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Microsoft are like crack peddlers. One silly thing will pop out at you every few weeks;
"You just have to get this update ! It fixes an issue that someone could exploit to compromise your bladder remotely and force you to urinate at inopportune moments !"
Just uncheck everything and close it and you never have any problems. Win10 doesn't allow you to turn off the fucking updater. At least mine doesn't. I have to tell it 'I'll select which updates I want', then uncheck everything it shows is absolutely necessary. Little bastard still takes a lot of bandwidth in the background.
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Linux is free. I use Debian with the xfce4 desktop, which is kinda-sorta like the Apple desktop. All the software I use is free.
My wife uses Win10. Every time I have to do something on her machine I end up cursing.
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I have a Win 10 laptop that I had to buy because we needed to submit an invoice to Microsoft, and, get this, it could only be done with Windows. And not with the new Edge browser, but only with the old IE. To quote a MS exec on the line during the resulting problem solving, "We really need to do something about this."
So, I don't use it much, like once every few months for business sites that can't handle Mac.
As soon as I start it up, it starts downloading massive updates I have a dsl that runs about 1.5 Mbit. The Win laptop takes all 100% of that and everything else grinds to a halt. So, I have to power it off and try again when I go to bed.
In the AM it's not done. Continue the next night. Last time it took three days and infinite reboots to get the thing updated.
Updating Linux never takes more than a couple of hours, assuming I haven't done it lately. But usually, I have my Linux boxes on auto update and they run in the middle of the night and never cause problems.
You can't schedule update downloads in Win 10, only delay the reboots to the night. How nice of them. Anytime it discovers an update is available, it starts to download it and I have to power it off to preserve domestic tranquility.
[Jpost] The IDF has found the body of a Palestinian suspected of wounding an Israeli soldier in a shooting attack earlier this month.
The man’s body was found on Monday in tangled vegetation in a wadi with an M-16 rifle and a handgun, the IDF said in a statement.
...The Palestinian is suspected of a shooting attack earlier this month near the Parsa Junction outside the Dolev settlement, northwest of Ramallah. Troops returned fire and launched a manhunt to find him.
The soldier’s head was grazed by a bullet, and he sustained a light wound. He was evacuated to Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, fully conscious.
[Zero] Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a rising star in the Democratic Party. A mere year ago, few could have picked him out of a police lineup. Now he’s the presumptive front-runner of the centrist faction of the party and ‐ for the moment, at least ‐ the most likely person for "Stop Bernie" forces to coalesce around.
But few know much about him, if anything. His personal biography seems to revolve around two data points. First, that he’s a gay Christian. Second, that he’s a former Navy intelligence officer.
Mayor Pete likes to talk a lot about his deployment to Afghanistan (more on that later), but he also spent some time in Iraq when he was working for McKinsey and Company as an energy, retail, economic development, and logistics consultant. He makes a passing reference to having been in a "safe house in Iraq" in 2007, in his memoir Shortest Way Home. Indeed, Buttigieg spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan while he was working with McKinsey and Company. This time period (2007-2010) also overlaps with his time as a Naval intelligence officer (2009-2017).
McKinsey isn’t just any global management consulting firm. They have a contract with the Department of Defense as part of a broader Task Force on Business and Stability Operations. This project was criticized by Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum in 2011, as an inappropriate use of military resources. Why, after all, is the military being used to create an attractive investment and growth environment for American companies? One of the tasks carried out by the task force was to help Kate Spade source raw materials for her handbags.
In 2009, McKinsey was given an $18.6 million contract that expanded their work from Afghanistan into Iraq.
Pete refuses to answer questions about what he was doing with McKinsey during this period, citing a non-disclosure agreement that’s over 10 years old. What we do know, however, is that Buttigieg was stationed in Herat Province for part of his resumé-building tour of duty, where McKinsey was also very active.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of dots to connect here, but the dots we have are worth noticing. Just like it’s worth noticing that Buttigieg found time to volunteer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Pat Bauer’s Indiana gubernatorial campaign, and enlist in the United States Navy ‐ all while he was still working at his high-powered consulting gig with McKinsey. He finally left McKinsey in 2010, when he launched his losing bid for Indiana State Treasurer.
The latter of the two has not had any significant scrutiny. When "Mayor Pete’s" military record is subjected to even the slightest bit of observation, however, some disturbing facts and damning questions begin to leap out. The question at the bottom continues to be: Who is Pete Buttigieg?
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The Hunt for Pink November, or, "Pardon me tutu!" (apologies to you appallingly patient, indulgent LG-blah-blah Burgers)
High over Afghanistan, dreamin'
Of Russian macguffins, the B-man,
Pete Davidson: "Fark,
What is THAT, Noah's ark?
Sir, I'll betcha the thing's full of seamen!"
[Federalist] Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and other Democratic senators had a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerryand similar exemplars of Merkin values... during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference. Murphy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment by press time.
Such a meeting would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they prepared for Trump’s administration. In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia.
“Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – even during a transition period – may be illegal and must be taken seriously,” Murphy said in 2017 after anonymous leaks of Flynn’s phone call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kisylak were published. He also strongly criticized the open letter some Republican senators sent Iranian leaders during the Obama administration’s campaign for a nuclear agreement.
However, Murphy has previously defended rogue meetings if they’re done by Democrats such as former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Murphy is a frequent speaker at theNational Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with alleged links to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Republican Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Ted Cruz of Texas recently asked the Department of Justice for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
[Sens. Braun, Cotton and Cruz] wrote that the influential lobbying group “purports to improve understanding between American and Iranian people but in reality seems to spread propaganda and lobby on behalf of the Iranian government.” Evidence indicates that evidence Zarif himself was involved in founding the group.
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Is the logjam/bulwark around Champ showing the first signs of a crack? This public tease clearly has a deeper meaning and purpose. Given the players, the prof needs to watch his back...
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With all the anti-Trump 'leaking' by the deep-state folks, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't a few folks in those organizations that might feel otherwise inclined.
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[WJLA] Senators voted to shelve the bill for the year and ask the state crime commission to study the issue, an outcome that drew cheers from a committee room packed with gun advocates.
Four moderate Democrats joined Republicans in Monday's committee vote, rejecting legislation that would have prohibited the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms, including popular AR-15 style rifles, and banned the possession of magazines that hold more than 12 rounds.
The Senate has now rejected three of the governor's eight gun-control measures. Moderate Democrats have already voted with Republicans to kill a bill that would make it a felony to “recklessly leave a loaded, unsecured firearm” in a way that endangers a minor, and a bill that would require gun owners to report the loss or theft of a gun to police.
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate have already advanced several other gun-control measures and should finalize passage in the coming days. Those bills include limiting handgun purchases to once a month; universal background checks on gun purchases; allowing localities to ban guns in public buildings, parks and other areas; and a red flag bill that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from anyone deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others.embers of his own party balked at the proposal.
[Mil.com] Tricare plans next week to expand its coverage of drugs used to treat premenopausal women with low sexual desire, a Tricare official said via email Thursday.
Over the last five years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two drugs to treat women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD): the daily pill Addyi in 2015, and a self-administered injection, Vyleesi, in 2019.
Tricare officials said they plan to add Vyleesi to the list of covered drugs beginning Feb. 19. Addyi is already covered.
[Lynne Olson] In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman and mother of two became leader of a vast Resistance intelligence organization ‐ the only woman to emerge as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country’s conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group’s name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah’s Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases.
The name Marie-Madeleine chose for herself was Hedgehog: unthreatening in appearance, yet a tough little animal that, as a friend of hers put it, "even a lion would hesitate to bite."
No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence, including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day, showing every German gun emplacement, fortification, and beach obstacle along the Normandy coast. The Gestapo pursued Fourcade and Alliance relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of her three thousand agents. Although Fourcade moved her headquarters every few weeks, constantly changing her hair color, clothing, and identity, she was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she escaped, once by slipping naked through the bars of her jail cell ‐ and continued to hold her network together even as it repeatedly threatened to crumble around her.
In a dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the riveting story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself.
Reviews for Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
"At the end of World War II, the triumphant Gen. Charles de Gaulle designated 1,038 people as resistance heroes. Only six of those heroes were women, and Fourcade, who ran the longest-running spy network, was not among them. In "Madame Fourcade’s Secret War," her fast-paced and impressively researched account, Lynne Olson corrects that historical injustice. Marie-Madeleine Fourcade emerges as a vivid and pivotal player in the French Resistance."
‐The New York Times Book Review | Read full review
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One of her lieutenants was a reserve officer who was on board of battleship Bretagne when the British sank her at Mers el Kebir. He came vey close to being killed ans lost many friends. However just one day after that he said to himself. "It is horrible but it is needed the Britsh win". That is beacuse he had read Mein Kampf
Posted late yesterday as a comment by our own Knuckles Spavins.
Sometimes the internet's not so bad. A while back, I notice the other Lysander pic and think, "Ah, Lysanders, of course... but how the hell do I even know that?" Fifteen minutes later, I still have no idea -- Janes forty years ago was not that memorable -- but I'm ready to take one up myself. Well, with a cheatsheet. And maybe not at night.
Shuttleworth "Pilot's Chat"
Another hour... "Well, I'd hate to wreck your lovely historic Spitfire, but if you're sure it's all right..." Thanks... and for the history and nostalgia items generally (painful poignancy of many notwithstanding).
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Duxford was great, Besoker! Had a great visit with a mechanic overhauling a Merlin V-12 engine. Saw a B-29, airworthy P-38, German fighters, prototype Concorde airliner, which I saw doing cold weather tests in January 1973 in Fairbanks. It is a fantastic museum. 5 big hangers.
There was a pub there called The John Barleycorn. Great food and drink. Even had the music and words to the song "John Barleycorn" hand written on music paper in india ink in the old style.
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Sitting in the ready room (pre-flight briefing), same chairs, chalk board, hearing engines being run-up on still active flight line just outside... lights go out, actual WWII briefing movie rolls. Goose bumps! Lots of goose bumps.
[AFP via Zero] Gunmen killed at least 24 people and wounded 18 more during an attack on a protestant church in the village of Pansi, in the north of Burkina Faso, announced the governor of the Sahel region, Colonel Salfo Kaboré.
A group of "armed terrorists" burst into the village of Pansi, in Yagha, a volatile province near the Niger border, "and attacked the peaceful local population after having identified them and separated them from non-residents," Colonel Salfo Kabore said in a statement sent to AFP.
The Sunday attack occurred during weekly church service, according to the AFP.
[National Review] Her long history of scandals and voters’ doubts about her trustworthiness would make her a risky running mate.
There’s no better evidence that Mike Bloomberg’s chances of getting the Democratic nomination are on the rise than the fact that the opportunistic Hillary Clinton is already trying to grab a piece of the action.
The Drudge Report startled the political world on Saturday by noting that "sources close to Bloomberg campaign" are "considering Hillary as running mate, after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force."
I have no doubt that Hillary wants back in, and her minions are pushing such rumors. I have no doubt that some of Bloomberg’s hundreds of staffers used to work on Hillary’s campaign and are pushing the idea internally. I also have no doubt that Mike Bloomberg is smart enough to never go for such a crazy and risky idea.
First, Mike Bloomberg needs "woke" progressives behind him and enthused enough to actually voted if he is to win a general election campaign. The last thing he should do is infuriate Bernie Sanders voters by sharing his ticket with the woman they blame for "rigging" the 2016 primaries against him. Recall that 12 percent of Sanders’s primary supporters voted for President Trump in the 2016 general election. That is according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study ‐ a massive election survey of around 50,000 people.
Second, the Democratic ticket would be on the old side with a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket. The former New York mayor will be 78 years old at the time of the election this year, and he looks it. Hillary will be 73 years old, and she has a record of not being candid with her health issues. Should something happen to both of them, the next person in line for the presidency, should she remain House speaker, would be 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi.
While they would be running against a 74-year-old incumbent president, few would question that Trump projects a vigorous persona. The Democratic Party needs an injection of youth and vitality, not a ticket with two people who barely brush the Baby Boom generation.
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Well with the #METoo issue facing Bloomberg she would either see a race with him like the good old days at Epstein Island or a chance to get some RedNeck votes.
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Notional Review is of course rooting for mini Mike. His condescending remarks about farmers and blue collar workers probably gave Kevin Williamson a spontaneous orgasm.
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Why would anyone pick Hillary for VP? That's like painting the target on your own back.
[Politico] After years of setbacks, President Donald Trump is on track to build more than 450 miles of a wall along the southern border within the year, the White House says, making good on a campaign pledge as he seeks reelection.
"The project will substantially be done by the end of the year or early next year," Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said in an interview Friday with POLITICO. "That was a promise, and it’s important that it’s now being accomplished."
[Front14.net] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‐ the only head of state in Europe who’s been willing to take any real action to stop the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe ‐ on Thursday spoke of the mounting migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border.
Following a routine inspection of Hungary’s border fence with his Slovak counterpart, Peter Pellegrini, Orbán said that Hungarian authorities have started to prepare for an expected increase in the number of organized migrant caravans attempting to enter the country illegally as the weather improves, Remix News reports.
During an impromptu press conference, Prime Minister Orbán took the opportunity to express his gratitude for Slovakia’s support, saying: "This is hard work which we would have a hard time doing without help and our allies.
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Yeah, people I know get uptight when I say that about immigration into this country from Mexico. But just because they come with women and children instead of tanks and war planes doesn't mean it's not an invasion.
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Hooray for Hungary.
Would that we had such leaders telling such truths here.
Instead of clear logic and straight talk we get Orwellian bullshit words like "undocumented" and "sanctuary cities."
BLUF:
[CSNBC] Bloomberg’s plan calls for setting a new, higher minimum benefit to prevent low-income seniors from falling below the federal poverty line.
It also calls for improving benefits for those who rely on them. Exactly how much benefits would be increased under Bloomberg’s plan was not disclosed.
To pay for benefit increases, most proposals generally call for raising the payroll tax or the wage base. The Social Security tax is currently 6.2%, or 7.65% with Medicare, which is paid by both employees and their employers. Currently, only earnings up to $137,700 are subject to those Social Security levies.
Bloomberg’s plan does not stipulate whether he would increase those thresholds. Emphasis added just above.
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Bloomingbird doesn't trust me with my own money which is why I don't trust him.
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Being the son of a farmer and also one who knows which end of a wrench to use as a hammer, I am obviously double stupid to be trusted with my own money. Oh thank you Great god bloomingdale….
[Jerusalem Post] Members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said they are baffled by the ongoing refusal of the US government to allow Jonathan Pollard to move to Israel.
"It is brought up every time we go for a meeting to the White House," Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the organization, said at a media conference in Jerusalem on Sunday prior to the opening of the annual CoP conference at the Inbal Hotel. "We have been baffled by it for years."
Pollard, 65, is a former civilian defense analyst who was released from prison in November 2015, after serving 30 years of a life sentence for passing classified material to Israel, an ally of the US.
[Babylon Bee] HARTFORD, CT‐Local high school track runner Vanessa Vogel was excited for her track meet this past weekend, having trained many months for her shot at a record and possibly a college scholarship.
But when Vogel lined up and saw a brave runner with a beard from a nearby high school, she started to doubt her ability to compete.
"You know, I have a bad feeling about this," she muttered as she lined up for the 800-meter dash. "I'm just not sure I can take this girl."
Sure enough, she was blown out despite setting her personal best.
"I just don't know if that was entirely fair," she commented afterward. "I'm all for equality and stuff, but I dunno -- the beard might have given her an advantage."
Vogel has been suspended pending an investigation into her bigotry.
[Red State] Are you tired of seeing the coup conspirators like Comey and McCabe skate justice while Trump allies get hounded to hell and back by DoJ goons and rapidly prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Are you tired of the apparent two-tiered justice system in America in which the well-connected escape justice while the rest of us are dealt with harshly?
You will NOT be comforted to know that that same two-tiered justice system is at work in the US military, too. The politically well-connected escape justice in the military, too, as evinced by recent reports that LTC Alexander Vindman, USA, is going to escape insubordination and other charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as announced by the Army this past week.
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tThis is just an aside, but when I first heard about Vindman (spit), I wondered "what the hell is a glorified major doing at the NSC? Making sure the coffee and donuts are always fresh?"
[Aljazeera] When a people are subjected to the most unimaginable forms of cruelty at the hands of a brutal regime and prominent world powers are unwilling to take any meaningful steps to stop that cruelty, where and what do they then turn to? When a tragedy strikes the government that abused them, could they be excused for believing it to be divine intervention?
The largest mass atrocity occurring in the world today, unfortunately, speaks to this sad reality.
The Uighurs and other mostly-Muslim Turkic minorities in China are being subjected to the most brutal forms of oppression and the Chinese government's so-called "re-education camps" are holding over a million of them out of sight.
To counter any criticism of its treatment of the Uighurs, China has employed a language of "de-radicalisation" that has been normalised throughout the world by repressive governments to mask their own policies of death and destruction.
While other groups that suffer under inhumane policies either at the hands of their own governments or others often find themselves championed by a competing force and score some gains while being used as a political football, the Uighurs do not seem to qualify even for that.
Last month, US President Donald Trump signed a new trade deal with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, bringing the two-year trade war between the two superpowers to an end and making his administration less willing than usual to even mention the gross human rights violations committed by the Asian giant.
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Also, as we worry about the spread of the virus, we should spare a minute to think how this new tragedy may affect the Uighurs themselves. After all, if the coronavirus was to spread through the closed, cramped camps holding scores of Uighurs, we almost certainly would never learn the full extent of their devastation.
Since they could have very likely been a targeted population, that would be my guess as well.
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Mao's recalcitrant giant,
with Fabianists non-compliant.
"They're free to eat bats,
mice, pekingese and... gnats !
But we don't suffer
the disease most defiant."
[Aljazeera] Yemen's warring sides have agreed to implement a major prisoner swap, the United Nations has said, in a breakthrough that came after another bout of heavy fighting, including air raids by a Saudi-UAE-led military coalition that killed dozens of civilians.
Sunday's announcement over the long-delayed exchange came after seven days of meetings in Jordan's capital, Amman, between the Houthi rebels and the internationally-recognised government, which is backed by the coalition.
The UN mission in Yemen said in a statement that both sides had decided to "immediately begin with exchanging the lists for the upcoming release" of prisoners, calling it the "first official large-scale" exchange of its kind since the beginning of the long-running conflict.
"Today the parties showed us that even with the growing challenges on the ground, the confidence they have been building can still yield positive results," UN envoy Martin Griffiths said.
[PJ] NASCAR fans got the show of the century on Sunday at the Daytona 500 when the grand marshal of the event, President Donald J. Trump, made his entrance by buzzing the Daytona International Speedway in Air Force One‐only 800 feet off the racetrack. Announcers called it "one of the most incredible things" ever seen.
"I've been to a lot of Daytona 500s, but never have I felt [this] excitement and energy...we've got the president landing right now!" said one of the announcers. No president has ever been the grand marshal of the Daytona 500. Look at this photo!
Air Force One flew low, just 800 ft above the massive crowd gearing up to watch the 62nd running of the Daytona 500. President Donald Trump, with the First Lady, Melania Trump, took to the microphone and addressed the crowd: talking about the love of NASCAR, and the more important love of country. The tens of thousands in attendance cheered. He joked with FOX Sports about jumping in a car and racing a few laps. And after uttering the classic words of racing, he got into the presidential limo - affectionately known as "The Beast" - and led the drivers around the track.
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Thanks, but seriously, that was just (bleep)ing awesome. I'd like to see the video set to "Born To Be Wild". Mini-Mike doesn't have enough money to offset that kind of publicity -- he would definitely come up short.
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Would love to see a pic of the Lenin impersonator at the turret, gussied up like Dukakis
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Lex scowl maybe but Patton was like no other. His command of military history was almost spiritual. His death to this day I have always felt was an assassination.
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A Soviet colonel of tanks
Advanced to the front of the ranks.
He detested the Whites
And the rich and the right,
Sneaky allies, their friends, and... the banks.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) on Wednesday said Congress is not doing its job of redistributing income in a fair way.
"We know Congress isn't doing its job to redistribute income in any way that's fair to hundreds of millions of Americans, we know that," Brown said during a hearing at the Senate Banking Committee. I don't recall that in the Constitution?
"Senator McConnell and the president have refused to raise the minimum wage, it's been stuck for 11 years at under eight dollars," Brown said.
For eight of those eleven years Barack Obama was president. Did you fuss at him about it, your senatorness? He, at least, would have listened to you.
"They took away overtime for about 2 or 3 million Americans because of truncating the overtime rule, tax cuts for the rich, and now tax cuts for Medicare."
The senator's statement resembles a 2008 comment by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. An Ohio plumber named Joe Wurzelbacher asked Obama whether his taxes would increase after purchasing a business that made more than $250,000. Obama told Wurzelbacher a tax increase on people like him was a good thing. He told the Ohio voter, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Policy agendas like that of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) also call for wealth redistribution. Sanders has campaigned in support of Medicare for All, which would increase taxes for the wealthy and the middle class.
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To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability. The problem is, if they're just going to take it away from me then I have no incentive to produce any more.
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Sure they do: they take money from Chinese Gov and redistribute it into numbered Swiss accounts.
[Town Hall] - I want you to tell me, without bursting into laughter, that I am still supposed to respect our federal law enforcement institutions. I keep hearing about these wonderful keepers of norms and rules and stuff deserve our awe, and then I see the tawdry, self-serving and scummy way they operate, and gee ‐ there’s a disconnect. A big one. If the price of our society is submitting to these corrupt and incompetent people of garbage, well, then I say burn it all down.
That’s the only way to save it: to level it and start over.
Let’s review how our guardians of justice have covered themselves in glory in recent days. And by "glory," I mean "Scat Francisco sidewalk sauce."
The scumbag Democrat donors remaining in the Mueller lynch mob decided that Roger Stone, an absolutely harmless gadfly whose real crime was being aligned with Donald Trump and therefore with you, should be sent away for seven to nine years for "crimes" that the Department of Injustice promptly gave a pass on to the loathsome Andrew McCabe. This is the same institution that also gave a pass to Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, Comey the Looming Doofus, and those fugly FBI sexting twins.
...I like Bill Barr. I think he wants to do the right thing. But he needs to spare us the clichés about the hard-working and honest DOJ staff because that’s not what we see. I trust Barr, but I trust my eyes more, and all I see issuing from his Department is a flow of raw sewage. And don’t tell me "But they convicted Avenatti!" because Avenatti was not a friend to the establishment. He was a threat, an uppity outsider who smarmed his way into position to potentially cut in the line for power. Yeah, the Democrats were totally broken up for him to be taken out.
...Let Barr do his thing. Let Durham do his. I’m not going to Lucy and the football myself into believing that either one is definitely going to serve up the justice upon the Deep State derps that is the minimal requirement for beginning to rebuild the trust in federal law enforcement these hacks flushed away, but who knows? They might do something. In the meantime, we simply need to treat federal law enforcement as what it is: deeply corrupt and utterly untrustworthy.
The other thing is that the president needs to pardon Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, and the others caught up in the scummy attempt to criminalize dissent. And he should commute Paul Manafort’s sentence to time served. Time to use our power to do justice for those who are victims of injustice.
See, the stakes are high. A dual-track justice system is unsustainable in a free country. True, the Democrats behind these injustices don’t want a free country at all, but we do. If we tolerate these injustices, we won’t have one, and the bad guys are not going to like what happens next. This is how they got Trump. They have only gotten worse. Okay, well, more of this is how you get Caesar.
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What is needed is unfairness, the other way round. Absolute, crushing power in Republican hands; to turn back the tide with force. And liberal tears.
All trouble follows when in this age of mercenary activism and adamant corruption, genuinely nationalist leaders try to play nice.
'Nice never helped nobody.' - Two-Face, Batman villain
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#2 What is needed is unfairness, the other way round. Absolute, crushing power in Republican hands; to turn back the tide with force. And liberal tears.
Correct.
Not only for the sake of real social justice, but because so much damage has been done by the left that it's no longer enough to stand athwart history saying "Stop!".
We have to go in reverse -- way in reverse.
And the left needs to learn a lesson that it won't forget for generations.
Frankly "conservatism" is wholly inadequate for what needs to be done.
[IsraelTimes] A girl in Moshav Shuva east of 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 found an bomb in her yard on Sunday that appeared to have arrived via balloon from the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-controlled enclave.
The police were called and detonated the device. A very good call. "If you didn't put it down, don't pick it up."
Also on Sunday, part of Route 6 was closed to traffic by police after a suspicious object was found on the highway.
Paleostinian turbans in the Gaza Strip began flying explosive and incendiary devices into Israel using clusters of balloons and kites beginning in 2018. The practice has waxed and waned over that time, but has picked up considerably in recent weeks, with dozens of such balloon-borne bombs landing in towns and farming communities adjacent to the Paleostinian enclave.
A Hamas official told a Lebanese newspaper on Saturday that the terror group had only decided to reduce the number of incendiary balloons launched toward Israel, not stop them entirely. This came after an Israeli defense official told news hounds that Hamas had "sent messages to Israel that they’d decided unilaterally to stop launching balloons and rocket fire at Israel."
The Lebanese pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper, citing an unnamed Hamas official, said that the number of launches would be reduced only after Israel met the group’s demands.
[IsraelTimes] Media reports say an infiltrator into group tipped off police to preparations to use semi-automatic weapons in a copycat attack.
Members of a far-right group arrested in Germany as part of a massive counter-terrorism investigation were planning large-scale attacks on mosques similar to the ones carried out in New Zealand last year, media reported on Sunday.
The group, 12 of whom were detained on Friday, wanted to attack Moslem places of worship during prayers, Der Spiegel magazine and the daily Bild said.
They planned to imitate the attacks in Christchurch in New Zealand in which 51 people were killed at two mosques and intended to use semi-automatic weapons.
The alleged leader of the group, which was known to the authorities and had been under observation, had detailed his plans at a meeting organized with his accomplices last week.
Investigators learned about it from someone who had infiltrated the group, the two publications said.
Investigators launched the raids to determine whether the suspects already had weapons or other supplies that could be used in an attack.
German authorities have turned increased attention to the country’s underground extreme right scene since the murder of conservative local politician Walter Luebcke last June and an October attack on a synagogue in eastern city Halle.
[DW] The alleged members of the terror network arrested in Germany last week called themselves "The Hard Core" and reportedly had links with a Finnish far-right group. A home-made scatter rifle was found during the raids.
A group of German nationals formed a "terror cell" which they dubbed "Der harte Kern" (German for "The Hard Core"), the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.
Prosecutors say the men wanted to cause "circumstances akin to civil war" by plotting "yet-unspecified attacks against politicians, asylum-seekers and Moslems."
Authorities arrested 12 men in a series of raids in several German states on Friday. Germany's Federal Court of Justice, the highest criminal court in the country, ordered the men on Saturday to remain in jail while the investigation continues.
Four of the detainees are suspected of forming a right-wing terrorist organization and the remaining eight of pledging their support, including funding, supplying of weapons, or cooperation in any terror plots.
ONE SUSPECT MISSING
Welt am Sonntag reported that the men became introduced through the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, with the alleged members forming the organization in September last year. One more man was believed to be a part of the group, but he remains on the lam.
According to the paper, the Sherlocks also discovered links with the extremist group Soldiers of Odin, which was founded in Finland in 2015, amid the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union refugee crisis.
While official information remains scarce, local media also reported that the police found weapons while raiding a total of 13 residences across six German states on Friday. The weapons included a so-called slam gun, a home-made scatter rifle, similar to the one owned by the anti-Semitic gunman who tried to attack the synagogue in Halle last October and instead killed two passers-by.
Every kuffar/human is not only justified in protecting his/her right to exist; it is a human imperative to drive islam into corners where it can die shuddering.
If State administrations try to get in the way, we must overwhelm them with non-cooperation and vicious hate. But fight we must, or all is lost. And for what ? The faux-humanism of a privileged minority, a handful of faggot politicians ?
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I would admonish the Muslims to exercise humility and to ask themselves "Why do they hate us"?
Also, I really hope this doesn't lead to unjustified attacks on the German far right community.
Are the authorities doing anything to protect members of the far right community against reprisals?
I would also suggest the preparation and distribution of school materials about the many contributions that the vibrant far right community has made to Germany society.
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"about the many contributions that the vibrant far right community has made to Germany society."
Excuse me?
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Excuse me?
A play on the same claimed about Muslims after 9/11 and other attacks. Also a response to the fact that while some labelled as “far right” are indeed radicals to the right of the various radical Communists, others are just normal people who have asked why they must accept being overrun by those who not only don’t share the same values around work, responsibility, and the proper treatment of women, but consider those who do to be prey.
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I get it (now) but I can understand EC's reaction... seems 'twas a bit heavy-handed. No harm, no foul.
fwiw I don't identify with "the far right"; neither can I see how anyone here would be classified as same under any reasonable definition of that ideological group.
[AlMonitor] Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdel Khalek, the Egyptian intelligence officer in charge of Cairo's Paleostinian portfolio, arrived 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 Feb. 10 as head of an Egyptian security delegation that made a field trip along the Egyptian-Gazook border as part of the new Egyptian preparations to boost border security and prevent murderous Moslems from entering the Sinai Peninsula from the Gaza Strip. The delegation also met with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’ leadership in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking to al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, tribal sources in the northern Sinai Peninsula stated that on Jan. 27 Egyptian armed forces embarked on the first phase of building a 2-kilometer-long barrier on the border with the Gaza Strip, starting from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Rafah border crossing. Such a step went unannounced by the Egyptian armed forces, the sources added.
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I don't suppose it's because they think none of the candidates is worthy?
[Dallas News] If asked to identify one thing that has made this country unique and a model for the world, we would say this: From the start, this nation was always an idea, a concept about liberty that had both practical implications for how people live and that also invited a perpetual debate about how society should be organized to expand and safeguard our rights. We hold these truths to be self-evident...
Today, the United States is in the midst of a fresh presidential election and there is more at stake than the future of one candidate, than the ability of one party or the other to control the levers of power in Washington since there seems to be little difference between the lever controllers. The country is at a crossroads, a point at which its voters will make crucial decisions about such fundamental issues as what role government should play in our lives, how officials will lead this large and fractious country, when we should build and sustain international alliances, and even the very ideas we should be known for in the world.
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We stand here with Abraham Lincoln, who reminded us in his second inaugural address, as a long and brutal civil war was coming to a close, that we should proceed with "malice toward none, with charity toward all."
Which got us the Klan and nearly a hundred years of ignoring the 14th and 15th Amendment was writ. We live today with the consequences of that.
In the first American Civil War which was our War of Independence, tens of thousands of Loyalists were scattered to Canada, Bermuda, and points elsewhere in the Empire. The snakes were removed from the nest before the ratification of the Constitution.
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The news paper stands for Liberty but I do not recall them being against Obama Care driven down America’s throat, against droning American citizens without due process, the illegal surveillance of Americans, sanctuary cities ignoring the rule of law .... but somehow surprisingly America is so bifurcated they cannot decide who best to lead the country.
[Breitbart] Police and crime figures obtained by French media suggest that within the Gay Paree region around 40 per cent of suspects involved in crimes are born overseas.
The figures reveal that the number of foreign-born criminals in the Gay Paree region is twice the number for the rest of La Belle France, which sits at around 20 per cent.
In some areas of the city the number of foreign criminals is as high as 47.6 per cent.
In 2018, despite making around 1,500 arrests in total, just six of the migrants colonists were actually deported back to their home countries.
According to the proximity security department of the Gay Paree agglomeration (DSPAP), which operates in Gay Paree and several suburbs outside of the city, the proportion of unaccompanied youths involved in crime has increased to 22.7 per cent, Le Figaro reports.
In 2016, foreign youths were accused of involvement in 2.1 per cent of burglaries, up to 13.1 per cent in 2019, while their involvement in violent robberies increased from 4.8 per cent to 16.6 per cent.
Pickpocketing offences among young migrants colonists has also dramatically increased since 2016, from 15.8 per cent to 30.7 per cent.
In 2018, French police working alongside Moroccan police attempted to crack down on migrant youths living and committing various crimes in Gay Paree ‐ but despite making around 1,500 arrests in total, just six of the migrants colonists were actually deported back to their home countries that year.
Last year, one Moroccan illegal migrant faced trial after he had stabbed eight people at random in northern Gay Paree earlier in the year.
The stabbings took place in the notorious La Chapelle area in northern Gay Paree where residents have previously lodged complaints about the deteriorating state of the area.
"This restaurant was my life, my story... But I’m worn out. What do I do when knives fly around customers? When they have lunch on the terrace two metres away from narcos?" a local business owner said.
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That's "foreigner foreigners" as distinct from the hordes of foreigners with French citizenship, no?
Moos Marianne, "Muslime, mon frere,
You're French as Camus or Voltaire...
Except for that bit
Where you think we're all shit
Who should smooch your fou dieu's derriere."
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Forty percent are foreigners, the rest of them work for the government.
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#4 Now do Rabelais.
Helas, you're killing me. Rabelais, and at the wrong end of my "sleep cycle" (picture pushmi-pullyu version of creaky wooden velocipede).
A certain, um, je ne sais quois
Attended Doc Rabelais, Francois,
Who gave 'em conniptions
While writing prescriptions
...
Shit, where's that clerihew hammer?
Francois Rabelais,
Just a sawbones at play,
Left Eric Blair stewing in awe
Like a straw-chewing clerk of the law.
Feels like mocking G-d, and my demented ass is way overdue to re-read him anyway. Lemme get back to you (and thanks for the prod). Anyone know a decent audiobook rendition?
Akram al-Kaabi is carving out a central leadership position among Iran-backed PMF commanders in post-Muhandis Iraq. Charismatic public statements, impressing core leadership at meetings, and eventually carrying out a precise kinetic action are necessary acts for advancement. https://t.co/54keGpirk6
[BREITBART] French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has announced that in 2019 the French government closed down two radical mosques and placed another 63 under surveillance.
The two radical mosques closed last year were done so under the powers granted to the Interior Ministry by the SILT anti-terrorism laws that were enacted in October 2017 to replace the prior state of emergency.
Castaner added that there have been a total of "31 terrorist attacks since January 1, 2017" and noted that "30 places of worship are subject to closure measures and 7 procedures are underway". He claimed that health and safety provisions were also being used in certain cases, LCI reports.
Individual administrative control measures (Micas), which replace house arrests, were also up significantly in 2019 by 84 per cent, for a total of 134 cases.
Most of the cases were focused in the Ille-de-La Belle France region where Gay Paree and the no-go multicultural suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis are located.
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[BREITBART] Minnesota’s state legislature is considering a bill to keep employers from discriminating against people based on their natural hair.
Democrat Rep. Rena Moran, who introduced HF 3103, wants to expand the definition of race in the Minnesota Human Rights Act to include "hair texture and hair styles, such as braid, locks, and twists." The bill in question would ban employers from a particularly insipid form of racism: discriminating against people based not on cleanliness, but on their natural hair types and styles.
"We hope that in the workplace that it would be part of the social norm for employers to look at an individual and be OK with the natural hairstyles that come along with who we are," Moran said in her testimony before the state legislature. "That braids or twists or dreadlocks shouldn’t be a determination about whether or not you are hired."
Moran told news hounds she hopes in the future "people will not see us as different, or your natural hair as inappropriate or ugly ‐ that it would be more acceptable." The Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights, Rebecca Lecrero, has voiced her support of the bill, joining Moran to testify on its behalf.
Minnesota’s bill would join similar legislation recently passed in New York and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. "Policies that limit the ability to wear natural hair or hairstyles associated with black people aren’t about ’neatness’ or ’professionalism,’" NYC Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn P. Malalis told the New York Post in 2019. "They are about limiting the way black people move through workplaces, public spaces and other settings."
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Have you noticed that professional mechanics come with two different hair styles: Old and experienced mechanics have "high and tight" hairstyles that are easier to keep clean when oil sprays; and Young mechanics new to the trade often have bald spots where their flowing locks got ripped out of their scalps by rapidly moving parts/fan belts...
Just saying that practicality trumps custom for the wise.
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I call upon our socialist democrat state government to redistribute the wealth. People with more hair than they can legitimately use should be forced to give it to those of us who have none.
South Sudan rebels reject a peace offer by President Salva Kiir to return to a system of 10 states, paving the way for a unity government.https://t.co/Cyc2Rt0fVe
[BREITBART] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... said Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that African American voters can not be "taken for granted" like Democratic nominee Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... did in the last presidential election.
Biden said, "Every time they won, take Carter or Clinton or Barack, they have had overwhelming support from the African American community. They had overwhelming support from minorities. I have overwhelming support. You can’t win ‐ you can’t take it for granted. Last time we ran, it was basically taken for granted."
He went on to tout his ability to secure those votes.
"I’m the only one who has the record and has the background and has the support," Biden said. "They know me. They know who I am."
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That's why they've worked hard to import millions of newer voters dependent upon the Great Society old plantation system. Dependency and a large overseer bureaucracy caste need their constant rule.
Breaking: Iranian authorities are threatening to destroy the historic tomb of Ester and Mordechai in Hamedan and convert the site to a consular office for Palestine. @AAzoulay@USCIRF@UNESCOpic.twitter.com/My0dKKJvfo
[FOXNEWS] A New York City man who’s now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting subway commuters since the state’s new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year. He’s been released each time without having to post bail under New York’s new bail reform law since his alleged offenses were nonviolent, the New York Daily News reported. In the past, Barry’s served several stints in state prison and has a lengthy record, including six felonies, 87 misdemeanors and 21 missed court hearings, the newspaper reported, citing court records.
"Bail reform, it’s lit!" Barry yelled to news hounds Thursday outside the NYPD Transit District 1 headquarters in the Columbus Circle station before officers transported him to Manhattan Central Booking. "It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!"
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"The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!"
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New York has surrendered it legitimacy as a government. It exists foremost to provide security in one's person, one's family, and one's property. If it is unable or unwilling to do this basic function, it forfeits it's legitimacy. People will seek security in other forms.
[The Epoch Times] Later, Li and Shi jointly conducted a gain-of-function study published in the Journal of Virology in September 2015 on the MERS virus and a bat virus (strain HKU4) in 2015. Since MERS virus can enter human cells but HKU4 can not, they introduced 2 single mutations in the HKU4 spike protein and found that the new mutant S protein can enable HKU4 to enter human cells. If they mutated 2 sites in MERS spike, the resulting MERS pseudovirus (experimental virus) cannot enter human cells anymore.
Furthermore, Shi's group joined an international group to generate a chimeric virus with the bat virus SHC014 they harvested in Yunnan. Since they know SHC014 is unlikely to bind to human ACE2, they "synthesized the SHC014 spike in the context of the replication competent, mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone". So, that is a lab-engineered virus with SARS-CoV Mouse adapted backbone (MA15) but with SHC014 spike.
To their surprise, the chimeric virus (SHC014-MA15) can use SHC014 spike to bind to human ACE2 receptor and enter human cells. SHC014-MA15 can also cause disease in mice and cause death as well. Existing vaccines to SARS cannot protect animals from SHC014-MA15 infection. Therefore, these chimeric virus studies can lead to the generation of more pathogenic, more deadly CoV strains in mammalian models.
Due to the U.S. government-mandated pause on the gain-of-function (GOF) studies, this international research did not proceed further at that time. However, there is no evidence that Shi's group in China stopped any further study on the track of introducing GOF mutations on the CoV. And it is clear that Shi's group already mastered the reverse-engineering technology that is sufficient to introduce mutation in current SARS-CoV or SARS-Like CoV to create mutant infectious coronavirus.
Interestingly, Shi's group published on bioRxiv on Jan. 23, 2020 that a new bat coronavirus that they detected in Yunnan, named BatCov RaTG13, shares 96.2 percent overall genome sequence identity with 2019-nCoV. However, this virus was never mentioned or published in their research before. Long, semi-technical article regarding work done in 2007 - 2019. Scroll down to the section labelled "Track Record of Wuhan Institute of Virology on Engineering ’Gain-of-Function’ Bat SARS-Like CoV"
Robert Heinlein wrote this as a short story fifty years ago. Sandra didn't even have to sing "Suwanee River." [APNEWS] A orangutan named Sandra, who was granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and later found a new home in Florida, celebrated her 34th birthday on Valentine’s Day with a special new primate friend.
Patti Ragan, director of the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, says Sandra "has adjusted beautifully to her life at the sanctuary" and has befriended Jethro, a 31-year-old male orangutan.
Prior to coming to Florida, Sandra had lived alone in a Buenos Aires zoo. Sandra was a bit shy when she arrived at the Florida center, which is home to 22 orangutans.
"Sandra appeared most interested in Jethro, and our caregivers felt he was a perfect choice because of his close age, calm demeanor, and gentle nature," Ragan said in a news release. "Sandra still observes and follows Jethro from a distance while they are in the process of getting to know and trust each other. But they are living harmoniously in the same habitat spaces as they continue to gain confidence in their relationship."
Judge Elena Liberatori’s landmark ruling in 2015 declared that Sandra is legally not an animal, but a non-human person, and thus entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by people, and better living conditions. So, more rights than a human fetus...
"With that ruling I wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them," she told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
But without a clear alternative, Sandra remained at the antiquated zoo, which closed in 2016, until leaving for the U.S. in late September. She was in quarantine for a month at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas before arriving in Florida.
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Jethro and I will be speaking at Gombe 60 in March.
Jane has promised to bring lots of bananas. Please do join us.
#BREAKING: Al-Arabiya corespondent: Smoke columns rising near the headquarters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces east of Baghdad https://t.co/3ydOcj5cKd
Titania McGrath is a comedian who pretends to be an SJW. He pisses off all the right people. For example, he put up a picture of Mary Poppins after the chimney sweep scene with soot on her face, and said she should be cancelled for racism. This was a joke, a ridiculous extreme.
A few months later, the New York Times used a screen shot of the same scene and said the same thing.
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Oh My God, is the Penis-person Patriarchy ever going to stop trying to run down that brave, brave woman by pretending she's a fictional creation?
It's more oppression than I can take at this time in the morning. It's going to get even worse when Lent comes in because I told the Padre I'd stop drinking before 10AM.
[Jpost] Israel Border Police arrested a Paleostinian man carrying a knife following an attempted attack on Israeli forces at a checkpoint near the Cave of the Patriarchs tomb in Hebron, Israel Police reported on Sunday.
The official view from Egypt. Herewith key bits leading to a startling final sentence.
[AlAhram] The US Democratic Party has fallen under the influence of a generation of leftist ideologues who will stop at nothing, even risking the viability of the party itself.
While preventing a split in the party may have been successful, as some Democrats claim, this has come at the cost of its image in the eyes of US public opinion. Trump and Republican supporters succeeded in portraying repeated attempts by Democrats to indict and impeach Trump as a personal vendetta, prioritising narrow partisan interests over the public interest. From the perspective of Democratic supporters, policies that the party’s left-wing are pushing, such as leniency on illegal immigration, expanding healthcare without thinking of the cost, and restricting the purchase and possession of personal firearms, are all policies opposed by Republicans and Trump.
These policies are mostly supported by Democratic voters, and the dominance of the left-wing camp within the Democratic Party — as clearly demonstrated by the attempt to impeach Trump — raises an alarm about the future of the party. The Democratic Party is already suffering because it has not yet decided on a strong candidate to run against Trump in the presidential race, and even worse, some party members are still adamant on continuing to battle Trump and ignore the Congress acquittal. They view him as guilty and therefore he should be slandered in the coming months, in the hope this will impact his chances of winning a second term in November.
Periodic opinion polls conducted by Reuters reveal that the impeachment trial did not impact Trump’s popularity among Americans, although it was broadcast live. Some even predict Democrats will also lose in the long-term, and they will not be able to truly contest the elections for the White House even beyond a second term for Trump.
Michael Kimmage, a history professor at the Catholic University of America, said as much on the website Politico on 5 February, when he was asked what he expects historians will write about the impeachment trial and this era 50 years from now. He responded: “I think they will say the following: The Trump era began with Trump’s election in 2016, hit a high point with his acquittal on impeachment in 2020 and ended with President Mike Pompeo’s 2028 loss to the young Midwestern Governor Tom Wilkinson.”
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It's not the "Trump Era." Trump is just a harbinger, a prophet in the wilderness.
The real name for this new era is yet to be created.
At this point all we know is that a post-Cold War era of unparalleled corruption and bogus, absurd, "global citizen" virtue-signaling has come to a close. Trump, Boris Johnson, Viktor Orban, several other bit players all had a hand in killing it.
[NYPOST] A 45-year-old man with a long rap sheet was arrested Sunday morning and charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Brooklyn, police said.
Andre Clarke, of Staten Island, allegedly raped the maiden of tender years inside her Brownsville apartment around 9 a.m Saturday, police said.
The girl was taken to a local hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.
Clarke fled in a car following the alleged rape but was arrested after he was found in Queens.
Clarke is known to the maiden of tender yearss’ family, according to police sources, but the details of the relationship remain unclear.
The building where the alleged rape took place is also the address of Clarke’s ex-girlfriend, who has filed several orders of protection against him dating to 2016, according to police sources.
Four of his 11 arrests involved domestic violence incidents that allegedly occurred at that address, the sources said.
In his most recent bust on Jan. 22, 2019, Clarke allegedly attacked a 41-year-old woman at the Brownsville building, repeatedly hitting her all over the body causing bruising to her face and chest.
He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon and was sentenced to probation in October, according to sources.
Clarke’s other arrests were for theft, robbery, menacing, harassment, driving while intoxicated and assault.
In Sunday’s arrest, sources said Clarke has "a relationship" with the young victim’s mother, but it is unclear if she is the ex-girlfriend.
It is also unclear if the victims in any of his other violent crimes were minors.
He is facing three counts of rape, sexual assault, and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
"Andre Clarke, the suspect from yesterday’s rape has been apprehended. Excellent work by Brooklyn North Violence Felony Squad and Special Victims for locating the suspect and making the apprehension," Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced on Twitter Sunday morning.
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Coming soon - the latest iteration of the Twinky Defense.... "It's Staten Island - what else are you gonna do on a Friday night".
[Daily Mail] Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market.
A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC) could have spawned the contagion in Hubei province.
'The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus,' penned by scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claims the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in laboratories, including 605 bats.
It also mentions that bats - which are linked to coronavirus - once attacked a researcher and 'blood of bat was on his skin.'
The report says: 'Genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis (intermediate horseshoe bat).'
It describes how the only native bats are found around 600 miles away from the Wuhan seafood market and that the probability of bats flying from Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces was minimal.
In addition there is little to suggest the local populace eat the bats as evidenced by testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors.
Instead the authors point to research being carried out withing a few hundred yards at the WHCDC.
One of the researchers at the WHCDC described quarantining himself for two weeks after a bat's blood got on his skin, according to the report. That same man also quarantined himself after a bat urinated on him.
And he also mentions discovering a live tick from a bat - parasites known for their ability to pass infections through a host animal's blood.
'The WHCDC was also adjacent to the Union Hospital (Figure 1, bottom) where the first group of doctors were infected during this epidemic.' The report says.
'It is plausible that the virus leaked around and some of them contaminated the initial patients in this epidemic, though solid proofs are needed in future study.'
And as well as the WHCDC, the report suggests that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could also have leaked the virus, as has previously been reported by MailOnline.
'This laboratory reported that the Chinese horseshoe bats were natural reservoirs for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) which caused the 2002-3 pandemic,' the report says.
'The principle investigator participated in a project which generated a chimeric virus using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, and reported the potential for human emergence 10. A direct speculation was that SARS-CoV or its derivative might leak from the laboratory.'
The report concludes that 'the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.'
It comes as the outbreak has infected more than 69,000 people globally, with 1,665 deaths in China - most of these in the central province of Hubei.
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Murphy's Razor says some low level peon at the Institute saw a way to make a quick profit by selling those animal corpses that were only going to be incinerated anyway at the market.
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all the info in the article, even if true, does not prove 2019-nCoV came from the animals
it will take a lot more research to come to a conclusion
in the meantime, all the research efforts need to go to stopping the spread of the virus
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Wasn't this research lab supposed to comply with the highest biosafety standards?
If so, how is it possible that humans were repeatedly exposed to infected animals' bodily fluids without anyone reviewing the safety standards or closing this clearly unsafe facility?
If they were this careless about human safety did they also neglect protecting different animal populations from cross infecting each other?
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Because it's China? They only go through the motions of procedure. They can short-circuit it at any time. If you expose them as a fraud, they get angry at YOU because you made them lose face. This is what happens when generations of people are raised in a system that tells them to speak things they know are not the truth.
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This is why China doesn't want the world's experts helping them and snooping around.
Armed gangs have killed 30 people in raids on two villages in an area of northwest Nigeria plagued by cattle rustlers and kidnappers, police say.https://t.co/hRT8m8kJuu
Dozens of gunmen on motorcycles attacked the villages of Tsauwa and Dankar in Katsina state on Friday, shooting residents and burning homes.
“The bandits killed 21 people in Tsauwa and another nine in nearby Dankar,” Katsina police spokesman Gambo Isah said.
“Most of those killed were old people and children who couldn’t escape.”
Police and soldiers deployed in the area after the attack and arrested one suspect, Isah said.
The attackers burnt homes, livestock and food supplies before fleeing, said Tukur Mu’azu, traditional chief of Batsari, a district the straddles the two attacked villages.
The gangs launch attacks from their bases in a vast forest straddling Katsina and several neighboring states.
Residents across the affected areas have clubbed together to fill the security void by forming self-defense groups, but these vigilante outfits have often served to fuel the violence. An armed gang on Tuesday burnt to death 21 people, including 16 members of a single family, in a reprisal raid in neighboring Kaduna state to avenge a vigilante attack on their hideout.
[HOTAIR] Back in November, we learned that disgraced former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh had avoided a messy trial by pleading guilty to multiple counts of corruption and tax evasion. This all stemmed from her self-dealing scheme to "sell" hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of her self-published "Healthy Holly" children’s books to people and businesses who had dealings with the University of Maryland Medical System, where Pugh sat as a board member.
At the time, I wondered what sort of deal she had cut with the prosecutors in exchange for the guilty plea. Whatever other information she provided to the state might not have turned out to be all that valuable because prosecutors aren’t letting her off with a slap on the wrist. They’re looking for nearly five years behind bars in addition to some hefty fines.
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Lex - you are too kind. An elected public servant pleading guilty to corruption and tax evasion should be sentenced to ten times Stone's sentence for - whatever it was he did. Anybody remember what got him 7-9 years? Fibbing?
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Bobby, IIRC, Stone was charged with lying to the FBI, the exact same thing that McCabe was NOT prosecuted for.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hundreds of Iraqis rallied Sunday to support a protest leader they want as prime minister instead of current premier-designate Mohammad Allawi, who they see as too close to the ruling class.
Appointed on February 1, Allawi has pledged to announce his cabinet lineup within the week even as he faces ongoing protests against his nomination -- and a new contender.
In the shrine city of Karbala, dozens of students erupted into the streets carrying photos of Alaa al-Rikaby, a pharmacist who has emerged as a prominent activist in the protest hotspot of Nasiriyah, further south.
"We’re here to show our support for Alaa al-Rikaby, the candidate of the people!" said Seif al-Hasnawy, a 20-year-old student.
Rikaby, who has a round face and closely-trimmed beard, began demonstrating in early October alongside others fed up with rampant corruption, lack of jobs and poor public services.
He has since risen to local fame with a series of videos posted on Twitter to his tens of thousands of followers, discussing politics and a path forward for the otherwise leaderless anti-government movement.
In one video last week, he asked protesters who gather at squares across the country to show whether they would back him for the post of prime minister, in a novel approach for a political nomination in Iraq.
"If the people decide so, I’d accept," he said in his latest video on Thursday.
"This post has no value as such for me. I don’t see it as a prize, but rather as a huge responsibility," said Rikaby, who has a tent pitched in central Nasiriyah targeted in a recent stun grenade attack.
In Karbala, university student Hassan Qazwini told AFP: "We protesters have numerous demands, and one of them is an independent prime minister without ties to parties -- like Alaa al-Rikaby."
Before Rikaby, Faeq al-Sheikh Ali, a liberal critic of the ruling class, also declared himself a candidate but has not received mass public or political backing.
Allawi was nominated on February 1 as a consensus candidate among Iraq’s fractured political parties but has only been publicly endorsed by holy man Moqtada Sadr, who has a cult-like following across the country.
Crisis-hit Lebanon’s national carrier Middle East Airlines (MEA) is scrapping plans to only accept payments in US dollars, a decision that sparked anger among Lebanese citizens, according to a statement published by local media.https://t.co/Oae3gX3gHx
[GreatGameIndia] In a very strage turn of events, renowned scientist Frank Plummer who received Saudi SARS Coronavirus sample and was working on Coronavirus (HIV) vaccine in the Winnipeg based Canadian lab from where the virus was smuggled by Chinese Biowarfare agents and weaponized as revealed in GreatGameIndia investigation, has died in mysterious conditions. Frank Plummer was the key to the Chinese Biological Espionage case at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
According to CBC, Plummer, 67, was in Kenya, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the University of Nairobi’s collaborative centre for research and training in HIV/AIDS/STIs.
Dr. Larry Gelmon, who helped set up that meeting, said Plummer collapsed and was taken to hospital in Nairobi, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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They've been known to formulate conspiracy theories for profit, selling their books and drumming up 'likes'. Just a bunch of MBAs and couch strategists churning out conjecture and muddying the humint waters out of Hyderabad.
With technical details and stuff cobbled from various questionable sources, their forte has become presenting a seemingly credible narrative. One such was the story about Malaysian flight MH17 being downed by MI6.
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Thank you for that perspective, Dron66046. Now we know — though for myself I may need reminding from time to time, my memory not being what it never was.
[JPOST] As part of "Operation Rebound," the IDF has foiled the third such Hamas network in three years.
According to the military, there have been a number of improvements by Hamas, including the use of new platforms like Telegram alongside Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
Hamas, the military said, improved its ability to start a dialogue with soldiers, using hashtags and slang. The group also started sending voice messages in an attempt to make the enemy account sound more believable.
The IDF identified six main characters used by Hamas, many of whom presented themselves as new immigrants to Israel with hearing or vision problems to explain for their less-than fluent Hebrew. "Yew ain't from around here, are yew?"
The characters were: Sara Orlova, Maria Jacobova, Eden Ben Ezra, Noa Danon, Yael Azoulay and Rebecca Abuksis. In addition to using the same characters on various platforms to boost its credibility, Hamas is said to have edited the pictures of the characters, making it more difficult to find the original source of the picture.
The new applications used by Hamas included three social networking applications: GrixyApp, ZatuApp and Catch&See. According to the military, unlike the previous honeypot attempts by Hamas, these applications were not accessible through app stores, but could only be downloaded from links sent to soldiers by the Hamas operative.
Prior to being downloaded, the application would ask for permission to several applications on the user’s phone, including those used by other applications for legitimate reasons like access to location, camera, microphone, etc.
Immediately after downloading the application, it appeared as an icon, but once clicked on it would open with an error message that the device doesn’t support the version of the application and would then seem to delete itself from the user’s phone.
But while the application seemed to have disappeared from the phone, the virus remained and gave direct access to Hamas, which would be able to take control of the device.
Once on the phone, the virus would give Hamas operatives control over all aspects of the phone, including pictures, the soldier’s location, text messages and the soldier’s contact list. The virus would also have access to the phone’s camera and microphone, taking pictures and recording conversations remotely without the soldier knowing.
Unlike in previous attempts by Hamas, the group also was able to download and transfer files and have access to the phone’s GPS, allowing them to know the infected device’s location. At that point, the Hamas operatives would stop communicating with the soldiers.
While the military knew about Hamas’s operation for the past several months, it was decided to let them continue, to enable the IDF to have more effective technological means to stop the terror group.
The IDF said there was no damage to national security and that the soldiers who have had their phones hacked – mainly conscripted soldiers and low-ranking officers – would be called in to have the virus disabled on their phones.
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presented themselves as new immigrants to Israel with hearing or vision problems to explain for their less-than fluent Hebrew
Honey-trappers ? Israeli men must be awfully compassionate people. ☺
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"Colleagsh, if you pleash, a capella,"
Slurs Nancy. "Shove over, there, fella.
I feel like a deb..."
And she's spinning a web
As she dances, entranced: Tarentella!
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Or even two Ps. "No, you'll eat the whole plate, dammit!" Yikes, PTSD. "There's starving Dron's in India who'd put you down like a rabid monkey for those peas!"
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Dang! I had the Bee because the headline was too truthful.
I can almost buy her explanation of marking the pages, although writing instruments are common here in America. But I'm not sure a spontaneous outburst is better than a pre-planned cynical display. Lack of self-control is not a good look for someone in the line of succession to be POTUS.
Hey, isn't lack of self-control something Trump gets charged with all the time?
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Let's not bring Hillary into the conversation.
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somebody should bend her over his knee and spank her butt.
After the Indy 500 spectacle, I can see the Prez doing a re-enactment of the John Wayne-Maureen O'Hare spanking scene from "McClintock", but on the Senate floor.
"Nancy, it's time you learned some manners."
Russian military has began a mass deployment along the Aleppo-Damascus Highway on Sunday. It’s an important development because it goes against Turkey’s demand that the Syrian military completely withdraw from the areas captured in Idlib and Aleppo.
Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure, says President Hassan Rouhani, adding that America’s ‘maximum pressure’ is "doomed to failure."https://t.co/MDnhQM5VHl
[Way Back Machine] The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host. Emphasis added.
Violations of an arms embargo in Libya have become a joke and it is imperative that those who breach it are held to account, a senior UN official says. https://t.co/Ev5WY4y8on
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Harrumph! Harrumph! Someone must do something about this deplorable situation. United States, why have you been falling down on your job?
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I thought that this was supposed to be one of those Soft Power Will Succeed!™ things where the EU diplomats would show us rude Cowboy Americans™ how things are done...
Waiting to see their masterstroke. Still waiting...
Saudi Arabia’s Vice Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman says the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri had been assassinated by Iranian militias.https://t.co/td9fMF5zgypic.twitter.com/bcfT8xTVO2
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tells his Russian counterpart that attacks in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region must stop immediately and that a lasting ceasefire has to be achieved.https://t.co/5EGDUAkJxY
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Since atrocities are a global problem, shouldn't the UN be backing them? Asking for a friend and his small band of mercenaries who are looking to overthrow an African country.
[BREITBART] Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... (D-MA) Remember her?
is getting some media attention after her single-digit, fourth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, but it is not the kind candidates seek.
USA Today published an in-depth article about what has gone wrong in the Warren campaign ‐ after only one caucus and a primary ‐ and how it will not be easy to gain the momentum she needs to win the Democrat nomination.
A news hound talked to people who were at Warren’s final get out the vote rally in New Hampshire, including Richard Lemmerman, a 60-year-old investor from Hampton, New Hampshire.
"She’d make a good secretary of State, a great attorney general. I just don’t think she’s going to be a good president," Lemmerman said.
"In the end, as people start to focus on who’s the best progressive that’s got a chance of going the whole way, Bernie was winning that battle," Joe Trippi, who ran Vermont Gov. Howard Dean Former Dem governor of Vermont or Rhode Island or one of those dinky states. Howard lost his bid to be president by shrieking and screaming and acting like a loon. Then they made him chairman of the Dem national campaign committee, where he continued doing the same things only nobody paid any attention.... ’s failed presidential bid in 2004, said in the USA Today piece. "When it came to who was moving at the end among women who really wanted to see a woman get the nomination ... it starts to go to Amy."
"She was just drifting down, as was Biden, and the others were basically gaining ground at her expense," Trippi said.
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F--- off, you lying scumbag. Go away. Leave us alone.
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maybe she will win the Massachusetts primary in early March but that's probably her last stand
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I have tried, in excess generosity, to explain her to my Chinese colleagues, though I have no patience for her. As of yet, no one gets her. They have no idea what makes her presidential. Just a data point. She seems to be a cow that just keeps walking around, farting.
[BREITBART] A Mexican border state judge issued an arrest warrant against eight coppers in connection with the shooting death of an innocent motorist over the past weekend. The warrant comes days after the officers allegedly fired more than 250 rounds at the victim after apparently mistaking his pickup for a cartel vehicle.
On Wednesday afternoon, a judge in the border city of Reynosa granted an arrest warrant requested by the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office against eight officers on the charge of "qualified homicide" in connection with the February 7 shooting death of 23-year-old Juan Daniel Ortiz in Rio Bravo. The officers were previously suspended and Mexico’s Human Rights Commission (CNDH) was also probing the case.
The shooting took place in the border city of Rio Bravo, south of Donna, Texas. The victim worked at a manufacturing plant in Reynosa as an engineer and is not believed to have any ties to organized crime. Information obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed that a squad of state police were alerted to a group of button men roaming the area before they reportedly mistook the white pickup being driven by Ortiz. The victim was not armed when his vehicle took more than 250 rounds.
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Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah calls for Lebanese citizens to boycott US products as “part of the battle” against President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, the militia leader says in a televised speech.https://t.co/GXlKR7sfkw
Abdiwali Ali Hassan, a TV and radio journalist, has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Somalia’s Afgooye district, according to police.https://t.co/O7LvQ0CQdT
Update: A car bomb attack by the Kurdish YPG militia kills two people and wounds five others in the northeastern Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the Turkish border, the Turkish Defense Ministry says in a statement.https://t.co/argalF6Nos
The death toll from China’s new #coronavirus epidemic jumps past 1,700 after 100 more people died in hard-hit Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak.https://t.co/GE5cHhjBQ1
The risk of a military confrontation is higher in the Strait of Hormuz than anywhere else in the Gulf region, Oman's foreign minister says, due in part to the growing number of military vessels from different countries that are guarding it.https://t.co/Q9xEYYrlGq
[Rudaw] Severe economic hardship drove Sherwan Anwar to migrate to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 11 years ago, despite his family trying to stop him multiple times. Days after arriving in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , he called his mother to tell her he was heading to Europe and would not return. He has not been heard from since.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces killed 5 Talibs during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the Afghan Military said.
The Special Operations Corps said in a statement said the security forces killed 5 Talibs during a joint raid in Khakriz district of Kandahar.
The statement further added that the security forces killed the turbans during a joint military operation.
The security forces also discovered and defused five Improvised Explosive Devices during the operation, the Special Operations Corps added in its statement.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
[Jpost] A Paleostinian smuggling attempt to deliver camouflage fabrics allegedly meant to be delivered to terror groups 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 to produce uniforms was prevented on Sunday when the Tarqumiyah border crossing officers noticed the military textiles concealed in other items, a blurb on behalf of the Ministry of Defense reported.
The border crossing is near Hebron, the fabrics were confiscated.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] High school runner beats her transgender competitor in state championship just two days after filing a lawsuit to block the track star from competing with girls due to 'unfair advantage'
Canton High School girl Chelsea Mitchell won the Class S 55-meter dash title on Friday with her time of 7.18 seconds
She beat Bloomfield High School student Terry Miller's 7.20 seconds
Families of Mitchell, Selina Soule and Alanna Smith filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating
The lawsuit centers on two transgender sprinters, Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their cisgender competitors
Friday, Mitchell put her win down to her own talent not the potential affects of the lawsuit on the athletes involved
But Mitchell doesn't think her win will affect the case because there are 'still tons of girls that lose on a daily basis'
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The lawsuit centers on two transgender male sprinters, Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their cisgender female competitors
How is it possible to type out such drivel and not laugh while you're doing it?
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/\ How? Newspeak(wiki) crimestop — to rid oneself of unorthodox thoughts that interfere with believing the tenets of Ingsoc, the ideology of the Party
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.
[Zero] Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a rising star in the Democratic Party. A mere year ago, few could have picked him out of a police lineup. Now he’s the presumptive front-runner of the centrist faction of the party and ‐ for the moment, at least ‐ the most likely person for "Stop Bernie" forces to coalesce around.
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerryand similar exemplars of Merkin values...
[WJLA] Senators voted to shelve the bill for the year and ask the state crime commission to study the issue, an outcome that drew cheers from a committee room packed with gun advocates.
[AFP via Zero] Gunmen killed at least 24 people and wounded 18 more during an attack on a protestant church in the village of Pansi, in the north of Burkina Faso, announced the governor of the Sahel region, Colonel Salfo Kaboré.
[Front14.net] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‐ the only head of state in Europe who’s been willing to take any real action to stop the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe ‐ on Thursday spoke of the mounting migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border.
[Jerusalem Post] Members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said they are baffled by the ongoing refusal of the US government to allow Jonathan Pollard to move to Israel.
[Babylon Bee] HARTFORD, CT‐Local high school track runner Vanessa Vogel was excited for her track meet this past weekend, having trained many months for her shot at a record and possibly a college scholarship.
Sometime before the election, I'd like to see the 'Beast' stop along some Iowa country road and give this fellow and his dog a ride back to town. 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[BREITBART] French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has announced that in 2019 the French government closed down two radical mosques and placed another 63 under surveillance.
[BREITBART] Minnesota’s state legislature is considering a bill to keep employers from discriminating against people based on their natural hair.
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year. He’s been released each time without having to post bail under New York’s new bail reform law since his alleged offenses were nonviolent, the New York Daily News reported. In the past, Barry’s served several stints in state prison and has a lengthy record, including six felonies, 87 misdemeanors and 21 missed court hearings, the newspaper reported, citing court records.
[The Epoch Times] Later, Li and Shi jointly conducted a gain-of-function study published in the Journal of Virology in September 2015 on the MERS virus and a bat virus (strain HKU4) in 2015. Since MERS virus can enter human cells but HKU4 can not, they introduced 2 single mutations in the HKU4 spike protein and found that the new mutant S protein can enable HKU4 to enter human cells. If they mutated 2 sites in MERS spike, the resulting MERS pseudovirus (experimental virus) cannot enter human cells anymore.
[APNEWS] A orangutan named Sandra, who was granted legal personhood by a judge in 
[NYPOST] A 45-year-old man with a long rap sheet was arrested Sunday morning and charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Brooklyn, police said.
Clarke is known to the 
[HOTAIR] Back in November, we learned that disgraced former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh had avoided a messy trial by pleading guilty to multiple counts of corruption and tax evasion. This all stemmed from her self-dealing scheme to "sell" hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of her self-published "Healthy Holly" children’s books to people and businesses who had dealings with the University of Maryland Medical System, where Pugh sat as a board member.
[GreatGameIndia] In a very strage turn of events, renowned scientist Frank Plummer who received Saudi SARS Coronavirus sample and was working on Coronavirus (HIV) vaccine in the Winnipeg based Canadian lab from where the virus was smuggled by Chinese Biowarfare agents and weaponized as revealed in GreatGameIndia investigation, has died in mysterious conditions. Frank Plummer was the key to the Chinese Biological Espionage case at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
[WebArchive]
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
Former Dem governor of Vermont or Rhode Island or one of those dinky states. Howard lost his bid to be president by shrieking and screaming and acting like a loon. Then they made him chairman of the Dem national campaign committee, where he continued doing the same things only nobody paid any attention....
[BREITBART] A Mexican border state judge issued an arrest warrant against eight 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
