Nine dead after racist terror attack in Germany, but not much in the U.S. press https://t.co/aJ8AvAAUeW
— veto players stan account (@Convolutedname) February 20, 2020
Maybe it was just bad timing — too much domestic news here. Suspect committed suicide, after killing his mother:
Authorities Thursday confirmed the suspect behind two shootings in the central German city of Hanau, which left nine people dead and six more injured, showed signs of a “deeply racist mentality.”
Germany’s attorney general, Peter Frank, said a video and manifesto posted on the suspect’s website expressed “not only crazy thoughts and convoluted conspiracy theories, but also a deeply racist mentality.” He cited this as the reason for the attorney general’s office to take over the investigation.
Prosecutors must now “find out, if there were any other supporters or accomplices in the Hanau attacks.” Frank said prosecutors would look into the suspect’s environment and known connections, both in Germany and in other countries.
A 43-year-old German man is the prime suspect in the attacks, which took place Wednesday night at two hookah bars. His body and that of his mother were found by police in his home, bringing the total death toll to 11. A weapon was found beside the two. Police encoutered the suspect’s father uninjured, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Federal prosecutors soon took over the investigation due to the severity of the case, as this prosecutorial level primarily handles cases of crimes against the state…
In talking with eyewitnesses on the ground in Hanau, DW’s Rebecca Staudenmaier said the hookah bar where the first shooting took place was focal points for a local tight-knit Kurdish community, as well as a popular hangout for young people of all backgrounds.
Police have revealed few details about the victims. However, Yanki Pürsün, a lawmaker in the Hesse state parliament, told DW’s Turkish service that three of the victims were of Turkish descent and five had a North African background…
A gunman killed 9 at shisha bars in #Hanau, Germany, opening fire on clientele who are reported to have been predominantly Kurdish. Police believe he returned home and killed himself and his mother, leaving behind a confession expressing extreme right-wing views #GermanyShooting pic.twitter.com/QhoCxdmL9k
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) February 20, 2020
The Hanau terrorist's mind was filled with a sludge of racist, incel & conspiracist ideology. He was obsessed with nutty US conspiracies about elites killing kids in bunkers, but local xenophobic campaigns may have helped put his victims in the crosshairs. https://t.co/gw6wGLXPMt
— tim hume (@tim_hume) February 20, 2020
The far right Hanau, Germany shooter/terrorist claims in his manifesto that Trump stole his slogans: “A billionaire in the USA is implementing my policy recommendation (even some slogans I developed like 'America First, Buy American and Hire American')” https://t.co/W3TKV0pVtM
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 20, 2020
Kent
I’m not sure what there is to say.
I mean I just got nothing. German Nazis? I thought our grandfathers went over and dealt with that shit. It does seem like the Germans as a society are doing better than us in squelching this bullshit though. There was a recent video about how a soccer stadium in Germany ran a racist fan clean out of the stadium. Something I haven’t ever seen here:
https://www.oregonlive.com/soccer/2020/02/watch-german-soccer-fans-turn-on-fellow-supporter-for-racist-abuse-force-him-out-of-stadium.html
Yutsano
Jesu Christe…
Das ist alles.
Lyrebird
@Kent:
Thanks for linking that story. So amazing to see the fans standing against bigotry. Chills indeed.
I am so glad that BJ exists, and sad that here in the US of A we have creepy bigot hangers-on like the guys behind “gun girl” in this video. Link is to a Twitter account called manure Kaitlin says except without the word “manure” in it.
I will say prayers for the bereaved families in Germany. Kurdish communities all over are putting up with more than enough tragedy, horrible to have yet another one added on.
debbie
It’s perverse that a German would insist he originated bullshit slogans about making America better.
debbie
@Lyrebird:
I can’t believe there’s a Twitter account dedicated to Kaitlin Bennet!
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: And one that existed back in the 40s.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
You can’t separate “alt-right” populism/”Trumpism” with violent racism and white supremacy. This shows they’re really one and the same
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@debbie:
Fun fact about Kaitlin Bennet, aka Gun Girl. She shit herself at a college party and there’s apparently photographic evidence
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): “Alt-right” is just a name Nazi trash calls itself.
Lyrebird
@debbie: Thanks! Yeah, it’s not nearly as funny as the old web page that was devoted to Condoleeza Rice’s hair & shoe styles. Princess Sparkle Pony or something… But surely some of the difference is because gee neocon professor friend of Bush regime is actually someone with far more substance than poutrage gun nut. Sigh.
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You have an interesting definition of “fun.” ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Kids these days…
piratedan
Some relatively poignant good news… local Phoenix news station is indicating that the latest poll of the AZ Senate race has Kelly up by 7 points over Martha McSally with a MOE of 4 points. Unknown how reliable the pollster is, just passing along good news when we find it.
Steeplejack (phone)
@debbie:
To be clear, the account Lyrebird linked to is anti-Kaitlin—very much so. Lyrebird’s phrasing sort of made it sound like the account belongs to “the guys behind ‘gun girl.'”
Lyrebird
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I’m in favor of people having some privacy about embarrassing stuff their bodies do. I am so glad I didn’t even know that Charles Krauthammer had medical problems in years of reading lefty takedowns of his views.
I’d rather see that particular gun nut held to account for her foul attitudes, not an accident, but maybe I am a privacy nut. I did enjoy the TikTok anthem she inspired, which does mention the accident. Can’t find link now…
I can’t believe how her followers – not the sarcastic ones – can get all outraged about someone tossing plain water from a cup with terrorism, all the while she’s defending an administration that sprays refugee moms and babies with tear gas. Ugh.
Gotta go read the good news links here again!
Peace all
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
In other news, COVID-19 is now in Iran. Two Iranians have already died from the disease and three new cases have been reported today. Two are in Qom, where the fatalities were, with the third, a doctor according to the Iran Health Ministry, in a city called Arak which is located about 92 miles south of Qom. Sustained community transmission is what leading experts have feared all along and this may be happening in Iran as we speak.
All of this comes in a surge of cases in South Korea and Japan, a worrying development. It’s safe to say the genie’s out of the bottle. What will happen over the next few months in the ROK and Japan will be preview for what the Western world will face from COVID-19. Developing nations, particularly in Africa, will be hit the hardest.
It’s been speculated that China’s draconian containment measures are what has slowed down the spread of COVID-19. Very few nations will be able to do the same.
Hopefully, spring/summer will bring a reprieve. The big question is what will happen if/when COVID-19 returns in the fall. A vaccine will take a while to develop, even when fast-tracked.
Most people will be fine. It’s the elderly and immunocompromised I’m worried about. Also, a recent study has found that the people in their 50s and 60s and older have an increased mortality rate associated with this virus. A lot of this info comes from China, which probably affects this data because of China’s environment and lifestyle habits. However, I’m most worried about my parents, both in their late 50s and early 60s as well as my grandmother in her early 80s. My biggest fear is hospitals being overwhelmed with the severely ill (even at 20% or less, that’s still potentially a lot of people).
Additionally, the economic fallout of this virus could be worse than the virus itself. Disrupted supply chains could bring about an early recession as well as medical shortage
Edit: Iran notes more COVID-19 cases as 2 from Diamond Princess die
Ah, yes, Trump is the only one who has actually had a good response to this virus!
/reddit super-geniuses
Lyrebird
@Steeplejack (phone): Thanks Steeplejack, I am an occasional commenter but frequent foot-in-mouth putter. Yes the twitter account is there to point and mock.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@piratedan: Wow checks this out
Holy crap – McSally is below 40%.
This seems like a quality poll: it covers both landlines and cell phones and it was conducted by live callers. No internet polling, no robo polling, no landlines only polling.
Their model also gave the gop a 4% turnout advantage and she’s still under 40%.
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): “I’m luxurious at the virus! I will tell it to stop with my very good brain, or my Daddy Vladdy will smother it in Twitter bots!”
Jay
@Kent:
Portland Timbers fans and their other West Coast allies drove the MLS to lift their “both sides” ban on political symbology.
Iron Front and other “resistance” symbology is now allowed, Nazi is not, ( irrespective of the flavour of Nazi, Nazi White, Nazi Light, etc).
This came from never standing down, constant protests, teams and players having their backs, and beating the shit out of so called “Proud Boys” and other Nazi’s in the parking lot long before they could make it inside.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2019/10/18/20920019/portland-timbers-major-league-soccer-ban-iron-front-symbol
mrmoshpotato
Reese capers ad alert! FTW!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Lyrebird:
I get what you’re saying. I’ve never actually seen the pictures (thank goodness), if they exist, for what it’s worth.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@mrmoshpotato:
LOL. Viruses don’t respect national borders
Joey Maloney
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You can find that photo quite easily. It generally pops up in the replies to any of her stupider Tweets (which is all of them).
The shit is quite clear (and there is quite an impressive volume of it). The face is not. It could be her.
Just stating for the record.
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: What is this “luxurious” nonsense? Did Herr Drumpf describe himself that way?
JWR
@Lyrebird:
Don’t remember that one, (though “Sparkle Pony” does ring a bell), but I do remember a site devoted to pictures of “Angry Condoleeza Rice”. (She always looked so angry! Grrr!)
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): What if we slap it around a bit with a large trout?
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: Ok fine – classy. “I’m classy and tremendous bigly with my good brain! Not a human garbage fire who’s a damaged child!”
opiejeanne
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I have no confidence that warm weather will slow the spread, other than that people won’t be indoors as much.
I think you’re overreacting to the Covid-19 virus. Get your flu shots, have your parents and your grandma get their flu shots, and make sure they also have both pneumonia vaccines, in order to give them some resistance in case they encounter it.
And impress upon them the importance of washing their hands with soap and water, frequently. I think staying out of crowds might be a good idea, even though the virus is not spread through the air.
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: No, this is not a criticism. I just thought he had called himself luxurious at some point and I missed it. You are not the only one referring to the Resident as luxurious.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: Oh, I don’t know. But he definitely is obsessed with “luxury”.
Dump however has never said “tremendous bigly” – yet.
Ahhhh drinking a beer and thinking about what a pile of garbage is in the people’s house.
Kent
@Jay: Thanks Jay. I didn’t know of that development and I live in the Portland area. But then I only bother to go to Timbers games about once or twice a year.
Jay
joel hanes
removed, redundant
Kent
@Jay: If the House Intelligence Committee under Adam Schiff doesn’t convene and run hearings on Russian election interference every single day from the Convention until November 3, 2020 then they will be committing political malpractice. There is no other entity with the power to do it. They have to hold lonely line.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@opiejeanne:
All sound advice. Coronaviruses are susceptible to warm weather and humidity. However, I don’t think I’m overreacting. There’s a lot we don’t understand about this virus. I think it’s potentially a big threat to the world (not the end of the world, but probably economic disruption)
Actually, there’s some evidence that it may be aerosolized as well as spread through feces, blood, and other bodily fluids.
The virus has been detected in stool and blood samples in confirmed cases. It’s a very virulent disease
Jay
@Kent
the Turd Reich’s Media arms don’t cover anti-Nazi victories, even when Nazi’s invade cities much, and they tend to both sides the crap out of it or try to hype hysteria about “Antifa!!!!!!”
this sort of crap is happening all the time now in the Time of Dumph.
joel hanes
@opiejeanne:
the virus is not spread through the air
This contradicts what I’ve seen elsewhere about transmission via aerial droplets from sneezes and coughs.
Cite ?
ETA: The CDC says it appears to be spread <b>mainly</b> through aerial droplets.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html
Jay
Jay
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Recovered patients may still be infectious, South China Morning Post
NotMax
Was kind of wondering if and when someone would get around to front paging this.
Anne Laurie
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Thanks for this — I’ll add the news to tonight’s COVID-19 update post.
Saw some tweets about Iran last night, but nothing that seemed positively ‘legitimate’, and I didn’t want to spread baseless rumors.
You’re right about the economic impact, though. If you check back to the posts I do every morning (usually between 4am-5am), I’ve been linking stories about problems spreading from China (bad enough, given its size & effect on the global economy) to the rest of the world (which is discovering just how much their — our! — economies are intertwined with China’s).
I also suspect that, given your nursing training, you’re a little more keyed up about this than the rest of us. When the virus really spreads in America, it’ll hit you guys first & hardest, so it’s not like I can blame you!
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: Ok, I stand corrected. The report I saw that said it was not delivered by air was more than a month ago, so I don’t know if they just changed their minds as they were able to observe more, if the source of the report was unreliable.
opiejeanne
@Anne Laurie: The economic issues are a worry, but so are things like medical supplies that are produced in China. One that affects me is the “pen” that I use for my insulin injections, that are assembled there. I have a couple of months supply but I don’t know what it means in the long run, whether I’ll be able to get it in the future or if I’ll need to change meds and the delivery system.
Sab
@opiejeanne: Also wash your hands a lot. It does work. I never catch my husband’s intestinal bugs because I wash my hands a lot.
Last time I was in the hospital ( infected cat bite) nurse didn’t bother to do that. Freaked me out
Meant to respond to Goku.
debbie
@Steeplejack (phone):
No, t was obvious it was anti-Kaitlin. I didn’t realize how much media she has been getting.