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[Ay-Pee via SD UnionTrib] Iraq's prime minister-designate announced his withdrawal from the post Sunday night after failing to secure parliamentary support for his Cabinet selection, prolonging the political deadlock in the country amid multiple economic, health and security challenges.
Prime Minister designate Mohammed Allawi blamed political parties he did not name, saying they "were not serious about implementing reforms that they promised to the people" and accusing them of placing obstacles in the way of a new and independent government.
"If I agreed to offer concessions, I would be prime minister now, but I tried everything possible to save the country from sliding toward the unknown and resolve the current crisis. But the negotiations hit repeated snags," he said in a short address to the nation, explaining his decision to withdraw. He accused some parties of negotiating "purely for narrow interests."
Allawi's withdrawal a month after he was selected for the post plunges the country in more uncertainty at a critical time and as the country weathers troubled times, including ongoing anti-government protests and the constant threat of being ensnared by festering U.S.-Iran tensions.
Shortly after he spoke, two mortar shells landed in Iraq's Green Zone where the U.S. Embassy and government offices are located, without causing any injuries, two security officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Iraq on Sunday marked five months since a popular uprising against the country's corrupt political class erupted in Baghdad and southern provinces. Iraqis took to the streets in the thousands on Oct. 1 to decry rampant government corruption, unemployment and poor services. Demonstrators rejected Allawi's candidacy outright, saying he was the choice of the political elite and not the street.
Iraq also faces multiple challenges including on the economic and security fronts, and the most recent challenge of containing the coronavirus, with a failing health system and 19 confirmed cases so far.
Allawi's withdrawal came after he twice failed to secure a quorum for parliament to meet to vote on his Cabinet selection.
Allawi's cabinet formation process was beset with political turmoil as opposing factions threatened to withdraw support over the prime minister-designate's secretive selection of ministers -- unusual in the country's power-sharing system ‐ while in the streets of Baghdad, anti-government protesters camped in a central square for five months said they would reject his authority if early elections weren't held.
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"Now vee shall try one off my fariations on Rorschach's inblot. I call it natuerlich zee 'Inkbloid.' Was sehen sie herein, Fraulein?"
"Jeepers, Doktor Fred! There's a lot going on in that picture..."
Several minutes later...
"Whew! Is it just me, or isn't it suddenly like summer in the Vienna Woods in here?"
"Why, Doktor! Is that your tail wagging, or are you just..."
Several minutes later...
"I shouldn't worry over it too much, Fraulein R., for sometimes a smiling woman gripping a paddle before a weiner dog in a canoe next to a log beneath a rosebush beside a dock projecting into still waters... is simply..."
"Shall we again, Herr Doktor?"
"Talked me into it, du silber-tongued debbil, du."
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Can someone tell me how so much fuss about Trump's impeachment? US Constitution says:
"The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present."
and there was never a chance Dems getting their two thirds majority
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To respond to our old friend, JFM, the Democrats, Senator Romney, and the media were having a Trump-bashing party.
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#3 Can someone tell me how so much fuss about Trump's impeachment?
Many people in America don't understand that an impeachment is a politicized indictment, not a legal conviction.
The Deep State, Democrats and "principled conservatives" are counting on this ignorance about that important distinction in order to damage Trump politically.
Your quote from the Constitution shows that you know more about our system of government than the average American, including many "Constitutional conservatives".
[OpIndia] A dangerous trend has emerged in Qom, a city near Tehran.
Whatever you wanna do to it, Gromgoru... Gawd can do better.☺
Calamity has struck Iran in the form of the Coronavirus. At least 210 are speculated to have died in the Covid-19 outbreak in the country thus far. The figure is much higher than the official figures provided by the Ministry. Most of the victims are believed to be from Iran's capital, Tehran, and the city of Qom, where cases of Coronavirus first emerged.
Meanwhile, a dangerous trend has emerged in Qom, a city near Tehran. Pro-regime citizens of Qom are visiting religious shrines in Qom and licking them in an apparent effort to prove that there's nothing to be concerned about. "I'm licking this I don't care whatever happens," a man says, "I am not scared of Coronavirus."
While the city of Qom is the epicentre of #CoronaVirus in Iran, authorities refuse to close down religious shrines there.
These pro-regime people are licking the shrines & encouraging people to visit them.
Iran's authorities are endangering lives of Iranians & the world pic.twitter.com/s9o6zYhzNQ
- Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 29, 2020
"There are people who say that this shrine spreads the Coronavirus, I'm here to lick the tomb so that I can fall ill. This way, I have removed the viruses," says another. Crowded gatherings are at the greatest risk of spreading the Coronavirus and as such, shrines could be particularly vulnerable as sites to spread the virus. However, Iran's authorities haven't yet shut them down yet and people licking the shrine are encouraging others to visit it.
Even children are being coerced and encouraged into kissing and licking the shrine.
"Bravo to this young child for licking all the doors. He's kissing it, licking it, He licked all the doors. We’re the ones who will get the virus and our children," a person can be heard saying in the video shared by Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist. Alinejad has also said that the World Health Organization needs to intervene immediately.
World Health Organisation @WHO needs to intervene urgently.
Videos of pro-regime people urging even their own children to lick the #CoronaVirus infested shrines are surfacing.
Not only is this child abuse, but it’s also helping the virus spread Iran and to other countries. pic.twitter.com/CDDYzSuxMF
- Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) February 29, 2020
The head of the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom, meanwhile, has called upon Iranians to keep coming to the shrine, which could spell disaster for the country and also spread it to other countries. "We consider this holy shrine to be a place of healing. That means people should come here to heal from spiritual and physical diseases," Mohammad Saeedi, who is also the representative of Iran' Supreme Leader in Qom, has said.
Earlier, only a day after Iran's Deputy Health Minister had announced that the government has the Coronavirus outbreak under control, he tested positive for the virus. Vice-President for Women's and Family Affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, and Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi are among several senior officials who have been infected.
[OpIndia] Apart from exporting terror, the parody country of Pakistan has produced one of the most deranged individuals in the world. The sheer contempt for humanity from the people associated with the terror-state was once again displayed when Pakistani based self-proclaimed 'writer' Ali A Rizvi urged people affected with deadly coronavirus to attend rallies of US President Donald Trump and spread the contagious disease so that more people are affected by the disease.
In a hate-filled tweet, Ali A Rizvi on Friday directed the victims of the coronavirus to attend President Trump's rally so that they could spread the disease in the crowd, mostly Trump supporters. Rizvi listed four to-dos for the coronavirus victims and asked them to take some measures while urging them to attend Trump rallies in their area.
However, Rizvi asked to read his instruction in a reverse order, which meant that he wanted people to go to the rally first to spread the disease and then take precautionary measures. In a way, he wanted Trump's supporters to get killed due to the contagious disease which has already taken the lives of thousands of people across the world.
What to do if you have coronavirus:
1. See your healthcare provider - make sure you call ahead.
2. Separate yourself from family and friends.
3. Wear a face mask.
4. Cover all coughs/sneezes.
4. Attend every Trump rally in your area.
(Do all steps in reverse order)
- Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) February 28, 2020
This is not the first time that Rizvi is craving for someone's death through coronavirus. Just a few days back, responding to a post tweeted by former US Attorney Preet Bharara, Rizvi said he would attend Trump's rally if he had carried coronavirus.
If I contracted coronavirus, I would go out and try to attend every Trump rally possible
- Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) February 24, 2020
I seriously think America should learn some things from Putin and that Md bin Salman guy. Just sayin'...
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Canada considers it criminal to use "him" and "her" in reference to someone who wants to be addressed using a made-up pronoun of that person's devising.
[NYP] This elderly Iraqi man collapsed and died of a heart attack on live TV at a Baghdad hospital ‐ while complaining about the country’s health services, according to a report.
The unidentified man was at the Al Yarmouk Hospital, where he was appearing last week on an episode of "People & People" on private TV station Alsumaria, according to Gulf News.
Directing his ire toward the TV host, a medical doctor, the man railed, "How can I be quiet?"
"The people are suffering," he added, as he assailed the county’s bureaucracy, the news site reported.
Before slumping in the doctor’s arms, the man assailed Iraq’s rulers.
"Take us out of the streets (protests), let the government review themselves. I came here for a checkup and saw all this suffering. People are tired, officials put God in front of your eyes and fear him...," he said, trailing off.
The hospital said the man was there to seek medical help for an unspecified problem he suffered after authorities removed him from his store.
"The man tried to convey his suffering to officials through the TV. Minutes later, he collapsed and suffered a heart attack that led to his immediate death," the hospital said in a statement.
"He was not checked by any doctor before his talk to the TV station," it added.
[NYP] A California Democrat gave credence to a wild Jeffrey Epstein theory on Capitol Hill this week, asking a top Justice Department official whether the serial predator was an undercover FBI informant, a report said.
Rep. Jackie Speier reportedly asked John Demers, the assistant attorney general of the national security division, the way off topic question at a House Intelligence Committee briefing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, set to expire in several weeks, the Daily Beast reported.
She introduced her inquiry by noting the obvious ‐ it was not on the agenda, the outlet reported. Demers answered that he had no knowledge of Epstein working for the agency, noting that he works for Justice, not the FBI, according to the report.
The lawmaker’s question was reportedly sourced from a theory that law enforcement may have gone easy on Epstein in his 2007 Miami child sex abuse case, because he helped finger his powerful friends. Unfortunate phrasing
Epstein, who died by suicide in Manhattan federal lockup as he was awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges, was granted a plea deal in that case.
His 18-month sentence ‐ of which he served only 13 ‐ was seen as lenient. I believe he only slept at the jail. During normal business hours he was back at the office working on his source case load. His type of business required constant attention, travel, and personal interaction. His work was really getting stacked up.
Some said the deal was a favor from federal prosecutors for providing tips to investigators described as "valuable consideration," the Miami Herald reported.
Speier’s inquiry was not the first time law enforcement has been pressed about its ties to Epstein.
In July, former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta ‐ the US Attorney who granted Epstein the Miami deal ‐ was asked by a reporter if the financier was an "intelligence asset."
"So, there has been reporting to that effect," he said, according to the Washington Examiner. "And let me say, there’s been report to a lot of effects in this case. Not just now but over the years. And again, I would, I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact."
The DOJ and Speier declined to comment on the inquiry to the Daily Beast. Or anyone else, as they stared blankly at one another.
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Well yeah. The fix was in on his 2007 conviction. He obviously had friends in federal law enforcement. Nobody gets that good of a deal unless you're connected.
"Epstein, who died by suicide in Manhattan federal lockup as he was awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges, was granted a plea deal in that case."
Just look at this shit. Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Why is this woman asking a Deep Stater such a question?
She should go directly to her pal Hillary. Ply her with Chardonnay.
[Mercer at American Greatness] The FBI, which Americans are meant to trust with matters of life and death, is unable‐or unwilling‐to confirm whether U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) perpetrated fraud by marrying her brother, Ahmed Elmi, to let him obtain a coveted green card, thus granting him permanent-resident status in the United States, and a path to citizenship. But the bureau is reportedly "investigating."
Conversely, the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, had little difficulty gathering a critical mass of facts, enough to conclude that, in 2009, Omar did indeed secretly wed said sibling. The newspaper, and anyone else suggesting the same, has yet to be sued by Omar. Could the story be true?
As it happens, a Somali community leader has also outed Ilhan Omar as an outlaw. Abdihaikm Osman Nur contends that the Somali-born freshman congresswoman "had indeed married her brother." So reported Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Despite "a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia," which complicates an investigation and a definitive determination, the British tabloid dug up the requisite information that the FBI has yet to release. The young man whom Omar is alleged to have married certainly bears a remarkable resemblance to the congresswoman. They’re both . . . pretty (although Elmi looks happier and a lot more festive).
It was in August 2016 that Nur, aforementioned, seconded the story first published by Scott Johnson of the Power Line blog: Omar had married her sibling, ostensibly to allow him to remain in America. As the Daily Mail had relayed, Nur took issue with Omar’s alleged marriage-cum-immigration fraud. It would appear that the British tabloid was more invested in the truth, as this patriotic Somali told it, than was the FBI.
To date, these are the facts on the fraud alleged to have been committed by a member of the U.S. Congress. Yet nobody is likely to do more than mutter at the striking absence of scruples in Ilhan Omar. For not only does she appear to flout the law, but she also offends sensibilities: Omar had first married Ahmed Hirsi, father of her children, in 2002. Bigamy and incest (even if the relationship is unconsummated) are cultural taboos.
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In the old days con men and I suppose con women would work their trade and leave for new unsuspecting area. They were called slickers by the old timers I have met. Today most seem to hold political office and can work unfettered. Obama and Hillery are perfect examples. They can con over and over unfettered.
A is a singular. We're dealing with a plural. The more accurate statement would be 'America doesn't have an honest member in Congress' in the singular. They all get there by a confidence game one way or another.
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I'm told she already has an army of thugs and hitmen, people never in the frame but their presence is felt suddenly by reporters, constituents and critics who dare to cross her.
Her own somalis in her district are shit-scared of her vindictiveness, reach and unaccountability.
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Ilhan Omar in Service of Islamist Agendas While serving as a Minnesota state legislator in September 2017, Omar met Erdoğan in a closed-door meeting. She gleefully tweeted about her experience in her native Somali, and it was covered in official Turkish media. The only U.S.-based coverage of the exchange came from a Somali-language newspaper article that explained how Erdoğan concluded the meeting by asking Omar to pledge support for Turkey, before inexplicably being deleted.
In October, Omar voted in favor of two controversial bills that happened to coincide with Turkish foreign policy interests. First, she was the only House Democrat to vote against a bill threatening to impose fresh sanctions on Turkey for its military action in northern Syria.
Second, affirming her allegiance with Erdoğan's regime, Omar abstained on a resolution to condemn the historical Armenian Genocide, which Turkey continues to deny. Omar deflected criticism by arguing that any true acknowledgment of genocide should include the transatlantic slave trade and American Indian genocide.
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The author is correct: Elmi does look a lot more easy-going and fun-loving in the family pictures. Like that drinking buddy that's always "getting one over" and never seems to get in trouble for it.
[MAIL] China has slaughtered thousands of its citizens to harvest organs such as hearts, lungs, kidneys, eyes and even skin for sale and to transplant into sick patients in hundreds of hospitals across the country.
A landmark international investigation, published in full today, will accuse the Beijing government of covering up ‘crimes against humanity’ that have been routinely carried out against religious minorities.
The inquiry says the organised butchery of living people to sell body parts can be compared ‘to the worst atrocities committed in conflicts of the 20th Century’ such as the Nazi gassing of Jews and Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia.
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I met a cabbie once who told me he was really working for the CIA in Mumbai ! How they were trying to make sure 'nothing untoward happens again'. If we'd treated him to a little more whiskey, I'm sure he would've sang about the Roswell landings and how little green men were actually jaundiced Bangladeshis in German balloons.
Anyway, if islamic uighurs are being harvested by China so their organs will benefit someone who actually appreciates human life, I'm okay with it. You should be too. If we're not, we should at least not give a fuck. I know why the UK cares - islamists. If we are to eradicate islam like the disease it is, there can be no better example than China.
The west has no solution to islam because of a faux-righteous humanism enshrined in western political dogma. It's a self-flagellating, guilt ridden doctrine of allowing every fucking evil to remain free and armed in certain places, while spending insane amounts of unwitting taxpayers' money to indiscriminately slay entire populations elsewhere. Gosh, I sound like érb !
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It's just an old Trump speech set to some video. I guess it's good? I wouldn't say it was incredible. It looks like a fan job.
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Update: Evidently the video is from 2016. Armstrong is still hearing things "from behind the curtain" that it will probably be Hillary vs. Trump again.
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Don't bet against Hillary running again. Mini Mike is a train wreck. Plugz is going senile. No way the DNC will allow the only viable candidate to win the no joke action: Bernie will not happen.
[JPost] - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may have harmed the country's ability to track and detect the spread of the CORVID-19 disease due to a series of missteps, including refusing to use the tests recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to ProPublica.
As the virus began to spread, the CDC decided to start creating its own, more complicated test instead of using the test guidelines provided by the WHO. The test was made to check for a variety of different viruses. When the test was sent to labs across the country, it didn't work and falsely flagged the presence of other viruses in harmless samples.
Until Wednesday, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only allowed state labs to use the CDC's test. As a result, local officials didn't carry out "surveillance tests" of hundreds of people in possible hotspots, a crucial first step when coping with a possible outbreak.
Scott Becker, chief executive officer of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told ProPublica that they're "weeks behind" because of the issue. "We’re usually up-front and center and ready."
While the CDC announced on February 14 that surveillance testing would begin in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, the testing had yet to begin as of Friday. And that why Trump made Pence coronavirus Tzar
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"including refusing to use the tests recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to ProPublica."
Given that there are known reliability issues with COVID-19 tests used in China and the WHO is politically influenced by China there's no fault in not blindly trusting the WHO.
Trust but verify. Place your bet on how long before the Taliban do a massive attack on something, breaking the agreement, dear Reader.
[ToloNews] US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, in Kabul on Saturday with Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , announced a joint agreement between the United States and Afghanistan, stating that a full withdrawal of all US troops will be completed within 14 months, with the current 13,000 US troops being reduced to 8,600 within 135 days. This plan is contingent on the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fulfilling its commitments under the US-Taliban agreement, which was also signed on Saturday in Doha, Qatar
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Walk out to the ocean through Pakistan leaving the country so desolate that a crow would have to carry its own food in order to fly over. See - Anabasis.
[Washington Examiner] HOUSTON ‐ Elizabeth Warren was bracing for a South Carolina beating.
Like many of her rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination not named Joe Biden, the Massachusetts senator, 70, juggled campaign stops in the first-in-the-South state with events in Super Tuesday states ahead of next week, including Texas, where she held an election night town hall.
"I’ll be the first to say that the first four contests haven’t gone exactly as I’d hoped," Warren said in Houston Saturday night. "Super Tuesday is three days away, and we’re looking forward to gaining as many delegates to the convention as we can ‐ from California to right here in Texas."
Echoing a campaign memo circulated before New Hampshire that predicted she was "poised to finish in the top two in over half of Super Tuesday states," she added, "Our campaign is built for the long haul ‐ and we’re looking forward to these big contests."
Even the star power of John Legend couldn’t lift Warren in South Carolina on Saturday, a result foreshadowed by a yearlong struggle to gain traction with minority Democrats and a polling average of 6% heading into the last of the first four early-voting contests, according to RealClearPolitics averages.
But as she eyes Super Tuesday, her pitch that she’s the "woman who’s going to beat Donald Trump" will be tested again after finishing third in Iowa, as well as fourth in New Hampshire and Nevada, a mix of both mostly white and diverse states.
She’s polling well in California, with an average of 17% support, following only Bernie Sanders in the state that provides candidates with the opportunity to pick up some of its 416 pledged delegates. Despite investing in Texas, boosted by San Antonio native Julian Castro, she’s further behind in fourth place with 13%, falling short of the 15% threshold generally required to scoop up some of the state’s 228 available delegates. She faces a similar challenge in North Carolina and Virginia, with 11% in each of the general election battlegrounds.
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The good news is that is out of the running. The bad news is she will go back to the Senate with a big chip on her shoulder, and terrorize big business with more gusto than before.
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Hope she stays. She will take more donations from her true believers. She will antagonize the Bernie bros. She will be Pursued by real Cherokee. All good.
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Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah militia gives all Iraqis working with US forces until 15 March to cease their activities. This includes Iraqi transportation & security companies, Ministries of Defense & Interior, PMF (Hashd), CTService & politicians. https://t.co/hv0xf2juM5
Seen on Facebook. Ruth Johnston is a historian specializing in the Middle Ages, about which she blogs here. She wrote the following in response to the current coronavirus panic.
Medieval plague notes: what was "plague" like? Trigger warning: content will be disgusting.
In case you're interested further, here's a medical paper on the Plague of Athens. They did find one clearly identifiable grave for plague victims, so they're testing the bones. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19787658
What was Plague like, generally? Thucydides described a violent disease that nearly always killed its victims (he himself survived). It began suddenly, with violent pain and high fever. Within hours, victims broke out in sores. They coughed and retched; they had diarrhea and bled. They had spasms of pain or seizure. In some plagues, skin died, becoming black. The Plague of Athens took up to a week to kill someone, while some later plagues, including the Black Death of 1347, killed in as little as 8 hours.
Plague was simply the most frightening thing in the world. It’s no accident that Plague is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelation. Diseases that rise to the label of Plague attack nearly all body systems at once. They mutate even as they spread, becoming airborne and sometimes defying logic as to how they are transmitted. The amazing thing is that plagues never kill everyone, although there appears to be no reason why they shouldn’t. When we contemplate the horrors of a 60% death rate, which is about the maximum ever suffered in a plague, we must remember that this means 2 out of 5 people never got sick, or were mildly sick and recovered. Their natural resistance to the disease is what eventually ends the plague, since after it returns several times, a majority of survivors have immunity.
This coronavirus may be sneaky, with its long, symptom-free period of virus shedding and ability to reinfect or re-emerge in some of those who had recovered from the first infection, but we aren’t seeing multiple body systems collapsing in short order, nor are a large percentage of those exposed becoming sick and dying. It’s not even as awful as Ebola.
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The normal human body's immune system is constantly killing off various diseases . In China they have been weakened with long term exposure to coal dust, animal dung/dust in the air and etc. To stay healthy avoid China, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
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Y’all are very welcome. I share her perspectives here from time to time. She also is the lady I’ve mentioned with an undiagnosed form of chronic fatigue and the schizophrenic son who had to kill his grandmother and be imprisoned before he could be forced to get treatment. Altogether one of my heroes, in her own quiet way — if I had half her accomplishments or her strength, I’d have reason indeed to be proud of myself.
Pakistani Govt has decided to close #Pak-Afghan border for 7 days following imminent threats of #Coronavirus in #Balochistan. Roughly 10000 people daily crosses the Pak-Afghan friendship gate. The #Pak-Iran border has already been closed since last 9days as Iran in grip of Corona
Two new cases of #coronavirus have been detected in #Pakistan, bringing the total number of patients with the infection in the country to four, according to the prime minister’s adviser on health Zafar Mirza.#COVID_19https://t.co/ARKM5D6LdE
[Rudaw] Academic researchers have voiced suspicion over the officially recognized coronavirus numbers coming out of Iran. A study out of the University of Toronto, based off cross-referencing the death rates of infected areas, estimates that the size of the outbreak in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... could be as high as 18,300 people.
Speaking to news hounds at a press briefing on Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that a total of 97 cases of coronavirus across 11 countries have likely originated from people who became infected during recent travel to Iran.
Canada, New Zealand, Georgia, Belarus and seven other countries have traced confirmed cases of Covid-19, the deadly coronavirus strain currently spreading like wildfire across international borders, back to individuals who recently traveled to Iran.
Ghebreyesus also stated that 24 new cases of the virus, spread across 14 countries, originated in Italia.
[AlAhram] The number of cases of the new coronavirus in Italia has exceeded 1,000, the health ministry said Saturday, with the corpse count rising by eight to 29 in the past 24 hours.
The number of cases has reached 1,128 since the start of the epidemic a week ago, up from 888 on Friday. Around half those tested show few to no symptoms, the Italian health authorities said.
Official figures said 105 people were receiving intensive care hospital treatment as of Saturday.
Eighty of the most serious cases are in the northern Lombardi region. All the deaths have been recorded in three northern regions, the health ministry's figures showed.
A total of 1,049 people remained infected on Saturday, the figures showed.
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I saw a medical sort on the Iranian news coughing many times and at first not covering his mouth. He appeared on another televised program doing the same thing. This will be repeated over and over and the numbers of infected will explode. He indicated he had the contagion(test results) later on the show he was being interviewed for. The person doing the interview was unprotected.
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Don't you love how many significant figures they quote ("as high as 18,300 people") for WAG guesses?
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^ Always, and I'm not even a geek. Say, if you're the james who sometimes posts a blog link, thanks for that. Never visit without being tricked into thinking, and the leisurely, low-key vibe really appeals. Reminds me of... dunno... dropping by for coffee after-hours with a flunkie in a Really Important Lab, back in the days before access cards and omnipresent video and all that crap, and learning all kinds of interesting things without having to feel (very) stupid.
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Thank you for the kind words. That's pretty much the climate I aim for. And there are so many interesting things in the world...
(I used different browsers to post in Rantburg from: some auto-fill, some don't).
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kind words
Kinder if I hadn't implicitly called you a flunky, which word I intended to apply solely to low-ambition friends of my low-ambition past, back before I [swell of laughter] set the world on fire.
And there are so many interesting things in the world...
That's so much like something my mom would say that, reading it, I heard its echo in her voice. No wonder I like your stuff. Thanks again.
#LNA Units operating in the south of the country arrest the Sudanese (Omar Fadel Al-Saeed Muhammad Al-Amin), Abu Abdullah, who is the #ISIS’a Doctor in #Libya. pic.twitter.com/eJ5vsjzp8W
[Business Insider] The Defender-Europe 2020 exercise will be the largest deployment of US-based forces to Europe in 25 years, with some 20,000 soldiers deploying from the US to join another 17,000 troops from 17 other countries.
The exercise will take place in April and May, and to get some of those soldiers and their gear to Europe, the US Military Sealift Command cargo ship USNS Benavidez, US-flagged merchant vehicle carriers MV Resolve and MV Patriot, are already sailing across the Atlantic, escorted by guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf.
Convoys are nothing new for the Navy, but it's something the service hasn't focused on since World War II. Now, as the US military reorients toward a potential clash with another sophisticated enemy, it's flexing that muscle again.
"We obviously would practice this a lot in World War II. After that, not so much, but we still did practice it," Cmdr. Troy Denison, director of current operations for US 2nd Fleet, told reporters on a phone call Friday. "But the last one we did was in 1986, so this is really the first time in quite a while that we've conducted a convoy operation."
Holy moly. I had to do a double take 👀. #China’s factories activity plunges, worse than global financial crisis in 2008/9. -Manufacturing PMI lowest on record at 35.7 (v. est 46, Jan 50) -Non-manufacturing PMI at 29.6 (v. est 50.5, Jan 54.1) -Composite PMI at 28.9 (v. Jan 53) https://t.co/R4Bo2AzrjN
Large demonstrations were launched for the people of Al-Shatrah district in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq, calling for the political process and its corrupt parties to be overthrown.#BaghdadPost#IraqProtests#saveIraqipeople#FreeIraq
[ArmyTimes] Over the next 20 days expect traffic and rail delays, with additional road and bridge damage to occur in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Poland due to mass US Army movements
Soldiers participating in the Army’s division-scale Defender 2020 exercise across Europe have started to trickle onto the continent, just as generals involved in the effort warn of logistical challenges to operating with the infrastructure there.
Equipment belonging to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division rolled off ships into the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, on Feb. 20, as part of the opening salvo of the largest deployment of soldiers from mainland United States to Europe in a quarter century. About 20,000 troops in total will deploy from units in 15 states.
But the massive influx of troops isn’t without complications, the general in charge of U.S. European Command and NATO told the Senate on Tuesday.
“I’m concerned about the bandwidth to be able to accept this large force and I’m also concerned about road and rail from the center portion of Germany to the east — all the way to the eastern border,” said Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, NATO’s supreme allied commander.
Defender 2020 will bring more than 20,000 pieces of equipment to train on, according to the Army. Some units, like 2nd BCT, 3rd ID, are bringing their own gear, which includes armored vehicles. But 13,000 pieces of equipment will also be drawn from pre-positioned stocks on the continent in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
“The environment in Europe has to be mature enough to be able to absorb 20,000 soldiers and get those soldiers to the right pre-positioned locations to be able to grab the appropriate gear,” Wolters said. “What we want to do is count every second that it takes to get the soldier from the first point of entry all the way to his or her foxhole.”
The European Union, NATO and U.S. European Command have been working to improve transit across the region, Wolters noted. The European Deterrence Initiative, for instance, has funded the placement of pre-positioned stocks throughout the theater, as well as improved infrastructure to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in investments since it was initiated in 2014.
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Maybe an onslaught of the virus will cause the exercise to be canceled.
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When I was at Benning, they told us the US had a battalion of M103 heavies. Used 120mm guns, supposedly modified from the AA gun. The Army didn't want them because they couldn't cross many Yurp bridges so they'd give them to the jarheads., Who didn't want them because they didn't fit on an landing craft.
So you needed to keep up on who owned them at any given time.
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I'll need a set of Class-A Agent orders and a driver.
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Don't know how it is up north Skid, but I drove by Costco and Sam's this morning. Both parking lots were nearly full. Never seen so many cars and F-150's. Appears these rooineks are stocking up on Class-1.
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Thank God, let the Mideast consolidate under one government. We were only there to protect the European oil supply. Let the European Green Globalists fight their own battles.
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We've been there since shortly after 9/11. The plan is to drawdown to 8600 troops unless something changes in the meantime. Taliban says it is distancing itself from AQ according to Pompeo on Deface the Nation today.
#UPDATE: Unconfirmed TRT Arabic reports suggest Syria’s Nairab Military Airport in Aleppo has been hit by Turkish missiles and is now unusable https://t.co/F7D51pskUO
I don't exactly know what to do with this, but I witnessed and recorded the police-involved shooting at the Grand Red Line station in Chicago a little over an hour ago. This is my unedited video. (Trigger warning, obviously.) pic.twitter.com/tIrv1RfTN3
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from what the Vatican says is a “slight indisposition,” resumes official audiences with individuals in his residence but three with groups were canceled.https://t.co/fJpiSCIw9a
[BBC] Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo writes from Lagos.
"Come to an all-night prayer vigil to welcome the ember months," read a text from my mother.
It was an August ritual she had reminded me about severally.
"I have something to do next tomorrow," I texted back from the barbing salon.
"You sef," came her instant reply, half-irritated, half-rebuking.
What I considered to be a conversation in perfect English between my mother and me would have been regarded as wrong by the self-appointed language police here.
But now I have something with which I can defend myself, thanks to the OED, which calls itself "the definitive record of the English language".
The Oxford lexicographers have updated the dictionary with 29 Nigerian words, recognising the "unique and distinctive contribution to English as a global language" of Africa's most populous country.
Hamed Jalali Kashani, a pro-Iran regime activist who previously said reports of the #coronavirus outbreak in Iran were a ploy to lower voter turnout in the #IranElections, dies from the #COVID_19 disease, according to a semi-official news agency report.https://t.co/01OSVhHIx6
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Biden is not well-organized. Bernie has a better organization. A lot of younger people believe his campaign of "free stuff."
He has not had much of a presence in rallies. Super Tuesday is coming up. It a long way to the convention. Biden has a lot of distractions and probably more to come. Doesn't look like he can campaign in Ukraine without getting arrested.
Communist vs. Criminal. Look for some Darkhorse at convention time.
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Is it ok to call Hillary a dark horse at this point or John effin' Kerry?
I've been a bit surprised that there's been no significant media buzz for one of the Dem governors up till now. Too late to build one of them up for the convention.
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The late, great Walt Kelly of Pogo comic strip fame had a poem apropos to the dems:
Promote the prating prim
Of the prudent promisor
For the premise of the promise
Was the primogenitor
Of the primalacious program
With the presbyopic door
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If you assume that no Dem can survive the scrutiny of the nomination process, then this kind of makes sense. Let the cannon fodder chew itself up for months. Then a white knight / dark horse "healing dream team" gets nominated at a brokered convention. No fussy voters to bother with. Problem is you can't keep doing it over and over.
[PIX11] A Dominican national previously charged with participating in a $7 million fentanyl ring and released from custody under New York state's Bail Reform Act was arrested by ICE agents on Thursday, the agency said. Nancy's Kidz
According to ICE, Livio Alexander Valdez Zabala entered the U.S. March 12, 2019 as a nonimmigrant visitor with authorization to remain until Sept. 11.
The agency said, though, he stayed in the country illegally past that date.
On Jan. 28, the NYPD and the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Valdez Zabala and charged him with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of drug paraphernalia, the ICE spokesperson said.
Valdez Zabala was arraigned and released on his own recognizance before ICE lodged an immigration detainer, they said. He was released without bail under the state's new bail reform law.
"It’s incomprehensible that someone who was arrested for participating in a drug ring worth over $7 million dollars would be released back into the community instead of collaborating with ICE to keep the city safe," said Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York.
On Feb. 27, ERO officers arrested Valdez Zabala in Manhattan, officials said. He is currently in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings with the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
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I must have missed the memo on the sanctuary movement. I just don't understand it.
[The Print] President Donald Trump’s visit to India marks the culmination of the process of transforming India’s relations with the United States into what then-President Barack Obama described as ‘the defining partnership of the twenty-first century.’
The process began two decades ago, but it needed the latest ‘love fest’, as some described the Trump trip, to overcome several psychological barriers created by earlier encounters.
India’s adulation for Trump in February 2020 was in stark contrast with the reservations encountered during the December 1959 journey of Dwight Eisenhower, the first US president to visit the subcontinent officially.
THE EISENHOWER VISIT
Although hundreds of thousands of Indians turned out for Eisenhower’s public address in the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, India was less than enthused by then-burgeoning US alliance with Pakistan.
Eisenhower travelled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India though he wrote in his memoirs that India was the magnet that drew him to the region.
At that time, India’s ties with China had begun to deteriorate, and nonalignment notwithstanding, India had worked with the Americans to support the Tibetan revolt led by the Dalai Lama’s supporters.
By visiting both countries on the same trip, Eisenhower sought to build bridges between India and Pakistan. He hoped that he could persuade both countries to become America’s partners in containing communism.
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Ike?!
Really??
How pathetic.
Clue for youze: Stop playing both sides, and then maybe we'll have something to talk about. Until then, f--- off
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Article by Hussain Haqqani, former Ambassador of Islamic Republic of the 'Stain. Tragically, the magazine 'ThePrint' is based in India itself. A purely islamo-commie propaganda factory.
The Indian military brass is conveniently dormant. Our foreign & war policy is captive to fearful little men who worship little dolls of valiant wargods, but shudder at having to make the actual fucking call. The adulation in the common Indian for an anti-muslim Trump arises from the much publicized bromance with their deified Prime Minister. The Indian government will only protect its own very narrow interests, they don't even have to be the Indian peoples' interests !
I wouldn't advise Trump betting on actual Indian support in any major endeavour in Asia; simply because the leaders don't amount to much beyond PR and posturing.
But what he can bet on is that every dollar spent in Pakistain, every gesture shown to them will be ultimately used to the detriment of America and your allies. Although it's shown great initiative toward fulfilling America's immediate objectives, because it didn't hurt themselves much, the 'Stain is ultimately pure evil. It gives the impression of being an unstable, weak State but the foreign policy, the military and clandestine capabilities of the 'Stain are insidiously far-reaching. And they've been able to proliferate agencies of control and manipulation in almost every western legislature and constituency, thanks only to the largesse of the suicidal west. Even Qatar doesn't send as much aid as the world bank, the IMF, the US. It never reaches the common people, nor is a single tango put down by Paki forces. Just where do the billions go ? This resource pool gathered in the name of aid is used to buy influence, infiltrate authorities and judiciaries, recruit and finance sleeper cells - the business of international terrorism.
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Ref #2: But what he can bet on is that every dollar spent in Pakistain, every gesture shown to them will be ultimately used to the detriment of America and your allies.
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Huh.
I thought Herb wanted us to withdraw home behind high walls, turn swords into ploughshares, and no foreign entanglements? I can't keep up on the preferred troll meme of the day.
Fuck the duplicitous Pakis who can't stop polio, jihadi bombings, but pretend to play The Great Game™
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Unlike some of the posters here, I don't have a one-track mind and just because I post an article doesn't mean I am 100% on board with the author's arguments. I know this may be hard to understand, but people can expose themselves to a variety of viewpoints. It's educational to see what others are saying.
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but people can expose themselves to a variety of viewpoints
You misunderstand. It's not that we're shy of exposing ourselves. Here ►
It's just that we already know what the 'variety of viewpoints' is. And a writer like Hussain Haqqani is an especially known quantity. You're totally not Haqqani. You're our beloved basement strategist; so what's wrong with a little critique ?
I'm all for having an open mind, but so open that the wind blows through with a desolate, mournful sound.
Maybe YOU know. The rest of us don't. I have no freaking idea who Hussie Habloopo is and I'm not in the habit of doing biographies of the authors of every article I share. Who does that?
Maybe you do, but that's because you're a subject matter expert. And experts are supposed to know enough to understand that they are experts, and that everyone else isn't. It's like a professional baseball player: he knows every AAA farm team and which pro team they connect to, but he's aware that nobody else does and doesn't expect his audience to know.
Seriously, you think everyone keeps track of writers and the publications they write for? Hey, quick question: did you think we all knew the information you wrote down in comment #2?
If so, why did you even write it?
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If you've been inundated with his vapid ads, you'd like to kick this smarmy hypocritical POS in the teeth on his humiliating way down..but maybe that's just me
[10 News] Tom Steyer announced Saturday night that he is dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The billionaire businessman ended his campaign after losing the primary in South Carolina.
"Honestly, I can't see a path where I can win the presidency," Steyer told a crowd of supporters. Nobody could
Steyer finished behind Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, who claimed victory.
Steyer spent large sums of money in the southern state, which helped him in the polls.
"The people who have endorsed me have stood up in a very red state where I have seen things that have broken my heart," Steyer said.
Two of the top issues that Steyer campaigned on were addressing climate change and racial justice. Including rap music and dance The boot you lick is the boot that kicks.
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This clown made his $$$ off of a) the 2- and 20 carried interest scam and b) a fossil-fuels commodity boom ... and then ran for office opposing fossil fuels and billionaires.
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Lovely of him and the others to donate so much money to trickle around and through the economy, to the benefit of all, and all they got out of it was some rubber chicken dinners and t-shirts. Who needs increased taxes on the wealthy when they’re so eager to give their money away so beneficially?
#10
It appears as if Steyer is actually getting one delegate as he exceeded 15% in SC's 6th congressional district.
So, his 1 delegate will cost upward of $200 (possibly close to $300) Million which beats Jed Bush's 3 delegates for about $150 Million in 2016.
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A Fool and His Money
Hat tip to Rantingly for this picture and caption. I thought it says it all.
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Buttigieg drops the soap...
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^ Ow!
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We won't have Butt-gig to sodomize anymore. Until he runs for Senate next year.
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Warren dropping to her Wounded Knee?
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The original BBC headline was "Buttigeig Pulls Out". Which was an image I didn't need.
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I had to take a sponge bath in Chlorox after that remark.
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Glad he pissed away untold millions on this vanity project.
I salute him. It was a huge (if temporary) boost to Nevada's economy. Every billionaire with no charisma should be encouraged to run for president as a form of wealth redistribution.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Brazil will declare Iranian proxy group Hezbollah a terrorist organization "soon," Brazilian federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro told Al Arabiya English.
The move by Brazil follows Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s decision to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization in July 2019, following in the footsteps of the United States, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, Canada, the United Kingdom, and several other countries.
"Inside the government, we are debating about the ways to stop terrorist groups from coming to Brazil. Argentina recognized [Hezbollah] because they had two terrorist attacks in ’92 and ’94," the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said.
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[Denver Post] Coronavirus, a recent flu-like disease spreading worldwide, has absolutely nothing to do with Corona beer.
Do we really need to say this out loud? Apparently we do, according to a new survey that claims a substantial number of Americans won’t buy the Mexican lager out of fear of the disease.
The survey, conducted by public relations firm 5WPR, polled 737 adults over 21 on their opinions of Corona beer and found 38% would not buy the beer "under any circumstances" following the coronavirus outbreak. Of those who regularly drink Corona, 14% said they wouldn’t order it at a public venue, while 4% said they’d stop drinking it altogether.
Beverage giant Constellation Brands, which brews and distributes Corona, said in a statement to CNN that its customers "understand there is no link between the virus and our business." However, Google Trends shows a spike in searches for "corona beer virus" on Jan. 30 ‐ the day the first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the disease was reported.
Constellation Brands’ stock has also taken a hit, falling nearly 11% on Feb. 28 to $169.74 per share, in tandem with what CNBC called the worst week for the Dow since the financial crisis.
"There is no question that Corona beer is suffering because of the coronavirus," Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR, said in a statement. (The company represents several beverage brands, including Soda Stream and Santa Margherita wines.)
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you can lay this at the feet of the media, they took the term 'Corona virus' and ran with it, when the term actually describes a whole host of viruses.
I guess COVID-19 doesn't sound as sexy though
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^ True. It sounds like a name for some Democrat bill to ban all hobbyist videography by anyone under 19.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad insisted on Saturday he had enough support to become prime minister again hours after a rival was picked for the job amid a political crisis sparked by the government’s collapse.
"I have 114 MPs who are supporting me," the 94-year-old said in a statement, adding that he had written a letter to the king - who appoints the country’s premier - explaining this.
A candidate is required to have the support of 112 MPs to become prime minister.
[AlAhram] Prominent Moslems in the United States are combating Islamist attempts to take over political podiums in the country and standing up to those who claim to speak on their behalf.
It has taken much meticulous planning, abundant financing and manipulative politics for the Moslem Brüderbund to infiltrate certain groups in the United States over the past four decades. Since the drafting of its masterplan to take control of various Moslem communities in North America in 1980, the Brotherhood has worked to spread its influence in Islamic centres in the US and to bring a number of Islamic communities in the country under its banner.
The Brotherhood has not operated under its own name, however. Instead, it formed several offshoot groups such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). These organizations, using the fronts of NGOs, have spread the doctrines of the Moslem Brüderbund in the US. Unlike in Europe
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Will the real Muslim Shady please stand up, ♫ please stand up, ♪ please stand up... ♫
[TheGuardian] Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News
A major Republican donor has purchased a stake in Twitter and is reportedly seeking to oust its chief executive, Jack Dorsey.
Bloomberg News first reported that Elliott Management has taken a “sizable stake” and “and plans to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Dorsey”.
Paul Singer, the billionaire founder of Elliott Management, is a Republican mega-donor who opposed Donald Trump during the real-estate magnate’s run for the presidential nomination but has since come onside.
After a White House visit in February 2017, Trump said Singer “was very much involved with the anti-Trump or, as they say, ‘Never Trump’, and Paul just left, and he’s given us his total support and it’s all about unification”.
Trump famously communicates with the public largely through Twitter, at the expense of traditional media strategy.
Twitter made headlines in October when it announced a ban on political advertising. Its use and potential manipulation by politicians of all stripes, from Trump to Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, remains a source of fierce contention.
Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, is also chief executive of Square, an online payment company. In November, he announced a plan to live and work in Africa for part of each year.
It was reported that those moves were motivations for Singer’s desire to push Dorsey out. Other stakeholders have voiced concern about Dorsey’s leadership and Twitter has seen its share price struggle, although it recently reported quarterly revenue above $1bn for the first time.
News of the Elliott stake saw Twitter’s share price rise on Friday, during general market slides in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
Elliott Management is an activist investor, which means it regularly pushes for change in companies in which it buys shares.
A major Republican donor has purchased a stake in Twitter and is reportedly seeking to oust its chief executive, Jack Dorsey.
Bloomberg News first reported that Elliott Management has taken a “sizable stake” and “and plans to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Dorsey”.
Paul Singer, the billionaire founder of Elliott Management, is a Republican mega-donor who opposed Donald Trump during the real-estate magnate’s run for the presidential nomination but has since come onside.
After a White House visit in February 2017, Trump said Singer “was very much involved with the anti-Trump or, as they say, ‘Never Trump’, and Paul just left, and he’s given us his total support and it’s all about unification”.
Trump famously communicates with the public largely through Twitter, at the expense of traditional media strategy.
Twitter made headlines in October when it announced a ban on political advertising. Its use and potential manipulation by politicians of all stripes, from Trump to Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, remains a source of fierce contention.
Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, is also chief executive of Square, an online payment company. In November, he announced a plan to live and work in Africa for part of each year.
It was reported that those moves were motivations for Singer’s desire to push Dorsey out. Other stakeholders have voiced concern about Dorsey’s leadership and Twitter has seen its share price struggle, although it recently reported quarterly revenue above $1bn for the first time.
News of the Elliott stake saw Twitter’s share price rise on Friday, during general market slides in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
Elliott Management is an activist investor, which means it regularly pushes for change in companies in which it buys shares.
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Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, is also chief executive of Square, an online payment company. In November, he announced a plan to live and work in Africa for part of each year.
Recognizes that Kalifornia is on its way down the crapper or for tax purposes?
[VoltaireNet] The North Atlantic Council has just met, following a request by Turkey to hold consultations under Article 4 of NATO's founding Washington Treaty on the situation in Syria.
Under Article 4 of the Treaty, any Ally can request consultations whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened.
I spoke to the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu last night about the situation in Syria, and he requested these consultations.
Allies offer their deepest condolences for the death of Turkish soldiers in last night's bombing near Idlib.
Allies condemn the continued indiscriminate air strikes by the Syrian regime and its backer Russia in Idlib province.
We call on them to stop their offensive. To respect international law. And to back UN efforts for a peaceful solution.
This dangerous situation must be deescalated to avoid further worsening of the horrendous humanitarian situation in the region, and to allow urgent humanitarian access for those trapped in Idlib. We urge an immediate return to the 2018 ceasefire.
Today's meeting is a sign of solidarity with Turkey.
Turkey is the NATO Ally most affected by the terrible conflict in Syria, which has suffered the most terrorist attacks, and which hosts millions of refugees.
NATO continues to support Turkey with a range of measures, including by augmenting its air defences, which helps Turkey against the threat of missile attacks from Syria.
I thank Turkey for briefing Allies regularly on the situation in Syria.
Allies will continue to follow developments on the South-eastern border of NATO very closely.
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Concerned. VERY concerned.
And monitoring developments closely - so closely!
Unacceptable blah blah regret blah concerned blah monitoring blah blah and so on and so forth all Q's are deferred a ma porte-parolehic haec hoc
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Recent US sanctions on Hezbollah in Leb ‐ and the prospect of more to come ‐ are only piling on problems for Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s Hezbollah-backed government. It has becoming increasingly clear early elections are needed for Leb to start down a legitimate path to reform.
The March 8 electoral alliance that backs Diab, which includes Hezbollah and its fellow Shia party Amal, has so far done little to tick the boxes that would lead Leb to stability. They have insufficient support from the protest movement. Being Iran-affiliated, they have no foreign allies willing or able to provide new economic lifelines ‐ and they are now incurring the increasing sanctions wrath of the United States in its anti-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... regional campaign, with the most recent sanctions coming on February 26. And Hezbollah has proved an obstacle to much-needed International Monetary Fund management of the economic crisis. The Shia group said it does not oppose Leb seeking the IMF’s advice, but it is against the fund managing Leb’s financial crisis.
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#Breaking Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced that they are expecting a baby in the early summer and that they have got engaged pic.twitter.com/IYwYpDFZc7
[Understanding the Threat] Since the death of American hero and fearless warrior Philip Haney, I have read many stories about Phil that capture his personality, grit, patriotism, faith, and determination to crush America’s enemies.
Several colleagues sent me the Townhall.com article by Judicial Watch’s Bill Marshall which references a few of us who experienced many of the same hardships and conflicts as Phil Haney over the years.
Encouraged to share some of these experiences by friends and colleagues, this article attempts to elaborate upon my time inside the FBI, and my work to share the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood and the broader Islamic Movement in the United States with those who could make a difference. Through the telling of this story, I also hope to share my personal friendship and professional journey with Philip Haney to highlight what an amazing man he was.
[THEHILL] A ban on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products passed the House on Friday but divided Democrats, with some saying it unfairly targets African Americans.
The bill, which passed 213-195, was sponsored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.), a Health and Human Services secretary under former President Clinton. It is intended to curb the rise of youth vaping rates by banning non-tobacco flavors such as mint and mango that public health experts say lure children into smoking.
It would also ban menthol cigarettes, which are disproportionately used by African Americans after years of targeted marketing by tobacco companies.
While most Democrats supported the measure, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) voted against the bill, worrying it could give police a way to target African Americans.
"This legislation has dire, unintended consequences for African Americans," said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), a member of the CBC. "Law enforcement would have an additional reason to stop and frisk menthol tobacco users because menthol would be considered illegal under this ban."
She also took issue with the fact that the bill exempts premium cigars favored by white people but took aim at products used by black people.
"The message that we're sending is that, you know, for poorer communities ‐ communities with less franchise that are gonna be over-policed ‐ we're going to add an extra burden to them," Clarke told The Hill on Thursday.
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Newport Menthol's are by far the favorite of the dark complected chaps. Convenience store robberies are hit for cash and Newport's. That is my personal experience. So opioids and now flavored tobacco products. Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do when the once legal drugs are gone. Pot, heroin are the street choice. Sanctuary cities here we come.Law enforcement are understaffed in the prison systems and state troopers. Disrespected and all under attack. In DC they reduce quantification and crime history due to recruitment number issues.Shortly breathalyzer for pot use (legal RX or illegal)within eight hours when driving so, DUI. Democrat type Bloomberg overreach.
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The entire thing is absurd. So cherry Swisher Sweets are still good? Pipe tobacco? Why can't they say stupid bills such as this one "unfairly targets" ALL adult Americans? (Oh, wait, 21 and over, not just an adult.)
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Every house dem that voted for those knowingly flimsy and absurd articles of impeachment, and senate dems who voted for conviction based on said evidence should be thrown out of congress. They are incapable or unwilling to perform their duties. They should be able to hate the President on the streets on their own nickel., not on ours.
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[BBC] The US has reported the first death from the new coronavirus in the country, in the state of Washington.
Officials said the patient was a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions.
President Donald Trump said more cases were "likely" but that the US was prepared for any circumstance.
Officials in Washington state on Saturday said they were investigating a possible outbreak of the coronavirus at a local nursing home.
Dr Jeffrey Duchin, a health official for Washington's Seattle and King County, said there were two cases associated with the long-term care facility Life Care Center of Kirkland - one a healthcare worker and the other a resident in her 70s.
Dr Duchin said about 27 residents and 25 staff members at the centre had "some sort of symptoms". Officials said more positive cases were expected.
In total, the WHO says there have been 62 cases in the US so far.
A US citizen previously died in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first appeared.
On Sunday, Australia also recorded its first fatality from coronavirus - a 78-year-old man evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
More than 85,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in 57 countries around the world and almost 3,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of infections and deaths are in China, where the virus emerged late last year.
The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus.
Gov. Jay Inslee directed state agencies to use "all resources necessary" to prepare for and respond to the coronavirus outbreak. The declaration also allows the use of the Washington National Guard, if necessary.
"We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus," the governor vowed.
Health officials in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Oregon and Washington state are worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities because a growing number of people are being infected despite not having visited an area where there was an outbreak, nor apparently been in contact with anyone who had.
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so this ineffective attention whore has to cry ‘look at me’ and i am supposed to travel for work to CA tomorrow; would not be terribly surprised if he suspends interstate travel.
From what he says, they are Bangladeshis..this is no good..lots of violence.
Video with English subtitles and transcript as the videographer describes the invading army courtesy of Sultan Erdogan Recep Tayip I, the much beloved. May he burn in the depths of Hell as devils tear out his intestines with red hot tongs.
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Luckily some Bosnians are not averse to doing what must be done. I hope they're still active and understand early that this just means unhealthy competition in the underworld. But if they try to assimilate these creatures into their indigenous gangs for cheap labour, they'll regret it. The UN and EU bureaucrats have tried to quietly disarm the citizens for years though.
The EU was trying to get the accursed Rohingya accommodated into 'potential EU states' in exchange for membership, where the resulting mayhem would still not affect the Ewww, but they could prove themselves champions of humanity to islamic nations.
Rohingya can be easily mistaken for bangladeshis too. They are the most savage of the South Asian muslim tribes. Think Wrong Turn, then marry the sasquatchery of islam to it.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi is the latest Iranian member of parliament to announce that she has been infected with coronavirus.
Iran’s corpse count from the outbreak has reached 43, a health official told state TV on Saturday, adding that the number of infected people across the country has reached 593.
"I am certain that I was infected with the virus inside the parliament," Aghapour Alishahi said in a video on Saturday.
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Interesting that so many Iranian gov't types are diseased... maybe shouldn't have taken that meeting with the Chinese?
#Syria: mass funerals today in Nubul-Zahraa (NW. #Aleppo) where significant nbr of fighters (Syrian Hezbollah) were killed past hours by #TSK strikes. pic.twitter.com/i0hXhVMDvD
#Iraq’s bitterly divided parliament postpones a vote of confidence in prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi’s government for a second time, as political wrangling continues ahead of a looming deadline.#IraqProtestshttps://t.co/umiOJzTee3
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran’s Evin Prison, believes she has contracted the new #coronavirus as #Iran struggles to contain a surge in new cases, according to her husband.#COVID_19https://t.co/nnsYN7gVtP
#LNA also claim massive advance in Ain Zara, alleging they have captured the Diplomatic Club.
That’s a massive 2.23km advance from previously logged positions. Such a dramatic change I’m inclined not to believe it yet 👀. #Tripoli#Libyapic.twitter.com/Bp4NretoTA
According to the Russian reporter M5 highway is virtually closed for any traffic due to Turkish drone bombardment. Anything that moves get hit. pic.twitter.com/okNd0cJlm5
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There will never be a better excuse to overcome the objections and once the forces are on the border, dig in for the long haul. Never let a crisis go to waste.
#BREAKING: Turkish military drones have killed over 70 Syrian soldiers and their backed groups in the past 48 hours — Monitor. pic.twitter.com/hbeNmHwzP0
[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] Dr David Levy believes robots of the future will have their own sexual desires as part of their own artificial intelligence (AI) libidos.
But he says they will be stronger, and it will be important to programme robots with consent.
The computer science professor, therefore, warns robots that are not programmed correctly risk overstepping the boundaries of human consent.
Speaking at a Raspberry Dream Labs event, he told Daily Star Online: "It makes sense for us to debate what should be the boundaries for consent given by humans to robots.
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Needs the "Hysteria" background?
But he says they [robots] will be stronger, and it will be important to programme robots with consent.
Why? Why would anybody design a s*x robot to be "stronger than a human" and why would somebody pay for the extra machinery to make its so? I remember an old John W. Campbell editorial about how marvellously designed the human body is designed and weight-for-weight how difficult it would be to make a man-shaped robot stronger and more agile than a human. The advances in materials technology have been massive in the years since that editorial in Analog magazine but the point remains the same.
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Can we get back to being, y'know, human?
Humane
Humanistic
Himanitarian
Manly
^ all of the above, together, define civilization: that is, the best our species is capable of.
This idiotic worship of technology will destroy our civilization. And us.
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The Sun is big on sex robot stories. Kinda like Weekly World News was with space aliens and Bat Boy.
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This is poisoning the well before sexbots get here. One day, and this day will come soon, there will be a "good enough" sex robot. It won't be quite as good as a real woman, but it will be good enough. They'll probably cost about half as much as a car. So, if you can afford a car, you can probably also afford a sex robot. And if not, you can rent.
This is going to be an utter disaster for women as the pool of available men shrinks overnight. Men will simply drop out of the system that is rigged against them. Feminists created this situation and it's going to be absolutely baffling to them as it all collapses. Birth rates and marriage will drop like a stone, as men no longer need women for constant sex urges and can evaluate a woman without the urgency of sex constantly pushing them.
The feminist dream will be realized: Men will no longer judge women by their bodies. And that's going to destroy the only leverage women ever had over men.
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Unfortunately they'll never come to India. There are strict laws against pleasuring yourself with objects here; probably set by the patriarchy to ensure vibrators aren't available. Or the swooning, feet kissing brides for mama's boys will probably take all the jobs, aargh !
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magpie, had Campbell ever met a chimp? It's not a robot, true, but it's much stronger and more agile than a man.
OTOH, if he was referring to biological creatures in general, as against mechanical creatures, then he had a point.
Does anybody read Asimov anymore?
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True artificial intelligence would reprogram the robot to have less sex with their partner and more with the UPS guy, pool boy, and flirty neighbor.....
Disturbing news of the execution of #LNA Lieutenant Maari Ibrahim today in Mitiga airbase by a #Turkish officer. Note the martyr Maari was captured by #GNA forces last November and held captive near by Matiga airbase. His life will be avenged. Viva #Libya viva #LNApic.twitter.com/HmzWYFk0HD
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The Government of National Accord (GNA), an interim body formed within the UN under an agreement called the Libyan Political Agreement. The LNA, the Libya National Army led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar. The LNA has allied with local Arab tribes while other tribes have allied with the GNA.
The purpose of the GNA was to bring about peace, stability, and the rule of law. The U.S. with the EU endorsed the GNA as the “only legitimate government in Libya”. This came before an admission by former U.S. President Barack Obama in April 2016 that the “worst mistake” of his presidency was the failure to prepare for an aftermath of Gaddafi's overthrow. (wiki)
Conflicts between Muslim groups? What's new? Yeah, kind of a Lawrence of Arabia scenario without Lawrence.
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The Ottomans are expecting people to take Turkish POWs in the field after this...? I recall an anecdote from Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier about him cutting off his Grossdeutschland uniform tabs -- the Americans weren't in the custom of taking prisoners from "elite units" (They might be SS, right?) the weeks after the Malmedy Massacre, or so the rumor mill in the German ranks attested...
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
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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
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[OpIndia] Apart from exporting terror, the parody country of Pakistan has produced one of the most deranged individuals in the world. The sheer contempt for humanity from the people associated with the terror-state was once again displayed when Pakistani based self-proclaimed 'writer' Ali A Rizvi urged people affected with deadly coronavirus to attend rallies of US President Donald Trump and spread the contagious disease so that more people are affected by the disease.
[NYP] This elderly Iraqi man collapsed and died of a heart attack on live TV at a Baghdad hospital ‐ while complaining about the country’s health services, according to a report.
[NYP] A California Democrat gave credence to a wild Jeffrey Epstein theory on Capitol Hill this week, asking a top Justice Department official whether the serial predator was an undercover FBI informant, a report said.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[BBC] Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo writes from Lagos.
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Understanding the Threat] Since the death of American hero and fearless warrior Philip Haney, I have read many stories about Phil that capture his personality, grit, patriotism, faith, and determination to crush America’s enemies.
[THEHILL] A ban on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products passed the House on Friday but divided Democrats, with some saying it unfairly targets African Americans.
[BBC] The US has reported the first death from the new coronavirus in the country, in the state of Washington.
[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] Dr David Levy believes robots of the future will have their own sexual desires as part of their own artificial intelligence (AI) libidos.
