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wo additional witnesses who were interviewed both told officers that Broad had admitted he was responsible for killing and dismembering Avery, KVLY reports.
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Flatlands farming region. Would be interested in hearing the backstory. The idea that he would talk to his friends or neighbors about the murder makes me wonder. Pure evil or guilt.
John W. McDaniel, 60, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Columbus, Ohio
On Facebook, McDaniel called the virus a 'political ploy' and told followers: 'Prove me wrong'
He tested positive for the virus weeks later and died on April 15
McDaniel worked for 38 years for his family's industrial manufacturing company
His obituary says he battled cancer in the 1980s before he married his wife
It is unclear if he had underlying health conditions which might have led to his death
Thousands protested in Ohio on Monday against the state's ongoing lockdown
Ohio has recorded 12,516 cases and has 491 deaths since the pandemic began
The state has a population of 11,689,100 and many feel the order is unnecessary
Thomas William Lester, an American actor and evangelist best known as Eb Dawson on the television series "Green Acres," has died. He was 81. Lester died of complications from Parkinson's Disease on April 20, 2020 in the Nashville, Tennessee home of his fiancée and long-term caregiver Jackie Peters.
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Although no official cause of death has been determined, Billy and Christy, however, reportedly told the outlet that Mattingly "took her own life" on Wednesday
So, yes: Covid
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The family claims that the state's shelter-in-place order amid the coronavirus pandemic did not help Mattingly, who recently adopted a 9-month-old puppy "to help with her loneliness."
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On Monday, a spokesperson for the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office said that any toxicology or autopsy into Mattingly's official cause of death could take anywhere from 30 to 90 days.
I'm already caring too much, but, be that as it may. But you mean to tell me that it takes 30-90 days to determine the "official cause of death"? Or, is that how long it takes for everybody to get their story straight?
[NYP] The smell may be hell but the mist could leave you pissed.
Two Australian doctors are weighing in about the spread of the coronavirus "down under" — whether it can be spread through farts, that is.
During Friday’s episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s "Coronacast," podcast, producer and host Dr. Norman Swan made a cautionary suggestion when it comes to particles of feces set adrift within a fart and the spread of COVID-19.
"No bare-bottom farting," Swan advised about posterior pandemic panic, in a measured, mildly amused tone.
"Luckily, we wear a mask, which covers our farts all the time," Swan said, referring to the protective aspects of pants, shorts, dresses, underwear and other garments. "I think that what we should do in terms of social distancing and being safe is that ... you don’t fart close to other people, and that you don’t fart with your bottom bare."
Meanwhile, Australian emergency physician Dr. Andy Tagg also floated the question via Twitter, asking, "So, can the bottom-based emissions of someone with coronavirus be silent and deadly?"
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Saw an article y'day that said air spread was via droplets, not aerosol. So assuming the farter is wearing pants and the fartee doesn't have his/her nose near the farters butt, it should be safe.
BTW__ continuing y'days thread... stories like this are why I still hit Drudge once a day.... no other reason
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I bet this clown saw the study about the virus in the sewerage in Boston, and applied his magical, mystical thought powers to determine it could be transmitted through aerosolized ... fecal matter.
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[Independent] Rita Wilson, the actress married to Tom Hanks who was diagnosed with Covid-19 along with her husband in March, has described "extreme" side effects she suffered due to a controversial drug in a new interview. Oh no, Rita! We feel terrible for you! How bad was it? Was the cure worse than the disease?
The drug, touted by some — including Donald Trump in multiple White House press briefings — as a potential coronavirus treatment, is called hydrochloroquine, and is typically used in malaria cases. It has not yet been proven to treat Covid-19, though several anecdotal reports claim patients have recovered from the novel virus after using the antimalarial treatment. Surely, Rita, given your extreme experience, and the fact that others might have extreme side effects maybe 10% of the time they are put on this regimen for a few days, we should probably have waited until all the lengthy studies of these safe drugs have been completed and Rumplestiltskin the FDA has approved these things after they have fully awakened from one of their hibernations.
The actress said she could not be sure whether the drug helped her or not — though it caused "extreme side effects" that continued even as her body temperature was declining. And if you had it all to do over again, I'm sure you would never take that evil drug ever again!
"I know people have been talking about this drug ... but I can only tell you that I don’t know if the drug worked or if it was just time for the fever to break", Ms Wilson told CBS’ Gayle King in an interview that aired on Tuesday morning. You mean the fever that can lead to death? That fever?
"My fever did break, but the chloroquine had such extreme side effects," She said. "I was completely nauseous, and I had vertigo. I could not walk, and my muscles felt very weak." Err, you mean how I usually feel before I have to get up and go to work? That kind of extreme? Poor baby.
"I think people have to be very considerate about that drug," she added. "We don’t really know if it’s helpful in this case." You mean the case where you didn't know if you were going to die or not? Well, next time why don't you wait until you know the answer, then take it if you need to.
Mr Hanks did not experience as severe of symptoms, according to Ms Wilson. He was the guest of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and filmed the show’s opening monologue from the couple’s home in California. They returned to Los Angeles after recovering from the coronavirus at a hospital in Australia, where they were visiting for work. Did Mr. Hanks symptoms involve a lot of eye-rolling every time he heard his wife talk?
Ms Wilson told CBS she felt "very tired, extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched" after contracting the disease in March. Surely the drug's fault, therefore Trump's. And diligently respun and reported by some reporter with TDS.
Now that the couple has recovered from the virus, they have remained in self-isolation and donated their blood for an antibodies study as health officials race to develop a vaccine. A real cure! A cure that will take lots of time and cost billions upon billions of dollars! A cure that people will have to come back for every year after the vaccine wears off! (That cure?)
Ms Wilson added that she and Mr Hanks feel "completely normal" and no longer have any remaining symptoms, according to Ms King. Apparently HCQ cures TDS in some, but not in others. If only some scientists could figure out what the correlations are.
There are nearly 550,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the US, and at least 21,662 people have died nationwide due to the novel virus. Health officials have warned those figures are likely higher due to significant issues the country faced in distributing testing kits. And nothing to do with the fact that we had to develop accurate tests and mass produce them while fighting a bunch of liberals who were doing their best to trash talk potential treatments and leverage events into pushing the US towards their version of Utopia.
Ms Wilson and Mr Hanks were believed to have contracted the virus in the US or while travelling to Australia and not somewhere where they weren't, where they were quarantined for two weeks at the hospital where 10% of the cases are terminal
before recovering and returning home. And fortunately for Rita, Darwin doesn't seem to care if you are grateful or not.
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^very impressive knowledge. My father had malaria while in the South Pacific. His teeth were also ground down half way to the gums as a result of experiencing 3 and 1/2 years of battle field stress in the South Pacific. .
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tl;dr: She didn't die. The drug *might* have worked. OrangeManBad.
(although they wouldn't give it to her in the first place unless she was pretty sick)
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Often given in tandem with a antibiotic, ariz-something-something that does have pretty bad side effects, like heart damage. Some are recommending using doxy-something-something instead.
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"I was completely nauseous, and I had vertigo. I could not walk, and my muscles felt very weak."...she felt "very tired, extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched"
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I was completely nauseous, and I had vertigo. I could not walk, and my muscles felt very weak."...she felt "very tired, extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched
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And now the 2 are the darlings of the vote by mail movement - funny that
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Were the side effects caused by COVID-19 or the drug? Many people have taken this drug for other diseases for many years with therapeutic effect. Ingrate wants a do-over?.
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Side effects are WHY HYDROchloroquine is prescribed. By the way, did they have the Hydro- version available and gave the one with more sideeffects because they both are pains in the a$$?
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Used to have to take chloroquine and dapsone (memory check sp). Chloro was witnessed, officers had to log it per trooper. Side effects from chloro were obvious for the next day or two. Dapsone seemed okay. BUT, no malaria! UNTIL I was sent to Japan (surgery) and they didn’t have those meds. Then I got first falciparum in the hospital, then vivax. Fun times.
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[Breitbart] A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper by MIT Professor Jeffrey E. Harris concludes that the New York City subway system "seeded the massive coronavirus epidemic" in the city.
Even more significantly, the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) decision to reduce subway service exacerbated the problem because the more crowded subway cars "most likely accelerated the spread of coronavirus."
Metropolitan New York City remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. More than half of the more than 40,000 coronvirus deaths in the United States as of April 19 have taken place in two states: New York and New Jersey. The bulk of the deaths in those states have been in the Metropolitan New York City area, which is not only the most densely populated region of the country, it also has by far the heaviest daily usage of mass transit, particularly subways.
"New York City’s multitentacled subway system was a major disseminator — if not the principal transmission vehicle — of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020," Harris, who has a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.D. and is both a practicing physician and a professor of economics at MIT, wrote in the abstract of the NBER working paper published on April 13:
The near shutoff of subway ridership in Manhattan — down by over 90 percent at the end of March; correlates strongly with the substantial increase in the doubling time of new cases in this borough We should have touched on this early on, heavy air vortices on the subway platforms.
New York City is sick, and journalists, pundits, and politicians have made a diagnosis: The city’s exceptional density is the problem. That is certainly the self-serving conclusion of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It’s a convenient bit of fatalism for a man presiding over a catastrophe. . . .
Like any misdiagnosis, this one will make it harder to find the cure.
A cursory look at a map shows that New York City’s coronavirus cases aren’t correlated with neighborhood density at all. Staten Island, the city’s least crowded borough, has the highest positive test rate of the five boroughs. Manhattan, the city’s densest borough, has its lowest.
Nor are deaths correlated with public transit use. The epidemic began in the city’s northern suburbs. The city’s per capita fatalities are identical to those in neighboring Nassau County, home of Levittown, a typical suburban county with a household income twice that of New York City.
True, New York City apartments are crowded. The share of housing units with more than one occupant per room is almost 10 percent. But that number is 13 percent in the city of Los Angeles. As a metro area, New York isn’t even in the top 15 U.S. cities for overcrowding. It’s not even the American city with the most apartments per capita (Miami) or immigrants (also Miami), to take two other characteristics that critics say might be associated with coronavirus infections.
New York City has a lot of restaurants per capita, places where people gather with strangers every night. But not as many as San Francisco, which, though it ranks second in the U.S. for both residential density and transit use, had just 20 COVID-19 deaths as of Friday.
If you expand your comparison internationally, New York City looks less exceptional still. It is not as dense or transit-dependent as, say, Paris (which has less than half of New York’s fatality rate) or Seoul, South Korea, where the pandemic has been all but controlled.
So what is it about New York City that made it a hot spot? Right now, it looks like the most exceptional thing about New York is its leaders’ belief that the city is unique. This presumption served first as a reassurance that New York would not follow Lombardy’s example, and later as the reason why it had. . . . Tragically, what seems to have put New York on such a different trajectory from San Francisco was that its leaders were so late to shut down public life.
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P2k, what you have posted may be true but please don't tell Newsom. He wants all of California to look like NYC. Gotta have affordable house for all those illegal immigrants and the way to do it is to turn this whole state into one vast slum.
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Anything to do with foreign travelers coming to the U.S. through NYC? NYC, because of the U.N., has many foreign travelers coming to NYC as a destination. One would think, by this reasoning, that D.C. would also be a hotspot.
[NYP] Kentucky experienced its highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases after protests broke out in the state to lift lockdowns, according to reports.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced there were 273 new cases Sunday, bringing the total to 2,960, news station WCPO reported.
"We are still in the midst of this fight against a deadly and highly contagious virus," Beshear said. "Let’s make sure, as much as we’re looking at those benchmarks and we’re looking at the future, that we are acting in the present and we are doing the things that it takes to protect one another."
The Bluegrass State is among the regions that have seen demonstrators take to the streets last week to call for the end of lockdown restrictions.
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who relied on a British model predicting 2.2 million deaths
Our MN Governor appear to have used it too. Waltzy boy refuses to release data he used to justify our shutdown. In fact he goes angry full prissy mode when pressed to do so. Putz.
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Not this shit again! I dealt with it here a few days ago. In a nutshell: lockdown prevents medical systems being overwhelmed (megadeath) - it doesn't lower total infection numbers and nobody claimed it does.
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/\ We will all get sick ...eventually... we just don't want it to happen suddenly. Now as to "predictions" and "models" that are correct until they fail spectacularly -- that is a different issue.
[Federalist] Six states announced an official end date to the stay-at-home orders implemented by their respective governors. Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas announced they will be reopening their local businesses in the coming weeks.
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The local (Charlotte, NC) news media went frantic over this last night. They ranted and raved about fatalities and # of cases climbing (well, # of cases can never go down, now, can they?) and produced some poor woman who was terrified that it was too early, citing almost verbatim the rants the anchors had just finished with.
Tonight I expect the lead story to be that someone here in SC has died and it is all the governor's fault because he reopened too early.
Of course, the lead story two nights ago was a woman who died...who was 98...who was in a nursing home...who was on hospice care. But she died!!!!!
I am getting a bit tired of all the panic and hysteria mongering.
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chicken llittle only got so much traction till it wore out
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Competitive pressures will force the blue states to follow, even though by all appearances they seem perfectly content to remain closed indefinitely.
[Bloomberg] Hundreds of National Guard personnel are being activated in Iowa as coronavirus sweeps through meat-processing plants in a state that accounts for about a third of U.S. pork supply.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said 250 National Guard members have been moved to full-time federal duty status and could help with testing and contact tracing for workers at plants operated by Tyson Foods Inc. and National Beef Packing Co.
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...immigrant workers and certain cultures, but perhaps also the Chinese owner who provides only sanitation theater (although Amazon is also guilty of the same behaviour, so it is not necessarily a cultural trait). Hot Air links to a BBC article that provides some useful information between paragraphs weeping over the poor workers who dare not register for government aid left they lose all possibility of getting a visa.
[MAIL] Georgia Governor Brian Kemp unveiled plans Monday to allow some businesses shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic to reopen their doors by the end of the week, as the state sets its sights on easing lockdown restrictions and re-opening the local economy.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced on Monday that businesses across the majority of the state will begin reopening as early as next week.
And South Carolina’s governor is rolling out details of a program that his office says will allow the state’s economy to 'recover more quickly than any other state’s in the country' from the new coronavirus outbreak.
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Mine does too Abu, but I still have enough to look shaggy. Don't know if I want to spend 15 hours driving to Georgia for a high & tight, though.
Although there's awfully good eating there and back...oh wait.
Never mind.
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Mr. Wife did what he could for mine — it is now an inch shorter in all directions, Thank goodness I live in Ohio, which should open shortly — I anticipate my hairdresser earning a double tip this time.
[Reuters] Facebook Inc said on Monday that it has removed events in Nebraska, New Jersey and California promoting protests against stay-at-home measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus.
But the social media company, which has been under pressure to police harmful content and misinformation related to the pandemic, said it would only take down anti-quarantine protest events if they defied government guidelines.
Stay-at-home orders, which experts say are essential to slow the spread of the virus but which have battered the U.S. economy, have been enacted at the state level.
Facebook said it would align with those directives, and also remove events that defy social distancing guidelines. Facebook is seeking guidance to clarify the scope of state orders in New York, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
"Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook," said Facebook spokesman Andy Stone. "For this same reason, events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on Facebook."
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/\ One day we will remember the days before "Net Neutrality" and "International Internet 'Governance' " when the Internet was ... free of petty little dictators.
Los Angeles County has 200,000+ with Wu antibodies LOS ANGELES ‐ Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles County residents may have been infected with the coronavirus by early April, far outpacing the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report released Monday.
The initial results from the first large-scale study tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the county found that 2.8% to 5.6% of adults have antibodies to the virus in their blood, an indication of past exposure.
That translates to roughly 221,000 to 442,000 adults who have recovered from an infection, according to the researchers conducting the study, even though the county had reported fewer than 8,000 cases at that time. This is at least the 4th USA study to produce the same 'many, many people had it' result which would show that the Wu is far more communicable but far less lethal than estimated previously.
Fauci: No Recovery Possible If Virus Isn't "Under Control" [So, wait a minute. I thought Fauci said he wasn't an economist and it was his role only to provide medical advice. Geeeeesh.]
[ZeroHedge] President Trump's top doctor on the White House coronavirus task force has pushed back against protesters demonstrating against stay-at-home orders, warning that the US economy won't recover until COVID-19 is "under control."
"This is something that is hurting from the standpoint of economics," Fauci acknowledged during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," in comments which sharply contrast with those by President Trump, who has encouraged the protests, Bloomberg reports.
"Unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going to happen," Fauci added. "So what you do if you jump the gun and go into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re going to set yourself back."
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Faster, please. Much faster.
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Fauci is right to an extent because without the Wu being perceived as controlled a lot of people will simply opt out of the economy : they won't travel, they won't go to restaurants, they won't shop
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Individual results may vary, but you should be alright from this distance if you are wearing your gov't issued protective goggles.
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Fauci speaking about the economy? I wonder what his NFL Draft picks are? Same importance. STFU, half-pint
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Unless we get our clueless medical 'experts' under control, we will lose our democracy.
Clue for you, Little Big Man: the only way a functioning democracy survives 32% unemployment and mass impoverishment is by going to war. It's either civil war, or a war like the one that brought this nation out of the Great Depression.
There is no glide path that sees us recovering peacefully from the complete collapse of the economy. If the economy collapses, the political system collapses -- and it won't be peaceful. Got that?
[ArmstrongEconomics] SKY News Australia has reported the smoking gun. The UN-funded financial arm of the Paris Agreement has labeled the coronavirus an "opportunity" to raise funds for climate change action and "relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories".
The extraordinary statements have been published in a document by the Green Climate Fund — an international organization with a US$10.3 billion budget. Bill Gates has been a major driver behind the Climate Change contingency.
The Green Climate Fund of the United Nations has written:
While COVID-19 is causing untold suffering, the international response to this unprecedented health crisis in modern times offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action. GCF will continue to make critical investments in climate-resilient water resource management, health care facilities, agriculture and livelihoods – all of which are essential to subduing and overcoming the pandemic. Similarly, we will step up our efforts to catalyse green investment to relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories.
I have warned that this entire destruction of the economy made no sense. Nobody in their right mind would do such a thing – except the Climate Change people who have been obsessed with CO2. We now know Bill Gates' true objective – Climate Change to crush the economy and relaunch without CO2.
Oil prices have collapsed as the lockdown continues and they have sought to wipe out the auto industry. They have even shut down CO2 production needed for beer and soda. There will be shortages of those products now. What will the lower classes whose favorite drink is beer do when they realize that CO2 is needed for that production?
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I love my beer and bubbly water, but that's the least of my worries. I worry more about the state flying drones, elected officials telling people to snitch, and seeing dads cuffed in front of his little girl.
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The Johnny McSchsssssstain attack sssssssschimulator...
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Known for its ease of use and rugged construction, the Su-25 will likely outlive its western counterpart in terms of service life, but likely only due to necessity.
The Air Force brass is the main predator to the A-10.
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Looks as though they are trying to win the Oil War the same way they always win...enormous casualties! Russian casualties of course, but enormous nonetheless.
More CCP tyranny.
With Hong Kong's streets in recent months cleared of mass protests due to the coronavirus, legislators and activists in the city's pro-democracy camp say the Communist Party and the Hong Kong authorities have used the opportunity to cripple their movement through a multipronged approach while world attention has been diverted elsewhere by the pandemic.
Aside from the mass arrests and increasingly pointed declarations about China's "supervisory" role over the city, Chinese officials in Hong Kong, including the newly installed director of the central government's liaison office, Luo Huining, have called for improved "national security education" in Hong Kong and the passage of a national security law that would toughen up law enforcement and prosecutorial powers to help prevent protests.
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The Chicoms probably see the post Wuhan virus backlash as inevitable. No more need to appease the world by tolerating a 2nd system in the Middle Kingdom.
Rumors abound. Even Katy "Whut?" Tur at MSNBC is on it Gastric bypass?
[NY Post] Earlier Monday, a South Korean media report said that the 36-year-old despot was being treated following a cardiovascular procedure earlier this month.
The reclusive leader missed the celebration of his grandfather’s birthday, the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, on April 15, sparking speculations about his health.
Kim underwent the surgery April 12 at a hospital in the Mount Kumgang resort county of Hyangsan and was recovering at a villa there, reported Daily NK, a website run mostly by North Korean defectors, citing unidentified sources inside the hermit kingdom.
The diminutive dictator’s health has deteriorated in recent months due to heavy smoking, obesity and overwork, the report said.
Reuters: S.KOREA GOV'T SOURCE TELLS REUTERS REPORTS OF N.KOREA'S KIM'S GRAVE ILLNESS WAS UNTRUE
Update (2252ET): Futures rebounded sharply after South Korea's Yonhap refuted reports that Kim Jong Un is seriously ill.
Update (2240ET): Bloomberg is now reporting that Kim is in a 'critical state,' according to a US official speaking on condition of anonymity.
US officials are now studying the North Korean line of succession.
Trump administration officials are looking into who would be in the line of succession if Kim Jong Un dies or is already dead, I'm told.
‐ Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 21, 2020
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SEOUL (Rooters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not seriously ill, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said citing a government official on Tuesday, contradicting a CNN report he was in “grave danger” after a surgery.
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Paul Roderick Gregory, Hoover Inst. "We have the experience of some thirty regime changes in the aftermath of the fall of communism and the collapse of Yugoslavia. Few have occurred without the direct or tacit support of the ruling elite.
... The Hermit Kingdom’s elite likely thinks in a similar way. A capitalist North Korea would be materially more rewarding than their measly handouts from Macao banks and their rickety ZiL limos. The inner circle might be willing nascent liberals and capitalists, but they are held back by the Great Leader’s penchant to kill off members of his inner circle on the slightest suspicion of disloyalty. If they were somehow relieved of this fear, I am confident in which way they will turn."
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He's just got a whole quiver full of arrows, doesn't he?
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It's amazing how much of our response to the virus and our effort to get the economy going again comes down to just getting government out of the way.
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Twenty years ago I had a former software boss tell me this - 'In some situations, a lot of people see big problems; others see opportunity'. 1) I wish I had taken this to heart like 40 years ago, and 2) it's clear Trump is doing exactly that.
4/20/2020
NY Mercantile - Crude Oil May 20 Delivery: -23.14 USD at close.
A drop of -41.41 from yesterday
Low for the day was -40.32 USD per barrel.
Sure would be great if someone (or entity) had a billion barrels of salt dome oil storage in Texas and Louisiana. They could make a killing and get free oil to boot.
[AutoBlog] Buyers aren't willing to take delivery of oil; there is no place to put it
Traders fled from the expiring May U.S. oil futures contract in a frenzy on Monday, sending the contract into negative territory for the first time in history, as barely any buyers are willing to take delivery of oil barrels because there is no place to put the crude.
May U.S. crude futures plunged to a depth never before seen, settling on the day at minus $37.63 a barrel, a decline of some 305%, or $55.90 a barrel. Prices set a low of negative $40.32.
With demand down 30% worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the main U.S. storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, expected to fill up in a matter of weeks, very few want to be stuck with oil barrels that they have to take delivery on at some point during May.
"The people who are long are desperate to get out," said Phil Verleger, a veteran oil economist and independent consultant. "If you don’t have storage, you have to get out."
Major oil-producing nations have agreed to cut output, and global oil companies are trimming production, but those cuts will not come quickly enough to avoid a massive clog.
The difference between the expiring May U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude contract and the coming June contract widened to a record at more than $60 a barrel and settled at $51.90. That yawning gap emerged because owning the May contract when it expires on Tuesday means that buyer is obligated to take those barrels, which few want to do.
"For many investors or people using these contracts for hedging this is really a big pain," said Edward Moya, market analyst at OANDA in New York. "There's no place to put it — we're running out of space to store oil."
The June contract ended down 16% to $20.43 a barrel.
When a futures contract expires, traders must decide whether to take delivery or roll their positions into an upcoming contract. Usually this process is relatively uncomplicated, but the May contract's decline reflects worries that too much supply could hit the markets, with shipments out of OPEC nations like Saudi Arabia booked in March set to cause a glut.
[OpIndia] Amidst the world battling the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, pollster Morning Consult released approval ratings for every leader from most major democracies. In those approval ratings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bagged the highest approval ratings, ahead of any other world leader.
Intelligent and responsible approach to the pandemic, allowing of a flow of chems to other Democracies, the administration of the lockdown itself are some reasons others may be appreciating this government. Domestically, the PM has cult status now. For example, no private employer/company is allowed in India to cut the salaries of their workers during the lockdown. Everyone is on paid leave. No one has to pay monthly installments, deposit revenues or pending insurance premiums during the lockdown and the banks can't cut services. The police will buy the poor their grocery and deliver it themselves. A lot of small adjustments by citizens themselves have added to the efforts of the government. But the firm hand that made it possible was Modi's. Meanwhile, Goa, the no.1 tourist destination became the first totally COVID19 free state, with all patients fully recovered.
India has managed to relatively control the Coronavirus pandemic effectively. For its mammoth size and extremely dense population of 1.3 billion people, India has managed to arrest the spread to a large extent, better than many developed countries, due to early imposition of strict lockdown and containment measures. Even after the soar in cases due to the Tablighi Jamaat cases, the lockdown coupled with aggressively finding absconding Tablighi Jamaat members, the country managed to save itself from utter chaos and disaster, had the virus spread to a population this dense. Amidst the world battling the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, pollster Morning Consult released approval ratings for every leader from most major democracies. In those approval ratings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bagged the highest approval rating, ahead of any other world leader.
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has the highest popularity among them: As of April 14, his net approval rating is 68, up from 62 at the beginning of the year. Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has the second-highest net approval over that period (36), though it fell slightly from 39 in January. During that same stretch of time, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has seen the largest surge in domestic popularity, with his net approval now up to 26 (from negative 26 on January 1). Morning Consult's data shows that among all ten countries surveyed, Japan's Abe has the lowest rating (at negative 33) and the worst decline in net approval, having fallen from negative 18 at the start of 2020.
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The WHO is an agency of the UN. It is immune from lawsuits under international treaty (the convention on privileges and immunities of the UN). The US senate has ratified this treaty.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations to be Self-Executing and upheld the Immunity of United Nations and of Former UN Officials in March 2010.
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[Breitbart] An Iranian man who describes himself as an Islamic prophetic medicine healer has prescribed drinking camel urine as a treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, Radio Farda reported Monday.
In a video that has reportedly gone viral across social media, the Chairman of the Prophetic Medicine Society Medhi Sabili urged people to consume the urine when it is both "fresh and warm." It was quickly ridiculed by Iranians, many of whom warned about the dangers of such treatment.
The consumption of camel urine, as well as camel meat and camel meat, is not uncommon across the Middle East. In some countries, including Saudi Arabia, many believe that it can cure a range of ailments. Works best if you use urine from the pretty ones.
First let us look at the Sayings (Hadiths) of our beloved Prophet that dealt with camel urine:
Narrated Abu Qilaba: "Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle . (Sahih Bukhari, Ablutions (Wudu'), Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234)"
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Fun Islamic Facts 4: Drinking Camel Urine
Muhammad's advice for stomach pain: "Drink camel urine."
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"But hey! Look at these cool brochures on Gun Control and Obesity"
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Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times, federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination of the tests and their uninterpretable results.
Fire the fuc&ers involved and see if the get a cushy job working for the DNC.
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The Army used to have a sort of preventative program for this sort of thing. Parachute riggers would jump using the same parachutes their packing facility had packed. Sort of keeps everyone on their toes.
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Ironic, isn't it. Through their fear-mongering and TDS lust, they may have managed to deal themselves a mortal blow.
My heart pumps peanut butter.
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Who needs them in the internet age when they are just regurgitating the raw AP/UPI feed with cosmetic alterations? They don't have competent people, it seems, covering local news and their are apps on the common smartphones handling business. Just die, already...
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every time I see the news of this useless industry's impending death, I quickly remember the taxpayer bailouts of airlines, car manufacturers, et. al.
Now that the precedent is set, no industry will ever die a natural (and in this case, a just-deserved) death. They will shortly be demanding their bailout and the taxpayer will once again take it in the shorts.
It will be even more insulting knowing that we have to pay the people that hate us.
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I would think such a bailout would run afoul of Constitutional issues - specifically the 1st Amendment.
No, not that part. The part that says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion since the Press is one of the leading parts of the Religion called Progressivism.
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With all of the bail-outs, there is pretty much no incentive for a company to be fiscally responsible and worry about the bottom line. Individuals with max'ed-out credit cards are not much better, the only difference is they don't have a "rep" on K Street.
[Hot Air] I’m not sure how much this will matter now that we’re basically out of places to store all of the oil that we’re pumping, but it’s still worth looking this proposal over.
Last week we discussed the possible opportunity available to us if the EPA would agree to at least suspend the mandates of the Renewable Fuel Standard until the worst of the pandemic is behind us. Getting rid of it entirely would be preferable, but that would require congressional action that the Democrats would never agree to and it’s unclear if the President could be convinced to support the idea even if they did.
The good news (possibly) is that I wasn’t the only person suggesting the idea and the EPA seems to at least be willing to consider it. This could go a long way toward saving a lot of oil and gas industry jobs that are otherwise threatened if the refineries start shutting down to avoid bankruptcy. (The Hill)
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the real purposes of the ethanol requirement included virtue signaling but to the ag community this was always just a back door subsidy to corn producers
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Huge for the farmers around here. Maybe they'd go back to sweetcorn or field (feed) corn.
The latter would lower meat prices a bit.
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Please. Ruins engines and there is no need for this shit.
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I think the original purpose of the ethanol mandate was to get votes in Iowa.
However, we have just finished the Iowa caucuses and won't have them again for four years...so now is the time.
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The original purpose was part of the Energy Independence Programs of the 1970s as a result of the Oil Embargo and the fact that we were still heavily engaged in the Cold War. They were also looking into programs like converting goal...
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.
[Daily Mail] 
[NYP] The smell may be hell but the mist could leave you pissed.
[Independent] Rita Wilson, the actress married to Tom Hanks who was diagnosed with Covid-19 along with her husband in March, has described "extreme" side effects she suffered due to a controversial drug in a new interview.
[NYP] Kentucky experienced its highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases after protests broke out in the state to lift lockdowns, according to reports.
Quarrelling, Troublesome lot those downstairs Irish, but the do work cheaply. 
[Reuters] Facebook Inc said on Monday that it has removed events in Nebraska, New Jersey and California promoting protests against stay-at-home measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus.
LOS ANGELES ‐ Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles County residents may have been infected with the coronavirus by early April, far outpacing the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report released Monday.
Individual results may vary, but you should be alright from this distance if you are wearing your gov't issued protective goggles. 
[ArmstrongEconomics] SKY News Australia has reported the smoking gun. 
Sure would be great if someone (or entity) had a billion barrels of salt dome oil storage in Texas and Louisiana. They could make a killing and get free oil to boot.
[Hot Air] I’m not sure how much this will matter now that we’re basically out of places to store all of the oil that we’re pumping, but it’s still worth looking this proposal over.
