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Currently taking classes from my local community college. Honestly, I would consider doing the same if the prices weren't already bargain bin low (for higher education anyway). Online learning is superior only to no learning.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] Old Grandpa Badfinger is the go-to source for many things: how to raise an awesome achiever kid like his snortunate son Hoover, how to not awkwardly molest women in Senate corridors, and how to not be manifestly senile. But, as my unicorn Chet recently observed, his greatest contribution may be as the mentor to black America. Recently, in an interview with someone called "Charlemagne tha God," the sinewy old weirdo opined that "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." The guy who is now assuming the mantle of arbiter of defining "What is black?" is the same guy who spends most mornings looking around his basement for his lost slipper.
Now, Democrats have a long history of telling black people how to think, but even for the Party of Bull Connor this was an Edmund Pettus Bridge too far. Mr. tha God himself was taken aback by the crusty candidate's bizarre riff, dismissing this ham-handed ploy to make the election about Trump instead of about how the Democrats have shafted the black community. Now, putting aside the notion of whether any election should be about any particular "community," even under that dubious premise Biden fails just like he has failed at everything else. What has the Democratic Party done for any minority community lately besides demand utter fealty and deliver nothing?
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the sinewy old weirdo opined that "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
I woke up to one of the weekday morning shows playing that clip... The thought that occurred to me was that he doesn’t sound senile there, so perhaps his handlers concluded it’s better for him to have a tin ear than be gaga.
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Gropey Joe Sings! (apologies to Al Yankovic and that dead old white lady pedophile):
Well they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true
But my friend you have seen nothin'
Just wait 'til I get through
Because I'm black, I'm black come on
You know I'm black, I'm black come on, you know
You know I'm black, I'm black come on, you know
And the whole world has to
Answer right now
Just to tell you once again
Who's black
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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Thank you sir. Over half the nation hated him, not unlike today. But on a day like today Clem, you sir are out of line.
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Opinion respected, 49 Pan. Abe could have cared less about black people for one, and his generals were war criminals.
But, yes, enough of that as today is the day (begun in honor of those fallen in the Civil War/War between the States/War of Northern Aggression) for remembrance. It is to the fallen that I shall tip a sarsaparilla later today.
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After Antietam in 1862, the morning of October 4, a Baltimore newspaper reported on President Lincoln's visit to wounded Confederate soldiers:
“Passing through one of the hospitals devoted exclusively to Confederate sick and wounded, President Lincoln’s attention was drawn to a young Georgian — a fine noble looking youth — stretched upon a humble cot. He was pale, emaciated and anxious, far from kindred and home, vibrating, as it were, between life and death. Every stranger that entered [was] caught in his restless eyes, in hope of their being some relative or friend. President Lincoln observed this youthful soldier, approached and spoke, asking him if he suffered much pain. ‘I do,’ was the reply. ‘I have lost a leg, and feel I am sinking from exhaustion.’
‘Would you,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ‘shake hands with me if I were to tell you who I am?’ The response was affirmative. ‘There should,’ remarked the young Georgian, ‘be no enemies in this place.’ Then said the distinguished visitor, ‘I am Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.’ The young sufferer raised his head, looking amazed, and freely extended his hand, which Mr. Lincoln took and pressed tenderly for some time.
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Sorry Clem. My father was a history teacher and his deep passion, specialty was the civil war. You would not believe the amazing discussions I was fortunate to listen in on.
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"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. It's more fragrant now than it was the last time I was there.
The streets on clear days had a liquid energy, But you had to avoid stepping in the solids.
and seemed to offer opportunities that he hadn’t had before. “It was a place where I could do what I wanted to do,” he told me recently. Depending on what you wanted to do, naturally.
He began to call the city home. "... be sure to wear some flowers in yer hair..."
Hickson was brilliant. Read on. Discover how brilliant.
He was brought up in a military family, on the gritty south side of Houston, with an I.Q. higher than both of his parents’. I wuz brought up in a gritty Pennsylvania quarry town. I wuz brilliant too, back when I wuz a teenager. At sixteen I wuz brighter than both my parents put together, with one hand tied behind my back. On skates.
He struggled to fit in, got in some fights. When he was a teen-ager, he saw “Into the Wild,” the rugged adventure movie starring Emile Hirsch. “As long as I can remember, I just wanted to travel, and I was told it wasn’t possible,” he said. He coulda joined the Navy, but he didn't like mops or paint brushes.
“I saw that movie and thought, There’s a way.” He left home at eighteen with his best friend, who had terminal cancer. Brilliant move. Hit the road with the clothes on yer back, a guy on his death bed, and yer thumb. They hit the road, staying no more than three days in any one place, because Hickson wanted him to see as much of America as possible. When his friend died, everything went dark for a while. Wonder what he did for pain meds there at the last? Wonder where Hickson hid the body?
Hickson kept travelling. Why wait around for the inquest?
He visited all forty-eight contiguous states, and, when he realized that he’d mostly seen just gas stations, Brilliant realization.
he visited all forty-eight again, camping in national parks. See? I'm still even more brilliant than him. Say I started this afternoon, and I made it from Fenwick Island to, say, Annapolis, I'd look out the window all the way. That way I'd have seen the lower edge of Sussex County and all of Maryland's eastern shore. I wouldn't have talked to anybody but the guy who picked me up, naturally, and I wouldn't know anything about either locale but what he told me, but that's okay. I've lived in both. The hard part would come when we got past Hagerstown. I might have to hole up at a gas station in Cumberland to absorb some local flavor. Two or three days should have me a pretty deep understanding, I think.
Hickson was enterprising. He made money by hunting exotic minerals and rocks. "What's that?"
"A rock. They call it schist."
"Brilliant. Go flush it. And wash your hands."
During the winters, if he wanted, he would get a job doing manual labor someplace warm. He would usually be hired as a stopgap worker, and, when employers saw his work, he was often asked to stay, and was sometimes put up in motels. "That boy's really brilliant!"
"He stocks a good shelf!" Hickson is slender, not tall, with a dusty-brown Taliban farmer’s beard and vacant distant blue eyes—a boy’s gaze added to the visage of an older man. In time, he got two words tattooed across his knuckles: “life” on the left hand and “love” on the right. I saw a guy once, it wuz in Virginia, it wuz. I wuz traveling, on the open road, y'see, kinda like Jack Kerouac, only more brilliant. I saw a guy with "L-O-V-E" tattooed on his left hand knucks, and "F-U-C-K" on the right hand. I dunno what he had on his toes. He had shoes on.
Hickson was interested in psychedelics. That's one way to keep yer mind in top working order.
One day when he was twenty-five, he was taking L.S.D. under a tree in Cave Junction, Oregon, when a young woman approached and introduced herself. She just sprang up right outta the ground, y'see. And she had four or five arms on each side, one for each head...
Her name was Elena Aytim, and she collected rocks, too. "Wanna see some schist, Elena?"
"Like, wow, man! Can we smoke it?" They spent the next several days together. "Can you get up?"
"No."
"Me neither."
"How long've we been layin' here?"
"Four days? Five?"
"Several."
“It got to be where we couldn’t get anything done, because we couldn’t stop looking at each other—everything disappeared,” Hickson said. “We would just lie in bed together and talk, and all of a sudden the sun would be going down.” "Sometimes we'd be layin' there and I'd just count the heads on her shoulders. I never got the same number twice."
They travelled on together, and Hickson started calling her his wife. As they grew close, he learned that, as a teen, in Ohio, Aytim had got hooked on opioids after a car accident, and had moved on to fentanyl before kicking the habit. She confessed that she had recently relapsed with heroin, and she worried that Hickson would turn her away. Hickson said he wouldn’t; he himself had started drinking heavily after his friend’s death. “I was, like, ‘Hit me,’ ” he recalled saying. “ ‘If I don’t understand, I’ll figure it out.’ ” Staying drunk always helps me think better too. Sharpens the mind. Why, I remember once... No, maybe I don't. He started using heroin with her. Brilliant move. And we care in the least about this pair precisely why?
“I had control of it until she lost control,” Hickson said. "That was why I stayed drunk."
“Then I’m, like, Fuck it, I’m getting high, because I can’t stand watching this.” "What's a better reason than that?"
The addiction quickly turned into a workaday grind. Every morning, he’d wake knowing that he’d have to earn enough money for a dose; otherwise, he would collapse into a days-long flulike illness. I remember what it was like. I'd wake in the morning, tired out still from the night before. I'd look in the mirror. I'd be haggard. Some mornings I was merle. I'd do what I hadda do—shower if I could smell myself, brush my remaining teeth, comb my remaining hair, get dressed, and earn enough money to cover groceries, gas, mortgage, electric, insurance, all those horrors imposed by society. That was when they decided to live for a while in San Francisco, which was known for its good public programs for getting people off drugs. "My old man said it wuz purdy cool when he was there. Of course, he'd ain't very bright."
"Not like us," she agreed.
They couldn’t find an apartment—the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom in the city is now, by one estimate, about thirty-five hundred dollars—but they were used to camping and decided to make do. It was only after settling in that Hickson realized he had fallen into a bigger rut. He was now one of thousands of homeless people in the city living on the streets. "Really. I never noticed until we got the tent. If I'd noticed, we'da gone to Santa Clara."
Homelessness afflicts nearly one in five hundred Americans. Many of them people like Hickson and his winsome bride.
As a crisis, it’s insidious, because its victims rarely plunge toward the abyss; they slide. Maybe you’ve been couch surfing in between jobs and you overstay your welcome. Maybe you’ve been in Airbnbs while apartment hunting and the search is harder than expected. Maybe, like Hickson, you lived on the momentum of a private dream until you had a reason to put down roots. Camping, couch surfing, “digital nomad”-ing—all these things are seen as normal middle-class activities, so the line between being without a home for now and being homeless is thin. It can happen to anybody, see? Not just schist salesmen. Like a hiker crossing from France into Italy, you often don’t know where you are until you look around, hear locals talking, and realize that you’ve entered another country. Like a stroller on a city street, I always notice when I enter a zoo.
D., a punctilious woman with straightened hair, who had been living in San Francisco family shelters with her son for about ten months, told me recently, “We’re not some of those forever-homeless people—it happened, and it’s never going to happen again.” (She asked to be identified by her first initial because a lot of people she knows read this magazine.) You see, there's only one woman named Darlene Flednarn living in San Francisco, and her friends would pick right up on it and she'd sure as schist lose her job as V.P. for Marketing at... Oh. Wait. Sorry, Darlene. D. had worked for years as a broadcast journalist, "And now here's Darlene with Sports!... Darlene?"
"Sorry I'm late! I was having my hair straightened!"
and was living in Las Vegas when her son’s father Which is not synonymous with "her husband."
got colon cancer and pegged out painfully died. Afterward, she went to San Francisco, where she’d gone to college. Finding a job, as a classroom aide for special-needs students, was easy. Most people in San Francisco seem to have special needs...
But she struggled to find an affordable apartment. No! Really? In San Francisco? Why didn't she get on a bus and go someplace cheaper, like... ummm... Las Vegas?
When I met D., her days began at 6 a.m., on a mat on a shelter floor. She dropped her son off at fifth grade, then went to her classroom to teach. There are are several more feet of similar "journalism," or maybe it's prose. Read it and weep. A Fred classic, kids
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A 2020 remake of that '80s punk film whose main characters you were keen, from the very first scene, to see overdose and rid the screen of their presence, Sid and Nancy
[New Reform Club] Will anyone in the media inquire from: Judge Sullivan, John Gleeson, Beth Wilkinson, and the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and ask:
If Gleeson's work and Wilkinson's work is pro bono or paid?
If paid, then paid by whom?‐Sullivan or the Treasury (or other)?
If the Treasury, then through what fund or under what specific legal authority?
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If Wilkinson has been hired, who exactly is her client? The judge personally? The judge officially? The entire District Court?
No lawyer of Wilkinson's competence would undertake the representation without an engagement letter stating the scope of her engagement and the fee basis for her services. Is that letter a matter of public record? If not why not?
The Constitution contemplates that cases before a federal court will be decided by an "Article III" judge, although some matters -- like discovery disputes --- can be referred to "Article I" judges like magistrate judges, and judges can appoint special masters to assist on specific matters (e.g., complex accounting issues.) Which one of these critters is Ms. Wilkinson? If the judge can hire Ms. Wilkinson to write a response for him, can he also hire her to decide the whole case?
Judges of all shapes and sizes are supposed to refrain from ex parte communications, i.e., listening to one guy's attorney without the other guy's attorney present. Does Flynn's attorney -- the formidable Sydney Powell-- get to participate in discussions between Ms. Wilkinson and Judge Sullivan? If not, why not?
Is Ms. Wilkinson sort of a law clerk for the judge? What can she do that the judge or his actual law clerks can't?
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Seems to me that Sullivan (and the usual donk suspects/MFM behind him) just wants to keep torturing Flynn until the sun goes out. Right now the question is will the DC circuit end the madness or allow Sullivan more delays?
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#5 LOL. True, but my mom didn't charge $1500/hr, or whatever Ms.Wilkinson's rate is. (Or maybe she's got it on a contingency -- $100,000 for every year Flynn serves, or something like that.)
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Safety valve. She will tell him it's over and time to let go. "On advice of counsel..."
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[News13] UPDATE: One person has died from their injuries following the shooting, Myrtle Beach police spokesperson Cpl. Vest said.
He added that one person is in custody in connection with the shooting.
Anyone with information, photos, or videos related to this case is asked to contact Myrtle Beach police at (843) 918-1382. You may also email pdsocial@cityofmyrtlebeach.com.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bell, who lives at Landmark Resort, says he heard the shooting happen.
"I was actually inside when it happened and I heard the pop," he said. "There was one gunfire. Ran outside real quick. And people were running everywhere. And the cops started coming." "There was one gunfire" Whut?
He said it was a disconcerting experience. Bell added that police response seemed strong.
"There was probably about 100 police officers and military personnel out here running around trying to find whoever did this," he said. "They had dogs. I mean the response was great. But in the end somebody still got murdered."
[National Review] Rather than focus on COVID-19 or the economic recovery, California liberals insist on pushing their pet issues. The "stimulus" bill rammed through the House this month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco was a liberal wish list of subsidies and spending. Now other California Democrats are ramming through an effort to repeal the state’s ban on racial preferences.
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Final nail in the coffin for the U. of California. These sj!theads were bequeathed the world's greatest public higher ed system and they've trashed it. Mexifornia is here.
Bingo. Hispanics now make up ca. 54% of CA public K-12 schoolchildren. That share is increasing one percentage point every year. Per the CA Dept of Education, which collects exhaustive data from tests at nearly every grade level from every public school in the state, Hispanic kids typically have a failure rate of 70-80% on Verbal tests and 80-90% on Math tests.
Which means that within a decade, a majority of CA school kids - not kids in East LA or Compton but overall across the entire state, i.e. close to 3 million kids out of 5 million - will be illiterate and incapable of doing not just algebra but simple math.
IOW, California has literally created a medium-sized third-world country underneath a tiny stratum of virtue-signaling wealthy tech and entertainment company professionals.
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We have a lot of Hispanics in the state legislature, both the assembly and the senate, and you can bet they'll vote for this. But when Hispanic kids are burdened with massive amounts of student loan debt and worthless degrees they will still blame white people.
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[National Review] China is currently transgressing the terms of its 1997 treaty over Hong Kong, which promised a "one country, two systems" settlement that preserved Hong Kong’s somewhat autonomous democratic institutions. These institutions guarantee rights to Hong Kongers and guard its common-law inheritance.
China’s legislature in Beijing is preparing a new national-security law aimed at Hong Kong to prohibit and punish terrorism, foreign influence, and secession. By that, they mean demonstration, free speech, and a functioning democratic system with rights guaranteed to citizens. Meanwhile, Beijing’s loyalists installed in Hong Kong’s legislative council have been making open attempts at a putsch against the pro-democracy majority.
China’s move against Hong Kong is likely dictated by propitious circumstances. Democracy protesters in Hong Kong may be fatigued. And while the rest of the world deals with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is little appetite to expend the diplomatic energy or engage in the trade actions that could protect Hong Kong.
At the time of the treaty, little Hong Kong accounted for nearly 20 percent of China’s overall economy, and it was a crucial engine of China’s economic growth. Companies that wanted to do business in a liberalizing China headquartered in Hong Kong. Financial markets still prefer it. Why? Because it has inherited a property-rights regime and a judicial system from the Anglo tradition. One could make a case in a Hong Kong court and expect a fair hearing, rather than a political judgment dictated by a party boss.
Abrogating the two-systems settlement is an injustice, and a foreseeable one. Hong Kong now represents less than 3 percent of China’s economy. And so Beijing senses it can strike a new bargain, renege on its treaty obligation, and put to death any notion that Hong Kong’s style of government will ever win out by persuasion.
Past attempts at "security legislation" or other measures aimed at Hong Kong’s independence were met with furious protests. Hong Kong’s democracy movement has taken to the streets in 2003, in the 2014 Umbrella movement, and in the massive civil unrest of 2019. The advanced guard of Hong Kong activists are hardened, committed, and, in many cases, radicalized. But they may face a problem of protest fatigue and resignation among supporters.
[DW] Authorities say a third of 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.... fighters who left Germany for Syria have since returned. Germany is taking a "holistic approach" in dealing with ex-jihadi fighters, including deradicalization and reintegration..
Germany's Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 100 members of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) terrorist group have returned to the country following the jihadi networks failed incursions in Iraq and Syria.
"Security authorities obtained knowledge that they actively engaged in combat in Syria and Iraq or have completed apprenticeships to this end," the ministry told the DPA news agency. "These people remain under police and judicial investigation."
The ministry added that the number of open investigations is in the "two-figure range."
Authorities believe that 1,060 IS fighters left Germany for Syria or Iraq, of which a third have since returned, the Interior Ministry said.
German authorities are taking a "holistic approach" to the handling of the returnees, which besides criminal prosecution includes deradicalization and reintegration, according to the ministry.
OTHERS IN JUG ABROAD
Several suspected German IS members are believed to be in jug in Iraq, Syria or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... Ottoman Turkish authorities have called on Germany and other European countries to take back IS suspects, with Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Soleyman Solyu saying in November that Turkey is not "a hotel for IS members."
On Thursday, German authorities arrested two women, one of which was a suspected IS member, upon their arrival at Frankfurt Airport from Ankara after they were deported by Turkey.
According to the Genocide Network, a genocide investigation body backed by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , many returning suspected IS fighters only face domestic terrorism charges in their home countries, which come with a statute of limitations that sets a time limit to prosecution.
The body has called for European authorities to add war crimes and genocide charges, the most serious crimes under international law which could lead to longer sentences.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
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Subscription to the Turks run out, and The Merkel Express was a signing bonus?
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The mayor probably should have just kept his biblical trap shut and keep his beliefs to himself. But if they are opening city council meetings with a prayer, then I suppose he's got the appropriate audience.
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Keeping in context, by Paul.
20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 21 In the Law it is written:
“With other tongues
and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
but even then they will not listen to me,
says the Lord.”[e]
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? 24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, 25 as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”
Good Order in Worship
26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
34 Women[f] should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[g]
36 Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? 37 If anyone thinks they are a prophet or otherwise gifted by the Spirit, let them acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command. 38 But if anyone ignores this, they will themselves be ignored.[h]
39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 40 But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.
[EuroWeekly] - CHINESE doctors are reporting seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.
Patients found in the northern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang appear to carry the virus for a longer period of time and DO NOT show a fever or high temperature, making it much more difficult to detect.
"The longer period during which infected patients show no symptoms have created clusters of family infections," said Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors.
It found that 5.3% said that they “agree a little,” 6.8% said that they “agree moderately,” 4.6% said that they “agree a lot,” and 2.4% said that they “agree completely” with the statement "Jews have created the virus to collapse the economy for financial gain."
Some 80.8% did not agree with it at all.
Similar figures were recorded for conspiracy theories involving other groups: while 80.1% of respondents did not agree with the statement "Muslims are spreading the virus as an attack on Western values," 19.9% did to some extent, including 2.4% who agreed completely.
Nearly half of respondents (45.4%) believed to some extent that "coronavirus is a bio-weapon developed by China to destroy the West."
A lot of Brits getting their information from sources other than the mainstream media.
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Well, wise ass, I DID read the article. I guess I did miss that part. Like we read on article on a possible vaccine that might me ready the next day. Get lost, man.
[PJ] A field hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., built to deal with the coronavirus has been closed without treating a single patient. The $21 million facility was part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s response to the growing number of coronavirus patients at New York City hospitals. That response included smaller facilities at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center and Stony Point (Long Island), and a huge, 1,100-bed medical center at the Javits Center.
All told, the state spent upwards of $350 million on facilities that were built but never used.
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Meanwhile he sent people known to be infected with the virus to nursing homes.
I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.
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That's the problem with people like this, CF. They never intend the damage they cause. They simply don't have brains that can conceive of Universe not fallowing their intentions.
If only "people like this" were exclusive attribute of the left.
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Ref #3: I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.
Nor can I. Frail old people and the young who are susceptible to childhood diseases, huddled closely together in medically ill-equipped camps (nursing homes) do not weather illness and disease very well. 'Settled Science' I would have thought, unless political motives are in play.
"The most effective method of limiting the endurance of the guerrillas... "
~ Lord Kitchener (1899-1902)
[American Thinker] Right now, regulations call for companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to let the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) oversee the auditing of their financial records if they want to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the American public. This is a sound regulation rooted in investor-protection. All U.S. companies work with the PCAOB, but the Chinese ones don't.
The PCAOB and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have for years tried to get China to comply with the regulation but with no success. Regulators have the power to kick the Chinese companies off the exchange but have been reluctant to use the "nuclear option" of delisting.
This impasse is about to be broken. This past Wednesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill forcing Chinese companies to comply with the auditing regulation or be de-listed. The bill is called the Holding Foreign Companies Accountability Act.
After passage by the Senate, the bill goes to the Democratic-run House. There, Market Watch reports that momentum is building a favorable vote. All that would be left, then, is for President Trump to sign the bill into law.
Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holdings and Baidu have raised billions of dollars from U.S. investors. And since 1996, Chinese companies have raised $66 billion through initial public offerings. There is no earthly reason why American capital should be financing Chinese companies, especially when Chinese firms grant themselves a degree of opaqueness that hurts investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Luckin coffee Inc. is the latest example of a hot Chinese stock that gained a following with American investors before fraud was discovered. Nasdaq has moved to delist Luckin. which went public in 2019 and later said its employees fabricated as much as $310 million in sales."
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Really, you mean they're going to delist Disney? When your investments are so dependent upon the Chinese market you do as you are told, aren't you a Chinese franchise?
And it is suddenly an issue now? Retarded. If US companies can't meet listing requirements, then their stocks are off to the OTC.BB or Pink Sheets. Why wasn't this done with Chinese equities? (rhetorical question)
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Gromgoru, the bill passed the Senate wirhput objection (not a sharply partisan vote that makes me think it will be stopped in its tracks). And to all of you seemingly complacent about the Chinese ysing our markets, what gives? So what if they should have done this before. Better late than never!
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Or maybe it was wrong before too? And there is now a political opportunity to do something about it?
This. Nobody before cared, but this has long been one of Donald Trump’s concerns. And he generally seems to have a list of escalations to achieve his purpose, whatever it might be and to proceed in a stepwise progression. In this case, the purpose has long been, get China to behave like a peaceful trading partner instead of a slowly conquering colossus, but if they are not willing, then to disconnect them from our economy.
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Nice idea, but the US (and the Walmarts, the Targets, etc., etc.) is in too deep with China. We did it to ourselveds and let it happen for the all-mighty dollar. To just flip a switch and disconnect China from the US economy sounds nice--and I'm not saying there should be no ramifications for China with their shady financial reporting (delist their stocks)--but if it was wrong before and nothing was done, is COVID-19 the excuse to proceed?
The Donald certainly isn't so nice to Xi anymore. And the Donald doesn't do anything sans a reason. Methinks the situation 'back stage' is more serious.
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If Chinese behavior, the Chinese Virus and military belligerence are certainly reason enough. The nay-sayers in the CoC, Academia, Rino and Democrat Whores are playing the wrong hand in most American's eyes. Take advantage and push em off. "Made in China" needs to be an economic slur
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Can't the Chinese just get over their 100 years of humiliation and be done with it?!?
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TW, that is one of the best things I've seen of DJT. Even though I voted for him (against Hillary???) I expected more of a NY Rino type.
Clem, The Donald has shown quite some mastery of taking the opportunities that present themselves.
All of the big changes take time and planning to try and disarm the constant opposition. As much as I might like to dream about a more dictatorial Trump I really don't want one.
His take on COVID, reverting to Federalism, pushing back on the Dem governors the responsibility they don't want to take.
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AlanC, agreed. His pushing this (rightly) on the governors (with focus on the Dem guv-nah's) was perfect. IIRC, didn't Grandma Killer Cuomo say early on something like he wasn't going to let DC/Trump push him around? We'll, sometimes you get what you ask for, Killer.
Trump is playing them like a fiddle. Some things may take longer to pan out, but watching the Dems (especially the f'tard ones, but pretty much all of them) squirm is a joyous sight.
[Breitbart] Seventeen people were shot in 12 hours—from Saturday into Sunday—in Democrat-controlled St. Louis, Missouri.
KSDK reported that the shootings started Saturday just before 5 p.m. and the last occurred Sunday morning around 3 a.m.. Two persons under the age of 18 were among the wounded.
Two of Saturday’s shooting proved fatal.
Breitbart News reported that four were shot and killed and at least 11 injured during the first 36 hours of Memorial Day weekend in gun controlled-Chicago.
NBC Chicago reported the first shooting of the holiday weekend in Chicago was recorded around 2 p.m. Friday and the last one in the 36-hour timeframe took place about 7 p.m. Saturday.
The fatalities in Chicago occurred between 8 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday.
Chicago has been under Democrat control for decades and on March 9, 2016, Investor’s Business Daily reported that under Democrat control, St. Louis went from the "Gateway to the West" to the "gateway to crime."
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Re comment #1. Need picture of Koreans on rooftop in LA during Rodney King riots.
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We used to live in St. Louis, but it has been on a steady downward spiral since the World's Fair and the Olympics in 1904. It's very sad to see what is a beautiful and great city just decay into nothing.
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I realize East St. Louis is in Illinois, but that probably didn't help.
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Had a great time in an after hours bar near the arch. Condemned building 3am, 2 tables, 6 stools, one-eyed bartender, albino-black on the harmonica and foot-drum, street junkie singing blues till the sun came up. Walked out, my rental had been stolen.
Good trip.
[Jpost] Russia is in a tight spot. Gone from its state media TASS are stories of its great military and diplomatic victories, replaced with the difficulties of the COVID-19 crisis.
Russia had a run of success in the Middle East between 2015 and 2020. It had intervened in Syria, browbeaten the Americans and was selling its air-defense systems all over the world, including to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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"and the Prophet said 'and they shall enjoy their eggs'" But he didn't say which end they should open them from, thus igniting the war between the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians.___ paraphrased from Jonathon Swift
[ALMASDARNEWS] Rumors circulated on social media has this past weekend, claiming that Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... had passed away.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the official National News Agency (NNA) of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... denied the authenticity of these reports, pointing out that there is no truth to these rumors.
The agency said that some groups on WhatsApp reported the rumor of the death of Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
The agency denied that it had published anything of the kind, noting that it had nothing to do with any of these rumors.
They would add that the purpose of these rumors is to create confusion in the country.
Similar rumors were spread on social media this past week, with some even claiming that the famous singer, Fairuz, had passed away.
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[Sudan Tribune] The SPLM-IO Saturday condemned the brutal attack by the Æthiopian police on South Sudanese students in Addis Ababa and called to summon the foreign minister to elucidate the incident.
On Thursday Æthiopian police charged a group of South Sudanese students who peacefully protested outside the embassy of their country demanding to give them the 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... incentives approved in April.
Seven students were left with hand and leg injuries and bruises on his face after the police attack to disperse them, after a call by the embassy demanding to break out the student protest.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the office of Manawa Peter Gatkuoth SPLM-IO Deputy Chairperson of the National Committee for Information and Public Relations denounced the unjustified "cruelty" against peaceful protesters by the Æthiopian security forces.
The SPLM-IO "calls to summon the foreign minister by the sovereign sector to clarify the circumstances of the attack by the Æthiopian police on the South Sudanese students studying in the Æthiopian universities," further said the statement.
The statement stressed that the South Sudanese embassies abroad should respect its citizens and so that they are respected by the authorities in the host country.
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#WarCrime Stooge enemy shelled homes with heavy artillery in Selab area of Alishing district #Laghman last night from which multiple homes were damaged, 2 infants martyred & 13 civilians incl. women/children wounded. Locals took to the streets in protest against enemy criminality https://t.co/B8uFp9nY4W
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) May 24, 2020
[BIZPACREVIEW] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs — has settled a lawsuit directing officials to clean up voter registration rolls.
County officials settled the suit on Monday with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which focuses on election integrity, after the Allegheny election manager and three board of elections members were sued over registration rolls containing duplicate entries and the names of persons who had died, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Representatives of the elections watchdog said researchers discovered almost 1,600 dead registrants, nearly 7,500 with erroneous data, and more than 1,500 who were older than 100 years — including 49 who were born in the 1800s.
The lawsuit accused county officials of failing to maintain up-to-date registration rolls as is required by federal law.
In the settlement, the county agreed to turn over records related to dead registrants as well as issue letters to people with incorrect birthdates on file, examine records of people aged 110 or older to see if death notices have been missed, and to accept "list maintenance leads" from the group over the course of the next year.
The suit forcing Allegheny County to fix its voter registration lists comes just six months before the presidential election where Pennsylvania figures to be a battleground state. In 2016, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... only won the state with fewer than 45,000 votes.
The president and general counsel of the election integrity organization, J. Christian Adams, said the county should get credit for agreeing to fix the "serious problem with elections there."
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Possibly the larger threat, Communist Dem governors and mayors are running the CV-19 clock out to the November elections to institute Mail Fraud Voting. A bold attempt at perpetual one-party rule !
[FREEBEACON] A few hours after this column appears on the internet, more than 30 liberal activists will meet online to plan your future. The gathering is called the "Friday Morning Group." It comprises, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , "influential figures at labor unions, think tanks, and other progressive institutions." These influential figures, the Times goes on, believe that when Democrats last had full control of the federal government, between 2009 and 2010, they did not "take the initiative in specifying plans for achieving large-scale change." They hope to correct this mistake. What happens on November 3 might give them the chance.
The wife of detained #Qatari Sheikh Talal Al-Thani has asked her husband be released as fears of #coronavirus spreading through the prison intensify. https://t.co/roQLRypdld
[DW] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's economy was in trouble before the 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... outbreak and its economic fallout hit the country. The Ottoman Turkish lira has tumbled against the dollar and central bank interventions aren't helping much.
Two-minute video at the link, but the highlights are: Turkey’s external debt expected to be US$170 billion by year end; Turkish lira down 15% against the dollar so far; and, a tourism season that had just begun in March when everything was closed, such that revenues are only 10% of expected. Not a good situation in which to sequester the most productive citizens in prison on various trumped up charges while waging an increasing number of expensive wars abroad. Confiscated Gulenist bank accounts and Libyan gold don’t stretch nearly as far as they used to, donchaknow.
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I got a one lb roll of Turkish figs for $1.98 a few weeks ago.
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...a tourism season that had just begun in March when everything was closed, such that revenues are only 10% of expected.
The beaches in Libya and the ski resorts in Syria were all closed to Turkish 'tourists' ?
Iraqi security forces storm Baghdadiya TV station, detain employees & will not release them unless they promise not to work there. Not the first time it's happened. They were accused of supporting terrorists three or four years ago -- the're pro-Sunni. In 2010 they announced they were pulling out of Iraq permanently. https://t.co/tPwjV0FBuj
[ALMASDARNEWS] A satellite image shared on the social media platform, Twitter, this past weekend showed the location of the Ottoman Turkish military’s air defense system inside Syria.
Based on the satellite image, the Ottoman Turkish military’s air defense system has been deployed to the town of al-Mastoumah, which is located just south of Idlib city.
Al-Mastoumah is not only located near the administrative capital of the Idlib Governorate, but its also strategically located along the Idlib-Latakia Highway (M-4 Highway).
The location is also located near the city of Ariha, which is expected to be a target for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), should they resume their offensive in the Idlib Governorate.
With its location so close to the Syrian Army’s front-lines, it is highly likely that the latter’s air force will be unable to launch any strikes deep into the Idlib region.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] It should be noted that John Ratcliffe is scheduled to be sworn in as Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday. But I suspect he will continue on the same path.
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Actually, Grenell was sent to let the lightning out of the bottle so Ratliffe would not be under pressure coming in.
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Imagine if Grenell had been in the slot Bremer filled in Iraq.
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I have read many of the formerly 'classified documents' which have reached the internets. Having been trained (albeit decades ago) on Foreign Disclosure, I have seen absolutely nothing that would point to a breach of national security.
I can only conclude that the documents were erroneously classified. The justification or reason for the classifications should now be quite obvious.
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Over-classification has always been a bit of a problem, but probably 99% of the time not done on purpose. But E.O. 13526 is quite clear on deliberate over-classification. Oh, and EO is signed by someone named Obama.
God forbid the nation see trash drifted in Baltimore corners behind him, and the rats scurrying about.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] GOP MD Gov Larry Hogan to Snub President’s Visit to Fort McHenry
The president can honour the service of American troops living and dead without your NeverTrumping aid, sir.
Dear Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, please stay home! The City of Baltimore is currently under a Stay at Home order for the safety of our residents, who have been hit hard by #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/7FwrHIHyeX
— Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young (@mayorbcyoung) May 21, 2020
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I can kinda sorta sympathize with the Mayor. Be as embarrassing as heck for the Prez to get bitten by a rat or catch a stray round while visiting a historic but somewhat worse for wear American city.
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Did the POTUS have to go thru the 'City", using up all their 'valuable resources' and endangering their citizens, or did he just fly Marine 1 to the site?
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I suspect he's worried about Secret Service agents who will not operate under the same rules as his police. You know, feral yoots who think they can attack people and not get ventilated with prejudice.
[ToloNews] President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in a meeting on Sunday announced that the government will release up to 2,000 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners as a goodwill gesture in response to the Taliban's calling for a three-day ceasefire, and the president also pledged to take further steps in the grinding of the peace processor.
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#Greece dismisses reports that #Turkish soldiers have occupied a strip of Greek territory in the Evros border region, where Athens is expanding a fence to keep migrants out.https://t.co/ccIYsEYxx2
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
[Jpost] The reported departure of the Russians is another blow to 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 Libya National Army (LNA).
Russian fighters in Libya were flow out a town south of Tripoli
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Absolute best kind of war. We get to observe Russians, Turks and Syrian terrorists operating without getting our hair mussed. Outstanding.
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/\ A 'stay at home - non-meddling' US foreign policy. Who could we possibly have to thank for that ?
The Deep State shadow government and their MIC underlords are not amused.
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The GNA provides a home for a plethora of Islamist movements. It is supported by the consistently feckless EU. With any luck, Tripoli could easily become the next Tora Bora.
[The Bulletin dot org] In August 2008, after skirmishes between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in Georgia, Russian forces invaded the former Soviet republic. Russian troops came within a few miles of its capital, Tbilisi, before agreeing to a ceasefire. On the surface, Russia appeared to get what it wanted during the five-day war: de facto independence for two restive regions of a country that overall had been clearly turning toward the West. But the swift victory masked the degree to which the war served as a wake-up call: the Russian military had gone to war in the 21st Century using World War II-era compasses for navigation and outmoded equipment for weapons targeting.
The Georgian conflict proved a far cry from the US military’s GPS-powered assault on Iraqi forces in a 100-hour ground offensive in 1991. For Russia, the conflict signaled the need for a major military upgrade–particularly in the satellite systems critical for navigation, targeting, and communications.
Twelve years and billions of rubles later, Russia is now challenging the United States’ long-standing supremacy in space and working to exploit the US military’s dependence on space systems for communications, navigation, intelligence, and targeting. Moscow is developing counter-space weapons as a part of its overall information warfare strategy. For example, Russia just tested an anti-satellite missile system designed to destroy satellites in low earth orbit. Moreover, military leaders in Russia view US satellites as the key enablers of America’s ability to execute rapid, agile, and global military operations; they are intent on echoing this success and modernizing their own military satellites to more effectively support Russian forces.
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Yes, there are plenty of retired DoS functionaries still telling their grand children (in their 30s now) about crying when Reagan walked away at Reykjavik.
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[FOX] As Americans reeling from coronavirus stay-at-home orders struggle to celebrate the nation's heroes on Memorial Day, The New York Times published an editorial over the weekend that claims the U.S. military celebrates white supremacy.
On Sunday, The New York Times Editorial Board published the piece titled "Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?" The editorial made the argument that it’s time to rename military bases after "American heroes, not racist traitors."
Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman tweeted Sunday night in response: "On a solemn day for remembering those that have given their lives for our country fighting against tyranny and subjugation, the NYT has more than a million possible stories of the ultimate sacrifice by American patriots that they could tell. But they don’t."
The New York Times editorial board wrote that "the federal government embraced pillars of the white supremacist movement when it named military bases in the South."
The editorial listed Fort Benning, Ga., as an example, noting that the military base honored Henry Lewis Benning, a Confederate general "who devoted himself to the premise that African-Americans were not really human and could never be trusted with full citizenship."
The editorial pointed to Benning’s "now-famous speech in 1861" during which "he told secession conventioneers in Virginia that his native state of Georgia had left the union for one reason — to ’prevent the abolition of her slavery.’"
The editorial board noted that Benning’s statements "strongly resemble that of present-day white supremacists — and reference the race war theme put forward by the young racist who murdered nine African-Americans in Charleston five years ago."
In 2017, Dylann Roof was formally sentenced to death for the church massacre in Charleston, S.C., two years before.
The editorial also pointed to another Georgia base named after a Confederate general, John Brown Gordon, writing that by naming the base after him, "the federal government venerated a man who was a leader of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War and who may have taken on a broader role in the terrorist organization when its first national leader — a former Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest — suffered declining health."
The New York Times editorial board referenced comments made by an Army spokesman who told TIME in 2015 there was no need to remove Confederate base names because the "historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies."
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While I'm sure their mothers love them, or did at one time, these people are scum. Any other day of the year, this would be business as usual, but on Memorial Day, it's unbelievable. Congratulations on starkly highlighting the divide between the Red and Blue parts of the country.
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There is a certain perspective in military history that Braxton Bragg did more for the Union in his incompetence than could have been achieved had he not been in command.
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The New York Times editorial board, established in 1896 by Adolph Ochs when he became the newspaper’s publisher, is currently composed of 14 writers and editors drawn from the Times Opinion department, which also includes opinion columnists, Op-Ed editors and others.
The Opinion department is independent of the Times newsroom...
"The purpose of Times Opinion is to supply the wide-ranging debate about big ideas that a diverse democracy needs. Amid that debate, the role of the editorial board is to provide Times readers with a long-range view formed not by one person’s expertise and experience but ballasted by certain institutional values that have evolved across more than 150 years. That’s why the editorials, unlike other articles in The Times, appear without a byline.
[If you don't hate America, you don't belong.]
Among the 14 bios listed above, I don't see any flaming SJWs or BLM activists (Sarah Jeong apparently was kicked out). These are for the most part rather boring, largely garden-variety Times staffers. It looks like a stint on the Editirial Board is a kind of sabbatical.
Why on earth are they insulting our nation this way?
Who is behind this?
I abhor racism and those that continue to push any notion of the supremacy of one race of human beings over another, but your article, which I assume is generally historically accurate, fails our nation and its citizens in many ways.
First, Memorial Day is about honoring all those in service who made the ultimate sacrifice -whether or not you might agree with the war(s) in which they fought. Publishing such an article on this day is disrespectful and misses an opportunity to honor our fallen, tell as yet unrevealed stories of sacrifice and valor, and, perhaps, offer some form of solace to our Gold Star families.
Second, It is no secret that the US military is highly diverse with opportunities for all who serve, to include those who are not white, many of whom have achieved the highest positions of rank and responsibility possible. General Colin Powell comes to mind, as does my West Point classmate, General Lloyd Austin. I saw no reference to these two stellar American Patriots, or others like them, nor any mention of interviews for thoughts from those serving or who have served.
Third, while our military services are imperfect, the brotherhood and sisterhood of service is a bond that transcends past wrongs, has nothing to do with the name of a base, and certainly doesn’t translate to the celebration of white supremacism. How many of your editorial board served?
Fourth, the institution of the US military understands selfless and honorable service, and takes action to discipline and/or remove those who fall short.
Fifth, names of military bases, chosen long ago, can certainly be changed if our elected leaders so choose, but to claim the US military celebrates white supremacism is simply nonfactual.
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The entire point is to evoke revulsion and disgust. On the one hand as with anything else there is revulsion fatigue, and this type of gibberish helps produce it. Further, by presenting a constant stream of genuinely revolting crap like this they begin to stretch the public perception of revulsion altogether.
Thus, in their next foray into the pulpit most normative people will think, 'Certainly this is morally repugnant, but at least it's not as bad as that aberration they published over Memorial Day.', and the window moves their direction just a bit.
Propaganda isn't there to convince anybody. Certainly anybody who waits 8 hours on line to walk into an empty store knows more about 5 year plans and their architects than any economist.
The point is the control through humiliation. The powers that be will force the people to say and cheer what they manifestly know to be utterly false. Then the trick is to move from ancillary, spaces to areas where personal choice makes judgement more ambiguous, and finally into venues that matter food, energy, financial system.
Not that we ourselves have any, oh, examples of that kind of behavior. Locally I mean.
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Watching "Viet Nam in HD" on History Ch. Tet Offensive - noted that 90% of News coverage on Network News was on VN, and actively showing bad news as the
"Troof"
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Biden says if you served,you can't possibly be black.
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Ochs-Sulzberger family
The Ochs-Sulzberger family, one of the United States' newspaper dynasties, has owned The New York Times ever since. The publisher went public on January 14, 1969, trading at $42 a share on the American Stock Exchange.
[TheHill] The Navy's oldest operational warship has broken its record for the most days at sea, the military branch said Thursday.
The USS Blue Ridge has been at sea for 69 days as of Thursday, the Navy said in a statement, breaking its previous record, set 48 years ago, of 64 days at sea during the Vietnam War.
The ship has been at sea so long to avoid anyone on board contracting the coronavirus.
"These times are uniquely challenging for the entire world, but it takes an extremely dedicated crew to maintain this old of a ship at sea for this long," Capt. Craig Sicola, commander of the Blue Ridge, said in the statement.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Navy aircraft carrier that had been docked in Guam since March 27 due to a coronavirus outbreak, is back at sea, the Navy said late Wednesday.
The ship left Naval Base Guam and entered the Philippine Sea "to conduct carrier qualification flights," basic drills that will allow the crew to ramp up use of the carrier after 55 days away from sea.
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Have they been able to keep the Zumwalt at sea for that many hours at a time?
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That's not the longest deployment by a Navy ship. I personally made two deployments for 89 days submerged. Back to back. Back in the 70's and 80's New London based subs were deploying to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for 9 months at a time.
So, 64 days is a normal SSBN patrol, meh!
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USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides launched in 1797.
As a fully commissioned Navy ship, her crew of 60 officers and sailors participate in ceremonies, educational programs, and special events while keeping her open to visitors year round and providing free tours. The officers and crew are all active-duty Navy personnel,
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Speaking of the USS Constitution, my Grandfather,, CPO Navy Veteran 1908-1921, was recruit trained on the Constitution when they were using it for that, and then was radio trained on the then in service USS Constellation, he told me because it was anchored and got better reception. His first flight on an airplane was in the middle 70's when the family sent him to visit his daughter in San Diego. I was sent by the family since we were concerned about his health (84), and I had been stationed at Camp Pendleton after MCRD in SD. During the flight I asked him how he felt seeing San Diego for the first time, he laughed and said he knew it well, he had been stationed there in 1911!
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Any thing over 125 ft. Is a ship.. I spent more than 64 days on patrol in an SSBN in late 60s
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The Navy is the hardest service. Any Carrier task force people out there with a story about how long they were out of their home port and away from loved ones. My bro was out 300+ days. God Bless the Service Men and Women!
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Jonah (who is a conservative leader, don't you know) misses the good old days of ineffectual Republican pussies.
Don't worry, Jonah.
There are still plenty of those.
Wow. On Fox News Sunday, Jonah Goldberg bashes Kayleigh McEnany's work as press secretary as "indefensible and grotesque," like a "Twitter troll" in cable-news combat. pic.twitter.com/p4O0H4Ljit
[JPost] "Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference." "Til we dicked with it, then went out for lunch"?
The Wuhan Institute for Virology has admitted to having three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, though the lab insists that none are the source of the current coronavirus pandemic, AFP reported.
The lab's director, Wang Yanyi, said in an interview aired Saturday that the lab has "isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats" since 2004, AFP reported.
"Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference."
While it is commonly accepted among scientists that the coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan wet markets, where a wide range of live animals are sold and kept in close proximity, the Wuhan lab has been speculated by some to be a potential source.
Analysis of the first 41 COVID-19 patients in medical journal the Lancet found that 27 of them had direct exposure to the Wuhan wet market. But the same analysis found that the first known case of the illness did not.
These theories became more widespread in recent months, with many high ranking lawmakers and officials among the Republican Party in the US – including US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – accusing the lab of poor safety conditions that could have accidentally sparked the outbreak.
Though biologists have confirmed that the virus was not man-made, theories have been floated that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, which had been studying bat-related coronaviruses. Uh huh
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Next time they will get the word out quickly so the lockdowns can start sooner...
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Probing attack yielded delightful results, better than expected: American leaders responded by crippling the US economy, destroying $10 trillion of GDP, are on track to kill as many or more Americans as the virus will, and by (almost) destroying OrangeMan's re-election.
= Success beyond the CCP's wildest dreams.
Rinse and repeat.
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Only correct answer: Go for it. We will pay $250,000.00 for each dead American, extracted from Chinese holdings of US Treasury bonds. And we won't shut down our economy next time, but we will shut down yours.
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[spiked] Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.
Countries across the world have been in lockdown for months in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The costs of the policy are enormous — in terms of life, liberty and the economy. But is it worth it to save lives? Yoram Lass was once the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Health. Lass is a staunch critic of the lockdown policy adopted in his native Israel and around the world. He has described our response to Covid-19 as a form of hysteria. spiked caught up with him to find out more.
spiked: You have described the global response to coronavirus as hysteria. Can you explain that? Continued on Page 49
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Imagine how drastically a PhD in epidemiology will over analyze the final seconds before being strung up on a lamp post next to his political bosses.
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..well in ancient times false prophets were stoned to death. Had an inherit QA effect.
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"In the Middle East, this virus is not really working."
Hmm. He might want to look at the numbers (per capita) in Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, not to mention Iran.
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#6 He was always a sleaze-ball politician and an absolute idiot as an academic administrator. Now he's seeing a chance for comeback by pandering to anti-locker crowd (effectively nonexistent in Israel)- fat chance, nobody in Israeli politics, or TAU for that matter, can stand him.
[The Telegraph] Lockdown caused more deaths than it saved, a Nobel laureate scientist said on Saturday, as he predicted the UK would emerge from Covid-19 within weeks.
Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial trajectory of the pandemic, sent messages to Professor Neil Ferguson [an A1 wanker]
in March telling the influential government advisor he had over-estimated the potential death toll by "10 or 12 times".
The Imperial College professor's modelling, a major factor in the Government's apparent abandoning of a so-called herd-immunity policy, was part of an unnecessary "panic virus" which spread among global political leaders, Prof Levitt now tells the Telegraph.
Prof Levitt, a British-American-Israeli who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the "development of multiscale models...[subscription req'd]
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Young people are indeed leaving areas overlord controlled ares. Locating in states having more freedom and less infection. No masks. No social distancing. Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost.
“Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 [the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19] only reaches 79.8%... It's an obvious difference.”
While it is commonly accepted among scientists that the coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan wet markets, where a wide range of live animals are sold and kept in close proximity, the Wuhan lab has been speculated by some to be a potential source.
Analysis of the first 41 COVID-19 patients in medical journal the Lancet found that 27 of them had direct exposure to the Wuhan wet market. But the same analysis found that the first known case of the illness did not.
Though biologists have confirmed that the virus was not man-made, theories have been floated that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, which had been studying bat-related coronaviruses. However, while the strains of bat coronavirus in the lab only reach 79.8% similarity, other strains of bat coronavirus found elsewhere in southern China have been observed to be up to 96.2% identical to the human SARS-CoV-2
According to Yanyi, the lab's scientists had never “encountered, researched or kept the virus” before receiving samples on December 30, after it had already spread throughout Wuhan.
Worldometers
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New York eases restrictions as virus deaths decline
[IsraelTimes] NY reports less than 100 fatalities for first time in weeks; beaches in much of state to open, gatherings of up to 10 people to be allowed, but no swimming.
#Bahrain announced 360 new #coronavirus cases, 220 of which were detected in expatriate workers, and 140 were found to have come into contact with active cases https://t.co/byY6f3BmU8
Another 812 new #coronavirus cases were recorded in the #UAE during the past 24 hours, raising the total number of COVID-19 infection in the country to 28,704 https://t.co/lDg9lnqJBU
#Coronavirus patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test #COVID_19 positive, finds a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore. https://t.co/X796NhFZIJ
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— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
Three large #Indian states seek to delay the planned opening of their airports as new cases of the coronavirus jumped by a record, complicating the federal government’s plan to resume flights after a two-month lockdown.#COVID_19https://t.co/fIPhAefanI
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
#Iran reports 2,180 new #coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 135,701, according to the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. The Ministry also announced 58 new deaths, bringing the toll to 7,417.https://t.co/Db2iYV5Aqa
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 24, 2020
#Tunisia: 3 cases of #COVID19 were recorded & 5 previous cases tested positive from 167 tests made May 24, bringing overall infection cases to 1051 out of 47816 total tests, while recoveries stand at 917, cases still active 86 & deaths 48, said Health Ministry. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/QKYRYM1XRF
COVID-19 Cases In Somalia Soar To 1,502
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 47 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 1,502.
Fawziya Abikar, the Health Minister said the new patients are from the semi-autonomous region of 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... which has 19, Banadir 13, Somaliland 8 and SouthWest 7.
Abikar said two patients succumbed to the deadly respiratory disease, bringing the total number of deaths since the pandemic was reported in the country to 59.
She said 15 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 178.
The minister said 42 of the latest cases are male while five others are female persons amid concern from the UN that the cases are largely due to community transmission.
The Horn of Africa nation joined the long list of countries dealing with COVID-19 on March 16, when the Health Ministry of Somalia announced the first confirmed case.
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Now, what kind of an idiot can put his name on something like this?
It is important to realize that the news and commentary we get from the media has been passed through the Journalism filter. Through a glass stupidly, if you will.
Don't recall where I saw it, so no link, but someone was discussing the fact that some recovered patients still had bits of virus particles in their systems - basically the viral wreckage from the immune system vs virus war. The bits are not infectious, but do show up on tests.
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#3 According to worldometers average incubation period 5 days. Cases of up to 27 days been reported. 11 days is 97.5% confidence interval for symptoms to appear
COVID-19 patients are no longer infectious after 11 days of getting sick even though some may still test positive, according to a new study by infectious disease experts in Singapore.
A positive test “does not equate to infectiousness or viable virus,” a joint research paper by Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore said. The virus “could not be isolated or cultured after day 11 of illness.”
Visit our dedicated coronavirus site here for all the latest updates.
The paper was based on a study of 73 patents in the city-state.
The latest findings may have implications on the country’s patient discharge policy. The discharge criteria are currently based on negative test results rather than infectiousness.
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There are two larger series from S. Korea and Germany of around 2K individuals. By 'not contagious' it was determined that the subjects were not symptomatic; No one around them was becoming sick; and most importantly the virus couldn't be cultured - the gold standard for identifying active viral particles. RT-PCR, the test used to identify COVID19 RNA in nasopharyngeal swabs looks for fragments of RNA, not the entire genome of an active virus. I suspect that portions of the viral RNA as well as fragments of other proteins are maintained on macrophages, dendritic cells and other T-cells to use for immune system identification should the virus reappear (cue the Rantburg bloodhound gagging over the dirty underwear proferred as a scent pic). If the RNA fragment fits what the PCR is looking for, then a positive test.
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Now there's a headline you don't see every day.
[NYPOST] A Bolivian pan flute orchestra has been stuck in quarantine on the grounds of a grand 15th century palace outside of Berlin for two months. Over 20 members of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos have been stuck on the grounds and buildings of Rheinsberg Palace, a castle, complete with moat, which has housed generations of German royals, according to the BBC. So how is Kaiser Bill? Still dead?
The group arrived in Germany on March 10 expecting to perform at the MaerzMusik festival — the same day Germany announced its ban on large gatherings, swiftly followed by a full country lockdown. A week later Bolivia closed its borders — and the group was stranded at the 600 acre estate surrounded by 23 packs of wolves and haunted by the ghost of Frederick the Great. Sounds very pleasant adventurous. Should we call for the Scooby Van?
“We all joke that Frederick’s ghost is following us and trying to trip us up,” Camed Martela told the BBC. “I don’t usually believe in such things but it does feel as if there are ghosts on the grounds.” The clanking of chains and the howling at night have something to do with it. Of course, the howling might be the wolves, even if it does come from the dungeons.
Tracy Prado, who just joined the orchestra in December, ran into wolves during one of her walks. "Ooh! Doggies!"
"Hraaaarrrr!"
“I froze in fear but they were just play fighting and moved on,” she said. Never display fear to a pack of wolves. Never run from a pack of wolves. Never remain near a pack of wolves. You have big trouble in the middle of a pack of wolves.
To pass the time, the group practices up to six hours a day, takes walks (looking out for wolves) and plays soccer. Six... hours... a... day... of... pan pipes. My mind just boggled. I'd take the wolves first.
Locals have donated food and clothing but the stay is getting expensive. Berno Odo Polzer, the director of MaerzMusik, estimated to the BBC that costs have exceeded $35,000 a month – and while Germany is allowing international flights, Bolivia’s borders are still shut. The Bolivian embassy told the BBC it is trying to get the orchestra out by early June via Madrid, although they didn’t comment on how the musicians would get from Rheinsberg to Madrid. Maybe they could take an international flight from Berlin to Madrid?
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"Maybe they could take an international flight from Berlin to Madrid?"
Not with (still) closed borders. There are no flights to Madrid.
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Can’t really blame them, given frequent Blue Helmet military incompetence, not to mention a penchant for demanding s3xual favours from the local populace.
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan reviewed a UN draft resolution on the new hybrid operation to ensure that peace and transition support mission does not include a military component, said Omer Gamar Eldin State Minister for Foreign Affairs on Saturday.
The foreign ministry in Khartoum said it had received the draft resolution on the post-UNAMID mechanism through the Sudanese ambassador at the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... on 17 May.
Following what, Foreign Minister Asma Abdallah convened a meeting to discuss the draft resolution and make sure that the mandate of the new special political mission is aligned with the strategic objectives outlined in a letter sent by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on 27 February.
"The necessary amendments were made to the draft UN Resolution to comply with the Government of Sudan’s letter requesting technical assistance sent to the United Nations on February 27, 2020," said Gamer Eldin.
The government’s request to the UN "takes into account the illusory sovereignty and independence of Sudan and that the new support mechanism does not include any military or police component," he further stressed.
Hamdok in his letter of 27 February, stressed that the political mechanism is needed to Support peace implementation, help to mobilize support for the economic conference, support the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced people, assist to carrying out population and housing censuses and the holding of general elections at the end of the transitional period.
In a joint report to the Security Council, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and the United Nations last March said the protection of civilians is the responsibility of the Sudanese government adding that the new mission can provide capacity building support to the Sudanese security forces.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the report stressed that the mandate of the new mission should be flexible The mandate should be flexible enough to allow the deployment of individual police and/or military advisers to provide advisory support on the security aspects of peacebuilding and assist in monitoring the peace agreement if requested.
"There may also be a need for a uniformed component for the purpose of providing security for the mission and its staff, or other tasks in the interest of the mandate of a new mission, as agreed with the Sudanese authorities," reads the report.
In a meeting in April to discuss this report; the United States expressed concern about the recurrent attacks on civilians and the increasing inter-communal festivities.
While British ambassador said that the new mission can and should be a partner to the Government of Sudan in responding to the ongoing protection of civilians’ challenges in Darfur, particularly in the IDP camps," he said.
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Highly advance African societies should be permitted to sort it all out on their own. After all, they've had at least 40,000 years head start on nation building. Who are we to judge their methods ?
Spokesmen for the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah and al-Nujaba Movement, which both fall under the wider umbrella of the mainly Shia Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) militias in #Iraq, issue statements which called for “Jihadi operations” in #SaudiArabia.https://t.co/dkz1wZPpwM
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 24, 2020
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...You'd think by this point, there would be a UN office somewhere that keeps track of the various jihads...
Mike
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[Dallas News] WASHINGTON — More Americans lost jobs in the last nine weeks than live in Texas. The staggering toll — 38.6 million — is more than half the number of votes President Donald Trump collected when he won the White House. So how about a little historical perspective, media mogul?
The last president seeking reelection while presiding over such economic carnage was Herbert Hoover, and the latest national unemployment rate, 14.7%, is the worst since the record of 25.5% in 1932 — three months before FDR sent Hoover packing. Oh, yeah. Hoover is a lot like Trump. Not that anyone alive remembers Hoover. Except Biden's son.
Trump didn’t cause the COVID-19 pandemic, just as Hoover didn’t cause the Great Depression. Anybody remember who caused the Great Depression? Bush? Nixon?
But voters do tend to blame presidents for such pain and malaise, which helps explain why he’s gone to such lengths to pressure states to lift stay-home orders — and to point fingers at China for unleashing the virus and at Barack Obama for leaving behind a national stockpile depleted of masks and ventilators. Florida and South Dakota didn't need pressure; New York and California will never appear to respond to the Orange Man. Who disagrees with the origin of the virus or the 2017 status of stockpiles?
The president’s support grew steadily in the early weeks of the pandemic when he somberly cast himself as a "wartime president" at long televised briefings, flanked by the nation’s top public health experts. Until the sleaze media decided his briefings were helping, not hurting his standing. His support against Democrat Joe Biden has slipped sharply since then, as quick cures he promised didn’t materialize, the death toll kept outstripping his overly optimistic projections, and tens of millions of workers suddenly found themselves furloughed or fired. You can see where this is going. Cures promised? Optimistic projections, or were they hopes? Who sent trillions in aid, after delay by Nancy and fellow travelers?
Trump’s prospects for a second term now hinge on how fast the economy bounces back. History and the latest polls and economic forecasts suggest an uphill fight. However - (skipping down)
The election isn't entirely a referendum on Trump, or the economy.
Voters will choose between him and former Vice President Biden, who as recently as Friday reminded everyone that he's an imperfect vessel for the hopes and dreams of those eager to evict Trump from the White House. Let's see if the author foresees a Biden replacement.
"Hoover essentially responded by saying, this is what happens in life and you have to suck it up. It's not the federal government's responsibility to save you," Engel said. Roosevelt, by contrast, offered empathy "by the bucket load…. His response was, this is not your fault but we have a responsibility to each other." Which former president sounds more like Trump? The author is going to help us answer that!
In Ypsilanti, Trump promised an "epic comeback" for the United States in the next year if he's reelected.
Promoting the pressure he's put on states to lift stay-home orders, he struck a populist note and cast himself as friend of the blue-collar set.
"Americans who need and want to return to work should not be vilified," he said. "They should be supported. Unlike many politicians and journalists, for those who earn a living with their hands working remotely is just not an option." Cold and distant as Herbert Hoover, the former engineeer? I think not.
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"Imperfect vessel"
Giggle. A hair-plugging (his own) hair-sniffing (little girls') streaker, pervert, lifelong liar and all-around buffoon whose brother was a war profiteer in Iraq and whose deadbeat drug addict son is still receiving millions from the Chinese Communist Party. And who now shows all the clinical signs of dementia.
Vessel indeed-- but a perfect one: for the CCP and for his family of Grifters.
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Todd J. Gillman Todd has been Washington Bureau Chief since 2009, six years after joining the bureau. Before that he covered East Texas, City Hall and politics. He started at The Dallas Morning News in 1989 as an intern. He has been elected twice to the White House Correspondents’ Association board, with a term ending in 2020. Todd has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and a BA from Johns Hopkins in international studies.
Uh huh
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"When Roosevelt put American in to help Russia as Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941. We should have let those two bastards annihilate themselves."
~ Herbert Hoover
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America should be using its unemployed waiters, cooks and retail sales people to build factories for the goods we want to make in America, not getting baked on the couch. That also means phased in tariffs. After that, many of those same people can work in those factories and not depend on other people spending mad money.
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First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less.
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out.
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
[Sudan Tribune] It is regrettable that some Armed struggle movement factions stand as a stumbling block against the path to the grinding of the peace processor for Sudan. Having said that, one will start by asking himself as to how can the grinding of the peace processor in Sudan be pushed forward in the presence of barricades against it made by those who demand peace? It is appalling that some factions of the armed struggle movements who turned semi-pirates stand as a stumbling block against the path to peace. Thus, the Barricades and Stumbling Blocks have been created by the aggressively selfish and the self-centred are delaying the Sudanese Peace Process in Juba, the South Sudan Capital.
The foregoing title of this article comes against the backdrop of the Major General Yassin Ibrahim Abdel Ghani, the Governor of Blue Nile State, called on all the Armed Struggle Movements and the Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) -Abdul Aziz al-Hilo wing, in particular, to push the grinding of the peace processor forward in order to reach a comprehensive and sustainable peace, stressing that the negotiating parties are serious in the grinding of the peace processor and that they are making appreciable efforts had it not for the emergence of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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The #Libyan National Army announces that it has captured 12 #Syrian fighters in Yarmouk camp, south of Libya’s capital Tripoli, according to a statement.https://t.co/e7ZzgQTVOc
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[JUSTTHENEWS] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... should not select Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... as his vice presidential running mate according to some black and Latino activists and strategists.
The Minnesota Democrat would "risk losing the very base the Democrats need to win," said Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, according to Politico.
"It comes from her performance in the primary — her weakness in being able to motivate them," BlackPAC executive director Adrianne Shropshire said. "The engagement and the enthusiasm of black voters is going to be a difference-maker in this election, and the concerns about her in this role stem from the degree to which she resonated or not with those core constituencies."
Klobuchar only secured one percent of the black vote during the South Carolina primary and four percent of the Latino vote in the Nevada primary.
Biden, who has pledged to select a female running mate, has indicated that several black women are included within his potential picks.
"A choice such as Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), who failed to prosecute controversial police killings and is responsible for the imprisonment of Myon Burrell, will only alienate black voters," according to an opinion piece that also called for Biden to select a black female running mate.
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Just as the DNC decided Biden would be the nominee, they have decided Klo butcher will be the VP pick. It's all locked in because they know they are going to lose and they aren't going to tarnish any future talent.
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Much like "Maverick" McCain in 2008 and "Mittens" Romney in 2012.
#Afghan President Ghani vows to speed up the release of #Taliban prisoners after welcoming an offer by the insurgents of a three-day ceasefire during the #Eid holiday.https://t.co/HfdR1cu7tG
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#ICYMI: Lebanese Journalist Nadim Koteich: Israel Is a Scientific, Economic, Cultural, and Military Power, Whereas Lebanon Is No Longer a Respected Country; "Aounism" Is a Disease pic.twitter.com/aztF6olne1
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.
[Jpost] An attempted stabbing attack occurred on Monday in Jerusalem at the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. 
They hit the road, staying no more than three days in any one place, because Hickson wanted him to see as much of America as possible. When his friend died, everything went dark for a while. 
Hickson is slender, not tall, with a dusty-brown 
They spent the next several days together. 
He started using heroin with her. 
That was when they decided to live for a while in San Francisco, which was known for its good public programs for getting people off drugs. 
Like a hiker crossing from France into Italy, you often don’t know where you are until you look around, hear locals talking, and realize that you’ve entered another country.
D. had worked for years as a broadcast journalist, 
Until this long accepted paragraph is removed from job applications, the "Preferences" will likely continue. 
[National Review] China is currently transgressing the terms of its 1997 treaty over Hong Kong, which promised a "one country, two systems" settlement that preserved Hong Kong’s somewhat autonomous democratic institutions. These institutions guarantee rights to Hong Kongers and guard its common-law inheritance.
...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 
[American Thinker] Right now, regulations call for companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to let the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) oversee the auditing of their financial records if they want to raise money by selling stocks and bonds to the American public. This is a sound regulation rooted in investor-protection. All U.S. companies work with the PCAOB, but the Chinese ones don't.
[Breitbart] Seventeen people were shot in 12 hours—from Saturday into Sunday—in Democrat-controlled St. Louis, Missouri.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...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...
[BIZPACREVIEW] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs — has settled a lawsuit directing officials to clean up voter registration rolls.
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
[TheHill] The Navy's oldest operational warship has broken its record for the most days at sea, the military branch said Thursday.
[spiked] Yoram Lass, former director of Israel’s Health Ministry, on the hysteria around Covid-19.
...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...
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan reviewed a UN draft resolution on the new hybrid operation to ensure that peace and transition support mission does not include a military component, said Omer Gamar Eldin State Minister for Foreign Affairs on Saturday.
WASHINGTON — More Americans lost jobs in the last nine weeks than live in Texas. The staggering toll — 38.6 million — is more than half the number of votes President Donald Trump collected when he won the White House.
His support against Democrat Joe Biden has slipped sharply since then, as quick cures he promised didn’t materialize, the death toll kept outstripping his overly optimistic projections, and tens of millions of workers suddenly found themselves furloughed or fired.
Voters will choose between him and former Vice President Biden, who as recently as Friday reminded everyone that he's an imperfect vessel for the hopes and dreams of those eager to evict Trump from the White House.
