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Oct 10, 2022 8:30:30 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:30:30 GMT -8
Some Actual Headlines
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Ukraine Attacks Targets With Military Importance. Putin Uses His Limited Supply of Cruise Missiles to Destroy Playgrounds
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other major cities have been hit in a barrage of missile attacks that hit civilian targets and killed several people, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had launched long-range missiles against Ukrainian energy, military and communications infrastructure. He said the barrage of missile fire on Monday was a response to “terrorist attacks” on Russian territory and warned an even harsher “response” could come.
Missiles tore into Kyiv, the most intense strikes on the city since Russia abandoned an attempt to capture it in the early weeks of the war that started in late February. Explosions were also reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in Ukraine’s west; Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine; Zaporizhzhia in the south; and Kharkiv in the east.
In the capital, attacks struck in the heart of the busy city centre during the rush hour in the morning. The body of a man in jeans lay in a street at a major intersection, surrounded by flaming cars. In a park, a soldier cut through the clothes of a woman who lay in the grass to try to treat her wounds. Two other women were bleeding nearby.
A huge crater gaped next to a children’s playground in a central Kyiv park. The remains of an apparent missile were buried, smoking in the mud.
Destruction of a Ukraine Army Training Center
Not Only Is Putin's Strategy (Another) War Crime, But It is Stupid
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Oct 10, 2022 8:33:32 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:33:32 GMT -8
Warning: I-Phones Can Scare Your Spouse to Death
Rollercoasters have triggered some new iPhones to make emergency calls.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), at one US amusement park the plummeting rides activated the phones' crash detection system.
The feature was introduced in the new iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8, Ultra and SE with the latest OS.
Apple told the newspaper the technology is intended to provide "peace of mind" and will continue to improve over time.
Although a new feature on the iPhone, the crash detection system recently demonstrated its utility alerting emergency services to a fatal accident in Nebraska.
Google's Pixel phone already has a crash detection system.
Previous reporting by the WSJ testing Apple's system in a variety of collisions - including using the skills of a "demolition derby" driver - did not suggest the system was overly sensitive.
However, the newspaper was provided with records of six calls to local emergency services from iPhones whose crash detection system had been triggered while on rides at Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati, Ohio.
In a recording of one of the calls obtained by the newspaper an automated message from an iPhone can be heard saying: "The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone". The sound of the amusement park is audible in the background.
Drivers have also described instances where the crash detection system has been triggered because phones were dropped while their vehicle was moving.
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Oct 10, 2022 8:34:45 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:34:45 GMT -8
Elon Mucks Things Up Again
Beijing and Taipei have spoken out after Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said Taiwan should become a special administrative zone of China.
The world's richest man said in a Financial Times interview he believed the two governments could reach a "reasonably palatable" arrangement.
China's ambassador to the US praised Musk but his Taiwanese counterpart said freedom is "not for sale".
Taiwan rules itself but Beijing claims it as part of its territory.
Last week, Mr Musk also drew criticism for posting a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, including Kyiv giving up territory to Moscow.
Mr Musk's comments come as the electric car maker hit a monthly record for sales in China.
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Oct 10, 2022 8:38:26 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:38:26 GMT -8
Of Course Being A Republican is Not Safe for Children and Other Living Things
Covid deaths are unevenly distributed among Republicans and Democrats.
Average excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 76% higher among Republicans than Democrats from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a working paper released last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Excess deaths refers to deaths above what would be anticipated based on historical trends.
A study in June published in Health Affairs similarly found that counties with a Republican majority had a greater share of Covid deaths through October 2021, relative to majority-Democratic counties.
But experts are still puzzling over why these differences exist. Are lower vaccination rates among Republicans responsible? Or did mask use and social distancing guidelines prevent more deaths in counties run by Democrats?
The Yale researchers behind the new working paper say vaccine hesitancy among Republicans may be the biggest culprit.
"In counties where a large share of the population is getting vaccinated, we see a much smaller gap between Republicans and Democrats," said Jacob Wallace, an author of that study and an assistant professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health.
There Are Still 350 COVID Deaths Every Day.
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Oct 10, 2022 8:47:14 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:47:14 GMT -8
Pants on Fire
Kevin McCarthy, would-be House speaker, lied to two of the police officers who helped save his skin on Jan. 6. He lied to the mother of an officer who died after the attack, telling them last year that the person who commanded Trump’s violent followers to march to the U.S. Capitol had no idea at all what they were doing. He also took credit for Trump’s eventual public statement asking rioters to “go home.” One of the attendees, then-D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, recorded the meeting and has shared that recording with CNN.
Months before McCarthy met with the officers, in the immediate aftermath of the attack, McCarthy had no problem blaming Trump for the riot. In audio obtained by The New York Times, McCarthy told fellow Republicans that he wanted Trump to resign as they discussed impeachment. “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of his leadership team. “What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it,” he told the group. That’s what he was saying before he made a call to Trump, when he told the group that he was going to tell Trump to resign.
That didn’t go as planned, according to more recording the Times obtained. Following that call, McCarthy told Republicans on a conference call: “Let me be very clear to all of you, and I have been very clear to the president: He bears responsibilities for his words and actions. [...] No if, ands or buts.”
“I asked him personally today: Does he hold responsibility for what happened?” McCarthy said. “Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he’d need to acknowledge that.”
Five months later, McCarthy told the officers who protected him that day and the mother of an officer who died as a result of that attack that Trump had nothing to do with any of it. Kevin McCarthy is a liar. And a bad one. Y
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Oct 10, 2022 8:52:46 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:52:46 GMT -8
How Do You Know Likely Voters 2 Years in the Future?
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Oct 10, 2022 8:58:10 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 8:58:10 GMT -8
We Can Dream
I'll Believe It When I See It, But I Would Love to See It
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Oct 10, 2022 9:00:14 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:00:14 GMT -8
A Day In the Death of Ivan
Four days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the order to mobilize Aleksandr Koltun, a 35-year-old father of six, showed up at the local draft board office in the Siberian city of Bratsk and presented himself for service.
He, and a batch of other conscripts, were sent later that day to Novosibirsk for further preparations for deployment.
After he got to Novosibirsk he called his family and told his mother Yelena Gudo, “We walk and wander back and forth, everyone’s drunk, they didn’t give us any uniforms, there’s no food.”
And after nine days in Novosibirsk, he was dead.
RFE/RL’s Siberian Realities writes:
Gudo said neither she nor her daughter-in-law — Koltun’s wife — heard any official notice or condolence or explanation from the draft board or military recruiters about the death.
Gudo said they were told by officials that her son’s body would be returned from Novosibirsk to Bratsk on October 10, and they were presented with a 180,000-ruble (US$2,900) bill for the cost of transporting it.
RFE/RL’s story also mentions another case, that of Denis Kozlov, 44, from the Argayashsky district who was apparently beaten in mobilization camp and was then returned home, unrecognizable and dying.
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Oct 10, 2022 9:04:39 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:04:39 GMT -8
QANON Ron Must Have Lost His Ass. Fortunately, He Just Had His Ass Handed to Him
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Oct 10, 2022 9:07:08 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:07:08 GMT -8
Democrats Are Gaining Popularity With an Unlikely Group
U.S. banks are giving far less to federal candidates this election cycle and increasing the proportion they are handing to Democrats as they rethink their political giving, according to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than half a dozen industry officials and lobbyists.
With less than a month to go until the mid-term elections which will determine control of Congress, commercial banks' political action committees (PACs) have given roughly $7.4 million to federal candidates, 43% down on the 2020 election cycle and 39% down on the average election spend in the previous decade, according to the Reuters analysis.
Following the 2007-09 financial crisis when Democrats cracked down on banks, lenders have typically looked to business-friendly Republicans for support in Congress.
But while they are getting less cash overall, Democrats have increased their share of the pie this cycle to 40%, their highest proportion since the 2010 cycle. And of the top-20 congressional recipients of bank PAC donations this cycle, 10 are Democrats compared with six in 2020, three in 2018, and one ahead of the 2016 election. The CRP data draws from data released by the Federal Election Commission as of Sept. 22.
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Oct 10, 2022 9:08:35 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:08:35 GMT -8
THE Ohio State Senate Campaign
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Oct 10, 2022 9:10:28 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:10:28 GMT -8
Svatove is a Critical Rail, Road, and Logistical Hub.
No Reports on How Many Playgrounds Are There
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Oct 10, 2022 9:16:11 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Oct 10, 2022 9:16:11 GMT -8
Crazy Karen Alert
As it turns out, before the nurse practitioner asked Jillian the ridiculous question of what she was thinking when she got pregnant, the nurse practitioner claimed she felt threatened and called the police.
Jillian said in a videotaped explainer she posted on social media that after talking to the doctor, she had a panic attack and was already experiencing high blood pressure. By the time Jillian left the treatment room, cops were waiting for her.
"I told the cop, I said: 'Look at me. I'm going on eight months pregnant. I'm seven months pregnant. I'm pretty far along,’” she said. ‘”Do I look like I'm in a position to be attacking somebody?'"
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