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Meat is still the best energy concentrated food out there. Always will be until someone can lab make something. There is a reason our ancestors moved to a omnivore diet.
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Pesticides, Nicanoids, Varroa destructor (Varroa mite) and carried viruses. Unmanaged hive mite load will collapse a colony with ease.
One species of trees accounts to a blip on the global scale.
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All the logic in that article is that the UK doesn't grow anything there so needs to import! Import requires fuel so obviously bad...
Well a lot of my high school buddies in central Nebraska grow millions of bushels of soybeans and are quite happy to sell it to you! Seriously!
You would love their 1000 feet deep wells into the Ogallala Aquifer. They do giant Caterpillar engine generators that run on natural gas. Then they have multiple electric pumps that pump the water. It's all carefully monitored with digital controls and moistness sensors. Currently even one day of water can be very expensive, in terms of natural gas, on the huge farms. $70,000 or $80,000 per day is not uncommon. One friend is considering digging his own gas wells as natural gas is pumped only 4 miles away from his home. If he does he gets a $70,000 per watering day advantage over his competitors for your food business! That should let him buy a few thousand more acres of land...
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They used to do it non-electric with Chrysler Hemis modified to run on natural gas at each well and the radiators replaced with a divertor so that the well sream waters directly cooled the Hemis.
This was abandoned due to vandalism by auto geeks wanting Hemi parts... so it was easier to just put all the cat diesels in a secure place (behind barb wire) and run out electric power to big electric pumps that vandals didn't care about.
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Well that escalated quickly.
Mare Pete sounds like Jimmy Kimbel doing an Obama impersonation.
Maybe we need to all just cover ourselves with a cream so we are all the same color. A color not associated with any references to what we call skin tones.
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I don't preach politics to my kids. Daughter came in and started mocking the show. I reminded her that one of those people is potentially the next President of the United States.
She thinks she could run the stage by simply reading Laffy Taffy jokes.
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Ditto the thanks... I think. Was headed out to see the sunset but that mysterious #2 did the impossible: convinced me to stay in and turn on the TV. First I've seen of these this time around. We're doomder than I thought.
[PJMedia] Joe Walsh, the one-term Tea Party congressman swept into office by the 2010 conservative wave, has taken his NeverTrumpism to comic new lows with his Conserving Conservatism™ endorsement of Bernie Sanders on Twitter this weekend.
Today he's gone and done it again, with a new op-ed for the Washington Post making plain that he'll vote for Sanders if Sanders is the nominee.
In researching this column, I had to spend some time perusing Walsh's Twitter timeline which has the all-too-ironic handle "WalshFreedom." That Twitter handle might be the only thing he has left after losing his guns, his health coverage, and his 401k under a Sanders administration. Spending a few minutes scrolling through his feed is like spending 30 minutes watching a particularly deranged episode of The Rachel Maddow Show. He's still spewing thoroughly debunked RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! conspiracy nonsense and everything else you would expect to read on the no-follower timeline of a progressive bot account. Reason #353 why you no longer have a congressional seat, ya douche canoe.
[American Military News] U.S. Africa Command conducted another precision airstrike in Somalia on Monday and successfully killed one Al-Shabaab terrorist.
The airstrike took place in Jilib, Somalia, and did not result in any troops or civilians injured, according to an AFRICOM statement. "Our persistent actions against al-Shabaab ensures constant and continued pressure on this malign network," said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Miguel Castellanos, U.S. Africa Command deputy director of operations.
"Our collective efforts help enhance security in the region and put al-Shabaab on notice, making both Somalia and the U.S. safer in the process," Castellanos added.
The strike is the ninth conducted by AFRICOM against Al-Shabaab in February alone.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group acknowledges 2 of those killed were members; UK-based war monitor says 4 other pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... fighters died in IDF attack, in response to rocket fire at southern Israel
Six Iran-linked fighters were killed in Israeli retaliatory Arclight airstrike
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Article dedicated half (if not over half) to listing the 'mass shootings' by AR-15 style (which I take to mean scary-looking) guns. Which is both unrelatred and fails to note that all those shootings occurred in Gun Free Zones.
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Butchery by any license.
Guess Wiki is ill-informed. Many mohalim are doctors or rabbis (and some are both) or cantors and are required to receive appropriate training both from the religious and medical fields.
A top Iranian health official has been diagnosed with coronavirus in another sign the disease may be spiraling out of control in the country. Iraj Harirchi, a deputy health minister who has been the face of the government’s campaign against the virus, said he tested positive for it late Monday, the day he gave a press briefing on efforts to combat the outbreak.
Separately, Tehran lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi tweeted that he had tested positive. Sadeghi is a prominent reformist who was barred from participating in the latest parliamentary elections.
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Welfare use drops to 58 percent for non-citizen households and 30 percent for native households if cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are not counted as welfare. EITC recipients pay no federal income tax. Like other welfare, the EITC is a means-tested, anti-poverty program, but unlike other programs one has to work to receive it.
Compared to native households, non-citizen households have much higher use of food programs (45 percent vs. 21 percent for natives) and Medicaid (50 percent vs. 23 percent for natives).
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I'm not an expert but I had a recent discussion with a well informed person that works in a hospital with my wife.
From what I understand the virus looks like the flu until the day before it kills you which makes it very difficult to diagnose or contain.
So someone with the virus gets on a plane and there is a chance a bunch of people onboard catch it and spread it before they even know they had anything. That is why you get these sudden bursts of infected in Italy, Iran, South Korea, etc.
So we need to:
* Find a way to recognize Cornoa vs flu so we can deal with it earlier
* Restrict/Adjust travel by plane and ship (could be everyone where masks, could be fewer on a plane, who knows)
* Wait until the spring when these sort of things tend to die off, at least until the end of fall.
[AmGreatness] A Republican state senator in the Virginia General Assembly condemned state Democrats, for denying Virginia deputies a pay increase of 3 percent after some state sheriffs publicly refused to enforce Gov. Ralph Northam’s anti-gun agenda, The Epoch Times reports.
Sen. William “Bill” M. Stanley wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday night that after an amendment of his to give sheriff’s departments a three-percent raise for the upcoming year and was voted down, he was approached by Sen. Richard “Dick” L. Saslaw, a Democrat.
“Saslaw came up and said this to me, ‘Hey Stanley, you want to know why your sheriffs didn’t get a raise? Because they came to our committees and said that they weren’t going to enforce our laws.’ When I asked him which law was he talking about, he said, ‘Gun control.'”
In Virginia, 91 of the state’s 95 counties have passed some sort of measure affirming their support for Second Amendment sanctuaries.
“I was shocked that the Democrats are now punishing our local Sheriff’s Departments (by eliminating a pay raise for them), for their choice to protect and defend our citizens’ Second Amendment rights,” Stanley wrote in a now-viral Facebook post following the incident.
Saslaw told CBS, “All I said was a lot of people are upset that these people come in and say they’re not going to enforce my laws,” he told the network. “That’s all.”
David Campbell, vice chairman of the Effingham County Board in Illinois, told The Epoch Times he sees the incident as a “direct attack on Virginia’s sheriffs.”
“All representatives and senators take the same oath of office as the sheriffs do,” he said via email. “The sheriffs are only doing their job and what they were sworn to do, and that is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.”
[Guardian] Egypt’s ousted former president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, weeks after undergoing surgery, state television has announced.
Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was deposed following mass protests against his rule in 2011, during the Arab spring. He was jailed for years after the uprising, but was freed in 2017 after being acquitted of most charges.
His democratically elected successor, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown in 2013 in a popularly backed military coup. Many see echoes of Mubarak’s style of leadership in Egypt’s current leader, the former general Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Al-Grauniad's Non-Preferred Authoritarian
Mubarak was the first of the leaders toppled in a wave of Arab uprisings to face trial. In scenes that captivated Egyptians, he appeared in a courtroom cage on a range of charges.
He was acquitted by Egypt’s highest appeals court in March 2017 of conspiring to kill protesters in the final verdict in a long-running case that originally resulted in him being sentenced to life in prison in 2012 over the deaths of 239 protesters. A separate corruption charge was overturned in January 2015.
Mubarak often appeared in a frail state during his court appearances, attending on a stretcher and wearing dark sunglasses.
[Garden and Gun] Steeped in history, this year Charleston is celebrating its 350th anniversary and every inch of the Holy City is humming with charm, hospitality, and wonder. The diversity of Charleston permeates all walks of life, from the world-class food scene and cultural institutions to perhaps the most important choice of all: where to lay your head at night. Want to experience a classic antebellum mansion? It’s here. The austere sleekness of the finest boutique hotels? It’s here. Or maybe it’s a place where your children (and your own inner child) can flip-flop between the ocean and the pool under the warmth of the afternoon sun. You’ll find that here, too. Whether you prefer a historic gem, a beachfront retreat, or an urban escape, your perfect stay awaits.
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....Check out places like the Battery, Fort Sumter, Patriot's Point Naval Museum, the CSS Hunley, and the seriously awesome Museum of Charleston. It's a clean, friendly, and affordable place.
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Please Don’t Visit. The Traffic is Brutal for us Locals.
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#5 yep stopped in Savannah, the Yankees took over a British Consulate and stole everything.
It’s now a private club and I ate there once, when I lived in Savannah, they have hand painted sign listing all the items stolen by the occupiers. I ate on the second floor only are members allowed on the third floor.
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[Right Scoop] A lesbian activist put out a video that is angering a ton of transgender extremists because she said she’s leaving the progressive left after it has become much too radical for her.
Here’s part of what Arielle Scarcella says:
"I’m a lesbian, and I don’t think gender is a social construct. I don’t think cis straight white men are evil.
"I don’t believe that genital preferences are transphobic or that there are 97 genders. I don’t think that male sex offenders belong in women’s prisons... This is my coming out video."
Oh boy. They aren’t gonna like that. I’ve been trying to highlight the battle between the extremist transgender movement and the lesbian and feminists who see that transgenderism kinda erodes the rights they are advocating for. There is definitely a tension here, and people like Scarcella prove just how extreme the liberals have gotten on the issue of gender.
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LBG movement needs to stand up as one against the T movement as the T are screwing up team sports and things that the others have fought for decades to become a part of.
[USA Today] Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again. Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will embark on a European tour that starts in England on Tuesday. The "An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour" includes most of her biggest hits ‐ "How Will I Know," "Saving All My Love For You" and "I Will Always Love You," along with some unexpected rarities, including a cover of Steve Winwood’s "Higher Love." Houston was found dead in 2012 in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, just hours before music stars began to gather at the hotel for the annual Clive Davis pre-Grammy party.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐Things were not looking good for Harvey Weinstein as a judge found him guilty of rape and sexual assault Monday.
But thinking quickly, Weinstein asserted that he was simply living his own truth, and he was let off scot-free.
"I was simply being true to myself, and my self happens to be a pervert. Baby, I was born this way," he said. "My inner compass told me to make each day my masterpiece, to dance like no one is watching, and to do whatever I feel is right, no matter what society thinks."
"As a favorite preacher of mine says, I was simply living my best life now," he added.
The judge was moved to tears and instantly declared he would be cleared of all charges.
"We are so sorry to have judged you for living out your truth," the judge said. "You do you."
[SALON] President Donald Trump’s speech in Florida over the weekend provides evidence that he is suffering from cognitive decline, according to a psychiatric expert.
Seth Davin Norrholm, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, said Monday that the president’s recent rant about Christmas included at least three signs of mental problems.
"So if anybody wants to be a nice conservative, talk show host is not a bad living, I would say. But I have to say, he’s a very unique guy and he’s a great man and he’s been a great friend. So thank you to Rush. Thank you," Trump said.
"And let me begin by wishing you a beautif ‐ look, do you remember this? Do you remember this? Remember, they were trying to take Christmas out of Christmas. Do you remember? They didn’t want to let you say Merry Christmas," Trump continued.
"You’d go around, you’d see department stores that have everything red, snow, beautiful, ribbons, bows. Everything was there. But they wouldn’t say Merry Christmas. They’re all saying Merry Christmas again. You remember?"
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The insanity defense predates modern psychology. People could tell someone wasn't right (till the credentialed got into the game to make up every excuse for foul behavior). If you're going to run a Marxist for prez, you might take up Soviet psychiatry like this as well.
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any of these 'psychiatrists' that are paid by the aholes in the media to diagnose someone by merely watching a video of them should have their credentials revoked and blackballed by their profession.
Psychiatry is witch-doctory enough.
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Lemme see. The guy is a billionaire; President of the United States of America; married to a smoking hot elegant lady; every time he shows up to speak tens of thousands of people stand in line to cheer him; and he paced the field at the Daytona 500. Where can I get me some of that cognitive decline?
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"Worf! Rotate shield frequencies!"
You know what consistently displays 'mental problems'? Stories like this one that are recirculated every couple of months and the authors expecting anyone to take it seriously.
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^ I smell BS.
1. His title is misleading. He's actually not a psychiatrist - never went to med school, let alone was board-certified. Has degrees in psychology.
2. The guy's an attention whore who's constantly submitting pseudo-scientific pop psychology sound bites to anti-Trump and far left-wing journalists.
3. He's neither a doctor nor an author of peer-reviewed, serious scholarship but a former "program analyst" at the VA Hospital. In other words, the guy has hyped himself beyond all connection to his academic worth by constantly appearing in the shite political press. He's an activist, not a scientist or doctor.
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The lefty media tends to latch onto quack and frauds. This is yet another case of it...
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The left is still pushing a 25th Amendment solution to their problems; Trying to cloak their efforts using fake science?
Jeeesh, these people are sore losers and never give up whenever power is involved. I'd say the professor might have a fruitful area of research with a large pool of subjects if he studied the looney Dems who have TDS.
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He likes the spotlight? Make him sizzle: "Fellow citizens and taxpayers, please give your full attention to this great man of medicine. Weigh carefully his many public pronouncements. Compare his achievements with the achievements of those of us whom he regards as demented lunatics. Then ask yourselves, 'Don't our vets deserve better than this?'" And so forth.
Legal Insurrection via Instapundit
The way things have been going, the economy was on target to remain powerful through Election Day 2020, giving Trump a strong likelihood of reelection. Reflecting that reality, a record percentage of Americans are satisfied with their lives.
Enter coronavirus and the potential for a pandemic that causes worldwide suffering and economic damage tanking the stock market and the U.S. economy. The Trump administration has been very proactive, even though China has rebuffed help, including just requesting $2.5 billion specifically targeted at coronavirus response.
Enter Trump Derangement Syndrome, where the number one priority is defeating Trump. And if devastation to the stock market due to coronavirus is needed, well, Democrats and media supporters are practically giddy at placing the blame on Trump.
The stock market plunged today! 2020 is looking better and better for Democrats.
Ted Lieu tried to blame Trump for cuts to the Centers for Disease Control that have not taken place and would not have affected coronavirus response anyway: Some "rights" NGO submitting that quarantine violates civil rights, and some Obama judge issuing an injunction against quarantine in 5 .. 4 .. 3
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The only thing I am majorly worried about with this pandemic is the panic that happens with it. That will shut down work, schools, transportation, etc. and cause some pretty severe economic slowdown.
Keep calm. Buy food/water just in case and carry on.
#9
Bernie could win in a time of pandemics as his politics has a lot experience rounding people up and quarantining them from the rest of the population. Mostly it was done for having ideas the state disagreed with , but you can see the skills transfers.
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Skidmark, that CDC official is funny as I don't believe any kids have been infected so far. Seems to prefer old folks mostly. Someone is spreading fear for whatever reason.
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From Wikipedia: The Spanish Flu In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. Some analyses have shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults
[IsraelTimes] None of the intimidation, mostly made via identical messages, is found to be credible; source of warnings unknown. None of the emails, however, named the specific institutions in question or contained anti-Semitic language.
Probably another threat-for-pay situation. Last time it turned out to be a low functioning autistic boy living in Israel, pleased he’d found a way to earn some money.
[AccordingToHoyt] Throughout most of history, men who believe themselves superior or "elites" have believed that other men were born saddled and ready to be ridden.
The alpha male who rules over the band is, after all, a fixture of ape bands. It’s that "made on an ape frame" again.
I want to make this very clear: throughout most of history, whether king or high priest, whether Emperor or conqueror, whether nobility or oligarchy humans were subjected to someone, and to those that worked for that person/worked under the authority of that person or group of people. It was, you might consider, the "natural order of things." Truly the natural order, since it comes from nature.
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[IsraelTimes] Mahathir Mohamad, who has defended calling Jews ’hook-nosed’ and said they ’rule the world by proxy,’ steps down amid political turmoil in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, at 94 the world’s oldest leader, submitted his resignation to the king Monday after a bid by his allies to bring down the government and block the succession of leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim.
Mahathir’s shock resignation followed 24 hours of political drama which saw an attempt by Anwar’s rivals within his own "Pact of Hope" coalition, which stormed to a historic election victory in 2018, and opposition politicians to form a new government.
The coalition would reportedly have excluded Anwar, Mahathir’s presumptive successor, and most of the politicians from his party, which would have stopped him becoming premier any time soon.
Anwar and Mahathir have a notoriously stormy relationship but they reconciled ahead of the 2018 polls, and Mahathir has repeatedly promised to hand over power to his former foe.
The bid appeared to have fizzled out by early Monday, however ‐ before Mahathir’s office announced he had "sent a resignation letter as prime minister of Malaysia" to the king at 1:00 p.m.
What would happen next was far from clear, however.
Anwar was due to meet the king Monday afternoon. While the monarch’s role is largely ceremonial, he confirms the appointment of the country’s prime minister and Anwar could be hoping to persuade him that he has enough support from MPs to form a government, observers said.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Mahathir’s party Bersatu also announced it was leaving the "Pact of Hope" coalition ‐ suggesting they could be making their own attempt to form a government.
Earlier, two of Anwar’s rivals from his People’s Justice Party, Mohammed Azmin Ali and Zuraida Kamaruddin ‐ seen as key figures in leading the bid to form a new government and block his ascent ‐ were sacked, the party announced.
ETHNIC TENSIONS
Anwar had teamed up with former nemesis Mahathir ahead of the 2018 elections to oust the government of Najib Razak, who had become embroiled in the massive 1MDB graft scandal.
They led an alliance to an unexpected victory against a coalition that had ruled Malaysia uninterrupted for over six decades, and Mahathir agreed to eventually hand power to Anwar.
But Mahathir, in his second stint as premier after first holding the role from 1981 to 2003, has repeatedly refused to say when he will transfer power, stoking tensions within the four-party coalition.
The alliance’s popularity had plummeted as it was accused of failing to raise living standards and protect the rights of the ethnic Malay Muslim majority, and it lost a string of local polls.
According to reports, the proposed new government aimed at blocking Anwar would have included Mahathir’s party, the United Malays National Organisation — the party of scandal-tainted ex-leader Najib — and a hardline Islamist group.
Many were angry, however, that the democratically elected government, which came to power partly on a pledge to push through much-needed reforms, could be replaced without an election.
[IsraelTimes] Last rocket fired at 11 p.m. as two-day flare-up possibly draws to a close, though army chief warns of continued fighting and Israel keeps schools shuttered
A shaky ceasefire between Israel and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... based hard boyz appeared to hold after midnight Tuesday, seemingly marking the end to the latest round of violence that has threatened to send the tinderbox region hurtling toward war.
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[AnNahar] Mobile phone services were restored across swathes of Taliban ...Arabic for students... -contested areas of Afghanistan over the weekend as a partial truce with the faceless myrmidons held for a second day.
The Taliban, U.S. and Afghan forces are currently overseeing a week-long "reduction in violence" that kicked off on Saturday.
The commitment has seen fighting drop dramatically and is set to pave the way for an American withdrawal deal to be signed later this week.
There have been reports of small festivities in rural areas, but no major attacks that have long defined the conflict have erupted.
"In general we do see (a reduction in violence)," acting interior minister Masood Andrabi told AFP.
The lull in violence allowed telecom operators to begin restoring networks across the country that have long been hampered by fighting.
"Around 730 cell towers have restarted," said Naqeebullah Sailab, vice chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of Afghanistan.
"There are towers which started operating after almost five years."
Two separate officials with knowledge of the country's telecoms industry in northern Afghanistan also confirmed that mobile networks were being restored in holy warrior-hit areas.
The Taliban have long targeted Afghanistan's private telecom firms, kidnapping engineers, destroying transmission masts and forcing regular coverage blackouts in volatile areas to avoid detection of their fighters.
Afghanistan boasts millions of mobile users in a population of 30 million, with the fast-growing industry employing around 200,000 people and earning strong revenue in an otherwise moribund economy.
Thousands of telecommunication towers, however, are in insurgency-hit areas and vulnerable to attacks.
The partial truce is expected to set the conditions for Washington and the bully boyz to sign a deal in Doha on February 29 that could, ultimately, pull U.S. troops out after more than 18 years and launch war-weary Afghanistan into an uncertain future.
A successful week would demonstrate that the Taliban have command and control of their forces, and it would also be a show of good faith before signing any deal.
The partial truce has also given a much-needed respite to civilians who have borne the brunt of the gruesome war.
The U.N.'s Afghanistan mission reported Saturday that more than 10,000 people had been killed or maimed in 2019 alone.
As fighting eased across the country, Afghans erupted into the streets to enjoy the relative calm.
In their southern stronghold of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Taliban fighters mingled with locals, small "peace" demonstrations took place across the country, and a bicycle race was held in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Washington has been in talks with the Taliban for more than a year to secure a deal which would see it would pull about half of the 12,000-13,000 troops currently in Afghanistan out.
In return, the Taliban would give security guarantees and a promise to hold peace talks with the government in Kabul.
[American Thinker] Bernie Sanders has always had a soft spot for Fidel Castro and the communist dictatorship the latter created. But instead of keeping it to himself and off the air, he went all out to praise Cuba's brutal regime for its phony "literacy" and "free" health care on 60 Minutes. Now Florida's Democrats are panicking.
During that interview, a clip of which aired on CBS Sunday night, Sanders counted healthcare and education among the reasons that the Cuban people didn't rise up and overthrow Castro after his 1959 revolution.
"You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program," Sanders told Cooper. "Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?"
"There are a lot of dissidents imprisoned in Cuba," Cooper said to Sanders.
That's a big ‐ real big ‐ exploding cigar.
The only reason people didn't overthrow Castro was their great love of all his "free" health care? No, he tortured, killed, and imprisoned them first. Crap like that is likely to cost the Democrats Florida.
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FL's gone. So is OH.
If the Dems lose PA, it's over.
If they lose MI and WI, it's over.
If they nominate the arm-waving, finger-pointing Lenin impersonator, it's over.
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Get the word moving that "the Bern" will assist all communist governments worldwide in "repatriating" their refugee citizens in America for "re-education" purposes. That should do it.
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I think he should go to Miami, he really needs to vist this place https://www.versaillesrestaurant.com
Perfect venue for talking about your love for Fidel!
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For those of you not famialar with Miami, the website explains it best!
"ABOUT
Versailles Restaurant, The World’s Most Famous Cuban Restaurant, has been serving tasty Cuban cuisine and culture to the South Florida community and tourists from around the world for four decades. Soon after it opened its doors in 1971, Versailles quickly became the gathering place and unofficial town square for Miami’s Cuban exiles. Today, it remains the unrelenting gauge of the community’s pulse. Not surprisingly, Versailles is typically the first place politicians visit locally to garner support from the Cuban exile community, and the restaurant is equally a favorite among the media for gathering commentary and footage of the community’s take on social and political issues. It is not uncommon to see local, national and international media set up camp in Versailles’ parking lot, where they’re sure to get a flood of local viewpoints."
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I once asked a very large Cuban-American of my acquaintance what he thought about normalizing relations with Castro's Cuba. It was like stepping on a landmine.
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May be good just to give Bernie the nomination and watch the electoral slaughter happen. Purge the far left from the party after that and start rebuilding.
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Be careful what you wish for, Darth. The (current) fly in the ointment is if the coronavirus causes a significant economic downturn. Which the MFM is pushing for HARD. Establishment donks may claim to be terrified of Sanders, but the MFM is lighting candles in their closet Marx shrines for him.
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During that interview, a clip of which aired on CBS Sunday night, Sanders counted healthcare and education among the reasons that the Cuban people didn't rise up and overthrow Castro after his 1959 revolution.
People didn't rise up? Maybe it had something to do with the many deaths before a firing squad, long stints at the Isle of Pines or the disappearances of Cubans in the middle of the night. What a dangerous moron. Why Cubans didn’t rise up. Same as many other socialist and communist governments.
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Communism, Bernie? Seriously?
Sanders is like some cave man dude that got frozen in a glacier and slept thru the entire 20th century and missed the horror.
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If you like your Cuban doctor... Snark O'The Day
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Trump's a lock-in to win?
That's exactly what they said about Hillary.
Everyone saying, LOL SANDERS SUCKS LOL is just ensuring his upset victory. It's going to be a ton of hard work no matter who the Dems nominate and don't forget they're going to cheat their asses off with illegal aliens and voter fraud.
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Don't forget about the Autobahn Fidel built.
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#9 Agreed. This is playing with fire.
Bernie should lose, but who knows what circumstances will be in play by Election Day?
And if he loses, he's still shown that a Commie can take over one of the two major parties.
From there, it's not much distance to electing one.
And counting on Establishment libs to control their crazies isn't much of a strategy, in light of Chris Matthews being brought to heel and Krugman already running interference for Sanders' rep.
They'll fall in line with the Bolsheviks quite quickly and easily when the rubber meets the road.
[Washington Examiner] A Republican senator says it's time for the Chinese Communist Party to reveal what it knows about the new coronavirus after the country's state-run newspaper reported that the mystery illness may not have originated from a seafood market in Wuhan.
On Saturday, Sen. Tom Cotton demanded "answers" while sharing a report from the Global Times, a Chinese daily newspaper operated by the CCP, citing new research that claims the virus is transmitted from human to human and didn't originate from animals at the seafood market. Although early reports claimed the illness was spread through food such as bat soup, snakes, or pangolins, researchers now believe "patient zero," the original person with the infection, brought the disease to the Wuhan market from "another location."
The English-language Global Times confirmed the data show the infection was "introduced" to the market, adding fuel to skeptics who believe the CCP is failing to explain the full scope of the epidemic. The study was done by ChinaXiv, an "open repository for scientific researchers" who believe one infected person accelerated the virus's spread during a visit to the market.
Cotton has repeatedly challenged the prevailing narrative surrounding the coronavirus outbreak as it has infected and killed patients in countries as widespread as Iran, Italy, and Japan.
In January, the Washington Times reported that Wuhan is home to China's most advanced virus research laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The New York Post reported Saturday that Chinese Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, the country's top expert in biological warfare, was sent to Wuhan last month to deal with the crisis.
More than 2,000 people have died, and over 75,000 have been infected since the outbreak began earlier this year. However, it is difficult to ascertain the full size and scope of the illness.
Cotton has noted on several occasions that Wuhan contains the only biosafety level 4 superlaboratory in China that deals with serious infectious diseases. The Arkansas senator has led calls to ban travel with China and on Friday told Fox News's Laura Ingraham the country's leaders were "lying to the world."
"The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda rag finally admits what I’ve said for a month: coronavirus didn’t start in Wuhan food market. So where did it originate? Time for answers from CCP," Cotton tweeted late on Saturday.
[AnNahar] The United States has urged Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s to drop charges targeting the Baha'i community, which said that 24 believers of the faith will face a new trial session Tuesday.
Because any batch of Iranian sock puppets is likely to listen to that kind of plea from the Great Satan on behalf of a bunch of heretics.
Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, voiced concern at reports that a court in Yemen's Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa is again summoning the Baha'is who in 2018 were slapped with charges that include apostasy and espionage.
"We urge them to drop these allegations, release those arbitrarily detained, and respect religious freedom for all," he wrote on Twitter.
According to the Baha'i community, one member among the 24 to be tried Tuesday -- five of whom are already detained -- said that a prosecutor made clear that his arrest was due to his religion.
"The Baha'is that are held in Sanaa are innocent and the physical and mental torture they are experiencing is designed to force them to admit to crimes they have not committed," Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha'i International Community, said in a statement.
The Huthis are allied with Iran's Shiite holy manal regime, which restricts the rights of Baha'is despite allowing freedom of religion for Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians.
Baha'is consider the Baha'u'llah, born in 1817 in Iran, to be a prophet, a sharp contrast from the orthodox Islamic view that Mohammed was God's final messenger.
Several thousand Baha'is are estimated to live in Yemen. Among them is Hamed bin Haydara, who was sentenced in 2018 to execution with appeals in his case under review.
The concern about Huthi treatment of the Baha'is comes amid widespread condemnation of the Saudi-led operation against the rebels over the heavy toll on civilians, including notoriously a 2018 air strike on a school bus.
[ToloNews] On the third day of the weeklong reduction in violence pact, also called RIV, three incidents were confirmed, one each in Balkh, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Samangan province. These incidents included casualties as well.
The week-long reduction in violence started on Saturday, Feb. 22.
Eight Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... festivities were reported in the first day of the reduction in violence while two confirmed incidents were reported on the second day.
On the third day, however, the casualties were high. At least four members of public uprising forces and three civilians ‐ including a woman ‐ were killed in an attack by the Taliban on the public uprising forces outpost in Chahar Kint district in the northern Balkh province after midnight on Monday.
Local officials said two members of the public uprising forces were taken by the Taliban. The Taliban has not confirmed this claim.
Over the past three days, Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Balkh, Kapisa and Samangan provinces have witnessed anti-security incidents.
Helmand and Balkh have witnessed attacks twice over the past three days.
"Today, attacks were held by the Taliban in Balkh, Helmand and Samangan provinces and three security force members were martyred and eight others were maimed," said Nusrat Rahimi, a front man for the Ministry of Interior.
The reduction in violence was widely welcomed by Afghans in different parts of the country as many hoped this would end the decades of war in the country.
"We want peace. We are tired of war," said Rafiullah Rouhani, a Helmand resident.
"Today, we are witnessing a reduction in violence, and tomorrow, we hope to see peace," said Qais Hashimi, a Helmand resident.
Feroz, a Border Force member in Helmand, said he has lost four members of his family in the war but he hopes that his children will witness a prosperous and peaceful future.
"We are tired of war and the Taliban is also tired of war. We have had enough war," Feroz said.
There are debates about whether this period of reduction in violence will be followed by a similar period.
A former Taliban member, Sayed Akbar Agha, seemed optimistic about the stance of the group in this respect.
"The Taliban has a good stance in this respect because it has not been mentioned in the agreement about what should be done after, and it is not mentioned in the agreement about the period between the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations and their (the Taliban’s) operations (when this round of RIV ends)," he said.
The US and the Taliban will sign a peace deal if the reduction in violence agreement is kept for seven days. This signed peace deal is expected to be followed by the start of intra-Afghan negotiations.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the IDF’s attack last night in Syria’s capital city, Damascus.
In an interview with Radio Jerusalem, Netanyahu said the operation was an attempt to target a big shot of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Movement, but failed.
"The Israeli army tried to assassinate and target an Islamic Jihad leader in Damascus without mentioning his name, but failed and instead targeted two from his movement," Netanyahu reportedly said, as quoted by Sputnik Arabic.
On the possibility of the Israeli army entering into a military operation in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, Netanyahu said that "if Israel enters into a large-scale military operation in Gaza, it will be greater than the three previous wars," pointing to "tension in the south and rocket fire in the vicinity of the Strip."
The Israeli Prime Minister said: "They know they are attacking us and we are ready to attack and eliminate them."
He pointed out that "there may be no escape but to go out in a battle to clean Gaza, but I do not rush to war."
Netanyahu’s comments came just hours after the Israeli Defense Forces carried out several strikes in Damascus and the Gaza Strip.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Security Media Cell in Iraq announced on Monday the killing of 3 Lions of Islam close to the leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization and the arrest of seven others in northern Iraq.
"The Special Operations Heroes of the [anti-terrorist] organization carried out an airdrop with the support of the international coalition aircraft, through which they killed three Lions of Islam close to the leader of ISIS and arrested seven terrorists."
The cell indicated that these Lions of Islam were in the Zghitoun Valley in the governorate of Kirkuk.
[TOWNHALL] Taxpayers in Maryland are funding anti-Trump history lessons that compare the president to the Soviets and Nazis. An unidentified teacher(s) inserted the propaganda into a slide show used in an advanced placement history class at Loch Raven High School in the city of Towson, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
A slide depicts President Trump above pictures of the Soviet Union flag and the Nazi Swastika. The slide captions read, "wants to round up a group of people and build a giant wall" and "oh, THAT is why it sounds so familiar!."
Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach called it "a piece of propaganda" that didn’t belong in a classroom.
The school system said the slide was not part of the resources it provides for AP history teachers.
Charles Herndon, a front man for Baltimore County schools, said students in advanced high school classes are "discerning, intelligent students who are going to be able to draw their own inferences and draw their own conclusions."
"The topics being discussed in the class included World Wars and the attempts by some leaders throughout history to limit or prevent migration into certain countries. In isolation and out of context with the lesson, the image could be misunderstood," the school district said in a statement.
The school system said the issue had become a personnel matter "which will be appropriately addressed by the school administration and is not subject to further clarification."
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Doesn't matter where they are: the public schools in this country are a canker.
Shitty teachers, power-hungry educrats, stupid curriculum, newspeak, bureaucratic incompetence to the nth degree, identity politics and virtue-signaling on steroids...
[FOXNEWS] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... is backing away from pointing to the upcoming South Carolina primary as a virtual lock for his campaign, after previously describing the state as his "firewall."On Sunday, he pushed back on the description -- and even denied saying it.
"You said it, my firewall. I've never said it," Biden shot back at CBS' Margaret Brennan in an interview that aired Sunday on "Face the Nation."
"I said I'm going to do well there," he continued. "And I'll do well there and I'll do well beyond there as well."
Biden did say it, just a few weeks ago.
In an interview with NBC before the Iowa caucuses, Biden stressed the importance of South Carolina for his campaign.
"I think I'll do well in Nevada," Biden said. "And I think I have a real firewall in South Carolina."
Since making that statement, Biden finished fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire -- but bounced back with a second-place finish in Nevada.
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[FOXNEWS] A small Maryland enclave known as the "Berkeley of the East" has devised a bold climate plan that would ban gas stoves, leaf blowers and water heaters, according to a report.
Liberal Takoma Park’s action plan, which would also close gas pipelines and force gas stations to relocate, is designed to eliminate fossil fuels to help save the planet, The Washington Post reports.
The town of 17,000 just outside Washington, D.C., first burnished its liberal credentials nearly four decades ago by declaring itself a "nuclear-free zone."
The non-binding plan is expected to be adopted by Takoma Park’s City Council on March 4. But the Post reports that even in a city where, as one resident put it, "the political spectrum spans Bernie to Warren," there are detractors.
"The number of times the word ’require’ is used in this is stunning," said resident Maxine Hillary at a public hearing last week, according to the paper.
During her remarks, she criticized the fossil fuel ban as "insensitive and draconian."
Hillary also took aim at the resolution’s call to make composting mandatory.
"Don’t tell me what to do with my table scraps," she told politicians, according to the paper.
The Post reported that Takoma Park’s fossil fuel ban is part of a nationwide effort by local governments to address the lack of federal action on climate change.
According to the paper, the city’s plan would require that all water heaters, space heaters and stoves that rely on gas be replaced with alternatives by 2030.
Gas-guzzling leaf blowers would be replaced with incentive programs and eventually outlawed, while gas stations would be asked to convert to electric charging stations or relocate outside city limits by 2045, the paper reported.
Vehicles that run on fossil fuels wouldn’t be banned, but electric vehicle use would be encouraged.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... politicians agreed to drop the deadline for eliminating fossil fuels by 2045 under a revised plan, the paper reported.
Takoma Park officials said the cost to the average homeowner could reach $25,000, the Post reported.
Supporters include the Committee on the Environment, an advocacy group made up of Takoma Park residents.
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My guess would be from Nuclear, Coal, and Gas power plants conviently located outside the 'enclave'.
Much like how electric cars are 'non-polluting' since they are recharged from gas/coal/nuclear power plants - what?
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I'd agree to ban leaf blowers because they're so noisy. The rest of it sounds like city council members wasting time. Either they don't have enough work to do or else they're neglecting it.
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I'd propose they be disconnected from the grid: gas, electricity, transport, and telecoms, forcibly if need be - for their own purity
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And shut down cell towers in their area. And the pesky water system might rely on fossil fuels, better shut that down as well. I'm sure they will be fine.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... addressed a 9-year-old boy during his Saturday rally, and the content of the discussion was shocking to many.
Identified as Zachary Ro, the young boy submitted a fishbowl question to the Democratic presidential candidate asking if the young former mayor would help him announce to the world that he identifies as homosexual. He was with his parents, who are likely supporters of the aspiring POTUS.
CNN detailed the "emotional moment" between Buttigieg and the youth in an article detailing all of the "advice" Pete gave. Time for a Don Lemon Party
"Thank you for being so brave," the young boy wrote. "Would you help me tell the world I’m gay, too? I want to be brave like you."
Despite what the kid may think of himself, the openly-gay candidate let the boy know that he was actually pretty brave for asking the question in the first place. Especially in such a public forum.
"I don’t think you need a lot of advice for me on bravery. You seem pretty strong to me," he responded. "It took me a long time to figure out how to tell even my best friend that I was gay, let alone to go out there and tell the world and to see you willing to come to terms with who you are in a room full of 1,000 people, thousands of people you’ve never met that’s, that’s really something."
But in the interest of drawing the event out for as long as possible, perhaps for the desperately needed dosage of good PR it would bring him, Pete did hand down "a couple of things that might be useful."
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^ actually, it's a good bet that most of the young kids now "identifying" as trans are doing so because they're confused and/or depressed and are easily influenced by a moronic pop culture/peer culture that considers it "cool" to call yourself a tranny or queer
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Ro is a Korean surname. Mom appears white, so dad (not shown) would appear to be a Korean male-- i.e. a member of one of the most culturally conservative demographics in this country.
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Shoot, at 9 I thought I was a dinosaur, and didn't even know how to do laundry.
Not just staged but indoctrinated.
Spend the next two-three years being convinced he is gay, then one day his balls will drop and he won't stop thinking about bewbs.
Imagine the anger at home when their designer son comes out as straight, all those social points and prestige suddenly gone if the kid is not gay.
So the parents will convince him that if he likes girls, and is gay, then he must be a girl too and talk him into castration and trans surgeries.
Then one day, he will realize he was cut, deformed, and mentally tortured because his parents needed Likes and wanted to talk louder than others during the wine parties.
[Daily Caller] An FBI agent faulted for some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department’s inspector general report on FISA abuse against a Trump campaign associate has been identified.
The New York Times, citing people familiar with the FBI’s Russia probe, identified Stephen A. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator who works out of the bureau’s New York field office, as “Case Agent 1” from the inspector general’s (IG) report.
The IG blasted the FBI for its handling of information used to obtain four surveillance orders against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide.
“Case Agent 1” is singled in the report as being “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions in the FISA applications.”
Somma was involved in multiple aspects of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. (RELATED: FBI Agent Who Played ‘Significant’ Role In Surveillance Abuse Wore Several Hats In Trump Probe)
According to the IG report, he was the FBI agent who initially sought a surveillance warrant against Page. Somma pushed for a FISA warrant “almost immediately” after the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, the IG said.
Somma’s initial request was rejected, but FBI lawyers later approved seeking a FISA warrant on Page after the bureau received information from former British spy Christopher Steele. In his dossier, Steele alleged that Page was a key player in the Trump campaign’s “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday accepted for hearing a petition to stop the Aurat March 2020, scheduled to be held on March 8, and summoned Additional Director Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency and Deputy Inspector General Operations on February 27. Aurat March is part of the International Women's Day festivities.
The petition, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, filed by Judicial Activism Council Chairman Azhar Siddique said that "there are various anti-state parties present who are funding this Aurat March with the sole purpose of spreading anarchy amongst the masses". The lede from Dawn's coverage of last year's march read:
Passionate cries for freedom and demands for an end to patriarchy resounded through the main roads of downtown Lahore, as hundreds of women, men and transgender people marched towards Alhamra Arts Council from the Lahore Press Club to mark International Women’s Day.
The petition also termed the march "against the very norms of Islam" and that its hidden agenda is to spread "anarchy, vulgarity and hatred". Definitely un-Pakistani sentiments.
"During last year's Aurat March, women were holding placards that had objectionable messages," said Siddique.
The petition mentions that Siddique had previously submitted an application to the Capital City Police Office (CCPO) Lahore to register a first information report against the "women holding objectionable placards at the march" but police did not take any action.
He also submitted another application to enforce the Pakistain Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 and Citizen Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020 to "stop the promotion of anti-state activities such as Aurat March on social media" and another application for the promulgation of the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Red Zone (Establishment and Security) Act, 2018 throughout not only Lahore but also the rest of Punjab but no action has been taken yet.
The petition requested the court to effectively promulgate the Acts mentioned in the petition to "silence the advertisement of Aurat March on social media and to regulate protests such as the Aurat March".
The LHC directed the federal government lawyer to ask for instructions from the Ministry of Interior and inform the court.
On March 8 of last year, women across Pakistain came together to participate in the Aurat March 2019.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the backlash against the march and its organisers was swift. The backlash began with a trickle of comments on Twitter and Facebook, then escalated as people began faking and doctoring images of posters to circulate them on social media and stir up further controversy.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] When ISIS took over the Nineveh plains in northern Iraq in 2014, terrorized Christian residents fled in fear of their lives.
Six years later, despite liberation from ISIS, many Christians have not returned home and are leaving Iraq altogether - prompting concern that Christianity’s 2,000 year presence in the country could be under threat.
A 1987 government census listed 1.4 million Christians in Iraq, but following the outbreak of war, ISIS, and continuing political instability in the country, Christians now number around 200,000, according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.
As numbers decrease "rapidly," Iraqi Christian Maryam Binyamen said she feels hopeless.
"We are facing a total extinction, I assume. Not the church nor the government can do anything about it. No opportunities, no jobs, security issues...this is sad," Binyamen said in an interview with Al Arabiya English.
Given the over 85 percent decrease in the population since 1987, Iraqi Christian Archbishop Bashar Warda says if "nothing changes in the current trajectory" there is a "real possibility" of extinction.
"The [Catholic] Church will never abandon Iraq, but the people can only take so much. They need to be able to see a future for their children," said Warda, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, in an interview with Al Arabiya English.
Warda is a leader among Iraq’s Chaldeans, the country’s largest Christian sect, who recognize the authority of the pope. The community traces their roots back to the first century AD.
"My fear lies in losing our ancient church identity, our language, and our uniqueness," Matti Sogheetha, a Chaldean Christian in Iraq, told Al Arabiya English. Chaldeans and other denominations in Iraq, like Syriac Christian and Assyrian Christian, speak languages similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.
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After days of continuous rocket fire launched from #Gaza at Israel and an escalation of terror attacks on the Gaza border, the Erez Crossing will be closed immediately with the exception of humanitarian movements and the Gaza fishing zone will be closed until further notice. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/iJ1z7giro1
#BREAKING PIJ spokesman Abu Hamza : “We notified the occupation that we stopped the fire but the enemy did not stop , we now declare that we will continue the fire as a response to this crime” #Israel#Gaza
National Liberation Brigades claims it attacked an Israeli military force near Beit Hanoun crossing with RPG rockets and in the resulting clash one of its fighters is injured
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ‐ An Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into the Wild" book and movie.
Alaska State Troopers say the five Italians were rescued Saturday from a camp they set up after visiting the dilapidated bus on the Stampede Trail near the interior town of Healy.
The hikers were found 13 miles from the trailhead, Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain said. He didn’t know how far they were from the bus.
One of the hikers had frostbite to his feet and was transported to Fairbanks for treatment, DeSpain said. The hiker’s injuries are not considered life-threatening. The other four hikers were picked up by friends in Healy.
Rescuers were alerted by the hikers with a satellite-based emergency device that notified the International Emergency Response Coordination Center of a medical emergency, troopers said. That international group then notified rescuers, who reached the site by snowmobile, DeSpain said.
The rescue was the latest episode involving the bus, first made famous by Jon Krakauer’s book published in 1996 and then by Sean Penn’s 2007 film of the same name. Both fueled a lingering mystique about a young idealist, Christopher McCandless, who met his death from starvation in the bus, which is about 10 miles north of the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve.
Over the years, some hikers have been rescued and others have died while trying to retrace McCandless’ last steps.
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Late summer or fall hiking to the bus highly recommended. Dress accordingly, even in the summer the nights can get a bit nippy, or simply order the book from Amazon.
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People high in the personality trait Openness are entranced by the idiot Treadwell. To them he represents excitement and new experiences. To the rest of us he's a moron who got eaten by bears.
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So they read the book, or seen the movie, and still went there unprepared?
Sounds like they are more Idiot that Italian.
I think I saw the movie. Not that good - the guy ate something that effectively shut down his digestive system. He could not get out because the ever or stream was too full.
In August 1992 I was flying my plane from Anchorage to NW Alaska. The weather was low and I could not fly west of Denali, so I flew up the Parks Highway and did a shortcut northwest and headed toward Tanana on the Yukon River. It was overcast and I must have been flying 700 feet above the ground. I saw the bus about 3/4 of a mile away to my right as I passed. Little did I know that McCandless was laying there in the bus, dying. That is not unusual in Alaska.
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...bias toward Trump administration the Constitution.
FIFY, Sonia. Yet one more example of why we must reelect the Trumpster. IMHO a donk president opening the border gates and appointing more hard left nutcases like Sonia or RBG would spell the end of the Republic.
#Pakistan begins quarantining at least 200 people near the Iranian border, officials say, as fears spiraled over the growing toll from the #coronavirus in the region amid allegations of a cover-up in #Iran.https://t.co/M2sEHG7E49
First Coronavirus Case Reported in Afghanistan
[ToloNews] Ferozuddin Feroz, minister of public health, on Monday during a press conference in Kabul confirmed the first coronavirus case in western Herat province, which borders Iran.
No wonder President Trump was furious that the State Department functionaries had deliberately and with intent flouted his direct order on the subject. One hopes they were all fired, or something nearly as attention getting, immediately thereafter — seconded to the nursing staff, perhaps.
We won’t know until we can look back after it’s all over, so all we can do is look at the definition and remember for later.
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actually over 80k as of a few hours ago
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The good news is that most reports only mention confirmed cases. Many of these (except in Wuhan and now outside of China) are now recovered. For example: Chongqing, Mainland China
Confirmed: 576
Deaths: 6
Recovered: 349
Existing: 221
Most people recover from it if they seek care.
In Iran there were 61 infections and 15 deaths as of early today (their time). We had some speculation yesterday on this. Grom thought medicine and care was being reserved for VIPs. I speculated that either the strain of the virus in Iran is particularly lethal or the population infected had a lot of people with pre-existing problems or heavy smokers or people taking drugs intravenously.
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@garth, exactly right. China got little lucky in the the infections happened in big cities with at least some resources. If this becomes a rural/stone age area disease, it will be a mess. But then, that cruise ship is an unholy mess, and it's not exactly third world.
but I'm pretty sure the Diamond Princess had a lot of people in their 70s and 80s based on the typical demographics of expensive cruises and the older you are the more likely you have some sort of condition that makes you vulnerable
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Seems like something around 2% fatality (deaths vs recovered); Projects to around 30 million ultimate deaths, given 40-50% eventually catch it. Something like 1000 times more than the flu (despite what Rush Limbaugh said.) (Maybe less if report of Asians being twice as susceptible as Westerners is correct.)
Not sure how much treatment will help - I doubt a whole lot of specialty anti-viral drugs are being used, even in Chinese urban centers.
Reports from several places of vaccines having been developed, despite initial reports such would not even be possible (did not hear/do not recall why not.) Given speed of mutation of similar viruses vaccine probably would not maintain effectiveness for long (mutations might be less bad, or worse...) Scary reports that recovery does not generate immunity - wonder if that's because the re-infection is a different mutation?
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Maybe you all are correct that the sky is falling, but when I see simple extrapolations like the above calculations -- one-two-three ... and there-you-have-it, a gazillion! -- I tend to think of internet startup pitchmen and their billion-dollar ideas.
Maybe. Most likely not.
Case in point: the 30 million deaths calculation above using a 2% mortality rate assumption also takes as "given [that] 40-50% [will] eventually catch it."
You mean to say that 3 billion people will be exposed to this virus? 3 BILLION? Really?
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There is a reason they have the term cold & flu season and everything about Coronavirus fits the cold & flu pattern of spreading and such. Any extrapolated numbers that carry this into the spring are questionable.
SARS died out as warmer weather came in 2003 and it is closely related to COVID-19 but unfortunately we don't actually know why SARS died out in the warmer weather because we don't really understand this stuff. We can hope, although the spread of the infection to places in the tropics is not a good sign.
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I'm with Lex and RJS on this.
#FakeNews peddles fear. Fear sells media consumption and hinders the ability to draw conclusions without prejudice. Fear helps control.
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Lex, best analogue to me seems to be the 1918 influenza, which supposedly infected 1/3 of the world and had a 2.5% mortality rate. This seems to have a longer pre-symptomatic contagious period and in our far more mobile society could easily infect more than the 33% of that influenza. It's been a while since I read Barry's book on that - probably worth a re-read now.
75 years today, AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured what may be the most famous photograph of World War II: an image of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. https://t.co/KAttd29gXxpic.twitter.com/IWstrQh7Mn
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...SecNav James Forrestal, aboard one of the command ships offshore with the USMC leadership, watched the flag going up through binoculars. According to legend, he said, "Gentlemen, that flag means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years."
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Found this and thought it was appropriate to share. Some real 1984-style "memory hole" going on here, paid for by our tax dollars. This rewriting history is what Winston was employed to do by Big Brother.
Long. Wikileaks links, so we won’t post them here where some could get into trouble with their employers for seeing things they aren’t cleared for. You all can decide whether or not this is Redditers getting overexcited.
[Reddit] Like most intel agencies, the CIA never comments when their activities are exposed. That doesn't mean they don't care. Sometimes they care enough to plant stories in mainstream media to edit the historical record.
Here's a look at one such attempt, which also highlights why primary-source archives (like WikiLeaks) are critically important.
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I simply choose to believe absolutely none of this.
[NYPOST] A trail runner crawled for almost 11 hours in freezing temperatures while wearing just shorts and a light shirt after breaking a leg in a remote national park in Washington.
Joseph Oldendorf told KIRO-TV that he had already run 12 miles through a snowy trail in Olympic National Forest when he slipped on ice and his tibia "completely snapped off."
"I didn’t want my family to hear I died in the wilderness. I think it’d be unbearable," Oldendorf said as he showed off gruesome wounds to his knees from his hospital bed in Seattle.
"I just figured this is my only chance ‐ I’m going to crawl all the way there."
Wearing only light running gear ‐ despite below-freezing temperatures ‐ Oldendorf crawled for almost seven hours before getting cellphone service ‐ and then another four hours to finally reach rescuers.
"I had to crawl on all fours ... after a while my knees were just raw," he said of the "rocky, snowy, dirty, wet trail."
They got so bad, he even tried putting his shoes on his knees as he crawled to "at least have some traction and a little bit of protection."
"But they’re still really messed up," he said.
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[BREITBART] Tamaulipas ‐ Cartel button men carried out out a successful drive-by attack on a Mexican military building. The building is located just a few blocks from an international bridge that connects the border city of Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas. One Mexican marine sustained a serious injury in his back during the attack.
The attack took place on Thursday afternoon outside the Mexican Navy building in Matamoros when a group of button men riding in a white sedan fired an AR-15 rifle multiple times at the front of the building before speeding away. During the attack, gunfire struck one Mexican Marine in his back area.
The attack set off a large deployment of Mexican soldiers, Mexican Marines, and state and federal police who carried out a manhunt in an attempt to locate the button men. A Mexican military helicopter overflew the area where the attack took place in an attempt to locate the button men. Authorities found the vehicle utilized by the cartel button men near the intersection of 9th and Galeana streets. Authorities cordoned off the area while they combed through the vehicle.
The border city of Matamoros had experienced several weeks of relative peace, however, as Breitbart Texas has reported, in recent days, the city has had several cases of shootings, kidnappings, and other cases of violence sparking concern among locals.
An Algerian prosecutor is seeking a year’s prison sentence for Fodil Boumala, a leading figure in the country’s protest movement, according to an advocacy group.https://t.co/9FwHiTAUXv
Taiwan was trying to spin one of China's space mission on twitter the other day and the video they showed was obviously created in the KSP video game. Kerbal Space Program
Script kiddies all over the place nowadays.
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[Beitbart] Limbaugh: Coronavirus Being ‘Weaponized’ to Bring Down Trump Can we hold that thought? Might want to give this one a little more time in the oven before labeling "Rush wrong."
He continued, “The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. The drive-by media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, ‘Oh my God, if you get it, you’re dead,’ do you know what the — I think the survival rate is Ninety-eight percent. Ninety-eight percent of people who get the coronavirus survive. It’s a respiratory system virus. It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized. All superpower nations weaponize bioweapons. They experiment with them. The Russians, for example, have weaponized fentanyl. Now fentanyl is also not what it is represented to be.”
He added, “I’m not trying to get you to let your guard down. Nobody wants to get any of this stuff. I mean, you never —I hate getting the common cold. You don’t want to get the flu. It’s miserable. But we’re not talking about something here that’s going to wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there. This is a classic illustration of how media coverage — even if this media coverage isn’t stacked — even if this just the way media normally does things. This is a hyped, panic-filled version. Exactly how the media deals with these things to create audience, readership, interest, clicks what have you.” It's not like a cold, it's an extremely infectious virus, as pointed out in one of the first dozen or so comments from the Rush article. And the mortality rate seems to be in excess of 10%.
He's dealing with the mucked-up numbers of the Chinese (caried by the MSM), where deaths divided by infections gives you 1-3%. Yet the correct statistic, dividing deaths by the sum of deaths and those that are completely clear, seems in excess of 10%, perhaps much more.
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One of the President's major campaign running points is the success he has enabled our economy to achieve. If the cost of US pharmaceuticals skyrockets, it won't be good for the Orange Man's economy. If the virus 'tanks' the world economy, this will certainly impact his campaign as well.
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It's a race against the pandemic. 8 months till the election, but in reality the ripple effect on the economy requires significant lead time - at least one quarter.
So OrangeMan basically has a grace period until maybe end of June or so.
If the economy can hang in there for 4 more months, he'll be re-elected.
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The problems with pharmaceutical costs stem from patent abuse and regulation being designed to offer job security to bureaucrats rather than cures to patients.
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1. State is ordered not to send back passengers with the active virus.
2. State contract aircraft with special isolation section
3. State sends infected passengers to the US
Just a mistake like the FISA applications. Sorry, but Rush is right on this one.
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I think Rush is wrong; I think the bureaucracy/American mandarinate is going to purposefully mismanage this into a local pandemic in an attempt to win the cold civil war in one fell swoop, and turn around and blame Trump at the same time.
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It is a flu. One that is worse than the normal flu as this causes viral pneumonia and allows secondary infections that can shut down organs.
While it isn't the black death, even with a 1% mortality rate in western nations where only the older, younger and chronically sick are hit the hardest we can still see hundreds of thousands if not a million deaths.
The virus isn't the worst part or the most dangerous. It is the panic that comes with it and the shutdown of life and the economy.
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I worry that the bureaucrats are letting it in and undertesting to kill lots of people with the result of crashing the economy and getting bernie, among other things. Or some guy like butty-gig, who's probably just as bad as bernie.
Obama was much better at putting a nice face on the communism and sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran.
All the dems are basically nicer versions of Bernie. Even Bloomberg. He isn't suing millions of blue collar workers out of a job because he Lurves Capitalism, guys, it's a Cloward-Piven pivot.
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USA needs to set up a few Ellis Island type entry point for infected or possibly infected. You have to let Americans come home, but you can't just let them go anywhere until we are sure they are clear.
I'm sure a few military bases could provide runways, hospitals, and barracks facilities for this kind of thing.
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There's already 7 or 10 military bases designated and being setup to handle returning Americans exposed to this. All this crap about Trump ignoring it is just that crap. He's doing what can be done at this stage. And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk. I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.
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And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk.
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I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.
They've been irrationally stupid since 2016. Scorched earth is the strategy or in other terms - if I can't have it no one can. See - numerous cases of useless restraining orders failing to stop a spouse from killing his/her 'loved ones'. Power and control are a powerful drug and withdraw has dangerous side effects and not just for the abuser.
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Sorry folks, this bird has flown. What we see now is mostly useless security kabuki that won't stop the virus, just like you won't stop the common influenza virus.
We better deal with it the same way and go about our daily lives.
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#France is looking at options to help #Lebanon recover from its financial crisis, including an @IMFNews program if Beirut seeks one, says Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.https://t.co/7YmwoZRaUW
The devil on my shoulder suggests that just waiting a few weeks until coronavirus ravages Lebanon and Syria... could leave positive investment options easier for France to sift through and discover.
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France could pay much of their debts, it is not much compared to the French debt.
The #US warns it will do everything possible “to deter the Shia militias” aligned to #Iran from attacking US interests in #Iraq, saying the Iranian regime should take these warnings “seriously” in the aftermath of the killing of #QassemSoleimani. https://t.co/L3NpVbev58
[TheStreet] Working with health authorities in China, Gilead Sciences has initiated two clinical trials of coronavirus.
One of the studies is evaluating remdesivir in patients with confirmed disease who have developed more severe clinical complications like a requirement for supplemental oxygen. The other study is evaluating the drug in coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized but are not displaying significant manifestations of the disease.
The drug is available to patients through compassionate use requests that must be submitted by the patient's treating physician.
Gilead Sciences, Inc., is an American biotechnology company that researches, develops and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi. Wikipedia Stock price: GILD (NASDAQ) $72.90 +3.20 (+4.59%)
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Nothing new
Doctors in Thailand stated weeks ago they using HIV meds successfully
Remember last week they found this virus was manipulated with HIV proteins
[ALMASDARNEWS] Several soldiers from the Ottoman Turkish Army were reportedly killed or maimed this afternoon following the joint Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s launched by the Syrian and Russian air forces in the Idlib Governorate.
According to pro-opposition media, as many as ten Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed or maimed as a result of the joint Russian-Syrian airstrikes near the town of Kansafra.
Furthermore, opposition activists claimed that several Ottoman Turkish military vehicles were destroyed because of these strikes.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense has yet comment on these claims; however, if true, this could put the Ottoman Turkish military’s corpse count over 20 in the past week.
At the same time, the Ottoman Turkish-backed gunnies from the National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... NLF), alongside their jihadist allies, are currently trying to capture the town of Nayrab from the Syrian Army.
A source from the Syrian Army said that Ottoman Turkish artillery has targeted their positions around Nayrab and that they are currently confronting the bad boys.
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[38 North] North Korea was notably among the first countries to announce a closure of its border due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in neighboring China. On January 21, Pyongyang notified tourism companies that it would not allow foreign tourists to enter the country. A few days later, it expanded travel restrictions, barring all travel in and out of the country and then suspending flights from both China and Russia. It has also expanded its compulsory quarantine of foreigners already in the country from 15 days to 30 days, which is set to end on March 1.
To properly assess the current situation, especially for a country like North Korea, it is important to develop a baseline understanding of what is and is not out of the ordinary about this response. To this end, the Ebola quarantine of 2014 and the SARS quarantine in 2003 provide perhaps the best sources of comparison.
The COVID-19 response stands out for how rapid and how far-reaching the travel restrictions and quarantine measures are. It also demonstrates an increasingly aggressive approach to an established response to potential public health crises in the country and illustrates the DPRK’s strong inclination towards a “control first” political culture, that is, to increase restrictions while formulating difficult policies.
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Wiki - In 1932, Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (石井四郎 Ishii Shirō), chief medical officer of the Japanese Army and protégé of Army Minister Sadao Araki was placed in a command of the Army Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory (AEPRL). Ishii organized a secret research group, the "Tōgō Unit", for various chemical and biological experimentation in Manchuria. Ishii had proposed the creation of a Japanese biological and chemical research unit in 1930, after a two-year study trip abroad, on the grounds that Western powers were developing their own programs.
One of Ishii's main supporters inside the army was Colonel Chikahiko Koizumi, who later became Japan's Health Minister from 1941 to 1945. Koizumi had joined a secret poison gas research committee in 1915, during World War I, when he and other Imperial Japanese Army officers became impressed by the successful German use of chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres, in which the Allies suffered 5,000 deaths and 15,000 wounded as a result of the chemical attack.[9][10]
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania college student survived a roughly 80-foot plunge off a cliff near a site called Breakneck Bridge in a township called Slippery Rock, according to reports. Can't say she wasn't warned...
Jocie Van Kirk, 21, was walking with four other people when she fell Sunday afternoon near the Breakneck Bridge in McConnells Mill State Park in Lawrence County, WTAE reports.
Van Kirk was plucked from the bottom of the cliff in a rescue basket before being airlifted to a hospital in Pittsburgh. She was alert and conscious at the time, the station reports.
It’s unclear what immediately preceded Van Kirk’s fall, but the area is marked by many ledges and slippery areas, authorities told WPXI.
"If you’re not familiar with the area, you could slip and fall off a ledge or if you get too close to a ledge trying to take pictures and things like that," Slippery Rock Township Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bill Lunn told the station. "Try to pay attention to where you’re at and when in doubt, stay back a little bit." Breakneck Bridge near Slipper Rock....? "Keep your dogs on leash and do not leave the designated hiking trails." Were there danger signs as well ?
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Empowerment! Curses and purses,
Cute pictures on crags and traverses!
"Dude, spare us the sermon.
Why'd Gaya made firemen
And copters and CAT scans and surgeons?"
Little poetastic license there in the interest of, um, scansion.
[BREITBART] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than $18 million worth of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana in a single drug smuggling incident.
Rio Grande Valley Sector officers assigned to the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility observed a tractor-trailer approaching from Mexico for entry inspection before entering the United States, according to information obtained from CBP officials in South Texas. The officers referred the driver of the rig hauling a shipment of fresh broccoli to a secondary inspection station for further scrutiny.
Officers checked the trailer with a non-intrusive imaging system which led to the discovery of a large number of unusual packages based upon the cargo manifest. The officers followed up with a physical search of the trailer which led to the recovery of 432 packages believed to be filled with narcotics, officials reported.
The officers removed the packages and began testing to determine the type of drugs being smuggled into Texas. They found 341 of the packages tested positive for methamphetamine. The meth weighed nearly 900 pounds and had an estimated street value of $18 million, officials stated.
Officers also found 87 packages of marijuana weighing more than 200 pounds with an estimated value of about $40,000. They also found three packages containing heroin which weighed 8.82 pounds ($353,000 estimated value) and one package of cocaine weighing 3.31 pounds ($25,500 estimated value).
"This was truly a notable seizure in the commercial environment," Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Port of Hidalgo/Pharr/ Anzalduas, said in a written statement. "Our officers’ ability to maintain an excellent enforcement posture while keeping trade flowing and uninterrupted is one of our main priorities."
The case is now being investigated by ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents. CBP officials seized the drugs and the tractor-trailer. Officials provided no information about the driver of the rig
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Just an aside item. I understand in 2-3 weeks the State Police in Maryland will have a breathalyzer test for pot.Just blow and you don't go if you have smoked within eight hours of driving your vehicle. Fines are 2-3 times that for DUI. They have had a loop hole to work around before this test. The fines I am not privy to but at least as bad as DUI. No more smoke filled cars.
[NYPOST] A thief wearing a burqa and armed with a spray bottle made off with nearly $1 million worth of necklaces and watches from a Hudson Yards jeweler on Sunday, police sources said.
The bling bandit, a man dressed in a burqa covering most of his face, walked into the luxury Piaget jewelry store at around 3:55 p.m. and asked to look at a necklace, sources and police officials said.
As the clerk pulled out the necklace, priced at about $21,000, he noticed the man was holding onto one of the store’s watches, according to sources.
When the employee questioned the soon-to-be thief, he whipped out the spray bottle and squirted it in the clerk’s direction before running out of the store, with the necklace and two watches ‐ one priced at $64,000, and the other $715,000 ‐ in tow, police sources said.
Piaget, where some watches are so expensive that the price is not even displayed online, valued the loss at around $800,600, sources added.
The suspect could not be identified because the head covering ‐ typically worn by women in some Moslem cultures ‐ concealed most of his face, police sources said.
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Hudson Yards kind of deserves this one. You have multiple five and six figure pieces of swag in the shop and no security guards? Shame on them, and I'll bet their insurance company's going to say the same thing.
Not as special as all that, if they were wiped out by Syrian regulars.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist special forces attempted to storm the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions in the Idlib Governorate recently, resulting in heavy losses for the murderous Moslems.
In a video released on Saturday via Telegram, several jihadist corpses were filmed by Syrian Army news hounds inside the Idlib Governorate.
The jihadists were in possession of new equipment and battle fatigues, which had some observers confused about whether or not they were actually Ottoman Turkish military personnel.
In the past, the jihadist special forces have carried out attacks behind the Syrian Arab Army’s lines; however, this is one of the first times that one of their operations ended in complete disaster, leaving many of them killed or maimed.
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As GEN Dayan said, the secret to his success was fighting Arab armies.
[ALMASDARNEWS] It is going to be a long night for the jihadist rebels in southern Idlib, as they continue to lose several sites to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of the governorate.
According to the latest report from the Idlib front, the Syrian Arab Army has captured more towns and villages near Kafr Sijnah amid the complete collapse of the jihadist defenses in the southern part of this governorate.
Among the areas captured by the Syrian Arab Army this evening was the town of Ma’ar Taseen, which was seized by the military approximately two hours ago.
In addition to Ma’ar Taseen, the Syrian Army has also captured nearby Jabla and Ma’ar Tamatar in the heart of the Jabal al-Zawiya region.
The Syrian Arab Army is now steadily advancing towards the town of Kafr Nabl, which is one of the last holy warrior strongholds inside Jabal al-Zawiya.
Should the jihadist rebels lose the Jabal al-Zawiya region, this will be a major blow to their forces in Idlib, as the Syrian Army will essentially be in control of most of the Aleppo-Latakia Highway (M-4).
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... made new military deployments to the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Monday as festivities intensify between conflicting parties in the region, according to a war monitor which also reported fresh military deployments to the province by Ankara.
Turkey has set up four new targets observation posts in Idlib province in addition to the current 12 in the area, according to the British-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
"Reliable source informed SOHR that Ottoman Turkish forces set up four new military posts in Idlib province, in Ehsim, Kansafrah, and between Kansafrah and al-Bara and near Bssamis, all located in southern countryside of Idlib," SOHR reported.
Turkey has increased its presence in northwest Syria after more than a dozen of its soldiers were killed by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied groups in early February, pushing Ankara to deploy more than 3,000 armored vehicles and some 7,600 soldiers to Idlib and the neighbouring province of Aleppo, SOHR added.
North Press Agency (NPA), a media outlet with close ties to the Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria also reported the new Ottoman Turkish observation posts.
Ottoman Turkish media reported the deployment of a 50-vehicle Ottoman Turkish convoy to Idlib on Monday, accompanied by members of pro-Turkey groups.
Several Ottoman Turkish outposts are now surrounded by regime forces - which has prompted threats from Ankara of a new offensive if Damascus does not withdraw by the end of the month.
Damascus has made huge gains in its recent attacks against HTS and Ottoman Turkish-backed groups, recapturing some 111 villages and towns - according to SOHR. They have also regained control of the M5 highway ‐ a crucial route linking the capital city of Damascus to Aleppo.
The latest regime gains have worried Turkey, which carried out new ground attacks on Monday targeting the regime-held town of Nayrab in eastern Idlib.
Pro-Ottoman Turkish groups now claim to have regained control of the town, SOHR reported on Monday evening.
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[Business Insider] Retired US Navy Adm. William McRaven, former head of US Special Operations Command, has delivered fierce criticisms of President Donald Trump in several opinion columns published in The New York Times and Washington Post.
McRaven's 36-year military career was marked by several high-profile accomplishments, including his leadership role in Operation Neptune Spear, targeting al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in 2011.
He retired from the Navy in 2014 and became the chancellor of the University of Texas system in 2015. Two years later, he said he would leave that job, citing health concerns.
McRaven has written several bestselling books about leadership, including "Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life ... And Maybe the World" and "Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations."
McRaven has taken issue with Trump's policies and demeanor throughout his presidency, writing several striking opinion columns and criticizing him in interviews. While it is not uncommon for retired military officers to speak for or against a sitting president, McRaven's comments have attracted significant attention due to his seniority and service.
Trump has responded by denigrating McRaven's military service and accusing him of being politically biased, calling the retired admiral a "Hillary Clinton fan" and an "Obama backer" during a Fox News interview in November.
"Wouldn't it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that? Wouldn't it have been nice?" Trump said.
McRaven has said he "did not back Hillary Clinton or anyone else" during the 2016 presidential election and denied reports he was on the short list to be Clinton's vice presidential running mate.
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McRaven should be prosecuted for creating a pro Taliban climate in Afghanistan by killing huge numbers of civilians via JSOC with Obama's blessings during after their weekly Terror Tuesdays meetings.
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I think McRaven is part of the globalist cabal that Obumble and HILLARY! are part of. Trump is pulling the US out of the globalist camp and McRaven is butthurt about it.
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That would be the same Osama hit team that was kept in country and setup for kill weeks later? Who made the decision to not move them out after the hit?
[Reuters] With virus cases rising in Italy and several Middle Eastern countries dealing with their first infections, fears of a global pandemic sent markets into a tailspin, even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities.
Clorox Co, a supplier of bleach and other cleaning products, was one of the top percentage gainers in the S&P 500 and one of two stocks in positive territory in the consumer staples sector, which tends to be seen as a relatively safe bet even in a weak economy.
Other outperformers in the staples sector included tissue maker Kimberly-Clark and food suppliers such as Hormel Foods, and Campbell Soup Co as investors bet on rising demand in the event consumers have to prepare to stay at home if the virus keeps spreading.
"These products are going to be more in use than others in the group given the spreading of the virus. It’s a knee-jerk reaction," said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Investment Management in Chicago though he said it was too early to say whether consumers would end up stockpiling anything.
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT)? Yes, but probably little more than a coincidence.
[Department of Justice] The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment today with one count each of visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.
Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.
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.
[PJMedia] Joe Walsh, the one-term Tea Party congressman swept into office by the 2010 conservative wave, has taken his NeverTrumpism to comic new lows with his Conserving Conservatism™ endorsement of Bernie Sanders on Twitter this weekend.
[American Military News] U.S. Africa Command conducted another precision airstrike in Somalia on Monday and successfully killed one Al-Shabaab terrorist.
[Garden and Gun] Steeped in history, this year Charleston is celebrating its 350th anniversary and every inch of the Holy City is humming with charm, hospitality, and wonder. The diversity of Charleston permeates all walks of life, from the world-class food scene and cultural institutions to perhaps the most important choice of all: where to lay your head at night. Want to experience a classic antebellum mansion? It’s here. The austere sleekness of the finest boutique hotels? It’s here. Or maybe it’s a place where your children (and your own inner child) can flip-flop between the ocean and the pool under the warmth of the afternoon sun. You’ll find that here, too. Whether you prefer a historic gem, a beachfront retreat, or an urban escape, your perfect stay awaits.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐Things were not looking good for Harvey Weinstein as a judge found him guilty of rape and sexual assault Monday.
...Arabic for 
[American Thinker] Bernie Sanders has always had a soft spot for Fidel Castro and the communist dictatorship the latter created. But instead of keeping it to himself and off the air, he went all out to praise Cuba's brutal regime for its phony "literacy" and "free" health care on 60 Minutes. Now Florida's Democrats are panicking.
[Washington Examiner] A Republican senator says it's time for the Chinese Communist Party to reveal what it knows about the new coronavirus after the country's state-run newspaper reported that the mystery illness may not have originated from a seafood market in Wuhan.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[TOWNHALL] Taxpayers in Maryland are funding anti-Trump history lessons that compare the president to the Soviets and Nazis. An unidentified teacher(s) inserted the propaganda into a slide show used in an advanced placement history class at Loch Raven High School in the city of Towson, according to the 
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
[FOXNEWS] A small Maryland enclave known as the "Berkeley of the East" has devised a bold climate plan that would ban gas stoves, leaf blowers and water heaters, according to a report.
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday accepted for hearing a petition to stop the Aurat March 2020, scheduled to be held on March 8, and summoned Additional Director Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency and Deputy Inspector General Operations on February 27.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] When ISIS took over the Nineveh plains in northern Iraq in 2014, terrorized Christian residents fled in fear of their lives.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ‐ An Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into the Wild" book and movie.
Late summer or fall hiking to the bus highly recommended. Dress accordingly, even in the summer the nights can get a bit nippy, or simply order the book from Amazon. 
[BREITBART] Tamaulipas ‐ Cartel 
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[38 North] North Korea was notably among the first countries to announce a closure of its border due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in neighboring China. On January 21, Pyongyang notified tourism companies that it would not allow foreign tourists to enter the country. A few days later, it expanded travel restrictions, barring all travel in and out of the country and then suspending flights from both China and Russia. It has also expanded its compulsory quarantine of foreigners already in the country from 15 days to 30 days, which is set to end on March 1.
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania college student survived a roughly 80-foot plunge off a cliff near a site called Breakneck Bridge in a township called Slippery Rock, according to reports.
[BREITBART] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than $18 million worth of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana in a single drug smuggling incident.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[Reuters] With virus cases rising in Italy and several Middle Eastern countries dealing with their first infections, fears of a global pandemic sent markets into a tailspin, even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities.
