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Some finance executives and analysts are warning that if the Democrats sweep the White House and the Senate in November, increased regulation and higher taxes would be bad for businesses and could negatively impact the stock market.
Stock market tanking would be the least of the Who's problems as well as the countries if the Dems took power. IMHO, it would kick of a CIVIL War.
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Whats the hospitalization rate and mortality rate? Those are the only numbers that matter. If its like Texas, the aggregate numbers of positive tests are going way up, but as a percentage, its steady, and the number of actual fatalities is declining even in the face of the increase of simple test counts. Hospitalization rates per thousand have actually declined slightly per the CDC's own numbers.
This is how the "flattened curve" bumps up as herd immunity comes into being.
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[NYT] - Dr. Camilla Rothe was about to leave for dinner when the government laboratory called with the surprising test result. Positive. It was Jan. 27. She had just discovered Germany’s first case of the new coronavirus.
But the diagnosis made no sense. Her patient, a businessman from a nearby auto parts company, could have been infected by only one person: a colleague visiting from China. And that colleague should not have been contagious.
The visitor had seemed perfectly healthy during her stay in Germany. No coughing or sneezing, no signs of fatigue or fever during two days of long meetings. She told colleagues that she had started feeling ill after the flight back to China. Days later, she tested positive for the coronavirus.
Scientists at the time believed that only people with symptoms could spread the coronavirus. They assumed it acted like its genetic cousin, SARS. Assume makes an ass of u and me
"People who know much more about coronaviruses than I do were absolutely sure," recalled Dr. Rothe, an infectious disease specialist at Munich University Hospital.
But if the experts were wrong, if the virus could spread from seemingly healthy carriers or people who had not yet developed symptoms, the ramifications were potentially catastrophic. Public-awareness campaigns, airport screening and stay-home-if-you’re sick policies might not stop it. More aggressive measures might be required — ordering healthy people to wear masks, for instance, or restricting international travel.
Dr. Rothe and her colleagues were among the first to warn the world. But even as evidence accumulated from other scientists, leading health officials expressed unwavering confidence that symptomless spreading was not important. Because, otherwise, you'd have to quarantine China?
...Interviews with doctors and public health officials in more than a dozen countries show that for two crucial months — and in the face of mounting genetic evidence — Western health officials and political leaders played down or denied the risk of symptomless spreading. Leading health agencies including the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control provided contradictory and sometimes misleading advice. A crucial public health discussion devolved into a semantic debate over what to call infected people without clear symptoms. Now the critical question is: if symptomless infected can infect, are there some infected/infecting who never develop symptoms?
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Yet, in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected.
Even in Israel,more than 99% remain uninfected/undetected.
Are we done flattening the curve yet?
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^Robert.
(a) So far, and you'd expect some, there is no evidence that recovered CV19 patients are immune.
(b) There never was any evidence for "herd immunity". It's an artifact of sloppy mathematical modeling.
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Go back and look at #1. We are a long, long, long way from being finished with this. Never did 'finidh' with the Hong Kong flu, by the way.
So we either lock down until we get a vaccine we know is safe and effective and plentiful, or we get on with life until the death toll gets so high no one wants to go out.
Pick one.
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06/28/2020 20:02
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The Universe, Robert, doesn't give a f*ck about what we want.
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The longterm health hazards from Pandemic M@sturbation, Grom are not in your favor
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06/28/2020 20:26
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"in America, about 99% of the population has yet to be infected."
If you start off with an unproven assertion (commonly known as "a lie", or mopre courteously as a "misrepresentation"), the rest of what you say is extremely suspect.
And the "herd immunity" has some decent mathematical underpinnings. Please post credible citations to the contrary - you're marking the assertion, show your work. Otherwise you're just another ass, braying at barnyard.
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[JPost] - Pro-Palestinian organizations across the US plan to hold demonstrations against Israel on Wednesday, the earliest date that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could bring to a cabinet vote the extension of Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank.
The demonstrations are set to take place in Chicago, San Diego, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as in Toronto, Madrid and Valencia. Among the groups organizing the events are Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and American Muslims for Palestine. Don't wear masks - Fauci is a secret Jew!
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At this point they have to get in line. BLM (burn, loot, murder), defund the police, commynizm 4evah and statuezmustgo# are all booked ahead of them.
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"Rage" my house or property, don't forget to bring your own plasma and QuikClot.
[Fox] Last night on the Tucker Carlson show, hosted by Brian Kilmeade, David Marcus explained that the escalation from statues to killing people has been a universal trend. "This is not new in history. We saw this in Russia. We saw this in China. We saw this in Venezuela. First, they topple the statues, then they start killing people, and then they take your rights away..."
BLM protesters and rioters have been threatening to topple the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. depicting Archer Alexander, a freed slave, and President Abraham Lincoln.
Kilmead asked Marcus what he thought would happen to the statue that night. Marcus confidently stated that he did not think the statues would come down, "I think that the statue is going to be fine because thankfully, both the Trump administration and law-enforcement are now doing their job as they should have been doing for the last several weeks as these statues fell."
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life, desalination factories and international shipping routes.
Meanwhile, Houthi rebels who control the area where the ship is moored have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press shows that seawater has entered the engine compartment of the tanker, which hasn’t been maintained for over five years, causing damage to the pipelines and increasing the risk of sinking. Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out. Experts say maintenance is no longer possible because the damage to the ship is irreversible.
For years, the U.N. has been trying to send inspectors to assess the damage aboard the vessel known as the FSO Safer and look for ways to secure the tanker by unloading the oil and pulling the ship to safety.
But one European diplomat, a Yemeni government official and the tanker’s company owner said that Houthi rebels have resisted. The diplomat said the rebels are treating the vessel as a "deterrent like having a nuclear weapon." All three individuals spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the subject with a reporter.
[Union of Concerned Scientists] Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued four of the world’s largest oil and gas companies on Thursday for misleading consumers about the impact their products have on the climate.
Coming just a day after Minnesota filed a similar suit, the District lawsuit contends that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have been aware since the 1950s of the threat posed by fossil fuels but launched public relations campaigns to manufacture doubt about the reality and seriousness of climate change. It seeks a court order for the companies to pay civil penalties, provide financial relief for District residents, and stop their disingenuous PR campaigns.
"For decades, these oil and gas companies spent millions to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of profits," Racine said in a statement. "The defendants violated the District’s consumer protection law by concealing the fact that using fossil fuels threatens the health of District residents and the environment. [The Office of the Attorney General] filed this suit to end these disinformation campaigns and to hold these companies accountable for their deceptive practices."
The lawsuit also maintains that the companies’ current marketing campaigns hype the relative "green" benefits of natural gas and other products, suggesting that they are "clean" and "emissions-reducing," while concealing the fact that they still contribute significantly to the climate crisis.
"Defendants have shifted their advertising strategies to mislead DC consumers into believing that buying Defendants’ products supports companies committed to reducing and reversing the effects of climate change," the lawsuit asserts. "In fact, the opposite is true."
The four companies named in the District lawsuit are major contributors to global warming. Along with ConocoPhillips, they are responsible for 12.5 percent of all industrial carbon pollution emitted between 1854 and 2010, according to a 2013 study by the Climate Accountability Institute.
Both of the lawsuits filed this week in Washington, D.C., and Minnesota are similar to fraud cases brought by Massachusetts and New York attorneys general against ExxonMobil.
Massachusetts’ lawsuit, filed in October, claims that ExxonMobil deceived consumers about the threat its products pose to the climate. It has not yet gone to trial.
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It won't happen, but I'd love to see 3M pull out of there. There should be enough writing on the wall.
But the absurdity is that if anybody is doing the "misleading", it is the climate change advocates. I mean, why didn't NYC de-fund the NYPD over 20 years ago? The al-Gore types said NYC was supposed to be under water by 2010.
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The disclosures of the climatista lies should be very interesting.
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The oil companies should refuse to sell their products to the District. After all, if DC were serious about climate change, they would ban automobiles, trains, and electricity.
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06/28/2020 14:01
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/\ climatista ?
Deacon ~ There are ladies that sometimes visit here. That's an anatomical reference that could get you sinktrapped.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General William Barr on Friday ordered the establishment of a task force to counter what he called "anti-government extremists" committing violence as protests against police brutality convulse the United States.
In a memo to law enforcement and prosecutors released by the Department of Justice, Barr said alleged extremists had "engaged in indefensible acts of violence designed to undermine public order," including attacking police officers, damaging property and threatening innocent people.
Protests have spread nationwide over George Floyd’s death in police custody last month and the deaths of other African Americans at the hands of police.
Although largely peaceful, some demonstrators have turned violent, which President Donald Trump and his allies have blamed on left-wing extremists among the protesters.
Barr said the extremists "profess a variety of ideologies."
"Some pretend to profess a message of freedom and progress, but they are in fact forces of anarchy, destruction, and coercion," Barr said.
[FOX] Several Minneapolis City Council members who have received death threats following their calls to defund the police after the death of George Floyd have been assigned private security details -- reportedly costing the city $4,500 a day in taxpayer dollars.
According to information obtained by Fox News, the city has spent $63,000 on private security over the last three weeks.
"The names of the people getting security details are not public," a city spokesperson told Fox News Saturday.
The names of three council members who are receiving private security detail have already been made public, two of whom interviewed with local affiliate Fox 9 on Friday. The spokesperson did not respond to Fox News' questions about whether or not there were additional council members receiving security detail.
The threats reportedly came after the council members were vocal in their calls to defund the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a proposal to eliminate the city's police department Friday, initiating steps toward establishing a new "holistic" approach to public safety.
The largely white police force has struggled to regain the city’s trust after the death of George Floyd. The new proposal would eliminate the existing police department and instead create "a department of community safety and violence prevention, which will have responsibility for public safety services prioritizing a holistic, public health-oriented approach."
One council member told Fox 9: "I don’t feel comfortable publicly discussing the death threats against me or the level of security I currently have protecting me from those threats."
The president has privately come to that grim realization in recent days, multiple people close to him told POLITICO, amid a mountain of bad polling and warnings from some of his staunchest allies that he's on course to be a one-term president.
Trump has endured what aides describe as the worst stretch of his presidency, marred by widespread criticism over his response to the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide racial unrest. His rally in Oklahoma last weekend, his first since March, turned out to be an embarrassment when he failed to fill the arena.
What should have been an easy interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday horrified advisers when Trump offered a rambling, non-responsive answer to a simple question about his goals for a second term. In the same appearance, the normally self-assured president offered a tacit acknowledgment that he might lose when he said that Joe Biden is "gonna be your president because some people don't love me, maybe."
In the hours after the interview aired, questions swirled within his inner circle about whether his heart was truly in it when it comes to seeking reelection.
Trump has time to rebound, and the political environment could improve for him. But interviews with more than a half-dozen people close to the president depicted a reelection effort badly in need of direction — and an unfocused candidate who repeatedly undermines himself.
"Under the current trajectory, President Trump is on the precipice of one of the worst electoral defeats in modern presidential elections and the worst historically for an incumbent president," said former Trump political adviser Sam Nunberg, who remains a supporter.
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It does make you wonder, if he did something to reverse the polls right now he'd still leave them time for one more dirty trick before the election. Better to let it go for a bit and let them have the success now and avoid that dirty trick. Especially when the craziness really doesn't effect red counties.
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Should've just sit quietly and build an election campaign around "Trump failed the American People but not waving a magic wand and making CV19 stop".
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Funny how black immigrants (pick a country) strive to come to America and do [much] better in scholastic pursuits than to the self-loathing denizens of the Democratic party.
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@ #15 - So you are comparing the introduction of blacks into the Western Hemisphere hundreds of years ago to today's modern blacks? Ancien régime = today? Hardly.
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#18 White liberals just doing what pays off - you wanna have a white collar job in modern USA (or any other western country), you better be a loud liberal.
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/\ SPEAK FOR YERSELF, YOUNGSTER!!!!! I'm way over that age limit and my mind is in fine shape on the rare occasions when I call on it.
Us old peoples can handle the stress when we can remember where we put it and when we can remember if we were going up the stairs or down the stairs. AND I could sure a s heck drink you under the table if I could only remember where I put my glass.
Get some time in. Now . . . where was I going to post this????
#23
The polls are skewed to Democrats. Jessie Waters had a presentation. The polls are not polling likely voters, are 43% Democrat, 23% Republican, and 34% "other".
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/sarc on
I don't see why Trump is even running. Given how badly he was projected to lose last time, he doesn't have a chance.
/sarc off
#26
Unexpectedly, Trump is a patriot. I had bet on him being better than Hillarity, but he seems to thrive where others have wilted. I am pleased.
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06/28/2020 14:06
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Nunberg pointed to national polls released by CNBC and New York Times/Siena over the past week showing Trump receiving below 40 percent against Biden.
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you better be a loud liberal
Depends on the industry, g(r)om. When you get away from the liberal arts, government and software industries, that requirement changes rapidly (unless you're in the 'Human Services Department').
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#22 Canuckistan sniper. LOL. I wasn't knocking senior citizens. Towards the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency I swear I detected some wear and tear and mental fatigue. He was getting hammered hard by the Dems on the Contra affair which broke my heart to watch a fine man get treated like dirt. Out of 300 million people, I think there has to be a way to find just as good people like Trump and Reagan that are younger. Hope you find your glass!
#32
The Dems are going all out.
1. Sending out funded and trained Antifa, BLM, and other shock troops,
2. Gaslighting the public into thinking schmuck Joe Biden is going to win although he doesn't know where he is, who is Potus, and what he is running for without coming out of his basement,
3. Publishing fake suppression poll results that show Biden winning despite his dismal turnout for a rally the only time he came out of his basement. The polls oversample Dems by about 3:1.
4. It is the Hillary 2016 playbook with a few exceptions (except for destroying monuments, burning, looting, beatings and yes even murders). You might recall that Hillary won in 2016.
5. Early destruction of Pub election materials by the USPS worker, push for mail-in votes, and the early attempts at corruption in primary and early mail-in votes.
6. Last, but not least, attempts to push and hype the pandemic to try to push mail-in voting which is easy to manipulate and corrupt.
[News24] SAA staff are being offered extremely generous severance packages — averaging R580 000 each — at a total cost of R2.2 billion that is due to come from taxpayers’ pockets.
This includes retrospective increases and incentive bonuses, but is still not enough for several unions.
The offer comes at a time when companies which did business with SAA will be lucky if they see 7.5c on every rand that the bankrupt airline owes them. The debt amounts to about R11 billion in total and creditors may have to give up any hope of ever seeing the money they are owed.
The debt, however, excludes that to banks, which is guaranteed by the state.
The acceptance of the severance packages is a prerequisite for the approval of SAA’s rescue plan, according to which the workforce of the airline will be cut from the current level of about 4 700 to 1 000.
Creditors were meant to vote on the plan on Thursday, but the it was postponed after unions and creditors said the plan was deficient. They are expected to meet again on July 14.
Although the business rescue practitioners have indicated that government is ready to finance the plan, it is still not clear where the money will come from.
[Red State] Early Friday morning, hundreds of Antifa attacked police and the North Precinct in Portland. They tried to set up another autonomous zone around the precinct with fencing and dumpsters, tried to lock police in the precinct and light it on fire, and pelted the police outside with objects like glass bottles.
They also spray painted all kinds of disgusting things on the precinct including "the only good cop is a dead one" as well as looted and damaged businesses in the area.
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Yeah, they ran, at first. Then the tougher ones stopped and so did the police. I didn't see any headed busted or arrests.
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06/28/2020 10:03
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Frame them first. Plant evidence, arrange for tangos in Gitmo to testify that they are proud conspirators and allies. Pay, torture or make a deal with them to simply say that on camera. It doesn't have to look convincing. About as tight as the BoP alibis on Epstein will do. Remember, it's the Age of the Shameless.
Then classify the insurrectionists as part of an international terrorist group, in league with Al-Qaeda or Iran, or whoever, depending on who won the Gitmo razzies. Let absolute robots field the incredulous questions of the MSM, while you shoot the known leaders down.
In a crowd of 'protestors' a decent sniper on overwatch can make out a lot about who's in charge. Put them down like the Iraqis did theirs. Let SWAT do only swift body removals while the mobs break for cover. APCs filled with all the masked unknowns who were never there. Let their masks be the death of them.
And turn off every body cam thingy. If possible, shutdown the servers that collect the footage. Make a small fire and say it gets attacked by BLM every night. And keep killing until the cities feel cleaner.
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I'm enjoying the, ah, professional perspective on this topic.
I know this Portland neighborhood well. I lived there in the early 90s and was the only caucasian on the block at the time. It was highly affordable, and safe--despite the reputation in otherwise lily white Portland. Lived nearby more recently. The area has been gentrified and hipsterized multiple times over. Most of the black folks have passed on or moved on and have been replaced by BLM signs in well tended yards that long predated the current frenzy. What's happening right now has nothing to do with race and is quite harmful to the few actual black people who live there.
No need, when they’ve been madly posting videos and selfies on social media of themselves and their friends planning and executing their various operations, then tracking the cell phones that they haven’t bothered to turn off despite explicit orders from the cadres. It’s all down to image searches of identifying tattoos, clothing, and so forth.
What's happening right now has nothing to do with race and is quite harmful to the few actual black people who live there.
In all the black neighbourhoods and business areas this nonsense has been invading.
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Then classify the insurrectionists as part of an international terrorist group, in league with Al-Qaeda or Iran, or whoever,
And Antifa is an international terrorist group, older even than the Muslim Brotherhood. There are connections — hadn’t the pouty Pakistani-American lawyer now facing ten years for firebombing a police car gone to Hamas for training a few years ago?
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Tracking smartphones, even when "turned off" is trivial with the right resources. Unfortunate that they cannot live without their data devices, and none of them have removable batteries anymore. Sources and methods will say no more.
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[PJ] How long can this nation survive when its main cultural and educational institutions preach a relentless, unchallenged stream of anti-Americanism to young people (and others) who lack the background to resist this toxicity?
Along with others, I have long argued that the American left has a major problem with America as founded. Yet Democrats are outraged by the suggestion, and too many Republicans seem insufficiently concerned about it. They better wake up.
If current events aren’t enough to turn your head, please consider the following data presented by Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of London Birkbeck College.
Kaufmann writes that the "cultural revolutionaries" who are toppling statues and renaming buildings "are changing minds, and could be in a position to enact a root-and-branch reconstruction of America into something completely unrecognizable to its present-day inhabitants." He adds: "Imagine a country whose collective memory has been upended, with a new constitution, anthem, and flag, its name changed from the sinful ’America’ to something less tainted. Far-fetched? Not according to data I have collected on what liberal white Americans actually believe."
Notice Kaufmann isn’t talking merely about the extreme left but American liberals. This is chilling stuff but unsurprising to me. In my book "Guilty by Reason of Insanity," I warned that socialism is not the only terrible idea the left is promoting. I wrote: "The left isn’t turning to socialism just because its members think it’s more equitable than capitalism but also because they seek revenge against America’s founding generation and its successor beneficiaries. They want to eradicate the Western tradition that spawned our unique American culture because it allegedly led to continental larceny against Native Americans, is in irredeemable moral debt over slavery, and is forever culpable for oppressing minorities and women through white privilege and the inherent exploitation of capitalism." I don’t claim to be a prophet, but is my statement not vindicated by America’s present turmoil?
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To defend what remains, the remnant must descend into damnation. It is the only way now. Somebody will have to fight tooth and nail, do things they will be called villains for. Because good men thought they were 'too good' to do certain things.
All this obession with liberty and rights, when they are both such abstract ideas. How much liberty is enough ? How far is the human right of a deviant to feel justified, from his right to carry out his perversions on your children without being judged ? What rights do the victims have ? The old woman thrown down the stairs, the old jew stabbed in the stomach, the kid bullied out of school by black bangers. Are they humans anymore ? Or are they bit players in someone else's story now ?
If perfect liberty is to be achieved, it must be accompanied by perfect discipline. That can only be forced, for the first few generations at least. The fear of death and dehumanization is the way to start. Crush the complainers, the anti-establishmentarians, the hippies, the rabble rousers, and the country is ensured a decade or two of momentum. That is what China did. If Russia was not so beset by criminality and individual corruption they could have become stronger. If the USA had not let false guilt and this unhealthy fixation for unending 'liberties' mesmerise them into somnolence, you'd be making a Delaware 2 on the moon or mars by now.
Also, these articles are all good and wise, but I see nobody mentions the ideological bankruptcy in even the Republicans, all due to gainsaying of our judeo-christian ideals and running after modernism and consumerist democracy. I feel a defeat in that a lot of Americans forsook their christian heritage. The value and traditions of family and grit and being strong enough to bear the infirmities of the weak. That is how the nation became the greatest nation on earth. When a people walk under the banner of Christ, even if only in name, I believe they enjoy a safety from ideological attack at least. Once the crosses are taken down, no statue is worth protecting.
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^ I'd need a few months to think about that. A short-term point is that Biden is (allegedly) a Catholic who wears a Rosary on his wrist; which is kinda hard to reconcile with what we're hearing from the Anteefas. I'd enjoy putting up a billboard in Portland or Seattle with a picture of JFK next to Biden and the logo: "Time for Another Catholic: Vote Biden."
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Yes, but Biden is the same sort of religious those guys are who demand jets for the service of Christ.
In my view Trump is an actual Christian, putting his money, his reputation and his life where his convictions lie. I think Gawd often hides his servants in paradoxes, such that no one can accept it.
I was talking about having Gawd on one's side and the disposition of forces when what you stand for becomes righter than the other guy. But those are just my views.
In terms of actual belief? I suspect not. But neither were Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and they somehow managed to figure out the right things and do them right anyway.
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The universities are a problem for several reasons:
1. There is no academic freedom as reflected by the lack of freedom of speech. Political correctness and censorship are the tools used to squelch freedom of speech.
2. The lack of diversity on campuses in in decline. Diversity of thought has been replaced by a superficial kind of diversity based on skin color.
3. Group think and orthodoxy has led to a mediocrity in the universities.
4. Left-wing politization of processes such as the scientific method, law, curriculum, journalism etc. has led to intellectual corruption.
If one looks at the make-up of the faculty. In the 1950 and 1960s, faculty make-up was on a parity between liberal and conservative. More recently, it has been reported to be about 12:1 in favor of liberal faculty and in some cases as much as 30 percent or more in the social sciences. I have read numbers as high as 50:1 today. It has been contended that without a parity between liberal and conservative leads to a kind of insanity which grows quickly. There are no checks and balances to curb this growing problem; no one questions ideas or has to defend their ideas on the left--in fact, it's not encouraged.
Very long. It all started with Abdul Qader Tawhidi, leader of the Salafist Sunni Kurds in Iran around the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution, and can be traced through the formation of Al Qaeda in Iraq and then Ansar al Islam and Al Nusra.
[Rudaw] Zakaria sat at an outpost framed by olive trees on one of the bloodiest frontlines in Syria, full combat gear weighing down his slender body. His close friend Faruq had unexpectedly joined him. An Arab fighter was meant to man a stretch of front line with Zakaria that cold morning in January 2019, but he fell ill, and Faruq volunteered to replace him. The two began to sing a nasheed, an Islamic recitation, as they gripped their guns in anticipation of battle.
Zakaria and Faruq were foreign jihadists in Sahel, an area cutting across embattled northwest Syria’s Latakia and Tartus governorates. They had travelled thousands of kilometers from the Kurdish region of Iran, where four decades of ethnic and religious discrimination has left the local population bitter about Shiite theocratic rule. Thousands of young, Sunni, Kurdish men from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have sought solace in carrying out religious warfare, or jihad, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and beyond.
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So. In a land where nothing is clear cut, the media's solemn intonations that "the Kurds™ are our allies." is just so much more oversimplified shinola.
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The Kurds who are our allies, they are our allies.
...due to a significant price drop resulting from previous oversupply.
[ToloNews] The World Drug Report released by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Drugs and Crime Office’s (UNODC) on Thursday shows a decrease in opium cultivation in the country in 2019 in which Afghan farmers planted opium poppy on 163,000 hectares of land.
This, according to the report, is 38 percent less than in 2018 when 263,000 hectares was planted.
The UNODC report says that all the main opium poppy-growing provinces saw significant decreases in the amount of land growing poppy in 2019.
In Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , the report says, this decreased by 82 percent, Nimroz by 78 percent, Kandahar by 40 percent, Uruzgan by 38 percent, Farah by 35 percent and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... by 34 percent.
On average, this reduction of 38 percent can be attributed mainly to developments in the opium market, UNODC found.
Following two years of very high levels of production, the average farm-gate price (price at point of cultivation without added transportation or other costs) per kilogram of fresh opium fell to $52 in 2019 from $76 USD in 2018, the report says.
UNODC estimated the 2019 total farm-gate value as $404 million, a decrease of 33 percent from its 2018 value, according to an analysis by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN).
In 2019, the area under cultivation was the lowest recorded since 2013, AAN says in its analysis on the UN report.
In previous years, farmers, especially in the all-important south-western region, typically reported disease as the main reason for low to moderate yields. This region, also known as Greater Kandahar, includes Helmand province which, were it a separate country, would be the largest opium producer worldwide, according to AAN analysis.
In 2019, Greater Kandahar produced 4,920 metric tons of opium, representing more than two-thirds of this year’s total opium production nationwide. In the southern region (Loya Paktia and Ghazni), the harvest doubled compared to 2018, ANN says in its analysis citing UN report.
AAN says that for the first time since 1994, the UNODC did not release its findings in an annual opium survey and has said the government is suspected of having blocked publication.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates released in February 2020 show similar results, according to AAN. The White House report says opium poppy was planted on 160,000 hectares, a decrease of 28 percent from 221,000 in 2018.
The commander of #Iran's elite Quds force has visited Eastern Syria and accused the United States and Israel of conspiring to support ISIS, the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim reports.https://t.co/3ZncPq5RO0
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Local officials in Iran’s Bushehr Province on the Arabian Gulf say Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s coasties fired on Iranian fishermen who inadvertently crossed into Saudi waters.
The date of the incident has not been mentioned but the fishermen left an Iranian port on June 21 for a three hour cruise
ten-day fishing expedition, according to a report by Iran’s Mehr news agency, quoting Ardeshir Yarahmadi a fisheries front man in Bushehr.
Yarahmadi and other officials confirmed that no fishermen were harmed in the incident.
Local officials also said that sea currents might have pushed the Iranian boat into Saudi waters inadvertently. A complete report will be issued once a full investigation takes place, officials said.
#BREAKIN Saudi Arabia forced three #Irania|n boats to retreat from its waters on Thursday after firing warning shots: Saudi boarder guards
Southeast Asian leaders say a 1982 #UN oceans treaty should be the basis of sovereign rights and entitlements in the #SouthChinaSea, in one of their strongest remarks opposing China’s claim to virtually the entire disputed waters.https://t.co/wpTO26CqMU
Watch: Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary General Mohammad al-Issa, tells Al Arabiya that MWL cooperates with #SaudiArabia as a leader in all efforts to combat “extremist ideas, specifically in the Muslim world.”https://t.co/Z6NlSZMjk8pic.twitter.com/2VFQF8OHzb
A rare case of coronavirus was reported in Egypt where a man threw his wife from the fifth floor because she tested positive for coronavirus.https://t.co/GbeWBOex7W
#Oman reports 919 new #coronavirus cases, and six new deaths, bringing the total case count to 36,953, and total deaths in the Sultanate to 159, the Ministry of Health reports.https://t.co/QVnDo6GYqb
#Qatar recorded 879 new coronavirus cases and one new death, the ministry of health reports. The total case count in the country now stands at 93,663, and 110 people have died from the novel #coronavirus.https://t.co/EztgANCeaX
#Iran has launched a campaign to motivate a reluctant public to use face masks as the country faces a sharp increase in infections and deaths from the #coronavirus.https://t.co/2D0zwoPfIs
#India reports over 17,000 new #coronavirus cases in 24 hours, pushing the country's total above 500,000 cases, federal health ministry data shows, with #COVID19 infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi. Find out more here:https://t.co/kR0KMZ99Rq
#UAE reports 387 new #coronavirus cases, 365 recoveries and one death. The government's spokesperson urges everyone to continue following precautionary measures.https://t.co/FgsDUTAH5d
#Brazil announces it has signed a $127 million agreement to start producing locally an experimental vaccine developed by #AstraZeneca that has shown promise to fight the novel #coronavirus. Find out more here:https://t.co/6fxN0YHSHt
After a second wave of #coronavirus, people in California, Florida, and Texas are back in hiding, and the recovery in driving that had restored highway travel nationwide is looking more fragile than ever, hitting demand for gasoline in the #US.https://t.co/jduGva0yoy
#Coronavirus in #Saudi Arabia: Twenty-one family members, including elderly individuals, have contracted the coronavirus after one woman, who was carrying the virus, did not comply with preventative measures, the health ministry says. https://t.co/3IMLlRzGFw
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...ah, another use of the police as revenue agents. Might be the original cause of Portland's exemption for 'people of color', they wanted to avoid the usual 'incident' that sets off the 'free stuff looting days' we've seen elsewhere.
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/\ Appears many of the protesters were out-of-town Antifa caucasians, which negates the need for a large number of urban locals. A few non-caucasions are however necessary for BLM narrative and visual. Other urban dwellers are free to mingle and contribute to the CV-19 die off.
Planned Parenthood was never actually designed to handle current urban 'Margaret Higgins Sanger' population downsizing requirements. Drive-by shootings continue to be plagued by dodgy marksmanship which amount to little more than anecdotal news flashes.
India has apparently lost 3 tactically important positions to China since spring thaw--the "triangle" near PP14 in the Galwan Valley, the zone up to Finger 4 on Pangong Lake, & "the Bottleneck" on the Depsang plains. 1/n https://t.co/x6D8afOdRN
[The Star Canada] The white iPhone with chipped paint that Moroccan journalist Omar Radi used to stay in contact with his sources also allowed his government to spy on him.
They could read every email, text and website visited; listen to every phone call and watch every video conference; download calendar entries, monitor GPS coordinates, and even turn on the camera and microphone to see and hear where the phone was at any moment.
Yet Radi was trained in encryption and cyber security. He hadn’t clicked on any suspicious links and didn’t have any missed calls on WhatsApp — both well-documented ways a cell phone can be hacked.
Instead, a report published Monday by Amnesty International shows Radi was targeted by a new and frighteningly stealthy technique. All he had to do was visit one website. Any website.
Forensic evidence gathered by Amnesty International on Radi’s phone shows that it was infected by "network injection," a fully automated method where an attacker intercepts a cellular signal when it makes a request to visit a website. In milliseconds, the web browser is diverted to a malicious site and spyware code is downloaded that allows remote access to everything on the phone. The browser then redirects to the intended website and the user is none the wiser.
As somebody who once designed the early digital cellular data call flows I have the following to say.
#1 This is a brilliant infra-structure side hack!
#2 It would be very hard to defeat
#3 It's a hack at a "glue-point" where different tech are attached together and hence a perfect point to do it.
#4 this is because most modern tech is not a design "unity" rather a "glued" composite.
While Amnesty could not definitively state that the Moroccan authorities were behind the attack, the group was able to use forensic evidence to conclude this was very likely the case.
Forensic evidence gathered by Amnesty International on Radi’s phone shows that it was infected by "network injection," a fully automated method where an attacker intercepts a cellular signal when it makes a request to visit a website.
The episode reveals not that authoritarian governments are actively listening to the calls, monitoring the web traffic and reading the emails of journalists and human rights activists — but that they can do so undetected.
"I kind of suspected (I was hacked)," said Radi on an encrypted video chat from Rabat. "The Moroccan authorities are buying every possible and imaginable surveillance and espionage product. They want to know everything."
Radi is an investigative journalist who co-founded the local news site Le Desk, a partner with the Star in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He specializes in the connections between politicians and business people as well as social movements and human rights. In other words, he’s a thorn in the government’s side and a prime target for surveillance, hacking and harassment.
In 2017, he was arrested while reporting on a security crackdown in the Rif region, and again this past December after one of his tweets described a local judge as an "executioner."
"I was prosecuted for contempt of court, but that’s just the official charge. In fact, I was punished for my entire body of work. They pile things up and then they look for a pretext to arrest," he told Forbidden Stories, an investigative journalism group that coordinated this report with the Star and 14 other outlets.
Radi spent a week in pretrial detention, was later convicted to four months and is currently out pending appeal.
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The Israelis shared this tech with us some years ago. At a discount too, fantastic chaps. Great front end too. Easy and very 'god like'. Amnesty has been after them for a while, instigated by a Soros funded group called Open Computing. It's very necessary in this world.
An activist journalist deserves zero privacy anyway.
Thread - The New York Times reported last night that the GRU's Unit 29155 paid militants in Afghanistan to attack US troops. Bellingcat has been tracking the activity of Unit 29155 for quite some time nowhttps://t.co/r3MKUUP65L
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/\ Yes, I believe I saw at least one piece of UNCLAS traffic that indicated Salisbury-Skripel was a 29155 job. It's certainly in their available product line. At the time I suspected a Porton Down (PD) disgruntled employee or do-it-yourself home chem-bio project. The proximity of the incident to PD was in fact a coincidence.
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I don't find this to be credible at all. First you have the Russians, notorious big spenders that they are. Then the ever reliable Taliban who won't even keep any recognizable agreement with their co-religionists much less people they are religiously sanctioned to lie, cheat, and steal from.
So the entire set up strains the imagination. But if the practical limitations aren't enough it's being reported by the NYT.
Eight #Iranian protesters have been charged with “spreading corruption on earth,” a crime punishable by death in Iran, in Isfahan province, a judiciary official says.https://t.co/O4fzwgistW
[Mises] "Defund the Police" is the latest rallying cry for protestors in many cities across the nation. Many activists, enraged by the brutal killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, are calling for completely disbanding the police, while others are seeking reductions in police budgets and more government spending elsewhere. However, few activists appear to be calling for a fundamental decrease in the political power that is the root cause of police abuses.
Many "Defund the Police" activists favor ending the war on drugs. That would be a huge leap forward toward making police less intrusive and oppressive. But even if police were no longer making a million plus drug arrests each year, they would still be making more than 9 million other arrests. Few protestors appear to favor the sweeping repeals that could take tens of millions of Americans out of the legal crosshairs.
How many of the "Defund the Police" protestors would support repealing mandatory seatbelt laws as a step toward reducing police power? In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that police can justifiably arrest anyone believed to have "committed even a very minor criminal offense." That case involved Gail Atwater, a Texas mother who was driving slowly near her home but, because her children were not wearing seatbelts, was taken away by an abusive cop whose shouting left her children "terrified and hysterical." A majority of Supreme Court justices recognized that "Atwater's claim to live free of pointless indignity and confinement clearly outweighs anything the City can raise against it specific to her case"‐but upheld the arrest anyhow. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that "such unbounded discretion carries with it grave potential for abuse."
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At any given moment, it has been said we all are breaking some law. I don't know whether this is true or not; however, it is easy to believe it is true.
Trying to get rid of useless laws would be a Hurculean task. Who would decide such things? Some left-wing anarchic mob such as BLM, Antifa, Dem Party hacks or some other group? That amounts to mob rule and leads to star chambers and kangaroo courts. We have seen some of that lately in faked investigations, frame-ups and questionable trials (Flynn and Stone, e.g.)
Nazi Germany tried having State-appointed lawyers and judges who designed faux laws during a trial to get rid of opponents and enemies. That did not work out well.
Some reform is needed, it's not clear exactly where it should be aimed. To begin with, we should get rid of laws that are not Constitutionally supported.
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> "Police reform and gun reform go hand in hand. Reducing the easy availability of guns would not eliminate the problems with policing in America nor end unwarranted killings, but it would help."
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@#2 - There's a book out called "Three Felonies A Day" (not a paid advertisement, just FYI), so just be mindful of that personal crime wave you commit.
.@NORADCommand: US F-22 fighter jets “intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone“ Saturday. Russian aircraft remained in international airspace & came within 75 miles south of the Alaskan Aleutian island chain
Moscow reports operations normal, after Dutch officials suggest rise harmless to humans and environment may stem from damage to fuel element in western Russia nuclear power plant.
Six people have been arrested in #France over the theft of an artwork by street artist #Banksy commemorating the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks that was stolen from the Bataclan concert hall, say sources.https://t.co/DKLUnZ54X0
#UK counter-terrorism police charge Libyan suspect with three counts of murder for a knife attack in the English town of Reading.https://t.co/gXrCvMxgBb
A suspect has been charged with three counts of murder over a knife attack in the English town of Reading described by police as a terrorist incident, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Saturday.
A man wielding a five-inch knife attacked people out enjoying the sun at Forbury Gardens, a Reading park, on the evening of June 20, killing three people and injuring three others.
"The Crown Prosecution Service has today authorized CounterTerrorism Policing South East to charge Khairi Saadallah,
...arrived in England requesting asylum in 2012 because he liked to smoke and drink, developed schizophrenia and an interest in jihad which briefly attracted the attention of MI5 last year, released from prison just two weeks before succumbing to Sudden Jihad Syndrome but could not be sent back to Libya because the country was deemed too dangerous for him...
25, with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder," the CPS said.
Saadallah will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday.
A security source had previously told Rooters that the suspect, a resident of Reading, was a Libyan national.
Police named the victims as Britons James Furlong, 36, and David Wails, 49, and US national Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39.
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could not be sent back to Libya because the country was deemed too dangerous for him...
No consideration that he was too dangerous to the country he was in though. This is known as human sacrifice to those outside the virtue signalling crowd who hold power. You are expendable for their virtue.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Cairo’s message to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... is very clear: Any action that threatens Libya’s security and stability is also a threat to Egypt. The flow of Ottoman Turkish-backed militias and mercenaries into Libya does not mean anything but an assault against the national security of Egypt, which requires a direct military intervention. This was the message President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi wanted to deliver to Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... and his Libyan ally Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Tripoli
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"The US Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, also attended and he said the violence currently being witnessed is increasing the chances of ISIS and al-Qaeda returning in Libya..." Would someone tell this moron that they are already there.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 4 Talibs and arrested 3 others following clash in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said a clash broke out between security forces and Talibs in Chupli Tapa Village of Khamab district on Friday night.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 4 Talibs during the clash and arrested 3 others.
The security forces also confiscated some weapons and munitions following the clash, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
#Egypt has executed Libyan militant Abdelrahim Mohamed al-Mesmari, who was captured after the 2017 terrorist attack in the western desert area Wahat, the Ministry of Defense announces.https://t.co/qpducvl2hE
#Britain will be ready to quit its transitional arrangements with the #EU “on Australia terms” if no deal on their future relationship is reached, PM Johnson tells his Polish counterpart Morawiecki.https://t.co/M41TrejWbj
Zeinab Soleimani daughter of assassinated Qassem Soleimani today married the son of #Hezbollah's Hashem Safi Ad-Din, Reza Hashem Safi Ad Din. This further indictates the prostect of Safi Ad-Din being the heir to Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/uuLBO041Rq
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) June 27, 2020
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No picture of John Kerry’s son as best man holding the ‘blood red’ wedding ring?
[ToloNews] Residents in the Afghan province of Maidan Wardak on Friday expressed deep concerns over a dramatic surge in the level of violence in their areas, saying Taliban ...Arabic for students... groups have significantly increased their presence in the area and are frequently engaging in deadly battles with the Afghan cops.
A soldier in the Syrian Army has been forcefully disappeared after he posted videos expressing his love for President Bashar Al-Assad’s daughter, Zein Assad, and his wish to marry her.https://t.co/x0Mp6aDd7p
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Ugh! She's WAY too old per Mo
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...On the other hand, the poor SOB has probably been out in the boonies for a while, and the local goats certainly got his number by now, so it probably seemed reasonable.
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What's that coda to "May you live in interesting times"?
Oh yeah, "May the Emperor's concubine speak fondly of you".
Lebanese officials apologize to the #US ambassador in #Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, after a judge issued an order banning the US diplomat from being able to speak to local media outlets, one day after she criticized #Hezbollah in a public interview.https://t.co/MrshuLLU50pic.twitter.com/LWw2iR8P80
“By its actions and threats, Hezbollah destabilizes [Lebanon] and jeopardizes the country’s economic recovery,” Ambassador Dorothy Shea tells Al Hadath.https://t.co/KFECBpINZh
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a warning to consumers about hand sanitizers manufactured in Mexico. The agency has put together a list of nine products that are to be avoided because they may be fatal to the consumer.
If the hand sanitizer in your handbag or pocket is one of these, the FDA asks that you "stop using these hand sanitizers and dispose of them immediately in appropriate hazardous waste containers. Do not flush or pour these products down the drain."
All-Clean Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-002-01)
Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-007-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-008-04)
Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-006-01)
The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-010-10)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-005-03)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-009-01)
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol (NDC: 74589-003-01)
Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer (NDC: 74589-001-01)
These nine brands are manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de CV in Mexico. The problem is an ingredient used in these hand sanitizers — methanol. Methanol is also known as wood alcohol. Methanol is toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested. The FDA recommends that if you have used these products, seek immediate treatment.
FDA tested samples of Lavar Gel and CleanCare No Germ. Lavar Gel contains 81 percent (v/v) methanol and no ethyl alcohol, and CleanCare No Germ contains 28 percent (v/v) methanol. Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects.
So, have the products been removed from store shelves? Nope. Eskbiochem has not honored the FDA’s request to do so. They are still on the market.
On June 17, 2020, FDA contacted Eskbiochem to recommend the company remove its hand sanitizer products from the market due to the risks associated with methanol poisoning. To date, the company has not taken action to remove these potentially dangerous products from the market.
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As hand sanitizers are biocides wouldn't they cause a noticeable and painful skin inflammation if there was any significant absorption beyond the layer of dead cells, especially if used regularly?
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Now people, methanol (wood alcohol) is dangerous because - if you drink it, the enzymes that normally handle ethanol would turn it into formaldehyde.
[Statista] European airline carriers secured billions worth of government support since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Lufthansa, the world's fourth largest airline, received a nine billion euros lifeline, the biggest German corporate rescue caused by COVID-19 so far. This was no exception. On June 26, for example, the Netherlands announced the details of its financial support for KLM with a bailout package worth of 3.4 billion euros. Earlier, France announced seven billion euros worth of support for Air France.
This support comes at a cost for the airlines, however, as most European governments attach environmental conditions to their support. This is because the sector's greenhouse gas emissions kept growing up until 2020. Between January and June 2019, for example, carbon emissions from departing flights that originated from Austria and Finland grew by 19 and eight percent, respectively. [Perhaps another example of using COVID-19 hysteria to push the climate change agenda.]
Satellite photographs show that an explosion that rattled #Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites.https://t.co/E6TVy63Haqpic.twitter.com/oIjvUSeA6H
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The gas storage area sits near what analysts describe as Iran’s Khojir missile facility. The explosion appears to have struck a facility for the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, which makes solid-propellant rockets, said a researcher in Monterey, California.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies identified Khojir as the “site of numerous tunnels, some suspected of use for arms assembly.” Large industrial buildings at the site visible from satellite photographs also suggest missile assembly being conducted there.
One can only hope.
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They obviously do not subscribe to the International Building Code when it comes to the hazardous H classification standards.
They subscribe to the IIC the Insh'Alla Islamist Code.
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El Sharara oil field under the authority of the democratically elected parliament #HoR , and protection of the Libyan Army #LNA.#Libya .pic.twitter.com/3Yhs1rsdeX
[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) are tackling the Taliban ...Arabic for students... insurgency in at least 15 provinces of the country, according to numbers from the Afghan security agencies.
The security agencies have said that at least 15 Afghan security force members were killed and 14 others were maimed in various parts of the country in the past 24 hours while repelling the Taliban attacks.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] A Japanese University has awarded its first-ever degree in ninja studies after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years examining historical documents on the true nature of the stealth fighters while perfecting his martial arts skills. Now there's a wide open job market!
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Airstrikes targeting positions belonging to regime forces and Iran-backed militias in east #Syria kill six fighters, says a war monitor, adding that #Israel is “likely responsible.”https://t.co/YNlqd1qxKE
#UPDATE: Unconfirmed reports from a number of sources a few hours ago of airstrike(s) near Abu Kamal in eastern Syria. Nothing confirmed, interesting image however. https://t.co/KHIesyhVth
MANY people in custody, with many others being sought for Vandalization of Federal Property in Lafayette Park. 10 year prison sentences! @FBIWFOpic.twitter.com/mrLyxbWNvq
#Iran’s Central Bank injects hundreds of millions of dollars to stabilize the currency market after the rial fell to historic lows this week amid #US sanctions and the #coronavirus outbreak.#COVID19https://t.co/8BnQlgZTR4
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A mutated strain of coronavirus that has decimated the US, UK and Italy is nearly 10 times more infectious than the original virus that emerged from China, a study suggests.
The potent version of SARS-CoV-2 - called D614G - has four to five times more 'spikes' that protrude from the viral surface allow it to latch onto human cells.
Not only does this trait make it more infectious, but it also makes the virus more stable and resilient.
That was exactly my suspicion. So, China had a multiple release and they managed to eradicate the second, more virulent one. Without warning the world that it had spread to Italy and Spain.
[HotAir] And here I thought we had it on the highest authority that mail-in balloting didn’t have more risk for fraud and manipulation. Don’t tell that to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who just indicted four men for voter fraud connected to hundreds of fraudulent mail-in ballots. Two of suspects are city council members in Paterson, in fact:
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced voting fraud charges against 1st Ward Councilman Michael Jackson, 3rd Ward Council-Elect Alex Mendez and two other men, weeks after the May 12 local election in which the Passaic County Board of Elections decided not to count 800 city ballots found scattered across different municipalities.
Both Jackson, 48, and Mendez, 45, were charged with fraud in casting mail-in votes, unauthorized possession of ballots, tampering with public records and falsifying or tampering with records, according to the statement. Mendez was additionally charged with election fraud and false registration or transfer.
Along with Jackson and Mendez, two Passaic County men, Shelim Khalique, 51, of Wayne, and Abu Razyen, 21, of Prospect Park, were also charged.
Mark Hemingway says the actual problem may have been in the thousands — and that it came close to 20% of all voting in the election:
In the City Council election, 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but only 13,557 votes were counted. More than 3,190 votes, 19% of the total ballots cast, were disqualified by the board of elections. Due to the pandemic, Paterson’s election was done through vote-by-mail. Community organizations, such as the city’s NAACP chapter, are calling for the entire election to be invalidated. …
Reporting by NBC further uncovered citizens of Paterson who are listed as having voted, but who told the news outlet they never received a ballot and did not vote. One woman, Ramona Javier, after being shown the list of people on her block who allegedly voted, told the outlet she knew of eight family members and neighbors who were wrongly listed. “We did not receive vote-by-mail ballots and thus we did not vote,” she said. “This is corruption. This is fraud.”
There were multiple reports that large numbers of mail-in ballots were left on the lobby floors of apartment buildings and not delivered to residents’ individual mailboxes, further casting doubt on the integrity of the election.
[ToloNews] CNN on Saturday reported that the Trump administration is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the fall, citing two Trump administration officials.
It’s CNN, so the probability is at least 50% that they got it right.
Almost a week ago, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command, said the United States has reduced its troop level to 8,600 in Afghanistan, fulfilling the first phase of the planned withdrawal specified in the US-Taliban ...Arabic for students... deal signed in Doha in February.
The CNN report says that the new move would reduce the number of troops from 8,600 to 4,500 and would be the lowest number since the very earliest days of the war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.
This comes a day after a meeting between US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.
"We will also follow up on our discussion on Afghanistan. NATO will continue to adjust our presence in support of the grinding of the peace processor," Stoltenberg said on Friday. "This will be done in close coordination with Allies and partners."
The US has committed to withdrawing all of its forces from Afghanistan by next April under the agreement it signed with the Taliban.
It is unclear when the withdrawal of the 4,000 additional US troops would take place, CNN reports.
"US force levels in Afghanistan remain in the mid-8,000s. Additional drawdowns beyond this number remain conditions-based according to the US Government’s assessment of the overall security environment and Taliban compliance with the US-Taliban agreement," Pentagon front man Major Rob Lodewick, said as quoted by CNN.
According to CNN, the US State Department and US National Security Council did not reply to requests for comment.
[THEFEDERALIST] Blazing sun and high humidity met hundreds of protesters, counter-protesters, neighborhood residents, coppers, and news hounds Friday evening at Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park. The protest, planned Tuesday, hoped to tear the monument of Abraham Lincoln with one hand on the Emancipation Proclamation freeing a slave, modeled by freedman Archer Alexander. It was paid for by local black residents and black Union veterans and dedicated by Frederick Douglass.
After a Tuesday rally promised to return to tear the statue down on Thursday, Park Police surrounded the monument with fencing re-enforced by Jersey barriers and stood guard night and day. Tension in the usually busy community park had been building since then, broken by short moments of music and happy protest.
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Is shame even a concept with a lot of those people?
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Although the author of the Twit sounds like a real winner, but the 11-second video of the dynamic duo of Chuckie and Stretch is definitely worth the laughs.
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The "black" community may finally be realizing the people grabbing the megaphones and anointing themselves "leaders" have nothing at all to add other than anarchy and continued servitude to the Dem party and its progressives who have kept black people chained to the voting plantation for a generation
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06/28/2020 22:06
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[ZeroHedge] Almost five short months ago, 'journalist' Ryan Broderick was the envy of his fake news peers. The BuzzFeed 'senior reporter' had just written a hit-piece against Zero Hedge slamming us over the 'conspiracy theory' that COVID-19 may have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, and claiming that we doxed one of their scientists. Hours later, we were summarily kicked off of Twitter - a ban which has since been reversed after the social media giant admitted they were in error. Meanwhile, the lab origin 'conspiracy theory' has gained widespread support and is now the focus of several international investigations into the CCP lab.
Less than 48 hours after our February Twitter ban, internet sleuths discovered that Broderick had previously blogged about pedophilic fantasies involving young boys. Why he wasn't fired on the spot is anyone's guess. Perhaps former BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith (now with the 'Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not A Crime'-promoting New York Times) has a soft spot for Ryan.
On Friday, Broderick was fired for plagiarism after BuzzFeed's new editor-in-chief, Mark Schoofs, published "A Note To Our Readers" detailing eleven instances where Broderick lifted content from other publications without attribution going back to 2013, including his hit-piece against Zero Hedge.
"BuzzFeed News has found that the following articles do not meet our editorial standards, as laid out in our standards and ethics guidelines," reads Schoofs' note. "As a result, the articles have been updated to more clearly attribute phrases and sentence construction to material previously published by other news organizations."
Which is a long-winded way to say: 'Our Senior Reporter got caught plagiarizing eleven times, so we're doing damage control.'
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/28/2020 7:26
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Certainly they wouldn't have wanted to fire him over his cherished, stated ambition to be 'the Andy Warhol of erotic children's photography'. Where's Tony Soprano when you need him?
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