#1
Looking at the charts, whites are wildly underrepresented in all categories. Since we know that any difference in outcome is de facto racism, I propose an affirmative action program to help white men and women live up to their full criminal potential. This will require education, youth intervention for those who show no signs of criminality and on-the-job training programs. It will also require a big pile of dollars.
#10
If a third of blacks live in poverty that's about 4 percent of the population. Statistically they mark white poverty at 10 percent. That's about 7.5+ percent of the population. So, in raw numbers that means whites should be twice as numerous in the crime column as blacks if poverty was the only factor.
[Guardian] A prank almost proved fatal when a 28-year-old man got a whole live dover sole stuck in his throat.
The man had just caught the 14cm fish and had put it over his mouth as a joke but it wriggled free and jumped down his windpipe ‐ causing a complete blockage. Paramedics were called and when they arrived at Boscombe pier in Dorset on the night of 5 October they found that the man, who has not been identified, had collapsed and stopped breathing.
Friends were performing CPR, as directed by an emergency medical dispatcher on the line from the 999 control room. Initial assessment by paramedic Matt Harrison was that the patient had a blocked airway and was in cardiac arrest. He and a colleague, Martyn Box, an operations officer, worked on the man and got a pulse back.
"The boys were giving really good CPR on our arrival as instructed by the control room staff," Box said.
"Initially, we didn’t know the true extent of the situation or what the patient was choking on, but as we questioned them further we were told he had a whole fish stuck in his windpipe."
Despite the paramedics artificially ventilating him with a bag and mask his chest remained silent, suggesting there was total airway occlusion and he was not receiving any oxygen. Harrison said re-assessment of the patient inside the ambulance indicated further deterioration of his condition and a decline of cardiac output.
"It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to Royal Bournemouth hospital," he said. "I used a laryngoscope to fully extend the mouth and throat and saw what appeared like an altered colour of tissue in his throat.
#3
A wave and a bell. Does the founder
At twilight attend every flounder?
When halibuts ground,
Do their souls, now unbound,
Pass to limbo, or someplace profounder?
[DAILYCALLER] A bombshell report showed that Roger Goodell’s wife Jane Skinner Goodell has been defending him from an anonymous account on Twitter.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story that Skinner had been using an account named @forargument to tweet at people who were critical of her husband.
The report reads in part:
Who is this valiant defender of a man who has so few defenders? It is Roger Goodell’s wife, Jane Skinner Goodell, The Wall Street Journal confirmed after an examination of the account. "It was a REALLY silly thing to do and done out of frustration‐and love." Mrs. Goodell said Thursday afternoon in a written statement. "As a former media member, I’m always bothered when the coverage doesn’t provide a complete and accurate picture of a story. I’m also a wife and a mom. I have always passionately defended the hard-working guy I love‐and I always will. I just may not use Twitter to do so in the future!"
Within an hour after the Journal reached out to Mrs. Goodell and the NFL, the account was made private. Later, it was taken down completely.
This is the last thing that Goodell and the league need right now. The guy is already getting hammered for all the national anthem protests, and now his wife is responding to his haters through a fake account. Not a great look for the most powerful man in all of sports.
She’s married to a highly successful man, has plenty of money and somehow is wasting her time on Twitter. Another example of how social media doesn’t do anything other than create problems.
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[DAILYCALLER] Tennessee Titans player Rishard Matthews tweeted Thursday that he’ll quit the NFL if the league implements a rule forcing players to stand during the anthem.
“No I will be done playing football,” Matthews tweeted and ultimately deleted when asked if he would be willing to face punishment for not standing if a new rule is implemented.
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#1
Hey, snowflake. You are an EMPLOYEE. You are expected to do what your employer tells you to do - while you are at work. You are free to quit - and that is exactly what you should do, if you are unwilling to meet your employer's expectations. No one is irreplaceable.
You and Kaepernick can maybe get jobs together washing cars, or bagging groceries.
#2
Y'all are smirking & snorting, but I feel for the brother. First job I had working for The Man, they made me wear ugly clothes, told me what to do and even wanted me to show up on time. It was living hell. I don't know what I would have done if they asked me to stand for the Star Spangled Banner.
Actually, I'd probably have done it. It's no worse than anything else they wanted and beats the heck out of making french fries or running wind sprints.
#7
OK, fine. Now would you prefer an application to work at Starbucks or at McDonald's? (Spoiler alert: Your salary may not be what you have been accustomed to.)
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#8
Already a lot of competition in the Professional Aggrieved League. Join y0ur PALs on their socialists circuit through academia, the media and entrainment plantations.
#13
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
#14
Looked up what college degree he has to fall back on. Yeah, I'm smiling too. Apparently he only learned how to catch passes from caperneck for a couple years.
But, what is up with his twit avatard? Is that a Marine uniform?
[AnNahar] The United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced it had stopped issuing visas to North Korean nationals and downgraded diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, following similar moves by Kuwait and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... The UAE government ended the mission of its non-resident ambassador to North Korea as well as that of Pyongyang's non-resident ambassador to the UAE, the government-run WAM news agency said.
Abu Dhabi will also no longer grant North Korean companies authorization to work in any of the seven emirates, WAM said.
Tensions over North Korea's weapons program have soared in recent months, with Pyongyang launching a flurry of missiles and conducting its sixth and most powerful nuclear test last month.
U.N. sanctions against North Korea were last month expanded to include North Korean guest workers, along with textiles and a cap on oil exports.
South Korea and Japan have pressured Gulf states to stop employing North Korean workers, whose income goes towards remittances that benefit the regime in Pyongyang, according to Asian diplomatic sources.
In September, Kuwait gave the North Korean ambassador one month to leave the country and stopped issuing visas to all North Koreans.
Qatar has also said it would not renew visas for North Korean laborers, with the last work permits set to expire at the end of 2018.
Between 2,000 and 2,500 North Koreans currently work in Kuwait, and another estimated 1,000 in Qatar.
The UAE is home to some 1,300 North Korean workers, according to a South Korean diplomat.
#1
Last week he elevated a sister to the leadership committee. He is either expected to be exterminated or he is catching so much internal resistance he can only trust little sister.
[Chicago Tribune] It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets. A high-pitched whine, but from what? It seems to undulate, even writhe. Listen closely: There are multiple, distinct tones that sound to some like they're colliding in a nails-on-the-chalkboard effect.
The Associated Press has obtained a recording of what some U.S. Embassy workers heard in Havana in a series of unnerving incidents later deemed to be deliberate attacks. The recording, released Thursday by the AP, is the first disseminated publicly of the many taken in Cuba of mysterious sounds that led investigators initially to suspect a sonic weapon.
The recordings themselves are not believed to be dangerous to those who listen. Sound experts and physicians say they know of no sound that can cause physical damage when played for short durations at normal levels through standard equipment like a cellphone or computer.
[Daily Caller] WASHINGTON ‐ The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Puerto Rico received multiple allegations from residents across the island who say local officials in the territory have withheld needed FEMA supplies.
"People call us and tell us some misappropriation of some goods and supplies by supposedly politicians, not necessarily mayors, but people that work for the mayors in certain towns," FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told The Daily Caller Wednesday.
Osorio explained, "They’re supposedly withholding these goods and these supplies and instead of handing them out to people who really need them, [there are claims] that [local officials] are assigning them to their buddies first‐people that have voted for them or people that contributed to their campaigns or what not."
He added, "So what we’re doing is looking into these allegations. That I can tell you is happening. Again, I cannot say that we have any ongoing investigation. We’re just corroborating these allegations."
Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak says he is ready to resign if investigators prove the guilt of his deputy Ihor Pavlovsky, who is involved in the case of multi-million embezzlement at the Defense Ministry, according to the news portal Novoye Vremia.
"I am ready at any time," he said at a briefing, Novoye Vremia said.
Poltorak claims it will also be his liability if the guilt has been established. As UNIAN reported earlier, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office exposed a corruption scheme used to embezzle public funds worth over UAH 149 million, or US$5.6 million, in fuel procurements by the Defense Ministry.
Deputy Defense Minister Ihor Pavlovsky and Director of the Department for State Procurement and Supplies of Materiel at the Defense Ministry Volodymyr Husevych were detained amid anti-corruption raids on October 11. Two other suspects are an employee of the said Department and a representative of the Defense Ministry's Internal Audit Department.
Commenting on the detention of his deputy, Poltorak said his subordinate has nowhere to flee because Russia has opened three criminal cases against him for his participation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas. What is more, he is unlikely to possess money enough to seek asylum in other countries.
Could we not just sever the entire power grid for a while, thereby avoiding major damage?
Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."
Two members of the former congressional EMP commission said the threat to the U.S. has never been higher, in part because of the current high level of saber rattling by both sides and North Korea's surprising display over the past six months of its ability to deliver on its threats.
"With the development of small nuclear arsenals and long-range missiles by new, radical U.S. adversaries, beginning with North Korea, the threat of a nuclear EMP attack against the U.S. becomes one of the few ways that such a country could inflict devastating damage to the United States. It is critical, therefore, that the U.S. national leadership address the EMP threat as a critical and existential issue, and give a high priority to assuring the leadership is engaged and the necessary steps are taken to protect the country from EMP," the experts told a House Homeland Security subcommittee.
William R. Graham, chairman of the former EMP commission and its former chief of staff, Peter Vincent Pry, said that the U.S. has ignored the warning signs for years and that North Korea's military moves this year must be seen as a wake-up call.
They said:
•Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea's nuclear arsenal was primitive, some academics claiming it had as few as 6 A-Bombs. Now the intelligence community reportedly estimates North Korea has 60 nuclear weapons.
•Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea's ICBMs were fake, or if real could not strike the U.S. mainland. Now the intelligence community reportedly estimates North Korea's ICBMs can strike Denver and Chicago, and perhaps the entire United States.
•Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea was many years away from an H-Bomb. Now it appears North Korea has H-Bombs comparable to sophisticated U.S. two-stage thermonuclear weapons.
•Just six months ago, most experts claimed North Korean ICBMs could not miniaturize an A-Bomb or design a reentry vehicle for missile delivery. Now the intelligence community reportedly assesses North Korea has miniaturized nuclear weapons, and has developed reentry vehicles for missile delivery, including by ICBMs that can strike the U.S.
•After massive intelligence failures grossly underestimating North Korea's long-range missile capabilities, number of nuclear weapons, warhead miniaturization, and proximity to an H-Bomb, the biggest North Korean threat to the U.S. remains unacknowledged‐nuclear EMP attack.
Their testimony also highlighted the failure of the Pentagon or Congress to extend the life of the EMP Commission and they recommended deeper study into the threat, include from a simple solar flare.
"Our current vulnerability invites attack," they said.
#3
File this with the "World will end in 2020 due to Man Made Global Warming". Shhhhhh.
Note 1. The Russians and Chinese already have the EMP capability.
Note 2. Has 90 percent of the Puerto Rico population died off yet (the mayor of San Juan is not a valid data source).
Note 3. Seems we survived a long time in history without electricity without a major die off.
This is an instance where size does matter: the larger the nuclear explosion, the larger the affected area. While technical reports and papers on EMP from nuclear detonations are mostly classified, there is a paper by D. Hafemeister of California Polytechnic Institute that provides sufficient detail to derive a simple rule of thumb on the relationship between affected distance and nuclear device yield. The paper makes some simplifying assumptions:
- The detonation is spherically symmetric (which may not always be the case);
- The Earth’s magnetic field is not accounted for;
- Prompt gamma rays account for 0.3 percent of the total energy of the explosion and are emitted within the first 10 nanoseconds of detonation;
- About 0.6 percent of the prompt gamma rays produce relativistic electrons that constitute the E1 component of the EMP; and
- The electric field damage threshold is 15,000 volts/meter or higher in the E1 component.
Plugging in the numbers and presuming these assumptions are appropriate, the rule of thumb [My favorite kind of rule, as I only have to archive (2) rules at any given time.] is surprisingly simple: D = Y, where D is the maximum damage distance expressed in kilometers and Y is the yield of the blast in kilotons. So, a 20 KT bomb detonated at optimum height would have a maximum EMP damage distance of 20 km; a 1 MT (1,000 KT) bomb would damage out to 1,000 km. The largest North Korean test to date has been estimated to be about 20 KT."
[FOX] The FBI and Justice Department have turned down or ignored every request since March from the House Intelligence Committee seeking information about the controversial anti-Trump dossier, according to a review of congressional records by Fox News.
Records show the committee has made eight such requests, including subpoenas, in that time period.
Congressional investigators have met "a lot of resistance," committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News.
But the GOP lawmaker seemed to indicate public scrutiny and congressional pressure may spur movement on the issue. "These are crucial questions related to Congress’ oversight responsibilities. ... We hope we’ll soon be on the path to getting the information we need," he said.
Asked for comment, the Justice Department’s principal deputy director of public affairs, Ian D. Prior, said: "The materials requested involve extremely sensitive law enforcement information. We have been working with the committee and have had a productive dialogue with an aim towards ensuring it gets what it needs while addressing our concerns."
The FBI and Justice Department are led by Trump appointees Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, respectively. But officials at the departments have refused to provide information about the dossier's sources, who paid for it and whether the FBI used the unverified dossier to obtain surveillance warrants. The document, along with its salacious allegations, emerged earlier this year in the press and was roundly rejected by President Trump and his allies. Investigators on Capitol Hill have been trying to unlock the document’s origins ever since.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will stop payments worth billions of dollars to health insurers to subsidize low-income Americans, the White House said on Thursday, a move health insurers have warned will cause chaos in insurance markets and a spike in premiums.
The move to undermine President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, officially called the Affordable Care Act, drew criticism from Democrats and the threat of a lawsuit from state attorneys general.
Trump has made the payments, guaranteed to insurers under Obamacare to help lower out-of-pocket medical expenses for low-income consumers, each month since taking office in January. But he has repeatedly threatened to cut them off and disparaged them as a "bailout" for insurance companies.
#3
Not welfare so much as bribes pre-execution payments to get the insurers into Obama's program. They got the payments whether there were charges or not.
[Wash Times] The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee has subpoenaed the head of the Washington firm that commissioned the sensational anti-Trump campaign research dossier ‐ adding fresh intensity to the behind-the-scenes scramble among lawmakers to grasp how the infamous document fits into the Russian election meddling investigation.
The subpoena issued for Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson comes as special counsel Robert Mueller’s separate investigation interviewed the former British spy, Christopher Steele, who worked with Mr. Simpson in compiling the dossier of negative intelligence on Mr. Trump.
The CIA and FBI saw the dossier’s allegations as so sensational and sensitive last year that they excluded any mention of it from the intelligence community’s highly publicized accusations back in January about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who filed one of several slander lawsuits because of the dossier, reportedly has said he will not appear before the Senate intelligence committee’s Russia probe. While unconfirmed whether the committee formally requested his testimony, the energy investor with Russia ties did inform the panel he won’t show if they do ask him.
Originally commissioned by Mr. Trump’s Republican rivals and then by a Democratic client, the dossier contains allegations about President Trump’s Moscow contacts. Mr. Steele wrote it in 2016 with support from Mr. Simpson and his firm before it was published by the online news service BuzzFeed just before January’s inauguration.
[Desert News] SALT LAKE CITY ‐ The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted unanimously Thursday to change the name of Negro Bill Canyon to Grandstaff Canyon in a nod to local support for eliminating the racially offensive moniker.
The canyon, a popular recreation area outside Moab, was named after William Grandstaff, a black cowboy who ran cattle in the area in the 1870s.
Mary McGann, a Grand County Council member who fought for the change, praised the board's decision.
"I am very pleased with what the board decided to do," she said. "It was the right thing."
In 2016, the Bureau of Land Management changed out the Negro Bill Trailhead sign along the Colorado River corridor on state Route 128 north of Moab to signal its official support for a name change.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The impacts on his family will undoubtedly be devastating. 
[Guardian] A prank almost proved fatal when a 28-year-old man got a whole live dover sole stuck in his throat.
[DAILYCALLER] Tennessee Titans player Rishard Matthews tweeted Thursday that he’ll quit the NFL if the league implements a rule forcing players to stand during the anthem.
North Korea
[Daily Caller] WASHINGTON ‐ The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Puerto Rico received multiple allegations from residents across the island who say local officials in the territory have withheld needed FEMA supplies.
[FOX] The FBI and Justice Department have turned down or ignored every request since March from the House Intelligence Committee seeking information about the controversial anti-Trump dossier, according to a review of congressional records by Fox News. 
