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Suspects accused of toppling a statue and hitting a cop on head with bottle actually indicted by Portland grand jury
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mike Lindell Announces He Is Filing 2 Cases Against Dominion Voting Systems (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Author, conservative activist and My Pillow founder Mike Lindell went on with Steve Bannon on the War Room earlier today.

During their lengthy conversation, Mike Lindell announced he was going to counter sue Dominion Voting Systems.

This comes after Dominion announced in late February that they were suing Mike Lindell and others for $1.3 billion.

Mike Lindell: You’re also going to have My Pillow going after Dominion in a counter-suit and that’s going to be a speech. You’re going to have me go after them, counter-suing them. And both of this is going to happen... There are two cases. One will be My Pillow, one will be Mike Lindell. They’re both going to be a little bit different because what Dominion did is violate the rights of everyone in this country by using bullying lawsuits and RICO law. Basically what they’re saying to news outlets is, "If you let this guy on we’re going to sue you!" That’s racketeering. That goes back to the mafia days.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:54 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lindell undertaking a task that our courts, DoJ, and Federal "law enforcement"....refuse to touch.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  All of our institutions have become corrupted. Every one.
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/16/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Yep. Way beyond executive & legislative gov't now. Law enforcement is on the run. The courts are supine if not hostile to the people's will and to the Constutoon. Our newsmedia's completely rotted out, as are pro sports and Hollywood. American universities and corporations, esp. tech and consumer companies, are now decadent and infected with Woke madness. Organized religion is under attack.

The remaining institutions - the only real ramparts left - are the military and the privately-armed citizenry. Biden's idiots are trying, buffoonishly, to emasculate the former. Pelosi's got the latter in her gunsights.

These clownish but sinister efforts are incompetent, yes -- for now. How much longer until these last ramparts are breached by much more competent Woke Destroyers?
Posted by: Lonzo Snore4222 || 03/16/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||


Conway, SC gun store bandits apprehended
CONWAY, S.C. (WPDE) — The Horry County Police Dept. arrested two suspects wanted for the burglary of a gun store in Conway, according to arrest warrants from the department.

The incident occurred on March 6 at The Gun Store located at 3594 South Highway 701. An earlier Facebook post from the police department said that multiple weapons were stolen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 00:29 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Black Lives Matter Activist Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Donors
[EpochTimes] A prominent Black Lives Matter activist was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
for allegedly defrauding donors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, of Toledo, Ohio,
...a conman and violent homophobe who started his own group, Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, after he was bounced out of the city’s official chapter. Despite losing tax exempt status in 2019 because he neglected to file the necessary IRS paperwork, he accepted the better part of half a million dollars last year before he was arrested...
was indicted on March 12 on three counts of money laundering and one count of wire fraud, according to the DOJ. The department said he created a Facebook page called "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta" and defrauded donors of more than $450,000 before the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
revoked his tax-exempt status as a charity.

Page, 32, told local media that he didn’t "intentionally" commit any crimes.

"It is to no surprise that the government wishes to move forward in a criminal case against a social justice activist," he told the Toledo Blade last week. "I maintain my position that I did not intentionally commit any crimes, as it is my only purpose in life to fight for those whose voices have been muffled and or silenced. Had I violated any state or federal laws, I have no problem owning that and working to correct my actions. I believe that I acted in good faith. I look forward to a fair and just due process under the law."

According to the DOJ, Page set up the allegedly false charity in May 2020, which lasted at least through the summer of that year, when mass protests, riots, and violence wracked major U.S. cities following the death of George Floyd while in police custody. Page, according to the DOJ, said the funds "would be used to combat racial and social injustices when in truth, the organization was no longer an established charity and the defendant was using the donations for his personal benefit."

Four years earlier, he had created the Facebook page called "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta" as a 501(c)(3) domestic nonprofit corporation with the Georgia Secretary of State Corporation’s Division. In 2019, the organization’s charity status was revoked due to failure to submit IRS Form 990 for three consecutive years.

According to the news release: "It is alleged that the defendant failed to notify Facebook of these revocations or ask that Facebook stop displaying BLMGA as a non-profit organization. As a result, BMLGA’s Facebook page continued to be displayed as a non-profit organization with a donation button through the end of September 2020, and Facebook continued to collect and disperse the purported charity donations on a bi-monthly basis."

Page then allegedly used a "substantial portion" of the donations to purchase personal items such as hotel rooms, guns, clothing, and various forms of entertainment, officials said.

"The defendant is accused of using the largest sum of funds to purchase a property and the adjoining vacant lot on Glenwood Avenue and Maplewood Avenue in Toledo, Ohio," said the DOJ. "This property was to be used as a personal residence for the defendant, the indictment states.

The defendant allegedly attempted to conceal the purchase of the property by titling it to ’Hi Frequency Ohio’ and requesting that the seller’s realtor enter into a nondisclosure agreement," which "prevented the seller from disclosing that the defendant was the true buyer and that he used BLMGA funds to make the purchase."

Page is scheduled for arraignment this week, the Toledo Blade reported.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Peak parody - short-cropped Carrot Top wannabe wigger getting busted for the obvious $ fraud race hustling bullshit - gotta love it.
Posted by: Raj || 03/16/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Criminals defrauding criminals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  So much for honor among thieves.
Posted by: Clem || 03/16/2021 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like Harry and Meghan's kid growed up
Posted by: Frank G || 03/16/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#5  OK. Now do the rest of them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/16/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Now indict the lot of em. The whole BLM "movement" was always and ever a racket. They have no agenda other than self-aggrandizement, publicity and extortion.
Posted by: Unavinter Creling1110 || 03/16/2021 18:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Atlanta: A man of Toledo
Who thought he would go incognito
And loot BLM
Had one problem... [ahem]
His behind was as black as a Cheeto.
Posted by: Glumble Shimp3262 || 03/16/2021 23:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Never a fan, but what the heil...

Posted by: Glumble Shimp3262 || 03/16/2021 23:13 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
As many as 3,000 immigrant teens to be held in Dallas convention center
[JustTheNews] In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, the Dallas City Council was informed Monday that the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center would be used for up to 90 days to house boys aged 15 to 17.

Federal agencies will use the soon-to-be-opened facility as a "decompression center."

The move by the Biden administration comes as hundreds of illegal immigrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico boarder, amid COVID-19 health-safety regulations that requires social distancing and has resulted in less space in facilities.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/16/2021 11:37 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other news, the Lincoln Project will be holding their next convention in Dallas.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/16/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#2  What could go wrong..
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 16:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ..aged 15 to 17

military age in may third world s**tholes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/16/2021 17:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The Biden T shirts just send me over the top.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 17:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The Biden Youth
Posted by: Bubba Henbane7848 || 03/16/2021 18:38 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Michelle Obama reacts to Meghan Markle's racism claims
[PAGESIX] Former first lady Michelle Obama said it "wasn’t a complete surprise" to hear Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
detail alleged racism within the British royal family.

Obama was asked about Markle and Prince Harry
’s bombshell sit-down with Oprah Winfrey in an interview with NBC’s "TODAY" show that is scheduled to air Tuesday.

Markle, 39, who is biracial,
Her mother's bi-racial. Her father is white, which would make her a quarter racial. He little boy would be an eighth racial. At which point do you stop being "racial?"
told Winfrey that someone in the royal family expressed "concerns" to Harry, 36, about "how dark" their son Archie’s skin would be.
... and would he be prone to wearing a bone in his nose?
Co-host Jenna Bush Hager said it was "heartbreaking" to hear Markle describe the conversation, adding, "she felt like she was in her own family — her own family thought differently of her."
Will Archie someday stew missionaries in those great big pots?
Obama replied, "As I said before, race isn’t a new construct in this world for people of color, and so it wasn’t a complete surprise to hear her feelings and to have them.
I'm sure it wasn't, to someone like Michelle Obama.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 14:10 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Again, Who cares!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 14:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Big Mike is bitter about someone else getting the attention.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/16/2021 14:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe its just...you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Markle may have more black in her than Lizzy Warren does Indian blood, but this is just yet another Left/Liberal/MSM fraud.
Posted by: Clem || 03/16/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Yo, pardon me, ma'am, might I trouble you
To tell why you make me a bugaboo
And yell "ooga booga"
When you're from Paducah
And white with a lower case "W?"
Posted by: Glumble Shimp3262 || 03/16/2021 23:25 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan claims all Armenian prisoners have been released
[AlMasdar] In accordance with its obligations Azerbaijan has released all prisoners of war to the Armenian side, Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov told a news briefing following talks with Sweden’s visiting Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ann Linde.

"Azerbaijan’s stance on this issue is very open and clear. In accordance with the trilateral statement [of November 9 last year] we released to the Armenian side all those taken prisoner during the military operations [in Karabakh] and before it," Bayramov said.

He stressed that Azerbaijan had begun to release prisoners of war earlier than Armenia, when the hostilities were still in progress.

As for the Armenian military personnel Azerbaijan was still holding at the moment, Bayramov said they could not be regarded as prisoners of war, because they were detained not during combat operations.

"These people were apprehended much later, when the combat operations had ended and a trilateral statement was signed already. To be more precise, on November 26, 2020. They had been drafted into the army in the Shirak region of Armenia and sent to Karabakh, where they committed crimes resulting in the death of Azerbaijani military servicemen and civilians. They continue to be investigated," Bayramov said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on November 9 last year signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Karabakh. Under the arrangement, the Azerbaijani and Armenian forces stopped at the positions they were holding at the moment.

A number of districts was transferred to Baku’s control and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the engagement line and the Lachin corridor. On January 11, Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan met in Moscow again. A joint statement was signed on the creation of a trilateral working group at the deputy prime minster level for unblocking all economic relations and transport links in the region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 02:22 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least all that are going to be released.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/16/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||


Economy
IRS 'Get My Payment' tool is now live to track relief funds
(WPDE) — The "Get My Payment" tool on the IRS website, originally scheduled to go live on Monday, is working as of Sunday morning.

Taxpayers who have provided bank information with the IRS will receive the direct-deposit payments, while others will get paper checks or debit cards mailed to them.

Officials said in the interest of speeding up the relief payments, the IRS will use the latest tax return available, either the 2019 return filed last year or the 2020 return that is due by April 15.

When should I get my payment?

The IRS said Friday that processing of the new round of stimulus checks has already begun.

President Joe Biden signed the new $1.9 trillion rescue package on Thursday, the day after it won final passage in the House. The measure provides for payments to qualifying individuals of up to $1,400, with payments to a qualifying family of four of $5,600.

It is estimated that 85% of Americans will be eligible for the payments and the goal is to have millions of the payments disbursed in the next few weeks.

If a person's job situation changed last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said that the IRS will adjust the size of the new impact payments after the 2020 return has been filed and provide a supplemental payment if that is called for. Officials said those adjustments will be made automatically by the IRS for people who have already filed their 2020 returns.

Officials said they wanted to handle the payments this way rather than waiting for the 2020 tax return to be filed in the interest of speeding payments to taxpayers.

The IRS said the first and second Economic Impact Payments no longer appear in Get My Payment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 00:20 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Site link is up but.

THIS U.S. GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IS FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY!

Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring, interception, recording, reading, copying or capturing by authorized personnel of all activities. There is no right to privacy in this system. Unauthorized use of this system is prohibited and subject to criminal and civil penalties, including all penalties applicable to willful unauthorized access (UNAX) or inspection of taxpayer records (under 18 U.S.C. 1030 and 26 U.S.C. 7213A and 26 U.S.C. 7431).

USING:
FireFox 86.01 "Unauthorized access warning..."

Using Win IE 11.+ "Data is unavailable..."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/16/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  'Get My Payment Ignore what's going on bribe'
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/16/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Who needs it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 13:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Seventh-grader dies mysteriously in police custody in Peshawar
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A student of seventh grade, Shahzaib, died mysteriously in police custody on Sunday. Student’s relatives and local people set off a protest outside the Gharbi cop shoppe, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
.According to a statement issued from the office of CCPO, the student named Shahzaib, son of Khyal Mohammad and resident of Warsak Road, was arrested on Sunday on the complaint of shopkeepers in Liaquat Bazaar for exchanging hot words and pointing weapon at them.
7th Grade, hmmm? Well, in the copper's favor he was 27
The police registered an FIR against Shahzaib under section 15 of Arms Act. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
later Shahzaib did away with himself inside the lockup, the statement added.

According to Shahzaib’s father, his son went to the bazaar at around 2pm to make his pictures, needed for the school examination.

He said, police called him at 3pm to inform that his son was with them. He reached the cop shoppe within half an hour.

"When I reached the cop shoppe the police didn’t tell me anything for three hours about my son’s condition," he said, adding the police informed him later that his son had did away with himself by hanging himself with something in the lockup.

He alleged that his son died because of police torture in the lockup. He asked authorities to provide him justice as his son was treated inhumanly by police.

Relatives of the dear departed student and a large number of people, staged a protest demonstration outside the Gharbi cop shoppe and blocked the busy Sunehri Masjid Road. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the police and their misuse of power.

Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took the instantaneous notice of the event and suspended the entire staff of the Gharbi cop shoppe and ordered for a judicial inquiry into the incident.

Advisor to the chief minister on information Kamran Bangash said that if police officials are found involved in killing of the student after the judicial inquiry, they would be given exemplary punishment.

Speaking at a presser, Chief City Police Officer Abbas Ihsan and SSP operations Yasir Afridi said investigation into the death of the student was underway.

They said that right now, they cannot reveal the details about how and with which instrument the student did away with himself. The Gharbi police SHO Dost Mohammad was also arrested and put behind the bars.


Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Olde Tyme Religion
Roman Catholic Church Affirms Teaching on Marriage, Media Hardest Hit
[PJMEDIA] On Monday, the Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s 2,000-year-old doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman and that homosexual acts are illicit. Therefore, the Vatican stated that the church cannot bless same-sex weddings because that would lead to confusion about the doctrine of marriage.This should not surprise anyone with a basic familiarity with historic Christianity or with the Roman Catholic Church. The New Testament clearly condemns homosexual activity and Jesus explicitly affirmed the teaching of Genesis that marriage is between one man and one woman. The Catholic Church has a 2,000-year tradition of upholding this basic definition of marriage that, in historical terms, only came under fire yesterday.

Yet legacy media outlets reported the Vatican’s decision as if it were new and shocking. "BREAKING: The Vatican decrees that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God ’cannot bless sin,'" the News Agency that Dare Not be Named tweeted. "Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
says priests cannot bless same sex unions, dashing hopes of gay Catholics," ran The Washington Post’s headline. CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
’s report described the Vatican’s statement as "combative," warning that the move "threatens to widen the chasm between the church and much of the LGBTQ community."

The legacy media and many American and global institutions have rushed to embrace the hyper-charged sexual revolution of recent years, a revolution that weaponizes the language of "tolerance," equates same-sex relationships with marriage, hints at polygamy, pushes nebulous gender identity over biological sex, and demonizes dissent from this agenda as "bigotry."



Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, the Pope got it right on this one.

But he does remind me of the bad old days of Pope Paul VI in the 60s and 70s, when you never knew what he was going to say. The joke then was, "What do we believe this week?"
Posted by: Tom || 03/16/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm no fan of this guy, but watching the gay media lecture the pope about God and Catholicism is hilarious.

Especially the ones who have been nodding along the whole time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||

#3  when you never knew what he was going to say

rope-a-pope
Posted by: Voldemort Greregum1343 || 03/16/2021 18:56 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Germany, France, Italy and Spain halt use of AstraZeneca vaccine
[Aljazeera] Germany, France, Italy and Spain have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several reports of blood clots in people who received the shot in Europe.

The flurry of suspensions on Monday came after a number of other countries, mostly in Europe, halted their rollouts late last week.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has backed the use of the vaccine and said it has seen no evidence that the shot had caused clotting.

The UN health agency is reviewing the reports related to shot and urged countries not to suspend vaccinations, as its top scientist said people should not panic.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in a statement that it has not found any evidence of links between reported thrombosis cases and the AstraZeneca shot, saying that the shot’s benefits outweigh the risks and was safe to use. The regulator is reviewing the shot and will issue a decision on any further action on Thursday, it said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 01:18 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, let's see, risk of health problems after getting a vaccine or a 99.98% survival rate from the virus itself and no vaccine? Hmmmm.
Posted by: Clem || 03/16/2021 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh but you MUST get your killer "vaccine" so that you can get your"Travel Health Passport", so that you can pretend you are in a FREE country in the FREE world.
Posted by: Spenter Flolump8172 || 03/16/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Physical therapist, 28, working at a senior living facility in Indiana dies two days after getting the COVID-19 vaccine ,- From the Daily Mail UK - TODAY - where is the USA Reporting - Huh ?

Posted by: Slinetle Omuns1950 || 03/16/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Isn't this the vaccine from a Rant post a day or two back that the Euros were claiming the Americans weren't releasing even though its just stockpiled?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/16/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||


#6  Notice the complete lack of context in the fear-mongering. How many doses have been administered? How many supposed side effects have been reported?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/16/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Update on the safety of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca

A careful review of all available safety data of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the European Union (EU) and UK with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country.

So far across the EU and UK, there have been 15 events of DVT and 22 events of pulmonary embolism reported among those given the vaccine, based on the number of cases the Company has received as of 8 March. This is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed COVID-19 vaccines. The monthly safety report will be made public on the European Medicines Agency website in the following week, in line with exceptional transparency measures for COVID-19.


37/17,000,000 = 0.00000218

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/16/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#8  So the vaccine is 99.9998% safe. So I'd worry a lot less about the vaccine than the virus.

AND -- ask yourself, why are they trying to scare people OUT of getting vaccinated?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/16/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Humans are evolutionarily programed to seek status (in nature, high status individuals have more offspring - so we all are descendants of status seekers) by any means whatsoever. In social media age, any cause will do as long as it garners followers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/16/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||

#10  So the vaccine is 99.9998% safe. So I'd worry a lot less about the vaccine than the virus.

If people were dropping dead at horror movie levels, this wouldn't even be an issue.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  99.98% survival rate from the virus itself and no vaccine?

In my age group this is the survival rate *without* any vaccine.
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/16/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#12  The vaccine is a personal choice. Take it or don't, and be responsible for what happens to you after. The CDC, US government and big Pharma have a century long history of being less than transparent to the public. This vaccine was not tested per the standard protocols for this new RNA type drug. we do not know the long term effects. We do not know if it is effective, and if it is for how long it will work. People are nervous because it was rushed to market by three firms looking for profits, so to the point, our USG waived them of any liability for side effects to including the drug not working to killing you. So you ask why people are afraid of this??? It because they are using their brains and weighing the risks. Remember the CDC said agent orange was safe, there was no Gulf war syndrome, Anthrax shots were safe, and all of these were in our life time... I listened once, 15 years ago, was told the sickness was unrelated and it was in my head, until ten years later when they admitted I was poisoned by a vaccine. The line of the deaths are unrelated ring true to all associated with Agent orange, Gulf syndrome, and the recent Anthrax issues. Now this one. But like I said at the start, its a personal choice, and fuck anyone that wants to shame someone else into taking it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Thanks to gov't and CDC intervention, the death rates from pneumonia and influenza (flu) have dwindled to nearly single digits nationally.

Perhaps you too have noticed the recent decline.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Damn B. Until I saw the snark I wondered who stole your name!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#15  Regardless of what's actually happening, the one thing that is certain is that we're living through an epidemic of hysteria, stoked by official obfuscation, half-truths and lies.

There's next to nothing printed or spoken these days by our state media that we can take at face value.

# of deaths due to COVID, George Floyd's cause of death, Officer Sicknick's cause of death, "insurrection" vs "peaceful protest," "white supremacists in the military," Russian collusion... mountains of bullshit, lies upon lies
Posted by: Unomogum Floger5292 || 03/16/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#16  /\ There's next to nothing printed or spoken these days by our state media that we can take at face value.

Been trending that way for quite some time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#17  we do not know the long term effects.

We don't know the long term effects of covid either. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. I got my second shot a week ago. The first day after was bit rough but I feel fine now.

I would agree, though, that it's up to you to weigh the risks and make your own decision.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#18  I might add that I didn't rush to be the first one on my block to get it. I waited to see how others were doing. I did not see anybody dropping dead. But if they tried to give me AstraZeneca after I heard these stories I'd still be waiting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||

#19  Ref. #13 - pneumonia is not declining, but flu is ridiculously low. Last Jan. about 450 flu deaths per week. This Jan. about 30-40. (Last March closer to 650 per week).

Pneumonia is often mixed in with COVID, so you have to do some math to get the number of 'only pneumonia deaths', but it's about 3,000 a week, this January and 4,000 a week last January. CDC data.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/16/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#20  Isn't this the vaccine from a Rant post a day or two back that the Euros were claiming the Americans weren't releasing even though its just stockpiled?

Yes. This vaccine has not been approved for use in the U.S. because AstraZeneca has not submitted the data to the FDA.

This vaccine was not tested per the standard protocols for this new RNA type drug.

True. Unlike the three vaccines available for use in the U.S., which were indeed tested in accordance with standard FDA protocols.

It’s very odd that we haven’t seen clotting issues in England, which has been madly vaccinating with this stuff since early January. India ditto. On the other hand, we have seen serious clotting problems among people who’ve fallen ill with Covid. Another thing to weigh in the balance.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#21  flu is ridiculously low

Annual flu deaths are calculated as the difference between an estimated annual baseline for all cause mortality and actual total mortality. In other words, it's not something we measure. We just attribute all the 'extra' deaths to flu. The reason that number is so low right now is that these are all being counted as COVID instead.
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/16/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#22  Do NOT mix the subjects. This is specific to the AZ vaccine. It does not apply to the primary one in the US by Pfizer, nor the second one by Moderna. Stop conflating them trying to be stupidly antivax.
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 03/16/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#23  TW, the testing was abbreviated, the testing subjects levels were limited in size. They were waived from most of the preexisting condition testing, and from any long term control group testing. I get it that this this was going crazy and they needed to get it out as death rates were out of control, risk vs reward here. Then the treatments for this disease was limited and politicized to the point there was not an effective treatment allowed by the USG, even though there were treatment that proved very successful. But those treatments were stopped by the CDC causing question to their motives. With all that said, if you choose to take the vaccine please look at the known side effects, heart swelling, brain and thyroid swelling. And there are some other issues. If you have some preexisting conditions, TBI's heart or liver issues please do the research past the normal media so you know the known risks. I'm reading in the press about the blood clotting issues, but I thought, from my research, the blood clotting only comes from a single preexisting clotting issue. I would never tell someone what to put in their body, its none of my business, but making an informed decision and not listening to the media and the CDC talking points is paramount.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#24  @ #11 - Precisely my point.

@ #13 - It's the masks, Besoeker, it's the masks! /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 03/16/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#25  Risk of clotting from AZN vaccine is no greater than for the general population w/out the vaccine.
Posted by: Titus tse Tung9670 || 03/16/2021 16:59 Comments || Top||

#26  If you have some preexisting conditions, TBI's heart or liver issues

While I do have pre-existing conditions, I don’t have any of those problems, 49 Pan, truly. Of more concern is that I am somewhat immunocompromised, so getting vaccinated is far preferable for me than playing the odds that I wouldn’t get a bad case like Fred did. And given that my 95 year old mother came through vaccination without any issues, genetically speaking the odds become pretty good that I’ll be fine, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 17:57 Comments || Top||

#27  Sarconthenoff Syndrome

Yes, but are you ready for this side affect ?







The unlimate reaction to Sarconthenoff Syndrome.

Ooouuh, looks so scary...
Posted by: Elma Fine Grunge2398 || 03/16/2021 18:43 Comments || Top||

#28  Us that a... furry?
Posted by: Marilyn Johnson2137 || 03/16/2021 18:52 Comments || Top||

#29 
Just Go with the Flow

Posted by: Fancy Nancy4553 || 03/16/2021 19:31 Comments || Top||


US Panel To Review AstraZeneca Data As Spain Latest To Halt Jabs; Germany Sees Increased Blood-Clot Risk
The full list of countries that are currently not using the British-made jab are:

France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Ireland
Iceland
Denmark
Norway
Bulgaria
Luxembourg
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Austria
Romania
Thailand
Democratic Republic of Congo
Indonesia
Posted by: Angstrom || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reading most of the article, it seems to me this could be hysteria.

Or Brexit hysteria.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/16/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2 
No they just don't want to be a herd of



Posted by: Speedster Chines6633 || 03/16/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Europe, having masks held over their face, until they stop twitching.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 16:50 Comments || Top||



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