>its achievements were remarkable given that the Obama administration had so many restrictions on it from the start
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615802/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_subsalicylate
very interesting
"He was the best starpilot in the galaxy and cunning warrior" - Obi-wan kenobi
>Senator Mitch Mcconnell also weighed in. "Yup, I'm purdy mad too," he said at a fundraising dinner while wiping some caviar from his neck which was also his chin.
>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/man-shot-dead-in-new-zealand-after-injuring-people-in-supermarket-police-say
New Zealand shooting: man shot dead by police after ‘terrorist attack’ in Auckland that injured six
Jacinda Ardern says attack was carried out by a ‘violent extremist’ who followed Islamic State ideology and was being monitored by police
An attack at a New Zealand supermarket was “a terrorist attack” by a “violent extremist” who follows Islamic State ideology and who had been under heavy surveillance by police, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said.
A man was shot dead on Friday afternoon by police after entering a West Auckland supermarket and stabbing at least six people, who are now in hospital.
The alleged terrorist was a Sri Lankan national who arrived in New Zealand in 2011 and became a person of national security interest from 2016, authorities said.
Ardern said his ideology was IS-inspired, but he was a “lone-wolf”.
“What happened today was despicable. It was hateful, it was wrong, it was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who was gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community.
Ardern and police commissioner Andrew Coster said nothing gave the police any reason to believe there was any further threat or risk to the public.
“We have dealt with that person. We know from our extensive monitoring that he was acting alone,” Coster said.
Under “constant monitoring and surveillance”
The prime minister said she was aware of the man prior to Friday’s attack, and he had been under surveillance for some time.
“By the time he entered the supermarket, he was being watched and followed. The police were with him at the time this happened – that level of surveillance was being provided because of the concerns that we had,” Ardern said.
“The detailed reasons he is known to the agencies is the subject of suppression orders made by the court. In my view, it is in the public interest to hear as much as we can, in this case, I’m seeking advice on what we can do to facilitate that sharing of information as soon as possible,” Ardern said.
“Of all of the tools that we have, constant monitoring and surveillance is – outside someone being in prison – one of the strongest we have, and that is what was attached to this individual,” she said.
The man had previously appeared before the courts, but Ardern said “If he had reached the threshold to be in prison, he would have been in prison.”
“By law, we could not keep him in prison. So he was being monitored constantly, as a result of that.”
The attack is the second terror attack in recent New Zealand history. On 15 March 2019, a white supremacist terrorist killed 51 worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch.
Asked about fears of backlash against New Zealand’s Muslim community, Ardern said if that occurred, “It would be absolutely wrong. The community here has been nothing but helpful and supportive, it would be wrong to direct any frustration at anyone beyond this individual. That is who’s culpable, that is who was responsible, no one else.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/people-filmed-running-away-amid-unfolding-situation-in-auckland-s-lynnmall-shopping-centre.html
start ripping videos
https://www.downloadtwittervideo.com/
https://streamable.com/
PM Jacinda Ardern reveals details of NZ terror attack at supermarket
There is an 'awful lot of Biden regret out there'
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/caEvLjaaCWGB/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9946769/Legal-challenge-launched-against-Dr-Kerry-Chant-Brad-Hazzard-NSW-public-health-orders.html
Legal challenge launched against Dr Kerry Chant and Brad Hazzard over mandatory Covid jabs for frontline workers - as lawyers claim requirement 'strips citizens of their basic human rights'
Sydney solicitor Tony Nikolic has filed a lawsuit in the NSW Supreme Court
Challenging NSW Health officials compulsory vaccination for frontline workers
Law firm Ashley, Francina, Leonard and Associates argues the orders are illegal
As well as the extra powers granted to NSW Police to enforce the health orders
https://spectator.com.au/2021/09/brad-hazzards-schoolmaster-schtick-is-making-lockdown-more-laborious/
New South Wales Health Minister would describe unvaccinated people as “self-entitled and indulgent”.
“Not getting vaccinated is actually self-entitled and indulgent in the extreme in the middle of a pandemic. Go and get vaccinated and be fair to the rest of your community.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/8148390/trudeau-flight-752-iran-ukraine/
Trudeau confronted by father of Iran plane crash victim at campaign stop
Merzhad Zarei moved swiftly through a crowd of people waiting to meet Justin Trudeau at an outdoor food-truck festival north of Toronto, hoping to get the Liberal leader’s attention.
“Mr. Trudeau, Mr. Trudeau,” he shouted from behind a mask, as the incumbent prime minister turned his head.
“You promised!”
‘I’ve never seen this intensity of anger,’ Trudeau says after rally cancelled due to safety
>https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/alleged-isis-sympathiser-found-guilty-of-possessing-objectionable-hymns-acquitted-of-video-and-knife-charges/
Alleged Isis sympathiser found guilty of possessing objectionable hymns
A man accused of being an Islamic State sympathiser has been found guilty by a jury of possessing propaganda-style material for the terrorist organisation.
However, he has been acquitted on other charges for allegedly possessing a graphic video depicting a prisoner being decapitated and possession of an offensive weapon.
The 32-year-old, known only as S due to an interim suppression order, has been on trial in the High Court at Auckland for the past week.
Today, the jury returned verdicts over three charges of possessing an objectionable publication relating to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).
S was also charged with failing to comply with a police search, which the jury found him guilty of.
The three publications were two audio videos with nasheeds (hymns and chants) and a seven-minute, violently graphic, Isis propaganda video.
S was found guilty of possessing the two nasheed publications and not guilty of of posessing the longer video.
The material has since been declared objectionable by the Chief Censor for promoting acts of extreme violence, cruelty and terrorism. It was only the second time the Office of Film and Literature Classification was asked to look at Isis-related material.
Isis, also known by its Arabic name Daesh, is a designated terrorist organisation which at its peak in 2015 held large areas of Iraq and Syria in its quest to establish an Islamic state under Sharia law.
In his own words, S claimed while giving evidence he was interested only in the Islamic State established by the prophet Muhammad.
He was convicted by Justice Sally Fitzgerald of the charges he was foung guilty of and remanded him in custody until his sentencing in July.
S came to New Zealand in October 2011 and for the first few years of his new Kiwi life showed no signs of supporting extremist beliefs.
However, in autumn 2016 he came to the attention of New Zealand Police. It was because of what was being posted to his Facebook page.
There were videos and pictures depicting graphic war-related violence, comments advocating for violent extremism and support for Isis terrorists involved in the Paris attacks in November 2015 and the Brussels bombing in March 2016.
Police knocked on his door in April and May 2016, giving him a formal warning and advising him possession of such material was an offence against the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993.
S was apologetic, court papers obtained by the Herald record, and said he had shut down his Facebook account.
But in July, S was back on social media after reopening two Facebook accounts.
Police discovered the accounts in October and also found S was operating three separate pages. The accounts were monitored and in December several posts, including videos and photos, concerned police.
It depicted extreme violence and atrocities committed against Muslims, including a video of the Indian Army executing a Kashmiri civilian, body being driven over by a tank and images of dead and mutilated children.
In March 2017, police conducted a specific content search of shared posts and content on Facebook and identified S had operated - since September 2015 - another account under the name of "For Allah".
Two months later, he was arrested at Auckland International Airport.
S was about to leave on a one-way flight to Malaysia and travel onto Singapore. He later said he was going for a holiday.
A search was also carried out at his apartment in May 2017.
A large hunting knife was found under his bed, which S later told his High Court jury was for his own protection.
His iPhone was also seized but S refused to provide the password. He told police the posts were shared because he wanted to show others what was happening to Muslims throughout the world.
Remanded in custody and denied bail, S would later plead guilty in June 2018 to representative charges of knowingly distributing restricted publications and other unrelated offences over credit card use. Police withdrew a charge relating to the knife.
In September 2018, Justice Edwin Wylie imposed a sentence of supervision.
However, in the time between pleading guilty and being sentenced, S continued his online infatuation with Isis.
While he had initially been scheduled for sentencing on August 7, 2018, the trial heard, he was considering changing his pleas to not guilty.
S entered the High Court at about 8.13am that day and left at about 8.40am. During that time in the historic courthouse, however, he searched for "ISIS allegiance" and news stories about Islamic State.
The next day he went to an East Tamaki shop and bought an identical hunting knife to the one police had earlier seized.
"Exact same knife, same colour, same price, different place," S told his jury.
The hunting knife, in a camouflage sheath, was couriered to an Auckland mosque, where S was a resident at the time, at his request. His jury found S was never in possession of the knife in a public place.
"As you'll see it's not a small knife, not the sort of knife you'd have in your kitchen drawer," Crown prosecutor Henry Steele told the jury.
S said during evidence in his defence he had a right to arm himself with the knife.
"You're worried about one knife, I am telling you I will buy 10 knives. It's about my rights."
While awaiting the delivery of the knife, S frequently checked the track and trace number, before being arrested at about 4.40pm on August 9, 2018.
Police seized his electronic devices.
He again declined to provide police with his pin code, but his tablet and phone were eventually accessed and revealed a dark and violent internet history from after he was granted electronically-monitored bail.
Steele told the jury he couldn't take them inside the thoughts of S at the time "but I can get you pretty close".
The internet history, laid out in an extensive timeline for court, revealed a "window into his mind".
"We can infer what he's thinking, what he's intending," Steele said.
Internet searches, some of which had been electronically bookmarked, included "safety and security guidelines for lone-wolf mujahideen", looking for a hunting knife, camouflage pants, Islamic State dress and New Zealand prison clothes and food.
S also made efforts to research the case of Imran Patel, an Isis supporter and the first person in New Zealand jailed for distributing extremist videos. Patel was stopped at Auckland International Airport trying to leave for Syria with a companion.
The internet history S's devices further revealed a booklet for Isis operatives to help them avoid detection by Western countries' security and intelligence agencies.
"How to survive in the west a mujahid guide," was another Google search.
An internet video also purported to provide instructions on "How to attack kuffar and how to make explosive devices". Kuffar, or kafir, is an Arabic term used to describe an infidel or non-believer.
The nasheeds, one of which was called "What a victory for he who got Shahada", and the video were also discovered. S posted some of the lyrics on his personal Facebook account.
The Shahada nasheed - a reference to martyrdom - featured a black-clad fighter with a machine gun, Isis flag and lyrics advocating for Jihad and decapitation.
The other, titled "We came to fill horror everywhere", depicts men dressed in black with assault rifles, the Isis flag and a city on fire.
"We will drink from the blood of disbelievers," the lyrics said.
S, who said he watched the nasheed videos several times, told the court: "You guys, making a big thing about the lyrics."
In explanation, he compared the nasheeds to the haka.
"You guys have Māori war cries,' he said.
The video, described as a "how to kill non-Muslims", showed a prisoner of Isis having their throat and wrists cut and another running with an explosive device strapped to him before it explodes. He was found not guilty of possessing the video, which was viewed only once.
S, who was combative throughout the trial and had frequent outbursts towards Justice Fitzgerald, said the Crown had wasted years of his life.
"I thank God, there have been prophets, other prophets who have been to prison," he said.
"It's just like a test … You guys put me in prison cause I'm a Muslim, that makes you an enemy."
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-25b508156f7888e2634f2ebe2228de95
20 years after 9/11: ‘We will live with the scars’ forever
Twenty years later, Jack Grandcolas still remembers waking up at 7:03 that morning. He looked at the clock, then out the window where an image in the sky caught his eye — a fleeting vision that looked like an angel ascending. He didn’t know it yet, but that was the moment his life changed.
Across the country, it was 10:03 a.m. and United Flight 93 had just crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
His wife, Lauren, was not supposed to be on that flight. So when he turned on the television and saw the chilling scenes of Sept. 11, 2001, unfolding, he was not worried for her. Then he saw the blinking light on the answering machine.
Lauren had left two messages that morning, as he slept with the phone ringer off in the bedroom. First, with good news that she was taking an earlier flight from New Jersey home to San Francisco. Then she called from the plane. There was “a little problem,” his wife said, but she was “comfortable for now.” She did not say she would call back, Grandcolas recalls. She said: “I love you more than anything, just know that. Please tell my family I love them too. Goodbye, honey.”
“That moment I looked over at the television and there was a smoldering hole on the ground in Pennsylvania. They said it was United Flight 93,” said Grandcolas, 58. “That’s when I dropped to the ground.”
All 44 people on board were killed. Lauren was 38 years old and three months pregnant with their first child. She had traveled East to attend her grandmother’s funeral in New Jersey, and then stayed a few extra days to announce the pregnancy — a little “good news to lift the spirits of her parents and sisters after burying their grandmother,” Grandcolas said.
Flight 93 was the fourth and final plane to be highjacked on Sept. 11 by four al-Qaida terrorists on a suicide mission aimed at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Passengers and crew members used seatback phones to call loved ones and authorities and learned of the first two attacks, on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Realizing their hijacking was part of a broader attack, they took a vote to fight back and try to gain control of the plane. It was a heroic act that spared countless more lives.
“What they did was amazingly dramatic,” Grandcolas said. It was “a selfless act of love to conquer hate.”
Outlines of the plan were relayed in phone calls and captured on the cockpit voice recorder, though many families will never know the specific roles their loved ones played.
Grandcolas believes that Lauren was involved. A hard-charging advertising sales consultant with a big heart and a zest for life, Lauren was athletic and outgoing and trained as an EMT because she wanted to be able to help people in crisis situations.
“Lauren was a doer, she was not going to sit there idly,” he said. He imagines her taking part in the planning of how to wrest control of the plane, gathering intelligence and knowing that time was running short. “She would have been tapping her watch to say, ‘We’ve got to do something fast.’”
For years, Grandcolas bristled at the term “9/11 anniversary.” An anniversary is something to celebrate. But the 20th anniversary is an important one, Grandcolas said, adding that he plans to travel to Pennsylvania to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial for the first time since 2003.
Grandcolas attended the first two annual memorials at the Pennsylvania crash site and then stopped, finding it too painful. Instead, in years thereafter, he would spend Sept. 11 doing things Lauren loved, like going for a bike ride or a quiet walk on the beach.
“Every year it’s a gut punch,” he said in an interview near his home in Pebble Beach, Calif. “We will live with the scars the rest of our lives.”
Grandcolas struggled with depression and survivor’s guilt in the aftermath of the tragedy. With the help of therapy, he came to see Lauren’s message from the plane as meant to reassure him and her family and “to let us know that she was OK with what was transpiring.” That unworldly image he saw in the sky the morning of Sept. 11 took on new meaning as he healed: “It didn’t dawn on me until later that the vision was Lauren.” He would hear her voice in times of struggle, telling him to get up and keep living his life.
Grandcolas eventually remarried and moved out of the home he and Lauren had bought in San Rafael, California. Today, he’s semi-retired from his career as an advertising executive. He is writing a book about the grieving process that will be a tribute to his unborn child. It will be published in April, when the child would have turned 20.
On the 20th anniversary, Grandcolas finds himself thinking back to how the country came together after 9/11, which he sees as a stark contrast to the division plaguing America today.
“This country was united from sea to shining sea, and today, maybe now, would be a good time to let the divisiveness drop,” he said.
>Judy Mikovits
https://retractionwatch.com/2012/06/16/catching-up-charges-against-cfs-xmrv-researcher-mikovits-charges-dropped-gyres-author-andrulis-publishes-another-paper/
https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-aids-vaccine-trial-failure-afghan-escape-and-rebuke-anthropologists
News at a glance: An AIDS vaccine trial failure, Afghan escape, and rebuke for anthropologists
Another AIDS vaccine fails
An AIDS vaccine approach developed by Johnson & Johnson has joined the long list of candidates that over the past 2 decades failed to prove themselves in large-scale efficacy trials. The company said this week that a placebo-controlled study of its strategy, which combines two different vaccines, in 2600 women in five sub-Saharan African countries found a low level of efficacy. Researchers hope to investigate the limited immune responses elicited, which could help them design better vaccines. A separate efficacy study of a similar strategy designed by Johnson & Johnson is underway in the Americas and Europe in transgender people and men who have sex with men.
laugh or cry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys
The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom were educated at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Upon their return to Latin America they adopted positions in numerous South American governments including the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990). As economic advisors, many of them reached high positions within those. While the Heritage Foundation credits them with transforming Chile into Latin America's best performing economy and one of the world's most business-friendly jurisdictions, critics point to drastic increases in unemployment that can be attributed to counter-inflation policies implemented on their advice. Some such as Nobel laureate Amartya Sen have argued that these policies were deliberately intended to serve the interests of American corporations at the expense of Latin American populations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_German_nobility_in_the_Nazi_Party
Formation of a new nobility
While the Knights of the Teutonic Order formed a thin ruling class by themselves, they have extensively used mercenaries, mostly German, from the Holy Roman Empire, to whom they granted lands in return. This gradually created a new class of landed nobility. Due to several factors, among which was the high rate of early death in battle, these lands became concentrated over time in the hands of a relatively small number of noblemen each having a vast estate. This nobility would evolve to what is known as the Prussian Junker nobility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker_(Prussia)
>What if the military made pregnant female soldiers get an abortion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza
The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" Cartwright (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe" (Michael Landon). Via exposition (S01:E01 – "Rose for Lotta") and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry: English (S02:E65 – "Elizabeth My Love"), Swedish (S03:E95 – "Inger My Love"), and French Creole (S04:E120 – "Marie My Love") respectively. The family's cook was Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally; the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars.
The family lived on a thousand square-mile (2,600 km2) ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada opposite California on the edge of the Sierra Nevada range.[8] The vast size of the Cartwrights' land was quietly revised to "half a million acres" (2,000 km2) on Lorne Greene's 1964 song, "Saga of the Ponderosa." The ranch name refers to the ponderosa pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee (played by veteran actor Ray Teal), or his deputy Clem Foster (Bing Russell).
Bonanza was considered an atypical western for its time, as the core of the storylines dealt less about the range but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes.
"You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family and the troubles it went through. Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television. Most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didn't like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters", explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine.