[USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ Acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly was forced to resign after he mishandled the firing of the captain of the COVID-19-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt, sources with knowledge of the decision have confirmed.
Modly offered to resign, according to a Capitol Hill source, and Defense secretary Mark Esper accepted, according to a Defense staffer, neither of whom were authorized to speak publicly.
Modly survived his initial decision to fire Capt. Brett Crozier after the aircraft carrier's skipper, whose leaked email to Navy officials showed him pleading for help as the coronavirus swept through the Roosevelt's 4,800-member crew. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, voiced support for Modly's move.
But Modly's decision to fly to Guam to visit sailors and explain his decision in a profanity-laced speech proved to be his undoing. He apologized Monday for his speech.
Modly had disparaged the former captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, calling him "too naive or too stupid" to command the stricken aircraft carrier before issuing a remarkable apology taking back the insults. Should've kept his mouth shut. He's guilty of the same indiscretion he relieved the Captain over
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The ship captain acted to save his men in the face of a high command of depraved indifference.
The SecNav was the one threatened by his behavior, because he's the one who stood to get the blame. Good that he got shitcanned.
The carrier skipper took one for the team. His crew cheered him as he left. They knew what he did for them. Fell on a grenade and took its terrible burst.
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The captain was the hero in this, as far ad I am concerned. And the civilian idiot who didn't care about his plight to begin with is just another example of bad bureaucracy.
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I was under the impression that Congresscritters are not subject to laws against insider trading.
But if the honourable senator is not in charge of his trades — if it’s either in a blind trust or a mutual fund — then this is just another attempt to hound a Republican politician out of office.
[Breitbart] Locals in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, have heard screams coming from funeral home furnaces, and some treated in hospitals say they saw workers put living coronavirus patients in body bags, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday....the man was weak but was still breathing when medical workers bound his head and then his hands and feet, which were still moving..., noting that she also lamented that the hospital where she received care had no other treatments available for coronavirus patients besides oxygen. In the West, doctors have begun experimenting with several drug mixtures, one of which; a combination of antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat lupus and malaria; has generated optimism in American hospitals.
The woman said she felt older patients at the hospital were treated "like dead dogs." They'd eat them if that were the case
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And we are supposed to help them become a world power why?
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^ Amen to that. We need to disengage and reindustrialize using the pandemic as a basis for renewed ambition of being an industrial power, not a globalist ATM. America first and relearn what American Exceptionalism means.
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Odd coincidence: Drury James (name flip correct), uncle of Frank and Jesse, was one of the founders of a town of which I am somewhat familiar.
Piecing together local lore:
Whilst Frank and Jesse were on the lam, they bided some time with Uncle Drury on his La Panza Ranch. Dear uncle maintained he did not know of the lam status of his kin. The local sheriff seemed to be aware, but maintained he was unable to raise a posse to go get them boys. Besides, they weren't wanted here in California.
[Reuters] Residents in the Ivorian capital Abidjan tore down a partially built hospital in their neighborhood on Sunday night, saying they were opposed to it being built "right in the heart" of the Ivorian population.
A new report reveals popular video-conferencing software @zoom_us is sending sensitive meeting information to servers in #Beijing. An expert says this is a significant security risk and could enable the #ChineseCommunistParty (#CCP) to easily collect business intelligence. pic.twitter.com/M8BqZRpkOo
[Ynet] The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused Donald Trump on Tuesday of creating a basis to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining U.S. policy on commercial mining in space.
The executive order, which Roscosmos said damaged the scope for international cooperation in space, was signed on Monday.
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Donald Trump, President of the United Federation of Planets. Yeah, I'd pay to see that.
This reminds me of that UN Law of the Sea kerfuffle where world + dog thought the evil Americans were going to hoover up all the world's manganese nodules off the ocean floor. Fooled ya! We were just snagging a sunken Russian sub.
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I thank the Lord Above that the few times I have needed a good lawyer I didn't get the cross-eyed diversity hire....
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Where's my Femto-Violin......
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Words fail, but one picture ...
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As law firms look for ways to cut costs to weather the economic downturn, financial investments in diversity and inclusion initiatives may suffer as a result. And as firms cut pay and even lay off some attorneys, the choices they make could have a disparately negative impact on attorneys of color and women, industry experts said.
"We don't have the throw-away $ to virtue signal with AA sub-par hires"?
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…who also will never make partner, unless they have an ability for landing new clients.
[American Mil News] The FBI said Tuesday that a suspect in a string of bank robberies, including incidents earlier this year in Gastonia and Belmont, is in custody in Georgia.
The FBI earlier dubbed the suspect the Bad Wig Bandit, as the man wore a series of outlandish wigs in each incident.
Patrick Alexander, 30, was taken into custody Monday after federal officers said he attempted to enter a military installation at Fort Benning, Georgia.
[ABC] One of the nation’s top public health officials suggested Monday that because Americans are taking social distancing recommendations "to heart," the death toll from the novel coronavirus will be "much, much, much lower" than models have projected.
"If we just social distance, we will see this virus and this outbreak basically decline, decline, decline. And I think that's what you're seeing," said Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control.
"I think you're going to see the numbers are, in fact, going to be much less than what would have been predicted by the models," he said.
Redfield’s remarks on Monday to AM 1030 KVOI Radio in Tucson, Arizona, struck a rosier tone than some other recent predictions. On Monday morning, for example, the U.S. Surgeon General equated the coming week’s fallout to the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
But officials on the White House task force have said they believe that even with a tough week ahead, the numbers in some places suggest that social distancing is working and could provide a reprieve eventually.
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First of all, lets clear one thing. They all use the same model - just give different values to parameters.
That's a key point. This is a novel virus, meaning it's not just the latest fad, but that we've never been exposed to it before. We don't know what the parameters like infection rate and mortality are.
For a first pass, they just pulled some numbers from their ass took a best-guess as the value of the model parameters. This lead to what in hindsight are wild over-estimates. As we get some better data, the model parameters get updated with better values and we see more realistic answers.
The sin here is not bad models, but that results were sold without *any* kind of estimates as the range and uncertainty of the parameter values. That is bad science.
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Models are a modern form of superstition. They make gullible people believe certain outcomes are inevitable. Can you say Calvinism? I knew ya could....
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Well, I don't know MM. I just know that, as new evidence accumulates, old models become outdated and have to be replaced.
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The "math" is an incantation. The "results" are entrails and tea leaves. Believers become enraged when this is pointed out...
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Mathematics is just another human language. It can be twisted like any other. People who proselytize about the "purity" of mathematics know exactly what they are doing.
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[DefenseWeb Zambia] A gun attack in a mining area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed three Chinese nationals, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Chinese embassy in the mineral-rich central African country.
The attack on Saturday was in Ituri province, bordering Uganda and South Sudan, Xinhua said, without naming the mine or the company operating it. "Three Chinese citizens were unfortunately killed," it said.
The DRC is the world's biggest producer of cobalt – a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles – and one of Africa's biggest copper producers, although its key copper-cobalt producing region is the south-west, far from the attack.
The country attracted billions of dollars in investment from Chinese miners in recent years despite security risks. Canadian gold miner Banro, which owns mines in Maniema, a DRC province south of Ituri, suspended operations last year after several mines were overrun by armed rebels.
The Chinese embassy asked the Congolese government to "take effective measures to protect the lives and property of Chinese citizens" in the DRC, as well as to expedite an investigation into the killings, Xinhua said, noting the embassy repeatedly advised Chinese citizens against travel to Ituri due to armed groups.
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Mining is a racket. Why should those Chinese citizens have been killed in a country so far away from their own?
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[Teller Report] China News Service, April 6 (Xinhua) According to the European Union quoted the European Union News Agency, a blood collection station in a small town in northern Italy broke out recently. The blood collection station conducted a virus screening of 60 blood donors and found that 40 blood donors were Positive reactions were all asymptomatic patients.
[Just The News - John Solomon's Site] Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills are seeking to avoid depositions ordered by a judge earlier this year
The State Department on Monday rejected Hillary Clinton’s effort to avoid depositions for herself and her former chief of staff in a lawsuit brought by the government watchdog organization Judicial Watch.
The former Secretary of State and her former top aide Cheryl Mills are seeking a writ of mandamus to avoid a judge’s order requiring their testimony in an open records case involving Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business.
"The government did not seek and thus does not support the extraordinary relief of mandamus due to the unique circumstances of this case," reads the State Department's response signed by multiple members of the Justice Department.
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Any updates on her motor skills or chronic cough ?
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...cookie pushers cough into their sleeves and look away...
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When you have lost the State Department...
Slowly but surely, the wheel is turning.
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What's the big deal? Can't she just keep lying?
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Pompeo and Barr have finally grasped some of the deeper institutional levers of power. People will emerge and stories will be told with discovered evidence as the risk of accountability drifts deeper into the bureaucracy.
[Orlando Sentinel] After a failed December test flight of its astronaut capsule revealed multiple deep-seated problems within Boeing’s testing procedures, the company has decided to repeat the test before putting astronauts on board.
That puts SpaceX, the other private company building an astronaut-rated spacecraft for NASA, on a clear track to become the first to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011. SpaceX is scheduled to perform its crewed test mission as early as next month.
Boeing’s second unpiloted dress rehearsal may not come until later this year.
The decision to repeat the test came following an independent review that issued 61 corrective actions to both Boeing and NASA after the Dec. 20 test flight ended prematurely and revealed multiple flaws within Boeing’s system and NASA’s oversight.
Boeing then proposed to NASA that it re-do its test, a proposition NASA announced Monday evening it had accepted. The company had the option to propose moving ahead with a mission carrying crew.
"The second uncrewed flight does not relieve Boeing from completing all the actions determined from the joint NASA/Boeing independent review team," NASA said in a statement. "NASA still intends to conduct the needed oversight to make sure those corrective actions are taken."
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[Daily Beast] A debate may be raging inside the White House about the efficacy of an anti-malaria drug to treat the novel coronavirus, but the Trump administration isn’t waiting for a resolution. Two federal agencies have already placed purchase orders for the drug.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons have both reported purchases of hydroxychloroquine since March 26, according to federal procurement records.
The Department of Veterans Affairs purchased $40,000 in hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets from the pharmaceutical company McKesson, and another $168,000 from the Colorado-based generic drug distributor Golden State Medical Supply. Procurement records for both list them as "emergency" purchase orders to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
The Bureau of Prisons’ purchase order does not mention the coronavirus. But the $60,000 purchase of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets from the company Premium Rx National came on March 31‐in the midst of a worsening outbreak at the federal correctional facilities that the bureau oversees and days before President Trump announced that he was stockpiling millions of pills of the drug. It appears to be the first time that the BOP has purchased the drug.
Neither the VA nor BOP responded to requests for additional information about the purchases, and how, or whether, they would be used in the near-term to treat coronavirus patients.
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A hydroxychloroquine VA controlled study? I didn't experience any noticeable downside the first time. Nothing from the Anthrax shots either. Is there a web portal sign-up link? Express Scripts ?
Sources in China tell me: 1. Things are very bad in Guangzhou City of #Guangdong province. #CCPVirus cases are exploding. 2. Schools and universities in Beijing won’t open until September. 來自中國的消息：廣州 #中共病毒 案例爆增， 北京的學校9月前都開不了學。
[TheSun] FEARS have been raised that the coronavirus may be able to remain in the body and "reactivate" later after 51 recovered patients tested positive again.
The patients, from the city of Daegu, South Korea, had all spent time in quarantine while recovering from the virus, but were diagnosed again within days of being released.
South Korea has been among the most successful countries globally in controlling the outbreak, using strict quarantining and widespread testing to slow its spread of the virus.
The number of new cases being diagnosed each day in the country is now at levels last seen as the pandemic was getting underway in February.
The 51 cases were identified as part of a study conducted in Daegu, the epicentre of the outbreak in South Korea, by a team of epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The center said it did not believe the patients had been reinfected, but that the virus had remained at undetectable levels in their cells and later "reactivated".
The claim runs contrary to the bulk of current evidence about how the virus works.
Speaking to MailOnline, Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, said: "I agree that these will not be reinfections but I do not think these will be reactivations.
"Personally I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative."
Coronavirus patients are typically required to test negative twice before being allowed to leave quarantine.
Where this happens and they are later found to be infected, it is thought to be much more likely that the negative tests gave the wrong result.
The tests currently available produce an incorrect results roughly one in five times.
It is currently thought that coronavirus patients will remain immune from the disease in at least the medium-term once they have recovered.
Scientists have said previous reports of people becoming reinfected are concerning, but that much more evidence needs to be collected before conclusions can be drawn.
Speaking in February, Mark Harris, Professor of Virology at the University of Leeds, said: Clearly we need more information about these patients, such as were there underlying medical conditions or a change in circumstances that might have allowed the virus to escape immune control?
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From the very onset there was speculation that the Chi Com virus could possibly go dormant. Some thoughts regarding living on in the gut biome up to 30 days. So no surprise here.
[Kaiser Health News] While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front lines are grappling with a new medical mystery.
In addition to lung damage, many COVID-19 patients are also developing heart problems ‐ and dying of cardiac arrest.
As more data comes in from China and Italy, as well as Washington state and New York, more cardiac experts are coming to believe the COVID-19 virus can infect the heart muscle. An initial study found cardiac damage in as many as 1 in 5 patients, leading to heart failure and death even among those who show no signs of respiratory distress.
That could change the way doctors and hospitals need to think about patients, particularly in the early stages of illness. It also could open up a second front in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, with a need for new precautions in people with preexisting heart problems, new demands for equipment and, ultimately, new treatment plans for damaged hearts among those who survive.
"It’s extremely important to answer the question: Is their heart being affected by the virus and can we do something about it?" said Dr. Ulrich Jorde, the head of heart failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support for the Montefiore Health System in New York City. "This may save many lives in the end."
VIRUS OR ILLNESS?
The question of whether the emerging heart problems are caused by the virus itself or are a byproduct of the body’s reaction to it has become one of the critical unknowns facing doctors as they race to understand the novel illness. Determining how the virus affects the heart is difficult, in part, because severe illness alone can influence heart health.
"Someone who’s dying from a bad pneumonia will ultimately die because the heart stops," said Dr. Robert Bonow, a professor of cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and editor of the medical journal JAMA Cardiology. "You can’t get enough oxygen into your system and things go haywire."
But Bonow and many other cardiac specialists believe a COVID-19 infection could lead to damage to the heart in four or five ways. Some patients, they say, might be affected by more than one of those pathways at once.
Doctors have long known that any serious medical event, even something as straightforward as hip surgery, can create enough stress to damage the heart. Moreover, a condition like pneumonia can cause widespread inflammation in the body. That, in turn, can lead to plaque in arteries becoming unstable, causing heart attacks. Inflammation can also cause a condition known as myocarditis, which can lead to the weakening of the heart muscle and, ultimately, heart failure.
But Bonow said the damage observed in COVID-19 patients could be from the virus directly infecting the heart muscle. Initial research suggests the coronavirus attaches to certain receptors in the lungs, and those same receptors are found in heart muscle as well.
INITIAL DATA FROM CHINA
In March, doctors from China published two studies that gave the first glimpse at how prevalent cardiac problems were among patients with COVID-19 illness. The larger of the two studies looked at 416 hospitalized patients. The researchers found that 19% showed signs of heart damage. And those who did were significantly more likely to die: 51% of those with heart damage died versus 4.5% who did not have it.
Patients who had heart disease before their coronavirus infections were much more likely to show heart damage afterward. But some patients with no previous heart disease also showed signs of cardiac damage. In fact, patients with no preexisting heart conditions who incurred heart damage during their infection were more likely to die than patients with previous heart disease but no COVID-19-induced cardiac damage.
It’s unclear why some patients experience more cardiac effects than others. Bonow said that could be due to a genetic predisposition or it could be because they’re exposed to higher viral loads.
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I have seen where it's been observed that the lung damage in victims and survivors is essentially identical to high altitude pulmonary edema. This obviously ties in with the potential of the anti-malarial.
On a personal note, I have had double pneumonia and at a point where I was almost certainly in the best physical shape of my life. I could readily do 18 dead hang pull ups with web gear, 100 push up w/web gear and ALCE, 2 mi in 10:20, and walk until. I weighed 183 lbs and was hospitalized with a high fever. When I was released 16 days later I weighed 136 lbs and could not climb a flight of stairs at a slow pace. Short story way too long, the stress on your heart from long, unproductive and unstopable coughing fits is immense and unrelenting. It very nearly killed me in my early 30's.
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Thanks Mullah Richard, it was a close thing and about 18-20 months to get back to a zero point where I could start to train again. Being fit probably helped somewhat, but during extended coughing fits all the muscle in your mid section contracts violently. You end up feeling like you've had a serious beating.
Speaking of iron ions, the Dr I saw in the hospital insisted I take iron pills. A man with a poor command of English and an accent like Chicolini working under Army contract, I believe in retrospect he may well have been the first generation of his family to walk fully erect.
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The ACE2 receptor protein, used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter cells is an enzyme attached to the outer surface (cell membranes) of cells in the lungs, arteries, heart, kidney, testes, and intestines.
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So no mystery why it is shed in stool and why heart tissue is damaged. The virus dcan irectly infect such tissue.
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See COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system Reports suggest that the Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV) can cause acute myocarditis and heart failure5. SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV have similar pathogenicity, and the myo- cardial damage caused by infection with these viruses undoubtedly increases the difficulty and complexity of patient treatment. Myocardial injury associated with the SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 5 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Wuhan
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[Right Scoop] Governor Cuomo affirms what we’ve been hearing from Trump about hydroxychloroquine, that it is indeed yielding positive results in NY hospitals just as predicted.
[Washington Examiner] The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court indicated that it "suspects" there is a pattern of the FBI seeking out political information through surveillance orders, according to former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova.
DiGenova, a lawyer whose work was caught up in the Ukraine-impeachment controversy, claimed this is the reason why presiding Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to provide the court with the names of targets for the applications audited by the agency's independent watchdog. That interim report, released by Inspector General Michael Horowitz last week, found widespread problems with the FBI's preparation of FISA warrant applications dating back to at least 2014.
"Do you know why the court did that? Because the court suspects that they're all political figures or people connected to political figures and that the FISAs were done for the purpose of targeting so that they could get political information, unmask the people, and then leak the information," DiGenova told WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall on Monday.
DiGenova offered no evidence to support the claim, but he echoed remarks by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes. The California Republican recently told One America News Network that Horowitz's findings showed members of the FBI were already "experts" by the time they tried to dig up dirt on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page through FISA warrants to leak to the media right before Election Day.
Horowitz said his latest review focused on a "judgmentally selected sample of 29 applications" from eight FBI field offices out of 700 total filings that related to a roughly representative ratio of counterintelligence and counterterrorism targets.
In an order that followed, which makes no mention of a suspected pattern of politically motivated targeting, Boasberg demanded the government submit by June 15 a sworn declaration about the results of the analysis, including "the names of the targets," and assess to what extent the applications had material misstatements or omissions.
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[Washington Examiner] The plan is to test groups of 1,000 people at a time on the assumption that the infection rate hovers around one in 1,000. Health officials could then flag infections in the sample and narrow them down until it becomes clear who the infected individuals are so they can be quarantined.
The brothers believe that the plan would allow the economy to get back to work within two weeks of being implemented.
They have laid out a version of the idea, which would have the government test all workers on designated days. Officials would swab all workers twice. The first swab would be pooled into groups of 1,000 and tested immediately. If that test turned up negative, all 1,000 would go to work. If the pooled sample tested positive, the second swap for all the workers would be tested individually, allowing officials to determine which individuals were affected, quarantine them, and allow the others to go back to work.
Such an approach would allow for testing the whole country while using far fewer tests, which are still in short supply.
(Reuters) - The body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was recovered on Monday evening and the search for her son will continue, the Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
The daughter of former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 40, and her son, Gideon McKean, 8, went missing on Friday after drifting out into the Chesapeake Bay on a canoe. You'd think the Kennedys would have learned an aversion to watersports
Charles County Dive and Rescue, one of the agencies searching for them, located Townsend’s body in about 25 feet of water, 2.5 miles (4 km) south of her mother’s residence in Shady Side, Maryland, where the canoe was launched.
The Maryland Natural Resources Police said it would resume the operation on Tuesday to search for Townsend’s son.
[AP] The new coronavirus made Dr. Jag Singh a patient at his own hospital. His alarm grew as he saw an X-ray of his pneumonia-choked lungs and colleagues asked his wishes about life support while wheeling him into Massachusetts General’s intensive care unit.
When they offered him a chance to help test remdesivir, an experimental drug that’s shown promise against some other coronaviruses, "it did not even cross my mind once to say ’no,’" said Singh, a heart specialist.
Coronavirus patients around the world have been rushing to join remdesivir studies that opened in hospitals in the last few weeks.
Interest has been so great that the U.S. National Institutes of Health is expanding its study, which has nearly reached its initial goal of 440 patients. The drug’s maker, California-based Gilead Sciences, is quickly ramping up its own studies, too.
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“Gilead started research into remdesivir more than a decade ago. We are now in a position to consider its potential to treat COVID-19 and rapidly progress its development, and these clinical trials will help generate important data on the safety and efficacy of the medication in the coming weeks,” said Hilary Hutton-Squire, VP and GM of Gilead Sciences UK and Ireland.
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[MAIL] Most experts believe the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus began in markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan when animals passed on the disease to humans.
However, The Mail on Sunday report says that while officials in Boris Johnson's government believe this is still the most likely explanation, it is "no longer being discounted" that a leak from a nearby laboratory actually caused the outbreak.
A member of the UK government's emergency committee of senior officials, COBRA, told the newspaper: "There is a credible alternative view [to the zoonotic theory] based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted."
There are two scientific labs within close proximity of of Wuhan where scientists are believed to have been carrying out tests on the coronavirus: the Institute of Virology, and the the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control.
(Reuters) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court put the state’s chaotic presidential primary back on track, ruling on Monday that Democratic Governor Tony Evers cannot postpone in-person voting to June despite the coronavirus crisis.
Evers had moved earlier in the day to postpone the primary election from Tuesday until June 9, citing health risks from the coronavirus pandemic, but Republicans quickly filed a legal challenge in the state Supreme Court.
In a separate lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Republican Party, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn a federal judge’s decision extending the time for absentee voting until next week, meaning only absentee ballots postmarked by Tuesday will be counted.
The legal action means Wisconsin voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the primary, as well as state and local elections, despite orders to stay at home and a ban on public gatherings to limit exposure to the virus, which has killed more than 10,000 people nationwide and infected more than 350,000.
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A record of nearly 1.3 million absentee ballots had been requested but only about 725,000 had been returned by Monday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said.
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That would be the election commission who's commissioners resigned rather than execute a court order to clean the voter rolls of known invalid voters?
[FOX] A Democratic Michigan state lawmaker has credited President Trump's publicizing of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life after her health "plummeted" when she contracted coronavirus.
State Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit told "The Ingraham Angle" on Monday that if it wasn't for Trump pushing the drug through the Food and Drug Administration's approval process for off-label use and touting it repeatedly during his daily press briefings, she may not have made it through the terrible contagion.
"I really want to say that you have to give this an opportunity," she said. "For me, it saved my life. I only can go by what it is that I have gone through and what my story is, and I can't speak for anyone else. So that's not what I'm trying to do here. I'm only speaking for myself."
[AnNahar] Seven people were killed when two jacket wallahs, suspected to be members of Nigeria's Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadist group, attacked a village in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... on Sunday, police and a local official said.
"Two Boko Haram bombers blew themselves up at around 8pm" in the attack on Amchide, on the border with Nigeria, a policeman said Monday, while a local official said a village chief and two teenagers were among the dead.
The attack took place as the villagers were "returning home" though a zone that the authorities have said is dangerous after 6pm, the official said.
Amchide is a small trading village in Cameroon's Far North province, a tongue of land that lies between Chad to the east and Nigeria to the west.
The province has been hit since 2014 by Boko Haram fighters making incursions from northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... The jihadists' campaign has killed more than 27,000 people since 2009, several thousand of them in Cameroon, and displaced more than two million, sparking a dire humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad region.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, at least 275 people were killed in the Far North last year.
[JPost] - A member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce for the Islamic Republic of Iran revealed on Monday that half a million people in the country suffer from the deadly virus.
Hamid Souri, the taskforce member, told Islamic Republic's news agency, IRNA, that many patients afflicted with the coronavirus have not been detected, according to an article from Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which reported on the IRNA news item.
Iran's Ministry of Health claims that 60,500 Iranians are currently infected.
Souris termed the situation "worrisome," and said there has been a spike in the virus across the provinces of Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, West Azarbaijan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, and Kermanshah.
...The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that death rate in Iran is "four to five times higher than the regime admitted then," the report said. "The current figures are currently officially 55,743 sufferers and 3,452 dead. The current death toll is apparently much higher. On Sunday, it was 12,380, according to Western security sources."
...Iran is the epicenter of the Middle East coronavirus crisis. The clerical regime has refused to accept humanitarian aid from the US government. Zip it, Herb.
...On Monday,the US State Department released an "Iran's Sanctions Relief Scam" fact sheet. According to the document, "In 2018, an Iranian 'humanitarian' company was sanctioned by the United States for masking payments that provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah and Hamas through the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC’s Qods Force."
"Iran’s slick foreign influence campaign to obtain sanctions relief is not intended for the relief or health of the Iranian people but to raise funds for its terror operations," wrote the State Department.
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[AlAhram] A week ago, emergency rooms and intensive care wards in Spain and Italia were overflowing with woozy, coughing 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 and literally buzzing with breathing machines.
So many died that Barcelona crematories have a waiting list of up to two years, forcing some people to bury loved ones temporarily in cemeteries with the expectation of exhuming them for cremation later on.
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Yes, the countries like Italy & UK - and now Sweden - who didn't go into quarantine have/will have a lot of mortality*. Countries like Israel, and East Europeans - who imitated Israel, that imposed quarantine early ...
*And their uber alles economies** will suffer damage 10 times that of the more careful lands.
**Think of it as group evolution in action.
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We've been told/sold that the purpose of lockdowns was to slow the spread so as to not overload the healthcare system.
If it burns out in the summer, like other viruses, the governments and media can pat themselves on the back.
If it is as deadly as originally said, it'll come back as soon as the restrictions are lifted, until everybody gets it. Or herd immunity takes hold, currently estimated to be 29-74% of the population.
...one of a long list of members of the Barghouti clan who have prosecuted the war against Israel for over a generation, both politically and as terrorists for both Fatah and Hamas. This one genteelly organizes academic boycotts of Israel as well as BDS...
says no problem cooperating with Israel if it saves millions of lives, but says Arabs and Palestinians should not use coronavirus as excuse to normalize ties.
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If it is a jizya tax on a dhimmi they can... They will also declare a hudna while they get the vaccine -and- demand that it be free to all muslims (see juzya).
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[NBCNews] Radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone spiked 17 times over the normal background reading on Sunday, the head of Ukraine’s ecological watchdog said Sunday, as forest fires blazed some 20 kilometers into the Chernobyl disaster area.
"There is bad news," ecological inspection chief Yegor Firsov wrote in a Facebook post from the closed Chernobyl region. "At the center of the fire, radiation levels are high [...] readings are 2.3, when the normal level is 0.14."
Firsov’s post included a video of a geiger counter, a device used to measure radiation levels.
According to Firsov, the alarming jump in radioactivity was only found in the center of the fire. In a later post on Sunday, he wrote that nuclear specialists had charted no increase to radiation levels in the capital Kyiv, located just 100 kilometers from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Ukrainian authorities said that the fire, which engulfed an area of more than 100 hectares (250 acres) over the weekend, was likely caused by human negligence. Firsov said that the blaze was likely the result of someone setting fire to grass, which then spread to trees.
A Ukrainian Emergency Services Ministry statement on August 6 said that the fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been extinguished with the help of more than 100 firefighters, 26 vehicles, and one Mi-8 helicopter.
Radiation levels in the zone are within normal limits, the statement said.
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Wasn't there an article some time ago, that - despite radiation levels - Chernobyl has a perfectly normal ecosystem. No two headed animals, or nothing?
...prevent people from breaking the customs." It was said that 1.5 M Chinese were driven out of Russia because of the CCP Virus (Coronavirus) Pandemic. However, the CCP dares not upset Russia. So no Chinese official media reports about this.#CCPVirus#COVID2019#Coronavirus
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Does this mean China will not acquire all that territory on the Russian side of the border that they’ve been quietly colonizing after Russian depopulation left it empty?
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So, taking these numbers at face value, the Wuflu shut down over a third of Beijing's economy? I don't remember reading anything about that. It was efficiently contained in Wuhan, as I recall.
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I'm increasingly sure that China's completely made up all of its numbers for years. I used to believe that it used to take its real numbers and shrink them or increase them by a believable amount to make the nation look better, but coronavirus has shattered that assumption. They'll probably be bragging amount record growth for 2020 this time next year.
[BREITBART] Health workers screening patients for 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... were "manhandled" by a mob of 40-50 Moslem minority group members in southern India on Wednesday, local authorities alleged. The reported incident occurred in East Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state.
The health workers, along with other health officials, were conducting door-to-door coronavirus surveys in Sadiq Nagar, a minority Moslem area of Bangalore. They were sent to the area at the request of government officials, who had identified the zones as coronavirus hotspots following a large Moslem gathering in Delhi in March, from which many people contracted the coronavirus ‐ including seven people who later died. Authorities believe that some attendees of this gathering, organized by an evangelical Moslem group called Tablighi Jamaat A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... , returned to Bangalore’s Moslem neighborhoods.
Upon conducting the coronavirus surveys in Sadiq Nagar, the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers ‐ lead by a woman ‐ were allegedly assaulted by a mob of Moslem men.
"Health workers went for surveillance work in Sadiq Nagar. During that time the mosque authorities made an announcement instigating the residents of Sadiq Nagar to surround those health workers. They were physically manhandled by the mob on the instruction of mosque authorities," Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Ashwath Narayana told the Deccan Herald.
"I have directed the police to immediately register a case and arrest the people responsible for the instigation and those who have manhandled the health workers," Dr. Narayana added.
"Caste, creed, and religion are not important here. Your personal interest is not important. The health of Indians ... is important. In Sadiq [Nagar], in Bengaluru [Bangalore], some miscreants attacked a nurse. This is a heinous act. We will take legal action against them," Health and Family Welfare Minister B Sriramulu said of the incident via Twitter. The health minister also shared the ASHA worker’s personal account of the attack.
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Unfortunately, the Indian government has not quite made up its mind about who is an Indian citizen and who is a muslim. The muslim is citizen to no country, he/she does not owe allegiance to any land, society or constitution. But our constitutions have always been hard pressed to identify and deal with the renegades from the social contract.
Iran is your patron, right? Go ask the Mullahs — we’ve all got troubles of our own.
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#Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun calls on international donors to provide financial assistance to the crisis-hit country as it grapples with a severe economic downturn compounded by the #coronavirus.https://t.co/XJUol7yFsl
A U.S. soldier and several SDF personnel were allegedly killed in an ambush in eastern Syria this evening, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s al-Mayadeen TV claimed.
"An American officer and several SDF soldiers were killed in an ambush targeting a patrol in Wasiy’ah in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor," al-Mayadeen reported.
No further details have been released.
A similar claim was also made on some pro-opposition media channels; however, they provided the same details as al-Mayadeen.
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It's called 1,400 year old global jihad. And we have been at war with your buddies since Jefferson. Where are your condemnations of Islam Herb?
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[Atlantic] Time and again, a state or county releases racial data. Time and again, those numbers reveal a sizable racial disparity. Time and again, black Americans are overrepresented among the infected and dead. America’s newest infection seems to be mating with America’s original infection, reproducing not life, but death.
In Michigan, black Americans comprise 14.1 percent of the state population, but an ungodly 40 percent of coronavirus deaths. In Washtenaw County, home to Ann Arbor, 48 percent of residents hospitalized with the coronavirus are black, though black people make up only 11 percent of the county. In Illinois, the infection rate among black Americans is twice their percentage of the state population. In North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, black people comprise 32.9 percent of the residents, but 43.9 of the confirmed coronavirus cases, as of March 30. In Milwaukee, black Americans make up 26 percent of the county, but nearly half of the infections and a maddening 81 percent of deaths as of Friday.
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The correlation is a high incidence of hypertension, obesity and diabetes in this population. The virus enters the cell via the ACE protein, which works to modulate blood pressure. Lots more ACE proteins in cells of people with those conditions, so they take in lots more virus. The bigger the virus load you get, the sicker you’re likely to be.
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Darker skin pigmentation lowers the skin's ability to make vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure. I wonder if this might have something to do with it.
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Virus seems to like the side effects of Type2 Diabetes, e.g. Hyper tension, degraded immune system, and that seems more prevalent among certain groups.
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Poor whites live in trailers out in the sticks where things are naturally socially distant.
Poor people of color live closer together in each household, more households in a 'city block'. They tend to share recreation areas (bodies are closer on a basketball court than a golf course) and even their mailboxes are very close. These things assist in the transmission of viruses.
Also they are more likely to live in big cities and need public transit to get to work as work from home jobs are less likely for the poor.
Poor people of color also often have Democrat elected officials telling them to go to Chinatown and hug a Chinese person which has to have increased the number of infected.
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In Michigan, black Americans comprise 14.1 percent of the state population, but an ungodly 40 percent of coronavirus deaths
In Michigan, most of the black population is in urban areas, Detroit, Flint, etc. Urban areas are also where most of our cases are. Permit me to suggest that geography has more explanatory power here than race.
#Sudan’s justice ministry says it has finalized a settlement with families of the victims of the USS Cole bombing, ending long-running litigation in #US courts.https://t.co/uGQ3T4rHsc
[ToloNews] The head of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), Matin Bek, who is also a member of the negotiation team, said the reason for the delay in the release of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... prisoners is that the Taliban are demanding the release of their 15 senior commanders who are involved in "big attacks." "No"
The release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners is part of deal signed by the US and the Taliban in Doha on Feb. 29.
Bek said demands reveal the Taliban’s "stubbornness" and it is "not acceptable" as it will lead to the fall of provinces and the continuation of violence in the country.
"We are ready to release 400 (prisoners) in the first phase. It is the Taliban who do not want this. They are asking for the release of the 15 (commanders). If we release the 15 individuals, their hands are stained with people’s blood," Bek told a presser on Monday.
This comes as a Taliban statement on Sunday said the US-Taliban agreement had been violated, citing the delays with the prisoner release.
"Americans have fallen short in addressing their responsibilities, and one of them is the prisoner issue," said Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban regime member.
In reaction to the Taliban statement, Col. Sonny Leggett, the US forces front man in Afghanistan, said in a tweet that "The Taliban must reduce violence.
A reduction in violence is the will of the Afghan people and necessary to allow the political process to work toward a settlement suitable for all Afghans. We once again call on all parties to focus their efforts on the global pandemic of COVID-19."
He added: "USFOR-A has upheld, and continues to uphold, the military terms of the US-Taliban agreement; any assertion otherwise is baseless. USFOR-A has been clear- we will defend our ANDSF partners if attacked, in compliance with the agreement."
"The agreement did not mention anything on reduction in violence but it was said that violence should be reduced," said Khalid Asad, an MP.
"It would be better if the Afghan government considers its national interests and ends of the war," said Tahir Yarghal, a former military analyst.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... Fraidoon Khwazoon, a front man for Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , said the Presidential Palace is seeking advantages from releasing Taliban prisoners.
"They are not thinking about any other thing except seeking advantages. This is not in favor of the process and the country," he said.
Three Taliban representatives are in Kabul to discuss the release of prisoners with the Afghan officials.
The release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners is part a deal signed between the US and the Taliban in Doha on Feb. 29.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, announced on Monday that their forces shot down a Ottoman Turkish aircraft in northern Libya.
The Military Information Division said in a statement that the air defense system of the armed forces targeted a Ottoman Turkish aircraft that took off from the Air Force Academy in Misrata, adding that the plane crashed in the Bograin area east of the city of Misrata.
The Media Division reported that the Ottoman Turkish aircraft attempted to target the positions of the Libyan Army’s infantry.
On Sunday, the spokesperson for the LNA, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, announced that his forces had targeted armed vehicles and locations for the al-Wefaq government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Buqrin, and Misrata.
The Libyan army statement said: "In implementation of the combat missions of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces units in the Buqrin axis, our forces have targeted a number of sites chosen from the data bank, which are five armed vehicles, two tents for holy warriors, two observatories, operating theater buildings, and 13 armed vehicles and another enemy observatory."
The Libyan Air Force #LNA carried out several violent strikes on the nests of terrorist militias in Aldafnia East of #Misrata . pic.twitter.com/Un2LfAKza2
[Spectator] ‘More ventilators!' cried the journalists on Twitter. ‘Yes, more ventilators!' replied the politicians. ‘Where are the ventilators?' demanded the journalists, now screaming on television. ‘Yes, even more!' replied the government, somewhat nonsensically.
I am a critical care physician, specializing in the use of such machines. I'm flattered by all the attention our tools are receiving. But I fear the current clamor reminds me of nothing so much as the panic buyers of toilet-paper stampeding over each other in early March. When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western world is written, I do not believe ‘massive ramp-up of ventilator manufacturing,' will be credited with our deliverance. Let me explain why.
Ventilators do not cure any disease. They can fill your lungs with air when you find yourself unable to do so yourself. They are associated with lung diseases in the public's consciousness, but this is not in fact their most common or most appropriate application.
When we mechanically blow air into your damaged lungs faster and harder than humanly possible, ventilator-induced lung injury may result. Generally, for a person to tolerate the undertaking, we have to sedate them, leading to immobility and severe weakness. While sedated, the person cannot cough or clear their airway effectively, leading to superimposed bacterial pneumonia.
This is an awful lot to survive. And in the case of COVID-19, the preliminary outcome data is rather dismal. On Monday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a case series of very ill COVID-19 patients in Seattle with data up to March 23: of the 20 patients who went on a ventilator, only four had so far escaped the hospital alive. Nine had died. Three remained in suspended animation, going on three or four weeks of ventilation. Four escaped the ventilator but remained in hospital.
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So... somewhat like kidney dialysis machines: when you are hooked to one of those you are really screwed and getting your "earthly affairs in order" is the best plan.
[KhaamaPress] A group of five ISIS Death Eaters surrendered to Afghan forces in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
According to a statement released by MoI, a group of five ISIS Death Eaters surrendered to Afghan forces in Suki district of Kunar province on Saturday.
The statement further added that the Death Eaters also handed over their weapons to the Afghan forces and promised that they would never return to battlefield, emphasizing that they regret regarding their previous terrorist activities.
This comes as the Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... recently arrested the leader of ISIS Khurasan and many other top commanders of the group during a special operation.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said the Special Forces of the directorate conducted a complex operation and arrested Abdullah Orakizai alias Aslam Farooqi, the leader of ISIS Khurasan.
The statement further added that the NDS Special Forces also arrested 19 other top ISIS commanders during the raid including Qari Zahid and Saifullah alias Abu Talha Pak.
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Watch. Just watch. These turkeys are going to get us in a dustup with people that have flying saucers. o.0
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That Allan - what a joker. First he got that Muhammand guy so stoned he thought he was seeing angels and now he's pulling their chain with U.F.O's... What's next?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting last week with a smuggler who was posing as part of the construction crews working on President Trump’s border wall in Arizona, The Washington Times has learned.
Nobody was reported injured. Although one driver was caught, another smuggler who was part of the shootout managed to escape back into Mexico. Nearly 20 illegal immigrants colonists were discovered in the two trucks they were driving.
It was the latest incident of smuggling cartels using the tumult of wall construction to try to sneak people or drugs into the U.S.
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"We knew somethin' was up when we saw him tryin' to fit the type A stud bolts inta the double expansion type C anchors !"
Rockets landed near a district that houses foreign workers in #Iraq’s oil industry but caused no damage or casualties, oil and police sources say.https://t.co/yhjhzMEYq2
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Glad you are joining the conversation, Ducatisti — I look forward to hearing the years of thoughts you saved up. As an aside, 49 Pan also has a motorcycle nym — does anyone else here?
Medical group endorses anti-malarial drug treatment for coronavirus patients
[NYPOST] America’s major medical society specializing in the treatment of respiratory diseases has endorsed using hydroxychloroquine for seriously ill hospitalized 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.
The American Thoracic Society issued guidelines Monday that suggest COVID-19 patients with pneumonia get doses of the anti-malaria drug.
"To prescribe hydroxychloroquine (or chloroquine) to hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia if all of the following apply: a) shared decision-making is possible, b) data can be collected for interim comparisons of patients who received hydroxychloroquine (or chloroquine) versus those who did not, c) the illness is sufficiently severe to warrant investigational therapy, and d) the drug is not in short supply," the Thoracic Society said.
As of 9:30 a.m. Monday, there were 67,820 confirmed cases in the five boroughs, with 2,475 now dead, as compared to 64,955 and 2,472, respectively, on Sunday evening.
The toll continued to mount as City Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) said the Big Apple may be forced to temporarily bury its dead in public parks.
Queens remains the hardest-hit borough, with 22,767 confirmed cases, followed by Brooklyn with 18,215, according to City Hall.
The Bronx has the third-most diagnoses (13,397), followed by Manhattan (9,624) and Staten Island (3,780).
Gov Cuomo Wants More HCQuine Since Tests Show Promise
[LegalInsurrection] Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his daily briefing that he wants President Donald Trump's administration to increase the hydroxychloroquine because tests at New York hospitals show promise. this will be extremely painful for CNN to report
Cuomo raises fine for not social distancing to $1,000
[NYPOST] ALBANY — New Yorkers must maintain social-distancing discipline until the coronavirus is defeated, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday — or face a fine now doubled to $1,000. The governor doubled down on the punishment for violating the rules in public as he announced the state’s shutdown would continue until at least April 29.
“Frankly, there has been a laxness on social-distancing, especially over this past weekend,” said Cuomo told reporters during his daily press briefing at the state Capitol. “That is just wholly unacceptable.”
A visibly-irked Cuomo went off as spring weather has tempted cooped up New Yorkers out of self-imposed isolation — to the risk of themselves and their neighbors.
“If you get infected [or] you infect someone else [or] you go to an emergency room, you put a burden on all sorts of other people who you don’t know and who, frankly, you don’t have the right to burden with your irresponsibility,” he said.
‘Well, I'm Upset’ - Dr. Oz Vents After NY Governor Cuomo Shuts Down His Study on Hydroxychloroquine for Early Treatment of Coronavirus
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Dr. Oz: Well the trial that I was helping with at my institution was shut down when the governor banned the use of hydroxychloroquine for prescription use for outpatients. And I was trying to see if it could prevent, well there was a prevention trial that was approved, but I was trying to see if it could actually treat early disease and replicate what has been done in China and in France. Unfortunately, those trials have been held back. I don't know of a trial in New York State. I have been searching for the one that has been spoken about... I spoke this morning to the famous French Infectious Disease specialist Didier Raoult, he's the one who's actually been pioneering the hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, it’s not published yet, but he shared the results of his first thousand patients who have been on that protocol. Seven people died. They were all older and frail individuals. That is lower than what you would expect from people who have been admitted to the hospital. And he's had 20 got to the ICU, again lower than I would expect... Well, I’m upset because I wanted to do the trial. Also I wanted it to be legal in my state for a doctor to talk to a patient about the COVID-19 and treat them as they saw appropriate.
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Boris Johnson taken to ICU
[BBC] Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms "worsened", Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise "where necessary", a spokesman added.
The prime minister, 55, was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London with "persistent symptoms" on Sunday. The spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and is receiving "excellent care".
A statement read: "Since Sunday evening, the prime minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus.
"Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the prime minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the intensive care unit at the hospital."
It continued: "The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication."
Mexican Coronavirus Cases Spike 21% over Weekend
[BREITBART] Mexican health officials saw a 21 percent jump in new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in a span of two days, leading to a total of 2,143 since the pandemic first arrived in the country. Officials are warning the public "the toughest" part is yet to come.Mexico’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez Gatell revealed the newest statistics in a nightly news conference from Mexico City. Currently, Mexico has 2,143 confirmed cases and 94 fatalities directly related. Health officials also revealed they are looking at 5,209 test cases.
#Qatar confirms it has detected 228 new cases of the #COVID_19 coronavirus while adding that a total of 131 have recovered from the virus so far, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health.https://t.co/41zpUVOJRL
Norway Says It Has Virus Outbreak 'Under Control'
[AnNahar] Norway's government said Monday it considered the coronavirus outbreak to be "under control" in the country. It said the reproduction rate of the disease -- the number of new people infected by each patient with the virus -- had fallen to 0.7. That was down from 2.5 when containment measures such as closing public spaces and banning sports and cultural events were introduced in mid-March.
Denmark to ease restrictions next week after coronavirus lockdown
[Jpost] Denmark plans to reopen day care centers and schools on April 15 as a first step to gradually relax a three-week lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the country's prime minister said on Monday. The Nordic country, which was one of the first in Europe to shut down, has seen the number of coronavirus-related hospitalisations and deaths stabilize over the past week.
It is now trying to balance the need to keep its population safe and the economic risks of a deep recession, tough decisions that many other governments around the world have lying ahead of them.
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 70,000
[AnNahar] The new coronavirus has killed more than 70,000 people across the globe, the majority in Europe, according to an AFP tally Monday at 1100 GMT.
Out of a total of 70,009 killed in the pandemic, 50,215 are in Europe, according to figures compiled from official government data and the World Health Organization. Italy is leading the global death toll with 15,877 fatalities, followed by Spain with 13,055, the United States with 9,648 and France with 8,078.
Deutsche Welle is liveblogging the pandemic today here. Yesterday’s liveblog can be accessed at the bottom of the page at the link.
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Not surprised about the Norse. We are not a very physical social or huggy people. Extreme end would be the Italians.
Open question to Burgs. There was a persistent respiratory infection north of the metro in Minnesota. Little contact if any from China-asia as a whole. That was in late October, early November. Even a local cattery had all of their felines infected.
In your opinions, is there any chance that could have been a Wuhan instance. Personally I don't think so but had to ask my betters here. What say you?
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Reproduction rate below one hurts my chances of meeting a nice Norwegian girl...
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Could be B, thank you. Our lakeside village has the last stand of old growth white pines in this part of the state.
But, Blastomycosis is not a contagious disease and it is generally not transmitted from one person to other. The likelihood of Blastomycosis transmission is rare.
Remind me, when was the first known case in Wuhan?
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Using the latest reports from hospitals, the state [NY] now expects it may need only about 20,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients when the pandemic peaks—less than a fifth of the 110,000-bed projection that Cuomo had relied on previously.
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Dr Oz's comment was interesting.
Using hcq by Wu outpatients would potentially be a major advance in getting this under control. I suspect we don't have enough of the hcq currently.
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If you can’t get HCQ as an outpatient, an intelligent home version would be to take zinc tablets and use saline nasal irrigation several times a day if you start getting Wuflu symptoms. This, at least, provides chlorine ions in the nasal mucosa.
But, try to get the HCQ plus zinc from your doctor first!
Lebanon will audit its central bank’s accounts in a bid to show transparency after launching debt restructuring talks with creditors, Prime Minister Hassan Diab says.https://t.co/oqDlSYOvZa
The U.S. military entered Syria’s Al-Hasakah Governorate from neighboring Iraq, making their way to the Al-Malikiyah District near the border crossing.
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Boeing announced Monday that it has decided to fly a second uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle later this year to confirm it has corrected problems encountered in a test flight last December. https://t.co/gxefGDlwe7pic.twitter.com/kEGASHVR4J
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(Hat tip to Rand Simberg's Transterrestrial Musings):
"Asked to explain why he did this, Loverro told reporters at the time, "We could have lost a spacecraft twice during this mission." As a result of this, NASA has begun to investigate Boeing's safety culture. The agency also formally opened a process during which its Safety Office will investigate space-agency elements that may have led to the incident—likely focusing on why NASA did not detect the errors in Starliner's flight software."
[Ars Technica] After troubled first flight, Boeing will refly Starliner without crew(04/06/290)
[Daily Pioneer] At a time when the Union and State Governments and institutions are working with the single determination to contain COVID-19, the Tablighi Jammat has turned out to be a spoiler
The latest estimates of the Union Health Ministry indicate that over 35 per cent of the COVID-19 cases that are springing up in the country have their origins in the conference organised by the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic evangelical movement, in New Delhi in the second half of March, which was in gross violation of State Government orders. At a time when the Union Government, State Governments and every national institution is working with single-minded determination and focus to contain the pandemic that has affected over a million patients globally and claimed over 50,000 lives, the Tablighi Jammat has turned out to be a spoiler.
Displaying gross irresponsibility by flouting the orders of the Delhi Government, the Jamaat held a conference of thousands of its members. The congregation continued even as devotees were barred entry in the most popular temples, including the Balaji Temple in Tirupati, the Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai, the Sai Baba temple in Shirdi, the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer and the Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai. Lakhs of other temples, churches and religious places remained closed as per Government orders in their areas.
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The Deputy Inspectors General of Himachal and Uttrakhand have ordered the charging of such spreaders with the attempt to murder. The NSC met Sunday night on telecon, discussed sending directives to all agencies to apply the terrorism acts on these people. It is the SC that is the biggest obstacle in this now. A way is being sought to have them agree.
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Couldn't the argument be made to allow Darwin to take the lead?
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Good news. Well, for some. I have it from someone responsible for inspecting the quarantine efforts.
Around 27000 Jamaatis and assorted sasquatches have been rounded up by now and isolated in concrete storage sheds, empty buildings and cordoned off structures with barred windows. Food is thrown in and water is piped via tap. In some places, there are 300 men in a single structure. Toilets are attached but they like to shit outside as a form of protest. For three days now, attendant staff has refused to clean for them and nurses will no longer serve them. In fact, they'd very much like to stop throwing in the food too.
I’m pretty sure it is unconstitutional for a representative to the lower house of a state legislature to get involved in the nation’s international affairs.
[VictoryGirls] An Ohio State Representative has decided that President Trump should stand trial at The Hague for "crimes against humanity."
"Rep. Tavia Galonski
...D-Akron, tried to organize her fellow flight attendants for the Teamsters while in law school, which led to a stint as a family court judge. The honourable state representative is also the proud possessor of an extra chromosome. She was appointed to finish out another short timer’s term three years ago, and is now trying to make a name for herself in the most pretentious way possible. Because family court judges are well versed in international law, donchaknow.
tweeted in response to Trump’s remarks, "I can’t take it anymore. I’ve been to The Hague. I’m making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow."
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/\ Only real estate property owners should be permitted to vote, regardless of gender. All other should strive to become property owners. There, I said it.
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Marcia Fudge will have her capped on GPs (general principals)
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Example #45,435,663 on how our "elites" have not exactly covered themselves in glory the last 4 years and have also proved they shouldn't be in the "elite" positions.
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#3 Only those who are registered for the federal militia or have a honorable or general DD 214 can vote.
On point, guess she's done the profile and Ms Maxine is in the the primary target group of the panic epidemic. Someone's got to fill the position sooner or later. She's just putting her application in early.
[JOURNAL-NEO.ORG] At present, there are two distinct sides in the armed conflict in Libya. The internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Fayez al-Sarraj, was established under the Libyan Political Agreement signed on 17 December 2015. The Islamist-dominated GNA controls the capital of the country, Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... . On the other side of the conflict is Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) and the Libyan National Army (LNA), which are headed by anti-Islamist Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar. Although, at present, the authoritarian and nationalist Field Marshal is in control of most of the nation, Tripoli has not been captured as yet.External players pursuing their own interests back either side in this conflict. For instance, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and Qatar
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Do we have an accord?
I've figured out that the LNA seems to be slightly less evil than the GNA.
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Earlier this year, Khaled al-Ghawil, advisor to the High Council of Libyan tribes and cities, said the current situation demands all parties unite behind the Libyan National Army. He also urged them to unite to confront Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, he said the people’s priority lies in restoring the “kidnapped state”. “Once this happens, we can return to dialogue and agree among ourselves,” he added, while defending the supporters of the Gaddafi regime, whom he said were main backers of the LNA in its operations to liberate the cities of Benghazi and Derna. Supporters of the former regime back Gaddafi’s son Seif to make a comeback in the Libyan political scene, hoping that he will eventually be elected ruler of the country. -- And that's s the reason most pro-GNA elements in Europe have not switched sides.
The poor thing is no doubt much happier now, wherever he found himself.
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#GNA terrorist Faraj AbdulSalam Aldrewi from Darna, he moved to a city #Zliten After escaping from the city of Derna in 2018 He also pledged allegiance to #ISIS in #Derna in 2014, despite his young age,joined what he called "the Cubs of the Caliphate" Killed yesterday by the #LNApic.twitter.com/jfOYFtD094
[BREITBART] The GOP is gearing up for what could be a contentious battle over the next stage of 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... relief, as Democrats continue to signal their desire to pursue a variety of changes related to the U.S. election.
Republicans and Democrats are expected to begin the process of crafting the next stage of economic relief after successfully passing a bipartisan measure to provide relief to small businesses and individuals affected by the coronavirus pandemic last month. The measure ultimately passed unanimously in the Senate, but it initially did not go without opposition, as House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... (D-CA) attempted to offer her own version of relief filled with a variety of liberal "wish list" items, including major changes to voting methods. While the speaker has signaled support for a bipartisan measure in the same mold as the last, she hinted last week that she is still going to pursue changes to voting methods.
"Vote-by-mail is essential to protecting the future of our democracy as we confront this public health crisis. There is no legitimate argument against enacting it," Pelosi said last week:
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There is a reason it has been left to the States. A federally run national election would tip the scales to the establishment and they would win the majority and phuck your rights.
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Go the other way. Elections should be very granular and run at street level. Streets that can't organize probably shouldn't vote.
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They know either (a) Republicans won't cheat despite Dem claims over the years (b) they have enough deep staters among the Federal gov to steal the election
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Go to any federal government parking lot in the DC metro are and survey the bumper stickers. I defy you to find many conservative NRA or Trump ones. QED
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You're correct, NMBS. The conservative folks I know in DC don't put any stickers on their vehicles, and a couple put severe leftard ones on, just so their vehicle doesn't get vandalized.
A couple even drive Priuses for the same reason. F-150's or Silverados (or similar) on the weekends, though.
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Day 1 ‐ I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month!
Day 2 ‐ Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last!
Day 3 ‐ Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew??
Day 4 ‐ 8:00pm. Removed my Day Pajamas and put on my Night Pajamas.
Day 5 ‐ Today, I tried to make Hand Sanitizer. It came out as Jello Shots!!
Day 6 ‐ I get to take the Garbage out. I’m So excited, I can’t decide what to wear.
Day 7 ‐ Laughing way too much at my own jokes!!
Day 8 ‐ Went to a new restaurant called "The Kitchen". You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have No clue how this place is still in business.
Day 9 ‐ I put liquor bottles in every room. Tonight, I’m getting all dressed up and going Bar hopping.
Day 10 ‐ Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer.
Day 11 ‐ Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, "What the hell do you want now?"
Day 12 ‐ I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel.
Day 13 ‐ If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidently touch your face.
Day 14 ‐ Watched the birds fight over a worm. The Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3‐1.
Day 15 ‐ Anybody else feel like they’ve cooked dinner about 395 times this month?
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Day 16: Sat on the front porch and counted all of the out-of-state license plates in the neighborhood. Zip. Come to think of it there are never were any out-of-state licenses before the quarantine.
Day 17: Counting the new bamboo shoots in the backyard today.
Day 18: Worried about running out of booze. Watching YouTube videos to see how to make mash and a still from what we have in the house--feeling a little like MacGyver.
Day 19: Reading old COBOL manuals scheduled.
What broke me of the habit years ago was dicing hot peppers - jalapenos specifically - without gloves.
Not only do you know it when you touch your face wrong, or even close to wrong, the oils stay on your hands until they are properly washed, especially under the fingernails.
Breaking News: Warlord Khalifa Haftar’s armed groups indiscriminately shell #Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and the surrounding residential areas pic.twitter.com/HDwc7xG6i7
It’s been a while since they succeeded— they were due. Most should be rounded up shortly.
[BREITBART] Some 50 migrants colonists on Monday forced their way into Spain’s Melilla city over the fence that separates the European enclave in northern Africa, authorities there said.
The central government’s delegation in Melilla, which borders Morocco, said that they were part of a group of around 250 migrants colonists who launched a "massive and violent entry" into the city, scaling the fence and ignoring the Spanish law enforcement officers on guard.
A Red Thingyfront man in the city said that volunteers had assisted several migrants colonists with cuts and bruises at the gates of Melilla’s temporary migrant internment center, and that at least four of them had been transferred to a hospital with possible bone fractures and other ailments.
One soldier from Spain’s Armed Forces was injured, the government’s delegation said.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan military has released a video which shows a precision Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against a key Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... compound in northern Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the Afghan Air Force carried out the airstrike after receiving information regarding the compound in Chemtal district.
The statement further added that the Talibs were planning an attack against the Afghan forces.
The airstrike killed 11 Talibs and maimed at least 6 others, the 209th Shaheen Corps said, adding that the airstrike also destroyed the compound of Taliban.
The Taliban group has not commented in this regard so far.
This comes as the Talibs are continuously attempting to launch attacks against the Afghan forces despite ongoing efforts to find a negotiated political settlement to end the war.
[BREITBART] A report published this week by Rooters claims that a group of more than 100 Vanderbilt University students that ignored concerns about the Wuhan 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 were responsible for spreading it to their home communities after leaving campus.
According to a report by Rooters, a group of Vanderbilt students that ignored directives from their university about the Wuhan coronavirus may have spread it to their local communities. The report claims that the students refused to shut down their social gatherings. Now, 107 students from Vanderbilt University claim to be experiencing coronavirus symptoms.
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Experience is the best teacher....Unfortunately the tuition is extremely high..
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Actually, they will make a positive contribution to the human race: these of them that die - because "it doesn't harm young people" is a damn dangerous fantasy.
[BREITBART] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.33654 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... (D-NY) doubled down on his demands for President Trump to appoint a military "czar" to oversee the distribution of medical supplies to states, providing a list of names Sunday to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
"And they have no one, that I can best tell, in charge of the distribution," Schumer said during an appearance on CNN’s OutFront last week.
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They need one person, a military person, a general who knows how to deal with logistics and order mastering, who knows command and control, you need to place that person, the czar, in charge of both production and distribution of all of [these] kinds of needed equipment and get it to the places that are needed and that have shortages.
Trump has yet to positively respond to Schumer’s plea, contending he does, in fact, have a military figure leading FEMA’s supply chain task force ‐Rear Adm. John Polowczyk.
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Pres. Trump responded 5 days ago:
In a Thursday morning tweet, Trump rejected the advice, saying Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk is already in charge of distribution of supplies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Trump tweeted: “Somebody please explain to Cryin’ Chuck Schumer that we do have a military man in charge of distributing goods, a very talented Admiral, in fact. New York has gotten far more than any other State, including hospitals & a hospital ship, but no matter what, always complaining. It wouldn’t matter if you got ten times what was needed, it would never be good enough.”
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I recommend a diagonal eyeglass implant. Artificial sphincter surgery of this type can generally be performed as an out-patient procedure. Relief can come in hours, not days.
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Lt. Col. Vindman's not on the list? Or has he been seconded to the PLA?
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Chill, Chuckie.
For five straight days, health care facilities in the Empire State have discharged more COVID-19 patients than they have admitted new ones. The daily numbers for patients admitted to intensive care units and those placed on ventilators dropped for the second straight day.
[BREITBART] Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) has vetoed legislation that would mandate state voters to show a photo ID before they vote in the 2020 presidential election, and every election after.
Last week, Beshear announced his veto of mandatory voter ID legislation that ensures all registered voters must prove their identity before they cast a ballot, starting in November.
According to Beshear, requiring voter ID creates "an obstacle" that results "in fewer people voting," though research and data show otherwise. In Alabama, which has a mandatory voter ID law, black American voters came out in droves in 2018 to help elect Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate.
"I am vetoing Senate Bill 2 because the provisions of the law would create an obstacle to the ability of Kentuckians to exercise their right to vote, resulting in fewer people voting and undermining our democracy," Beshear wrote. "Furthermore, no documented evidence of recent voter fraud in the form of impersonation in Kentucky has been presented."
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The veto will be overridden. When a majority of states require ID to vote the game will be over. It might end badly if a few states' votes in a prexy election are deemed invalid by the majority.
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[WhiteHouse.gov] Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law. Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons. Accordingly, it shall be the policy of the United States to encourage international support for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law.
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Accordingly, the Secretary of State shall object to any attempt by any other state or international organization to treat the Moon Agreement as reflecting or otherwise expressing customary international law.
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^ Of course, my view is unpopular, Grom. Even dumb by today's lefty ideals. I just know that Gawd gave man the earth, with everything in it. And only the earth. And we fucked that up too.
But even from a non-theist POV; it's slightly mental to continue in denial of the enemies of humanity itself thriving and throbbing around us, while we talk about diversifying into every thing except what needs to be done. In my view, we cannot advance to the stars, or seek the deeper dimensions while our impending problems with Law, Justice and political Violence remain unsolved.
It's like filling the library of Alexandria with choice productions of creative minds and collective genius; building economies of gold and silver; architectural wonders and temples by hundred thousands of hands over decades. Only waiting for it all to be razed by dim-witted hordes we ignored in the process. Or worse, suicidally stupid liberals.
I think if we just selectively depopulated this planet, we have enough resource and peace of mind to last us a good millennia or two. For this, we only need to climb up out of the liberal humanist guilt embedded in our modern morality systems and re-write our laws to reduce the chances of survival of the criminal, the dangerous.
Once we this planet under dominion of reason and justice; I believe we could graduate to the stars.
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Sorry, but I believe in exactly the opposite - we have to go out because this planet is, rapidly, becoming uninhabitable*.
Our ancestors didn't leave Africa after achieving paradise there - look at post-colonial Africa.
*We're now having an example of that happens when half-competent people (Wuhan "scientists") play with modern biological techniques. What will happen when quarter-competent: Pakis & Iranians; will start?
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Now, if there's a chance of developing some kind of orbital weapon that can threaten portions of the world with mass destruction without radiation, unchallenged by any other power or counter... then that would be a thing, yeah.
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we have to go out because this planet is, rapidly, becoming uninhabitable
I admit my view is coloured by blind faith.
I understand your view too. Often, my faith gets the better of my ambitions you see. I can't overstep my bounds seeing how it turns out for Nimrods. While many may think it silly superstition, to me it's prudent.
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When I think more of it, the modern democracy is nothing short of a Babel. And anything proposed by it like 'a tower reaching into heaven' is bound to fail by default. Another self-licking ice cream cone for bureaucrats, manufacturers and legislators that ultimately delivers nothing to better humanity. Of course, if my government would undertake such a thing I would support it as best I could, my biases notwithstanding. In the hope that mayhap some tangential avenue of research from such projects leads to other practicable applications.
My point is, it was actually easier to repair our planet with just a little realism and practicality. The easy way out is to always reach for the reset switch; pack up and move to Arkansas; divorce and buy a cat. It's a conceit of the rich denialist, but how long can one hide from hard truths ?
Stanton T. Friedman had worked with some amazing nuclear rocket engines. Used to scoff at the very thought of using chemical rockets for planetary explorations. The man was no joke.
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#13. No it doesn't. Mangele was a monster - but he didn't (by himself) threaten human life on this planet.
My point is, what biological weapons are a lot more dangerous than nuclear. You need thousands of competent people to make a nuke - because it has thousands of components that need to function perfectly for it to work.
And nukes don't self-multiply!
Any idiot with an access to a modern molecular biology lab (and there are thousands of them in the world)* can make a biological weapon. And the dumber and more careless he is, the more dangerous this weapon will be.
*A friend of mine works in the lab where they use the technique that (I conjecture) was used to produce the spike protein for novel coronavirus to study bacteriorhodopsin.
What they do is mutate the coding DNA at random. Separate the mutated DNA until they have a single copy - so they can study the effect of one particular mutation at one the time. Multiply this copy into thousands with PCR, insert that DNA into plasmid. Inject the plasmid into a commercially purchased strain of E. Coli (it can't infect humans or anything because it cannot live outside a very specific lab conditions). Produce bunches of mutated bacteriorhodopsin. Carry out biochemical function tests. Try to infer what the results mean - that's the hard part😃.
Everything they use: PCR kits, plasmids, E coli is purchased commercially - they don't produce them in their own lab. Everything is about as hard to use as putting together a piece of IKEA furniture.
Now, what I think the Wuhan Einsteins did, is use the same methods (with staff bought from the same suppliers) to produce mutated copies of bat coronavirus spike protein. Test them for increased affinity to the human target protein. Mutate successful copies further - artificial evolution. When they got that they wanted (don't ask me why they wanted it) they inserted the evolved DNA back into coronavirus.
And then it run away.
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Just a technical note but the CoVs are ssRNA viruses. They would have been using a bit different technique than random changes and PCR duplication (were it engineered, I’m still not convinced of that).
Your point still stands, but of note introducing base changes in RNA is even easier. Getting viable and stable changes may be a different story depending what you are attempting to engineer.
In 92 at uni we were engineering E. coli via PCR just as you said and we could have as first year biochemistry students easily made simple bioweapons.
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were it engineered, I’m still not convinced of that
Sooner, or later, we'll have the RNA/DNA sequence of the spike protein - I predict dozens of base differences from the bat's - all enhancing binding to ACE2.
p.s. I remember something about the bats it's coming from NOT being found in Wuhan region.
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The timing of samples sequenced will be important in that distinction. At 30k base pairs and two or more mutations that stick a month getting a hold of the very first samples from China would be key ....
The study concluded the deadly virus came out of local laboratories in Hubei Province. The smoking gun in the study is the link to horseshoe bats which are not sold in local markets and not native to Wuhan. In fact the closest colony is 900 kilometers away. There is no evidence horseshoe bats were sold in the Wuhan wet markets. The local labs used this bat specimen and the virus came from a lab in Wuhan.
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I would think the Thai samples would be very useful as well. China did ‘publish’ the sequencing but the first samples themselves would be definitive proof. Likely the world would never get those.
[Libya Observer] The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez al-Sarraj has described Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... as "obsessed with gripping power and doesn't care if Libyans died in war or from Coronavirus." Then again, Sarraj hasn't stepped down either, regardless of the loss of ninety percent of the country.
Speaking to Russian news agency Sputnik, al-Sarraj said the Government of National Accord had responded positively to all calls for a ceasefire in Libya but Haftar didn't and continued to violate the truce.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Monday confirmed the death of one of its top commanders in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq some eight months ago.
Muslih Ike - alias Tekoser Gever - was killed by the strike in the Qandil mountains of the Kurdistan Region on August 20, according to a PKK statement published by the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency (ANF) on Monday.
"He fell martyr following a Ottoman Turkish air attack on Medya Defense Areas [PKK headquarters] on 20 August 2019," read the statement.
The statement paid tribute to 47-year-old Gever as an architect of the PKK's "historical resistance" against increasing Ottoman Turkish "occupation" in the Kurdish areas of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and in the Kurdistan Region.
Ottoman Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency (AA) reported Gever’s death on November 4, but did not specify when he was killed. On the same day, AA and other Ottoman Turkish media outlets published footage purportedly showing the moment Gever was targeted by the Ottoman Turkish strike.
Gever, a fixture on the Ottoman Turkish interior ministry's most wanted list, rose through the ranks of the PKK after joining the group as a 20-year-old in 1993.
He previously led the group's forces in Makhmour, a town in territory disputed by the governments of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, when Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) controlled swaths of Iraqi and Syrian land. He then returned to the Qandil mountain range along the Turkey-Iraq-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... border that has served as the PKK's headquarters for around three decades.
It is unclear why the group chose to announce Gever's death so long after the lethal strike.
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[NYPOST] A dense Ohio dipshit man livestreamed a massive party while defiantly declaring "We don’t give a f‐k about this 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... " ‐ only to be arrested over the weekend for flouting social-distancing rules, police said.
"This is how we do it in my city, man," Rashaan Davis, 25, brags in the 11-minute video, shot Friday night in Cincinnati
...I’ve heard that Cincinnati is full of idiots, but for some reason none of them have been introduced to me...
and later posted to YouTube. "We don’t give a f‐k about this coronavirus. This is how we celebrate our coronavirus."
He was busted Saturday afternoon and charged with a misdemeanor for violating Gov. Mike DeWine’s "stay at home" order amid the pandemic, according to a police report authorities posted to Facebook.
"[Davis] narrates a video of himself and others openly defying the orders, causing even greater risk of contamination during this national health crisis," a criminal complaint says. "At the time of his arrest, there were over 55 thousand views of his post."
Cincinnati police recommended a high bond ‐ or none at all ‐ until Davis can appear before a judge because of his "complete disregard for public safety."
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Gee, a real criminal. Yeah, right. I just hope this party was better than his Zika virus and SARS (1) parties. I'm sure those parties were tough to beat.
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#5 We've lost a lot of them. Screw the courts, just show me the Constitutionality of so many edicts from governors and mayors. I don't recall anyone enacting Martial Law.
[The Atlantic] When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem. Trump had campaigned on an "America first" foreign policy, which after his victory was enshrined in the official National Security Strategy that his administration published in 2017. At the time, I served in the administration and orchestrated the writing of that document. In the years since, Trump has been criticized for supposedly overturning the post‐World War II order and rejecting the role the United States has long played in the world. Amid a global pandemic, he’s being accused‐on this site and elsewhere‐of alienating allies, undercutting multinational cooperation, and causing America to fight the coronavirus alone.
And yet even as the current emergency has proved him right in fundamental ways‐about China specifically and foreign policy more generally‐many respectable people in the United States are letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and preferences of states.
China, America’s most powerful rival, has played a particularly harmful role in the current crisis, which began on its soil. Initially, that country’s lack of transparency prevented prompt action that might have contained the virus. In Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, Chinese officials initially punished citizens for "spreading rumors" about the disease. The lab in Shanghai that first published the genome of the virus on open platforms was shut down the next day for "rectification," as the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported in February. Apparently at the behest of officials at the Wuhan health commission, news reports indicate, visiting teams of experts from elsewhere in China were prevented from speaking freely to doctors in the infectious-disease wards. Some experts had suspected human-to-human transmission, but their inquiries were rebuffed. "They didn’t tell us the truth," one team member said of the local authorities, "and from what we now know of the real situation then, they were lying" to us.
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Like the oil ticks, Pooh and the Poohlitburo believe that sheer momentum will carry them. They are wrong.
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And western politicians who bet on P00h at the gerbil roulete wheel will get cleaned out.
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The Legacy Infotainment Enterprises have deep links to China for their products. They serve their new Emperor. The enemy of the Emperor is their enemy. Treat them accordingly.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed or maimed at least 39 Talibs in southern Uruzgan and Zabul provinces, the Afghan military said.
The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces conducted an airstrike to defend against a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan, killing 6 Talibs and wounding 2 others.
The statement further added that a similar airstrike killed 6 Talibs and maimed 4 others in Khas Uruzgan district of the province.
The security forces had earlier conducted airstrike in Arghandab district of Zabul province which killed 21 Talibs.
The 205th Atal Corps said all three airstrikes were carried out for defense purposes only as the bully boyz were planning to launch attacks in the two provinces.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
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Tell me, HOW many aircraft carriers does Venezuela have? How many strategic bombers? Nuclear submarines? I don't think Maduro wants to wage war against the baddest bunch in the hemisphere.
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[Buzzfeed] You're not the only one feeling horny in coronavirus lockdown.
If being quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic has you feeling a little horny, you're not alone.
Two giant pandas at a Hong Kong zoo mated successfully on Monday for the first time in almost 10 years together at the park.
Staff at the Ocean Park theme park and zoo announced female Ying Ying and male Le Le, both 14, finally sealed the deal around 9 a.m. local time after showing signs that they had entered their hormonal estrous cycle, or mating cycle, in late March.
Giant pandas are notoriously bad at breeding, at least in captivity, so news of the bonking bears had staff thrilled.
"Since Ying Ying and Le Le’s arrival in Hong Kong in 2007 and attempts at natural mating since 2010, they unfortunately have yet to succeed until this year upon years of trial and learning," said Michael Boos, executive director of zoological operation and conservation. "The successful natural mating process today is extremely exciting for all of us, as the chance of pregnancy via natural mating is higher than by artificial insemination."
Images released by the park, which has been empty of visitors since Jan. 26 due to the coronavirus outbreak, show the black-and-white beaus embracing and doing the deed.
Zoo staff noticed that last month that Ying Ying had begun spending more time in the water, while Le Le was leaving scent markings around his habitat as he looked for his panda paramour ‐ both apparently signs that the bears were feeling a little more randy than usual.
Vets at the zoo have been monitoring the pair closely and will continue to do so in the hopes that Ying Ying is expecting.
"If successful, signs of pregnancy, including hormonal level fluctuations and behavioral changes may be observed as early as late June, though there is always a chance that Ying Ying could experience a pseudo-pregnancy," said Boos.
"We hope to bear wonderful pregnancy news to Hong Kongers this year," he added, "and make further contributions to the conservation of this vulnerable species."
According to the zoo, a panda's gestation period ranges between 72‐324 days, but the pregnancy can only be detected by an ultrasound about two weeks before birth.
Reacting to the news, people on social media were both happy for the bears ‐ and jealous.
[JustTheNews] The California Republican's lawyers attempted to overturn the federal corruption conviction earlier this month
Former congressman Duncan Hunter (R.-Calif.) was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 months in prison and three years of parole for charges pertaining to his misuse of nearly $250,000 in campaign funds.
Once released from prison, Hunter, a former Marine, will be on supervised release and mandated to complete a drug and alcohol treatment program.
At the hearing Hunter said he takes "full responsibility for any dime that was spent by me or anyone else on my campaign." His wife, Margaret Hunter, was indicted with the former representative in 2018.
Though initially Hunter seemed to blame his wife for the corruption charges during a televised appearance, something which Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Halpern called attention to in his 87-page sentencing recommendation, Hunter has since requested that the judge not sentence his wife ‐ the mother of his three children ‐ to any time behind bars.
His lawyers previously attempted to overturn the conviction against the former congressman, citing the misrepresentation of the prosecutors' presence at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser in 2015.
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The dems treat these cases as business as usual with theirs. The Pubs hang theirs out to dry, but maybe they could have been proactive and not let the crook run in the first place?
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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.
[Reuters] Residents in the Ivorian capital Abidjan tore down a partially built hospital in their neighborhood on Sunday night, saying they were opposed to it being built "right in the heart" of the Ivorian population.
[ABC] One of the nation’s top public health officials suggested Monday that because Americans are taking social distancing recommendations "to heart," the death toll from the novel coronavirus will be "much, much, much lower" than models have projected.
[Just The News - John Solomon's Site] Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills are seeking to avoid depositions ordered by a judge earlier this year
[Right Scoop] Governor Cuomo affirms what we’ve been hearing from Trump about hydroxychloroquine, that it is indeed yielding positive results in NY hospitals just as predicted.
[Washington Examiner] The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court indicated that it "suspects" there is a pattern of the FBI seeking out political information through surveillance orders, according to former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova.
(Reuters) - The body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was recovered on Monday evening and the search for her son will continue, the Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
[FOX] A Democratic Michigan state lawmaker has credited President Trump's publicizing of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life after her health "plummeted" when she contracted coronavirus.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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...
...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...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
handed over their weapons
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting last week with a smuggler who was posing as part of the construction crews working on President Trump’s border wall in Arizona, The Washington Times has learned.
...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...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[BREITBART] The GOP is gearing up for what could be a contentious battle over the next stage of 
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...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...
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.33654 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
[WhiteHouse.gov] Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law. Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons. Accordingly, it shall be the policy of the United States to encourage international support for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law.
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[NYPOST] A dense Ohio 
[The Atlantic] When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem. Trump had campaigned on an "America first" foreign policy, which after his victory was enshrined in the official National Security Strategy that his administration published in 2017. At the time, I served in the administration and orchestrated the writing of that document. In the years since, Trump has been criticized for supposedly overturning the post‐World War II order and rejecting the role the United States has long played in the world. Amid a global pandemic, he’s being accused‐on this site and elsewhere‐of alienating allies, undercutting multinational cooperation, and causing America to fight the coronavirus alone.
[Buzzfeed] You're not the only one feeling horny in coronavirus lockdown. 
