[WFLA- NBC] The Atlantic Beach Police Department posted the PSA on their Facebook page last week. The tongue-in-cheek post issues a warning that if you recently bought cocaine, meth, heroin, or any other street drugs in their area, it may be contaminated with coronavirus.
The police department goes on to urge those to bring their drugs to the police department for free testing. If you’re uncomfortable going to the police department, police say they will come to you — in the privacy of your own home!
*Bill Clinton said he had the affair with Monica Lewinsky while he was in office because it helped to 'manage my anxieties'
*The former President makes the claims in an interview featured in a new documentary series -'Hillary' - to air on Hulu Friday
*He said that when he met Lewinsky, the pressure of the job was too much and he thought, 'Here's something that will take your mind off it for a while'
*The former First Lady candidly reveals that in the aftermath of the scandal the couple underwent 'painful' marriage counseling
*Clinton apologizes to Lewinsky, saying he feels 'terrible' that the affair defined her life
*The series features extraordinary access to the Clintons' inner circle and *Hillary's life from her student days to losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump
*She's explained that she agreed to the documentary 'because I'm not running for anything'
Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... claims that his affair with Monica Lewinsky was one of the 'things I did to manage my anxieties'.
The former President suggests, in an explosive documentary seen by DailyMailTV, that he had the fling with the ex-White House intern while he was in office because it helped with his own issues.
Bill reveals that at the time he met Lewinsky the pressure of the job made him feel like a boxer who had done 30 rounds and he looked at Lewinsky as 'something that will take your mind off it for a while'.
He makes the claims in an interview featured in the new documentary series that will air on Hulu about his wife 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... , called 'Hillary', where the former First Lady and Secretary of State candidly reveals that in the aftermath of the scandal the couple underwent 'painful' marriage counseling.
Bill offers an apology to Lewinsky in the documentary that will premiere on Friday, and says he felt 'terrible' that her life was defined by their affair.
But he said that at some point when things don't return to normal 'you've got to decide how to define normal', suggesting the infamous former intern should just move on.
The four-part series features extraordinary access to the Clintons' inner circle and examines Hillary's public life from her student days to losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party....
But the part about the Lewinsky affair - which the political couple rarely address in public - will likely be the most scrutinized.
The scandal led to Bill being impeached in 1998. But he survived the trial in the Senate and remained in office during his second term.
The last time Bill spoke about the scandal was in 2018 and it backfired spectacularly because he said that he did not owe Lewinsky a private apology.
This time he went through in great detail, at times appearing emotional as he talked about the moment he finally came clean to his wife.
His hand was forced in 1998 when it became apparent he had lied to a grand jury investigating his personal affairs by denying the affair.
Bill had also denied it to Hillary - and she believed him.
He said in the interview: 'I went and sat on the bed and talked to her. I told her exactly what happened, when it happened. I said I feel terrible about it. We've been through quite a bit in the last few years. I said I have no defense, it's inexcusable what I did'.
Hillary tells the cameras: 'I was just devastated. I could not believe it. I was so personally just hurt and I can't believe this, I can't believe you lied.'
[NY Post] A former American Airlines mechanic was sentenced to more than three years in prison for tampering with a plane packed with 150 passengers set to take off to the Bahamas.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, was sentenced to 37 months behind bars Wednesday after pleading guilty in December to using a piece of foam to sabotage a Boeing 737 at Miami International Airport because he was upset over the airline's stalled union contract negotiations, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. rriiiigghht
Alani, a naturalized citizen originally from Iraq, had admitted to federal investigators that he doctored the plane's air data module system – which relays critical data like aircraft speed and pitch to pilots – in a bid to obtain more overtime work, court documents show.
The mechanic insisted to federal air marshals that he intended "not to cause harm to the aircraft or its infidels passengers."
Alani, of Tracy, California, used super glue to hold the foam in place prior the flight's scheduled take off, which was ultimately aborted. None of the 150 passengers or flight crew on the jetliner were injured since the plane never got off the ground, prosecutors said.
A judge found no evidence that Alani had links to ISIS, allegations that arose in September after prosecutors said they found terror propaganda videos on his cellphone. "Nothing to see here. Go about your business, citizen"
"The indictment doesn't charge anything related to terrorism or terrorist activity," US District Judge Marcia Cooke said during Alani's sentencing in Miami. "I don't see anything."
Federal investigators ultimately found "no linkage" between Alani and extremist groups, Assistant US Attorney Randy Hummel said. *cough* Bullshit *cough*
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Three years for the attempted murder of 150 people? Seems a tad on the light side, especially with whatever differential they give you nowadays for good behavior.
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Betcha there's some sophisticated deal-making here that naifs like y'all wouldn't understand. "Give us your crazy cabdriver cousin caliph and we'll get you off easy. But from now on, we OWN you, pal." "By Allah, no crazy cabdriver is safe while I am free!" "Atta boy!"
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Only three years ? They must have thought there's no point in the FAA or DHS keeping these sasquatches away from airliners if we're going to allow hijabs and sunnah beards inside hangars with $ 35 m fighter jets with WMDs.
"The pilots realized something was wrong as they prepared to head to the departure runway."
Looks like Mr. Alani not only tampered with the aircraft ADM, he also, per the article cited, verified that the results of his handiwork would be discovered by the PIC as a function of the pre-taxi prep / checklist.
If true, there was never any threat to the aircraft occupants.
[American Thinker] Whoopi Goldberg's opinions reach and influence many female voters. Yesterday, she revealed herself to be an ignorant phony, claiming that the wife of Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden is a "helluva doctor ... an amazing doctor" and ought to be considered for surgeon general in the future Biden administration that she hopes for.
Unfortunately for her, Goldberg was taken in by the former SLOTUS of the Obama administration insisting on being addressed as "Dr. Jill Biden," based on her earning a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in 2007. (Her dissertation was titled, "Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs.")
Here is a bit of inside baseball from academia. Doctor Biden does not have a Ph.D.; she has a degree known as a "doctor of education," an Ed.D. Holders of this credential are expected to be practitioners, not scholars who create new knowledge. Within the extremely status-conscious world of academics, it is regarded as a lesser credential, one often acquired mid-career (as was the case with Jill Biden) because school systems pay more for staff with master's degrees and even more for doctorate-holders.
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...because school systems pay more for staff with master's degrees and even more for doctorate-holders.
Show me an 05 without a masters degree or senior GO without a PhD. No one says it out loud but its a de facto requirement. Credentialism in the bureaucracy.
[FOX] Longtime Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler died this week at age 70. RIP - always liked him and his demeanor
"Wendell was a gifted correspondent, a wonderful colleague and a FOX News original whose reporting was respected on both sides of the aisle. We extend our deepest condolences to his wife Marge and his entire family," Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said.
Goler joined Fox News Channel in 1996 as a correspondent and worked his way up to senior White House foreign affairs correspondent. The Washington D.C.-based reporter covered five presidents over 28 years at the White House during his storied career.
[American Military News] The U.S. Defense Department has signed a new contract for the production of Javelin anti-tank missile systems for partner countries, including Ukraine, Ukrinform reported on March 3.
The U.S. Army contract is dated February 28, is worth more than $18 million, and was awarded to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, with work to be performed in Arizona.
The category of the award is for "guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing."
The beneficiary countries listed as part of the award include Georgia, Ukraine, Australia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates.
The State Department in October approved the sale of $39.2 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including a second batch of Javelins, the world’s most effective anti-tank missiles, to help Kyiv in its ongoing six-year war against Russia-backed separatists.
The deal reportedly included 150 Javelin missiles and 10 launch units, adding to the 210 missiles and 37 launchers that Ukraine bought from the United States in 2018.
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I'd be happy if the US just had nothing to do with Ukraine.
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Seconded.
We and the Russians should dispose of the matter the way Finland or Austria were handled during the Cold War: demilitarized and strictly neutral, with the added restriction that Ukraine not be allowed membership in any western political or organization-- neither NATO nor the EU.
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Responding to Columbia U's new professor of public health, Chelsea Clinton, after she said Trump has left this country unprepared to deal
with this virus.
"More people have died trying to testify against your mother than have died in the United States from the corona virus."
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King county in Washington state, which includes Seattle and Kirkland, just went into lockdown. 36 schools closing and all 2.2 million urged to stay home.
[GatewayPundit] ".@RashidaTlaib at today’s abortion rally: "Yo yo, you know what, you’re so freakin’ obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me!" Adds that pro-life pols are "commercializing" women’s bodies to make them "less than."
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First of all ist is not YOUR body. It is not the same DNA and your nerve systems are not intercobnnected. So it is not you And contraceptives and condoms are just there for that. I see no reason why an unborn baby has to have a horrible death beacuse you wanted to f.ck and not care
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This specimen is deranged.
Violently angry; daddy issues; obscene and vulgar behavior fueled by hatred.
Watch out for this one. She's capable of anything.
[this is a SKOR publication w sources in NKOR]
[DailyNK] North Korea has ordered major provincial organizations, military-run factories and other facilities to prepare a months' worth of food, signalling that the state is unable to provide rations anymore, Daily NK has learned.
"The order was handed down by provincial party committees to local people's committees, Ministry of State Security offices, police stations, military-run factories run by the Second Economic Committee [of the Workers' Party of Korea], and even orphanages," a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on Feb. 26.
"This is the first time the party has handed down an order for these organizations to prepare a months' worth of food. It's particularly noteworthy because North Korea isn't facing the threat of war," the source continued.
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[JustTheNews] St. Louis circuit attorney faces grand jury probe, chief investigator indicted in echoes of Trump-Russia collusion reversal in Washington.
Kimberly Gardner made history in 2016, roaring to an election victory as St. Louis city’s first African-American chief prosecutor on a campaign funded heavily by the liberal mega-donor George Soros. Four years later, she finds herself under investigation and her chief investigator already indicted for a prosecution gone bad, one that forced Missouri’s Republican governor to resign in what some now believe may have been a political attack.
Gardner, a Democrat and the city’s circuit attorney, was forced in 2018 to withdraw her indictment accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a picture of his scantily clad girlfriend and threatening to release it if she talked about their affair. Gardner’s office dropped the charge after admitting she did not have proof of the photo or its transmission.
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The rollercoaster experience has given Greitens thoughts of running again to reclaim the governorship, though those plans are on hold
If he runs again and wins, he’ll have a mandate to really drain the Missouri swamp. And no doubt he’ll have his list prepared so he can start on the day he’s sworn in. If he runs again.
Scoop: A Chinese government-owned think tank is quietly soliciting opinions to gauge how the international community might receive a Chinese alternative to the World Health Organization.https://t.co/7ZD4i7FhEz
— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) March 4, 2020
Everything they did was to downplay the issue and remove any association with China.
The WHO is a fucking joke. It's a political body first and foremost. See their past responses to Ebola, SARS, etc. They generally just sit back, downplay things happening in certain countries and exaggerate things happening in other countries, then declare "PANDEMIC" or not. They don't actually DO shit.
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[OpIndia] The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has confirmed that an industrial autoclave seized from the Chinese ship Dai Cui Yun could have been used for the manufacture of nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missiles or satellite launch rockets, reports WION.
Last month, India had detained a Karachi bound Chinese ship. It has now emerged that the Chinese ship was carrying nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan. The ship was detained by Customs at Kandla Port while en-route to Port Qasim, Karachi, on February 3 on the basis of an intelligence tip-off.
The ship had left Jiangyin Port on Yangtze river in China’s Jiangsu province on January 17, 2020, and was bound for Port Qasim in Karachi, Pakistan when it was intercepted at Kandla port on an intelligence tip-off. Port Qasim is in Karachi, Sindh, where Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), responsible for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme is based.
Later, the ship was allowed to proceed to the Pakistani port on February 20 after the dual-use (civilian and military) equipment was seized. The autoclave was wrongly declared as an industrial dryer.
However, analysts at DRDO have now confirmed that the ship was carrying nuclear technologies from China to Pakistan.
"The autoclave can be used for the manufacture of the motor of very long-range missiles, with range upwards of 1,500 kilometres or even in the construction of a motor for the launch of satellites. Pakistan has the Shaheen-II missile in the 1,500-2,000 kilometre range and the platform was tested last May," said one of the officials to Hindustan Times.
According to DRDO’s technical experts, the seized 18-metre by 4-metre autoclave can indeed be used in the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) platforms. An autoclave is a pressure chamber which carries out various industrial and scientific processes. Prima facie, it can be used for civilian as well as military purposes.
With nuclear scientists at DRDO confirming that the Chinese ship was indeed carrying nuclear equipment to Pakistan, the customs can now seize the cargo and charge the vessel and its owners for violations of Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (SCOMET) export regulations.
Further, it is now up to India’s national security decision-makers to invoke the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act 2005 as well as inform the UN under the WMD Convention to expose the nuclear proliferation nexus between Beijing and Islamabad.
[Red State]- One of the issues that has been encountered with addressing the coronavirus has been a problem with testing.
...one of the reasons that testing on a state level has been stalled was actually because of an Food and Drug administration regulation instituted by Barack Obama.
The regulation demanded that state run laboratories could only use medical tests approved by the FDA. And we all know how long FDA course of approval takes
...Commissioner Stephen Hahn first addressed the testing problem on Saturday by issuing new guidance that would allow the state labs to conduct not-yet-approved coronavirus testing on patients in response to the public health emergency. In return for skirting the Obama-era regulation, laboratories must apply for an F.D.A. review of the new test, document the test’s accuracy and notify the F.D.A. of the test’s validity prior to F.D.A. completing the approval process.
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^Trump is right and the political bureaucrats in WHO (is your daddy) are completely wrong - because viruses can't count.
And if you don't understand that I'm talking about - it's because you don't understand scientific thinking.
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Trump doesn't even understand the difference between corona and influenza. I guess I stick to the information the German Robert Koch Institut provides.
And after some research nobody seems to be able to come up with the regulation the Obama administration supposedly changed (and Trump reversed).
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#10 Trump doesn't even understand the difference between corona and influenza
Uh huh. Who told you that? Aren't you supposed to smart and conservative and stuff? Corona is a beer. Coronavirus is a respiratory virus
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Influenza A virus (several subtypes)
Coronavirus SARS CoV 2.
NOT "corona flu" as Trump calls it.
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This is a link to an actual FDA policy change.
Please link to the policy the Obama Administration is alleged to have changed.
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I'm not doing any more research for your butthurt salve: "In light of this public health emergency, this guidance is being implemented without prior public comment because the FDA has determined that prior public participation for this guidance is not feasible or appropriate (see section 701(h)(1)(C)(i) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD& Act) and 21 CFR 10.115(g)(2)). This guidance document is immediately in effect, but it remains subject to comment in accordance with the Agency’s good guidance practices."
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Trump blamed Obama for a policy change that is supposed to have hurt the development of testing kits.
But that policy change is nowhere to be found and even Republicans can't find it.
"According to the FDA, draft guidance for laboratory-developed tests was proposed in 2014, to replace a “policy of enforcement discretion” with regard to cracking down on such tests, where the FDA sometimes chose to intervene and other times not. The framework ultimately was not implemented."
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Trump blamed Obama for a policy change that is supposed to have hurt the development of testing kits.
But that policy change is nowhere to be found and even Republicans can't find it.
President Obama openly ran his administration with his phone and pen, not bothering to wait for Congress to pass actual laws in many cases, and his bureaucrats effected behavioural changes in their targets by issuing “Dear Colleagues” letters advising them of what was expected of them. So in many cases there are no actual issued regulations to look up in the records, just an observable change out in the real world where non-compliance led to harassment from the authorities — to include the IRS. Three examples that spring to mind are the slow-walking of TEA Party and pro-Israel IRS applications for registration as non-profit groups along with a variety of harassments aimed at the leaders of the groups; the institution at colleges and universities of new definitions of s3xual harassment, and the procedures for in-house trials and expulsions of male students based on them; and, oddly, the definition of even ditches and transient mud puddles on farms as bodies of water under the jurisdiction of whichever federal department regulates public lakes and rivers, requiring farmers’ compliance with all the regulations around actions and record-keeping, no matter how absurd.
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My wife rarely ever comments on politics. She's a medical doctor. First time I heard her comment about Trump remarks: "That's irresponsible." And she said it with a look our adult kids still fear.
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Let me guess: "Trump said the infection was a hoax"? Bullshit. He said the Democrats were invoking it as their #4? #5? Hoax. You should know more before you opine
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There's a reason I'm "generally" hesitant to opine on Germany's particular internal politics: I don't live there, don't speak the language, and am only impacted by how they impact me and mine. My own ignorance would expose itself should someone like you chime in. Perhaps...
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First of all, leave politics out of this. Leave Obama or Democrats out of this. You are in charge. The buck stops with you. You don't have to say much. Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to be a very competent guy. Let him do the explaining.
Second, do not contradict numbers put out by scientists who calculated existing cases, because you feel different "on a hunch". Just don't do it.
Third, if you speak out, do it in plain, easy to understand English, not incoherent rambling that can be misunderstood easily.
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Thank you for YOUR OPINION
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FrankG, you are always welcome to comment on Germany. Quite often, a perspective from "outside" is very educating.
I've lived and worked in the U.S. for quite some time and I follow everything that happens in the U.S. very closely, not only because we do a lot of business with the U.S.
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and your commentary and opinion is always welcome as well.
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Thank you. Isn't it always opinion?
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not if links used?
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Ultimately, you're probably right, depending on veracity and source of links...
have a good night. I'm watching college basketball, which is truth in scoring :-)
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enjoy... btw one of the best basketball team in Germany is Bayern Munich ;-)
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“Look, what I don’t like in life is that a very serious thing, a football manager’s opinion is important. I don’t understand that. If I asked you, you are in exactly the same role as I am. So it’s not important what famous people say. We have to speak about things in the right manner, not people with no knowledge like me talking about something that people with knowledge will talk about it, and should tell the people do this, do that, and everything will be fine or not. Not football managers, I don’t understand that.
Politics, coronavirus. Why me? I wear a base cap and have a bad shave.”
VDH at Town Hall
The recent spread of the coronavirus is causing a global panic. Our shared terror arises not so much from the death toll of the new flu-like disease -- more than 3,000 people have died worldwide -- but from what we don't know about it.
Experts at least agree that the virus originated in China. But Beijing's authoritarian government hid information about its origins, spread and severity for weeks.
Such duplicity only fanned the fears of a global plague -- a hysteria not seen since the groundless fears of a YK2 global computer meltdown in the year 2000, or the political feeding frenzy during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
...The method of the contagion has been perplexing to experts. Why is the mortality rate for infected patients in Iran roughly double that of patients in countries such as South Korea, Italy and Japan? Why have almost no children under 10 died from the infection?
Are governments unable (or unwilling) to count the infected, given the similarities in symptoms between the coronavirus and various colds and flus? Does such uncertainty suggest that we are undercounting the number of people sickened or killed by coronavirus?
Or are we instead overestimating its dangers? Thousands of patients may have already recovered from mild cases -- and perhaps never knew they were sick in the first place.
Evidence suggests that only about 2 percent of patients will die after infection. As in the case of other viral illness, the unfortunate victims are mostly elderly people with existing illnesses. Does that pattern suggest the coronavirus may be more like annual influenza outbreaks -- deadly to thousands but hardly the stuff to shut down a global economy?
...History also reminds us that nature remains unforgiving. We may live in the age of the Internet, smartphones and jet travel, but viruses are indifferent to so-called human progress.
Modern life squeezes millions into cities as never before. Jet travel, with its crowded planes and airports, can spread diseases from continent to continent in hours.
Globalization is a two-edged sword. It may enrich billions of people, but the leveling effects of instant communication and travel can spread disease at a speed undreamed of in the past.
The dissemination of sophisticated Western science to non-Western societies that lack advanced research centers may be increasingly suicidal. Borders are now considered passe in the age of globalization. But their enforcement reminds us that not all nations are alike. All sovereign peoples should have the right to take measures for their own safety well beyond the purview of the transnational elites.
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Experts at least agree that the virus originated in China. But Beijing's authoritarian government hid information about its origins, spread and severity for weeks.
I'm no microbiologist, but finding an antidote or cure might be a little easier if we knew how it originated. Apparently no one wants to go there.
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Unsourced...passed via old duffer email. Looks like common sense.
Subject: Coronavirus
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - CORONAVIRUS
Last evening dining out with friends, one of their uncles, who's graduated with a master's degree and who worked in Shenzhen Hospital (Guangdong Province, China) sent him the following notes on Coronavirus for guidance:
1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold
2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.
3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.
4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne.
5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.
6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill it.
7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice.
8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but - a lot can happen during that time - you can rub your eyes, pick your nose unwittingly and so on.
9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice.
10. Can't emphasise enough - drink plenty of water!
THE SYMPTOMS
1. It will first infect the throat, so you'll have a sore throat lasting 3/4 days
2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5/6 days further.
3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing.
4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you're drowning. It's imperative you then seek immediate attention.
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...and elderly with some preexisting conditions.
[(Tin Foil Hat on) one way for the Chinese government to avoid their pension bomb with oldsters outnumbering the youngsters. Fewer elderly to calculate for in the end.]
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#3 good information. I will add that to my collection. Stores are having a run on a variety of products. Wipes sold out completely at our local Walmart. Being prepared is a good idea. Cool head is advisable. We are entering a period of strong airborne irritants, pollen and so on. A cough or sneeze will draw attention. Two units housing inmates are on isolation status. Two DOJ juvenile camps are on isolation status. Flu like symptoms. Most seem to recover. Those who are compromised medically speaking perhaps not so fortunate. Going to the hospital will be interesting when you have been out of the country. Right then you are taken to get blood sample. You will not be with other people as you wait for results. People will not cooperate. They go about oblivious to safety precautions.What I don't understand is they say it will end when the weather gets warm. Usually when we have a freeze these viruses die off. I guess this bug likes cold and is sensitive to what, 80-90 degree temperatures. Good luck all.
Kurt at Town Hall
So, now the Democrats are choosing between a pair of doddering crustaceans. The Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and the Crusty Comedy Relief both did well enough Tuesday to keep going. Big Chief Warren, whose actual people call corn "corn" and not "maize," may still go on because she’s an insufferable monster whose transcendent yearning to nag us into schoolmarm’d submission knows no bounds, plus because the establishment wants her in the race siphoning Chablis socialist votes away from her Marx brother. But the Hapless Halfling dropped out, a half-billion bucks lighter, and he’s not just returning to his burrow. He’ll want to remain a Dem player ‐ he’ll keep spending like an NFL superstar in the Champagne Room at the Peppermint Pasty gentleman’s club after getting his signing bonus paid in singles, and the Lil’ Loser hopes to make it rain until he drowns Donald Trump in a sea of greenbacks.
But the battle is really for the shriveled heart of the Democrat Party, and no one better represents the yin and the yang of that dying collection of power-hungry elitists and grasping greedos than the doddering socialist Sanders and that Biden guy who should by all rights be chasing that damn know-it-all squirrel around the park.
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the fact that Trump beat the odds does not mean the weirdo from Burlington is destined for victory. If you are normal, he wants to take your money, your guns, your doctor, your border, and even job if you are one of the American heroes who helped make us energy independent. Trump wanted to do the opposite. A better analogy is Sanders’s fellow garbage commie jerk, Jeremy Corbyn, who all the best people on Twitter told me was going to win and instead ended up taking the Labor Party down into the figurative Pulp Fiction pawn shop basement to channel Ving Rhames
That's gonna leave a mark
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What's Duckworth-less going to do? Stamp her foot? (Oops, bad bad taste, I know...)
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Huddled safely out in Hoffman Estates, miles away from the South Side hostile fire. Disabled war vet, minority, caustic, never-seen-smiling female, shi* slinging Chicago Democrat? Yes, she has a bright future in Illinois politics.
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Their religion really is human sacrifice. It's clear that the only religious people she knows are the ones seen in Hollywood movies and screamed about in the leftist echo chamber.
[AnNahar] A 22-year-old Syrian man is in police custody suspected of people smuggling after Cypriot authorities brought 101 Syrian migrants safely to shore, police said Wednesday.
He was arrested on Tuesday after Cyprus marine police located the Syrians off the Cape Greco region in a crowded 15-meter (49 foot) craft and towed the boat to a fishing shelter in Paralimini on the south-east coast.
On Wednesday the suspect appeared before a court in Paralimini and was remanded in police custody for eight days on suspicion of helping migrants enter the country illegally for profit, a police spokesman said.
Head of the police operation Petros Zeniou said the migrants were checked by health workers for coronavirus before being brought to shore for processing.
Among the migrants were 43 children -- nine of them unaccompanied -- and 13 women, including four who were pregnant.
The Syrians -- mainly from the northern regions of Idlib and Aleppo -- were sent to a reception center outside the capital Nicosia.
Zeniou said the boat set off from Mersin in Turkey, a route often used by people smugglers bound for Cyprus.
He said an initial police investigation indicated the migrants had paid between 2,000-4,000 dollars each to make the journey by boat from Turkey.
"We are on the alert, there is certainly information that more boats are likely to depart from Mersin," said Zeniou.
The Republic of Cyprus, an EU members, says it is on the frontline of the Mediterranean migration route with the highest number of first time asylum seekers per capita.
Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday that there were 17,000 asylum applications pending.
But Cyprus, located 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Syrian coast, has not seen the massive inflow of migrants experienced by Turkey and Greece.
[LA Times] KIRKLAND, Wash. ‐ Parents keep their children inside. Few people shake hands anymore. More than two dozen firefighters remain in quarantine. Restaurants and hair salons are close to empty.
Such is life in Kirkland, Wash., the suburb just east of Seattle known for its folksy downtown and spectacular lakefront views, but now above all as the U.S. epicenter of COVID-19.
Of the 11 U.S. deaths from the coronavirus epidemic, eight were residents of a local nursing home that is struggling to care for others who may have been infected. An additional death occurred at a Kirkland hospital.
"I can’t kiss my kids," said Hamid Dabbaghian, a 48-year-old cashier at the Kirkland Whole Foods who recently moved here from Iran and feared catching the virus from customers. "As a newcomer to the U.S., I’m worried about my family, and worried that if I die, what will they do."
Others in this city of 90,000 remain nonchalant or fatalistic, expressing sympathy for those who have died but determination to carry on.
"It’s not the Holocaust. It’s not Armageddon," said Doug Evanson, 57, an Uber driver who frequently drops healthcare workers at the nursing home. "I don’t get why I need to go out and buy cases of drinking water when I can just turn on the tap."
Kirkland is an upscale suburb on the east shore of Lake Washington, with sunset views over the water and the tops of Seattle towers beyond. Its downtown features art galleries, whimsical sculptures, a marina and a Little League baseball field.
Like many cities in the area, it’s undergoing rapid growth and gentrification, with condominium construction and rising real estate prices. It has a Google campus and Northwest University, a Christian liberal arts school.
[AlAhram] Saudi Arabia on Wednesday suspended the year-round "umrah" pilgrimage over fears of the new coronavirus spreading to Islam's holiest cities, an unprecedented move that raises fresh uncertainty over the annual hajj.
The kingdom said the suspension was provisional, but with the umrah attracting millions of people annually, the decision has a huge potential impact.
The Gulf state has decided "to suspend umrah temporarily for citizens and residents in the kingdom", the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
They were also barred from "visits to the Prophet's mosque in Medina", according to a foreign ministry tweet.
The move comes after authorities, alarmed over the spread of coronavirus across the Middle East, last week suspended visas for the umrah and barred citizens from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council from entering Mecca and Medina.
Saudi Arabia on Monday confirmed its first case of new coronavirus after one its citizens who had returned from COVID-19 hotspot Iran tested positive.
The umrah, which refers to the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of year, attracts millions of Muslims from across the globe each year.
The decision to suspend the umrah comes ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan starting in late April, which is considered a favourable period for pilgrims to perform it.
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The holy sites, which draw millions of pilgrims every year, are a key revenue earner for Saudi Arabic.
Around two-thirds of the 18.3 million umrah participants in 2018 were citizens and residents of the kingdom, according to government statistics.
It is unclear how the coronavirus will affect the hajj, due to start in late July.
Some 2.5 million faithful travelled to Saudi Arabia from across the world in 2019 to take part in hajj, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.
The event is a massive logistical challenge for Saudi authorities, with colossal crowds cramming into relatively small holy sites, making it vulnerable to contagion.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 reform plan seeks to decouple the kingdom's economy -- the world's top crude exporter -- from oil dependency towards other sources of revenue, including religious tourism.
The government had hoped to welcome 30 million pilgrims to the kingdom annually by 2030.
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It's not as if the moon goddess Allan demanded it.
"Muslims are notoriously loathe to preserve traditions of earlier paganism and like to garble what pre-Islamic history they permit to survive in anachronistic terms" (Southern Arabia, Carleton S. Coon, Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1944, p 398)
[Breitbart] International trade secretary Liz Truss has declared at the World Trade Organization that "Britain is back", vowing to help reform the body.
The Secretary of State for International Trade was the first British minister to address the WTO’s General Council since leaving the EU, with Brexit Britain taking a seat as an independent nation in her own right at the council for the first time in early February.
Ms Truss told the WTO on Tuesday that countries must work together to reform the body, criticising unfair trading practices, protectionism, "industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises and forced technology transfer".
Speaking in Geneva, Switzerland, she told the other 164 ambassadors from around the world that the UK’s vision is to update the WTO rulebook to tackle unfair practices, ensure the organisation works for all nations by "seeking a fairer deal for developing countries", and push back against protectionism.
"The UK will, like every other sovereign country, assert its ability to set its own laws and regulations in line with our WTO commitments, reflecting our own circumstances and ideas, while working tirelessly alongside other WTO Members to drive reform," the international trade secretary said.
[Washington Examiner] Justice Department and FBI officials under review for their role in the flawed wiretaps of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page are banned from having any involvement in the pursuit of electronic monitoring through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Judge James Boasberg issued a 19-page opinion on Wednesday, ordering that "no DOJ or FBI personnel under disciplinary or criminal review
... criminal review? That doesn’t sound good...
relating to their work on FISA applications shall participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting such applications to the Court."
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FISA court bans involved officials from seeking surveillance applications? Well, throw me is the frigging briar patch. The FISA court is burning down and they are looking for a garden hose or fire-extinguisher?
People need to go to jail. If they can't respond in some meaningful way, they need to shut these courts down. Do we even need them?
[Jpost] Syrian air defenses responded to attacks allegedly launched by Israel in southern and central Syria on Wednesday night, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. The Step News Agency reported that the airstrikes in Homs targeted a site belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist group and the Dabaa Military Airfield.
The attack was reportedly launched by Israel from over Lebanese airspace and the Golan Heights, according to SANA, and targeted Homs and the Quneitra region of southwestern Syria. The Syrian military told SANA that Syrian air defenses successfully prevented any of the rockets from hitting their targets.
Homs is nearly 125 miles (about 200 km) away from the Golan Heights.After the strikes overnight, the airspace above the Golan Heights east of the Jordan River was closed to civilian flights over 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) for the next three days. Israel did not claim responsibility for the airstrikes.
The airstrikes come just days after the IDF thwarted an attempted sniper attack along the Syria-Israel border in the Golan Heights on Monday as Israelis voted in the 23rd Knesset elections.
SANA quoted a military source saying that at 12.30 am on Thursday (2230 GMT Wednesday) “our air defense observed Israeli warplane movement… several missiles were fired towards the central region.
“The hostile missiles were immediately dealt with, and were successfully confronted, none was able to reach its target.” Syria routinely and falsely claims to have intercepted Israeli missiles.
Israel has attacked the T-4, or Tiyas, air base near Homs on multiple occasions. Israeli defense officials have previously claimed the base is being used by Iranian forces as part of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to entrench militarily in Syria, something Israel has vowed to prevent.
A word to Syrian air defence operators in Homs: Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft guns won’t be of much help to you when dealing with cruise missiles pic.twitter.com/QXTDcuNZ2c
[Hot Air] At a courthouse in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, an ICE agent arrested an illegal alien who was there for legal proceedings unrelated to his immigration status. But the alien’s attorney was outraged and complained to the media and county officials. This led the County Executive, one Lamont McClure, to take drastic action. He whipped out his pen and issued an executive order stating that immigration officials could no longer make arrests at the courthouse without first obtaining a federal warrant. Well, bless his heart. (Washington Examiner)
Lamont McClure Jr., Northampton County Council's longest-tenured and most powerful Democrat, announced Monday he is not seeking to keep his seat after his term ends at the close of 2015.
McClure, 44, of Bethlehem Township, who was first appointed to council in 2006, said the death of his father Lamont Sr. on New Years Day and an increase in his work as an attorney specializing in asbestos injury lawsuits led him to the difficult decision.
[Hot Air] Maaaayyybeee, but color me skeptical that Joe Biden’s brief renaissance means voters will take any more interest in Hunter Biden’s peccadilloes. Now that Biden has momentarily regained front-runner status, CNN’s Manu Raju asked Lindsey Graham whether Senate Republicans planned to pursue their investigation into corruption at Burisma and the Bidens’ potential roles in it. Graham told Raju that it’s definitely still on the menu:
[VOA] ISTANBUL - Turkish forces shot down a Syrian warplane in Syria's Idlib province Tuesday, in an escalation of Turkey's military offensive against Syrian government forces. Ankara's assault is in retaliation for the killing of 34 Turkish troops in an airstrike blamed on Damascus.
The fighting increases the threat of confrontation between Turkish and Russian forces, a danger the Russian and Turkish presidents will be seeking to avoid when they meet Thursday. Russia backs Syria's government offensive near the Turkish border.
Turkey's military campaign is showing little sign of abating, with the third Syrian fighter downed by the Turkish Air Force since Sunday. The Turkish Defense Ministry said Tuesday that in the past 24 hours, more than 300 Syrian soldiers were killed and more than a dozen tanks, armored vehicles and missile systems were destroyed.
The Turkish offensive is centering on Idlib, the last rebel stronghold, which Syrian forces, backed by Russian airpower, are fighting to capture. Ankara's ongoing offensive is expected to continue at least until Thursday, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
"The Turkish aim is to reverse the gains the Syrian regime has been making in Idlib over the last few weeks," said Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
"So that Mr. Erdogan could go to his meeting with Vladimir Putin on the 5th of March with a stronger hand," Aydintasbas said.
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Welcome to September 10th, 2001. [WASHINGTONTIMES] The FBI missed opportunities to stop domestic snuffies from killing Americans because field offices failed to further investigate individuals who had been labeled homegrown violent Death Eaters, the Justice Department watchdog said in a scathing report released Wednesday.
At least six snuffies who later carried out attacks killing a total of 70 people were on the FBI’s radar prior to the attacks. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... Continued on Page 49
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Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the FBI’s counterterrorism program division managers failed to conduct consistent oversight of its homegrown violent Death Eater assessments, allowing potential snuffies to fall through the cracks.
No "failure" involved. The evidence is compelling (to everyone but the IG), field agents were instructed to avoid muslim investigations.
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Anyone remember, a day or two following the bombing the FBI SAC office in Boston ran a teevee advert asking if anyone knew the identities of these two lads (Tsarnaev bros).
In March 2011, the FBI, through the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, opened an investigation into Tsarnaev. As part of the investigation, a CBP officer put him in the TECS system, one of the government’s terror watch lists. In October 2011, after receiving another warning from Russia, the CIA placed Tsarnaev in a different terror database, known as TIDE.
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The Bureau backs off these SOB's because the Klingon's are using them, or hope to use them. When the sources 'go bad' and people turn up dead (see MAJ Nadal Hasan), everyone in LE and the IC enters the media denial public relations tent. Move along please, nothing to be seen here.
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Radio Boston (and others) make some rather compelling arguments. Meanwhile, the Deep State circles everyone attempting to blow smoke up our collective arses.
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Insiders learned quickly that making SSA, ASAC, Legate or plumb WFO assignments were much more likely if that pesky taint of Islamaphobia never got on you. Interesting that the Obama/ValJar era attitudes permeated so quickly into the Bureau. Almost like hardline old school agents got pushed out of the 7th floor and all the field offices. Maybe it sent a clear message about career suicide.
[HindustanTimes] A West Bengal resident was shocked to see a dog’s photo instead of his own on his voter ID card and has decided to file a defamation suit against the Election Commission of India (ECI).
North Bengal resident Sunil Karmakar received his ‘corrected’ voter ID card on Tuesday. But instead of his own visage, he found himself staring at that of a hairy pooch.
“There were some errors in my voter ID card so I had applied for a correction. When the corrected card came, the information was correct, but my photo had been replaced,” the irate 64-year-old voter of Bewa II’s Ramnagar village in Bengal’s Murshidabad said.
Karmakar feels the error was intentional and intended to humiliate him in public. “People who saw my card, mocked it publicly. I will drag the Election Commission of India (ECI) to court,” he said.
The mistake may have occurred due to the large-scale panic across Bengal over a possible citizenship screening exercise. Over the past few months, more than 0.83 million peoole including 0.24 million new voters from 22 Assembly segments in Murshidabad district, scrambled to apply for fresh voter IDs and rectifications of errors in existing ones. The district administration had cancelled leave for all government employees to ensure an error free voters’ list.
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Turkish military police ordering immigrants, they are beaten, they say they will pass Greece by boat ... They had recently arrested someone who said "I am a smuggler". The officer says, "I will do this job too."#Greece#Erdogan pic.twitter.com/zA1yPtPKjh
.@EU chiefs pledged millions of euros of financial assistance to #Greece to help tackle the migration surge from neighbouring #Turkey, warning against those wishing to "test Europe's unity".#BaghdadPosthttps://t.co/8eJiV0fxX2
[Rudaw] A fight broke out in the Ottoman Turkish parliament between politicians from opposing parties Wednesday during a tense discussion about The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s military involvement in northwest Syria.
Video images showed dozens of politicians from President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s party and from the main opposition party pushing each other. In the video, some are seen throwing punches while others try to pull the brawling politicians apart.
Some politicians fell to the ground during the fray, Turkey’s Haberturk television reported.
Fighting is a frequent occurrence in Turkey’s parliament. The clash on Wednesday started when Engin Ozkoc of the opposition Republican People’s Party took the rostrum. During a news conference shortly before, Ozkoc called Erdogan "dishonorable, ignoble, low and treacherous."
He also accused the president of sending the children of Turkey’s people to fight while Erdogan’s own offspring allegedly avoided long-term military service.
During a speech to members of his party, Erdogan himself had accused the opposition earlier of being "dishonorable, ignoble, low and treacherous" for questioning Turkey’s military involvement in Syria’s northwest Idlib province.
Tensions are running high following the deaths of more than 50 Ottoman Turkish soldiers in Idlib in the past month, including 33 who were killed in an attack on Thursday.
Turkey sent thousands of troops to Syria to help prevent a Russia-backed Syrian government offensive to retake Idlib province and to support Syrian opposition fighters holed up there.
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[Rudaw] A Russia defense ministry-affiliated commission for reconciliation in Syria has accused Ottoman Turkish-backed forces of committing "fundamental change" in the demography of once predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria.
Ottoman Turkish and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed forces have displaced some 250,000 Kurds from the northwest Syrian district of Afrin, and 135,000 from Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tel Abyad) ‐ resettling ethnic Turkmen in their place, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, established in 2016 as a joint Russia-Turkey enterprise.
In early 2018, Turkey invaded the Kurdish enclave of Afrin with the help of its Syrian proxies. It launched another offensive on northern Syria in October 2019, this time driving the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) out of major towns along north Syria-Turkey border areas.
In Afrin, a widespread campaign of demographic change has been ongoing for almost two years. Much of its original Kurdish population now live in displacement camps in nearby Tel Riffat, Shahba and Sherawa.
Speaking to Rudaw on Tuesday night, Bashar Amin, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Syria (PDK-S) which forms part of the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) echoed the reconciliation center's statement.
Demographic change in once Kurdish-majority areas has been raised in meetings with American, Russian, and French officials, Amin said, who have urged "unity among the Kurdish sides."
The PDK-S official added that the aforementioned countries have agreed to act as guarantors in order for them to be able to stop the continued demographic changes of the Kurdish region.
"They have not turned down our request to become guarantees. Our meetings with them will continue," Amin said.
An ENKS delegation met last month with Ottoman Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to discuss abuses and demographic changes.
Turkey’s foreign minister rejected demographic change at the meeting and supported the return of displaced families to their homes, according to an ENKS post-meeting statement.
A report published Tuesday by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria apportioned blame for civilian casualties across international parties involved in conflicts across northern Syria, including Russia.
The UN panel accused Moscow for the first time of direct involvement in war crimes for the indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Idlib, where Moscow has provided air support in the Syrian regime’s push to take the northwest Syrian province and its surrounding areas from the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) jihadists and their allied, Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups.
In two incidents ‐ one recorded in July, the other in August - the Russian Air Force "did not direct the attacks at a specific military objective, amounting to the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas," the report said.
Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian proxies are accused by the inquiry of arbitrary arrest and torture, and looting of properties of Kurds in Afrin.
"Cases of detentions, killings, beatings and abductions, in addition to widespread looting and appropriation of civilian homes, by a variety of gangs operating under the umbrella of the Syrian National Army have been documented, in a consistent, discernible pattern previously documented in Afrin," the report detailed.
"The reported incidents primarily affected Kurdish residents in Afrin and adjacent areas," the report added. "Syrian National Army (SNA) fighters have placed family members in some of the homes of Kurdish owners who fled the area and provided "rental contracts" to newly accommodated individuals," it said of the SNA, an umbrella of Turkey-backed Syrian proxy groups.
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[ToloNews] The US forces conducted an airstrike against Taliban fighters in Nahr-e Saraj, a district of the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, a spokesman for US Forces in Afghanistan, Col Sonny Leggett, tweeted on Wednesday.
The airstrike is the first in 11 days, said Leggett. All sides had agreed to a Reduction in Violence (RIV) plan starting on February 22 that was aimed to create conditions for peace and a permanent ceasefire.
The attack took place one day after Gen. Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, warned the Taliban to keep their commitments.
“It is fragile--if the Taliban are not going to lower violence.” said Miller, “that causes a risk to the agreement.”
He said there is a need for the Taliban to lower violence in Afghanistan “otherwise, it’s hard to have an agreement.”
The Taliban resumed attacks on Afghan forces as President Ashraf Ghani at the same time refused to release 5,000 prisoners before the beginning of the intra-Afghan talks, which were planned for March 10.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with the Taliban’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on Tuesday evening, Qatar time, said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
Trump said: "The relationship is very good that I have with the Mullah, and we had a good long conversation today. And you know they want to cease the violence--they'd like to cease the violence also."
But as Trump and the Taliban hold civil talks, 30 Afghan forces and four civilians have been reported killed in 15 provinces of the country.
16 out of 30 Afghan forces were killed in Kunduz province and six others were killed in Uruzgan province.
“After the Taliban attacks, the Afghan security forces attacked the Taliban to defend themselves and the people of Afghanistan. 17 Taliban were killed and 11 others were wounded,” said Nusrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.
Reactions were strong about the Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces, especially following the signing of the peace deal with the US.
“Allah banned the killing of Muslims. The Taliban should talk to the government as they did with the US,” said Mawlawi Siddiqi, a religious scholar.
“The intra-Afghan talks are the only way forward. The problems can be solved like this,” said Sayed Abdul Malik Hashimi, another religious scholar.
The Taliban have not commented about the attacks yet.
The US targeted the Taliban following a successful Reduction in Violence (RIV) week that started on February 22, in which all sides respected the terms and violence was greatly lessened, even in the most dangerous and volatile areas like Sangin, Helmand; Andar district, Ghazni; and Chak in Maidan Wardak.
[ToloNews] At least 16 Afghan Army soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, Afghan security sources told TOLOnews on Wednesday. Another ten soldiers were taken hostage by the Taliban, said the source.
Also, Fatima Aziz, a PM from Kunduz, said "16 were killed Baghe Shirkat."
[ChannelNewsAsia] China will use a Roche Holding arthritis drug to treat some COVID-19 patients in severe conditions, health authorities said on Wednesday (Mar 4), as the country seeks to build up treatment regiments to help the infected recover.
Tocilizumab, sold by the Swiss pharma giant under the trade name Actemra, can be prescribed to coronavirus patients who show serious lung damage and show elevated level of a protein called Interleukin 6, which could indicate inflammation or immunological diseases, the National Health Commission said in the latest version of its treatment guidelines published online.
Actemra can help contain inflammation related to Interleukin 6, according to Roche.
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Immunosuppressant? A drug that suppresses the immune response of an individual. Now how would that work. Reminds me of the boy in the bubble. I think I would try Jack Daniels throat spray first.
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Immunosuppressant? A drug that suppresses the immune response of an individual.
They believe that the severe complications like lung damage are caused by an autoimmune reaction triggered by the virus.
This would provide an explanation for the fact that so far only older people have experienced these complications.
Perhaps there was some pathogen around, years ago , that made immune systems pathologically sensitive to something like corona.
Younger individuals would have never encountered that pathogen, hence no severe complications, even in individuals with compromised health status.
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#2 Immune system has several modes of response - depending on the pathogen. A wrong response is worse than no response. See this Wikipedia article for details.
[DAILYVOICE] A Guatemalan national living in Fairview sexually abused a 13-year-old Cliffside Park student, authorities charged.
Eualio L. Martinez, 35, who works as a car washer, was charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal sexual contact, sexual assault and child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Monday.
An investigation by his Special Victims Unit in tandem with police in Cliffside Park and Fairview began after a school nurse contacted borough police this past Friday about the alleged assaults, he said.
Martinez remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance this Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.
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[Rudaw] Iraq has to date repatriated 828 children born to members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group to their home countries, Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday.
The children originate from several different countries, including Russia, Tajikistan, Germany, La Belle France, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , among others.
This week, Azerbaijan repatriated 82 children who had been held with their mothers in prisons across Baghdad, foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed al-Sahaf said in a statement Wednesday.
"The Foreign Ministry participated in the deportation of 82 children from the Republic of Azerbaijan who had been kept with their mothers, who are imprisoned by the Iraqi judiciary for joining the ISIS terrorist organization, bringing the number of deportees to 828 children of various nationalities," Ahmed al-Sahaf said in a tweet, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Several Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an states have refused to take back their citizens, fearing they will pose a threat to national security if they lack the evidence to successfully prosecute them.
On a case-by-case basis, Azerbaijan, La Belle France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and Russia’s Chechnya among others have taken back several children born to ISIS-affiliated parents.
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I did scan the original article. Not clear to me what happens when the kid is sent to their country of origin. A German/ISIS kid goes back to Germany? What happens then? Orphanage? Grandparents?
Or back to the ISIS dude's country of origin? What then questions still apply.
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#pt: For the 1st time in 9yrs, #Syria has faced a sustained military campaign by an adversarial state actor - and it's suffered greatly.
The #SAA's heavy weapons arsenal has been smashed - these numbers are, I'm told, deemed to be more or less accurate within the US government. pic.twitter.com/3LlRKQxHXL
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So? How many did the SAA lose in the first days of the civil war? The real question is whether or not Putin is sending replacement matériel and if the Hezbollah will stay in the fight.
[The Hill] President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general and senior strategic analyst for Fox News, the White House said Wednesday.
Trump will award the medal to Keane next week, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. The award represents the U.S.'s highest civilian honor.
"General Jack Keane is a retired four-star general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and a well-respected foreign policy and national security expert," Grisham said.
"General Keane has devoted his life to keeping America safe and strong, and he has earned many awards, including two Defense Distinguished Service Medals, five Legions of Merit, two Army Distinguished Service Medals, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Ronald Reagan Peace through Strength Award," she continued.
Keane, who retired from the military in 2003, is a frequent presence on Fox News who often defends the president’s foreign policy decisions. He has been known to advise Trump on military decisions with respect to Syria and reportedly twice turned down an offer to be Trump’s Defense secretary
Instead of pounding sand, the NORKS are shipping it for revenue to China.
[gCaptain] For several months last year, a steady stream of ships was observed dredging sand in a North Korean bay then transporting loads of it to China, a Washington-based think-tank said on Wednesday.
The extraction of sand from North Korea to China would violate a 2017 U.N. Security Council resolution that prohibits North Korea from “supplying, selling, or transferring sand,” the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) said in a report.
The group’s researchers tracked the dredging and transport of the sand through commercial satellite imagery and shipping databases.
“Between March and August 2019, C4ADS observed a large fleet of vessels originating from Chinese waters traveling to North Korea to dredge and transport sand from Haeju Bay,” the report’s authors wrote, describing unusual ship traffic in a bay less than 30 km (18.6 miles) from neighboring South Korea.
China has called for sanctions to be eased on North Korea, but also says it fully enforces the sanctions imposed with its assent by the U.N. Security Council.
The United Nations has found that North Korea has repeatedly circumvented restrictions on trade of things like coal and oil, often by conducting ship-to-ship transfers at sea.
But the unprecedented scale and coordination of the dredging operation “showcases the boldness and impunity with which sanctions evasion networks operate, even under close scrutiny” C4ADS said in its report.
In 2019, Haeju Bay saw at least 1,563 visits by ships, according to Automatic Identification System (AIS) data reviewed by C4ADS. That compares with only 418 visits in the previous two years combined.
The AIS data showed many of the ships returning to ports on the Chinese coast.
Some of the ships observed in satellite imagery appeared to be operating in convoys or other formations, suggesting they were coordinating their movements.
“The activity in Haeju demonstrates scale, and a level of sophistication unlike other known cases of North Korean sanctions evasion at sea,” the group said.
Analysts are working on methods to estimate the amount of sand that was exported, and how much that may have been worth to North Korea, one of the report’s authors, Lauren Sung, told Reuters.
But the rising value of sand suggests that the operation was lucrative for cash-strapped North Korea.
“As the price of sand has risen rapidly in recent years, so has the practice of both licit and illicit sand excavation and trade around the world,” the group said.
The only things I can imagine sand being used for are glass, beaches, and sand paper... Is sand used as a filter medium for sewage treatment plants?
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All of the above uses. Several decades ago Minnesota was selling sand to Saudi, water filtration systems.
There is also the use in silicon integrated circuit type electronics?
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A lot of fracking sand came from Wisconsin, and maybe some in Minnesota. That'd be ironic.
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Filter media sand for water treatment has specific specs for grading, angularity, degradation and other properties. I have purchased filter media often from a company in Wisconsin but never from North Korea.
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as I recall the sand to Saudi Arabia was for road construction
the sand in Saudi Arabia was too rounded (I suppose because it was blown around and bumped against other sand) and they needed sand with a dendritic character; the dendritic feature was needed to make cement binder component work
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Chinese scientists found the novel #coronavirus has two strains, of which the more infectious type shows significant difference with bat coronavirus and is unlikely originated from the pangolin coronavirus once spread in Guangdong Province, according to a new study pic.twitter.com/u5s1rHnr4y
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Iran, Italy and SKOR now adding over 1000 new cases a day while China adds 100-200 a day.
Iran became 3rd country with 100+ deaths (Italy and China are others)
The Diamond Princess is something of a closed system lab for corona virus. Everybody, I think about 4000 people including crew, on board the ship has now been tested. Some 400 or so tested positive but had no symptoms (only one new positive in the past week). There were 300 or so with symptoms, there have been 6 fatalities
various people are keeping this up to date on wikipedia
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Coronavirus in Iran: Video shows body bags inside Qom hospital Disturbing video has emerged of body bags strewn on the floors of a hospital in an Iranian city where the coronavirus was first detected in the hard-hit Islamic Republic — and the man who filmed it has been arrested, according to a report.
The footage, which was apparently shot by a hospital worker in the holy city of Qom, has been viewed more than 920,000 times after being shared in social media by journalist Mohamad Ahwaze, according to the UK’s Metro.
“One of the medical personnel documents the death of dozens of people infected with the coronavirus in the city of Qom only, and says many deaths, and there is no place for funerals,” Ahwaze said in a tweet.
“While the Iranian government covers up the scale of the disaster and says there is nothing to worry about!” he added.
Qom’s deputy prosecutor announced that the man who captured the footage had been arrested.
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For your quarantine foodstuffs and, uhm..., neighbors.
[KVUE] Wendy Davis She's baaaaack!
has won the Democratic nomination in Texas’ Congressional District 21. She will run against incumbent Chip Roy in the general election on Nov. 3 to determine who will represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
AP called the race as Davis was ahead by a wide margin over her opponent, Jennie Lou Leeder.
Davis rose to fame after delivering a nearly 13-hour filibuster as a Texas State Senator in 2013. In 2014, Davis lost to Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... in Texas’ gubernatorial race.
Texas’ Congressional District 21 spans from Austin to San Antonio and covers Blanco and Gillespie counties.
According to Davis’ official campaign website, some of the issues she stands for include affordable healthcare for all Texans, common sense action regarding gun laws and reducing carbon emissions in the U.S.
More details on Davis’ policies can be found on her website.
Roy defeated Democrat Joseph Kopser in the 2018 general election. He filed for reelection in early December.
A final Syrian showdown looms: Heavily laden #ВМФ Project775 #RussianNavy#ЧФ BlackSea Fleet 197th Landing Ship Brigade’s Ropucha class LSTM (tank carrying landing ship) Tsezar Kunikov 158 transited Bosphorus towards Med en route to #Tartus#Syria 14:00Z My pix v @reuterspicturespic.twitter.com/jIDUr7FKYJ
Reinforcement for Russia’s campaign continues amid rising 🇷🇺🇹🇷crisis in #Idlib:: Heavily laden #ВМФ Project775 #ЧФ Black Sea Fleet 197th Landing Ship Brigade’s Ropucha class LSTM (tank carrying landing ship) Tsezar Kunikov transits Bosphorus towards Med en route to #Tartus#Syriapic.twitter.com/WOZhqQuBT3
#pt: How long can #Assad count on #Iran to expend regionally valuable manpower on a front that now symbolizes a #Syria vs. #Turkey battleground?#TSK strikes have killed dozens of #Hezbollah & #Fatemiyoun militiamen in recent days & those losses will only accelerate now.
[GellerReport] Why? She should get a life sentence, instead she made a deal for 18 months. According to her plea agreement, after Shareef
... Rafia Sultana Shareef, also known as Rafia Farook, she divorced ISIS killer Syed Rizwan Farook‘s dad for not being pious enough, and was a member in good standing of the notoriously jihadi-linked Islamic Circle of North America, a subsidiary of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami and yet another tentacle of Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I’s virtual neo-Ottoman empire...
learned that law enforcement had identified her son as a suspect in the attack, she went into his bedroom, "grabbed at least one document that appeared to be a map, and fed it into a shredder," the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors say the mother of an Islamic terrorist who murdered 14 people in a 2015 Muslim terrorist attack on a Christmas party in California has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence by shredding a map her son may have used to plan the massacre.
"Shareef admitted that she knew her son had produced the document, and she believed it was directly related to his planning of the IRC attack," the statement said.
LEST WE FORGET, TERROR-TIED GROUP CAIR (WITH ENEMEDIA COMPLICITY) PROVIDED COVER FOR THE FAMILY IN THE WAKE OF THE MASS JIHAD SLAUGHTER.
She should have been striped of her citizenship and sent packing with a permanent ban on stepping foot in our country. CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood need to go too. Osama Obama, his state department, Comey refused to investigate - but Herb, feel free to blame Christians and Joos.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more about the fate of the rest of the miscreants Mama Farook is related to here.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Since last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... has held deafening rallies with surrogate Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... in tow, bringing her to St. Paul the night before the state primary in a bid to win Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She sees this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... 's home state of Minnesota.
But months of campaigning with the bombastic Minneapolis representative not only couldn't lock down the state, but it didn't even help deliver Omar's congressional district. Instead, Sanders lost by more than 60,000 votes in a state he won in 2016. What's more, he didn't lose to native Klobuchar (which could have been expected), but to 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... , who didn't contest the stIlhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders flops in Minnesotaate but surged overnight after Klobuchar bowed out of the race and backed him.
Since getting elected to the Minnesota statehouse in 2016, Omar has been lionized by the media, and after winning her snap bid for Keith Ellison's congressional seat in 2018, she's been nothing short of revered. After suffering a heart attack in October of last year, Sanders relied on the endorsement of Omar and fellow socialist superstar Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... , with much of the political press attributing his rebound in the polls to their support.
Despite months of campaigning, Omar couldn't put him over the top in the state or in her home turf. Biden beat Sanders in Hennepin County, which houses Minneapolis and Omar's district. He also won Ramsey County, which includes the other Twin City of St. Paul, where the Monday night rally with Omar was held.
[PJMEDIA] 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-Not to be confused with Pocahontas) arguably should end her presidential campaign after an embarrassing third-place finish in her home state of Massachusetts.
As of 11 p.m. Eastern, former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... had won the state with 33 percent of the vote, with Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (S-USSR) behind him at 27 percent. Warren trailed at 22 percent, almost 100,000 votes behind Biden.
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She's fortunate in that her candidacy, and her absurd shtick, becomes slightly crazy and absurd by comparison with all the other freaks who performed for this Shitshow:
- Marianne Gaia-CrystalWorship
- Beta the Micksican
- Fartacus
- KamalHo
- Mini Mike Moloch and his Millions of Paid Minions
[CNSNEWS] "The middle class is getting clobbered...they're badly hurt," former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... told his supporters in Los Angeles Tuesday night.
"The people, they're the reason why I'm running. They’re the reason why I'm a Democrat in the first place."
Biden then made it clear that he's talking about some of the people:
"These are people who build our bridges, repair our roads, keep our water safe, who teach our kids; look, who race into burning buildings to protect other people; who grow our food, build our cars, pick up our garbage, our streets -- veterans, dreamers, single moms.
"And by the way, every Dreamer, have hope, because I’m coming and you're not going anywhere.
"And we're going to provide a pathway, a pathway, for 11 million citizens. If the other guys voted for the-- I won’t get into that, I won't get going," Biden said, apparently losing his train of thought.
"Look, the ironworkers, the steelworkers, the boilermakers, the plumbers the electricians -- these are the people that have been forgotten.
"Folks, that's why we need an economy that rewards work, not just wealth; that reestablishes the middle class and this time brings everybody along -- everybody!"
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So stupid. Criminally foolish. Completely incoherent.
Does he even begin to realize that shit-wage illegal immigration is one of the biggest reasons that, pre-Trump, workers' wages in this country actually DECLINED over thirty years?
Does his audience understand basic realities of the labor market?
Even the Marxist politicians who run Europe's parties of the left get this. No leftist pol or labor leader would even consider the notion of swamping the labor market with millions of illiterate imported helots: they'd think you'd lost your mind if you proposed this. In Joe's case they'd be right.
THe rules for immigrating and those for beacoming a citizen should be engarved ibn the Constituitionin oorder to impede using these laws to chan,ge the composition of the electorate
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You know what, I'll agree. In return we ship 11 million democrats to Devils Island, never to return. Every current democrat member of Congress, governors, state legislators, city and town mayors, plus enough Democrats out of hollywood to make up 11 million will be the ones going.
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No leftist pol or labor leader would even consider the notion of swamping the labor market with millions of illiterate imported helots:
Technically, Angela Merkel is of the right, and she presented her 2015 invitation as succoring the deserving desperate instead of procuring a replacement population.
The Egyptian authorities carry out the death sentence in the former Egyptian army officer Hisham Ashmawi. Note his was captured by #LNA scouts units in #Darna fighting with #ISIS then #Alqaida with a explosive vest. The forces fighting in Darna were funded by the #GNA.#Egyptpic.twitter.com/Fh8Zmtc6zb
Col. Tamer el-Rifai, a military spokesman, said on his Facebook page that el-Ashmawi was executed Wednesday by hanging. He posted a photo of the militant in a long beard and wearing a bright orange jumpsuit that is usually worn by those sentenced to death.
...also in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy and Hisham el-Ashmawi, he took the nom de guerre Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy was thrown out of Egyptian special forces in 2011 for extremism. He went on to help found Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, then the local branch of Al Qaeda, with whom he shared the results of his military training. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left for the Western Desert to form the Al Qaeda-linked al-Mourabitoun. At some point they wandered into Libya, where in 2018 the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt had convicted Mr. Ashmawy in absentia in 2014, leaving very little for the courts to do — though they nonetheless did it all over again. And now he is discovering whether or not he was right about what Allah wanted him to do...
Iranian suicide boats operated by the #Houthi militia tried to attack an oil vessel in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday 90 miles away from #Yemen southern shores, luckily, the #Saudi-led coalition succeeded in thwarting the attack which could have caused an environmental disaster. pic.twitter.com/nh1wm8QjlF
[PIX11] Immigration and Customs Enforcement slammed New York's sanctuary city status Tuesday after ICE officers arrested a man accused of raping a teen in Brooklyn.
Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam, 20, was originally arrested by the NYPD on Thursday, according to ICE. He was released from custody after his arraignment ‐ though ICE had issued a detainer ‐ and was then arrested again, this time by ICE, on Monday. Local Enforcement and Removal Operations Director Rhomas Decker called Ajqui-Ajtzalam's release "inconceivable."
"It’s frightening that our detainer was ignored and he was released onto New York City streets to possibly re-offend," Decker said. "The safety of city residents, especially the more vulnerable, continues to be a priority for ICE enforcement."
The victim was 13, an NYPD spokesperson said. Ajqui-Ajtzalam, a Brooklyn resident, was 19 at the time the criminal report was filed.
"The NYPD does not conduct civil immigration enforcement and we will only honor immigration detainers under the following circumstances: ICE presents a warrant issued by a federal judge establishing that there is probable cause to take the person into custody, and the person has been convicted of a "violent or serious crime" within five years of the arrest or is a possible match on the terrorist watch list," an NYPD spokesperson said.
In January, ICE blamed the death of a 92-year-old Queens woman on New York's sanctuary city status, which allows the city to shield undocumented immigrants colonists who have broken the law from deportation requests, in some cases.
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Such a debate would garner a huge audience. However, Biden will be nolo contendere. So far, Biden thinks he is running for the Senate, doesn't know where he is, thinks super Tuesday is Thursday and thinks his wife is his sister.
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Biden won't make it to November if he is the nominee. The press won't be able to cover for his complete mental failures and someone else will be pushed into his place. Most likely his VP choice. Who they choose for that slot will tell volumes on how the demoncrats are trying to rebuild.
[FOX] Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Wednesday issued a highly unusual and forceful rebuke to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calling his threatening remarks directed at Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh "irresponsible" and "dangerous" -- prompting Schumer's office to slam Roberts and accuse him of bias.
The extraordinary back-and-forth began hours earlier at a pro-choice rally hosted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, when Schumer ominously singled out President Trump's two Supreme Court picks: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!" Schumer warned. "You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
Roberts replied in his remarkable written statement, obtained by Fox News: "This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that 'You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.'"
Roberts continued: "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.
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Schumer/Schemer:
"You will pay the price!"
"The intelligence agencies ... have seven ways from Sunday of getting back at you"
Pelosi:
"Trump was not acquitted! He's impeached FOREVER!"
Do these people have any idea of how appalling they are?
Everything they accuse OrangeMan of being and doing applies to their own behavior: Lies. Bullying. Criminal, unconstitutional abuse.
They have done, and continue to do, more damage to rule of law and public confidence in government than a thousand Russian agents and dezinformatsiya experts.
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I shudder to think of the violence that will be unleashed when Ginsburg is replaced with an originalist-- or if Roberts sides with Alito in the Louisiana case.
The prospect of such violence is to me a lot scarier than anything related to COVID
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If you can find a federal prosecutor and a judge to get a warrant, make sure to send a US Marshals SWAT team to get him at 4:30 am, be sure to bring along a Breitbart film crew too.
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I don't know any way to interpret Schumer's remarks as anything other than a threat of physical violence, and an open invitation for others (e.g., Antifa, BLM, or some other extremist group) to perpetrate that violence.
The Democratic Party's fanatical devotion to unrestricted, free (i.e., at taxpayer expense) abortion on demand, even up to-- and past-- the moment of birth is both disgusting and frightening, and they're becoming more extreme with each passing year.
Where does it end with these people? With Party-sanctioned murder of anyone opposing their abortion agenda?
Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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Do these people have any idea of how appalling they are?
Why should they care?
There have never been any consequences for their awfulness and there never will be.
Throw in the sociopathy which seems so commonplace on the left and none of this is a surprise.
[AmGreatness] Two Chinese men who had previously been arrested have pled guilty to illegally taking photographs of a U.S. Navy base in Key West, Florida, according to ABC News.
As previously reported by American Greatness, the two Chinese nationals, Yuhao Wang and Jielun Zhang, both 24 years old, were students attending the University of Michigan at the time of their arrest. They illegally drove onto the property of the Sigsbee Annex at the Naval Air Station, even after being turned away once already by security.
Having pled guilty, they now face penalties of either a $100,000 fine or up to a year in prison. Their sentencing is currently set for May 11th.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] When Iraq's anti-government protests began last year, it was supporters of renowned Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who added heft.
They came in the thousands, manning front lines during clashes with riot police and providing security for the demonstrators as they settled in for the long haul.
Now, it might be Sadr who extinguishes their fight.
A flurry of statements from the cleric in recent months has fractured the movement, prompting accusations of betrayal. He has pulled his supporters away from protest camps and then sent those followers back to battle those who remained.
Threats made by his militiamen have sent political activists into hiding. Sadr’s followers have attacked his critics with knives.
“They’re insulting Sadr, and we can’t allow it,” cried one of his supporters, Saeed Alaa al-Yassiri, on a recent day in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square as his group pushed other demonstrators back with sticks and knives. “They’re serving American agendas now. This square needs to be cleaned.”
Sadr is a storied figure in Iraq, with a history of agitation against U.S. troops and fierce loyalty from tens of thousands of pious and working class acolytes.
But he is also something of a shape-shifter; in the years since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the cleric has positioned himself variously as a sectarian militia leader, a revolutionary figure and a nationalist who can unify the country. His reliance on Iranian support has also waxed and waned, depending at times, it has seemed, on the optics for his political base.
But Iraq’s youth movement has emerged as a challenge to his long-standing image as a man who can command the country’s streets. As the largest spontaneous uprising in the country’s history, the protest movement has already felled one government and rejected a prime minister-designate that Sadr had backed. The candidate, Mohamed Tawfiq Allawi, stepped aside Sunday.
More than 500 demonstrators have been killed by Iraq’s security forces and Iran-backed militias since October, human rights and security officials say. The violence has turned what started as anti-corruption protests into a revolt against the entire political system, with growing anger and mockery directed at Iran’s leading role — and now at the cleric himself.
“In this sense, it is the nature of Iraq’s protest politics that has changed, not Sadr himself,” said Ben Robin-D’Cruz, a researcher on Iraqi politics at the University of Edinburgh.
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[Rudaw] Iran-backed militias are preventing the defeat of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) in Iraq, US-led coalition spokesperson Colonel Myles B. Caggins III told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
Coalition forces placed operations against ISIS remnants and sleeper cells in Iraq on pause after a spate of rocket and missile attacks targeting US military personnel stationed at Iraqi army bases.
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According to Izvestia's sources, SAA Pantsir and Buk air defense systems have shot down 5 Anka and 7 Bayraktar UAVs. In response, their sources claim that Turkey is mostly flying its UCAVs at low altitude and at night. 170/https://t.co/QdkQD2vHlm
[VOA] An American military translator based in Iraq has been arrested and charged with handing highly classified information to a Lebanese national with apparent ties to the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was arrested by FBI special agents on February 27 at an unidentified overseas military facility where she worked as a contract translator. She faces charges of delivering defense information to aid a foreign government and was scheduled to make her first appearance in federal court in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Justice Department, the FBI investigation leading to Thompson's arrest uncovered that she had accessed dozens of secret military computer files on human intelligence sources over a six-week period beginning December 30, a day after U.S. strikes against Iranian-backed forces in Iraq.
The files included "true names, personal identification data, background information, and photographs of the human assets, as well as operational cables detailing information the assets provided to the United States government," the Justice Department said in a statement.
A court authorized the search of Thompson's living quarters on February 19 and found a handwritten note in Arabic with classified information that she intended to send to a Lebanese national in whom she had a romantic interest. The note found under a mattress included names of human assets and instructions that their phones should be monitored.
Court documents identify Thompson's co-conspirator as having apparent connections to the Hezbollah. The group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in 1997.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s president on Wednesday warned a fresh migrant crisis could be resolved only if Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... supports its efforts in Syria, as violent festivities broke out between refugees and police on the Greek border.
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Greece is under attack and it's way past time for NATO to take action.
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Maybe EU should work with their gas supplier instead?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Some 328 illegal immigrants colonists from China have been nabbed jumping the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year, according to Homeland Security data that raises the prospect a coronavirus carrier could sneak into the country via the border.
Three other people from South Korea ‐ another country with rapidly spreading cases ‐ have also been arrested at the border, as have 122 people from the Dominican Republican, where the coronavirus has now been detected.
All told, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants colonists a day are caught attempting to sneak in from Mexico, which detected its first case last week, and since has identified five others.
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From g(r)omgoru's link: Elizabeth Warren unveils legislation to defund President Donald Trump’s border wall and direct the money toward the coronavirus response in the U.S.
A border wall would be a most effective response to the coronavirus as well as a whole host of other contagions.
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[Gov.Scot] Approval for Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill.
The right to vote in Scottish Parliament and local government elections has been extended today, with the passing of the Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill.
The Bill extends voting rights to all foreign nationals with leave to remain, including all those granted refugee status.
It also extends candidacy rights to foreign nationals with indefinite leave to remain, and to those with pre-settled status.
This also marks the first time in the history of the Scottish Parliament that a Bill has passed after requiring a super-majority, the support of two thirds of the 129 members elected.
Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs Michael Russell said:
“This Bill, a historic piece of legislation, is an example of Scotland’s ability to take the lead in making progressive reforms, and one of which we should be proud.
“It also reflects the reality of modern Scotland: a nation committed to robustly meeting our duties to the treaties that safeguard our human rights, that welcomes those who seek to join our society, and gives a democratic voice to the most marginalised in our communities.
“EU and Commonwealth citizens already have the franchise, but it was critical that we recognised the enormous contribution of others by extending the right to vote.
“This extension is especially meaningful in the atmosphere of uncertainty surrounding the UK Government’s plans for the immigration system – but instead of instilling insecurity and fear, this Government is using the powers that it has to send the message that Scotland is open, welcoming, and home to all those who so choose.
“This legislation also ensures that Scotland complies with the European Convention on Human Rights when it comes to the issue of prisoner voting, by making provision for the franchise to be extended to those serving a custodial sentence of 12 months or less.”
[FoxNews] New Trump administration rules taking effect April 1 are putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of losing their benefits.
From Hawaii to Pennsylvania, states are scrambling to blunt the impact of the new rules, with roughly 700,000 people at risk of losing benefits unless they meet certain work, training or school requirements. They’ve filed a multi-state lawsuit, expanded publicly funded job training, developed pilot programs and doubled down efforts to reach vulnerable communities, including the homeless, rural residents and people of color.
Currently, work-eligible, able-bodied adults without dependents under 50 can receive monthly benefits if they meet a 20-hour weekly work, job training or school requirement. Those who don’t are limited to three months of food stamps over three years.
However, states with high unemployment or few jobs have been able to waive time limits. Every state except Delaware has sought a waiver at some point, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The new rules make it harder to get waivers. They’re the first of three changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which feeds 36 million people nationwide.
The Trump administration has touted the change as a way to get people working and save $5.5 billion over five years. Able-bodied adults without dependents are 7 percent of SNAP recipients.
She doesn't have Short-Shot's billions to buy the right rule change
[Heavy] An official with the DNC has announced on Twitter that the threshold for participating in a Democratic debate will be increased. This announcement was made around the same time that American Samoa caucus rewarded Tulsi Gabbard with a delegate after she earned 29.3 percent of the votes with 99 percent reporting. The DNC's debate threshold had allowed anyone to qualify to be in a debate if they gained one delegate in a primary or caucus, but the tweet from an official with the DNC indicates that might change.
Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the Democratic Party according to her Twitter account, tweeted about the threshold changes on Twitter.
She wrote: "We have two more debates– of course the threshold will go up. By the time we have the March debate, almost 2,000 delegates will be allocated. The threshold will reflect where we are in the race, as it always has."
[JPOST] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Blue and White leader Benny Gantz of trying to steal Monday's election on Wednesday after Gantz began efforts to pass a law that would prevent an indicted MK from forming a government.
Speaking at a meeting of the MKs in his right-wing bloc, Netanyahu said the effort to pass the bill would undermine democracy. The leaders of the parties in his bloc vowed to remain united and insist that only Netanyahu form the next government.
"This is an effort to divide the nation when we are facing serious challenges like the corona crisis," Netanyahu said in the part of the meeting that was open to the press. "There are also opportunities like US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... 's plan that require us to be united and respect the will of the people."
After the press was asked to leave the room, Netanyahu upgraded his attack on Gantz, saying that he was worse than Iranian Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei.
"In Iran, they disqualify candidates before their elections, but here Gantz is doing it after an election despite the results," Netanyahu said.
[NYPOST] Republican Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, failed to advance out of Tuesday’s primary in his bid for a Houston congressional seat, becoming the first member of his family to lose a race in Texas in more than 40 years.
Aside from the recognition of coming from America’s most enduring Republican dynasty, Bush 34, was endorsed by the outgoing GOP incumbent, Rep. Pete Olson, and raised more money than many of the other 14 candidates in the field.
Troy Nehls and Kathaleen Wall, staunch defenders of President Trump, advanced instead to the runoff. That raised questions about whether the Bush family’s sharp personal festivities with the president in recent years turned off Republican voters.
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.
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
[FOX] Longtime Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler died this week at age 70.
[American Military News] The U.S. Defense Department has signed a new contract for the production of Javelin anti-tank missile systems for partner countries, including Ukraine, Ukrinform reported on March 3.
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[OpIndia] The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has confirmed that an industrial autoclave seized from the Chinese ship Dai Cui Yun could have been used for the manufacture of nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missiles or satellite launch rockets, reports WION.
[Washington Examiner] Justice Department and FBI officials under review for their role in the flawed wiretaps of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page are banned from having any involvement in the pursuit of electronic monitoring through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
[Hot Air] At a courthouse in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, an ICE agent arrested an illegal alien who was there for legal proceedings unrelated to his immigration status. But the alien’s attorney was outraged and complained to the media and county officials. This led the County Executive, one Lamont McClure, to take drastic action. He whipped out his pen and issued an executive order stating that immigration officials could no longer make arrests at the courthouse without first obtaining a federal warrant. Well, bless his heart. 
[Hot Air] Maaaayyybeee, but color me skeptical that Joe Biden’s brief renaissance means voters will take any more interest in Hunter Biden’s peccadilloes. Now that Biden has momentarily regained front-runner status, CNN’s Manu Raju asked Lindsey Graham whether Senate Republicans planned to pursue their investigation into corruption at Burisma and the Bidens’ potential roles in it. Graham told Raju that it’s definitely still on the menu:
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The FBI missed opportunities to stop domestic 
Anyone remember, a day or two following the bombing the FBI SAC office in Boston ran a teevee advert asking if anyone knew the identities of these two lads (Tsarnaev bros). 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[ChannelNewsAsia] China will use a Roche Holding arthritis drug to treat some COVID-19 patients in severe conditions, health authorities said on Wednesday (Mar 4), as the country seeks to build up treatment regiments to help the infected recover.
[DAILYVOICE] A Guatemalan national living in Fairview sexually abused a 13-year-old Cliffside Park student, authorities charged.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[The Hill] President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general and senior strategic analyst for Fox News, the White House said Wednesday. 
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
[GellerReport] Why? She should get a life sentence, instead she made a deal for 18 months. According to her plea agreement, after Shareef 
...The 
[PJMEDIA] Sen. 
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
[PIX11] Immigration and Customs Enforcement slammed New York's sanctuary city status Tuesday after ICE officers arrested a man accused of raping a teen in Brooklyn.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] When Iraq's anti-government protests began last year, it was supporters of renowned Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who added heft.
[VOA] An American military translator based in Iraq has been arrested and charged with handing highly classified information to a Lebanese national with apparent ties to the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. 
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Meet Joe's running mate and Rep. Jim Clyburn's (D-SC) payoff. 
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
[NYPOST] Republican Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, failed to advance out of Tuesday’s primary in his bid for a Houston congressional seat, becoming the first member of his family to lose a race in Texas in more than 40 years.
