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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Piers Morgan 'thrives on the uproar' over Meghan Markle
[PAGESIX] Piers Morgan isn’t bothered by the commotion following his public criticism of Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
, sources confirm to Page Six.The bombastic Brit revealed he was forced to leave his job on "Good Morning Britannia" because he wouldn’t apologize to Markle for disbelieving her claims about her mental health, but a source who knows him tells Page Six he isn’t concerned and "thrives on the uproar."

Morgan, 55, stormed off the set of the British talk show earlier this week following an on-air clash with colleague Alex Berenson over Markle and Prince Harry
’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. UK broadcaster ITV later confirmed that he would not be returning to his hosting gig.

Days later, the controversial journalist posted a lengthy note on Instagram where he revealed he "lost [his] job" because he "chose not to apologise" to the 39-year-old former actress.



Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Attention seeker capitalising on another attention seeker. Attention seeker².
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/13/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Except AttnSkr #2 is telling the truth, while AttnSkr #1 is a race-grifting whore
Posted by: Clavique Theamp5923 || 03/13/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't always agree with Piers, but I do on this 1.
Posted by: Chris || 03/13/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Piers has his moments, that's for sure.
Posted by: Clem || 03/13/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Right is right, which is why the controversy.

Funny how they frame it as a mental health issue, when he just really called her out for being a low class stripper.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  This says it all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Georgetown University fires professor for violating a taboo on discussing Black academic performance
[American Thinker] A conversation on the academic performance of Black law students between two faculty members teaching at Georgetown following a Zoom session was recorded and posted online without their knowledge. As a result, one of them has been fired and tearfully apologized, while the other one is "on leave until the investigation by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action is complete" for failing to react in outrage over what the dean of the law school termed "reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students." Both professors are adjunct faculty, meaning they are professionals brought in teach students with their real world experience, and they have no tenure protections.

Here is the 43 seconds of video that engendered the indignation:
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 03:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .....tearfully apologized

Totally insufficient. Her observations could set the WOKE movement back decades. An example must be made before others decide to provide validating evidence or so-called genetic markers.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Attitude of Youth

Posted by: Herb Sloppier4288 || 03/13/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Enver Snolet4623 || 03/13/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The people I've found most able to solve a problem, are the people who can see the problem no matter how ugly.

Indeed, isn't that a quality you strive to find in your doctor, business consultant, firefighter, or your personal lawyer?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#5  The tears just make wokists happy. Never apologize to the mob.

Both of them are cancelled, forever. They're gonna be lucky to get a job at the Slovakian Technical College of Tractor Maintenance after this.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 03/13/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember the Bell Curve Controversy and the day intellectual inquisition that followed. Some thoughts are heresy. These sad twits made the mistake of being honest amidst the Stazi world of academia. Career executions are mandatory and promptly “pour encourager les autres. “
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/13/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Never, ever, mention that all this virtual signalling and woke-ness isn't helping a damn bit and is, in fact making things much worse!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/13/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#8  They are anti-success.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||


Pres. Trump & Mike Lindell Are Working On Launching A BIG Social Media Platform
[Lawrence Sellin via rumble] My Pillow founder Mike Lindell said that he is launching his own social media website after his personal and MyPillow accounts were suspended by Twitter.

"Every single influencer person on the planet can come there. You’re going to have a platform to speak out," Lindell announced last week on Charlie Kirk’s podcast.

"We’re launching this big platform so all the voices of our country can come back and start telling it like it is again," he added.

Lindell said that with his unnamed social media website, "you will not need YouTube. You won’t need these places ... it will be where everything can be told, because we’ve got to get our voices back. People will be able to talk and not walk on eggshells." https://thepetesantillishow.com/archives/17173

Special Guest: Dr. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.) served as a U.S. Army Reserve colonel with branch qualifications and assignments in Special Forces, Infantry, Chemical and Medical Services. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq and participated in a humanitarian mission to West Africa. Sellin holds a Ph.D. in human physiology from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. Twitter @LawrenceSellin
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I need lists and vertical streaming like tweetdeck or your social media is Useless. The less mouse usage the better. I want IN. I want to help if you will listen.
Posted by: newc || 03/13/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Called "MyPillowTalk"?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/13/2021 21:33 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Royal Decree Relieves Hajj and Umrah Minister of his Post
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians...
bin Abdulaziz issued on Friday several Royal Decrees.

The first decree relieved Hajj and Umrah Minister Dr. Mohammad Benten of his post.

Dr. Issam bin Saeed was appointed acting Hajj and Umrah minister along with his duties as minister of state and member of cabinet.

Another decree terminated the service of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Rasheed as head of the Supreme Administrative Court. Sheikh Ali al-Sa’awi was appointed as his replacement in the rank of minister.

Another decree relieved Abdulhadi al-Mansouri from his post as president of the General Authority of Civil Aviation and appointed him assistant to the minister of foreign affairs for executive affairs at the rank of minister.

Abdulaziz al-Duailej was appointed President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation in the rank of minister.
Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Evidently the magic kingdom is having tourist issues.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/13/2021 18:31 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kremlin critic Navalny moved from jail, whereabouts unknown
[FRANCE24] Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been moved from a jail in Russia’s Vladimir region and his whereabouts are currently unknown, according to a post on Friday on Navalny’s Twitter account, citing his lawyers.Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s most prominent critics, was moved from jail in Moscow last month to serve out a sentence of around two-and-a-half years after a court ruling the West condemned as politically-motivated.

He was initially held at the Kolchugino jail in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow. The TASS news agency, citing a law enforcement source, reported at the time that Navalny was being held there for quarantine before being moved to the IK-2 penal colony, also in the Vladimir region.

Vadim Kobzev, one of Navalny’s lawyers, said he had visited his client on Thursday, but that another lawyer had tried to see him on Friday only to be told, eventually, that Navalny had been moved somewhere else.



Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's dead, Jim.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/13/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Say hello to Jimmy Hoffa when you see him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea working hard to restore diplomacy, ex-diplomat says
[UPI] A North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
n diplomat who fled the regime's embassy in Kuwait said Pyongyang is quietly working toward restarting diplomacy with the United States, as Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
enforces fiscal austerity across the government.

Ryu Hyeon-woo, Pyongyang's former acting ambassador to Kuwait, said in a recent interview with South Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo that North Korea has not given up on restoring diplomacy with Washington.

In July 2019, the regime's foreign ministry inaugurated a new department, Room 612, exclusively dedicated to talks. North Korean diplomats Ri Tae Song and Kim Myong Gil -- the latter the former ambassador to Vietnam -- are in charge, Ryu said.

Ryu defected to South Korea in September 2019, but his whereabouts were not disclosed until January.

Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Economy
Building A New Home? Soaring Lumber Prices Adds $24,000 To New Construction Build
[ZERO] Lumber prices have hit $1,000 per thousand board feet, an all-time high in recent weeks, and could extend gains this year as homebuilding and renovation demand outstrips production. Soaring lumber prices have greatly added to construction costs over the last year and could stifle the number of planned residential construction projects across the US.

"Production is going to have a hard time keeping up with demand growth as the world economy bounces back from Covid-19 in 2021-22," Paul Jannke, Forest Economic Advisors LLC.'s principal of lumber, said during a conference this week who Bloomberg quoted. He believes average lumber prices will remain elevated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 03:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happened in 1994 when I bought my house. It has steel construction which was cheaper. Pro - termites be damned. Con - can't do renovations as easy as they do on TV.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/13/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect financial monkeyshines have more to do with this than the hypothetical & touted "demand".
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 || 03/13/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  renovations are never as easy as they are done on tv
Posted by: Chris || 03/13/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Two people profit from the increase in housing prices, the banker and the tax collector.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Check the contents of remote RR sidings and storage yards for massive loads created during the CCP flu and now being held back to drive up prices. You might also check what has been going back inn those empty container ships.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/13/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||


First U.S. stimulus payments to hit bank accounts this weekend: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will see the first direct deposits from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package hit their bank accounts this weekend, Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials said on Friday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 02:41 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My employees reported direct deposits Friday 3/12/21
Posted by: Spoter B || 03/13/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  How many realize now that in 2022 they will pay income tax on it?
Posted by: magpie || 03/13/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The covid relief checks are not taxed. The extra unemployment benefits are taxed.
Posted by: Slusoting Crans9404 || 03/13/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  @ #1 - My bank shows the direct deposit "pending". Pretty fast, I must say.
Posted by: Clem || 03/13/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  @ #3 - That is 100% correct.
Posted by: Clem || 03/13/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  First? I believe that was last May.

This is like 2 months behind promised, and it sure ain't because of Republican Obstructionism.

And its all bullshit payoffs and laundering. You get a month's rent back of your own money; the other 9 months of house arrest you paid for.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  well goodie! I get $1400 in return for my $8000 share of this 'bill'.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/13/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Ramping up fracking, green-lighting Keystone and the resulting low energy costs would put more disposable cash into each American household than helicopter money can or will.
Posted by: Rupert Grairt5192 || 03/13/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#9  The kids will put the 1.9 trillion added to the already massive fed debt when they grow up. Because the adults sure aren't doing anything but adding to it.
Posted by: Deadeye Schwarzeneggar7368 || 03/13/2021 13:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Deadeye, it's questionable if there are any adults in Washington.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/13/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Hey, word from the oil companies seems to be you voted for Biden, we'll just keep things low and slow and if oil hits $200/bbl, that's okay.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/13/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||

#12  But Rupert, that wouldn't allow them to rule!

Much easier to control the man you feed a fish to every day than a man who knows how to fish for himself.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/13/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Why 7 votes for Yousaf Raza Gillani rejected?
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Sadiq Sanjrani, the PTI-led government’s candidate, has won the Senate chairman election over Yousaf Raza Gillani.From the upper house, 98 senators exercised their right to vote today, out of which seven votes were rejected.

7 votes cast for Yousaf Raza Gillani were rejected because stamps were not placed on the ballot paper correctly.

The votes were rejected by the presiding officer, Syed Muzafar Hussain Shah, as the ballot papers the stamp was on the candidate’s name instead of the box next to it.



Posted by: Fred || 03/13/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  On the one hand, this is the exactly sort of niggling technicality (see what I did there?) that annoys and frustrates every person who seeks honest justice.

On the other hand, this is the exactly sort of niggling technicality (see what I did there? Again!) that is put in place to thwart every person who seeks honest justice.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/13/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
French celebrities help raise awareness about endometriosis
[Frane24] Endometriosis can cause cripplingly painful periods, is a common factor in infertility and affects around one in 10 women. Yet for years, it was overlooked by both the general public and doctors. That's now beginning to change. In France, Info-Endometriosis, a group that works to fund research and educate people about the condition, has launched several awareness campaigns. But its members say there's still a long way to go. FRANCE 24's Cécile Galluccio, Armelle Caux and Erika Olavarria report.

A programme prepared by Rebecca Martin and James Vasina.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 03:37 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Israeli data reveals Pfizer vaccine prevents almost all asymptomatic COVID cases
[NY Post via Right Scoop] Here’s some great news on Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine that comes from Israel’s vaccination campaign over the last 3 months:
NY POST — Real-world data from Israel has revealed that Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is 94 percent effective in preventing asymptomatic cases, the companies said Thursday.

Using data from Israel’s vaccination campaign between Jan. 17 and March 16, the vaccine was also found to prevent 97 percent of symptomatic disease, severe disease and death, the drugmakers said.

"This comprehensive real-world evidence can be of importance to countries around the world as they advance their own vaccination campaigns one year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic," the two pharmaceutical companies said in a statement.

The data, which was collected by the Israeli health ministry, has not been peer-reviewed.

Israel has led the fastest vaccination rollout in the world, due in part to an agreement to share data with Pfizer and BioNTech.

The latest analysis is "important" because it occurred when the highly contagious UK variant was prevalent, said Ugur Sahin, chief executive of BioNTech.

More than 80 percent of the samples tested in the country at the time were the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.

Yeheskel Levy, director of the health ministry, said the study "clearly demonstrates the power of the Covid-19 vaccine to fight this virus."

"We aim to achieve even higher uptake in people of all ages, which gives us hope of regaining normal economic and social function in the not-so-distant future," he said in a statement.
Many have been worried about asymptomatic spread of the virus among those who’ve had both vaccinations. But if this data holds true, then I think it pretty much proves that the asymptomatic spread, at least among Pfizer vaccine recipients, is not an issue any longer.

Which honestly makes sense, but it’s nice to have real world data to back up what should be the case. So maybe the CDC can finally get off their duff and stop holding Americans back who’ve had the vaccine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/13/2021 02:47 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Listening to fox radio on drive:

"Over 1 million people have been vaccinated due to *the program to accelerate production*."

Bunch of skunkfvkers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/13/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||


Google ends sale of ads using individual web tracking data (not Bee)
Here is a link for the Brave Browser
LONDON (AP) — Google says it won't develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser, a change that could shake up the online advertising industry.
And if you can't trust a company who reads your email and will deplatform you for straying from the groupthink - who can you trust?
Google says it's taking the move to protect user privacy. It's part of a broader shift in the industry as marketers such as Apple and regulators in the U.K., U.S. and elsewhere increasingly are seeking ways to phase out more egregious data collection practices.

Still, there are concerns that it will add to the tech giant’s already dominant power in online advertising. And the change won't affect Google's largest advertising moneymakers: Search and YouTube.

On Wednesday, the company said it won't replace those cookies with another way of tracking individuals.
Because they already have other ways to track you - particularly if you use chrome. They just don't call it 'cookies'.
Instead, Google proposes grouping together web users with similar interests and keeping web histories private on user devices. Google can still track users through its own services like Search or Maps.

Temkin said the company continues to get questions on whether it will join others in the ad tech industry that plan to replace third-party cookies with alternative user-level identifiers.
A question he very carefully avoided answering himself you'd notice.

Even though the changes are aimed at tightening up on privacy, Google will still be able to track users of its own services, said James Rosewell, CEO of Marketers for an Open Web, a group of media and advertising companies lobbying against the changes.

"What they’re not saying is that ’people are logged into our products all the time’" and thus give consent to be tracked when they use Search, Maps, Gmail or YouTube, Rosewell said. "What they’re not saying is, ’we’re going to stop all of that’."

Another key bit of background: Apple is preparing to erect a new barrier to monitoring the activities of more than 1 billion iPhone users online.

Its new privacy tool, expected to roll out in a software update early this spring, will require mobile apps to explicitly ask iPhone users for permission to collect information about what they are doing and where. That safeguard is a change from Apple's long-held practice of requiring iPhone users to go into settings to block apps from tracking them.

The added privacy protection on iPhones has riled Facebook, which has relied on widespread tracking to build the second most lucrative digital ad network behind Google. Facebook has repeatedly attacked Apple’s anti-tracking tool as an attack on small businesses that rely on personalized digital ads to subsidize their mostly free services. It's also suggested that the iPhone maker is mostly interested in forcing more apps to charge consumers for their products so it can collect a 15% to 30% commission in its app store.
Of course FacistBook doesn't mention that people will consent to allow small businesses which provide value to track them
Analysts say Facebook stands to lose billions of dollars if most iPhone users don’t grant the social network permission to track them.
Google has acknowledged Apple’s new privacy tool could decrease the revenue of some apps in its digital ad network but plans to revise its own iPhone apps so they won’t be affected by the upcoming changes.
We have ways of making you talk
Unlike Facebook, Google has a crucial business relationship with Apple. Google pays Apple an estimated $9 billion to $12 billion annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/13/2021 10:40 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:



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Sat 2021-03-13
  Houthis Reject US Ceasefire Plan in Yemen
Fri 2021-03-12
  Tunisia: Calls For Govt Resignation after Attack on MPs
Thu 2021-03-11
  Saudi-led coalition strikes Houthi targets around Yemen capital
Wed 2021-03-10
  Security forces gun down chief of Al-Badr without any collateral damage
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  January 23rd drone attack launched on Saudi capital from Iraq, likely by Kataib Hezbollah
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  Arab Coalition Intercepts 2 Houthi Missiles, 12 Drones
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