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merican universities are troubled institutions. More serious than the attention-getting P.C. madness, however, has been the subversion of intellectual standards — armies of "diversity and inclusion" bureaucrats tasked with admitting unqualified students academically dependent on easy-to-pass fluff courses in gender studies and the like. Add grade inflation and, if that fails, endless tutoring to push troubled students to meaningless degrees. If that, too, fails, eliminate admissions tests to end "white privilege."
So far, efforts to reverse this intellectual decline have fallen short, but, as odd as it may seem, the COVID-19 virus outbreak and the attendant financial crisis offer an intriguing never-waste-a-crisis possibility. A possible parallel exists with the 1957 "Sputnik moment," an event that likewise inspired panic — the sudden dread of being defenselessness against Soviet nuclear missiles.
...The COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call, a message that pushing our universities to pursue racial/sex equality at the expense of intellectual rigor guarantees national disaster. Time to acknowledge that forcing chemistry professors to waste untold hours "diversifying" their now dumbed down syllabus imposes opportunity costs that hardly burden our Chinese rivals.
...Begin with the numbers. In 2017, the proportion of non-U.S. full-time graduate students enrollees in electrical engineering was 81%; in computer science 79%; in mechanical engineering 62%; in chemical engineering 57%; and metallurgical/materials engineering, 55%, If sub-divided by country of origin, the Chinese domination of these non-U.S. students is clear. In 2017—18, there were some 162,000 Chinese graduate students in STEM fields (and 201,000 in non-STEM disciplines). The runners up were Indians (154,000) with a huge gap among other nationalities — Saudi Arabia with 20,000 was in third place, 17,000 from South Korea, and so on. Yes, many Americans are now flocking to high-tech fields, but the data show even larger surges among those from abroad.
Tablet News via Instapundit
The People's Republic of China now commands the world's largest population, its second-largest economy, and a military-industrial complex and high technology sector second only to America's. Behind this great mass of men and material stands Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Xi, supported by the class of Chinese communists who rule along with him, believe it is their role to guide China—and the rest of the world—into a new age. China's military expansion, massive economic investment in controlling global trade routes, and escalating information operations all point to a struggle for dominance that puts it in direct conflict with the West.
In their internal speeches and planning documents, China's communist party leaders describe their perceptions of this struggle quite openly: As Beijing sees it, China’s success depends on discrediting the tenets of liberal capitalism so that notions like individual freedom and constitutional democracy come to be seen as the relics of an obsolete system. To understand how China’s leaders intend to accomplish this and fully appreciate their designs for the future, we must first come to terms with how they understand themselves.
..."The rejuvenation of the Chinese people" has been officially endorsed as the "historical mission" of the Communist Party since 1987 but it is an old dream whose origins predate the party’s founding. In the early 20th century Chinese intellectuals searched for a way to "save China," modernize it, and restore it to the preeminence that the world’s largest civilization deserved. What made the later communists different from other Chinese modernizers was the solution they endorsed. As their sloganeering went: "Only socialism can save China." The slogan is still in use, though Xi and other 21st-century Communists add a second clause: "Only socialism can save China, and only socialism can develop China."
...As proud self-declared Marxists, the Beijing leadership has carefully studied the failures of past attempts to "construct a socialism superior to capitalism." From the failings of the Maoist era, the Chinese communists learned that economic and technological modernization cannot happen in a vacuum. In many Chinese minds the People’s Republic of China’s technological stagnation under Mao blends together with the Qing dynasty’s unfortunate discovery that scientific advances in the West had left their military obsolete. The lesson in both cases is the same: If China is to grow strong, it must be integrated with the world outside it.
...Internally, the Chinese government can appear terrifyingly omnipotent. As an actor on the global stage, the current balance of power and the existing norms of the international system still constrain the party’s power to control free speech and association outside their borders. The NBA fracas showed that the United States and other Western powers have the capability to push back against communist encroachments in their society, given sufficient will and motivation to do so. For the party, censorship of hostile ideas and intimidation of those who voice them is only a stopgap solution. To secure their victory, liberal values do not just need to be silenced. They must be discredited.
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China’s Communist government in Beijing has ordered 108 million people into lockdown as the deadly Wuhan virus breaks out again, this time in the country’s northeast. That’s about one in twelve mainland Chinese. Bill Gates and Fauci sure get around.
Maybe them Chinks should try parading around with their AR-15 on their shoulder
Bloomberg reports "a new and growing cluster of infections" in Jilin province bordering North Korea.
China’s Communist Party chief Xi Jinping had claimed back in March that the People’s Republic was winning its "people’s war" against the Wuhan virus, but a recent leak from a Chinese military-run university indicates that the country may have at least 640,000 COVID-19 cases.
That is, shall we say, somewhat more than the 82,929 COVID infections that the mainland government will admit to.
If accurate, the 840,000 figure indicates that as many as 50,000 mainland Chinese have died from the Wuhan virus, or ten times mainland China’s official figure. A renewed outbreak in the country’s northeast is a sure sign that the Communist government was lying back March when it claimed to have contained the outbreak.
Far from containing the Wuhan virus, some believe that Communist China purposely infected the world through unrestricted international travel, while forbidding residents of Hubei province, the source of the infection, from domestic travel to other parts of China.
Among those is Yours Truly and (more importantly) President Donald Trump’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro.
I mention 'still' because I know I posted about it when I first heard about it. She's trying to run the clock out.
[NY Post] - US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to raise taxes on the rich — but not pay her own.
The Democratic socialist congresswoman from The Bronx still hasn’t paid a 7-year-old tax bill left over from a failed business venture.
AOC had founded Brook Avenue Press, a publishing house that sought designers, artists and writers from urban areas to help paint The Bronx in a positive way in children’s stories, in 2012.
As The Post previously reported, public records show the state dissolved the company in October 2016. The state can make such a move when a business fails to pay corporate taxes or file a return.
The state Tax Department then filed a warrant against her now-defunct business on July 6, 2017, over a $1,618.36 unpaid bill.
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Funny, the former mayor of Baltimore, Catherine PUGH, tried her hand at children's stories, too. It would be delightful if AOC could end up like Frau Pugh (sentenced but keeps putting off going to the slammer..."health reasons, of course).
[Jacobinmag] Instead of letting Amazon use coronavirus to dominate even more of the economy, the company should be nationalized and reoriented to serve the public good instead of predatory capitalism.
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Fine with me, as long as I get to decide what "the public good" is.
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I think the Dems should add this to their 'platform' and keep pushing it, until Bezos shuts it down.
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We have a shortage of trained plumbers. Perhaps they should be drafted to help fill that shortfall "for the public good™"...?
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it becomes increasingly clear that COVID-19 won’t allow things to go back to normal anytime soon — regardless of how intently Trump and his Republican death cult are prepared to risk millions of lives in service of the stock market.
I do like it when the author tips their hand in the first sentence of the very first paragraph.
Nationalize All the Things! A genius idea. Would it be rude to mention the fUSSR at this point?
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Democrats would like to nationalize all businesses. I don't like Amazon, I refuse to do business with them and I despise Jeff Bezos. But communism is not the answer.
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Start by actually enforcing the laws against predatory pricing
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I do like it when the author tips their hand in the first sentence of the very first paragraph. --SteveS
I thought that anybody proud to self-identify as a Jacobin would be a strong clue to their lack of balance. Anybody looking with fondness to the tumbrels, guillotine and the Reign of Terror doesn't have all their oars in the water as they say, IMO.
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I think we should nationalize the Democrats, ship them all to Syria. Since they hate guns, they may each have a pillow, coloring book and a bag to put over their heads. They can fix Syria and put all their quacky theories into practice.
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As an Amazon employee the only way I would go for this is if you made me Commisar Of Cat Toys! I really like the part where cases are being hidden from employees. Iy's not like people listen to the grapevine at work for that matter they have let people take their cell phones on the floor when this madness started it is not like news of someone contracting it would remain a secret . Considering how fast things spread in the fullfillment center ie colds and flu bugs this thing is either no big deal or everybody who got a mild case and didn't even notice it and everybody already got it. Things are slowing down and the "combat pay" ends soon May 30th.
[Babylon Bee] SACRAMENTO, CA—To prepare for the upcoming November election, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered ballots to be sent to every cemetery in the state.
The governor of California said that ballot boxes would be sent to cemeteries across the state to ensure everyone had the right to vote, dead or alive.
"We need every single Californian to vote, living or dead," Newsom said, wagging his finger. "Without everyone doing their part, no matter their undocumented living status, we can't beat the Republicans this time around. It's science!" When he said the word "science," he lifted a test tube into the air to lend some credence to his claims.
Newsom said that people who don't want the dead to vote are discriminating against the "mortally challenged."
[American Thinker] Today in history, May 18, 1565, one of the most symbolically important military encounters between Islam and Europe began: the Ottoman Turks besieged the tiny island of Malta, in what till then was considered the heaviest bombardment any locale had been subjected to.
Around the start of the sixteenth century, Muslim pirates from Algiers began to terrorize the Christian Mediterranean. Like their terrestrial counterparts, they too were indoctrinated in and emboldened by Muhammad's promises: "A campaign by sea is like ten campaigns by land," the prophet had said, "and he who loses his bearings at sea is like one who sheds his blood in the path of Allah." The piratical lust for booty was, predictably, heightened by dreams of "martyrdom."
When Suleiman "the Magnificent"—better known among Muslims as Suleiman "the Ghazi" (jihadi/raider)—became Ottoman sultan in 1520, he instantly took the most notorious of these Barbary pirates, Khair al-Din Barbarossa, into his service and helped him prosecute the sea jihad on Europe. The ensuing reign of terror forced Europeans along the Mediterranean coast to relive the days of their ancestors in the centuries before the Crusades, when the Middle Sea was first inundated with jihad and slave raiding. Over the following two decades, hundreds of thousands of Europeans were enslaved, so that, by 1541, "Algiers teemed with Christian captives, and it became a common saying that a Christian slave was scarce a fair barter for an onion."
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wonder if The 1541 Project would be in competition for a Pulitzer
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Naming things you will never hear in the Christophobic self loathing public schools. POS hordes simply following the teachings of the Pedophile for Profit.
[Red State] When President Donald Trump said that he was going to withhold money from the World Health Organization because of their failures and falsehoods over the Wuhan coronavirus, that was great call for accountability.
Tucker Carlson said that Trump may be considering giving them some money after all.
[PJ] California Governor Gavin Newsom weighed in on the question of bailing out states whose budgets have been blown up by the coronavirus pandemic.
Newsom told CNN’s "State of the Union" that a state bailout was not "charity" and that Congress has a "moral and ethical obligation" to help Americans across the country.
The House passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill last week which contained almost a trillion dollars to bail out states. It also contained goodies for all — another stimulus check, help for renters, college debt relief, and cash for illegal immigrants. The Gavster is going to have a very difficult time getting this one 'off the ground.'
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You sign contracts without the others consent and then claim they're responsible for your obligation.
It's not a question of moral or ethical obligation, though I'm amused you use the words you have no understanding of.
It's a question of law. In this case the Constitution.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" - 13th Amendment
We are not your slaves to keep your plantation running or obligated for your debt.
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I'll hear the governor out if he first goes door-to-door in Malibu. And any payment has to be made using these.
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Newsome doesn't need to move to Venezuela - he's got CA half way there right now. Task should be complete in a couple of months
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Garnish California pensions till the debt to the nation is repaid. Oh, and until the 4-5 million illegals are deported from California. Problem solved.
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Now, you see, this is every bit as ridiculous as sending ballots to graveyards. We know that Newsom allows homeless freaks to pee and poop on city streets without any masks on their faces. He lets murderous felons out of prisons because he's afraid they'll get coronavirus. He chases good businesses and citizens out of the state with the highest taxes in the country. He squanders billions on illegal aliens. In fact, he has declared the entire state a sanctuary for illegal aliens in violation of federal law and then he wants the feds to bail him out when he spends beyond his means? To Bee or not to Bee...
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Go bankrupt so cease being a state. Get re-admitted as 3 to 5 states.
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Gov. Nonsense is absolutely sick in the head. And the Feds/IRS are 100% correct in disallowing state taxes as a write-off...just enables these high-tax states to just keep on keeping on with taxes...if their residents can write 'em off on their federal taxes, no sweat off of our backs.
Meanwhile, there are ZERO moral & ethical obligations for Congress to bail out anybody (including Boeing, e.g.), and especially these 'tarded states.
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I'll agree to a Federal bail out a state if the current and last 5 Governors (and whomever votes on that state's budgets) submit to lifetime imprisonment.
[The Hill] Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb called on the Trump administration to avoid sidelining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published Sunday evening.
Gottlieb wrote in his column that the CDC has released less information than is customary during public health emergencies, and argued that information about the coronavirus is not being shared with the public in an adequate fashion. What goes to the CDC, stays at the CDC.
"New insights have translated into improved care. This knowledge is saving lives and will be especially useful if infections flare up again," he wrote. "Yet such data on patients isn’t being streamlined and shared with the public quickly."
"There are shortcomings in our ability to access the electronic systems designed to help glean facts from clinical data. CDC hasn’t been filling its traditional role of promptly publishing medical findings that may help doctors care for patients," he continued. "Instead, a lot of this information is being passed around social media, by email or even through word of mouth. It’s trial and error on a global scale." Our Indications and Warnings (I&W) would be greatly improved if we just had new laptops for everyone.
Gottlieb echoed his comments in a tweet Sunday evening, writing: "We're not putting out information quickly to improve clinical practice, inform on emerging issues of medical concern, and guidance to help business restart safely. @CDCgov must be elevated in the covid fight, not marginalized."
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I believe their annual budget is in the $9 Billion range. They had 1 job, which oddly wasn't related to either obesity or private firearms ownership. Why are THEY not behind bars?
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The CDC is more concerned and interested in politics than medicine.
Now please explain why an organization that has had a long history of mediocrity especially with this pandemic, testing anyone, should be elevated to anything other than the gallows?
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while the squeaky wheel may get the grease, a squeaky wheel under Trump may get a whole lot more than grease.
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#6P. I might add a blatant attempt for complete Dhimmicrap takeover of all American lives. They demand total control at all costs no matter how big the lie.
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I think his tweet touched on a major conntributing factor to his problem:
"We're not putting out information quickly to improve clinical practice, inform on emerging issues of medical concern, and guidance to help business restart safely."
Yup. Complicit/compliant media, starting with the hydroxycholoquine issue - "Trump said it, so it must be stupid" headline that went on for weeks.
Sometimes I think the real "Deep State" is the media.
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The CDC and FDC didn't exactly cover themselves with glory during this outbreak. If anything, it showed that the large, massive government agencies are pretty inept and not worth the money we throw at them.
[Redstate] In reporting on apparent CIA involvement in spying on an American citizen, RedState’s Bonchie observed:
If this were a Republican implicated, it’d be treated as the largest political scandal of the last hundred years.
And so it would. Therefore: Let’s treat it as the largest political scandal of the last hundred years.
I don’t see evidence that we need the cooperation of the blue media establishment to convince a majority of the American people that such is the case. The Other Guys like to behave as though they are the gatekeepers of public opinion. But we don’t have to accept their formulation. There’s an awful lot of empirical evidence out there that they only have 35 to 45 per cent of the voters under management. We can get to the rest, where "we" means the combined forces of the red media and the red citizenry. We do not have to sit here and grouse that "the media" won’t cover this. Sure it will. And that’s because we’re the media too.
Not only that. Almost every major story post-9/11 was broken by the rightwing press, explored there, and only reluctantly covered by the mainstream media when they got tired of their readers demanding information to rebut the nonsense their crazy relatives were fussing about... that turned out upon examination to be true.
As the Mueller investigation was winding down, multiple polls began appearing to tell us that a majority of registered voters — a small majority to be sure, but a majority nevertheless — believed the Mueller investigation to be "politically motivated" or "a partisan witch hunt." We enabled that. Activists and media figures on our side were the only ones who told people just how crooked that whole Mueller Show really was. It sure wasn’t CNN or The New York Times.
Skips to BLUF:
There are a lot of these facts. It isn’t just Flynn. It isn’t just Carter Page. It isn’t just FISA. It isn’t just an FBI Director who lied under oath to the Court; or a Director of National Intelligence who lied under oath to Congress; or even a CIA Director who persuaded foreign allies to run sting operations on U.S. citizens for political purposes. It’s all of that, and a lot more. Only a tiny percentage of the public has the vaguest idea how much of it there really is. Things we know for a fact.
Lying to the FISA court.
Lying to Congress.
Enlisting foreign intelligence agencies to spy in YS persons.
Spreading lies designed to destroy an ejected president's ability to implement his foreign policy-- including forcing him to push the nation to the brink of war with a nuclear-armed Russia that doesn't threaten us in the slightest. While doing everything possible to prevent him from liberating us from their CCP pimps.
Yeah, infinitely worse than a few spooks grabbing some campaign documents in 1972.
[StrategicCulture] Academia does not really have a reputation for being riddled with violence and sudden unexplained deaths. Yet at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, two young pioneering researchers from the same obscure field of study met with mysterious ends.
Outside of academic circles, Dr. James Taylor and Dr. Bing Liu were relative unknowns. Inside of the scientific community, however, the two had achieved something like rock-star status. And now, within a period of 30 days, both young men are dead at a time when their talents are needed most.
James Taylor, 1979-2020
Let’s first consider the life and work of James Taylor, who passed away on April 2 at the age of 40. Anyone hoping to learn details about the cause of death of this remarkable man will be disappointed; to date, no information has been made available to the public....
According to his obituary on the Johns Hopkins University website, Taylor was “a trailblazer in computational biology and genomics research,” who made a significant contribution as a “scientist, teacher, and colleague.”
Taylor’s breakout moment in the scientific community, however, came with the creation of Galaxy, a cloud-based system that has been described as “the first comprehensive data analysis resource in Life Sciences.” According to its website, Galaxy provides an open platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to scientists, mostly those who are involved in genomics research, a major field of study when it comes to the development of drugs and vaccines.
[Free Beacon] The coronavirus crisis could sink many schools—and leave a windfall for the survivors
They've been through riots, protests, and natural disasters—but America's colleges have never seen anything like the financial meltdown the coronavirus is about to bring to their campuses.
The rising wave of health fears, added costs, and vanishing tuition payments could crush small colleges, many of which were already hanging by a financial thread. Those that can weather the crisis—including big-name universities with billions in their bank accounts—in turn stand to gain big from the fallout.
The emptying out of schools and the mass transition to distance learning has already been "the largest all-sector hit that we've ever seen," Jim Hundrieser, a vice president with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), told the Washington Free Beacon. But the challenges of this spring pale in comparison to the shock many colleges are expecting in the fall, when social distancing measures and a possible second wave could create the most surreal semester ever.
That strangeness, experts project, could in turn cause a massive drop in college revenue. Well-endowed colleges and big research schools have the savings to weather those effects. But many schools are beholden to semi-annual tuition payments, which are about to undergo the biggest shock since the Second World War.
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20% of Liberal Arts Colleges were already failing before the CON virus. Estimated nearly 50% were to fail in 2-3 years. Conservative Colleges are or were thriving.
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they will be the next 'too big to fail' businesses with a hand in the till.
the more the colleges adhere to and teach socialism, the bigger the payout.
and as usual, the taxpayer takes it in the shorts.
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No reason to put 35-40% of 18 year-olds in college programs where half or more of them can't write a complex sentence or do basic algebra or follow a complex argument.
This might well move us, finally, toward a two-track secondary educational system in which the majority of young people on reaching the age of 16 get focused, serious, practical vocational training leading to a useful job.
Maybe 20%, maximum, of 16 year-olds should go on to college--and should start doing college work in what is now junior year of high school.
Which means the ranks of undergraduate institutions should be culled by some 40-50 percent.
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There will be a trimming or lopping off of B.S. no-content courses that basically push multi-culturalism, social justice, diversity, open borders; courses that tend to push division, victimhood and identity politics. These courses tend to be hotbeds for political activism, unrest and chaos on campuses.
Distant education methods should also limit the number of these courses that are offered.
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Distance learning will erode the industrial, one-size-fits-all public schooling model. It's a vicious cycle for public schools.
Homeschooling, at about 3% now, will be adopted by 10% or more of the school-age population within another couple of years.
Most public school districts cannot take such a hit to their funding: their revenues are tied directly to enrollments. Their class sizes will balloon, and more and more parents will realize that homeschooling is superior to sending their kid to Lord of the Flies Middle School where overburdened adults fail to manage the chaos of 40+ kids in a classroom.
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Homeschooling is all very well for the organized, but I am not good at that kind of thing, and among those who are, there are plenty who would rather pay someone to handle it and can afford the expense. I would expect there to be an increase in private schools of all sorts to fill that need, from homeschooling groups taking care of the teaching together to churches to special interests like special ed. gifted ed, and so forth.
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It’s more efficient for one adult to teach twenty kids than for one adult to teach one kid. The real problem is the low quality and waste in the public school system.
[Breitbart] During an interview broadcast on Friday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s "WSJ at Large," White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro stated that China deliberately allowed the coronavirus to spread to the rest of the world and that the virus "could have been contained in Wuhan."
Navarro said, "China hid the virus behind the shield of the World Health Organization, and that was a time, Gerry, when that virus could have been contained in Wuhan. Instead, what China did was put hundreds of thousands of Wuhanians and Chinese on planes that were allowed to go to Milan and New York and elsewhere, but not to Beijing and Shanghai."
Host Gerry Baker asked Navarro if he was saying, "China, quite deliberately, shutting off some — a lot of domestic travel, but allowing international travel, quite deliberately knew how serious this was and allowed the virus to be exported, along with a lot of other Chinese exports to the United States and elsewhere?"
Navarro responded, "That’s a matter of fact. It should not be in dispute."
[Global Labs] Beijing authority announced on Monday that it is considering setting up a large laboratory to improve the nucleic acid testing capacity of the Xiaotangshan Hospital in the capital city. The lab is also expected to exert greater effect in the future, according to a Beijing News report.
[Washington Examiner] Nearly 300 fewer people have died in Colorado directly from the coronavirus than was originally reported, according to revised data from the state.
Colorado health officials now report that as of May 9, 878 people died "due to" the coronavirus, and 1,150 people died "among" COVID-19 cases, according to Fox 31 News Denver.
Health officials revised the way they report coronavirus death toll figures in response to questions and complaints about whether they were properly attributed.
"We have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or may not have been COVID-19," Colorado Department of Health and Environment Chief Medical Officer Eric France said on Friday.
"We started to hear stories about ’are these correct or are these incorrect?'" he said.
One of those stories involved a Colorado coroner who pushed back against the state’s decision to classify a death in his jurisdiction as a coronavirus death, even though the coroner found that the man, who had the coronavirus, died of alcohol poisoning.
"This afternoon Colorado just cut its reported #COVID deaths by almost 25% - from 1150 to 878," former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has become leading a COVID-19 contrarian, said on Twitter.
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We still haven't gotten the autopsy results of my friend who died in a fire last month. I'm really wondering at this point if they mislabled it to conform with Waltz's fraudulent Wuhan Flu numbers.
If anyone gets the virus in Wisconsin and they are transported to Duluth, Saint Paul or Rochester their numbers are STILL counted as Minnesota cases.
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[Guns America Digest] Lester Gillis was born in December of 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. His first arrest came on Independence Day at age 12. Young Lester discovered a handgun and inadvertently shot a pal in the jaw. He served a year in reform school before being released to steal his first car at age 13. This bought the lad another 18 months in the boys’ penal facility.
Gillis was a great many dichotomous things. He was a natural leader, a committed husband, and a doting father. He married Helen Wawrzyniak at age 20 and sired two kids he adored. By 1930, however, Gillis was making serious bank in the burgeoning field of armed robbery.
The press referred to his gang as the "Tape Bandits" after their propensity to truss up robbery victims with tape. On one of his first major scores, Gillis and his troops made off with $205,000 in jewelry from magazine-executive, Charles Richter. That would be more than $3 million today. After several more lucrative home invasions, Gillis robbed his first financial institution. While the $4,000 he stole was dwarfed by his previous jewel heists, Gillis found in bank robbery his true calling.
it's Kurt
Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt Dem/foreigner collaborations exemplified by the payoffs received by stripperphile and Bolivian folk medicine enthusiast Hoover Biden.
No one.
Well, maybe Mike Flynn himself will. Since his judge is now making up the law as he goes along — in law school they taught us that the judicial branch didn’t prosecute, but that was before the Trump Exception™ to existing principles — I actually expect that the next time the General shows up in court the judge will sentence him on his coerced plea to a "crime" that never happened and order the marshals to immediately take him into custody. And, as we have seen far too often since the advent of the bat biter blues, too many LEOs simply obey, apparently never having got the 411 on how the Nuremburg defense of "just following orders" is unsat. Flynn will get pardoned instead of exonerated, so he’ll get sprung from stir, but he will have no civil recourse for resurrecting his reputation or savings, which is the plan.
We have two justice systems, one for them and one for us, meaning we have no justice system at all.
Sorry to have to break this to you. I know it makes you sad, but how do you think I feel? I spent 27 years helping defend this country and voilà — here we are, a flippin’ banana republic. Turns out our elite is perfectly cool with treating our Constitution like Charmin.
You do understand that to the establishment, this dual track system where they ignore the law and we get the law dropped on us — including through active framing, as with LTG Flynn, to keep us in line — is how they want it, right? This is not an unintended consequence. They are for this.
They are actively for the abuse of the legal system to persecute their political enemies. You adorable naïfs come to me thinking that I, as a lawyer, will assuage your gnawing fear that something is rotten in the state of America. "Kurt, but this...this isn’t right? How can some people be prosecuted but other people with connections get away with crimes?" Well, the answer is simple: that is how many of the people with their grubby paws on the levers of power want it.
They want to use the government to stifle dissent, as the IRS did to Tea Party groups.
They want to make people afraid to oppose them by threatening them with crushing legal fees and maybe jail if they dare join the opposition — look at the trail of bankrupt Trumpworld folks after Obamagate.
They want to frame people working for their enemies and ruin them and put them in prison, a la LTG Flynn.
This permeates liberal culture. Did you know that the ACLU — the Alleged Civil Liberties Union — just sued Betsy De Vos because she ordered reforms to campus man-witch trials that gave men such radical due process rights as the right to know the charges, to have time to respond to them, to not be judged by the same person who is prosecuting them, and to confront their accuser? The ACLU came out against these things — at least in cases where ole Grandpa Badfinger’s not the accused. And speaking of that handsy old weirdo, how about all those lib luminaries leveling with us that even if he did what Tara Reade said he did, eh, no biggie. They’ll vote for him anyway, and that whiny broad should stop crying all over their beautiful progressive narrative.
...You need to prepare yourself. No one of any significance is going to jail for any of this. Ever.
...I’d love to be wrong. Maybe I am. Maybe the unbroken track record of injustice we’ve seen over the last decade will suddenly break. And maybe my pet unicorn Chet will be the foreman of the jury when one of these slugs somehow gets called to account.
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After Trump's re-elected, the odds will shift. More time, more resources, more heretofore silent desk jockeys willing to come forth and offer smoking-gun evidence.
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He certainly could be right, we'll see. On a personal level, No Surrender-not an inch, no more faux 1-way compromise, and if need be no quarter should it come down to it.
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The Dems have already announced they will pursue Trump after he leaves office. Let them set the precedent, then hang that albatross around their neck. Yes Obama deserves it, but that was never in the mix.
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Obama could have been in the mix a couple of years ago were it not for the dilly-dallying by the Senate, et al.
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Apparently, it's OK to investigate a sitting President for made up crimes, but beyond the pale to demand answers from the former President who got the whole scam rolling in the first place.
[IsraelTimes] Tests on hamsters reveal the widespread use of face masks reduces transmission of the deadly coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , a team of leading experts in Hong Kong say.
The research by the University of Hong Kong is some of the first to specifically investigate whether masks can stop symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers from infecting others.
Led by Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, one of the world’s top coronavirus experts, the team placed hamsters that were artificially infected with the disease next to healthy animals.
Surgical masks were placed between the two cages with air flow traveling from the infected animals to the healthy ones.
The researchers find non-contact transmission of the virus could be reduced by more than 60 percent when the masks were used.
Two-thirds of the healthy hamsters were infected within a week if no masks were applied.
The infection rate plunged to just over 15 percent when surgical masks were put on the cage of the infected animals and by about 35 percent when placed on the cage with the healthy hamsters.
Those that did become infected were also found to have less of the virus within their bodies than those infected without a mask.
"It’s very clear that the effect of masking the infected, especially when they are asymptomatic — or symptomatic — it’s much more important than anything else," Yuen tells news hounds.
"It also explained why universal masking is important because we now have known that a large number of those infected have no symptom."
Yuen was one of the microbiologists who discovered the SARS virus — a predecessor of the current coronavirus — when it emerged in 2003, killing some 300 people in Hong Kong.
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99% of the people in Hong Kong wear a mask (moi aussi). About 1,060 cases and 4 deaths in a region with 7.5 million people. Arguably a densely populated city/region.
Unlike Captain "I'll Never Put A Lifejacket On" Quint - I wears em.
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[IsraelTimes] Iranian officials confirm that a fire broke out early Friday morning at the site of an ancient shrine revered by Iranian Jews as the burial place of the biblical Esther and Mordechai. But they stress that no damage was done to the hall housing the tomb itself. "We anticipate next week's fire will do much more damage"
An investigation has revealed that a person was caught in CCTV footage trying to enter the holy site through an adjacent bank and "perform a series of actions" but "failed," opposition news sites say, citing a report in the state-run Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
The report says the cameras had registered the person’s face, but "information about the person’s motives and identity cannot be provided until they are arrested."
The attack came on May 15, a day after the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, raising widespread suspicion that it was a hate crime against Jews and the Jewish state.
[Rudaw] At least 100 mostly babus government employees, activists, and journalists in Duhok have been arrested by security forces after allegedly organizing a protest against the government’s delay in paying civil servants’ salaries, according to a politician.
Over the last week many have taken to social media calling for an impassioned gathering in downtown Duhok at 3 pm on Saturday against the continued delay of wages from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Halz Botani, a member of the Kurdistan Region's parliament for the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), told Rudaw that of the 150 people who attempted to organize the protest, around 100 were arrested while assembling for the protest at Azadi Park.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces have launched a new operation targeting 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) sleeper cells in the deserted areas between djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Anbar, and Saladin.
The areas have seen a recent uptick in bad boy activity, including bombings, ambushes, kidnapping, extortion, and arson.
The operation, named "Lions of al-Jazeera" was announced by Iraq’s Security Media Cell on Sunday morning.
"We announce the start of the Lions of al-Jazeera military operation this morning on May 17, 2020 to defeat ISIS sleeper cells in the areas of western Saladin, southern Mosul, and northern Anbar as well as areas on [the] Iraqi-Syrian border," read the statement.
The multi-day operation will be conducted by Iraqi army units, large units of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) and Sunni tribal fighters known as Hashd al-Ahsairi, and be accompanied by Iraqi warplanes.
Security forces seized four caves and a tunnel used as hiding places by turbans in western Saladin, the Media Cell announced later on Sunday.
Although the Iraqi government announced the territorial defeat of ISIS in December 2017, remnants of the group have since returned to their earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable rural populations.
Having lost all of its urban strongholds, the group is now most active in Iraq’s remote deserts and mountains, and in the disputed territories contested by the federal government and the autonomous Kurdish region, where a wide security vacuum has opened up.
ISIS has been held responsible for a spate of attacks on the Iraqi Security Forces and PMF units.
Late on Friday, the PMF said four of its fighters were killed and six injured in an ISIS attack in northern Diyala.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the PMF said its units had come under attack in Khanaqin, Jurf al-Nasr (formally known as Jurf al-Sakhir) and on the Syrian-Iraqi border in the Akashat area of western Anbar.
On Friday the Iraqi defense ministry said two soldiers were killed and four others maimed when their convoy hit an IED in northern Baghdad province. ISIS later grabbed credit for the blast.
On Thursday, ISIS weekly propaganda al-Naba newspaper claimed its turbans had carried out 42 attacks in Iraq between May 7 and 13 alone — almost half of them in Diyala.
[Spiked] Governments around the world say they are following ‘The Science’ with their draconian measures to stem the spread of the virus. But the science around Covid-19 is bitterly contested. Many experts have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the measures, and argue that our outsized fears of Covid-19 are not justified. Knut Wittkowski is one such expert who has long argued for a change of course. For 20 years, Wittkowski was the head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. spiked spoke to him to find out more about the pandemic.
[TheWarZone/TheDrive] After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Navy acquired the same Kh-31 missiles that threatened its ships and made them into anti-ship missile targets.
It's extremely important for any military to make its training regimens as realistic as possible to give its forces the best sense of the threats they might face in combat and how to respond to them. Unfortunately, developing high-quality surrogates for the weapons and other systems that potential adversaries might employ is not always easy and in some cases, it ends up being possible to just go to the source of the threat itself.
The U.S. Navy faced just this predicament in the 1990s when it went looking for a high-speed target to simulate supersonic anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles and ultimately decided to just buy the MA-31, a derivative of Russia's air-launched rocket-ramjet-powered Kh-31 missile
Clinton assisted Russian kh-31 Krypton ASM program The titanium Kh-31 was built in 1988 by the Russian Zvezda-Strela State Science and Production Center for the former Soviet Union. The PM version of the Krypton missile offers extended range and features improved passive seeker electronics, enabling it to pick up a wide range of radar targets.
The PM also incorporates into its design virtually all of the improvements suggested by a team of U.S. military engineers who worked on the Krypton during the Clinton years.
They didn't just buy the missiles, they gave the Russians the money to get their development program unstuck in the late 90's, including all the data from the leftover Talos missiles we used as targets until then, so they could provide us with targets, they got what data they needed and didn't deliver anything in return.
[SaraA.Carter] Jim Jordan requested the US State Department under Mike Pompeo to turn over documents related to Obama Deep State employee Eric Ciaramella and Ukrainian firm Burisma.
Republicans are demanding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turn over a broad scope of unredacted Obama-Biden State Department documents pertaining to the corrupt Ukrainian company that was at the center of the impeachment inquiry earlier this year against President Donald Trump.
In a document sent to Pompeo, Jordan wrote:
"I write regarding documents that the State Department recently released pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)," stated Jordan, in a letter to Pompeo on Thursday. "Although these documents are partially redacted, they appear to shed new light on the actions of State Department employees during the Obama-Biden Administration in relation to the corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, and its founder, Mykola Zlochevsky."
Jordan requested that the information be delivered to the committee by May 28. He asked for:
Unredacted copies of all documents released pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act relating to Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochevsky, or Hunter Biden;
All documents and communications referring or relating to Burisma Holdings or Mykola Zlochevsky for the period January 1, 2014, to January 20, 2017; and
All documents and communications referring or relating to Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz, or Devon Archer for the period January 1, 2014, to January 20, 2017.
According to Jordan the State Department documents also reveal that the alleged "whistleblower" who began the partisan impeachment against Trump "also played a role in facilitating the Obama-Biden Administration's interactions with the Ukrainian government relating to Burisma and Hunter Biden."
Jordan told Pompeo that the documents reportedly detail "how the whistleblower, as a National Security Council (NSC) detailee, hosted a White House meeting that took place with Ukrainian prosecutors in January 2016 regarding a concern that Hunter Biden's role with Burisma could complicate a potential prosecution of the company's wrongdoing."
The New York Times reports that Joe Biden's own staff thought a Ukrainian gas company paying Hunter Biden $83,333/month while his father was Vice President was "unseemly" or "worse" -- and they made State Department officials help them do damage control. pic.twitter.com/imYAuiqsdn
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Gee, you'd think this would be an excuse for another redistributive wealth confiscation program.
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I believe there are accounts of the poles flipping. But in any case, this sounds like another job for the climate change wackos. Oh, and this pole shift is obviously racist.
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is that how this works?
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Bob, you forgot to add the name and address of a fake but real sounding fund to fight manmade (tm) polar shift.
Maybe it's because of the uneven distribution of people on the earth causing wobble. Forced migration for the children's sake.
Surveillance camera footage shows the moment homeless man Darryl Finney, 62, was set on fire, two days before he died at a Washington D.C. hospital
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department released the footage to recruit the public's help in finding a male suspect seen in the footage
The suspect appears in the footage to dowse the Finney with an unknown liquid and setting it on fire early Wednesday morning.
Finney, after he was set ablaze, managed to get to first responders who arrived on the scene and died at a local hospital from his injuries
A $25,000 reward is being offered by cops to anyone with more information that may lead to the suspect's arrest
The man, who appears to be black, sporting a goatee and wearing a hooded shirt, fuels the start of the fire by dowsing twice with an unknown flammable liquid from a canister before walking away.
The same suspect is believed to have attempted setting another man on fire about 45 minutes earlier also H Street, but about five blocks away, as well as torching a car on Florida Avenue.
The investigation—dubbed 'Operation Asian Touch'— saw federal agents pay for and receive at least 17 sexual acts from 'Asian females' across five months
The sex-trafficking investigation began in May 2016 after Havasu, Arizona police received complaints that local massage parlors were offering erotic extras
Internal ICE documents show the offices were given permission by their supervisors to go through with the sexual acts
HSI (Dept. of Homeland Security) reports document instance after instance of an undercover federal agent telling a masseuse to 'masturbate him'
In total, nine people would go on to be arrested in the probe, including two women on prostitution charges after performing sex acts on the officers
The case collapsed in 2019 after HSI refused to identify the two officers involved
All felony charges against the alleged ringleaders and workers were dropped, and sex-trafficking experts said the women were likely re-traumatized
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Don't understand. Police types engage in illegal activity to get evidence that a crime has been committed all the time. Just because everyone in the unit volunteered for this sting shouldn't make a difference.
Vanessa Bryant shares photos of 10-month-old daughter Capri and Kobe's dedication to her in his book... one day after autopsy report on helicopter crash victims was released
Vanessa Bryant uploaded two heartwarming posts to Instagram on Saturday
One was a photo of her 10-month-old daughter Capri, the other was of a dedication to her by Kobe in his book Epoca the Tree of Ecrof: Island of the Gods
The Los Angeles County coroner's office released the autopsy reports Friday
The reports confirmed all the crash victims died from blunt trauma
The clinical and graphic report tells describes broken bones, dismembered body parts and a stench of fuel on what remained of clothing that burned
The pilot's report confirmed there were no drugs or alcohol in his system
Kobe Bryant's autopsy revealed the only drug he had in his system was Ritalin
[FoxNews] Stay-at-home orders aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus are now facing legal challenges from residents and state officials alike, alleging that some measures – mostly put in place by Democrats -- go too far while the country gradually moves toward reopening.
California alone is facing at least a dozen lawsuits that include claims that the state has unjustly closed down gun shops and religious services, infringed on freedoms of speech and assembly by restricting protests, and one case where a resident alleges that being forced to remain at home constitutes forced detention without due process.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is up against a lawsuit from Republicans in her state’s House and Senate over her extension of an already-strict emergency order that has regulated residents’ movement and closed businesses. The GOP lawsuit claims that Whitmer overstepped her authority by extending her previous shutdown order, saying she needs the legislature’s approval to extend it beyond 28 days.
In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court struck down the state's “safer at home” on Wednesday, saying the administration of Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, overstepped its authority when it extended the order through the end of May. The ruling said any future orders must be approved by the state’s legislature.
Kentucky protesters sued officials including Gov. Andy Beshear, also a Democrat, for allegedly violating the First Amendment by banning mass protests. In another lawsuit a federal judge temporarily blocked Beshear’s ban on in-person church services.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that he could take action against the cities of Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas if they do not scale back orders that are more restrictive than state-issued measures. Gov. Greg Abbott is moving toward reopening the state and said that while businesses have the freedom to reopen or remain closed, local governments do not have the option to keep them closed, the Texas Tribune reported.
As Politico noted, while the lawsuits mostly have gone against Democrats, Republican Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland and Mike DeWine of Ohio have faced challenges, as well. Business and religious leaders were joined by state delegates in suing Hogan to block his order. A group of Ohio gyms sued DeWine over his reopening order excluding them from those businesses allowed to operate, but it was subsequently announced that they will be allowed to reopen after all.
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The RINO in charge of Mass., Gov. Charlie Baker, is largely in step with these assholes. The 'non-essential' business lockdown is supposed to end today but the safe bet is that he'll roll over for the Dems who want to keep us locked down and extend it a few more weeks.
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1st step towards Socialism...successful too...if we let it stand. "Socialism - You can vote your way in but have to shoot your way out" .. a popular saying..lets hope it doesn't come to that!
Doug Saltsman, CEO of defunct Utah cryptocurrency company Saltmine, was sentenced to 210 days in jail after downloading more than 13,000 images of sexual abuse, rape and beastiality
Saltsman was repentant speaking to a judge when he was facing up to 15 years in prison on a conviction for three felonies related to the case
Instead the judge gave him the 210 day sentence and 48 months of probation. Because of time already served, Saltsman may be out of jail in about two months
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It is an absurd sentence as it is. Did this weirdo touch any kids? It doesn't sound like it. If this freak gets his rocks off of videos/files, then, really, so what.
Bogalusa police said that despite the “extremely large crowd” attending the memorial, no witnesses have provided information about the incident.
[Jpost] Shots were fired during a memorial service in Bogalusa, Louisiana on Sunday, leaving thirteen people injured, with one of them in critical condition, local police said.
The incident occured during a memorial service for 29-year-old Dominique James, who vanished on May 2 and was found shot to death in his car last week.
Bogalusa police said that despite the “extremely large crowd” attending the memorial, no witnesses have provided information about the incident.
The move comes as outrage mounts over sidewalks clogged with tents and dire conditions in the Tenderloin amid the coronavirus pandemic. The number of tents pitched on sidewalks and other public areas is up by 71 percent citywide and 285 percent in the Tenderloin since January, according to a recent count by The City.
The first designated encampment, or safe sleeping site, is in a fenced-off area on Fulton Street near City Hall and contains roughly 50 tents spaced apart for social distancing, along with a handful of portable toilets, a couple of handwashing stations and 24-hour security. Officials say food, access to showers and cleaning services will also be provided.
According to the plaintiffs, Whitmer has continually extended her stay-at-home order to "flatten the curve" from the Wuhan coronavirus. The group believes Whitmer continually extending her stay-at-home order – without approval from the state legislature – infringes upon individual rights and liberties.
The state originally anticipated 220,000 hospitalizations as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus. As of April 27th, that number sat at 3,000, making it less than 1.4 percent of the projected hospitalizations. Michigan is prepared should any additional cases come forward, with over 2,400 ventilators available, almost 1,000 ICU beds and more than 7,000 unoccupied hospital beds.
Grand Health performs endoscopies, appendectomies, various types of hernia surgeries and repairs, as well as bariatric surgeries, all of which have been deemed elective. Because Whitmer's stay-at-home order, doctors are having to wait until patients are in dire need of surgery before the procedures are carried out.
Wellston Medical Center and Primary Health Services provide primary care services for rural residents who are predominantly on Medicare or Medicaid. The stay-at-home order resulted in a 95 percent drop in the number of patients the clinics could see. Not having the ability to schedule simple in-office procedures resulted in at least one hospitalization.
Prosecutors said Friday the elderly Camden woman died in April after contracting the coronavirus from the aide, Josefina Brito-Hernandez, 49. Four other members of the woman’s household also became infected, including two developmentally disabled siblings, they said.
“In Camden, a home health aide that was symptomatic was told to self-isolate after testing,” New Jersey Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan said at New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s coronavirus briefing Friday, referring to Brito-Hernandez.
“She ultimately came back positive and went against instructions and actually went into a home the next day to care for a few different family members,” Callahan said.
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 17, 2020
#BREAKING France: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 28,108 as 483 more people die over past 24 hours
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 17, 2020
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Somali health ministry on Sunday confirmed 64 new cases of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , bringing the total tally of infections to 1,421.
Fawziya Abikar, the health minister said the majority of the latest cases were recorded in Banadir which have 33, Somaliland 16, Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... eight, and Southwest seven.
Abikar said one patient succumbed to the respiratory disease as the corpse count so far since the first infection remains at 56.
She said four people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 152.
#BREAKING Coronavirus death toll in Spain rises to 27,650 with 87 more fatalities over past 24 hours
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I understand that the beach fencing idea was floated only after somebody pointed out to His Mayorness that, unlike skate parks, dumping loads of sand on the beaches would not be an effective deterrent.
[AA.TR] Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide have demanded that its financier Felicien Kabuga, who was arrested in Gay Paree on Saturday, be tried in the African nation.
Ibuka, an umbrella organization of survivor associations, said in a statement: "Getting to know about the arrest of Félicien Kabuga while we are still in 100 days of the 26th commemoration is a heart softening and exciting information that every survivor was looking for."
"Ibuka, therefore, wishes that Kabuga could be brought to Rwanda for trial and serving his sentence where he participated in these atrocities," the daily New Times reported, citing the statement.
"If there is anything good for survivors, it is to see those who are responsible for more than one million lives lost during the genocide against Tutsi being held accountable for their participation," it added.
Ibuka’s call comes as the UN-established International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) earlier said that Kabuga will be tried from its headquarters in Tanzania’s city of Arusha.
"Following completion of appropriate procedures under French law, Kabuga is expected to be transferred to the custody of the Mechanism, where he will stand trial," IRMCT was quoted as saying.
Known as the financier of the Rwandan genocide, runaway Kabuga was arrested on Saturday morning in a suburb of Gay Paree in the Ile-de-La Belle France.
On the run for 26 years, Kabuga was living under a false identity.
He was the creator of the Hutu militias, the groups primarily responsible for the biggest genocide of the 20th century.
The Rwandan Genocide was a mass slaughter of rebel Tutsi and Hutu forces by the Rwandan government during the Rwandan Civil War in the spring and summer of 1994. It is estimated that half a million to just over a million people were killed.
Kabuga was also a part of the inner circle of former President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose liquidation ignited the conflict.
[DW] An increasing number of "Islamic State" returnees are standing trial in Germany, including female supporters of the terror group. To make their case, federal prosecutors are relying on international criminal law.
In the past five years, 122 IS supporters have returned to Germany from Syria or Iraq, according to government figures reported in late 2019. Of those returnees, 53 have been classified as a "potential threat," and 18 are considered "relevant persons.”
Taha A.-J.*
...somewhat more completely Taha Sabah Noori al-J., and elsewhere as Taha al-Jumailly...
, an Iraqi man believed to have belonged to the "Islamic State" (IS), has been standing trial in Frankfurt since late April on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the center of his trial is the death of a 5-year-old girl belonging to the Yazidi minority group.
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Sorry Frank. Shootings too good for the likes of them. There are things like concentrated HCl or some of the more robust medieval devices that would be more appropriate. Or you could always bring back Vlad.
[KhaamaPress] The First Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh said the confessions of the detained ISIS leaders leave no room for illusions regarding Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS, apparently gesturing that there is no distinction between the two groups.
Speaking during a gathering in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, Saleh said certain ’strangers’ claim that a specific group carried out the attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar on Tuesday.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Saleh said the confessions of Aslam Farooqi and Abu Omar, the two top leaders of ISIS, leave no room for any question regarding the Taliban and ISIS.
Saleh accused the Taliban group for the deadly attack on maternity ward in Kabul city, emphasizing that the group would not be able to seize power by force.
He also added that Taliban inked a peace deal with the foreigners but the group is still killing the Afghans.
This comes as Taliban rejected the involvement of the group in the two deadly attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
The group on Friday issued a statement demanding a transparent and impartial investigations into the deadly attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
The group condemned the two attacks in strong words and blamed the ’criminal and malicious elements affiliated with the Afghan government’ for being involved in the two attacks.
"The Islamic Emirate strongly condemned both attacks and clarified that these attacks were the work of criminal and malicious elements who are seeking to attain their malicious objectives by killing defenseless human beings," the group said in a statement.
The statement further added "The Islamic Emirate once again clarifies that it had no hand in the Dashti Barchi incident, considers it a vile, inhumane and an un-Islamic act and shares the grief of the families of deaders and maimed of this tragedy."
The Afghan government earlier ordered the Afghan forces to resume offensive operations against the krazed killers, blaming the Taliban and ISIS groups for targeting the civilians, women and infants.
Dozens of people including many security personnel, women and newborn children were killed after the gunnies carried out a series of attacks in Kabul, Nangarhar and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... provinces during the course of the week.
[RADIOSHABELLE] A suicide kaboom has killed a governor in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state on Sunday, the second top official assassinated in the northeastern Federal State since March.
Ahmed Muse Nur and several security guards were reported to have been killed in a huge blast targeted his vehicle while travelling in northern Galkayo city.
Some reports suggest that the attack occurred outside the governor’s office.
Last March, al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom that killed Nugal governor and former regional police boss in Garowe city.
The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said.
#Hezbollah media reporting that the man was a Syrian shepherd and was shot by IDF troops as while his animals were grazing. A senior IDF officer responsible for that area told me a few days ago that many shepherds in the area are known to collect intel on troop movement
[SYRIAHR] The number of Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries who have been killed in Libya while fighting in the side of the "Government of National Accord" against the "Libyan National Army" continues to rise. SOHR activists have documented the killing of 11 Ottoman Turkish-backed mercenaries, including a child under the age of eighteen, on several frontlines in Libya, bringing the total corpse count of Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian proxies killed in military operations in Libya to 298, including 17 children under the age of eighteen.
The fatalities are of the factions "al-Mu’tasim Division, Sultan Murad, Suqur al-Shamal Brigade, al-Hamzat and Suleiman Shah". According to very reliable SOHR sources, the fatalities were killed in festivities on frontlines of Salah al-Din in the south of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , al-Ramlah near Tripoli Airport, al-Hadabah Project area, Misrata and other areas in Libya.
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[CHRON] Eighty-five thousand dollars in jewelry. A 2019 Rolls-Royce Wraith luxury coupe. Forty-thousand dollars in child support payments.
Maurice "Mo" Fayne, a trucking company owner who appears regularly on the reality show "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta," has been charged with using more than $1.5 million in Small Business Administration stimulus funds to enrich himself rather than for paying workers and small business expenses as the program requires.
According to the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District of Georgia, Fayne is the sole owner of a Georgia corporation called Flame Trucking that received a $2 million bank loan through the SBA's relief package for small businesses, the Paycheck Protection Program.
On May 13 Fayne was arrested and then charged with bank fraud. Prosecutors alleged he used more than $1.5 million on unauthorized purchases including the car, jewelry and child support.
"The defendant allegedly took advantage of the emergency lending provisions of the Paycheck Protection Program that were intended to assist employees and small businesses battered by the Coronavirus," said U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak. "We will investigate and charge anyone who inappropriately diverts these critical funds for their own personal gain."
Fayne appeared in federal court on the day of his arrest in front of magistrate judge Justin S. Anand of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Fayne's lawyer, Atlanta attorney Tanya Miller, says he will fight the charges. She issued a statement to The Washington Post saying that she would not try the case through the media and that the government needed to clear up confusion about the stimulus program's rules.
"We will provide the appropriate response in the proper forum once all the information has been provided to us," said Miller in the statement. "There has been considerable confusion among small business owners about PPP guidelines - particularly around the question of whether and how business owners are permitted to pay themselves a salary or owner's draw. This ambiguity and confusion for business owners needs to be addressed immediately as the PPP program is still in its infancy."
Although some PPP applicants have had difficulty navigating the program's rules and some larger employers have decided to return funds, Fayne is charged with using the money for much different purposes than he allegedly stated on his application.
According to the U.S. Attorney's office, Fayne, 37, stated on a loan application to United Community Bank that his trucking company had 107 employees and a monthly payroll of $1.5 million. He allegedly certified that the loan proceeds would be used to "retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage interest payments, lease payments, and utility payments, as specified under the Paycheck Protection Program Rule."
The FBI assisted with the investigation, along with the SBA's Office of Inspector General. Agents searched Fayne's home in Dacula, outside Atlanta, on May 11 and seized "approximately $80,000 in cash, including $9,400 that Fayne had in his pockets." They also used seizure warrants to take control of approximately $503,000 of remaining PPP funds from three of Fayne's bank accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
"The defendant allegedly egregiously sought personal gain from a program intended to assist hard-working Americans in this challenging time," said Special Agent-in-Charge Kevin Kupperbusch of the SBA's Office of Inspector General.
Fayne, known as "Arkansas Mo" on the show, is one of the only people to be charged with a crime for misuse of funds from the SBA program.
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Hmmm, a so-called reality star but no photo of him. Yet another example of white man's privilege, right?
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No surprise. I remember a news article from the 50's or 60's where a farmer who got a subsidy for not planting a certain crop (price supports) used the cash to buy a Cadillac. Of course, he was trying to make a point about goverment waste...he said.
[DW] Despite supporting an embargo, Germany has exported €330 million in weapons to countries involved in the war in Libya. The conflict has escalated since Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... 's forces seized Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Embargo for thee, but not for me?
Since hosting a Libya summit four months ago, the German government has approved arms exports worth €331 million ($358 million) to countries accused of supporting warring parties in the country, according a report from the German Economy Ministry seen by news agency DPA.Between January 20 and May 3, Germany approved €308.2 million in arms destined for Egypt alone, the ministry said. The information was provided in response to a request from Germany’s leftist die Linke party.
Perhaps there is a deep, statesmanly motivation, like keeping the parties killing each other off at home so they’re too dead to attempt migrating across the Mediterranean...
The German government also approved €15.1 million in arms exports for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and €7.7 million for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), DPA reported.
Or possibly, having promised arms to Erdogan to close the “migrant” spigot, they promised the same to the other side to minimize the mischief Turkey could cause in this arena...
Turkey supports the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is backed by the UN, while Russia, Egypt, and the UAE support rival forces led by Khalifa Haftar.
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The German government also approved €15.1 million in arms exports for Turkey and €7.7 million for the United Arab Emirates (UAE),
So the Germans are supplying both sides. Nothing personal, it's just bidness.
#Erdogan surprised observers by demoting Rear Admiral Cihat #Yayci, the architect of the illegal maritime #MOU between #Turkey and #Sarraj, from his position as chief of staff of the Turkish Navy to a managerial position in the Army General Staff. #Libya https://t.co/wnOJUIJB0u
[BREITBART] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday evening that he had not been aware of any "criminal investigation" of Michael Flynn before leaving office in January 2017. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... on Tuesday, Biden admitted on ABC’s Good Morning America that he had known that "they had asked for an investigation" into Flynn.
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[ToloNews] Unknown button men attacked an army vehicle in Kabul and one ANA member was killed and another was maimed, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday.
The incident happened in Dawa Khan roundabout in PD12 of Kabul city on Sunday morning. Unknown button men started shooting at a Ford-brand vehicle belonging to the army, according to the MoI.
The police are investigating the incident, the MoI said.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... no group, including the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , has grabbed credit for the attack.
According to Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), the security forces are investigating the incident and as a result five people who were riding cycle of violences have been arrested so far.
[Libya Observer] The Joint Operations Room of the Government of National Accord has reported that the Libyan Air Force targeted al-Watiya base with direct strikes, during which Two Russian air defense systems were totally destroyed.
The two Pantsir anti-aircraft systems were supplied by the United Arab Emirates to warlord Haftar’s militia groups to protect them from dronezaps.
The second Russian-made Pantsir anti-aircraft system, supplied by the UAE to warlord Haftar’s gangs in Watiya airbase was destroyed, the Joint Operations Room of GNA confirms, just a few hours after destroying the first one in a big blow to Haftar’s groups.
The front man for the Libyan Army, Colonel Mohammed Ganunu, said the first Pantsir was destroyed on Saturday after three direct dronezaps. Early on Sunday, the second Pantsir was also hit in another strike.
In a press briefing on Saturday, Ganunu added that the dronezaps also targeted three armored cars, along with an ammunition-laden vehicle, stressing that any target, which poses a threat, whether moving or still, is a legitimate target and will be destroyed without hesitation.
Ganunu reiterated that "there are no red lines" and any movements seen to be hostile to Government forces, anywhere in Libya, will be targeted.
The moment when the missiles was intercepted by the ( assumed destroyed pantsir s1 )south of Aljimail north of Alwitya airbase pic.twitter.com/HWe1ANBYrS
[Sudan Tribune] The transitional government and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) will initial the peace agreement on 20 June, announced the South Sudanese mediation on Sunday.
The eight-month process had initially to last for two months but the parties continued to extend it month after month until the 9th of May when the mediation extended the negotiations with no time limit, as some observers say the process has lost momentum.
After consultations with the parties, the South Sudanese mediation Sunday released a time table of the talks showing that the discussions will resume on 18 May and be concluded on 19 June.
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[The Spectator] The liars destroy with impunity because they know they always will get away with it. Republicans watch the character assassination and then go on Sean Hannity to sound brave for five minutes. "These people will pay a steep price, Sean." "I won’t let them get away with it, Sean." "Let not your heart be troubled, Sean." "We will investigate every crime and every perjury, Sean." Three years of hearing this from Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Trey Gowdy, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Jason Chaffetz, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Fox News Alert: They all got away with it. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blasey Ford. Schiff. Hillary. Strzok. Page. McCabe.
If the Left truly believed in the truth of the slogans they chanted in their failed effort to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, does anyone truly believe that Biden still would be standing today? Does anyone truly believe that Sonia Sotomayor could not have been completely destroyed at the time of her SCOTUS nomination if she were conservative? If the media were not a division of the Democrat Party, does anyone doubt that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today would have been forced from office like his immediate predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, if only for presiding over so extraordinary a health catastrophe that his one state accounts for half the coronavirus illnesses and deaths in the whole country? Cuomo ordered nursing homes in his state to admit coronavirus-infected seniors into facilities that were woefully unprepared to handle the medical ramifications, and that order singularly caused mass death. And yet the same media that seek any and every angle to blame Trump for not wearing a mask lionize Cuomo, who not only should wear a mask but also should change his fingerprints, undergo plastic surgery to reconfigure his appearance, and hide for dear life in some El Chapo cave from the children and grandchildren left behind by the more than 5,000 defenseless seniors whom he has martyred so far on the altar of Democrat liberalism.
There is a time to love and a time to hate. This is a time to hate.
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All too often the guy who talks a good ballgame has never pitched an inning...
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I'll know the Right is serious when I stop hearing "That is not who we are!" every time someone fights back.
Dear "conservatives": I won't fault you for wanting to keep your heads down -- not everyone is suited for the fight, after all--but could you at least shut up and stay out of the way of those who will fight?
#Algeria- #MDN photos from militants' hideout discovered in Constantine, including a Beretta 950 and a whole bunch of IEDs, grenades & other equipment pic.twitter.com/pfVPJIzGBk
Very early today morning, a Turkish frigate from/near to Mellitah Complex Oil and Gas , fired 2-4 missiles toward Al-Watyah airbase (a distance of ~30km), this is a short video and a pictur showing one of the missiles in the sky.
— Libyan citizen- ﮼مواطن،ليبي (@Libyancitizen6) May 17, 2020
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The Genesis: Malik Traina & Ramy Allahoum
12 May 2020 Forces aligned with the Government of National Accord (GNA)repelled Khalifa Haftar's advance after a year-long offensive to capture the capital, Tripoli. Tripoli, Libya - In late December, just weeks after signing a military cooperation agreement with Libya's GNA, Turkish President Erdogan paid an unexpected visit to Tunisia. Analysts suspect the trip was aimed at giving credence to Erdogan's pledge to deploy troops to the war-wracked country in support of the embattled, United Nations-brokered GNA, with Tunisia being the closest "friendly" country from which to feed the military effort.
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APRIL 2020:
Turkish Industrial Output Falls Unexpectedly;
Turkish Current Account Deficit Larger than Expected; Turkish Jobless Rate Falls to 13.6% in February; Turkish Factory Activity Shrinks the Most since 2008; Turkey Producer Inflation Rate Eases to 6.71% in April; Turkey Inflation Rate Slows to 5-Month Low of 10.94%; Turkey Foreign Tourist Arrivals Slump in March; Turkish Tourism Revenues Drop 11.4% YoY in Q1;Turkish Trade Gap Widens Sharply in March.
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[PJMedia] The Secret Service is investigating a foreign attack on the U.S. unemployment system that has been deluged in recent months with tens of millions of Americans filing claims.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... is reporting that a Nigerian fraud ring is using the social security numbers and other stolen identity data to file false claims with states for workers that may not have even lost their jobs. The scheme has resulted in millions of dollars being siphoned away.
The illegal activity seems to be centered in Washington state but at least six other states may have been targeted as well.
The Nigerian fraudsters apparently use middlemen in the U.S. as “mules” to collect the cash.
Real social security numbers are used and, apparently, citizens of specific states were targeted. Authorities may have become suspicious of so many out-of-state claims piling up so the fraudsters targeted in-state businesses and employees.
Federal authorities believe most of the phony claims have been filed in the state of Washington, though evidence suggests similar attacks in six other states: Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Wyoming, a Secret Service memo obtained by the Times said.
#Iran’s FM has addressed a letter to the U.N.’s Sec. Gen. warning against the US’ “provocative” acts through dispatching its naval forces to the #Caribbean Sea to disrupt the course of Iranian tankers carrying fuel for #Venezuela
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 17, 2020
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So it's true, then?
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To be replaced by a direct Iranian Shiite stooge (war continues and maybe escalates), another Alawite related to Assad (war continues), or "Some Person To Be Named Later" (...and war still continues)?
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan’s annual inflation rate hit 98.81% in April, from 81.64% in March, Sudan’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBoS) said on Saturday.
The CBoS monthly bulletin said Saturday that the inflation has increased due to the rising prices of food, drink, fuel, bread, grains, meat, legumes, milk, and sugar, in addition to the rise in the housing and transportation.
Inflation rate in urban areas has reached 86.71% in April, while it was 66.83% in March 2020.
While, the inflation in the rural areas hit 107.82% in April, while it was 93.36% in March.
The transitional government took some measures to reduce the subsidies, such as selling fuel in some stations at commercial prices. Also, the price of subsidised bread in the capital Khartoum has been doubled to 2 pounds per loaf from 1 pound.
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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.
[Babylon Bee] SACRAMENTO, CA—To prepare for the upcoming November election, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered ballots to be sent to every cemetery in the state.
[The Hill] Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb called on the Trump administration to avoid sidelining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published Sunday evening.
/\ Something to do with pigs and feeding troughs ? 
[Redstate] In reporting on apparent CIA involvement in spying on an American citizen, RedState’s Bonchie observed:
Some evidence exists that might indicate intelligence community people enjoy power and influence, or am I jumping to conclusions ? 
[Free Beacon] The coronavirus crisis could sink many schools—and leave a windfall for the survivors
[Washington Examiner] Nearly 300 fewer people have died in Colorado directly from the coronavirus than was originally reported, according to revised data from the state.
[Guns America Digest] Lester Gillis was born in December of 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. His first arrest came on Independence Day at age 12. Young Lester discovered a handgun and inadvertently shot a pal in the jaw. He served a year in reform school before being released to steal his first car at age 13. This bought the lad another 18 months in the boys’ penal facility.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[FoxNews] Stay-at-home orders aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus are now facing legal challenges from residents and state officials alike, alleging that some measures – mostly put in place by Democrats -- go too far while the country gradually moves toward reopening.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Arabic for 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[The Spectator] The liars destroy with impunity because they know they always will get away with it. Republicans watch the character assassination and then go on Sean Hannity to sound brave for five minutes. "These people will pay a steep price, Sean." "I won’t let them get away with it, Sean." "Let not your heart be troubled, Sean." "We will investigate every crime and every perjury, Sean." Three years of hearing this from Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Trey Gowdy, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Jason Chaffetz, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Fox News Alert: They all got away with it. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blasey Ford. Schiff. Hillary. Strzok. Page. McCabe.
