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Anne Lewis : STORY & VIDEO PODCAST | Asylum, terror, and the future #5: From military officer to drug lord
Based on case stories by Jennifer Harbury… Asylum, Terror, and the Future #5 from military officer to drug lord Based on case stories of Jennifer Harbury from Anne Lewis on Vimeo. By Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | July … finish reading Anne Lewis : *STORY & VIDEO PODCAST* | Asylum, terror, and the future #5: From military officer to drug lord
“The only reason to go on living is so that I can kill”: A bone-chilling letter from a serial killer
Among the court documents obtained by the Halifax Examiner in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case is a bone-chilling letter written by serial killer Michael McGray to a prison psychiatrist. The letter is dated May 13, 2003. McGray was then housed at the Atlantic Institute in Renous, New Brunswick. He was arrested in 1998 for […]
The US Stunt In Hong Kong Will Make Other Issues More Difficult
[image: undefined] The current attempt of a US instigated color revolution in Hong Kong is failing: Protesters wearing all black streamed through the Yuen Long area, even though police refused to grant permission for the march, citing risks of confrontations between demonstrators and local residents. By nightfall, protesters and police were once again facing off in the streets, as they've done previously during the summer-long pro-democracy protests in the Chinese territory. Demonstrators threw objects and ducked behind makeshift shields, and police officers shot plumes of tear ga... more »
Iranian Monarchists Praise the Shah’s Brutal Rule on the Anniversary of his Death
[image: undefined] On July 27, 1980, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi finally succumbed to cancer in Cairo, Egypt. In 1953, he was installed as the dictator of Iran after the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. There are a few tributes to the brutal dictator posted on social media ahead of this anniversary. Most are nostalgic for the good old days when the Shah ruled with an iron fist and unleashed his notorious and brutal SAVAK secret police on Iranians opposed to his rule. O Emperors of the mightiest light Shahanshah Spirit of the... more »
Understanding the Roots of the Obama Coup Against Trump
[image: undefined] The full details of the plot to take out Donald Trump remain to be revealed. But there should now be no doubt that his effort was not the work of a few rogue intelligence and law enforcement officials acting on their own. This was a full blown covert action undertaken with the full knowledge and blessing of Barack Obama. As I have written previously, the claim that Russia tried to hijack our election is a damn lie. But you do not have to take my word for it. Just listen to Barack Obama speaking in October 2016 in response to Donald Trump's expressed concerns abo... more »
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Norm Farrell examines some of the root causes of a political system which lavishes benefits on the wealthy while neglecting people who actually need help. - Natalie Kitroeff, David Gelles and Jack Nicas examine the role of deregulation in the multiple crashes of Boeing 737 Maxes. And following up on this week's column on the misuse of regulatory power to help entrenched corporate interests, CBC News reports that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is actively trying to enforce the righthink demanded by the meat and dairy industries even... more »
John Simpson does it again
Do I bother too much about BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson's often highly opinionated Fran-Unsworth-busting tweets? Well, even if I do, here's the great Afghan burka babe's latest Twitter outburst: The US Justice Department says it will resume the execution of federal death row inmates and has already scheduled 5. Other countries which execute people include China, Saudi Arabia & Pakistan. No member of the European Union practices capital punishment. — John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) July 27, 2019 What tickled my fancy here, besides his telling EU reference, is than John *d... more »
Cheri Bustos Is Stoking Racial Tensions Among Democrats In Congress
*Cheri Bustos and Marcia Fudge* "Cheri has proven herself a flawless leader... of the Congressional Women's Softball Team," a member of Congress told me this afternoon. "Making her head of the DCCC was a big mistake-- at least for us... They should make her captain of the softball team and get her to walk away from the D-Trip." Bustos, a Blue Dog who switched to the New Dems before making her move for Democratic leadership is the most conservative member of Pelosi's leadership team-- by far. According to ProgressivePunch her strong "F" is based on a lifetime crucial vote score of 52...more »
Yes, an SR-71 Blackbird Did Land in Zero Visibility
*Dario Leone* *History, Americas* [image: By Beta75 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7457339] Here's how they did it. *In the following story, which appears in Col. Richard H. Graham’s book SR-71 Revealed: The Untold Story, former SR-71 pilot Lt. Col. Bernie Smith (Ret) discusses the importance of crew coordination and other factors that made SR-71 crews work as a team.* An ADS failure in one of the most serious emergencies that can occur on the SR-71. Landing soon became imperative! Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the Lockheed SR... more »
Everything You Wanted to Know About the New Sniper Rifles the Military Is Getting
*Task and Purpose* *Security, Americas* [image: By Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez, U.S. Air Force - www.defense.gov, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20666504] Oh yeah. *While a handful of lucky Marines with 1st Marine Expeditionary Force units are already rocking the Mk 13 Mod 7 (the Corps’ first new sniper system since the adoption of the M40 during the Vietnam War) in their kits, there are plans to field the rifle to II MEF and II MEF units through 2019 — and Marines already love it. * With the fiscal year 2019 defense budget put to bed without a bloody fig... more »
Infested: Leftist Snowflake's Newest Trigger Word
"Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA..........As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." - DJT TRIGGERED!! "That's usually reserved for references to rodents and instincts". Trump literally refered to rodents! Baltimore ... more »
Over 1,000 rescued from partly submerged train in India as Monsoon rains flood tracks
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Rescuers in India evacuate over 1,000 passengers from a train stuck in monsoon floodwaters between two stations near Mumbai.
How lingering wounds from WWII could impact the cost of your next smartphone
Japan has restricted chemicals to South Korea essential to creating memory chips found in everything from smartphones to fridges to missiles. But what will happen if trade friction evolves into a full-blown trade war?
ASX heading for a new high despite company earnings on the slide
The August reporting season is expected to confirm that corporate earnings are slowing. So how will the ASX, poised to hit a new high, pull through what may be a disappointing month?
Moving from western Sydney to Queensland opened my eyes to racism — and my own culture
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I had only been in Rockhampton for two hours when I experienced some form of Islamophobia — and I'm a Palestinian-Arab-Christian, writes Ryan Al-Natour.
Cummings Criticizes Border Conditions – President Trump Reminds Cummings of His Home District…
Charity begins at home; so too does good governance. President Trump confronts Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings with the reality of his own district in Baltimore, Maryland, and the blight that’s been neglected for decades. It is worth remembering that … Continue reading →
President Trump Discusses Declassification Authority Granted to AG Bill Barr…
President Trump granted full declassification authority to AG Bill Barr in May of this year. There has been some discussion about Bill Barr not releasing any information. In an interview last week with Sean Hannity, President Trump outlined his thoughts … Continue reading →
The BBC, abortion, Trump, 'Panorama' and bias
I've not had much time to blog recently but when time permits and the impulse is upon me I sometimes find myself wasting a half hour or so of my life watching something I'd never normally watch just to check out a hunch about BBC bias. (May a host of harmonious angels singing Handel rescue me!) Thus, having just watched Big Nick Robinson's M. Barnier-friendly *Panorama* on Brexit, I spotted that the subsequent *Panorama *edition was a US-based report by Hilary Andersson (not to be confused, despite what you might think, with Hillary Clinton). Now, the BBC's Hilary and biased *Pano... more »
Science Fiction media and more
A bit of a sci-fi media roundup today. How long have we waited for a television anthology series to be based upon (not just occasionally) genuine published short stories crafted by fine authors? Netflix has one, at last, titled Love, Death & Robots. See descriptions of some of the stories and authors featured. 31 Science-Fiction Things That Actually Exist Now… alas every one of them from TV or movies. How long would the list be, if they just took the forecasts of Frederik Pohl? Including meat substitutes and tissue culture steaks that could help save us all. Oh, and today's cell ph... more »
How Widespread is Human Trafficking in the US?
Global Issues News Headlines - 8 hours ago
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations. Read the full story, “How Widespread is Human Trafficking in the US?”, on globalissues.org →
The Federal Government Sold Your Social Security Number for FIVE Dollars
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Welcome to our Friday roll up, where we highlight the most absurd and concerning stories we are following this week.... more »
10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS
By Jamie Redman On July 26, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the tax agency has started sending letters to American cryptocurrency owners... more »
“Human Rights Activists” Celebrate Facebook-Twitter Censorship
Op-Ed by Joseph Thomas All Facebook and Twitter accounts associated with Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci have been deleted. The extent to which both American-based... more »
Assyrian in Iraq Faces Death Threats After Criticizing Kurdish Officials
Assyrian International News Agency - 8 hours ago
William Bnyameen Adam, an Assyrian human rights activist living in North Iraq.A prominent Assyrian human rights activist residing in Ankawa, Iraq named William Bnyameen Adam--known by his pen name "Khlapieel Bnyameen"--has received death threats after publishing Facebook posts to his personal account criticizing newly-installed Chief of Staff to the
Nine years ago, they were child reality TV stars. So what happened next?
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Their enthusiasm and skills lit up the first season of Junior MasterChef Australia. Nine years later, how many have followed their love of cooking into a career in the food industry?
Musical Interlude: “Native American, Power Drums, Spirit Pride”
“Native American, Power Drums, Spirit Pride” "Not authentic or traditional Native American music, but fast paced, heart pounding new age sound. “Apurimac III: Nature- Spirit- Pride” is an album by the German cross-cultural new age band Cusco. All tracks on this album are related to the Native American cultures of North America. The beats, chants, and flute works depict a Native American musical style, though are made more accessible to modern ears through the use of overtly synthesized instrumentation and percussive rhythms. Beautiful art are images of paintings by J.D. Challenger, ... more »
Russian airstrike destroys jihadist convoy near strategic base in Idlib
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 P.M.) – The Russian Air Force carried out a powerful attack on a jihadist convoy that was leaving a key base inside the Idlib Governorate on Saturday. According to a military source in nearby Hama, the Russian Air Force attacked a Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham convoy as it was traveling from the Taftanaz […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
US deployment of weapons in space will lead to new stage of arms race — Lavrov
The implementation of US plans to deploy missile defense systems in space will lead to another stage in an arms race, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday at the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries. “We are concerned over US plans to deploy […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Jihadist special forces devastated in joint Syrian-Russian attack in northwest Hama
BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) – The jihadist special forces from the Ansar Al-Deen terrorist group were wiped ou in a joint Russian-Syrian airstrike on a large hilltop in the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate this morning. According to the preliminary details revealed to Al-Masdar, the jihadists were preparing to storm the Syrian Arab Army’s […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
Mass grave containing bodies of Syrian soldiers uncovered in Daraa
The Syrian Army discovered a mass grave containing dead bodies of the government forces killed by militants that once controlled large parts of the Daraa Governorate. A military source said that the Syrian Army found a mass grave containing 13 corpses near the city of Nawa in western Dara’a. The source noted that the Syrian […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز - The Arab Source
"The Tree Was So Old..."
"The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it." - Karl Ove Knausgård
"Years Later, And Far Away..."
"Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time - affecting lives unknown to the one who's generous spirit was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil." - Dean Koontz
Obama Residue in Trump’s State Dept Sabotages Refugee Deal w/Guatemala
From Lou Dobbs’ Fox News program a couple of days ago: Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton breaks down the damage STILL being done to our nation’s immigration laws by Obama-era holdovers deep in President Trump’s State Department. One of the very few things on which I fault Trump’s Presidential performance is his consistent failure to purge the ranks of State, Justice, and other key federal departments of imbedded leftists. Yeah, yeah, I know … it’s damn hard to fire a GS14. So what. It’s not as hard as trying to reconstruct our nation after “progressive” policies have torn it asunder. — … C... more »
NCIS Real Life Drama — Marine Corp Scandal Erupts at Camp Pendleton
16 Camp Pendleton Marines arrested by NCIS for alleged human smuggling and drug offenses Marine Times Shawn Snow July 26, 2019 Naval Criminal Investigative Service carried out a mass arrest of 16 Marines Thursday morning during a battalion formation aboard Camp Pendleton, California, according to Marine Corps officials. The Marines were arrested for allegations related to “various illegal activities” from human smuggling to drugs, the Marine Corps said in a press release. Maj. Kendra Motz, a Marine spokeswoman, told Marine Corps Times that the Marines questioned and arrested by NCIS... more »
Hemp Could Free Us From Oil, Prevent Deforestation, Cure Cancer and It’s Environmentally Friendly – So Why Is It Illegal?
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Sony Unveils Wearable Air Conditioner That Sits in a Shirt Pocket
https://futurism.com/the-byte/sony-wearable-air-conditioner-shirt-pocket
New Research Shows tVNS Deactivates Tinnitus Related Brain Regions
https://www.parasym.co/tVNS-deactivates-tinnitus-brain-regions.html
Shakespeare's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
*Shakespeare's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"* Read by Oliver Álain Christie MACBETH: "I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cooled To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in’t. I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me." (Re-enter SEYTON) "Wherefore was that cry?" SEYTON: "The queen, my lord, is dead. MACBETH" "She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorr... more »
"So We All Ran Around..."
"So we all ran around in mad, mindless, meaningless circles, as if we were in a cotton-candy eating contest where the grand prize was getting kicked in the face. We were oblivious to everything around us that no truly sane person would ever tolerate. And we needed someone else to tell us to stop it." - Edward M. Wolfe
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in imported shrimp
Written by Joseph Mercola, D.O., Ph.D. Shrimp is a tasty dish that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It pairs well with a variety of foods including eggs, pasta, sushi and steak. But is shrimp safe to eat? Well, that depends on where it comes from and how it is raised. A new […] The post Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in imported shrimp appeared first on Health Nut News.
"When the Tidal Wave Hits, Parts I, II, III" (2017)
*"When the Tidal Wave Hits, Parts I, II, III" (2017)* by Jeff Nielson "*Part I *of this series explained that (most) Western nations are heading toward an economic cataclysm which is historically unprecedented. *Part II* expanded upon the economic diseases which have sent us into this terminal descent and also factored in some of the social diseases which have left us more vulnerable to an economic crash than at any other time in history. This installment is dedicated to illustrating the political and legal devolution which has taken place across the Corrupt West, along with explai... more »
"Life Is About..."
"Life is about discovering things that *do* matter in the end." - Robert Brault
Frankly, we're in an undisclosed portion of Maine!
*MONDAY, JULY 29, 2019No fish till the end of the week:* Frankly, we've decamped to an undisclosed location in an undisclosed portion of Maine. There's still no Internet in Maine. For that reason, we don't expect to post again until the end of the week.
Know the risks of heatstroke
BY NORBERT RUG The most loving and attentive parents can even make mistakes. This includes accidentally forgetting their child in the back seat of the car. This is especially true with the rear-facing car seats. The problem is you can’t
Avoid another Amazon by learning from Essex Crossing
BY FELIX CIAMPA Amazon’s decision to withdraw its plans to build a second headquarters in Long Island City sparked dire predictions from many observers. Some argued it would now be impossible to attract significant commercial development in Western Queens, or
How the new rent laws will slam NYC’s housing market
BY HOWARD HUSCOK New York’s new rent-regulation law makes dramatic changes to housing rules — limiting rent increases after owners make major improvements and even after units become vacant and the rents have not been raised for years. The law will likely
We need more family-friendly cities
BY AARON RENN In January, Malaysia Goodson was killed when she fell down the stairs at New York’s 7th Avenue subway station while carrying a stroller with her one-year-old daughter in it. The baby girl survived but now faces life without her mother. The 7th Avenue
Gentrification for social justice?
BY KAY HYMOWITZ For many on the left, gentrification remains a dirty word, synonymous — or at least closely associated — with racism, oligarchic developers, neoliberalism, and even genocide. Fortunately, not all gentrification-watchers are so dystopic. Less excitable observers harbor reasonable concerns about poor residents forced
An old weed becomes a modern problem
The so-called "Sargasso Sea" in the North Atlantic Ocean is a time-honored name, dating back to well before Christopher Columbus' day. It may have been known as early as the sixth century BC, according to one ancient navigator's oral history. The map below is courtesy of Wikipedia. Its name was derived from the sargassum seaweed that proliferates there. In more recent times, the Sargasso Sea has become the heart of the so-called North Atlantic Garbage Patch. Now it looks as if sargassum is spreading south, into equatorial regions, and posing a new and highly unwelcome threat ... more »
Is The U.S. Pushing For A “Face-Saving Way Out" Of Afghanistan?
Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C, front), leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. Evgenia Novozhenina, Reuters *Axios:* *Afghanistan peace talks: U.S. pushes toward “face-saving way out"* The ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the U.S. a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Axios. Why it matters: The Trump administration wants to move quickly toward a deal to end the war in... more »
"Fukushima Update 7/27/19: Fukushima Equals 19,769.25 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow"
*"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva ◆ *Updated July 27, 2019: Fukushima Equals 19,769.25 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: *The 3 melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, now melted together into a single "corium" totaling over *600 tons*, at Fukushima *daily* release the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs directly into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. As of July 27, 2019 - 3,065 days since the disaster began - this equals the detonation of *19,769.25 *Hiroshima atomic bombs and it is s... more »
"Alas..."
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.” - Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
Mindless Heatwave Hysteria
As always, the press is hysterical about a hot day. The summer of 2019 in Paris has been nearly identical to the summer of 1947 so far, though it looks like the rest of the summer will be cooler. On … Continue reading →
These 5 .45 Caliber Handguns Are the Top-Of-The-Line
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Americas* [image: By Ckindel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8137014] The best. *The Tactical Carry pistol is one of the very best of a crowded field of 1911 pistols and represents the pinnacle of the design.* The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, or .45 ACP as it is commonly known, is fairly controversial. Invented in 1905 by prolific firearms designer John Moses Browning, the .45 ACP was the standard caliber of the Colt M1911 pistol, and remains so to this day. A heavy, subsonic bullet, a typical .45 ACP weigh... more »
This Is the Short-Lived, but Most Advanced F-14 Tomcat That Ever Existed
*Dario Leone* *Technology, Americas* Some history. *F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets from VFA-25, VFA-113, VFA-22 and VFA-115 were also modified with ROVER capability for the first deployment of the USS Ronald Reagan in 2006.* The photo in this post shows an F-14D Tomcat of VF-213 deployed with the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)flying with the Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver (ROVER) system (whose blue transmit antenna is circled in red in the image). ROVER allows ground forces, such as Forward air controllers (FACs), to see what an aircraft or unmanned aerial... more »
Venezuela Borrowed $10 Billion from Russia to Pay for Jet Fighters and Tanks. It Can't Pay It Back.
*Sebastien Roblin* *Security, * Yikes. On the morning of July 19, a U.S. Navy turboprop-engine spy plane was trolling over the Caribbean waters just north of Venezuela when it attracted unwelcome attention. Derived from an old airliner, the EP-3E Aries II was designed to cruise over international airspace while its crew of over twenty personnel snooped on the communication signals and electromagnetic signatures of potential adversaries. Abruptly at half-past eleven, a Russian-built Su-30MK2 “Flanker” twin-engine multi-role fighter swooped down upon the ponderous surveillance p... more »
The Top Secret History of the D-21 Mach 3 Spy Drone Revealed
*Dario Leone* *History, Asia* [image: By U.S. Air Force - nationalmuseum.af.mil, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68165815] What did it do? *According Drendel “it wasn’t long before D-21s were spotted languishing in the Arizona sun, more than slightly incongruous among the T-34s and T-28s in neighboring parking areas. Pictures were taken, questions were asked, and various versions of what they were, what they did, where they came from, and how many were built began to emerge.”* The Lockheed D-21 was a highly-advanced, remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) ... more »
"Realizing The Full Implications Of The Forthcoming Catastrophe"
*"Realizing The Full Implications Of The Forthcoming Catastrophe"* by MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum “Facilis descensus Averno.” – Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) *"Delivering Tomorrow’s Curses: *Roman poet Virgil penned these words in his epic, "The Aeneid", roughly a generation before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. They can be loosely translated to, “the descent to hell is easy.” Those who’ve traversed this passage can attest to the veracity of this axiom. *Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia. Contrary to what one might think at first ... more »
Boris Johnson and Cynical Optimism
It's easy to be pessimistic. Since 1979 the key industrial battles have all been lost by the left, resulting in the imposition of the economic settlement we now groan under. And while it looked like social liberalism was all-conquering and irreversible, the appointment of Boris Johnson, the Windrush scandal, the cynical manipulation of Labour's anti-semitism wars by the right, and the rising hate crime figures against women, ethnic minorities, and sexual minorities underline how we can never be complacent about such things. We're in a bit of a funk because the world is looking gloom... more »
Harping on
On an old theme, probably harped by bards these days, today's *Dateline London *on the BBC News Channel was one of those editions where a right-leaning, pro-Brexit guest is let in and allowed to counter the programme's' usual, sometimes suffocating left-liberal, anti-Brexit bias. Today it was blog favourite Alex Deane. Alex - as ever on *Dateline *the doughty Christian in the lion's den - not only didn't get eaten but repeatedly bopped the three opposing lions on the nose as well. Our Alex, in a good way, never disappoints. One of those ravenous lions was another of our blog f... more »
More pig ear treats for dogs recalled in multistate outbreak
Lennox Intl Inc of Edison, NJ joins the list of companies involved in a federal and state investigation regarding contaminated pig ear dog treats, that are likely responsible for a multistate, multidrug-resistant Salmonella outbreak. Lennox Intl Inc has recalled its Natural Pig ears because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, according to a notice... Continue Reading
48,000 pounds of polish sausage with beef recalled for plastic bits
Kent Quality Foods Inc. of Grand Rapids, Michigan has recalled approximately 48,681 pounds of ready-to-eat polish sausage with beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, “specifically pieces of flexible pink rubber,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reports. The firm received two complaints of extraneous materials from retailers... Continue Reading
Publisher’s Platform: Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – agree to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you
From yesterday: “The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is warning of a possible hep A exposure after an employee of the McDonald’s in Trumann tested positive for the virus.” In 2000, I wrote this: In light of the recent, large-scale Hepatitis A exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area, food safety attorneys of the Seattle-based... Continue Reading
The Nuremberg Code prohibits uncontrolled medical experiments by force
Legal reminder, the *Nuremberg Code, including the Declaration of Helsinki, the Belmont Report and the Common Rule prohibit the use of force to give people experimental vaccines or drugs against their will, especially if there is evidence these cause death.* *These laws developed to prevent the kind of uncontrolled, experiments that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps when prisoners where injected with experimental vaccines and drugs by force.* *A new code, the Nuremberg Code, was established which expressly forbade the use of force in medical experiments. This law is still in ... more »
South Korea Wants A New Amphibious Ship Designed To Carry F-35Bs
South Korea already operates the landing platform helicopter ship Marado. (Courtesy of the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration) Warzone/The Drive: *South Korea Kicks Off Development Of A New Amphibious Ship Designed To Carry F-35Bs* The planned ship will give the South Koreans a significant boost in capability for operations around and beyond the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is in the early stages of developing a new, larger amphibious assault ship that could support short-takeoff and vertical-landing combat aircraft and plan to launch the ship toward the latte... more »
How Tensions In Northeast Asia Led To South Korea Firing Warning Shots At A Russian Warplane
*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Josh Smith, Reuters:* *How a web of disputes between Japan, South Korea, North Korea, China, and Russia almost boiled over this week* * Russia, China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan were all involved in encounters on, in, and above a patch of ocean in northeast Asia this week. * The countries are all involved in disputes over air, land, and water in the area. SEOUL (Reuters) - The wedge of sea between Japan, Russia, and the Korean peninsula became a new flashpoint this week, with a regional airspace dispute, a seized fishing boat, and missile ... more »
APPEAL TO ALL COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE UN DR CONGO MISSION TO WITHDRAW THEIR TROOPS
*UN TROOPS COULD BECOME INFECTED WITH EBOLA, INFECT OTHER SOLDIERS AND BRING EBOLA BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES* *THIRTY COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE UN MISSION TO THE DR CONGO SHOULD REFUSE SUCH A RISK* *SWITZERLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC, INDIA, USA, UK AMONG COUNTRIES WITH TROOPS IN UN MISSION* *The Globalists have put David Gressly, a former head of U.N. peacekeeping troops in Congo, in charge of the entire U.N. response to roll out UN medical martial law across the region.* *https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/health/ebola-africa.html* *The UN had about 18,300 tro... more »
The REAL Mueller
NOTE: The Gunny did not write this but it is important enough to get this out before it disappears down the Liberal Lapdog Media memory hole. While U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, Mueller worked to cover-up the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, and Ruby Ridge evidence by changing the rules of evidence so that the FBI and prosecution did not have to share as much evidence with defense attorneys in the cases as would have been required in the past. He changed the Brady rules of evidence in concert with the U.S. prosecutor Beth Wilkinson in the McVeigh and Nichols case … Continue reading →
GITMO Trial of 9/11 Group Nears End of Eighteen Year Odyssey
It is hard to believe that any under the age of 25 have no real understanding of the events of 9/11 and how they unfolded and impacted the entire country at the time unless they were directly affected by the loss of a loved one. Or that those under the age of 19 were not even born at the time. For some, the images can easily be brought up at will and can still effect us emotionally when thinking about them. So when I read that the military was now taking requests for media to sit in on some of … Continue reading →
RED ALERT! NEW EBOLA CHIEF IN DR CONGO CALLS FOR ARMY AND POLICE TO ENFORCE MASS VACCINATION WITH RISKY JAB
*Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the new head of the Ebola response in the DR Congo, has called on the army and police to accompany vaccination and other health teams.* *Muyembe also supported the use of a new, experimental vaccine produced by Johnson Johnson as part of a new strategy of mass, force vaccination under the pretext of prevention.* *The vaccine was rejected by the DR Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga as too risky. Ilunga was promptly fired and replaced by Muyembe, implicated in the 1976 Ebola bioterrorism outbreak together with Peter Piot.* *Muyembe also announced a new carrot a... more »
US TROOPS WITH NO TRAINING OR PROTECTIVE GEAR TOLD TO RESPOND TO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN TRUMP'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS
*US troops guarding concentration camps at the southern border are just feet away from migrants and are under orders to respond to situations that require immediate medical attention, presumably, also to someone showing Ebola like symptoms.* *https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/active-duty-u-s-troops-are-now-just-feet-away-n1034416* *US troops are not trained for medical emergencies, especially not infectious disease emergencies, and should in no manner shape or form respond to anyone requiring immediate medical attention in a crowded, detention facility.* *Trained health... more »
Case definitions for the different Ebola outbreaks
*Interesting to read how the case definitions for the Ebola outbreaks have changed.* *The first outbreak in 1976 included injection in the previous 21 days as a criteria for a probable Ebola case.* *But injection was subsequently dropped from case definitions.* *https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629279/* *Section A. Case definitions for the different outbreaks* *Yambuku 1976 case definitions* *Suspected* *All those presenting with headache and/or fever for at least 24 hr that had contact with a probable or confirmed case within the previous 21 days.* *Probable* *Person... more »
Grasshoppers Invade Las Vegas
A migration of mild-mannered grasshoppers sweeping through the Las Vegas area is being attributed to wet weather several months earlier.
How Did People Clean Their Teeth in the Olden Days?
Dental hygiene has come a long way since the days of wine-soaked toothpicks and the urine mouthwash once thought to disinfect mouths and whiten teeth.
Brooks sights the rare White Democrat
Opinion How White Opinion Columnists Moved Centerwards Racial equity has become the defining issue of the moment. [image: David Brooks] By David Brooks Opinion Columnist - July 25, 2019 - - - - - - - People are always changing their minds, day to day. But over the past 20-odd years one group has shifted to an astounding degree: highly educated white opinion columnists. I’m not sure I understand why this group has undergone such a transformation, but it has, and the effects are reshaping our politics. The easiest way to describe ... more »
Government Officials Steal Man’s Home Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes
[image: home]The unconstitutional practice of home equity theft has allowed individuals to be stripped of their property without fair compensation.
Summer Sailing Log Entry #1 plus: Puerto Rican President Resigns - Where does uprising go from here?
*Map of Caribbean* The other day I began a series on the uprising in Puerto Rico. A natural bias towards populism [people power] placed me firmly in the camp of the demonstrators who wanted to be rid of a corrupt and vulgar US-placed governor. It appeared from a post by Nomadiceveryman published soon after, however, that I may have been too hasty in my assessment...and that the uprising could just be another one of those phony "colour-revolution" regime-change gambits that the West is always perping in its vassal states. I looked anew at the photos and wondered whether the crow... more »
This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 27
1933 French forbid anymore Assyrians entering Syria 1933 Iraq asked French to impose treaty between two to remove Assyrians from Iraq-Syrian border and disarm them for 2nd time (Musings On Iraq book review of *The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq*) (Musings On Iraq book review *State and Society in Iraq*) 1958 Provisional constitution gave Kurds recognition as equal to Arabs 1959 Gen Qasim passed deal promising Arab-Kurdish partnership after talks with Mullah Mustafa Barzani (Musings On Iraq book review of *The Kurds, A Modern History*) (Musings On Iraq book review *Kurd... more »
Mayo Pete
Last week, someone suggested I switch from using "McKinsey Pete" to "Mayo Pete." Not everyone understood the McKinsey reference and Mayo seems to capture the candidate pretty well. I took the advice and-- BOOM!-- the *New York Times* was out with their blockbuster report that defined McKinsey really well-- McKinsey Advised Johnson & Johnson On Increasing Opiod Sales. And it isn't just Johnson & Johnson. The now-notorious Purdue Pharma also hired McKinsey to help them figure out how to get more Americans addicted to opioids to help their bottom line. Despite the *Times* report, no ... more »
SCANDAL! DEATH RATE OF EBOLA OUTBREAK ALMOST AS HIGH AS UNTREATED EBOLA OUTBREAK IN 1976
*YAMBUKU 1976 CASE EEFINITION FOR PROBABLE EBOLA PATIENTS INCLUDED INJECTIONS IN THE PREVIOUS 21 DAYS* *https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629279/* *The death rate of the year long DR Congo Ebola outbreak is almost as high as the mortality rate among the health care staff at the remote hospital where Ebola was first recorded in 1976.* *In 1976, the staff of the Yambuku hospital, who had to handle the blood and fluids of the victims every day without protective gear, was 80%.* *The death rate as of one week ago for the current outbreak was 71%.* *Only 721 cases of the ... more »
Opportunities continue to multiply for US cannabis companies seeking to raise capital
The American marijuana industry is in a far better place for businesses seeking to raise money than it was a year ago. In fact, the landscape has grown leaps and bounds from three or four years ago, when there were fewer than 20 medical cannabis markets in the U.S., and Colorado and Washington were the only states with recreational cannabis companies. Opportunities continue to multiply for US cannabis companies seeking to raise capital is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs
TIM ZIEMER WAS HEAD OF THE MALARIA INITIATIVE WHEN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WENT MISSING
*USAID official Tim Ziemer, who is helping to lead the Ebola response in the DR Congo, was the head of a malaria operation at a time when tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs were being diverted each year.* *Ziemer testified to Congress two days ago that **$**136 million dollars had been given to fight the Ebola outbreak so far. Yet there is little sign of it on the ground.* *The rudimentary Ebola treatment centres do not even have isolation units for patients suspected of having Ebola in spite of the development of a new "field" biosecurity level 4 unit called the CUBE.* *... more »
The Rankings: 5 of the Top Shotguns, Military Rifles, and Handguns
*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Americas* [image: By Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme's pistol, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20698716] Which would you buy? *The original 1911 weighed 2.4 pounds and had a seven-round internal magazine.* (*These all appeared seperately during the last seven months and is being reposted thanks to reader interest.) * *5 Best Handguns:* The bustling global arms trade has resulted in many excellent handguns in the last hundred years. Some of the best handguns are more than a hundred years old, while others have been in producti... more »
Sorry, AOC and Bernie Sanders: Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise
*Kaylee Greenlee* *Politics, * “Whatever you think about Sweden and what we did, you have to realize that we had a great society first,” Johan Norberg, a Swedish historian, filmmaker, and Cato Institute senior fellow, said in a recent lecture titled “No, Bernie! Scandinavia Is Not Socialist!” Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., frequently hold up Scandinavian countries as successful experiments in “democratic socialism.” A historian and native Swede, however, is speaking out against their failure to observe the clear capitalistic ... more »
460,000 Premature Deaths: The Horror That Was Nuclear Weapons Testing
*Zack Brown, Alex Spire* *Security, * As we mark the seventy-fourth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in a handful of days, we will rightly remember the horrors of nuclear war. For a brief fraction of a second on an early March morning in 1954, the United States summoned a second sun into existence above Bikini Atoll. As the four-mile wide fireball bathed the Pacific seascape in its angry, white-red light, onlookers recognized something nearly divine—and unquestionably ominous. “It was a religious experience, a personal view of the apocalypse or transfiguration,... more »
Did Someone Say F-22 Restart? (The Air Force Said No.)
*Dario Leone* *History, Americas* [image: By U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Michael Ammons - Combat Archer, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48048974] Why? *Specifically nearly $10 billion is required to restart the production line, while each jet will cost around $200 million.* As we have reported yesterday, on Jun. 18, 2017, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has received a secret report on restarting production of the F-22 Raptor from the U.S. Air Force (USAF). The report was ordered last year by HASC lawmakers in order to determine what... more »
Do Progressives Want to Burn Down Any Institution That Doesn’t Favor Them?
*Jarrett Stepman* *Society, * Why? Sometimes progressives do a great job of becoming caricatures of themselves. The progressive worldview is marked by a tendency to embrace utopian dreams, and a general disregard for tried and true traditions and institutions. Ted Kennedy captured this instinct in 1968 when he said, quoting George Bernard Shaw: “Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.” But while laws and norms sometimes need to be changed, there is something to be said for recklessly overturning a system that has been at th... more »
The Top 5 Handguns: Do the Glock 17, SiG P226, or CZ 75 Make the Cut?
*Kyle Mizokami* *History, Americas* [image: By Twiek - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5103188] Let's find out. *Designed by prolific gun designer John Moses Browning, and first introduced in 1911, the Colt 1911 pistol was meant to replace weaker .38 caliber pistols used by the U.S. Army during the Philippine Insurrection.* The bustling global arms trade has resulted in many excellent handguns in the last hundred years. Some of the best handguns are more than a hundred years old, while others have been in production for less than a decade. ... more »
RIP F-35: Russia Could Turn Su-57 Into 6th Generation Super Stealth Fighter
*Dario Leone* *Technology, Europe* [image: By Dmitry Zherdin - http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Sukhoi-T-50/1982892/L/&sid=367a8c31b67e6d314ff1384dab87f398, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16502133] Better than the F-35? *As reported by Franz-Stefan Gady in an extensive piece for The Diplomat, Russian defense officials have repeatedly claimed that hardware elements designed for a future sixth generation fighter have been tested on the Su-57 prototype, including flight and navigation systems as well as advanced electronic warfare and radar... more »
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Top CDC doctor helping to hack USA's Ebola biodefenses is a member of the Epidemiological Intelligence Service
*Mitch Wolfe, a** top doctor at the CDC, who testified to lawmakers two days ago on the USA preparedness for Ebola is a member of the CDC s Epidemiological Intelligence Service, a biological warfare branch modelled after the military.* *http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/PublicHealth/microbialthreats/Profiles/Fukuda.aspx* *This is a gif of Mitch Wolfe testifying. I think he has a nervous tic, no?* *Another EIS officer, Keiji Fukuda, was in charge of the WHO's swine flu false flag pandemic in 2009.* *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Fukuda* *EIS officer Kaci Hickox pl... more »
Inconvenient Data Is “Off Topic”
Assad ignores data which demonstrates that he is wrong.
TOP CDC DOCTOR IGNORES LESSONS LEARNED FROM EBOLA OUTBREAK IN 2014 AND THE NEED FOR SPECIAL BORDER SCREENING
*The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still out of control, but people in the United States should be safe, mainly because the number of people who come here from the DRC on a typical day is small, a top federal public health official told Congress today.* *Dr. Mitch Wolfe, chief medical officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), failed to warn lawmakers that travellers from the DR Congo and other Ebola affected areas should be subjected to special screening measures at points of entry to the USA since they could be incubati... more »
Nick Robinson, nightmares and glorious simplicity
Talking of Nicks... Nick Robinson's *Panorama - **'Britain's Brexit Crisis' *- opened with these words from the BBC man: This is the story of how something that was supposed to be gloriously simple turned out to be a nightmare. And these were the words with which it ended: What is crystal clear three years after the referendum is that Brexit was never going to be simple. It was always going to involve difficult trade-offs, it had to be based on some sort of deal with the EU. The time for talk about having our cake and eating it is over. What our politicians owe us now is honesty... more »
Misstatement as the cultural norm!
*SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2019Nadler, misstating Mueller:* What happens to a society when gross, apparently willful misstatement becomes the cultural norm? We've been moving in that direction for the past several decades. In fairness, the liberal and mainstream worlds only began to notice the problem when Donald J. Trump took this behavior to the point of apparent insanity. (For a good part of that time, it was in fact the mainstream press which drove the incessant misstating.) At present, the aforementioned Trump mixes incessant insult with constant wild misstatement. Yesterday, Jerr... more »
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