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*by Noah Sunday Thoughts:* Wuhan Wet Market my ass! Chinese lab? No way! The Old Testament shows us where to place the blame. It was the Lord! Trump and his evangelical crowd are just trying to divert blame from their guy. Covid-19 is just another sick joke from God. It's the new hell fire and brimstone. It's the new plague of locusts! And don't ever forget that The Bloated Orange Menace himself is a plague, a very deadly plague.
UK Police Terrorist Deliberately Snaps Innocent Mans Hip in Unlawful Arrest
Horrific. Fascist Police State rising. I’m adding Max Igan’s latest videos at links below this one. Updates are coming with greater speed these days with what is unfolding. EWR thecrowhouse 229K subscribers Max Igan in Conversation with Dr Andrew Kaufman Max Igan in Conversation with Fanos Panayides Why Everyone Needs to WAKE UP Right NOW
Did Mission Creep Cause the Failures at the CDC?
*Chris Edwards* *Public Health, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC24AG9PM5ES&share=true] A terrible thing. *Key point: *Without a finely-tuned mission and low red tape, it is hard to get things done. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that it “has a unique mission—to save lives by deploying effective, proven strategies to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to disease outbreaks at their source.” But the CDC was slow to recognize the size of the COVID-19 threat and it fumbled the ball in numerous w... more »
Who Decides When a Lockdown Ends?
*David Swindell* *Politics, Americas* [image: Reuters] So who’s running the show? In a nation with more than 90,000 governments, responses to the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted the challenges posed by the United States’ system of federalism, where significant power rests with states and local governments. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court just overturned their governor’s order for residents to stay at home – and then several cities and counties imposed their own restrictions, very similar to the governor’s rules. So who’s running the show? I am a scholar of how different levels o... more »
After Pearl Harbor, The Navy Learned What Horrors Awaited The Crew Of The USS West Virginia
*Warfare History Network* *History, Asia* In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, recovery crews made a grisly discovery aboard the USS West Virginia. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the primary target was Battleship Row. These capital ships had to suffice since the American carriers were away. Among the battleships lined up alongside Ford Island was the USS *West Virginia*, a 20-year-old warship with a crew of over a thousand. During the battle the ship took seven torpedo hits along the port side along with two bomb strikes around its super... more »
'The pain is unbearable': Workers leave children, jobs and homes behind as they are locked out of Australia
Pregnant couples are among those separated with little hope of reunion as travel bans keep Australians and non-citizens apart during international travel bans.
Geelong footballer Jack Steven recovering in hospital after suffering chest wound
Police are investigating after the Cats midfielder presented at a Melbourne hospital overnight with a chest wound.
'The old ways of doing things don't work', Obama tells graduating students
Just In - 22 hours ago
Former US President Barack Obama has slammed leaders overseeing the nation's response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates the pandemic shows many officials "aren't even pretending to be in charge".
Explosion, fire at Los Angeles hash oil manufacturer injures 11 firefighters
Just In - 22 hours ago
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles injures 11 firefighters, with more than 200 others rushing to the scene as the flames spread to several buildings.
Public warned to be on high alert as relaxed coronavirus restrictions lead to 'great NSW bust out'
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says he understands people want to enjoy their newfound freedoms, but until authorities are able to identify all coronavirus transmission sources people must remember they are "sitting ducks".
Man dies in crash involving homemade ultralight plane near aero club in Maitland, NSW
Witnesses rush to the wreckage of a plane in a backyard near the Royal Newcastle Aero Club, removing the pilot and performing CPR until paramedics arrive, but the man can not be revived.
Chinese officials refuse to call Australia back as coronavirus trade tensions bubble over
High-ranking calls to China have gone unanswered amid an escalating trade dispute with Australia that has been fuelled by requests for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
May 17th – 2020 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #1214
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 →
Sunday May 17th – 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 →
All Colorado Deaths Are Due To Coronavirus
More left-wing math. All deaths in Colorado are now due to COVID-19. New COVID-19 Death Dispute: Colorado Coroner Says State Mischaracterized Death – CBS Denver
All Propaganda, All The Time
Twitter breathlessly reports that Brazil is the “world’s fourth biggest (COVID) hotspot.” Brazil is a huge country with more than 200 million people. Deaths per million there are not in the top 25, less than 10% of Belgium, and lower … Continue reading →
Australian 5G coverage reaches 50 per cent
As the controversial 5G rollout continues across Australia, Telstra have announced over 600 suburbs are now reaching 50 per cent coverage. The telecommunications company will also become the first network to offer standalone 5G in Australia, without the support of underlying 4G technology, following testing of a new device. [...Continued]
Pandemic scales up cases of mental illnesses
Fear, stress and anxiety threaten the lives of people in isolation More The post Pandemic scales up cases of mental illnesses appeared first on The Duran.
A Review On What China's Next Frigate Will Look Like
Credit: Photograph provided to CRS by Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, December 2010 (via Wikimedia Commons) *The Diplomat*:* What Will the Chinese Navy’s Next Frigate Look Like?* The U.S. Navy has chosen its next frigate; what will China’s look like? The United States Navy (USN) has recently awarded the contract for its future frigate project – FFG(X) – to the Italian company Fincantieri, adopting their FREMM frigate design, outfitted with various U.S. developed sensors and weapons systems. The FFG(X) will be a much-needed warship for the USN, balancing cost with capable and pr... more »
With The U.S. Budget Trillions In Debt, Will The Pentagon Budget Be Cut
*Breaking Defense: * *Huge Deficit = Defense Budget Cuts? Maybe Not* The congressional calendar and strategic inertia may come together to keep the defense budget relatively high. The calendar helps because the fiscal 2021 defense budget will likely be passed while Congress is in a free-spending mood. The current Washington consensus sees deep defense budget cuts in the face of soaring deficits driven by the emergency legislation to stabilize the American economy as it reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It may be wrong. The congressional calendar and strategic inerti... more »
Letter from the Editor: Statistical resurrection in Colorado
Opinion President Trump wanted to open American in time to celebrate the Resurrection on this past Easter Sunday, but he could not make it happen. Coloradans, however, are getting a second chance to celebrate a different kind of resurrection this weekend. The state woke up Saturday to learn that 272 of its previously reported 1,150... Continue Reading
Finland assesses heavy metals risk from foods
Some adults in Finland are exposed to amounts of heavy metals in food that could pose a risk to their health, according to an assessment. The Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto) studied the exposure of working-age and elderly people to cadmium, lead, arsenic, mercury, nickel and aluminum via food and drinking water. The magnitude of lead... Continue Reading
Red team the science used for radical policies
Believing these computer models means trusting the makers.
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Saturday 16th May 2020
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 […]
Politico: Gov. DeSantis Looks More Accurate Than The Andrew-Cuomo-Adoring Media
By Tim Graham ~ Florida-based Politico reporter Marc Caputo was attacked for writing “snarky nonsense” when he suggested the national media have been much rougher on Florida Gov. Marc Caputo than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — you know, the media darling whose press conferences are broadcast nationwide and who gets puffball interviews from his […]
Red Team The Science Used For Radical Policies
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ While we are still in the middle of the corona crisis, supranational organizations of the UN are already busy in making top-down recovery plans they want to impose on national governments. All these experimental plans go for a utopic economy that they justify by doubtful scientific models being still under […]
White House Challenges Left’s Pandemic Playbook Narrative
By Fred Lucas ~ The White House pushed back on the media narrative that the Obama administration left behind a pandemic “playbook” for the Trump administration. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that the playbook from the Obama administration was an insufficient packet of paper, and that the Trump administration’s own pandemic response […]
The Chinese Have Foritifed Their Base In Djibouti
With its multiple layers of defense, thick walls and corner towers the base in Djibouti resembles a medieval fortress or a fort along the Great Wall of China. H I Sutton *Forbes:* *The Chinese Navy’s Unusually Heavily Defended Fortress Near The Indian Ocean* The Chinese Navy is building a string of overseas bases. So far the largest and furthest afield is in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. This strategically-located base appears ready to receive large warships, maybe even aircraft carriers. One aspect of the base is particularly interesting: It is a modern-day fortress built from... more »
Goodfellas Do DC
*-by Dorothy Reik* There used to be only two categories of low lifes that stripped clean and destroyed everything they touched-- taking whatever was worth anything and leaving behind the skeletal remains-- the Mafia and venture capitalists. The Mafia would take over a business-- a bar for example. They would sell the liquor out the back door, water down enough to keep the drunks coming back for a while and when the lights finally went out they would burn it down and collect the insurance-- including the "lost" liquor! Venture capitalists were more sophisticated-- first they borrow... more »
Everything Important In Life Involves Tradeoffs
* One of the fallacies of progressivism that I frequently mock at this blog is the proposition that the government can operate without having to make meaningful tradeoffs of one goal or value versus another. * This fallacy appears, for example, in the illusion of infinite resources in the hands of the government. As individuals we all know that we face constrained budgets and limits on what we can do. Eat out too much, and you need to postpone getting the new TV or new car. Decide to become a lawyer, and you will need to forego becoming a doctor. Your money and your time only go so f... more »
Brazil covid-19 crisis and political inertia: 15,633 deaths and 14,919 new cases
Brazil covid-19 crisis and political inertia: 15,633 deaths and 14,919 new cases Kanako Mita and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The international coronavirus crisis (Covid-19) is notable by the deep political divisions in America and Brazil. In turn, people on both extremes are being polarized by political elites. However, in Brazil, the polarization is […]
Iran Warns The U.S. To Not Seize It's Fuel Shipment to Venezuela
Venezuela is in desperate need of gasoline and other refined fuels to keep the country functioning amid an economic collapse [Reuters] *Al Jazeera:* *Iran media warn US against any move on fuel shipment to Venezuela* At least one tanker carrying fuel loaded at an Iranian port has set sail for Venezuela amid US threats. An Iranian news agency close to the elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday that there would be repercussions if the United States acted "just like pirates" against an Iranian fuel shipment to Venezuela. A senior official in President Donald Trump's administratio... more »
anyone for a 3rd wave? Professor Nikolai Petrovsky points out
A major new Australian study of COVID-19 has found that it seems specially adapted to infect human cells https://www.newsmax.com/scitech/covid-19-study-australia-human-cells/2020/05/16/id/967713/ ……………………… Brazil 14.5% rise (new cases/active cases) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/brazil Mexico 24/72.4= 33% rise https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/mexico Russia 106/1916= 5.5% rise https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/ Iran 21/179= 12% rise https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran Pakistan 14/262= 5.3% rise htt... more »
Fire, Explosion in Los Angeles Injures 10 Firefighters
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles has injured 10 firefighters, and more than 200 others rushed to the scene as the flames spread to several buildings.
Is China Secretly Testing Nuclear Weapons?
*Rod Lyon* *Security, Asia* [image: Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll to Tiananmen Square during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj] A ‘concern’ has been raised about possible low-level Chinese nuclear testing at the Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang province. Covid-19 might be dominating the headlines these days, but other important issues still play out in the smaller font sizes. In last month’s executive summary of the 2020 edition of the US State Department’s... more »
How Hollywood and Baseball Players Saved America's War Effort During World War II
*Warfare History Network* *History, Americas* [image: A war bond rally during World War II. Circa 1943. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.] The war bond drives of World War II helped finance the effort to defeat the Axis. One of the most unusual baseball games ever played was a three- way game in New York City between the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each team went to bat six times in the same nine-inning game against rotating opponents. The final score was Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, and Giants 0, and the U.S. government was $56,500,000 richer in war b... more »
Why Policymakers Are Wrong to Use the Coronavirus Crisis to Ban Vaping
*Jacob James Rich* *Public Health, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC1DEDD44620&share=true] It will only make things worse and denies American's right to choose. With the U.S. devastated by more than 80,000 coronavirus deaths as of May 11, tobacco controllers are making sure not to let a crisis go to waste. Despite absolutely no scientific evidence suggesting that e-cigarettes increase one’s susceptibility of contracting coronavirus, government officials in states like New York have used the pandemic to justify banning al... more »
How the Coronavirus Is Harming Children's Vaccination Rates against Other Diseases
*Jeffrey A. Singer* *Public Health, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC1C4F6DB800&share=true] This isn't good. *Key point: *Lower vaccination rates means more older (and deadly) diseases. As I recently wrote here, and spoke about here, bans on elective surgery invoked by governors across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to suffer and even possibly face fatal consequences due to delays in necessary medical care. But there are other reasons why the public health emergency has the poten... more »
Why Refugees Will Struggle to Combat the Coronavirus
*Shelly Culbertson, Gary Edson* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] Instead of allowing the pandemic to exacerbate the harmful impacts of a broken refugee system, this could be an opportunity to remake it. At a time when the pandemic is forcing people to stay at home and practice social-distancing, that is not possible for one of the most vulnerable populations—the world’s seventy-one million refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers. Having escaped conflict and persecution, they now risk illness and death from the coronavirus. That risk is heightened by a pol... more »
The Coronavirus Puts Into Question the Role of Crude Oil in America
*Todd Royal* *Security, Americas* [image: Reuters] Choosing reliable energy sources over renewables that still need decades of research to improve their energy density and reliability is the prudent choice during these nail-biting times. Michael Moore’s surprising anti-renewables and environmental-movement documentary “Planet of the Humans” unmasks the trillions being spent on wind turbines and solar panels that do not deliver as advertised. The movie attacks men like former Vice President Al Gore, David Blood and Elon Musk for making billions through renewable taxpayer handouts,... more »
The Reconstruction of Brazilian Foreign Policy
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira, Celso Amorim, Celso Lafer, Francisco Rezek, José Serra, Rubens Ricupero, Hussein Kalout at The National Interest - 1 day ago
*Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira, Celso Amorim, Celso Lafer, Francisco Rezek, José Serra, Rubens Ricupero, Hussein Kalout* *Politics, Latin America* Reconstructing Brazilian foreign policy is urgent and indispensable. By leaving behind this shameful page of subservience and irrationality, let us once again place at the center of diplomatic action the defense of our independence, sovereignty, dignity, and national interests. Let us embody once more all the values, including solidarity and the search for dialogue, that have helped build the heritage and boost the pr... more »
How Casual and Contract Academics Are Losing Their Jobs During the Coronavirus Pandemic
*Jess Harris, Kathleen Smithers, Nerida Spina* *economy, Oceania* [image: Reuters] By mid-2018, an estimated 94,500 people were employed at Australian universities on a casual basis, primarily in teaching-only roles. The National Tertiary Education Union this week struck an agreement with universities that no ongoing university staff member would be stood down involuntarily without pay. This deal is contingent on staff above a certain pay grade taking a cut of up to 15% of their salary. It’s still uncertain how many universities will sign up to the deal – the Australian Catholic ... more »
The World is Round: Shifting Supply Chains and a Fragmented World Order
*Barack Seener* *Economics, * Since the 1990s, nationalism in the West was deemed passé as supply chains spanned the globe and international travel along with financial flows became more frequent. We thought that the digital-information age had led us to transcend nature and history respectively. These delusions were abruptly ended by the Coronavirus pandemic that has proven that the world is indeed round. Yet we are destined to repeat the mistakes of history. In light of global lockdown brought about by coronavirus, Thomas Friedman’s famous aphorism that “the world is flat” due ... more »
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