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-Short Attention Span Theater-
District of Columbia Sues BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell for Misleading Public on Climate Change
[Union of Concerned Scientists] Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies on Thursday for misleading consumers about the impact their products have on the climate.

Coming just a day after Minnesota filed a similar suit, the District lawsuit contends that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have been aware since the 1950s of the threat posed by fossil fuels but launched public relations campaigns to manufacture doubt about the reality and seriousness of climate change. It seeks a court order for the companies to pay civil penalties, provide financial relief for District residents, and stop their disingenuous PR campaigns.

"For decades, these oil and gas companies spent millions to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of profits," Racine said in a statement. "The defendants violated the District’s consumer protection law by concealing the fact that using fossil fuels threatens the health of District residents and the environment. [The Office of the Attorney General] filed this suit to end these disinformation campaigns and to hold these companies accountable for their deceptive practices."

The lawsuit also maintains that the companies’ current marketing campaigns hype the relative "green" benefits of natural gas and other products, suggesting that they are "clean" and "emissions-reducing," while concealing the fact that they still contribute significantly to the climate crisis.

"Defendants have shifted their advertising strategies to mislead DC consumers into believing that buying Defendants’ products supports companies committed to reducing and reversing the effects of climate change," the lawsuit asserts. "In fact, the opposite is true."

The four companies named in the District lawsuit are major contributors to global warming. Along with ConocoPhillips, they are responsible for 12.5 percent of all industrial carbon pollution emitted between 1854 and 2010, according to a 2013 study by the Climate Accountability Institute.

Both of the lawsuits filed this week in Washington, D.C., and Minnesota are similar to fraud cases brought by Massachusetts and New York attorneys general against ExxonMobil.

Massachusetts’ lawsuit, filed in October, claims that ExxonMobil deceived consumers about the threat its products pose to the climate. It has not yet gone to trial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 09:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Soros-funded Attorney General at work.
Posted by: b || 06/28/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Past a certain point we're being prosecuted for not confessing.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/28/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  It won't happen, but I'd love to see 3M pull out of there. There should be enough writing on the wall.

But the absurdity is that if anybody is doing the "misleading", it is the climate change advocates. I mean, why didn't NYC de-fund the NYPD over 20 years ago? The al-Gore types said NYC was supposed to be under water by 2010.
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ...Minnesota and DC can't control their cities, but they've got time for this horsesh!t? This needs to be on GOP commercials 24/7.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/28/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  The companies should sue The Climate, for failing us, the lousy shit. And by extension, all its sworn representatives, whovever they are.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#6  The disclosures of the climatista lies should be very interesting.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/28/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  The oil companies should refuse to sell their products to the District. After all, if DC were serious about climate change, they would ban automobiles, trains, and electricity.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/28/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ climatista ?

Deacon ~ There are ladies that sometimes visit here. That's an anatomical reference that could get you sinktrapped.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9  18 shot in 24 hours as spike in gun violence in NYC continues
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
85 People Who Visited Michigan Bar Diagnosed With COVID-19
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We've been telling people to 'shelter in place' here for weeks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it just me (or due to the riots) that the wacko governor broad in Michigan has been quiet lately?
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  She keeps getting bitch-slapped by the courts and she gets internal polling showing the peeps hate her
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Is Covid on the menu?
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 06/28/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Hopefully no old farts.
Posted by: KBK || 06/28/2020 19:51 Comments || Top||

#6  @#3 - Great!
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 20:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Lawyers!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/28/2020 21:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Whats the hospitalization rate and mortality rate? Those are the only numbers that matter. If its like Texas, the aggregate numbers of positive tests are going way up, but as a percentage, its steady, and the number of actual fatalities is declining even in the face of the increase of simple test counts. Hospitalization rates per thousand have actually declined slightly per the CDC's own numbers.

This is how the "flattened curve" bumps up as herd immunity comes into being.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/28/2020 22:03 Comments || Top||


Coronaplague Roundup


Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Police report 2,752 fines over past day to non-mask wearers
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ...ah, another use of the police as revenue agents. Might be the original cause of Portland's exemption for 'people of color', they wanted to avoid the usual 'incident' that sets off the 'free stuff looting days' we've seen elsewhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Lets compare CV19 morbidity & mortality stats between Israel & USA.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, and weren't they all crying the blues a month or so ago as "the science" showed blacks more at risk of contracting CV than other demographics?
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  ^And two mouths before that we've seen videos of lock-down NOT being enforced in inner cities.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Appears many of the protesters were out-of-town Antifa caucasians, which negates the need for a large number of urban locals. A few non-caucasions are however necessary for BLM narrative and visual. Other urban dwellers are free to mingle and contribute to the CV-19 die off.

Planned Parenthood was never actually designed to handle current urban 'Margaret Higgins Sanger' population downsizing requirements. Drive-by shootings continue to be plagued by dodgy marksmanship which amount to little more than anecdotal news flashes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Where are the piles of bodies in the streets?

I was promised bodies in the streets.

Haven't heard "Bring out yer dead" yet.

Oh, didn't I see that cases are up but deaths are down?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/28/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#8  50% of COVID-19 patients suffer from weakness, distress after recovery
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Age/demographic/pre-existing condition info available?
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Feds Extend Funding For COVID-19 Testing Sites In Texas
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Need to do what we can for the 10th largest economy in the world
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#12  'Bring out the dead'? I'm waiting for the undead! BWUAHAHAHA!
Sorry. So sorry.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/28/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||



Heads up: FDA warns these hand sanitizers may be fatal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a warning to consumers about hand sanitizers manufactured in Mexico. The agency has put together a list of nine products that are to be avoided because they may be fatal to the consumer.

If the hand sanitizer in your handbag or pocket is one of these, the FDA asks that you "stop using these hand sanitizers and dispose of them immediately in appropriate hazardous waste containers. Do not flush or pour these products down the drain."

All-Clean Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-002-01)
Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-007-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-008-04)
Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-006-01)
The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-010-10)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-005-03)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-009-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-003-01)
Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-001-01)

These nine brands are manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de CV in Mexico. The problem is an ingredient used in these hand sanitizers — methanol. Methanol is also known as wood alcohol. Methanol is toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested. The FDA recommends that if you have used these products, seek immediate treatment.

FDA tested samples of Lavar Gel and CleanCare No Germ. Lavar Gel contains 81 percent (v/v) methanol and no ethyl alcohol, and CleanCare No Germ contains 28 percent (v/v) methanol. Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects.

So, have the products been removed from store shelves? Nope. Eskbiochem has not honored the FDA’s request to do so. They are still on the market.

On June 17, 2020, FDA contacted Eskbiochem to recommend the company remove its hand sanitizer products from the market due to the risks associated with methanol poisoning. To date, the company has not taken action to remove these potentially dangerous products from the market.
Posted by: Phaviling Wittlesbach2820 || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, don't be such babies. If it's not toxic to carbon based life, then it's not really a sanitizer now is it?
Posted by: SteveS || 06/28/2020 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  So don't drink the hand sanitizer?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/28/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  If bugs won't use it, then it's not good for humans.
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Your hands will go blind.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/28/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As hand sanitizers are biocides wouldn't they cause a noticeable and painful skin inflammation if there was any significant absorption beyond the layer of dead cells, especially if used regularly?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/28/2020 17:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Now people, methanol (wood alcohol) is dangerous because - if you drink it, the enzymes that normally handle ethanol would turn it into formaldehyde.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#7  * "An advance on your embalming is included"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||


BuzzFeed "Reporter" Who Got [ZH] Banned On Twitter, Fired For Plagiarism
[ZeroHedge] Almost five short months ago, 'journalist' Ryan Broderick was the envy of his fake news peers. The BuzzFeed 'senior reporter' had just written a hit-piece against Zero Hedge slamming us over the 'conspiracy theory' that COVID-19 may have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, and claiming that we doxed one of their scientists. Hours later, we were summarily kicked off of Twitter - a ban which has since been reversed after the social media giant admitted they were in error. Meanwhile, the lab origin 'conspiracy theory' has gained widespread support and is now the focus of several international investigations into the CCP lab.

Less than 48 hours after our February Twitter ban, internet sleuths discovered that Broderick had previously blogged about pedophilic fantasies involving young boys. Why he wasn't fired on the spot is anyone's guess. Perhaps former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith (now with the 'Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not A Crime'-promoting New York Times) has a soft spot for Ryan.

On Friday, Broderick was fired for plagiarism after BuzzFeed's new editor-in-chief, Mark Schoofs, published "A Note To Our Readers" detailing eleven instances where Broderick lifted content from other publications without attribution going back to 2013, including his hit-piece against Zero Hedge.

"BuzzFeed News has found that the following articles do not meet our editorial standards, as laid out in our standards and ethics guidelines," reads Schoofs' note. "As a result, the articles have been updated to more clearly attribute phrases and sentence construction to material previously published by other news organizations."

Which is a long-winded way to say: 'Our Senior Reporter got caught plagiarizing eleven times, so we're doing damage control.'
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get woke go code
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Certainly they wouldn't have wanted to fire him over his cherished, stated ambition to be 'the Andy Warhol of erotic children's photography'. Where's Tony Soprano when you need him?
Posted by: Cesare || 06/28/2020 9:11 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South African Air offers employees R580,000 ($34,000 USD) buy out
[News24] SAA staff are being offered extremely generous severance packages — averaging R580 000 each — at a total cost of R2.2 billion that is due to come from taxpayers’ pockets.

This includes retrospective increases and incentive bonuses, but is still not enough for several unions.

The offer comes at a time when companies which did business with SAA will be lucky if they see 7.5c on every rand that the bankrupt airline owes them. The debt amounts to about R11 billion in total and creditors may have to give up any hope of ever seeing the money they are owed.

The debt, however, excludes that to banks, which is guaranteed by the state.

The acceptance of the severance packages is a prerequisite for the approval of SAA’s rescue plan, according to which the workforce of the airline will be cut from the current level of about 4 700 to 1 000.

Creditors were meant to vote on the plan on Thursday, but the it was postponed after unions and creditors said the plan was deficient. They are expected to meet again on July 14.

Although the business rescue practitioners have indicated that government is ready to finance the plan, it is still not clear where the money will come from.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 08:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somewhat related:

Coronavirus: BBC - Delta to extend caps on passenger numbers
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Seawater seeping into decaying oil tanker off Yemen coast
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes.

Meanwhile, Houthi rebels who control the area where the ship is moored have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press shows that seawater has entered the engine compartment of the tanker, which hasn’t been maintained for over five years, causing damage to the pipelines and increasing the risk of sinking. Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out. Experts say maintenance is no longer possible because the damage to the ship is irreversible.

For years, the U.N. has been trying to send inspectors to assess the damage aboard the vessel known as the FSO Safer and look for ways to secure the tanker by unloading the oil and pulling the ship to safety.

But one European diplomat, a Yemeni government official and the tanker’s company owner said that Houthi rebels have resisted. The diplomat said the rebels are treating the vessel as a "deterrent like having a nuclear weapon." All three individuals spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the subject with a reporter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 09:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seawater seeping into ==> risk of rupture or exploding?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, Houthi rebels...they must be one tough customer.
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||


Britain
Britain will quit its transitional arrangements with the EU 'on Australia terms' if no deal on their future relationship is reached
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'on Australia terms'

Colloquially known as the "See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!" option
Posted by: SteveS || 06/28/2020 0:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US F-22 fighter jets “intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone“
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nuclear weapons test sensors in Sweden detect unexplained rise in radiation coming from region including Russian city of St Petersburg
More on this story from yesterday.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Radiation detected by Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

  • Oversees hundreds of monitoring stations to detect nuclear weapons tests

  • The station in question, in Stockholm, detected three different isotopes

  • The isotopes detected were caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103

  • CTBTO chief Lassina Zerbo said the levels were not high enough to be harmful

  • They came from nuclear fission - the process used to generate nuclear power

  • But CTBTO said it was outside their mandate to determine exact origin
The Times of Israel adds:
Moscow reports operations normal, after Dutch officials suggest rise harmless to humans and environment may stem from damage to fuel element in western Russia nuclear power plant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  China: "We unleashed a bioweapon that has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide!"

Russia: "Hold my vodka."
Posted by: Matt || 06/28/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The half lives of caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103 are about 2y, 30y and 39d respectively. Iodine-131 (8d) seems to be missing.

Apparently the fission process that produced this was stopped some months but less than a year ago.

Could this be some residue from the nuclear powered cruise missile experiments?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/28/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Rise in radiation has been noted over an immense area from the northern Murmansk oblast to the Baltic. And beyond?
Posted by: b || 06/28/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Andrei... you've lost another nuclear power plant?
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/28/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  "Andri , why is Baltic like used Russian rubber ? , It is covered with Russian seamen. "
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 06/28/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Japan University awards first-ever degree in ninja studies
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A Japanese University has awarded its first-ever degree in ninja studies after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years examining historical documents on the true nature of the stealth fighters while perfecting his martial arts skills.
Now there's a wide open job market!
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
And it's written in disappearing ink ! Sugoi !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ To graduate you must infiltrate and find your diploma in a mansion filled with traps?
Posted by: magpie || 06/28/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  still more useful than alot of the degrees our colleges are offering
Posted by: Chris || 06/28/2020 17:16 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asian leaders say a 1982 UN oceans treaty should be the basis of sovereign rights and entitlements in the South China Sea
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
Bail or bust for Europe's airlines
[Statista] European airline carriers secured billions worth of government support since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Lufthansa, the world's fourth largest airline, received a nine billion euros lifeline, the biggest German corporate rescue caused by COVID-19 so far. This was no exception. On June 26, for example, the Netherlands announced the details of its financial support for KLM with a bailout package worth of 3.4 billion euros. Earlier, France announced seven billion euros worth of support for Air France.

This support comes at a cost for the airlines, however, as most European governments attach environmental conditions to their support. This is because the sector's greenhouse gas emissions kept growing up until 2020. Between January and June 2019, for example, carbon emissions from departing flights that originated from Austria and Finland grew by 19 and eight percent, respectively.
[Perhaps another example of using COVID-19 hysteria to push the climate change agenda.]
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
India has apparently lost 3 tactically important positions to China
Posted by: 3dc || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  would kinda like to hear from Dron on this
Posted by: Chris || 06/28/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spreaders
[NYT] - Dr. Camilla Rothe was about to leave for dinner when the government laboratory called with the surprising test result. Positive. It was Jan. 27. She had just discovered Germany’s first case of the new coronavirus.

But the diagnosis made no sense. Her patient, a businessman from a nearby auto parts company, could have been infected by only one person: a colleague visiting from China. And that colleague should not have been contagious.

The visitor had seemed perfectly healthy during her stay in Germany. No coughing or sneezing, no signs of fatigue or fever during two days of long meetings. She told colleagues that she had started feeling ill after the flight back to China. Days later, she tested positive for the coronavirus.

Scientists at the time believed that only people with symptoms could spread the coronavirus. They assumed it acted like its genetic cousin, SARS.
Assume makes an ass of u and me
"People who know much more about coronaviruses than I do were absolutely sure," recalled Dr. Rothe, an infectious disease specialist at Munich University Hospital.

But if the experts were wrong, if the virus could spread from seemingly healthy carriers or people who had not yet developed symptoms, the ramifications were potentially catastrophic. Public-awareness campaigns, airport screening and stay-home-if-you’re sick policies might not stop it. More aggressive measures might be required — ordering healthy people to wear masks, for instance, or restricting international travel.

Dr. Rothe and her colleagues were among the first to warn the world. But even as evidence accumulated from other scientists, leading health officials expressed unwavering confidence that symptomless spreading was not important.
Because, otherwise, you'd have to quarantine China?
...Interviews with doctors and public health officials in more than a dozen countries show that for two crucial months — and in the face of mounting genetic evidence — Western health officials and political leaders played down or denied the risk of symptomless spreading. Leading health agencies including the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control provided contradictory and sometimes misleading advice. A crucial public health discussion devolved into a semantic debate over what to call infected people without clear symptoms.
Now the critical question is: if symptomless infected can infect, are there some infected/infecting who never develop symptoms?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet, in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected.

Even in Israel,more than 99% remain uninfected/undetected.

Are we done flattening the curve yet?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/28/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Robert.
(a) So far, and you'd expect some, there is no evidence that recovered CV19 patients are immune.
(b) There never was any evidence for "herd immunity". It's an artifact of sloppy mathematical modeling.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Sloppy like the "modeling" from Imperial College, the former home of one Neil Ferguson?
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Sloppier. At least imperial model had death rates in it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  So if you have no symptoms and you dont die, is it really a deadly pandemic?

Asked and answered.
Posted by: Regular joe || 06/28/2020 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Tell it to 1/2 a million who died already.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 17:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Most of whom might've died regardless? Pffft
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#8  ^Only in the sense that everyone dies, Frank.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Not buying this chicken little nonsense any more Grom. You have completely discredited yourself as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: Regular joe || 06/28/2020 18:08 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Good Joe. Good. You defeated me. Now defeat covid.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2020 18:23 Comments || Top||


#12  Go back and look at #1. We are a long, long, long way from being finished with this. Never did 'finidh' with the Hong Kong flu, by the way.

So we either lock down until we get a vaccine we know is safe and effective and plentiful, or we get on with life until the death toll gets so high no one wants to go out.

Pick one.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/28/2020 20:02 Comments || Top||

#13  The Universe, Robert, doesn't give a f*ck about what we want.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 06/28/2020 20:17 Comments || Top||

#14  The longterm health hazards from Pandemic M@sturbation, Grom are not in your favor
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 20:26 Comments || Top||

#15  "in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected."

If you start off with an unproven assertion (commonly known as "a lie", or mopre courteously as a "misrepresentation"), the rest of what you say is extremely suspect.

And the "herd immunity" has some decent mathematical underpinnings. Please post credible citations to the contrary - you're marking the assertion, show your work. Otherwise you're just another ass, braying at barnyard.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/28/2020 22:11 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Soldier in Syrian Army forcefully disappeared after he posted videos expressing his love for Assad’s daughter
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ugh! She's WAY too old per Mo
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  ...On the other hand, the poor SOB has probably been out in the boonies for a while, and the local goats certainly got his number by now, so it probably seemed reasonable.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/28/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#3  What's that coda to "May you live in interesting times"?
Oh yeah, "May the Emperor's concubine speak fondly of you".
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/28/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4 
"Who knows, maybe the guy was picked up by the palace limo and is now living it up ? She's not very pretty you know. Assad may just..."

"Naah, too much to hope for, Mahmoud."

"He used to sing really well."

"Just not fair."


Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
John Wayne Airport targeted for a name change to Orange County Airport as California Democrats call out the film legend's racist and homophobic statements
Having an Hispanic wife and mixed-raced children doesn't count?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other waning news,

They will need to rename Wayne County, Michigan and Fort Wayne since their namesake is Mad Anthony Wayne, General and famous Indian killer.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/28/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Do we rename all the federal buildings in West Virginia stripping the Robert C. "I was pro-KKK before I wasn't" Byrd name off of federal buildings?
Posted by: magpie || 06/28/2020 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Hoo boy, I can see blow back on this from some "Hispanic" ladies who are big John Wayne fans .
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 06/28/2020 4:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Screw this. Rename LA to "John Waynesville".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/28/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The leftis Democrats probably just want to add “Gacy” to the John Wayne airport name.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/28/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Another one from "the archives"!
Posted by: Clem || 06/28/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  These Taliban Yahoos are beginning to get more than annoying.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/28/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||


Science
Pictured: How Covid-19 causes infected human cells to sprout tentacles loaded with viral venom to help it spread around the body in a process scientists call 'so sinister'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A marvel of bio-engineering R&D ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Viruses have venom? Can we milk them and develop an anti-venom cure?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/28/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Viruses have venom? Can we milk them and develop an anti-venom cure?

The Wuhan virus makes the cell produce "venom" which is a potential target for research in therapeutics:

"SARS-CoV-2 produces at least three virulence factors that promote shedding of new virions from host cells and inhibit immune response.[102] Whether they include downregulation of ACE2, as seen in similar coronaviruses, remains under investigation (as of May 2020).[78]"
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/28/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  John Carpenter anticipated this in 1982.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/28/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  A mutated strain of coronavirus that has decimated the US, UK and Italy is nearly 10 times more infectious than the original virus that emerged from China, a study suggests.

The potent version of SARS-CoV-2 - called D614G - has four to five times more 'spikes' that protrude from the viral surface allow it to latch onto human cells.

Not only does this trait make it more infectious, but it also makes the virus more stable and resilient.


That was exactly my suspicion. So, China had a multiple release and they managed to eradicate the second, more virulent one. Without warning the world that it had spread to Italy and Spain.
Posted by: KBK || 06/28/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||



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