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The blaze was started deliberately Friday night at about 8.30pm on the ninth floor of the jail - nicknamed 'The Tombs' - in Lower Manhattan.
FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Schiralli said that inmates had started a trash fire and that two or three cells had been involved, ABC 7 reported.

Members of conservative civic groups march down a street during an anti-government protest, as concerns over a fresh wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases grow, in central Seoul, South Korea, August 15, 2020.
For the second day in a row in over four months, the country has reported a sudden jump in locally transmitted cases, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.
The KCDC reported 166 new cases as of Friday, of which 155 were domestic, prompting authorities to re-introduce anti-virus measures as they worried about the spectre of a fresh wave of the disease.
According to Sky News, the 242-year old retailer has appointed advisory firm Hilco Capital, to help it unwind its operations if a sales offer falls through.
Debenhams has been in administration since April, when the coronavirus-related lockdown had a chilling effect on the UK's retail industry.
Comment: While the UK economy was slipping into a depression even before the lockdown, tyrannical government action has pushed it even closer to the brink of collapse:
- Top economists warn the UK not to repeat austerity after the lockdown
- UK's grim economic forecast: Lockdown to depress GDP till 2024, unemployment to double
- UK facing 'significant recession', says British Chancellor whose govt caused it
If you're looking to sit back and laugh at the irreverent 'Blazing Saddles' on HBO Max, you'll first have to sit through being talked to like a grade schooler.
Just as a trigger warning was added to 'Gone with the Wind' to warn viewers that a movie taking place during the American Civil War may not contain characters that fully live up to today's woke standards, 'Blazing Saddles' - a Western satire about a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) and an hard-drinking gunfighter (Gene Wilder) battling both racism and railroad thugs in a frontier town - has been stamped with a disclaimer.
The movie itself is a good hour and a half long, but plan on an extra three minutes so Turner Classic Movies host and University of Chicago cinema and media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart can explain to you how satire works.
Yet few seem to have noticed, while we fret about whether reopening schools, bars and so on will cause a second wave of Covid-19, that flu is killing five times as many people in England and Wales. In the week ending 31 July, these are the Office for National Statistics tallies for cause of death (as measured by mentions on death certificates): influenza and pneumonia, 928; Covid-19, 193. This is nothing new: more people have been dying of flu than Covid-19 since the middle of June.
Comment: In fact, they have already more or less stopped with the death tolls and now just publish climbing 'infection rates' (mainly due to the widespread testing now happening) since showing them together demonstrates this disease is not as deadly as claimed to be. See also:
- The most dangerous thing about Coronavirus is the news about it
- The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media?
- Physicians for Informed Consent say infection fatality rate of covid-19 is 0.26 percent
- Sweden unveils promising covid-19 data as new cases plunge
That has led to a sharp rebuke from the head of the team that developed the solution. Alexander Gintsburg, of the Gamaleya Institute, explained to the TASS news agency that doctors who refuse the vaccination must understand the consequences. According to Gintsburg, if medical professionals reject the vaccine, the only way for them to get antibodies is to "get severely sick, because the mild form does not give long-term protection."
"Catching a severe form of Covid-19 is likely to have consequences for the rest of one's life and, in a certain number of cases, as doctors know, death," Gintsburg added. "Therefore, there's a choice: refuse to be vaccinated and follow this path, or get the vaccine. "
Of the more than three thousand participants in the survey ... only 24.5 percent said they'd agree to vaccination, with many worried at the pace of development and the lack of data proving its efficacy. Meanwhile, 48 percent of respondents were wary that the vaccine had been created in such a short time, with only 20 percent saying they'd recommend the vaccination to patients, colleagues, and acquaintances. Of those surveyed, 66 percent said there was insufficient data on its effectiveness.
Comment: Legitimate concerns, however, how much of it comes from western propaganda?
Comment: See also:
- Russia's approval of a COVID-19 vaccine is less than meets the press release
- How Russia won race for Covid-19 vaccine: Decades of research, not political power plays
- The "Russian hacking" of UK vaccine research: The story that reveals the reality of the government's COVID 19 response
A collapse of major chunks of the economy is widely viewed as "impossible" because the federal government can borrow and spend unlimited amounts of money because the Federal Reserve can create unlimited amounts of money: the government borrows $1 trillion by selling $1 trillion in Treasury bonds, the Fed prints $1 trillion dollars to buy the bonds. Rinse and repeat to near-infinity.
With this cheery wind at their backs, conventional pundits are predicting super-rebounds in auto sales and other consumption as consumers weary of Covid-19 and anxious to blow their recent savings borrow and spend like no tomorrow.
As for the 30+ million unemployed--they don't matter. Conventional analysts write them off because they weren't big drivers of "growth" anyways -- they didn't have big, secure salaries and ample wealth/credit lines.
What this happy confidence in near-infinite money-printing and V-shaped spending orgies overlooks is what I've termed denormalization, an implosion of the Old Normal so complete that the expected minor adjustment to a New Normal is no longer possible.
The "New Normal" Is De-Normalization
Comment: See also:
- Slow-moving train wreck of post-Covid economy: Is this all happening by design?
- Adapt 2030: Collapse the economy rebuild the world with a new power system
- Lockdown wipes out US economy, contracts by worst-ever 32.9% in Q2
- Brace for impact: Federal Reserve is driving economy towards cliff edge
- Britain's economy paralysed by lockdown, GDP plunges by a record 20% - three times greater than the crash of 2008
"A criminal hacker group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDS) on 19 June 2020 conducted a hack-and-leak operation targeting federal, state, and local law enforcement databases, probably in support of or in response to nationwide protests stemming from the death of George Floyd," the bulletin reads. "DDS leaked ten years of data from 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement training and support resources around the globe, according to initial media and DHS reporting. DDS previously conducted hack-and-leak activity against the Russian Government."
The document was obtained by Lucy Parsons Lab researcher Brian Waters through an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request with the Cook County Sheriff's Office.
Overall, 52% of U.S. adults say it is very or somewhat important that companies and organizations make public statements about political or social issues, while a similar share (48%) say this is not too or not at all important, according to the July 13-19 survey.
Americans' views vary substantially by race and ethnicity. While most Black (75%), Asian (70%) and Hispanic adults (66%) say it is at least somewhat important that companies and organizations release statements about political or social issues, this share falls to 42% among white adults.
Nick Cave is the latest celeb to come out against cancel culture with a typically well written criticism of one of the 21st century's more ugly pastimes. The Aussie singer was answering letters from fans on his Red Right Hand Files website when the topic arose. Responding to a couple from Florence, Italy, the Bad Seeds frontman took down cancel culture, branding it a "bad religion run amuck."
Cave wrote: "As far as I can see, cancel culture is mercy's antithesis. Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world. Its once honourable attempt to reimagine our society in a more equitable way now embodies all the worst aspects that religion has to offer (and none of the beauty) — moral certainty and self-righteousness shorn even of the capacity for redemption. It has become quite literally, bad religion run amuck."
Comment: The basis for reimagining society need first to be founded on a well informed world-view about history, cultural development and disintegration, human nature, health, pathology, economics, science, ideology, religion, and so on. There are many factors that relate to the structure of our social structures, but political correctness is a faulty way because it doesn't seek to understand them. It doesn't pursue depth of meaning or truth, instead it relies on human reactions and impressions based on miniscule information to determine what it 'right' or 'wrong'. Its attempts at restructuring society toward equality have only been honorable in the most shallow version of the word. PC culture has the ability to spread quickly precisely because it does not take the time to understand the world or specific situations from multiple angles. It's one-sided nature blocks access toward charity and discernment while reinforcing its merciless moral certainty.
Comment: Perhaps one of the basic things millennials have lacked is the personal growth that comes by experiencing risks, learning boundaries, and discovering higher values independent from the herd. To be fair, this doesn't just relate to millennials or Generation Z. Earlier generations clearly lack these things too, and the snowball effect is clear. Today, we see so many seeming adults who refuse to grow up through their adaptation of their children's culture, and their refusal to take responsibility for their own lives by depending on 'the authorities' to tell them what to think and what to do. Older societies have their issues for their time, but at least they weren't so incredibly centered around the severe lack of actual adults to handle these problems.















Comment: ...and it's where Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell is being held.
Was this a jailbreak disguised as a fire?
We know it's generally inappropriate to speculate, but we're talking here about the jail where the 'suicide' of the most high-profile inmate in the United States took place last summer...