“On September 20, a student opened fire in one of Perm State University’s buildings. The attacker has been taken into custody and his identity has been established. Charges for the murder of two or more people have been filed by the committee, which will carry out a further investigation. As a result of the tragedy, about eight people have been killed and 24 have been injured. As many as 19 of the victims suffered gunshot wounds, according to the health ministry’s latest data” – TASS.

AP: “Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon – a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters. The vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech already is available for anyone 12 and older. But with kids now back in school and the extra-contagious delta variant causing a huge jump in pediatric infections, many parents are anxiously awaiting vaccinations for their younger children. For elementary school-aged kids, Pfizer tested a much lower dose – a third of the amount that’s in each shot given now. Yet after their second dose, children ages 5 to 11 developed coronavirus-fighting antibody levels just as strong as teenagers and young adults, Dr. Bill Gruber, a Pfizer senior vice president, told the AP. The kid dosage also proved safe, with similar or fewer temporary side effects – such as sore arms, fever or achiness – that teens experience, he said. ‘I think we really hit the sweet spot,’ said Gruber, who’s also a pediatrician.”

“With strict restrictions on New York’s public places because of the covid-19 pandemic, President Jair Bolsonaro and his ministers had their first meal on American soil in the middle of the street. The president is in the United States to participate in the 76th UN General Assembly, which begins next Tuesday. In an image published by the Minister of Tourism, Gilson Machado, he appears beside Bolsonaro eating pizza on a sidewalk. With them are the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga; Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres; the Civil House, Luiz Eduardo Ramos; and the president of Caixa Econômica Federal, Pedro Guimarães.”

“With the rigidity in New York and on the part of the UN with the protocols against covid-19, the participation of Bolsonaro in the Assembly became a doubt in the last days. The Organization, however, stated that it would not require proof of vaccination from heads of state. Although the Planalto has imposed 100-year secrecy on Bolsonaro’s card – which makes it impossible to know if he has already been vaccinated against covid-19 or not – Bolsonaro claims that he did not take the vaccine and continues to defend the use of ineffective medicines against the disease” – Correio Braziliense, translated by Google and lightly edited by Naional Zero.

New York Times: “A volcano erupted Sunday on the Spanish island of La Palma, spewing lava and a thick column of smoke and prompting the authorities to evacuate thousands of residents from nearby towns. The eruption was the first in 50 years on La Palma, a resort island in the Canary archipelago popular with visitors from northern Europe. The Canary Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean, off the northwestern coast of Africa. Spain’s military said on Sunday that it would evacuate between 5,000 and 10,000 residents of villages on the edge of La Cumbre Vieja national park, as flowing lava and fires neared the surrounding farms and homes.”

“Firefighters and emergency workers were being sent from the archipelago’s larger islands, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain delayed a planned trip to New York ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, Mr. Sánchez joined members of the military’s national emergency response unit on Sunday in La Palma. The volcano erupted around 3:15 p.m., dramatically belching lava into the air and sending fiery rivers of molten lava down its sides. Scientists had warned an eruption was imminent following days of increased seismic activity in the area, including a magnitude 3.8 earthquake.”

Some sick fucking asshole dangled and then threw a one-month old baby off a 2nd story balcony in Jersey City, New Jersey on Saturday. This horrible incident was witnessed by many bystanders…

Hey, did you guys see this picture of the Taliban in paddle boats?

The Tehran Times posted this, reporting the Taliban fighters grabbed these paddle boats in Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. Not sure if this is funnier than the one with the bumper cars.

Russian spy Maria Butina, convicted in 2018 of spying for Mother Russia while she was embedded in the NRA and sleeping with some asshole Republican consultant – and QAnon asshole former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne on the side – was declared the winner in her election for a seat in Russia’s parliament on Sunday, Insider reports. Since Butina was running as member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, the election was definitely rigged and the outcome wasn’t really in doubt, though politicians over there do fuck up at cheating from time to time.

“Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections. Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his PDP-Laban party at its national convention on Sunday, saying that the Filipino people have been waiting for a change of government. ‘I am a fighter, and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring,’ Pacquiao, 42, said in his speech. ‘We need government to serve our people with integrity, compassion and transparency'” – AP.

Since the invention of the printing press, mass movements have made extensive use of new media technologies as a tool for growing the movement. Fascist messaging functions by appealing to the socially or economically frustrated, and portraying the movement as a means of escaping the real or imagined crimes of some over-arching oppressor. It appears that the model used by later movements was derived directly from observation of the rise of the Protestant Church in Europe. The rise of Protestantism across Europe was framed as a revolt against the excesses of the Catholic Church, and the movement was facilitated by Gutenberg’s creation of the printing press, use of which led to the Bible becoming the all-time best-selling book in world history. The Nazi Party of Germany and the Fascisti of Italy used radio to broadcast the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini, along with party newspapers that provided regular updates on party dogma from carefully vetted propaganda lieutenants.

“You better believe that if Donald Trump had wanted his lawyers to make up lies to the FBI to try to smear another campaign, you better believe he’d’ve been on every paper around the world,” child of a loveless father Ewic Trump proclaimed on Fox News this morning.

Ewic apparently forgets that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani did just that, sending a package of “evidence”–consisting of print outs from propaganda sites like Breitbart and Gateway Pundit–to Attorney General Bill Barr to push Barr to open an investigation into Hunter Biden in February 2020.

Three people were shot at a Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania baby shower being held at the local volunteer fire department in a dispute over gifts given to the expectant parents, KDKA CBS-2 News Pittsburgh reports.

The victims–a 23-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman and a 16-year-old teenager–were part of a group of around 25 people at the Kinloch Volunteer Fire Department building when a fight broke out among attendees Saturday night.  One of the people pulled out a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and fired three shots, hitting the three.

All three were taken to local hospitals, where their condition is unknown.  The male shooter, who has not been identified but is believed to be a relative of the family expecting the child, has been taken into custody.

Axios reports Beto O’Rourke is preparing to announce a run for Governor of Texas in 2022.

“Majorities support mask and vaccine mandates advocated by the Biden administration, as the coronavirus pandemic remains a top concern, according to the latest Fox News poll. Sizable majorities believe face masks (69%) and vaccines (65%) are effective and favor a range of mandates and requirements. The new survey, released Sunday, finds two-thirds believe schools should require masks of teachers and students (67 percent), and businesses should do the same with employees and customers (66 percent). Voters are a little less enthusiastic about vaccine mandates, but still support them for teachers (61 percent), the federal government (58 percent) and business employees (55 percent) On Sept. 9, President Biden ordered all businesses with 100 employees or more to require immunization or weekly testing. Fifty-six percent agree with this directive (41 percent oppose)” Fox News reports on the results of a Fox News branded poll.

While some may find this survey result surprising considering essentially everything they know about Fox News being by far the largest engine of cartoonish right wing propaganda in the United States, the fact is that Fox News public opinion polls are actually well-respected in the industry – rated higher by FiveThirtyEight than YouGov, Gallup, and Ipsos, among others. Why this is, we don’t know, but if we had to guess we would say Fox News’s polling department as it is now is currently one of the last vestigial components of unbiased reporting under the Fox News umbrella – and maybe not long for this world considering the election decision desk was gutted as a sacrificial offering to the MAGA cult after the infamous 2020 election night call of Arizona for Biden.

Florida’s tourism industry is collapsing, with hotels reporting massive losses and declining bookings as a result of Republican governor and wheedling Trump sycophant Ron DeSantis’s failed Covid19 response. A recent report by the American Hotel and Lodging Association shows that the state of Florida suffered a $2.5 billion decline in hotel revenues between 2019 and 2020, and is projected to suffer even greater losses in 2021.

Said the Orange God Emperor in a statement:”It is incredible that our National Guard is standing at the empty Capitol, not at our Southern Border, where the number of illegals coming into our Country is at a level that has never been seen before!”

“Fewer than 5,000 Hong Kong people from mostly pro-establishment circles began voting on Sunday for candidates to an election committee, vetted as loyal to Beijing, who will pick the city’s next China-backed leader and some of its legislature. Pro-democracy candidates are nearly absent from Hong Kong’s first election since Beijing overhauled the city’s electoral system to ensure that ‘only patriots’ rule China’s freest city. ‘The whole objective of improving the electoral system is to ensure patriots administer Hong Kong,’ Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said on Sunday morning. ‘I doubt very much that another government or country will allow the public election to their local legislature of people whose mission is to undermine the national interest or national security.’ The election committee will select 40 seats in the revamped Legislative Council in December, and choose a chief executive in March” – Reuters.

“Record. Every. Teacher.”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Watch: Scumbag Teacher Laughs While Explaining How She Disregards the Law to Continue Teaching Her Students CRT“, posted Saturday.

“A Qatar Airways charter flight left Kabul on Friday carrying 28 U.S. citizens and seven U.S. permanent residents, the latest departure from the country now under Taliban control. In a statement, State Department spokesperson Ned Price thanked Qatari authorities, who are coordinating flights out of the country, and acknowledged the role of the Taliban,” reports NPR.

Half-term Republican Alaska governor, who has been out of public office more than a decade when she took up a reality television career, Sarah Palin claims that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is embarrassing the reputation of members of Congress.

“I think it’s a shame and I think it gives Congressman… Congresswomen a bad name,” Palin opined.

“An attestation form from Conway Arkansas Regional Health System asks employees requesting a religious exemption from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate to confirm they will not use certain everyday medications, such as Benadryl, Sudafed and Tylenol, in alignment with their sincerely held religious belief,” reports Becker’s Hospital Review. “On Aug. 12, Conway Regional, which includes Conway Regional Medical Center, announced its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees, with accommodations for medical and religious exemptions. The hospital said employees requesting a medical and/or religious exemption must complete an exemption request form, and its COVID-19 vaccine exemption request policy is similar to the one it has for the flu vaccine.”

The Department of Homeland Security announced a plan to place more than 400 DHS agents and officers to the Texas border to prepare to deport thousands of Haitians who have amassed in the area of the Del Rio border crossing, straining local resources.

DHS said it has shifted 2,000 individuals to other processing centers already and it closed the border crossing station at Del Rio.  According to a DHS statement, the third step is to “secure additional transportation to accelerate the pace and increase the capacity of removal flights to Haiti and other destinations in the hemisphere within the next 72 hours.”

According to the mayor of Del Rio, more than 14,000 Haitians have encamped in Del Rio, fleeing the economic instability and infrastructure chaos of the nation that’s been devastated by earthquakes, hurricanes and corruption.