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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bill and Melinda say they had no connection with Jeffrey Epstein (video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2020 10:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good point about the fact that Gates has his own plane, so why "Air Epstein", Bill, the food better? But, that can't be. Bill said he had "no connection".

Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  He went there for the seminars?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/22/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Advising on Epstein's home surveillance network setup?
Posted by: Herman Glolurong2335 || 08/22/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Gates seems like a creep and a Kinderschänder.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  What else was he supposed to say? "I walked up to her and asked if she wanted to meet Microsoft Bob?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Clandestine business meetings on foreign shores?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Gonna have to throw the bullshit flag on that one
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Isn't this the old "If you have do deny it..."?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/22/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||


Man arrested in stabbing as he faces charges in assault of conservative activist at UC-Berkeley
[FOXNEWS] The man accused of assaulting a conservative activist at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Berkeley last year in a case that garnered national headlines has been charged with stabbing a man riding a bicycle on a sidewalk over the weekend, Fox News has learned.

The new charges against Zachary Greenberg come as he continues to fight charges in the Berkeley case in an Alameda County court.

San Mateo deputies said Greenberg, 30, of El Cerrito, stabbed a bicyclist numerous times with a 4-inch pocket folding knife in Princeton-by-the-Sea Sunday.

"The victim reported that a male subject got into a physical altercation with him over an argument related to him riding his bicycle on the sidewalk," Sgt. James Goulart said in a news release.

The victim went to the hospital, where he was listed in stable, pH balanced condition.

Minutes after the stabbing deputies stopped a vehicle with Greenberg in the passenger seat and arrested him on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

"The identity of the suspect and the vehicle were confirmed by witnesses on scene," Goulart said. "The knife that was used in the assault was located."

Greenberg told deputies his last name was spelled Greenburg.

Related: Berkeley assault suspect's higher ed employment history more extensive than first thought
Hayden Williams' attorney: Greenberg previously involved in 'almost a dozen lawsuits'
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Oregon sniper suspect arrested in string of shootings
[FOXNEWS] A man suspected in a rash of shootings that began in May on Interstate 5 in Oregon was arrested Thursday, authorities said.

Kenneth Ayers, 49, was taken into custody in connection with a freeway shooting on Wednesday, the Oregon State Police said. He faces a slew of charges, including attempted murder, second-degree assault, and multiple counts each of reckless endangering, criminal mischief and unlawful use of a weapon.

Authorities believe Ayers is responsible for shooting more than a dozen vehicles on the freeway in Douglas, Josephine and Jackson counties.

During Wednesday's incident in Jackson County, a female motorist was shot while traveling north on the interstate that traverses Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Oregon and Washington.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whacked out truck driver.
Posted by: ex-almost whacked out truck driver || 08/22/2020 3:26 Comments || Top||


Lori Loughlin sentenced to two entire months for college admissions scandal
[PAGESIX] An angry federal judge sentenced Lori Loughlin to two months jail Friday — scolding the former "Full House" TV star for living a "fairy tale life" yet greedily grabbing "even more," by conspiring to pay a half-million-dollar bribe to get her daughters into the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, as fake rowing recruits.

"Here you are, an admired, successful professional actor with a long-lasting marriage," Boston federal Distict Judge Nathaniel Groton scolded in a virtual, Zoom sentencing that was part tongue-lashing, part wrist slap.

Loughlin enjoys "two apparently healthy, resilient children, more money than you could possibly need, a beautiful home in sunny, southern California," said Groton, who earlier Friday had sentenced the actress’s designer husband, Mossimo Giunnulli to five months for the same conspiracy.

"A fairytale life," the judge noted.

"Yet you stand before me a convicted felon. And for what? For the inexplicable desire to grab even more," he said.

"We can only hope that you will spent the rest of your charmed life, as you have said you will, making amends to the system you have harmed," he told Loughlin.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two months (two more seconds?) more than Jesse Smollett has spent behind bars.

But I ask: this is a crime? A felony? What a joke. If she had donated this money to a university endowment, would that have changed things?
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  If you're gonna bag & jail this woman for a crime, the others involved should meet the same fate.
Posted by: Raj || 08/22/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Tread Lovers: Nebraska State Patrol discovers military vehicle parked on the I-80 ramp after being abandoned by a trucking company following training exercise in California
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not sure what that is, but it's no tank, or even tank-like.

But that's ok, I'm sure the DM is going to absolutely nail everything right with their other articles.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/22/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like a utility vehicle of some sort.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/22/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  M60ALB - for bridging and and mine clearing (MICLC)
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/22/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4 

Daily Mail:
American militia purchase tanks, deploy across peaceful neighborhoods amid further calls for assault rifle ban.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/22/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Abandoning a car on the side of the road, maybe you can get away with it. Abandoning military vehicles, not so smart.
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Ran out of fuel on their way home from Sturgis?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/22/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  One has to wonder about the Unit Commander and PLatoon Leader who are hand receipt holders for this property, writ large, and how long before the property book Warrant Officer at the storage site asks where the paperwork is for the missing vehicle. Certainly, somebody had to haved asked, "...ummm, that AVLB, we got a delivery date from the shipper? " About now, as this made the news, a number of DoD and NGB reference checks, and the Office of the Adjutant General has asked some rather pointed questions. Careers and stripes are being taken even as we speak...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/22/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  No NMBS, it was in the hands of a transport contractor: look at the trailer it's sitting on.
Don't even have a 'US Trucks" sticker on it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
UK Officials Inflated COVID Hospital Numbers at Height of ‘Pandemic'
[DT via 21stCenturyWire] New evidence has emerged which shows that UK hospital admissions for COVID-19 were ’over-reported’ during the height of the crisis back in April. It seems that patients who were being taken in for other common illnesses were in fact being counted as ’COVID’ in the government’s statistical totals.

This latest embarrassing admission comes on the heels of other similar revelations of dubious record-keeping by the government — all of which have been pivotal in giving the false impression to the public that there were more COVID deaths than actually took place. Back in July, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to admit how data from Public Health England regarding coronavirus fatalities were being fraudulently recorded — effectively ’double counting’ their deaths, forcing the government officials to revise their totals downwards to reflect more realist numbers.

This latest ’COVID counting’ scandal in the area of hospital admissions shows why the these numbers are crucial in how government policies are sold to the public. Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University said, "The admissions data is a crucial point. I’d say it is more important than the death data because it is the best marker of the impact of the disease."

This widespread practice of exaggerating COVID casualty numbers appears to have aided the government in justifying its shaky position on to imposing draconian ’lockdown’ measures and school closures, as well as to hype the imminent release of a COVID ’miracle’ vaccine which the UK government has been developing in partnership with pharmaceutical firms like AstaZeneca and its vaccine financiers at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Telegraph reports...

Hospital admissions for Covid-19 were over-reported at the peak of the pandemic, with patients who were taken in for other illnesses being included in outbreak statistics, it has emerged.

An investigation for the Government’s Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) found that people were being counted as Covid hospital admissions if they had ever had the virus, and were added to those being admitted directly due to it.

Government figures show that, at the peak of the pandemic in early April, nearly 20,000 people a week were being admitted to hospital with coronavirus (see graph below), but the true figure is unknown because of the problem with over-counting....
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 09:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good to see they are going back and cleaning up their numbers. The surprise is that a national health system overwhelmed even under good conditions was able to collect enough data that it could be cleaned up at all.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||


Miami ICU nurse: I have never in my life seen so many deaths
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them -- the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus.

A 41-year-old ICU nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there gasps.

"The fear in their eyes when they can’t get enough air. They are so scared," he says, quietly. "Their eyes are big, desperate to get the oxygen and that makes me so sad."

He sits on their bed, grasps their hand, strokes their cheek and prays. Anything to soothe them.

"I know you cannot talk, but I’m going to talk to you," he tell them. "You have to be positive, you have to have faith that God is going to get you out of this."

Often, he ducks away to sob in the bathroom. It is a rare moment alone, when he can cast off the brave countenance.

Then he splashes water on his face and returns to the floor that has been his work home since March. While other nurses rotate in and out of the COVID-19 ICU unit to limit their exposure to the deadly virus, he’s asked to stay permanently.

It’s his calling.

"I’m here for them. This is what I was meant to do," says Ruiz.

"Many nurses have left. They don’t want to deal with it, they’re afraid, they’re scared, they see other people getting infected."

Full Coverage: Virus Outbreak
Miami-Dade County has been the epicenter of the state’s outbreak with about 2,000 deaths since March -- more than 20 percent of the state’s total. As Florida cases skyrocketed this summer, Miami hospitals were especially overloaded in the second half of July.

For Ruiz, his routine is the same every day. He prays in the car on the way to the hospital: "Dear God, this is your day, put me in your hands and help me do what you want me to do. This is your creation and let me help you out."

Then, he says, "I take a deep breath when I get out of the car and go to battle."

As many as 10 patients have died in his ward in a single week.

At one point, he started counting, "and then I stopped doing that because there were so many."

Right now, he can’t stop thinking about the 45-year-old father who has been intubated for more than two weeks, "seeing this young guy almost my age, just four years older than me ..."

His voice trails off. "We know he’s not going to make it."

The hardest part is watching them die alone.

Playing the role of family has become almost more important than his nursing responsibilities. He tried to distract an elderly patient from searching for virus treatments on the Internet by asking him questions about his work as an inspector for the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Ruiz could sense the retired man’s fear: "He was looking really, really sad and then that also made me cry that day." His condition deteriorated in less than a week, and he died.

He tries to connect patients with loved ones as much as possible through video chats. But ultimately, he’s the one bearing witness to their final breaths.

"I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month," he says. "The room gets empty and another patient comes in."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2020 08:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month

Never worked the 'clean up team' in Chicago, Baltimore, et al
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/22/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  In my mother’s final years she went to icu several times. When I sat with her it wasn’t unusual to see a body rolled out. A lot of people died in icu long before c19.
Ruiz May be new to the job.
Posted by: jvalentour || 08/22/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The AP writer doing this column must've been grinning ear to ear doing this story - talk about panic pr0n...
Posted by: Raj || 08/22/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Huge respect for the nurses and staff at an ICU, having to deal daily with gravely ill patients and the concomitant deaths.

But #3 is spot on. The hospital is in Miami and this article, along with all the other sniping at how DeSantis and Florida are dealing with Corona, crowds, and reopening, is another drop in the drip drip drip ... keeping Florida voters - especially retired and elderly voters - on edge and to impel them and keep them motivated to vote Biden because someone somewhere somehow has to do something about all the Florida death.

The lack of MSM criticism of Cuomo in NY trickles down to benefit the Dems in Florida. NY retirees in Florida are kept uninformed about the bullet they dodged by getting out of NY. Many still have their NY politics intact during the move South. Biden is going to win NY, but Florida is the perennial quadrennial battleground. Those FL voters need to be motivated, by fear if necessary, to vote for Biden/Harris. This article certainly checks that box.
Posted by: York Harding || 08/22/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month."

Well, DUH, you do work in a hospital, correct?
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||


Massive wildfire destroys Big Basin State Park's historic buildings
[FOXNEWS] As devastating wildfires tear through the Santa Cruz Mountains, officials reported Thursday afternoon that historic structures at Big Basin Redwoods State Park had burned to the ground.

On Wednesday evening, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, State Parks released a statement noting that the 18,000-acre park "sustained extensive damage" but did not elaborate further.

The park itself is closed indefinitely while the CZU August Lightning Complex -- a group of fires ignited by lightning earlier this week -- continues to blaze.

On Thursday, Santa Cruz District Superintendent for State Parks Chris Spohrer confirmed that park rangers had only been able to briefly access the park’s central area and that the park's historic headquarters, lodge, ranger office, nature museum, store, maintenance shop and multiple park residences and campground restrooms were destroyed.

"From what they described, it was a high-heat, high-intensity fire," Spohrer told The Mercury News. "A lot of the canopy, they noted, had been burned. But it is too early to tell what the long-term damage is going to be to those trees."

All campers, rangers and visitors had been safely evacuated ahead of the flames, along with the surrounding communities.
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Antifa expressed solidarity and support for the CA wildfire in its destruction of historic government buildings and installations. Viva La Revolucion.
Posted by: York Harding || 08/22/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  That's OK. California can afford to replace them with historically accurate indigenous structures. Built by slave volunteer labor from the prison system, courtesy of the previous AG, Kamalalalala.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||

#3  My youngest is working in Healdsburg, Sonoma Area , and was just ordered evacuated.

Structures can be replaced. Redwoods and Sequoias spread seeds via fire heat release. The problem is no logging of deadwood and undergrowth, and Trump rightly called it out. 8 or so years ago beetles hit Tahoe hard with large areas of dead trees and no willingness to remove ("NO Logging!"). It caused enough of a fire danger to pushback.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/22/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||


Vaccine wars: Papua New Guinea blocks Chinese plane after local workers were used as lab rats for an 'unauthorised' coronavirus jab from Beijing
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would have thought the Chinese would know better than to do experiments on another country's citizens.
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  You didn't expect them to test it on themselves, did you?
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Vaccine tested on Chinese workers. Did the Chinese think those vaccinated have a better chance to be exposed in PNG?
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/22/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Belarusian dictator Lukashenka comes to the state news agency Belta in uniform, says, Poland and NATO wanted to occupy Hrodra region
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting in a way that they spelled his name -shenka, the way it is pronounced.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, historically it was Polish for quite a while.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Lithuania was part of the mix as well.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 0:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Take off your colors if you want to pass through Hrodna Avenue.
Posted by: The Orphans || 08/22/2020 3:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Google Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2020 3:56 Comments || Top||


Website of svaboda (RFERL) was blocked by Belarus' Ministry of Information along with 73 other pages, including euroradio.fm, belsat.eu, by.tribuna.com
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Why Doesn't China Deploy Fighter Jets to the Spratly Islands?
[TheDiplomat] On August 4, China’s Global Times reported that SU-30MKK Flanker fighter jets belonging to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) had conducted a 10-hour patrol over the South China Sea, breaking the air force’s previous record of 8.5 hours.

Although the report suggested only one SU-30 had made the 10-hour flight, an online video showed five to six fighter jets had been involved in the mission.

The fighter aircraft departed from an air base in southern China and were refueled twice by Ilyushin-78 aerial refueling tankers. The Global Times described the operation as "technically and mentally" challenging for the pilots, noting that they had "consumed rations to keep their energy levels up."

The mission came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and China over the maritime disputes in the South China Sea. Over the past few months, both countries have increased the tempo of naval exercises and air patrols in the South China Sea. On July 13, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared China’s jurisdictional claims in the South China Sea to be unlawful and accused Beijing of bullying the Southeast Asian claimants.

While the video was designed to demonstrate China’s growing power projection capabilities, one expert noted that it may have inadvertently revealed the PLAAF’s weaknesses. The Flankers were either lightly armed or unarmed, and the use of two Il-78s would have consumed two-thirds of the air force’s heavy tanker fleet. It suggests that in a conflict over the South China Sea the PLAAF would not be able to send large numbers of aircraft into the battle space and sustain them.
3 refueling tankers is your entire fleet? Yah, long range fighter power projection is definitely not something China can do then.
While the Global Times would only say that the fighter jets had been dispatched to the "most remote islands and reefs" in the South China Sea, the video clearly showed the aircraft flying over Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands.

Subi Reef is one of China’s seven artificial islands in the Spratlys and hosts a 3,300 meter-long runway. Fiery Cross Reef and Mischief Reef also support long runways.

The mission begs an important question: Why didn’t the SU-30s land and refuel on Subi Reef? Surely one of the main purposes of the artificial islands is to enable China to project air power into the South China Sea to assert its territorial and jurisdictional claims, including the possibility of establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the Spratlys?
Details at link. As Stephen Green stated on this article, "China either doesn't want to or can't do this. And I they really want to."
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2020 00:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I'm sure they fine during Typhoon season. They certain have modern meteorological services that can predict these things, right?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/22/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Not bad for a "developing nation".
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  3 refueling tankers is your entire fleet? Yah, long range fighter power projection is definitely not something China can do then.

...For me, this is an utterly fascinating point. The PLAAF has a grand total of ten, count 'em, TEN tankers, period full stop. They have three of the big IL-76 tankers, and seven more H-6s (updated Tu-16 BADGERS, rough contemporaries of our B-47, which went out of service in the early 60s). To put that in perspective, the USAF has twelve tankers per squadron...and we've got twenty-six squadrons in service as of now.

Does this mean the Chinese can't carry out big, long-ranged aerial ops? Not exactly, but it severely limits where they can go and what they can do. On the other hand, given the way they run their mouths...one must wonder what they're thinking.

And why.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/22/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  In an actual war, those tankers would be priority targets, most likely.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/22/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  In an actual war, those tankers would be priority targets, most likely.

You bet your ass they are. Along with AWACs ships. And guess what we have that is perfect for that?

F-22
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/22/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  All China has at the moment is their biological weaponization program. I suspect you've recently read something about it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#7  3 refueling tankers is your entire fleet?

Won't be that way for much longer. COMAC makes the C919 (B-737 equiv), the C929 (B-787) is near completion and the C939 (B-777) is on the drawing board.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/22/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#8  If its like everything else the chinese make, I'd bet there are sinkholes under the runway.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/22/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  All the Chinese priority assets are crowded up around Tiawan.
Wonder why.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#10  One thing the Chinese government worries about is if they put too much fuel in their aircraft it is likely to disappear .
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 08/22/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Built on a reef? That seems easy to crater to the point of destruction. Quickly and permanently. If push comes to shove these are nothing but easy targets.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 08/22/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Just think: If it goes to a shooting war, you're gonna have Greenpeace filing injunctions to make sure you don't bomb those delicate reefs.
Bets?
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:25 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm seriously curious about how true or vaporware the carrier buster missile everyone's talking up?

Don't overestimate the enemy but don't underestimate your own.
O and the Indians and others will be glad to play spoilers. Chicoms have no allies in the region
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 08/22/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#14  The Chinese would rely on satellite for real time targeting. Don't expect the sats to last very long.
Posted by: Sluns Gurly-Brown7484 || 08/22/2020 19:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Isn't it interesting that the US has been so quiet about Musk's mini-sat network?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/22/2020 19:17 Comments || Top||

#16  Musk the supreme crony capitalist. It's been said that Tesla is not an auto company but a tech one.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey converts another former Orthodox church into mosque
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Moslem worship.

The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the UNESCO World Heritage-recognised Hagia Sophia.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2020 01:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Do I remember Yip complaining about discrimination against Mooselimbs in Greece recently?
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Gilead remdesivir study finds only marginal benefit for moderate COVID-19 patients
Bummer. But that’s why we do the research. Has anybody tested this in combination with other compounds, as Hydroxychloroquine has been with Zithromax and zinc?
[AlAhram] Moderately ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after a 5-day course of Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir, but the drug did not significantly shorten hospital stays and a 10-day course did not show a benefit, according to new data.

The drug, which was shown in a trial of severely ill COVID-19 patients to shorten their hospital recovery time, has been at the forefront of the battle against the pandemic.

The 600-patient analysis, published on Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that moderately ill patients treated with the antiviral drug for up to 5 days had significantly higher odds of improvement in certain areas, such as whether or not they needed supplemental oxygen, compared to patients given standard treatment.

Researchers said the clinical importance of the benefit for those patients was uncertain, however.

Remdesivir is currently sold under an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the new 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...
. Gilead earlier this month filed an application seeking full FDA approval of the drug.

Differing trial results for remdesivir raise "the question of whether the discrepancies are artifacts of study design choices, including patient populations, or whether the drug is less efficacious than hoped," according to a JAMA editorial accompanying the study.

The new study in moderately ill COVID-19 patients showed that 11 days after starting treatment, 65% of the 10-day remdesivir patients, 70% of the 5-day patients and 60% of the standard care patients had left the hospital.

Side effects seen more frequently in the remdesivir groups included nausea, low blood potassium levels, and headache.

The JAMA editorial said important questions remain regarding the efficacy of remdesivir, including which patients are most likely to benefit from the drug, the optimal duration of therapy, the drug's impact on clinical outcomes, and its relative effect if combined with generic steroid treatments.

Shares of Gilead were up 18 cents at $66.24 on the Nasdaq exchange.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/22/2020 01:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has anybody tested this in combination with other compounds, as Hydroxychloroquine has been with Zithromax and zinc?

At 3000$ for a course of treatment, is it worth the effort? Especially as we're going to have passive vaccination soon.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/22/2020 3:45 Comments || Top||

#2  My heart bleeds for Gilead and the rest of the pharmaceutical-industrial complex.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  I was recently told about a young father in Wheaten, IL who pays $9k per month (corporate insurance pays) for Crohns Disease meds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Is it any wonder Big Pharma fights tooth & nail over patents? (Patent protection is part of the problem as well, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.)
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe if they paired Remdesevir with HCQ, Zinc and Zithromax?
Posted by: gorb || 08/22/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||


History of Ek knives
[Ek Knives website] John Ek wanted to contribute to the American war effort during World War II. From his shop in Hamden, Connecticut, Ek built custom knives specifically for soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. He even built a knife for the Commander-in-Chief, American President Franklin Roosevelt.

Mr. Ek, who also employed disabled Americans, produced six models of knives beginning in 1941. He referred to these knives as "Ek Commando Knives" as they were purpose built for close quarter use that would become a hallmark of the US Marine Raiders, US Army Rangers, First Special Service Force, and Office of Strategic Services’ Operational Groups.

To purchase an Ek Commando Knife one had to send in proof of military service. The knives were numbered and a log was kept to tie the number to the owner.

Americans have carried Ek Commando Knives in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and countless other locations in between. John Ek’s knives live on today through Ek Commando Knife as a testament to his ideas, skills, and unflinching patriotism.
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#1  and don't forget the Spork.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I've handed out those "tactical sporks" as gag gifts. Everyone who I gave one to was delighted.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/22/2020 19:50 Comments || Top||


Fury over plan to release 750 MILLION genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida Keys to kill insects carrying Zika and yellow fever - as locals brand it a 'Jurassic Park experiment' that could create superbugs
Oh, yeah. We seen dis movie. I loved the part where they flew into Three Mile Island and got radioactive and turned eleven feet long and destroyed Harrisburg.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please, not in 2020,,,
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/22/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#2  SyFi Channel - 'Sorry, we can no longer make outlandish movies.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/22/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||


#4  Soon, efforts to eradicate cancer will be vilified and there will be straight-faced calls to re-introduce polio and smallpox in places where they have been eradicated. No, I'm not snarking.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/22/2020 19:52 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Fordham University Sent Cops To Investigate A Student For Criticizing Communist China And 'Black Lives Matter' On Instagram
[THEFEDERALIST] Fordham University is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly violating a student’s free speech after administrators called the cops on him for Instagram posts. On his personal account, Austin Tong posted pictures with a legally obtained gun and criticized China’s handling of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tong also posted about the death of St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, who died trying to stop rioters from looting a friend’s pawn shop.

While the school’s website suggests that students enrolled at the university will have "the freedom of inquiry required by rigorous thinking and the quest for truth," its reaction to Tong’s posts shows otherwise. Fordham officials reportedly considered the social media posts "grotesque" and "racist," and sent "two uniformed public safety officers" to the Tong family home in Long Island, New York to "discuss the Instagram posts" and evaluate whether Tong "presented a danger to himself and others," according to the U.S. DOE investigation.

After the visit, the university called Tong "a security threat," despite the fact that officers "very quickly determined Mr. Tong posed no such threat" and that his weapon had been legally obtained. The university, however, shifted its focus to targeting Tong for "several posts on social media related to the current racial issues in the country and political issues in China."
Posted by: Fred || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  It's well past time to start suing universities en masse for crap like this. Take them down.
Posted by: Raj || 08/22/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Agree. This was a start.
Posted by: Clem || 08/22/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  In case you wonder about the resistance to "red flag" laws.

The left loving authorities will use any pretext at all to control the proles, churls and peasants.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/22/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||


Science
Floating pumice rock once twice the size of Manhattan sailed 1,900 miles across the Pacific to Australia bringing along organisms that could act as a 'vitamin shot' for the Great Barrier Reef that has lost half of its coral cover
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gaia takes care of her own.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/22/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Pumice mats drifting from Krakatoa made it all the way across the Indian Ocean to Mozambique. Had charred vegetation and many human skeletal remains on them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/22/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Don’t underestimate 2020, odds are the stone will crash through the reef and sink Australia.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 08/22/2020 17:56 Comments || Top||



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