[ST Daily] At 4:00 a.m. on August 20, 2020, the water level of the Cuntan Hydrology Station of the River Upstream Hydrological Resources Survey Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy exceeded 191.41 meters, with a maximum flow of 74,600 cubic meters per second. At 8:15 a.m. on August 20, a flood peak appeared at the Cuntan Hydrology Station, with a water level of 191.62 meters and 8.12 meters above the guaranteed level, the highest flood level since the station was built in 1939.
Science and Technology Daily reporter Tang Ting Correspondent Zheng Li: The reporter learned from the Water Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources that the storage flow of the Three Gorges Reservoir rose to 72,000 cubic meters per second at 12:00 on August 19. Previously, the maximum storage flow of the Three Gorges Reservoir was 71,200 cubic meters per second on July 24, 2012. It is predicted that the Three Gorges Reservoir will have a storage flood peak of 75,000 cubic meters per second on August 20. Under the influence of strong rainfall, the upper tributaries of the Yangtze River, Minjiang, Tuojiang, and Jialing River all suffered from overinsurance and above floods. Currently, Minjiang and Tuojiang have all been turned back, and Jialing River is passing the peak. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River include Luzhou, Zhu Tuo and in-Tan stations with a guaranteed water level.
[JoanneNova] 2.0 billion people were assigned to the [HCQ} treatment group, and 663 million to the control group. As of August 6, 2020, an average of 38.5/million in the treatment group have died, and 440.2/million in the control group, relative risk 0.087. After adjustments, treatment and control deaths become 79.6/million and 630.0/million, relative risk 0.13. when they say 'were assigned', it means 'were self assigned by National policy'
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So what's the deal here? I've got:
A) Putin did it
B) Putin didn't do it because everyone would naturally blame it on Putin.
C) False flag op by the Opposition which works because everyone knows Putin did it.
I've lost track of Russian politics, what with all the craziness going on. (not to besmirch Russian craziness)
#NorthKorea will hold a rare ruling party congress in January where leader #KimJongUn will announce a new five-year plan to develop the country’s dismal economy ravaged by US-led sanctions and the #coronavirus pandemichttps://t.co/pjW0umsVHo
#6
Well, you can still get to it from the taskbar search and it still opens, though it's a billboard for the "new" Edge browser now.
There's certainly been plenty of time for companies to migrate any proprietary sites or web apps they have that are based on IE, but anyone who has ever worked in corporate IT knows that doesn't mean it's been done.
Edge (based on Chromium) has an "IE mode." I have no idea how compatible it is, I have no exposure to the sorts of sites I described above.
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Finally put the wheezing, asthmatic piece of security vulnerability shit out of its misery.
#15
I'm a Windows Insider, been involved in every Windows beta program since ver 2.11 Ebge based on Chromium is 99% like Chrome less the gurgle tracking. I daily drive the dev channel builds and I have no problems with it. Haven't had to drop back to FF because of a site incompatibility in some time.
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Now MS should reach into their user’s computers and delete it. Otherwise, many will just continue to use it.
#3
I'm closest to Wallbridge fire, ash falling like a light snow. I can see the smoke from Hennessy firef from Napa as well. George M Schulz airport has a major air attack presence and they're basically on the front lines now. Zero containment. Next 48 hrs are critical.
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Stay safe, Rex.
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Careful Rex, the fire speed to traffic jam ratio is the wrong kind of exciting.
We had a trucker cry no joy and attempt to make a u-turn. In the smoke, vehicles began running into the truck. If it weren't all right next to a baby green wheat field to the crash victims to take refuge in...the trucker, unaware of the field, fled a less desirable direction.
Phone data has tracked the movements of Americans traveling to and from an annual motorcycle rally in South Dakota and those vacationing in Las Vegas
The maps created by data visualization company Tectonix show the extent of the widespread travel right across the country
The majority of those who traveled to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally came from the Midwest and South, according to the tracking data
Many came from Sunbelt states with large coronavirus outbreaks, including Texas, Arizona and Georgia
Another visualization related to Las Vegas shows exactly where people traveled to after visiting the Strip when casinos reopened for business back on June 4
The majority of visitors over a July weekend came from Southern California, Arizona and Texas
BTW, if you want to know who the future GULAG/deathcamp guards, commandants and informers are going to come from, just check the LinkedIn profiles for all these data vacuum companies.
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Because the DM won't touch that, too busy trying to shame Sturgis and normalize that it is not only ok to track your cell data, but it is actually necessary to track this, ugh, filthy neurotic and violent part of society who would murder your grandma in the nursing home because no mask.
You wear no mask
You have no shame
When someone dies
Its you we'll blame
[DNYUZ] While the work can be merciless, movers are busy this season, and glad of it.
For Mr. Grigor and his colleagues, it is fair to say this summer has been like no other. Not only is he having to meet the strenuous physical demands of his job during a steamy summer, but he is also having to do so while abiding by the new rules of social distancing.
On top of these challenges is just how overworked movers are. “It’s nuts out there,” Mr. Grigor said. “There is double the volume of customers — maybe more — than last year.”
While the moving industry is fractured among numerous small business owners, and official statistics are tough to come by, one thing is clear: From professionals who are downsizing following a job loss, to students moving back in with their parents, to families fleeing the city for the suburbs, New Yorkers are changing their addresses in droves.
According to FlatRate Moving, the number of moves it has done has increased more than 46 percent between March 15 and August 15, compared with the same period last year. The number of those moving outside of New York City is up 50 percent — including a nearly 232 percent increase to Dutchess County and 116 percent increase to Ulster County in the Hudson Valley.
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Byron York on Twitter - Are people desperate to get out of certain cities? Read @ETFelten's clever way of checking. Renting a U-Haul truck from Brooklyn to Chapel Hill NC costs $2603. Chapel Hill to Brooklyn, $492. How about Portland OR to Boise? $1242. Boise to Portland, $91.
[Jpost] The US state of Michigan has reached a settlement to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, the state's attorney general and its governor announced on Thursday.
Most of the amount will be allocated for children who suffered from lead-tainted tapwater after officials switched the city's water supply six years ago, the state's attorney general, Dana Nessel, said in a statement.The settlement is subject to approval by a federal judge in Michigan.
In January, the Supreme Court let Flint residents pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accused the city and government officials of knowingly allowing the water supply to become contaminated with lead.
Flint switched its public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to cut costs during a financial crisis. But the corrosive river water caused lead to leach from pipes, and the city switched back to Lake Huron water the following year.
More than 25,000 people were harmed through exposure to contaminants in Flint, including more than 5,000 children younger than 12, court records showed as of January.
#2
Wanna bet being in arrears in your Flint water bill doesn't even result in proration, let alone outright denial of eligibility? Wanna bet lots of people who paid their water bill on time every month will be found "over the income limit" to participate?
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[Jpost] On the night between Wednesday and Thursday, Hanun stream, which flows from northern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... into Israel, was overflowed with sewage water in Israeli territory.
The Gaza sewage treatment plant has stopped working due to a power shortage, leading to the ecological crisis. The power shortage was caused in turn by Israel's decision to stop providing Gaza with fuel — a decision reached due to recent escalations in which incendiary balloons have been sent into Israel, causing fires in the region.Sha'ar Hanegev local council began clearing the affected area.
[Jpost] Many Christians remain in Iranian prisons rife with COVID-19.
A pastor and his wife have lost their appeals against prison sentences for national security-related crimes in Iran, including "conducting Evangelism," NGO Christian Solidarity Woldwide (CSW) reported Monday.
Iranian courts have sentenced Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz to 10 years in prison for "conducting Evangelism" and "illegal house church activities," while his wife Shamiram Isavi was given a five-year sentence for "membership of a group with the purpose of disrupting national security" and "gathering and colluding to commit crimes against national security." As noted by CSW, these charges seem more similar to normal church activities, rather than issues of national security.
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[Arutz 7] - Over the past week, the reports have come fast and furious.
One overnight sports camp for boys in Pennsylvania had an outbreak of COVID-19, sending eight boys back to their home communities on Long Island and several more to Baltimore, where others had contracted the virus after attending weddings or coming into contact with those who did.
Bungalow colonies in the Catskill Mountains saw an outbreak among families, many of whom were summering there away from their homes in Brooklyn.
And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that 16 new cases were found in the Brooklyn Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, with some traced back to a large wedding there.
As the summer comes to a close and families prepare for a new school year and the High Holidays, government officials and leaders in the Orthodox community are monitoring new cases in Orthodox communities across the New York City area and down the East Coast. They say the cases, though small in number at the moment, could spiral out of control, derailing plans to reopen schools with in-person instruction and hold in-person services for the holidays.
Left unchecked, the increasing cases also have the potential to turn next month’s gatherings in schools and synagogues into superspreader events, reversing the progress made over the past few months.
"It has the potential to be a perfect storm," said Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, the chief of infectious diseases and hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau on Long Island and an assistant rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere, a large Orthodox synagogue in Long Island’s Nassau County. "The question everyone has to ask themselves is: Is not wearing a mask that critical that they’re willing to risk everything?" de Blasio may be an Anti-Semite but not because his covid relations with the Hasidim community. We have exactly the same problem in Israel - Hasidim as a group ignore coronavirus instruction. And, as a result, contribute disproportionately to severe & lethal coronavirus cases.
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It was inevitable once the Fly-By-Wire aircraft became practical. The biggest problem is Target Recognition -- what happens when IFF (Identify Friend/Foe) goes 'wonky'...?
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Competition had the human pilot in a VR suite, which is interesting because although not a real life scenario in actual flying vehicles, the human was not restricted by g-forces.
To be fair, the AI has the entire recorded flight combat history to work off of, the human has no versus AI training. Also, the current weapon systems are designed for versus human opponent.
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The "real war" is ECM Vs. ECCM. If you can mess with the AI drone's sensor package, and/or a human engaging beyond visual range, then things get nasty. In this sort of (quote) test (un-quote) I would bet on the AI every time.
[ZH] The Governor of Maine has ordered restaurant staff to wear anti-COVID visors upside down so they resemble dog cones in order to direct breath upwards.
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When people remark on the horrible (compared to the rest of industrialized world) covid numbers in USA, I tell them that it's an unfair comparison. USA is in the middle of civil war - with both sides using covid as a club to beat their opposition.
... unlike Onan the Contrarian, using COVID as a fetish to beat off 10-20 times a day
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#3 Anybody who looked at the numbers knows that European average << US average. Of course, anybody who looked at the facts stopped paying attention to your claims months ago, BP.
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That will make it very difficult for the servers to change food courses and clear the table.
Of course they could bend over the table to do those tasks, but that would defeat the cone's perceived purpose.
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with both sides using covid as a club to beat their opposition.
Tell me about all the Republican mayors and governors declaring certain businesses 'non-essential' and forcing their closure as well as instituting lockdown orders.
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Tell me about all the Republican mayors and governors declaring certain businesses 'non-essential' and forcing their closure as well as instituting lockdown orders.
Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio. Though he did rule that high school football is ok, last I heard.
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I'll give him my asshole governor, Charlie Baker of MA, who's definitely a Never Trump guy. Other than that, it's all Dems causing the pain, so I have a problem w/ that part of g(r)om's post.
Plus, he's a condescending prick who proves it just about every day, so there's that too...
WHAT MYSTERY? Denver doctors may have found the answer to a pandemic mystery: What happened to all the heart attacks? “Stauffer’s team found that cardiac arrests at home in Denver more than doubled in the two weeks after the statewide stay-at-home order was issued compared with historical averages. Even compared with more recent data, the weekly average of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests jumped to 46 during those two weeks, versus 26 or 27 in the three months prior.”
Seriously, what mystery?
Plus: “Stauffer and his colleagues found that the number of people in Denver who died of cardiac arrests at home in the two weeks following the statewide stay-at-home order was greater than the total number of people who died of COVID-19 in the city during that time.”
How many of them could have been saved had they made it to an ER?
It's all trade offs . Death is a pie chart. Shift a border one way it only expands in another.
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The trade off: If you go out during COVID someone "might get sick" assuming you have it. If you need to be in a CCU ward and aren't allowed to go, you won't get anyone else sick, but you will probably die.
To make someone feel good about their novel religion. Nothing more.
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EUSSR 180K deaths recorded for COVID (despite Germany's very iffy figures).
USA 174K deaths mentioning COVID on death cert.
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But the eurines are only "one big country" when they want to be. The rest of the time, we are expected to accept comparing the US to each individual country on its own.
Because statistics.
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I still think that the fact only a handful of politicians and celebrities have died from COVID in the US sticks out like a sore thumb, stinks on ice and should give anyone who's paying attention food for thought.
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#21 Why don't you go to Sweden - to help your comrade Tegnell to look for herd immunity?
Maybe it slipped between sofa cushions. If you do find it, look for half-a-packet of phlogiston near by.
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It's a classic gummint racket. They can decide if you do or do not have a livelihood. Inn't it interesting that all these professional rioters aren't going hungry. Let's hear about their income sources. I know some are trustafarians (spit) but not all of them.
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Right there with you rjschwarz.
I figure 90% of the information is bullshit, so I'm looking at supporting evidence, such as CHAZ is not a plague ward. Tulsa has not been quarantined. The Hudson is not choked with bodies. Sweden is not littered with cruise ships turned into plague wards. China is throwing mega-parties.
I believe it is in Oleg Atbashian's book Shakedown Socialism where he recounts figuring what Pravda said, what they left out, and what evidence is about in order to learn the real news.
Here, not even the 'out there' sites mention anything about trains full of bodies leaving the cities, freighters full of bodies being sunk out to sea. Real life happenings of Airplane! China cloud seeding the Yangtze flooding as cover for the elites to evacuate to doomsday bunkers.
Anecdotally, people I come across who have had it or been around it are like, "Yeah, it sucked, but no more than the crud going around last December." Obviously that is a smaller sample than somebody living in NY or NJ, but considering people telling fish stories, I'll keep to those I know and trust to be accurate. Seattle hospitals have gone from space suits to where's the patients? People not only keep showing up to work, they are begging to work - if the packing plants were rife with the China Plague people would stop going to work. Sturgis bikers of course have access to the internet, six months in an they are like, yeah whatever virus because they well connected travelers and bards checked the weather and concluded fair conditions.
And the flu chic people are people I didn't trust on a good day - government, entertainment, big corporation. The attitude of flu chic has lead to the justification of morality police, which media time and again brushes off of necessary 'In these trying times' as the TV advertisers like to preach, happy as clams that people are being forced to stay home and watch their shows about intense news and 11 year old girls twerking and scissoring.
The take-aways:
1. Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts—to a shocking extent; (they think it's far worse than it is)
2. The misperception is greater for those who identify as Democrats,
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
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[ST Daily] At 4:00 a.m. on August 20, 2020, the water level of the Cuntan Hydrology Station of the River Upstream Hydrological Resources Survey Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy exceeded 191.41 meters, with a maximum flow of 74,600 cubic meters per second. At 8:15 a.m. on August 20, a flood peak appeared at the Cuntan Hydrology Station, with a water level of 191.62 meters and 8.12 meters above the guaranteed level, the highest flood level since the station was built in 1939.
[Jpost] On the night between Wednesday and Thursday, Hanun stream, which flows from northern 
[Jpost] Many Christians remain in Iranian prisons rife with COVID-19.
