[ZERO] Senator Rand Paul weighed in Tuesday following a Monday bombshell from The Intercept which revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID and its parent, the NIH, funded Gain-of-Function research in Wuhan, China. Recall that Fauci called Paul a 'liar' for accusing him of funding the risky research, in which viruses are genetically modified or otherwise altered to make them more transmissible to humans.
"Surprise surprise — Fauci lied again," Paul tweeted on Tuesday, including a link to Richard H. Ebright's thread (below).
#1
This covid insanity is a plaque upon the industrialized world. Similar to a virus but a plaque of varying degrees of insanity. The flu season soon upon us and the games have just begun. Looks to be a long winter and prolonged yearly excitation.
#2
The DC Process.
Admit nothing,
Deny any knowledge or association,
Discredit or eliminate the Messenger.
When found wrong, don't accept full blame, but blame individual/parties outside your direct control.
Slowly rewrite before re-election; The Why and How it happened, over the next 6 to 18 month, and walk away semi-clean.
When will those that channeled funding for development, to those that "accidentally" released and mislead the public regarding this Virus be brought to trial?
Because this surely puts them on the Top 10 list of Mass Murders
#3
Next thing you know, feminazis will shriek that finding the body of of an infant wrapped in plastic is no reason to start an investigation. Hmmm, wrapped in plastic. That's how Twin Peaks started out - and was even the banner for the Fan Mag at the time. Now... we just move along cuz Dems!
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The 12-ton, 21ft bronze General Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was removed at 9am
The statue is the largest Confederate monument in Virginia and the largest Confederate statue in the country
It was erected in 1890 in honor of Lee, a prominent slave owner and revered Confederate Army general
Last year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced it would be brought down in light of the BLM movement
A time capsule that has been in the statue's base for 131 years will be replaced by a new one
The new capsule contains 39 'artifacts' including a BLM sticker, a 'Virginia is for lovers' Pride sticker, an expired COVID vaccine and pictures from a Stop Asian Hate Protest
Richmond Police closed the roads surrounding the statue and fenced it off ahead of the removal
Pedestrians were allowed to watch it from a viewing area on Monument Avenue; they chanted, cheered and sang as it was taken down
Senate Republicans in Virginia and some residents wanted to stop it from being torn down; they say the monuments are part of the state's history
Another statue of Lee in Charlottesville was brought down in July - that was the site of the Unite the Right rally in 2017
Since 2020, 160 Confederate statues, school names and monuments have been removed across the US
The Southern Poverty Law Center says there are still some 2,000 'symbols' still standing across the US
[News Busters] Corporations from all over the country are going all in to protest the new Texas abortion law that went into effect on Sept. 1.
The law prohibits elective abortions after six weeks. A Texas pro-life group created a "whistleblower" site to report facilities that perform illegal abortions.
GoDaddy first banned the site and told the group it had to find a new host.
"We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service," a GoDaddy spokesperson told The New York Times and The Verge.
Web host Epik was the next to ban the site from collecting info, saying that it "violated Epik’s Terms of Use."
"We contacted the owner of the domain, who agreed to disable the collection of user submissions on this domain," Epik said.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Guinea’s main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, a long-standing rival of deposed President Alpha Conde, said on Tuesday that he and his party were open to participating in a political transition following Sunday’s military coup. Diallo, 69, who was defeated by Conde in an October presidential election in which the president was seeking a third term, told Rooters that he had no objection to taking part in a political transition.
"We would send representatives, why not, to participate in the process to bring the country back to constitutional order," Diallo said, adding that he was surprised by the coup from an army showered with funds by Conde.
Elite soldiers who stormed Guinea’s presidency and seized 83-year old Conde on Sunday have promised to set up a transitional government but have not given details of what form the transition would take or the duration. read more
The junta has said it would start a broad consultation before the formation of a transitional government.
"At the moment, I have not been invited," Diallo said.
Diallo said there was a need to establish a transition that would organise free and transparent elections, and put in place legitimate and democratic institutions.
"Sometimes during such periods, some would want to take on grand missions. But for me the principal mission is to get the country out of this exceptional period," he said.
The military takeover in the world’s top producer of bauxite has been condemned by its partners and international organizations.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), whose leaders are meeting on Wednesday to discuss Guinea, have threatened to impose sanctions.
Diallo said he would welcome a controller such as a head of state-appointed by regional leaders to help Guinea through the transitional process.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gathered in major cities on Tuesday to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the Supreme Court, exacerbating a conflict that has rattled Latin America’s largest democracy.Bolsonaro has urged his supporters to turn out in record numbers, hoping for an overwhelming display to offset his slipping support in opinion polls and setbacks in his clash with the judiciary.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators dressed in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag gathered early on the central mall of the capital Brasilia, where some heading toward the top court were met with police barriers and stun grenades.
Although vows from some demonstrators to invade the Supreme Court never materialized, hostility toward the judiciary and Congress were also on display on the lamr marches on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach and a major avenue in Sao Paulo.
"The military needs to remove those that aren’t letting our president govern ‒ in the Supreme Court, in the Senate, all of them," said 70-year-old retiree Maria Aparecida, on Sao Paulo’s Avenida Paulista. "The Supreme Court doesn’t protect the constitution, so our military must."
The top court has authorized investigations of Bolsonaro and his allies, based on alleged attacks against Brazil’s democratic institutions. Bolsonaro has derided the Supreme Court investigations of his allies as violations of political freedoms. The court probes prompted police to question an ex-adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... in Brasilia on Tuesday.
"From now on I won’t accept one or two people acting outside the constitution," Bolsonaro told supporters on Tuesday morning, echoing his recent criticism of certain Supreme Court justices, before he donned the presidential sash and rode in an open Rolls Royce to a military event marking Independence Day.
Congress and the courts also resisted Bolsonaro’s attempt to introduce paper voting receipts as a backup to an electronic voting system which he says is vulnerable to fraud. The electoral court maintains the system is transparent and safe.
’UNSAFE AND UNCERTAIN’
Bolsonaro’s critics say he is sowing doubts so he can challenge the results of next year’s election, which opinion polls now show him losing dramatically to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Neither has confirmed his candidacy.
Bolsonaro supporter Paulo Roberto Silva, a 55-year-old retired Air Force official at the march in Rio, said next year’s election was "unsafe and uncertain" and suggested Bolsonaro should not accept the result if Lula wins.
Bolsonaro said on Friday the demonstrations will be an ultimatum to judges who had taken what he called "unconstitutional" decisions against his government.
The tensions between Bolsonaro and Brazil’s highest court snagged U.S. allies on Tuesday when Brazilian police questioned former Trump advisor and conservative social network entrepreneur Jason Miller for three hours.
A lawyer for Miller, who had attended Conservative Political Action Conference summit organized by one of Bolsonaro’s sons, said he chose to remain silent.
After touring the march in Brasilia, the president departed on a flight to Sao Paulo, where he was set to join a gathering of supporters that he has billed as the biggest political rally in Brazilian history.
Many leftist leaders have urged their followers to avoid festivities by skipping counter-demonstrations on Tuesday in favor of larger anti-Bolsonaro protests on Sept. 12. Still, some opposition groups went ahead with a downtown Sao Paulo march.
[France24] The Nazis began their siege of Leningrad on September 8, 1941 — trying to starve the USSR's second-largest city into submission just a few months after launching their invasion of the country in Operation Barbarossa. For 872 days, the inhabitants of this industrial centre (now known by its original name, Saint Petersburg), went through hell as hunger, cold and bombardments killed nearly a million people. FRANCE 24 looks back at the siege, 80 years on.
The simple statements of the extraordinary 11-year-old diarist Tania Savitcheva capture best the helplessness in Leningrad: "Jenia died on December 28 at midnight. Grandma died on January 25 at three in the afternoon. Leka died on March 5 at five in the morning. The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Tania is all alone."
Evacuated before the end of the siege, Savitcheva died of exhaustion on July 1, 1944. She became a symbol of this 872-day siege — the longest in modern history until that of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996 — after her elder sister Nina, who had managed to escape the surrounded city, discovered and published the diary.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] China has expressed concern about NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ’s assertions about an alleged nuclear threat from Beijing, stressing that the country is not involved in any arms race and its nuclear activities are for national security purposes."China is gravely concerned about and firmly opposes the ’China nuclear threat theory’ NATO has been hyping up lately. China follows a self-defensive nuclear strategy, with nuclear forces always kept at the minimum level required to safeguard national security," Chinese Foreign Ministry front man Wang Wenbin told a news briefing in the capital, Beijing, on Tuesday.
"We are committed to no first use of nuclear weapons at any time or under any circumstances and pledge unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states or nuclear-weapon-free zones. China has never taken part in any form of the nuclear arms race, nor has it deployed nuclear weapons overseas," Wang added.
The remarks came after NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged China at a NATO conference a day earlier to join international efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and said Beijing’s nuclear capability allegedly lacked transparency.
Stoltenberg also claimed that China was rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, including through large-scale building of new nuclear missile silos.
Wang said China posed no threat to any country unless it was targeted or threatened, saying, "No country will be threatened or should feel threatened by China’s national defense capability as long as it does not intend to threaten or harm China’s illusory sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity."
Wang hit out at NATO for its lack of nuclear transparency, saying the alliance should abandon the policy for the sake of arms control and avoiding nuclear conflicts.
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South Korea has successfully test-fired a homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a new submarine to become the world's eighth country to possess the weapon, sources said Tuesday.https://t.co/24xLb0fSqc
Commentary by Neil Thomas, China analyst with the Wapo:
Some of them:
Wang Haijiang was previously commander of Xinjiang Military District, Tibet MD & deputy of South Xinjiang MD & fought in Vietnam war. Big focus on ethnic & border areas.
Wang is only 58 this year & made Lieutenant General rank in 2019, so he's one to watch if he does a good job.
Chang Dingqiu promoted to Commander of PLA Air Force
Previously deputy chief of staff at Joint Staff Dept of Central Military Commission.
Chang is 54. Chinese media say this makes him the youngest PLA General EVER. One day he could be a CMC vice chair on the Politburo.
Lin Xiangyang promoted to Commander of Central Theater Command, headquartered in Beijing.
Previously commander of ground forces in Eastern Theater, which oversees Taiwan missions.
Lin is only 57 this year and was only promoted to Lieutenant General last year. Rising star.
Xu Xueqiang promoted to President of PLA National Defense University.
Previously air force commander of the Northern Theater, which oversees Korean Peninsula, Russia, Mongolia issues.
Xu is 59 this year and made the last rank only two years ago so also kinda a rising star.
Dong Jun promoted to Commander of PLA Navy.
Previously deputy commander of PLAN and of Southern Theater Command, which oversees South China Sea.
Official sources don't give his age but he was at the vice admiral rank since 2018 before making admiral, so not as fast a rise
It's not yet clear if the generals these rising stars replaced have new roles.
But it seems like experience with Taiwan, SCS, border areas, and CMC are good ways to get promoted.
Which suggests the importance of territorial issues and political reform in CCP military thinking.
#2
So first the capitalists, then the celebrities, now the generals... Xi-Xi's playbook is pretty plain. "Meet the new Mao, same as the old Mao." Wonder if he like little girls, too?
The damage to Cargill's grain export terminal at Reserve, LA alone takes out 9% of the US' export capacity, with 47% of that terminal's '21 output going to China (per @business reporting).
#5
TFSM: You could get you a jon boat and go on a tour of the Atchafalaya Basin, if you wanted some 'interesting' stories. Me, I'll sit over here south of Houston and get intermittent reports from some people we know in Beau Bridge. They say it's a freakin disaster.
Exciting events are best viewed from a distance.
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#6
Confucius say, "Man of Reserve
Make homecoming, cooking with verve,"
[bam!] "Serving in haste
Many Han of good taste,
Though ingredients often unnerve."
#7
"This dish from old lady in Houma
Have strangely familiar aroma..."
[lifts lid off of pot]
"Man, this shit sure is--" [clang]
"Oh, okay, so I lie... it from Goma."
#1
When was the first thorium reactor made?
While it has been around since the 1950s (and an experimental 10MW LFTR did run for five years during the 1960s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, though using uranium and plutonium as fuel) it is still a next generation nuclear technology – theoretical.Jun 23, 2011
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.
