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Treasury Withholds Biden Family Suspicious Bank Records, James Comer Threatens Subpoena
2023-01-28
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U.S. banks have flagged over 150 suspicious financial transactions from Hunter and James Biden, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Committee chair, told Breitbart News. The wire transfers included "large" amounts of money tripped for further review by American banks.

Wire transfers are widely used by money launderers. To mitigate the risks to the financial institutions, suspicious wire transfers over $10,000 are flagged for review. Wire transactions involving more than $10,000 are also to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

Comer demanded the Treasury on January 11 to turn over the suspicious bank records. But the Treasury denied Comer’s request, citing "improper disclosure" of relevant information that could reduce the Biden administration’s ability to "conduct of law enforcement, intelligence, and national security activities."

Treasury’s legislative affairs chief Jonathan Davidson asked Comer to provide more justification for seeking "highly sensitive" information on the Biden family business.
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Facing the Beast
2022-07-20
[FRONTPAGEMAG] I was relaxing in our screened porch in our little cottage in the forest, feeling rather pleased with myself. It had been an arduous week of the usual combat for liberty, but there had been victories.

I was reading a decorating magazine (we all have our vices). The grass was dewy; birds were loud. The morning was glorious.

I was feeling pioneer-ish and independent. I was alone in the house; Brian was traveling. I enjoyed the narrative moment: "Lady in the woods."

Then I heard a "thump" about eight feet away behind my head. It was an exasperated thump, like a teenager slamming the door to his room. Like, "Really??"

I glanced behind me and saw the enormous ears and forehead of a sizable brown bear, who was ducking insolently, clearly aware of me, to lower himself behind the trash cans.

I sped indoors, locking the door. I grabbed a weapon out of the hall closet. In my haste, I grabbed the weapon that looked like a rifle, instead of the actual rifle, which was in a case. Thus I found myself locked in an upstairs bathroom, cowering, armed with a BB gun.

I sort of knew this bear. Brian had captured on his trail camera about a year ago, what must have been this bear and his brother or sister, when the little ones were just adorable cubs. One of the cubs had nuzzled the trailcam til the mom had batted it away, urging her little ones to follow her deeper into the woods, far from the dangerous things of men. One of the cubs was now this massive creature, that bear-watchers call a "sub-adult."

I saw, peering fearfully out of the window, that it was no longer cute and fat. It was was thin, but massively muscled, and looked disoriented. It must have been eight feet long.

I paced into the upstairs bedroom and secured the windows. The bear left the garbage cans, and followed me around the corner of the house. I could now see it pacing and sniffing directly opposite the bedroom windows, though on the ground level. There were windows all around the house on that level. Bears had been known to break into homes.

I looked under the bed: hiding there could not save me if the bear made it into the house. I realized I was holding a BB gun, and felt ridiculous. Even if I managed to shoot it, this would do nothing but enrage him. The thin bedroom doors that I had thought so rustic and charming, could be broken down by an angry animal of that size in no time.

My heart pounded as I realized that he was not leaving; he continued pacing and circling, no matter where I went.

I went back into the bathroom, and locked that door with its flimsy lock.

There he was again, outside on that side of the house, as if he was spotting me or as if he could scent me. Surely he could smell my fear.

I cowered behind the bathroom curtain. The bear paused in its ransacking of the trash, stood up again on hind legs, looked right at me — or smelled right at me — and bared its long, sharp yellow teeth.

If I had had sympathy for the hungry teenager abandoned by its mom (or "emancipated" by its mom, as the bear watching sites explain) it evaporated.

I was on the phone with Brian, frozen with fear.

"Make yourself big! Shout at him!" Brian instructed. That was impossible. I could not move. I could hardly breathe.

That would be it, surely, I thought, after he’d exhausted the trash bag. He’d leave now, surely. But no. He came back toward me again like a nightmare, and headed once more to circle the house.

I called the sheriff’s office.

Twice they told me that nothing could be done, and to stay inside. I don’t blame the Columbia County Sheriffs. They have issues to deal with more serious than a former city lady trapped in her house by a hungry bear.

But the bear kept circling right up against the walls of the house. This went on for an hour. Adrenaline poured through my bloodstream. I did wonder if I would die that day.

When I called back in spite of myself and begged the police for help, they told me to call again only if he managed to break into the house. (Thank you, ’Defund the Police’ advocates...)

At certain points of extreme stress, I could not even bring myself any longer to look outside to see where the bear was. What if I looked and couldn’t see him because he was already in the house? I went right into a place that is familiar to those of us with PTSD - a traumatized place where you freeze, and where you engage in magical thinking.

If I don’t look at the bear he won’t be there. If I don’t meet his gaze he won’t see me or smell me. I am somewhere else. I am not really here.

Reader, after an hour I was saved when brave colleagues of mine, Craig Klein, Reinette Senum and Jamie Arrigo, who had been meeting nearby, drove down our wooded driveway, blowing their car horns. I raced down the steps, never so happy to see people in my life. Reinette laughed at the sight of me racing to open the door, still carrying my useless BB gun.

I think I was coherent, but I was in shock. An officer from the Sheriff’s department arrived at the same time, bless him. Humans saved me. The aggressor, the wild animal, had been scared away, and not by me. I’d been a wreck, hopeless.

For days, I ruminated about the sharp yellow teeth of that bear, exposed as he raised his snout into the air, sniffing, like a scene from a horrifying fairy tale.

Why do I tell this story?

Because - the bear had been growing more and more comfortable emerging from the woods; he grew more and more comfortable exploring our trash and then he took over territory in exploring our lawn; he was "habituated" ultimately, as bear watchers say; he had ownership of the lawn and was circling the house to mark his territory. He was comfortable at last in stalking the homeowners.

He was here because — I had done nothing to stop him. He was here because I let him slowly take over our home.

My not being able to look directly at the bear did not make me any safer. My denial put me in greater danger.

This all, of course, really happened. But that does not mean it is not also a metaphor.

The same week that this happened, I also finalized my reporting about the Pfizer vaccines, showing — what I knew for months I would eventually find.

The heart of the manufacture and distribution of millions of doses of the MRNA vaccines that are causing such a swath of death and destruction throughout North America and Western Europe, is enmeshed with the plans, methods and manufacturing infrastructure of our existential adversary.

The enemy is within our very bodies.

Since I first started reading the reports produced by the 3000 medical and scientific experts of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers team, based on the 55000 Pfizer documents released under court order, I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong, not just a greedy pharmaceutical company and a regulatory agency that was fully corrupted, but rather, or additionally, I was seeing a massive act of war.

When I saw the eighteen months’ worth of sudden deaths, slow deaths, encephalies, strokes, heart attacks, pericarditis, myocarditis, Guillain Barre, Bell’s palsy, MS, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, blue-green breast milk, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, neonatal seizures, neonatal multi-organ system failure, liver damage, kidney damage, suppressed lactation, suppressed sperm count, disrupted menses, all detailed the Pfizer documents; when I saw the fact that 34,000 plus of the 42000 plus adverse events "cases" itemized in the worldwide rollout of the Pfizer injections, were sustained in the US — with the next largest group being sustained in Western Europe - and that the 56 countries around the world that also had Pfizer injections rolled out, amounted for only a bit over 7000 adverse events total — I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but rather that I was seeing an act of war.

When I saw the doubling of neonatal deaths in country after country, the rise of 34% above normal in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions for vaccinated versus unvaccinated mothers; when I saw that 3816 vaccinated women in the VAERS database lost their babies — 57% of all the neonatal deaths in all the time that VAERS records had been kept; when I saw that of 36 pregnancies followed in the Pfizer documents, 28 of the babies died; when I saw the rise of 40 per cent in death rates and the shocking rise in cases of disability in the West, I knew I was not seeing just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but that I was witnessing an act of war.

When I saw that you could boost the lethality or the damage caused by the injection by simply changing how dilute the solution is, or simply by reassigning which brand you use - with Moderna (100 mcg) far more damaging than Pfizer (30 mcg) — I knew that I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on massive scale, but an act of war.

When I saw a study out of Hong Kong in 2021 — a study that, of course, was answerable to the CCP — that revealed that a second dose (a "booster") into the bloodstreams of mice, resulted in visibly enlarged hearts with white patches that could be seen by the naked eye, as well as cytokine storms and liver damage, I realized that the two-dose regime and then the "boosters" were slow but progressive ways to damage and then destroy the health of Western patients. The study concluded: "Post-vaccination myopericarditis is reported after immunization with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines."

And yet with this CCP-overseen finding, that by injecting mammals with the MRNA vaccine, their hearts were visibly damaged, the worldwide injection program kept going.

[Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model, Can Li, Yanxia Chen, Yan Zhao, David Christopher Lung, Zhanhong Ye, Wenchen Song, Fei-Fei Liu, Jian-Piao Cai, Wan-Man Wong, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Siddharth Sridhar, Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung, Hin Chu, Kin-Hang Kok, Dong-Yan Jin, Anna Jinxia Zhang, Kwok-Yung Yuen; Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 74, Issue 11, 1 June 2022, Pages 1933—1950.\

We were told that Pfizer/BioNTech is a German company. But it is actually a German-Chinese company. Since I first found that Pfizer/BioNTech had an MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals, a major CCP-linked pharmaceutical company based in Shanghai, to make the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA vaccines, I knew that with a bit more digging I would find China at the heart of these acts of war.

BioNTech’s SEC filing shows that the MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals includes an equity investment by Fosun in BioNTech. In other words, the CCP is an equity investor in BioNTech: "As part of the strategic alliance with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd ("Fosun Pharma"; Stock Symbol: 600196.SH, 02196.HK) whereby the two companies will work together on the development of BNT162 in China, Fosun agreed to make an equity investment which was received in mid-April 2020. The issuance of 1,580,777 ordinary shares with the nominal amount of k€ 1,581 was registered within the commercial register (Handelsregister) as of April 23, 2020." Not only that but: "Ai-Min Hui, President of Global R&D, and Chief Medical Officer of Fosun Pharma said: "We are closely working with BioNTech and regulatory authorities to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine candidate, in order to synchronize the development process in China with other countries, and to bring the vaccine to public as soon as possible, if the vaccine succeeds."

Fosun is not separate from the CCP; it is the CCP: Fosun acquired almost half of Sinopharm: "In 2003 Fosun Pharmaceutical acquired 49% stake of Sinopharm Group (Chinese: 国药控股). [...] In 2008, a year before the initial public offering of Sinopharm Group, Fosun Pharmaceutical owned the direct parent company of Sinopharm Group, Sinopharm Industrial Investment (Chinese: 国药产业投资) instead; the majority owner of the joint venture was state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm)." 2003年年报 [2003 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Industrial. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 5 August 2018— via Shanghai Stock Exchange website. [^ 国药集团复星联合成立首家混合所有制药企. 企业观察报 (in Chinese (China)). 4 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2018 — via Sina; ^ 2009年年报 [2009 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Pharmaceutical. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2018 — via Shanghai Stock Exchange website.; ^ "Connection Transaction" (PDF) (Press release). Shanghai: Fosun International. 20 June 2008.]

Sinopharm, of course, as you see above, of which Fosun owns almost half, is owned in turn directly by the Chinese State and thus reports directly to the CCP.

The initial BioNTech/Fosun MOU seems to imply that all of the BioNTech/Fosun joint ventures’ activity is in China, or in regions aligned with or close to China. But is that now the case? Fosun Pharma did not stay in China.

It came here. Fosun Pharmaceuticals is now also Fosun Pharmaceuticals USA, with branches for R and D and product formulation in Boston, MA and Princeton, NJ.

It is producing formulations and products in the US for distribution in the US and around the world. Fosun Pharma has built a "global operation strategy" for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 PCR tests and COVID-19 antigen tests:

"Fosun Pharma has built a strong root in China and developed a global operation strategy, with pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D being the largest and core business segment, [...]"

"In 2021, the revenue from new and sub-new products including COMIRNATY® (mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, also known as BNT162b2), [...] accounted for over 25% of the revenue in the pharmaceutical manufacturing segment;
· Revenue from regions outside Mainland China and countries overseas reached RMB13,599 million, accounting for 34.86% of the total revenue, marking a step forward on globalization." [Italics mine].

And more: "Continuously strengthening the global operation capability and making further enhancement for globalization, Fosun Pharma has formed a global operating system for R&D, manufacturing and commercialization, and continuously expands overseas markets. [..] Globalization capability is continuously strengthened. The second headquarters in the United States help to build a global business landscape with full coverage of R&D, manufacturing and commercialization.[...]

"By the end of 2021, Fosun Pharma’s overseas commercialization team with over 1,200 employees has built marketing platforms in the United States, Africa and Europe [italics mine] and has achieved direct sales of formulations to the U.S. market. [...] The COVID-19 test kit by Fosun Diagnostics has been sold in over ten countries. [...] Gland Pharma, a holding subsidiary in India, received approvals from the US FDA for 13 generic drugs in 2021.

"Leveraging the current global manufacturing capability and world-class manufacturing facilities [...] Fosun Pharma has accelerated the acquirement of international GMP certification of domestic production lines, laying a solid foundation for exporting domestic products. In January and March 2022, Fosun Pharmaceutical Industrial obtained the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)’s license to produce and supply the generic version of Merck’s oral COVID-19 treatment Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 treatment Nirmatrelvir, as well as the co-packaged product of Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir of Pfizer [....]. The license includes both ingredients and the finished drug. Through this license, Fosun Pharma devoted itself further to fighting against the pandemic around the world."

Fosun Pharma USA offers potential partners: "A global reach with a focus on the United States and China markets". It offers "US Rights" and "Global Rights" as well as "China Rights."

The FDA Filing for the Fosun Pharma USA facility says the facility is authorized to "develop specifications," including for the PCR tests and antigen tests it creates, and that the facility can also have US agents.

This is crucial. Fosun Pharmaceuticals does not just partner with Pfizer/BioNTech to make the COVID-19 vaccines: they make, as noted, the PCR tests that are the one primary metric that determine the scale of the pandemic in North America and Western Europe and thus the "lockdowns" of whole countries, whole industrial sectors.

A CCP-run company, and CCP-created product, thus, decides — who can go to work or school, who must close his or her shop, who can or cannot travel — in all of Europe and the US. A CCP-run company decides the formulation of the PCR and antigen tests that go deep into the nasopharyngeal cavities of Westerners who are forced, week after week, to test and test and test with these products. This is what is on the Fosun Pharma USA’s product pages:

So this CCP-owned hybrid entity is here now and it is creating the diagnostic instruments that determine the scale of the pandemic in the West. The CCP can thus dial it up or down.

It also makes: millions of the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA injections, the Merck COVID-19 pill Molnupiravir, the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid — for which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla just signed a contract with the US government for 10 million doses and $5.29 billion dollars for 2022 — all this for the US and for ten other countries including the EU.

These are all formulated and distributed by a company leading directly to Chinese Communist Party.

When Pres. Biden does a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech in the millions of dollars, with our tax money, he is giving a substantial portion of the funds to China. When he spends a billion dollars via omnibus bills for PPE, including millions for PCR and antigen tests, he is writing checks to — China.

This is from Fosun Pharmaceutical USA’s website section "R and D": look at the last three entries:

Is Fosun a squeaky clean CCP-run Pharma enterprise? In 2018 a whistleblower — and in China that is courageous thing to be — broke a scandal revealing that Fosun Pharmaceuticals had "massively" faked its data and also bribed regulators. Facilities were so chaotic that the US FDA sent the company a stern letter.

BioNTech’s SEC filing reports as 100 per cent achieved, a tech transfer to — China. Not to a "Chinese company" or a "Chinese individual" but to the country of — China:

Further, the SEC filing explains that it will effect the "technology transfer with China" after marketing approval has been granted. I don’t know what "Technology transfer" or "tech transfer" means in this SEC filing; SEC filing experts who have reviewed it for me have suggested that this can mean IP, manufacturing methodologies, formulas, data, or all four. But surely it is significant that the company BioNTech has declared as 100 % complete or in process, a "Tech transfer" to CHINA. It is not "sharing" the tech or "licensing" the tech — it is transferring the tech. That means that in some capacity, China will be or is in charge of some aspect of BioNTech’s technology, however that is defined here.

So take all of the above, and map it against the 150,000 plus adverse events in the Pfizer documents, the deadly harms to reproduction, the Western baby die-off, the babies in seizures; map it against the population drop, the rise in disabilities, map it against the rigid, cruel vaccine mandates aimed at Western defense forces (Canada’s, and Australia’s and all of Western Europe’s, as well as at the most powerful military in the world, that of the United States) — map it against the vaccine mandates aimed at our police, our health care workers, our firefighters, our pilots, our first responders, our kids, our babies — all this done by a White House captive, via Hunter Biden’s laptop, to the CCP. Add to all of this the evidence of birth rates declining, especially in the West, by 12-20 per cent:

How better to cripple the world’s other superpower than by destroying our American front lines and our American next generation, with tainted, murderous vaccines, flowed easily enough into the West via (not even that many) shell companies and cutouts? How easy to do the same to Western Europe, to Canada and Australia, as a whole?

Take all of the above and consider that the virus originated in China; and now all of the testing apparatuses, as well as millions of the vaccines, the catastrophically damaging or lethal "solutions" to the virus, also all originate from the same folks; the same leadership cadre who brought the world forced abortions, citizens welded into their homes, Uighur concentration camps, and organ harvesting.

I made the case in my new book The Bodies of Others that a transnational group of bad actors - including the WEF, The WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tech companies and the CCP — used the pandemic to crush humanity and in particular to destroy the West.

With the provenance of the vaccines and tests, you can see yet another mechanism, yet another core methodology of this warfare.

Mapping these points of evidence, I think you may start to see what I see.

This all means, of course, that we are staring into the abyss right now.

Traumatized or not, we all need to snap out of denial.

We let our adversary come too close to us. Into our very bloodstreams.

We need to save each other.

We need to turn and face the ravening beast.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized
2022-03-21
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align="right" />[Washington Examiner] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized and diagnosed with an infection, the court revealed Sunday.

Thomas, who is 73-years-old, was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after experiencing "flu-like symptoms," Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said in a statement, adding, "He underwent tests, was diagnosed with an infection, and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics." McCabe said Sunday that the hospitalization was not related to COVID-19. All nine justices were vaccinated and boosted against the deadly virus.
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Home Front: Politix
Glenn Youngkin bans critical race theory, ends mask mandates in schools on first day as Virginia governor
2022-01-17
Yesterday we read about his new attorney general clearing the decks for action. We do live in interesting times.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On his first day in office, Virginia's newly-elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders, including ones that he campaigned on, such as ending critical race theory and mask mandates in the state's schools.

Among the 11 executive orders are orders allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates in Virginia schools, withdrawing from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and ending the use of critical race theory, or "the use of divisive concepts, including critical race theory, in public education."

The list of executive orders Youngkin signed are as follows:
  1. Executive Order Number One delivers on his Day One promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education.

  2. Executive Order Number Two delivers on his Day One promise to empower Virginia parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.

  3. Executive Order Number Three delivers on his Day One promise to restore integrity and confidence in the Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

  4. Executive Order Number Four delivers on his Day One promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County.

  5. Executive Order Number Five delivers on his Day One promise to make government work for Virginians by creating the Commonwealth Chief Transformation Officer.

  6. Executive Order Number Six delivers on his Day One promise to declare Virginia open for business.

  7. Executive Order Number Seven delivers on his Day One promise to combat and prevent human trafficking and provide support to survivors.

  8. Executive Order Number Eight delivers on his Day One promise to establish a commission to combat antisemitism.

  9. Executive Order Number Nine delivers on his Day One promise to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

  10. Executive Directive Number One Ten delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to jumpstart our economy by cutting job killing regulations by 25 percent.

  11. Executive Directive Number Two Eleven delivers on his fulfilling his Day One promise to restore individual freedoms and personal privacy by rescinding the vaccine mandate for all state employees.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
First of Russian airborne troops return to Ivanovo
2022-01-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Russian paratroopers carrying out a peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan began to return to their units, the press service of the Ministry of Defense said.

"The first units of Russian paratroopers from the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO , performing tasks to protect socially significant facilities in the Republic of Kazakhstan, having flown four Il-76md aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces military transport aviation from the Alma-Ata airfield to the Ivanovo-Severny airfield, returned to the point permanent deployment," said in the release.

Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 202. Residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas. Later, the actions spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata . People took to the streets, clashes with the security forces and looting began.

On January 5, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and ordered the regulation of fuel sales prices, but unrest continued. He also headed the Security Council, at the first meeting of which he called the situation "undermining the integrity of the state."

In addition, the country's president turned to the CSTO for help . The organization sent a collective peacekeeping force to the country to normalize the situation.

On January 7, the head of state announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, he noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard.

Against the background of the stabilization of the situation, the CSTO peacekeepers, who were involved in the protection of important objects, began to transfer them to local specialized departments.

Until January 19, a state of emergency is in effect throughout the republic.

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Science & Technology
WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death
2020-07-05
[AlAhram] The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.

"These interim trial results show that hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir produce little or no reduction in the mortality of hospitalised COVID-19 patients when compared to standard of care.
...if it is hydroxychloroquine alone and only on hospitalized patients, it’s no wonder they aren’t getting a positive result...
Solidarity trial Sherlocks will interrupt the trials with immediate effect," the WHO said in a statement, referring to large multi-country trials that the agency is leading.

The U.N. agency said that the decision, taken on the recommendation of the trial's international steering committee, does not affect other studies where the drugs are used for non-hospitalised patients or as a prophylaxis.
So that’s ok, then. Not that the smart money is on the WHO being the leading edge of scientific research anymore.
Another arm of the WHO-led trial is looking at the potential effect of Gilead's antiviral drug remdesivir on COVID-19.
Related:
Hydroxychloroquine: 2020-07-04 HCQ Success in Senegal
Hydroxychloroquine: 2020-07-03 Hydroxychloroquine lowers COVID-19 death rate, Henry Ford Health study finds
Hydroxychloroquine: 2020-07-01 Global Hydroxychloroquine Study To Resume After Positive Trial Results
Related:
Ritonavir: 2020-05-12 Anti-viral drug cocktail shows success clearing COVID-19 in 'seven days'
Ritonavir: 2020-02-04 Thailand 'cures' coronavirus with anti-HIV drug cocktail in 48 hours,
Related:
Remdesivir: 2020-07-02 Good morning
Remdesivir: 2020-07-02 Trump sparks global outrage after cornering the world's supply of Gilead's remdesivir
Remdesivir: 2020-07-01 Global Hydroxychloroquine Study To Resume After Positive Trial Results
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin to U.S.: I'm ready for another Cuban Missile-style crisis if you want one
2019-02-22
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style='float:right;border:1px solid midnightblue;padding:3px;margin:3px;' />MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one and threatened to place hypersonic nuclear missiles on ships or submarines near U.S. territorial waters.

The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a U.S. missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, as a landmark Cold War-era arms-control treaty unravels.

Putin’s comments, made to Russian media late on Wednesday, follow his warning that Moscow will match any U.S. move to deploy new missiles closer to Russia by stationing its own missiles closer to the United States or by deploying faster missiles or both.

Putin detailed his warning for the first time, saying Russia could deploy hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines which could lurk outside U.S. territorial waters if Washington now moved to deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

"(We’re talking about) naval delivery vehicles: submarines or surface ships. And we can
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US, Mexico agree on plan to handle migrant caravan from Central America
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Under the deal, which was developed over the course of several months, Mexico requested that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) establish shelters along its southern border with Central America, the official said.

Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Geronimo Gutierrez elaborated on the request, during an interview on Fox News’ “Special Report.”
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Southeast Asia
Commie caught with explosives in Compostela Valley
2015-07-02
[Tempo] Philippine soldiers nabbed a New People's Army militant before he could detonate two improvised bombs in Coachella Compostela Valley province.

Eastmincom spokesman Lt. Col. Eduardo B. Gubat said Rito Lucnod, alias Junto, was arrested by troops last Monday afternoon in Pantukan town. Gubat said the police would press illegal possession of explosives and other appropriate charges against the Lucnod.

Seized were two improvised explosive devices with blasting caps, triggering devices, and electrical wire.

Eastmincom said the troops were conducting security patrol when they caught Lucnod hiding in the weeds while holding a triggering device.
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Home Front: WoT
DOJ Announces Indictments in Brian Terry Murder
2012-07-09
The Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging five individuals allegedly involved in Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's death, and announced a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those suspects still at large.

For the first time, federal officials also revealed that Terry and an elite squad of federal agents initially fired bean bags -- not bullets -- at a heavily armed drug cartel crew in the mountains south of Tucson in December 2011. During the exchange, Terry was shot and killed.

The 11-count indictment, originally handed up by a grand jury in November 2011, implicates five defendants in the killing. A sixth suspect has also been charged in a related incident.

The two men in custody are Manuel Osario Arellanes -- who was wounded in the foot the night of the firefight -- and his brother Rito. Rito, who was arrested two nights before the Terry shooting, allegedly helped provide weapons to the criminal gang used in the shooting. All six men named in the indictment are either related or friends.
The other four are believed to be hiding out in Mexico, and the U.S. is now offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to their arrest.
Funny Mr. Holder isn't asking for their extradition. Perhaps he doesn't want to hear what the Mexican government has to say to him about F & F.
The names of the four suspects were revealed Monday, and their pictures released, to the public. Police in the U.S. and in Mexico are cooperating and under intense pressure to find them.

The FBI says it has been actively searching for the outstanding fugitives.

More at the DOJ site
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Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
2010-10-18
15 Die in Northern Mexico

Fifteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexico in ongoing drug and gang violence which included the shooting of a sectional mayor and his son in Juarez, and three men shot in the commission of an armed robbery.
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  • An unidentified man was found shot to death on a highway in Chihuahua early Saturday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found on Kilometer 8 of the Juarez-Chihuahua city highway near Cuervas de Pericos bound, gagged and shot several times.Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.

  • Three men were shot to death and an unidentified woman was wounded in a shootout Friday evening in Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. The shootout took place on the San Antonio de las Huertas district at about the same time newly inaugurated governor Cesar Duarte was in town at a dedication ceremony. Two of the victims are identified as Juan Amaya, 28, and Joel Alfredo Rodriguez, 40. Several spent shell casings for AK-47 assault rifles and 9mm weapons were found at the scene.

  • A sectional mayor of Praxedis and his son were both shot to death Sunday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. Rito Grado Serrano, 56, and his son, Rito Grado Villa, 35, were both shot more than 60 times at their residence near the intersection of calles Puerto Marsella and Puerto Estrella in the Tierra Nueva 2 district. Serrano was to leave office November 1st.

  • Two unidentified motorcyclists were shot to death in Juarez Sunday, say Mexican press accounts. The attack took place at a stoplight on the corner of calles Municipio Libre and Carlos Amaya in La Chaveña district where an armed group pulled up to the pair and fired ten shots.

  • An man was shot to death and his girlfriend was wounded in an armed attack in Juarez Sunday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. Jesus Silva, 20 was shot aboard his Dodge Intrepid near the intersection of calles Bravo Adams and Maximo Castillo in the Revolucion Mexicana district.

  • Three men were shot to death in a botched armed robbery attempt near Huatabampo, Sonora early Saturday morning. Six unidentified armed suspects arrived at the ejido Insurgentes at about 1000 hrs intending to seize cash normally distributed in a Mexican Federal poverty program known as Oportunidades. Huatabampo municipal police officer Roberto Arana Cruz was killed along with Jesus Perez Marquez who was apparently the paymaster. An unidentified third man died in the crossfire. The suspects escaped without the cash towards Sinaloa aboard a pickup truck. Huatabampo is 34 kilometers southwest of Navojoa via Sonora State Highway 56.

  • A Sonoran state police commander was abducted late Friday night in Ciudad Obregon, say Mexican news accounts. Ramiro Camacho Medina was taken near his home in Ciudad Obregon by a group of armed suspects traveling aboard a convoy of two vehicles. Medina was a commander in the Sonora Policía Estatal Investigadora (PEI) in Ciudad Obregon.

  • A man recently released from prison was shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Friday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. Carlos Alberto Molina Salas, 20, was shot by unidentified armed suspects in the Carolinas district. Molina Salas had been released from prison in July for aggravated robbery. A second victim, Raul Gonzalez Reyes, 55 , was also shot in the same incident but apparently did not require hospitalization.

  • A teenager was shot to death Saturday night in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news accounts. Jose Alberto Garcia Ontiveros, 17, was shot near the intersection of calles Jalisco and Laguna de Asensio by an armed suspect.
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Caribbean-Latin America
Monterrey, Mexico Boy, 9, Shot in Crossfire
2010-06-14
A young boy going to a store to buy a soft drink was shot in the head in the crossfire between rival gangs in south Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Saturday, according to the Mexican news daily El Porvenir.
Poor darling. May this vicious idiocy soon be brought to an end.
Carlos Javier Amaro Herrera, 9, was shot near the intersection of calles Rito Ornelas and Américo Salazar, in the América II district in south Monterrey, after a gunfight erupted between rival gangs when one of the gangs attempted to execute a drug dealer.

The victim was rushed to University Hospital but died a few hours later.

Herrera was a third grader at the primary school Profesora Urzula Villarreal, in the Arturo B. de la Garza district.
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