[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Not just South Africa, but KwaZulu-Natal province. Back in 1996 I was told that white women living in the upper middle class suburbs of Johannesburg could expect to be raped once a year. I can’t imagine how much worse it must be in the Black townships.
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But, this, of course, is not a human rights problem.
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'There has been no justice for my nieces who are devastated. In this case the rapist saw my mother collapse from the shock and horror but carried on. Where is the humanity?'
"Humanity"...? Perhaps an incorrect term of reference.
A 20-year-old man was killed and two others injured in a targeted shooting Monday afternoon outside an Amazon warehouse in Jacksonville, Florida.
Two other men, ages 22 and 29, suffered graze wounds, says the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, which is now searching for two suspects who fled in a silver car
Authorities say a third suspect, possibly the getaway car driver, is also wanted in connection with shooting which happened about 2pm
The victim, who has not been identified, was standing with about six other people waiting to file an application for work
Officials said two Black male suspects in their 20s got out of a silver car, started shooting and then sped off.
The man fatally shot was believed to have been known by the shooters, says Assistant Chief Brian Kee of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
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During this sheltering in place, I tried my hand at making "Beer bread." I found that beer makes a good leavening. Good to drink the "leavening" too while making the bread.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court defended abortion rights in a major ruling on Monday by striking down a Louisiana law placing restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure, leaving anti-abortion advocates and the White House bitterly disappointed.
The 5-4 ruling, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four liberal justices, represented a victory for Shreveport-based abortion provider Hope Medical Group for Women in its challenge to the 2014 law. The measure had required doctors who perform abortions to have a sometimes difficult-to-obtain formal affiliation called "admitting privileges" at a hospital within 30 miles (48 km) of the clinic.
But Roberts indicated his vote was a reluctant one and signaled he may back other abortion restrictions in future cases, with some legal challenges already in the pipeline.
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Get 2/3rd of Congress and anything SCOTUS says is overruled. Been done 27 times. Oh, and also reorganize the Judiciary - no more life terms, make it 16 with a reaffirmation by the Senate. Suddenly, you'll see attitudes and viewpoints change.
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Don't you people grasp that restricting abortion harms the most fundamental human right - the right to behave stupidly without adverse consequences?
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If I understand correctly, Louisiana law applies exactly the same requirements to doctors who perform things like LASIK or colonoscopies in surgical centers. They are still required to have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals. ONLY abortionists are exempt for some strange reason.
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#4, you can behave stupidly all you want as long as you are the only one who suffers the consequences. But leave the babies out of it.
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It's noteworthy that you didn't even consider that the most fundamental human right - the right to behave stupidly without adverse consequences?
might be sarcasm, Abu.
HAVANA (Reuters) - In the courtyard of a temple belonging to the Abakua Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood in Havana, Nelson Piloto is pulling up the lawn to plant bell peppers and cassava in the face of Cuba’s looming food crisis.
Piloto, 40, says he is responding to the Communist government’s call for citizens to produce more of their own food, including in big cities, in whatever spaces they can find, from backyards to balconies.
Standing across from two giant ceiba trees that are considered sacred by many in Cuba, the temple usually resounds with ceremonies involving drumming, animal sacrifices and dance. But it sits empty now due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions on gatherings.
"I’m making the most of the earth," said Piloto, leaning on his hoe.
Food security has lately risen to the top of the national agenda in Cuba, with countless news headlines and televised roundtable discussions dedicated to the topic.
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They're coming at this problem from the wrong direction. As we here at the 'Burg know, Farmin B Hard. Rather than calling on the citizens to grow more food, why not just call on the citizens to starve less? For Cuba! Viva la Revolution!
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In the 1970 election [in Chili], Salvador Allende of the Socialist Party of Chile (then part of the "Popular Unity" coalition which included the Communists, Radicals, Social-Democrats, dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement, and the Independent Popular Action became the leader of Chili.
A friend fled Chili during this time and came to the U.S.. He said the Allende government appropriated the large farms and ranches and divided up the land into smaller parcels and gave these to the peasants who worked the larger farms/ranches. The livestock, poultry and hogs were also divided up. He said that the newly minted small farm owners didn’t grow enough to sustain themselves or the livestock and chickens. They ate the seed corn and feed. They ended up eating all the livestock and poultry and the small farms went fallow and they had nothing to eat.
It would be like if Antifa/BLM tried to sustain themselves in CHOP.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet... on Monday gave the head of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... mission in Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country.
The move came in retaliation to the bloc announcing sanctions against 11 Venezuelan officials earlier on Monday, including Luis Parra, who heads a National Assembly rival to the one led by opposition leader Juan Guaidó ...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.... "Who are they to try to impose themselves with threats?" said Maduro while announcing the move.
While scolding EU officials for backing Guaidó, Maduro offered to help the European delegation find a flight out of Venezuela amid 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... pandemic that’s grounded most air travel.
"If they can’t respect Venezuela, then they should leave it," said Maduro, rejecting the European leaders’ endorsement of Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president. "They recognize a puppet as president."
Venezuela is a once-wealthy oil nation experiencing a declining economic and political crisis that's driven roughly 5 million people from the country amid shortages of basic goods, soaring inflation and broken hospitals.
While the United States has led the push to oust Maduro with sanctions, leaders in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Canada have also thrown their support behind Guaido, in a coalition of nearly 60 nations. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... Maduro remains in power with control over the military and international support from allies including China, Russia, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Cuba.
[AlAhram] The United States said Monday it was ending the export of sensitive military items to Hong Kong, no longer treating the financial hub separately from China.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was taking the measure due to China's push forward with a security law that Hong Kong activists say will curb the city's freedoms.
"We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong Kong or to mainland China," Pompeo said in a statement.
"We cannot risk these items falling into the hands of the People's Liberation Army, whose primary purpose is to uphold the dictatorship of the CCP by any means necessary," he said, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
The State Department will end all exports to Hong Kong on its controlled list -- items ranging from advanced ammunition to military hardware that already need the green light from the administration and Congress.
The Commerce Department in turn will stop making a distinction between Hong Kong and China on so-called dual-use US products, which have both military and civilian applications -- and are highly restricted when sought by Beijing.
Pompeo announced the decision hours after China in turn restricted visas to some Americans for Hong Kong.
The United States has been leading global outrage over a proposed security law, which would outlaw subversion and other perceived offenses in Hong Kong, to which Beijing promised autonomy before it was handed back the territory from Britannia in 1997.
"It gives us no pleasure to take this action, which is a direct consequence of Beijing's decision to violate its own commitments under the UN-registered Sino-British Joint Declaration," Pompeo said.
[Washington Examiner] More than two decades after a law was passed requiring it to do so, the Defense Department released a list of companies operating in the United States that the Pentagon believes are tied to the People’s Liberation Army, the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party.
The list of 20 Chinese companies, including Huawei and Hikvision, was made public last week, and the designation by the Pentagon under the 1999 National Defense Authorization Act gives President Trump the power to invoke emergency economic powers granted to him under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, including sanctions, against the Chinese military-linked companies.
The Pentagon was required to create the list two decades ago, but last week marked the first time that it did so. The 1999 law, passed in part to make sure that China’s admission to the World Trade Organization did not give Chinese companies working for the PLA free rein in using access to the U.S. to build up China’s military strength, required the defense secretary to "make a determination of those persons operating directly or indirectly in the United States or any of its territories and possessions that are Communist Chinese military companies" and to "publish a list of those persons in the Federal Register." The Pentagon must also "make additions or deletions to the list ... on an ongoing basis based on the latest information available."
A new flu virus similar to H1N1 in 2009 has been identified in China. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans. https://t.co/uWROL1dWDT
DESOTO, Kan. (AP) — Merck Animal Health said Monday it plans to invest $100 million to expand and enhance its manufacturing facility in DeSoto, Kansas.
The company, a division of Merck & Co. based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, said in a news release that it plans a technology expansion of its vaccine production facility this year plus an additional $66 million investment in the coming years.
The site develops vaccines for swine, cattle and horses.
Gov. Laura Kelly said Merck Animal Health continues to be a strong source of innovation and growth in Kansas and are a leading force in vaccine production and research.
"The upgrades to these facilities will lead to more advancements in animal health and reinforce the importance of supporting biotechnology companies in the state," Kelly said.
Pamela Stoops, executive director for the company’s DeSoto operations, said the capital improvements and expansion in its manufacturing capabilities strengthens the company’s footprint in the state and increases its ability to fulfill customer demand.
BEIJING (AP) — The United States, Japan and France are prodding their companies to rely less on China to make the world’s smartphones, drugs and other products. But even after the coronavirus derailed trade, few want to leave skilled China’s skilled workforce and efficient suppliers of raw materials to move to other countries.
Disruptions from the pandemic, on top of the U.S.-Chinese tariff war, fueled warnings that relying too much on China leaves global companies vulnerable to costly breakdowns in the event of disasters or political conflict.
Drug makers stand out as one industry that is trying to reduce reliance on Chinese suppliers by setting up sources of raw materials in the United States and Europe. But consumer electronics, medical devices and other industries are sticking with China.
"I don’t know of a single company right now that is moving ahead with any plans to move," said Harley Seyedin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China.
China’s explosive rise as the world’s low-cost factory helped to hold down consumer prices and boosted Western corporate profits. But it has fueled political tension over lost American and European blue collar jobs. Governments and industry consultants fret that dependence on China can be a threat to supply chains and possibly national security.
Chinese factories assemble most of the world’s smartphones and consumer electronics and a growing share of medical equipment, industrial robots and other high-tech goods. This country is a dominant supplier of vitamin C and ingredients for antibiotics and other medicines. The ruling Communist Party has spent two decades building ports, railways, telecom networks and other facilities that are regarded as among the world’s best.
"China still offers an unparalleled supply chain for any industry," said Jit Lim of Alvarez & Marsal, a management consulting firm.
Philip Richardson, who manufactures loudspeakers in Panyu, near Hong Kong, said he has looked at Vietnam and other countries. But he said while their wages might be as low as 60% of China’s, the savings will be eaten up by the cost of giving up his network of Chinese suppliers.
"We gave it consideration for about a minute, and it doesn’t make sense," said Richardson, who has worked in China for 22 years. "When you buy magnets, now you have to pay for transportation and customs duties into other countries, whereas in China we just buy the magnets and they are shipping to us."
More fallout from the Saudi petroleum plays and Covid-19 caused lack of demand.
[gCaptain] Chesapeake Energy Corp., the archetype for America’s extraordinary shale-gas fortunes, filed for bankruptcy, becoming one of the biggest victims of a spectacular collapse in energy demand from the virus-induced global lock-down.
The Oklahoma City-based company filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas on Sunday, listing assets and liabilities in the range of $10 billion and $50 billion, and more than 100,000 creditors.
h/t Instapundit
[South China Morning Post] - China has approved military use of an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by the People’s Liberation Army and a Chinese pharmaceutical company, in a first for the armed forces of any country.
The vaccine, identified as Ad5-nCoV, was jointly developed by a team at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, led by Major General Chen Wei, and Tianjin-based company CanSino Biologics.
It is the first time that a vaccine candidate for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has been authorised for use for the military of any nation.
CanSino said on Monday that the candidate had been through two phases of clinical trials, which indicated it was safe and there was "relatively high" immune response to the antigen. Well, they did have a head start
Given that it’s Chinese research, the odds that it is actively harmful rather than neutral or beneficial go up significantly.
[MSN] Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls that contains a blackface reference.
Over the weekend, the streaming platform cleared its catalog of the 1988 episode of the beloved sitcom titled "Mixed Blessings." The season 3 episode's storyline follows Dorothy's son Michael introducing his fiancée Lorraine to the main characters.
While Dorothy (Bea Arthur) has reservations about the engagement because of the woman's older age, Lorraine's family is resistant to her marrying a white man.
The controversial scene in question finds Rose (Betty White) and Blanche (Rue McClanahan) in matching brown mud masks when Lorraine's family meets them.
Rose references their appearance saying, "This is mud on our faces, we're not really Black."
Some criticized Hulu's decision to take down the episode, claiming the choice is an overreaction. "That Golden Girls episode isn’t blackface. What the hell ?" tweeted author Roxanne Gay, adding, "Removing this episode is weird, counterproductive and stupid. It diminishes the effort to actually end racism. It’s just so dumb."
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Tried watching a show on Hulu the other night but there were too many technical difficulties with the stream. Never have those problems with Netfix or YouTube. Hulu sux.
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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.
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
[Washington Examiner] More than two decades after a law was passed requiring it to do so, the Defense Department released a list of companies operating in the United States that the Pentagon believes are tied to the People’s Liberation Army, the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party.
DESOTO, Kan. (AP) — Merck Animal Health said Monday it plans to invest $100 million to expand and enhance its manufacturing facility in DeSoto, Kansas.
BEIJING (AP) — The United States, Japan and France are prodding their companies to rely less on China to make the world’s smartphones, drugs and other products. But even after the coronavirus derailed trade, few want to leave skilled China’s skilled workforce and efficient suppliers of raw materials to move to other countries.
