[Arutz 7] - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the name of the top global health official. But what do we know about this man? The globalization-favoring leftist mainstream media has been silent, apparently reluctant to investigate the total lack of qualifications of this man for the role.
They give him the moniker of "Doctor", but he is not really a doctor at all. In fact, he is the first World Health Organization Director-General without a medical degree.
He has never cured a patient in his life. He has a diploma in public health, but even this could not cover his dangerous incompetence as Ethiopia’s Health Minister.
...How did this little known community health official get to be elected to the top global health position?
He had backers, the main one being the Communist regime of China who helped him whip the votes of other nations. It was China’s role that defeated the candidacy of Tedros’s rival, UK’s David Nabarro.
His launch pad was as Health Minister of Ethiopia. His record in this job was controversial. In fact, it should have been the reason why he should never have been the head of the WHO in the first place, but China intervened with the acquiescence of too many Western governments.
The dark secret is that non-doctor Tedros Adhanom covered up another epidemic. The Ethiopian Health Ministry under his watch was suspected of hiding three separate cases of cholera.
Lightning strikes twice, or in Dr. WHO’s case, four times, it seems. And he gets away with it. Wikipedia: As Minister of Health, Tedros was able to form a close relationship with prominent figures including former American president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So what is the link between this failed Ethiopian Health Minister and the mighty Peoples Republic of China?
It is twofold.
...Tedros Adhanom also served as the Foreign Minister of Ethiopia, and he used that role to extend both national and personal links with the top Chinese elite.
Through Adhanom’s role as Foreign Minister, China has loaned over $13 billion to poverty-stricken Ethiopia. That country is now in hock to the Chinese Communists.
China knew this man was in their pocket.
...Tedros was not only a Marxist. He belonged to a terrorist organization.
Tedros’s candidacy for the WHO position was vigorously opposed by several Ethiopian parties based on his political connection and career with the Marxist terror group, the Tigray’s Peoples Liberation Front, who provided millions of dollars from their war chest for his candidacy to the top WHO post, proving that Tedros reached the top of the global greasy pole with the help of a Marxist terror group and a mighty Communist dictatorship.
[Daily Wire] After weeks of criticizing President Trump, often unfairly, for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times published a lengthy and rather damning piece on Wednesday detailing the belated and at times counterproductive response of the two most prominent Democratic leaders in New York: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. For, finally, providing a more even-handed critique of the Democratic politicians calling the shots at the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., some of the Times’ readers have thanked the paper, though many made a point of noting that the critique was coming rather late in the game.
"For many days after the first positive test, as the coronavirus silently spread throughout the New York region, Mr. Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio and their top aides projected an unswerving confidence that the outbreak would be readily contained," the Times reports. I can hardly wait for their rebuttal.
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"Not far left enough." They all say that about each other.
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"Roper, we must just pray that when your head's finished turning your face is to the front again.."
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BFD - they'll be back to full-time Trump bashing on Monday; they're just doing this so they can (unconvincingly) say 'we're even handed' (kinda, sorta, not really).
“Where were the warning signs? Who should have blown the whistle?" Cuomo asked at a daily briefing. “The president has asked this question, and I think he’s right. The president’s answer is the World Health Organization should’ve been blowing the whistle.”The Hill
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That must be the really "tough decision" Pres. Trump mentioned in the presser on Friday. Well, we'll just see what Fauci, Gates, and other deep-staters have to say about that!
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If this weren't too important to play politics with, I'd say that Trump should demand a roll-call up-or-down vote of Congress on whatever he proposes. No hiding on this one.
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Of course Trump can't demand anything. Congress will do what it does.
Since MaligNancy runs the HoR ..........
I'm not sure how much of this he controls.
I will point out that tomorrow is Easter. Didn't DJT mention Easter as a goal early on?
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Trump is no match for these Democrap bozos. I hope he does re-open (or, recommends to the governors) the country (where rational) ASAP.
And although his opponents will attack him no matter what (unemployment, health care, etc., affected or not by COVID-19), I just can't see how he should be worried about 'numbers' for the next election given the gravity of the current situation. But, nobody is saying his opponents are rational.
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It's too easy to choose the "safe" option of perpetual adult timeout.
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There are already people who are fed up with the lock down. If enough people say "screw it," I don't see the people who want to be good little stay at home serfs coming out in vigilante bands to do anything about it. At that point there aren't enough cops to arrest all the people who decide to come out and I really don't think the appetite to get the national guard involved nationwide is there.
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There is a shortage of masks, fever thermometers, and testing kits, and etc. If Trump can figure out a way to address those problems and get more drugs and a vaccine into the pipeline, he can sodomize Nancy on the White House front lawn.
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Remember your lock down was done by your governor, not the Prez. Heh. Like I said, prepping the battlefield. With all the models now bogus with a major flattening out, he can say he wasn't the one who panicked and put you into incarceration.
[Huffpooo] Barack Obama has slammed the decision to go ahead with this week’s election in Wisconsin, which forced thousands of people out to the polls amid a statewide stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
The former president, in a Twitter thread on Friday, described the vote as a "debacle" and said "no one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy."
"Everyone should have the right to vote safely, and we have the power to make that happen. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue," Obama said in a second post, adding in a third: "Let’s not use the tragedy of a pandemic to compromise our democracy. Check the facts of vote by mail."
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The good news for Barry is that if he intends to vote by mail, he's got until 2022 to make up his mind.
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Is it any coincidence that the only ex-presidents in recent US history to intervene in subsequent elections are also the two most corrupt presidents in recent history?
See:
- Clinton Global Initiative
- Soetoro DeepState Initiative
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Just who's SOCIAL SECURITY card does this ass have? Release those records yet MORON? I read some of them before you froze them, oboz0 de zer0! They show how BIG of a failure you really are.
Conclusion up front a la Columbo episodes:
[Mises] Although some would like to blame capitalism for the early missteps in the federal response to the virus, the opposite is true. It was federal public health regulators who hampered the private sector response to this crisis. To ensure that the United States moves past this pandemic, we must take an approach that minimizes government infringements of civil liberties; we must also maximize the incentives of private businesses and individuals who want to assist in our efforts to combat this "invisible enemy."
In times of crisis, governments have a tendency to overcompensate for risk. This tendency may be in the public’s best interest, but it could also serve broader governmental interests. The public and government’s interest are not always one and the same....
Some elected officials and media pundits have been promoting the hysterical notion that we can either implement draconian (national) lockdown measures on both the economy and individuals or be complicit in the mass death of millions. This line of binary thinking has become all too common, but it is surely no way to govern a nation, let alone a nation the size of the United States (roughly 320 million people). Given the overwhelming diversity of our population and geography, it is prudent to evaluate the situation on a state-by-state basis, which is precisely why the US's political structure‐even after decades of centralization‐ still relies on the principles of federalism. To mitigate the risk of exposing mostly unaffected populations to "hot-spots," public health agencies and professional medical associations could propose some base measures for states to implement, such as ensuring that individuals do not unduly interact outside of maintaining essential services....
Federal lawmakers are confined to measures that are arguably within the bounds of the United States Constitution and within legal precedent. Citizens around the world are enduring the full brunt of their leaders "never letting a crisis go to waste." Some politicians have engaged in a bevy of civil liberty‐infringing responses, such as mass surveillance techniques, enforced lockdown measures, restrictions on movement, and the closure of public facilities including places of worship.
The United States has been comparatively safe from autocratic tendencies at the federal level‐compared, that is, to many foreign regimes‐with officials offering recommendations rather than explicit mandates. For example, President Trump has sought more targeted measures to lock down so-called hot spots affected by the virus. Critics have derided this as putting money above public health, but as economist Paul Romer writes, "we need to shift within a couple of months to a targeted approach that limits the spread of the virus but still lets most people go back to work and resume their daily activities." Romer rightfully acknowledges that if Treasury secretary Mnuchin’s prediction of 20 percent unemployment comes true, the economy as we know it may fail....
MASS SURVEILLANCE IS NOT THE ANSWER EITHER
Wartime measures are being modified to combat this pandemic. Some foreign lawmakers have proposed and implemented mass surveillance measures to track infected patients. For example, the Israeli government recently passed a law allowing the Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency, to utilize cellphone location data to "track down the persons that had contact with known infected hosts, and then notify them via SMS about the next steps they must take."
The White House has proposed partnering with American technology companies such as Facebook and Google to use "geolocation data for disease tracking." Perhaps even more worrisome, the White House has initiated conversations with these companies over how to limit the spread of misinformation during this pandemic, which could lead to censorship....
Rather than criticising Beijing for its initial attempts to cover up the outbreak, Dr Tedros instead praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his "very rare leadership", and China for showing "transparency" in its response to the virus.
"The W.H.O. really blew it... Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?" ‐ US President Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 7, 2020.
As the body responsible for maintaining global health standards, the UN-sponsored World Health Organization (WHO) is supposed to adopt an even-handed approach when dealing with all member states, irrespective of how powerful they might be.
[Indiatoday.in] India has approved the first list of 13 countries that are set to receive covid-fighting drugs from India, including the anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine or HCQ.
The first list includes 13 countries -- US, Spain, Germany, Bahrain, Brazil, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Mauritius and the Dominican Republic.
Speaking to media on Friday, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Dammu Ravi, said, "A lot of requests for HCQ were already there and taking into view domestic stock and requirement while keeping a sufficient buffer, a decision was taken by the Group of Ministers to release some of the surplus medicine for export purposes."
Dammu Ravi informed that there will be two more such consignments of the coveted drug that will be exported to foreign nations.
Amid apprehensions whether India had sufficient hydroxychloroquine stock itself, the health ministry informed that in the coming week, India will require 1 crore tablets for domestic use and current stock stands at over 3.28 crore.
The United States had asked for 48 lakh (4,800,000) tablets of hydroxychloroquine. India, meanwhile, has sanctioned 35.82 lakhs tablets along with India 9 metric tonne (MT) API (active pharmaceutical ingredient), as per their request.
Besides the USA, only Brazil, Canada and Germany are expected to get 50 lakh tablets each of hydroxychloroquine in the second consignment.
In the first consignment, Brazil will receive 0.53 MT of API and Germany, 1.5 MT of API.
Bangladesh is set to receive 20 lakh tablets of hydroxychloroquine, Nepal 10 lakh, Bhutan 2 lakh, Sri Lanka 10 lakh (not in the first consignment), Afghanistan 5 lakh, and Maldives 2 lakh.
The MEA said that the countries were shortlisted on first come first serve basis.
India will also be exporting a total of 430 million tablets of paracetamol.
The countries slated to receive paracetamol from India are the UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a few African nations.
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Concerning HCQ, a lot of places test it - how come we hear nothing one way or another?
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[CityJournal] As American unemployment mounted by the millions in March and April, the dance of the college diversity deans kept up its usual brisk pace. On April 1, Harvard University announced that its acting associate dean for inclusion and belonging was moving on to Denison University. But the Harvard associate deanship will not be vacant for long. On May 1, the current head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus will step into the Harvard position, to direct the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team within the Dean of Students Office; the Office of BGLTQ Student Life; the Office of Diversity Education and Support; the College’s Title IX Office; the Women’s Center; and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Everyone knows large, centrally planned consolidated school districts are the answer.
Elsewhere, campus diversocrats enjoyed similarly enviable mobility while the rest of the country was shutting down. The vice president for inclusion and diversity at George Mason University will become chief diversity officer at the University of South Carolina at Columbia on June 15. The former occupant of the South Carolina position decamped to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 15 to serve as its community and equity officer. On March 1, a former associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Iowa became associate vice president for inclusive excellence at Georgia Southern University. The first diversity, equity, and inclusion librarian at the University of Florida assumed her position in February.
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I read yesterday that it seems 47% of public school youts are not participating in online classes at all. Whuttasurprise...
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(a) Grom Jr is one of the ones not participating - I got him into Khan's Academy instead.
(b) IMO, all of the sins detailed in the article could've been forgiven, if they'd managed to produce some competent graduates.
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Computer learning be hard. If you have no desire for meaningful employment, why waste time with on-line classes. Not unlike most gummit programs, gummit mandated school attendance has been overcome by events.
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Our schools closed for the year. The teachers are complaining that they don't have enough time to grade all the homework!
However, found out my 4th grade homeschooler is doing some work that my 6th grade public schooler is doing!
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Distance learning exposes the truth that our educationists dare not acknowledge: the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes.
If we would simply accept that iron law, we could then move on to accept a two-track system whereby the vast majority -- say, 80% -- are moved off of the college prep track by the age of 14 or 15 and into vocational schooling that leads to a well-paid, well-respected and absolutely necessary trade.
And the remaining 20% would be freed from busywork and BS virtue-signaling activities involving "diversity" and lefty volunteerism that detract from actual studies and that pimp their college applications to appease the BLT-BIGMAQ Diversity 'n' Inclusion Commissars in the Admissions office.
Which means, maybe, if we're lucky, we can halt the diversity shitheads' latest quest, to destroy STEM excellence in this country...
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Most people can't hack the higher order thinking and abstract reasoning required for real college work. Among his many idiotic notions, Zero's push to get every American kid into college was surely one of the most foolish
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... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law
The federal government runs two school systems, Department of Defense (overseas) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (reservations). One over performs the average, the other under performs the average. It's not about funding. It's about home environment.
Books, reading, cultural pursuits esp. musical training, also memorization of poetry, lines from plays, and famous quotations.
Hint: in California, children of impoverished immigrants from E. Europe and E. Asia outperform middle- and upper-middle class "under-represented minorities." 100% due to the culture of the home.
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Man, that picture of the derelict school building, I know it's standard gummint architecture, but boy do I remember seeing a lot like that back in PeeAye.
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May I point out g(r)om two distinct 'cultures', Chinese (to include social dissemination to its neighbors) and Hebrews that have hundreds if not thousands of years of promoting education may well through social selection created a 'genetic' stock upon which such success is rewarded.
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#17 Both achieved through selective breeding.
Among the Jews richest merchants were happy to marry their daughters to "genius" scholars from dirt-poor background.
With Chinese anyone could take scholar exams. These who succeeded joined the civil service and had dozens of wives.
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The short answer is both play a contributing factor.
Take for instance, the concept of a Service Dog. Not that Shitsu couldn't be a service dog, but do we not see more German Shepherds? Conversely, a German Shepherd must go to a school to become a Service Dog.
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Can do something runs head first into Should do something. For example women can be fighter pilots but should they do so ? You lose the home culture drivers .
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I guess I have been fortunate to see exceptions to those rules.
How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.
That, I'm totally in agreement with.
Interestingly, morons who go into Vocational-Technical College tend to get themselves hurt before graduating, and hopefully nobody else.
[Bing] Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the remote Yanomami tribe in the Amazon.
The Yanomami tribe is made up of approximately 38,000 people and is considered to be the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America.
Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a press conference on Wednesday that a 15-year-old boy from the indigenous tribe has tested positive for the disease.
Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the remote Yanomami tribe in the Amazon.
Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said at a press conference on Wednesday that a 15-year-old boy from the indigenous tribe has tested positive for the disease.
Mandetta said that the case was "worrying," particularly because of the remote community's separation from the outside world.
According to Brazilian newspaper Globo, the boy was admitted to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Roraima, Brazil's northernmost state located in the Amazon region, on April 3. He reported shortness of breath, fever, chest pain, and sore throat.
According to Globo, the boy first tested negative for the disease but later tested positive. He remains in the ICU.
The Yanomami tribe is made up of approximately 38,000 people and is considered to be the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America, with over 9.6 million hectares (2.3 million acres) of land along the Venezuelan border.
The tribe has dealt with deadly outbreaks of infectious disease, including measles and flu, in the past when military agencies, miners, and religious missionary groups exposed the tribe to diseases they had no immunity to.
According to Globo, respiratory disease is already the leading cause of death among native populations in Brazil. The country's health ministry has created a national crisis committee in order to monitor the impacts of COVID-19 on indigenous people and prevent further spread. One might ask the question: How much contact does this tribe have with the outside world? If none, then one might question the mechanism for transmission of COVID-19. The question arises also: "Is the virus really 'novel' or has it always been with us? If the virus has always been with us, then why has it had a worldwide outbreak now? If remote tribes get this disease, then what is the value of social distancing and isolation? I'm an engineer not a biologist or microbe specialist, so maybe these questions are naïve.
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Eu viaje a Amozonia. The tribes cross paths with modern Brazilians frequently. Want to go to a pristine remote beach? take a boat that carries large number of people up the Amazon to the ocean and dissembarque, load up on a tractor pulled tractor that goes down a trail to a pristine remote beach. The tractor will from time to time go around a tribal native and his water buffalo that is pulling a wagon of items he just traded mangoes or many othrr of the amazing jungle fruits for at the boat landing. Brazilians trade with China who deliver ship loads of 'made in China' to Belem, etc to the very people who love remote beaches. And the hospital staff did not allow the virus to be transmitted at the hospital as Besoeker ignorantly insinuates. I know caretakers in medical fscilities on the Amazon who most have large families of their own and are consumate professional caretakers for theor patients and would not put their patients or families at risk when they return home each day.
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Raj, my better half is an Amazon mulher from Belem. Green eyes, blonde hair, light tan skin, 7 beautiful Amazon sisters. All in excellent athletic condition and with spicey latin tempers (Their grand father came over from Portugal) if you in need of correction. A real Amazon woman is special.
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^Both Lex. She grew up on the Amazon as the daughter of a high level Brazilian Military officer. Works out 1 hour a day every day, excellent business person, and she can do things physically that I have never seen any other woman do with her toes. You may use your imagination...
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first tested negative for the disease but later tested positive
So he was sick with something symptomatically similar and then caught Wuhan Flu in the hospital?
"We lived at the junction of great pirana rivers in Roraima, Brazil. Where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness to walk the honky tonks and brothels of Frontera Street."
In my opinion, after @ChrisMurphyCT’s secret rendezvous with @JZarif, the #Iranian dissident community shouldn’t have let him get away with it so easily. He also meets regularly with NIAC. Murphy should’ve received a harsher treatment than Pelosi when she dismissed #IranProtests. https://t.co/QcElH3cSau
(Reuters) - More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD.O), according to new data based on patient observation.
The analysis, published on Friday by the New England Journal of Medicine, does not detail what other treatments the 61 hospitalized patients were given and data on eight of them were not included ‐ in one case because of a dosing error.
The paper’s author called the findings "hopeful," but cautioned that it is difficult to interpret the results since they do not include comparison to a control group, as would be the case in a randomized clinical trial. In addition, the patient numbers were small, the details being disclosed are limited, and the follow-up time was relatively short.
There are currently no approved treatments or preventive vaccines for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.
Gilead last month sharply limited its compassionate use program for remdesivir and is conducting its own clinical trials of the antiviral drug, with results expected in coming weeks. Researchers in China as well as the U.S. National Institutes of Health are also testing the drug in COVID-19 patients.
The new analysis includes patients in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan who received a 10-day course of intravenous remdesivir.
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Funny how experimental drugs associated with Big Pharma seem to get plenty of coverage in the media but 70-year-old drugs such as [hydroxy]chloroquine that won't make Big Pharma any money get de-emphasized if not attacked despite multiple success stories that have been reported around the world.
[IsraelTimes] In tacit threat, the military warns Damascus that it will bear responsibility for any attacks that emanate from within its borders.
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday accused the Syrian army of helping the Hezbollah terror group establish a permanent military presence on the Golan Heights, releasing video footage showing a senior Syrian officer visiting the region.
"Even during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... period, the new commander of the Syrian army’s 1st Division, Lua’a Ali Ahmad Asa’ad, continues to help and allow the Hezbollah terror group establish a front on the Golan Heights," the IDF said in a statement.
The Israeli military released video footage from the border from one of its surveillance cameras, showing Asa’ad and a number of other army officers walking around an unidentified area along the border.
"In the clip, the new division commander is seen on a patrol of the front, including passing through areas known to be used by Hezbollah, with the head of Hezbollah’s southern command, Hajj Hashem," the IDF said.
In a tacit threat, the military added that the Syrian regime would "be held responsible for all enemy activities emanating from its territory."
"Consider this a warning," the IDF added.
The military refused to comment on when and where exactly the footage was filmed.
Israel has long maintained that it would not accept the establishment of a permanent military presence in Syria by Hezbollah or Iran, which backs the Lebanese terror group.
Earlier last month, the IDF accused the Hezbollah terror group and the Syrian army of being behind an attempted sniper attack against Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights earlier this month, which was thwarted by an Israeli strike on the suspects’ car.
The military said at the time that in the months preceding the incident Israeli troops saw Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers preparing for an attack, filming the border area with smartphones and professional cameras and measuring wind speed from different locations in the supposedly demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries ‐ in what the IDF said appeared to be efforts to identify a target and improve snipers’ accuracy.
The IDF said that on March 2 fighters were seen preparing to carry out the attack from a car.
"When there was an operational opportunity, the car being used by the cell was attacked by an IDF helicopter," the military said.
[Daily Mail] Analysis of the strains showed type A - the original virus that jumped to humans from bats via pangolins - was not China's most common. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve.
Type B was also the dominant strain across large parts of the United Kingdom and Europe, but has not made it to Australia.
Type C was an offshoot of Type B, mutating from the secondary strain and spreading to Europe and Australia via Singapore.
Scientists believe the virus - officially called SARS-CoV-2 - is constantly mutating to overcome immune system resistance in different populations.
The likelihood of infecting others is highest during the incubation period since the host is active and unaware.
Selection favors those variants that maximize the incubation period, ideally skipping the symptomatic period altogether.
Other questions:
Will current RNA and antibody tests identify all of these new variants?
Does an infection with one variant confer immunity to other variants?
Conversely does the diversity of Wuhan virus descendants who are immunologically similar but not identical play a role in triggering a catastrophic immune system overreaction?
[FOX] President Trump said Pfizer’s efforts to develop COVID-19 treatments have shown "encouraging signs."
Pfizer has been working to develop an antiviral compound to treat the coronavirus as well as a vaccine to prevent infection and other therapies. The company announced Thursday that it would perform pre-clinical studies on its antiviral compound and that it was investing in preparation for a possible clinical study later this year.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Chinese control of the pharmaceutical supply chain was a national security threat and that the United States must use its military to confront China around the world.
"Look at what they've been able to do with respect to supply chains," Cheney said Thursday morning on the Hugh Hewitt Show. "That is in and of itself a national security threat: The extent to which they now produce so many of the pharmaceuticals that we need, produce so many of the components that go into pharmaceuticals that are produced in other countries, and the real national security threat that poses."
Cheney said that Chinese cyberattacks on the United States, combined with China's control of pharmaceutical production, have led to a "nightmare scenario" in which the authoritarian regime has access to vital classified information while the United States is unable to produce life-saving medicine on its own.
She added that the United States needs to maintain its military dominance to guard against the Chinese government.
"We have to move that supply chain out of China while we also are combating them from a military perspective around the world and, frankly, in space as well," Cheney said.
China's role in causing the coronavirus pandemic sparked a reevaluation of the country's place in the international community.
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) introduced a resolution in March condemning the Chinese government's suppression of information about the coronavirus and refusal to cooperate with health authorities.
Other GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), called for an investigation into China's handling of the crisis.
h/t Instapundit
[South China News] - Researchers in Shanghai hope to determine whether some recovered coronavirus patients have a higher risk of reinfection after finding surprisingly low levels of Covid-19 antibodies in a number of people discharged from hospital.
A team from Fudan University analysed blood samples from 175 patients discharged from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and found that nearly a third had unexpectedly low levels of antibodies.
In some cases, antibodies could not be detected at all.
...All of the patients had recently recovered from mild symptoms of the disease and most of those with low antibody levels were young. The researchers excluded patients who had been admitted to intensive care units because many of them already had antibodies from donated blood plasma.
...The team also found that antibody levels rose with age, with people in the 60-85 age group displaying more than three times the amount of antibodies as people in the 15-39 age group.
...Huang said 10 of the patients in the study had an antibody presence so low it could not even be detected in the laboratory.
These patients experienced typical Covid-19 symptoms including fever, chill and a cough, but might have beaten back the virus with other parts of the immune system such as T-cells or cytokines.
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Considering the diverse and important role helper T cells play in the immune system, it is not surprising that these cells often influence the immune response against disease. They also appear to make occasional mistakes, or generate responses that would be politely considered non-beneficial. In the worst-case scenario, the helper T cell response could lead to a disaster and the fatality of the host. Fortunately this is a very rare occurrence.
[AND Magazine] For our resident quisling who is kneejerk Anti-American
Definition: quisling
n. A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country.
n. A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
https://www.wordnik.com/words/quisling
Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian army officer who founded Norway’s fascist party in 1933. In December 1939, he met with Adolf Hitler and urged him to occupy Norway. Following the German invasion of Norway in April 1940, Quisling served as a figurehead in the puppet government set up by German forces. He was executed for treason after the liberation of Norway in 1945.
Quisling is dead. There are, however, Quislings still among us.
Two dozen American and European former officials have signed onto a letter urging President Trump to relieve sanctions against Iran. The request is couched in terms of providing "humanitarian" relief and assisting Tehran in combatting the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement on April 6, the former government officials claimed that relieving the sanctions on Tehran could "potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives in Iran."
Who could possibly oppose such a "humanitarian" move at this time of crisis? It is a powerful, emotional message.
It is also a carefully crafted stroke of propaganda genius.
The reality is that current sanctions do not cover medical supplies and other humanitarian materials needed in Iran. Medical supplies and humanitarian aid can be given to Iran already.
The reality is also that the Iranian regime, which claims it is desperate for assistance in this hour of need, somehow continues to find more than enough money to arm the Houthi insurgency in Yemen, bankroll Hezbollah and send arms into Iraq with which its Iraqi Shia surrogates kill American servicemen and women. Meanwhile, on at least two occasions, Iran has specifically rejected offers of humanitarian assistance by the Trump administration.
In short, this has nothing to do with the coronavirus.
This has everything to do with exploiting a pandemic to benefit an evil, totalitarian regime, which has held its own people hostage for over forty years.
Let’s take a quick look at just some of the signatories to the letter in question:
Federica Mogherini:
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from 2014-2019. Mogherini attended Sapienza University in Rome where she wrote her final dissertation on Islam and politics. She was instrumental in crafting the nuclear deal with Iran and has bitterly opposed President Trump’s decision to walk away from it. She has made clear repeatedly that she fully supports the ability of European businesses to make money in Iran in defiance of U.S. sanctions.
Speaking in 2019, Mogherini said, "Part of this work requires us to guarantee that firms wanting to do legitimate business with Iran are allowed to do so. This is what we are working on right now: tools that will assist, protect, and reassure economic actors pursuing legitimate business with Iran." Mogherini added, "We Europeans cannot accept that a foreign power ‐ even our closest friend and ally ‐ makes decisions over our legitimate trade with another country. This is a basic element of sovereignty, and it is only natural that this reflection takes place, not only in Europe but in other parts of the world, too."
Leaving aside European signatories to this missive, however, the list of Americans who signed on reads like a "who’s who" of American apologists for Tehran and advocates of doing business with the devil.
Wiliam Cohen:
Cohen was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense and was an ardent opponent of Donald Trump from the beginning of Trump’s candidacy. He has described the U.S. sanctions on Iran as being the equivalent of "economic war" and spoke out loudly against the American targeting of IRGC Qods Force commander Soleimani.
Chuck Hagel:
Hagel was Barack Obama’s Secretary of Defense. He is on record as opposing the killing of General Soleimani as well. He has a long history of opposing the use of sanctions against Tehran.
Madeleine Albright:
Albright was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, she was instrumental in ending many of the sanctions against Iran that were in place at that time. In discussing the ending of these sanctions in a speech to the American-Iranian Council (AIC) in 2000 Albright talked glowingly "of the winds of change" she saw blowing in Iran and the need to normalize relations with the tyrannical theocracy in Tehran. She also made what can only be characterized as a series of abject apologies to Iran for what she characterized as prior American transgressions against that nation.
The AIC is a pro-Tehran, anti-sanctions lobbying group.
Albright is a member of the board of directors at AIC as is Chuck Hagel.
The American-Iranian Council was established in the U.S. in 1997 by Houshang Amirahmadi, a lobbyist for the Iranian regime. It was founded with the support of American oil companies to promote investment in Iran. It has a long history of opposition to American sanctions against Tehran.
The first honorary Chair of the AIC was Cyrus Vance. Vance is perhaps best known as Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Vance bitterly opposed Carter’s decision to attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran and eventually resigned in public protest of the President’s decision to authorize the operation.
Iran is estimated to have roughly $90 billion in escrow accounts both at home and abroad.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei runs a corporate conglomerate worth approximately $200 billion that includes the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order, or EIKO; the Mostazafan Foundation; and Astan Quds Razavi.
Supreme Leader Khamenei has a sovereign wealth fund known as the National Development Fund (NDF) with an estimated $91 billion in assets, $20 billion of which is in cash.
In January 2019, Tehran authorized the expenditure of $1.5 billion on military activities.
In January 2020, following the death of Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, Ayatollah Khamenei allocated $220 million to support the Qods Force.
Since 2012 Tehran has spent over $16 billion on terrorism abroad. Hit link for more
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Washington - Sen. Chris Murphy on Tuesday defended his meeting with Iran's foreign minister, while President Donald Trump accused the Connecticut Democrat of violating a law that bars U.S ...
[Search domain thefederalist.com/2020/02/17/.] Murphy is a frequent speaker at the National Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with alleged links to the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... It soon became apparent why Murphy was sooo upset with Soleimani's death. Senator Murphy has a history of supporting Iran's mullahs. Murphy is a routine speaker at the NIAC Council...
Look closely. See the man with white hair? That's the head of the Syrian Armed Forces 1st Corps, Luau Ali Ahmad Assad. He's visiting Hezbollah positions in #Syria.
[The National Interest] Key point: The Oxcart’s stealth features never proved adequate to avoid detection by Soviet-built radars.
Analysis of Week’s photos located the USS Pueblo near Wonsan anchored next to two patrol boats‐and also revealed that Pyongyang had not mobilized its troops for war. This led Johnson to rule out plans for a preemptive or punitive strike in favor of diplomatic measures which eventually saw the ship’s abused crew released nearly a year later.
On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than a rifle bullet at over three times the speed of sound. A high-resolution camera in the angular black jet’s belly recorded over a mile of film footage of the terrain below‐including the over 190 Soviet-built S-75 surface-to-air missiles sites.
The aircraft was an A-12 "Oxcart," a smaller, faster single-seat precursor variant of the Air Force’s legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.
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I call BS on this one:
The A12 was a prototype for SR71
A stands for Archangel
12 was the twelveth design variation
Why send this model when the SR71 was perfectly capable?
Don't make no sense!
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When China and the US were letting each other tour their ships years ago, a couple sailors I knew said the Chinese had a very minimal to no knowledge of fire fighting and damage control. They still have a very caste like system where only the lowest are trained in those activities.
The US learned the hard way in early WW2 that every sailor was a fire fighter and damage control worker and all of our boys and girls are trained in it.
Estimates from those sailors on the survival of a Chinese ship that was hit was poor, where a western naval ship would be able to survive and get back to port while being able to fight.
From what little we can see of the pics, the fire fighting skill of the people there was very poor and it looks like the fire spread pretty well along most of the ship.
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..what I noticed is that they are often locked into linear thought patterns. That they're very good at. There is less ability to 'think outside the box' or make intuitive jumps in logic or reasoning.
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Waqar Gillani, Encore, February 16, 2020
Besieged Maulana Abdul Aziz makes yet another move to take over Lal Masjid and propagate his extreme views in the face of administrative resistance. Islamabad’s Lal Masjid is once again in the limelight after its deposed firebrand khateeb, Maulana Abdul Aziz, made another move to ‘take over’ the premises. He entered the mosque with nearly 200 female students, some three weeks ago amidst weak administrative oversight. Aziz was deposed by the Musharraf government during the siege of Lal Masjid which lasted from July 3 to July 11, 2007. He left the state-administered mosque following allegations of propagating hate speech and extremism. Since then Aziz has been running a small mosque in G-7, whilst demanding the construction of Jamia Hafsa at its appointed site in Islamabad. In April of last year, the government sealed the site and replaced Aziz as the khateeb.
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Thank you, b. Responding to your comment, I was inspired to run a name search on the gentleman, with the resulting three most recent hits seen above.
[BREITBART] Thursday on MSNBC, "All In," Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.35983 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.35777 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... (D-CA) said President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... could not wipe away the history of his administration’s response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Hayes said, "You’ve served in Congress for a long time. You’ve seen different congressional caucuses come and go, different leadership structures, different presidents. Does it strike you, I’m curious how it strikes you to watch Republicans who, during the B.O. regime, particularly everything was austerity, where is the money coming from? How are you going to pay for that? Today say hey, we got to load up $250 billion, let’s have a vote on it today. A striking turn about it seems to me."
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Trying to keep up with AOC.
Good luck!
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Ankle-biting failure Maxine Waters says Trump can not wipe away....snore, Zzzzz...sweet sleep, an immunization and escape from such blathering idiots. What an insult to the people of California and the U.S.A.
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The media and the left will be spinning this tail until the end of time.
People normally don't pay attention until July of an election year. Unfortunately for the left and the media, they are now as they have nothing else to do. This virus has moved so quickly, the lies the left told haven't had time to fade from memory before a new and contradictory one is spewed forth.
The public is seeing it, and taking note. Trust in media is all but gone now and Trump has the highest approval rates ever.
November is a long way away, but I doubt this will go well for the demoncrats at that time now that the public has been paying attention.
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/\ Perhaps you forgot the sark tag. I've had a number of exchanges with Brits of that period. Sadly, most are gone now. Nearly to a man and woman, their wartime hardships were worn like a badge of honor, a virtual Victoria Cross as it were. Matters of time and date were routinely prefaced by..... "well, that was before the War" or "oh yes, that came after the War"
What a fucking disgrace. We used to be a free people, right? 'It's for your own good' has been the justification for this sort of petty thug jackbook behavior for how many decades now? I am nearing the end of my fuse with this lockdown bullshit...
[Daily Mail UK, via Gateway Pundit] - Police in Beverly, Massachusetts set up a one-way sidewalk so residents can practice ’social distancing’ and threatened to fine anyone walking in the wrong direction.
Police in Beverly, in the north of the city, have mandated that locals who are walking in opposite directions along bustling Lothrop Street must now use separate sidewalks so that they are not brushing up against one another.
Pedestrians must now walk against traffic and failure to comply with the new directive could result in a $100 fine.
It comes as the state of Massachusetts struggles to slow the spread of COVID-19, with at least 16,790 confirmed cases. Beverly is located in Essex County, which has at least 2,100 cases. Nice misinformation there - conflating the number of Chink Virus cases for a county whose population (790,638 as of 2018) is quite a bit larger than the town of Beverly itself (41,635). On a pro rata basis then, we are talking about a stupid and draconian measure to avoid contact with residents of a city with 111 confirmed cases. Utter fucking insanity.
[LawAndCrime] Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and several of his neighbors ‐ whose properties on the Gulf Coast of Florida have private beaches ‐ have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which temporarily closes all beaches. The county took the step in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Huckabee and his neighbors claim the order prevents them from "being able to use or even set foot in their own backyards."
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Walton County and its sheriff, claims that the local government's efforts to enforce the social distancing measure violates the property owners' constitutional rights.
According to the complaint, the county, its sheriff, its code enforcement officers, and the South Walton, Fla. Fire District "have been and are currently patrolling and occupying the private beachfront properties" without permission and threatening to "arrest or fine Plaintiffs, their family members, or invitees on their private properties."
The plaintiffs have requested that the court issue an injunction blocking the county from enforcing the ordinance. They argue that the order was illogical and would actually increase the spread of the virus.
"The Amended Ordinance is arbitrary and capricious. The Amended Ordinance purports to be designed to ‘prevent the spread of COVID-19' yet it has the opposite effect," Plaintiffs wrote. Per them:
"The Amended Ordinance prevents the Plaintiffs, many of whom own residences along the beach, from utilizing their own backyards to quarantine or stay safe at home. The chances of a family or landowner catching or spreading COVID-19 is far less in his or her own private backyard (where no one else should be less they be trespassing) than traveling to the grocery store or hardware store or other essential business."
Huckabee and his neighbors asked the court to declare that the ordinance constitutes a "temporary taking" of their private property in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and to issue an injunction rendering the ordinance unenforceable. The Plaintiffs also asked the judge to grant them "just compensation and attorney fees" from the county and sheriff.
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The issue cuts both ways. On the one hand I'm not that fond of the beach itself being privately owned. I'm always happy when the courts kick some lefty in the nuts over trying to do that as has been happening in California. OTOH, once they are telling you what you can do in your own back yard, who actually thinks it will stop there? Wasn't it always lefties crying about "don't tell me what I can do in my own bedroom?" Well, how bout the living room and kitchen then too? The thought crime crowd is already trying to decide what you can and can't do inside your own head.
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I hear ya, but private property is private property, be it the beach or on 5th Avenue in NYC.
But, exactly, just where does this end? People a little here and a little there is o.k., until it's too late.
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I'm pretty conservative when it comes to private property rights, but I'm reminded of Colorado, where landowners are required to allow access to fishing streams. They can own the land you have to cross to get to the stream, but the stream is public property. If there's a fence, the property owner has to install a gate or a set of steps to get through or over the fence.
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Florida beach law - The state constitution says all beaches below the “mean high-water line,” or the wet sand, are public. Court cases have found that the public has the right to the dry sand parts of beaches in two instances:
One is if the public has established a “prescriptive easement,” using a particular beach for the past 20 years without objection from private landowners.
The other is through “customary use,” which is the “ancient,” peaceful use of the beach by the public.
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My personal thinking is, if you want to be NIMBY you better be able to afford and obtain a title to that back yard.
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[KhaamaPress] On November 27, 2019, Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Politburo Chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar visited Tehran and met with the 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... Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif
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[FoxNews] What Berenson is promoting isn’t coronavirus denialism, or conspiracy theories about plots to curb liberties. Instead what Berenson is claiming is simple: the models guiding the response were wrong and that it is becoming clearer by the day. Seasonal flu would be ending about now, due to the warmer weather.
"In February I was worried about the virus. By mid-March I was more scared about the economy. But now I’m starting to get genuinely nervous," he tweeted this week. "This isn’t complicated. The models don’t work. The hospitals are empty. WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?"
Berenson argues that those models have social distancing and other measures baked into them. As for further proof, he says that outside of places like New York there has not been a national health crisis that was predicted -- nor are there signs that the level of lockdown in various states has made a difference.
"Now we're in a bad spot because there's clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now -- the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there's going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say 'oh it's the lockdown that saved us,'" he says. Maybe it's time to panic the other way.
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Given that happened in countries that didn't panic soon enough (e.g. Italy, Spain, Netherlands) - a issue that the genius who penned the above never considered (have problems pulling his microcephalic head from his parochial ass?) ...
[MYNORTHWEST] A week ago, Jay Inslee slammed our federal government for not doing enough for our state.
"The fact is, we cannot get as much help as we would like from the federal government", he said.
This was a week after the United States Army, under orders from the Trump administration, sent hundreds of soldiers to build a 250-bed hospital at the Century Link Field Events Center.
That hospital has sat empty ever since. Not one patient. On Wednesday, Inslee announced that he wanted the facility disassembled and sent back to the federal government. How much do you think think this assembly and disassembly is costing taxpayers? No one will give me a figure.
Earlier this week, Inslee announced that he is returning 400 ventilators to the feds that we don’t need.
A week ago, he said the administration wasn’t doing enough for our state. Now, it’s clear, they’ve done way too much. A person of integrity would apologize for his phony criticism. That apology, of course, will never come.
Also, given that we are killing our regional economy based on the data that led to the unnecessary hospital and ventilator requests, is it any wonder that skepticism is growing about the decisions that are wiping out the financial lives of business owners and the unemployed?
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On Wednesday, Inslee announced that he wanted the facility disassembled and sent back to the federal government.
Of course, once the quarantine is eased, covid may brake out again - will he ask for the hospital to be reassembled?
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It depends on how well the meds work and how readily they are supplied, g(r)omgoru. If, as I suspect, this becomes a normal treatable illness, no reason to rebuild the hospitals.
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Come November, it will be interesting just how politicized COVID-19 becomes. If this fades away like others flus before it, then all these Inslee types need to be drummed out of office toute suite, be they Gov's, Rep's, or Sen's.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia has reportedly erupted, spewing plumes of ash 15km into the air.
There were reports of a loud boom heard 150km away in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, around 11pm local time.
#Krakatoa#volcano has erupted in Indonesia with ashes sent several kilometres into the air.
It is most famous for in 1883 having one of the most deadly volcanic eruptions of modern history. The eruption also affected the climate and causing temperatures to drop over the world pic.twitter.com/Qp4a2hkIj2
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References to the volcano being located in Indonesia are pure racism.
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Let’s see now
Locust swarms check
Global pestilence check
Volcanic eruptions check
Standing by for a major earthquake in a major metropolitan center near you check
How’s about another nuclear accident oh the forest fire in Chernobyl check
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Almost four years ago, Hezbollah’s candidate General Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... was elected president. Two years ago, Hezbollah’s coalition achieved a majority in Parliament. Six months ago, they achieved the same in the council of ministers. Hezbollah had finally achieved full domestic political integration, as well as dominance of the Lebanese political scene, despite US pressure. Nevertheless, governance has proved elusive, despite having allies in all the high places. Paradoxically, it is the allies that make governance difficult.
The popular revolt of last October, the accelerated economic free fall, and now the COVID-19 crisis, have forced Hezbollah to shift its attention to domestic matters. Contrary to what Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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[NPASYRIA] On Friday, the Syrian government forces regained control of all the positions that they lost yesterday in the eastern countryside of Homs, amid continued aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes on the positions of the 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.... groups (ISIS).
The Syrian government forces were able to regain control of all of their positions in the town of al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs, in the middle of the Syrian desert (Badia), that were captured yesterday by ISIS bully boys.
Clashes are continuing between the Syrian government forces and ISIS elements in the outskirts of Badia al-Sukhnah, in conjunction with mutual shelling.
Whereas, the Russian and Syrian warplanes continue to bombard positions of ISIS in the area.
The number of killed and maimed has increased since yesterday Thursday to 32 members of the government forces, and 26 members of the Islamic State, in addition to dozens of maimed from both sides, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian government forces sent military reinforcements to their positions in al-Sukhnah, its outskirts, and the Third Station, accompanied by Russian support, in order to fortify their positions on the Homs-Deir ez-Zor road in the Syrian Badia.
Yesterday, ISIS Death Eaters attacked the positions of the Syrian government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs governorate, where violent festivities and mutual shelling took place between the two sides, during which the terrorist group's Death Eaters took control of several areas in al-Sukhnah, in the eastern countryside of Homs.
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER] On Friday, the Syrian government forces regained control of all the positions that they lost yesterday in the eastern countryside of Homs, amid continued aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes on the positions of the 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.... groups (ISIS).
The Syrian government forces were able to regain control of all of their positions in the town of al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs, in the middle of the Syrian desert (Badia), that were captured yesterday by ISIS Death Eaters.
Clashes are continuing between the Syrian government forces and ISIS elements in the outskirts of Badia al-Sukhnah, in conjunction with mutual shelling.
Whereas, the Russian and Syrian warplanes continue to bombard positions of ISIS in the area.
The number of killed and maimed has increased since yesterday Thursday to 32 members of the government forces, and 26 members of the Islamic State, in addition to dozens of maimed from both sides, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian government forces sent military reinforcements to their positions in al-Sukhnah, its outskirts, and the Third Station, accompanied by Russian support, in order to fortify their positions on the Homs-Deir ez-Zor road in the Syrian Badia.
Yesterday, ISIS Lions of Islam attacked the positions of the Syrian government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs governorate, where violent festivities and mutual shelling took place between the two sides, during which the terrorist group's Lions of Islam took control of several areas in al-Sukhnah, in the eastern countryside of Homs.
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The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on Sheikh Mohammad al-Kawtharani, a senior military commander of the #Hezbollah in #Iraq group, who was an associate of the late Iranian General Qassem #Soleimani.https://t.co/dqR4iNZVCt
Kawtharani was branded a global terrorist by the United States in 2013, accused of funding armed groups in Iraq and helping transport Iraqi fighters to Syria to join President Bashar al-Assad's effort to put down a revolt against his rule.
Reuters reported in February that according to two Iraqi sources and a senior Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim leader, Kawtharani for now was seen as the most suitable figure to direct Iraqi militias until a permanent Iranian successor could be chosen, although he did not have Soleimani's clout.
“Kawtharani has connections with the militia groups,” the Shi'ite leader said. “He was trusted by Soleimani, who used to depend and call on him to help him in crises and in meetings in Baghdad.”
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Unpaid, follow-on installments from Soetoro's Iranian deal? Is there a Peoria to McLean, VA call-forwarding number ?
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A big whine right now is that the US Postal Service never delivered 'bins' of timely-requested blank ballots to verified voters in a couple areas that trend 'blue'. The voters ordering the ballots online had requested them before the cut-off date and the City/County Clerks had mailed them promptly.
That was indeed a BIG blunder on the part of the USPS who knew about the time crunch, and who have not responded in a manner that I would call 'sufficient'. But since they're Fed employees, it's all Trump's and the Republican's fault.
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/\ Morgan & Morgan has mobilized and is headed to Madison as we speak.
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Had this discussion with a lefty I know. He gave the standard lefty spiel about how "more people would vote" if it were made easier (mail in ballots, early voting). I said, "no, it only means more votes will be cast. It says nothing at all about the number or additional voters or whether they are all legitimate." His eyes glazed over.
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One possible thing that could be done to minimize fraud is to have a bubble for "neither" to fill out. That way nobody can come along later and fill in the candidate of their choice.
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The only absentee ballots to be cast should be those for personnel on Federal orders to be someplace else in the world.
If voting is so important, then get your ass down there to the polls. Otherwise its not important. Do it like some other places. On a weekend and both days.
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^ this, but add bedridden to that list. With an affidavit swearing mental competency from the facility's head honcho. So somebody's neck is on the line.
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I think ballots should be sent by certified or registered mail.
Just include the cost in the budget.
I’m sure there will be a way around it, but my parent once asked for a ballot, never received it, but managed to vote anyway.
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Also, P2K, as you mention, if it's so important get your ass down to the polls. In many places that's a long walk both ways with the opportunity to be killed along the way. How many of the "I can't even make time on the way to or from work" crowd would go if there was actual hardship or danger involved?
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#BREAKING@USAfricaCommand says "collective self-defense strike" against #alShabaab terrorists who engaged US partner forces, Somali National Army Danab & Jubaland Security Force near Kobon, #Somalia Thursday killed 10. Airstrike targeting al-Shabaab near Jilib today killed 1.
[BREITBART] Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) reportedly said on Thursday that he has fantasized about holding up 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... disinfectant from Kentuckians to make Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pass more Democrat measures.
Malinowski, a Democrat representing New Jersey’s seventh congressional district, said in a call that he would threaten McConnell by withholding Lysol for his constituents.
"Fun fact about Somerset County [New Jersey], we make 100 percent of the national supply of Lysol disinfectant," he said in a video obtained by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). "I’ve thought about using with Mitch McConnell, like, ’Hey, we’re going to hold up the Lysol for Kentucky until you pass her" bill.
[NATIONALREVIEW] On March 26, the Justice Department indicted Maduro and 14 of his associates on drug-trafficking charges, based on long-documented evidence that regime officials have enriched themselves through the cocaine trade. By offering a $15 million reward for Maduro’s capture and placing similar bounties on the heads of other key regime figures, U.S. law-enforcement agents hoped to spur action against the regime within the country. The American Enterprise Institute’s Ryan Berg tells National Review that Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... watchers in the U.S. had pushed for indictments for a long time, but policymakers never found the opportune moment. That changed in March, as oil prices collapsed following the breakdown of OPEC+ talks between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Russia. Oil makes up 98 percent of the Venezuelan economy, and the revenues from it have provided the socialist government cover for decades of economic mismanagement. "Once the geopolitics flipped in the U.S’s favor, the administration decided to accelerate the pace of its actions against the Venezuelan regime," Berg says.
Maduro had already suffered a blow when President Trump imposed sanctions on Rosneft for facilitating the Venezuelan oil trade. The Russians attempted to channel Venezuelan oil through a different subsidiary, TNK Trading International, but the Treasury Department swiftly moved to sanction that entity as well. And the shock from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic brought the price of oil so low that the Russians have now ceased operations in Venezuela altogether.
As oil revenue dries up, cutting off illicit revenue could push the regime toward insolvency. To that end, the U.S. Southern Command has moved three destroyers, a littoral combat ship, and surveillance aircraft into the Caribbean to interdict drug shipments in and out of Venezuela. The mobilization of some of the military’s most expensive assets marks a dramatic break from the diplomacy-driven anti-Maduro efforts of the past year. "This is about as pressure-intensive as the U.S. government can get," says Berg. Squeezing the regime’s finances could cripple Maduro’s ability to buy off military personnel, spurring long-awaited defections. But Frank Mora, a former Defense Department official, points out that the extent of Maduro’s dependence on drug money is unclear, and maintaining SOUTHCOM operations will incur continuing costs. "I don’t think that these assets can be deployed for more than 4‐6 weeks," Mora says. "There’s a maintenance cycle, a deployment cycle, and these assets are required elsewhere," which adds urgency to SOUTHCOM’s maneuvers.
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[Just The News] Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation
Key FBI officials failed to review an intelligence file identifying Christopher Steele's ties to Russian oligarchs and were later advised some of the information he provided agents in his dossier appeared to be misinformation planted by Russian intelligence, according to declassified information made public Friday.
The explosive revelations were contained in footnotes that had been originally redacted from Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's December report on FBI failures in the Russia case. The information was provided to two Senate committees in recent days.
One of the newly declassified footnotes highlights a glaring misstep early in the Russia case, when key officials failed to review the intelligence control file for Steele, a former MI6 agent who approached the FBI with unverified allegations about Trump after he was hired to do opposition research by the firm working for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Checking such files is a basic procedure in a counterintelligence probe when an informant is involved, officials told Just the News. Really no sense looking for that which you have no desire to find.
The footnote states that an FBI intelligence analyst and a supervisory special agent working on the Crossfire Hurricane probe admitted they "did not recall reviewing information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs in 2015."
"In addition to the information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarch, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received [redacted] indicating the potential for Russia disinformation influencing Steele's election reporting," a second footnote revealed.
Specifically, that footnote added: "A [redacted] 2017 report relayed information from [redacted] outlining an inaccuracy in a limited subset of Steele's reporting about the activities of (former Trump lawyer) Michael Cohen. The [redacted] stated that it did not have high confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations."
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Russian involvement? I know that claim has been made repeatedly by our media but I haven't seen any evidence yet. This was largely a home-grown effort by the left/Deepstate (read as previous administration) with some input from foreign sources to keep Trump from getting elected and then take him down after he was elected.
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My shocked face is in storage
I smelled a rat from the beginning and knew that some of the last minute order sent out by Rice pointed the way to this being a palace coup
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Just in case anyone forgot, Steele's claims we're so f---ing obviously false, even a child with rudimentary knowledge of Russia and Russians could have seen that the man pulled them out of thin air.
Start with the fact that Trump like any westerner has absolutely zero chance of scoring a beneficial real estate deal in the heart of center-city, inner ring Moscow. Add the fact that Trump the germophobic hotel owner could not possibly even imagine soiling the presidential suite of someone else's hotel-- let alone doing so as an idiotic means of spiting an American guest at that hotel.
Who the f--- could come up with such a retarded scenario?
Answer: a pair of drunks at a bar, when one drunk is a mendacious and greedy, incompetent hack on the make and the other is a Russian agent plying the former with Krystal.
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"Too good to check" is a journalistic standard, not a law enforcement standard.
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Supervisor Special Agent FBI pay $164,028 per GlassDoor. Corrupt politician to over paid corrupt bureaucrat, "Don't forget who got you that kind of income."
"One year later the WHO acknowledged it had exaggerated...."
[Mises.org] Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been reluctant to impose mandatory "social distancing" orders on the Mexican population. According to USNews, López Obrador "has maintained a relaxed public attitude" toward COVID-19, and the Mexican government did not impose a ban on "nonessential" work until March 30, long after health officials in other countries insisted Mexico must do so....
The Mexican government is right to be hesitant to shut down Mexican businesses. The distance between a "normal" economy and grinding poverty is a lot smaller in Mexico than in a wealthy country like the United States or Germany. While mandatory lockdowns in rich countries will cause mass impoverishment‐complete with all the usual mental and physical health problems that accompany it‐the stakes are even higher in a middle-income country like Mexico.
Moreover, many Mexicans are already suffering from the mandatory shutdowns in the US. In 2019, for example, Mexicans working in the United States sent more than $39 billion back to Mexico. This is a vital lifeline for many Mexicans, and these remittances are likely to be decimated by the government-forced shutdown....
WHAT MEXICO LEARNED FROM THE H1N1 PANIC
This isn't the first time Mexicans have been commanded to lock down their economy to battle a disease.
During the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, Mexican officials closed schools for a week, locked down various businesses, canceled movies, concerts, soccer games, and "virtually forced the entire population to wear ineffective face masks." Mexico experienced 390 deaths out of a population of 120 million.
This had devastating effects for Mexico's economy, especially its tourist industry....
It may be that many Mexicans will fear COVID-19 more than they feared H1N1. But in Mexico, many are also familiar with the hardships poverty brings, and fear of being destitute may trump fears about the disease. Although wealthy Americans with secure employment and luxurious lifestyles like Anthony Fauci continue to insist mass unemployment is merely "inconvenient," few Mexicans have the luxury of such blasé thinking.
[TOWNHALL] During a virtual town hall event on unemployment and issues facing working families, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... claimed that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert." They refer to me as a suave ladies' man, too.
The comment came after the former vice president gave a long-winded response to a woman who had just lost her job and asked how laid off union workers can keep the healthcare coverage they had. How to say “I don't know” in 600 words or more.
"As you and I have talked about this, senator, I’m always talked about as being a foreign policy expert, healthcare is more complicated than foreign policy," he told Nevada state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, who moderated the event. "Healthcare is complicated. It really is daunting for an awful lot of people." All of which has squat to do with the lady's health insurance.
But Robert Gates, who served as President Obama's Defense Secretary, described Biden as being quite the opposite. Probably his hair sniffing habit comes up more often in conversation.
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," he wrote in his book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."
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The presidential debates should be interesting. Not certain how the Orange Man will handle Joe. That defibrillator and drip mounted to Biden's podium may inhibit more free and candid exchanges.
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that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert."
Usually while making air quotes with their fingers as they say it.
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"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," he wrote in his book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."
That Joe! He's like the Paul Erlich of foreign policy.
Sorry Joe, but people calling you that just doesn't make it so. People call me "That REDACTED!" all time, but it doesn't mean I am. Not totally, anyway.
[BREITBART] Documentary filmmaker and far-left activist Michael Moore is blaming white men for the rise of President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , saying in his podcast that white males must "make amends" for the current administration.
The Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine director devoted a significant amount of time near the end of his podcast Rumble with Michael Moore to railing against conservative white men.
"Men — especially white men have a big responsibility to make amends for the Trump era," Moore said on Thursday. "Those amends will happen. People will see the error of their ways." It’s worth noting that, in the 2016 election, Trump won 52 percent of white women votes and 52 percent of the male vote overall.
Moore also said the days of white men being the dominant demographic in the U.S. are numbered. "They will be the minority. They’re already the minority."
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far-left activist Michael Moore is blaming white men
Let me be the first to apologize for how stupid and fat I have made you. It's all on me! My fault! Guilty!
Oh, wait! That's not the reason this time!? Well, whatever.
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Maybe this is Mikey's way of announcing his gender reassignment surgery. Which I imagine in his case would be an outpatient procedure.
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Funny how so many lefty-entrepreneurs -- that 'Young Turk' no-neck shithead is just the latest -- seem to follow Fat White Mikey's practice of trashing his own employees' efforts to unionize.
[BREITBART] Judicial Watch, a watchdog organization, has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties for having nearly one million inactive voters on their voting rolls.
On Thursday, Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and Guildford County, alleging that state election officials have failed to clean voter rolls in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
North Carolina, according to its own state data, has nearly one million inactive registered voters on its voter rolls. Likewise, Judicial Watch alleges that Mecklenburg County and Guilford County each have more registered voters on their rolls than the total number of eligible voters in the regions.
For example, Judicial Watch analysis finds that Mecklenburg County has a voter registration rate of 107 percent, while Guilford County has a voter registration rate of 102 percent. In Mecklenburg County, Judicial Watch alleges there are about 115,000 inactive voters on the voter rolls, and in Guilford County there are about 72,000 inactive voters.
According to Judicial Watch, about 17 percent of North Carolina’s voter registrations are inactive as of 2019 ‐ making it the fifth-highest state in the country for inactive registered voters. The average state has an inactive registered voter rate of about 9.6 percent.
In about 19 North Carolina counties, Judicial Watch alleges, there are 20 percent or more inactive voter registrations that remain on the voter rolls. Three counties have an inactive voter registration rate of 25 percent or more.
Specifically, about 15.5 percent of Mecklenburg County’s voter registrations are inactive, while 18 percent of Guilford County’s voter registrations are inactive.
The court brief comes as left-wing organizations, funded by billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... , are spearheading a nationwide effort to hold mail-in state primaries and nationwide mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election.
Election expert Eric Eggers, research director of the Government Accountability Insititute, has said such a plan would potentially send mail-in ballots to an estimated 24 million ineligible voters ‐ including two million dead voters and nearly three million voters who are registered to vote in more than one state.
"Oops - your bad"
[Jihad Watch] "Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore
...a unit of counting on the Indian subcontinent equal to 10 million...
people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful."
In what context would this statement be innocuous?
And how long are Muslim clerics and spokesmen going to claim they were quoted "out of context" every time they are caught saying something hateful and inciting to violence? How long will they continue to clain, every time an Infidel quotes one of the Qur’an’s hateful or violent passages, that it is being quoted out of context? As long as the Infidel political and media elites, so eager to be fooled on these issues, continue to let them get away with it without challenge.
[OpIndia] "In an uncanny apology, radical Maulvi Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui has cried foul after he was caught on tape, pleading Allah to send a virus to kill 50 crore Indians. He read his apology from a sheet of paper while remaining visually remorseless and unregretful about his contentious comments. Siddiqui began by claiming that he was quoted out of context. He then alleged that his video was edited by some miscreants in a bid to defame him.
In an attempt to water down the vitriol that he spewed earlier, Siddiqui went on to say that he respected "India’s secularism" and that he had worked for the people, irrespective of religion and caste.
“Because it is good for the unbelievers to be struck down in the midst of life by Allah in their lakhs and crores....
He also added that he was a ’social reformer’ and that he always prayed for the ’well-being of the people.’ Moreover, in an apparent U-turn, he conceded that people cutting across all races, castes, and religions must be united together to fight against the Wuhan Coronavirus. Following that, he went about explaining his alleged ’goodness’ and acts of ’philanthropy.’ Siddiqui said that he had contributed ₹1,00,001 to the Chief Minister’s relief fund and had distributed food grains and other essential materials to the poor, downtrodden, and the marginalised.
Towards the end of the video, he put forth an apology where he did not seem particularly remorseful, "My objective was not to hurt anyone’s feelings. If anyone is grieved by what I said then I would like to apologize. As an Islamic preacher, I am obliged to not hurt anyone."
In an earlier video referring to the Delhi Anti-Hindu riots, the Maulvi remarked, "Recently I have got the news that mosques are being set on fire, mosques are being burnt for the last two days. I think something is going to happen within a month. May Allah accept our prayers. May Allah send such a terrible virus to India that ten to twenty to fifty crore people die in India. Am I saying something wrong? It is absolutely blissful." After that, the crowd present there applauded the Maulvi’s statement....
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Out of context probably means he hoped for twice that number.
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This is the same dame who went out and got a hair-do despite her stay-in-place order. I guess it follows, then, that we'll see here out shopping for some hooch.
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From Ace of Spades:
Things are rapidly spinning into a dystopian police state in some areas.
I would say I pity those who meekly voted for enslavement, but I do not.
I would say I pity those that meekly follow their orders into the teeth of an armed populace, but I do not.
I would say I pity the children of both parties, and I mean that wholeheartedly.
It is not the fault of the innocent that their parents choose either the shackles or the strong arm of tyranny.
The over-reaction to this wu-flu is a genie that will be nigh impossible to put back into its bottle. We have set a new standard for dealing with large-scale crises, and that standard is unprecedented power to the state.
There are no saints who pursue, much less win, public office. There are only people with a will to power, certain of their own cause.
As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.
I pray all choose wisely from here on. The alternative could make us all wish instead for the casualties predicted in those ridiculous wu-flu computer models.
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As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.
Around the campfire the other night, we brought this subject up: the concern is that the usual suspects who are thanking Trump are, in a way, acknowledging the precedents set for if/when one of their team get into the Oval Office and cite Trump's action as gospel. If you heard random thunderclaps one evening it was when firearms/ammo were recognized as vital.
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Politicians are not too keen in preventing problems in the first place. They are reactionary, and then it "shows" that they are "doing something". Preventing something (not just coronavirus stuff) isn't all that sexy.
This ties in slightly with #Iran|ian backed Kata’ib #Hezbollah denouncing #Iraq|i PM nominee Mustafa al-Kadhimi earlier today. They still accuse him of being involved in Qassem Solemani and Al-Muhandis assassination and that “nomating Kadhimi is announcing of war on #Iraq|i’s” pic.twitter.com/3lfpRiJGNR
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) April 10, 2020
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[ToloNews] Five employees of the state-owned Central Bank were kidnapped and killed in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , allegedly "by Taliban ...Arabic for students... ," according to provincial police.
The incident happened on Thursday evening when the employees were on their way from Kuhsan district in Herat to the center of the province, police front man Abdul Ahad Walizada said.
He said the employees did not coordinate their movement with security agencies.
Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs, confirmed the incident and said "Taliban were responsible."
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 9 Talibs and maimed 3 others during the festivities in Zabul and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces, the Afghan military said.
The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said the Talibs were planning to attack the security posts in Arghandab district of Zabul province on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in self-defense, killing 7 Talibs and wounding 3 others.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Talibs attacked the security posts in Qala-e Elyas, located in the outskirts of the historic provincial capital of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The security forces repulsed the attack and killed 2 Talibs during the clash, the 203rd Thunder Corps added in its statement.
The statement also added that the security forces discovered and defused 18 improvised bombs during the operations in Paktiya, Wardak and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the festivities so far.
[AA.TR] Afghanistan on Friday rejected Pakistain's demand to hand over the suspected leader of a ISIS-linked group nabbed by Afghan cops earlier this week.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the ISIS leader, Abdullah Orakzai, also known as Aslam Farooqi, a Pak-origin suspected turban, is wanted for a number of gruesome terrorist attacks and would be tried in line with laws in Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan does not discriminate between terrorists, it takes equal legal actions against all and is committed to all anti-terrorism commitments," it said.
It further noted that since there is no agreement between Pakistain and Afghanistan on the extradition of suspects and convicts, Farooqi will be dealt in line with laws in Afghanistan.
"The two countries can make joint efforts for exchange of information under the Afghanistan-Pakistain Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS), which will help in the fight against terrorism," the ministry added.
The Afghan intelligence agency National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) announced the arrest of Farooqi on April 6.
His arrest came days after the group grabbed credit for a deadly terrorist attack on a Sikh worship place in Kabul, which killed 25 people.
On Thursday, Islamabad summoned the Afghan ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and said that since Farooqi was involved in anti-Pakistain activities in Afghanistan, he should be handed over to Pakistain for further investigations.
[GreatGameIndia] A Montana based physician has blown the whistle on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is exaggerating the COVID-19 death toll by manipulating Coronavirus death certificates. Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years of experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job.
In a brief video presentation, Dr. Bukacek blows the whistle on the way the CDC is instructing physicians to exaggerate COVID 19 deaths on death certificates:
Few people know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician, coroner, or medical examiner, signing the death certificate. How do I know this? I've been filling out death certificates for over 30 years.
More often than we want to admit, we don't know with certainty the cause of death when we fill out death certificates. That is just life. We are doctors, not God. Autopsies are rarely performed and even when an autopsy is done the actual cause of death is not always clear. Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form. Then that listed cause of death… is entered into a vital records data bank to use for statistical analysis, which then gives out inaccurate numbers, as you can imagine. Those inaccurate numbers then become accepted as factual information even though much of it is false.
So even before we heard of COVID-19, death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned. When it comes to COVID-19 there is the additional data skewer, that is –get this‐ there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death. The Centers for Disease Control, updated from yesterday, April 4th, still states that mortality, quote unquote, data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19. That's from their website.
Translation? The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same. They call it death by COVID-19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission. Prior to COVID-19, people were more likely to get an accurate cause of death written on their death certificate if they died in the hospital. Why more accurate when a patient dies in the hospital? Because hospital staff has physical examination findings labs, radiologic studies, et cetera, to make a good educated guess. It is estimated that 60 percent of people die in the hospital. But even [with] those in-hospital deaths, the cause of death is not always clear, especially in someone with multiple health conditions, each of which could cause the death.
Bukacek refers to a March 24 CDC memo from Steven Schwartz, director of the Division of Vital Statistics for the National Center for Health Statistics, titled "COVID-19 Alert No. 2."....
[ndtv] The Indian Army says the targets were precisely hit and follows an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the Keran sector of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
Five days after five Special Forces soldiers were killed in a major high altitude encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara, the Indian Army released drone footage of a major Indian retaliation in the same sector.
The aerial footage shows a Pakistani Army ammunition dump being hit by Indian Bofors artillery guns.
The video shows multiple explosions.
According to Indian Army sources, Pakistani terror launch pads, gun positions and an ammunition dump were targeted across the Line of Control.
The army says the targets were precisely hit and follows an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the Keran sector of Kupwara.
On Sunday, a squad of five Indian Army Special Forces soldiers engaged and eliminated four Pakistani terrorists in the Kupwara sector but were also killed in the encounter.
A fifth terrorist who escaped from the encounter site was eliminated by soldiers near the Line of Control.
The operation called Randori Behak began on April 1, three days before the Special Forces commandos were called in.
Soldiers deployed in the Battalion manning the defences of Kupwara repeatedly picked up and lost track of the terrorists as they infiltrated across the Line of Control.
On April 3, soldiers picked up the trail at 4:30 pm and again at 6:30 pm on April 4.
On April 5, around dawn, the Special Forces squad had ventured onto a cornice, an overhanging patch of hardened snow with no underlying support. The cornice broke under the weight of two soldiers.
The soldiers fell in the exact area where the terrorists were hiding and a gunfight followed in which the terrorists were killed.
The soldiers who lost their lives were Sub Sanjeev Kumar, Hav. Davendra Singh, Sepoy Bal Krishan, Sepoy Amit Kumar and Sepoy Chhatrapal Singh.
#BREAKING: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Balakote & Mendhar Sectors in Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir. Today at about 10:30pm, Pak initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing small arms & intense shelling with Mortars at LoC in Poonch. Indian Army is retaliating befittingly.
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri criticizes the government over a draft program for tackling a major financial crisis, saying it appears on course for an “economic suicide plan.”#Lebanon#LebanonProtestshttps://t.co/fCGfD3mZLl
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Saad Hariri should know, he was leader of a failed state.
Thierry MEYSSAN wrote on 17/12/2019: The Central Bank of Lebanon has again authorized private banks to freely deliver Lebanese pounds, but still no dollars. This exchange control is illegal because it has not been validated by Parliament. Several large companies have already filed for interim relief before the courts.
The wheat, oil and medicine import sectors are out of business, all the others are in recession.
Public debt stands at 154% of GDP. The Lebanese pound was depreciated by half its value in three months, taking the Syrian pound, already mistreated during the war by the Saudi and Qatari counterfeit currency, into its fall. Financial crisis led Parliament to adopt a new tax that triggered demonstrations that paralysed the country since October 17, 2019. In all likelihood, it originated in a massive scam set up by the country’s political leaders through the Central Bank.
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Might have to do some back-testing, but I wonder when Lebanon defaulted. Also wonder when the markets crashed. Also wonder if any big banks, particularly European, got caught up in this. And then along came COVID-19....
[FREEBEACON] Biden told a local Philadelphia news station on Tuesday that he and Trump "agreed we wouldn't go into detail" beyond acknowledging they had a phone call to discuss the pandemic. In that same interview, however, Biden disclosed the recommendations he offered the president. "The generic suggestion I made is the federal responsibility, a federal response is necessary," Biden said. "And that I thought we needed one supply commander, nationally, and identifying where all the product needed was and how to distribute it around the country."
In a Tuesday night interview on CNN, Biden was pressed to break his silence by anchor Chris Cuomo, who asked Biden, "Why is it a good thing for the American people for you guys to talk but us not really know what happened?" The former vice president responded by detailing exactly what he recommended to the president.
"I laid out the five things I thought he should be doing now and suggested how I thought he should go about doing," Biden said before laying out his suggestions, which beyond the appointment of a supply commander were to fully implement the Defense Production Act, open up enrollment for Obamacare ...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , ramp up testing, and collect more data on African Americans who have caught the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... Biden on Wednesday continued to detail his call with Trump during a virtual fundraiser, according to Brittany Shepherd of Yahoo! News, who wrote in her pool report that Biden "briefly touched on his phone conversation" with Trump during his meeting with donors. Biden not only went into further detail to the donors about what he suggested to Trump, but also how Trump responded, according to the report.
"[Biden] also suggested that Trump appoint a supply commander to oversee the distribution," Shepherd wrote. "Trump suggested, according to Biden, that a rear admiral is taking up that responsibility to some degree. But Biden does not think that is enough."
The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment on his discussions of the phone call with Trump. A White House front man declined to comment on the call with Biden or detail any arrangement made to keep it private.
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The span between when did he know and when did he forget is diminishing exponentially. No later than October I expect a Silver Alert.
How will he survive? Cut back on haircuts?
[NY Post] Sports Illustrated has fired one of its highest-paid writers after he complained about coronavirus-related pay cuts that were revealed by the magazine's publisher last month.
Grant Wahl, one of the preeminent soccer journalists in the country, was making more than $350,000 a year but was getting hit with a 30-percent pay cut as part of cost cuts last month that included the firing of 31 people at Maven, the magazine's publisher since last fall, according to sources. The blood-letting resulted in about 6 percent of the staff at SI being let go. That's not a man's hand, that's a banded Kingfisher's claw.
Prior to his axing on Friday afternoon, Wahl had been blasting management for the cuts in a series of Instagram posts in recent days. Management struck back, branding him an ingrate in a memo that was circulated to staffers.
"We've decided to direct what would have been this person's salary into additional severance pay and health benefits for those laid off who need it most," Jim Heckman, CEO of Maven, said in the memo obtained by The Post.
"To complain about a personal pay cut when 31 others had lost their jobs is incomprehensible in light of the sacrifices others made to help limit layoffs and maintain liveable salaries for our staff," said the memo. "Such a me-first attitude is not part of the tradition and culture Maven is committed to maintaining."
Although the memo did not reveal the writer's name, a source close to the situation said it referred to Wahl. The memo said the fired staffer was paid "over $350,000 last year to infrequently write stories that generated little meaningful viewership or revenue."
Wahl himself revealed on social media he was fired on Friday morning with no severance. It followed a series of Instagram posts in recent weeks that were picked up on Twitter that blasted management for the cuts.
"Who would take advantage of a pandemic to permanently reduce someone's salary beyond that pandemic," Wahl wrote. "Maven and James Heckman would."
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[APNEWS] Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a teenager with fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
Khari Sanford, 18, was charged with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide, use of a dangerous weapon. A friend of Sanford’s, 18-year-old Ali’jah Larrue, was charged as an accomplice and faces two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide. Bail for each was set at $1 million. Sanford’s attorney, Crystal Vera, declined comment, while Larrue’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
According to the criminal complaint, Sanford’s girlfriend was the daughter of the victims, Dr. Beth Potter, 52, and her husband, 57-year-old Robin Carre. Joggers found the victims at the arboretum, a research and popular recreational area, near the Madison campus on March 31.
Autopsies found both victims were shot in the back of the head, apparently the night before their bodies were discovered. Several spent shell casings were found around the victims. Potter was wearing pajamas and socks but no shoes in the chilly weather, while Carre wore only underwear, the complaint said.
A friend of Potter’s told Sherlocks that the couple had moved their daughter and Sanford out of their house and into a rental home because they were not following social distancing rules amid the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... outbreak. Potter’s supervisor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics said Potter’s medication put her at greater risk of infection and that she needed social distancing.
Hours before the killings, Potter told her friend that her daughter told her "You don’t care about me" and "You don’t talk to me" as she and Sanford were moving out, and that Potter was "clearly frustrated" during the conversation, the complaint said.
A classmate at Madison West High School told Sherlocks that he overheard a discussion between the victims’ daughter and Sanford in a ceramics class shortly before school was canceled last month, in which she told Sanford her parents had "bands" of money and that they were rich. The friend said "bands" likely meant thousands of dollars in cash.
The friend told Sherlocks that Sanford appeared excited and frantic when he stopped by his house on March 31 and made a phone call to Larrue. Sanford said to Larrue he had heard on social media that one of the victims was in the hospital and possibly alive, the friend said.
"I swear I hit them, how did they survive," Sanford allegedly said. The friend said Sanford got off the phone and told him he had shot the people at the arboretum "in the back of the head" and that Larrue was with him. When the interview was conducted, authorities had not said publicly how the victims were maimed.
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Make trendy interracial adoption > give the kid advantages she never would have had otherwise > she invites her murderer into your house.
How very woke...
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Invites your murderer into your house...
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One has to wonder if the parents actually thought this arrangement would ever end well.
Obviously a bit late now, but the counsel of a good attorney, followed by the filing of a well written restraining order (openly shared with local police), might have, I say might have.... prevented this tragedy.
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The witness allegedly heard Sanford say, “I swear I hit them how did they survive” and was “excessively sweating.” He “made statements on the phone indicating he was scared that a victim could have survived that would implicate him in the homicide,” says the complaint.
Routine police tactic which can result in panic and incriminating statements from persons of interest.
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Must have had quite the bit of planning and coordination to get the victims out of the house, wearing their bedclothes, over to the arboretum and down the path - all without being seen...
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The adopted daughter is neither of those pictured. Her Facebook page is still up — at some point someone responsible will shut it down, but of course her parents are dead and can’t see to it themselves.
Another day of the #coronavirus pandemic saw the global death toll pass 94,000, although there were tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the United States and Europe, AFP reported.https://t.co/LZ3mOcDfNzpic.twitter.com/UEcuQamLUK
About 450 sailors from Teddy Roosevelt have now tested positive for Covid-19 and 65% of the crew have been taken off the aircraft carrier and moved ashore in Guam, Navy says
Increase of 547 new COVID19 cases 30 deaths in last 12 hours; India's total number of #Coronavirus positive cases rises to 6412 (including 5709 active cases, 504 cured/discharged/migrated and 199 deaths): Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/Utp2gOPfSQ
This is insanity. I calculated that 100 bodies could easily be put in a 40 ft refrigerated trailer. Then take them to a crematory and work them down. This burying them in a park can be a health hazard and ruin open space that will be needed once the pandemic is over. There is nothing dignified about mass burials in the middle of the city. Proper disposal of infected bodies is a health necessity, which overrides all the niceties of a funeral and burial. It is tragic, but the public health comes first in this tragic situation.
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NY State (not NYcity) Maximum useage of facilities occurred April 8, 2020.
[Daily Herald] Arlington Heights police on Thursday released doorbell video of the harrowing early moments of a weekend home invasion that left one would-be robber dead and another charged with murder.
The 66-second video, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows the two men -- wearing face masks and gloves -- approaching the house on North Evergreen Avenue just before 2 p.m. Saturday.
[NYPOST] A fierce April snowstorm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Maine as it swept through the state Friday morning.
The National Weather Service in Caribou said just after 9 a.m. that 32 percent of all power customers ‐ more than 266,000 people ‐ in the state were without power as a result of the storm.
Some areas north of Portland took the brunt of the storm, with more than 7 inches of snow, according to the weather service.
Central Maine Power asked its customers "to be prepared to be without power for likely more than a day."
"Strong winds and heavy snow overnight have caused numerous outages," the provider tweeted. "Our crews are working quickly and safely to restore power."
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[ToloNews] Badakhshan governor Zakaria Sawda on Friday claimed that Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have joined imported muscle in recent festivities against the government forces in parts of the northeastern province.
He also claimed that the leadership of the conflicts in Badakhshan is owned by imported muscle and that Uighur, Chechens, Uzbek and Tajik nationals have been identified in recent festivities which often occur in Yumgan, Wardooj and Baharak districts.
"They are motivating the Taliban for their fight," the governor said. "We have witnessed their bodies on the battlefield."
Based on the US-Taliban agreement signed in February, Taliban should cut their ties with other terrorist groups fighting in Afghanistan, particularly with al-Qaeda.
"Chechens are there, Uighurs are there, Uzbeks are there, Tajiks are there. They have had further intensified festivities against the security forces which resulted in the fall of Yumgan (district) to their hand," said Ahmad Jawed Mujaddedi, member of Badakhshan Provincial Council.
The Presidential Palace said the Taliban’s relations with imported muscle in Afghanistan is questioning.
"Various questions are rising in this respect. The Afghan government is expecting the Taliban to quit violence," said Latif Mahmoud, a presidential front man. "Their (Taliban’) relation with Paksitan and other groups is still questionable."
[Stars & Stripes] KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany ‐ German firearms manufacturer Heckler & Koch has shipped the first batch of its new M110A1 Squad Designated Marksman Rifles to the U.S. Army.
Between 5,000 and 6,000 of the new rifles will be delivered to the Army through mid-2021, a company statement said.
The SDMR will add much-needed capabilities to virtually every squad in the Army, making it a top priority for the company despite the difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic, HK-USA President and Chief Operating Officer Michael Holley said in the statement.
The new weapons system will replace modified M-16s and 1950s-era M-14s, used over the past decade in the conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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M-14 was my best long range success at the Edson Range at Camp Pendleton. 500 yards slow fire in the prone position. Iron sights and Dog target, 20/20.
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I have a Springfield M1A. I bought both Jerry Kuhnhausen's books and have read a few articles by Gus Norcross. It can be a very accurate rifle but it takes work. I recommend both authors to anyone who works on their own M14 / M1A.
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Bula Defense in Cleveland, OH makes everything needed for a true left handed M-14 style rifle.
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I predict SPC Susan Tentpeg will have a challenging time toting the M110A1 and ammo
No problem B'. Got to recall those old B&W films from the days of the old British Empire. "Gun bearer, bring me my gun!" For 'diversity' you know.
Ever see old B&W photos from WW2. Two medic stretcher bearers carrying a WIA. Look today, four medic stretcher bearers carrying a WIA. Guess why? /rhet question
The ration supplied to the Sindh government under a contract of around 10,800 bags was found to be underweight and substandard, an inquiry conducted into the matter showed.https://t.co/RuQSxbcU2Bpic.twitter.com/e90yXHfThf
[TargetLiberty] The dotted line on the above map (in link)
indicates the current trend of beds needed for COVID-19 in New York.
At present, only 18,279 are in use.
The professional forecasters all projected that beds would be a multiple of the beds actually needed.
Notice not one model came in under the actual number. These are all professional fearmongers who alarmed the country about a virus that appears to be in line with a severe flu season.
Can they really be that incompetent?
Some may be but I called the evil Tony Fauci out a month ago on his phony projections: Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Lying to Congress and the American People? He knows better.
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Living on the outskirts of a community of Lexus driving, yuppie movie set transients, social distancing is hardly a curse. I've expanded my minimum distancing to 25m wherever possible.
To help ensure social isolation, I've begun wearing paint splattered T-shirts, trousers and Keens with white socks. That along with my aging F-150 conveyance works nearly as well as a Hansen's Disease sammich board.
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As I had suspected. Global warming or climate change models foretold this outcome as well. Peters wolf was at it again. Duck and cover over reaction.
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Science has morphed from the disciplined application of the scientific method to that of building models to support a particular narrative or meme for political advantage.
China is not the only country to see its manufactured goods as a weapon. Cut Turkey off, too.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish president demands Ankara be allowed to transfer aid to Paleostinians before supplies sent to Israel in a move Israeli officials decry as propaganda, report says.
The gear was purchased by Israelis, but not by the government, with Ottoman Turkish authorities’ permission to export it to Israel, the report said.
Before the equipment was loaded onto planes for transport to Israel, Erdogan’s office halted the move, demanding that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... be allowed to transfer a similar amount of gear directly to the Paleostinians.
Israeli officials were angered by the demand, calling it propaganda and saying that anyone who wants to directly transfer equipment to the Paleostinians was already permitted to do so.
The crates are being held in an Istanbul warehouse and contain gear, including personal protective equipment, which was produced in Turkey, one of the world’s leading suppliers of medical equipment.
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Turkey was supplying personal protective equipment to Israel, including surgical masks, overalls and sterile gloves.
The report quoted an unnamed senior Ottoman Turkish official as saying that Ankara had approved the sale of medical equipment to Israel for humanitarian reasons and that Jerusalem would reciprocate by allowing similar Ottoman Turkish aid to the Paleostinians.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Israeli sources told the Hebrew-language Ynet news site that the report was inaccurate ‐ that the deal was commercial, not humanitarian, in nature and that there was no connection to aid to the Paleostinians.
According to Bloomberg, the Ottoman Turkish official said that three planes from Israel were to have landed Thursday at the Incirlik air base, which is also home to a US Air Force contingent, to pick up the cargo. The official said Turkey would donate medical aid to the Paleostinians within the next few days.
Relations between Israel and Turkey soured after Erdogan took power in 2003 and hit a nadir in 2010 after the Mavi Marmara incident, in which Israeli commandos boarded a ship trying to break the maritime blockade of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and killed 10 Turks after coming under attack with clubs and iron bars.
Despite the souring of ties, trade ‐ with the exception of military sales ‐ between the two former strategic allies has remained robust. Turkey was Israel’s No.7 export destination in 2019.
Turkey has provided protective equipment to over a dozen nations hard hit by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... crisis, including to five Balkan countries, Spain, Italia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Turkey’s own COVID-19 corpse count has continued to rise. The country recorded 96 deaths on April 9, taking the total toll to 908, with the number of confirmed cases increasing by 4,056 to 42,282, according to figures released by the health ministry in Ankara.
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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.
[Daily Wire] After weeks of criticizing President Trump, often unfairly, for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times published a lengthy and rather damning piece on Wednesday detailing the belated and at times counterproductive response of the two most prominent Democratic leaders in New York: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. For, finally, providing a more even-handed critique of the Democratic politicians calling the shots at the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., some of the Times’ readers have thanked the paper, though many made a point of noting that the critique was coming rather late in the game.
[Huffpooo] Barack Obama has slammed the decision to go ahead with this week’s election in Wisconsin, which forced thousands of people out to the polls amid a statewide stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
[Gatestone] 
What does any of this have to do with my prized 4H heifer ? 
...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...
[Daily Mail] Analysis of the strains showed type A - the original virus that jumped to humans from bats via pangolins - was not China's most common. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said Chinese control of the pharmaceutical supply chain was a national security threat and that the United States must use its military to confront China around the world.
[BREITBART] Thursday on MSNBC, "All In," Rep. 
[LawAndCrime] Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and several of his neighbors ‐ whose properties on the Gulf Coast of Florida have private beaches ‐ have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which temporarily closes all beaches. The county took the step in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Huckabee and his neighbors claim the order prevents them from "being able to use or even set foot in their own backyards."
[MYNORTHWEST] A week ago, Jay Inslee slammed our federal government for not doing enough for our state.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Almost four years ago, Hezbollah’s candidate General 
...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 
...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 
...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...
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
[Just The News] Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
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The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the 
It must be rebuilt immediately. Centrally planned urban government, education, universal language, equality of outcomes. How long must we wait ? 
[FREEBEACON] Biden told a local Philadelphia news station on Tuesday that he and Trump "agreed we wouldn't go into detail" beyond acknowledging they had a phone call to discuss the pandemic. In that same interview, however, Biden disclosed the recommendations he offered the president. "The generic suggestion I made is the federal responsibility, a federal response is necessary," Biden said. "And that I thought we needed one supply commander, nationally, and identifying where all the product needed was and how to distribute it around the country."
"Nice Rolex." 
[APNEWS] Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a teenager with fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum.
...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...
One has to wonder if the parents actually thought this arrangement would ever end well. 
[NYPOST] A fierce April snowstorm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in Maine as it swept through the state Friday morning.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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...
