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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Looters ransack trains at downtown LA sorting depot and leave COVID tests and pharmaceutical drugs littered along the tracks
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Video footage captured thousands of empty and damages packages lined around the tracks of a Los Angeles railway in the midst of cargo looting crimes

  • Thieves have been targeting cargo containers traveling in trains in LA and stealing valuable goods from companies such as Amazon and UPS

  • As a result, they have left empty boxes scattered along the tracks as well as leaving behind dispensable products such as unused COVID tests and epi pens

  • Union Pacific have since begun cracking down on security measures in an attempt to decrease the cargo looting trend
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 11:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Pirates

#1  Looting by predetermined process.

Wonder which lootera cased the trains / WORKED and knew the best looting areas?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/14/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#2  You know what this calls for?

A pair of matching swaddling blankets Oh muh Gawd!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2022 19:29 Comments || Top||


LA - Thieves Raiding Cargo Containers, Stealing Packages On Downtown Section Of Union Pacific Train Tracks
[CBSLA] Thieves have been raiding the cargo containers, taking packages that belong to people from all over the country from retailers like Amazon, REI and others.

The refuse left behind, like home COVID test kits, are items that the robbers did not want or did not think were valuable enough to take.

Sources told CBSLA that the locks Union Pacific uses are easy to cut, and officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said they don’t respond to reports of a train robbery unless Union Pacific asks them for help, which they said is rare.

While CBSLA was on the scene with cameras, one person was seen running off with a container used to hold smaller packages, and a Union Pacific officer was spotted chasing after two other people who appeared to be rifling through packages.

CBSLA also obtained video of University of Southern California Campus Police arresting a suspected thief last month. According to officers, the suspect’s bag was filled with stolen goods taken from the train tracks.

A source with knowledge of the issue told CBSLA that Union Pacific cleaned up this area of tracks three months ago, and again only about 30 days ago, though the area is already littered with new discarded boxes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 10:56 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even if the cops arrested them, Gascon would not prosecute.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/14/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Start shooting for God's sake.
Posted by: Phogum Noodleman8937 || 01/14/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Decivilization
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/14/2022 13:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The refuse left behind, like home COVID test kits, are items that the robbers did not want or did not think were valuable enough to take.

Let that sink in.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||


Eight very anxious men: Ghislaine Maxwell GIVES UP battle to keep identities of high-profile John Does named in civil lawsuit sealed after Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre demands they be made public
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 01:11 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  And thus begins an exodus of private jets to non-extradition treaty counties.
Posted by: Ebbemp Glolusing8629 || 01/14/2022 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I suspect though that Prince Andrew won't be going anywhere. There's no way HMG will let him come here to testify and possibly be arrested - but there's also little chance that he'll be allowed anywhere outside the UK to make sure he doesn't embarrass the family even further.

"Jeeves, fetch the Citation; I feel the need to spend a few years in Costa Rica."

"A thousand pardons, sir, the ground crews are waxing the armrests and it won't be flyable for some time."

"When, then?"

"October 2050, Sir. Perhaps you should make some popcorn and watch the telly until then."


Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think Maxwell is going to give up any names.

She'll keep her mouth shut and play along with the Kabuki dance trial.... the results of which will likely be thrown out very soon.


Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  If she knows what's good for her.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/14/2022 6:38 Comments || Top||


Chicago police make 56+ carjacking arrests, recover 284 illegal guns in 2022 so far, top cop says
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


New Mexico mother pleads not guilty to dumping newborn in dumpster
[NYPOST] A New Mexico woman who allegedly confessed to abandoning her newborn in a dumpster has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
Alexis Avila, 18, who police say confessed to deserting her newborn boy in a dumpster behind a mall in Hobbs on Friday, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse, KCBD reported.

A judge ordered Avila, of Hobbs, to stay under house arrest until her trial. She’s also ordered to wear an ankle monitor, barred from using social media and cannot be around any child under the age of 10.

"If you go somewhere, I’ll be notified and you’ll go straight to jail," Lea County Judge William Shoobridge told Avila during her arraignment.

Police in Hobbs have said the baby was rushed to a hospital after being found in the dumpster Friday. Investigators later retrieved surveillance video that showed Avila pulling a black trash bag out of a car and tossing it into the container, according to charging documents obtained by The Post.

Some six hours later, a woman and two men found the newborn while looking in the dumpster for "anything of value," police said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1. He wasn't newly born
2. It wasn't a dumpster ('twas a bin)
3. I didn't "dump" him (I gently placed him)
4. COVID!!!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  New Planned Parenthood spokesperson in the making.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/14/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Bay fans of the romance of 'Science,'
"On humankind place your reliance!"
"Except, please, a fetus
Called Keisha or Cletus."
But life, as they say,
Finds a way.
"Hip, hip... BOOOO!"
"Okay, science is just an appliance."
Posted by: Percy Snomoper7500 || 01/14/2022 23:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ No actual scientists were dissed in the making of this mess.
Posted by: Percy Snomoper7500 || 01/14/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Boston's 'Methadone Mile' is finally cleared: Homeless drug addicts are moved to COTTAGES by new Democrat mayor Michelle Wu
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • city of Boston has started to remove the remaining tents at the former heavily populated Mass and Cass intersection homeless encampment

  • Destruction of the site began on Wednesday in an effort to get the area's homeless population off of the streets

  • Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who took office in November, pledged to find alternative housing options for the city's homeless population

  • The Mass and Cass encampment has provided shelter for hundreds over the past few years for those struggling with homelessness and drug addiction

  • A city survey from December saw 145 residents living at the intersection

  • Wu has since moved more than 100 into alternative housing as of Wednesday
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  City of Boston
41st Annual Homeless Census
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/13/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Methadone Mile
Is that an annual Boston race?
Like on the anniversary of David "Fvck Off and Die" Kennedy's overdose?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:19 Comments || Top||

#4  And in next month's news, the evil city of Boston created a hell on earth as the cottages are now full of garbage, have the walls kicked in, toilets smashed, and open air drug markets operating. None of it is the residents' fault, now for sports...
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 01/14/2022 1:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Sheter, I don't believe it will take that long.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/14/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  And 100 more will move in to re-fill the "cleared" area.

I love it when politicians make it this blindingly obvious that they understand nothing at all about cause and effect or the motivations of human behavior.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/14/2022 10:56 Comments || Top||


Utah, Minnesota face legal threats for using race as a factor to determine COVID treatment eligibility as non-whites were at greater risk for hospitalization
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The Utah and Minnesota Department of Health both published guidelines for medical professionals to consider race and ethnicity as risk factors for COVID-19

  • The Utah agency also asks doctors to use risk score cards that give "non-white" status two extra points when determining eligibility for antibody treatment

  • America First Legal, a conservative law group, called the policies racist and in violation of federal law for discrimination based on race

  • The Utah Department of Health defended its policy, citing that no one is eligible solely on race and that COVID has had greater impact in communities of color
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Posted 13 Jan 2022 "in Star Tribune"
Minnesotaremoves race as factor in rationing COVID-19 antibody treatment
New guidance for distributing scarce treatments came just as a conservative group challenged old rules.


Updated rationing guidance on Wednesday prioritizes infusions when they are in short supply for people who are immunocompromised or pregnant. It also gives preference to people who are older or have underlying conditions that increase their risk for severe COVID-19, but it switched to a scoring system that no longer considers race.
...
The policy switch occurred on the same day a conservative advocacy group, America First Legal, threatened to sue Minnesota and Utah, arguing that the states' racial preference policies were unfair.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 01/14/2022 19:08 Comments || Top||

#2  from Jim Crow to Jim Snow
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Thousands of monkeys terrorise Thai town: Rival gangs battle for supremacy as they compete for food - even climbing on humans and cars - after getting hooked on sugary drinks
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The town of Lopburi, around 90 miles north of the capital Bangkok, is well-known for its monkey population

  • The primates bring tourists from around the world with locals even holding an annual festival to honour them

  • But the population spiralled out of control amid the pandemic and the monkeys are now terrorising the city

  • Lopburi is now ravaged by thousands of the sugar fuelled macaques clashing violently over food and territory

  • Government officials have tried to control the primate population with sterilisation programmes - to no avail
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 16:47 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  That's adorable! The monkeys have made their own little Monkey Mexico, complete with drugs and monkey cartels.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/14/2022 17:14 Comments || Top||

#2  What the city needs is random elephant stampedes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/14/2022 20:22 Comments || Top||

#3  POTA: IT is beginning!
Posted by: borgboy || 01/14/2022 20:55 Comments || Top||

#4  POTA -- battlefor supremacy as they compete for food
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 21:01 Comments || Top||

#5  "Who knows, now that monkeys can fly,
Where they go in their gangs, much less why,
Or what they may cry,"
Asked a big Haitian guy,
"Though I doubt it's 'Ti Makak!' in Thai."
Posted by: Percy Snomoper7500 || 01/14/2022 22:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Minneapolis, same.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/14/2022 23:37 Comments || Top||


Rhode Island man, 34, caught making untraceable 'GHOST' guns, 'using his MOTHER to smuggle them into the Dominican Republic where they sold for thousands of dollars'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Robert Alcantara was taken into custody at his Providence, Rhode Island, home last Thursday for conspiring to traffic ghost guns

  • He was charged in a Rhode Island court for conspiring to traffic ghost guns and making a false statement to law enforcement agents

  • Federal agents raided the 34-year-old's residence and confiscated 45 untraceable weapons that he had reportedly assembled

  • Prosecutors allege that he and five co-conspirators purchased gun parts between September 2019 and November 2021

  • He allegedly sold or attempted to sell 100 firearms that were built with the parts that were purchased

  • Text messages recovered by prosecutors revealed that he was planning to use his mother to traffic ghost guns to the Dominican Republic for other clients
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, keep the old girl busy. I mean, she can nap on the plane.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulomolet3546 || 01/14/2022 4:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I know a boy's best friend is his mother, but that's kinda pushing it....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't make sense to me.
Ship the parts to DR, assemble them there.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4 


Why make them here & ship?

Hell's bell's.
Purchasing the computer controlled milling equip, lower blanks, misc parts and etc.... Can be acquired just about anywhere in the North America Hemp. and shipped legally.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/14/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Hail leaves striking landscape in Saudi Arabia
[Weather] It was near Badr City at about 24N latitude (about the same as Havana, Cuba) elevation about 400'. Link is to a video.

The al Arabia article below calls it snow, but it was hail.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2022/01/12/Saudi-Arabia-rare-hail-storm-leaves-sand-dunes-covered-in-snow-in-Medina-
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...When I was there in 1995, we had golf-ball sized hail for two days straight...during a five day stretch of rain so heavy that we couldn't get to the base at al-Kharj from our quarters in Riyadh.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Roberts and Kavanaugh Side with Lefties, Allow Healthcare Worker Vax Mandate to Stand
[Gateway] The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Joe Biden’s OSHA vax mandate for private businesses with 100+ employees.

In a separate, simultaneously released ruling, the highest court of the land — in a 5-4 vote — allowed a similar vaccine mandate for healthcare facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare to stand.

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas dissented.

"These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID—19 vaccines. They are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo. Because the Government has not made a strong showing that Congress gave CMS that broad authority, I would deny the stays pending appeal. I respectfully dissent." Justice Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 01:38 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a separate, simultaneously released ruling, the highest court of the land — in a 5-4 vote — allowed a similar vaccine mandate for healthcare facilities that receive Medicaid and Medicare to stand.

So forget the Congress and the Constitution. If you accept the federal dollar, you will do as we (Joe Biden) says.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ok, new game now...
Posted by: 746 || 01/14/2022 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ...As much as I hate to say this, two cheers for the medical worker mandate. My wife is a CNA, my father in law just retired after 50 years as a physician, and they both supported health workers being vaxed.

My wife's position at least was very plain and clear: she worked with hospice patients - mostly elderly - in order to give them something resembling peace and dignity in their last days. The idea of her passing, even unknowingly, COVID on to one of these folks was utterly abhorrent to her. Mind you, this was before Omicron and its ability to carry without symptoms, but I believe the main point still applies - if you're going to work with the medically vulnerable, you have to take every possible precaution available.

And let me clarify - if any of my fellow 'Burgers reading this are health care workers and do NOT agree with the mandate, it does not change my regard or respect for you as I hope it will not change those things with you for me. This is something I believe reasonable people can disagree on.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how all those healthcare workers who worked all the way through this bullshit without a vax feel about being fired for not bending the knee?
Posted by: Chris || 01/14/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Where and when did the Healthcare workers sign away their basic human rights?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/14/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  The "feds pay so feds make the rules" thing is flawed logic. There is no such thing as "federal money." There is revenue taken coercively from the citizens in the form of taxation. In that sense, it remains the citizens money, but the taint of passage through the maw of FedGov is used to justify lots of injustice.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/14/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#7  And so far none points that Congress wrote the law that the 5-4 majority relied on to back up the vax mandate for healthcare workers. That mandate does NOT apply to healthcare systems which refuse to accept federal money (very few of them exist). Congress is free at any time to amend that law to exclude vax mandates. None has pointed this out. 100% of the House and about 33% of the Senate is up for reelection this year, but this issue will most likely never be mentioned in the campaigns.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 01/14/2022 14:42 Comments || Top||

#8 
Where and when did the Healthcare workers sign away their basic human rights?
The right to be unemployed has not been impaired.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 01/14/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||

#9  So the dancing nurses will be more susceptible to miscarriage and strokes.

What a shame.
Posted by: Hupolulet Barnsmell6917 || 01/14/2022 18:55 Comments || Top||

#10  The right to be unemployed has not been impaired.

They should be able to ply their trade and do what they are trained for. It should be between the worker - and the healthcare facility.

Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/14/2022 23:40 Comments || Top||


BREAKING: Waukesha County Judge Deals HUGE BLOW to Democrats ‐ Bans Use of Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes in Wisconsin
[GP] Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren issued a summary judgment decision on Thursday banning ballot drop boxes in the state. Judge Bohren also banned illegal ballot harvesting in the state.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued memos to Wisconsin clerks in March and August of 2020 encouraging their use, stating that absentee ballots do not need to be mailed by the voter or delivered by the voter, in person, to the municipal clerk, but instead could be dropped into a drop box. According to WEC, ballot drop boxes can be unstaffed, temporary, or permanent.

This advice was contrary to state law.

Joe Biden won the state after a stunning drop of Biden only ballots in the middle of the night following the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 00:27 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would have swung the election.

"I shudder to think that the Almighty is just."
- A. Lincoln

"Fvck these bastards with a shit-smeared pogo stick"
- M. Ferret
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The Dems will shop a judge to overturn this quite promptly, I believe.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/14/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  This advice was contrary to state law.

As was the PA SOS' decision to allow mail-in voting within 60 days of an election. Most states don't allow for such untimely changes such as that one. I don't know all the others off the top of my head, but there were a buttload of them.
Posted by: Raj || 01/14/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  "There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election."

In 1960, Chicago's Mayor Daley swung the election to Kennedy, but it was not "widespread fraud".

It was just enough.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/14/2022 16:54 Comments || Top||


Britain
Queen Elizabeth strips Prince Andrew of royal and military titles
[NYPOST] Prince Andrew was stripped of his military and royal titles Thursday — a day after a Manhattan judge allowed the sexual assault lawsuit against the disgraced royal to move forward."With The Queen’s approval and agreement, The Duke of York’s military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen," Buckingham Palace said of the 61-year-old prince.

A royal source confirmed that Andrew would no longer use the title "His Royal Highness" in any official capacity and his other roles would be distributed among other members of the royal family. He is, however, still listed on the royal family’s official website as ninth in line to the throne.

"The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen," the palace said of the sex-assault lawsuit against him.

Andrew’s monarch mom had already barred her middle son from performing royal duties amid the severe backlash sparked by his disastrous 2019 BBC interview justifying his friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made at least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
and now-convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell.

The prince, a former Royal Navy helicopter pilot who flew in the 1982 Falklands War, initially retained his military titles.

They included vice admiral of the Royal Navy and honorary colonel of the Grenadier Guards, the stoic soldiers famed for guarding Buckingham Palace in their distinctive bearskin hats and red tunics.

The Queen’s decision Thursday followed mounting calls for Andrew to finally lose those titles.



Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please PLEASE don't strip Andrew
- Pam G. (and a grateful nation)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  ...It's been pointed out that Andrew's actions during the Falklands War (short version: he hauled a radar reflector around on a chopper to lure EXOCET missiles away from the fleet) would have gotten anybody else a VC.

A shame his brains didn't match his b@lls.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 4:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Whereas Prince Harry didn’t wait for his grandmother to strip him of anything, but gave it all up voluntarily.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2022 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The English had an entitled class long before the Yanks grew their own.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/14/2022 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ At least the Poms had some class.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Pogroms in Kazakhstan could have been provoked by PMCs
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Aleksandr Kots

[KP] The tail of a long line stretched from the street, through the foyer of the Army House, up the stairs to the second floor - to the memorial hall. Paratrooper cadets - around the perimeter, in the center - a closed coffin with the body of the deputy commander of the Kapshagai airborne assault brigade. It is symbolic that they said goodbye to Lieutenant Colonel Sandibek Khairov , who together with his fighters held the defense in the Akimat of Almaty , in the park named after 28 Panfilovites.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 01/14/2022 01:27 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan: sharing what US officials have seen Russia doing to create a pretext to invade Ukraine
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Very untoward! Плохой мальчик!

Bet they don't even HAVE any rainbow flags to fly above their deplorable embassies. So THERE!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:41 Comments || Top||


Russia won't rule out military deployment to Cuba, Venezuela
[AlAhram] Russia raised the stakes Thursday in its dispute with the West over Ukraine and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
's expansion when a top diplomat refused to rule out a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
if tensions with the United States escalate.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They will spend all their time scrounging for food, like the locals.
Posted by: Ebbemp Glolusing8629 || 01/14/2022 2:22 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 They will spend all their time scrounging for food, like the locals.
Posted by: Ebbemp Glolusing8629 2022-01-14 02:22


It's okay; we'll probably send 'em welcome fruit baskets.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  This is one of the Russian de-escalation efforts we heard about yesterday.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/14/2022 5:15 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 This is one of the Russian de-escalation efforts we heard about yesterday. Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-01-14 05:15|| 2022-01-14 05:15|| Front Page ||Comments Top


"Whaddya people want? We're sending troops to Cuba, not the Ukraine - how can that be escalation??"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 6:24 Comments || Top||

#5  "We're just doing maintenance on those missiles from 1962!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't care what Russia does. This is being used as a way of taking your eyes off of what is going on here.
Posted by: Chris || 01/14/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Exactly correct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Need a ruling from Herb concerning the invasion of Venezuela.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if the US military is aware that Soviet ships (subs at least) carry nukes. They didn't know that during the Cuban missile crisis and for 30 years afterward.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 01/14/2022 14:55 Comments || Top||


First of Russian airborne troops return to Ivanovo
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Russian paratroopers carrying out a peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan began to return to their units, the press service of the Ministry of Defense said.

"The first units of Russian paratroopers from the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO , performing tasks to protect socially significant facilities in the Republic of Kazakhstan, having flown four Il-76md aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces military transport aviation from the Alma-Ata airfield to the Ivanovo-Severny airfield, returned to the point permanent deployment," said in the release.

Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 202. Residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas. Later, the actions spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata . People took to the streets, clashes with the security forces and looting began.

On January 5, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and ordered the regulation of fuel sales prices, but unrest continued. He also headed the Security Council, at the first meeting of which he called the situation "undermining the integrity of the state."

In addition, the country's president turned to the CSTO for help . The organization sent a collective peacekeeping force to the country to normalize the situation.

On January 7, the head of state announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, he noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard.

Against the background of the stabilization of the situation, the CSTO peacekeepers, who were involved in the protection of important objects, began to transfer them to local specialized departments.

Until January 19, a state of emergency is in effect throughout the republic.

Posted by: badanov || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Have you tried to steal deadly viruses from the US biolaboratory in Alma-Ata?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Aleksandr Kots

[KP] For residents of the outskirts of Alma-Ata, it is not at all a secret that in their neighborhood there is an object on which a state-rebuilt facility is located, on which, until recently, US military doctors and scientists worked in the strictest secrecy.

- Why didn't your peacekeepers take this center under protection? - Asked me the woman, whom I so directly and asked the way to the American biological laboratory.

For residents of the outskirts of Alma-Ata, it is not at all a secret that next to them there is an object rebuilt by the states, on which, until recently, US military doctors and scientists worked in the strictest secrecy. They placed their "Central Reference Laboratory" on the basis of the National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbaev.

Information appeared on social networks that on January 6, at the height of the pogroms, terrorists seized and plundered the Center. Considering that we are talking about research on deadly viruses and their strains, the consequences of this could be catastrophic. However, the information about the looting was not confirmed. But in those days a certain group of people still tried to get inside.

The perimeter of the Center is impressive. Thick fences with a double layer of barbed wire, gate locks, as in the most guarded strategic objects, cameras, as in a television reality show. In short, atypical for medical and scientific institutions. Behind the checkpoint is the very laboratory, to the first floor of which, according to some media reports, terrorists managed to break through.

In fact, as local residents told me, the attackers broke only one of the checkpoint windows. Now it is covered with a carpet. However, the window is protected by a lattice, with which the bandits could not cope.

- These are all fakes! - cut off a man who left the checkpoint and introduced himself as a security officer. But I couldn't explain anything about the window.

It is curious that, according to unofficial data, representatives of the CSTO proposed to include this center in the list of objects guarded by peacekeepers. However, the Kazakh side assured that it will cope on its own. Although the strengthening of the security regime around him is not visible. Neither an armored personnel carrier nor, at least, a patrol car.

Who the attackers were is unknown, it is unlikely that ordinary marauders were interested in the contents of American laboratories. Probably, some forces were not very persistent, but still tried to gain access to what could be used as biological weapons.

This facility is one of a whole network of similar ones deployed in almost all the former Soviet republics. Judging by the open data, new strains of plague, smallpox, anthrax, cholera, brucella and other deadly diseases are being studied there and the ways of their spread.

At the same time, this is a coincidence, over the years of functioning of such biolaboratories, outbreaks of dangerous diseases have been recorded on the territory of these countries. For example, for the Uzbek center, opened in 2007, the Pentagon allocated a grant to study brucellosis.

A year later, a sharp jump in this disease was recorded in the region. And in 2013, in the Alma-Ata laboratory, research began on the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and its spread by ticks. A year later, biologists noted an outbreak of fever carried by these insects. Some experts believe that this is the result of field tests. However, at the state level, investigations of infectious outbreaks were not conducted anywhere.
Posted by: badanov || 01/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why, yes. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Have you tried to steal deadly viruses from the US biolaboratory in Alma-Ata?

"If so, you may be entitled to compensation!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/14/2022 14:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Who the hell under which USA regime decided to have US biological warfare labs in ex-Soviet states?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/14/2022 14:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Same reason you have puppies eaten by sand flies in Tunisia.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2022 18:56 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Microsoft launches fresh investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Bill Gates and will release finding to public in spring after activist investors demanded answers
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Microsoft announced on Thursday it has hired Washington DC-based Arent Fox LLP to review how it handles sexual harassment allegations

  • The move comes after activist shareholders demanded greater disclosure of the company's handling of sexual harassment issues

  • Arent Fox is expected to recommend how to improve the culture at the company

  • Microsoft would then release a report detailing the effectiveness of the company's sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies

  • It will include details about the investigations and what the results of the investigations were
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 11:13 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  "You know, I think its time for some new faces in Human Resources, you know, some true progressives, start attracting the new breed of investors."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2022 17:18 Comments || Top||


Putin's sop to Biden? Russian FSB agents FINALLY arrest leaders of REvil hacking gang, more than six months AFTER Kremlin promised action
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Russia's FSB said Friday it had arrested 14 members of the REvil hacker gang

  • Roman Muromtsev, 33, and A. S. Bessonov were among the men charged

  • Group was behind major attacks on JSB meat processor and Kaseya software

  • Arrests 'sent shockwaves through the cybercriminal underworld,' expert says

  • Biden has for months demanded that Putin take stronger action on the gang

  • Arrests come as Russia issues ultimatum for NATO to halt eastward expansion

  • Suspects with Russian citizenship will not be handed over to the US, source says
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/14/2022 11:03 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Pirates

#1  Or, y'know, we could stop using all that javascript crap.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/14/2022 17:18 Comments || Top||


Economy
Bill Ford is doubling down on Ford shares, and quietly amassing more control of his great-grandfather's company in the process
[CNBC] Ford Motor Chair Bill Ford has been slowly amassing more control of the automaker his great-grandfather founded in 1903.

He is the company’s biggest individual shareholder with 2.3 million shares of the Ford’s common stock.

More importantly, he directly owns 16.1 million, or 23%, of the Class B shares. That’s quadruple the roughly 4 million, or 5.7%, he owned in 2012, according to FactSet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 10:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  About 4 billion (yes with a B) shares of common stock are outstanding

institutional investors, e.g., Vanguard, Blackrock own about half of them

there are about 200M class B shares I think, not the 80M that this CNBC post says
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/14/2022 14:08 Comments || Top||


Retail sales plunged 1.9% in December
[Washington Examiner] Retail sales plummeted by 1.9% in December after several months of consecutive increases, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

The report was far worse than expectations, with the consensus among economists being that retail sales would actually increase slightly. Additionally, the November gain was revised down a bit to 0.2%.

"Loss in momentum in November turned into a sharp weakening in December," noted Rubeela Farooqi, the chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics.

The stock market was down after Friday’s report following news of the retail sales numbers and a mixed set of bank earnings.


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#1  Everybody did their Christmas shopping in November, before the shelves were bare!
Posted by: Bobby || 01/14/2022 14:24 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID ‐ BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC
[GatewayPundit]
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/14/2022 05:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Starting to collapse now. Shaking the pillars of the Branch COVIDian Temple.

Look out below
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||

#2  But, if you believe in anything other than the holy vaxx, you "know nothing."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/14/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#3  To all the non-believers about the effectiveness about Ivermectin and HCQ, I have a question for you. Why did the public health authorities go to such extreme lengths to block these 2 medicines? They partnered with their useful idiots and partisans in the media to push the narrative that these drugs are essentially fish tank cleaner and horse dewormer. 2 minutes of research will show anyone that they are two of the most prescribed and safest human medicines ever to be invented. They blocked pharmacies from filling off-label prescriptions for these medicines. Don’t believe me? Call your local Rite Aid or CVS and ask if they will fill a prescription for these if your doctor wants to prescribe them for Covid. This is unheard of in medicine. They worked with medical governing bodies to sanction doctors who didn’t fall in line. They prevented hospitals from administering these to people even if they were very sick.

Never in the history of medicine have we seen such sick and corrupt practices.

After 2 years all we hear is the same 3 courses of action from our public health authorities, lockdowns, masks and vaccines. Not one Public Service Announcement on the different therapies, most of which are over the counter, to help lessen the severity of the course of the disease.

At least 500,000 Americans could have been saved. These people,should,be in jail.
Posted by: Kojo Untervehr9334 || 01/14/2022 17:25 Comments || Top||

#4  One for the history books.
Worst scandal / epic failure in modern history
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/14/2022 17:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Impeach every politician and fire (without pension) every bureucrat involved in this blatant corruption.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/14/2022 18:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Blinken: US still unsure who is behind Havana Syndrome cases
[Aljazeera] United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Washington is still trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious illness that has affected US diplomats posted around the world, but does not yet know what causes the affliction or who is behind it.

Blinken made the comments on Thursday as more reported cases of the mysterious neurological syndrome known as Havana Syndrome emerged, this time in Paris and Geneva.

The cases among officials working at diplomatic missions in the two cities were reported internally last year and eventually to Washington, the Wall Street Journal reported. They joined about 200 other diplomats based around the world to reportedly experience what the Biden administration officially calls "anomalous health incidents".

"To date, we don’t know exactly what’s happened and we don’t know exactly who is responsible," Blinken said in an interview with US broadcaster MSNBC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 06:41 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's a pandemic coming out of China soon. There really is no time to waste. Here, sign this State Department non-disclosure statement and take the DARPA antidote as prescribed. We can't afford to lose any of you to illness or an experimental vaccine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2022 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "They keep happening at our diplomatic outposts that have that new anti-surveillance weapon installed. We're all out of ideas!"
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 01/14/2022 7:30 Comments || Top||


Estimating Needed US Hospital beds
[AHA] WHAT WE HAVE.

Number of U.S. Community 1 Hospitals 5,141
Number of Nongovernment Not-for-Profit Community Hospitals 2,946
Number of Investor-Owned (For-Profit) Community Hospitals 1,233
Number of State and Local Government Community Hospitals 962
Number of Federal Government Hospitals 208
Number of Nonfederal Psychiatric Hospitals 625
Other 2 Hospitals 116
Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. Hospitals 919,559
Staffed Beds in Community 1 Hospitals 787,995

Intensive Care Beds 3 in Community Hospitals (FY2019 data to be updated 2/21)

Medical-Surgical Intensive Care 4 Beds
in Community Hospitals 55,663

Cardiac Intensive Care 5 Beds in Community Hospitals 15,160

Neonatal Intensive Care 6 Beds in Community Hospitals 22,721
Pediatric Intensive Care 7 Beds in Community Hospitals 5,115
Burn Care 8 Beds in Community Hospitals 1,198
Other Intensive Care 9 Beds in Community Hospitals 7,419
Total Admissions in All U.S. Hospitals 36,241,815

Admissions in Community 1 Hospitals 34,078,100

Total Expenses for All U.S. Hospitals $1,161,032,419,000
Expenses for Community 1 Hospitals $1,056,497,068,000

Number of Rural Community Hospitals 1,805
Number of Urban Community Hospitals 3,336
Number of Community Hospitals in a System 10 3,453

BED USAGE PROJECTION FOR 1-13-2022
51% of all US Hospital Beds are expected to be filled.
It appears the problem is NOT Beds. It is the needed Medical Stafff to support them.....

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