[IsraelTimes] Cases come after deputy attorney general tells federal prosecutors virus is a ’biological agent’ and those who seek to disseminate it can be prosecuted under terrorism statutes.
The US Justice Department charged two people with federal terrorism offenses on Wednesday for allegedly claiming they were intentionally trying to spread 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... The charges, in cases in Texas and Florida, come about two weeks after Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen instructed federal prosecutors across the US that they could charge people who threaten to spread the coronavirus under the terrorism statutes because the Justice Department considers it a "biological agent" under the law.
"Threats or attempt to use COVID-19 as a weapon against Americans will not be tolerated," Rosen wrote in the memo to US attorneys and the heads of all Justice Department agencies, including the FBI.
More than 400,000 people have been diagnosed in the US with the virus, which has prompted stay-at-home orders from politicians across the country. Authorities have reported an uptick in hate crimes and virus-related scams.
Prosecutors allege James Jamal Curry, 31, of St. Petersburg, Florida, coughed on an officer’s arm while he was being arrested on a domestic violence charge on March 27 and told the officer, "Well I got the Corona," according to court documents. He posted a bond and was released from jail the next day before officers were called to his home again ‐ for allegedly violating a court order to stay away from the victim ‐ and placed him under arrest a second time.
Police allege Curry resisted arrest, struggled with officers and then banged his head repeatedly against a patrol car’s windows. When a sergeant opened the door to move him away from the window, Curry spit in her mouth twice, court documents said. The sergeant wiped his saliva from her face, noticing it had blood in it, as Curry threatened to kill her, the documents said.
As officers put a hood over his head to prevent him from spitting at them again, Curry shouted at the sergeant, "I have Corona (expletive), and I’m spreading it around," according to court papers.
Police obtained a warrant to test Curry for COVID-19, and the results came back negative. He was charged with perpetrating a biological weapons hoax and faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison if he’s convicted.
In the Texas case, 39-year-old Christopher Charles Perez was charged with a similar offense after he posted on Facebook that he had paid someone to spread the coronavirus at grocery stores in San Antonio because he wanted to deter people from visiting the stores.
The FBI investigated the case and determined that the threat was false, and no one had tried to spread the coronavirus at the stores. Perez was arrested on Tuesday.
Both Perez and Curry remained in federal custody on Wednesday, and it was not immediately clear if either had an attorney to comment on the allegations.
[MYNEWS4] A 53-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman was arrested Tuesday after licking items at a local Safeway.
Employees told South Lake Tahoe Police officers that Jennifer Walker was putting pieces of jewelry from the store on her hands and licking them. She then began loading her shopping cart with more store merchandise.
Employees told officers the items were unsellable because of the contamination.
Officers said Walker had $1,800 worth of items in her cart and determined she did not have the money to purchase the items.
Walker was arrested for felony vandalism and was booked in the El Dorado County jail.
[BREITBART] An Iowa woman was arrested after allegedly asking the cops to check her stash of narcotics for traces 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... Shawn Salmen, 53, has been charged with two felony drug charges and a first-time offense of marijuana possession, KCAU reported.
Court documents said that Salmen drove to the Sioux City Police Department shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday. Officers said she was sweating profusely, behaving erratically, and admitting to recently consuming methamphetamine.
Salmen also asked the officers to check her drugs for coronavirus, according to the court documents.
Officers conducted a search of her and her vehicle and found 14.4 grams of substance which tested positive for methamphetamine, a substance which Salmen claimed was marijuana, and assorted drug paraphernalia.
Police took Salmen to the Woodbury County Law Enforcement Center to take a drug test, which she failed. From there, she was booked into the Woodbury County Jail and has bonded out since.
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[NYPOST] The woman who accused her estranged NASA astronaut wife of hacking her bank account from space has been charged with making false statements to federal authorities, officials said this week.
Summer Worden, 44, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Houston in what was the latest twist in her bizarre saga with decorated NASA astronaut Anne McClain, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Texas.
Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, and her astronaut wife have been locked since 2018 in a divorce that has involved a nasty custody battle.
Last year, Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission claiming that McClain illegally accessed her bank account during a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, in possibly the first crime committed from space, prosecutors said.
She then lodged the same allegation against McClain in a July 2019 interview with NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, officials said.
Worden claimed she opened a new account in September 2018, then reset her login information in order to prevent McClain from accessing her accounts, but the new indictment alleges she opened the account in April 2018 and didn’t change the credentials until January 2019.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Research carried out by biotech startup Biobot Analytics found more traces of the pathogen than expected in the waste water, considering the number of confirmed cases in the area.
The findings suggested there could be as many as 2,300 people infected with the virus in the region. At the time the study was taken in mid to late March, there were 446 confirmed cases in the area, according to the researchers.
A team of scientists from startup Biobot Analytics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT,) Harvard University, and Brigham and Women's Hospital tested water at an urban treatment facility over the course of seven days from March 18-
They found higher quantities of the virus than predicted. Eric Alm, one of the authors of the study, told Newsweek: 'At Biobot, we have been using wastewater based epidemiology to generate data on the opioid crisis in the US...
'Even if those viral particles are no longer active or capable of infecting humans, they may still carry genetic material that can be detected using an approach called PCR (polymerase chain reaction,) which amplifies the genetic signal many orders of magnitude creating billions of copies of the genome for each starting virus.'
The state of Massachusetts has 18,941 confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease, as of Thursday.
The death toll stands at 503, the state Department of Public Health announced.
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Of course. But if only 6% of infected people are actually detected, this has consequences for the death rate.
Also, if you do a comparison by country: The methods differ and only per capita rates should be used for comparison.
Sweden still has a lower per capita rate of infections than Norway and Denmark (strict lockdown), but a much higher death rate.
OTOH Sweden has tested far less people per capita than Norway and Denmark, so the rate of infections is probably much higher.
If so, Sweden doesn't look that good any more with its relatively relaxed approach.
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highly contagious disease,
So it is said, especially when coupled with "deadly coronavirus". But if it is highly contagious, then it's not very deadly.
So far.
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...tested water at an urban treatment facility over the course of seven days from March 18-
One fucking plant? Which plant are they talking about? There are at least 1,000 certified wastewater treatment plants in Mass, and I'm trying to identify the major ones, of which there seem to be at least 20 throughout the state. If I had to bet they're sampling from Nut Island in Boston and if that's the case, they're talking about the immediate region of Boston. This would skew, in my opinion, the results of the test (either by accident or design) by leaving the rest of the state out.
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Remember Raj's Rule for Reading anything in any newspaper or online - when you read a story, the question that must always be asked is this - 'how are these cock$ucking bastards lying to me now'? A brief Google search on the underlying number of these plants throughout Mass. leads me to believe this story suffers from misrepresentation and / or omission of accompanying facts.
[futurism] Scientists recently tasked the world’s fastest supercomputer with running thousands of simulations to find drug compounds that could fight the coronavirus.
Now, CNN reports, the IBM supercomputer ‐ called "Summit" and housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee ‐ has identified 77 treatments that may be able to stop COVID-19 dead in its tracks.
The research, detailed in a paper uploaded to the preprint server ChemRxiv, could help researchers develop a drug to treat the deadly virus ‐ but so far, it’s only an important first step.
"Our results don’t mean that we have found a cure or treatment for the coronavirus," said Jeremy Smith, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Molecular Biophysics, in a statement.
"We are very hopeful, though, that our computational findings will both inform future studies and provide a framework that experimentalists will use to further investigate these compounds," he added.
The massive supercomputer was tasked with finding compounds that could bind to the "spike protein" or "S-protein" of the virus that it uses to infect host cells. By rendering the protein ineffective, the virus would be inhibited from spreading.
Using previously-created models of the coronavirus spike, the researchers simulated how particles in the viral protein would react to different drug compounds.
The team cut down the list from 77 to the top seven most promising candidates to treat the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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You may download the 314 MB report HERE and see where hydroxycloroquine ranks in their model.
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n-silico Studies of Antimalarial-agent Artemisinin and Derivatives Portray More Potent Binding to Lys353 and Lys31-Binding Hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein than Hydroxychloroquine: Potential Repurposing of Artenimol for COVID-19.
Preprint submitted on 08.04.2020, 09:33 and posted on 09.04.2020, 06:15 by Moussa SEHAILIA Smain chemat
The role of hydroxychloroquine to prevent hACE2 from interacting with SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein is unveiled. Artemisinin & derived compounds entangle better than hydroxychloroquine into Lys353 and Lys31 binding hotspots of the virus Spike protein, therefore preventing infection occurs. Since these molecules are effective antivirals with excellent safety track records, their potential repurposing is recommended for clinical trials of COVID-19 patients.
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Hydroxycloroquine is inexpensive, readily and widely available, India rather than China makes 70% of the world supply, according to Dron66046, and was the first off the blocks to show a positive impact on patients. You go to war fight the pandemic with the tools you have at hand, then upgrade as there is time and money to do so. Which is why FDA and CDC footdragging is so dangerous; they know that a raging pandemic is when early actions make a huge difference, but demanded it only of the populace, not themselves.
Also, models. The scientists now have seven things to test, and then later another seventy. How the suggestions work in the real world will show how well the scientists and programmers currently understand the disease they were trying to model.
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You can get Artemisinin at health food stores and online from Homeopathy sites, so it's not really regulated (or required to be).
This, of course, won't stand well with the FDA (or their Big Pharma/$$$ cohorts) and expect some BS language coming from them shortly.
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Artemisinin is the oldest known anti-flu and malarial preventive. Not a drug really, it's derivatives and compounds are used as supplements in the modern form of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Discovered by the Yellow Emperor, I think. It's called 'sweet wormwood' and can possibly prevent malaria if taken before entering an infected environment. Maybe some derivative can cure too, I don't know.
When they say it's safer, I think they mean it's already taken as supplements in China and is organically derived ?
[Jerusalem Post] Six critically ill coronavirus patients in Israel who are considered high-risk for mortality have been treated with Pluristem’s placenta-based cell-therapy product and survived, according to preliminary data provided by the Haifa-based company.
The patients were treated at three different Israeli medical centers for one week under the country’s compassionate use program and were suffering from acute respiratory failure and inflammatory complications associated with COVID-19. Four of the patients also demonstrated failure of other organ systems, including cardiovascular and kidney failure.
Not only have all the patients survived, according to Pluristem, but four of them showed improvement in respiratory parameters and three of them are in the advanced stages of weaning from ventilators. Moreover, two of the patients with preexisting medical conditions are showing clinical recovery in addition to the respiratory improvement.
"We are pleased with this initial outcome of the compassionate use program and committed to harnessing PLX cells for the benefit of patients and healthcare systems," said Pluristem CEO and president Yaky Yanay. "Pluristem is dedicated to using its competitive advantages in large-scale manufacturing to potentially deliver PLX cells to a large number of patients in significant need."
Pluristem’s PLX cells are "allogeneic mesenchymal-like cells that have immunomodulatory properties," meaning they induce the immune system’s natural regulatory T cells and M2 macrophages, the company explained in a previous release. The result could be the reversal of dangerous overactivation of the immune system. This would likely reduce the fatal symptoms of pneumonia and pneumonitis (general inflammation of lung tissue).
Previous preclinical findings regarding PLX cells revealed significant therapeutic effects in animal studies of pulmonary hypertension, lung fibrosis, acute kidney injury and gastrointestinal injury.
[ZERO] Republican members of the House Oversight Committee have demanded answers from the World Health Organization (WHO) over their relationship with China.
In a Thursday letter addressed to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lawmakers expressed concerns over recent intelligence and media reports that the WHO has served China's interests by helping the regime spread dangerous propaganda as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded.
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#4 yes the cartel of Legacy Infotainment Enterprises have long financial tentacles with China. Why do you think they're running flak for them? /rhet question
Spain could be seeing start of coronavirus decline
[FOXNEWS]Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez offered a hopeful tone before the national parliament on Thursday asking for its endorsement of a second two-week extension of Spain’s emergency lockdown.
"The fire starts to come under control... This war against the virus will be a total victory," he said, according to Sky News.
Health officials reported Thursday 5,756 new COVID-19 cases and 683 new deaths attributed to the virus over the previous 24-hour period. That is down compared to new 6,180 cases and 757 new deaths on Wednesday.
Jobless Claims Hit 6.6 Million
[BREITBART] New applications for unemployment hit 6.6 million in the week ended April 4, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The prior week, originally reported at 6.6 million, was revised to 6.9 million.
Claims from three weeks ago were also revised upward. These rose from around 1 million for the week ended March 21 to 3.3 million.
A staggering 16.8 million Americans have been thrown onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the coronavirus outbreak has brought world economies to a near standstill.
Garcetti Fail: Coronavirus Hits Homeless Housed in Los Angeles Rec Center
[BREITBART] In another setback for Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s effort to move homeless people into neighborhood recreation centers, a homeless individual who was sheltered at a rec center in Granada Hills has reportedly tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, igniting fears that the virus could start to spread like wildfire among the city’s homeless population.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced Wednesday that 12 homeless people have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Among those is believed to be an individual who recently stayed at the Granada Hills Recreation Center in the San Fernando Valley.
It is believed to be the first time someone had tested positive for coronavirus at one of the L.A. rec centers converted into homeless shelters under the mayor’s plan.
With so many countries building factories to manufacture such things, the world will be better prepared to handle future outbreaks without China or anyone being able to hold them hostage.
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Chinese-made medical supplies to France conditional upon adopting Huawei technology
Expect to see a lot of this sort of deal-making. Let's call it "Just How Stupid Are You?"
Tacky Tybee. I love and miss you. And I will be back soon
[CNN] Before the coronavirus pandemic, Jennifer Knox would walk into her bar and soak in the sounds of people chatting while sipping on their drinks and listening to local musicians strum along on their guitars.
Now, her restaurant, The Sand Bar -- located in Tybee Island, Georgia -- is quiet, with no customers or employees in sight.
Like many other restaurants, The Sand Bar had to close its doors after officials put stay-at-home orders in place and mandated restaurants switch to takeout and delivery only. The restrictions, put in place to help control the spread of the virus, also left businesses -- including Knox's -- struggling financially.
As she sat in her empty bar at the end of March and looked around, she realized there was an opportunity to help her now unemployed staff.
"We were sitting there doors locked and I'm like oh my gosh, 'there's money on the walls and we have time on our hands," she told CNN, referring to the bar's decor. "'We gotta get this money down.'"
For nearly 15 years, patrons have been leaving their mark on the island bar by writing on a dollar bill and stapling it on the walls and ceilings. Knox just celebrated her six-year anniversary of owning the bar.
Knox, who worked as a bartender at the bar for seven years before owning it, now runs the bar with her mother, Pam Hessler.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing," Knox said of the decision to take down the dollar bills to try and help her employees. "I'll do what I can for my people."
Over the next three and a half days, five volunteers took on the tedious task to help gently take down the weathered money. Some bills had dozens of staples in them, according to Knox. Some of the currency came from countries across the globe.
After the bills were taken down, it took about a week and a half to clean them off and get them counted. In total, $3,714 were collected and the stacks of bills stretched in piles across the entire bar counter top.
After hearing about Knox's act of giving back, several customers donated to the cause. In total, Knox was able to distribute $4,104 to her staff. Four bartenders and two musicians each were given $600, she said.
Tybee Island, one of Georgia's most popular vacation destinations, depends on beachgoers to keep the town's economy alive. The town has a population of about 3,000 people.
Knox said that March was the beginning of their busy season coming out of winter. Now, like everywhere else, their business is on hold, and Knox remains unsure of what the future holds.
In the spirit of giving, one of the bartenders decided to donate her portion to another Tybee Island bartender. Knox wants to continue to give back to the small island's service staff. She is still collecting donations to distribute.
"We all look out for each other," she said. "We are all in this together."
Knox said she is hopeful that The Sand Bar will reopen when all is over.
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^ OrangeMan is the opposite of the Duke of Windsor. That one was (per Alastair Cooke) "at his best when the going was good."
O.M. is at his worst when things are good.
He's at his best when things are worst - esp now, when nearly so many of our elites are panicking and showing what feeble-minded, grasping, self-regarding little shits they are.
How does that translate to the usual measures of oil field production?
[BREITBART] Chinese state media on Thursday announced the discovery of a massive oilfield in Tarim Basin, located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where millions of the local Muslims have been confined to concentration camps and “re-educated” to become better Communist subjects.
"The main beneficiaries of this are the smaller southeast Asian nations, led by Vietnam. And thanks to the passing of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, Mexico, for all its problems with drug cartels, has become a favorite spot for sourcing."
Keeping it in the same hemisphere. Not a bad idea...
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Ah, yes, forgot about the kerfuffle with the NBA and its "relationship" with PRC. Oh the irony as when one basketballer was one of the first to be openly diagnosed, the NBA was the first major professional league to cancel games and later suspend the season.
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s foreign ministry has restricted use the Zoom, telling employees in an internal memo that security and data protection weaknesses make the conference call service too risky for use, Rooters reports.
[Jpost] Zoom Video Communications Inc has tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser as safety and privacy concerns about its fast-growing video-conferencing app drive a global backlash against the company.
That backlash includes a move on Wednesday by Alphabet Inc's Google to ban the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops.
In a stark illustration of Zoom's security issues, officials at Berkeley High School in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, said they suspended use of the app after a "naked adult male using racial slurs" intruded on what the school said was a password-protected meeting on Zoom, according to a letter to parents seen by Rooters.
Taiwan and Germany have already put restrictions on Zoom's use, while Elon Musk's SpaceX has banned the app over security concerns. The company also faces a class-action lawsuit.
A Berkeley school district spokeswoman said it was possible a password had been shared, allowing the intrusion. But she added that the entire district was putting Zoom on pause for at least "a few days" to consider how to use and train for video-conferencing.
Coronavirus lockdowns have driven a surge in Zoom usage, even as concerns have grown over its lack of end-to-end encryption of meeting sessions, routing of traffic through China and "zoombombing," when uninvited guests crash meetings.
Zoom shares were up 3.8% in late trade on Wednesday after shedding a third in value over the previous 10 days.
[The Hill] Roughly 6.6 million Americans filed new applications for unemployment benefits in the first week of April as the coronavirus pandemic devastates the U.S. economy and forces millions out of work, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department.
The 6,606,000 initial claims for unemployment insurance filed between April 1 and 7 dropped slightly from revised, record-high 6,867,000 new applicants during the previous week, extending an unprecedented surge in layoffs.
More than 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in the final two weeks of March as businesses were forced to shutter to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. As of Thursday morning, there are more than 432,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S., claiming more than 14,000 lives, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
The shutdowns of restaurants, bars, storefronts and almost all social gathering places around the U.S. has plunged the country into a deep retraction following more than a decade of steady employment and economic growth.
[ZeroHedge] As some misguided liberals complain about fruits "left rotting on the trees" because Trump's immigration crackdown has left no undocumented migrants to pick the vegetables (a demonstrably false assumption), the Associated Press has offered an explanation for this phenomenon that also illustrates how disruptions in the businesses like the hospitality and food-service industry work their way through the supply chain, ultimately sticking farmers in the American Farm Belt with fields of vegetables that they can't sell, or even donate as local food pantries are now full-up with donations from restaurants.
The AP started its story in Palmetto, Fla. a city in Manatee County on the Gulf Coast, where a farmer had dumped piles of zucchini and other fresh vegetables to rot.
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Not sure if capitalism works anymore but 16 million Americans filed for unemployment over the last few weeks and farmers cannot find someone to pick their fruit and vegetables? Go figure.
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Picking fruits & vegetables is one thing, selling them is another. Or, how about letting the unemployed come and pick what they can take home--for free.
I am not so sure capitalism works anymore, either, especially when poorly run companies get bailed out by government or the Fed.
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This is April. Now while some crops get multiple year harvests, a lot are once a year, usually in the fall. So what food stock is multi-harvest that is vital? Zucchini?
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The article does seem to focus more on Florida. I'm not a farmer, but I assume they can grow stuff most of the year down yonder.
Remember the free gov't cheese in the 1980's? Dairy farmers are already feeling the pain as milk consumption was going down already as people lean more to non-dairy items such as almond or oat "milk". In fact, I think one big producer filed for bankruptcy. Dean?
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You all understand this harvest was planned last year?
And in a second's notice, nearly all their customers and a good portion of their logistics was declared illegal? Blame capitalism my fucking ass. Capitalism is why there is a surplus.
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In Germany students are flocking to the countryside to pick asparagus. For those who stay longer than a day, my respect.
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Good to hear, EC, and I echo your sentiments. I seem to remember many years ago there was a "push" to have Germans work the Spargel fields instead of foreigners, predominantly Poles. IIRC, virtually all of the Germans couldn't/wouldn't deal with the hard work and washed out.
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IIRC, virtually all of the Germans couldn't/wouldn't deal with the hard work and washed out.--Clem
Sounds like the US city kids I had the experience of training as the "entry level position" supervisor. Unlike "farm kids" or military veterans they had no experience of working hard, or tedious labor, in their lives.
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If they can pick asparagus, they can pick anything. They're halfway to being ready to bring in tobacco.
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The solution to the choice cuts going to waste because people are using more ground beef is to grind the choice cuts.
The complaint is that they can't currently sell at a premium price, which sucks, but it's not that there's no market.
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I can just say that here the local markets are extremely well stocked with fruits and vegetables including first grade asparagus (grown 50 km north of Munich.
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Same here, except - for some reason - no eggs.
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No problem with eggs in rural San Diego County. It's not like the chickens can store them
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There's an old Bavarian joke about a woman at the market who wants to buy eggs.
"What? 30 cents for an egg? Are you crazy?"
"Do you know how cold it is. Hens don't like to lay eggs when it's cold!"
"Oh I understand. They don't like to lay eggs when eggs cost 20 cents. But at 30 cents an egg, they just keep them coming!"
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But at 30 cents an egg, they just keep them coming!"
Heh. That's what happens when you got shell in the game, baby!
[NewYorkUpstate] The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says New York could have reduced the number of deaths from coronavirus by up to 80% if it acted sooner.
Tom Frieden, who also previously served as commissioner of the New York City Health Department, tells The New York Times that the Empire State should have closed schools and non-essential businesses two weeks earlier than it did and begun social distancing at the beginning of March.
2 days later & NYC deaths would have doubled. Days earlier & so many deaths could have been prevented. A warning to all: #COVID19 moves fast, we must move faster to increase physical distancing. https://t.co/GxsLrzPMXrpic.twitter.com/Pojy9V0a2J
[IndiaToday] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for rushing a five-tonne cargo of medicines, including anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, seen as a possible cure for Covid-19.
"Thank you, my dear friend @narendramodi, Prime Minister of India, for sending Chloroquine to Israel. All the citizens of Israel thank you!", Netanyahu said in a tweet Thursday evening.
The Israeli's PM's thanked India two days after a plane carrying materials used to make medicines for treating coronavirus patients arrived in Israel from India on Tuesday.
These are APIs (Active Pharma Ingredients) for Israel to process compound doses from, and are way cheaper to import and then process than finished, packaged doses. The Indian companies spend more on storage, packaging and processing and the cost gets added to finished drugs.
Thank you, my dear friend @narendramodi, Prime Minister of India, for sending Chloroquine to Israel.
All the citizens of Israel thank you! pic.twitter.com/HdASKYzcK4
- PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) April 9, 2020
The five-tonne shipment included ingredients for drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, being seen worldwide as the best possible cure as of now for treating Covid-19 patients.
The dreaded coronavirus has infected nearly 10,000 people in Israel and claimed 86 lives. As many as 121 others are on ventilators in serious condition.
The Indian consignment reached Israel within days after Netanyahu spoke to Modi on April 3, requesting supply of hydroxychloroquine, with India being the world's largest producer and exporter of the drug.
India, however, had to restrict its export to meet domestic contingencies.
Netanyahu had been in touch with Modi ever since the coronavirus crisis erupted. He had made a special request on March 13 asking the Indian prime minister to approve and allow export of masks and pharmaceuticals to Israel.
"I also spoke to the prime minister of India, my friend Narendra Modi. We are dependent on supply lines from various countries. We are looking into it all the time," Netanyahu had then said addressing a press conference.
Delivery of larger volumes of APIs to the US too is now possible, thanks to the lifting of all curbs on Indian drug API exporters by the US FDA.
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As we move away from China (I hope), we should utilize the other 1 billion plus population nation in south Asia. India has a hard-working and motivated work force, a tradition of British law dating from the Raj, and a democratic (if inefficient) government. But all in all a good bet.
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^What about moving the industry back into USA - assembly workers not MBAs?
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Corruption and an overabundance of laws, taxes and red-tape in India make it very difficult for a corporation with structure and working style fashioned in liberal economies to do business.
The fastidiously anal-retentive academia that is elevated to positions of economic advisory here ensure that common sense and reason are eclipsed by their own Socialist creeds disguised as 'corporate responsibilities' and more don'ts than dos. While this may be a good thing because corporates from liberal economies are perceived as greedy entities which if left to their whims would leech the planet and humanity dry and feed us to ourselves; it also makes India a rather less favoured business destination. Unless you're prepared to reap more goodwill than profit for the first few decades.
Also, it has been seen that western and other international companies tend to often ingratiate themselves with the politicals, seeking then to engineer outcomes and policies. This may be another reason they are allowed very little traction.
It's a trade-off really. India never gets the kind of business it could, but then it can always tell a Zuckerberg to pack up his FreeBasics thingy and get lost.
I too believe every nation, especially one as large as America could well to raise an indigenous labour force, and there should be lesser and lesser import of labour as that also means import of culture. We all know that the cultures of societies cheap labour comes from are not always easily integrated in liberal countries.
[BREITBART] Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change. So much for infallibility
Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature by not responding adequately to the climate crisis.
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The incorrect numbers plugged into the modeling used for Coronavirus reminds me of the incorrect numbers plugged into the modeling for Climate change.
Same folks pushing the same agenda
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[IFLScience] Heads up! Scientists have discovered the prehistoric footprints of a colossal dinosaur on the roof of a cave in France. Nope, this doesn't mean that giant dinosaurs were dancing on the ceilings of caves like a sticky-footed Spiderman, although it goes to show the wealth of prehistoric discoveries that could be found lurking in the geology all around us.
Recently reported in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers from the University of Burgundy‐Franche-Comté discovered the three dinosaur trackways during an expedition in 2015 around the labyrinth-like Castelbouc Cave beneath the Causse Méjean plateau in southern France.
The tracks, made some 166 million to 168 million years ago, are extremely well-preserved, complete with impressions of digits, pads, and even claws. At a stonking 1.25 meters (4 feet) long, the prints belonged to some of the largest known dinosaurs worldwide.
It’s not certain what species of sauropod was responsible for the tracks, not least because they date to an age in the Middle Jurassic when sauropod evolution is hazy. However, their size suggests they might have belonged to a titanosaur, a diverse group of long-necked sauropods that includes the largest land animals known to have ever existed, such as the 37-meter-long (121-foot) Patagotitan that roamed southern Argentina.
So, how did these gentle giants' footprints end up on the cave roof? This is a family blog, so I can't post my hypothesis....
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You STILL have paper checks?
Haven't seen one for ages in Germany.
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You STILL have paper checks?
Those poor people who do not have bank accounts are still entitled to their government benefits. They take their checks to a check cashing business, paying a small fee for the service.
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.
...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...
New applications for unemployment hit 6.6 million in the week ended April 4, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The prior week, originally reported at 6.6 million, was revised to 6.9 million.
[BREITBART] Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change.
