BLUF: [Breitbart] A 2013 study from a research team led by Dr. Timothy Rodwell, "an associate professor and physician in the Division of Global Health at UCSD [University of California at San Diego]" that "analyzed data from LTBI [latent tuberculosis infection] screening results of 4,280 refugees resettled in San Diego County between January 2010 and October 2012," noted that "San Diego County, in California, is a leading refugee resettlement site, and it also has one of the highest rates of active TB in the country, with an incidence rate of 8.4 cases per 100 000 people in 2011." (The incidence rate in the entire population in the United States in 2016 was 2.9 per 100,000).
The study, which was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, found that, of the 4,280 refugees resettled in San Diego County during the 34 months beginning in January 2010:
Nine hundred sixteen refugees (21.4%) in the study had a positive QFT-GIT result (Table 1). Of those, 823 (89.8%) had a normal chest radiograph and were diagnosed with LTBI (Figure 1). Sixty-one (6.7%) did not receive a chest radiograph; 14 (1.5%) had an abnormal result that was consistent with active TB; and 18 (2.0%) had an abnormal result that was not consistent with active TB.
In other words, the incidence of active TB among the 4,280 refugees who were resettled in San Diego County between January 2010 and October 2012 was 327 per 100,000, more than 100 times greater than the incidence of active TB among the entire population of the United States in 2016.
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[puts on blinders] Why do you hate refugees! They need the jobs to pay for TB treatments. What do you mean it's contagious? I've never heard of such a thing! You're making this all up because you are a racist![virtue signal off]
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But requiring TB tests for illegals food handlers is racist! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?) Besides, ICE may want to check those applying for tests and that can't be allowed (see Denver, SanFran and arresting illegals for other crimes). Remember how well they medically screened the 'Dreamers'? Suddenly, diseases that had been abated for generations popped up.
[Newsweek] Ten wealthy white guys from New York’s Long Island, expensively armed and outfitted, head out into the bush to hunt the king of beasts. Over nine days, ten captive-bred and drugged lions are transported to a private reserve and then released to stumble around in habitat they’ve never seen before.
The hunters head out in jeeps, then climb trees, so they can aim down with high-powered automatic weapons at the disoriented animals. Terrified by the flying bullets, the lions--still doped-up and accustomed to being fed by humans since birth--panic. They cower against fences or squeeze into warthog burrows, but there really is no place to hide. Soon, each of these white Americans will have a trophy lion head to bring back to the USA. And the worst injuries they will have suffered for their efforts are sunburn and a hangover. Lodge, meals and transport R20000 per day. Game prices vary.
Two black men slink through tall buffalo grass on the trail of a rhino. One shoots, the massive beast falls, and the shooter’s partner rapidly slices off its horn. The two men then flee on foot, leaving behind a grotesquely mutilated but possibly still living rhino. That horn will net enough money to buy a car and TV, as well as send their children to high school. And so they run, racing through grasslands where hippos and elephants frequently kill foraging humans, as lion and leopard prowl behind rocks. Their goal: getting over one of the great fences that delineate public and private land before Park Rangers white mercenary soldiers with night-vision goggles hunt them down and kill them. Nothing personal, it's just business, and the business will flourish as long as the SA, Zim, Bots, Moz, Namibian Governments get their cut. After all, it is Africa.
Fire the white colonist interlopers. Hire the poachers as Park Rangers. Pay them 2-3 times what the average worker makes along with a healthy 20 year pension and medical coverage for life. Organize them into bargaining units in order that they cannot be fired. Let them keep seized property, ivory, etc. for their own personal redemption.
A total of five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and another one was killed in artillery fire from Russian backed rebels over the past 48 hours, according to Russian language news accounts.
A news article in lb.ua said that on Monday three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded from rebel artillery fire near Mariupol in southern Donetsk.
Rebels hit Vodyannaya with mortar fire which wounded one Ukrainian soldier. At 1800 hrs, another 120mm mortar attack wounded another soldier near Shirokino and Pavlopol.
The third soldier was wounded around 2100 hrs when rebel artillery struck Ukrainian positions at Shirokino.
lb.ua reported that rebel hit Shirokino another 18 times with 122mm rocket artillery.
On Tuesday, a rebel sniper killed one Ukrainian near Marinka, which is in the southern Donetsk area. Two more Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack in Talakovka.
Rebel media said that on Monday, the Ukrainian military fired a total of 360 rounds, 145 of which landed in or near Donetsk and the rest in the Mariupol region.
Four 122mm artillery shots were reported by rebel media in Gorlovka.
On Tuesday, rebels said that night artillery fire hit the Donetsk settlement of Yasinovataya damaging the rail station.
In a separate report, rebel media claimed Ukrainian launched a midday artillery attack on the southern Donetsk town of Kominternovo using 120mm mortars. The attack lasted 30 minutes and damaged three residences.
[McKlatchy Report] WASHINGTON Commentators laughed last year when a photograph emerged of Kim Jong Un standing next to an orb, which a North Korean newspaper stated was a miniaturized nuclear weapon. "That’s a weird looking disco ball," joked one intelligence contractor on Twitter.
Not many are laughing anymore.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that a U.S. intelligence assessment concluded North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead, a disclosure that rapidly intensified an already tense standoff with the rogue nation. Soon after the report, President Donald Trump warned Kim against making further threats, saying North Korea "will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen."
Whether Kim truly possesses the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead -- and successfully launch it on an intercontinental missile -- is unknown and remains hotly debated. Yet there is no doubt now that Kim has scored one major achievement: He is finally being taken seriously by the foreign policy establishment and intelligence agencies, evidenced by the latest assessment on his nuclear capabilities.
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[AsiaTimes] These moves can be explained by concerns about a flood of North Korean refugees and the possibility the border could be a front line in a conflict with US-backed forces.
But another possibility is irredentism, or the political view that any territory that once belonged to a country should be returned to that country.
China’s irredentist views cover areas of Northeast Asia, including great parts of North Korea. This, of course, is a significant step further than solidifying a border in the event a North Korean collapse brings South Korean forces and their US allies onto China’s doorstep.
This fits with the fact China has always coveted direct access to the Sea of Japan, but Tsarist Russia annexed the area in 1860. Now Russia and North Korea block the path only ten miles (16 kilometers) short of that objective.
Thus, it needs to be considered that Beijing is amassing troops on its border with the North because if the Pyongyang regime falls in a military conflict with the South, China will make a land grab for North Korean territory.
[Reuters] North Korea said on Wednesday it is "carefully examining" a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury".
A spokesman for the Korean People's Army, in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency, said the strike plan will be "put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment" once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision.
In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also said it could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the United States showed signs of provocation.
Earlier Pyongyang said it was ready to give Washington a "severe lesson" with its strategic nuclear force in response to any U.S. military action.
Washington has warned it is ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs but that it prefers global diplomatic action, including sanctions.
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Guam has around 170,000 people on a little over 200 square miles of territory (Not about to sink.) North Korea spends around $10 billion on their military. They have a GDP of around $40 billion. Most of their external trade is with Russia and China. It would seem that if concessions could be obtained from China and Russia regarding trade with North Korea, the squeeze could be put on NK. Listening to Dr. Gorka now; he says this all about NK trying to obtain stuff/money from the U.S. like Iran did from the last administration.
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They take out the capital or major air base, we take out North Korea and make an example that causes others to pay attention (with a man like Trump and not a cheese eating surrender monkey like his predecessor).
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My guess is Guam was chosen because they weren't sure they could hit more distant targets. He might think that a lesser target (such as Guam) might enable him to intimidate and stay in power.
Personally I think such a strike would wake the sleeping giant and North Korea's little tin pot (and the Democrats) might not like the results.
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Time to call his bluff in a kinetic way. Sinking the USS Pueblo with a precision strike would be a perfect example of an act that was both salutary and could be described as a "decommissioning of US Property". Think FAT BOY would respond? This little turd needs a lesson in realpolitik manners.
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I hope that the plan is to turn NK into a nuclear waste dump if this is actually tried. Enough is enough.
How many threats have to be absorbed when the threat maker is an unstable mad man with nuclear weapons. Before the nukes they could be shrugged off, but now??
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Do we know how accurate their missile guidance systems are? I haven't yet detected any discussion of that, and I know I liked to joke about their missiles successfully hitting the ocean.
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Haven't heard from our man in Guam for a while
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"Even if they hit one side, it could cause it to tip over"
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Raj, I would expect they are as accurate as the most modern SCUD type. They may be able to get within a couple miles of Guam on a good day, which is why they want a nuke on it. Fire three nukes and two hit within 3 miles of the target.... major fires and damage.
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Harry Truman 1951 Korean Speech Excerpt and his Dismissal of General MacArthur. I believe that we must try to limit the war to Korea for these vital reasons: to make sure that the precious lives of our fighting men
are not wasted; to see that the security of our country and the free world is not needlessly jeopardized; and to prevent a third world war.
A number of events have made it evident that General MacArthur did not agree with that policy. I have therefore considered it essential to relieve General MacArthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the real purpose and aim of our policy.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were murdered for ’honour’ in a rural area of the federal capital on Monday, police said.
The three were found murdered in a house at Madina Colony in Sangjani. The victims were bore torture marks all over their bodies.
The woman’s husband and eight other children are missing from the house.
The incident came to light when the owner of the house observed blood spilling into the drains from inside. The owner, who lived in a nearby house, informed the police who reached the spot and broke into the house.
The police found the woman’s body in the veranda while the other two bodies were found on the floor of a room. Multiple stab wounds were found on the bodies, including the abdomen, neck, face and arms, the police added.
Besides, the killer(s) had smashed their faces with stones.
The victims were identified as Saeedullah, Miraj Bibi and her daughter Jamila Bibi. Miraj Bibi was in her late 50s and her daughter in the early 20s.
The victims were from Buner in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . The police contacted their relatives after which the father and brother of Saeedullah reached the capital.
They identified the body of Saeedullah but could not confirm who the two women were.
"We do not know their names but they look like our distant relatives," they told the police.
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[DAWN] A woman who had married a man of her own free will was rubbed out by her brother outside the Lahore High Court's (LHC) Multan bench on Tuesday, said police.
According to police officials, Kulsoom, who belonged to Punjab's Rajanpur area, had contracted a love marriage with Rafaqat a few months earlier. The girl's family had filed a case against her marriage at the Multan registry of LHC.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... when the couple arrived at the court to attend the hearing on Tuesday, Kulsoom's 17-year-old brother allegedly opened fire on them near the court's main gate.
Kulsoom, who was shot in the head, was struck down in his prime while her husband sustained serious injuries, according to officials, who are calling the attack "an act of honour killing".
A lawyer was also injured in the shooting. He was shifted to Multan's Nishtar Hospital in a critical condition.
Kulsoom's body was shifted to the hospital for post-mortem. Her brother, the alleged killer, was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... from the scene and the weapon used in the attack was seized.
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[DAWN] Senior PML-N leader Raja Zafarul Haq on Tuesday said that a decision has been taken to elect Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... as the party president.
While giving an interview to BBC Urdu, the party’s Leader of House in the Senate said that a formal announcement regarding this will be made in a day or two.
"The younger Sharif has been selected to replace Nawaz based on the wishes of a majority of party members," Haq was quoted as saying.
Earlier in the day, the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) issued a notice to the PML-N for the appointment of a new party leader, DawnNews reported.
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[DAWN] A Hyderabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday remanded a journalist into judicial custody for 14 days after he, along with his 14 accomplices, was booked by Sehwan police under terrorism charges on Monday night.
Sehwan police booked Yasin Rind, the president of Sehwan's press club, in a first investigation report (FIR) after he and his accomplices reportedly beat a policeman at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's shrine for asking Yasin's cousin to exit the portion of the shrine's dhamal yard allocated for women.
Chanesar Rind, Rashid Rind, Wajid Rind, Aijaz Rind, Soof Kalhoro, Saddar Machhi and eight faceless myrmidons have also been booked in the case on similar charges.
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[PRWEB] Zonar, the leader in smart fleet management technology, and Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI), the leading independent manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines, controls, and emission solutions are announcing the availability of Cummins Connected Diagnostics to customers using Zonar’s smart fleet management solution, delivering critical information to operations managers that can help optimize the performance of their fleets.
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Before retiring some years back, I did a lot of accident reconstruction work. Bosch makes most of the crash date retrieval units for autos. Most of the retrieval software was proprietary for diesels. A related article on this technology is Here at ARC.
h/t Gates of Vienna
2012 was a devastating year for gun rights in America. Together, the Aurora shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting galvanized the gun control movement, leading to the passing of a slew of unconstitutional firearm laws across the country. Amid the Left’s panic over privately owned "assault" weapons that were used in these incidents, was the tragic case of Lonnie and Sandy Phillips. They were the parents of a woman who was killed by James Holmes. They responded by suing the popular ammunition supplier known as Lucky Gunner, because the company had sold Holmes ammunition that was used in the attack.
From the beginning, it was obvious that their lawsuit would go nowhere. There was no legal basis for it, because Lucky Gunner had done nothing illegal. In fact, the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was put in place specifically to protect gun companies like Lucky Gunner from frivolous lawsuits like this. Simply put, gun companies can’t be held liable for the criminal actions of their customers, no more than a cutlery company can be sued by the victims of knife attacks.
So it’s no surprise that their case was recently thrown out by the courts. But not only was it thrown out, the couple has been ordered to pay Lucky Gunner’s $200,000 legal fees. Don't know about you,
but I'm all sympathy
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OK _ contrarian take, sorta. A couple devastated by the murder of their child acting on the Brady Campaign’s advice sues a gun company. Who is the villian here?
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This reads like the Phillips' went into this thinking it wasn't going to be 'loser pays'. If you knew that from the start, I'd think 3/4 of all past and current lawsuits would not have been filed.
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You'll note that the Brady Campaign didn't offer to sue on their behalf.
Now the Brady folks will use this as a reason why the 2005 Act needs to be changed. Because fairness.
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These idiots will file bankruptcy. Lucky Gunner will still be stuck with the legal bill. Mission accomplished.
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Gee if we were SJWs we'd no doubt start a FB/IG/Twit campaign to embarress/harass the Brady Bunch into picking up the tab - might cut down on their exec salaries a bit.
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.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were murdered for ’honour’ in a rural area of the federal capital on Monday, police said.
[DAWN] A woman who had married a man of her own free will was 
