[Daily Mail] A member of the famous Rothschild family is understood to have died in a housefire in the Hollywood Hills last night.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a blaze the 8500 block of Lookout Mountain Avenue in the Hollywood Hills around 4:40 p.m. PT on Wednesday.
Approximately 45 firefighters took just 33 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the fire within the two-story ascending hillside home.
The flames were confined to the first floor of the two-story hillside home, and prevented from extending to vegetation or nearby residential structures, the department said.
Upon arrival, fire fighters discovered a deceased elder adult male on the premises whose cause of death is under investigation by the Los Angles County Medical Examiner's Office.
Neighbors told KABC he was Will Rothschild, a member of the prominent British German banking family.
Rothschild was described as reclusive millionaire who multiple properties and dozens of expensive cars.
Some neighbors said they assumed the house was vacant because they had never seen him, and those who did know him were sadden by the news.
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It speaks to the man who died, that the story about his death in the Daily Mail is mostly about his more illustrious relations.
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[KFSN] Fresno County health officials have confirmed that a person has died from rabies.
The Public Health Department says it believes the patient was bitten by a bat in Merced County.
The patient, identified as 60-year-old Leah Seneng, was a teacher at Byrant Middle School in Dos Palos.
[A friend] said Leah found a bat in her classroom.
"I don't know if she thought it was dead or what cause it was laying around her classroom and she was trying to scoop it up and take it outside. She didn't wanna harm it. But that's when, I guess it woke up or saw the light or whatever it swooped around a bit and it took off." Apparently whether or not the victim believed she had been bitten is conjecture at that this point. Bats have very small teeth. Witnessed bat bites have been known to leave NO VISIBLE EVIDENCE of a bite immediately afterward.
Communications from various health authorities continue to be unclear about what to do in case of contact as described above. Basic principle: have nothing whatsoever to do with bats under any conditions, never even touch one. If you wake up in your bedroom some night & find a bat fluttering around, know that you could have just been bitten (no way to really be sure about that since the bites are so hard to detect).
One bit of advice after a possible bat bite is now in doubt. Teaching about what to do with a live bat in your house had been: capture the bat alive (without making contact with it, as if that were possible) and send it to a facility that can test the bat for rabies. If the bat tests negative, no post exposure treatment to prevent rabies is necessary. If the bat proves positive for rabies, initiate post exposure treatment. The time delay for this kind of testing adds no risk for the patient -- that was the reasoning used to justify the delay. Recently a middle aged man in the USA submitted a bat for testing. A day or so later the bat proved positive for rabies. The man THEN received rabies prophylaxis, and died of rabies anyway.
It is safest to seek medical attention for this kind of doubtful exposure to bats and to insist on prophylaxis even over the objection of the physician. A relative recently had a doubtful bite sustained while she was out on her lawn at night (no lighting, bare legged). She went to an urgent care center for prophylaxis. The physician examined her leg, found nothing, and said she would be better off waiting. She didn't agree and insisted on getting the prophylaxis. It was the only way to be sure.
A GoFundMe has been launched for the victim's funeral expenses. Inasmuch as she seemed to be at work during her bat episode, I would think her death should fall under the local workmen's compensation system.
Unfortunately the victim died of ignorance as well as rabies.
Now we all know. Thank you, Elmaper+McGurque1612, for informing us. Many years ago a bat somehow got into our house, which we discovered when the cats crashed into the walls of the upstairs hall trying to catch the silly, scared thing. We trapped it under a laundry basket and released it safely outside without incident — and without touching it — but it would have been tragic to have died without knowing why.
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In 1928 my aunt Janet opened a kitchen screen door one hot summer night, a bat flew straight in, collided with her forehead, then flew out as the door slammed shut. Janet fell backwards onto the kitchen floor, then got up. No visible injury at first, then she got a large bruise on her forehead. Weeks later she developed a bad headache, spasms in her throat, then confusion. She was dead within a week or two. My mother and my grandmother both witnessed the incident. Grandmother was very upset and said this was a terrible "omen". Mother remembered how Janet's symptoms progressed. Years later I figured out rabies was the culprit. AFAICT none at the time knew bats could transmit rabies this way. None would have considered getting Janet rabies prophylaxis which was available even then.
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[Regnum] Strong magnetic storms are predicted on Earth on November 28 and 29. This was reported on the website of the IKI and ISTP solar astronomy laboratory.
It is noted that a weak magnetic storm of level G1 is expected late in the evening of November 28. After 06:00 Moscow time on November 29, a stronger six-point wave of level G2 will hit the Earth, which will continue until 12:00 Moscow time.
At the same time, according to the forecast for December, after the storm on November 29, the Earth’s magnetosphere will be in a calm state almost until the end of the year.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in early October, a level X flare occurred on the Sun, which caused a plasma ejection in the direction of the Earth and a magnetic storm. According to scientists, this occurred exactly along the Sun-Earth line, while the geometric dimensions of the ejection exceeded possible calculation errors.
Later, on October 28, a plasma cloud with a speed of about 600 km/s and a temperature of about 700 thousand degrees reached the Earth. Two active spots 3842 and 3848 are on the side of the Sun visible from the Earth, which caused powerful magnetic storms at the beginning of the month.
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Wonder how many never do a level Zero bkup? And if they do, bother to place the portable USB 3.0 bkup drive in a shielded container with a laptop and extra batteries?
Level Zero / Full Bkup using Karens Power tools Replicator - Freeware Bkup S/W.
SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive
< -$90 then placed in ziplock vinyl freezer bag and placed in the secure container.
5 gallon Metal Trash Can (Big Box stores) $25-$30.
The inside sprayed with Flex Seal MAX Rubber Sealant Coating. Lid to Can is sealed, using Flex Seal Tape $15.00
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Don't forget the whole-building Faraday Shield.
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The challenge in prepping for a true Carrington event: "My car's remote works just fine. I saved it!" But of course, the car doesn't work ... and neither does the internet, cell phone network, power grid and a whole bunch of other things. So ... buying hand tools might be your better option if what you want is functionality.
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I assume my personal engineer will survive without needing to be wrapped in tinfoil and grounded, Chicago Lurker. As long as I have him, everything else can be created from first principles. ;-)
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I have been inspired by the discussion to search out a stout Faraday cage equivalent to store my spare Lenovo Thinkpad, its external SSD, and a charger. Up until now they've just been sitting on a shelf waiting for the right magnetic storm or EMP strike.
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On the very rare occasions of a power failure, the first thing I do is turn on one of my vulnerable battery powered radios & search for a local signal. I would know trouble if I could find nothing over the air. This might indicate something more sinister than a mere power failure.
Got to add a battery power amateur radio handy-talkie to my Faraday box.
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Costco is offering a 2TB Sandisk Extreme GO (not 'Pro') SSD for just $110 as a holiday special. This beats any other 2TB device of that quality anywhere (at the moment).
[FOX] In some of Alaska’s remotest areas this Thanksgiving, there’s a different kind of bird in the sky — a frozen turkey dropped for residents unable to pick up their own for their holiday table.
Alaska native Esther Keim is now in her third straight year of the Alaska Turkey Bomb, a service in which she drops frozen turkeys from a small plane to remote areas of the south-central part of the state.
Keim told the Alaska Gear Company that she remembers living on an Alaskan homestead as a child.
BREAKING: Japanese prosecutors are vowing to ARREST Bill Gates if he ever steps foot in Japan again, alleging that he is "complicit in mass murder" for deceiving the public about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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If I remember well this nonsense was published on Rantburg a few weeks ago already. It's still nonsense. Don't believe all that "this is huge" stuff you read on X. This is not how Japan works.
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[FoxBusiness] The lawsuit targets the two airlines claiming they "operate about 80% of flights at Sea-Tac Airport, thereby causing most of the pollution"
A class action lawsuit against Alaska Air Group and Delta Air Lines about the effects of aircraft emissions near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is moving forward as plaintiffs allege that pollution has caused physical harm, death and property damage.
The lawsuit was allowed to move forward after a Seattle federal judge rejected the airlines' bid to have claims from Washington residents tossed, according to court documents.
Residents in the lawsuit described a five-mile radius around the airport as a "contamination zone."
❗️Chaos in Denmark - no mobile phone service, trains at a standstill. According to media reports, there has been a widespread failure of the mobile phone network in Denmark. The emergency call system is also said to have failed. The Danish railway is also out of service, trains…
[Breitbart] President-elect Donald Trump been rolling out his Cabinet picks in the days since his election victory against Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris.
Despite claims from Democrats that President-elect Donald Trump is never around "strong, intelligent women," he has, so far, selected ten fierce women for highly consequential positions within his Cabinet and administration.
The selections have been praised by many MAGA Republicans, who view them as people who will "disrupt the system." Trump’s Cabinet picks must go through the Senate confirmation process. However, the president-elect is pushing for recess appointments to avoid delaying the execution of his agenda when he returns to the White House.
Here are the ten women Trump has chosen so far to work in his administration:
1. Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles
2. White House Press Secretary: Karoline Leavitt
3. Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
4. Attorney General: Pam Bondi
5. Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD)
6. Ambassador to the United Nations: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
7. Secretary of Education: Linda McMahon
8. Secretary of Agriculture: Brooke Rollins
9. Secretary of Labor: Lori Chavez-DeRemer
10. Surgeon General: Dr. Janette Nesheiwat
[LI] A report was recently released on a fascinating new study on the impacts of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) policies.
According to actual science, implementing DEI results in many unintended consequences, none of which are suitable for businesses or their employees.
New research from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University reveals that some diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training methods may cause psychological harm.
The study, released on Monday, shows significant increases in hostility and punitive attitudes among participants exposed to DEI pedagogy covering subjects like race, religion and caste.
This hostile attribution bias may contribute to increased intergroup hostility and authoritarian behavior in the long run, according to study co-author and NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein.
"What we did was we took a lot of these ideas that were found to still be very prominent in a lot of these DEI lectures and interventions and training," said Finkelstein in an interview with Fox News Digital. "And we said, ’Well, how is this going to affect people?’ What we found is that when people are exposed to this ideology,
It appears that mainstream media outlets such as Bloomberg and The New York Times were poised to report on these findings but opted to remain silent on the harms caused by DEI.
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.
[LI] A report was recently released on a fascinating new study on the impacts of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) policies.
