The goal is pretty simple: completely sever all communication with the outside world so that no matter how bad things get in China, tight information management can keep political unrest under control. https://t.co/kqYCotJaLk
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[WSJ] - ...Restaurants and hotels had to shut down, but one massive employer has held on to staff and even is hiring tens of thousands more around the country: Amazon.
For the people of Queens, that is a thumb in the eye. We had the chance to let Amazon open a second headquarters here with 25,000 new jobs. Economists debate the multiplier effect it would have had, with some saying there would be five new jobs, many of them in Queens, for every Amazon hire. Even the most skeptical economists put the figure at seven other jobs per 10 Amazon hires. In other words those 25,000 Amazon jobs would have meant at least 42,500 total jobs, and perhaps as many as 125,000. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who backed the deal, put the number at 107,000.
That’s why New York City’s minority residents were overwhelmingly in favor of Amazon. Tenants in the Queensbridge Houses, the largest housing project in the U.S. and the one closest to what would’ve been the new Amazon campus, pushed hard for the opportunities it would bring.
Nonetheless, politicians campaigned against the project, and Amazon pulled out. The loudest opponent was Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
[TOWNHALL] South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is one of the few governors that decided not to issue a stay-at-home order during the Wuhan 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. Her decision was based on the fact that her state had very few cases and she did not want to trample on South Dakotans' civil liberties.
Critics are now citing an outbreak at the Sioux Falls Smithfield Foods, which had 438 employees test positive for the virus, as a reason to issue a lockdown. Another 107 people who came into contact with the processing plant also tested positive. As of now, the state has 1,311 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus and seven deaths.
Despite that, Noem believes a statewide stay-at-home order is not the answer.
"We have one issue at a pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but outside of that, two-thirds of our state has no cases or one case in an entire county," Noem explained to Fox News' Laura Ingraham. "We're doing really well as a state and addressing the one hot spot that we do have and aggressively testing in that area."
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Just like with "gun control," it seems the places with the most draconian measures in place have the most problems. Of course it mainly comes down to population density, but regulating that is simply not on the table. Yet.
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And yet another reason for bringing back manufacturing to the U.S.
Nancy Pelosi just said to Chris Wallace on Fox that she does not understand people publicly protesting civil liberties on lock down orders. However, this followed her defense of her calling people to join her in Chinatown in late February as a protest against discrimination...
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'Welcome to the Shitshow, Professor Turley. Remember "he's not acquitted-- he's impeached forever!!"?
Professor, here's your playbill for The Shitshow, a surrealist farce:
- Ridiculous over-the-top absurdity
- Gross incompetence
- Flaming-arsehole virtue-signaling
Note how many times in her Wallace interview Cruella DeBotox comes back to her absurd, inept, idiotic virtue-signaling about "racism" wrt Chinese New Year celebrations... it's like a catechism for her:
OrangeMan, who causeth all the sins of the world, must be denounced
OrangeMan, who causeth all the sins of the world, must be denounced
OrangeMan, who causeth all the sins of the world, is forever impeached
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Has anyone in the US seen an incident of anti-Chinese racism?
My second best friend (we grew up in Manchester, NH; his parents were both born in Hong Kong) is under self-imposed lockdown from a few weeks ago when his wife came down with the sniffles. Is that reverse racism?
Actually, I need to call him & use his table saw today - I'm trying to do some 45 degree cuts and my table saw's blade stuck in the upright position. Would he be racist by telling me 'no'?
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Chris Wallace pitched her a softball and she had an evasive answer ready to go. He let her get away with it. The headline says, "Chris Wallace CALLS OUT a Stunned Pelosi for Pushing Tourism to Chinatown in Late February ". But she was not stunned. She was ready for it and she easily dodged it with her claim of anti-Chinese racism. Everything this woman says is either misleading, evasive or outright false. I'm no more anti-Chinese than I am anti-Russian. I am anti-communist and anti-Pelosi.
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No surprise. I'd say just the fact that Stretch would show up on Fox they had the softball pitches ready for that deranged hag.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear tried to veto a proposed bill requiring voters to present photo ID at their polling location. Democrat opponents to the bill pointed to the absence of voter impersonation cases in Kentucky. They felt the requirement for voter ID would reduce turnout among the poor, minorities, the elderly and disabled. Sound familiar?
Governor Beshear earlier stated he vetoed the bill since it created an obstacle to voting rights and was "undermining our democracy." This has been a Democrat talking point in many blue states attempting to derail the requirement for voter ID.
The Governor didn’t count on the supermajority of Republicans to react so strongly. Republicans outnumber Democrats 29-9 in the senate and 61-37 in the house. Republicans stated photo id is already required to open a bank account, cash a check, or even pick up sporting tickets at a will-call window. Republican Senator Robby Mills, the bill’s lead sponsor, said Tuesday it would add "guardrails in our voting procedures that will help cure vulnerabilities that exist."
On April 14, Republicans overwhelmingly overrode the governor’s veto in both chambers.
Kentucky voters currently require ID to vote, but it does not have to be photo ID. The majority of states have passed voter ID laws that have been challenged and upheld by the US Supreme Court as being constitutional. Investigations have uncovered several instances of deceased persons who have been registered to vote in upcoming elections. In June 2017, a Virginian man was convicted of voter fraud wherein he registered 18 deceased persons. The Department of Justice said he had prepared the fraudulent registration forms using data from state Democratic party "walk sheets."
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Amid general gloom & doom, a few glimmers of hope.
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While they were at it, why not cut his pay 50% and remove armed protection for him. Oh and require him to wear a head band on official functions that reads "MORON".
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.
...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...
