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Midnight Meme Of The Day!
*by Noah* Susan Collins' whole life is an upside down pyramid of ever-growing shamelessness and duplicity. It's easy to see what she must have been like as a child, since she must have chosen her path early to get to the monumental point where she is today.
Brexit Day
Parliament Square is the site, muddied by rain, trodden by hundreds who have made it their celebratory space. The Leave Means Leave official website had been busy for weeks, thrilled about January 31 and the fact that that Britain would finally be leaving that beastly collective they know as the […]
Electric Cooperatives Channel Solar Resources to Rural American Communities
Big TVA style projects are no longer needed and appear to be prone to corruption. Community cooperatives have a long … Continue reading →
US Forces Block Another Russian Convoy as Tensions Rise in Northeast Syria
Click to enlarge maps. Recall that Trump abandonned the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who were US allies, to be rolled … Continue reading →
Iraq & Syria: of Memory & Maps
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + : From OpenDemocracy: “Iraq and Syria: of memory and maps by DARIUS A. KAMALI 12 May 2018…
Alleged robber nabbed at airport with cash in luggage, police say
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Police say a man wanted over an aggravated armed robbery in Tasmania was arrested as he tried to board a plane to Melbourne with cash in his luggage.
Allecha Boyd's killer used her public execution 'to foster reputation as hard man', court hears
The family of a murdered woman, whose body has never been found after an alleged "public execution", describes their daily anguish as her killer watches on from the dock.
Head found 'wrapped in jeans': Alleged affair led to murder, court told
Mohammed Khan is accused of decapitating Syeid Alam while the men were fishing on the Fitzroy River over his anger at an explicit photograph of Mr Khan's wife, the Supreme Court in Rockhampton is told.
Shakira's performance at the Super Bowl instantly became a meme — but it may have been a nod to her Arabic heritage
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The Kansas City Chiefs won the US Super Bowl earlier today — but if you pay any heed to Twitter, the most important achievement happened at half-time.
Keyboard warriors charged with affray after mums take disease dispute outside
Police charge two women, who clashed in an online mothers' group chat over the effects of the coronavirus, with affray after they got into a physical fight after meeting up in person.
Calls for 'maximum punishment' after 12-year-old dies from female genital mutilation in Egypt
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A retired doctor and the the girl's relatives are detained after she died due to complications, with the public prosecutor's office promising "firm action" against anyone carrying out the procedure in the future.
Corruption-accused Paul Whyte remains behind bars as he pores over alleged public sector fraud
The former top WA bureaucrat says he is 'in no rush' to take up bail, despite being granted permission to leave prison, as he works through the details of his $22 million fraud arrest.
Two travellers being assessed for coronavirus in Brisbane after airport screening
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Two people who arrived at Brisbane International Airport are taken to hospital to be assessed for the deadly coronavirus, after medical staff started screening travellers at the airport on the weekend..
Confused about America's election today? Start right here
The Iowa caucuses have arrived. Got no idea what an Iowa caucus is? We'll get you up to speed in five minutes.
Police dog Kaos 'lively' after surgery following stabbing
The Brisbane police dog stabbed in the neck during a pursuit responds well to surgery, but is not out of the woods just yet with a second operation needed to assess nerve damage.
'It's good to have a win': How popcorn saved the day in this drought-struck NSW region
A New South Wales farmer has successfully trialled a popcorn crop which will eventually end up in movie cinemas across the country.
'Communities are the real losers': Rex pulls two flight routes, blaming 'anti-competitive' Qantas
Bushfire-struck Kangaroo Island has been dealt a major blow, with regional airline Rex cancelling its services between Adelaide and the island.
When dumb humanities trainees deform education
In the morning, Europeans learned that the number of dead and cured coronavirus patients grew to 361 and 475 or so, respectively. The second, "recovered", figure starts to clearly dominate. It may become even rosier in coming days when the HIV+flu drugs improve the treatment of the patients. The London attacker was an ISIS fanatic who wanted his GF to behead her parents, who has done some planning of terror attacks in the past, who was arrested, who shouldn't have been freed again, but who was freed prematurely instead (deja vu). Within days, he went to stab the people. What a surpr... more »
Super Bowl Surreality: Fox Rejected Pro-life Commercial, but Ran Drag Queen Ad
[image: super-bowl-surreality-fox-rejected-pro-life-commercial-but-ran-drag-queen-ad] “Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like,” remarked G.K. Chesterton in 1932. That certainly would bring home the reality of abortion. Yet that many would rather drown it out is no doubt a major reason why FOX Sports, after giving a pro-life organization a six-month run-around, wouldn’t air its Super Bowl advertisement.
Citing Coronavirus, China Locks Down Wenzhou and Its 9 Million People
[image: citing-coronavirus-china-locks-down-wenzhou-and-its-9-million-people] In an ominous new development, the Chinese government has locked down the city of Wenzhou, China’s 15th largest, a growing sign that the coronavirus outbreak is defying efforts of the Chinese government to contain it.
Myanmar Update: Court Order tries to Protect Rohingya Muslims from Genocide
*Hurst Hannum* *Security, Asia* [image: Reuters] The Myanmar military’s years-long campaign against the Rohingya Muslims left hundreds of villages a smoldering pile of debris. Myanmar has been ordered by the International Court of Justice to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country that has suffered “mass killing, mass displacement, mass fear [and] overwhelming…brutality” at the hands of the military. Over 700,000 Rohingya fled or were forced out of the country since 2016, most to neighboring Bangladesh. Th... more »
How School Choice Actually Supports Tolerance
*Neal McCluskey* *Politics, Americas* [image: Reuters] A big deal. It was National School Choice Week last week, a week dedicated to highlighting the power of choice in education, including public and private school choice. All week, we at Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom will be highlighting how choice contributes to social harmony. Today’s focus is tolerance, spurred in part by a growing critique that private school choice programs enable people to select schools that sow *in*tolerance. Just last week, the *Orlando Sentinel* ran a series of articles attacking Florida’s pr... more »
The Wendish Had A Stark Choice During The Second Crusade: Conversion Or Death
*Warfare History Network* *History, * For the pagan Wends living along the Baltic Sea, the Second Crusade quickly became a desperate struggle for tribal survival. By the middle of the 12th century, much of western Europe had settled into a tenuous, often interrupted peace, and many modern nation-states had begun to emerge. France, England, and Germany had each developed into roughly autonomous kingdoms with distinct cultures. In vast sections of eastern Europe, however, it was a different story. The Holy Roman Empire, a loose organization of fiefdoms bound together in a shaky co... more »
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Sunday 2nd February 2020 – Plus Weekly Update
By Anton Lang ~ This Post details the daily wind power generation data for the AEMO coverage area in Australia. For the background information, refer to the Introductory Post at this link. Each image is shown here at a smaller size to fit on the page alongside the data for that day. If you click […]
The Flu and You: Perspective and Preparedness
Your primary defense against such contagions is the capacity to shelter in place. ~ Mark Alexander ~ Thursday, the UN’s World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concer in connection with the spread of the latest coronavirus mutations and concern about human-to-human transmission. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted, “The main reason for […]
More Climate Delusion: Plant Life Near Mt. Everest Is Bad
From the team at CFACT ~ The Climate Delusion’s war on plant life is in full force this month. As CFACT documented this week, the Washington Post argued that global warming is a crisis because it causes more plant abundant plant life. The Post’s rationale was that more plant life elevates pollen levels, which in […]
The looming German capacity crunch
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? A pertinent update from Timera: ? ? The looming German capacity crunch The German Energiewende has supported impressive growth in renewables since its inception. Wind and solar now accounts for 47% of German capacity. A renewed policy emphasis on renewables means…
Corrupting Climate and Weather
Originally posted on Science Matters: An article at The Spectator raises the question Do alarmists know the difference between weather and climate? The author Charles Moore may also be a man for all seasons like Sir Thomas More. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and images. A lot of clever people are putting the ‘green’…
February 3rd – 2020 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #1110
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and … Continue reading →
Monday February 3rd – Open Thread
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those … Continue reading →
Is The Wuhan Coronavirus Becoming A Pandemic?
*New York Times:* *Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say* *Rapidly rising caseloads alarm researchers, who fear the virus may make its way across the globe. But scientists cannot yet predict how many deaths may result.* The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. The prospect is daunting. A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restriction... more »
Same old BS from the Alarmist Activists
Anthony Cox --> David Karoly is an academic with a meteorological background. He is also one of Australia’s leading climate alarmists. He recently had a Q&A in the media, presenting key points which he asserted proved humans were causing climate change. Every point he made was wrong, plainly and evidently wrong. This is without even considering that the current climate and the slight changes in temperature and increases in atmospheric CO2 have proved to be beneficial to the world with increased plant growth and agricultural output at record levels. Such considerations of course w... more »
Wuhan Coronavirus News Updates -- February 2, 2020
*AFP:* *Virus deaths in China pass 360, exceeding SARS mainland toll* China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic soared past 360 on Monday, with deepening global concern about the outbreak and governments closing their borders to people from China. The fresh toll came a day after China imposed a lockdown on a major city far from the epicentre and the first fatality outside the country was reported in the Philippines. Authorities in Hubei, the province at the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 56 new fatalities, with one reported in the southwestern megalopolis of Chongqing... more »
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Teach Me to Whisper"
Liquid Mind, "Teach Me to Whisper"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This stunning group of galaxies is far, far away, about 450 million light-years from planet Earth and cataloged as galaxy cluster Abell S0740. Dominated by the cluster's large central elliptical galaxy (ESO 325-G004), this reprocessed Hubble Space Telescope view takes in a remarkable assortment of galaxy shapes and sizes with only a few spiky foreground stars scattered through the field. *Click image for larger size.* The giant elliptical galaxy (right of center) spans over 100,000 light years and contains about 100 billion stars, comparable in size to our own spiral Milky Way gala... more »
Paulo Coelho, “Things As They Are”
*“Things As They Are”* by Paulo Coelho “Of course things don’t always happen they way we wish they would. There are moments in which we feel we are seeking something that is not meant for us, knocking on doors that don’t open, waiting for miracles that don’t manifest themselves. Fortunately that is the way things are – if everything went the way we wanted, soon we would no longer have anything to write about, nothing to guide our daily thoughts. This script serves our dreams as nourishment, but to our battles as energy. And as it always happens with the warriors that spend all thei... more »
"Why We Think That Everything Happens for a Reason"
*"Why We Think That Everything Happens for a Reason"* by Ralph Lewis, M.D. "Many people go through life and face adversity, and believe that ‘everything happens for a reason’ or that things are ‘meant to be.’ Many are certain that their lives are guided by a higher power - if not directly, then subtly and mysteriously - convinced that they see evidence of this in their life events. Subjective evidence can feel extremely compelling. These sorts of beliefs are so widespread that we generally do not consider them irrational or bizarre. They are consistent with our intuitions. In my p... more »
Did Trump Congratulate the Wrong State for the Chiefs’ Super Bowl Win?
The Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl LIV was a great day for Kansas City, wherever it may be.
Vicksburg restaurant worker exposes customers to hepatitis A
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is investigating a case of hepatitis A in a Warren County restaurant employee that may have led to exposure for customers. MSDH has set up free hepatitis A vaccinations today and tomorrow for those who might have been exposed to the virus An employee of the Gumbo Pot,... Continue Reading
Hungary tries to prevent repeat of Listeria outbreak
A system in Hungary to prevent a repeat of the deadly Listeria outbreak traced to a frozen vegetable factory in the country in 2018 is working well, according to those involved. The Hungarian Deep Freezing and Canning Association (MHKSZ) revealed the first-year operational experience of the system was positive. After the outbreak source was found... Continue Reading
FDA puts companies on notice with warning letters
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company... Continue Reading
Quora Banning.. Again
Dear Reader, If you want to continue to follow me, PLEASE join… Continue reading “Quora Banning.. Again”… The post Quora Banning.. Again appeared first on Asian Straight Shooter.
Incredible Plunging BBC CNN NYT
The incredible shrinking biased media. Continue reading →
Coronavirus as a Financial Contagion – Chinese Markets Suffer Steep Losses Upon Opening…
Even before the Coronavirus surfaced in China there was lower manufacturing factory activity within the Chinese economy. The necessary response within China to control the spread of the Coronavirus has been to shut down most commerce. Factories, schools & businesses … Continue reading →
Sunday Talks: Kevin McCarthy Discusses 2020 Politics – Impeachment and Dem Primary…
Early Sunday Morning Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the final stages of the impeachment and the 2020 race. McCarthy highlights the internal dynamic within the DNC that is entering a phase … Continue reading →
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Big Bernie Win Tomorrow-- With Far-Reaching Effects On Biden's Electability Argument
When computers mimic the human mind by showing an ability to "learn" and then use that learning to solve problems... that's AI-- Artificial Intelligence. Today it goes beyond human speech recognition, military war-game simulations and autonomously operating cars and tracks to... predicting who's going to win the Iowa caucuses tomorrow. You don't need AI for that you say? You can check the Real Clear Politics polling average (which shows Bernie ahead with 23.8%, compared to Status Quo Joe's 20.2%, Mayo Pete's 15.8% and everyone else below the 15% needed to win any delegates). Or ... more »
POLAR BEARS : The New Symbol Of Climate Change Realism And A Stable Arctic
“THE polar bear as an icon for climate change is dead because the distorted predictions made by polar bear specialists were wrong.” “THIS is a lesson for researchers in other areas who have failed to stop the invasion of politics into their science.” – Dr Susan Crockford *** Hat tip @EcologySenseUK FOR years, the Polar […]
Chinese Stock And Commodity Markets Crash On First Trading Day After Lunar New Year Holiday
*Reuters*:* Chinese markets plunge as rising virus death toll fuels fears for global growth* BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361 and Chinese stock and commodity markets fell heavily on Monday as investors retreated into safe-haven assets in the first trading session after an extended Lunar New Year break. Chinese stock and commodity markets plunged at the open in their first session since Jan. 23, when the outbreak of the newly identified virus had claimed only 17 lives in Wuhan city in Hubei province. Since then the flu-like virus... more »
Bob Katter hands party leadership to his son, says it's time for him to 'go after our enemies'
Bob Katter has handed over the reins of the Katter Australia Party to his son, Robbie, who says it won't be too hard to be "more cautious and balanced" than his maverick dad.
'Communities are the real losers': Rex pulls three flight routes, blaming 'anti-competitive' Qantas
Bushfire-struck Kangaroo Island has been dealt a major blow, with regional airline Rex cancelling its services between Adelaide and the island.
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