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She went Jerry Springer right out of the gate. What a clown. Dignity and. class are the presumption of aristocratic players but this woke twit just blew those in record time.
[Jpost] The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death outside China from a coronavirus epidemic that originated in central Hubei province and has since spread to some two dozen countries around the world.
Here are the latest developments:
* The virus has killed 304 people in China, according to the country's National Health Commission on Sunday.
* Across China, 2,590 new infections were confirmed on Saturday, the largest daily increase yet, bringing the total accumulated number so far to 14,380.
* Infections have been reported in Australia, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Spain, Thailand, the United States and 14 other countries and regions outside mainland China.
* U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth coronavirus case in the United States, and the Pentagon said it would provide housing for people arriving from overseas who might need to be quarantined.
* China's financial markets will open on Monday after an extended Lunar New Year holiday due to the virus and there will be no further extensions, the country's securities market regulator said in an interview published by the state-backed People's Daily newspaper on Sunday.
* China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($173.81 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday, after promising to provide monetary and credit support to companies struggling due to the virus.
* Chinese data suggest the virus is less deadly than the 2002-03 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed nearly 800 people of the some 8,000 it infected.
* The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
* The United States has reported its first case of person-to-person transmission inside its territory. Germany, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea have recorded similar infections, suggesting greater potential for spreading.
* China's central city of Wuhan and the surrounding province of Hubei - the center of the epidemic - are under a virtual quarantine.
* Infections have jumped in two cities flanking Wuhan, health authorities said, raising concerns that new hot spots are emerging despite strict travel restrictions.
* The United States, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and Vietnam are among countries that have denied entry to foreign nationals who have recently been in China.
* Apple Inc said on Saturday it would close all its stores and offices in China until Feb. 9. Walmart Inc, Sweden's IKEA and other companies have restricted travel and operations.
* Global airlines have suspended or scaled back direct flights to China's major cities.
* Countries including Australia, Canada, La Belle France, Germany, Indonesia, Italia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States are working to evacuate citizens from Wuhan or have already started doing so.
* China's two entertainment industry associations have asked studios and actors to halt filming activity.
* Several high-profile sporting events have been moved or postponed in China, the latest a badminton Olympic qualifier in Hainan province.
* Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam rejected calls on Friday from a medical union to close the border with mainland China.
BLUF:
[Hot Air] Back in 2009, (author) Sonia Shah visited one of the so-called "wet markets" in China where she observed the staggering variety of wild, exotic animals mixed in together and being butchered and served up. Unlike livestock raised on farms, the wild game always comes with viruses aplenty, but they usually don’t bother human beings. Shah noted that the coronavirus has been around forever, but rarely gets out of hand. But with all the strange animals and meats in the wet markets comingling, she foresaw a time when, much like cholera, those viruses would begin evolving and jumping from species to species until something really nasty that was capable of making the leap to people emerged. Enter WuFlu, now believed to have been spawned in those Chinese wet markets in the form of an evolved coronavirus.
Shah also noted that the death toll from such a pandemic wouldn’t be sufficient to wipe out the entire human population, but the plague would only be the beginning of our problems. After a pandemic of that magnitude, the global economic recession that followed would be a disaster, wiping out literally trillions of dollars in capital. That’s not hard to believe. Already this week we saw the markets contract, largely over concerns about reduced travel and trade as a result of the virus impacting business. About the author link found here.
Because no one among our foolish elite will recognize that Communist China is a shitty country led by lying bandits who wish us ill and who couldn't care less about normal, civilized standards of public health, transparency, rule of law etc
#4
China is overpopulated for their employment opportunities, and the population is aging. If there is a bit of a die-off, that will make managing the remainder easier for their Communist rulers, which I’m sure is part of the calculation somewhere. One is reminded of the deliberate famine in Zimbabwe, intended to — and achieved — to kill off about a quarter of the population, as I recall.
More importantly, it's Candlemas. For the West, that is. Orthodox Candlemas is after Valentine's Day. Also, please don't confuse it with the shitty metal band, Candlemass.
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The other three are the 168th Regiment, Regional Training Institute, Fort Carson, Colo.; Travis Air Force Base, Calif.; and Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
Jeez, Dollar Store Lenin must be doing even better than expected. On one hand, this is...hilarious. On the other, what does it suggest about what the Swamp will do to us in the general, when they're willing to do so much to Curb Enthusiasm for Swap Meet Stalin?
[DesMoinesRegister] The Des Moines Register, CNN and Selzer & Co. have made the decision to not release the final installment of the CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll as planned this evening.
Nothing is more important to the Register and its polling partners than the integrity of the Iowa Poll. Today, a respondent raised an issue with the way the survey was administered, which could have compromised the results of the poll. It appears a candidate’s name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate.
While this appears to be isolated to one surveyor, we cannot confirm that with certainty. Therefore, the partners made the difficult decision to not to move forward with releasing the Iowa Poll.
The Register has published the Iowa Poll for 76 years, and it is considered the gold standard in political polling. Selzer & Co., which conducts the poll, is recognized for its excellence in polling. It is imperative whenever an Iowa Poll is released that there is confidence that the data accurately reflects Iowans’ opinions.
#4
It appears a candidate’s name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate.
Let's play the game, shall we? 1) Whose name was 'omitted'? I think Lex has it right, with Gabbard / Yang being long shots. Those three, in rough order, are the candidates the Hillary/ Podesta faction of the Democratic party hate the most.
2) If a candidate's name was 'omitted', are the respondents allowed to write somebody in? If you could then yeah, the Register's doing some monkey business.
3) How many surveyors were there? If it's just one problematic surveyor (say out of ten) there would still be faith in the other 90% of the surveys? In that case you could just toss the bad survey and get on with it.
4) Has the Register ever done this before? 76 years equates to 19 presidential elections, so that would indicate either a) shit happens, we've had bad poll results before so we pulled some in the past; b) it's a serious fuck-up, all right or c) one of Hillary's goons is there saying 'Hey youse - dat's a nice newspaper ya got there; would be a real shame was somethin' to happen to it'. I can see Tony Soprano rising from the grave, man...
5) And when does the backstory get dumped for public consumption? This isn't exactly Carlos Ghosn bolting Japan in a viola case in the intrigue department, but I love a political soap opera when it's at the Dem's expense.
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Raj, to answer a couple of questions. First, a single surveyor could easily have destroyed the poll. By not placing Bernie's name on their poll in a theoretical 10% of surveys, if he were to receive 25% support, that would mean that his overall average would be roughly 2.5% lower than it should have been. So instead of looking like a 25% candidate, he would be at 22.5% (entirely theoretical, not sure what current standings might look like in Iowa). That could change him from first to second place, easily.
Second, 1 in 19 is slightly better than five percent, viewed in a statistical sense. I do not believe that they have done this before, but pushing out a poll that has been totally compromised could easily have destroyed their reputation, at least in their own view. If it was either deliberate sabotage that was not authorized at the top or a fuck-up (I think the first is much more likely, but both are possible), they would be very justified in pulling the poll.
Third, the backstory behind the poll will in all likelihood never be released. A lot of this information is kept close to the chest. But if it does emerge, look for it sooner rather than later, while the story is still in the public eye and Bernie's people and Republicans are on the hunt for a rat and/or some public entertainment.
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Who cares what the Poll sez? Trump is going to win in a Landslide anyway and the Donks are just pissing their money and time in the Toilet.
Trump is exonerated. The DNC has wasted America's Time and money, they don't have any ideas or solutions to offer the Public. They have blown any credibility they had with The Trump Syndrome screwy Looey kabuki . The American People are not stupid.. Everybody knows what the Donks are...LOSERS,Incompetent Losers. Schiff and Pelosi are Losers.The entire Donk Lineup is squat blind squirrels. It is a JOKE. Bloomberg is throwing his money away and not getting anything from Sane people. Bernie is a tautology. Besides he will just die of old age and there is no future there...just a one way ride to the cemetery. Besides, If he has AOC as his Vice, no one will vote for that. Biden ? Stick a big spoon in his butt.
All Doomed meat. The Dems haven't got a prayer against Trump.
Watch it happen. Trump will drop a hammer on all the eggs in the Dems basket. No worries.
The reason Congress didn't call any "witnesses" is that they saw the hoax of the Impeachment for what it is....and quit wasting their time even listening to the Donks PHONY dance.
Mueller said it all. There was no "THERE" in the Donk There.
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Althouse has a post up which says the NYT claims that somebody enlarged a font, which squeezed But-what's'isname off the screen, and then somebody from his campaign complained.
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bp,
in 2016 the Des Moines Register Poll had Hillary up by 3% over Sanders; the actual caucus results were basically a tie
interestingly back in 2016 Martin O'Malley had 3% in the 2016 iowa DMR poll but only got 0.5% in the Caucus and then dropped out
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#11 - that's why I like you so much
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[PJ] World governments are reacting to the coronavirus outbreak in China and Beijing is upset about it.
It's not that the commies want to pretend that everything is normal. They just think that preventing Chinese citizens from stepping foot in many countries is an overreaction.
Except it isn't. The death toll in China has reached 259 with no sign that the disease has stopped spreading. More significantly, the number of cases in China has now surpassed the number of SARS cases from 2003 -- and the disease was only discovered two months ago. The rapid spread of the virus from nation to nation has forced the World Health Organization to declare a global emergency.
#1
Sticking gp120 on coronavirus AND - then - letting it escape, wasn't a gesture of goodwill either. If you're going to play these kind of games, play by the rules!
#4
A pathogen that is contagious before symptoms manifest is a near perfect biological weapon
Get millions of people sick crash the world economy you don’t have to make it lethal just make it strong enough to send millions home from work for a long time
AND kick up a fuss about quarantines and restrictions on travel so you can spread it easily
Personally I think this is a trial run
#7
Goodwill scolding from a country that steals and cheats and names the US as it’s main enemy, YJCMTSU. One can only hope this tragedy breeds the people there to overthrow the entire Communist thuggery that runs the place. But sadly, they don’t have a Second Amendment do they?
Go said Duterte accepted the recommendation of the Department of Health (DOH) along with the members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Subsequently on Sunday morning, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea announced in a statement that the temporary ban now covers the following:
- The entry of any person, regardless of nationality, except Filipino citizens and foreigners holding permanent resident visas issued by the Philippine government, directly coming from China and its special administrative regions (SARs) Hong Kong and Macau
- The entry of any person, regardless of nationality, except Filipino citizens and holders of permanent resident visa issued by the Philippine government, who within 14 days immediately preceding arrival in the Philippines, has been to China and its SARs
- Temporary ban on Filipinos from travelling to China and its SARs
Airport authorities said Sunday afternoon that foreigners who have traveled from China will be sent back to Hong Kong if they arrive before Monday midnight. Authorities, however, are leaving airline companies to deal with this.
The infectious diseases task force also recommended the establishment of a repatriation and quarantine facility and a mandatory 14-day quarantine for Filipinos and permanent resident visa holders coming from any place in China and its SARs.
Manila International Airport Authority General Manager Ed Monreal, however, said Filipinos coming back to the country from China and its SARs would only have to be quarantined in their homes, where they would keep in touch with an epidemiologist who would check in with them through calls twice a day.
#12
I see problems with large festivals in the world in this time period. Carnival in Brazil and Mardi Gras in New Orleans come to mind along with say Granada's Easter Week stuff.
#16
^15, exactly what happened to my son. We were in Beijing last week and he was informed that when he returned, he had to work at home for two weeks. We had some plans but eventually he elected just to leave while he could, since airlines are rapidly cancelling flights, and many service back to USA altogether. Beijing is pretty locked down - I actually don't think it is possible to get the virus downtown - there is no one to get it from! Empty streets. Schools have been closed indefinitely, with many exploring online options to keep things semi-operational. All of my college students who went home for Spring festival have been told not to return and are basically quarantined in their hometown (and going nuts with boredom!). Overall, there appears to be at least 99% cooperation among citizens to shut this thing down, based on what I have seen in Beijing and Chongqing. It is impossible to imagine the economic impact of this thing, that will hurt more people than the virus itself.
#3
On reaching its tip, puffed poor Sisyphus,
"This Pyramid is mighty precipitous!"
Then, back down the face
Slid poor Herb, to its base,
And the dim-witted slights of dismissive us.
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#4
^ *golf clap*
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#5
See what I mean? You've got no arguments, just playground insults.
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#6
That's one hell of a playground kid. Besides, you led comments.
Legit criticism would be: should have used the Winnie the Flu commie flag.
#8
I asked you for your specific arguments besides 'they're full of crap' and you ignored me. Someone else came along with something possibly funny and suddenly you're all "help I'm being oppressed!"
OK, I'll ask again, since I wanted to see what people thought of the video...
#9
well, if I can be Frank, don't ask me to judge an hour and half movie I didn't subscribe or seek out, with all due respect. It could be the greatest flick, but....
If there's a point something specific starts, it helps to give a hint?
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#4
A parliament: quarantined fowls.
Up first was the wisest of owls,
Demanding, well, "Who?"
When the foo answered, "Pooh!"
All dissolved in a chorus of yowls
And a... snowstorm... of down from his pals.
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#6
^ Sad, innit? Oughtta be easy, and probably is for normal, energetic people, but I get hung up on the tones and (notwithstanding my very very limited stock of vocabulary) the expanding fan of pun (and whatnot) potential.
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[PJ] Multiple sources have confirmed a report by French news site Les Crises that former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin has filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation this week demanding an investigation be launched against Joe Biden, who successfully pressured the Ukrainian government to fire him and protect Burisma Holdings, the company his son Hunter sat on the board of, making $83,000/month, despite having no experience related to their business.
Shokin alleges in his filing that Biden orchestrated his ouster as prosecutor general in order to prevent the completion of his investigation of the notoriously corrupt natural gas company, Burisma Holdings.
During the period 2014-2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine was conducting a preliminary investigation into a series of serious crimes committed by the former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine Mykola Zlotchevsky and by the managers of the company "Burisma Holding Limited "(Cyprus), the board of directors of which included, among others, Hunter Biden, son of Joseph Biden, then vice-president of the United States of America.
Shokin contends the investigation was "carried out in strict accordance with Criminal Law" and under his "personal control as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine."
Owing to my firm position on the above-mentioned cases regarding their prompt and objective investigation, which should have resulted in the arrest and the indictment of the guilty parties, Joseph Biden developed a firmly hostile attitude towards me which led him to express in private conversations with senior Ukrainian officials, as well as in his public speeches, a categorical request for my immediate dismissal from the post of Attorney General of Ukraine in exchange for the sum of US $ 1 billion in as a financial guarantee from the United States for the benefit of Ukraine.
Biden Spox: Hunter Was Cleared by Obama White House to Serve on Burisma Board
Shokin cited as evidence the publicly available video of Joe Biden bragging about the quid pro quo, which ultimately got him fired. In his complaint, Shokin elaborated on Biden's efforts to have him removed.
[DAWN] Four young trespassers who had confessed to sneaking into a Hindu temple to steal the cash presented to deities as offering by the faithful in Premo-Ji-Vary village on the outskirts of Sindh's Chhachhro town a few days ago were set free on Saturday after the complainant withdrew the charges against them.
The complainant in the case, Prem Kumar, withdrew the charges against the minor boys at the request of leaders of the local Hindu panchayat as a "goodwill gesture".
The four boys aged 12-15 years, who are students of a primary school in the same village, were arrested late on Monday night by Chhachhro police with the help of the village’s footprint trackers.
They had confessed to having stolen cash from the money box placed in the temple. Initial reports had suggested that the intruders also caused damage to some idols of deities.
The incident had created an uproar in the desert region with members of the Sindh cabinet and politicians joining the chorus of condemnation and calls for stern action against the culprits.
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[Jpost] The decision by Israel to close its borders to visitors from China due to the spread of the coronavirus is "reminiscent of the Holocaust," the Chinese Embassy to Israel said on Sunday, according to Channel 13.
"This is reminiscent of World War II, the Holocaust, the darkest days of human history," said the embassy. "Millions of Jews were murdered and many were banned from entering countries. Some countries opened their gates, one of them was China."
The decision comes as Chinese people around the world have been impacted by racism in light of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus that began in Wuhan, China, and has now infected 14,628 people worldwide and killed 305 people. The first death outside of China was reported on Sunday, according to Reuters.
In Indonesia, residents have demanded that Chinese visitors leave hotels. In South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam, restaurants have refused to serve Chinese customers, according to Channel 13.
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All it does is show that the Paveway IV missiles are pretty good. It doesn't tell us much about the F=35 performance other than it seems to be a stable missile platform, i.e. straight and level flight. 'Beast mode' is a good concept though.
Lockheed need to reduce the code line count from 1.5 (or more) million lines to a functional level.
The bare minimum of code plus a bit that gets the job done and no more. It takes a real engineer to do proper critical coding and not some ex newspaper(wo)man or coal miner to achieve that. (Yes I know, there's always the exceptional ones, but they're rare.)
Too many lines of codes lead to computing delay churning through the unnecessary codes to get the job done. This seems to be a problem with the F-35 along with stall and weight issues.
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I have a friend who's son has flown both the F-22 and F-35. He prefers the F-22.
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If you consider the F-35 as an F/A-35 like the "F-117" then it seems useful... mostly. Cramming the ELINT, mini-AWACS, and the HAL 9000 AI software logistics package as standard features that must be maintained on all aircraft ... At some point you get a multi-role mess that is mediocre at everything.
#4
C’mon, Magpie; you are suggesting the Ascot Corps are jealous of the Brown Shoe Navy and their “Do anything (mediorcty-like) Super LawnDart.
Saw a report that the 5-sided Funhouse was contemplating a restart of the F-15 line since so many are up against airframe retirement hours.
Somehow I can’t picture any USAF General NOT wanting to tinker with what works and slather on the electronic bling; the aerospace equivalent of a Mister “ T” Starter Kit....
Yep - that's what someone at the Wall Street Journal thinks is a relevant Super Bowl news story.
[WSJ] - MIAMI‐During the 49ers’ run to this Super Bowl, there has been one glaring absence: Colin Kaepernick.
Seven years ago, Kaepernick took the 49ers to the Super Bowl. It was the last time San Francisco made it here. But Kaepernick has been missing from the week-long hoopla ahead of this game between the Niners and Chiefs, a period when stars past and present are typically paraded around and feted. Former quarterback Jeff Garcia and running back Frank Gore, who was once Kaepernick’s teammate with the 49ers, were among the former San Francisco players on "Radio Row" here this week.
Meanwhile, Kaepernick, the last San Francisco star to take the team on a run like this, has been a ghost.
"They’re trying to erase him," said New York Giants safety Michael Thomas, a vice president with the NFL Players Association. "Even if you’re not going to talk about the controversial part, at least talk about what he did on the field‐which was electrifying."
Kaepernick’s shadow has loomed over the league for four years now, after he catalyzed controversial protests during the 2016 season. But his absence has been especially acute during these playoffs because of the run of his former team. He's been out of pro football for three years but some people still insist on portraying the guy as some sort of martyr.
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A completely unforced error on Colin's part. He didn't HAVE to alienate such a large part of the NFL's viewing audience quite so blatantly. But he did, and so we don't want to see any more of him.
Now, as for leading the 49ers to a 2-14 season the last time he played, maybe some team might have an interest in that...
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There was no better national anthem kneeler than Colin K. He made it into an art form I can't believe he wasn't introduced before the crowd at the Super Bowl.
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.
[PJ] World governments are reacting to the coronavirus outbreak in China and Beijing is upset about it.
[So China Morn Post] 
[PJ] Multiple sources have confirmed a report by French news site Les Crises that former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin has filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation this week demanding an investigation be launched against Joe Biden, who successfully pressured the Ukrainian government to fire him and protect Burisma Holdings, the company his son Hunter sat on the board of, making $83,000/month, despite having no experience related to their business.
