[WREX] Police officers in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a young Black man Wednesday, amid increased nationwide and local scrutiny over police tactics. Metropolitan Police Police Department Chief Peter Newsham says uniformed officers approached a vehicle Wednesday afternoon, acting on information that there were weapons in a car in the area. As they approached the vehicle, Newsham says, two passengers fled on foot. The wounded man was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The age of the victim is unclear, but he has been described as either 17 or 18 years old. Newsham says it would be "improper" to speculate on what prompted the officers to open fire, but he says two firearms were recovered from the scene.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...as the upmarket neighborhood experiences surge in crime after Mayor de Blasio moved 13,000 homeless into the area
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^Question is - how many of their families and neighbors etc... they'll infect? And how many other people it'll be passed then --- that's why it called "chain of infection".
p.s. When we talk about economy, we have to mention average costs of treatment. Additions to existing medical infrastructure. Costs of developing vaccines etc... Not just loses of restaurateurs and gym owners. All this boring & irrelevant external diseconomies staff (your tax $$$).
pp.s. When people die because they don't go to a hospital for fear of CV19 - or because all the resources dedicated to CV19, it's not the "costs of lockdown" it's the costs of not having a lockdown/distancing.
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Question is where is the origin of his infection? Any evidence he got it at Sturgis?
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Some interesting numbers. A lot of the "infections" are asymptomatic.
Viruses will spread, but this isn't worse than anything else we have dealt with. Open stuff up, take reasonable precautions and protect people that are vulnerable. Same as a bad flu year.
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2-3 weeks past.
260 out of 460,000 test positive.
Positive is not confirmed.
May or may not have contracted at Sturgis.
1 out of 260 dead.
Victim is over 60.
"Underlying Health Conditions."
There in the comments; I dont' understand why people are all hyped up, "Just you wait the bodies will start stacking!"
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If I am reading the CDC data correctly, of the 171k COVID deaths 76K included COVID and pneumonia, leaving 99k deaths from pneumonia without COVID. (Note CDC data is a few weeks behind 'real time'.)
Oh, and in the same period, there were 1.1 million deaths not involving COVID.
Anecdote: I've had both pneumonia vaccines, totaling 35 different strains of virus, and still managed to catch it twice in the last two years.
It's a dangerous world, out there.
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Kansas Department of Health today:
The Department of Health said a total of 161 lab specimens from 144 individuals showed positive results for COVID-19 using the platform during the period of June 15-July 17. Of those, a total of 91 specimens from 90 people showed false positive results.
Thank goodness, but imagine the stress and grief of the family, friends, and however many degrees of contact people notified.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.
Dr Theresa Tam said in a statement there is little chance of catching COVID-19 from semen or vaginal fluid, but sexual activity with new partners does increase the risk of contracting the virus, particularly if there is close contact like kissing.
"Like other activities during COVID-19 that involve physical closeness, there are some things you can do to minimize the risk of getting infected and spreading the virus," she said.
Skip kissing, avoid face-to-face closeness, wear a mask that covers your mouth and nose, and monitor yourself and your partner for symptoms ahead of any sexual activity, Tam said.
"The lowest risk sexual activity during COVID-19 involves yourself alone," she added.
Sexual health is an important part of overall health, Tam said, and by taking precautions, "Canadians can find ways to enjoy physical intimacy while safeguarding the progress we have all made containing COVID-19."
Canada has reported 129,425 cases of COVID-19 and 9,132 deaths, as of Sept 1. New daily cases are far below peak volumes, but there has been a recent uptick, driven by more infections in certain western Canadian provinces.
[AlAhram] In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan - one from South Darfur state and the other from Gedarif state, close to the border with Æthiopia and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... - were paralyzed in March and April.
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Not just Third World at risk - the virus is still out there and can spread, and the vaccine can (rarely) spread it too.
[AmMilitaryNews] In an interview Tuesday with Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave his assessment of China’s rapid geopolitical expansion. Pompeo’s take: "Frankly, America slept while China grew."
Pompeo spoke with Dobbs about China’s expansion over the previous four decades, including advances to its military. In his remarks, Pompeo told Dobbs, "It’s 40 years in coming. Frankly, America slept while China grew. You talked about their missile systems, their military, all the things that have grown."
Pompeo’s assessment came on the same day that the U.S. Department of Defense released its annual report on China’s military expansion. Among its several findings, the Pentagon noted China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has surpassed that of the U.S. Navy and determined China is on track to at least double its arsenal of nuclear warheads within the next decade.
Pompeo agreed that some comparisons could be made between the challenges that the U.S. faces with China and those it faced during the Cold War with Russia.
"The Cold War analogy has some relevance but the truth of the matter is the Chinese Communist Party made some choices under General Secretary Xi. He’s made it clear whether it’s his military buildup, the diplomatic efforts, the Belt and Road Initiative to try and create vassal states, a tyrannical regime all around the world for global hegemony — the challenges are different.
Pompeo credited President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge China and said China has been particularly vocal against the U.S. because "for the first time there’s an administration, a President in the United States who isn’t just going to turn the other cheek, who’s prepared to take on this challenge."
Pompeo also credited Trump’s administration with leading other countries to turn away from diplomatic ties with China.
"It’s central that we have friends and allies in this battle. We’ve worked for two years now to build that out. We’ve made real progress. You’ve seen lots of countries turn away from Huawei," Pompeo said. "You’ve seen them acknowledge the threat. They slept on this threat the same way America did for two decades."
Pompeo added, "I think you’re seeing the entire world begin to unite around the central understanding that the Chinese Communist Party simply is going to refuse to compete in a fair, reciprocal, transparent way, and so whether it’s our friends in India, our friends in Australia, friends in Japan or South Korea, I think they have all come to see the risk to their own people, to their own countries, and you’ll see them partner with the United States to push back on every front that we’ve talked about this evening."
#7
The globalist party was convinced that China would turn into a big Switzerland if they were treated "properly".
Why would anyone think the the Imperial Dragon would change its behavior after thousands of years of weaponized xenophobia? To the Chinese the "Hu" (that's a generic term for all of us non-Chinese barbarians) come in two types: dangerously strong and slavish puppets. Hint: they much prefer puppets.
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^ the smarter ones e.g. Dr K never thought that. They and the Goldman Sachs crowd knew the convergence & democratization rap was complete BS; they were simply using China's rise to line their pockets
#9
A leopard spots thing. "Democratization" was the cover or action. The long term goal was the establishing the govt store and laundering of Chinese profits to buy our debt.
[Breitbart] The resurgence of American manufacturing from the depths of the pandemic continued in July.
U.S. factory orders rose 6.4 percent last month, the third consecutive increase, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Orders were up 6.4 percent in June. Economists had forecast a 6.0 percent gain, a slowdown from the month before.
Orders for durable goods, those expected to last three years or longer, rose 11.4 percent. That’s an increase from the 11.2 percent rise initially reported and brings manufacturing in-line with its pre-pandemic level of activity.
Transportation equipment, also up three consecutive months, led the increase, $19.6 billion or 35.7 percent to $74.7 billion. New orders for manufactured nondurable goods increased $4.2 billion or 1.8 percent to $235.0 billion.
New orders for non-defense capital goods, excluding aircraft, rose 1.9 percent. That follows a 4.5 percent increase in June and a 1.5 increase in May.
Recent surveys of manufacturers suggest that the growth in the sector has continued in August.
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Orders for durable goods rose 11.4 percent. That’s an increase from the 11.2 percent rise initially reported and brings manufacturing in-line with its pre-pandemic level of activity.
When times are tough, people still need stuff. They don't need service jobs that don't involve making stuff work. Gotta onshore those exported manufacturing jobs.
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Very obviously residual benefits of the Soetoro years, in spite of the Orange Man's chaos and failures. True genius eventually prevails.
#3
During an actual depression or recession, hard good orders would plummet. But they are increasing. The economy was damaged by these shutdowns, but not as badly damaged as the Democrats had hoped. We are prepared to bounce back, at least in certain regions that aren't being ravaged by violence.
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My sister lives in the Hamptons (her husband grew up there, when it was mostly potato farms). She says a lot of people from NYC have second homes there. So the fact that Jerry was out there is not a big deal.
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...other than he's away from the crime and bused homeless.
#3
Spending the crazy times in the Hamptons doesn't mean he's selling his primary residence and abandoning NY. It means DeBlasio is an idiot and Jerry would rather wait things out short term.
[ToloNews] India has moved troops to its eastern stretch of border with China since festivities erupted between the nuclear-armed rivals on the western part of their border in the Himalayas in June, a government official said.
The June clash in the Ladakh region, in the western part of their border, was the worst violence between the Asian giants in decades and there has been little sign of a reduction in tension, with more military action in the past week.
Sounds like Dron66046 will continue too busy to comment here. Stay safe, dear friend.
The movement of troops to the eastern district of Anjaw, in Arunachal Pradesh state, which China also claims, raises the prospect of a wider face-off though both government and military officials in India ruled out any imminent confrontation.
"The military presence has surely increased, but as far as incursions are concerned, there are no verified reports as such," said Ayushi Sudan, Anjaw’s chief civil servant, adding that several Indian army battalions were stationed there.
"There has been an increase in troop deployment since the Galwan incident, and even prior to that we’d started," she told Rooters by telephone, referring to the June clash in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed.
Arunachal Pradesh, which China calls South Tibet, was at the centre of a full-scale border war between India and China in 1962, and security analysts have warned that it could become a flash-point again.
But an Indian military front man, Lieutenant Colonel Harsh Wardhan Pande, said there was no cause for concern and the troops arriving in the area were part of regular rotation.
"Basically, it’s units changing. That’s happening as it happens every time, nothing much," Pande told Rooters from near Guwahati, the largest city in northeastern India.
"As of now, there’s nothing to worry about on that front."
But Tapir Gao, a member of parliament from Arunachal, told Rooters that Chinese troops had been regularly crossing into Indian territory.
"It’s a regular phenomenon, it’s nothing new," he said, identifying the Walong and Chaglagam areas in Anjaw as the most vulnerable.
In the 1962 war, India says its outnumbered forces "blocked the thrust of the invading Chinese" in Walong, and the area of mountains, meadows and fast-flowing rivers is now a government focus for settlement and road-building.
"What we’re trying to do is create more possibilities and opportunities for villagers," said Sudan, referring to plans for clusters of villages in the disputed area.
h/t Instapundit
[Ars Technica] - One hope buoying nuclear energy advocates has been the promise of "small modular reactor" designs. By dividing a nuclear facility into an array of smaller reactors, they can largely be manufactured in a factory and then dropped into place, saving us from having to build a complex, possibly one-of-a-kind behemoth on site. That could be a big deal for nuclear’s persistent financial problems, while also enabling some design features that further improve safety.
On Friday, the first small modular reactor received a design certification from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, meaning that it meets safety requirements and could be chosen by future projects seeking licensing and approval.
The design comes from NuScale, a company birthed from research at Oregon State University that has received some substantial Department of Energy funding. It’s a 76-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide steel cylinder (23 meters by 5 meters) capable of producing 50 megawatts of electricity. (The company also has a 60-megawatt iteration teed up.) They envision a plant employing up to 12 of these reactors in a large pool like those used in current nuclear plants.
The basic design is conventional, using uranium fuel rods to heat water in an internal, pressurized loop. That water hands off its high temperature to an external steam loop through a heat exchange coil. Inside the plant, the resulting steam would run to a generating turbine, cool off, and circulate back to the reactors.
The design also uses a passive cooling system, so no pumps or moving parts are required to keep the reactor operating safely. The pressurized internal loop is arranged so that it allows hot water to rise through the heat exchange coils and sink back down toward the fuel rods after it cools.
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The pressurized internal loop is arranged so that it allows hot water to risesink through the heat exchange coils and sinkrise back down towardup through the fuel rods after it cools.
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Gen4 Energy out of Denver would have had a nice small 25mW unit too, had the former administration (whose name must NEVER be denigrated) not cut them off and given the funding to Bill Gates and X-energy.
Imagine that.....
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SMR Inventec has a similar pressurized water reactor (PWR), bigger than the NuScale unit, that puts out 160-MW.
It's not a 'miniature', it's about the height of a small municipal water tower and takes up around 4-1/2 acres.
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Big takeaway for all of these new designs is that they are "Fail-safe", they require active measures to maintain a reaction environment, the moment that anything fails the reactor shuts down. instead of running away like Fukushima or Chernobyl.
What about the truly small (on a reactor scale) molten salt reactors? Until Obama killed the nukes with "renewable" garbage and cronyism, thos appeared to have a lot of promise for safe local power generation, cutting down on grid vulnerability and the need for massive (and wasteful) long transmission lines.
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The industry has it self to blame for a lot of it. Always pushed bigger is better and every design custom leading to numerous over runs in budgets. That hasn't worked for decades now. Looks like someone is taking that to heart.
[IsraelTimes] New studies confirm that multiple types of steroids improve survival for severely ill COVID-19 patients, cementing the cheap drugs as a standard of care.
An analysis of pooled results from seven studies, led by the World Health Organization and published today by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that steroids reduce the risk of death in the first month by about one-third compared to placebo treatment or usual care alone in these seriously ill patients who need extra oxygen.
"This result opens up more choices" of steroids, says Dr. Martin Landray of the University of Oxford, who led one of the studies. "The more options there are in terms of availability, the better."
Dr. Anthony Gordon of Imperial College London calls the result "a huge step forward," but adds, "as impressive as these results are, it’s not a cure."
Steroid drugs are inexpensive, widely available and have been used for decades. They reduce inflammation, which sometimes develops in 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... patients as the immune system overreacts to fight the infection. This overreaction damages the lungs and can prove fatal. These drugs are not the same type of steroids that are used or misused for athletic performance.
[NYPost] The Trump administration is seeking to fast track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, including oil and gas drilling, hazardous fuel pipelines, wind farms and highway projects in multiple states, according to documents provided to The Associated Press.
The plan to speed up project approvals comes after President Donald Trump in June ordered the Interior Department and other agencies to scale back environmental reviews under special powers he has during the coronavirus emergency.
More than 60 projects targeted for expedited environmental reviews were detailed in an attachment to a July 15 letter from Assistant Interior Secretary Katherine MacGregor to White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow.
The letter, obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity through a freedom of information lawsuit, does not specify how the review process would be hastened. It says the specified energy, environmental and natural resource projects “are within the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to perform or advance.”
Included on Interior’s list are oil and gas industry proposals such as the 5,000-well Converse gas field in Wyoming, the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas terminal in Oregon, and the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline in Virginia.
Other projects targeted for quick review include highway improvements in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and other states; storm levees and wetlands restoration initiatives in Louisiana; the Lake Powell water pipeline in Utah; wind farms in New Mexico and off the Massachusetts coast; and mining projects in Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Alaska.
Environmentalist Brett Hartl said the move to expedite major projects represents a “giveaway” to industries that curried favor with Trump.
The group sued the government in federal court to force it to release documents related to Trump’s order after the group’s initial request under the Freedom of Information Act was refused.
Interior Department officials did not answer questions from the AP on how the environmental reviews are being expedited and whether any rules were being waived. The bid to speed up reviews is in line with the Trump administration’s greater emphasis on reduced regulatory burdens for corporations.
A spokesman for Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in an emailed statement that the administration was taking steps to improve government decision making while still making sure environmental consequences are “thoughtfully analyzed.”
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.
[AmMilitaryNews] In an interview Tuesday with Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave his assessment of China’s rapid geopolitical expansion. Pompeo’s take: "Frankly, America slept while China grew."
[Breitbart] The resurgence of American manufacturing from the depths of the pandemic continued in July.
...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...
