Edmund’s reign was prematurely cut short. He was at Puckle church in Gloucestershire, celebrating the feast of St. Augustine, when a man named Leof entered the hall and seated himself among the guests. This man had been banished the country for pillage, and on seeing him Edmund ordered him to withdraw. This he refused to do, and resisted all attempts to remove him, on which the king, who was naturally choleric, rose from his seat and seized the man by his long hair to drag him out. In the struggle, Leof stabbed Edmund with a dagger, inflicting a mortal blow, and he himself was instantly attacked and cut in pieces by the infuriated attendants. The body of the king was removed to Glastonbury Abbey for interment, of which place the head at that time was Dunstan, afterwards so celebrated in English annals. Thus terminated his brief reign of five years. Source: Murder of the King – English History
Biden administration stops half-million-acre Wyo oil and gas sale | WyoFile
President Joe Biden’s Jan. 27 order to pause oil and gas leasing on federal lands hit Wyoming on Friday as the BLM postponed the auction of 383 parcels covering almost half a million acres.
The leasing pause will enable a review that’s part of an all-government fight against “a profound climate crisis” exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, Biden’s order states. The BLM had scheduled the first-quarter 2021 sale of development rights on 476,506 acres for March 15 after deciding the sale would not “significantly affect the rate of change” in the environment. The agency did not say when a lease sale might be rescheduled.
The BLM’s first quarter sale last year brought in $3.4 million after energy companies leased 75 parcels covering 71,689 acres. Wyoming received about half the sale’s proceeds and will also get a share of future production royalties, if production ever occurs. The auction last year sold less than a sixth of the acreage that had been proposed for sale this March.
Source: Biden administration stops half-million-acre Wyo oil and gas sale | WyoFile
Erdoğan vows to expand fight against PKK after deaths of 13 hostages
Any excuse to gear up Turkish Genocide 2.0 again…

More than 700 alleged supporters of Kurdish militants held following failed attempt to rescue Turkish soldiers and police
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has vowed to expand operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) as the fallout from the deaths of 13 Turkish soldiers and police officers abducted by the militant group continued to reverberate at home and abroad.
The bodies of 13 victims, 12 shot in the head and one who died of a bullet wound to his shoulder, were discovered in a cave complex in Gare in Kurdish-run northern Iraq during a Turkish military operation designed to free them, officials said on Sunday. The PKK said the hostages had been killed in Turkish airstrikes.
Covid: Dutch crisis as court orders end to Covid curfew – BBC News (don’t be stupid – fix the system so fewer people die!!!)
Judges rule the measure should be lifted immediately, saying it breaches the right to free movement.
Source: Covid: Dutch crisis as court orders end to Covid curfew – BBC News
Cotton, Romney introduce bill pairing minimum wage increase with tighter citizenship verification
In his heart – Romney is still a racist…

Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Mitt Romney (Utah) announced on Tuesday that they will be introducing a bill that would increase the minimum wage while also requiring employers to verify the immigration statu…
Where Did The Flu Go? Homebound Kids Shape A Mild Season : NPR (shift from summer vacation to winter vacation and good bye thousands of flu deaths each year)
During the 2019-2020 flu season, some 400,000 people were hospitalized for the flu, with 22,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week — just ahead of the season’s usual peak — the CDC had recorded just 165 flu-related hospitalizations since October.
“Flu has been essentially nonexistent,” Dr. William Schaffner, infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said in an interview with Weekend Edition.
The mild season has benefitted from measures like masks and social distancing, he said. It helps too that, last year, a record number of people got a flu shot.
But Schaffner says there’s more to it: Kids — habitual superspreaders — are staying home.
“Children are generally thought of as having the distribution franchise for the influenza virus,” Schaffner said. “They produce much more virus, they shed more virus for longer periods of time.”
But over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, as schools went virtual and children interacted less, the chances of spreading the flu narrowed.
Source: Where Did The Flu Go? Homebound Kids Shape A Mild Season : NPR
16th Day of February – Fatcowco – (1923 – King Tutankhamun’s tomb opened)
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist.
He became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun in November 1922.

On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the sealed doorway and confirmed it led to a burial chamber, containing the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
Tutankhamun’s tomb is famous because of the treasures it held intact for over three thousand years, it is the best-preserved pharaonic tomb found in the Valley of the Kings.
Source: 16th Day of February – Fatcowco
The sultan and his sycophants: Erdoğan is leading Turkey towards a bleak future
The appointment of a controversial new rector to Boğaziçi University is typical of the president’s poor leadership
The appointment of a controversial new rector to Boğaziçi University is typical of the president’s poor leadership
Biden administration increases weekly Covid vaccine shipments to states and pharmacies

Squeezed out of the race for Western vaccines, developing countries turn to China

The Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are less effective than their Western counterparts, which probably will delay recovery in the developing world.
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