On the Weather Channel last night, some kind of expert said “we” are “on the verge of catastrophic, universal climate change.”
Universal? So that includes like Mars and Mercury and everything
else we see in the sky? Dang. We best send out a warning to all the Sun’s
planets and to all the stars.
‘Hungarian album heads the British blues hit list’
“Sugar Hip Ya Ya” from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79xt0YUaabI
Link at Daily News Hungary
After about a minute of the “blues” song, one might wonder whose definition of blues the Hungarian instrumentalists and the English Jamaican singer were following. It ain’t Muddy Waters or Robert Johnson or Taj Mahal, that’s for sure.
From Caucasian Knot
In their video appeal addressed to
the President of Russia, Volgograd residents claim that the requirement for QR
codes violates the constitutional rights of citizens. The activists who took
part in recording the appeal said that they spoke not against vaccination, but
against coercion to it.
Starting from November
8, the Volgograd Region cancelled the non-working day regime, while the
requirement to produce QR codes when entering cafes, fitness centres, and a
number of shops. Besides, the regional authorities imposed a requirement to
produce certificates on vaccination or certificates on survival after COVID-19
for the purchase of social tickets for travel and long-term travel passes.
The video appeal to Russian President
Vladimir Putin, posted on social media today, was recorded by activists in
seven districts of Volgograd and in Volzhsky. Volgograd residents declared “the
inadmissibility of restricting the human rights and freedoms.” “Article 2 of
the Constitution provides for that a person, his or her rights and freedoms are
the highest value in the Russian Federation and the duty of the state to
protect them,” the appeal says.
“We claim that an open mass
segregation and discrimination of Russian citizens is currently taking place,
and our constitutional rights are being violated. Not a single regulatory act
of the Russian Federation provides for a person to have a vaccination
certificate or a QR code to exercise his or her rights and freedoms,” authors
of the appeal to the Russian President emphasize.
Volgograd residents noted they were
outraged that the authorities were “trying to impose (additional) documents for
admission to basic rights and freedoms.” The activists demanded from President
Putin “as a guarantor of constitutional rights” “to stop the illegal actions of
the Russian government, the governor of the Volgograd Region, the
“Rospotrebnadzor” (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) and
restore the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution on the territory
of Russia.”
https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/57280/
© Caucasian Knot
Our World in Data says 40.4% of Russian population is
fully vaccinated. US is 58.5%.
From Valor Guardians
‘Metallurgist Who
Falsified Navy Submarine Steel Test Data Pleads Guilty’
“A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud
Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel
that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.
“Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the
director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used
by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make
submarine hulls.
“From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of
strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel — about half
the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement,
filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show
that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain ‘wartime scenarios,’
the Justice Department said.
“Thomas faces up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million
fine when she is sentenced in February. However, the Justice Department said it
would recommend a prison term at the low end of whatever the court determines
is the standard sentencing range in her case.”
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=119413
By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
PORTLAND, Ore. — The widow of a decorated World War II
veteran thought she was donating his body to science. Instead, she was
horrified to learn that her husband’s body was dissected in front of a paying
audience at an Oregon hotel last month.
When David Saunders, 98, of Baker, Louisiana, died on Aug. 24 from
COVID-19, his wife tried to carry out his wishes and donate his body to further
medical science research, The
Advocate of Baton Rouge reported.
Instead, Elsie Saunders, 92, learned that 70 people gathered at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront hotel on Oct. 17 to watch her husband’s autopsy, The Oregonian reported. Some of the spectators paid up to $500 to watch the dissection at an “Oddities and Curiosities Expo,” according to the newspaper.
The expo is an annual traveling event marketed toward “lovers of the strange, unusual and bizarre,” according to The Oregonian.
Colin Henderson, a former University of Montana anatomy professor, conducted the autopsy, according to Medpage Today. Henderson could not be reached for comment, the website reported.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s horrible, unethical, and I just don’t have the words to describe it,” Elsie Saunders told The Advocate. “I have all this paperwork that says his body would be used for science -- nothing about this commercialization of his death.”
Kimberly DiLeo, Multnomah County’s chief medicolegal death investigator, said she contacted the Portland Police Bureau and Oregon Medical Board before the event to warn them about the autopsy, according to The Oregonian.
“It’s devastating to families,” DiLeo told the newspaper. “On top of grieving the death of their loved ones, they have to deal with the fact that their loved one was desecrated, and that’s the last memory that they have.”
DiLeo said the public display could be considered abuse of a body, a Class B felony in Oregon. However, Lt. Nathan Sheppard, a Portland police spokesperson, said detectives consulted with the Oregon Department of Justice, the Oregon State Police and Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and determined no crimes were committed during the autopsy, according to The Oregonian.
Sheppard did concede that civil laws may have been broken, including those that forbid certain postmortem examinations of bodies.
Only private citizens can press civil charges, The Oregonian reported.
“I didn’t know he was going to be … put on display like a performing bear or something,” Elsie Saunders told NBC News. “I only consented to body donations for scientific purposes. That’s the way my husband wanted it. To say the least, I’m upset.”
David Rodney Saunders was the son of a New Orleans tugboat captain, according to The Advocate. He was born in New Orleans on Dec. 5, 1922, according to online military records. He was dove hunting with a group of friends when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Saunders recalled in a taped interview with the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
He later joined the Merchant Marines and eventually served in the Pacific theater, including Australia, according to The Advocate. He worked as a railway electrician and later helped transport Japanese prisoners of war before seeing combat action in the Philippines, the newspaper reported.
He also served during the Korean War, according to The Advocate.
David Saunders had planned to donate his body for science for many years, his wife told the newspaper. She told the newspaper on Wednesday that she tried to donate her husband’s remains to LSU, but the university declined because he was COVID-19 positive.
Elsie Saunders was then connected to Med Ed Labs, a private company based in Las Vegas, The Advocate reported. Elsie Saunders told the newspaper she thought the company had similar objectives to a research institution.
Med Ed Labs then sold David Saunders to Death Science, a media company, for use in a “Cadaver Lab Class” during the Oddities and Curiosities Expo, according to The Oregonian.
Death Science founder Jeremy Ciliberto said in a statement Wednesday that he bought Saunders’ body from Med Ed Labs, which told him the company had done a serology test to rule out any infectious diseases.
But he said Med Ed Labs did not tell him Saunders died of COVID-19, according to The Oregonian.
Greg Clark, the owner of Louisiana-based Church Funeral Services, said he had never heard of a ticketed public dissection, adding that he was “totally disgusted” with the idea, The Advocate reported. The funeral home helped prepare the body for transport to Med Ed Labs, but Clark said he stopped working with the company after learning about the public autopsy, the newspaper reported.
“We are extremely saddened for the loss of the widow and what she is going through,” Clark told The Oregonian on Tuesday.
Ciliberto apologized for “undue stress” the event caused Saunders’ family and said Death Science would no longer work with Med Ed Labs, the newspaper reported.
“Death Science is currently conducting an internal review to create stronger vetting processes when partnering with future businesses and organizations,” Ciliberto said.
DiLeo said Multnomah County officials will work to enact legislation that would prevent similar events from occurring. The Oregonian reported.
“It’s very difficult for families,” DiLeo told the newspaper. “It discourages people from donating their bodies to science, and it may also give them a lack of trust in the death investigation profession.”
Elsie Saunders said she hoped people will honor her husband’s life after hearing the story of his death.
“He was very patriotic,” she told The Advocate. “He figured his body donation was an act of patriotism, too, because it would be used to help somebody else maybe.”
©2021 Cox Media Group
“This mandate is not saying we are against laws or for anarchy,” said Scott Thomson, Oroville vice mayor.
Thomson
said it’s the city’s effort to send a strong message to state and federal
leaders.
“I think
it’s time for us to draw a line in the sand,” he said. “Enough is enough.”
The
resolution resolves to not enforce “any executive orders issued by the state of
California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or
clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights.”
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/11/05/oroville-declares-covid-independence/
Link at Knuckledraggin
Gov. Gregg Abbott says, “Y’all come on over to my house.”
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Gov. Greg Abbott is inviting Austin veterans to celebrate Veterans Day on the south steps of the Texas Capitol building instead of a canceled parade.
Abbott said the Austin Veterans Parade Foundation could hold a rally on the south steps of the building as an alternative to its parade, which was canceled by what Abbott called “Austin City’s excessive demands for COVID-19.
https://barbados.kivazen.com/gov-abbott-invites-veterans-to-texas-capitol-criticizes-surplus-covid-19-austin-rules-that-led-to-a-canceled-parade/
