CDC issues Level 2 Cuba travel alert as chikungunya outbreak spreads—an affliction leaving victims bedridden for months.

AP

{Daily Mail 29 September}:

Americans are being advised to practice caution when traveling to a Caribbean island because of an outbreak of a deadly virus.

The CDC has placed a Level 2 travel warning on Cuba after local officials raised the alarm over an outbreak of chikungunya virus, a painful viral infection that can leave victims bedridden for months.

The disease is spread by mosquitoes, with patients suffering a sudden fever and then joint pain in the hands and feet that can be so severe that sufferers are left unable to walk for months. In rare cases, the disease can be fatal.

Officials in Cuba have not revealed how many people are infected, but say that the outbreak is focused in Matanzas province, 60 miles east of Havana. There have been no deaths reported so far.

It is not clear what prompted the CDC advisory, but the alert comes just days after US health officials began investigating a possible locally acquired case of chikungunya on Long Island, New York, the first ever detected in the state.

The infection was detected in a woman who said she had not recently traveled off the island, home to more than eight million people and the celebrity-loved Hamptons.

And amid a surging outbreak of the disease in South America, with health officials at the Pan American Health Organization warning that Brazil, with 210,000 cases, is among the worst affected.

Globally, more than 317,000 cases and 135 deaths involving the virus have been detected this year, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which tracks international figures. In 2024, there were 620,000 cases and 213 deaths.

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Yet more Russian mothers to have their sons slaughtered, with Putin ordering the largest conscription drive in nine years

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the conscription of 135,000 men by the end of 2025, the largest conscription drive in nine years.” {The Moscow Times 29 September}

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From Ryder Cup to ruin: bearing witness to a country’s self-caricature

Reuters

{The Guardian 28 September} Bryan Armen Graham: ‘US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America’

A nation of overgrown children, beset by pathetic Daddy issues and divested of courtesy and basic civility. The former United States have become the world’s laughing-stock, yet, like pigeons, Americans befoul every ground upon which they tread and strut as though possessed of innate superiority. I state, unequivocally, that I desire no share in a universe populated by such people, still less to remain marooned behind enemy lines. I would be gone already had I the requisite capital; and, as I have said before, I shall ever despise myself for not foreseeing this collapse a quarter-century ago. Had I known, I would have devoted myself solely to amassing the means of escape, rather than to the puerile follies in which my idiot peers and I were then engrossed.

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Teenager charged with setting fire, unlawful entry, at a Beverly, MA, church

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{NBC Boston 29 September} Pilgrim Cumberland Presbyterian Church fire

At this very moment, something especially grievous is unfolding within the psyches of adolescent boys and young men, and the consequences for society are already revealing themselves in forms ever more grotesque and alarming. Merely observe who their role models are, and it is scarcely surprising that juvenile delinquency—among boys especially—is soaring within this decaying nation. It shall grow yet more grievous with every passing day, and I shall persist in chronicling this decay until, at last and mercifully, I am released from this wretched planet and its denizens.

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Fed-up

Time to get this blog back up and running in earnest, as relying solely on social media for anything is foolhardy and dangerous. Especially bloody Facebook. Screw that company to all Hell. 

Am presently of a particularly rarefied order of fury—and without a drop of drink in me. Many should count themselves fortunate that, though I have instilled the fear of God in some when necessity demanded, I am neither psychopath nor sociopath, nor, indeed, a murderer. No matter; in these accursed years nothing is appreciated. I know I am thrashing a carcass long dead, yet I fully intend to proclaim my sentiments to the entire world for as long as I must endure this thankless existence. —Arthur Newhook, 29 September 2025.

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