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McCarthy confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
90% of people in China province Henan infected with COVID: official
[NYPOST] Kan Quancheng, director of the health commission for central Henan province, said that as of Jan. 6, the infection rate was 89%.

With Henan’s population being about 99.4 million, the data would suggest that 88.5 million residents have been positive for COVID.

Visits to fever clinics hit their peak on Dec. 19 — mere weeks after China began easing its brutal "zero-COVID" policies.

After that surge late last month, the number of COVID cases "showed a continuous downward trend," Kan said during a presser Monday.

The data from Henan are vastly different from the COVID figures China’s central government has shared since the start of December. According to officials, only 120,000 people out of 1.4 billion have been infected, and only 30 have died since the end of "zero-COVID."

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail’s take on the story.
Posted by: Fred || 01/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Looks like the got into the HOV lane to herd immunity.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/10/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmmm...the current version should be less lethal overall than the first wave or two. They would then be getting 'natural' immunity. Meanwhile in the West, they're still popping themselves with 'boosters' which will not provide any lasting or natural immunity. Two phase bio-weapon?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/10/2023 18:07 Comments || Top||

#3  In China the purpose of the bio weapon is crowd control. I think they are letting it run free to spike the protests. It will be interesting if they claim that people got Covid from the protests. Maybe the magic that prevents Covid spread during protests only works for BLM.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/10/2023 20:14 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Video: Tsushima. The decisive phase of the battle
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

See here for the first video, and here for the Rantburg.com article.

See here for a treatment of the first part of the battle from the British perspective. Here is the referring Rantburg.com article.

Video is translatable into English:

[ColonelCassad] Military stories Fyodor Lisitsyn and Alexei Isaev continue the cycle dedicated to the Russo-Japanese War.

Today is the continuation of the analysis of the Tsushima battle.


Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Congress resumes work
Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2023 01:35 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All good things come to an end...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  " ... Congress has resumed functioning doling out favors."
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/10/2023 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The Bee leads with triple 20s.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/10/2023 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  We have a new barometer on how the administrative state is feeling: Crenshaw’s knuckles.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/10/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I understand Cringeshaw lost to Green for Homeland Security Chairman.

Whatever he was, he is now every 80s teen movie douchebag.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/10/2023 13:24 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Yes, Crenshaw is turning the "I served" branding into "meh..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2023 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Eyepatch McCain
Posted by: Frank G || 01/10/2023 14:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Perfect running mate for Bolton
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/10/2023 14:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How to Over-Tax GA. Citizens $6.6B
[GPB] Georgia's giant hill of money looms over state lawmakers as the 2023 session begins next Monday.

State government ended the 2022 budget year in June with $6.6 billion in surplus cash, even after it filled its savings account to the legal limit.

Gov. Brian Kemp has announced plans to spend more than $3 billion of the amount through a combination of one-time tax givebacks, with fellow Republican legislative leaders signaling support. But even that bonanza would leave about $3 billion that could be spent, saved or given away. And barring a notable economic disaster, the state is likely to run a surplus again in the current budget year.
Given what’s coming down the pike, I think we can count on that economic disaster... or a long series of smaller economic discomforts that together equal the same thing.
BIG QUESTION
If Ga has a $6.6 BILLION surplus, shouldn't the Gold Dome be looking at adjusting the Tax Code? That is about $622 for every man, woman, child, baby and ?Trans-IT? in GA.

Or about $1,200 per each employed person in Ga
or 2.5 Weeks (40hrs wk) of working.

NOTE: While Ga. Gov. Kemp and lawmakers decide how to waste $6.6B in surplus Tax Revenue. The state of GA next week will also resume taxing gasoline at 29.1 cents per gallon and diesel at 32.6 cents per gallon.

So Hang on, fellow Georgians & related state customers of GA products. The ride and economy will get quickly bumpy. As it will cost more to made it, stock it, ship it and get it soon.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

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Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  They should buy a bunch of crypto.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/10/2023 12:08 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The height of statues from around the world
Posted by: badanov || 01/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



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