As is so often the case, there is more to the story than appears in the headline:
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
In the past 24 hours there has been a shooting in Queens, another in Staten Island, a stabbing and a beating with a baseball bat in the Bronx
One man who was apprehended was accused of stabbing and mutilating his own father before eating him
26-year-old Khaled Ahmad allegedly went into a bagel shop in Dyker Heights at around 4.20am on April 15 and told police there he had killed his father
No suspects have been caught in the other four other homicides
So far, police have investigated 79 homicides this year which is only three fewer than 82 that had occurred during the same period of time last year
Officers then decided to conduct a welfare check and found 57-year-old Imad Ahmad, unconscious and unresponsive, with multiple stab wounds to his body. His body had also been 'dismembered and eviscerated,' according to the criminal complaint.
26-year-old Ahmad was said by police to have been unemployed and had a history of being emotionally disturbed.
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So far, police have investigated 79 homicides this year which is only three fewer than 82 that had occurred during the same period of time last year
[FoxNews] A 62-year-old Florida man was arrested this week, accused of threatening to shoot up a local Publix supermarket because there weren't enough people there wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office said Robert Kovner, of Sebring, made the alleged threat in a Facebook post.
An apprentice foodstuffs seller, identified simply as Chukwuemeka, has been allegedly killed by his co-apprentice, Chuks Victor, during a scuffle at their boss’ shop on Allison Street in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro gathered that Victor and another co-apprentice, Emmanuel John, were arguing over the space to display the goods of their boss when the argument degenerated into a fight.
During the fight, it was learnt that Victor, out of anger, took a coconut and threw it in the direction of John, but Chukwuemeka, who was watching the fracas, was hit by the coconut.
When PUNCH Metro visited the scene of the incident, an eyewitness, Onyebuchi Odoh, said the coconut fractured Chukwemeka’s skull, adding that he was immediately rushed to hospital for treatment.
The 22-year-old stated, "My boss left Chukwuemeka in my care to train him. We were together in the shop when the fight started. As the second manager, I moved closer to intervene, but they kept on fighting.
"I didn’t know when Chukwuemeka left where he was standing for the other side of the shop, where the fight was ongoing. Suddenly, Victor took a coconut and used it to attack John, but as he threw it in John’s direction, the coconut hit Chukwuemeka on his head.
"Immediately, he started bleeding in the head and he fell to the ground. Although he was still conscious, I quickly carried him and used his clothing to wrap his head. I called my boss to inform him of the situation and he directed me to quickly take him to the Ikorodu General Hospital for treatment. So, a vehicle conveyed us to the place."
Chukwuemeka’s boss, Aguyi Mba, said the victim died two days after being admitted, adding that he had handed the three boys involved in the fight that led to his death over to the police.
Mba said, "What caused the fight was that John put his basin of goods at a particular spot, but Victor shifted it from the spot and put his own basin there. This got John annoyed and he started attacking Victor. Even Augustine, who was supposed to separate them, also started attacking Victor. Both of them beat him to the point that they used a stool to hit Victor.
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All of the survivors of said free-for-all coming soon to a Blue state, and a home near YOU !
#5
Literally giving taxpayer money directly to known criminals, how can this not be malfeasance and grounds for criminal charges? The figleaf of an intermediary is irrelevant given the stated intent. ?
[Summit] Tesla CEO calls out fake news that he didn’t send ventilators to hospitals.
Elon Musk called out CNN for erroneously reporting that more than 1,000 ventilators sent by Tesla to California hospitals hadn’t been received while expressing his surprise that the news network "still exists."
Last month, Musk said in a tweet that he had obtained the ventilators due to China having an oversupply and would be shipping them free to hospitals that required them.
CNN published a story claiming that "none of the promised ventilators have been received by hospitals," citing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office....
He then posted an email exchange which shows a Los Angeles County Department of Health Services official thanking Tesla for receiving the ventilators.
"Hey Phillip, do you know if these ventilators went into use?" asks Tesla’s Omead Afshar.
"They worked great during testing today," responded Phillip Franks, who is Director of System Operations and Support Services at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "We will put these to use tomorrow. Thanks!" he adds.
Musk also tagged Gov. Gavin Newsom in one of the tweets, asking him to "please fix this misunderstanding." We await to see if CNN will fix their totally inaccurate reporting.
[Red State] On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced during his daily briefing he’s issuing an edict forcing all New Yorkers to wear masks — when and where social distancing isn’t possible.
Here’s how he put it:
"I’m going to issue an executive order that says all people in public must have a mask...mouth and nose covering. And they must wear it in a situation where you cannot or are not maintaining social distancing."
Andrew explained it’s basically "the same thing [he and others have] been saying from day one."
And that’s this:
"If you are going to be in public, and you cannot maintain social distancing, then have a mask. And put the mask on when you are not in socially distanced places."
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Hysteria continues. Guess things aren't getting any better, are they? But, it seems like just a few weeks ago we were told to not wear masks as they were ineffectual.
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Mrs. Bobby has made two on-line purchases of washable cloth masks made by people that ain't making clothes at the moment. The first batch had unicorn fabric; the second batch was more modest.
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We have a few N95 we recycle by spraying with Everclear and then hang up to dry. SARS2 is easy to kill.
[IsraelTimes] Slowly but surely, several countries are starting to plan for a gradual end to the lockdowns imposed to stem the spread of 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... outbreak.
Here is an overview:
CHINA
The central Chinese province of Hubei, with the exception of its capital Wuhan, started lifting restrictions on people’s movements on March 25, with some conditions still in place.
Wuhan, which led the world with an unprecedented quarantine lockdown in January, the month after the novel coronavirus first broke out there, finally lifted it on April 8.
City authorities have since put 70 of its residential neighborhoods out of 7,000 back into quarantine after so-called "asymptomatic" cases were detected there.
Hubei citizens have to show a green "health code" on their phone, meaning they are considered healthy and can travel.
CZECH REPUBLIC
The Czech government on Tuesday introduced a five-stage plan to ease its virus lockdown measures, starting on April 20 and ending June 8.
First in line to reopen will be open-air markets and crafts and trades with workshops.
As of Tuesday, Czechs are also free to travel abroad on business or to visit relatives on condition they undergo a two-week quarantine upon return.
AUSTRIA
Austria on Tuesday allowed small shops to reopen, with larger shops to follow in early May and restaurants in mid-May.
Only essential travel is permitted until the end of April and restrictions in schools and universities and on cultural events or public gatherings will last longer.
ITALY
In Italia, confined nationwide since March 10, some businesses, like bookshops and laundromats, were allowed to reopen on Tuesday in some regions.
SPAIN
In Spain, where a March 14 lockdown will last at least until April 25, construction and factory workers were allowed to go back to work on Tuesday, with the government distributing to them 10 million masks.
Since March 30, all non-essential economic activities have been halted. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday "de-escalation" of lockdown measures "will start at the earliest in two weeks and will be very gradual and very prudent."
DENMARK
Denmark will on Wednesday reopen its kindergartens and primary schools, with secondary schools to follow on May 10.
Other restrictions that closed borders, bars, restaurants, shopping centers, banned gatherings of more than 10 people and limited foreign travel will remain in place, in some cases for months, the government warned.
FRANCE La Belle France will start partially ending its confinement on May 11, with the gradual reopening of schools.
Universities, bars, restaurants and cinemas will remain closed, as will border entries from non-European countries. Elderly and vulnerable people have been urged to remain at home.
NORWAY
Norway plans to progressively ease its restrictions from April 20, starting by reopening kindergartens and lifting a ban on living in holiday homes.
Some specialist health professionals will be allowed to go back to work. From April 27, high schools and universities will be partially reopened as will hair, massage and beauty salons.
Other confinement measures however will continue.
PORTUGAL
In Portugal, which has been living under a state of emergency since March 19, authorities are hoping for a gradual return to routine in May.
UNITED STATES
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has claimed to have "absolute" power to force state governors and big-city mayors to lift quarantine and distancing policies, but constitutional experts dispute his claim.
In reality, lockdown measures are likely to be lifted on a state-by-state basis, with several states warning the process will be a slow one to avoid a second outbreak.
GERMANY
The German government is expected to announce on Wednesday an easing of obligatory measures, which vary from one region to another.
Under the measures, sports stadiums and concert halls will remain shut for several months.
GREECE
Greece said on April 6 it hopes to be able to lift some COVID-19 restrictions in May, if the public respects the current lockdown until then.
SWITZERLAND ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... Swiss authorities are due to announce on Thursday the first easing of measures by the end of April.
#1
It seems some European countries are re-opening their schools. Do they not love their children? Is it not better to forgo the school year to save one child?
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P.S. Thanks, TW. I've been searching for some hope in the news, not more uncertainty and despair.
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You are very welcome, dear Bobby. I foresee a burst of creativity and new businesses coming out of this enforced vacation, frustrating as it is for all immured at home for the duration.
I went to a doctor appointment yesterday, and it was like an alternate universe — all the nurses wore facemasks, and the doctor sat on the other side of the room asking questions instead of doing the usual physical exam... and he said it might take a few days longer than usual to get blood tests results back, as all the labs are running coronavirus tests.
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US President Donald Trump has claimed to have "absolute" power to force state governors and big-city mayors to lift quarantine and distancing policies...
Prez: I have Absolute Power!
Govs & Mayors: You're not the boss of me! I'll decide when to open up my state/city.
And just like that, the govs & mayors own the bad economy from not lifting quarantine and MORE IMPORTANTLY, they own the inevitable deaths that will follow from lifting quarantine.
Which is as it should be. The country is not uniform, the states are not uniform. Rural is different than city. Ending the lockdown is a local, not national decision.
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Trailing Wife, I spoke with the doctor's office just yesterday on the phone.... inquired about getting a blood test especially since I'm about due and my doctor mentioned it last time. The assistant said I would have to wait until COVID-19 to be "over" for a blood test. So, just what does that mean, three months? Six months?
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CA hospitals' top employees (i.e. those professionals formerly known as surgeons) are telling their patients that they expect to be allowed to perform "non-urgent" surgeries again beginning May 1.
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Steve S this is what he actually said. “When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total. The governors know that. You have a couple bands of Democratic governors, but they will agree to it. They will agree to it. But the authority of the president of the United States, having to do with the subject we’re talking about, is total.”
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Clem dear, g(r)omgoru gives us a report of when each of the states plans to ease things here (good find, g(r)omgoru!), which will give you at least an earliest date when the labs might be less swamped in your part of the country. The real question, it seems to me, is whether your test information is urgent for you, or just yet another data point to ensure you are staying within bounds. If you need to know, for example, whether the cancer has metastasized (a dreadful thought), I would definitely call back and push for an early date. But if it is just to determine that your cholesterol numbers are still at the high end of the normal range, then waiting a few months is probably fine.
New York City to manufacture thousands of virus test kits
[IsraelTimes] New York will start making tens of thousands of 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... test kits a week, its mayor announces, as the city looks to boost testing capacity with a view to ending its shutdown.
Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... says manufacturers in the Big Apple would start producing 50,000 tests per week beginning next month because they are not receiving enough kits from federal agencies.
The city will also start buying another 50,000 kits from a company in Indiana beginning Monday, he adds, meaning New York will soon have 100,000 new tests a week.
"For the first time, we’re going to have a truly reliable major supply of testing," the NY mayor tells news hounds.
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Does this mean they've got the EMALS and elevator problems solved, or are we just pushing paper?
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Hopefully we are not going to war with China, but if we did, we'd have to go with the sorta-kinda working aircraft carrier we have, as the saying goes...
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Awesome to watch that banking turn.
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but if we did, we'd have to go with the sorta-kinda working aircraft carrier we have,
How fortunate that we have others wand’ring round various oceans...
[KhaamaPress] The government of India has decided to send 500,000 hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets to Afghanistan in a bid to help with the treatment of the COVID-19 patients, it has been reported.
India will use the Saarc Covid-19 emergency fund set up to send the tablets to Afghanistan.
A senior government official has told the Hindustan Times that New Delhi is currently working on options for the shipment of the tablets to Afghanistan in view of relations with Pakistain.
"We are looking at various possibilities to reach the medicine to the people of Afghanistan at the earliest," the official said.
Global demand for the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine had boosted over the last few weeks after some studies showed that it helped to reduce the viral load in Covid-19 patients, according to Hindustan Times.
This comes as the COVID-19 positive cases are sharply rising in Afghanistan and the total cases rose to 784 as of Wednesday.
The disease has killed at least 25 people including some doctors, the officials in Ministry of Public Health said.
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Better than leaving them as a reservoir of infection to harm your people later, Dron66046. As is pointed out in an article about Jamaat under Pakistan, anyone infected can be an instrument of jihad. Take that chalice from them.
[NYPOST] The governor of Nairobi, Kenya was blasted on social media after announcing his plans to include “small bottles of Hennessy” in food packs being distributed to the city’s poor families amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Governor Mike Sonko presented the plans during a Tuesday media briefing.
“From the research which has been conducted by World Health Organization (WHO) and various health organizations, it has been revealed that alcohol plays a very major role in killing the coronavirus or any sort of virus,” Sonko said in a clip, tweeted by Citizen TV Kenya.
[PUNCHNG] Taraba State Police Command has said 25 persons were killed and several others injured in a bloody clash between Shomo and Jole ethnic groups in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State.
Taraba is a state in North Eastern Nigeria, named after the Taraba River.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP David Misal, said about 100 houses were razed during the clash which took place in the area on Monday.
Although the police spokesperson could not immediately ascertain the cause of the conflict, reliable sources from the area said that disagreement over the ownership of some ancestral fish ponds was the cause of the conflict between the two fishing communities.
"The Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmed Azare, has stationed patrol teams on ground already and the situation has been brought under control," the Police spokesperson said.
The conflicts between Shomo and Jole had been lingering for decades over claims and counterclaims of ownership of disputed fish ponds.
The government had banned fishing activities in the disputed ponds for a period of 10 years but as soon as the ban was lifted in 1999, the communities resumed conflicts.
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In May #Russia's coffers will get less than $1 for each exported barrel of #oil, our calculations with @d_khrennikova show. That's the lowest since 2002 when the new export duty mechanism was introduced, according to Finance Ministry. https://t.co/1TcJwEJ2IL
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Now is the time to work closely with Putin and help Russia -- and our own shale producers. Our interests in the oil market are finally starting to converge.
We need to stabilize inventories, halt the oil price carnage, and get Americans back on the roads and back to work. If achieving help with the Russians on this requires compromises elsewhere -- e.g. lifting the feckless sanctions on the Russians and reaching a rapprochement aboutSyria and also Donbass and eastern Ukraine - so be it.
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So, ideologically speaking, Xi Jinping is more closely related to Adolf Hitler than he is to Joe Stalin. Doesn't matter, really. They're all evil.
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(a) Actually Stalin's ethnic record is not something to brag about: google "Chechen" or "Crimean Tatars", or "the doctors plot".
(b) Xenophobia has a long history in China. See wikipedia's Hua–Yi distinction
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I did a search on those cyrillic characters but all the results were cyrillic characters. Sorry, I never studied Russian. Thought it would have been interesting but never got around to it.
Stalin might not have had the greatest ethnic record but did he kill any more minorities than he did ethnic Russians? Maybe he left Georgians alone.
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Yes, saying any advisor to Stalin should be listened to is asshole-ish.
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Bing translate sends it back as Sun Hui Vchai. A search on that came back with a South Korean actor.
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China? Not so much, Emperor Xi, absolutely. He is the serial liar. The tyrant who incapable of keeping his word in any agreement, way, shape or form known to civilized man has humiliated his country before the world. His double dealing and lust for absolute control have made the Chinese people international outcasts. He is the one who sits upon the throne built on international theft and fentanyl. Millenia of culture distilled down to a short sighted thug who couldn't make it on the streets of ANY American China town.
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It also states that Kazakhstan had historically been part of China’s territory and Kazakhs “do not have too many complaints” about being repeatedly invaded by China.
Sounds like something Mike Bloomberg or Tom Friedman would say...
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I didn't see Xi Jinping eating filth from wet markets.
In 2018, U.S. Embassy officials visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats https://t.co/kgwc21YwBP
[Aljazeera] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has skipped one of Pyongyang's most important and largest holidays - the birthday commemoration of his grandfather and the country's founder, Kim Il Sung - marking his first absence from the ceremony since taking power in 2011.
Official photos published on Thursday showed senior North Korean officials visiting the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay tribute during the 108th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth on Wednesday.
Among the senior officials in attendance were Pak Pong Ju, who has twice served as the country's premier, as well as Choe Ryong Hae, a military official and the head of North Korea's assembly who is under US sanctions.
Another image showed military officers carrying a wreath as they marched ahead of the senior officials in front of an oversized statue of Kim Il Sung and his successor Kim Jong Il, the late father of the current leader.
Wednesday's commemoration is also known as the "Day of the Sun" - in reference to the leader who led North Korea after it split from the south.
Current leader Kim Jong Un's sister and close aide, Kim Yo Jong, who is in charge of propaganda affairs and is suspected to be the reclusive country's second-in-command, was also not present at the event.
[JustTheNews] Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is calling on China to forgive its share of the U.S. debt, which she says would be a “good solid step” toward "restitution" for the loss of life and economic distress that Beijing's mishandling of coronavirus has caused America.
The virus started in Wuhan, China, and was first reported by Chinese officials in late-December. Some U.S. officials and others suspect China was late to make the outbreak public and under-reported the number of cases.
“We do know that there is a growing opinion among our colleagues that China needs to be, first of all, held to account for what they've done," Blackburn said in an exclusive interview with Just the News. "Secondly, they need to pay for what this has cost in life and livelihood and suffering and what it has cost our economy.”
China holds $1.08 trillion of the U.S. national debt, according to the most recent Treasury Department data. The debt held by the public is $18.2 trillion and the total debt, including intra-governmental holdings, is $24.2 trillion.
#7
^ I retired* last September and first thing I did was pay off all cards
*Quarantine has convinced me to not stay retired
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Frank, you weren’t going to stay retired anyway. I was just waiting to see which project it was going to be. (I knew a man once who turned his hobby of breeding canaries into a small but successful pet shop supply business. My darling father-in-law went into business mowing lawns — he ran the mower, his friend did the edging and sweeping up, they both enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air and sunshine.)
#9
Well, how often do you get to assist in constructing a Stadium?
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Only when the referendum passes on the sixth attempt, Frank.
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Nahhhh. 1st time. My old Alma Mater
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That is but natural. The very basis of sentience is survival. Only an idiot would feel his full refrigerator or his magazine subscriptions are more important than his next breath.
The credit economy leeched away any circumspection people ever applied to their spending. The bug in some people's arse for a 'cashless society' further decreased the amount of paper and coin savings families made. One should always save cash, and convert to precious metals periodically.
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Easy fast food delivery depended on good IT . I've found that the food delivery services are , out, not working , or very limited in supplies. At least in my Area.
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Kansas Governor Catlady just extended ours until May 3rd, or whenever the next line change will be.
Some 90% of all the few cases in Kansas are in 4 counties, two of which are part of the Greater Kansas City area.
Oddly enough, there are no confirmed cases on the I-70 corridor. We are being fed an urban model in a rural setting. The usual IDGAF people are doing just that, and the good people who no longer have anything to do are taking road trips from those counties out into the country. Cell phone tapping and tracking is now totally legit now I guess; when does that power grab turn off?
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Mass transit is a classic example of a beloved liberal-leftist idea that will not be allowed to fail no matter how bad it is for public health or public finance.
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I haven't used the T in Boston for about a year now; not bloody likely I'm getting back on the Red Line anytime soon. Given the past eighteen months with train derailments taking out a switching station to the multiple train car fires on fifty-year old trains that are always running behind schedule and now this shit, I'd rather pay $25 - $41 to park in town.
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One of my buddies thinks Boston is a 'world class city'. I'm like 'Dude - really? Look up at the scoreboard.', and that usually ends the debate right then & there.
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Never been on the New York subway. But I was riding the San Diego Trolley one day and conversing with a New Yorker who told me the trolley was much cleaner than the subway. Well, that tells me that the subway must be absolutely filthy because the San Diego Trolley is pretty damn disgusting and quite often way behind schedule. It's more of a novelty for homeless bums and juvenile delinquents than a serious means of transportation for commuters.
Obviously, coronavirus must be under control before trains are a viable option.
I still believe that civilized countries have trains but I should add that the trains must be maintained in a civilized manner.
I was favorably impressed by the Tokyo subway. The riders were all clean, well-dressed and well-behaved. Nobody was intoxicated, smelled like pee or looked like they'd been sleeping in the bushes, which is often the case in San Diego. The trains run like clockwork, always on time, and they stop all over the city so that anywhere you want to go has a stop within walking distance. Dunno if it's running now, though. Probably not.
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Aren't you glad we have these smarty-pants around to tell us this?
I wonder how many millions in grant funding it took for these geniuses to figure this out.
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#17 - Depends on which Trolley Line, the line from Santee to Petco Park only has assholes and miscreants when it picks up the aholes by El Cajon and Amaya and the Mission Valley transients :-)
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I have always been against closed environments. If you recirculate air at least have system to clean and sterilize air.
[BBC] A third of the sailors on France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle - 668 out of nearly 2,000 - are infected with coronavirus, the navy says.
The ship returned to the French port of Toulon early from Atlantic exercises. Twenty sailors are in hospital, one of them in intensive care.
The figure for those infected is likely to rise, as 30% of the test results are not yet in. The navy is investigating how so many sailors caught the virus.
The aircraft carrier is now in quarantine. Last week it was brought home 10 days early from its Atlantic deployment after some sailors showed symptoms.
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Now there's a carrier captain with guts. Unlike Captain Coward of the US Navy who violated OPSEC and informed far too many people with the predictable result it leaked. Fuck him.
[DailyBeast] Physician-Parents possessed hatred so much that they steal a senior citizen's Trump flag w kids in tow.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Two local doctors were arrested Tuesday after deputies say they stole a Trump 2020 flag from their neighbor.
Geoffrey Michael Fraiche, 41, Laura Ann Webb-Fraiche, 38, were arrested and charged with criminal mischief, trespassing, larceny and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Fraiche and Webb-Fraiche are accused of stealing the man's flag on April 7, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Ring surveillance video shows the two driving up to the man's house on a golf cart with at least two children with them, according to deputies. The report says Fraiche and Webb-Fraiche used a ladder to take down the man's Trump campaign flag.
The man said their actions caused about $500 in damage to the base of the flagpole and the flag itself cost $200. He wished to pursue charges.
Fraiche's arrest report says he is a gynecologist with at Sacred Heart Hospital. Webb-Fraiche's arrest report says she is a gynecologist at West Florida Hospital. Both smiling bastards have been released from the Santa Rosa County jail.
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The home owner should also file a complaint with the medical board. They have shown a predilection for criminal behavior and shouldn't be practicing medicine.
WHO chief assures critics that the UN's health body is "committed to serving the world’s people, and to accountability for the resources with which we are entrusted".https://t.co/JSlDXrnZPH
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But as far as I can tell they still don't have any regrets for getting the Coronavirus info totally backwards and helping to turn a local outbreak into a pandemic.
#12
If Bill sold a Windows upgrade that caused your computer to die, would Bill expect people to continue to pay for upgrades? the WHO failed on such an epic scale you have to wonder if the damage wasn't intentional. Why pay either way?
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Does this self-regarding clown not recognize the irony-- obvious to all of us who were ever stuck using his shitty products-- of the all-time champeen computer virus-enabler posturing as an expert on virology?
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There is, of course, no chance whatsoever that WHO will admit they were selling exactly what their Chinese masters told them to, regardless of where their funding was coming from. Shut it down, make sure no WHO employee ever works in any such capacity ever again. That will at least for a bit get people's attention.
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Maybe they can start advertising at the wet markets.
[JPost] - It was a matter of time before the coronavirus struck the Arab villages in Israel, spreading like an unchecked wildfire among families living in multi-generational homes.
Complaints have mounted in the Arab sector regarding the state’s slow response to halt the spread of the deadly virus in villages across northern Israel. While there are some 510 confirmed cases of the virus among Arab Israelis, officials are concerned that the real number is much higher due to the relatively small number of tests done. Now sh*t hits the fan.
Watch: A senior #Iranian commander at the #IRGC says that their "scientists" have invented a new remote device that uses a "magnetic field" with a "bipolar virus inside" that can detect the novel #coronavirus "within 100 meters" & has "+80% accuracy." #BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/4xVF2nr9hy
Ooooooooh. Wait — does anyone care about the Kennedys anymore? I’ve lost track.
[New York Post] Ethel Kennedy has learned to stop worrying and love Che Guevara.
Golly — cutting edge back in 1967. But the Kennedys didn’t choose wives for their brains.
The 92-year-old Kennedy clan matriarch’s late husband Robert and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, may have faced off against a Russia-aligned Cuba in the infamous 1962 Missile Crisis — but that didn’t stop her from putting the face of the communist nation’s revolutionary hero on a mantle at her Palm Beach home, The Post has learned.
In fact, her family says she’s been a fan of Guevara for years — and makes no apology about it.
"My mom loves Che Guevara. Her dog is named Che," her son, Robert Kennedy Jr., told The Post. "My mom has a subversive streak."
Ethel Kennedy’s status as comrade to the late Cuban revolution hero was outed inadvertently when her granddaughter, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo — one of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daughters — posted a picture to Twitter of the family celebrating the nonagenarian’s birthday at her Florida home.
In the background, was a framed picture of the late Guevara on a mantle. After the April 11 image was posted, Kennedy Cuomo apparently got red in the face and scrubbed it from the internet.
But a source shared it with The Post, and Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted his mom was not only a fan of Guevara, but also a fan of JFK’s biggest nemesis.
"She had a very good relationship with [Fidel] Castro," Robert Kennedy Jr. said. He said she met the late dictator several times in Cuba and claimed she once persuaded him to release political prisoners.
The love of Che seems to clash with the ardent anti-communist views of both former President Kennedy and her husband, RFK, who was gunned down in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, as he campaigned for president.
JFK sought to overthrow Cuba’s Communist regime during the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.
But RFK Jr. said emissaries to his uncle were working right before the president’s Nov. 22, 1963 assassination to work out a detente with Castro. He said JFK didn’t want Cuba to become a platform for the Soviet Union.
Guevara was a top aide and confidante to Castro
...that's one way to describe the murderous little sadist...
before he was killed in 1967 in Bolivia, while leading an attempt to overthrow the government there. He has gone on to become an icon to American leftists and the famous photo of him has become a popular t-shirt fad.
#10
The Collier-Horowitz book on the clan is really appalling-- in Bobby's case, really sad.
Ethel was and is a nutjob. Bobby was all in all a brave and wise man who deserved much better. The only one of the Kennedy men worth looking up to. The nation suffered a terrible loss on June 5, 1968.
#15
Adoration of a century old failed economic policy that has killed millions and caused hundreds of millions to live in poverty and near slavery is so subversive.
#17
The one that just died in Chesapeake with her kid put a canoe in the water to go after a beach ball, probably because of guilt over it being pollution. Not a brain trust sort of scenario.
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#18
I understand Brennan's got Che's hands mounted in a little shrine.
[Fast Company] On January 24, as the novel coronavirus started to spread in China, the government enacted travel restrictions throughout Hubei, the province where humans first contracted the disease. "I remember vividly on January 27 that our Chinese colleagues could not [get to] work, and we got the first request to help," recalled Lidia Fonseca, chief digital and technology officer at Pfizer. Employees who had worked on desktops or left laptops in the office couldn’t access work materials, so Fonseca’s team set up virtual desktops so people could access the pharmaceutical company’s network and applications.
For Fonseca, the January 27 scramble was an early warning signal for what was to come: In region after region, as the virus spread throughout the world, a large number of Pfizer’s 90,000 employees moved to remote work, tapping into the company’s digital infrastructure as never before. Today, Pfizer is seeing about 83,000 remote connections a day; previously, remote connections would peak at about 25,000 on Fridays, when many employees telecommute.
Pfizer, of course, isn’t just an average corporation making the transition to remote work as states and countries ask citizens to shelter in place. The 170-year-old drugmaker is, like many of its peers, on the front lines of racing to find a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19. And Fonseca, who joined the company in January 2019, is quietly working behind the scenes to ensure that Pfizer’s researchers and scientists have the tools they need to work with each other, and increasingly, partners and rivals at other firms.
Fonseca and her team play an essential role in "delivering breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, and to do this as quickly as possible," says Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive officer.
Collaboration among scientists at different companies and institutions—long a part of the drug-development process—has taken on added urgency because of the coronavirus health crisis.
Pfizer, for example, is partnering with German biotech company BioNTech to accelerate development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Other major drug companies, such as Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, have announced alliances with smaller biotech companies to jointly research, develop, or test vaccines.
#2
This headline is infuriating, but it looks like Pfizer actually gave a good interview to a typically moronic journalist. I clicked on this expecting a Bee article...
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.
An apprentice foodstuffs seller, identified simply as Chukwuemeka, has been allegedly killed by his co-apprentice, Chuks Victor, during a scuffle at their boss’ shop on Allison Street in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
[Summit] Tesla CEO calls out fake news that he didn’t send ventilators to hospitals.
[Red State] On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced during his daily briefing he’s issuing an edict forcing all New Yorkers to wear masks — when and where social distancing isn’t possible.
...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...
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
The governor of Nairobi, Kenya was blasted on social media after announcing his plans to include “small bottles of Hennessy” in food packs being distributed to the city’s poor families amid the coronavirus pandemic.
[PUNCHNG] Taraba State Police Command has said 25 persons were killed and several others injured in a bloody clash between Shomo and Jole ethnic groups in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Two local doctors were arrested Tuesday after deputies say they stole a Trump 2020 flag from their neighbor.
[New York Post] Ethel Kennedy has learned to stop worrying and love Che Guevara.
