[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] Five people were killed in a home on the city's north side late Monday morning, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said.
Police sources said it is being investigated as an act of family violence. The victims were between the ages of 14 and 41, the chief said. The shooting occurred in a home in the 2800 block of North 12th Street.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters at the scene that a child survived the incident. Two law enforcement sources also told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the shooter spared a young child. In a 911 call, a man told dispatchers that "his family was dead," Morales said.
"Understand, this is a very tragic event," the chief said at a news briefing near the scene of the shooting.
Asked if the suspect and victims were all related, Morales said: "They are all known to each other, and that’s what we’re investigating, the relationship between all of them."
[MAIL] The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time.'
A representative for Ross told DailyMail.com that the hit and run car accident occurred in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday night, April 26 at around 11pm as she was behind the wheel of a vehicle.
The incident took place on the Old National Highway.
She succumbed to her injuries just a day later at Grady Memorial Hospital at around 10:30pm.
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I remember having my brother use the ol' 'string on the door handle tied to the tooth' trick when my baby teeth were falling out as a yoot. It was all fun & games until he went to slam the door to do the deed - just as my mom walked in - caught her square on the nose.
[Austin Statesman] The first phase of Abbott's plan to reopen the Texas economy allows all retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls to reopen at 25% capacity. Museums and libraries also can reopen with the same occupancy numbers. Also on the local TV news last night.
"This order allows all these businesses to reopen," he said. "It does not require them to do so."
But, he said, people at greater risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, such as seniors, should remain home as much as possible.
The plan also allows all licensed health care professionals to resume their practices, but licensed hospitals must reserve 15% capacity for COVID-19 patients. How sensible! For now.
Businesses in counties with five or fewer cases, which include many of Texas' rural counties, can reopen at 50% capacity on Friday, he said.
For those who say it's too soon to end the stay-at-home order, Abbott said, "You have every right to choose your own pathway in life. You have ultimate control of your own personal safety. And so, if you feel like you don't want to get out and potentially expose yourself, just continue to stay home."
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You have every right to choose your own pathway in life. You have ultimate control of your own personal safety.
Typical Texas fascist. The Democratic nightmare would be that a successful vaccine is developed, but it's developed by a bunch of researchers at the Texas Medical Center, all of of whom are straight white males, have MAGA stickers on their F-150's, own at least one long gun, and open carry.
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[NYT] The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, her family said Monday.
"She tried to do her job, and it killed her,’’ Dr. Philip Breen told the New York Times of his physician daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital amid the pandemic.
The battle-weary ER doctor, 49, was only the latest city healthcare worker to take her own life.
[Eurek Alert] Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans - as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America - using genetic network techniques.
By analysing the first 160 complete virus genomes to be sequenced from human patients, the scientists have mapped some of the original spread of the new coronavirus through its mutations, which creates different viral lineages.
"There are too many rapid mutations to neatly trace a COVID-19 family tree. We used a mathematical network algorithm to visualise all the plausible trees simultaneously," said geneticist Dr Peter Forster, lead author from the University of Cambridge.
"These techniques are mostly known for mapping the movements of prehistoric human populations through DNA. We think this is the first time they have been used to trace the infection routes of a coronavirus like COVID-19."
The team used data from virus genomes sampled from across the world between 24 December 2019 and 4 March 2020. The research revealed three distinct "variants" of COVID-19, consisting of clusters of closely related lineages, which they label 'A', 'B' and 'C'.
Forster and colleagues found that the closest type of COVID-19 to the one discovered in bats - type 'A', the "original human virus genome" - was present in Wuhan, but surprisingly was not the city's predominant virus type.
Mutated versions of 'A' were seen in Americans reported to have lived in Wuhan, and a large number of A-type viruses were found in patients from the US and Australia.
Wuhan's major virus type, 'B', was prevalent in patients from across East Asia. However, the variant didn't travel much beyond the region without further mutations - implying a "founder event" in Wuhan, or "resistance" against this type of COVID-19 outside East Asia, say researchers.
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Sincetoday's PNAS study was conducted, the research team has extended its analysis to 1,001 viral genomes. While yet to be peer-reviewed, Forster says the latest work suggests that the first infection and spread among humans of COVID-19 occurred between mid-September and early December.
We've seen the Sep-Dec start time before a the 'Burg, maybe a week or two ago.
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[Zero] For the most part, Senator Tom Cotton has been on the ball: he was one of the first to raise objections about how China has reported their coronavirus data and was calling for investigations and accountability months before others in government even knew that the virus was a threat to the U.S.
Cotton is now calling for Chinese students to no longer be able to study science and technology in the U.S. and also claims that China is likely trying to steal a vaccine from the U.S.
On Fox News Sunday morning, Cotton said: "In the middle of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual property in the world? It’s the research that our great laboratories and life science companies are doing on prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and ultimately a vaccine."
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Maybe there will actually be an opening of lots of jobs for young US scientists and mathematicians, and young Americans will find PhDs in those fields worth pursuing ... one can hope.
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#4 No it won't. You need the background.
When I was a student (in the Cretaceous) every lab was run by a tenured faculty member + lab technician. Students weren't supposed to do grunt work - but to generate original research.
About this time, somebody in USA - it started in USA and expanded, had a brilliant idea "Why pay a lab tech salary - which is fairy significant - if you can let students (who get 0, or a symbolic stipend) to perform all the grunt work? They won't complain, because they're getting a valuable degree.
Well, the first consequence was, you need a lot more students to do the same amount of work as an experienced lab tech. So they relaxed the criteria for MSc and PhD admission. Secundus, original research by students went out the window - if you're running a factory, you can't let your workers do what they wish - they must do exactly as they're told. To make long story short - today western universities produce a lot more PhDs of substantially lower quality. Most of them can't find professional work because supply exceeds the demand by a considerable degree. Which means, only dumb ones (or ones with real vocation - same thing, IMO) go for it.
Now enter Chinese science students.
(a) China has a lot of expanding universities and and PhD jobs in industry - so they don't mind.
(b) A lot of these kids are upper class (In China communist officials been intermarrying with industrialists for a generation - present day CCP is no more communist [despite what some Americans think] than your average Chamber of Commerce). They don't need a job - they already have one in the family business (on either side), all they need is a PhD from a USA university as a status symbol.
To summarize, your Chinese science student IS NOT competing with "natural born" Americans - not in Sciences (programming etc..., maybe).
p.s. Even in the "Cretaceous", majority of advanced degree science/math students were foreigners. Americans are practical people who academic degrees to earn more money (that's pure envy - I wish I was practical when it mattered).
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Chinese students usually end up as American faculty members. They often end up leaving because they cannot obtain tenure. It is hard to get sponsored research without contacts in the U.S. and without security clearances.
A large problem is rampant PC in the universities and the "politicization" of science. This politization has bastardized science.
Universities need to develop the in-house, home-grown research capabilities.
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Shut them out entirely. Wait for Pakistan to go around the restrictions and then shut them out entirely as well, make a point of it. Dare the next bastards to trade or do business with China.
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Even in the "Cretaceous", majority of advanced degree science/math students were foreigners.
Sciences are no long emphasized in our feedlot liberal brainwash public schools. No longer, "cool" HUGE problem. I'm dealing with that attitude tutoring my oldest granddaughter right now.
Remember the large push during NASA's golden age? It's gone. I suspect too that the teacher's union refuses the move. Diversity a global warming are their bread and butter. Big Corps don't want it ether. Far cheaper to hire 2nd world minions.
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Hilarious. At least g(r)omgoru touches the issue: there are no Americans to do what Asians do because..well you just have to look at mainstream culture in US and here in Europe.
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You have already several LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Korea and China preparing to output industrial capabilities of UV-C for virus sanitizing.
Will US population not buy what their own companies do not offer?
[AlAhram] Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.
Doctors in northern Italia, one of the world's hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children aged under nine with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, more common in parts of Asia.
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[BBC] The 99-year-old war veteran who has raised £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden has been honoured with a special postmark.
Royal Mail will stamp all letters with the message to celebrate Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday on Thursday.
All stamped post up until Friday will be marked with: "Happy 100th Birthday Captain Thomas Moore NHS fundraising hero 30th April 2020."
Royal Mail said it was "honoured" to issue the postmark.
World War Two veteran Capt Tom, from Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, has extended his challenge to 200 laps after he completed the first 100 laps 14 days ahead of schedule.
His initial £1,000 fundraising target was broken in about 24 hours and he has now raised more than £29m for the NHS.
[CHOSUN] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... is still sending slave labor abroad in the form of IT technicians, medical workers and football players despite global sanctions.
The regime extorts billions of U.S. dollars from them, with an estimated 70 to 90 percent going wither into the private coffers of North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... or the development of nuclear weapons and missiles.
According to a report by a UN Security Council panel, "In multiple cases, workers were not repatriated to [North Korea] but moved to a third country," and at least three North Korean footballers are in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Middle East where they earn high salaries.
Han Kwang-song, also known as the "Ronaldo of North Korea," was transferred from Italia's Juventus to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i club al-Duhail for a reported 5 million euros, while Pak Kwang-ryong and Choe Song-hyok play in the Austrian and Italian leagues.
At least 70 percent of their earnings are reportedly paid straight to North Korea while the rest is given to the North Korean Embassy in the host countries, leaving players just enough money to feed themselves.
"All these players reportedly had contract terms extending beyond the due date for repatriation," last December, according to the report. "Austria replied that its competent authorities had initiated the procedures necessary to revoke [Pak's] residence and work permit... The panel has yet to receive a reply from Italia and Qatar."
There are also North Korean IT technicians disguised as freelancers in Vietnam and Nepal. According to the UN, the North has sent at least a thousand IT technicians to work overseas, and they are estimated to be earning around US$20.4 million a year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... the UN confirmed a report in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that a bullet-proof Mercedes-Benz owned by Kim Jong-un was smuggled to the North via six countries, including South Korea's Busan.
The export of luxury cars and other products to the North is banned under UNSC resolutions.
The report said North Korea "continued to flout Security Council resolutions through illicit maritime exports of commodities, notably coal and sand." It exported 3.7 million tons of coal worth $370 million between January and August 2019, while at least 1 million tons of sand worth $22 million was illicitly shipped to China since last May.
The North also "continued to import refined petroleum through illicit ship-to-ship transfers and through illicit direct deliveries," totaling eight times more than the 500,000 barrel cap set by the UNSC.
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"Our government position is firm," said Moon's special adviser on national security Moon Chung-in, in an interview with CNN on Sunday. "Kim Jong Un is alive and well."
So there are a number of indirect indications of the lockdown in North Korea, but no hard evidence of the extent of the pandemic within North Korea. There is a tight lid on that issue.
[NKPRO] April 7, 2020 – This overview has been updated to incorporate a range of new developments since first publication, on March 26.
Since January 21, North Korea has introduced a series of increasingly hardline measures to combat COVID-19 and ensure it is prevented from entering the country.
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Those restrictions also help the security forces by preventing any sort of crowds from forming, keeping people from crossing into tother regions, and keeping local troops in their garrisons. Nice side effect is that its more difficult to pull off a coup or a separation.
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[Breitbart] Twitter and YouTube have censored AYTU BioScience, a publicly-traded Colorado-based pharmaceutical company, after it promoted ultraviolet (UV) light developed in conjunction with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus. Twitter later reversed its censorship, saying the company’s account was "mistakenly" caught in a spam filter.
AYTU is publicly traded on the NASDAQ index. In its research on UV light treatment for the coronavirus, it is working with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a major hospital in Los Angeles. The hospital was founded in 1902 and employs over 2,000 physicians.
[Bloomberg] Despite having only 11 million people, the country has reported more deaths from the disease than China. With some 57 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, it has the highest per-capita death rate in the world -- almost four times that of the U.S....
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About 95% of Covid-19 deaths in elderly care homes haven’t been diagnosed, yet Belgium makes the decision to register them based on the symptoms shown and who the people have been in contact with. The goal is to get a clearer picture of the outbreak and better target hot spots.
That might explain it, whether you think it's a good idea or nay.
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A few minutes before #3, I commented that the current numbers for Belgium from world o meter were 63 point 3 per hundred thousand.
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In what seems a very innocuous statement, the US and Russia issued a joint commemoration this weekend of the 1945 meeting of US and Russian troops on the Elbe River, saying it showed the nations "overcoming their differences in pursuit of a greater cause."
The intention is to liken the common enemy, Nazi Germany in 1945, to the current foe of the coronavirus pandemic, and suggest that the US and Russia could once again put aside differences to work together in this new crisis.
But because this is 2020, and the statement involves Russia, it necessarily became a political row almost immediately, with the statement panned both by President Trump's political rivals as a sign of his being too close to Russia, and by anti-Russia hawks who see this as Vladimir Putin trying to trick the US in some way into being less hostile.
"I am sure this was a Russian initiative," said former official Angela Stent, while Rep. Eliott Engel (D-NY) chalked it up to Trump's "bizarre infatuation with Russia's autocratic leader" and said he was "playing into Putin's hands."
Yet the coronavirus really is an opportunity for nations to put differences aside to address mutual threats. Everywhere else in the world such initiatives are being put forward, with the UN even calling for a global ceasefire to address the pandemic. It's only natural for the US and Russia to also address that possibility.
And typical grousing about that notwithstanding, a rapprochement between the US and Russia to focus on coronavirus would only be a good thing, bringing the world's two biggest nuclear powers away from tensions and seeing if there are ways to cooperate.
It is also noteworthy that the US and Russia are the two major parties to resist the UN call for a global ceasefire for the pandemic, but may still find some common ground with one another. This may suggest that the entire call for unity may not be lost on them, even if it takes some outside their comfort zone.
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Nearly four years wasted pursuing Hillary Zero Brennan Pelosi Schiff lies and nonsense about Russia. How much better off would we be today if we'd had Russia's cooperation vs China, on oil markets, against Iran... What a waste.
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^You really think the selection of Russia as the bad guy wasn't deliberate?
Just stop and think how much more traction they'd get by accusing, say Israel, of election interference.
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I'm only ten minutes into an hour long presentation. Good, common sense analysis of statistics. Pushback from the crowd, as you'd expect. I will finish the video. I'm guessing tehy'll say it's not much worse than the seasonal flu, which does not has not required restrictions.
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[Breitbart] Fox News has “cut ties” with pro-Trump personalities Diamond & Silk, who until recently appeared on the network’s online streaming network, Fox Nation, according to the Daily Beast.
The report comes after the pair appeared to muse whether Chinese coronavirus deaths in the U.S. were inflated to reflect poorly on President Donald Trump.
“What I need to know is how many people have passed away in New York, and what I need to know is: Who has the bodies?” Diamond asked during a March 30th livestream. “I need for somebody that does investigative work to call the morgues. To call the funeral homes. We need to know, because I don’t trust anything else that comes out of his mouth now… Something’s not right here. Something is off here.”
The pro-Trump personality added: “Is this being deliberately spread? Look, I’m not being a conspiracy theorist, this is real, but I’m asking my own questions. What the hell is going on?”
One unnamed source told the Daily Beast that it is unlikely the duo, whose real names are Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson, will pop up on the network in the near future.
“After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon,” the source said.
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Don't matter, FOX NEWS is becoming more like the Huffington post with all the click baits Masquerading as news. I've pretty much lost faith in Fox News as a reliable news source.
[Jewish Press] The COVID-19 novel coronavirus has accomplished an act so harsh it has not been seen since the days of September 11, 2001, the attack on America by the international Al Qaeda terrorist organization: the US Postal Service is temporarily suspending its mail delivery. Curious, coming so soon after Trump's denial of a grant/loan without raising rates for Amazon/Bulk?
Yes, there has been suspension of service for a few days here and there during the various hurricanes that strike the eastern seaboard ‐ true. But now we are talking this time about a suspension of service that spans weeks, not days.
This affects e-commerce sites like Amazon and other major internet meccas that serve to assuage the soul of the American Israeli happily setting forth on their small shopping sprees.
Now the USPS is suspending the international mail for certain destinations (not just Israel, by the way) due to service impacts related to the pandemic ‐ including Israel ‐ under the category of "Suspension Due to Unavailability of Transportation."
A service alert at the USPS International site page reads:
‐ Please refrain from mailing items addressed to ISRAEL until further notice.
‐ These service disruptions affect Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International, First-Class Mail International, First-Class Package International Service, International Priority Airmail, International Surface Air Lift, and M-Bag items.
‐ Items will be returned with "SERVICE SUSPENDED".
‐ Upon request, postage and fees will be refunded.
Mind you, "Unless otherwise noted, service suspensions to a particular country do not affect delivery of military and diplomatic mail."
ISRAEL POSTAL SERVICE: CAN'T PROMISE ‘STANDARDS'
On the Israel side of the ocean, the following applies:
The Israel Postal Service advises it will continue to process incoming and outgoing mail, giving priority to premium services such as express mail service and PRIME, and will make every effort to ensure regular distribution of mail.
However, due to government restrictions to minimize the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, the postal service can no longer guarantee service delivery standards and is invoking force majeure with respect to such standards.
Additionally, a signature is no longer required for items requiring signature upon delivery, and such items will be left at the door after being scanned and photographed to prove that delivery has been made.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[BBC] The 99-year-old war veteran who has raised £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden has been honoured with a special postmark.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Breitbart] Twitter and YouTube have censored AYTU BioScience, a publicly-traded Colorado-based pharmaceutical company, after it promoted ultraviolet (UV) light developed in conjunction with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus. Twitter later reversed its censorship, saying the company’s account was "mistakenly" caught in a spam filter.
[Breitbart] Fox News has “cut ties” with pro-Trump personalities Diamond & Silk, who until recently appeared on the network’s online streaming network, Fox Nation, according to the Daily Beast.
