Ohio police investigating alleged plot to hold Gov. DeWine under 'house arrest'

The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed an investigation was underway

Ohio police investigating alleged plot to hold Gov. DeWine under 'house arrest'

The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed an investigation was underway

The conversation prompted the man, who declined to be identified due to security concerns, to contact local authorities in Piqua. Police referred the matter to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, which oversees security for the governor.

“I can confirm we were made aware of the information reported to the Piqua Police Department on the allegations and are currently investigating the incident,” an Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesperson told Fox News. The spokesperson declined further comment.

Turner confirmed the phone call took place during an interview with Cleveland.com. She said that she does support placing DeWine under house arrest but claims no plot was ever discussed. She referred to the man who contacted authorities as a "dingbat."

A representative for DeWine referred comment to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, citing internal policy on security matters.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ohio-police-investigating-alleged-plot-gov-dewine-house-arrest

FEAR PORN IN OVERDRIVE

WW3 warning: India puts China on alert after threat to 'strike first' against Beijing

INDIA has sent a terrifying message to China, after releasing footage of a new anti-ship missile destroying a frigate, accompanied by a pledge to "strike first and strike hard".

Tensions between China and India have intensified after the Indian Navy released footage of a new military drill. In the video, an anti-ship missile obliterates a decomissioned frigate somewhere in the Arabian Sea. The video, posted on Twitter, was accompanied with a claim: "Strike First. Strike Hard."

India is understood to have used the latest drill to send a strong signal to China, demonstrating the country's “combat readiness” in the Indian Ocean where it is challenged by Beijing.

The video shows the warship Prabal corvette sinking an old, decommissioned frigate with a KH-35 Uran anti-ship missile launched at maximum range "with deadly accuracy".

India has ramped up its war-readiness in recent weeks, such as testing the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and Abhyas high-speed expendable aerial target.

They have also tested the Shaurya strategic missile, Nag anti-tank guided missile, and the Rudram-1 anti-radiation missile system.

In total, India has test fired a dozen missiles in just 45 days.

While it did not mention China by name, India’s Ministry of Defense stressed that given the “prevailing security situation” the Indian navy “would continue maintaining a high-tempo of operations in coming months".

The Indian media has portrayed these latest tests as a warning to Beijing amid an ongoing border dispute with China.

The relationship between China and India worsened after tensions flared up earlier this year at the disputed border, known as the Line of Actual Control, in the Himalayan region.

As a result of the fighting, 20 Indian soldiers were killed while China has refused to not confirm the number of casualties on its side.

The two nations have held several rounds of high-level talks in an attempt to secure a peaceful resolution to the stand-off.

Currently, both India and China have maintained a confrontational position along the disputed border in the remote region.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1351756/WW3-warning-war-India-China-missile-strike-threat-drill-Beijing-conflict-latest-news-vn

North American Oil And Gas Bankruptcy Debt Has Hit An All-Time High

The associated debt from North American oil and gas bankruptcies in 2020 has already reached an all-time high and is set to grow even further this year as the wave of Chapter 11 filings continues, a Rystad Energy report projects, analyzing industry data from law firm Haynes and Boone. Although the combined count of Chapter 11 filings from exploration and production firms (E&Ps) and oilfield service (OFS) companies this year in North America has so far reached 84, which is still lower than the historical high of 142 in 2016, the associated debt these companies are carrying is much higher, at $89 billion so far, some $19 billion more than in 2016.

Under the current price environment, Rystad Energy projects that more bankruptcies will follow this year, adding to the cumulative associated debt and boosting it to a staggering figure of over $100 billion.

Assuming a WTI average of around $40 per barrel this year and a Henry Hub price of $3 per MMcf, we forecast North American E&P bankruptcies to rise to 55 by the end of the year, from 40 filings at the time of writing, adding about $15 billion of debt to the cumulative total. And that excludes possible associated debt additions from new OFS company bankruptcies, which currently stand at 44 cases.

Under this scenario, associated debt for these 55 E&P Chapter 11 filings this year is projected to reach $69 billion. Should these price levels persist in 2021, Rystad Energy expects 54 new E&P bankruptcies for the year, carrying an associated debt of about $44 billion. In a more pessimistic scenario that assumes a Henry Hub price of $2.5 per MMcf, E&P bankruptcies could climb to 61 cases this year and to 68 in 2021.

In terms of the number of Chapter 11 cases, it is unlikely that we will ever see a repeat of 2016, when 142 E&P and OFS filings were recorded in North America. The previous market downturn caused a large number of smaller producers and suppliers severe financial distress, including many that were active in conventional oil & gas operations who ended up downing their shutters for good.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/north-american-oil-and-gas-bankruptcy-debt-has-hit-an-all-time-high/

Cardi B Freaks Out: ‘Trump Supporters Are Everywhere,’ Swarming L.A. with ‘Big A** Trucks’

Rapper and Joe Biden surrogate Cardi B was terrified when she recently encountered groups of Trump supporters in Los Angeles, expressing horror at their “big ass trucks” and saying “I don’t like this shit!”

Cardi B reportedly posted a series of clips to her Instagram Stories on Saturday in which she livestreamed herself driving past Trump fans wearing MAGA hats and waving American flags.

“Look how many fuckers! I’m scared now we’re gonna get jumped. I really feel like we’re gonna get jumped. Oh my God. Ahhh!” she screamed.

In another clip, she said: “Trump supporters are everywhere, I’m scared. I don’t like it, with their big ass trucks.”

The rapper said in a third clip: “I don’t like this shit. Look at this. Look at this! Look how they’re walking around, with fake guns out and covering their fucking face. I don’t like this shit!”

Cardi B’s Instagram rants are believed to have taken place shortly before or after police officers detained her husband, the rapper known as Offset, after someone inside his vehicle allegedly pointed a gun at Trump supporters who had just participated in a rally in Beverly Hills.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/26/cardi-b-scared-by-trump-supporters-swarming-los-angeles-i-dont-like-it-with-their-big-a-trucks/

Columbia med school professor calls for President Trump to be declared a 'public health threat'

'We are ethically bound to identify threats to the health of patients and populations'

Dr. Raymond Givens, a cardiologist and professor at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, would like to see President Donald Trump officially declared a "public health threat."

In an op-ed in MedPage Today, Givens claimed that Trump is "one of the most serious threats to public health and human rights in modern American history" and that the medical community has a responsibility to declare him as such.

"We are ethically bound to identify threats to the health of patients and populations, to speak the truth even if it provokes the anger of powerful people. Refusal to do so is malpractice," Givens argued. "The [American Medical Association] Declaration of Professional Responsibility asserts that physicians have a duty to 'educate the public and polity about present and future threats to the health of humanity' and to advocate for 'political changes that ameliorate suffering and contribute to human well-being.'"

Consequently, he wrote, "the entire American medical establishment has a duty to name Donald Trump, specifically, as a public health threat and strongly recommend that the upcoming election end his presidency."

https://t.co/ngvfRkzXkG My challenge to American medicine to speak the truth- that @realDonaldTrump is a threat to… https://t.co/58MLlihYAz

— Raymond Givens (@Raymond Givens)1603472042.0

What did he say specifically?

Givens specifically took issue with Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, throughout the lengthy diatribe characterizing Trump as chaotic, unprepared, and wantonly reckless.

President Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has been chaotic at best but more often destructive. He has knowingly and repeatedly downplayed the gravity of the outbreak while hobbling the CDC and undermining public confidence in the agency when trust is needed most. He has launched attacks, often ad hominem, against our best scientists and public health experts. His supporters have followed his lead in defying masking and social distancing recommendations. Based upon exceptionally low-quality data from a grossly irresponsible study, Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as antivirals, contributing to their regrettable embrace by desperate healthcare providers in an unprecedented crisis; multiple studies have since refuted their utility, while toxicity concerns remain.

Furthermore, Givens blamed Trump for spreading the disease, noting that "amid rising caseloads across much of the country, he has held large rallies packed with barefaced attendees."

But it wasn't all about the coronavirus. Givens also excoriated Trump's supposed racism, too. At one point, he referred to the president as America's "racist-in-chief," and elsewhere he derided the fact that while racism is now considered a public health threat, Trump is not.

Medicine acknowledges racism as a public health crisis but is silent about the racist vitriol emanating from the White House. Donald Trump exploited the racist and xenophobic "birther" conspiracy against President Barack Obama, whose election unleashed a spasm of rage and resentment that Trump rode all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Candidate Trump slandered Mexican immigrants as rapists, drug dealers, and carriers of infectious disease — the last smear now particularly ironic.

It is not immediately clear what the repercussions would be should the medical community follow Givens in his condemnation.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/columbia-professor-trump-public-health-threat