[Summit] The Milwaukee man who killed five co-workers at a beer company’s corporate office is a black Elizabeth Warren supporter, providing a clue as to why the mass shooting disappeared from the discussion so quickly.
51-year-old Anthony Ferrill showed up at the MillerCoors facility from where he had been fired earlier in the day wearing his uniform and carrying a silenced gun.
He proceeded to gun down five colleagues before turning the weapon on himself.
It subsequently emerged that Ferrill was an African-American Elizabeth Warren supporter (presuming that Ferrill shared the same political beliefs as his wife, who took a selfie with Warren at a rally last year)
Ferrill’s neighbors said he was a married father of two adult children and one younger daughter. They said he had worked at the brewery for about 15 years as an electrician. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported he served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1987 to 1991 and was honorably discharged.
His brother, Benjamin Ferrill, of The Colony, Texas, told The Associated Press: “It’s a tragic loss to everybody. We’re still trying to digest it.”
Erna Roenspies, who lived next door to Ferrill, described him as a nice guy and helpful neighbor who enjoyed building guns with mail-order parts.
Several years ago Ferrill slipped off or fell off a ladder at the brewery and hurt his shoulder, forcing him to miss work. He told Roenspies that “spies” from the brewery were lurking in the neighborhood, watching his activities to make sure he wasn’t faking the injury. Once he pointed out the spies’ car to her, she said. The spying “irritated” him, she said.
Still, Roenspies, 82, said Ferrill was a “gentleman” who checked up on her to make sure she was all right.
“I considered him a son,” she said. “He wasn’t violent. He wasn’t a drunk. He was a gentleman. I just can’t believe it.”
Another neighbor, Elizabeth LaPine, described Ferrill as a quiet person who walked his Doberman pinscher every day, and would sometimes throw a ball around for his dog in the street. She said she lived across the street from Ferrill for 11 years.
“It’s heartbreaking,” she said.
LaPine said Ferrill had several cars and always kept them shiny. She said that the last time she saw Ferrill was Sunday, and he had polished up his burgundy Chrysler, which she called his “Sunday car,” and took it for a ride.
The new coronavirus apparently has a functional mutation - a cleavage site for an enzyme that makes it highly pathogenic https://t.co/cJwCWN386v#Covid19
Nigeria's first case of coronavirus [NEWS.YAHOO] Residents of Nigeria's economic hub Lagos scrambled for hygiene products Friday, after the chaotic megacity of 20 million announced the first confirmed case of new coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa.
Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement overnight that the infected person was an Italian citizen who flew in from Milan, at the heart of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 's largest outbreak, earlier this week.
"The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms," Ehanire said, adding that he was being treated at a hospital for infectious diseases in Lagos.
The low number of cases so far across Africa, which has close economic ties with China, the epicentre of the deadly outbreak, has puzzled health specialists.
Prior to the case in Nigeria, there had been just two cases on the continent -- in Egypt and Algeria.
BREAKING: The Santa Clara Public Health Department has confirmed that the third case of COVID-19 in the county.https://t.co/c30ScdIdcr
[Fortune] The pet dog of a coronavirus patient in Hong Kong has been found to have a "low level" of the virus, the Hong Kong government said early Friday.
The dog tested "weak positive" for the coronavirus, the city’s agricultural and fisheries department said in a statement, without giving further details. Officials will carry out further tests to confirm whether the dog has really been infected with the disease, or if it was a result of environmental contamination of its mouth and nose.
Much is still not known about the virus that is spreading around the world after emerging in central China late last year. It is thought to have transferred to humans from bats and has been shown to spread in a number of ways, but the Hong Kong agricultural department said it doesn’t have evidence that pet animals can be infected, or be a source of infection to people.
If confirmed, the dog would be the first case of a pet catching the coronavirus amid a global outbreak that’s now infected more than 82,000 people and claimed more than 2,800 lives.
The dog is being quarantined at an animal facility, the Hong Kong government said. The department strongly advised that pets of confirmed virus patients also be put under quarantine.
China almost 79k infected, almost 2900 deaths
SKor 2337 infected 13 deaths
Diamond Princess 705 infected 5 deaths
Italy 655 infected 17 deaths
Iran 338 infected 34 deaths
Japan 228 infected 4 deaths
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USA 60 infected no deaths
Also fwiw (but not in the article) there are now enough diagnostic kits available from WHO, CDC, etc. so that any country that wants one can get as many as they need; so, going forward, the numbers coming from open government countries (i.e., not NKor, etc.) should be pretty good.
No info from Nkor, no reported infections from Indonesia.
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I’ve been watching this site since its inception. Data for other countries other than China may be reasonably accurate. However China’s data is suspect. That skews the overall site data ito a very low value.
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What's the best guess as to the real #'s for China?
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What's interesting is that everyone is reporting about 2% mortality rate. However, Iran is almost 10% mortality. That'll have the turbans spinning.
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Mortality rate is definitely widely different in developed vs 3rd world countries.
Chronic pollution damaged lungs, smokers, drug abusers, lack of good medical care, etc. are showing to have a huge spike in COVID-19 deaths. Developed nations with free flow of information and good health and health care have a much lower mortality rate.
We will see Africa, the ME and Asia get hammered with deaths while Western Europe and the US have lower rates.
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Lex--My guess from the 24/7 operation of crematory operation in the Wuhan area and acquiring of more portable units, that the mortality numbers are 10 times what the Chinese say. There is some really bad sh*t going down over there and it's not from bat meat.
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[AP] Fear of the spreading coronavirus has led to a global run on sales of face masks despite medical experts’ advice that most people who aren’t sick don’t need to wear them.
Many businesses are sold out, while others are limiting how many a customer can buy. Amazon is policing its site, trying to make sure sellers don’t gouge panicked buyers.
In South Korea, hundreds lined up to buy masks from a discount store. Rumors that toilet paper and napkins could be used as masks have emptied store shelves in Asia of paper goods over the past few weeks.
Both ordinary people trying to protect themselves from the outbreak and medical professionals are facing shortages. well.
Some industry officials are attributing the shortages not just to high demand but to disruptions in supply: An outsize share of the world’s surgical masks are made in China ‐ 50%, by its own estimate. But even factories there that have ramped up demand say they are hard pressed to meet local demand. The government has taken over manufacturers, and exports have plunged.
"Before the outbreak of the epidemic, we used to export 600,000-700,000 surgical masks a month, but now the amount is zero," David Peng, manager of Ningbo Buy Best International Trading Co. in Ningbo, south of Shanghai, said. The company’s dozen or so suppliers in Hubei, near the center of the outbreak, have been ordered to prioritize government orders.
[AlAhram] Kuwait now has 43 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to a health ministry official on Thursday, who added all cases involved people who had been to Iran.
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[SD UnionTrib] The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet says the Feb. 17 incident violated international agreements.
U.S. Navy patrol plane was lasered by a Chinese destroyer, in an incident the Navy says was "unsafe" and a violation of an international agreement.
The incident occurred in the Philippine Sea about 350 miles west of Guam on Feb. 17, according to a statement from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Thursday. International Waters
The laser, invisible to the naked eye, was detected by a sensor on-board the patrol plane, a P-8A Poseidon, the statement says.
The Navy did not say if the laser injured anyone or caused damage.
According to the Navy, the ship’s action violates the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, a multilateral agreement, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding between the Pentagon and China’s Ministry of National Defense.
The aircraft is based in Jacksonville, Florida and deployed to Okinawa, Japan.
"U.S. Navy aircraft routinely fly in the Philippine Sea and have done so for many years," the Navy said. "U.S. Navy aircraft and ships will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows."
The incident is the latest in a string of encounters with Chinese ships in the region, as China seeks to expand its military footprint. The U.S. Navy makes a point of sailing and flying in international waters in the area, in what it calls "freedom of navigation" exercises.
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So roll over and sink the SOB and wait for the next one. Say nothing, report nothing.
This Chinese BS (at multiple levels) is just getting way, way out of hand.
[AyPee] A professor at the University of Tennessee has been arrested on charges that he hid his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Anming Hu, an associate professor in the department of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the university’s flagship Knoxville campus, was charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.
After the indictment was announced, the university said Hu had been suspended and that school officials had cooperated.
[Epoch Times] Chinese officials in Wuhan and other cities within Hubei Province, where the novel coronavirus outbreak is most severe, reported to their higher-ups in the provincial government that people are not able to secure treatment, running out of supplies amid restrictive lockdown measures, and feeling fearful and anxious about the spreading disease.
The Bureau described life in Hubei thusly on Feb. 21: "In general, residents lack basic life necessities. For example, some families used up all their gas for cooking; some families need baby formula and diapers… A large number of residents want to leave the city and go out to make a living… They become extreme in behavior." Much more at link
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Yeah, it's commie-speak for "We must protect our phony baloney jobs!" Not to mention avoiding the hangman when the People decide they won't get fooled again.
[IBT] Earlier last week, reports had suggested that a North Korean trade official was shot dead for leaving coronavirus quarantine to visit a public bath. According to South Korean media, the victim, who had returned to the country after a visit to China, was executed for risking the spread of the deadly virus.
As per its official statement, North Korea has repeatedly emphasized the country has not a single case of the highly contagious virus on its soil, though it suggested that there are people showing suspected symptoms. Raising fears that Pyongyang might be concealing an outbreak.
[Epoch Times] As key Wall Street indexes extended their losing streak on Feb. 27, experts pointed to a growing concern among investors that the effects of broken global supply chains due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) may be greater than previously thought.
"COVID-19 brought the production and transportation of many goods to a near standstill from which they have not yet recovered, and at a time when pandemic concerns are still rising," said Allen Sukholitsky, chief macro strategist at Xallarap Advisory.
He told The Epoch Times in an email that concerns over broken supply chains are one reason investors are fleeing risky assets.
"Quarantines. Closed borders and ports. Suspended flights and freight," he said, adding that "equities are reacting to the implied impact of almost 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19."
"Records are being broken across asset classes," he said.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note, viewed as a haven bet in times of crisis, hit a record-low yield of around 1.24 percent Feb. 27, while the 30-year Treasury bond set a new all-time low last week. Bond yields move in the opposite direction to prices, with falling yields a sign of capital fleeing to a safe harbor.
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Stop buying Chinese goods. Check your labels. I've noticed that an inordinate amount of clothing comes from China and I'm betting its true of other goods as well.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have arrested 514 people for deadly Hindu-Muslim violence that broke out in the capital, the government said, as it faced mounting international criticism for failing to protect minority Muslims.
Police said the toll from days of blood-letting stood at 35, but local media, citing unnamed sources, said it was likely to be more than 40 as the full extent of the violence that began on Sunday in a densely-packed locality in northeastern Delhi becomes clear.
Police are still searching drains and homes that were burnt down for bodies, officers said.
More forces had been deployed at mosques in the area for the weekly Friday prayers, the government said. There had been no new violence since Wednesday morning, it said in a statement late on Thursday.
The violence began over a citizenship law that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government introduced in December providing a path to Indian citizenship for six religious groups from neighboring countries, but not Muslims.
Critics say the law is discriminatory and comes on top of other measures such as withdrawal of autonomy for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir that has deepened disquiet about the future of India’s 200 million Muslims.
Critics of the government however blamed this week’s violence on members of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was trounced in local Delhi elections at the beginning of the month. The BJP has denied the allegations.
[Red State] - A California woman who tested positive for coronavirus eight days after being hospitalized for flu symptoms is the first case of an individual in the United States for whom officials don’t know the source of infection. The patient was treated for three days at a small hospital in Vacaville before being transferred to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where she was treated for five days before testing positive. I'd guess the current tests are not very sensitive - PCR requires lots of DNA.
[The New Arab] Iranian cleric Ayatollah Tabrizian has written extensively on violet leaf oil, which he says has miraculous properties.
A local cleric from the Iranian city of Qom has suggested a novel cure for the new coronavirus - the pre-bedtime rectal administration of violet leaf oil.
Users on Twitter describe how the Ayatollah Tabrizian has publicly denounced Western medicine as "un-Islamic". Dearest, have you changed your fragrance? Let us know how that works out for you, ayatollah.
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let me guess, it should be applied using only the tip of the Imam's holy rod. young boys should be immunized first of course.
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I'd love to see this clown put two drops of clove EO (essential oil) on his bunghole -he'd burn for 1/2 an hour.
BTW, I'm pretty familiar with these things (EO's). I have one combo that basically has me walking nearly pain-free now. I had nerve damage in the right leg caused by a 17 year old basketball injury (torn ACL & MCL), and eight or nine years ago I started with acupuncture treatments, as Dr. Chan noticed my left leg was 1/2" shorter then the other one. That was a result of my body unconsciously favoring the right leg over the left leg, causing more weight to be placed on the latter. I was moving in the direction of getting better through bike riding, acupuncture and magnesium oil sprayed on the leg when I discovered EO's, the use of which started fourteen months ago. I'm now at a point where I can walk 1/2 a mile in about 11 minutes, whereas that time was more like 15 or 16 back in November.
I have also got rid of dysphagia (constricted esophagus / part thereof). The regrowing of hair shit isn't working, nor is the correction of eyesight.
The moral of the story - EO's work, but I'm skeptical of certain grandiose claims like violet bunghole virus cure.
Commandant General David Berger issued an order that Confederate-related paraphernalia be removed from Marine Corp installations worldwide Like it or not, they're suppressing both speech and culture. First they come for the guys you don't like, then for the people you disagree with. Eventually they'll come for you. The ghost of Thomas Jefferson is is saying some very bad words.
The decision comes after a survey revealed 36 percent of troops have experienced white supremacy or racism in their ranks "A = B" equation. If your description of "racism" is pretty loose, then 36 percent of everybody's probably experience "white supremacy or racism."
Half of minority service members had personally witnessed racism We're "racist" in a combat environment. In Vietnam, the enemy (and to lots of people the Vietnamese in general) were zips, slants, gooks, what have you. I have no doubt that Afghanistan, Iraq, and similarly unpleasant places are populated by rag heads, hajjis, and folks of that ilk. Under other circumstances we're more polite. I fear those witnessing the racism under other circumstance are including "microaggressions" in the total. In the course of twenty years in the Army, I personally saw two instances of actual racism, one of them on my second day of basic training.
Troops listed white supremacy as a larger threat to the country than immigration Yeah, buddy. It's those klansmen in uniform you gotta watch for. We have 1.3 million active-duty troops. Statistically, some of them are bound to be anuses.
Berger's decision also comes in the wake of high-profile incidents in which troops were shown to be engaged in extremism Crawling out the walls, are they? White supremacists under every bed? Senator McCarthy sez he has a list of 100200 300 white supremacists in government!
Lance Corporal Vasillios Pistolis was kicked out of the Marine Corps in 2018. He was identified violently smashing a Confederate flag onto a counter-protester at the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia They forgot Timothy McVeigh. Shucks, that was just 25 years ago.
I don't like racists, and if I ever met a white supremacist I probably wouldn't like him/her/it. Neither can I stand having my opinions scrutinized and "corrected." When I was a kid (in this case, anything under about age sixty) the Confederate flag could be seen on cars, in houses, on bathing suits, state flags, underwear, you name it. Lots of places used to fly both the national flag and the Stars and Bars. The implication wasn't white supremacy, but Southerness.
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Harsh but correct. Confederacy = insurrection. It existed in order to preserve slavery, which everyone recognizes was abhorrent.
Sentimental, BS history is bo excuse for upholding symbols of sedition in the military.
Silent Sam, other local statues are OK: these are monuments to history. But a fighting force can gave only one loyalty: Union Now and Forever.
Perhaps the general should have softened the blow by simultaneously banning any / all BLM, black power etc "Woke" or "Reaistance" symbolism. But you cannot serve Jeff Davis and Uncle Sam. Pick one.
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"Perhaps the general should have softened the blow by simultaneously banning any / all BLM, black power etc "Woke" or "Reaistance" symbolism. But you cannot serve Jeff Davis and Uncle Sam. Pick one."
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Silent Sam, other local statues are OK: these are monuments to history.
Got to remember that for many of them it was the United STATES of America with states being their tribe first. Echos of that come every fall when Georgia vs Alabama, Texas vs Oklahoma, Ohio State vs Michigan. Even though they were killing each other days before, those who had been doing the killing saw it different.
While Chamberlain’s role at Gettysburg is oft-repeated, his contributions during the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65 were of equal import. During that campaign Chamberlain sustained what was thought to be a fatal wound to the groin on June 18, 1864. Fearing his death was imminent, Grant promoted Chamberlain to brigadier general as a symbolic act of thanks. Miraculously, Chamberlain survived and returned to command in late 1864. He was in command of the Army of the Potomac’s 1st Brigade, First Division, V Corps on March 29, 1865, when he was severely wounded again, earning him a brevet promotion to Major General and the nickname “Bloody Chamberlain.” Chamberlain was profoundly honored to command the surrender ceremony. Writing to his wife just one day later, he stated:
For my personal part I…have been in five battles…twice wounded myself—my horse shot—in the front line when the flag of truce came through from Lee—had the last shot + the last man killed, in their campaign; + yesterday was designated to receive the surrender of the arms of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
The ceremony itself deeply moved Chamberlain, who would later write:
Instructions had been given; and when the head of each division column comes opposite our group, our bugle sounds the signal and instantly our whole line from right to left, regiment by regiment in succession, gives the soldier’s salutation, from the “order arms” to the old “carry”— the marching salute. Gordon at the head of the column, riding with heavy spirit and downcast face, catches the sound of shifting arms, looks up, and, taking the meaning, wheels superbly…with profound salutation as he drops the point of his sword to the boot toe; then facing to his own command, gives word for his successive brigades to pass us with the same position of the manual, honor answering honor.
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Again, lifelong civilian here. Everything I've ever read re mil hist says tradition is a big deal. And now it's not. Let's see how that works out.
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Probably only one leftist administration away from jamming this down the memory hole.
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One question, Did he just order the removal of state flags with the confederate flag imbedded in it? IE FLA?
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I like our Alaska state flag: the Big Dipper and the pole star in gold on a field of blue. Looks good along side Old Glory, too, properly placed of course.
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Interesting he only explicitly singles out the Confederate flag.
Troops listed white supremacy as a larger threat to the country than immigration
Which troops? How many? And how many are actual combat troops vs. future Buttgags and McMuffins?
Southern white men are disproportionately represented in our ranks -- going out of your way to alienate them seems like something a "perfumed prince" would do.
But hey, I confess to not being conversant with custom in these matters.
Must have Mike Pence's approval for EVERYTHING they say about mounting crisis - despite VP having zero medical qualifications
Clampdown comes a day after Donald Trump put Pence in charge of response
Even NIH virus expert Anthony Fauci is muzzled without prior approval
News comes after White House unveiled ANOTHER coronavirus coordinator amid market selloff
Pence said she would oversee the effort
HHS Secretary Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical exec, leads a coronavirus task force Good idea. Pharmaceutical company = vaccine development, manufacture, distribution.
Concerns California patient contracted disease without coming into contact with a known traveler or infected person
Pence himself is appearing on 'Hannity' to discuss the coronovirus
All those poor NeverTrump Deep Staters are being kept from whipping up hysteria through selected leaks and pronouncements to their mainstream media pals while an experienced executive gets on with managing the various teams involved in researching tests, treatments and vaccines on one side and making sure supplies are in place for hospitals and police managing quarantines and keeping public order on the other.
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How many hospital executives have medical degrees?
Pence has a management role; after Rosenstein's sister had her little fear-fest press conference, restricting what idiots can say makes sense.
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It's not like VP Pence, along w/ Pres Trump, has the power to knock down agency silos, cut red tape and move funding to contain the virus. Yeah, zero qualification. Way to inform the public, MSM.
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We can kill viral transmission in drinking water without chemicals (like chlorine) or added energy (like UV radiation). Carbon nanotube-based filter assemblies utterly disrupt bacterial DNA and viral RNA so that the fragments are destroyed - no grow through. SOCOM bought all we could make. Chlorine and UV can sterilize surfaces and clothing. You can't make people wash their hands or instantly adopt sanitary habits. And you can never silence the fools in media.
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Yah. TLA's suck and have no sense of humor.
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First it was information warfare vs OrangeMan.
Then Mueller-Congressional lawfare.
Now it's - what, medi-fare vs OrangeMan?
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And then there's this nugget, which appears in article posted by CU6397 farther down on Page 6 "An official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention making public statements on the outbreak is the sister of Rod Rosenstein..."
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You don't have to be a doctor to see that Information releases are causing panic. They need to do their jobs in controlling this virus and stop grandstanding in front of the press.
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Quarantine Congress will solve a lot of public health and safety issues. Just sayin'.
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