ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida deputies arrested a man who had been living out his quarantine on a shuttered Disney World island, telling authorities it felt like a "tropical paradise."
Orange County Sheriff's deputies found Richard McGuire on Disney's Discovery Island on Thursday. He said he'd been there since Monday or Tuesday and had planned to camp there for a week, according to an arrest report.
The 42-year-old said he didn't hear numerous deputies searching the private island for him on foot, by boat and by air because he was asleep in a building. He told the deputy he didn't know it was a restricted area, despite there being numerous "no trespassing" signs.
"Richard stated that he was unaware of that and that it looked like a tropical paradise," according to the arrest report.
Orange County Marine deputies on Bay Lake used a public address system to tell McGuire he was not allowed to be on the property, but he remained on the island, anyway, according to the arrest report.
A security representative for Disney said she saw McGuire using a company boat Thursday, noting that the area had several "no trespassing" signs and two closed gates. She asked the agency to press charges.
McGuire was arrested on a trespassing charge and taken to jail without incident. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could comment.
Previously called Treasure Island, Discovery Island had been the site of a zoological park before the island was closed to the public in 1999.
[The Hill] Police in Flint, Mich., are investigating after a security guard at a Family Dollar store was fatally shot on Friday, with reports on social media indicating that the altercation began over a customer not wearing a face mask.
The Detroit News reported that a police spokesman confirmed at a press conference on Sunday that officials were investigating those reports.
"We’re seeing a lot of these reports on social media, so we're investigating them," the spokesperson said. "We'll talk to all the potential witnesses."
The victim, a 43-year-old male, died at a local hospital following the shooting. No suspect has been arrested in the shooting thus far, with witnesses telling a local NBC affiliate that the customer involved in the shooting fled to a nearby apartment complex.
Family Dollar stores are among a handful of essential businesses allowed to remain open as most of Michigan's economy has shuttered during the coronavirus outbreak. An order that went into effect last week allows state businesses to refuse entry to anyone not wearing a mask.
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They would still never find the person. The vast majority of murders before this went unsolved. Even more will now that police have the excuse of having to use previous manpower on stupid fascist activities like "enforcing social distancing".
[BPR] Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) for communications and other records of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and Deputy Director H. Clifford Lane with and about the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning the novel coronavirus (Daily Caller News Foundation v. U.S. Department Justice (No. 1:20-cv-01149)).
The suit was filed after HHS failed to respond to an April 1, 2020, FOIA request seeking:
Communications between Dr. Fauci and Deputy Director Lane and World Health Organization officials concerning the novel coronavirus.
Communications of Dr. Fauci and Deputy Director Lane concerning WHO, WHO official Bruce Aylward, WHO Director General Tedros Anhanom, and China.
The time period for the request is January 1, 2020 to April 1, 2020.
Additionally, the DCNF requested and was granted expedited processing of its request.
In March 2020, Fauci praised the work of the WHO and their chairman, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, saying: "Tedros is really an outstanding person … I mean, obviously, over the years anyone who says that the WHO has not had problems has not been watching the WHO. But I think under his leadership they've done very well."
In April, President Trump announced a halt to funding the World Health Organization. According to the president, the WHO put "political correctness over lifesaving measures." Additionally, President Trump said: "The WHO failed in this duty, and must be held accountable," adding that the WHO ignored "credible information" in December 2019 that the virus could be transmitted from human to human.
Daily Caller News Foundation Co-Founder and President Neil Patel said: "This virus has killed hundreds of thousands of people and turned the whole world upside down. We know that China and WHO could have done a lot more to prevent or reduce this catastrophe. We therefore have a legitimate and urgent news purpose for seeking these documents regarding U.S. officials' communications with WHO and demand that the agencies in question stop stalling and start following the law that entitles us to this vital information."
"It is urgent that the NIH follow transparency law during the coronavirus crisis," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It is of significant public interest to learn what WHO was telling our top medical officials about the coronavirus that originated in China."
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Going to be hard to put a "national security" fig leaf on this stuff.
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Followed by a wave of bank foreclosures as landlords can't make mortgage payments. Followed by a wave of sweetheart foreclosure buy-ups by 'connected' people.
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Let's see if local governments that are dependent upon property taxes furlough employees as well. Somehow they usually are exempted from the employment status the rest of the tax paying body is in these conditions.
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Then the losers epidemic cluster economy victims will return to their childhood homes and any equity their parents have will be spent in upgrading their rooms.
[FoxNews] Deadly hornets from Asia that measure up to 2 inches long and can wipe out entire honey bee colonies within hours have been spotted for the first time in the U.S.
These so-called Japanese giant hornet represent a threat to the honeybee population. The hornets-which have been blamed for 50 deaths a year in Japan, have been spotted in Washington, and according to the New York Times, can rip through a hive, killing a bee every 14 seconds.
But researchers found an interesting defense that Japanese honeybees have employed against the larger opponent. Bees in Japan have been known to form a ball around the invader and vibrate to produce heat that essentially can cook a hornet to death. The report said bees can survive in extreme temperatures and can kill a hornet in an hour.
The Times reported that European honeybees which are common in the U.S. try to sting the hornet, which proves futile due to their tough exoskeleton. A researcher told the paper that the Japanese honeybee learned to adapt through generations. This is worrisome. Having never worked with Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana japonica), their response is fascinating.
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Funny how the African Killer Bees never arrived. Now we have trouble from Asia the deadly bees are coming from Asia as well. Its like the media has zero imagination when they come up with their scare stories.
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Sorry, links.
We have had the African Killer Bees in Minnesota but they don't overwinter well. As far as our bee breeds. We could attempt to breed in this behavior but it would take decades. We have yet to breed a fully consistant varroa destructormite hygienic Queens.
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It took almost 80 years for Brother Adam, the Benedictine Monk at Buckfast Abbey to come up with his bees.
If these yellows do get to be a problem I'll be putting on hive entrance excluders. There is no way those large hornets could fit through.
I'm almost more concerned about the number of Japanese that have been killed by these bastards. And there stingers have no problem penetrating our bee gear. Ouch!
[Free Beacon] Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf (D.) vetoed a telemedicine bill designed to alleviate a backlog of medical services because it restricted access to at-home abortion.
The Pennsylvania state legislature passed the bill, which sought to promote the use of remote, virtual medicine in the state amid the coronavirus quarantine. The bill established guidelines for the provision of remote medical services, and also provided for reimbursements of insurance companies for remote services.
Gov. Wolf, an outspoken abortion supporter, slammed the door shut on the bill because it did not apply to at-home abortions.
"Telemedicine is a valuable option in the delivery of health care services, especially during these trying times. However, it is crucially important to ensure this access is equitable and does not restrict medical treatment and services," Wolf said in a veto message released Wednesday. He claimed the bill "interferes with women's health care and the crucial decision-making between patients and their physicians."
[JustTheNews] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said that the number of pneumonia-, influenza- and COVID-19-related deaths had declined for the second week in a row, a welcome sign of a possible turning point in the U.S.'s war against the disease.
In one of the agency's "weekly surveillance summaries" regarding the COVID-19 outbreak here, the CDC said that "based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 23.6%" compared to the prior week, though those numbers "remained significantly above baseline."
The agency also warned the numbers may go up upon revision. Just like the temp data
"This is the second week of declines in this indicator, but this percentage may change as death certificates representing recent deaths are processed," the agency said, while suggesting that the declines "may be a result of widespread social distancing measures."
The CDC also noted that the "national percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2" declined significantly at both public, clinical and commercial laboratories around the country. The U.S. tested about a million people over the past week.
The department said that overall levels of "influenza-like illness" have been "below the national baseline for two weeks," but that they remain elevated in the "northeastern and northwestern part of the country." Four of the hardest-hit states in the country – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut, – are in the Northeast.
'Just like that, CDC reduces its #Coronavirus death count to 37,000
[CDC.gov] Just like that, CDC reduces its #Coronavirus death count to 37,000. That’s nearly HALF the total they were peddling. Did 30,000 people spring back to life like Lazarus? No, this seems a "gaffe"—defined as a case of the CDC accidentally telling the truth.
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there are several protocols for counting deaths by Wu
CDC, WHO, Johns Hopkins, Worldometer
even worse, each counter will sometimes retroactively change past numbers
This isn't entirely political. There are problems in testing. There are times when no testing is done. There are times when multiple causes are present.
A mess.
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#1 This article we should look at all-cause mortality (comparing it to the normal for the season).
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Data as of 3 May 2020
Silicon Valley / San Francisco Epicenter
3.5 million population
ca. 20% Chinese / ChineseAmerican
ca. 50,000 traveler's to/from China in direct flights in Dec.-Jan
Total COVID fatalities .. drum roll
...195. Out of 3.5 million residents.
=1:17,000 ratio of fatalities-to-population.
In America's coronavirus epicenter. In the 6th month after the virus was first brought here from China, of which more than four months were without any lockdown.
= ca 20,000 fatalities for a pop. of 329 million
[Right Scoop] Oh boy. This dude from Austin is likely regretting his decision to push a park ranger into a lake after he told him and his friends to disperse over social distancing rules. Here’s the video of the prank:
Easier for the guy to go into the water and let the law follow than counter the charge and be sued for life. Serves him right though, confronting a crowd with no room to retreat.
[KhaamaPress] At least 12 people died of the novel 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... (COVID-19) in Afghanistan as 235 new positive cases surfaced across the country in the past 24 hours.
Waheedullah Mayar, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health, confirmed the new deaths and positive cases during a presser in Kabul.
Mayar further added that 12 people died of the virus in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan.
He also added that the public health authorities recorded 235 new positive cases during the same period, increasing the total number of positive cases to 2,704.
According to Mayar, 63 of the positive cases were recorded in Kabul, 54 in Kandahar, 19 in 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... , 14 in Panjshir, 13 in Takhar, 12 in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , 10 in Samangan, 10 in Ghor, 9 in Baghlan and 7 in Wardak province.
The remaining cases were recorded in Badghis, Bamyan, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Sar-e Pul, Kunar and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... Mayar said a total of 14 patients recovered from the disease across the country during the same period.
[IsraelTimes] Revelation comes as Trump administration intensifies criticism of China, with Pompeo saying that Beijing was responsible for spread of disease and must be held accountable
US officials believe China covered up the extent of 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 — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
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I don't care for excuses. People unnecessarily died. They stole the patent for Remdesevir under the same reason. Even today they are falsifying medical studies and hiding deaths. They are still selling N95 masks that they hoarded at a profit. They haven't changed a bit thinking that they will get away with it.
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Doing without here for now. If I see 'Made in China,' or suspect it is 'Made in China,' I won't buy it if I can absolutely help it.
Tried to avoid Depot and Loews by buying from New York Lighting, on line. Very difficult, every new ceiling fan in our house is Made in China, didn't say that they were, but they are. Front porch lights, new fireplace sconces, everything. Made me sick last year when I bought it all. Makes me even sicker now. Our manufacturing sector and workers have were long ago betrayed.
The good news is that finally, thank God Almighty, our formerly-imprisoned elites are free, free at last, of their foolish delusions that the CCP is a "partner" and that China's rise can be "managed."
Recognizing the lies for what they are is the addict's first step toward recovery.
Next step is for US entrepreneurs to spot an opportunity to make better, not cheaper, stuff and get it into the marketplace where Americans can decide. These producers won't necessarily need brick-and-mortar distribution. They can sell direct to consumers. Patience.
Looks like a great product.
Where are the fans made?
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We are a US owned company with the engineering done by US engineers. They're 3 basic components to our fan: the disc assembly, the motor and the electronics. The disc assembly and motor are manufactured in India and the electronics in China. We'll see what impact COVID-19 has and may be we'll be able to bring everything to the US at a manufacturing price point that makes sense. Exhale Fans senior management team is US and US based. We have partners worldwide to handle distribution outside the US. The final assembly is done in India and then shipped to our US warehouse in Indiana for US sales. Hope this answers your question.
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...Wonder if some poor Nork was trying to make a run for it, and the Skor post just happened to be in the way. They have no problems firing at defectors.
Mike
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^But they never fire at infiltrators - I wonder why?
Some people can't understand that Trump's buttering this fat boy up. [ZeroHedge] Trump somewhat controversially reacted to Kim Jong Un's Friday public reemergence at a ceremony at Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory as follows after a 20-day absence by tweeting, "I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!"
Pyongyang has vehemently denied both that the North Korean leader has recently suffered any health complications or that he had heart surgery in the first place. But analysts in the West have since been poring over the photo set released in state media.
For starters, a new mark on his right wrist strongly suggests the 36-year old could have just gone through a procedure. Below are notable photos and new observations being circulated in media reports....
....As we described from the start of our own initial reporting on the matter last month: First, it should be noted that the Western mainstream press often gets North Korea completely wrong ‐ and in the case of the latest speculation a high degree of critical skepticism is warranted further given the initial source for the heart surgery claims was a US state-funded media outlet based in South Korea, the Daily NK website. [What about that Chinese doctor?]
This appears to have happened yet again. No doubt Pyongyang enjoys when it can keep the outside world guessing and in a breathless state of speculation, only to later have a 'last laugh' when pundits get it wrong.
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Trump has to deal with Kim. Can't make a deal if you throw a fit and say i wish he was dead.
Must have been tough though, knowing the left would have fawned all over Kim if Trump had said he hated the guy, but that would have been short term and not helpful to the USA which is where Trump's heart is.
[MAIL] US stock futures dropped Sunday night as traders worried about reopening of the economy with the growing tension between the U.S.-China over the origin of the coronavirus.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell by 152 points, according to CNBC, indicating a Monday market opening decline of around 147 points.
S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also indicated losses at the Monday open.
In reduced trade, with China and Japan on holiday, U.S. stock futures fell 1.7 per cent and U.S. crude tumbled 7 per cent.
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Considering that Buffett shot the airline industry in the head over the weekend, I'm surprised the averages aren't down more.
If the idea is that when you buy a company's stock you're buying its future earnings, the shutdown's kind of problematic. Right now there are some good companies that effectively have a P/E ratio of infinity.
(Or, if you use Obama's definition of P/E -- the "profits to earnings" ratio-- they all have a P/E of 1, and always will.)
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Kids! Kids! It's the 1980's again!
[MSN] Just days before Germany is set to celebrate the anniversary of its “liberation” from Nazi rule, leading members of the governing Social Democrats are demanding that the country be freed from what they consider another scourge — American nuclear weapons.
Because disarming Germany in the furtherance of Russian (formerly Soviet Union) goals is part of Germany’s Social Democrats’ raison d'être. How fortunate that they continue as the minority member of the government and aren’t likely to play a larger role any time soon.
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These the same 'people' who protested the deployment of Ronald Reagan's intermediate ballistic missiles to NATO in the '80s? When the Wall came down there should have been a severe reckoning for the symp's and agents of the enemy. You left the snakes in the nest instead.
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they freely elected a commie simp as chancellor multiple times. they gave up without a fight
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So the Wall came down and the East won?--Glenmore Ostalgie, a bizarre nostalgia for their former lives as Soviet Russia's premier vassal in the Warsaw Pact. How many of the people afflicted by this are former apparatchiks and their immediate family that had the best lives in those days...
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We are unlikely to use them. Should have pulled the nukes out after the wall fell. Same with NATO.
Should have supported a neutral central/East Europe alliance to act as a buffer between paranoid Russia and decadent Europe and let both sides guide their own future.
[ScienceMag] A paper published on 30 January in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) about the first four people in Germany infected with a novel 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... made many headlines because it seemed to confirm what public health experts feared: that someone who has no symptoms from infection with the virus, named 2019-nCoV, can still transmit it to others. That might make controlling the virus much harder.
Chinese researchers had previously suggested asymptomatic people might transmit the virus but had not presented clear-cut evidence. "There’s no doubt after reading [the NEJM] paper that asymptomatic transmission is occurring," Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told journalists. "This study lays the question to rest."
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We should have gotten a clue when most of the people on that cruise ship did NOT get sick.
Of course this study will probably get reversed by another one tomorrow...
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So there was a rush to publish a sensational claim that made the virus seem much more dangerous, and that message resonated so well with media and experts that they published it in a respectable? medical journal without any effort to find out if it was true.
And that article, that bit of fake science, rapidly spread around the world, and continues to spread panic and economic disruption around the world.
Well done!
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Four bombers and approximately 200 Airman arrived at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam on May 1 to conduct training and ‘strategic deterrence missions’
The B-1s, from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, have been deployed as part of the USPAF’ bomber task force, which seeks to show 'operational unpredictability'
Analysts say that tactic makes the US forces harder to target than had been previously in the service's now ended Continuous Bomber Presence in Guam
B-1s were last deployed to the Indo-Pacific region in 2017 to patrol over the East and South China Seas as a means of projecting U.S. airpower and resolve to North Korea, China and Russia
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.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida deputies arrested a man who had been living out his quarantine on a shuttered Disney World island, telling authorities it felt like a "tropical paradise."
[Free Beacon] Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf (D.) vetoed a telemedicine bill designed to alleviate a backlog of medical services because it restricted access to at-home abortion.
[Right Scoop] Oh boy. This dude from Austin is likely regretting his decision to push a park ranger into a lake after he told him and his friends to disperse over social distancing rules. Here’s the video of the prank:
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[ZeroHedge] Trump somewhat controversially reacted to Kim Jong Un's Friday public reemergence at a ceremony at Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory as follows after a 20-day absence by tweeting, "I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!"
...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...
