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And from John Hopkins itself
"More on", bordering on im becile.
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Very efficient: burial at sea, instantaneous.
According to basic HazMat training, "accidents" are composed of two conditions:
- an unsafe condition, &
- an unsafe act.
Trafficking bridge-killing vessels under vulnerable bridges poses a danger the Frank Key bridge demonstrates.
This is an engineering problem boys & girls.
The fabulous thing about engineering problems is they have engineering solutions. It's not brain surgery. Stop knocking the bridges down. It's the shippers, the merchants whose $interests pivot here.
It's not that we don't k now what to do about this. It's that the $money interests don't want to $pay for the solution.
- too bad -
Competent government can handle this, simply deny license to infrastructure-threatening vessels, until the vessel operators provide valid engineering proof such transit is safe.
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10k ?
Count me a skeptic.
10k is twice what we lost in the Iraq War.
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More than 10,000 human remains uncovered on suspected serial killer’s farm, officials say
Kaycee Sloan / Sun, June 2, 2024 at 4:14 PM EDT
More than 10,000 human remains uncovered on suspected serial killer’s farm, officials say
Investigators believe Baumeister, a businessman and married father of three, lured gay men to his home in the mid-80s and mid-90s before killing them and dumping their bodies at the Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield about 16 miles north of Indianapolis.
10k ?
Count me a skeptic.
10k is twice what we lost in the Iraq War.
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Agreed - that would mean at least a couple of thousand a year.
The $21 Billion Lawsuit That Could Break the NFL
A class-action case over the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package is finally headed to trial in a fundamental challenge to the league’s media-rights model
By Andrew Beaton and Louise Radnofsky / June 5, 2024 5:30 am ETThe case that could prove to be one of the most explosive lawsuits in the history of American sports didn’t start out looking like a blockbuster.
Back in 2015, when a San Francisco pub called the Mucky Duck filed a complaint about how the National Football League handles its out-of-market broadcasts, it was viewed as little more than a nuisance. Over the next nine years, the case snaked its way through the courts, producing endless filings, repeated false starts and even a dismissal that was eventually overturned.
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Is NFL content not NFL property?
$Billions are at stake here. Where's the dotted line to split this baby fairly?
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It's not that simple - this article isn't behind a paywall
NFL Gambles Billions on Trial Over Sunday Ticket TV Package
Rachel Graf, Bloomberg NewsFor years, American football fans who want to spend Sunday afternoon flipping through games in different cities have had to shell out for the National Football League’s Sunday Ticket broadcast package.
That might soon change.
The subscription package, which exclusively carries out-of-market games that aren’t broadcast on local CBS and Fox channels, is at the heart of a multibillion-dollar antitrust case headed to trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Football fans who sued nine years ago claim that the NFL teams and DirecTV conspired to maintain an illegal monopoly on all out-of-market Sunday afternoon games. The arrangement allegedly allowed ...
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And here you thought children working in sweatshops only happened in Asia
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Feds Sue Hyundai for Allegedly Working 13-Year-Old Up to 60 Hours a Week
The new lawsuit claims the child worked at an Alabama stamping facility for months, right alongside adults.
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Attorneys, aide who coordinated with fake electors in Wisconsin hit with criminal charges
The two GOP-aligned lawyers and one former Trump aide face up to six years in prison and $10,000 fines if convicted.JOE KELLY
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday filed criminal charges against two lawyers and an aide to former President Donald Trump who participated in a plan to submit a false slate of electors claiming Trump won the swing state in 2020.
According to identical criminal complaints, Kenneth Cheseboro, 62; Michael Roman, 51; and James Troupis, 70, have been charged in Dane County Circuit Court with felony forgery. Under state law, the crime carries maximum penalties of up to 6 years imprisonment, a $10,000 fine, or both.
Assistant Attorney General Jacob Corr says in the charging documents that the defendants conspired with others "for the purpose of committing the crime of uttering as genuine a forged writing or object," referring to the false slate of electors. They did so "knowing it to have been thus falsely made or altered" with others in the conspiracy, according to the complaints.
Cheseboro and Troupis are lawyers who worked on behalf of Trump and members of the state and national GOP to arrange for Wisconsin’s 10 electors to submit false paperwork declaring Trump the winner of the 2020 general election in the Badger State — a contest President Joe Biden won by around 20,000 votes. Roman was an aide to Trump during his presidency.
None of the three defendants were actually among Wisconsin's 10 GOP electors in 2020. A civil lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court against the 10 electors ended in a settlement earlier this year.
All three defendants will make their initial appearances in court in ....
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Russia nuclear-powered submarine to visit Cuba amid rising tensions with US
Russian sub – joined by three other naval vessels – will not be carrying nuclear weapons, authorities in Havana said as they announced the visit
A Russian nuclear-powered submarine – which will not be carrying nuclear weapons – will visit Havana next week, Cuba’s communist authorities have announced, amid rising tensions with the US over the war in Ukraine.
The nuclear submarine Kazan and three other Russian naval vessels, including the missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, an oil tanker and a salvage tug, will dock in the Cuban capital from 12-17 June, Cuba’s ministry of the revolutionary armed forces said in a statement.
“None of the vessels is carrying nuclear weapons, so their stopover in our country does not represent a threat to the region,” the ministry said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/a...-d-day-event-to-emphasise-support-for-ukraine
The announcement came a day after US officials said that Washington had been tracking Russian warships and aircraft that were expected to arrive in the Caribbean for a military exercise. They said the exercise would be part of ....
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Hmmm
My internal native outraged American is subdued by the NFL off-season. BUT !!
Stanley Cup Final 2024 Game #1 Tonight 8PM / ET @ABC-TV: Oilers / Panthers
meaning:
Internet anonymity promotes comment with impunity, & often, commensurate implausibility.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns
I'm genuinely interested in the spectacular diversification of labor a prosperous 3rd millennium economy can provide.
Such professions as Systems Analyst, Air Traffic Controller, $Millionaire Athlete didn't exist 12,000 years ago, when only the wealthiest troglodytes could afford a real cave.
Many team owners already get $gargantuan public subsidy, in some cases paying for an entire (municipal) stadium.
NFL TV broadcast is lower down the priority list than women's rights of choice, racial equality, guns, etc.
None the less, these major leagues have insinuated themselves into our culture. In so doing they benefit, and wouldn't exist were it otherwise. I don't have a problem with them giving a little back, provided it approximates harmless.
My internal native outraged American is subdued by the NFL off-season. BUT !!
Stanley Cup Final 2024 Game #1 Tonight 8PM / ET @ABC-TV: Oilers / Panthers
meaning:
Internet anonymity promotes comment with impunity, & often, commensurate implausibility.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns
I'm genuinely interested in the spectacular diversification of labor a prosperous 3rd millennium economy can provide.
Such professions as Systems Analyst, Air Traffic Controller, $Millionaire Athlete didn't exist 12,000 years ago, when only the wealthiest troglodytes could afford a real cave.
In this case I would oppose any "cure" that would be fatal to the patient. BUT !
Many team owners already get $gargantuan public subsidy, in some cases paying for an entire (municipal) stadium.
NFL TV broadcast is lower down the priority list than women's rights of choice, racial equality, guns, etc.
None the less, these major leagues have insinuated themselves into our culture. In so doing they benefit, and wouldn't exist were it otherwise. I don't have a problem with them giving a little back, provided it approximates harmless.
What does Israel's rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks?
TIA GOLDENBERG / Updated Mon, June 10, 2024 at 10:30 AM EDT
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Hundreds of non-combatants killed ?
Where is the global outrage?
mifepristone "the abortion pill"
Supreme Court preserves abortion pill access, rejecting mifepristone challengeWashington — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge targeting the availability of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone, preserving access to the drug in its first major abortion-related ruling since the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
The unanimous ruling from the justices was on procedural grounds. They determined that a group of anti-abortion rights doctors and medical associations who brought the lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration did not have the legal right to do so.
Supreme Court preserves abortion pill access, rejecting mifepristone challenge
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge targeting the availability of a widely used abortion pill, preserving access to the drug.
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There's more than one possible explanation for this unanimous SCOTUS ruling.
But in light of the recent Dobbs ruling overturning Roe, a Republican party palace coup d'état,
Republicans joining Democrats for yesterday's unanimous ruling presents at least the appearance the Dobbs coup plotters acknowledge the political liability of their treacherous betrayal.
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks
June 14, 202410:15 AM ET / Nina TotenbergThe U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on bump stocks Friday, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices on grounds they convert otherwise legal semi-automatic weapons into illegal machine guns. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberals in angry dissent.
Enjoy the MAGA spin Biden's critics slap on this one.
NATO countries fail to approve €40 billion annual funding for Ukraine
Iryna Kutielieva, Anastasia Protz — Friday, 14 June 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that NATO defence ministers have not agreed on a funding plan for Ukraine, which provides for annual assistance of €40 billion a year. Source: European Pravda with reference to Stoltenberg's statement
Details: He said that the allies will continue to coordinate their position on this issue before the summit in Washington.
"But then we need to work on the language for membership and we need to work on the financial pledge. We still have some weeks to go before Washington," Stoltenberg said.
www.pravda.com.ua
The U.S. / Biden administration has allowed this Russian invasion / occupation / attempted conquest of Ukraine to become a years long festering, human-life consuming stalemate.
The risk is, if Western military powers that presently possess and control the weaponry ability to expel Russia from the territory Russia has illegally occupied instead allow the stalemate / bloodbath to continue,
Ukraine may lose to attrition the military troop complement necessary to keep Putin in check.
And if these Western powers fail in that way:
- it will embolden & reward Putin
- it will narrow the geographic buffer between an increasingly aggressive Russia, and the E.U. / NATO.
The open secret here is:
Part of the West's motive for dawdling is, they fear a decisive conventional military victory against Russia may precipitate a Russian sour grapes nuclear response.
Certainly that is a risk (whether Russia loses Ukraine or not). BUT !!
The status quo stalemate / bloodbath is not a panacea. It has risks of its own.
If the West allows Ukraine's battle-weary troops to be worn down and overrun, the result may be a binary choice for the West:
- Adjust to Russia assimilating Ukraine, or
- sending NATO troops to complete Ukraine's liberation. That is a dangerous flirtation with World War Three.
Iryna Kutielieva, Anastasia Protz — Friday, 14 June 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that NATO defence ministers have not agreed on a funding plan for Ukraine, which provides for annual assistance of €40 billion a year. Source: European Pravda with reference to Stoltenberg's statement
Details: He said that the allies will continue to coordinate their position on this issue before the summit in Washington.
"But then we need to work on the language for membership and we need to work on the financial pledge. We still have some weeks to go before Washington," Stoltenberg said.
- The media reported earlier that Stoltenberg abandoned plans to create a five-year military aid fund for Ukraine after facing opposition from the Allies.
- At that time, the NATO Secretary General presented a new proposal, according to which Allies would commit to spending at least €40 billion a year on lethal and non-lethal assistance to Ukraine.
NATO countries fail to approve â¬40 billion annual funding for Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that NATO defence ministers have not agreed on a funding plan for Ukraine, which provides for annual assistance of €40 billion a year.
www.pravda.com.ua
The U.S. / Biden administration has allowed this Russian invasion / occupation / attempted conquest of Ukraine to become a years long festering, human-life consuming stalemate.
The risk is, if Western military powers that presently possess and control the weaponry ability to expel Russia from the territory Russia has illegally occupied instead allow the stalemate / bloodbath to continue,
Ukraine may lose to attrition the military troop complement necessary to keep Putin in check.
And if these Western powers fail in that way:
- it will embolden & reward Putin
- it will narrow the geographic buffer between an increasingly aggressive Russia, and the E.U. / NATO.
The open secret here is:
Part of the West's motive for dawdling is, they fear a decisive conventional military victory against Russia may precipitate a Russian sour grapes nuclear response.
Certainly that is a risk (whether Russia loses Ukraine or not). BUT !!
The status quo stalemate / bloodbath is not a panacea. It has risks of its own.
If the West allows Ukraine's battle-weary troops to be worn down and overrun, the result may be a binary choice for the West:
- Adjust to Russia assimilating Ukraine, or
- sending NATO troops to complete Ukraine's liberation. That is a dangerous flirtation with World War Three.
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Another California Catholic diocese will seek bankruptcy protection from hundreds of sex-abuse claims
The San Diego diocese’s Chapter 11 petition will be filed Monday, Cardinal Robert McElroy says
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego announced Thursday that it plans to return to U.S. bankruptcy court to help manage its response to hundreds of lawsuits filed by people who say they were sexually assaulted by Catholic priests when they were young.It is the second time San Diego church officials have gone to bankruptcy court to limit damage from claims from child sex-abuse victims.
Cardinal Robert McElroy, who serves as bishop to the 1.4 million Catholics in San Diego and Imperial counties, alerted parishioners to the decision in an open letter that was publicly released by the diocese on Thursday.
The legal action, which is expected to be filed Monday, comes after church officials acknowledged last year that they were considering a return to bankruptcy court and began mediation with survivors.
“For the past year, the Diocese has held substantive and helpful negotiations with the attorneys representing the victims of abuse, and I, in collaboration with the leadership of the Diocese, have come to the conclusion that this is the moment to ....
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The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The ruling was a win for proponents of access to abortion, but laws surrounding access in states vary.
The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in 2000 for medication abortion. In 2016, it extended the time frame in which a pregnant woman can use the drug to terminate a pregnancy, from seven weeks’ gestation to 10. In 2021, it moved to permanently allow access to mifepristone prescriptions via telehealth and for the medication to be dispensed by pharmacists and mail-order pharmacies.
However, the right to access mifepristone doesn’t apply in every state.
“Access hasn’t changed from what it was before the decision. The issue is that access is still tough for a number of pregnant persons,” said Dr. Monica Saxena, an emergency medicine physician in ...
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What to know about mifepristone access after the Supreme Court ruling
Story by Kaitlin SullivanThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The ruling was a win for proponents of access to abortion, but laws surrounding access in states vary.
The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in 2000 for medication abortion. In 2016, it extended the time frame in which a pregnant woman can use the drug to terminate a pregnancy, from seven weeks’ gestation to 10. In 2021, it moved to permanently allow access to mifepristone prescriptions via telehealth and for the medication to be dispensed by pharmacists and mail-order pharmacies.
However, the right to access mifepristone doesn’t apply in every state.
“Access hasn’t changed from what it was before the decision. The issue is that access is still tough for a number of pregnant persons,” said Dr. Monica Saxena, an emergency medicine physician in ...
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Whether or not religion is a swindle can be addressed separately.
At very least it seems:
Familiar paraphrase: -Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
The quotation is:
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
writes John Emerich Edward Dalbert-Acton, 53, April 5 to Cambridge University professor Mandell Creighton. Lord Acton is a liberal Roman Catholic and a leader of the opposition to the papal dogma of infallibility
Source: The People's Chronology is licensed from Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright © 1995, 1996 by James Trager. All rights reserved. (aka Bookshelf '98)
Giving pedophiles both safe haven, and divine imprimatur is a transcendent disgrace. This has been going on long enough.
And if religious institutions have to put security cameras in every location where children are without parental chaperone, so be it.
At very least it seems:
Familiar paraphrase: -Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
The quotation is:
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
writes John Emerich Edward Dalbert-Acton, 53, April 5 to Cambridge University professor Mandell Creighton. Lord Acton is a liberal Roman Catholic and a leader of the opposition to the papal dogma of infallibility
Source: The People's Chronology is licensed from Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright © 1995, 1996 by James Trager. All rights reserved. (aka Bookshelf '98)
Religions are obliged to do more to protect the public from the risks of religious institutions being exploited.
Giving pedophiles both safe haven, and divine imprimatur is a transcendent disgrace. This has been going on long enough.
And if religious institutions have to put security cameras in every location where children are without parental chaperone, so be it.