Summer fun! [NYPOST] At least 13 people were shot, stabbed or struck by fleeing cars at a massive street party in Syracuse early Sunday, police and a local report said. And a wonderful time was had by all.
Hundreds of people were gathered on the 100 block of Davis Street in the city’s west side when gunfire rang out at 12:22 a.m., Syracuse police spokesman Lt. Matthew Malinowski said in a press release.
Police said four people were shot, six were stabbed or cut and three who were hit by vehicles driving away from the mayhem, police said.
The injured included three men and 10 women ranging in age from 17 to 25. All were expected to survive, Malinowski said.
Victims were either found at the scene or at area hospitals, Malinowski added.
The crowd had gathered for a block party advertised on social media, Syracuse.com reported. A neighbor told the outlet a fight broke out just before midnight, but ended quickly, before another scuffle erupted about 20 minutes later — and dozens of gunshots rang out.
Those shot included: a 17-year-old girl hit in the hip and midsection; a 20-year-old woman struck in the hip; a 20-year-old man hit in the forearm and a 22-year-old woman hit in the abdomen.
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Can gunfire PLEASE not "ring out"? Please?
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The little corner store in the photos at the link is Yusuf Market, LLC, which may or may not indicate the ethnicity of the community.
According to Zillow, properties in the 100 block of Davis street are freestanding wooden houses built in the early 1920s and broken up into apartments selling — or failing to sell — between $6,000 and $50,000, though both Zillow and the Syracuse tax department value them higher. Lots of empty lots priced upward of $1,000. One can see that it was originally a very pleasant neighbourhood.
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I lived in Cleveland for 4 years in the late 70s and it was a garden spot compared to Rochester / Syracuse / Erie.
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One man's chaotic mayhem is another man's live action role-play of Grand Theft Auto.
Back in the day, we used to have Renaissance Festivals with jousting and personal combat. It was a kinder gentler time, when people wore onions on their belts.
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"Goodhusband, you wouldn't believe
Who I saw... 'twas the wife of the reeve,
Drunk, outside of the gaol
With a leek at her tail,
'Neath her wimple a wilted-ass weave!
'Twas all askew, like. Shallots, sayeth she. Sure, and I'm the Queen of Sheba! Scallions. Probably not even organic."
[The Western Journal] Country Music Hall of Fame member Garth Brooks has thrown himself into the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney controversy this last week.
Brooks recently announced in an interview with Billboard that he will unapologetically be serving Bud Light as one of the beverages at his new bar opening up in Nashville, Tennessee, soon.
WhiskeyRiff covers the full interview here.
The Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk bar is ironically named as Brooks will apparently only consider you a friend if you support the moral depravity of transgenderism and companies like Anheuser-Busch who propagate it.
In the interview, he not only supported the decision to sell Bud Light but also referred to anyone boycotting the product as "a**holes" that should seek out other bars in the lower Broadway area.
The predictable backlash from former Brooks fans was swift as thousands took to Twitter to voice their outrage with the singer; many promising to dispose of his music and boycott any future concerts.
One wrote, "Now I delete every Garth Brooks song from my collection. NEVER AGAIN GARTH!"....
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Garth is learning the F around and find out rule applies to the rich country stars too!
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Garth has always been little more than a country lite kind of singer. I'll always have fun memories of singing "Friends in Low Places" with my army buddies, but I have no love for this idiot beyond that.
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Not a country fan by any stretch but Garth always seemed to me a pop music country sort; definitely not in the Johnny Cash mold. This bar opening of his will go very badly - talk about an inability to read public sentiment.
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If your low place is the concessions line for Bud Lite, your friends are imaginary ones.
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I thought we agreed not to post the picture of that ... thing.
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I say good for Garth! As that fat commie Mao said, "Let a thousand malted beverages bloom." Choice is good. So do offer it unapologetically. Just don't expect to sell a lot.
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Garth got too popular for his own good and lost track of himself and who got him there. In trying to please everyone (especially those who never liked him) he now stands alone. Lesson there somewhere.
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The entire point of celebrity is "being celebrated." I have seen the need to be liked ruin a person.
I wake up glad every morning that I really don't care what most people think of me.
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The common wisdom is that 60% of bars and restaurants fail within the first year, 80% within five years. Those bars that survive make money hand over fist.
On the other hand, he’s opening the thing in Nashville, which is a loudly Progressive city full of loudly Progressive musicians, so his positioning may be a benefit rather than a drawback for the bar even as he loses fans nationwide.
Bud Light is not a beer.
The person in the picture is not a woman.
Perfect match.
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30+ years ago he sang some great songs. Then he got divorced, married Trisha Yearwood and mostly disappeared while getting fatter. He's irrelevant to the generation that buys music today.
[LifeSiteNews] While the mainstream media continues to point to 'climate change' as the source of the wildfires, reports show that multiple people have been arrested in connection with dozens of intentionally set fires in the country.
Despite the arrest of multiple arsonists, the mainstream media in Canada seems intent on attributing the nation’s recent wildfires to "climate change."
As wildfires continue to spread across western, and now central and eastern Canada, burning forestland and homes, the mainstream media continues to imply that climate change is the main culprit, despite a growing number of reports showing that arsonists have been arrested for allegedly setting dozens of fires.
"Several arsonists have been arrested in the past weeks in different provinces for lighting forest fires," People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier tweeted. "But the lying woke media and politicians keep repeating that global warming is the cause."
Several arsonists have been arrested in the past weeks in different provinces for lighting forest fires. But the lying woke media and politicians keep repeating that global warming is the cause. https://t.co/rdZsnG9b6F
The severe nature of the wildfires has caused Canadians to wonder why they have spread so rapidly, especially as many of the affected areas are not typically impacted by wildfires of this degree or at this time of the year....
[AyPee] When Esmita Spudes Bidari was a young girl in Nepal, she dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn’t a real option in her country.
Last week, she raised her right hand and took the oath to join the U.S. Army Reserves, thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who also is Nepalese and reached out to her through an online group.
Bidari, who heads to basic training in August, is just the latest in a growing number of legal migrants enlisting in the U.S. military as it more aggressively seeks out immigrants, offering a fast track to citizenship to those who sign up.
Struggling to overcome recruiting shortfalls, the Army and the Air Force have bolstered their marketing to entice legal residents to enlist, putting out pamphlets, working social media and broadening their outreach, particularly in inner cities. One key element is the use of recruiters with similar backgrounds to these potential recruits.
“It is one thing to hear about the military from locals here, but it is something else when it’s from your fellow brother, from the country you’re from,” said Bidari, who was contacted by Army Staff Sgt. Kalden Lama, the Dallas recruiter, on a Facebook group that helps Nepalese people in America connect with one another. “That brother was in the group and he was recruiting and he told me about the military.”
The military has had success in recruiting legal immigrants, particularly among those seeking a job, education benefits and training as well as a quick route to becoming an American citizen. But they also require additional security screening and more help filling out forms, particularly those who are less proficient in English.
Both the Army and the Air Force say they will not meet their recruiting goals this year, and the Navy also expects to fall short. Pulling more from the legal immigrant population may not provide large numbers, but any small boosts will help. The Marine Corps is the only service on pace to meet its goal.
The shortfalls have led to a wide range of new recruiting programs, ad campaigns and other incentives to help the services compete with often higher-paying, less risky jobs in the private sector. Defense leaders say young people are less familiar with the military, are drawn more to corporate jobs that provide similar education and other benefits, and want to avoid the risk of injury and death that service in defense of the United States could bring. In addition, they say that little more than 20% meet the physical, mental and character requirements to join.
“We have large populations of legal U.S. residents who are exceptionally patriotic, they’re exceptionally grateful for the opportunities that this country has provided,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, head of the service’s recruiting command.
Last October, the Army reestablished a program for legal permanent residents to apply for accelerated naturalization once they get to basic training. Recruiters began to reach out on social media, using short videos in various languages to target the top 10 countries that recruits had come from during the previous year.
The Air Force effort began this year, and the first group of 14 graduated from basic training and were sworn in as new citizens in April. They included recruits from Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, the Philippines, Russia and South Africa. As of mid-May there were about 100 in basic training who had begun the citizenship process and about 40 who had completed it.
Thomas said the program required changes to Air Force policy, coordination with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a careful screening process to ensure there are no security risks.
“We have to take exceptional measures to be able to thoroughly vet and go through the security clearance investigation,” he said, adding that in many cases the immigrants are not immediately put in jobs that require top secret clearance.
Under the new program, recruits are quickly enrolled in the citizenship system and when they start basic training, an expedited process kicks off, including all required paperwork and testing. By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.
The first group of 14 included several who are seeking various medical jobs, while another wants to be an air transportation specialist. Thomas said Airman 1st Class Natalia Laziuk, 31, emigrated from Russia nine years ago, has dreamed of being a U.S. citizen since she was 11, and learned about the military by watching American movies and television.
“Talking to this young airman, she essentially said, ‘I just wanted to be useful to my country,’” he said. “And that’s a story that we see played over and over and over again. I’ve talked to a number of these folks around the country. They’re hungry to serve.”
For Bidari, who arrived in the U.S. in 2016 to attend college, the fast track to citizenship was important because it will make it easier for her to travel and bring her parents to the United States to visit. Speaking in a call from Chicago just a day after she was sworn in, she said she enlisted for six years and hopes that her future citizenship will help her become an officer.
In Chicago earlier this year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth heard from a number of recruiters about the increased outreach to immigrant communities and how it helped them meet their numbers. In the 2022 budget year, they said, the Chicago recruiting battalion enlisted 70 legal permanent residents and already this year they have enlisted 62.
More broadly across the Army, close to 2,900 enlisted during the first half of this budget year, compared with about 2,200 during the same period the previous year. The largest numbers are from Jamaica, with 384, followed by Mexico, the Philippines and Haiti, but many are from Nepal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
“As a little girl, looking at the soldiers, I always had admiration for them,” said Bidari, recalling British troops in Nepal. “Yesterday, when I was able to take that oath ... I don’t think I have words to really explain how I was feeling. When they said, ‘Welcome future soldier,’ I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is happening.’”
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Legal immigrants. Only legal immigrants. Right? None of those military age illegal immigrants who waded across the Rio Grande. Right? Biden wouldn't do that. Would he?
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Didn’t we accidentally train a bunch of Taliban in that type of program?
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Legal immigrants. Only legal immigrants. Right?
You must have a green card. Filipinos could join the US Navy direct from the Philippines w/o a green card but that program ended when the US military left the Philippines.
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The Philippines recruiting was a legacy from when Filipinos were the a large fraction of stewards on Navy ships then expanded to other Navy billets. The Navy could recruit the cream of Filipinos. Met a few when growing up.
[NYP] President Joe Biden’s administration is receiving backlash online over its Pride Month display at the White House on Sunday as many Twitter users are saying it violates the US Flag Code.
Biden celebrated the LGBT community in a post Saturday, revealing a set of flags hanging from the White House that faced the South Lawn.
The display includes a rainbow-colored Pride flag flanked by two American flags.
Twitter users argue the display violates a section of the US Flag Code that mandates the American flag be in the center of any display featuring multiple national flags or pennants.
"To advance revolutionary transgender agenda targeting children, Biden violates basic tenet of US Flag Code and disrespects every American service member buried under its colors," wrote Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
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Absolutely no disrespect to POW/MIA's or anyone else, but we all know how this got started, to include the altering of stripe colors.
Make no mistake. Removing prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance from the classroom along with the removal of patriotic statuary were the initial steps. Removing the patriotic symbol of Old Glory is the intended outcome.
[AFRICANEWS] A US-based aid group said that approximately $900,000 was stolen from its Congo programs by members of the organization who conspired with outsiders.
GiveDirectly said that it learned that people on its Congo team worked with people outside the organization to defraud the cash transfer program, diverting aid from more than 1,700 impoverished families over six months, starting in August 2022.
"This fraud was only possible because of a specific change we made in our payment process in order to work in this remote, insecure region of (Congo)," according to the statement from Monday. "We feel deep regret for not catching this sooner and take seriously the vulnerabilities it exposed," it said.
GiveDirectly added that an investigation was ongoing and that it was able to recover "a very small portion of the lost funds," but the majority of the $900,000 will likely be "uncoverable." But the group is working to ensure that families impacted by the fraud get their money.
Roughly 1% of money delivered last year was lost to fraud, the highest amount to date, GiveDirectly said.
'DEVELOPMENT SECTOR TARGET FOR CORRUPTION' Eastern Congo, where the group operates, has experienced conflict for decades. About 120 gangs are fighting in the region mostly for land and control of mines with valuable minerals, while some groups are trying to protect their communities. More than 5.5 million people are displaced in Congo, and more than 26 million are facing hunger, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... The decades-long crisis and a lack of development have fueled an environment ripe for corruption among aid organizations, analysts say.
"It is unsurprising that the development sector is a target for corruption given its prominent role in the country’s economy. Billions of development dollars flow into (Congo) every year and it is likely that a sizeable portion of this is lost to corruption," Benjamin Hunter, Africa analyst for risk assessment firm Verisk Maplecroft, said Tuesday (June 6).
GiveDirectly delivers cash transfers globally, delivering more than $650 million to people in roughly a dozen countries, the majority in Africa. It provides aid through mobile money, a technology to send and receive funds using a SIM card, which it says avoids many forms of fraud. Once the money's deposited, people can withdraw the cash at a mobile money station.
While the group normally registers people with an independent money agent, gives them SIM cards and deposits funds on it, due to the insecurity in eastern Congo's South Kivu province, where it was operating, GiveDirectly said it made an exception to it’s normal procedures.
Instead of people registering with independent mobile agents, which often meant making them travel long distances, the group used its own enrollment team.
"We now know that while enrolling villages in South Kivu, some staff conspired to register payment SIMs to the recipients’ names (per the special exception granted), pocket those registered SIMs, and put different SIMs in recipients’ phones," the organization said. GiveDirect sent cash transfers to the registered SIM cards, many of which had been stolen by the staff, who with outside help from money agents and former employees, diverted funds intended for people in need, it said.
Give Directly said that the case was concerning for three reasons: "the scale of the fraud, at the expense of people in extreme poverty", "the number of our own team members who participate" and "the failure of our systems to prevent it."
The group said it has no reason to suspect this fraud extends beyond its eastern Congo programs.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... an investigation by The New Humanitarian said that another of the organization's programs was being audited in one of its sub-Saharan Africa operations. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named couldn't independently verify the allegation.
GiveDirectly told the AP that "full checks have been done on all other countries and programs and have revealed no other signs of significant fraud."
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Nothing has change since 1965, and possibly long before. Nothing there will likely ever change. Thieves and cut-throats simply being thieves and cut-throats.
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An Italian politician invites his Greek politician friend over for a visit. The Greek pulls up in front of an elegant manor house and is welcomed by the staff. He walks in through a foyer with marble floors and a huge marble staircase with ornamental banisters and a crystal chandelier. They walk through to a lovely veranda overlooking the river, and sit down to eat.
The Greek is very impressed with everything and asks "How did you manage to get this place?"
The Italian points to a shoddy concrete bridge over the river and says "See that bridge over there? It was supposed to be a steel suspension bridge, but we found a lower bidder to build that one instead, and with all the extra money I was able to buy this!" The Greek compliments his friend on the house, they finish a delicious meal while talking about various politics, and the next day they part ways.
Several months later the Greek invites the Italian over. The Italian arrives at an enormous estate with a marble facade. He walks in to see an even bigger staircase, and a banister and chandelier that are trimmed in 24 karat gold! They sit down for a meal on a huge terrace with a staggering view of the harbor.
The Italian is completely blown away, so he asks his friend "How on earth did you afford this place? It's fantastic!"
The Greek says "Well, see that bridge over there?"
The Italian says "What bridge?"
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Guy needs a forensic financial investigation annually, at unannounced intervals.
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“When I undertook the task of independent special rapporteur on foreign interference, my objective was to help build trust in our democratic institutions,"
Perhaps, they should replace him with a person whose objective is to investigate cases of foreign interference in Canadian elections.
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Something is / is not trustworthy because it can / cannot be trusted. PR campaigns have nothing to do with it.
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Perhaps Johnston was sacked because he could not keep a proper lid on the Chinese meddling.
[Insider] If you think former President Donald Trump is finally, really, actually, but for real this time, about to face justice — hold on just one moment.
He may have an easy out.
Yes, it sounds like this new indictment against Trump is a pretty strong one. Even Fox News's top legal commenter thinks so. He called it "extremely damning." And we're not seeing nearly as much skepticism as we saw after New York attorney general Alvin Bragg's indictment, either.
But one former federal prosecutor turned high-end defense attorney, Ken White, sees a quick path out of trouble for Trump.
He said all Trump needs is a judge completely in the tank for him — a judge who is willing to sacrifice their reputation in order to protect him.
White thinks Trump might get one: Judge Aileen Cannon.
As my colleagues, including Kimberly Leonard, reported Friday, Cannon was widely criticized last year when she ruled that an independent arbiter would have to review all the documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
The Department of Justice appealed the decision and was rewarded with a brutal rebuke of Cannon by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The smackdown was particularly notable because it came from a panel of judges that included several appointed by Republicans.
In addition to being a fancy defense lawyer, White also co-hosts a legal podcast with Josh Barro called "Serious Trouble."
Reflecting on Cannon's ruling to appoint an independent arbiter (called a "special master") and other decisions she made handling the government's investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, Barro mentioned to White on the podcast that Cannon has shown a "willingness to behave in a way that most judges likely would not, even if they were partisan Republicans."
"Sure," White replied. "She's willing to violate the Meat Loaf Rule: I'll do anything for love. But I won't do that."
White says that there are usually a "number of factors" that smooth even partisan judges out and move them "into the middle."
He listed a few: "Their relationship with other colleagues, their reputation, their hopes to be elevated to a higher bench, their place in history, you know, cocktail parties, opinion of lawyers, all that sort of thing. "
"But sometimes," White said, "Judges just don't give a shit and Judge Cannon's behavior in this case in the past was several very long strides in this direction of don't give a shit."
White suspects Cannon may be imagining what she might be able to get out of a second Trump presidency.
"You have a situation where it is not even remotely difficult to imagine: Her acquitting Trump, Trump getting elected, Trump elevating her to the 11th Circuit or the Supreme Court. He would totally do it. His fans would be completely fine with it. And it would be just a giant middle finger to the country. And I mean, he would do it."
So how, exactly, could Cannon protect Trump and end this case against him in a moment?
"She can delay things forever by making rulings that can't be appealed. She can make rulings that while they don't tank the case, make it very difficult, like excluding evidence by saying evidence was wrongfully gathered," White said. "And that can be something that has a very unfavorable standard on appeal."
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Few things concern American citizens more than the steady encroachment of the federal government on our constitutionally protected liberty. WB Yeats’ words aptly describe the way millions of Americans feel about their own government: “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” The federal government seems to have no mechanism of self-restraint. We feel suffocated by its excesses.
It is appropriate in this context to celebrate the passage of SCR 21, Senator Stewart Cathey’s Joint Concurrent Resolution. SCR 21, passed in both chambers this yesterday, affirms Louisiana’s sovereign constitutional right “to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government.”
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Louisiana is an enigma to me. Sometimes they do stuff that makes sense to me with respect to freedom. Other times I tune in an find guys like Bel Grande Taco Brain running their state. It is puzzling.
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With respect to the Declaration of Independence and all that first round stuff, sure, But how does it fit under the US Constitution, which is functionally a treaty between the various states to create a federal government, thus superseding previous agreements?
[DailyWire] Police in Michigan are investigating the discovery of roughly 300 absentee ballots from the 2020 election that were found in a storage locker.
The ballots were discovered in a storage locker in Thetford Township in August 2022 but just disclosed after the town’s supervisor, Rachel Stanke, filed a freedom of information request and discussed the findings at a municipal meeting this week. The ballots, which were found in a locker owned by the deputy town clerk, appear to mostly be spoiled ballots, Michigan State Police said.
Stanke, who was tipped off in 2021 that some absentee ballots might be missing, said that it was important to bring the discovery to light so citizens could trust future elections.
If you vote in person, your absentee ballot won’t be lost...
"That’s why I want to bring this to their attention," she said, according to Michigan News Source. "And I want them to be able to make sure that their elections are run fairly and smoothly."
With spoiled absentee ballots, voters could be sent a new one or go pick one up. "Say they didn’t receive their ballot or they lost it or their dog ate it. They would have to come into the township and write a letter I believe show their ID and be issued a new ballot," Stanke said.
The Michigan attorney general’s office will decide if any criminal charges need to be filed or if any laws were broken, according to ABC 12 News. The investigation by Michigan State Police is still ongoing.
Stanke said that the ballots had been accidentally stored at the facility by a former city employee.
"She was not aware when she was asked to store them in there. She thought they were old township documents," she said.
Members of the community want assurances that there will be more oversight about how and where ballots are stored.
"Now this is all coming out and ... I’m kind of happy that it’s coming out because the election is right around the corner again," said Katie Hicks, a candidate for township clerk in 2020 who lost by just 19 votes. "And it concerns me that this will take place again for 2024."
Thetford Township, a town of about 7,000 people, is located just north of Flint, Michigan.
[Blacklisted News - PJ Media if you pay] Bill Gates’ Colombian ’mosquito factory’ is breeding 30 million bacteria-infected mosquitos per week. The project’s objective appears to be to introduce Wolbachia into native mosquito populations by employing lab-bred mosquitoes, resulting in the infection of such populations.
In a plant in Colombia, Bill Gates is currently producing 30 million bacterially-infected mosquitoes every week and he has threatened to "scale and deliver" the mosquitoes to "communities around the world."
As part of his World Mosquito Program (WMP), the Microsoft founder and self-declared World Health Czar has already invested $185 million in the establishment of the mosquito factory.
What is the project’s stated purpose? In order to eradicate native mosquito populations thought to be responsible for dengue, zika, and other viral illnesses in humans, it is necessary to utilize mosquitoes that are infected with a bacteria that induces sterility.
Gates, whose unethical "cervical cancer vaccine" trials have drawn criticism from the Indian Parliament, uploaded the video below to his YouTube channel. In the description of the video, Gates provides a broad overview of how the WMP operation in Medelln—the location highlighted in the marketing gimmick—breeds mosquitos with the bacteria Wolbachia on purpose before releasing them "across the country to breed with wild mosquitos that can carry dengue and other viruses threatening to sicken and kill the population."
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Massive tinkering with a natural biosphere. Good thing it's not a complex ecosystem or anything. What could possibly go wrong? Let's hope it works better than his operating system.
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We already release billions of irradiated (sterile) mosquitos every year. Bacterial infection is another pathway to spread a self sustaining wave of sterility in the mating mosquito population. There is no genetic modification to the mosquitos or bacteria and this article is misleading and scaremongering.
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Bacterial pesticides have been sprayed on crops for 100 years. Also used to kill mosquitos. You can even buy a bottle from the hardware or feed store.
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WMP does not appear to provide readily robust proof that Wolbachia does not negatively impact people’s health—specifically, their reproductive health
Maybe you missed the embedded TED talk about 'gene drive', Enver.
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Evolution drives toward survival of the fittest. Eventually the surviving mosquitoes will develop resistance to the bacteria, just as they do to pesticides. That doesn't mean "super" mosquitoes evolve, only resistant to that agent. New biological and chemical pesticides will be developed, just as there are with human infectious agents. It's a race and human intelligence is faster than biological evolution.
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As far as affecting peoples' health, give a source. The article mentioned inflammation in cats and dogs but nematode infection will do that by itself.
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.
[NYPOST] At least 13 people were shot, stabbed or struck by fleeing cars at a massive street party in Syracuse early Sunday, police and a local report said.
Anarchist Handbook in need of updating ? 
[The Western Journal] Country Music Hall of Fame member 
[LifeSiteNews] While the mainstream media continues to point to 'climate change' as the source of the wildfires, reports show that multiple people have been arrested in connection with dozens of intentionally set fires in the country.
