[TargetLiberty] The dotted line on the above map (in link)
indicates the current trend of beds needed for COVID-19 in New York.
At present, only 18,279 are in use.
The professional forecasters all projected that beds would be a multiple of the beds actually needed.
Notice not one model came in under the actual number. These are all professional fearmongers who alarmed the country about a virus that appears to be in line with a severe flu season.
Can they really be that incompetent?
Some may be but I called the evil Tony Fauci out a month ago on his phony projections: Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Lying to Congress and the American People? He knows better.
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Living on the outskirts of a community of Lexus driving, yuppie movie set transients, social distancing is hardly a curse. I've expanded my minimum distancing to 25m wherever possible.
To help ensure social isolation, I've begun wearing paint splattered T-shirts, trousers and Keens with white socks. That along with my aging F-150 conveyance works nearly as well as a Hansen's Disease sammich board.
#5
As I had suspected. Global warming or climate change models foretold this outcome as well. Peters wolf was at it again. Duck and cover over reaction.
#7
Science has morphed from the disciplined application of the scientific method to that of building models to support a particular narrative or meme for political advantage.
(Reuters) - More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD.O), according to new data based on patient observation.
The analysis, published on Friday by the New England Journal of Medicine, does not detail what other treatments the 61 hospitalized patients were given and data on eight of them were not included ‐ in one case because of a dosing error.
The paper’s author called the findings "hopeful," but cautioned that it is difficult to interpret the results since they do not include comparison to a control group, as would be the case in a randomized clinical trial. In addition, the patient numbers were small, the details being disclosed are limited, and the follow-up time was relatively short.
There are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.
Gilead last month sharply limited its compassionate use program for remdesivir and is conducting its own clinical trials of the antiviral drug, with results expected in coming weeks. Researchers in China as well as the U.S. National Institutes of Health are also testing the drug in COVID-19 patients.
The new analysis includes patients in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan who received a 10-day course of intravenous remdesivir.
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Funny how experimental drugs associated with Big Pharma seem to get plenty of coverage in the media but 70-year-old drugs such as [hydroxy]chloroquine that won't make Big Pharma any money get de-emphasized if not attacked despite multiple success stories that have been reported around the world.
[FOX] President Trump said Pfizer’s efforts to develop COVID-19 treatments have shown "encouraging signs."
Pfizer has been working to develop an antiviral compound to treat the coronavirus as well as a vaccine to prevent infection and other therapies. The company announced Thursday that it would perform pre-clinical studies on its antiviral compound and that it was investing in preparation for a possible clinical study later this year.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Chinese control of the pharmaceutical supply chain was a national security threat and that the United States must use its military to confront China around the world.
"Look at what they've been able to do with respect to supply chains," Cheney said Thursday morning on the Hugh Hewitt Show. "That is in and of itself a national security threat: The extent to which they now produce so many of the pharmaceuticals that we need, produce so many of the components that go into pharmaceuticals that are produced in other countries, and the real national security threat that poses."
Cheney said that Chinese cyberattacks on the United States, combined with China's control of pharmaceutical production, have led to a "nightmare scenario" in which the authoritarian regime has access to vital classified information while the United States is unable to produce life-saving medicine on its own.
She added that the United States needs to maintain its military dominance to guard against the Chinese government.
"We have to move that supply chain out of China while we also are combating them from a military perspective around the world and, frankly, in space as well," Cheney said.
China's role in causing the coronavirus pandemic sparked a reevaluation of the country's place in the international community.
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) introduced a resolution in March condemning the Chinese government's suppression of information about the coronavirus and refusal to cooperate with health authorities.
Other GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), called for an investigation into China's handling of the crisis.
[Huffpooo] Barack Obama has slammed the decision to go ahead with this week’s election in Wisconsin, which forced thousands of people out to the polls amid a statewide stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
The former president, in a Twitter thread on Friday, described the vote as a "debacle" and said "no one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy."
"Everyone should have the right to vote safely, and we have the power to make that happen. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue," Obama said in a second post, adding in a third: "Let’s not use the tragedy of a pandemic to compromise our democracy. Check the facts of vote by mail."
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The good news for Barry is that if he intends to vote by mail, he's got until 2022 to make up his mind.
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Is it any coincidence that the only ex-presidents in recent US history to intervene in subsequent elections are also the two most corrupt presidents in recent history?
See:
- Clinton Global Initiative
- Soetoro DeepState Initiative
#5
Just who's SOCIAL SECURITY card does this ass have? Release those records yet MORON? I read some of them before you froze them, oboz0 de zer0! They show how BIG of a failure you really are.
[Arutz 7] - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the name of the top global health official. But what do we know about this man? The globalization-favoring leftist mainstream media has been silent, apparently reluctant to investigate the total lack of qualifications of this man for the role.
They give him the moniker of "Doctor", but he is not really a doctor at all. In fact, he is the first World Health Organization Director-General without a medical degree.
He has never cured a patient in his life. He has a diploma in public health, but even this could not cover his dangerous incompetence as Ethiopia’s Health Minister.
...How did this little known community health official get to be elected to the top global health position?
He had backers, the main one being the Communist regime of China who helped him whip the votes of other nations. It was China’s role that defeated the candidacy of Tedros’s rival, UK’s David Nabarro.
His launch pad was as Health Minister of Ethiopia. His record in this job was controversial. In fact, it should have been the reason why he should never have been the head of the WHO in the first place, but China intervened with the acquiescence of too many Western governments.
The dark secret is that non-doctor Tedros Adhanom covered up another epidemic. The Ethiopian Health Ministry under his watch was suspected of hiding three separate cases of cholera.
Lightning strikes twice, or in Dr. WHO’s case, four times, it seems. And he gets away with it. Wikipedia: As Minister of Health, Tedros was able to form a close relationship with prominent figures including former American president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So what is the link between this failed Ethiopian Health Minister and the mighty Peoples Republic of China?
It is twofold.
...Tedros Adhanom also served as the Foreign Minister of Ethiopia, and he used that role to extend both national and personal links with the top Chinese elite.
Through Adhanom’s role as Foreign Minister, China has loaned over $13 billion to poverty-stricken Ethiopia. That country is now in hock to the Chinese Communists.
China knew this man was in their pocket.
...Tedros was not only a Marxist. He belonged to a terrorist organization.
Tedros’s candidacy for the WHO position was vigorously opposed by several Ethiopian parties based on his political connection and career with the Marxist terror group, the Tigray’s Peoples Liberation Front, who provided millions of dollars from their war chest for his candidacy to the top WHO post, proving that Tedros reached the top of the global greasy pole with the help of a Marxist terror group and a mighty Communist dictatorship.
In my opinion, after @ChrisMurphyCT’s secret rendezvous with @JZarif, the #Iranian dissident community shouldn’t have let him get away with it so easily. He also meets regularly with NIAC. Murphy should’ve received a harsher treatment than Pelosi when she dismissed #IranProtests. https://t.co/QcElH3cSau
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Almost four years ago, Hezbollah’s candidate General Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... was elected president. Two years ago, Hezbollah’s coalition achieved a majority in Parliament. Six months ago, they achieved the same in the council of ministers. Hezbollah had finally achieved full domestic political integration, as well as dominance of the Lebanese political scene, despite US pressure. Nevertheless, governance has proved elusive, despite having allies in all the high places. Paradoxically, it is the allies that make governance difficult.
The popular revolt of last October, the accelerated economic free fall, and now the COVID-19 crisis, have forced Hezbollah to shift its attention to domestic matters. Contrary to what Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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[AND Magazine] For our resident quisling who is kneejerk Anti-American
Definition: quisling
n. A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country.
n. A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
https://www.wordnik.com/words/quisling
Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian army officer who founded Norway’s fascist party in 1933. In December 1939, he met with Adolf Hitler and urged him to occupy Norway. Following the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, Quisling served as a figurehead in the puppet government set up by German forces. He was executed for treason after the liberation of Norway in 1945.
Quisling is dead. There are, however, Quislings still among us.
Two dozen American and European former officials have signed onto a letter urging President Trump to relieve sanctions against Iran. The request is couched in terms of providing "humanitarian" relief and assisting Tehran in combatting the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement on April 6, the former government officials claimed that relieving the sanctions on Tehran could "potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives in Iran."
Who could possibly oppose such a "humanitarian" move at this time of crisis? It is a powerful, emotional message.
It is also a carefully crafted stroke of propaganda genius.
The reality is that current sanctions do not cover medical supplies and other humanitarian materials needed in Iran. Medical supplies and humanitarian aid can be given to Iran already.
The reality is also that the Iranian regime, which claims it is desperate for assistance in this hour of need, somehow continues to find more than enough money to arm the Houthi insurgency in Yemen, bankroll Hezbollah and send arms into Iraq with which its Iraqi Shia surrogates kill American servicemen and women. Meanwhile, on at least two occasions, Iran has specifically rejected offers of humanitarian assistance by the Trump administration.
In short, this has nothing to do with the coronavirus.
This has everything to do with exploiting a pandemic to benefit an evil, totalitarian regime, which has held its own people hostage for over forty years.
Let’s take a quick look at just some of the signatories to the letter in question:
Federica Mogherini:
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from 2014-2019. Mogherini attended Sapienza University in Rome where she wrote her final dissertation on Islam and politics. She was instrumental in crafting the nuclear deal with Iran and has bitterly opposed President Trump’s decision to walk away from it. She has made clear repeatedly that she fully supports the ability of European businesses to make money in Iran in defiance of U.S. sanctions.
Speaking in 2019, Mogherini said, "Part of this work requires us to guarantee that firms wanting to do legitimate business with Iran are allowed to do so. This is what we are working on right now: tools that will assist, protect, and reassure economic actors pursuing legitimate business with Iran." Mogherini added, "We Europeans cannot accept that a foreign power ‐ even our closest friend and ally ‐ makes decisions over our legitimate trade with another country. This is a basic element of sovereignty, and it is only natural that this reflection takes place, not only in Europe but in other parts of the world, too."
Leaving aside European signatories to this missive, however, the list of Americans who signed on reads like a "who’s who" of American apologists for Tehran and advocates of doing business with the devil.
Wiliam Cohen:
Cohen was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense and was an ardent opponent of Donald Trump from the beginning of Trump’s candidacy. He has described the U.S. sanctions on Iran as being the equivalent of "economic war" and spoke out loudly against the American targeting of IRGC Qods Force commander Soleimani.
Chuck Hagel:
Hagel was Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense. He is on record as opposing the killing of General Soleimani as well. He has a long history of opposing the use of sanctions against Tehran.
Madeleine Albright:
Albright was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, she was instrumental in ending many of the sanctions against Iran that were in place at that time. In discussing the ending of these sanctions in a speech to the American-Iranian Council (AIC) in 2000 Albright talked glowingly "of the winds of change" she saw blowing in Iran and the need to normalize relations with the tyrannical theocracy in Tehran. She also made what can only be characterized as a series of abject apologies to Iran for what she characterized as prior American transgressions against that nation.
The AIC is a pro-Tehran, anti-sanctions lobbying group.
Albright is a member of the board of directors at AIC as is Chuck Hagel.
The American-Iranian Council was established in the U.S. in 1997 by Houshang Amirahmadi, a lobbyist for the Iranian regime. It was founded with the support of American oil companies to promote investment in Iran. It has a long history of opposition to American sanctions against Tehran.
The first honorary Chair of the AIC was Cyrus Vance. Vance is perhaps best known as Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Vance bitterly opposed Carter’s decision to attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran and eventually resigned in public protest of the President’s decision to authorize the operation.
Iran is estimated to have roughly $90 billion in escrow accounts both at home and abroad.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei runs a corporate conglomerate worth approximately $200 billion that includes the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, or EIKO; the Mostazafan Foundation; and Astan Quds Razavi.
Supreme Leader Khamenei has a sovereign wealth fund known as the National Development Fund (NDF) with an estimated $91 billion in assets, $20 billion of which is in cash.
In January 2019, Tehran authorized the expenditure of $1.5 billion on military activities.
In January 2020, following the death of Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, Ayatollah Khamenei allocated $220 million to support the Qods Force.
Since 2012 Tehran has spent over $16 billion on terrorism abroad. Hit link for more
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Washington - Sen. Chris Murphy on Tuesday defended his meeting with Iran's foreign minister, while President Donald Trump accused the Connecticut Democrat of violating a law that bars U.S ...
[Search domain thefederalist.com/2020/02/17/.] Murphy is a frequent speaker at the National Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with alleged links to the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... It soon became apparent why Murphy was sooo upset with Soleimani's death. Senator Murphy has a history of supporting Iran's mullahs. Murphy is a routine speaker at the NIAC Council...
[KhaamaPress] On November 27, 2019, Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Politburo Chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar visited Tehran and met with the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif
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Conclusion up front a la Columbo episodes:
[Mises] Although some would like to blame capitalism for the early missteps in the federal response to the virus, the opposite is true. It was federal public health regulators who hampered the private sector response to this crisis. To ensure that the United States moves past this pandemic, we must take an approach that minimizes government infringements of civil liberties; we must also maximize the incentives of private businesses and individuals who want to assist in our efforts to combat this "invisible enemy."
In times of crisis, governments have a tendency to overcompensate for risk. This tendency may be in the public’s best interest, but it could also serve broader governmental interests. The public and government’s interest are not always one and the same....
Some elected officials and media pundits have been promoting the hysterical notion that we can either implement draconian (national) lockdown measures on both the economy and individuals or be complicit in the mass death of millions. This line of binary thinking has become all too common, but it is surely no way to govern a nation, let alone a nation the size of the United States (roughly 320 million people). Given the overwhelming diversity of our population and geography, it is prudent to evaluate the situation on a state-by-state basis, which is precisely why the US's political structure‐even after decades of centralization‐ still relies on the principles of federalism. To mitigate the risk of exposing mostly unaffected populations to "hot-spots," public health agencies and professional medical associations could propose some base measures for states to implement, such as ensuring that individuals do not unduly interact outside of maintaining essential services....
Federal lawmakers are confined to measures that are arguably within the bounds of the United States Constitution and within legal precedent. Citizens around the world are enduring the full brunt of their leaders "never letting a crisis go to waste." Some politicians have engaged in a bevy of civil liberty‐infringing responses, such as mass surveillance techniques, enforced lockdown measures, restrictions on movement, and the closure of public facilities including places of worship.
The United States has been comparatively safe from autocratic tendencies at the federal level‐compared, that is, to many foreign regimes‐with officials offering recommendations rather than explicit mandates. For example, President Trump has sought more targeted measures to lock down so-called hot spots affected by the virus. Critics have derided this as putting money above public health, but as economist Paul Romer writes, "we need to shift within a couple of months to a targeted approach that limits the spread of the virus but still lets most people go back to work and resume their daily activities." Romer rightfully acknowledges that if Treasury secretary Mnuchin’s prediction of 20 percent unemployment comes true, the economy as we know it may fail....
MASS SURVEILLANCE IS NOT THE ANSWER EITHER
Wartime measures are being modified to combat this pandemic. Some foreign lawmakers have proposed and implemented mass surveillance measures to track infected patients. For example, the Israeli government recently passed a law allowing the Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency, to utilize cellphone location data to "track down the persons that had contact with known infected hosts, and then notify them via SMS about the next steps they must take."
The White House has proposed partnering with American technology companies such as Facebook and Google to use "geolocation data for disease tracking." Perhaps even more worrisome, the White House has initiated conversations with these companies over how to limit the spread of misinformation during this pandemic, which could lead to censorship....
Rather than criticising Beijing for its initial attempts to cover up the outbreak, Dr Tedros instead praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his "very rare leadership", and China for showing "transparency" in its response to the virus.
"The W.H.O. really blew it... Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?" ‐ US President Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 7, 2020.
As the body responsible for maintaining global health standards, the UN-sponsored World Health Organization (WHO) is supposed to adopt an even-handed approach when dealing with all member states, irrespective of how powerful they might be.
CJ via Instapundit
[CityJournal] As American unemployment mounted by the millions in March and April, the dance of the college diversity deans kept up its usual brisk pace. On April 1, Harvard University announced that its acting associate dean for inclusion and belonging was moving on to Denison University. But the Harvard associate deanship will not be vacant for long. On May 1, the current head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus will step into the Harvard position, to direct the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team within the Dean of Students Office; the Office of BGLTQ Student Life; the Office of Diversity Education and Support; the College’s Title IX Office; the Women’s Center; and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Everyone knows large, centrally planned consolidated school districts are the answer.
Elsewhere, campus diversocrats enjoyed similarly enviable mobility while the rest of the country was shutting down. The vice president for inclusion and diversity at George Mason University will become chief diversity officer at the University of South Carolina at Columbia on June 15. The former occupant of the South Carolina position decamped to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 15 to serve as its community and equity officer. On March 1, a former associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Iowa became associate vice president for inclusive excellence at Georgia Southern University. The first diversity, equity, and inclusion librarian at the University of Florida assumed her position in February.
#1
I read yesterday that it seems 47% of public school youts are not participating in online classes at all. Whuttasurprise...
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(a) Grom Jr is one of the ones not participating - I got him into Khan's Academy instead.
(b) IMO, all of the sins detailed in the article could've been forgiven, if they'd managed to produce some competent graduates.
#3
Computer learning be hard. If you have no desire for meaningful employment, why waste time with on-line classes. Not unlike most gummit programs, gummit mandated school attendance has been overcome by events.
#4
Our schools closed for the year. The teachers are complaining that they don't have enough time to grade all the homework!
However, found out my 4th grade homeschooler is doing some work that my 6th grade public schooler is doing!
#7
Distance learning exposes the truth that our educationists dare not acknowledge: the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes.
If we would simply accept that iron law, we could then move on to accept a two-track system whereby the vast majority -- say, 80% -- are moved off of the college prep track by the age of 14 or 15 and into vocational schooling that leads to a well-paid, well-respected and absolutely necessary trade.
And the remaining 20% would be freed from busywork and BS virtue-signaling activities involving "diversity" and lefty volunteerism that detract from actual studies and that pimp their college applications to appease the BLT-BIGMAQ Diversity 'n' Inclusion Commissars in the Admissions office.
Which means, maybe, if we're lucky, we can halt the diversity shitheads' latest quest, to destroy STEM excellence in this country...
#10
Most people can't hack the higher order thinking and abstract reasoning required for real college work. Among his many idiotic notions, Zero's push to get every American kid into college was surely one of the most foolish
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... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law
The federal government runs two school systems, Department of Defense (overseas) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (reservations). One over performs the average, the other under performs the average. It's not about funding. It's about home environment.
Books, reading, cultural pursuits esp. musical training, also memorization of poetry, lines from plays, and famous quotations.
Hint: in California, children of impoverished immigrants from E. Europe and E. Asia outperform middle- and upper-middle class "under-represented minorities." 100% due to the culture of the home.
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Man, that picture of the derelict school building, I know it's standard gummint architecture, but boy do I remember seeing a lot like that back in PeeAye.
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May I point out g(r)om two distinct 'cultures', Chinese (to include social dissemination to its neighbors) and Hebrews that have hundreds if not thousands of years of promoting education may well through social selection created a 'genetic' stock upon which such success is rewarded.
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#17 Both achieved through selective breeding.
Among the Jews richest merchants were happy to marry their daughters to "genius" scholars from dirt-poor background.
With Chinese anyone could take scholar exams. These who succeeded joined the civil service and had dozens of wives.
#19
The short answer is both play a contributing factor.
Take for instance, the concept of a Service Dog. Not that Shitsu couldn't be a service dog, but do we not see more German Shepherds? Conversely, a German Shepherd must go to a school to become a Service Dog.
#22
Can do something runs head first into Should do something. For example women can be fighter pilots but should they do so ? You lose the home culture drivers .
#24
I guess I have been fortunate to see exceptions to those rules.
How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.
That, I'm totally in agreement with.
Interestingly, morons who go into Vocational-Technical College tend to get themselves hurt before graduating, and hopefully nobody else.
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.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Chinese control of the pharmaceutical supply chain was a national security threat and that the United States must use its military to confront China around the world.
[Huffpooo] Barack Obama has slammed the decision to go ahead with this week’s election in Wisconsin, which forced thousands of people out to the polls amid a statewide stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
What does any of this have to do with my prized 4H heifer ? 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Almost four years ago, Hezbollah’s candidate General 
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