They trying everything out to see what sticks that is anti-Biden and Anti-Constitutional government.
The cartels have been running Mexico for at least the last ten years. Acapulco hotels are ghost towns last I looked because of the violence!
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
We are all going to have a pity party for Mark.
March 6, 2023
Billionaire investor (click here) and founder Mobius Capital Partners Mark Mobius told FOX Business he cannot take his money out of China due to the country's capital controls, cautioning investors to be "very, very careful" about investing in an economy under a tight government grip.
"I'm personally affected because I have an account with HSBC in Shanghai. I can't get my money out. The government is restricting the flow of money out of the country," Mobius told FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo. "So I would be very, very careful investing in China."
"I can't get an explanation of why they're doing this ... They're putting all kinds of barriers. They don't say: No, you can't get your money out. But they say: give us all the records from 20 years of how you made this money ... This is crazy." he added....
China doesn't want it anymore. Wall Street made lots of money while they had their investments in China, but, the party is over.
I have a hard time thinking Mark Mobius doesn't understand why he can't get his money back. This is an easy one, Mark.
China is a communist country. Everything in China and the stuff it can steal belongs to China. American investors will lose everything they left in China. No. The American government doesn't have to apologize and make Wall Street whole. That is called calculated risk and if Wall Street CHOSE to ignore the deaths in Hong Kong and the fly overs of Taiwan, then they warn't good at what they do.
Communist countries are defined by a collective interest by the government. I think Xi recently was quoted as saying the private interest in China will serve the purpose of the government. No clue. This is not an alarming reality.
The most dramatic reality of the control communists have over private citizens is Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.
...The deal was reached as President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (click here) have sought to tamp down signs of public tension — even as the world’s two dominant economies are at odds on issues as diverse as cybersecurity, climate change, human rights and trade and tariffs. Biden said in an address before the U.N. General Assembly earlier this week that he had no intention of starting a “new Cold War,” while Xi told world leaders that disputes among countries “need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation.”
As part of the deal, disclosed in federal court in Brooklyn, the Justice Department agreed to dismiss the fraud charges against Meng in December 2022 — exactly four years after her arrest — provided that she complies with certain conditions, including not contesting any of the government’s factual allegations. The Justice Department also agreed to drop its request that Meng be extradited to the U.S., which she had vigorously challenged, ending a process that prosecutors said could have persisted for months.
Meng’s attorneys said they fully expect the charges to be dismissed in 14 months. “We’re very pleased that in the meantime she can go home to her family,” said defense lawyer Michelle Levin....
So for Mark and people like Mark, some of us can empathize with your pain at the loss of your money, but, there is little sympathy for such decisions. Mark and his friends should channeling President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but, what you can do for your country."
When billionaires wake up to news of citizens standing up for their civil rights in China are murdered, their financial interests in such governmental overreach should be very telling as to where their money belongs other than China.
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China has been pilfering American secrets for at least the last decade since Xi came to power.
March 8, 2023
By Dan DeLuce
With Washington and Beijing (click here) locked in a tense superpower rivalry, the United States faces a daunting task in discerning the intentions of leaders in a country where power is increasingly concentrated and surveillance widespread, former American intelligence officials said.
Reliable information about decision-making in China is in high demand in Washington amid fears Beijing could opt to arm Russian forces waging war in Ukraine or try to seize control of Taiwan by force....
March 8, 2023
By Arjun Kharpal
China's embassy in Germany (click here) said it is "puzzled and strongly dissatisfied" after a report suggested Berlin is planning to ban some equipment from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE in its 5G telecommunications networks on national security grounds.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing a government source, that Germany is considering banning certain components from Chinese firms in its mobile networks.
A paper by the German interior ministry which was obtained by Reuters said a specific supplier could be banned from providing critical components if it were deemed to be directly or indirectly controlled by the government of another state.
If the rules came into effect, it could mean ripping out equipment that is already installed in networks and replacing it with other suppliers, an interior ministry spokesperson told Reuters....
March 8, 2023
by Rachel Triesman
Both women and men (click here) are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind.
The study was published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health this week, just ahead of International Women's Day. It adds to a growing body of research showing that advances in women's rights benefit everyone.
"This International Women's Day, let's not forget that the evidence demonstrates that enhancing women's representation across multiple sectors contributes to wealthier and, hence, healthier societies for all," lead author Cat Pinho-Gomes, a research fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London, said in a release....
March 8, 2023
By Ishaan Tharoor
Last month, (click here) the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a 4,000-word tract titled “U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils.” The document, which was sent out by the Chinese Embassy to journalists in Washington, including Today’s WorldView, purported to present the “relevant facts” of a near-century of American interference and meddling on the world stage. It’s a catalogue of grievances that casts the United States as a hypocritical superpower, advancing its own self-interests on the pretext of high-minded values, while leaving a trail of abuse and harm in its wake.
Whatever the validity of these historical claims, the real Chinese animus is about the present. “Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation,” the document warned, echoing the near-constant refrain from Chinese officials about current U.S. policy....
By Dan DeLuce
With Washington and Beijing (click here) locked in a tense superpower rivalry, the United States faces a daunting task in discerning the intentions of leaders in a country where power is increasingly concentrated and surveillance widespread, former American intelligence officials said.
Reliable information about decision-making in China is in high demand in Washington amid fears Beijing could opt to arm Russian forces waging war in Ukraine or try to seize control of Taiwan by force....
Realizing the USA has been pilfered by China for at least a decade, the USA should carry out the obstruction of Chinese spying the German's have adopted. And China has the audacity to complain as if they have a right to because it might make them unpopular. Everyone knows there is nothing that goes together more than full blown Capitalism and Communism.
By Arjun Kharpal
China's embassy in Germany (click here) said it is "puzzled and strongly dissatisfied" after a report suggested Berlin is planning to ban some equipment from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE in its 5G telecommunications networks on national security grounds.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing a government source, that Germany is considering banning certain components from Chinese firms in its mobile networks.
A paper by the German interior ministry which was obtained by Reuters said a specific supplier could be banned from providing critical components if it were deemed to be directly or indirectly controlled by the government of another state.
If the rules came into effect, it could mean ripping out equipment that is already installed in networks and replacing it with other suppliers, an interior ministry spokesperson told Reuters....
The only place where gender equality is recognized within communism on an international level is the sister of North Korea's Un.
by Rachel Triesman
Both women and men (click here) are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind.
The study was published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health this week, just ahead of International Women's Day. It adds to a growing body of research showing that advances in women's rights benefit everyone.
"This International Women's Day, let's not forget that the evidence demonstrates that enhancing women's representation across multiple sectors contributes to wealthier and, hence, healthier societies for all," lead author Cat Pinho-Gomes, a research fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London, said in a release....
The gap between China and the USA is getting wider and wider and wider. FINALLY!
By Ishaan Tharoor
Last month, (click here) the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a 4,000-word tract titled “U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils.” The document, which was sent out by the Chinese Embassy to journalists in Washington, including Today’s WorldView, purported to present the “relevant facts” of a near-century of American interference and meddling on the world stage. It’s a catalogue of grievances that casts the United States as a hypocritical superpower, advancing its own self-interests on the pretext of high-minded values, while leaving a trail of abuse and harm in its wake.
Whatever the validity of these historical claims, the real Chinese animus is about the present. “Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation,” the document warned, echoing the near-constant refrain from Chinese officials about current U.S. policy....
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The war in Ukraine is a good cover for Putin's annihilation strategies.
By Amanda Macias
Washington - Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) is likely to further upgrade the Kremlin's arsenal of long-range nuclear-capable missiles in order to deter Kyiv and its powerful Western allies, U.S. officials warned Wednesday.
The warning from the nation's top spymasters comes as Russia intensifies its now year-long fight in Ukraine and as Putin threatens to withdraw from a key nuclear arms treaty.
"Throughout its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has continued to show that it views its nuclear capabilities as necessary for maintaining deterrence and achieving its goals in a potential conflict against the U.S. and NATO and it sees its nuclear weapons arsenal as the ultimate guarantor of the Russian Federation," the nation's top intelligence agency wrote in its annual threat report.
The unclassified 35-page intelligence assessment adds that Moscow will become more dependent on nuclear weapons following significant battlefield losses and punishing rounds of sanctions that have crippled the Kremlin's ability to finance its war machine....
It is time to treat Post-Soviet states as if they are just as important to Wall Street as China was treated. I realize there is a process to join the EU, but, that is a national dialogue, Wall Street is not a national dialogue. The Post-Soviet states have to be treated with the respect they deserve in taking on the world as autonomous entities and introduce a larger economy to them to nurture and bear fruit.
President Biden and other leaders of the Free World need to visit these countries as well as Ukraine. The Free World needs to talk to the people of these counties so they understand what a free and autonomous people can do both in prosperity, but, also in providing longevity which speaks to quality of life. The people need to hear it from the leaders that have their best interest in mind.
March 8, 2023
By and
Protests have erupted in Georgia (click here) this week after the country’s parliament passed the first reading of a draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.”
It has been compared to a draconian set of laws adopted in Russia and condemned by rights groups as a bid to curtail basic freedoms and crack down on dissent in the country.
The developments have sparked mass unrest, with thousands of demonstrators gathering outside Tbilisi’s parliament building on Tuesday night, waving not just the Georgian flag but also that of the European Union.
The country, which won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, has long been playing a balancing act between its citizens’ pro-European sentiment and the geopolitical aims of its powerful neighbor, Russia.
In March 2022, Georgia applied for EU membership – an ambition that may be jeopardized by the proposed legislation.
Here’s a look at what the controversial law means for Georgia, and how it reached this point....
The Rule of Law
The Republican Party is planning a populist project to visit January 6th inmate as if they are political prisoners. This is a willful act the trample the USA Constitution’s Rule of Law that separates autocratic rule of a dictator from that of a democracy.
There is no doubt this is an act against our Constitutional Republic.
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
There has been a travel advisory since October 5, 2022
There have been many travel advisories about Mexico. Since before El Chappo, Mexico has grown more dangerous.
Americans need to take their government seriously. Medical insurance should not be out of reach for any American.
Norfolk Southern…
…has to reduce its rail speed to 25 mph while we sort out the problem. They need to be required to take all the cars regardless of freight to a freight yard for inspection before they are even allowed to run at 25 mph.
There are systematic problems with this rail service and they cannot be allowed to practice unsafe standards. The issue in Ohio was NOT an isolated problem. They can sell the railway whenever they are ready, pending inspections and adequate and qualified staffing.
This railroad is unsafe. We don’t need a rail service that destroys our land and it’s people.
The Wealth Tax is long overdue.
The USA must maintain it’s democracy in good and ready condition, as well as, maintain its support for allies. If there was ever a time in recent history to pass a Wealth Tax it is now. And, of course, Republicans oppose it, they oppose our democracy, so anything that makes it stronger is all wrong for them.
Monday, March 06, 2023
Director Christopher Wray…
…is another Bob Mueller. He is tough, truthful and dedicated to the US Constitution. That scares Republicans.
The DOJ needs to review every request made and those being made by Republicans of the FBI. The Republican Party is Trump and Trump is the Republican Party. Trump also has openly stated he favors Vladimir Putin. Trump is complicit in the genocide.
Balsanaro should be up on charges at the World Court for assault against native tribes of the Amazon. Some have died and their homes destroyed. Every assault on a native Amazonian is a human rights abuse that destroys their way of life and their culture. These tribes have been protected for a century if not more and Balsonaro changed all that by allowing the destruction of trees and habitat.
The assault on the Amazon is also an assault on the climate. The USA Republican Party is complicit in all the crimes Balsonaro and Putin have committed. In that, the US House Republicans are again assaulting the US Constitution and National Security.
Thursday, March 02, 2023
The Space Force
It is wildly popular with young people, but, it needs to be an arm of NASA. I think the research needs to be consistent across all space interests of the country.
The US Space Force is a Public Relations creation and it duplicates the interests involved with space. There isn’t suppose to be a militarization of space. It would be best if we could get back to that.
QAnon
There must be a nexus between the hideous and outrageous lies of Q or QAnon and the tabloids, such as, the National Enquirer?
I think there are voters being drawn out of their own reality by QAnon and follow the outrageous and heinous lies of Q and Trump that are actually from the best selling tabloids.
Example:
The National Enquirer ran a series about JFK, Jr. and that is the basis of the QAnon latest rant about JFK, Jr. still being alive.
Q and/or QAnon and/or Donald Trump Campaign use the topics in high subscriber tabloids as the basis of their campaign focus. It draws Americans with little interest in politics to vote for Trump, while actually lying, but to them he is the only one telling the truth.
The Former Secretary Clinton sort of plugged into it when she had an article about being pregnant with an alien or something like that. But, it was late in the campaign and it didn’t get much press.
I strongly believe the tabloids’ subscribers and those that buy the rags at the newsstand are being sought to vote for Trump. It is dishonest and dangerous because these folks participated in the insurrection.
There is a book featured on Public Radio about the QAnon mystique and it’s relationship with the Trump campaign. The Shaman is in prison for the insurrection on January 6th so there is no denying the involvement.
The entire Trump campaign is based in populism and the tabloid fiction is getting him elected.
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Those who participate in genocide will have to answer for it.
Pay them to stay home. They need legitimate jobs to be with their families.
The Palestinians that go to Ukraine will be used to target the Ukraine military. They are a decoy for the Russians. That is the Russian militaries strategy now since the only thing that provides for their ability to hold ground are rockets. The Russian military send out units to fight the Ukrainian military and then target the areas where the Ukraine military fire their weapons. The Ukrainians kill or wound the Russian element, but, that is not a viable solution and sending anyone to their KNOWN death as a trap for the opposition is a profound lack of respect for life.
by Majdi Halab
A Lebanese government security source (click here) has told The Media Line that Palestinians residing in Lebanon have signed up to join the ongoing conflict in Ukraine on behalf of Russia, having been offered a sum of 350 dollars by Russian entities.
The source added that the recruitment effort is being carried out by activists affiliated with the Palestinian embassy in Lebanon.
Most of those enlisting were born after 1969, as those born after this point onwards do not have proper registration with the Lebanese authorities, making it easier to travel for the purpose of participating in the conflict as mercenaries....
These events took place in the early days of the invasion when Russian forces were mostly intact. The Russian military at it's best are ridiculous. They can only win wars where civilians are viewed as rebels as in Syria. I am confident with the devastation of Russian tanks in Syria war crimes were committed. The leaders of these countries become allies to Putin simply because they will face the same fate as he.
February 27, 2023
By Michael Starr
Russian airstrikes in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine (click here) were designed to shock the country into submission, according to a new study by the Israeli Elrom Air and Space Research Center, but the Russian munitions suffered from poor accuracy.
Targets in initial strikes by the Kremlin were chosen for their psychological impact, but the vital infrastructure wasn't disabled in hopes of pro-Russian forces using the facilities later, the joint Tel Aviv University and Israeli Air Force research center found in one of its first publications.
Russia did attempt to destroy air defenses, but both objectives were marred by inaccuracy; a sample of 30 out of 100 strikes was found to have a 30-40% near-miss rate and a 10% miss rate. This later complicated the failed attempts by the Russian Air Force to achieve air superiority over Ukrainian air space....
Russia is not capable of winning a war against a people steadfast for their homeland. Ukraine is not Syria.
The USA primarily has a defense footing in it's activities. It is the view of the American people that peace is important and those that carry out violence are simply wrong for the killing they attempt and succeed. Considering the new stance of China and Russia in justifying genocide as a national security policy, the USA must have alliances with all countries that are currently dominated by these policies.
India is a prime example. If China wanted to invade India in the same manner as Putin with Ukraine the USA would not be completely prepared to act to end the invasion. If China carried out this border invasion while targeting Taiwan there would be sincere losses of life in such brutal priorities. I do believe USA military contractors, of which designed hardware for Ukraine, would be more than happy to increase their list of business partners.
By Jennifer Rankin
A Ukrainian Nobel peace laureate (click here) has called for the swift creation of a special tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and his associates for the crime of aggression, arguing that it could have “a cooling effect” on atrocities committed by the Kremlin’s invading forces.
Oleksandra Matviichuk, the head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, also said a speedy start to war crimes trials against the Russian president and soldiers could save people’s lives by deterring Russian forces from committing further crimes.
Starting legal proceedings could have “a cooling effect” on the brutality of human rights violations that Russian troops were committing daily in Ukraine, she told the Guardian in an interview.
Some troops, perhaps not all, would realise that Putin’s authoritarian regime had an end date, Matviichuk said, if they knew they would be held to account. The possibility of justice would help them realise “I will not be able to hide under abstract Putin and maybe I will have to be responsible for every thing which I commit by my own hands”, she said.
The Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL) won the Nobel peace prize in 2022, along with the Russian human right organisation Memorial and the jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski....
Ukraine has evidence to the genocide. The world has witnessed the brutality of the Russian President's political war and the lives lost. Children in Ukraine are dead. 8,087,952 Ukrainian refugees are spread across Europe as of February 20, 2023. That is 18.5 percent of the Ukrainian population as of 2021.
The Ukrainian dead are currently 8101 as of February 28, 2023. Of those six percent are children. Thirteen thousand, four hundred and seventy-nine Ukrainians are injured with seven percent children. That was in the first year of the illegal invasion by Russia's President Putin.
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
...Officials estimate (click here) there were more than 105,000 children across 700 orphanages, boarding schools and other institutions in Ukraine when the war there started – that’s more than 1% of the nation’s underage population and Europe’s highest rate of youth institutionalization.
Numbers since then are harder to track as children have been evacuated and moved out of Ukraine’s institutionalized care for safety reasons. But there’s reason to think things have gotten only harder for Ukraine’s orphans.
At least 6,000 Ukrainian children have been forced into camps and facilities across Russia – without parental consent – by the invaders, according to a report from the Conflict Observatory, which is supported by the US state department. And Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, has said his teams have documented more than 14,000 instances of Ukrainian children being forced into adoption in Russia since the invasion, which shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
“There’s no question that the fighting is going to continue,” Thompson said. “The suffering is going to continue.”...
By Humeyra Pamuk and Michelle Nichols
Washington - Nearly ten months into the war in Ukraine, (click here) the Biden administration is intensifying diplomatic efforts to ensure that the transatlantic alliance that opposes Russia's invasion survives a bitter European winter.
In the past weeks, the administration has scrambled to adjust its signature inflation legislation to appease European governments whose support it needs on Ukraine, and secured an agreement from the G7 nations to cap the price of Russian oil.
President Joe Biden also briefly moderated his strong opposition to talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a signal to allies restless for a negotiated end to the conflict.
The Ukraine war is also the backdrop for the U.S.-Africa Summit, a relationship-building exercise that starts on Tuesday and brings together the leaders of 49 African nations, many of whom have expressed frustration with paying the economic price for the war, which the United Nations says has worsened a global food crisis....
The trials must begin if free countries are to enforce their strong belief systems anchored in history of humanity and the rights of people to live without fear.
WE HAVE BEEN VIOLATED!
Decades ago the USA extended it's good will to China and the gates between the two countries were open. The Olympic Games were held there with the idea that China was a member of the world community with peaceful and productive policies. The Olympic Games are mired in peaceful intent while exhibiting the best of their athletes on an international stage. The World Cup is another venue of peace and outreach for countries to find common ground and built together in peace.
The Free World entered in good faith relationships to Russia and China. Russia became a member of the G8 with the total intention of providing a basis for moving forward in prosperity, dignity and peace. It was to guarantee generations of achievement and peaceful intentions in all manners of governance.
These policies and treaties are now realized as toys to the ambitions of autocrats little interested in peace, but, the death of democracy. It is not their prerogative to dictate any one form of governance to any peoples anywhere on Earth.
The Free World for all it's investments and intentions of peace has been violated by Russia only to be followed by China. This is a complete reversal of any understanding between the USA and China and Russia. They plotted their end of democracy while we embraced their differences and welcomed their ambitions in space and in business.
We take no prisoners. This is a war with global consequences and the seriousness of these violations of good faith are not to be ignored. They are incredibly important and at the center of everything between these nations of peoples. It is over. There is no more cooperation. The business models have to change and there needs to be a clear and unshakable vision of the Free World that defines who we are and what we believe and the world we pass onto our children.
Vladimir Putin was a hope at one time in this world and now he is a disgusting murderer of children. He no longer has the rights humanity once afforded him. He needs to be held for trial and convicted, even if inabsentia. Xi is welcome to join him!
The Pandemic was a boom for China, besides being the originator of COVID-19.
...Researchers (click here) found that, in 2021, importing 4.7 million containers on more than 1,650 ships generated 3.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to carbon dioxide emissions from 754,000 typical gas-powered cars in a year. At the same time, ships spewed enough smog-forming nitrogen oxide to equal the annual emissions of seven coal-fired power plants.
Walmart, Target and Home Depot — purveyors of practically everything that fills a home — accounted for the bulk of emissions analyzed in the study. The companies represented the first, second and third largest shares, respectively, of both climate-harming emissions and air pollution from maritime imports.
Many of those goods moved through just a handful of hubs: the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California, the Port of Houston in Texas and the Port of Savannah in Georgia....
China's exports probably contained the virus simply because they were manufactured there.
The explosive growth of China’s container ports (click here) has turned one of the most important vendors in shipping into a best-in-class industry leader, whose cranes can now be found in 300 wharves in 100 countries, with 70 per cent of the global market share....
And what is China's defense after the FBI stated the lab leak started the entire pandemic?
March 3, 2023
By Rory Elliott ArmstrongChinese Foreign Ministry (click here) spokesperson Mao Ning has accused FBI Director Christopher Wray's claims on the origin of the coronavirus and says they only further hurt US credibility.
Speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, Wray said that the bureau believes COVID-19 "most likely" originated in a "Chinese government-controlled lab". According to the BBC, it is the first public confirmation of the FBI's classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged.
Wray's comments follow a report earlier this week which said the US Department of Energy had determined that a leak from a Chinese lab was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Many scientists have rejected the lab leak theory as lacking in evidence and other US government agencies have drawn differing conclusions from the FBI's. Some of them have said - but with a low level of certainty - that the virus did not start in a lab but instead could have jumped from animals to humans at one of Wuhan's seafood markets.
The market is near a world-leading virus laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducted research into coronaviruses....
China never let any scientist into the Wuhan labs to validate any concerns about the origins of the virus. Why? Because they have a lot to hide, then and now. Wuhan Institute of Virology is a national security issue for China. It is never going to allow access.
And another thing, FOX News backed the lies about the insurrectionist's Big Lie. What is any USA military anybody giving FOX News credibility either. STOP APPEARING ON THAT PROPAGANDA NETWORK!
December 12, 2019
A cluster of patients in China’s Hubei Province, (click here) in the city of Wuhan, begin to experience the symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that does not respond well to standard treatments....
The CDC stated it was from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and it was closed.
By Jon Cohen
As confirmed cases (click here) of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak. But a description of the first clinical cases published in The Lancet on Friday challenges that hypothesis.
The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. "No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases," they state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. "That's a big number, 13, with no link," says Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University.
Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said "most" cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January.
Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city's now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. "The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace," Lucey asserts....
...Andersen posted his analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research website. It suggests they had a "most recent common ancestor"—meaning a common source—as early as 1 October 2019....
The quintessential "Stop the Steal" financier, Thomas More Society. It is a co-conspirator!
It is time to indict the lawyers. There is nothing like keeping the White Supremacist agenda front and center.
By Megan O'Matz
The Thomas More Society(click here) is a not-for-profit, national public interest law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty. Based in Chicago, the Thomas More Society defends and fosters support for these causes by providing high quality pro bono legal services from local trial courts all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
...Yet for all the scrutiny given to election denialism and its champions (click here) — including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn and Sidney Powell, former advisers to President Donald Trump — the significant role played by the Thomas More Society has received little attention.
One of its strategists, Phill Kline, tried to convince state legislatures in swing states to hold off on certifying Joe Biden’s electors, a maneuver that drew the notice of the House Jan. 6 committee. Kline is the former attorney general of Kansas whose law license was suspended indefinitely a decade ago by the state Supreme Court over ethical violations. Interviews and records examined by ProPublica show how closely aligned Kline has been with the Thomas More Society.
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion is increasingly playing out at the state level and local elections for legislators and judges have taken on added weight. “That’s why it’s doubly important for pro-life advocates to ensure the integrity of state and local elections,” one of the group’s attorneys wrote in an op-ed last summer.
Thomas More’s role in the push to change election law should not be underestimated, say abortion rights groups familiar with the legal society’s tactics and record....
...Yet for all the scrutiny given to election denialism and its champions (click here) — including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn and Sidney Powell, former advisers to President Donald Trump — the significant role played by the Thomas More Society has received little attention.
One of its strategists, Phill Kline, tried to convince state legislatures in swing states to hold off on certifying Joe Biden’s electors, a maneuver that drew the notice of the House Jan. 6 committee. Kline is the former attorney general of Kansas whose law license was suspended indefinitely a decade ago by the state Supreme Court over ethical violations. Interviews and records examined by ProPublica show how closely aligned Kline has been with the Thomas More Society.
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion is increasingly playing out at the state level and local elections for legislators and judges have taken on added weight. “That’s why it’s doubly important for pro-life advocates to ensure the integrity of state and local elections,” one of the group’s attorneys wrote in an op-ed last summer.
Thomas More’s role in the push to change election law should not be underestimated, say abortion rights groups familiar with the legal society’s tactics and record....
Therefore, what?
The Free World is safe? Not hardly. China has a lot of issues that we need to address, including the fact it is expanding it's allies capacity to war by supplying weapons to Russia. It also has a really annoying way of producing submarines in record numbers. The reason China is do that is because it wants to sink all the USA nuclear submarines, which is one of the legs of the USA nuclear triad.
Seeing Russia as it is, is to pretend it is incapacitated in some way. It isn't. If Russia knew what was good for it, it would become a neutral country along with China instead of this insane nuclear arsenal idiocy. Vladimir Putin will kill the last of everyone of his citizens before he will wave the white flag.
By the way, where is his money that he has stowed somewhere in the Panama Papers. Two billion offshore. He is not worried about evading the World Courts.
Chris Panella and Jake Epstein
Russia will emerge from its war in Ukraine a "shattered military power," (click here) a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday, stressing that the country has yet to achieve any of its goals and is expected to continue to struggle on the battlefield.
Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, told US lawmakers that the situation looked "dire and pessimistic" for Ukraine when Russian forces first invaded in late February 2022, but after a year of fighting, it has become clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin has "lost" the war.
"While I don't know how the war is going to end, I think we already know one conclusion for sure, which is that Russia has lost," Kahl said during a House Armed Services Committee session on oversight of US military aid to Ukraine. "They intended to take over all of Ukraine — that didn't happen, it's not going to happen. They intended to divide NATO — NATO is stronger." ...
The best way to end forever chemicals, is to end their use altogether.
March 1, 2023
By Sharon Udasin
...Paper production processes (click here) often include PFAS as additives during the wood-to-pulp conversion process, the authors explained.
These compounds are used as a wetting agent to boost the efficiency of the pulping process — making paper mills a known source of environmental contamination, according to the study.
Not only might standard toilet paper contain PFAS, but so too could rolls made from recycled paper — as they may be made with contaminated fibers, the authors found.
The researchers asked a volunteer network of students and professors to collect toilet paper sold in North, South and Central America, as well as in Africa and Western Europe. In addition, they evaluated sewage sludge samples from eight wastewater treatment plants in Florida....
August 15, 2022
By Emily Henderson,B.Sc.
Venus (the brightest star) and Jupiter Conjuction
By Amudalat Ajasa
...Venus, (click here) the most illuminated planet, and Jupiter, the gas giant, will look like two orbs nearly touching — separated by less than 1 degree in the night sky. Conjunctions occur when two planets, a planet and a star, or a planet and the Moon appear from Earth to be nearly grazing each other. But this conjunction is different because of the closeness of the planets.
If you were to stretch out your hand and hold your pinkie out against the night sky, “you couldn’t fit your pinkie between these planets, they’re so close,” said NASA ambassador Tony Rice. “They don’t get this close very often.”...
A new infective to be concerned about.
By Amber Middleton
...Drug-resistant strains (click here) accounted for 5% of shigella infections reported to the CDC in 2022, up from 0% in 2015, the agency said in a health advisory on Friday. There are around 450,000 cases of shigella infections in the US every year, according to the agency....
Handwashing and washing fresh fruits and vegetables. Basically, Good food preparation.
- Wet hands with warm, clean running water. (click here)
- Apply soap.
- Rub hands together for at least 20 seconds, the time it takes to sing the “Happy Birthday to You” song twice.
- Scrub the tops of hands, between fingers and under fingernails.
- Rinse hands in warm running water.
- Dry hands on a clean paper or cloth towel.
- If towels are not available, let hands air-dry.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The world can't stand against genocide and look the other way at butchering mobs.
Bordering Eritrea, it is home to most of the country's estimated 7 million ethnic Tigrayans.
There are people that are leaders of political parties that can assist the end of the violence. They need to do that or be held responsible for the slaughter.
By Katherine Houreld and Meg Kelly
...The survivors (click here) are only now willing to talk: As long as Eritrean troops remained close by, villagers were cowed into silence. Once the soldiers finally pulled back in late January from much of Tigray, witnesses and relatives began to give accounts like the following: A toddler killed with his 7-year-old brother and their mother. Elderly priests shot in their homes. A nursing mother shot dead in front of her young sons. Family members beaten back as they clung to fathers and sons being taken to their deaths.
...The survivors (click here) are only now willing to talk: As long as Eritrean troops remained close by, villagers were cowed into silence. Once the soldiers finally pulled back in late January from much of Tigray, witnesses and relatives began to give accounts like the following: A toddler killed with his 7-year-old brother and their mother. Elderly priests shot in their homes. A nursing mother shot dead in front of her young sons. Family members beaten back as they clung to fathers and sons being taken to their deaths.
Killing civilians is a war crime.
Residents of the village of Mariam Shewito who had fled the violence said they returned from the bush to find the doors of their homes swinging open, the floors inside black with blood and the air heavy with the stench of death. Others searched for brothers and husbands among half-eaten corpses on a mountain where scores were executed and left to wild animals.
Satellite images first provided by Planet Labs and reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 67 structures in the area, mostly in household compounds, were severely damaged during the time that witnesses said the killings happened. Additional imagery provided to The Post by Maxar Technologies shows military vehicles matching witness descriptions of Eritrean vehicles, less than three miles from where the massacres took place....
Residents of the village of Mariam Shewito who had fled the violence said they returned from the bush to find the doors of their homes swinging open, the floors inside black with blood and the air heavy with the stench of death. Others searched for brothers and husbands among half-eaten corpses on a mountain where scores were executed and left to wild animals.
Satellite images first provided by Planet Labs and reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 67 structures in the area, mostly in household compounds, were severely damaged during the time that witnesses said the killings happened. Additional imagery provided to The Post by Maxar Technologies shows military vehicles matching witness descriptions of Eritrean vehicles, less than three miles from where the massacres took place....
November 13, 2020
By Eyder Peralta
..."Hidden hands of the TPLF ( Tigray People's Liberation Front ) (click here) were there in the killings of civilians in many different parts of the country," the document read.
It cited intelligence, but didn't provide evidence. The TPLF has in the past denied similar accusations.
Regardless, that violence has displaced more than 3 million people over the past two years, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
But things worsened dramatically once COVID-19 hit Ethiopia, the African continent's second-largest country by population. Abiy was supposed to guide the country through its first truly democratic elections this summer. But citing the pandemic, he postponed them.
The TPLF argued that amounted to an unconstitutional extension of the federal government's term. So they defied Abiy's orders, created their own electoral commission and held their own regional elections. The federal government declared the Tigray elections unconstitutional and both sides began trading accusations of illegitimacy....
Margorie Taylor Greene…
…has a bill in the US House to audit monies assigned to support Ukraine. All Republicans have supported it in the past. That means defense contractors will be audited. It sounds like a national security issue that can lead to issues regarding all sorts of problems with security clearance. I don’t believe it is a good idea. She can’t audit Ukraine as that is a sovereign country. The aid is getting through otherwise we would be hearing from Zelenskyy. This is the problem with populous party candidates, they shoot from the hip to satisfy constituents and compromise governance. The audit may not occur if contractors object to it’s invasive nature to proprietary information and national security breaches.
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