#4
If I ever win the lottery I'm funding an organization to break into ALL CAPS SYNDROME!!!!!!!!!!! sufferers at night and superglue their caps lock keys into place so they can no longer be pressed.
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#5
OR you could just get some cheap therapy to quit being such an insufferable padantic a-hole?
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02/15/2020 12:31 Comments ||
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Back on topic, from his extortion trial, here's what the media SS's Savior of the Republic said -- it was recorded and played at trial for the jury to "hear what extortion sounds like," in the words of the prosecuting attorney:
On one recorded conversation played for jurors, Avenatti could be heard telling Nike lawyers: “A few million dollars doesn't move the needle for me. I'll go take $10 billion dollars off your market cap.”
Feral yoot or nutter? Place your bets, ladies and gents, place your bets!
[NYPOST] A French tourist was randomly slashed in the neck while strolling around Harlem with his girlfriend Friday, police said.
Shocking video obtained by The Post shows the young man kneeling on the ground holding a piece of cloth to his neck, a heavy pool of blood forming around him, as his distraught girlfriend stands next to him.
The couple was walking on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between 132nd and 133rd streets in Upper Manhattan around 11 a.m. when a stranger suddenly jumped the 27-year-old victim and slashed him across the face and neck with a knife, cops said.
The man and his girlfriend had just walked out of the IHOP on 135th Street when the unprovoked attack happened, police sources said.
EMS rushed the victim to Harlem Hospital, he was listed in critical but stable condition.
Police canvassed the neighborhood for a suspect dressed in black and wearing Air Jordan sneakers but had yet to find him.
A man who works in a nearby building saw the incident on surveillance tape and detailed what happened for The Post.
"A man and woman were walking down the street, and a guy was walking beside them, like side-by-side. Then [the attacker] turns towards [the victim], looked him in the eye and pulled out ‐ it looked like a box cutter ‐ and sliced him on the neck," the worker said.
"He didn’t know him," the building employee added of the victim. "He even looked at the guy before he cut him and made a surprised face."
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#1
Feral yoots travel in packs. A vote for nutter.
#2
I'm going with both. Or a feral old dude. But speaking of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Ave in saner times)...
Young Adam escaped -- oh, what bravery! --
A counterfeit legacy -- slavery! --
So how, when he won,
A rich minister's son,
Could poor Powell have known,
Though ordained and full grown,
That his cooking the books was unsavory?
[WUWT] The news here is not good. We have mostly very poor data; both Hubei incidence and mortality were now provably severely under reported. But we do have one piece of usable comparable information. 1300 mortalities and 5000 recoveries amongst those who tested positive from the false negative test kits used until yesterday (the majority of cases have not yet resolved one way of the other). In the end, when the disease has run its course, there are only two outcomes: recovery or death. On the test kit basis, the mortality could be as high as 26%. That is horrible but not impossible since MERS was almost 36%.
My own ‘hunch' is that Wuhan in the end will come in about 10% mortality; the mechanism is lower respiratory tract viral pneumonia just like 2003 SARS and the 1918 ‘Spanish flu'. There is no reason to think the mortality outcome would differ greatly from a very similar clinical mechanism. Much more at link.
[AlAhram] The first confirmed case of the new coronavirus was detected in Egypt on Friday, a joint statement by the country's health ministry and the World Health Organization said, adding that the ill person was a foreigner, without giving further details.
The person tested positive for the quick-spreading virus but had no symptoms so far, health ministry front man Khaled Megahed said, adding that he had been quarantined in a hospital.
Opinion: In Saudi Arabia, Valentine’s Day was once banned because of the holiday’s connection to a Christian saint. But now, the religious police have been called off, and couples are celebrating the holiday openly, writes @FaisalAlYafai. https://t.co/UU7lUwHN9J
[Washington Examiner] Tensions between Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been growing for more than a year. At contention is Belarus's demand that Russia restore preferable energy export prices, and Putin's pressure for Belarus to become part of Russia.
But Lukashenko just issued his most striking rebuke yet to Putin.
According to Belarusian state media, Lukashenko used a Friday factory visit to confirm that Putin is pushing hard for Belarus to become part of the Russian Federation. Only that course of action, Lukashenko says Putin told him at a meeting last week, can lead to Belarus receiving preferable energy export prices.
Yet the key point came when Lukashenko described his thoughts on Belarus becoming part of Russia. Referencing the factory workers assembled before him, the president noted: "You’re not anti-Russian people, but normal Belarusians, loving, respecting Russians. But put before you the question of whether you want such an association so that Belarus becomes part of Russia, 120% will say no."
Lukashenko continued, noting that even if his presidency ends, he will always "fight for our Belarus to remain sovereign and independent on this plot of land. This is not only for us; it is for our children. They still have to live in this country. The issue of independence is not only a good life."
The language here, of Lukashenko's personal "fight" for Belarus to remain a "sovereign and independent" nation, a "plot of land," is striking. It appeals to Belarusian nationalism by evoking images of a heroic struggle for soil that belongs only to the Belarusian people. It will thus infuriate Putin.
Still, it also shows us something else: Lukashenko isn't willing to yield to his more powerful neighbor. So in the context of Russian aggression toward its other neighbors, Ukraine and Georgia, what happens next will be rather important.
#4
Brave talk from a two-eyed fatman. However, Lukashenko has received the promise that the USA will provide all Belarus' natural gas and energy needs.
[Breitbart] Perhaps the biggest concern is over medical supplies. China produces and exports a large amount of pharmaceuticals to the U.S., including 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active ingredients used to make drugs here. Penicillin, ibuprofen, and aspirin largely come from China. Last month, the medical supply firm Cardinal Health recalled 2.9 million surgical gowns "cross contaminated" at a plant in China; the blood pressure drug valsartan also saw shortages recently, thanks to tainted active ingredients at one Chinese plant. The combination of supply chain disruptions and increased demand at hospitals if coronavirus spreads to the U.S. could prove devastating.
In a dark irony, most of the world’s face masks‐now ubiquitous in China as a precaution‐are made in China and Taiwan, and even for those made elsewhere, some component parts are Chinese-sourced. Shortages have led China to declare the masks a "strategic resource," reserving them for medical workers. U.S. hospitals are "critically low" on respiratory masks, according to medical-supply middlemen. Lack of protective gear could increase vulnerability to the virus, and the one place on earth suffering from production shutdowns is the one place where most of the protective gear originates [emphasis added].
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In a dark irony, most of the world’s face masks‐now ubiquitous in China as a precaution‐are made in China and Taiwan, and even for those made elsewhere, some component parts are Chinese-sourced.
"Dark irony" or highly effective marketing strategy ?
#4
Now would be an excellent time for Trump to offer assistance to China and those affected or infected. It could benefit us now and forestall possible future events.
#5
The US has offered. China has refused most of it. Either embarrassed or hoping to avoid disclosure of the source?
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I keep going back to the fact that all DNA testing is done in China.
If China were to plan anything nefarious they sure would have a lot of info on Americans to execute a dire outcome.
Giving any other country this power over us is disgusting and a disgrace to those who made these decisions to outsource these important commodities.
The obvious is just like American steel we need to produce these ingredients and manufacture our own medications.
Unbelievable that we have outsourced such important valuable assets.
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02/15/2020 12:17 Comments ||
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All DNA testing is done in China? I don't think that can be true. I hope the FBI doesn't send samples to China.
#9
I know someone in the FBI that told me about DNA testing going through China. This was several years ago.
When you sign up for DNA testing you sign your privacy rights away, it may be after the fact that the info is shared.
I will continue to look for a link to back this up. I'm sorry that I can't find a link at this time
Posted by: Jan ||
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Now us the time to break the back of the Great China Grift.
30 years of a ruinous, insanely self-destructive policy are coming to a close. Thank god
or OrangeGod
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#4 Now would be an excellent time for Trump to offer assistance to China and those affected or infected. It could benefit us now and forestall possible future events
Never appreciated. In fact a rather stupid assumption. Sorry.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far killed over 1,100 people and infected about 45,000, some people in China have been caught on video bizarrely and disgustingly wiping their spit on elevator buttons.
In one viral video shot in the city of Datong on Friday, an old man can be seen standing at the entrance to an elevator, spitting into his hand and then rubbing it onto the buttons.
A resident reported to the building management that the buttons appeared to be soiled. When officials tracked down the man, they checked his temperature, which turned out to be normal.
The sicko apologized and said he was just joking, according to Rooters.
Since the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, many elevators have been equipped with boxes of disposable tissues to allow passengers to avoid touching the buttons.
Another video making the rounds shows a man in Nanning spitting into a tissue and then rubbing it repeatedly on an elevator’s buttons.
Local police arrested the man, who apparently did not have any coronavirus symptoms, and detained him for 10 days.
And on Sunday, a woman was arrested after she was seen on video taking a tissue to press an elevator’s button in the city of Chongqing ‐ then putting it back into the box before spitting on the buttons repeatedly.
Police said the woman, named Li, had a dispute with some people and spat in the elevator to vent her anger, according to Newsflare. Her temperature was normal.
In another case, a woman in the epicenter city of Wuhan was caught on surveillance video sneaking out late at night during the quarantine and spitting on a doorknob in her apartment complex, according to the Taiwan News.
A person who discovered the footage reported it to security guards. Moments later, coppers clad in hazmat suits arrived and sanitized public areas in the building.
Authorities said the case is under investigation, adding that more than 30 of the building’s residents have tested positive for coronavirus and that more than 90 have fevers, the news outlet reported.
It was unclear if the woman ‐ whom many people described as "a demon walking on Earth" and "a sociopath trying to take Dire Revenge on her own country" ‐ also was infected by the virus.
#2
yes, skidmark - Australia's health system doesn't even have the capacity to deal with 100 coronavirus patients let alone more than 1000 in the event of an epidemic
Yes, it needs more nurses, more doctors and more beds - but the government isn't making any plans for any of this
there are no medical assistants being hurriedly trained, field hospitals being set up etc
they are throwing all their energy into saying 'we've got the best medical system in the world, we're a developed country, we've got the best plans, don't panic'
but not actually doing anything other than trying to prevent it coming here (which must fail)
#4
Hi, anon1! Now is the time to ignore the government and build resilience into your life as much as possible, it seems to me, which is useful no matter what the situation. If you collect some basic resources, you can survive a couple weeks quarantine at home, a power outage, or a forest fire, then worry about what the government does or does not do later.
This book is a good starting place, or go straight to the writer’s TedX talk to get a quick overview. (see here)
#5
Hello wonderful Trailing Wife, and lovely Skidmark
skids: the Aussie Govt strategy as best I can make out is to prevent a local epidemic
So far they've done this by banning non-citizens flying in if they've been in China in the last 14 days. That ban ends next week
You can see the problem with this:
$39 billion of university earnings depends on foreign students. They want to start term.
But the epidemic is out of control in China and won't be contained by next week
So unless they are planning to ban all travel for the next entire year, someone will come in with the virus
Also, there's the problem that people coming from other places can have the virus
Also that asymptomatic people can have and spread the virus
Also that it incubates sometimes for up to 24 days not just 14
And Also that doesn't cover Australia's hundreds of thousands of dual citizens from China who are not banned
So you can see that strategy is doomed already
They marry this up with testing people (only those with symptoms) and contact tracing
Fail and fail.
So then, the only strategy for if an epidemic breaks out (apart from shoot the messenger and avoid panic at all costs) is what was already in place
ie: what the nurses' federation outlined in the story
- cancelling non-essential surgery and redirecting staff
- hiring uni students / bringing staff from interstate
- setting up triage centres separate to the hospital
- sending people home for 'hospital in the home' (ie: go back and die in your beds so nobody photographs you all lying on the floors and corridors in the hospitals and making it look like the 3rd world system it is)
#7
$39billion of university earnings depends on foreign students.
When oh when will this country's (and Australia's, and Canada's, and Britain's) realize that making ourselves dependent on Chinese revenue, Chinese customers, Chinese partners etc is POISON?
We have been signing our own death warrant.
End this madness. End our dependence on China, Chinese suppliers, Chinese customers, Chinese students and faculty, Chinese everything.
#9
Lex: yes indeed. the universities are basically selling back-door citizenship
the Chinese and Indians aren't coming here for the quality of the education - but for the visa. They end up with graduate visa -> skills visa -> residency -> citizenship
that's what the unis are selling
citizenship for 3rd world elites via expensive tertiary degrees
the net effect is that uni places for Australian citizens are restricted to focus on more profitable high-paying foreign students
so eg: if you want to do medicine, you have to get 99.99/100 in your TER
hardly any Australian can be a doctor basically as very few can get over that bar
same goes for other high-demand degrees.
but as long as you are reasonably smart you can pay $100k/year and do it if you are a rich 3rd world elite who wants citizenship
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