Weds - Coal Helped End Slavery & Barfing Birds

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Today's Worst Joke in the World

My friend in Quebec is a heavy drinker.  He drank Canada dry.
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The Jab I Am Waiting For.

An updated version of Moderna’s Covid-19 booster shot appears to work against the fast-spreading omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, the company said in a news release Wednesday.

The bivalent vaccine, which Moderna has said it hopes will be authorized for use in the United States this fall, is designed to target both the original omicron variant and the original coronavirus strain in a single shot.

Late-stage clinical trial results found the updated shot elicited about a fivefold increase in antibodies against BA.4 and BA.5 in previously vaccinated and infected individuals, according to the company.

However, the shot did not generate as many antibodies as it did against the original omicron variant, the company said, eliciting antibodies against the two subvariants that were about threefold lower.

Moderna said the findings add to results shared earlier this month, which found a 50 microgram dose of the updated shot — the same dosage given in the current booster shot — appeared to provide strong protection against the omicron variant.

Moderna's findings were announced in a news release, and the full data has not yet been made available for outside scientists to scrutinize.

BA.4 and BA.5 have been steadily gaining ground in the U.S., and experts worry about the subvariants' ability to dodge immunity and cause more reinfections. There are concerns that they may also cause more severe illness.

Speaking of Vaccinations

British health officials are urging the public to ensure polio vaccines are up to date after the virus was discovered during routine London sewage testing.

The last case of polio in the United Kingdom was detected in 1984, making the current outbreak the first transmission in more than 40 years.

The UK Health and Security Agency on Wednesday reported the virus was detected in sewage from North and East London in February and April, suggesting there had been spread between individuals.

So far no cases have been found, the health agency announced in a statement.
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Today's Worst Person in the World Nominees

Here's Another Problem for the Talban to Mishandle.

At least 1,000 people have been killed and more than 600 injured after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked remote parts of southeastern Afghanistan.

Some 130 injured people have been transferred to hospitals, according to the United Nations.

Authorities say hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the underdeveloped region.

Tremors could be felt in neighbouring Pakistan and Iran, where there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Here's Another Problem for the Mullahs to Mishandle.

According to the Meteorological Organization of Iran, temperatures soared to 126 F in the city of Abadan reported. The blistering temperature broke all records in the city and Khuzestan Province for June. The climate in Khuzestan is comparable to the environment of Baghdad.

The Dez River that flows through the province has all but dried up. Hydroelectric power has dramatically reduced in Adaban and Teheran, and underground aquifers have been exploited.

As the climate worsens, Iran and the middle east will empty. We certainly will not welcome Iranians neither will the Sunni nations in the region. I don’t even want to think about what that would look like.

Factoring in the humidity in the province, it is practically impossible to determine how hot it actually feels as the weather cannot fit on the heat index (HI) -- that combines air temperature and relative humidity.

The heat wave in Khuzestan follows reports about a new wave of drought in the province.

The flow in downstream areas of the Dez River, which is a 400-kilometer-long tributary of the Karun River, has decreases drastically, alarming environmental activists and villagers.

In 2021, large-scale water protests took place in two important provinces, Khuzestan and Esfahan, with several people killed and hundreds injured by security forces.

Iran has been suffering from drought for at least a decade and this year officials are warning of a further decrease in precipitation.

Authorities said earlier in the month that water inflow into Tehran’s dams decreased by about 21 percent since March compared with last year.

Not That We Are Handling It All That Well



Here's What His Life Was Worth

The city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was killed by police during a traffic stop last year, attorneys for his family said.

The sum is part of a settlement deal the family struck with the city, which also agreed to make changes in its policing policies and training, the Wright family legal team said in a news release.

“This settlement will not be finalized until agreement is also reached on substantial and meaningful non-monetary relief,” the attorneys wrote in the news release.

Changes are expected to include training on police intervention, implicit bias, weapons confusion, de-escalation as well as how to handle situations arising during mental health crises, the attorneys explained.

Ex-officer Kim Potter wouldn't have been convicted in Daunte Wright's fatal shooting years ago, legal experts say

CNN has reached out to the city for comment on the settlement.

Wright, 20, was pulled over April 11, 2021, by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for an expired tag and illegal air freshener, authorities have said. During the stop, police learned Wright had an outstanding warrant; when Potter and a trainee officer attempted to arrest him, Wright tried to drive off. Potter shot and killed Wright, saying she had mistaken her gun for a Taser.

Potter, a 26-year police veteran, was sentenced in to two years in prison in February after she was tried and convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter.

It Seems They Were Trying to Establish Motive to Prove This Was Intentional, Not an Accident.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder conviction of a Georgia father sentenced to life in prison after leaving his 22-month-old son in a hot car, a stunning turn of events in a case that made international headlines.

Chief Justice David Nahmias wrote in an opinion that an "extensive amount of improperly admitted evidence" presented during Justin Ross Harris' 2016 trial affected the jury's guilty verdict. Some of that evidence included graphic images and details about Harris' extramarital affairs.

"Much of this evidence was at best marginally probative as to the alleged offenses against Cooper, and much of it was extremely and unfairly prejudicial. We cannot say that it is highly probable that the improperly admitted evidence did not affect the guilty verdicts that the jury returned on the counts involving Cooper," Nahmias said.

"If Appellant is to be found guilty of those crimes, it will need to be by a jury not tainted by that sort of evidence. For these reasons, we reverse Appellant’s convictions for the counts related to Cooper."

Harris was convicted of malice murder and other charges in the June 18, 2014, death of his toddler son Cooper, who was left in Harris' Hyundai Tucson for seven hours in sweltering heat while the father was at work.

The case and the trial gained international attention as prosecutors argued that Harris purposely left the little boy in the car. They said Harris, who was married at the time, wanted to rid himself of parental responsibility so he could seek out sexual relationships with prostitutes and women he had met online.

More Than 30 Nominees


He Knows the Best People.  "Coal Helped End Slavery"



Uvalde Keeps Getting Worse


The Only Way to Stop a Good Guy With a Gun Is to Arrest Him.

A Uvalde school police officer was prohibited from trying to save his wife, a Robb Elementary school teacher, during the deadly mass shooting in May.

His wife, fourth grade teacher Eva Mireles, was one of the two teachers killed in the attack. Nineteen children also lost their lives.

Texas Department of Public Safety director Col. Steven McCraw revealed the details while giving testimony on Tuesday. He also called the police response to the massacre an “abject failure.”

The officer, Ruben Ruiz, arrived at the school after the accused 18-year-old gunman walked into Robb Elementary, KSAT reported. Mireles had called Ruiz and told him that she had been shot and was “dying.”

“And what happened to [Ruiz] is he tried to move forward into the hallway,” McCraw said. “He was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

Nixon's Downfall Was the Tapes.  We Can Only Hope...

Remember James Comey saying “Lordy, I hope there are tapes”? Well, there are. Or even better: film, so we get audio and video of what was going on inside TFG’s White House as the Great Orange Shitgrubber himself was filmed in the last days of the election and after, and maybe even on January 6th itself. The J6 committee got the goods.

In a statement on Twitter on Tuesday, the filmmaker, Alex Holder, said that he had complied with the committee’s request for the footage. It was taken in connection with a three-part series titled “Unprecedented,” which focuses on the final weeks of President Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign, culminating in the storming of the Capitol. Mr. Holder said in his statement that he would also be deposed by the committee’s staff on Thursday.

While it remains unclear exactly what Mr. Holder’s footage and testimony might reveal, he interviewed Mr. Trump three times, including once at the former president’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, directly after the Jan. 6 attack, according to a person familiar with conversations between the filmmaker and the committee.

Vance: "I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”  Ukrainian-Americans:  "We don't really care what happens to Vance one way or another."

Back in February, when Russian troops were lining up on the border for a brutal invasion, Trump-endorsed Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance insulted Ukrainians on Steve Bannon’s podcast, “I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” He later doubled down, saying, “spare me the performative affection for [sic] the Ukraine, a corrupt nation run by oligarchs.” And then, after backlash, doubled down yet again. This was, after all, the prevailing attitude amongst Republicans after years of Trump’s fealty to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The problem here, putting aside the callous disregard for humanity, involves the GOP’s recent “war on math.” There are over one million Ukrainian Americans in the United States, which is a relatively small voting bloc but a powerful one based on where they are located. Their diaspora is disproportionately concentrated in urban areas of politically significant Midwestern states such as Cleveland and Detroit. Pennsylvania is home to the second-largest population of Ukrainian Americans, only behind New York. In Ohio, the Ukrainian community runs through the northeast suburbs like Parma. Someone finally must have mentioned this to Ohio GOP Senate candidate Vance, who is furiously trying to backpedal his previous insults on Ukraine.

For decades, this important voting bloc has helped push Republicans over the edge in key states due to their conservative inclinations on issues like smaller government, defense, and anti-communism. This year, however, all bets are off because this community is now seething. Ohioan Andriy Futey, president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, told the Washington Post that Republican anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has changed things. “I could see this alone being a determinant factor when people go to vote,” he said. The problem is that Republicans just don’t know how to stop their hate. If Democrats don’t capitalize on this, we will be committing political malfeasance.

I of Newt Speaks

Far-right pot-stirrer Newt Gingrich mocked Vice President Kamala Harris’ qualifications to be president on Fox News Tuesday. (Watch the video below.)

Gingrich attacked her intelligence and called her a prospect “crazy enough to satisfy the left” who checks the box of “being a woman of color.”

“She doesn’t know anything, she doesn’t know how to learn anything, she’s inarticulate, and she’s not sure what the big words mean anyway,” he said.  (Does this sound like Previous Guy?)

Gingrich previously said Harris “may be the dumbest person ever elected vice president in American history.”  (Previous Guy wasn't elected vice president.)
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Today's Best Person in the World Nominees

Apparently Drug Dealers Want Their Users to Become Addicted

The amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the US is set to be reduced to minimal or non-addictive levels.

The White House on Tuesday unveiled the plans which could dramatically reduce cancer deaths - a goal of President Joe Biden's administration.

But the measure is likely to face opposition by the tobacco industry.

Smoking remains the US's leading cause of death, accounting for 480,000 every year, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Nicotine is a highly addictive "feel good" chemical in tobacco products.

In a statement, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that plans for a proposed product standard would establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and "finish" some other tobacco products.

"Making cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products minimally addictive or non-addictive would help save lives," FDA Commissioner Dr Robert M Califf said.

Dr Calif added that lowering nicotine levels may decrease the likelihood that young people become addicted to cigarettes and help current smokers quit.

In 2020, an estimated 30.8 million adults in the United States smoked cigarettes. The US Surgeon General estimates that 87% of adult smokers begin by the time they turn 18.

Today's Science Quiz:  What Has an Atomic Number of 1, and Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions?

In the Asia Pacific, Australia, with its vast areas where either sunshine or wind is in near-constant supply, is emerging as the region’s hub for green hydrogen production, which relies on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to produce the fuel.

Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest (Run Forrest, Run!)  is building a 2-gigawatt electrolyser and ammonia producing plant in the state of Queensland, with plans to use the project to kick-start green steelmaking.

There are four other green hydrogen projects in the works in Australia, including a plant in Western Australia covering an area half the size of Belgium that is expected to have a generating capacity of up to 26 gigawatts (GW) – enough to produce 90 terawatt-hours per year (TWh), or about one-third of Australia’s total electricity production in 2020.

Europe has even bigger plans. In Spain, the HyDeal Ambition project will come online in 2025, with an expected capacity of 67GW. Germany is pouring 9 billion euros ($9.4bn) into the space to help end its reliance on gas and coal, including a 100-megawatt electrolyser in Hamburg, a hydrogen research centre in Bavaria that has roped in Audi, BMW and Siemens, and a “hydrogen alliance” with Morocco.

In Texas, Green Hydrogen International has announced plans to build an electrolyser to produce clean rocket fuel for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Hong Kong-based InterContinental Energy is seeking to build a 14GW electrolyser in Oman, while Kazakhstan has announced a 30GW plant.

China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of hydrogen, has set up 30 green hydrogen plants since 2019 and already dominates the market for hydrogen fuel cells. Last year, its production of hydrogen vehicles increased by nearly half to 1,777 units, according to the China Auto Association.

“What we have that we have never had before is a really strong global market pull for decarbonisation. People really want to see things change,” Daniel Roberts, leader of the Energy Technologies Research Program at Australia’s CSIRO science agency, told Al Jazeera.

“Every six months, Siemens and other companies are announcing an electrolyser that is cheaper and bigger. It is remarkable how quickly things are changing from no green hydrogen to massive investments.”

I Doubt I Would Agree With Him About Much, But ...




What Are the Two Sides?  


More Heroes


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Invasions Have Consequences

Day 119

Fighting

Russian shelling killed at least 15 civilians in the eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday, including five in the city of Kharkiv, the regional governor has said, as Russia steps up attacks in the region.

Russian forces have pushed deeper into the Donbas region, with Ukrainian officials announcing the fall of the front-line village Toshkivka, near the strategically important cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.

The UK’s defence ministry said it is highly likely that Russia is preparing to deploy a large number of reserves to the front lines of the Donbas.

A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier who was accompanying him when they were killed in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion appear to have been “coldly executed”, Reporters Without Borders has said, after an investigation into their deaths.

Diplomacy

Russia on Wednesday will mark the anniversary of the day Nazi Germany’s forces invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, with President Vladimir Putin due to lay flowers to honour the dead.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit both Ukraine and Russia next week to meet his counterparts and push for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the Indonesian foreign minister said.

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said his office has not received any requests from Washington about the two Americans captured in Ukraine, according to Moscow’s state TASS news agency.

Ukraine is set to become an official candidate for European Union membership on Thursday in a symbolic but morale-boosting decision following Russia’s invasion, ministers and diplomats have said.

Economy

Russian businesses are increasingly relocating from Switzerland – long home to middlemen helping to match Russian producers with international buyers – to Dubai due to sanctions.

Turkey is planning to host Russian, Ukrainian and United Nations officials for talks in the coming weeks aimed at resuming the export of grain that is currently stuck in Black Sea ports, according to media reports.

EU leaders aim to maintain pressure on Russia at a summit this week by committing to further work on sanctions, a draft document showed, with gold among assets that may be targeted.

Germany faces a certain recession if already faltering Russian gas supplies completely stop, an industry body warned.

Today's Math Problem   Solve for x.  x = 100% - 55% 

In its daily briefing, UK intelligence said the casualties suffered by Donetsk's proxy militia amounted to 55% of its original force.

For months there have been reports of civilians being conscripted into the militia by force, with low morale and poor quality weapons, including rifles that went out of service decades ago. Last month, Ukraine's SBU security service claimed militiamen compared conditions to slavery and were ready to desert.

Disaffected former proxy officials such as Yevgeniy Mikhailov said last month that untrained reservists from Donetsk had been sent to the front line because Russia had stopped sending conscripts. One resident told the BBC last month that there had been "tragedies everywhere".

This week the proxy administration said it was offering one-year contracts to foreign mercenaries to join its forces.

Russia's two proxy statelets are not recognised internationally. In fact Moscow only recognised the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics two days before it invaded Ukraine in February. Last week the president of Kazakhstan said in front of President Vladimir Putin that he had no intention of recognising them.

Moscow city council announced on Wednesday that it had changed the address of the US embassy in the Russian capital, from Bolshoi Devyatinsky Lane to 1 Donetsk People's Republic Square.

Here's Why You Don't Want to Live Near an Ammunition Depot


Ukraine has been targeting Russian supply and ammunition depots over the past week to spectacular effect.
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A drone strike caused a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, but no one was hurt and the blaze was contained quickly, officials said.

The fire engulfed industrial equipment at the Novoshakhtinsk oil processing plant in the Rostov-on-Don region. The authorities said that dozens of firefighters extinguished the flames in a half-hour and no one was hurt.

The refinery said in a statement that the fire was caused by a strike carried out by two drones, describing it as a “terrorist” act.



What is Russia Up To?


They are trying to close that salient from the northeast and the south.

Lsychansk Wil Be a Tough Nut to Crack

Unlike Severodonets, Lysychansk is absolutely defensible. Russia is blocked from its eastern approach by the Donets river, and currently safe from its western approach because of the same river. (Russian attempts to cross it have met with unmitigated large-scale disaster thus far.) Thus, Russia’s only approach at the moment is from the south. And look at what that looks like on a relief map:



Let’s take a closer look at that approach:



There are two entrances into Lysychansk from that southern approach. The one on the east is a narrow corridor between bluff and river. Not only is it a natural ambush point, but might even be blockadable. It will certainly be mined to high heaven, requiring Russia to de-mine under fire. Here is a Google Maps street view from the foot of the hill with a nice, clear view of that road heading up north. Note the ample human infrastructure along the highway, allowing for harassment of Russian forces all the way into town.

The wider western approach runs between two sets of bluffs, natural ambush points.
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There Are Thugs in Canada, Too.

Canada's members of parliament will be given panic buttons to call police in an emergency, amid growing harassment, intimidation and threats of violence.

The move was announced by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino who has himself received death threats.

The "very negative and toxic rhetoric that we see online" was very concerning, he said.

Canada's MPs have also been threatened on the streets and last year PM Justin Trudeau was pelted with rocks.

Mr Mendicino, who said he was threatened last month after introducing a gun control bill in parliament, said the mobile alarms would add another layer of security for politicians.

MPs are also being offered cameras, alarms and other security measures to be installed in their homes, and training on how to de-escalate potentially violent situations.
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Mr. Beast Has Already Done This

While “Squid Game” is considered one of Netflix's biggest hits, news of a competition series inspired by the Korean drama has prompted criticism from some fans who say the premise misses the mark.

In the series, contestants burdened with immense debt participate in competitions playing twisted and violent children’s games for millions of dollars. It can only have one winner, and those who lose die.

With “Squid Game: The Challenge," Netflix said in its release that "the worst fate is going home open handed” (aka not death).

"You’ve seen the drama, now it’s your chance to take part in Netflix’s biggest ever social experiment!" Netflix writes in its casting call. "This supersized unscripted show turns the scripted world of the drama into reality. Real-life players will be immersed in the iconic Squid Game universe and will never know what’s coming next. Here they’ll compete in a series of heart-stopping games in order to become the sole survivor* and walk away with a life-changing cash prize. With a fortune up for grabs, who will be an ally, who will you trust, and who will you betray in this ultimate test of character? *Please note: Win or lose, all players will leave unscathed. But if you win, you win big!"

When news of the reality competition spin-off was announced last week, some on social media pointed out the irony of such a competition show.

“The game is intended to represent the commodification of suffering by privileged people, and how watching people struggle for money and their lives is seen as entertainment for people who will never have to experience such things,” said Mika Winder, 16, of Oregon. “Making a real life version goes against the entire message of the original show in an almost comical way."


Others echoed similar sentiments on social media, including one person who tweeted: “Did Netflix even watch the show? Did they glean any meaning from it?”

Netflix and production firms Studio Lambert and The Garden, the show’s co-producers, did not respond to request for comment.

The reality show will feature 456 English-speaking players from around the world who will compete for a cash prize of $4.56 million, Netflix said.


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I'd Like to See a Balanced Evaluation of This

For older adults, being able to balance briefly on one foot may predict how long they'll live.

People who failed a 10-second balance test of standing on one foot were nearly twice as likely to die in the next 10 years, according to a report published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Unlike aerobic fitness, flexibility and muscle strength, balance tends to be preserved until the sixth decade of life, after which it wanes precipitously, the Brazilian researchers noted.

Exactly why a loss of balance can predict risk of death is not yet known, said the study’s lead author, Dr. Claudio Gil Soares de Araújo, a sports and exercise physician and director of research and education at the Exercise Medicine Clinic-CLINIMEX in Rio de Janeiro.

But poor balance and musculoskeletal fitness can be linked with frailty in older adults, Araújo wrote in an email.

“Aged people falling are in very high risk of major fractures and other related complications," Araújo wrote. "This may play a role in the higher risk of mortality.”

Checking balance on one foot, even for those few seconds, can be valuable way to determine someone's risk of falling. A 2019 report found that the number of deaths from falls for people ages 75 or older was on the rise in the U.S.

“Remember that we regularly need to stay in a one-legged posture, to move out of a car, to climb or descend a step or stair and so on," Araújo said.

FWIW, As an Old Person, I Practice Balance Every Other Day As Part of My Exercise Routine.
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The Latest on Puppetgate



Gym Jordan is demanding to see "all reports, witness statements, and other material related to the arrest of individuals associated with 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on June 16, 2022; and all security footage and still photographs related to the arrest of individuals associated with 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on June 16, 2022."

While Jordan is demanding answers from a puppet, other members want to know why Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) was giving tours in the U.S. Capitol building to someone who then showed up to the Jan. 6 attack.


Carlson, on an episode of his show Tuesday, claimed the crew’s objective was to “break into,” “harass lawmakers” and “disrupt” congressional business in the building, Mediaite reported.

“All seven of them were charged with unlawful entry,” Carlson noted.

“That’s the identical charge that hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants have been prosecuted for. But, unlike Jan. 6 defendants, Colbert’s employees were not sent to the D.C. jail for a year and a half in solitary confinement. No, they were released after a night behind bars, and then they fled back to New York. Why is that?”

Carlson also asked whether what Colbert’s crew did was “different” from what rioters did on Jan. 6, 2021.


What's Less Funny Than TucKKKer?  TucKGBer Tell People What is Funny.


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Barfing Birds?  Really?

Two independent researchers say they may have gotten to the bottom of what caused fish to fall from the sky late last year in Texarkana: bird regurgitation.

Many in the east Texas town were shocked in late December when they found fish (later identified as shad) scattered on the streets and on their homes and cars following a storm.

It wasn’t the first time people reported fish falling from the sky, and some experts tried to explain the phenomenon as waterspouts picking up fish or other marine lifeforms. But National Weather Service meteorologists told The Dallas Morning News in January that no such weather activity was reported near Texarkana during that time.

“As we looked at the storm and went back and looked at the data, we really didn’t find anything that would indicate that there was any kind of waterspout.” said Brandon Thorne, a meteorologist for NWS Shreveport in January. “We’re kind of confused as to how it happened as well, to be honest.”

Last week, Sharon Hill, a geologist and independent researcher based in Pennsylvania, and Paul Cropper, an author in Australia, shared their findings that a flock of birds may have regurgitated the fish while flying over the east Texas town.

“We’re both interested in finding out what, if anything, happened in a strange situation,” Hill said. “We’re not going to be dismissive, we’re not going to default to a paranormal explanation, but we’re looking to document what happened and what can be the possible natural causes.”
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No.  This Will Not Turn Your Children into Drug Dealers and Rapists.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing logistical support to import the equivalent of about 16 million 8-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico starting this weekend, as part of its efforts to ease nationwide supply shortages caused by the closure of the largest U.S. manufacturing plant.

The Department of Health and Human Services is expediting the travel of trucks that will drive about 1 million pounds of Gerber Good Start Gentle infant formula from a Nestlé plant to U.S. retailers, the White House said, nearly doubling the amount imported to the U.S. to date. Cargo flights from Europe and Australia already have brought baby formula into the U.S., including two new rounds of air shipments that begin this weekend.
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