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[Red State] Judge Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to provide the FISA court with "the names of the targets" for all 29 surveillance applications and to indicate which targets are related to applications that have no Woods File. In its report, the OIG noted that some of these files were missing without an explanation. In some cases, FBI agents stated that they were unsure if some of these files even existed, which could mean that some applications that the court approved might not have been justified.
Please Check the twelve 4 drawer safes containing the Clinton emails, Soetoro passport and birth certificate documents. I believe you may find what you are seeking.
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Sheryl Attkisson's explanation of the process is here. I realize this is all hi-faluting national security stuff, but out here in the hinterlands lying to a federal judge (or any judge) is considered really serious shit. Lose your licence, do not pass Go, go directly to jail stuff.
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[NYPOST] A Long Island judge who copped to stealing dirty undies from the home of a female neighbor has resigned from the bench and has been stripped of his law license.
Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale pleaded guilty in September to second-degree attempted burglary, a felony, for breaking into the home of a 23-year-old woman who used to be the pervy judge’s intern on separate occasions and stealing panties from her laundry hamper.
The judicial panty-bandit was arrested in March 2018 as he was leaving the woman’s house ‐ with his pockets stuffed full of her skivvies.
The neighbor previously interned for Cicale while he served as Islip town attorney.
Cicale was sentenced to probation in November and was required to register as a sex offender.
The judge was suspended without pay following his arrest ‐ but inexplicably held onto his position on the bench, which prevented local officials from holding an election to replace him.
From a comment posted today by Lex, with English subtitles.
[Global Research] An Open Letter from Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, to the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. Professor Bhakdi calls for an urgent reassessment of the response to Covid-19 and asks the Chancellor five crucial questions. The letter is dated March 26. This is an inofficial translation; see the original letter in German as a PDF.
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Good questions from Herr Doktor Bhakdi. I'll go back and read all his set up later.
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IOW, has the whole wide world succumbed to mass hysteria?
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I've studied it a week ago. Unfortunately most of it can be debunked.
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^Actually it's doting the i's and crossing the t's, EC - very important.
Look, let put simply. It's true that most people who die have underlying health conditions. But, if they didn't contact Covid-19, they would've kept living!
Look, let put simply. It's true that most people who die have underlying health conditions. But, if they didn't contact Covid-19, they would've kept living!
That's what gets me about that "argument". AIDS patients don't die of AIDS; it's rare that cancer is an actual cause of death; starving people get sick and die of those diseases -- that doesn't mean starving wasn't to blame!
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[PEOPLE] CNN host Brooke Baldwin has tested positive for 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... The news personality, who anchors the 2-4 p.m. edition of CNN’s Newsroom, announced on Friday that she has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
"Hi friends ‐ I’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I am OKAY. It came on suddenly yesterday afternoon. Chills, aches, fever," Baldwin, who resides in New York, wrote in an Instagram post.
Although Baldwin, 40, said she has been social distancing and has no underlying conditions, she still contracted the novel coronavirus, which was declared a pandemic in March.
"I’ve been social distancing. Doing ALL the things we’re being told to do. Still ‐ it got me. I’m healthy ... no underlying conditions," she wrote.
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Tested negative on an IQ test
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I'd say the only people who'd miss him would be passengers at airports, but that audience has also disappeared. Obviously, non-essential.
[Gateway Pundit] The fraudstreammedia ran searing headlines about the boy’s death which was described as the first known "juvenile" to die from the Coronavirus in the US.
Well it turns out this story was a lie.
California health officials are now saying they are reevaluating the teen’s death claiming the case is "complex" and needs to be further investigated.
A couple weeks ago it was reported the teen’s parents took their son to an urgent care because he was suffering from a respiratory illness.
The couple was supposedly turned away for not having insurance so they took their son to an emergency room.
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Drive-by shootings, drug overdose, opioid, all Flu's, ruptured appendix, suicides, most forms of cancer, all to be categorized as....COVID-19 and Trump related administration failures.
[Gateway Pundit] Dr. Birx decided to throw away several proposed models for the Coronavirus outbreak and went all-in on a single model funded by Bill Gates.
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There were, what, two during Obama's administration? Not exactly a low-probability prediction.
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Seems like every year some new bug gets loose in China. Whether or not this one is any deadlier than the others, we need to distance ourselves from China.
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He's not deep state. He is talking at a pandemic conference. In reality what he is saying does hand in hand with the sun will rise tomorrow. We have surprise issues like this every few years. He did not speak to Trump, he spoke to the administration. I would like to see the whole thing. I bet he talks about preparedness and how to meet the next event.
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From Laowhy86 on Youtube - "After 2 weeks of painstaking searching, I refute the claim that the Coronavirus started outside of China."
Thought this was going to be some anti-US or anti-Israel skreed since I found the link on ZH, but the research this young man did is pretty good. Didn't follow the standard 'journalistic drive-by' route and actually dug in and derived his conclusions from lesser known public Chinese internet sites that only the locals might use (before the CCP scrubbed them, naturally). It helps that he lived in China for ten years and is fluent in the language.
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#3 It's certainly gene-engineered. The virus jumped from bats to humans and the spike protein immediately/spontaneously* changed from adapted to binding to bat cell to adapted to binding to human cells?
*Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.
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Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.
At 3:45 the video states that villagers in the area where the bats were collected were already found to be infected.
If they collected virus samples from already infected humans they could have selectively bred virus strains in suitable human cell cultures. Just mutation and selection, no direct traces of engineering.
Coronavirus Strikes 66 of 84 Residents of San Antonio Nursing Home
[BREITBART] San Antonio, Texas, officials report that 66 of 84 residents of a local nursing home are infected with the 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... (COVID-19). On Wednesday, the total in the facility sat at 14. One elderly man died earlier this week.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg broke the news on Thursday that 66 residents of the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center tested positive for COVID-19. He said the infection spread rapidly through the facility after 14 people tested positive only the day before, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
In addition to the 66 infected patients, 11 others received negative test results and two tests were inconclusive. One man in his 80s died earlier this week.
Officials reported that at least six employees also tested positive.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said, "That’s an incredibly high number" in response to the news.
The San Antonio newspaper reported the nursing home "has fallen short of federal standards on staffing levels and health inspections." The facility was reportedly cited recently for "failing to adhere to proper infection protocols and medically neglecting a resident."
India: Mob of 100 Throws Stones at Doctors Treating Coronavirus
[BREITBART] A mob of at least 100 locals threw stones at doctors sent to screen people for the Chinese 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... in central India on Wednesday.
Two female doctors were maimed in the stoning and had to be rescued by police. The incident occurred in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a large state in central India.
As seen in a video of the attack, the mob chased the healthcare workers and civic officials down an alley, throwing stones and other objects at them, while also spitting on the workers and shouting abuse.
"We were given a list of contacts of Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] patients and were screening them when suddenly some of them started pelting us with stones. We ran to save our lives," said one doctor.
On Thursday, seven men were arrested for the attack. The local superintendent of police DK Tiwari said that the accused were identified based on area CCTV footage. On Thursday, police were still working to identify more people suspected of participating in the assault.
[IsraelTimes] The new coronavirus might spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking, a top US scientist says as the government was poised to recommend the use of face masks for everyone.
Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Fox News the guidance on masks would be changed “because of some recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak, as opposed to coughing and sneezing.”
As it stands, the official advice is that only sick people need to cover their faces, as well as those caring for them at home.
Fauci’s comments come after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) sent a letter to the White House on April 1 that summarized recent research on the subject. It said that though the research isn’t yet conclusive, “the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing.”
Until now, US health agencies have said that the primary pathway of transmission is respiratory droplets, about one millimeter in diameter, expelled by sick people when they sneeze or cough. These quickly fall to the ground around a meter away.
But if the virus can be suspended in the ultra-fine mist we expel when we exhale, in other words an aerosol, it becomes much harder to prevent its spread, which in turn is an argument in favor of everyone covering their faces.
So far, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been more cautious on the airborne threat. In an analysis published on March 29, it wrote that aerosol transmission was only known to occur during particular medical treatments that required assisted breathing.
A total of 932 people died from the disease in 24 hours, down from 950 people in the previous daily toll, the figures showed.The number of registered cases rose to 117,710 on Friday up from 110,238 on Thursday, the ministry said.
Mosques stay open in Pakistan even as virus death toll rises
[AlAhram] Pakistan, with 2,450 confirmed cases and 36 deaths, has been sharply criticized for moving too slow to curb large gatherings, including a gathering of tens of thousands of Muslims from several Islamic countries in March. The gathering of Tableeghi Jamaat missionaries is blamed for several outbreaks of the new virus elsewhere in the world. The first confirmed cases that emerged in Gaza were traced to the gathering.
Despite this, some religious leaders in Pakistan still urge the faithful to defy restrictions and gather at mosques. Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, head of a committee tasked with spotting the new moon in Pakistan marking the beginning of holy months such as Ramadan, went on television telling people their faith would protect them and they should attend the mosque.
[IsraelTimes] Sailors are filmed cheering for Captain Brett Crozier after he was ordered off the USS Roosevelt and stripped of command after a memo he sent pleading for help in containing the outbreak on his ship was leaked to the press.
The captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship was fired by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for help to too many people.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Crozier “demonstrated extremely poor judgment” in the middle of a crisis. He said the captain copied too many people on the memo, which was leaked to a California newspaper and quickly spread to many news outlets.
So it wasn’t the captain who leaked it, but one of the too many people he copied on it. Definitely poor judgement.
Modly’s decision to remove Crozier as ship commander was immediately condemned by members of the House Armed Services Committee, who called it a “destabilizing move” that will “likely put our service members at greater risk and jeopardize our fleet’s readiness.”
Modly told Pentagon reporters during an abruptly called press conference Thursday that Crozier should have gone directly to his immediate commanders, who were already moving to help the ship. And he said Crozier created a panic by suggesting 50 sailors could die.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, with a crew of nearly 5,000, is docked in Guam, and the Navy has said as many as 3,000 will be taken off the ship and quarantined by Friday. More than 100 sailors on the ship have tested positive for the virus, but none is hospitalized.
This is one of the most stunning and amazing scenes I have seen.
Captain Crozier, the carrier captain who lost his command for saving his crew, cheered as he leaves.
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Why not cheer. He was the cool boat captain. Allowed his guys a boat call in Thailand! Even though he knew of the threat. His going public with the fleet readiness shows panic and a lack of command control and that deserves him to be relieved.
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I remain in agreement with 49 Pan.
'Popularity is too slender a reed to bear the weight of command.'
[NEWS.YAHOO] Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S. Naval Ship Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week, throngs of people, momentarily forgetting the strictures of social distancing, crammed together along Manhattan’s west side to catch a glimpse.
On Thursday, though, the huge white vessel, which officials had promised would bring succor to a city on the brink, sat mostly empty, infuriating local hospital executives. The ship’s 1,000 beds are largely unused, its 1,200-member crew mostly idle.
Only 20 patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with the 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... . Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S. Naval Ship Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said.
"If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke," said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. "Everyone can say, ’Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield."
The Comfort was sent to New York to relieve pressure on city hospitals by treating people with ailments other than COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... left a nine-day sequester in the White House last week to travel to Norfolk, Virginia, to personally see off the ship as it set sail for New York, saying it would play a "critical role." The ship’s arrival Monday was cheered as one of the few bright moments in a grim time for the city.
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So, there are far less than 1000 patients in NYC without the virus. Someone is not telling the truth about the virus numbers it would seem or someone is playing political games with people's lives.
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Yahoo "news"? Why are there only 20 patients on the Comfort? Gangways too narrow? Trump's (explanation not necessary) fault? Hospitals not filling out the proper forms? Proper forms not yet available? Chinese interference?
Maybe the Comfort is for non-WuFlu patients and those have all been sent home, or told to stay home (delay your procedure)?
The comment from Michael Dowling (we're in a battlefield) was particularly pointless.
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Bet on bureaucrats. NY state licensing of facility, out of state personnel, and triple-damned ACA compliance as well as hospital billing issues .
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If history is any guide, this genius-level edict will be rescinded just like the advice not to wear face-masks, most likely right after it is too late to plant.
It is mind-boggling that
a) someone has a job where they sit around and think up stuff like this
b) they think this will make things better.
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Vermont Soviet (VERSOV) Ukaz-347 stipulates that the Kulaks, Whites, monarchists, priests and other counter-revolutionary elements henceforth shall not be allowed to sow, harvest or mill private stores of grain or other foodstuffs. All Kulak et al. stocks shall be requisitioned and transferred immediately to local VERSOV cadres on pain of execution.
1) better control over the peasants.
2) better access to more levers of power.
3) better access to the grifter machine.
4) better levels of fear instilled to support the NEXT grab.
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There's a lot of conclusions being based off a sign made by a store manager at a Walmart. Has anyone bothered to check with the state?
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Addressed in yesterday's Texas city, not Texas City thread.
Yes, you can curbside or get delivery.
The question remains, who decides what is or is not essential? I'd think, as any time as any, home gardening is essential. I get it that browsers and lollygaggers are contrary to the distancing theory but is this not a sort of ignorance which casts doubt on the policy makers?
We out here in west Kansas were given an F in stay at home orders and will likely be sent to the principal's office. Why an F? Because the cell phone tracking models run through the grand calculatorium says we travel too much. OK, put aside the cell phone tracking shit, they are using urban travel algorithms on a rural check the cows and break the ice reality. In short, a shitty model which brings no confidence to the, uh, leadership of the local earls and lords.
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Corona reminds me of Alster-wasser, that is beer mixed with lemonaid or sprite or something that they drink in Germany for refreshment on hot days. Super week beer.
[TheDrive] Personnel from a second sub and a floating workshop are also in quarantine, underscoring the dangers the virus poses to naval forces worldwide.
The entire crew of one of the Russian Navy's eight Project 949A Oscar II class guided missile submarines is reportedly in quarantine over concerns they may have been exposed to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. This underscores the very serious implications that the rapidly expanding pandemic is almost certain to have on the readiness of military forces around the world, including the U.S. military, as time goes on, something the War Zone has already explored in detail.
B-port, an online Russian news outlet based in the northern port city of Murmansk, was first to report that the crew of the Oscar II class submarine Orel was in quarantine on Mar. 26, 2020. Russian Navy officials made this decision after learning that a civilian contractor who had visited the boat on official business had come into contact with another individual who tested positive for COVID-19.
Orel is one of eight remaining Soviet-era Oscar II class submarines still in Russian Navy service, two of which are in the process of being upgraded to the improved Project 949AM standard. A ninth boat in the class, the Belgorod, is in the final stages of major conversion into a Project 09852 special projects submarine, which you can read about in more detail in this past War Zone piece.
A present, Orel is one of just three Oscar IIs active with the Northern Fleet, the other two being the Voronezh and the Smolensk. The Tver, Omsk, and Tomsk are all assigned to the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.
[Jpost] Ventilators delivered by Russia to the United States for coronavirus patients were manufactured by a Russian company that is under US sanctions, Russia's RBC business daily reported on Friday.
A Russian military plane carrying the ventilators along with other medical supplies including personal protective equipment landed in New York on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone.
Russian state television footage of the plane's unloading showed boxes of "Aventa-M" ventilators, which are produced by the Ural Instrument Engineering Plant (UPZ) in the city of Chelyabinsk, 1,500 km (930 miles) east of Moscow, RBC reported.
UPZ is part of a holding company called Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), which itself is a unit of Russian state conglomerate Rostec.
KRET has been under US sanctions since July 2014, with US firms and nationals barred from doing business with it.
The issue was further complicated by the question of whether it was the United States or Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF, which was added to US sectoral sanctions in 2015, that paid for the ventilators.
A senior administration official on Friday said sanctions did not apply to medical supplies.
[SCMP] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday that China is facilitating the shipment of 1,000 ventilators to his state, as he continues to shop for more of the life-saving devices ahead of a growing number of coronavirus patients who will need them.
A small shipment, but good PR. But be sure to test them!
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Raising another possibility: China's low number are (more or less) real, only because they walled off Wuhan. They may have kicked the can to the other provinces, prolonging the agony. Another argument for striving for herd immunity.
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My hypothesis is that the situation in China is qualitatively. similar to the situation in South Korea.
For some reason (*) the highly intensive epidemic has abated but new cases still appear regularly while the number of active cases decreases.
China's absolute numbers are bogus by orders of magnitude though and for reasons of international prestige they're pretending that there are no new cases.
Thus acknowledging the continuous presence of Wuhan virus disease and taking measures to keep it under control is technically an ideological offense.
Objectively the Chinese regime is incentivizing behavior that might precipitate a second big outbreak in at least some areas of the country.
(*) The reason could be the lock down or the spread of a highly transmissible but extremely mild variant of the virus, probably a combination of both.
Bookworm room via Instapundit
...When China first started sending America cheap things, I assumed, and I bet a lot of other people did, that China would follow the Japanese trajectory. It would begin with paper umbrellas and cheap toys and then, as it got the hang of the whole manufacturing thing, it would gradually move to the high-end products. After all, the Chinese were Asians, too, and we were assured that they could be as meticulous as the Japanese or the South Koreans.
What the Japanese and South Koreans could have told us, though, was that China is a very different culture. It’s neither clean nor orderly. The communist government manages it with an iron fist studded with spikes and bolts. There’s nothing subtle about China.
China also isn’t a country with capitalism in the factory awkwardly paired with communism in the government. It’s a mercantile system with communism in the government. It sees the world as a place in which to dump its goods, without taking in other products in exchange. Because there is no free market exchange, China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.
...Significantly, Chinese carelessness doesn’t start with products headed outside the borders. Do you remember the 2008 milk scandal in China? The Chinese were putting melamine in milk to give it the appearance of more protein. Melamine is the same substance that the Chinese put in the pet food that killed America’s cats and dogs:
Of an estimated 300,000 victims in China,[1] six babies died from kidney stones and other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized.
...China is in many ways a magnificent country, but it’s also a careless and dirty country that has very limited respect for individual well-being and that has a totalitarian government that is loath to admit fault. It was always going to be the perfect vector for the next pandemic.
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China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.
They copied our box store business model? Who knew ?
Prediction: After this pandemic unpleasantness is concluded, Trump, Gaia, and a changing climate will be blamed. All will be forgiven and business with China will quickly resume.
[GatewayPundit] Soros Invested Heavily in Chinese Biotech Research Company with Facility in Wuhan that Researches Respiratory Models and Infectious Disease
Documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011 show Soros Fund Management LLC invested heavily into WUXI Pharmatech Caymen, Inc.
WuXi AppTec, as it is now called, has a facility in Wuhan, China. The company provides validated research including in vitro (HTS, SAR screening support) and in vivo disease models in cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and infectious diseases.
The document was filed with the US government in August 2012.
Bottom line:
[Marker] If you’re looking for where all the toilet paper went, forget about people’s attics or hall closets. Think instead of all the toilet paper that normally goes to the commercial market ‐ those office buildings, college campuses, Starbucks, and airports that are now either mostly empty or closed. That’s the toilet paper that’s suddenly going unused.
So why can’t we just send that toilet paper to Safeway or CVS? That’s where supply chains and distribution channels come in.
Not only is it not the same product, but it often doesn’t come from the same mills.
Talk to anyone in the industry, and they’ll tell you the toilet paper made for the commercial market is a fundamentally different product from the toilet paper you buy in the store. It comes in huge rolls, too big to fit on most home dispensers. The paper itself is thinner and more utilitarian. It comes individually wrapped and is shipped on huge pallets, rather than in brightly branded packs of six or 12.
"Not only is it not the same product, but it often doesn’t come from the same mills," added Jim Luke, a professor of economics at Lansing Community College, who once worked as head of planning for a wholesale paper distributor. "So for instance, Procter & Gamble [which owns Charmin] is huge in the retail consumer market. But it doesn’t play in the institutional market at all."
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Ooops. I missed one of the more key sentences when I was copying and pasting from the whole article:
With some 75% of the U.S. population under stay-at-home orders, Americans are no longer using the restrooms at their workplace, in schools, at restaurants, at hotels, or in airports.
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[EIA.GOV] week ending 3/13, the estimated demand was about 9.7 M b/d bar/day
week ending 3/27, it was about 6.7 M b/d
domestic petroleum production was down from about 13.1 M b/d to about 13.0 M b/d in the same period
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They should use the industrial ethanol that was destined for blending into gasohol for hand sanitizer. With 3 Million b/d mixed at 10%, we should have an excess 300K b/d of ethanol on hand. An extra 12 million gallons of sanitizer per day sure would be useful right now.
[IsraelTimes] Up to 50,000 laborers expected to move back to West Bank ahead of Passover, sparking fears of surge in infections; Shtayyeh blasts notion of Israel ‘medically annexing’ territory.
Citing a growing shortage of reagents (the chemical compound used for coronavirus testing), the Health Ministry on Friday narrowed the criteria for conducting tests for COVID-19, only days after expanding them on Monday.
The new guidelines explain that if you are suffering from a temperature above 38 degrees Celsius, a cough, difficulty breathing, or any other respiratory symptoms that correspond to the virus, you can only receive the test if you have also recently spent time either abroad, or in the Palestinian territories in the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms.
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I find more amazing that the Scientific [sic] American could break away from its pop-sci rantings about "Green Stuff" to actually contribute to the discussion.
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Funny magpie. I know somebody who wrote a paper on immunology citing Sci Am (in 1990es), send it to JTB, and was told by a reviewer that Sci Am is NOT an acceptable source.
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I've never subscribed to Scientific American but I can tell you for certain National Geographic has become a total shit show. If it's not related to transgender people coping with life it's about how the human race is destroying the planet and we all need to die.They devote entire issues to that kind of PC crap and it pisses me off. I'm not gonna renew next time.
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For Nat Geo it is not only the environmental alarmism. A recent issue - maybe the latest issue - recounted how Greeks and Romans were driven out of Constantinople by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in 1299. The poor Ottomans were just minding their own business since ... forever and then these Greeks and then Romans show up. Imagine what their writers and editors can - or have -come up with in an article about Jerusalem.
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To the public all they hear from these explanations is “blah lab blah, Boeing screwed up again. Let’s fly airbus planes instead. Stop outsourcing critical stuff and doing MBA cost savings analytics on components that can get people killed.
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I think it's not good for any machine to sit idle for too long. And, as far as memory leaks go, Microsoft has been as guilty of this problem as any other software company.
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Barring a runtime that does garbage collection, every development organization has had memory leaks.
The really unlucky ones get memory leaks in environments WITH garbage collection...
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The problem with garbage collection in a real time system is that you do NOT want it to run at the wrong time - say during landing.
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I'd think twice,boarding a plane with jumper cables hooked up on the tarmac.
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Hand sanitizer is supposed to made with denatured alcohol, which you can't drink. The distilleries were using food-grade alcohol (remember Everclear?) with aloe vera, or similar.
No, no, no! Can't have that! Drinkable alcohol in the hand sanitizer has not been tested for safety and effectiveness!
Besides, it's production eluding the federal tax on drinkable alcohol. Or people would drink hand sanitizer, get sick, and blame Trump. Waitaminute ... let's rethink this...
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The American Mandarinate is going to try to kill as many of us as possible while trying to blame Trump.
#4
Time to end the Prez Washington era BS designed to keep him the largest manufacturer of booze in the USA.
End the booze tax. End the ATF.
Erase the Whiskey Rebellion
#7
There's an easy solution, hang the head of the FDA on the white house lawn and see if his replacement gets the message. If not, repeat until someone gets it.
#10
first, agree with comment #5. Second, re: #7, head on a pike is better.
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#11
80% of 190 proof Everclear with 20% of 100% Aloe Vera Gel works great, and the scent of the Everclear goes away within 5 seconds. A grocery called Sprouts in the area sells 4 oz. glass spray bottles work good too.
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration has abruptly changed its description of the Strategic National Stockpile, the federal government’s repository of life-saving medicines and supplies, to conform with President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s insistence that it is only a short-term backup for states, not a commitment to ensure supplies get quickly to those who need them most during an emergency.
The change, reflected on government websites, comes a day after Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser who has taken a larger role in the 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... response, offered a new argument about the stockpile.
After saying that states should use their own stockpiles first, Kushner said, "And the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use."
Until Friday, the federal Health and Human Services website had reflected a markedly different approach to the stockpile. The "Strategic National Stockpile is the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out," the website used to say, according to an archived search.
"When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency," the website had said.
But, according to data, the description changed Friday morning: "The Strategic National Stockpile’s role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well. The supplies, medicines, and devices for life-saving care contained in the stockpile can be used as a short-term stopgap buffer when the immediate supply of adequate amounts of these materials may not be immediately available."
Trump has long insisted that the onus for battling the crisis lies with the states and that Washington is meant to play more of a supporting role. He has resisted calls to issue a national stay-at-home order and said that he didn’t want to overly use the Defense Production Act, which allows him to mobilize private companies for the effort, because he believed the states should take the lead in obtaining supplies.
#2
Give supplies just to Red States. If anybody complains, tell them it's an approach Chinese Imperium been using for thousands of years i.e., any objections are racist!
#4
Back in the day (69-72) you could drive the patrol car down half street SW in DC and just look at the young mopes on the stoop. Those that made firm eye contact and didn’t make a nod or wa e were almost certain future crime suspects. But only in daylight because a night drive would get serious damage from the bricks and malt liquor bottles thrown from the shadows and rooftops.
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.
[NYPOST] A Long Island judge who copped to stealing dirty undies from the home of a female neighbor has resigned from the bench and has been stripped of his law license.
...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...
[Gateway Pundit] Dr. Birx decided to throw away several proposed models for the Coronavirus outbreak and went all-in on a single model funded by Bill Gates.
...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...
...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...
...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...
[Last Refuge]
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The lager brand will not be produced after Mexico deemed it non-essential.
[Jpost] Ventilators delivered by Russia to the United States for coronavirus patients were manufactured by a Russian company that is under US sanctions, Russia's RBC business daily reported on Friday.
China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.
Soros Invested Heavily in Chinese Biotech Research Company with Facility in Wuhan that Researches Respiratory Models and Infectious Disease
...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...
