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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gates, Fauci, and Daszak charged with Genocide in Court Filing
[Desert Review] In a stunning 46-page legal filing to the International Criminal Court on December 6, an intrepid attorney and seven applicants accused Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Melinda Gates, William Gates III, and twelve others of numerous violations of the Nuremberg Code. These included various crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the Rome Statutes, Articles 6, 7, 8, 15, 21, and 53.

Besides the four kingpins, twelve others were named, including the CEOs of the leading vaccine corporations and the health leaders held accountable for the United Kingdom.

  • Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer
  • Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna
  • Pascal Soriot, CEO of Astra Zeneca
  • Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson and Johnson
  • Tedros Adhanhom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO
  • Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister
  • Christopher Whitty, UK Chief Medical Adviser
  • Matthew Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  • Sajid Javid, current UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
  • June Raine, UK Chief Executive of Medicines and Healthcare products
  • Dr. Ravid Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation
  • Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum

    https://docdro.id/WUjv6iw

    Dr. Ravid Shah, having worked for the Gates Foundation since 2001, was named a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader" in 2007. He now presides over the Rockefeller Foundation, a group funding ID2020 along with the Gates Foundation.
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2021 09:55 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Lunatics harass courts with all sorts of bizarre filings.
    Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/23/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

    #2  Well, if we were smart we could try them ourselves, or instead be _real_ lunatics and let the Chinese do it with -their_ weaponized half truths when they're through using them against us.
    Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/23/2021 22:56 Comments || Top||


    NRA chief who said he was given free use of 108ft yacht because his 'life was in danger' failed to disclose that he used it for his niece's wedding in the Bahamas and to cruise around the Caribbean
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
    • NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre is under fire after he allegedly failed to disclose his personal use of a yacht owned by NRA contractor David McKenzie

    • LaPierre claimed his travels - which took place during the summers of 2013 to 2018 - were 'security retreats' after his life was threatened

    • However, while he was using the yacht he attended the July 2013 wedding of his niece, Colleen Sterner, in the Bahamas

    • The LaPierres and Sterners are also accused of cruising around the Caribbean in McKenzie's yacht around the same time

    • LaPierre, who hired Sterner at the NRA, claims all of their family's travel was for the benefit of the organization

    • NY AG Letitia James sued the NRA in 2020 alleging top leaders diverted millions of dollars away from the organization 'for personal use by senior leadership'
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 09:15 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


    DC Librarian Who Made Children Reenact Holocaust Is Failed Dem Candidate, Convicted Fraudster, and Animal Abuser
    [WashingtonFreeBeacon] Kimberlynn Jurkowski defrauded New Jersey of $24k, abused dogs
    A busy lady woman person.
    The Washington, D.C., public school librarian who made third graders reenact graphic scenes from the Holocaust is a Democrat who claims she ran for office in New Jersey, where she was convicted of defrauding the state through a tutoring scam and charged with several counts of animal abuse.

    Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler
    ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
    , who carried out the Holocaust, Jurkowski told the students, "because the Jews ruined Christmas." A Washington Free Beacon investigation found that Jurkowski was hired by the D.C. public school after a scandalous tenure as a librarian in New Jersey, where she ran in 2010 for a local school board as a Democrat, according to an image posted to her Twitter account.

    There is no record of Jurkowski serving on the school board for Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, where she says she ran for office. There is record, however, of New Jersey catching Jurkowski bilking taxpayers out of approximately $24,000 through a program designed to help the children of the state's educators. The Hamilton Township district paid for Jurkowski's two children to receive tutoring—but she continued to bill the district for reimbursements once the tutoring stopped. She was convicted of fraud and forced to forfeit her librarian job, according to court records.

    Jurkowski's legal problems continued in 2019 when she faced four charges of animal cruelty for leaving her dogs out in the cold. According to coverage at the time from Pet Rescue Report, Jurkowski left five dogs behind to survive frigid temperatures in a dilapidated environment. Body camera footage from coppers called to the site shows "the entire property was completely run down," with "dogs in pens with sheets of plywood leaning against a fence to act as shelter."

    One of the dogs, an older Rottweiler named Poseidon, could barely walk, and was found dead and frozen solid to the ground in one of the pens. The dog's death prompted animal rights activists to launch a #JusticeForPoseidon campaign.

    The principal of Watkins Elementary School, Scott Berkowitz, did not return a request for comment on Jurkowski. D.C. Public Schools did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including about whether it was familiar with Jurkowski’s criminal record prior to hiring her.

    Since working in D.C. Public Schools, Jurkowski has struck an ultra-partisan combative tone online. Her Twitter account is filled with retweets of calls to abolish the police and defend Paleostinian terrorism. One Al Jazeera post she shared claims that a Paleostinian terrorist named Ahmad Erekat was killed by Israeli police but fails to mention that he was shot after ramming his car into Israelis.

    Watkins Elementary School is located just outside a city ward represented by a Democratic politician who claimed that Jews control the weather.
    That’s Trayon White Sr.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Jurkowski?
    Posted by: Frank G || 12/23/2021 10:57 Comments || Top||

    #2  Has anyone made a complaint about her to the local children's protective services agency?
    Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

    #3  Jurkowski: mebbe Whoopi G's cousin?
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

    #4  There surfs an old man of La Jolla
    Who can't name his current employer,
    But he left H---------
    For [thick velvet curtain]
    To seed sunless skies' paranoia.
    Posted by: Shusolet Panda3990 || 12/23/2021 18:34 Comments || Top||


    Groom Is Robbed Of His Rolex At Gunpoint Outside His Wedding Reception In Philadelphia: Three Men Are Arrested
    • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] On Thursday afternoon, three men were taken into custody in connection with the robbery and several others The suspects are believed to be part of a crew responsible for at least 10 robberies dating back to October in the city's upscale neighborhoods

    • One such robbery in recent weeks went viral after being posted to Twitter and TikTok

    • Robberies have skyrocketed by 27% since 2020 and murders broke an all-time record this year.

    • The victim of the on-camera robbery was a groom outside his wedding reception in the Old City neighborhood was robbed of his Rolex at gunpoint

    • The video shows the man being robbed by several people and a group of others half a block away just walking by as it happens

    • Those arrested are also believed to be connected to an armed robbery where they got away with two more Rolexes worth over $37,000

    • The brazen attack came after woke Philadelphia District Attorney claimed the city does not have a 'crisis of lawlessness'
    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  This is why I go with Tag Heuer watches!
    Posted by: Raj || 12/23/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

    #2  nobody would, I think, want my Casio with the plastic band
    Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/23/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||


    -Short Attention Span Theater-
    Florida man found with baggies of cocaine and meth strapped around his penis tells cops during traffic stop that they're not his
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 09:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call and stumbled towards the trees
    Behind a bush he lift his kilt and gawks at what he sees
    And in a startled voice he says to what's before his eyes
    "Ah, lad I don't know where you've been but I see you won first prize"
    Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/23/2021 16:57 Comments || Top||


    -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
    'I told you we'd get 'em': Incredible moment rescuers pull two babies from a bathtub after their grandmother tucked them inside with a Bible and a blanket as a tornado destroyed their Kentucky home
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
    • Kaden, 15 months, and Dallas, three months, survived a Kentucky tornado on December 10 that ripped the bathtub they were sheltering in out of the ground

    • Bodycam footage shows the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office's desperate search for two babies who were stuffed into a bathtub with a blanket and a bible by their grandmother Clara Lutz before the storm hit

    • As they search through the debris with flashlights they discover an overturned bathtub

    • Both children appeared to have 'no cuts' and were carried away without even crying before being reunited with Lutz who was totally overwhelmed at the sight of one of the babies and yells out 'Praise God, lord Jesus!' Oh thank you, Jesus'

    • 78 people in Kentucky were killed in the tornado. At least 93 people have been confirmed dead across five states after more than 40 tornadoes pummeled a wide area last weekend
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    -Land of the Free
    Family-Owned Company Sues Pentagon for Blocking It from Printing Bible Verses on Dog Tags
    [Breitbart] Shields of Strength, a small, family-owned, faith-based company, is suing the Pentagon after it blocked it from continuing to produce replica dog tags with Bible verses on them.

    First Liberty Institute, on behalf of the company, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on December 17, asking a federal court to review and reverse decisions that forbid the company to print inspirational Bible verses on replica dog tags.

    Mike Berry, general counsel for First Liberty, said in a statement, “It’s a cruel insult to our service members to deny them a source of inspiration, hope, and encouragement simply because it contains a religious message.”

    “DOD officials caved to the empty threats of those who make their living by being offended. There’s no legal reason for the military to discriminate against Shields of Strength,” he said.

    Shields of Strength has been making dog tag replicas with Bible verses for the past 20 years, including for military units at the request of commanders. According to Berry, now-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had requested them once for his unit.

    Berry said after the military branches in 2011 trademarked certain words and logos associated with them, Shields of Strength obtained licenses to continue making dog tags featuring the words or logos associated with the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force on one side and the Bible verses on the other side.

    However, an organization ironically named the Military Religious Freedom Foundation sent a complaint in 2019 to the Department of Defense saying the company should not be allowed to use its licenses with anything religious, prompting the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps to not renew licensing with the company.

    Shields of Strength was founded in 1997 by Kenny Vaughan and his wife Tammie to encourage service members. One of its first orders came in 2001 from a military unit about to be deployed to Afghanistan — the 86th Signal Battalion. The couple donated 500 dog tags they called “Shields” to the unit.

    The company also donated more than 50,000 pieces a month during the Iraq War, and one time even fulfilled a request for 30,000 pieces, according to First Liberty. The company has made more than five million dog tags and donated hundreds of thousands to active-duty members and veterans, as well as first responders and to the families of those fallen.

    “It’s harsh and unkind that an outside group like the MRFF would pursue a radical agenda and seek to deny our service members—particularly those who may have to fight in the fiercest battles—the right to wear inspirational jewelry,” First Liberty Institute said.

    “Nowhere are attacks on faith more repugnant than those aimed at the men and women who voluntarily placed their lives on the line to defend the freedom of others. That’s why First Liberty is fighting to make sure outside, anti-faith groups don’t get away with stripping away the rights of our men and women in uniform—especially their God-given freedom to find inspiration in their faith,” it said.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

    #1  forbid the company to print inspirational Bible verses on replica dog tags.

    How the hell is this even possible? Is the Pentagon going to stop Omar from printing the koran on toilet paper?

    Seriously under what remote legal grounds could this be? Shit print them anyways and call them cat tags.
    Posted by: Woodrow || 12/23/2021 3:07 Comments || Top||

    #2  Fuck the woke pentagon. They will have no protection when shit goes kinetic. Most soldiers will go back and fight for their home.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 12/23/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

    #3  How the hell is this even possible?

    Anarcho-Tyranny makes possible the formerly unthinkable.

    This is how our most valiant and patriotic soldiers and citizens come to be labeled Nazis, theocrats, "insurrectionists."

    This is how communists become not just shitty little adjunct professors but actual West Point cadets, district attorneys, CIA chiefs, Comptrollers of the Currency, recipients of Congressional attention and praise.

    Night is day, up is down. Welcome to Anarcho-Tyranny.
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

    #4  I don't think bureaucrats ever care if something is legal or not.

    They are unquestioned experts at avoiding accountability and consequences. They just do this stuff and then fade into the bureaucratic background.
    Posted by: Tom || 12/23/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

    #5  There are many other manufacturers issuing replica dog tags. I know of one using the same machinery used to fabricate WWII-era dog tags. Obviously the US DOD and all the service branches have trademarked all manner of logos & text by now, apparently that's the issue in the lawsuit, good luck to them if the DOD & the branches don't want to go along...
    Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

    #6  So don't use any of the trademarked symbols. Are they necessary for the Bible verses to be inspiring?
    Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/23/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

    #7  Lawfare against family businesses sure is easier than winning a shooting war against goat rapers -- Gen. Vannili Milley, probably
    Posted by: Crutle Lumumba5639 || 12/23/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||

    #8  "Family owned"

    Unless it's a Chinese mainland family, forget it.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||

    #9  So no one here knows what legal ground the claim? WTH
    Posted by: Woodrow || 12/23/2021 21:20 Comments || Top||


    Africa Subsaharan
    Death toll from the sinking of a cargo ship off the coast of northeastern Madagascar rose to 83
    [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I didn't know that many people would be on 1 of those cargo ships.
    Posted by: Chris || 12/23/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

    #2  Maybe the 83 were the cargo?
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||


    Punches thrown in Ghana parliament over proposed electronic payments tax
    [NYPOST] A brawl broke out on the floor of Ghana’s parliament late on Monday as politicians debated a proposed tax on electronic transactions that has divided the house for weeks.The 1.75% e-levy, which would include taxes on mobile money payments, has been fiercely opposed by the opposition since it was first proposed last month, and held up the passing of the national budget.

    Members of parliament rushed the front of the chamber after Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu suggested the tax be debated and voted upon under a hastened ’urgency’ procedure. Some threw punches and grappled while others restrained their colleagues.

    Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta argues that the levy would widen the tax net and raise an additional 6.9 billion Ghanaian cedi ($1.15 billion) in 2022.

    But his proposal was met with boos and jeers in parliament when it was first announced.

    Those opposed to the levy say it would disproportionately affect lower-income people and those outside the formal banking system who rely heavily rely on mobile money transfers, reducing overall economic activity.



    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
    Volodya: The US is parking missiles on the porch of our house


    This is the press conference, all four hours of it, translated from Russian
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 08:56 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Worth noting that if Putin remains president of Russia to 2024, he will have been leader of Russia longer than Czar Nicholas II.
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

    #2  Nicholas II was an incompetent dunce hated by his own people -- including his own aristocrats. He took a powerful great country with a growing economy and a government led by talented, brilliant ministers such as Witte -- and trashed it.

    Putin for all his flaws, and there are many, took a country that was in a complete shambles and restored it to a semblance of order, dignity and respect -- self-respect and the respect of the great powers. He crushed the Chechen rebellion and has at least halted NATO's surreal attempts to expand into the Caucasus and within a few hundred miles of Moscow, on Russia's southern flank. Pensions are paid and the fertility rate for White Russians, which collapsed during the initial post-Soviet era, turned around and is growing to the point where the Russian fertility rate now exceeds that of white Americans.

    Hate Putin all you like -- I'm not a fan -- but he is undeniably the anti-Nicholas II. That monster was hated by his people. The Soviet leaders were feared or scorned. The Russians know Putin's a bandit but they accept and overwhelmingly support him because they know that the alternative -- decay, decline, weakness and of course corruption regardless who's in charge -- the alternative to Putin is even worse.
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

    #3  ^^^ I think this is a very good analysis. The only thing I would add is that Putin has been fortunate in having some very weak and incompetent adversaries (Obama, Merkel, Biden, et al.)
    Posted by: Tom || 12/23/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

    #4  ^^^ I think this is a very good analysis. The only thing I would add is that Putin has been fortunate in having some very weak and incompetent adversaries (Obama, Merkel, Biden, et al.)

    I think it was either Frederick the Great or Sun Tsu who said a skilled commander cannot rely on skill alone. He must have luck as well.
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||

    #5  Putin's a worthless Soviet thug who lucked into power and stayed there by murdering anyone who challenged him.
    Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/23/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

    #6  "If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.”

    Putin is a master of this Sun Tzu precept.

    Whereas our moronic leaders have mastered the art of lying to ourselves: telling themselves and their countrymen that we are strong when we're weak, and destroying the greatest strengths this country had: its loyal patriots and its splendid isolation from the world's tarbabies.
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

    #7  "I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?" ― Napoleon Bonaparte

    Let's see, invade and annex (back) the Crimea, bite a chunk of Georgia, use Sudeten ethnic Germans Russians to adjust borders. Nah, its everybody else's fault that they conspire against us!
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||

    #8  Musta been Napoleon. My bad.
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||


    New Russian air defense technology can hit an enemy behind cover
    Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
    [RIA Novosti] Anti-aircraft artillery complex (ZAK) "Derivation-Air Defense", armed with a cannon of 57 mm caliber, will be able to hit the enemy with special guided projectiles, hiding from a direct shot in a trench, trench or behind a parapet, appropriate tests are underway, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

    "Due to the use of guided detonation shells and the latest fire control system developed by Uralvagonzavod ZAK-57" Derivation-PVO "will be able to destroy an enemy in shelters that is not available for direct hit. , trench, behind the wall of the building, any obstacles, "- said the agency's interlocutor.

    He added that "earlier, preliminary tests of the" Derivation-Air Defense "on the use of guided detonation ammunition in the conditions of the landfill were carried out."

    The source explained that the ZAK control system calculates the detonation time of each projectile so that it detonates at the desired point on the trajectory.

    "As a result, the complex is capable of firing a series of shots, and the shells will explode in a chain in the air exactly above the enemy's trench, covering his infantry from above with shrapnel. Manpower, reliably sheltered behind the earth from direct fire, will be destroyed," he said.

    "This function is also important for the destruction of small UAVs - a group of shells, at the command of the control system, will explode in the air at certain points of the trajectory in order to most effectively cover the drone with a field of debris.

    He added that the detonation time calculated by the system is entered into each projectile using a programmer installed on the ZAK barrel next to the muzzle brake.

    "The control system calculates the direction of flight of the projectile, its ballistics and the point of explosion by setting a timer for each projectile. As a result, the ammunition explodes on the flight path of the aircraft at the lead point or above the trench, or around the corner of the building, and so on," the source said.

    The structure of the ZAK "Derivation-Air Defense" includes a combat vehicle equipped with a 57-mm automatic cannon, a transport-loading vehicle, as well as a repair and maintenance vehicle. "Derivation-PVO" is equipped with modern optics and electronics, allowing to detect, recognize and track fast-flying targets.

    At the end of last year, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov , chief of the Air Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces , said that state tests of the Derivation-Air Defense complex are scheduled for 2022.
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


    Gold toilets found in the house of the rector of Smolensk University of Sports
    Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
    [RIA Novosti] A copy of Monomakh's hats, bidets and toilets, trimmed with gold, edged weapons, currency, stuffed animals and luxury goods were found during a search in the country house of the rector of Smolensk State University of Sports, detained on suspicion of embezzlement of 1.5 million rubles, follows from the materials of the FSB.

    Rector of the Smolensk State University of Sports Georgy Grets was arrested last week in the case of embezzling 1.5 million rubles from the university. According to SUSK, the money was spent on the purchase of plumbing fixtures for his house and for other personal needs.

    The photographs provided by RIA Novosti of the FSB Directorate for the Smolensk Region were made during searches at the university and the rector's country house. The plumbing installed in the house is finished in gold and looks very expensive. The house has a swimming pool, sauna and billiard room. The backyard area is also striking in size and well-groomed. In the huge courtyard, there are gazebos, landscape sculptures, a carriage, houses and buildings are architecturally illuminated.

    As reported by the investigation, the rector involved his subordinates in the repair of his own house, for which he paid them bonuses in the total amount of 150,000 rubles. In addition, according to the investigation, 600,000 rubles were spent on the purchase of sanitary ware in his country house from the funds of the university; another 800,000 rubles, which were transferred to pay for the repairs of the educational institution that had not been carried out, went into the pocket of the rector and his accomplice from among the employees of the university.
    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Great posts badanov! Some hit my hot buttons but that is a good thing.
    Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/23/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

    #2  You got to have a professional level collegiate football or basketball team to get those overtly written in your university coaching contract in America.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||


    Ukraine military conducts drills with US missiles near separatist region
    [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    122,000 Russian troops deployed within a 200km operational distance from the borders of Ukraine, as well as another 143,500 troops within a distance of 400km
    [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Watch for the rail activity. That's when things will start moving. You don't move a modern mechanized force on its own, too many breakdowns, etc. Rail is how they will move to their marshaling areas.

    Anyone trainspotting?
    Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 12/23/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

    #2  As Teutons shoot vodka on ice...
    "Will Putin be naughty or nice?"
    "Can be manage the reins?"
    "Not to mention the trains."
    "Ach, he tightens the screw!"
    Winter Weiss.
    Posted by: Shusolet Panda3990 || 12/23/2021 20:16 Comments || Top||

    #3  The Ukulele Man

    Weddingof Mr. Pooh... Times Two?
    Posted by: Shusolet Panda3990 || 12/23/2021 20:41 Comments || Top||

    #4  Come on Putin...make Joe's day!
    Posted by: Bertie Spawn of the Trolls9333 || 12/23/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||


    Putin: West incorrectly assessed the outcome of the Cold War
    [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Western "experts" certainly failed to predict the collapse of the USSR way back when.
    Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||


    China-Japan-Koreas
    China orders a city's entire 13 million population to stay indoors due to Covid outbreak
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The northern Chinese city of Xi'an on Wednesday ordered all 13 million residents to stay home in a strict lockdown, as concern grows over a fresh outbreak of Covid-19.

    All households may only 'send one household member outside once every two days to purchase necessities,' with all others ordered to remain indoors except for emergencies, the city government said in a statement on its official Weibo social media account.

    With Beijing preparing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in February, China is on high alert as it fights local outbreaks in several cities.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

    #1  Don’t give Brandon any ideas, OK?
    Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/23/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||


    #3  Democrat mayors & governors look on in envy.
    Posted by: Raj || 12/23/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

    #4  Is COVID Now Becoming a Pandemic of the Vaccinated?

    Spoiler - of course it is.
    Posted by: Angstrom || 12/23/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

    #5  Endemic. Not pandemic.
    Game over
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||

    #6  What if they can't get the numbers under control? Would they cancel the Olympics?

    Oh, the horror!
    Posted by: Bobby || 12/23/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||

    #7  Send Mittens Pierre to fix it. One way ticket.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/23/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||


    Economy
    Inferno breaks out at Texas Exxon Mobil oil refinery in 'major industrial accident' leaving at least four injured after explosion that rocked houses miles away
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] There goes Biden's Christmas gas discount
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 09:05 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


    #2  Fill your tanks ASAP.
    Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||


    Olde Tyme Religion
    Inside the Christmas tradition that sees a giant gift-giving crow visit a remote Aboriginal town every year instead of Santa Claus - and the custom has its roots in the Dreamtime up to 65,000 years ago
    [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 09:54 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


    Utah's richest man, tech CEO Jeff T. Green who is worth $4.6 billion, cuts ties with Mormon church
    ... in scathing public letter where he blasts the institution for hindering global progress in women's rights, racial equality and LGBTQ+ rights
    ...which is, of course, why we have a Mormon Church, or any church.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


    #2  Translation. Despite his magic underwear. What Green does with his goat behind the shed is bad. But he doesn't think so.
    Posted by: Woodrow || 12/23/2021 3:01 Comments || Top||

    #3  As in New York bills to follow. Claw back monies the order of the day. "you didn't build that". Tax audits.
    Posted by: Dale || 12/23/2021 3:51 Comments || Top||

    #4  Other considerations withstanding, excellent reasons to actually 'join' the Mormon church. I doubt Mr. Green's pew will grow cold or the loss of his contributions much felt.

    The holy church of WOKE gains a new member.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2021 6:48 Comments || Top||

    #5  Is he gay? Or in transition?
    Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/23/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

    #6  ...choose to worship a different god.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

    #7  I don't understand the push to pervert "holy" writings by pretending that the God that inspired the holy writing wasn't smart enough to know times would change. Holy religious doctrine isn't supposed to change--unholy human behavior is supposed to change instead to align with scripture.
    Posted by: Crusader || 12/23/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

    #8  ^^ I'm not Catholic, but for the longest time I admired the Catholic church because it seemingly made NO effort to change its teaching even as the world around it seemed to choose a topsy turvy path.

    But this latest "Pope" has me worried that even the Catholic church is going to go "woke" in a matter of a few short years.
    Posted by: Crusader || 12/23/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

    #9  Not in the news is the latest hopeless drunk who has decided to cut his ties with the LDS. There must be at least one out there...
    Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||


    Science & Technology
    Rapatronic Cameras in atomic/nuclear tests.
    [WHKROG] This sequence of three shots were taken by a ' telephoto' version of the Rapatronix, with a 160-inch (4064mm) focal length Cassegrain lens, looking directly into the shot tower at the device at 'zero time'.

    The rectangular object seem is the actual weapon casing.

    The 'light' seen around the weapon casing is called "Teller light' after the physicist Dr. Edward Teller.

    When a nuclear device explodes, the first products of the reaction are X-rays, which penetrate the bomb casing without destroying it.

    When outside the bomb casing, the X-rays encounter normal temperature air, which is opaqueto X-rays. So the X-rays are abssorbed by and excite the air molecules to a higher energy state for a very brief period, after which they 'fall back' into a lower energy state and emit that excess energy largely as photons of light.

    Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  ...Amazing from a technical standpoint, terrifying from any other.

    Mike
    Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/23/2021 6:17 Comments || Top||


    Astronomers discover many interstellar planets
    Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
    [RIA Novosti] In the Upper Scorpio stellar association closest to the Sun, astronomers using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have identified about a hundred planets moving freely in space, rather than revolving around specific stars. All in all, in our Galaxy, according to scientists, there must be billions of such interstellar planets, or rogue planets.

    The results of the study are published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

    Interstellar planets have been known for about twenty years, but so far no systematic research has been carried out to find and study them. This is due to the fact that they cannot be detected using traditional observation methods, since they are not associated with any stars and are not illuminated by them.

    Researchers from France , Spain and Japan analyzed about a hundred terabytes of data obtained over twenty years of observations of the best infrared and optical telescopes: the VLT Very Large Telescope, the VISTA Observation Telescope in the Visible and Infrared Spectrum, the VLT Wide Field of View Telescope (VST) and

    "The vast majority of the data that was critical to this study came from ESO observatories," project manager Herve Bouy of the Astrophysics Laboratory of the University of Bordeaux in France said in a press release.

    "We used tens of thousands of wide-angle images from objects ESO corresponding to hundreds of hours of observation."

    A map of the motion of the stars of the Milky Way, built using data from the Gaia space observatory. Black and magenta represent areas of significant movement, yellow represent areas of relatively little movement. Large-scale filamentous disk structures in the middle plane of the Galaxy are highlighted by lines. Bottom left - satellites of the Magellanic Clouds, right - torn apart Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

    In their search, the authors were guided by the assumption that, several million years after their formation, rogue planets with a mass comparable to that of Jupiter are still hot enough to be directly detected using the sensitive infrared cameras of large telescopes.

    As a result, after the introduction of corrections for the background light of stars and galaxies, only in the association of young stars of Upper Scorpio closest to the Sun, the researchers identified from 70 to 170, depending on the selection criteria used, such objects, as well as more than three thousand candidates for rogue planets.

    "We measured the smallest movements, as well as the color and brightness of tens of millions of sources over a large area of ​​the sky," explains the first author of the article, Nuria Miret-Roig.

    "These measurements allowed us to reliably identify the faintest objects in this region - the planets "Outcasts. We didn't know how many there would be, and we're very glad we found so many."

    Extrapolation to the rest of the Milky Way galaxy suggests that it contains billions of interstellar planets, the origin of which remains a mystery. The researchers believe that such a huge number of rogue planets could not have formed as a result of the compression of the material of small gas clouds in interstellar space. Most likely, according to the authors, these planets originally formed around stars, and then were thrown out of their parent system.

    Posted by: badanov || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Wandering Earth
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/23/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||


    Southeast Asia
    Scores feared dead after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
    [EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least one person was killed and scores were missing after a landslide of dirt and rubble ripped down the waste heap of a Myanmar jade mine, sweeping workers searching for fragments of the gems into a lake and burying them under the debris.Throngs of their families stood on bare, muddy banks on the shores of the lake, as rescue workers in hard hats and hi-vis jackets searched the water in boats after Wednesday’s accident, pictures posted on Facebook by the fire department showed.

    One body had been recovered from the scene before rescue operations were called off as night fell, and around 50 people still unaccounted for had likely also died, a fire department official at the scene told Rooters.

    "It is so difficult to estimate how many were missing, but we estimate at least 50 missing and they have very little chance of survival," said Pyae Nyein, captain of Hpakant Township’s fire department.

    Kachin Network Development Foundation, a local civil society group involved in the rescue operation, earlier estimated the number missing at around 80 after the waste tore down the slag heap from some 200 feet (60 meters).

    Two other rescue workers on the scene also said they feared the missing had likely perished in the latest tragedy to hit Myanmar’s poorly regulated jade industry.

    The accident took place in the remote Hpakant area of Kachin State at around 4 a.m. (2130 GMT on Tuesday), the fire department said.

    Deadly landslides and other accidents are common in Hpakant, the center of Myanmar’s secretive jade industry which draws poor workers from across Myanmar in search of gems mostly for export to China.

    In a landslide last weekend, media reported at least six people were killed.



    Posted by: Fred || 12/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Nothing new: On 2 July 2020, one of Myanmar’s most devastating landslides occurred in the Wai Khar open-pit jade mine, which is located within the Hpakant township in the northern state of Kachin, Myanmar. Quarry slope materials collapsed into a flooded open pit, burying and killing at least 172 jade miners.
    Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 12/23/2021 8:11 Comments || Top||



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