>Dough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVlVG8C18yY
>Never forget how they called you crazy.
"During such drills, we only use blank cartridges, which make noise but do not pose any danger to the health and life of others. In this case, blank cartridges were also used, and this situation was a bitter misunderstanding, for which we apologize. The Defense Ministry calls on the public to show understanding for the exercises," the ministry said in a statement.
>"During such drills, we only use blank cartridges, which make noise but do not pose any danger to the health and life of others. In this case, blank cartridges were also used, and this situation was a bitter misunderstanding, for which we apologize. The Defense Ministry calls on the public to show understanding for the exercises," the ministry said in a statement.
Terror As Latvian Soldiers Shoot On Public Streets
Terror As Latvian Soldiers Shoot On Public Streets
This is the moment a wide-eyed young mother holds her screaming toddler close as rifle-toting Latvian soldiers open fire in the capital’s streets on a Sunday afternoon.
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia has since apologised to residents of the country’s capital Riga after carrying out military exercises in the streets that frightened many and caused a “bitter misunderstanding” on 12th September.
In the footage, soldiers in full gear are seen occupying parks and lying on city steps with machine guns as shots fill the air.
In one scene, a wide-eyed young mum holds her screaming child close after a soldier in camouflage fires his rifle from a shop doorway.
The incident caused a backlash among netizens and Riga residents, and the Ministry of Defence has since apologised for scaring people.
The MoD said the city shoot-up was actually part of the Namejs 2021 simulated warfare exercises taking part in various Latvian cities and regions until October.
Several NATO nations, including the UK, US, France, and Germany, are also taking part in Namejs 2021.
The MoD pointed out that no live ammunition was used during the city exercise, adding that war games are being held outside military facilities to get as close “to the real situation” as possible.
The Ministry said in a statement: “During such drills, we only use blank cartridges, which make noise but do not pose any danger to the health and life of others.
“In this case, blank cartridges were also used, and this situation was a bitter misunderstanding, for which we apologise.
“The Defence Ministry calls on the public to show understanding for the exercises.”
Namejs 2021 started on 31st August and will continue until 3rd October.
The baby just had it's ears baptised.
cause it's just trying to be a baby and doesn't need nirvana celebrity
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-covid-isolation-after-trip-un-2021-09-22/
Brazil's Bolsonaro in COVID isolation after trip to U.N.
President Jair Bolsonaro, just back from the United Nations, isolated himself at home on Wednesday and canceled a trip after his health minister tested positive for COVID-19 and had to stay in quarantine in New York.
Brazil's health regulator Anvisa recommended that the entire presidential delegation to the U.N. General Assembly remain in isolation and undergo more tests. Bolsonaro's only appointment on Wednesday was changed to a remote meeting.
Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive hours after accompanying Bolsonaro to give the first speech from a head of state at the annual assembly on Tuesday, the government said. It added that the other delegation members all tested negative.
Bolsonaro, a vaccine skeptic who has bragged about not being vaccinated, defied U.N. rules that asked all those attending the assembly be inoculated against the coronavirus.
Queiroga accompanied Bolsonaro to a meeting on Tuesday morning at the U.N. building with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The health minister was seen wearing a mask, although the two leaders went without.
Brazil's government has told the U.N. that its complete delegation has decided to self-quarantine for fourteen days, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
"Here at the U.N., we have looked into the potential exposure to U.N. staff who had been present in the General Assembly Hall and contact tracing is being finalized," Dujarric said. He said Queiroga did not meet with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
"At present, no close contacts amongst U.N. staff have been identified," he told reporters.
Bolsonaro was the only member of his entourage in New York that has not been vaccinated. Before traveling to the United States he said he believed his antibody count from a bout with COVID-19 protected him better than a vaccine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-evergrande-faces-key-deadline-investors-await-outcome-2021-09-23/
Evergrande puts small investors first as debt deadline looms
China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) will make it a top priority to help retail investors redeem their investment products, its chairman said, as uncertainty looms over a bond interest payment the indebted property developer is due to make on Thursday.
Chairman Hui Ka Yan's statement at a late-night meeting on Wednesday came after the developer said it had resolved a coupon payment on a domestic bond, pushing the company's stock price to its biggest single-day percentage rise in a year. read more
Analysts said the moves underscored political pressure on Evergrande, whose liabilities run to 2% of China's gross domestic product, to contain the fallout from its credit crunch and protect mom-and-pop investors over professional creditors.
Global markets have been on tenterhooks in recent weeks as looming payment obligations of Evergrande, which has a $305 billion mountain of debt, triggered fears its difficulties could pose systemic risks to China's financial system.
The company, China's second-biggest property developer, has $83.5 million in dollar-bond interest payments due on Thursday on a $2 billion offshore bond and a $47.5 million dollar-bond interest payment due next week.
Both bonds would default if Evergrande fails to settle the interest within 30 days of the scheduled payment dates.
A company spokesperson did not immediately respond to request for comment on its payment obligation due on Thursday.
Evergrande, which epitomised the borrow-to-build business model and was once China's top-selling developer, ran into trouble over the past few months as Beijing tightened rules in its property sector to rein back debt levels and speculation.
Investors worry that the rot could spread to creditors including banks in China and abroad, though analysts have been downplaying the risk that a collapse would result in a "Lehman moment", or a systemic liquidity crunch.
one for the butt hole of every citizen
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>Mass Migration Complex and Haitian surges hiding in plain sight.
https://twitter.com/emadguirguismd/status/1440750264189800451
This elderly lady did not have "her papers" and was rejected from dining in at a Toronto McDonald's. She pleaded but was given no mercy, sent out to cold rain instead.
>This elderly lady did not have "her papers" and was rejected from dining in at a Toronto McDonald's. She pleaded but was given no mercy, sent out to cold rain instead.
what's up with the site
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1440770631671300106
Australian🇦🇺 police, saving another citizen from Covid:
Vision of scenes in the crowds of chaos and violence during the Melbourne anti-lockdown protests.
https://twitter.com/r_Ethereum/status/1440569970493050883
Snoop Dogg Reveals Himself as Ethereum NFT Whale With $17M Collection
First attempt at debate, withdrawal of the ruling party as soon as it started. This is how the former minister and the collaborationist doctor reacted yesterday as Dr. Ángel Ruiz Valdepeñas said the phrase "killed by vaccines" citing OFFICIAL European and US FIGURES.
Take that, Covid.
https://twitter.com/Adrian_Hilton/status/1440794098537951235
Congratulations @HillaryClinton on her Honorary DCL from @UniofOxford. Almost 40 years on, I'm still struggling to understand why they never so honoured their first alumna to become Prime Minister. I mean, it's not as if Margaret Thatcher achieved less than the former First Lady.
SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS DO IT NOW
“When analysts accuse the PRC of trying to export their authoritarian model of governance, this is what they mean: creating spaces within other countries which subject citizens to PRC standards which serve to protect the interests of the Chinese Communist Party."
https://twitter.com/CorbinMiddlemas/status/1440576463535677450
Big cheers in Southbank as one of the rioters are caught. People yelling off their balconies to aid police and pointing where rioters are running/hiding. “Go the coppers” chants ring out as more are arrested @abcnews
>protest footage mashed up to this song
It's my life take it or leave it
Set me free what's that crap papa-know-it-all
I got my own life you got your own life
Live your own life and set me free
Mind your business and leave my business
You know everything papa-know-it-all
Very little knowledge is dangerous
Stop bugging me stop bothering me
Stop bugging me stop forcing me
Stop fighting me stop yelling me
It's my life
Do you understand
I live the way I want to live
I make decisions day and night
Show me signs and good examples
Stop telling me how to run your business
Take a trip to east and west
You find that you don't know anything
Every's getting tired of you
Sometimes you have to look and listen
You can even learn from me
Little knowledge is dangerous
It's my life
>Sidney Powell revealed that her legal team is going to be able to ask Eric Coomer — the security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems — two hours worth of questions in a deposition on September 23rd.
hey hey that's today
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/21/us/trump-campaign-memo.html
Read the Trump campaign’s internal memo
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-campaign-memo/f7b2de7129fe91b2/full.pdf
Last November, communications staff members on the Trump campaign hastily assembled a memo examining outlandish election claims. The memo found that many of the allegations were baseless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKiJx6jSMk&t=131s
Call me homophobic because I just think straight.
Step 1: Train the people only to consume.
Step 2: Infiltrate adults with the news.
Step 3: Indoctrinate the children through the schools,
and the music and the apps on the phones that they use.
Step 4: Separate the right from the left.
Step 5: Separate the white from the black.
Step 6: Separate the rich from the poor,
use religion and equality to separate them more.
Step 7: Fabricate a problem made of lies.
Step 8: Put it on the news every night.
Step 9: When people start to fight and divide,
take control.
This is called situational design.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afghanistan-united-nations-taliban-shah-mehmood-qureshi-258c17303271aa440cf60f5a9444e143
Top Pakistan diplomat details Taliban plan
Be realistic. Show patience. Engage. And above all, don’t isolate. Those are the pillars of an approach emerging in Pakistan to deal with the fledgling government that is suddenly running the country next door once again — Afghanistan’s resurgent, often-volatile Taliban.
Pakistan’s government is proposing that the international community develop a road map that leads to diplomatic recognition of the Taliban — with incentives if they fulfill its requirements — and then sit down face to face and talk it out with the militia’s leaders.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi outlined the idea Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s meeting of world leaders.
“If they live up to those expectations, they would make it easier for themselves, they will get acceptability, which is required for recognition,” Qureshi told the AP. “At the same time, the international community has to realize: What’s the alternative? What are the options? This is the reality, and can they turn away from this reality?”
He said Pakistan “is in sync with the international community” in wanting to see a peaceful, stable Afghanistan with no space for terrorist elements to increase their foothold, and for the Taliban to ensure “that Afghan soil is never used again against any country.”
“But we are saying, be more realistic in your approach,” Qureshi said. “Try an innovative way of engaging with them. The way that they were being dealt with has not worked.”
Expectations from the Taliban leadership could include an inclusive government and assurances for human rights, especially for women and girls, Qureshi said. In turn, he said, the Afghan government might be motivated by receiving development, economic and reconstruction aid to help recover from decades of war.
He urged the United States, the International Monetary Fund and other countries that have frozen Afghan government funds to immediately release the money so it can be used “for promoting normalcy in Afghanistan.” And he pledged that Pakistan is ready to play a “constructive, positive” role in opening communications channels with the Taliban because it, too, benefits from peace and stability.
This is the second time that the Taliban, who adhere to a strict version of Islam, have ruled Afghanistan. The first time, from 1996 to 2001, ended when they were ousted by a U.S.-led coalition after the 9/11 attacks, which were directed by Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan.
During that rule, Taliban leaders and police barred girls from school and prohibited women from working outside the home or leaving it without a male escort. After they were overthrown, Afghan women still faced challenges in the male-dominated society but increasingly stepped into powerful positions in government and numerous fields.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-technology-united-states-del-rio-haiti-872d4b59f5f68f0a63b32704aa961021
WhatsApp, social posts helped lead Haitian migrants to Texas
For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant Fabricio Jean followed detailed instructions sent to him via WhatsApp from his brother in New Jersey who had recently taken the route to the Texas border.
His brother wired him money for the trip, then meticulously mapped it out, warning him of areas heavy with Mexican immigration officials.
“You will need about 20,000 pesos (about $1,000 U.S. dollars) for the buses. You need to take this bus to this location and then take another bus,” recounted Jean, who spoke to The Associated Press after reaching the border town of Del Rio.
What Jean didn’t expect was to find thousands of Haitian migrants like himself crossing at the same remote spot. The 38-year-old, his wife and two young children earlier this month joined as many as 14,000 mostly Haitian migrants camped under a Del Rio bridge.
https://apnews.com/article/health-infectious-diseases-coronavirus-pandemic-4035798709ec77b8acaf96a49d48acfa
Is the delta variant of the coronavirus worse for kids?
No, experts say there’s no strong evidence yet that it makes children and teens sicker than earlier versions of the virus, although delta has led to a surge in infections among kids because it’s more contagious.
Delta’s ability to spread more easily makes it more of a risk to children and underscores the need for masks in schools and vaccinations for those who are old enough, said Dr. Juan Dumois, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Weekly infection rates among U.S. children earlier this month topped 250,000, surpassing the wintertime peak, according to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association. Since the pandemic began, more than 5 million children in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19.
The delta variant has been identified in at least 180 countries, according to the World Health Organization. In many of them, the spike in infections has also meant an increase in hospitalizations in young children and teens.
In the U.S., the hospitalization rate for COVID-19 was less than 2 per 100,000 children in late August and early September — similar to the peak last winter, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the portion of kids hospitalized with severe disease hasn’t changed significantly.
The sheer numbers can make it seem like children are getting sicker with the delta variant, but experts say that does not appear to be the case. Most infected kids have mild infections or no symptoms and do not need to be hospitalized.
COVID-19 vaccines continue to provide protection against delta. Among children 12 and older — who are eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations — the weekly hospitalization rate in July was 10 times higher for the unvaccinated than those who have had the shots, CDC data show.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the weekend to implore U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship, warning they risk dividing the world.
As the U.N. General Assembly opened Tuesday, both leaders chose calming language, with Biden insisting “we are not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocs,” and Xi telling the forum that “China has never, and will never invade or bully others or seek hegemony.”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-joe-biden-australia-beijing-europe-3fcbf65b68f005316bc92c34a297fabe
https://apnews.com/article/sports-health-courts-education-ohio-9ed6895f0c35cd9b928f51a26638053f
Suits against Ohio State over sex abuse by doc are dismissed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits over Ohio State’s failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying Wednesday it’s indisputable Strauss abused hundreds of young men but agreeing with OSU’s argument that the legal window for such claims had passed.
“For decades, many at Ohio State tasked with protecting and training students and young athletes instead turned a blind eye to Strauss’s exploitation,” U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson wrote in one ruling. “From 1979 to 2018, Ohio State utterly failed these victims. Plaintiffs beseech this Court to hold Ohio State accountable, but today, the legal system also fails Plaintiffs.”
The matter isn’t done. Strauss-related lawsuits against OSU filed this year by dozens of other plaintiffs appeared to still be pending, with no dismissal or other new rulings appearing on those dockets as of late Wednesday. And lawyers for the 200-plus plaintiffs whose cases were dismissed immediately vowed to appeal.
Attorney Stephen Estey said the group of men he represents was devastated by the judge’s decision.
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-africa-discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-b1c65f0d54d93ad84aba0d7c65652609
UN racism meeting recommits to goals but renews divides
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly pledged Wednesday to redouble efforts to combat racism around the world, commemorating a landmark but contentious 2001 anti-racism conference by holding an anniversary meeting once again riven with divisions.
Looking back on the two decades since the conference in Durban, South Africa, the assembly adopted a resolution that acknowledged some progress but deplored what it called a rise in discrimination, violence and intolerance directed at people of African heritage and many other groups — from the Roma to refugees, the young to the old, people with disabilities to people who have been displaced.
Vowing “to accelerate momentum to make the fight against racism … a high priority for our countries,” the measure pointed to the effects of slavery, colonialism and genocide and called for ensuring that people of African descent can seek “adequate reparation or satisfaction” through national institutions. It also noted ills caused by religious prejudices, specifically including anti-Muslim, antisemitic and anti-Christian bias.
https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-taiwan-87dea2310add5beefdee0530cf0bd740
China sends 19 fighter jets towards Taiwan in show of force
China sent 19 fighter jets toward Taiwan in a large display of force Thursday, after the self-governing island announced its intention to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group that China has also applied to join.
Taiwan deployed air patrol forces in response to the Chinese jets and tracked them on their air defense systems, the island’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Among the various jets, some of which flew in a long L-shaped path, were 12 J-16 and two J-11s, as well as bombers and an anti-submarine aircraft.
China has sent fighter jets toward Taiwan on an almost daily basis this past year. It stepped up its military harassment of the self-ruled island and has sent large displays of fighter jets after political events in which it views as interfering with its sovereignty.
Taiwan and China split during a civil war in 1949, but China continues to claim Taiwan as part of its territory. Beijing opposes Taiwan’s involvement in international bodies.
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-health-russia-ukraine-europe-4408446ed764531189313989f74f05e9
Ukraine’s leader takes UN to task as ‘retired superhero’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that’s in the same boat, but first-class passengers get the lifeboats. A United Nations that resembles ”a retired superhero” that has lost sight of what it used to be.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting to paint a dire picture of international relations. But the former actor and comedian may well have painted the most colorful one.
In a speech Wednesday, he called out failures in areas from sharing coronavirus vaccines to halting climate change to turning back Russia’s annexation of part of his country. He floated a proposal for the U.N. to head to global hotspots to hold its meetings — and offered to host one.
“I’m not being ironic. I’m not trolling anyone,” he said. “It’s time to wake up.”