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INVESTIGATION: COVID-19 – Pandemic or Plandemic? – How on earth did we get here?
By The Exposé on April 10, 2021 • ( 5 Comments )
Over one year on from the order to "Stay at home > Protect the NHS > Save lives", it is worth asking ourselves why and how we got here. This pandemic has been more than a year in the making and how it came about is an extremely contentious and divisive subject. We can speculate how far back we need to look to pinpoint when a pandemic of this nature was first anticipated. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on a few key dates from recent years as well as the past year of the pandemic itself.
This article was authored by DomJazzSoul.
Swine Flu (H1N1) and the WHO definition of a 'Pandemic'
On May 4th 2009, the World Health Organisation (WHO) changed their definition of an influenza pandemic by removing from its description the resultant impact of "enormous numbers of deaths and illness". This change was done just before, and some would argue to enable, the declaration of a pandemic from the outbreak of the 'swine flu' (H1N1) influenza a month later. The projected impacts of the virus were bleak and consequently many countries purchased vast, albeit underused quantities of vaccines to protect their populations. Despite this, the death toll was low and yet millions of people were vaccinated with drugs approved following minimal clinical trials and with indemnity provided to their manufacturers. The following Channel 4 clip is good introduction to this debacle. Sadly, some of the recipients of these drugs suffered adverse life-changing reactions such as developing narcolepsy.
Pandemic scenarios
In 2010, a year after the Swine Flu outbreak, the Rockefeller Foundation released a report entitled Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development. The report examined the use of technology in addressing future world scenarios. One of these scenarios entitled 'Lock Step' envisaged a future influenza pandemic far worse than the prior year's H1N1 outbreak. It forecast the damaging impact this would have on worldwide economies and international travel. It describes how countries, such as China, fared better from imposing measures such as quarantines and mask-wearing on its populations. Even as the pandemic abated, authoritarian government control remained and, in some instances, intensified.
Jump ahead to 2019 and the WHO-affiliated Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) released their first annual report A World At Risk. The report is intended to capture the world's ability to respond to major health threats whilst highlighting actions for world leaders to take.
The report set out a number of progress indicators for the coming year, including the following recommendation:
The United Nations (including WHO) conducts at least two systemwide training and simulation exercises, including one covering the deliberate release of a lethal respiratory pathogen.
Pandemic Exercises: Clade X and Event 201
Speaking of simulation exercises, one such had happened in May 2018 and another even more significant a month after the first GPMB report, in October 2019. The first exercise, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, focuses on responding to the intentional release of the novel virus Clade X which causes 2% of the global population to die, economic devastation, famine and civil unrest.
The following year on 18 October 2019, Johns Hopkins along with the World Economic Forum and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the next pandemic exercise, Event 201.
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS.
This exercise again focuses on the health, economic and societal impact of a pandemic and touches on solutions involving restricting freedom of movement and tackling misinformation, especially online by 'flooding the zone'. Watch the highlights here.
Prior to these exercises, the National Health Service (NHS) and partners in England had also hosted its own pandemic influenza exercise on 18–20 October 2016, entitled Exercise Cygnus. The report from this exercise was not published until 2020 after considerable pressure had been placed on the government to do so. The exercise found that the UK preparedness for a flu pandemic was 'insufficient' with particular focus on the care homes sector.
Wuhan and the Outbreak
In late 2019, a number of respiratory illnesses were recorded in Wuhan, China. At the start of 2020, it transpired that sufferers were infected with a novel coronavirus subsequently labelled SARS-CoV-2. In the following weeks cases were identified in neighbouring countries and that human-to-human transmission was occurring. By the end of January, Wuhan and other parts of China were in 'Lockdown' and the illness had reached Europe.
Early February saw the curious case of the Diamond Princess cruise ship departing from Hong Kong. As one of the passengers had tested positive for coronavirus, the ship was immediately quarantined for 14 days. Quarantines were to be a common response to outbreaks of the virus and in late February the northern region of Italy was placed under strict lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of the respiratory disease now known as COVID-19. Particular focus was placed on Bergamo province in the region of Lombardy where stories were reported of the army being called in to assist with the removal of corpses. In early March strict public health measures were introduced in the whole of Italy with other countries in mainland Europe following suit. At the same time, the Director General of the WHO declared COVID-19 a 'global pandemic'.
The status of COVID-19 in UK
The UK considered itself to be a few weeks behind Europe and as such its initial response was to allow the virus to circulate to create "herd immunity" in the population. However, on 13 March it was announced that local elections would be suspended for a year. Despite the measures being taken, particularly in healthcare, the status of COVID-19 as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) was downgraded on 19 March.
Source: Gov.UK (HCID)
Healthcare policy and communications
On 17 March the NHS asked hospitals to cancel all non-urgent operations and discharge all medically fit patients with the aim to free up 30,000 hospital beds. Based on 'emerging international and UK data', the NHS was told to prepare for large numbers of inpatients requiring respiratory support. The process for expedited discharge of patients was set out in updated COVID-19 Hospital Discharge Service Requirements on 19 March. The health service was told that "whatever extra resources our NHS needs to cope with coronavirus — it will get."
Lockdown and three weeks to 'flatten the curve'
Two days after the passing of the Coronavirus Regulations, the British Prime Minister addressed the nation on 23 March instructing people to stay at home, effectively beginning the first UK lockdown in response to COVID-19. Some critics have since claimed that England had waited too long to lockdown and that its previous 'herd immunity' approach was irresponsible. However, it later came to light that locking down the nation was always inevitable as advertising contracts had been agreed weeks prior to the decision.
The initial period of lockdown was to be three weeks to 'flatten the curve', effectively describing how the interventions were intended to delay and reduce the impact of the pandemic on the health of the nation and healthcare services. The Health Secretary announced plans to construct Nightingale Hospitals around the country to provide additional critical care capacity. Lockdown lasted longer than three weeks with gradual easing of restrictions starting from early June but with a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to remain in place, such as 'social distancing'. The compulsory wearing of face-coverings was introduced in mid-June despite previous evidence indicating their limited effectiveness, one of many U-turn announcements throughout the past year.
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Coronavirus regulations are allegedly 'led by the science', much of which is informed by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). SAGE, who has been advising the government on such events since the aforementioned 2009 flu pandemic, is comprised from the field of academia and practice. The SAGE sub-group Scientific Pandemic Influenza group on Behaviour and Communications (SPI-B&C) has evidently had a key role in informing policy. Minutes from one of the SAGE meetings early in the pandemic even suggested the following:
"The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging."
The response was mirrored around the globe, a worldwide strategy to increase the levels of fear to justify the draconian measures being implemented in the name of public health. To support the delivery of this fear-inducing messaging the government issued specific broadcasting guidelines via its Office of Communications (Ofcom).
Source: Ofcom letter to broadcasters
Consequently we have seen one-sided reporting and reduced journalistic scrutiny of government policy on COVID-19. This messaging has had a profound impact on suppressing public scientific debate as captured by this BBC Newsnight piece from last November.
Supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ventilators
Despite the considerable amount of resource committed to dealing with COVID-19, there were logistical challenges with regards to supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) to health and care staff and concerns about the availability of mechanical ventilators for treating patients in critical care. Despite the demand for ventilators it later transpired that outcomes are better with non-invasive treatments and that the decline in the usage of ventilators coincided with reduced chances of dying.
Test & Trace and the definition of a 'Case'
Another of the key resource-heavy measures deemed necessary in measuring and managing the impact of COVID-19 is testing to identify the spread and volume of coronavirus cases. The health secretary began an ambitious program in April 2020 with the target of achieving 100,000 tests per day by the end of that month. Testing volumes have since exceeded 1 million a day. COVID-19 cases are identified predominantly through swab sampling and analysis using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing rather relying on clinical diagnosis. Due to this approach positive cases can be identified in people without symptoms.
Testing of asymptomatic subjects is deemed necessary on the basis that transmission can occur without symptoms, despite it not previously being considered a driver for the spread of respiratory disease and without scientific evidence of its occurrence. The identification of cases without symptoms is also made possible through the PCR testing methodology which does not distinguish if positive results are infectious. Results may well be identifying that traces of the virus that are present from weeks or even months prior to swabbing. Many concerns have also been raised regarding the rate of false positives (where person is not sick, but the test inaccurately reports that they are) produced by the PCR tests.
Source: Understanding cycle threshold (Ct) in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR
The identification of cases is the driver of prevalence and also a key component in determining whether deaths are associated with or caused by the presence of coronavirus. From first reporting, the occurrence of COVID-19 deaths were reported for any death of a person who had previously tested positive for coronavirus at any time, effectively meaning after testing positive one could never recover from COVID-19. This anomaly was changed to report deaths within 28-days of a positive test and/or where COVID-19 was mentioned on the deceased's death certificate.
Excess deaths
Excess mortality is a more comprehensive measure of the total impact of the pandemic on deaths than the confirmed COVID-19 death count alone. Excess deaths are defined by the volume of deaths observed above the expected amount in 'normal' conditions, which is usually based on the prior 5-years' average.
The chart below from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) present the level of excess deaths by place of death for the first few months of the pandemic in England. Notably the greatest excess occurred in care homes and private homes.
Source: ONS Excess Mortality
There has been considerable controversary surrounding care homes deaths given that many patients were discharged to them from hospitals at the start of spring and subsequently many residents died without seeing their relatives due to the tight societal restrictions that were put in place. It also came to light that blanket do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) orders were placed on care home residents at the start of the pandemic causing potentially avoidable deaths.
The weekly trend of excess deaths since the start of last year tells an interesting tale. It seems strange that a disease which had been circulating during the winter months would not impact mortality until spring when a pandemic was announced, and lockdown restrictions were put in place. As there was no pre-lockdown excess mortality some would argue that these additional deaths are due to lockdowns rather than COVID-19.
Source: ONS Deaths Registered by Week
While excess deaths in hospitals and care homes have come in 'waves', they have occurred in private homes every week since the start of the pandemic. This is most likely to be the effect of reduced access to healthcare due to NHS policies or pandemic-induced population behaviour.
Source: ONS Deaths by Place of Occurrence
The classification of COVID deaths has courted considerable controversy. WHO guidelines issued in April made it clear that COVID-19 should be recorded on death certificates where it or any coronavirus caused, or is suspected to have contributed to, the death. As previously mentioned, COVID-19 death also includes any within 28 days of a positive PCR test. Hospital deaths in England are reported across different breakdowns including ethnicity, gender and age group and the presence of a pre-existing conditions. The data charted below indicates that 96% of COVID-19 deaths occurring in hospital were for patients with one or more pre-existing condition and more than half were over the age of 80. At the time of reporting, hospital deaths from COVID under the age of 60 with no known pre-existing condition stands at 691 out of a population of 56 million people.
Source: NHS COVID-19 Deaths
Wider impact on healthcare
The NHS is constantly under pressure for its resources, especially during the winter months. Plans for the 2020–21 NHS contracting year were put on hold after the pandemic was declared and as described above, the NHS was tasked with 'clearing the decks' to create capacity for a wave of COVID-19 patients. At the same time, the NHS began collecting daily COVID-19 data from hospitals regarding patients and staff with the number of hospitalisations being a key metric. The definition of a COVID-19 admission included patients with suspected COVID symptoms and those testing positive using PCR. It is possible to count patients twice if first suspected and then confirmed as having COVID-19 and it is also worth noting these figures include a significant proportion of asymptomatic cases. The peak of COVID inpatients occurred in mid-April and reached over 21,000. However, of the swiftly erected Nightingale hospitals, only London's was used, and the peak of inpatients was 33 out of 500 available beds on 19 April. In the second wave, the NHS encountered a higher volume of COVID-19 positive patients in hospital. However, the proportions were very similar to spring as this time around elective treatments were not routinely cancelled.
Source: Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard
The announcement of a 'pandemic' and the accompanying mantra of "stay home and protect the NHS" certainly reduced the emergency care burden on the NHS. The below Accident & Emergency (A&E) statistics from the past two years indicates that emergency attendances and admissions dropped significantly in spring 2020 and have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels.
Source: NHS Statistics
Call to NHS 111 services increased significantly following the announced arrival of coronavirus, however the number resulting in ambulances being disposed did not increase indicating a rise in public anxiety around COVID rather than the presence of severe symptoms. In fact, ambulance conveyances to emergency departments dropped in the spring months.
Source: NHS 111 Minimum Data Set
Whilst it is acknowledged that more severely ill patients need critical care treatment, the majority of COVID positive inpatients are treated in general NHS beds. During spring 2020 a daily average of 10,000 NHS general beds were closed (some were repurposed as critical care) compared to previous quarters and occupancy levels were less than two-thirds of the corresponding quarter in the prior year. To quantify this there were over 3 million unused bed nights in quarter one, the height of the pandemic. Some bed closures were also due to a high level of staff sickness during the first wave. It is perhaps surprising then that there was not a corresponding increase in bank and agency shifts to cover these absences.
Source: Bed Availability and Occupancy Data — Overnight
At the time of writing, the impact on other areas of healthcare has been profound. The number of patients waiting over a year for NHS treatment has increased from 1,600 to 304,000 in the space of year and cancer treatments also significantly reduced during the spring months. Reduced access to primary care also saw a significant drop in face-to-face GP consultations and referrals to secondary care during the same period. Whilst NHS services are now focused on recovery, the impact on vulnerable and marginalised groups has been extreme and a pandemic of mental ill-health is anticipated to arise from this difficult period.
Vaccinations and the 2nd Wave
The development of vaccines to treat an enigmatic illness began in January 2020, two months before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The genetic code was released by China on 11 January 2020 with the testing protocol being approved just two days later. All this despite messaging to the contrary from China's Centre for Disease Control (CDC) a year later that the virus had not been isolated.
The UK government ran a consultation in September 2020 on changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. This set out the intention to grant approval for 'temporary authorisation of the supply of unlicensed products', strengthen manufacturers' protection from liability, expand the workforce who can administer vaccines and lift the ban on promoting unlicensed medicines.
Around the same time the previously advocated strategy for acquiring natural 'herd immunity' was no longer possible according to the World Health Organisation who changed their definition to state it could only be reached through vaccination.
The first vaccine gained UK approval in early December, the administering of which began a week later starting with the elderly, clinical vulnerable and front-line health and care workers. Unfortunately the impact was not swift enough to prevent a second wave of excess COVID-19 deaths, many of which occurred in hospitals and care homes.
The fact that the rise in deaths occurred at the same time as the mass vaccination roll-out gained some attention from independent journalists. There have also been many cases of spikes in deaths in care homes following residents receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations, despite claims that the correlation did not prove causation. Applying the same logic that is used for COVID-19 deaths, it would be interesting to know the number of deaths within four weeks of vaccination.
International data and comparisons
While many may suggest that the impact of COVID-19 may have been worse without coronavirus restrictions, it is hard to ignore the approach taken by Sweden. Unlike the majority of European countries, Sweden did not impose lockdowns and subsequently did not fare any worse in terms of mortality from COVID-19. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is still a topic of much debate.
Direct comparisons can also now be made between American states where some remain completely open, and others are still under degrees of lockdown with mask-mandates in public places. Despite far fewer rules and restrictions, Florida lands somewhere in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics and has fared particularly better than California, who are in still in lockdown, in recent months.
Source: Florida COVID-19 Dashboard
Perhaps the most radical and 'light touch' response to COVID-19 was present in Tanzania where the recently deceased President, John Magufuli, proposed three days of prayer to combat coronavirus and certainly no lockdowns. Magufuli had previously questioned the accuracy of PCR testing for coronavirus by returning positive test results for a goat and a pawpaw fruit.
The presence of COVID-19 has also had an impact on the prevalence, as well as treatment, of other diseases. As COVID is diagnosed predominantly by testing rather than symptoms there is an increased likelihood of misdiagnosis. So-called 'experts' declared that the reduction in flu cases this winter was due to the use of hand sanitiser, masks and social distancing. This claim is made despite the same measures not eradicating coronavirus. The rapid decline in flu is also a worldwide phenomenon which coincidentally began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: WHO FluNet Summary
Pandemic or Plandemic?
Considering the N1N1 Swine Flu debacle it is evidently possible to declare a pandemic when arguably it is not and while that one fizzled out the preparations for the next one to be more impactful was soon well under way. The script was being written for a global High Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic.
Credit: Bob Moran
The response to the threat of COVID-19 was mirrored across the globe with national governments in Lockstep. Whilst the UK wished to appear to be taking a different approach, lockdown was always inevitable. The UK government signed multi-million pound advertising contracts weeks before lockdown and before COVID-19 was even declared a 'pandemic'.
UK government messaging and healthcare policy had a profound impact on the treatment of the sick in all corners of society. There was ample capacity to treat people in hospital rather than force them to die in homes and care homes. If there was truly a pandemic why would it wait months to impact excess mortality and coincide with lockdowns, withdrawal of healthcare, mass discharge of the elderly, increased use in DNACPR orders, mass fear-inducing propaganda while people are isolated and housebound?
The NHS has been over-protected and over-burdened by nonsensical practices implemented through the lens of COVID-19. It begs the question: is this an over-reaction to an over-exaggerated threat that ultimately does more harm than good? The cure so far has been worse than the disease.
Many of the decisions around the handling of COVID-19 appear to have been political rather than in the interests of public health. National and international comparisons and the reasoned voices (when they can be heard) critiquing government policy indicate that the dominant pandemic response has been to the benefit of world corporations rather than world citizens.
Personal freedoms are being restricted around the globe, all in the name of combating an illness no more deadly than one it appears to have replaced. The pre-scripted world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership is now much more than just a pandemic scenario.
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Excellent summary thank you. It will take a book to chart it all in detail but one more simulation I have come across is from 2017. This Johns Hopkins document describes a "simulation" which exactly mirrors everything that is happening to us today, and lays out the future
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/completed-projects/spars-pandemic-scenario.html
Apparently there are now cyber attack simulations taking place which indicates our financial systems will be the next thing to be changed. Falls in to lie with vaccine/ID passports I guess in this top to bottom power grab.
Richard Noakes
Bioweapon designed to reduce humanity ?
https://carterheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-1503.pdf
Download this and read it and its conclusions and if it is of concern to you, get it out there, but NOT to politicians, because they are the problem and owned by pharmaceutical companies who pay them eye watering bribes through "lobbying" which make them the representatives of the pharmaceutical companies, who then push through their own laws and not the voters who put the politicians there, in the first place.
Probably far too late, but CIA, FBI, NSA, MI.5, MI.6 and other similar Agencies, who might not be controlled by the politicians – add your voices to mine – and try to get something done, I am but one person, together, we are many.
Also, as you will have read in my previous posts, my salt and water simple solution, murders Coronavirus in the head, before it ever gets to be Covid in the body, which is an easy alternative to test vaccine bioweapons.
Great article. Plandemic 100%.
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28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British post-apocalyptic horror film, and sequel to the 2002 film 28 Days Later. The film was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and was released in the United Kingdom and in the United States on 11 May 2007. It was mostly filmed in London , England with some scenes also being filmed in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , Wales .
Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) prepare dinner in the heavily-reinforced cottage they share with four others, somewhere in rural Great Britain . During their meal a boy bangs on the door, begging to be let in. After arguing amongst themselves Don lets the child inside, who says he is from Sandford and has been fleeing his infected parents. Moments later, a pack of the infected attack and enter the house, quickly overwhelming the group. Alice refuses to leave without the boy; Don abandons Alice and escapes in a boat, emerging as the sole survivour.
Over the course of 28 weeks following the original outbreak, the infected have all starved to death, Britain has been declared relatively safe, and re-population has begun.
An American-led NATO force, under the command of United States Army Brigadier General Stone (Idris Elba), begins repopulating the country with both old and new residents. The chief medical officer of District 1, Major Scarlet Ross (Rose Byrne), is surprised by the inclusion of adolescents and children, amongst whom are Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton), Don and Alice's children who were in Spain during the initial outbreak.
At 12 years old, Andy is the youngest person in Britain, and during their subsequent medical inspection, Scarlet notes Andy's differently coloured eyes (heterochromia iridis), a trait he has inherited from his mother. Andy and Tammy are subsequently admitted to District 1, a heavily-reinforced, fully functional section of London on the Isle of Dogs guarded by the US Army, including a detachment from Special Forces Operations Detachment-Delta acting as a rooftop observation team. With them are a Special Forces sergeant, Doyle (Jeremy Renner), and an 160th Special Forces Operation Detachment helicopter pilot, Flynn (Harold Perrineau). The children are reunited with their father Don, who is now head caretaker of the district. Don tearfully recounts his escape to them, saying that Alice was killed by the infected, but states that he witnessed Alice's death to hide the fact that he abandoned her.
The next day the two children slip out of the safe zone to return to their old home, where Andy discovers Alice, disheveled but alive. Andy and Tammy are recaptured by the US Army while Alice is decontaminated. A blood test reveals that she is infected with the Rage virus but displaying few symptoms, labeling her an asymptomatic carrier. Though Scarlet wants to keep Alice alive to seek a possible vaccine or cure, she is overruled by Stone, who wants Alice killed to prevent a possible further outbreak of Rage.
Don visits his children in a holding room, where they confront him about his version of Alice's death. He then makes an unauthorized visit to Alice in her isolation cell, using his caretaker passcard to bypass security, and asks for forgiveness. When they kiss, the Rage virus in her saliva immediately infects Don, who brutally kills her and goes on to attack and infect soldiers in District 1.
The outbreak forces the area into lockdown. All the civilians are quarantined in safe rooms, which Don forces his way into, and begins to infect them. Scarlet manages to rescue Tammy from containment but Andy gets separated from the group. Doyle and the soldiers are initially ordered to shoot the infected, but as the chaos escalates this is upgraded to a "Code Red": a general extermination of the populace. Doyle, unable to bring himself to comply with the order, abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet, the children, and others through an underground tunnel. Stone then orders that District 1 be fire-bombed. Although this causes massive devastation, large numbers of the infected, including Don, escape the bombardment and occupy the city.
Hoping to rendezvous with Flynn's helicopter at the derelict remains of Regent's Park , Scarlet informs Doyle that the children may have the same immunity as their mother, and must thus be protected at all costs. Flynn arrives by helicopter to pick up Doyle, but refuses to take anyone else as they would be shot down if in breach of the Code Red protocol.
Flynn tells Doyle to head to Wembley Stadium but to leave the civilians. Ignoring the former's instruction, Doyle heads to Wembley with the group, breaking into an abandoned car to escape the infected while chemical weapons are being used to blanket the city. In the process of push starting the car, Doyle is killed by soldiers with flamethrowers. Now pursued by an Apache helicopter, Scarlet drives into the London Underground where she and the children continue on foot. Although they are able to navigate using the night sight on Doyle's rifle the group become separated, whereupon Scarlet is ambushed and killed by Don. Don then attacks and bites Andy, but is shot by Tammy before Don can kill Andy. Although now infected with the Rage virus, Andy remains symptom-free like his mother. The children continue to Wembley Stadium and are picked up by a reluctant Flynn, who flies them across the English Channel to France as previously instructed by Doyle.
Another 28 days pass. Calls for help and people's screams can be heard over the radio of Flynn's now abandoned helicopter, along with a note with the words, "For Dad," drawn in crayon on it. A swarm of infected are shown running through a subway exit. As they arrive in the open, the Eiffel Tower comes into view, revealing that the Rage virus has spread to mainland Europe.
Robert Carlyle Don Harris
Jeremy Renner Doyle
Rose Byrne Major Scarlet Ross
Imogen Poots Tammy Harris
Mackintosh Muggleton Andy Harris
Catherine McCormack Alice Harris
Harold Perrineau Flynn
Shahid Ahmed Jacob
Emily Beecham Karen
Garfield Morgan Geoff
Amanda Walker Sally
Idris Elba Brigadier General Stone
In 2003, plans for the film were conceived after the enormous international success of 28 Days Later. Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald and Alex Garland stated that they felt the time was right to make a sequel.
In March 2005, Boyle said in an interview that he would not direct the sequel due to commitments to Sunshine, but he would serve as executive producer. He also revealed that the film would revolve around a great deal of the aftermath from the first movie. It was also revealed that the film would include the "US Army declaring the war against infection had been won, and that the reconstruction of the country could begin." Boyle hired Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to helm the project after seeing Fresnadillo's 2001 film Intacto. Fresnadillo stated that he was "thrilled working on his first English language film alongside such an exciting international cast and talented production team."
Both Fresnadillo and Lopez-Lavigne were involved in writing the script, which revolved around a family and what happened to them in the aftermath of the original film, which the producers "liked a lot".
Boyle said in March 2005 that the sequel would feature a new cast, since previous cast members Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris were occupied with their own projects. On 23 August 2006, Jeremy Renner was announced to portray Doyle, one of the principal characters for 28 Weeks Later. On 31 August 2006, Harold Perrineau was announced to portray a US Special Forces pilot in the film.
On 1 September 2006, principal photography for 28 Weeks Later began in London with much of the filming taking place at Canary Wharf .
US theatrical release poster
Biohazard warning
On 13 April 2007, 28 days before the release of the film in UK cinemas, a huge biohazard warning sign was projected against the White Cliffs of Dover . The sign contained the international biological hazard symbol, as well as stating that Britain was "contaminated, keep out!".
In July 2006, Fox Atomic Comics and publisher HarperCollins announced that they were publishing a graphic novel titled 28 Days Later: The Aftermath in early 2007 to bridge the gap between 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.
Viral advertising
Removable graffiti was sprayed in locations around London and Birmingham featuring the web address 'ragevirus.com'. However, the web address was found to be unregistered and quickly snapped up by a cybersquatter. The advertising agency who made the mistake agreed to purchase the rights to the domain for an undisclosed sum.
Prop giveaway
In April 2007, Bloody-Disgusting.com promoted the film by giving readers a chance to win a prop from the film. The props were included in a "District 1 Welcome Pack", which featured an actual ID card and an Evening Standard newspaper with an evacuation headline. The giveaway was only open for North American residents and entries closed on 9 May 2007.
The film opened in 2,000 cinema across the United States. Like the previous film, 28 Weeks Later garnered generally positive reviews. View London called the film an "exciting, action-packed and superbly directed thriller that more than lives up to the original film". The New York Times wrote that "28 Weeks Later is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques", as well as "best horror film of the year". The film has generated a rating of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes with 98 positive reviews and 42 negative ones. The film made $9.8 million in its opening weekend, coming in second place at the box office, behind Spider-Man 3. The film has grossed $28,638,916 in the U.S. and $35,586,549 in other countries, bringing the worldwide total to $64,225,465.
About 1,327,461 DVD units have been sold, gathering a revenue of $24,222,064 as of 2009. The film has been released as its own DVD and as a double feature with 28 Days Later.
Possible sequel
In June 2007, it was announced that if DVD sales of the film did well Fox Atomic would consider producing the third film. In July 2007, while promoting Sunshine, Boyle revealed that he has a story forming for the next film. "There is an idea for the next one, something which would move [the story] on. I've got to think about it, whether it's right or not." Boyle also revealed that he would return as the director.
In October 2008, Boyle discussed with KarmaLoopTV the high possibility of a 28 Months Later. As of November 2009, the movie website IMDB lists 28 Months Later as having a release date of 2011.
The trailer for this film featured the song "Want" by Witchman. "Shrinking Universe" by Muse (from the Hullabaloo Soundtrack album) was used in the second part of the trailer.
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On November 11, 1993, I was working at Adobe Systems in tech support for Photoshop. It was the afternoon and I took a break to walk down to the mailroom and check my mail. There waiting for me was the weekly MacWeek magazine, an industry trade everyone looked forward to. As I was walking back to my desk, I looked over the cover and there at the bottom right-hand side was an article about a new program, NCSA Mosaic. A web browser but the first of its kind because it incorporated graphics and text and layout. Before this, browsing the web was limited to the text-based Lynx browser.
I instantly knew this was huge and I was excited. When I got back to my desk, I looked up downloading the program but soon discovered it wouldn't work at Adobe because of our security firewall. It took me another day to find a version on our internal network that had been modified to work with the firewall and off I went. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Nobody had ever experienced the Internet in this way.
I started to teach myself HTML and was soon able to build my own web pages. I saw it so clearly. I always thought my niche was in the combination of business/marketing and technology and this was the platform that would do just that. The combination of text, graphics, audio, and video. Even with the rudimentary formatting, we had back then, you could see where it was going. I became not very interested in Adobe things and consumed with the Web. When Adobe bought Aldus in August of 1994, they moved the entire technical support department to Seattle, WA. This was pre-grunge and Seattle wasn't as cool as it is today, not to mention our salaries would be frozen for a year. Nobody went but it turned out to be fortuitous for me because Quantum Corporation was looking for a Webmaster and all that self-teaching was about to pay off.
I was one of the first Webmasters working for a large corporation in the world. I was even featured in a magazine article about Webmasters. Me in a magazine! They even sent a photographer for a photo shoot. I felt like a star. It was fun and crazy and confusing. I was hired into an engineering department because they ran the servers and nobody knew where this kind of position belonged anyway. I ended up working with marketing most of the time and even moved to sit with them.
From there my career progressed and the rest flowed from that. That was the day, 25 years ago that changed my life.


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And Just Like That, Joe Biden and the Democrats Stopped Liking Riots
Posted by LTP Support | Aug 30, 2020 | More News, Political |
BY VICTORIA TAFT | P J Media
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
For the better part of the past three months, neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, Minnesota, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Kenosha and other cities and states – all run by Democrats – have been on fire.
The police killing of George Floyd started the fire, but, as an old Japanese saying goes, "Fire always makes room for itself."
The "fire" is spreading like a metastic cancer. It is intentionally set in places where it is allowed to flourish and spread. It runs wild and unabated under the Democrats who oversee those towns and cities.
Riots Are Like Out-of-Control Flames
Seattle's Jenny Durkan, Minneapolis's Jacob Frey, Portland's Ted Wheeler, Oregon's Governor Kate Brown, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago fan the flames. They make excuses for murder in St. Louis and the constant assault of local and federal officers in Portland. They hate the president so much they won't take help from him as a point of pride, salving their own egos while their cities are looted "for reparations," pillaged for "social justice" and set on fire to leave a sick mark of "accomplishment."
Massachusetts Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Presley called for more "unrest" (hint).
I'm looking to the public. You know, this is as much about public outcry and organizing and mobilizing and applying pressure […] You know there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there is unrest in our lives.
Democrats, fearing they'll be hurt politically or physically, encourage the lawlessness. They allow it. They call them "peaceful protesters." These "leaders" don't stop the fire when it's small. They wait till the fire is big and dangerous before trying to douse it. Like fire fighters trying to contain a huge blaze, police are allowed only to surround and stop the riots from spreading. The next day, the arrested fire starters are back out, bailed out, if there is bail at all, by people like vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Black Lives Matter, Incorporated™ and antifa who cheer them on.
Rioters Like Antifa Are Imaginary
House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler thinks antifa is imaginary and that the Portland riots aren't that big of a deal. He's said it at least twice. He accused the president and Attorney General Bill Barr of blowing the riots out of proportion.
A poll in late July showed that voters are OK with protests. USA Today mocked the Trump administration for sounding the alarm – again – about rioting.
The support for the protests comes as the White House and Attorney General William Barr try to paint the protesters as "violent rioters." [Emphasis added]
But some sounded a warning. The National Journal at one point ran a piece entitled, "Democrats risk backlash if they don't condemn rioting." Nobody listened. The riots, looting, and protests were just too good a political point for the Democrats. It was a winning issue for them. Joe Biden was winning in the polls!
The rioting wasn't mentioned at all at the Democratic National Convention. There were only references to "chaos," which they promised would go away the second Joe Biden was elected president.
POOF! The Summer Of Love Is Over
But – poof – just like that, Democrats now conclude that the "Summer of Love" is over.
CNN's Don Lemon has delivered them a news flash and a piece of advice. The unabated riots that both he and CNN Chris Cuomo are aiding and abetting are upsetting voters. And it's showing up in the polls. Lemon told Cuomo:
[Biden's] got to come out and tell people that's he's going to deal with the issue of police reform and that what's happening now is happening under Donald's Trump watch.
But guess what? The rioting has to stop. Chris, as you know and I know, it's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing — it is the only thing right now that is sticking [by the Republicans].
And before you could say "you know, the thing," Lemon's words are coming out of Biden's mouth.
Joe Biden Finds His Special Purpose
Biden, who heretofore failed to denounce a single thing about the violent rioters and looters, all of a sudden is having a change of heart. He's a changed man. It's all so clear to him now. Like Navin Johnson, Joe Biden found his special purpose. The scales fell from Joe's eyes and all of a sudden he understood that rioting, looting, and setting fire to other people's property are bad.
Quick! Tell the media I'm somebody! And he got in touch with The New York Times to tell them all about his newly found special purpose.
As I said after George Floyd's murder, protesting brutality is a right and absolutely necessary. Burning down communities is not protest, it's needless violence. Violence that endangers lives. Violence that guts businesses, and shutters businesses, that serve the community. That's wrong.
The Times report says voters in Wisconsin are not happy with his pro-riot ways.
Priscella Gazda, a waitress at a pizza restaurant in Kenosha, was having the opposite reaction. She said she had voted only once in her life — for Mr. Obama in 2008. Her son has Type 1 diabetes and was hoping for health insurance.
"I'm not the one who would ever vote," she said.
But after the chaos in her town, this year is different."I am going to vote for Trump," she said.
"He seems to be more about the American people and what we need."
Committed Republicans are also upset with the local leadership that allows the Kenosha riots.
Don Biehn, 62, owner of a flooring company, was standing in line at a gun store on Tuesday afternoon. He said that he had never bought a pistol before, but that he had a business to protect. A former county board supervisor, Mr. Biehn said he had been calling county and state officials for days, trying to explain how grave the situation was.
He added: "It's chaos — everybody is afraid."
Mr. Trump, he said, "was not my man," but now he is grateful he is president.
Apparently the opinions of these citizens made their way into the close-to-the-vest public opinion polls or Joe Biden's internal polling because Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo can't be the only ones who know.
Cuomo: I think [riots] probably represents the biggest threat to the Democratic cause.
Lemon: Kenosha is a Rorschach test for the entire country, and I think this is a blind spot for Democrats. I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away, and it's not going to go away. It's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups.
Hillary Clinton didn't visit Wisconsin in 2016, which she and many others attribute her loss to, but maybe Joe can get out there. Joe can trip the light fantastic at The Good Taste Ice Cream Shoppe, which was gutted by arsonists with Black Lives Matter and antifa groups. He can't miss it, it's right next door to the Mexican grocery that's been reduced to cinder by torch-wielding social justice warriors.
Riot Data Analyst Is Fired for Telling the Truth
In May, a "progressive data analyst" looked at the poll numbers in the 1968 election season, when the anti-war movement was in full dudgeon and there were protests, riots, Weather Underground bombings and … stop me if you've heard this one before, Nixon won.
His platform included a push for law and order on America's campuses and chaotic and riotous streets and promised to end the Vietnam War. Ever since, his detractors interpreted Nixon's comeback and his law-and-order stance as a racist dog whistle. They claimed it was the supposedly racist and murky "Southern Strategy."
But, whoops, the data analyst came up with a different interpretation.
The New York Times reported that the data analyst found that protests help Democrats but riots work against them.
Shor is a progressive data analyst who has spent his career trying "to help elect Democrats while moving the party leftward," as Jonathan Chait of New York magazine put it. In May, Shor tweeted a summary of a new academic paper about the 1968 election by Omar Wasow of Princeton. The paper found that nonviolent protests tended to increase the Democratic vote share in surrounding areas that year, while riots tended to decrease it.
His employer — Civis Analytics, a liberal research firm — quickly fired him.
Just spitballing here, but the "progressive data analyst" just blew up the "Southern Strategy." Do you suppose that's why he was fired?
It sounds as if Don Lemon has seen similar polling in the 2020 race.
Which brings us back to Joe and his sudden change of heart about riots.
Joe changed his mind about riots, not for reasons of right or wrong. Not out of a desire to lead people away from the fire that immolates innocents. But because riots won't win him votes.
Biden took another piece of Don Lemon's advice. After President Trump's nominating convention speech, Joe sent this tweet, saying:
Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency.
Joe's gone from feeding the fire to striking a match to a gaslight.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/08/28/and-just-like-that-joe-biden-and-the-democrats-stopped-liking-riots-n857837?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=227841a8b1ca836b99e21ea36efa6859&recip=28551147
Yup. Video That Spawned Wisc. Riots Didn't Show Man 'Brawling' With Cops Before Shooting. See What Really Happened
Portland 'Back the Blue' Rally Turns Into Riot When Antifa Shows Up and Starts Assaulting People Who Like Cops
Senator Rand Paul and Others Attacked by Rioters After Trump RNC Speech
Rand Paul got chased by a crowd back to his hotel, after leaving the White House from Trump's Republican Party Nomination. Photo By Brendan Gutenschwage
"Peaceful protesters" rioted, assaulted, intimidated, and blocked VIPs and others who were attempting to walk back to their cars about a block away from where President Trump had just delivered his GOP nomination acceptance speech on the White House lawn.
Among those assaulted by rioters and violent protesters was Senator Rand Paul.
Paul has earned a political violence Hat Trick of sorts. He was at the baseball field and survived the shooting of Republicans by a crazed Bernie Sanders volunteer. He barely survived an attack by his neighbor, who jumped him from behind, broke several of his ribs, and inflicted other injuries. And he survived being mobbed Thursday night near the White House when violent Black Lives Matter Incorporated™ terrorists surrounded and intimidated him.
Rioters Attack Others
This New York Daily News columnist and "Obama guy" used this video to call Senator Paul a "liar" for being afraid for his life. Watch the video.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.
Rioters and "protesters," but I repeat myself, imposed a checkpoint for the VIPs, stopping and surrounding them and forcing them to answer their questions and demands.
Rioters Set Up Checkpoints to Block People
They squared up on Florida Congressman Brian Mast, who lost two legs and a hand in combat and who wears two prosthetic legs.
Rioters Frighten People on VIP Bus
Protesters blocked, and then hopped on, a bus carrying VIPs. They look like they're having fun. I'm sure the people inside the bus were terrified they'd be mobbed or set on fire.
As the crowds came out of the protected area, they were forced to go through a gauntlet of people yelling, screaming, jumping at them, using filthy language, and doing their best to intimidate them.
The Mob Pushes and Assaults Man
The mob followed people walking away from the White House. The terrorist bunch was free to surround and assault this man, who had come to the National Mall to watch the firework show after the president's speech. They pushed him multiple times and shoved him to the ground as he tried to walk with his wife to a safe area. There wasn't a safe spot.
They threw liquid at him, and a guy with a bullhorn put it directly in the man's ear and yelled, "get the f*ck out!" The mob called him a "piece of sh*t,"
As he lay there for a few seconds looking up at the mob, he was probably wondering if he'd make it out alive.
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA blamed the melee on D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for failing to secure the streets near the White House. He called the violent mob "their voting base."
Bowser has made no secret of her contempt for the Trump administration.
Maybe this was her way of sending a message to the president.
We vote in 67 days. There's still time to turn D.C. into Portland and don't think the mob won't try.
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Democrats own these riots – blaming Trump won't work
By David Limbaugh | Creators Syndicate| FOX News
Democratic mayors and governors have all but encouraged the mayhem
Democrats can try but won't succeed at distancing themselves from the violence they have enabled on American streets. People surely know where the Democrats have stood on this, and that they're now backpedaling only because of polling data.
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg outright blamed this anarchy on President Donald Trump.
"The simple reality is that we are seeing more and more chaos and violence under the Trump presidency, and there's no reason to expect that it would get any different or better if he were reelected," said Buttigieg. "This is very much characteristic of living in Donald Trump's America, and I think we're going to see more and more of it as long as he's in charge."
To blame this violence on Trump because he's in office is like blaming him for the border wall not being erected fast enough.
It's like blaming him for the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus when, in fact, he has persistently tried, over strenuous Democratic obstruction, to sensibly and safely reopen our economy.
It would be like blaming him for abortions because they have persisted during his first term despite his valiant efforts for the innocent unborn.
It is inconceivable that Buttigieg is unaware Democratic mayors and governors have all but encouraged this mayhem.
Many have consistently rejected Trump's offer of federal law enforcement assistance to quell the riots. Many have cavalierly misrepresented the violence as peaceful protests.
Democratic CNN has called the Kenosha riots "fiery but mostly peaceful," and the Democratic Virginia Senate just passed a bill allowing assaults on police officers to be mere misdemeanors, for crying out loud.
If Joe Biden or any other Democrat at the Democratic National Convention denounced the violence, I sincerely missed it.
Then, something happened.
No, Democrats didn't all of a sudden become outraged at the criminal assaults and property destruction against people whose only sin was to own businesses in a convenient location for Marxist arsonists and opportunistic looters.
Democrats apparently discovered through internal polling and focus groups that most Americans are appalled by this leftist orchestrated breakdown of law and order, and that they actually care about safe streets. Shocker.
CNN's Don Lemon seems to have changed his mind on the riots – but not because he has had a law and order epiphany. "The rioting has to stop," Lemon said. "It's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups. … it is the only thing right now that is sticking."
"The problem is not gonna be fixed by then" – the election – "but what they can do – and I think … Joe Biden may be afraid to do it. I'm not sure. Maybe he won't; maybe he is – he's got to address it," said Lemon. "He's got to come out and talk about it."
Lemon must be too obtuse to understand what he is telegraphing about Biden when he speculates that Biden might be afraid to address the violence. What possible reason could he have to be afraid to condemn it? What justification could there be for such wanton lawlessness?
One of Biden's handlers must have seen the polling data, too, though, for after months of silence on the matter, Biden finally faintheartedly denounced the chaos, saying: "Needless violence won't heal us. We need to end the violence now – and peacefully come together to demand justice."
Well, Mr. Biden, why haven't you urged Democratic governors to take charge of this madness? Why haven't you encouraged them to accept President Trump's offers of federal assistance? And just what do you mean that we ought to all come together to demand justice? You know that Trump condemned the George Floyd killing within hours of its occurrence, yet some of your Democratic friends are acting like he kneeled on Floyd's neck himself.
It's not just Buttigieg trying to pin the violence on Trump. Indeed, the entire Democratic Party apparatus, now that it has strategically decided it better shift gears and publicly oppose the violence, is poised to blame the anarchy on Trump, not just because it is happening during his presidency but also because Democrats claim he is an evil racist who engenders an atmosphere of racism in the country.
This cynical slander of Trump and his supporters as racists has got to stop. But it won't, because it still works for Democrats politically.
The Democrats' enabling of street violence is another matter. They obviously miscalculated and are now paying a steep price.
Republicans are the party of law and order, and Democrats are the party of lawlessness and disorder. Democrats own these riots. They own this endless leftist drumbeat of hatred toward America and everything it stands for.
Unhappily for them, people have awakened to just how far left Democratic leaders are willing to go, and it's not playing well for them, including in the precious swing states they need to win back the presidency.
They can now pretend to oppose the violence until they are as blue in the face as the uniforms of the cops they demonize, but it's too late. They chose the wrong time to side with criminals torching our cities – a time when Americans are feeling particularly unsafe and insecure. No one is going to believe they didn't know exactly what they were doing, and few will buy that they've had a genuine change of heart.
Karma.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Why The Democrats Must Not Win" Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and visit his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-own-riots-cant-blame-trump-david-limbaugh
The Sick Left: Looting Goes Mainstream on NPR
By Steven Hayward | POWERLINE
With lawlessness and organized looting threatening to take down Joe Biden (which is why I've been calling the riots "spontaneous pro-Trump rallies"—have they filed their in-kind contribution reports with the FEC by the way?), we've seen leading Democrats like AOC say looting is just desperate people trying to get necessities. Like flat screen TVs and Nike shoes, though I haven't been able to find the FDA's nutritional guidance on any of these necessities.
In any case, NPR on Thursday offered an extended interview with Vicky Osterweil, author of a brand new book, In Defense of Looting. Here are some highlights from the interview:
For people who haven't read your book, how do you define looting?
When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That's the thing I'm defending. . .
Can you talk about rioting as a tactic? What are the reasons people deploy it as a strategy?
It does a number of important things. It gets people what they need for free immediately, which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage—which, during COVID times, is widely unreliable or, particularly in these communities is often not available, or it comes at great risk. That's looting's most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.
It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free. . .
Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
What are some of the most common myths and tropes that you hear about looting?
. . . one is that looters are just acting as consumers: Why are they taking flat screen TVs instead of rice and beans?Like, if they were just surviving, it'd be one thing, but they're taking liquor. All these tropes come down to claiming that the rioters and the looters don't know what they're doing. They're acting, you know, in a disorganized way, maybe an "animalistic" way. But the history of the movement for liberation in America is full of looters and rioters. They've always been a part of our movement.
What would you say to people who are concerned about essential places like grocery stores or pharmacies being attacked in those communities?
When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses. It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.
A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community.
The whole thing is a window into the mental perversion of today's left.
A lot of people are attacking NPR for featuring such an obvious nut job, but I think we should thank NPR for giving such extended exposure to a view that is widespread in the Democratic Party right now.
If ever there was an opportunity for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to have a "Sister Souljah moment," it would be right now. Anyone making book that they can do it?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/looting-goes-mainstream-on-npr.php
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Nella sua carriera vinse due volte i campionati belgi su strada, nel 1922 e nel 1924, il Giro delle Fiandre 1921 e la Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi nel 1923 e nel 1924

Carriera
Ciclista solido, particolarmente adatto alle gare del nord Europa ottenne vittorie, podi e piazzamenti di rilievo nelle principali corse in linea della sua epoca come le classiche del pavé, la Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi, lo Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen, la Parigi-Roubaix, la Parigi-Bruxelles, la Parigi-Tours, il Circuito di Parigi ed il Criterium des As. Capace, inoltre, di difendersi anche nelle brevi corse a tappe, fece suo il Giro del Belgio 1921. Sul finire di carriera si trasferì in Germania dove alternò più insistentemente l'attività di stradista a quella di pistard raggiungendo ottimi risultati nelle Sei giorni.

Palmarès

Strada

1913
Brussel-Esneux

1919
Grand Prix de Bruxelles

1919
Campionati belgi indipendenti, in linea
Bruxelles-Hoboken
Bruxelles-Liège

1920
3ª tappa Giro del Belgio
4ª tappa Giro del Belgio

1921
Giro delle Fiandre
Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen
Schaal Sels
De Drie Zustersteden - Circuit de Tres Villes Soeurs
Champion du Brabant
3ª tappa Giro del Belgio
Classifica generale Giro del Belgio
1ª tappa Paris-Djon-Lyon - Grand Prix Sporting (con Victor Leenares)

1922
Campionati belgi, Prova in linea
Jemeppe-Marche-Jemeppe
1ª tappa Circuit de Midi
2ª tappa Circuit de Midi
3ª tappa Circuit de Midi
Classifica Generale Circuit de Midi
1ª tappa Giro del Belgio
2ª tappa Giro del Belgio
3ª tappa Giro del Belgio
5ª tappa Giro del Belgio
Classifica generale Giro del Belgio
1ª tappa Paris-Saint-Etienne

1923
Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi
Circuit de Paris
Schaal Sels
Stockay - Circuit de Wallonie
1ª tappa Circuit de Champagne
2ª tappa Circuit de Champagne
Classifica Generale Circuit de Champagne
4ª tappa Giro del Belgio

1924
Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi
Campionati belgi, Prova in linea
Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen
1ª tappa Giro del Belgio
5ª tappa Giro del Belgio
3ª tappa Circuit de Midi

1925
1ª tappa Circuit de Midi
Classifica generale Circuit de Midi

1926
Rund um Leipzig
Grand Prix d'Allemagne

1927
Rund um Leipzig
Magdeburg Rundfahrt
Harzrundfahrt

1928
5ª tappa Giro del Belgio

Altri successi
1921
Criterium di Huy

1922
Criterium des As (Derny)

1927
Rund um die Hainleite-Erfurt (criterium)

Pista
1927
Sei giorni di Bruxelles (con Pierre Rielens)

Ciclocross
1921
Campionati belgi

Piazzamenti

Grandi Giri
Tour de France
1921: ritirato

Classiche monumento

Milano-Sanremo
1926: 16º

Giro delle Fiandre
1921: vincitore
1923: 21º
1924: 2º
1925: 24º

Parigi-Roubaix
1921: 4º
1923: 2º
1924: 39º
1925: 7º

Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi
1913: 5º
1923: vincitore
1924: vincitore

Collegamenti esterni

Vincitori della Liegi-Bastogne-Liegi
Vincitori del Giro delle Fiandre

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Three ingredients. Three steps. I'm big on easy, easy, easy recipes during the week, which is why I recently started posting recipes that take just a few simple ingredients and turn into a tasty dinner dish. Today's recipe for miso butternut squash soup is my newest contribution to making your life easier. Click through to see!
For this miso butternut squash soup, the only things you need are miso paste (usually found in the refrigerated section of an Asian grocery store), a whole butternut squash and chicken broth. Miso is fermented soybeans, and before you turn up your nose, it's honestly one of my favorite staple ingredients in the house. The salty-sweet density of miso paste makes it an ideal flavoring for all sorts of savory dishes. I've used miso to marinate salmon (take a step back in time and look at how basic my food photos used to be), cream into a butter to roast a chicken until it's crispy, and yes, even just make a simple, clear broth with chunks of firm tofu bobbing up and down inside.
Roasting a butternut squash is really easy. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. While the oven is heating, cut your butternut squash in half lengthwise (so that you've got two basically identical halves) and then scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Then, smear your butternut squash with a generous tablespoon of olive oil, so it gets all shiny like the dancers in Magic Mike. Next, line a baking sheet with tin foil and put the squash halves, cut side down, on the foil.
Then, I usually splash a little water into the pan, just to keep things nice and humid in the oven while the squash roasts and to keep it from drying out. You'll know your squash is done, 45-50 minutes later, when you can pierce through the skin easily with a fork. Take it out and let it cool. You can do this step ahead of time; I usually like to roast vegetables that I'll be using during the week on Sunday night while I catch up on my "stories" (i.e., reruns of "Golden Girls").
The last step in making this brilliant miso butternut squash soup is to put it all together. Scoop out that sublime, smooth butternut squash. If you've roasted it enough, it should come away easily from its skin with a spoon. If you haven't, you'll know right away, because you're struggling. If that's the case, you can still save this whole operation, but you'll just have to spend more time boiling your soup and maybe puree it in a blender later to really get a nice smooth soupy consistency.
And that the key, really, with this soup. You need plenty of stock (I usually use six cups) to really make this soup — well, a soup. I've had too many disappointing butternut squash soups in my life that come out thick and gloopy, and it's usually because there's just not enough liquid in the soup. You'll know you have enough liquid when the soup dribbles off your spoon. Mash your butternut squash, add the broth and miso paste, and bring the whole shebang to a boil. Lower it to a simmer and let it just cook for about 15-20 minutes.
The result of all of your taxing, sweaty effort is a gorgeous, shimmering soup that's deeply savory, with hints of sweetness that permeate through both the miso and the butternut squash. I love having this soup in my 'fridge during the week to reheat and serve as a "pre-dinner" for my kids. They usually start squawking for food around 5:00pm, and sometimes dinner is just not ready. This soup is like my version of dog bones out the porch door. Let 'em gnaw on something to keep 'em quiet.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius). Halve the butternut squash lengthwise and scoop out and discard the seeds. Rub olive oil all over the butternut squash.
Line a small baking sheet with foil. Place the butternut squash, cut side down, on the baking sheet. Slide the baking sheet into the oven and add about a ⅛ cup (a splash) of water to the baking sheet.
Roast the butternut squash for 40-50 minutes or until a fork pricked through the skin goes through easily. Remove the butternut squash from the oven and let cool slightly.
Scoop out the flesh of the squash and put it in the bowl of a food processor. Add a little stock (about ¼ cup to ½ cup) and puree the squash until it's nice and smooth. Add the miso paste and pulse to mix the butternut squash through.
Return the butternut squash mixture to the stove and place it in a large, deep pot. Add the chicken broth and stir to combine. Bring the soup to a boil, then lower to a simmer and simmer for about 15-20 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately with garnishes of sesame seeds.


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David Alexander Robertson (born 12 January 1977) is an Indigenous author, public speaker, and two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Robertson is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation. He has published over 25 books across a variety of genres. His first novel, The Evolution of Alice, was published in 2014.

Career
Robertson's young adult and children's works are widely used in libraries and classrooms across Canada, especially his graphic novels. His works often grapple with hard and violent histories, including the residential school system in Canada. Robertson's graphic novels include the 7 Generations series, the Tales From Big Spirit series, and Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story, which tells the true story of a young Indigenous woman who was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men in 1971.

Robertson has contributed to several anthologies, including Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings From the Land of Water and Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and two-spirit sci-fi anthology. His work has been featured in CV2 and Prairie Fire. He has written articles for the Toronto Star, CBC, and Book and Periodical Council's Freedom to Read site.

Robertson also works as Publishing & Communications Manager at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre and is writer and host of the Kíwew podcast.

Awards and nominations
Robertson was nominated for four Manitoba Book Awards in 2015, with The Evolution of Alice winning the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Author. Robertson also won the Aboriginal Circle of Educators award for Research/Curriculum development in 2015. The Evolution of Alice was shortlisted for the Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature.

In 2016, Robertson was nominated for the Beatrice Mosionier Award for Aboriginal Writer of the Year and the McNally Robinson Books for Young People Award. That same year, The Evolution of Alice was selected as the 2016 winner for On the Same Page, a joint initiative between the Winnipeg Public Library and the Winnipeg Foundation that encourages all Manitobans to read and discuss the same book. Robertson's graphic novel Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story was included on the In the Margins Official List for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 High Plains Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.

In 2017, Robertson won the Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards/GRAPHIC NOVEL Category for Will I See?, which was illustrated by GMB Chomichuk, with cover design by Relish New Brand Experience. That same year, he won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards (Younger Category) and the Governor General's Literary Award for When We Were Alone, illustrated by Julie Flett, with design by Relish New Brand Experience. When We Were Alone was also a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Robertson won the 2017 Beatrice Mosionier Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award, tied with Trevor Greyeyes.

In 2018, the first book in Robertson's Reckoner series won the McNally Robinson Best Book for Young People Award, the Manitoba Book Awards' Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction, and the Indigenous Writer of the Year Award at the 2018 High Plains Book Awards.

In 2020, Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the Manitoba Book Awards.

The Barren Grounds, which is the first book in Robertson's Misewa Saga, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in 2021 in the Young People's Literature – Text category. This text was also named one of Kirkus and Quill & Quire's best books of 2020, CBC Books' best middle-grade and young adult books of 2020, and one of Canadian Children's Book News's best books of 2020. The Barren Grounds was also shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association's Silver Birch Award and was a USBBY and Texas Lone Star selection.

In 2021, Robertson won the Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award. and Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award at the 2021 Manitoba Book Awards. His podcast, Kíwew, also won the 2021 RTDNA Prairie Region Award for Best Podcast.

His book On the Trapline, illustrated by Julie Flett, was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.

Works

Children and Young Adult Books
On the Trapline (4 May 2021)
When We Were Alone (2016)
 Strangers (The Reckoner Trilogy, Book 1) (2017)
Monsters (The Reckoner Trilogy, Book 2) (2018)
Ghosts (The Reckoner Trilogy, Book 3) (2019)
Ispík kákí péyakoyak | When We Were Alone (2020)
The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, Book One) (2020)
The Great Bear (The Misewa Saga, Book Two) (2021)
On the Trapline (2021)

Novels and Other Literature
 The Evolution of Alice (2014)
Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory (2020)

Graphic Novels
Stone (7 Generations series, Book 1) (2010)
Scars (7 Generations series, Book 2) (2010)
Ends/Begins (7 Generations series, Book 3) (2010)
The Pact (7 Generations series, Book 4) (2011)
 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga (Collected 7 Generations series) (2012)
 Sugar Falls (2012)
The Poet: Pauline Johnson (2014)
The Rebel: Gabriel Dumont (2014)
The Scout: Tommy Prince (2014)
The Land of Os: John Ramsay (2014)
The Peacemaker: Thanadelthur (2014)
The Ballad of Nancy April: Shawnadithit (2014)
Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story (2015)
The Chief: Mistahimaskwa (2016)
Will I See? (2016)
Breakdown (The Reckoner Rises, Volume 1) (2020)
Version Control (The Reckoner Rises, Volume 2) (forthcoming 2022)

Anthology Contributions

 Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings From the Land of Water (2011)
 Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and two-spirit sci-fi anthology (2016)
 This Place: 150 Years Retold (2019)
 Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias (2019)
 Take Us to a Better Place: Stories (2019)
 Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection (Vols. 1, 2, and 3) (2020)
 Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids (2021)

References

External links

Canadian male novelists
Cree people
21st-century Canadian novelists
Writers from Winnipeg
1977 births
Living people
Canadian graphic novelists
Canadian writers of young adult literature
21st-century First Nations writers
First Nations artists
21st-century Canadian male writers
First Nations novelists
Governor General's Award-winning children's writers


Blake Caldwell, a conservationist and naturalist, has always had an interest and concern for the environment. In recent years and in myriad ways, she has focused her considerable talents and efforts to the benefit of our community – on the Association's Public Works Committee, as a coastal monitor testing the water at Landings Harbor monthly under the aegis of UGA Marine Extension and most recently heading both the Development Committee and Governance Committees of Skidaway Farms. She will be honored this year with a Skidaway Audubon Environmental Stewardship Award.
Born on a working farm in Kentucky to a family rich in the traditions of farm life, she learned at an early age to appreciate nature and the land. Her grandfather raised cattle and sheep, and her father was both a doctor and a farmer who cultivated a vegetable garden and an orchard. Following somewhat in her father's professional path, Blake became a doctor and trained as a pediatrician. However she opted to specialize in epidemiology and taught tropical epidemiology to Navy physicians in Panama for several years. Her professional career mirrors the diversity of her personal interests. In 1989, she joined the Centers for Disease Control, initially as a researcher, moving later into policy and management. She retired in 2001.
Immersing herself in life at The Landings, Blake became involved with the Public Works Committee and contributed to the development of the nature trail on the island. She became a master gardener of Chatham County and began cultivating her own garden. But her profession beckoned and Blake returned to Atlanta to work at CDC for another 5 years.
Now, retired for the second time, she insists this time is for real, "I am having too much fun".
But "retirement" is merely a word for a woman as energetic and active as Blake. She has devoted her time and talents to the opening of Skidaway Farms. The Farm, a 5-year project from inception to reality, opened on February 12th. Modeled on the Hampton Island Community Garden, it is on the site of a former sod farm of The Landings Club, located off McWhorter Road. Approximately 2 fenced acres are divided into 200 plots devoted to individual farming. It is an artistic work to behold, with residents of the island farming their plots with a variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers, artisan creations and walking paths. There is an organic section for the pure of heart and a beekeeper section soon to be developed.
Skidaway Audubon is a founding partner of the farm, having contributed start up funds, as well as steering the development over the past 5 years. Donations from individuals and from Landings' organizations, as well as contributions in expertise and manpower from The Landings Association and Valley Crest, have been critical to the startup. Blake is quick to give credit to any number of people, but a successful startup needs a leader who can supply energy, teamwork, management and countless hours.
This she has done, in addition to maintaining a home in Atlanta, where her husband, is a practicing physician. True to form, Blake has cultivated a flower and vegetable garden there, right in the heart of the city, and is also active with the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Blake Caldwell, dog lover (right, at Skidaway Farms with Atticus), birder and nature enthusiast takes advantage of every opportunity to make a difference, share her passions and contribute her knowledge to enrich and improve her life and that of others. We at The Landings are fortunate to have her as our neighbor.
The Environmental Stewardship award presentation takes place following the 12th annual Skidaway Audubon Golf Tournament on May 9.


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Luke Bryan Breaks A Major Rule For His Biggest Fan
This superfan's dreams just came true.
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Country star Luke Bryan recently made a dream come true for one of his biggest fans, 88-year-old Frances Stanaway. Stanaway, who is terminally ill, got the chance to meet Bryan backstage before his concert in Kansas City, Missouri.
The meeting was arranged through the "Gift of a Day" program set up by Crossroads Hospice. Not only did Stanaway get to meet her favorite singer, but she got to do something most fans are banned from doing—give Bryan a friendly slap on the behind, as seen in the photo posted by People Magazine on Twitter below:
Luke Bryan Finally Breaks His No Butt-Touching Rule for 88-Year-Old Terminally Ill Fan https://t.co/l8CmCXXfYM
— People Magazine (@people) July 25, 2017
Bryan had to enforce the no touching rule after a few too many fans got overzealous when they got face-to-face with the star. In an interview with "Late Late Show" host James Corden, Bryan says that there are "quite a few wandering hands" during meet-and-greets, which has caused him and his team to create a "no touching of the butt" rule. But he made an exception for Stanaway!
For the occasion, Stanaway wore a custom shirt that read, "Shake it for me, Luke," a nod to his song, "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)." Stanaway was joined by her son, Vincent Sokolaski, and his wife, Linda Sokolaski. Her family says the meeting was a very special experience for her.
"This is probably the most excited she's been for six to seven months," Vincent Sokolaski told KSHB.
"She had the time of her life," her daughter-in-law Linda confirmed.
Since Bryan turned 41 on July 17, Stanaway also brought along a gift for the crooner, consisting of his favorites snacks—Lay's potato chips and a can of Topsy popcorn.
In addition to being a huge fan of his music, Stanaway thinks Bryan is pretty easy on the eyes too. When asked if she thought the crooner was good looking, she replied, "Oh heavens, yes!"
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