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Perspective: Approximately equal to every man, woman and child in the State of California killed in one year.
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Perspective: Approximately equal to Six WWII era Holocausts in one year.
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I state these two examples as the last surviving member of my family, who were held in a German Concentration Camp during WWII.
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Just think if Social Distancing had been placed in those 42 Million cases.
Plus another prospective:
A little over 3 times the number of Socialists that voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 (13,210,550)
BTW: My father was a Sgt. in YANKEE Div. that liberated the lesser known Gusen concentration camp in Austria. Where the SS murdered about 34,000 over about in 5 years.
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Postfeminist Rose to her Abie:
"Supposing, just possibly, maybe --
I'm only for-instancing --
Might social distancing
Help me stay safe from a baby?"
#6
A long, pregnant moment now passed
With Abie downcast, at half-mast,
But he clutched at her mitts,
And, recovering his wits,
Quipped, "I doubt it. I crawl pretty fast."
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ee green, our thanks for volunteering to supply articles while Fred is fighting Covid. I would like to discuss that further with you — if you would meet me in the O Club when you get a chance, I’d be grateful.
As always, the O Club is open to all Rantburgers — it’s really just an unarchived chat room, not a sacred space. ;-)
#2
I'm constantly reading reports of elderly famous people with covid, yet I don't personally know a single non-famous person with it. And yes, I know lots of people.
[WattsUpWithThat] The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2020 was +0.27 deg. C, down substantially from the November, 2020 value of +0.53 deg...
Cooling in December was largest over land, with 1-month drop of 0.60 deg. C, which is the 6th largest drop out of 504 months. This is likely the result of the La Nina now in progress. Since July 2020, the La Nina conditions have grown stronger and the forecast is for this to persist for the next few months.
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Funny how the Greta's of the world don't talk about the Little Ice Age when the Thames and the Dutch canals froze. I highly doubt those changes were brought about by cows faerting and combustible engines.
Piers Richard Corbyn (born 10 March 1947) is an English weather forecaster, businessman, activist, anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist.[n 1] He rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, describes vaccines as dangerous and describes COVID-19 as a "hoax". He is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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I only care if Piers is right about the weather; any thing else is all cacophony.
And cited as a "weather forecaster" as if he is Al Roker or some other pseudo-meteorologist.
"He began recording weather and climate patterns at the age of five, constructing his own observation equipment. He attended Castle House School and Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire. At 18 he went to Imperial College London, being awarded a first class BSc degree in physics in 1968. [Where's your degree, al-Gore? Greta?] He commenced postgraduate research there into superconductivity, but then went into student representation and politics for some years. In 1979 he returned to postgraduate study at Queen Mary College, University of London, being awarded an MSc in Astrophysics in 1981." [And Bill Gates, where's your MSc sheep skin?]
[Breitbart] President Trump has extended an executive order to prioritize unemployed Americans for jobs in the United States rather than allowing businesses to import foreign visa workers.
In June 2020, Trump signed an executive order halting H-1B visas, H-4 visas, H-2B visas, L visas, and J-1 visas while tens of millions of Americans were jobless or underemployed due to economic lockdowns as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
The order was set to expire at the end of 2020, but Trump intervened to extend the order to continue prioritizing U.S. jobs for unemployed Americans instead of allowing businesses to import foreign visa workers in a struggling labor market.
The order will now expire in March 2021.
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European demand will be limited currently.
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With all the media learning to code, this is good for their job prospects
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Great, that's all America needs are home-grown, common-core math "experts" with inflated grades. The cultural and economic decline into the abyss continues.
[JustTheNews] The NYSE is scheduled to suspend trading in the stocks as early as Thursday.
The New York Stock Exchange has began the process of delisting securities of three China telecom companies, following President Trump’s order last month barring U.S. investments in Chinese firms believed to be owned or controlled by the Chinese military.
The move will limit U.S. investors' access to such companies and follows global index providers MSCI Inc, S&P Dow Jones Indices and FTSE Russell and Nasdaq deleting some Chinese companies from their indexes, according to Rooters.
The three companies delisted by the NYSE are China Telecom Corporation Limited, China Mobile Limited 0941.HK and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited.
The exchange said the companies were no longer suitable for listing as a result of the presidential order prohibits any transactions in securities "designed to provide investment exposure to such securities, of any Communist Chinese military company, by any United States person," the wire service also reports.
The Pentagon has so far designated such 35 companies, complying with a 1999 law mandating the Defense Department to compile a list of Chinese military companies.
Starting earlier this year, Apple began removing apps from its regional store at the behest of the Chinese government. Paid apps, or those with in-app purchases, must be licensed with a China-issued ISBN. Apple gave developers fair warning that unlicensed apps would be removed. To meet the deadline, Cupertino conducted its biggest purge yet on the last day of 2020.
Apple removed more than 46,000 apps from its China store on Thursday, marking the largest single-day purge ever. Games made up the vast majority of the deletions, with some 39,000 titles taken down. Notable examples include Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Identity and NBA 2K20. Research firm Qimai said that only 74 of the top 1,500 games in China remain in the App Store.
Rooters notes the removals come after Chinese regulators began cracking down on unlicensed mobile software. In China, paid apps have to have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) issued by the Chinese government. The country's issuance of ISBNs is very strict, in part due to censorship laws. For example, anything that references Winnie the Pooh was banned when viral memes mockingly compared the "silly little bear" to President Xi Jinping.
The ISBN rule does not apply to free games, however. Several F2P games remain in the store, including Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Game for Peace, China's version of PUBG. Apple began warning about the takedowns in February, and several developers reportedly switch to a free-to-play model to avoid going through the ISBN application process.
Today's purge was the second this year. Apple removed nearly 30,000 apps over the summer, most of which were also games. Apple has not commented on the situation, and it is unclear how the mass deletions will affect its 30-percent take, but we can dabble in some educated speculation.
Most of the nearly 75,000 deleted apps were likely garbage that had made all the money they were ever going to make. As we have seen with so many other digital marketplaces, like Steam and others, fly-by-night developers flood the store with worthless apps to turn a quick dollar. Additionally, in July, Niko Partners analysts said that 97 of the top 100 grossing games in the App Store had legal ISBNs. So any impact is probably going to be minimal for Apple.
[Breitbart] The local government in south-central Konya, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , announced this week that it would turn a fully renovated 19th-century Armenian church into a "humor art house" after barring worshippers from using the church for years, multiple reports revealed Thursday.
Under Islamist President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , the Ottoman Turkish government has aggressively targeted its Christian minority community and attempted to erase Christian heritage in the country. Erdogan’s most prominent attempt to erase the Christian history of Turkey occurred last year, when he converted the Hagia Sophia, one of Byzantine Christianity’s most important architectural facilities, into a mosque. The conversion process involved removing or covering up priceless Christian art in the former basilica.
According to the Stockholm Center for Freedom, a news organization founded by dissident Ottoman Turkish journalists, the Surp Yerrortutyun (Holy Trinity) Armenian church was built in 1859 and boasts an official cultural heritage site designation in Turkey. The Ottoman Turkish government reportedly used the church’s location — the hometown of a medieval Ottoman Turkish "satirist" — as reason to renovate the church, turning it into the "World’s Masters of Humor Art House" and the hub of a greater "humor village." The government has not yet announced a reopening date for the venue.
"Restoration" of the church cost about half a million dollars and ended in 2017, but Ottoman Turkish officials did nothing with the venue until now and did not allow Christians to pray in it.
It is not clear at press time how many Christians live in the area; the Stockholm Center noted an estimated 5,000 Armenians lived in the vicinity around the church historically, prior to the 1915 genocide. PanArmenian.net, a news site that caters to the Armenian community, noted in its report on the Holy Trinity church that, prior to the genocide, "there were four other Armenian educational institutions in the district. Among them, the Surp Stepanos School was famous in all provinces for its superior education quality."
[MSN] Israel has vaccinated over a million citizens against COVID-19 making it the leading nation in the ongoing global immunisation efforts. (I think this is valid as of COB Jan 1 but no sure)
That is a rate of 11.55 doses for every 100 people according to a global tracking website.
Israel is followed by Bahrain with 3.49 doses per 100 and Britain at 1.47.
America, which had targeted to reach 20 million citizens by December 30, 2020, had by the said date only managed 2.78 million as of yesterday, 4M+ vaccinations in US, which gives a rate of about 1.2; if all the dosages distributed had been administered the rate would have been about 3.0. Interestingly, Canada is lagging the US by a lot with less than 0.5
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.
[NotTheBee] 42.7 MILLION. That's such a huge number.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
