Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
(Orders audit to find 700,000 men currently on the books but nowhere to be found)
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WP ^
| 3/4/24 | Siobhan O’Grady
KYIV — Even as he promises international partners that Ukraine will handle the fighting if given needed weapons and other support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top military commanders have failed so far to come up with a clear plan to conscript or recruit many thousands of new soldiers critically needed to
defend against Russia’s continuing attacks. The quandary over how to fill the ranks has confronted Zelensky with perhaps the greatest challenge to his leadership since the start of the February 2022 invasion. The lack of a clear mobilization strategy — or even agreement on how many more troops...
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Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
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The Washington Post ^
| March 4, 2024 | Siobhán O'Grady, Serhii Korolchuk
Even as he promises international partners that Ukraine will handle the fighting if given needed weapons and other support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top military commanders have failed so far to come up with a clear plan to conscript or recruit many thousands of new soldiers critically needed to defend against
Russia’s continuing attacks. Zelensky’s inability to forge a political consensus on a mobilization strategy — despite months of warnings about a severe shortage of qualified troops on the front — has fueled deep divisions in Ukraine’s parliament and more broadly in Ukrainian society. It has left the military...
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House Committees Subpoena Records of Biden's Hur Interview, Now Team Joe Is in a Deep Bind
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Red State ^
| 02/27/2024 | Nick Arama
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) just upped the ante on Joe Biden.They have now subpoenaed the records of the interview that Biden did with Special Counsel Robert Hur's team. 🚨 BREAKING: Chairmen Comer and Jordan are subpoenaing the DOJ for Special Counsel
Hur’s Joe Biden interview records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files. pic.twitter.com/Zwy9uwhAEa— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2024That was after the DOJ failed to comply with the Committee's (voluntary) request for the documents. 🚨 BREAKING: Chairmen Comer and Jordan are subpoenaing the DOJ for Special Counsel Hur’s...
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In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas
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The New York Times ^
| Jan. 20, 2024 | Ronen Bergman and Patrick Kingsley
After more than 100 days of war, Israel’s limited progress in dismantling Hamas has raised doubts within the military’s high command about the near-term feasibility of achieving the country’s principal wartime objectives: eradicating Hamas and also liberating the Israeli hostages still in Gaza. Israel has established control over a smaller part of
Gaza at this point in the war than it originally envisaged in battle plans from the start of the invasion, which were reviewed by The New York Times. That slower than expected pace has led some commanders to privately express their frustrations over the civilian government’s strategy for...
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Ask Ethan: Why don’t neutrons bind together?
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Big Think ^
| NOVEMBER 10, 2023 | Ethan Siegel
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there's no stable "neutronium" at all. But
what's the reason why? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In theory, any type of baryon, or entity made of three quarks, can bind together to any other type of baryon. However, while protons-and-neutrons can bind together to form stable bound states (like atomic nuclei), neutrons-and-neutrons and protons-and-protons do not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KEY TAKEAWAYS Here in our Universe, all atomic nuclei, stable and unstable, are made up of protons and neutrons, with light nuclei often having equal amounts of both and heavier nuclei having more neutrons than protons....
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The IRS Went Down to Georgia to Steal an Election: The Democrats were in a bind, falling behind and looking to make a steal.
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Frontpage Mag ^
| 04/08/2023 | Daniel Greenfield
An estimated 3.5 million people voted in the Georgia Senate runoff election. State
Voices, a leftist nonprofit, claimed that it had made 3 million voter contacts for the runoff. ProGeorgia, the local partner for State Voices, bragged of having conducted “31,000 face-to-face conversations, 10 million texts, and 133,000 phone conversations” and of registering “tens of thousands for the midterm election” so that “voters of color turned out in early voting at higher levels than their white counterparts”. Such an outcome was inherently partisan and could and only did benefit one particular party: the Democrats. While such claims are commonplace among...
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Biden just put Obama in a delightfully serious bind
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American Thinker ^
| 10 Jan, 2023 | Andrea Widburg
The headline is delicious: Vice President Biden left the White House taking classified documents with him. However,
what’s really lovely is the problem this creates for Obama: After all, he’s the only one who can rescue Biden but, by doing so, he will completely exonerate Trump of the charges that the latter violated national security laws by taking documents with him when he left the White House. Both Rajan Laad and Howard J. Warner have ably covered the factual issues surrounding the news that Biden took classified documents with him when he left the Vice President’s office. They addressed how...
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White House in bind as Archives nears release of Hunter Biden, Burisma emails
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NY Post ^
| 12/16/2022 | Mark Moore
The Biden administration faces a difficult decision early next year — whether to block the National Archives from releasing hundreds of Obama-era documents related to first son Hunter Biden and his relationship with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while Joe Biden was vice president. The
White House has been mum about whether it will invoke executive privilege to stop papers from becoming public Feb. 28, 2023, Insider reports. The records include 69 images and 260 email messages that mention Burisma and date back to 2014, when Hunter, now 52, had a lucrative seat on the company’s board — a shady...
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EXCLUSIVE: Hunter's ties that bind: Chinese business partner of president's son is pictured raising a glass with Vladimir Putin in 2017 - as texts reveal he was given the green light by President Xi Jinping - '#1' - to cement oil deal with the Bidens
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 10/31/2022 | JOSH BOSWELL
Newly unearthed photos show the Biden family's Chinese business partner meeting with Vladimir Putin. Zang Jianjun was executive director of Chinese oil giant CEFC, which partnered with Joe Biden's brother Jim and son Hunter on a deal that earned the First Family millions of dollars. Text
messages obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Zang was in close contact with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that the Chinese leader gave the green light for his partnership with the Bidens. Zang even traveled to Moscow with Xi and met with Putin while brokering a massive $9.1billion deal to buy a share of the Russian...
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Biden in a no-win Saudi oil bind
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Asia Times ^
US President Joe Biden is trying to figure out how to placate Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and get his country to produce more oil. Biden,
under domestic criticism for high inflation, needs to somehow lower the price of oil. Saudi Arabia has more on hand than anyone. But getting Saudi help will be hard. Biden once called the kingdom a “pariah.” A US intelligence report effectively labeled Prince Mohammed a murderer for overseeing the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. ... It’s a conundrum at the collision of two competing foreign policy desires:...
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California mom takes legal action against school district 'after two teachers secretly manipulated her daughter, 11, into believing she was a transgender boy and gave tips on how to bind her breasts'
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Daily Mail ^
| 24 Jan 22 | ANDREA CAVALLIER
A California mother is taking legal action against a school district, claiming that two teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into believing she was a transgender boy. Jessica
Konen filed a legal claim against Spreckels Union School District last Wednesday - with that claim a likely precursor to a lawsuit. She alleges that Buena Vista Middle School teachers Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki 'planted a seed' in her daughter's head that she was bisexual, then went on to convince the youngster that she was actually a transgender boy. Konen also claims that Caldeira and Baraki - who ran the school's...
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The Latakia doctrine puts Russia in a bind - analysis
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Jerusalem Post ^
| 29 December 2021 | SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Two airstrikes on the key port of Latakia, Syria, in the same month have raised eyebrows. A
report in The Wall Street Journal noted not only that Syria has accused Israel of the strike on the port this week, but also that a US official indicated that the Iranian presence at the facility “put a big target on civilian infrastructure that would not be targeted otherwise.” The fires at the port burned throughout the day on December 28, showing that whatever was destroyed at the port was flammable and likely composed of munitions or other dangerous cargo transported from Iran...
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Antibodies from original strain COVID-19 infection don't bind to variants (Spike-only antibodies fail)
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Medical XPress / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Nature Communications ^
| Sept. 20, 2021 | Liz Ahlberg Touchstone / Timothy J. C. Tan et al
People infected with the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 early in the pandemic produced a consistent antibody response, making two main groups of antibodies to bind to the spike protein on the virus's outer surface. However,
those antibodies don't bind well to newer variants, a new study found. "Antibody response is quite relevant to everything from understanding natural infection and how we recover from infection to vaccine design. The body has the capability to produce diverse antibody responses—it's estimated we could make a trillion different antibodies. So when you see people are making quite similar antibodies to...
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Biden Downplays Inflation, Predicts Businesses Will Be In 'Bind' Over Labor Shortages, Then Has Brain Freeze
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Libertarian Hub ^
| 07/22/2021
President Joe Biden waved off long-term inflation concerns on Wednesday, telling a CNN town hall in Cincinnati that it won't persist as the economy emerges from the pandemic."There will be near-term inflation" because the economy is recovering, he said, adding that 'most economists' think "it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to be
long-term inflation that’s going to get out of hand."Biden: Our multi trillion dollar spending bills “will reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation" pic.twitter.com/NcKVVaBxxZ — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 22, 2021He then cautioned restaurant owners and others in the hospitality sector that recovery may not be swift - telling...
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“Nanodecoys” – Made From Human Lung Spheroid Cells – Bind and Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Virus
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https://scitechdaily.com ^
| By NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | JUNE 24, 2021
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image
captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID ======================================== Nanodecoys made from human lung spheroid cells (LSCs) can bind to and neutralize SARS-CoV-2, promoting viral clearance and reducing lung injury in a macaque model of COVID-19. By mimicking the receptor that the virus binds to rather than targeting the virus itself, nanodecoy therapy could remain effective against emerging variants of the virus. SARS-CoV-2 enters a cell when its spike protein binds to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor on the...
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Cities in Bind as Turmoil Spreads Far Beyond Portland (NYT alert)
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New York Times ^
| July 27, 2020 | Mike Baker, Thomas Fuller and Shane Goldmacher
SEATTLE — A series of strident new protests over police misconduct rattled cities across the country over the weekend, creating a new dilemma for state and local leaders who had succeeded in easing some of the turbulence in their streets until a showdown over the use of federal agents in Oregon stirred
fresh outrage. With some demonstrators embracing destructive protest methods and police often using aggressive tactics to subdue both them and others who are demonstrating peacefully, the scenes on Saturday night in places like Seattle, Oakland, Calif., and Los Angeles recalled the volatile early days of the protests after...
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New York Times In A Bind: Investigation Reveals Ancestors of New York Times Family Included Slave Owners, Confederate Supporters
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Breitbart ^
| July 19, 2020 | Joel B. Pollak
Michael Goodwin of the New York Post published an extensive investigative article on Sunday claiming that ancestral members of the family that owns the New York Times likely included slaveowners. Moreover,
Goodwin recounted, the extended family also included members who fought for the Confederacy; contributed to Confederate memorials after the Civil War; and perhaps even engaged in the slave trade.
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Coronavirus-Tracking Rules Put Apps in Privacy Bind
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Govt Tech ^
| May 14, 2020 | GERRIT DE VYNCK, NATALIA DROZDIAK AND HELENE FOUQUET,
(TNS) — From France to Australia to North Dakota, government apps designed to help authorities track and slow the spread of COVID-19 are struggling to accomplish their goals because of restrictions on data collection built into smartphones by Apple Inc. and Google. That’s leaving public health officials with few options but to
use a system designed by Apple and Google themselves. The tech companies say their tools preserve privacy and work seamlessly on devices used by some 3 billion people. Here’s the rub: Those same privacy features lock authorities out of collecting information they can use to track the broader...
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Mouthwash could protect against COVID-19 by destroying the outer layer of fat the virus uses to bind to human cells, scientists suggest
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The Daily Mail ^
| May 14, 2020 | Jonathan Chadwick
Scientists urge 'immediate study' of oral rinses during the COVID-19 pandemic They virus's protective membrane could be damaged by mouthwash chemicals The virus and health specialists stressed that their theory has not been tested Rather it's calling for research based on current evidence about other viruses WHO says there is no
evidence that mouthwash prevents coronavirus infection Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19 Mouthwash has the potential to protect against COVID-19 infection by killing the coronavirus before it can infect human cells, according to a new report. Coronaviruses belong to the class of 'enveloped viruses', meaning they...
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Iran's 'Death to America' Ayatollahs in an Epidemic Bind
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Townhall.com ^
| March 4, 2020 | Austin Bay
In a Feb. 28 press statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a remarkable offer. America
"stands with the people of Iran during the public health crisis caused by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)," the statement said. The U.S. government "is prepared to assist the Iranian people in their response efforts." The ayatollah regime quickly rejected the offer, calling it "a political-psychological game." Pompeo's offer certainly had a public relations facet. It all but said for the dictatorship to step aside and let those who can do. But to cynically dismiss the offer as mere public relations...
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