eat shit and YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT MY ENTIRE COUNTRY and refused to look. We should treat you like you care about the truth when you already said you didn't care?
#14
YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT MY ENTIRE COUNTRY
No, what I said is that there is an entire world outside your country. And you better pull your head from your ass and look at that world.
But, I guess, your head is in it's place of maximum comfort.
I never have felt it should have been a Nam style war. A simple number of A & B team surgical strikes of leadership would have crippled it quicker. With a lot less wounded, killed and screwed up for the rest of their lives.
I felt and still feel this basically was a Pentagon Career building and Military Supplier promoted war.
Wait til the Ospreys are taking off from the roof of the embassy. Carter era good times
New York Post cover for August 13, 2021. Biden's Saigon
[NY Post] It doesn’t get more idiotic: "The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said with a straight face Wednesday.
Oh, and the State Department has sent diplomats to "press the Taliban to stop their military offensive and to negotiate a political settlement, which is the only path to stability and development in Afghanistan." They’re also begging to have the US embassy in Kabul left alone, warning that future US aid is at risk — and so effectively promising that we’ll actually subsidize these barbarians.
Hello? The Taliban has never given a damn about world opinion or "stability and development." It was a global pariah when it ruled Afghanistan in the ’90s, ignoring the handwringing as it crushed the country’s women, destroyed those 1,500-year-old Buddha statues and hosted the al Qaeda plotters of 9/11.
And it hasn’t changed a whit since, blowing off all diplomatic efforts these last 20 years to get it to abandon its drive to reconquer the country.
These are fanatics out of the 10th century. They’re turning girls as young as 12 into sex slaves as they advance.
The Afghan army, meanwhile, is showing all the fortitude of the Iraqi forces who melted before ISIS in 2014: Provincial capitals (plural) are falling every day, with No. 10 (Herat) and 11 (Ghazni) gone Thursday. (To be fair, Afghan morale surely fell through the floor when Americans started literally abandoning bases in the middle of the night.)
Now it’s a race to Kabul, where Uncle Sam is desperately rushing to airlift out all Americans in a replay of the 1975 fall of Saigon.
The White House can pretend that diplomacy might somehow save the Afghan government, but its real sentiments rest in President Joe Biden’s words while campaigning last year, when he said he’d have "zero responsibility" for what happened after he pulled US troops out.
We didn’t disagree with Biden’s move to remove the last US ground forces, just as Donald Trump promised as well when he was in office. That’s plainly what most Americans wanted, too. Afghanistan had become an endless war.
But any pullout had to have a plan. Not an utterly disastrous cut-and-run, with virtually no provision for the Afghans who worked with us all these years.
The Army of the Republic of South Vietnam fought off an invasion in 1972 — with the help of massive US airpower; 1975 was a disaster because anti-war liberals in Congress prevented more airstrikes.
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...The inevitable post-mortems will also likely find that a disturbing percentage of Afghan forces - both police and military - simply did not exist; 'ghost soldiers' whose pay was being collected by their putative commanders.
And that we knew it.
Mike
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I remember from my Homeland Security days a group of Middle Eastern "educators" who were running a fast growing private school for learning English as a second Language for immigrants, and how one of the classroom auditors brought the police in because she suspected fraud since she thought some of the people looked familiar. They were given auditing schedules and asked to make lodging arrangements for visiting sudit staff and bussed the same 30 people to site after site....sound familiar? Everything old is new again!
#3
I think the senior generals deserve at least half of the blame for this fiasco. President Trump ordered them to prepare for this when he was sworn in at the beginning of 2016. But they blew him off until last year, and then they delayed until President Biden was sworn in and agreed to delay a few extra months. So the generals have had five years to plan and organize, during which time they clearly did absolutely nothing to prepare our troops, our allies, and the Afghans for even the possibility of us leaving.
I had the privilege of watching the film in its entirety last night on a Russian language video site. It was gory, but very good.
The film is set in the breakaway republic of Lugansk in May, 2014. It shows the start of the separatist movement. the story centers around the foreshortened lives of two families, who were unaware of what was happening until it was too late.
The trailer is in Russian but in a translatable format::
Curiously, the Lugansk ruling government has yet to comment on the film.
Direct translation via Google Translate
You can view the Americanized version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story in full and in English here:
[REGNUM] The official trailer for the feature film "Ivan Denisovich" directed by Gleb Panfilov has been published on YouTube.
Filip Yankovsky , Artur Beschastny , Stepan Abramov , Alexander Karavaev , Igor Savochkin are involved in the film adaptation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich."
The film will premiere on September 23, 2021.
Recall that Solzhenitsyn wrote the story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich" in 1959, in 1962 the work was published in the magazine "New World."
The story is dedicated to the prisoner Ivan Shukhov, who ended up in the camp after the German captivity. The work, written in an anti-Stalinist spirit, brought Solzhenitsyn an unprecedented fame for him.
The trailer is in Russian but in a translatable format:
[Babylon Bee] OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (he/him, they/them) dusted off one of his old ethnic costumes today in hopes that President Joe Biden would approve his pipeline.
"Hello, President Biden, much happy greetings from my Middle East country, good sir!" Trudeau said in a meeting with the president today. "I have many great pipeline for you to approve today sir. And look! I have brought fresh hummus for you to much enjoy with your fine family good sir!"
Trudeau also gifted the president with some magic legumes and a mystical lamp that he said would grant wishes, though there was a $9.99 price sticker half ripped off the bottom.
Biden said he enjoyed his meeting with the "nice ethnic man" and that he was "clean, smart, and articulate."
"Nice fella! You know, over there in the Middle East, the women cover their hair. How are you supposed to give a good sniff if you can't even see a broad's hair? Very tough countries to live in over there."
While his pipeline was approved, Trudeau is sadly now canceled for wearing blackface. Not good!
[Intellectual Frog Legs] I watched a significant amount of Mike Lindel’s Cyber Symposium... There were a lot of great experts and a lot of great presentations. But one of the more impactful moments for me came from Dr. Shiva. The man is a genius, let’s just begin there. And his story is even more remarkable than his résumé. A definite MUST WATCH
Big Take Away: Government Censorship by proxy. Proven my this MIT genius.
Here’s his resume: Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of email and polymath, holds four degrees from MIT, is a world-renowned systems scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a Fulbright Scholar, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist, India’s First Outstanding Scientist and Technologist of Indian Origin, Westinghouse Science Talent Honors Award recipient, and a nominee for the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
[WND] News commentator Sean Hannity is questioning why the FBI is doing nothing about Hunter Biden after the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom revealed that it has obtained shocking video, from a laptop computer, showing a naked Biden with a prostitute.
And the president's son is fretting to her about another laptop that he reveals has similar explicit videos — and he suspects it was stolen by Russians. Worry about blackmail and the fact his father, Joe Biden, was running for president, are key.
It's the latest stage of the scandal that just keeps on giving for President Joe Biden, as Hunter Biden has been documented, according to computer videos and emails, as involved in a wide range of questionable behaviors, up to and including his acceptance of money from controversial sources, and Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter's business deals to the point he let him ride on Air Force Two while vice president to pursue his money operations.
WND doesn't link to the original Daily Mail report because of images from the videos, including slightly blurred stills showing the nude Hunter Biden and a nude prostitute.
But that report confirms the laptop computers — likely three — contain "embarrassing pictures, videos and communications of the president's son."
Hunter himself is on video complaining, "They have videos of me doing this," as he referred to a sex film he had just finished. "They have videos of me doing crazy f------ sex f------, you know."
He explained how one of the digital units was taken during a time period when he was out of control, overdosing on drugs in hotel rooms, and he now was worried about being blackmailed.
The prostitute asked him if that was his concern, and he said, "Yeah in some way yeah," and that was because "My dad [inaudible] running for president."
[Survival Update] The Pentagon is considering giving the Space Force a greater role in a stepped-up effort to track and investigate reports of UFOs. But the newest military branch isn’t over the moon about the idea.
Space Force leaders are still struggling to rebrand an organization that has been lampooned since before its birth. Now, they are conflicted about becoming the military’s go-to on what the Pentagon now calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," according to five current and former officials taking part in the discussions.
Advocates for the Space Force taking over for the Navy, which is currently leading the Pentagon’s task force responsible for studying them, believe the new service is better suited to oversee a more robust effort aimed at collecting information on UFOs, and that its association with a topic of such public fascination, particularly among young people, could even boost recruiting.
"It makes perfect sense," said one former intelligence official who is advising the military in the planning, citing its more expansive geographic responsibilities than other military branches and access to global — and even galactic — surveillance technologies through the U.S. Space Command. "There is no limit to the Space Force mission. It doesn’t have a geographic boundary like the other services."
But the former official also said some fear it will only deepen the branch’s public relations challenge by providing more material for the jokes, science-fiction-themed memes and other forms of popular ridicule that the Space Force has endured since it was championed by then-President Donald Trump in 2018, who made it an applause line in his political rallies.
#3
Now that the powers that be have chopped up all the data and made hash out it, you'd like me to take over responsibility for this circus.
I myself would decline.
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Massie’s comment came to mind again today when I saw the news that Sen. Paul has been temporarily suspended from YouTube for a video in which he said "most of the masks you can get over the counter don’t work because the virus particles are too small and go right through them." (You can see the video here; begin at 3:20 for the relevant part.) In a follow-up video protesting the suspension, Paul commented further. "Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work, they don’t prevent infection," he said. "Saying cloth masks work when they don’t actually risks lives, as someone may choose to care for a loved one with COVID while only wearing a cloth mask. This is not only bad advice but also potentially deadly information."
I’m probably closer on policy to Paul than most members of Congress — I once interviewed him for The Week — but this strikes me as courting the craziest SOB vote. Everything he’s saying is true, yet in a deeply misleading way. Of course, viruses are much smaller than holes in the weave of cloth or surgical masks. The point isn’t to catch individual viruses; it’s to catch far larger drops of virus-laden spittle. Yes, these masks are comparatively ineffective for protecting their wearer. Catching spittle protects other people. And yeah, if you’re unvaccinated and caring for someone with an active COVID-19 infection, a cloth mask isn’t enough. Did anyone credible say it was? You should get something like an N95 respirator, which keeps nearly all viruses out instead of simply keeping your spittle in.
Paul technically didn’t lie, but I think he did court this voting base. Massie does it, too. The libertarian position, for example, is that freedom of association allows employers to condition employment on vaccination if they so choose. But Massie recently touted a Kentucky statehouse "bill to prohibit employers from requiring the vax." I'm sure if some firm announced they are not going to employ, ahem, Wakandans. Paul & Massie would have condemned that firm - but announced their own readiness to fight to the death for "the rights of private enterprise against governmental dictates." Now, they're the source of "government dictates". Wonder what Ain Rand would say?
And where he used to pal around with the likes of former Rep. Justin Amash (L-Mich.), now he’s buddy-buddy with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), she of the QAnon ties, bad Holocaust analogy, and big craziest SOB vibes.
#1
" Sen. Paul ....said "most of the masks you can get over the counter don’t work because the virus particles are too small and go right through them."
These are FACTS proven with CDC,Federal sources cited here many times over the last 18 months.
Even including Dr. Death's "we should wear 2 or more masks..." public comments.
BUT... Can we at least agree that:
Water droplets (aka virus-laden spittle) and airborne virus particles BOTH cause infections?
At the least we can discuss:
Whether Infected Outgoing or Incoming Water droplets that are caught by the wearers mask, still contain the virus and are now sitting on or inside the mask with air flowing past them to others as a serious problem.
Given the commonly worn cheap masks do not filter to the Virus size levels. So let us discuss whether each infected breath is transmitting the virus into the surrounding air. Spreading forever how long the virus lives in typical Office/Store HVAC controlled air space. Which we have been told is anywhere from 1 min to 15+ mins of being airborne.
NOTE: I agree ANY mask filtering at any level of your air flow is better than no mask all. But eyes are also a infection point.
We wear a N-95's and a face shield in public, not the 50 masks for $7.99 cheap paper masks. Neither of us have been VAX'd and we have been out in stores and etc. almost everyday w/o infection for 18 months.
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As the US struggles to suppress the rapidly advancing coronavirus Delta variant, new evidence has emerged that the latest Lambda mutation — ravaging parts of South America — won’t be slowed by vaccines.
In a July 28 report appearing on bioRxiv, where the study awaits peer review prior to getting published, researchers in Japan are sounding the alarm on the C.37 variant, dubbed Lambda. And it’s proven just as virulent as Delta thanks to a similar mutation making them even more contagious.
The strain has been contained in 26 countries, including substantial outbreaks in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador.
"Notably, the vaccination rate in Chile is relatively high; the percentage of the people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine was [about] 60%," the authors write.
"Nevertheless, a big COVID-19 surge has occurred in Chile in Spring 2021, suggesting that the Lambda variant is proficient in escaping from the antiviral immunity elicited by vaccination," they warn.
The Lambda variant is thought to have emerged somewhere in South America between November and December 2020, and has since turned up in countries throughout Europe, North America and a few more isolated cases in Asia, according to GISAID data.
The proportion the Lambda variant has of COVID-19 cases in the US is low with just one-tenth of 1% of the share — about 911 cases. Compare that to Delta, which has infected some 77,692 Americans so far.
"In addition to increasing viral infectivity, the Delta variant exhibits higher resistance to the vaccine-induced neutralization," the authors said. "Similarly, here we showed that the Lambda variant equips not only increased infectivity but also resistance against antiviral immunity."
Lambda has so far been labeled a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization, compared to the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta strains, which have all risen to "variant of concern," or VOC, status.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published scant literature on the Lambda variant, though a COVID-19 vaccine briefing from July 27 cited another pre-print study, dated July 3, which concluded that the mRNA vaccine in particular is thought to effectively neutralize the Lambda variant.
In Chile, where C.37 is proliferating, their notably aggressive vaccine campaign relied predominantly on the Sinovac Biotech vaccine, which employs the inactivated virus to promote the production of COVID-19 antibodies.
Meanwhile, doctors are urging patients to get fully vaccinated in order to mitigate the severity of illness if infected with COVID-19 and its variants. Studies have shown that vaccines are effective at reducing deadly outcomes of COVID-19 — and a booster shot may be even better, prompting the Food and Drug Administration to consider providing third vaccine doses to people with compromised immune systems.
In a recent appearance on NBC’s "Meet the Press," White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci concluded, "There’s no doubt that over time, you’re going to have an attenuation of protection."
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"Notably, the vaccination rate in Chile is relatively high; the percentage of the people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine was [about] 60%," the authors write.
#4
How many letters in the Greek alphabet? Somebody wake me when we get near the end.
And it’s proven just as virulent as Delta thanks to a similar mutation making them even more contagious.
"More contagious". You will be hearing that a lot. It is the Message of the Day. Watch for it!
Over time, viruses tend to become more contagious but less lethal. It's not a law of nature, but it is a general principle. Someone has suggested that today's seasonal colds are the remnants of the Russian Flu pandemic of 1889.
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/\ Yes, I believe it is now referred to "gain of function." You may have heard the term used recently. The effort appears to have been endorsed and possibly fully funded by the US Government. A fact not frequently discussed in polite circles however.
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Which cannot be true because colds and flu caused by different families of viruses
I have seen references to the Russian 'Flu' being a corona virus, not an actual influenza. 1889 and all that, plus the symptoms are kinda sorta similar. Need to look into this further.
A valid point. And food for some interesting speculation.
I would expect sequencing to show a difference between a virus that has evolved from a previous version vs one that was assembled. But I would not trust anyone who knew to tell the truth about it.
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These new variants are not novel and so not patentable. OH, they will try as they have done already and have some success. look for new flareups to maintain fear and boosters. Similar to hurricane season. Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Delta, Lambda and a fourth (starts with an M as I recall). Many others named and I had no idea so many. Very contagious but less deadly(the goal of any virus).
Country X, a terrorist or proxy group attacks the US with a biological agent in very small amounts in many areas in the US. The US is forced to mount a massive nation-wide preemptive effort at vast expense, even though it is only under limited attack. The attack is tailored to counter the highly detailed open literature on US federal, state, and local detection and response capabilities.
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#17, It is my understanding that since the Vietnam war(conflict)Asians were even then fascinated in Bio War virus and such. I suspect many other countries as well.
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Wait, we went from Delta to Lambda with nothing in between. That's weird, if you are naming them as new variants show up. But if you were going to the cabinet and pulling down a jar of pre-made 'samples' at random, it kinda sorta makes sense.
An alternative guess is they are naming them as they find them and the missing letters were just uninteresting mutations, unlike Lambda which is OMG! MORE CONTAGIOUS!! OH NOES!!!
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.
[Babylon Bee] OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (he/him, they/them) dusted off one of his old ethnic costumes today in hopes that President Joe Biden would approve his pipeline.
[Intellectual Frog Legs] I watched a significant amount of Mike Lindel’s Cyber Symposium... There were a lot of great experts and a lot of great presentations. But one of the more impactful moments for me came from Dr. Shiva. The man is a genius, let’s just begin there. And his story is even more remarkable than his résumé. A definite MUST WATCH
[WND] News commentator Sean Hannity is questioning why the FBI is doing nothing about Hunter Biden after the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom revealed that it has obtained shocking video, from a laptop computer, showing a naked Biden with a prostitute.
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