[Garden & Gun] Since around 1910, Jones Bar-B-Q Diner has been a mainstay in the small Delta town of Marianna, Arkansas. Still run by the same family who founded it, the barbecue icon received an America’s Classic award from the James Beard Foundation in 2012. But on the morning of Sunday, February 28, a fire broke out in the pit, devastating roughly seventy percent of the building before responders could put it out.
"Jones Bar-B-Q Diner is one of the oldest barbecue joints in the country, one of the oldest Black-run barbecue joints, and one of America’s oldest Black-run businesses, period," says the culinary historian Adrian Miller, author of the forthcoming book Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. "Black entrepreneurs have always faced obstacles in this country, often hurdles intentionally put in place, so to have a business endure this long is significant."
[Gateway Pundit] The US scientific establishment held calls with Chinese counterparts in May last year regarding the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19). The problem is, the Chinese on the calls are connected to the Chinese military.
In a previous article, I described how, in February 2020, the U.S. National Academy of Science and some members of the U.S. scientific establishment appear to have helped China cover-up the laboratory origin of the COVID-19 virus.
Ironically, one of the recommendations arising from that initial fiasco was to increase U.S. scientific interaction with China, a decision which led to yet another blunder because the same politically-motivated or naive advisors were again engaged in the effort.
In May 2020, the U.S. National Academy of Science initiated a series of conference calls between Chinese and U.S. scientists to exchange information about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The calls could also be described as de facto briefings for China’s military.
Most of the highly ambitious scientists representing the U.S. side had been research collaborators with China, including with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (e.g. Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak) and/or, in the previous three months, had been outspoken, public supporters of China and the Chinese Communist Party’s theory that the COVID-19 virus originated in nature, not in a laboratory (e.g. Peter Daszak, Stanley Perlman, Linda Saif).
The Chinese lead scientist was Gao Fu, also known as George F. Gao, a Chinese virologist and immunologist, who has served as Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In 2019, he was elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Science and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] ADIN: A woman gave birth to a two-headed baby at a private hospital here in the district capital, doctors confirmed on Tuesday. Was one Rosie Grier?
According to the doctors who helped in the delivery process, the mother and her child were both "healthy" and out of danger. The family reside in Sujawal district’s Mirpur Bathoro area and were brought to the Aisha Moosa Charitable Hospital.
In 2017, two-headed buffalo calf has been born — and welcomed as a miracle — in a farm in Pakistain.
The calf was born on September 27 at Lucky Foods Dairy Farm in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and has yet to be named.
It has one body, two heads, four eyes, two mouths, two noses and four ears as the result of a rare condition called polycephaly in which an animal is born with more than one head.
The condition is believed to occur when an embryo begins to split into twins but stops so that the twins remain attached.
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Off the pile re Abu's Tuesday question...
"Tis true!" It confessed, with a hoot,
"Oh, yes! We're too fond of prosciutto,
And sliced up a hoard,"
Sang the two-bladed sword,
So they hanged Zulfiqar. Also Bhutto.
[Free Beacon] Stanford University rolled out a new center hosting scholars, guests, and programs affiliated with groups backed by the Chinese Communist Party.
The Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions opened in February. The center is a subsidiary organization under the umbrella of the Freeman Spogli Institute, a foreign policy consortium with ties to Peking University, a school run by former Chinese spymaster Qiu Shuiping.
The center will host a March 9 event centered on local governance in China featuring Prof. Jean Oi, a founding member of the Stanford research center at Peking University. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute designated Peking University a "high risk" university for its partnerships with military research programs on nuclear technology.
Rachelle Peterson, a senior fellow at the National Association of Scholars, said Stanford's close ties to the Chinese Communist Party are especially concerning as colleges develop relationships with Beijing.
"Higher education has yet to truly grasp the threat of close partnership with the Chinese government," Peterson said. "Confucius Institutes continue to close left and right, but many colleges are simply replacing them with similar centers still funded by China. Stanford not only maintains a Confucius Institute but has just launched another center with alarming attachments."
[Market Watch] Last week’s U.S. Treasury market volatility is raising uncomfortable questions about investor capacity for absorbing the deluge of U.S. government debt set for sale this month.
Up to now, money managers have defied fears that the trillions of dollars of new debt issuance would overwhelm the market, with investors taking down record-large auctions without much fuss. But after a dismal debt sale last Thursday, analysts are re-evaluating assumptions that supply would have a limited impact on bond prices and yields.
"We have never seen before these amounts. That’s definitely a test for the Treasury market," Bastien Drut, chief thematic macro strategist at Paris-based CPR Asset Management, told MarketWatch.
Net issuance of Treasury bonds and notes are set to hit an all-time high of $414 billion in March, almost the twice of the previous record, according to Drut’s calculations. Elections have consequences.
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If you missed the stagflation of the 70s, here is your chance to experience it firsthand.
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[DW] Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) have placed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance, according to local media.
That designation gives state agents more powers for surveillance in certain circumstances, including potentially tapping the party's communications.
The BfV refused to comment on media reports from Der Spiegel magazine, the DPA news agency and public broadcaster ARD. The Interior Ministry, which oversees the BfV, said it would neither confirm nor deny them.
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[THEHILL] SpaceX’s Starship prototype landed for the first time after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday but went kaboom! shortly thereafter.
The prototype, Starship rocket Serial Number 10, was not carrying any passengers or crew at the time of the earth-shattering kaboom, according to CNBC. Two previous test prototypes have went kaboom! on impact while attempting to land, although after first completing objectives like aerodynamics tests and engine shutdowns.
The SN10 flight successfully fired all of its three engines and shut them down in sequence and was able to slow its engines down enough to land, while the earlier test flights went kaboom! after they were unable to slow down in time. The cause of the earth-shattering kaboom this time around remains unknown.
"The Texas team has several more suborbital test vehicles in build, with number 11 ready to roll out to the pad in the very near future," SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker said, according to CNBC.
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It looks like it landed hard (reports it bounced on touch down), but SpaceX says it was a good landing. There was a fire at the base of the rocket after landing, and IMHO that likely weakened the main tanks until they breached and the remaining fumes popped.
The next test rocket, SN-11, is already built, they're assembling SN-15 (12, 13, and 14 are being skipped) and BN-1. BN-1 is the first main stage test vehicle; the SN rockets are all second stage tests.
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[PostMillennial] The results of a year without education are starting to come in and it has been a devastating one for America's children.
A study conducted among students in San Francisco uncovered the truth that those who are most impacted by school closures are minority and low-income students.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that low-income students have fallen even further behind during the pandemic-inspired closures. The school board has instead prioritized the renaming of schools over getting schools open. They are more concerned with the appearance of racism than they are with actually making sure minority students get an education.
Still another study shows that students who are English language learners are "falling behind more compared to others."
"Students of color could be six to 12 months behind, compared with four to eight months for white students," it said. "While all students are suffering, those who came into the pandemic with the fewest academic opportunities are on track to exit with the greatest learning loss." More proof of "White Privilege".
Meanwhile, many states are reporting that their enrollment numbers have significantly fallen during the pandemic. In New York City alone, the public school enrollment went from 1.1 million students at the beginning of the pandemic to under 950,000.
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Alternative Hypothesis: Administrators and Teachers Unions have less incentive to "fake" the competency of students in order to justify their jobs.
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As intended. Them darkies were getting a bit done to smart and were wondering off the plantation. Gotta keep 'em dumb. So they be pushing that race theory stuff to keep 'em dumb and angry.
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Death spiral underway. Soon homeschooling will account for 20% of students and private & parochial schools for another 15%.
The public schools' financial model isn't viable at only 65% of the population. Can't amortize all the billions they waste on regal amenities, IT, sports etc facilities or cover their bloated teaching and admin operating costs.
The inevitable result: more of the horrifically bad remote instruction, which will push even more families to drop out of the public schools, which means even crappier remote public school education, and down it goes, on and on.
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^ You can expect the Teachers Unions to fight efforts to curtail their salaries and pension payouts tooth and nail, just as we've seen with their resistance to opening the schools again.
As they've shown in spades, they don't give a hoot about educating children. It's just a lucrative grift for them.
These bolsheviks will do to public education what the United Auto Workers did to the US auto industry. Market share halved between 1975 and 1995. Same will happen over the next couple of decades to US public schools.
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Well, distance learning will be one option among others. I can see neighbourhood schools making a come back.
The biggest reform is the fund the kids not the system. That'll devastate the teachers' unions and public schools. Parents will be able to give them the finger now the former have serious cash to actually choose where to send Junior and Juniorette. As opposed to being forced to send them to schools that don't suit them.
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In New York City alone, how much of that 150,000 drop is due to transferring to private/parochial/home schooling and how much to the families moving out of town or out of state?
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What you will get eventually is anyone can sit for a proficiency test and be certified as proficient in that subject regardless of how they came by their learning. Classroom time and "institutions of learning" will be obsolete, but only those with access to good learning boot camps or an aptitude for self-teaching will advance. It will be better for them and for people who hire knowledge workers. Much worse for those left behind.
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[The National Pulse] At a bus station in Brownsville, Texas, border-crossers released by U.S. Border Patrol receive a rapid COVID-19 test before boarding buses to their intended destinations throughout the United States.
Destinations include Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, and even up to New Jersey.
Over one in 20 have tested positive.
A spokesman for the City of Brownsville confirmed they don’t have the authority to stop migrants who test positive from getting on buses to the rest of the country. Municipal workers can only recommend that those who test positive ask local non-government groups and nonprofits to help them find somewhere to quarantine.
"The City of Brownsville continues to follow all guidelines provided by the CDC and DSHS for Covid-19. The migrants who test positive at the B-Metro facility are advised of quarantine procedures and are asked to socially distance," a Brownsville spokesperson said.
Some of those who tested positive told Noticias Telemundo Investiga they intended to wear masks, wash their hands, and continue their journeys through and into the United States. So it's all good. I was worried for a minute.
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Bet the numbers are higher for those that go under the fence.
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.
[Garden & Gun] Since around 1910, Jones Bar-B-Q Diner has been a mainstay in the small Delta town of Marianna, Arkansas. Still run by the same family who founded it, the barbecue icon received an America’s Classic award from the James Beard Foundation in 2012. But on the morning of Sunday, February 28, a fire broke out in the pit, devastating roughly seventy percent of the building before responders could put it out. 
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] ADIN: A woman gave birth to a two-headed baby at a private hospital here in the district capital, doctors confirmed on Tuesday.
[Market Watch] Last week’s U.S. Treasury market volatility is raising uncomfortable questions about investor capacity for absorbing the deluge of U.S. government debt set for sale this month.
[THEHILL] SpaceX’s Starship prototype landed for the first time after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday but 
