The Chico Fire Department, Chico Police Department, and Butte County EMS responded to a mass casualty incident Saturday morning on Santana Court in North Chico. Two first responders from the Chico police officers were among those treated for exposure to Fentanyl or a Fentanyl-like substance during the incident.
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Cal State Chico is known as the party school.
Were talking a lot of partying and alcohol consumption.
It sounds like just alcohol is not good enough.
So let's legalize recreational marijuana state wide.
Someone must have spiked the marijuana with a powerful opiate substitute.
Of course the victims were just totally naive about what was going on.
Time for the helicopter moms to drop in and knock some sense into their snowflake children.
[All Africa] His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia says given the strong objections to the provisional results of the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called on all politicians to consider a negotiated political settlement for an all-inclusive government.
And SADC encourages all stakeholders in the DRC elections to pursue a negotiated political settlement for a government of national unity.
In his capacity as chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, President Lungu says he has spoken to leaders of SADC and the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
President Lungu has also spoken to the provisionally proclaimed winner, Mr. Felix Tsisekedi and other stakeholders within and outside of the DRC.
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[All Africa] Zim-bob-we is set for a new wave of public protests following a deepening economic crisis marked by closure of companies and skyrocketing prices of basic commodities, among them fuel.
This past weekend, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a threefold increase in the price of fuel, a scarce commodity, to $3,11 a litre (R43,01) for diesel and $3,31 petrol (R45,9).
The prices are effective immediately.
Mnangagwa attributed the increases to persistent shortfalls in the fuel market, largely blaming rampant illegal currency and fuel trading activities.
"To curb continued misuse of fuel in the country, Government, through relevant departments which include its security structures, have started on a comprehensive audit of all fuel draw-downs with a view to establishing points of leakages," he said.
The hike comes amid a major company manufacturing basic commodities announcing its closure due to the scarcity of cash in the country.
Wilmar Group announced closure on Friday citing foreign currency deficits of US$11 million (R152,24 million) to service debts.
The country's largest beverage company, Delta Corporation, has threatened to shut down in the next three weeks if the economic situation did not improve.
The Zim-bob-we National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) said the fuel increases would worsen the hardships of the poverty-stricken majority.
Zim-bob-we battles unemployment estimated at 90 percent.
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, said the party would mobilise workers and party supporters to march against the rising cost of living.
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[PRESSTV] With only 10 weeks before the punitive Brexit day, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the party will "soon" call a no-confidence motion in the government of Prime Minister Theresa May.
The party would take the measure if politicians reject Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the EU in a vote on Tuesday, Corbyn told BBC One on Sunday.
"We will table a motion of no confidence in the government at a time of our choosing, but it’s going to be soon, don’t worry about that," he said.
Pressed on the timing by the host, Andrew Marr, Corbyn added, "We’ll have the vote and then you’ll see."
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Thing is I'm not sure how many in his party have any confidence in Corbyn.
[ELUNIVERSAL] In the opinion of the firm Torino Economics, 2019 will be a year of deepening deterioration (already galloping of the economy), to such an extent that they determine that the "monetization of the deficit will continue to drive inflation, which will reach a figure close to 23,000,000%. "
In their first report of the year, they point out that there will be a "GDP contraction of 11.8%, for an accumulated fall of 51.8% since 2013."
They consider it "almost impossible" to apply measures for a "successful (economic) stabilization".
"Venezuela will continue to accumulate current account surpluses, given that it does not have access to external financing. These funds are destined to the payment of debts with China, Russia, holders of the Pdvsa 2020 bond and some ICSID arbitration processes such as the Gold Reserve, ConocoPhillips and Crystallex cases. We calculate that, in order to amortize these debts, the country paid $ 7.9 billion in 2018, which consumed a good part of the current account surplus of 2017, "they specify.
They extend that the accumulation of surpluses will be difficult after 2019, when the scarcity of foreign exchange due to the fall in oil production and the fall in prices begins to take effect.
"We expect exports to fall from $ 30.1 billion to $ 20.7 billion, a reduction of 31.2%." Maintaining the same surplus would require reducing imports by $ 10 billion, which is not possible, imports of goods and services will fall. $ 4.5 billion, according to Torino's projections, so the current account surplus will go from $ 5.7 billion in 2018 to just $ 2.4 billion this year.
"The implication of this is that Venezuela will be able to serve even less debt in 2019 than it could pay in 2018. In other words, excluding the possibility of a significant recovery in oil prices or production, we believe that Venezuela will go into default with some creditors who have so far found a way to pay them, "says the Torino Economics report.
According to AN figures, inflation closed in 2018 at 1,689,488.2%.
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How can I start up a GoFundMe account to pay for a round-trip, all-expenses paid, one-month minimum visit to Venezuela for Rep. (D-S, NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ?
She could then prepare an insightful report to Congress.
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Don't bother. Maduro would ensure that she didn't see anything bad.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] The Venezuelan intelligence service (SEBIN) on Sunday retained for two hours two correspondents from international networks covering the arrest of the opposition majority president, Juan Guaidó, denounced the press union and NGOs.
"Caracol News correspondent, Beatriz Adrián and CNN Venezuela, Osmary Hernández, were nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by the Sebin, when they reported the capture of Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly in Plaza Venezuela this 13th," the NGO Espacio Público reported.
More than an hour later both were released. "Released the news hounds Beatriz Adrián and Osmary Hernández, Sebin officials detained and kept them in their headquarters in Plaza Venezuela until they verified their documentation," confirmed the National Union of Press Workers of Venezuela on Twitter.
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Too bad the CNN guy wasn't Acosta or Don Lemon...
[ELUNIVERSAL] The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, is preparing with part of his team a series of announcements of a social, economic and political nature that he will offer this Monday, January 14 before the National Constituent Assembly (ANC).
"We are preparing everything concerning my appearance for tomorrow, January 14, before the National Constituent Assembly, that no one is hooked with hatred and lies, we are going to engage with the prosperity of Venezuela," the president wrote through his account. On twitter.
His message was accompanied by a video, in which he urged the population to be aware of each of the advertisements that will be offered for the benefit of the country, said AVN.
"Sunday of work, Sunday of preparation, I am here with part of the team preparing the delivery tomorrow of the balance of the Plan of the Fatherland and preparing a set of announcements of social, economic and political character for our people," he said in the video .
"We do not get hooked with the negatives, with the false positives, with the badness, we are going to deceive ourselves with the truth, with the good for Venezuela," he said.
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[ELUNIVERSAL] The vice president for Communication, Tourism and Culture, Jorge Rodriguez, said Sunday that the coppers who enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, will be dismissed.
He argued that the detention was done arbitrarily and the agents will be subjected to severe disciplinary measures.
In a telephone call transmitted by Venezolana de Televisión, Rodríguez stressed that it was an irregular procedure by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin).
Rodríguez rejected the dissemination of false information and denounced the installation of "false positives". He said that all this is part of a "media show" that seeks to alter "the peace of the Republic."
Hours before, Fabiana Rosales, wife of Juan Guaidó, denounced through his Twitter account that the president of the National Assembly was arrested this morning by officials of the Sebin, when he was going to an open meeting in La Guaira. The arrest took place at the El Limón neighborhood, on the Caracas - La Guaira highway.
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[Al Jazeera] Venezuelan intelligence agents have released opposition leader and congress chief Juan Guaido after briefly detaining him on the way to a political rally, a congressional official has said.
A video posted on social media appears to show the moment Guaido was pulled from a car on a highway by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) on Sunday as he was travelling out of the capital, Caracas.
While it was not possible to identify the individual in the video, his wife and opposition politicians said that he were tossed into the calaboose.
He was released about an hour later, they added.
At a rally shortly afterwards, Guaido told opposition supporters "the game has changed", the Rooters news agency reported.
"Here we are! We are not afraid!," Guaido said.
Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
the detention was an "irregular procedure" by rogue agents who wanted to help the opposition create a "media show," adding that the agents would face disciplinary action, Rooters reported.
The Lima Group - made up of a bloc of countries from the Americas including Brazil, Canada and Mexico - issued a statement condemning the "arbitrary detention".
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[Guardian] The German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has voted to campaign for the country’s exit from the European Union if its demand for reforms within the bloc are not met.
The decision on Sunday marks the first time any party has called for "Dexit" ‐ a German departure from the EU in the mould of Brexit.
If the EU is not reshaped in line with the party’s ideas "in an appropriate timeframe", Germany must leave the bloc, according to the draft manifesto for the forthcoming European parliament elections agreed by delegates at a party congress in the eastern state of Saxony.
Congress attendees also voted through a call to abolish the European parliament ‐ the very body that AfD candidates will be campaigning to join this spring.
"We see nation states as having the exclusive competence to make laws," the text said, attacking the "751 privileged members" of the present European house.
While both demands are now in the draft manifesto, a final vote later on Sunday will adopt or reject the entire campaign package. Elections for the European parliament will take place in May.
AfD was originally founded as a Eurosceptic party, but rose to its current strength and representation in Germany’s national parliament after rightwingers took over and switched its focus to opposing Islam and immigration.
[Al Jazeera] Mark Rutte said 'white wine sipping elites in Amsterdam' are not giving US President Trump a fair chance.
Rutte made the comments during an appearance on Buitenhof, a weekly TV show focused on Dutch politics that aired on Sunday.
"In this world, international structures are absolutely necessary, but sometimes it p***** me off when I hear white wine sipping elites in Amsterdam saying 'well, Trump, he is so wrong'," Rutte said.
"Why don't we make use of his presence, because he brings to attention the parts that aren't great about multilateralism, even though I am a supporter of that because the Netherlands are dependant on that same multilateralism," he added.
Shortly before those comments, Rutte also mentioned the "elites in Amsterdam" in relation to climate goals.
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Plagarism! Randy Cross first used that insult about 49er fans sitting on their hands at games. Unlike Philly fans who throw their Ripple bottles....
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Well, it depends on whether he was referring to wine-sipping-elites who are white, or elitists who sip white whine.
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By the Bay, in the day, it was gay
As they sucked up the new Chardonnay,
While today there are lines
For more interesting wines
Like, say, Fumé... er, Pouilly-Fumé.
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Unless they have barracks to go home to, they as individuals eventually have to go back to someplace among the population. They will discover the reason so many 'law enforcement' personnel in second and third world countries rather look the other way.
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Note the subplot. G36 is select fire, that is it is an actual "assault rifle" that can be fired fully automatic or semi. By labeling the G36 as "semiautomatic" (about 37 times in the article) they provide fifth column support for the idea that semi's are "assault rifles" and should be banned.
This is either a further example of media ignorance vis a vis fire arms or a further example of the lying propagandists of the global left in the MSM. I am also embracing the power of AND.
Just as if Israel were a normal country like all the others. The times, they truly are a-changing — thank you, President Trump.
[IsraelTimes] Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz arrives in Cairo to participate in a meeting about the region’s natural gas, a spokeswoman for the minister says.
In addition to Steinitz, Egyptian Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Tarek al-Molla, energy ministers from Jordan, Cyprus, and Greece and representatives of the PA and Italia will participate in the meeting, the spokeswoman adds.
Basra (IraqiNews.com) The Office of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... High Commissioner for Human Rights announced, on Sunday, that six 6 cases of liquidation and abduction were reported in the province of Basra in the year 2018.
Member of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Fadel El Gharawy, said in a brief statement that the liquidation and abduction cases in the province of Basra in 2018 reached 6 cases, including two children.
It is noteworthy that Basra Province is characterized by stable circumstances; however, it witnesses different crimes from time to time. The province is also witnessing tribal disputes that sometimes include shooting and IEDs blasts.
Cultural habits may be held in abeyance during an emergency, but now the emergency is over.
[BBC] A car dashboard that can display information, directions and points of interest as holograms was demonstrated behind closed doors at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
UK firm Envisics gave the BBC's Chris Fox an exclusive look at the technology in action.
While the system is difficult to demonstrate in action on camera, Chris said it was like something out of a futuristic movie.
The company is now hoping to see its new system adopted by car manufacturers.
Scientist who shared in discovery of DNA's double helix now discovered to know absolutely nothing about DNA's double helix. [BBC] Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles after repeating comments about race and intelligence.
In a TV programme, the pioneer in DNA studies made a reference to a view that genes cause a difference on average between blacks and whites on IQ tests.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory said the 90-year-old scientist's remarks were "unsubstantiated and reckless".
Dr Watson had made similar claims in 2007 and subsequently apologised.
He shared the Nobel in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the DNA's double helix structure.
Dr Watson sold his gold medal in 2014, saying he had been ostracised by the scientific community after his remarks about race.
He is currently in a nursing home recovering from a car accident and is said to have "very minimal" awareness of his surroundings.
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#2 So, all those CSI shows are a bunch of bunk because the 'DNA' can't show the race of the accused or deceased?
The evil twin might have done it. Dr. Bass (Dr. Bones) of "Body Farm" fame ran into a $hitstorm when he suggested that certain bone characteristics indicated race. However, this was not carried to extremes as with Dr. Watson. Can't deny the man's accomplishments although that is what is happening. A pox on PC.
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JohnQC, on the tv show Bones they routinely tell the race and sex by different bones. Not with 100% certainty but close enough to be meaningful.
The show is based on the real life work of a doctor who did the same thing and wrote a book about it. Who knows how far they stretch from reality as the show continues, hollywood is hollywood after all but still.
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Honorary Degrees show the vanity of the institution bestowing -- if they had a Monetary Gift attached they might mean something. "So what?" if they issue one, double "So What?" if they turn around and take it back.
The university town I live in had two stones featured prominently at the off ramp from the interstate showing that they were a "sister city" to a city in Mexico and a city in France. Some time during the War on Terror those stones quietly disappeared... Never heard the 'Why?' just saw that they had quietly disappeared. Fellowship seems easily lost.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[Al Jazeera] Mark Rutte said 'white wine sipping elites in Amsterdam' are not giving US President Trump a fair chance.
Thoroughbreds are little more than zoological quackery. Given the opportunity, any horse could have done what Secretariat did. 
