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Definitely a good look! Republicans to start using the same cyanide gas the Nazis used at Auschwitz. That'll show how pro-life and definitely not-fascist they are!

Arizona is taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the deadly gas used during the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps, to kill inmates on death row.

Corrections officials have refurbished a gas chamber that hasn’t been used in more than 20 years and have procured ingredients for the lethal gas, also known as Zyklon B, according to partially redacted documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices show that the state purchased a brick of potassium cyanide, sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid, and a report details the considerable efforts taken to deem the gas chamber at a prison in Florence, Ariz., “operationally ready.”

Critics of the gas method say that in addition to hydrogen cyanide’s infamous use in the mass killings of Jewish people by the Nazis, it has produced some of the most botched, disturbing executions in the United States.

In Arizona, where 115 inmates are on death row, hydrogen cyanide has been deployed before. The state has killed 37 people with lethal gas, most before 1950. Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in 1976, the state has executed two inmates with gas, most recently in 1999, according to state records.

In those cases, witnesses recounted excruciating deaths.

Convicted murderer Don Eugene Harding, who was put to death in 1992, was red-faced and gasping to breathe, his attorney James J. Belanger detailed in a written declaration. As the white fumes enveloped him, Harding twitched and jerked for minutes, longer than Belanger anticipated, the attorney wrote.

“They were the most excoriatingly painful eight minutes of my life,” Belanger wrote.

The 1999 execution of German national Walter LaGrand, who was convicted of armed robbery, took even longer, a witness noted in an account published in the Tucson Citizen. LaGrand died 18 minutes after cyanide pellets were dropped into acid below his chair, enveloping him in a mist of deadly vapor that rose, “much like steam in a shower,” the witness wrote.

After LaGrand coughed violently and fell forward, his back continued to rise and fall with shallow breaths and his head twitched for minutes before he was declared dead, according to the account.

Arizona plans to execute prisoners with a lethal gas the Nazis used at Auschwitz

61-Year-Old Woman Living Near Wuhan Lab May Have Been 'Patient Zero' - Three Weeks Before CCP Claims First Case

Three weeks before China admitted that a mysterious virus was circulating in the city of Wuhan, a 61-year-old woman who lived about a mile from several bat research facility was known as "Patient Su" at a local hospital, according to the Daily Mail.

Her identity was accidentally revealed after a leading Chinese official sent a screen-grab to a medical journal which partially revealed personal information, including the fact that she was admitted to the Rongjun Hospital in Wuhan, and "almost certainly lived in the Kaile Guiyan community on Zhuodaoquan Street, about 600 metres from the medical centre."

What's more, "Patient Su" became ill three weeks before China claimed anyone had been stricken with the novel virus.

The academic then detailed two more suspected cases reported to Wuhan doctors on November 14 and 21, along with several others before December 8 – the date that China gave to the World Health Organisation for the ‘earliest onset case’.
The Health Times article included a screenshot of the two November cases on the professor’s database. Although personal details were blurred out, some were visible, including the hospital name and home district.

They show Patient Su was treated at Rongjun Hospital in Wuhan and, given the building and street numbers, almost certainly lived in the Kaile Guiyan community on Zhuodaoquan Street, about 600 metres from the medical centre. -Daily Mail

Patient Su also lived close to a stop for the high-speed rail line believed to have played a key role in spreading the virus around the city of 11 million people, according to the report.

Both the hospital and Su's presumed residence are in the Hongshan district, where both China's CDC and a downtown site run by the Wuhan Institute of Virology were located less than a mile away. According to former lead US State Department investigator David Asher, three researchers became ill with a mysterious respiratory condition in November 2019 - with the wife of one scientist dying.

The Wall Street Journal last week reported on the three ill lab workers who ended up in the hospital - claims which Beijing furiously disputes. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has ordered a 90-day intelligence review after it was revealed that US intelligence agencies have been sitting on a 'raft' of un-analyzed intelligence gathered during the course of their investigation - largely because establishment minions wrote it off as a partisan witch hunt.

"The time has come for China to open up all its files so the world can find the truth about the origins of this pandemic," said Tom Tugendhat MP, Chairman of UK's foreign affairs committee. "We cannot protect against future risks if there is not recognition that we all need to share knowledge and learn from any mistakes."

Covering up the report

Professor Yu Chuanhua, professor of biostatistics at Wuhan University, was the one who revealed that Patient Su fell ill three weeks before the official disclosure date. According to the Daily Mail, however, China is hard at work performing yet more damage control.

Professor’s Yu’s interview with Health Times took place on the day China’s health authorities issued a silencing gag on the novel coronavirus as President Xi Jinping tried to regain control of the situation.

Yu rang the journalist within two days to retract this information, claiming the dates had been entered incorrectly and all the other suspected cases before December 8 needed verification.

The details were discovered by Gilles Demaneuf, a member of the ‘Drastic’ group of online digital activists who have uncovered many of the facts seen as contradicting the official Chinese narrative that Covid-19 was a disease that crossed over naturally from animals. -Daily Mail

"We were able to pinpoint the exact name, age and address of a very early suspected case nearly one month before the official first case," said Demaneuf, a French data scientist who works for a New Zealand bank. "That address is right next to the subway line No 2 and also not far from a People’s Liberation Army hospital that treated some of the other earliest cases."

Demaneuf argues that the new findings highlight how many more clues might be accessible if people continue to pursue the lab leak theory, rather than "wishful acceptance at face value of statements from China."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 apparently not paywalled

See also:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228

WASHINGTON—Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.

Applying Occam's razor: If the bug didn't come from the lab, why were three researchers among the earliest patients? If the bug didn't come from the lab, WHY THE GOVERNMENT COVERUP?

Ogden school employee thwarts kidnapping by pulling gun on suspect, police say

OGDEN — An armed school employee thwarted a kidnapping Tuesday after he confronted a man on a playground with his gun, according to police.

The situation started about 2:30 p.m. at an unidentified elementary school in Ogden.

Ira Cox-Berry, 41, approached and grabbed a student, an 11-year-old girl, who was playing on the playground, police said. Cox-Berry allegedly pulled the girl away as if he was trying to leave with her, but a school employee approached Cox-Berry and demanded that he leave the school.

Cox-Berry briefly let go of the girl, and the employee was able to get the children who were also nearby into a classroom, according to a police affidavit. Police say there were 19 other children nearby at the time.

Cox-Berry then approached the building and started punching a window in an apparent attempt to get inside, police said. The employee then produced a firearm and held off the man while calling 911.

Officers arrived shortly after and took Cox-Berry into custody after a short struggle, according to a statement from Ogden police.

The school employee, who was not identified, has a concealed carry permit and was lawfully in possession of the gun when the incident took place, police said.

Investigators said they haven't discovered any link between Cox-Berry and the girl. He was booked into the Weber County Jail Tuesday for investigation of child kidnapping.

Police are still investigating the incident and didn't release any other details Wednesday.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50174294/ogden-school-employee-thwarts-kidnapping-by-pulling-gun-on-suspect-police-say

Also at https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/armed-utah-teacher-stops-playground-kidnapping-attempt/

Yes, people, guns are used defensively at least 1/2 million times every year in America. Good people with guns prevent bad guys from hurting innocent people. Every day, every night, bad guys are stopped from harming victims by good people with guns.

https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/firearms/defensive-gun-uses-in-the-us/

Related further reading: https://fee.org/articles/more-people-use-a-gun-in-self-defense-each-year-than-die-in-car-accidents/

If you trust in yourself...
and believe in your dreams...
and follow your star...
you'll still get beaten by
people who spent their time
working hard
and learning things
and weren't so lazy.

-- Sir Terry Pratchett

YouTube recently took down a video of a bunch of guys having a chat wherein they say kids don't need to wear masks. Completely understandable being as the guys in question weren't proper politicians or talking heads but instead completely unqualified chuckleheads who were only medical experts from sketchy places like Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford.

I shit you not, they actually suspended a student over asking problematic questions of a lecturer rather than simply Listening and Believing. And he's not allowed back to class until he undergoes psychiatric evaluation.

Epstein did not kill himself.

An alleged sex trafficker walks into a women's event at a Trump hotel....

Oh sorry, did you think that was the beginning of a joke?

Matt Gaetz is set to headline a pro-Trump women's event at Trump's Doral resort even as a sex-trafficking investigation looms

MLB has decided that since Georgia passed racist Voter ID laws, they're moving their All-Star game over to Colorado. Which has had Voter ID laws for some time now. Maybe they don't see it as an issue since they're really good at keeping the black people run out of Colorado, so there's very few folks getting oppressed?

So let me get this straight:

Things it's racist to require ID for Things it's not racist to require ID for Voting
Gambling
Buying booze
Buying smokes
Buying pot
Drinking while in a bar
Not drinking while in a bar
Seeing naked people dance with a pole
Letting people see you dance naked with a pole
Consuming porn
Making porn
Buying a gun
Buying a fishing license
Buying a hunting license
Buying a house
Renting a house
Renting a hotel room
Buying a phone
Buying a car
Renting a car
Driving a car
Driving a boat
Adopting a dog or cat
Applying for foodstamps
Applying for welfare
Applying for social security
Applying for medicaid
Applying for medicare
Applying for unemployment
Applying for a job
Applying for a loan
Flying an airplane
Riding in an airplane
Opening a bank account
Cashing a check
Going to college

If this doesn't seem full of shit to you, you really need to take a hard look at why.