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  • U.S. shuts border to stop migrant rush from Mexico

    03/01/2020 2:21:35 AM PST · by Mariner · 30 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | March 1st, 2020 | Unattributed
    After an appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, a stand off at the US Mexico border. U.S. authorities said they closed the busy Ciudad Juarez-El Paso border bridge after more than a hundred mostly Cuban migrants tried to cross in response to the court ruling. Put in place just a year ago, the program - known as the Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP - has already forced nearly 60,000 people to be sent back to Mexico as they wait for hearings in immigration courts. There, they are vulnerable to kidnapping, rape, robbery and...
  • COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus

    03/01/2020 1:57:33 AM PST · by tired&retired · 48 replies
    GreatGameIndia ^ | February 21, 2020 | GreatGameIndia
    As Wuhan’s Coronavirus poses an increasing global threat, more and more experts from various countries have also cast more attention to the source of the new crown virus (COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2). In this scientific investigation on the mysterious origin of Coronavirus we explore the sources of New Coronavirus from five major areas, including epidemiological investigation, virus gene comparison, cross-species infection research, key “intermediate hosts” and the findings on the Wuhan P4 lab, to provide readers with a deep and completely scientific perspective. Two months have elapsed since the outbreak of New Coronavirus in Wuhan, but the scientific community’s knowledge is...
  • Exclusive–VA Secretary: Care for Veterans ‘Would Disappear’ if America Descends into Socialism

    03/01/2020 1:49:44 AM PST · by yoe · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | February 29, 2020 | Edwin Mora
    The United States would not be able to care for its millions of veterans if it becomes a socialist country, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary cautioned Breitbart News at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Asked to make the case against socialism during an edition of Breitbart News Saturday, airing on SiriusXM 125, at the 2020 CPAC event, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie warned host and Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle: “If America were suddenly to descend into a socialists State, that promise [to take care of our veterans’ that [Abraham] Lincoln made [when he...
  • Mystery surrounds ouster of Chinese researchers from Canadian laboratory (Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory that does research into flu viruses)

    03/01/2020 1:16:23 AM PST · by tired&retired · 19 replies
    Canadian researchers are reacting with puzzlement to the news that a “policy breach” has caused the nation’s only high-containment disease laboratory to bar a prominent Chinese Canadian virologist, her biologist husband, and a number of students from the facility. On 5 July, officials at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, escorted Xiangguo Qiu, biologist Keding Cheng, and an unknown number of her students from the lab and revoked their access rights. The Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab, confirmed it had referred an “administrative matter” matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but said it would not...
  • Coronavirus: South Korea reports 210 new cases, raising total to 3,736 (376 earlier today)

    03/01/2020 12:41:29 AM PST · by cba123 · 42 replies
    Straits Times ^ | Today | Reuters
    SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea reported 210 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (March 1) afternoon local time, raising the country's total infections to 3,736, the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said. The updated numbers added to the 376 recorded earlier in the day. KCDC also reported an 18th death linked to the virus.
  • Bernie Sanders Boards the Wrong Private Jet ... Case of Campaign Brain

    02/29/2020 11:54:22 PM PST · by Robwin · 14 replies
    TMZ News ^ | 2/29/2020 | TMZ
    Bernie Sanders is on the go all the time -- which seems to have given him a momentary case of a campaign brain fart as he accidentally boarded the wrong jet. Democratic front-runner was spotted Saturday making his way off of a private Gulfstream between campaign stops in South Carolina and Massachusetts -- the latter being where he held a rally at Boston Common ahead of Super Tuesday. the S.C. primary looks like it's gonna go to Joe Biden, as he's well ahead of everyone else in the latest polls. Looks like Bernie's cutting his losses and moving on. for...
  • PAKISTAN: In a so-called Islamic “honor” killing, a woman and her newborn son are murdered by her brothers who buried them alive

    02/29/2020 11:13:30 PM PST · by robowombat · 44 replies
    BARENAKEDISLAM ^ | FEBRUARY 29, 2020
    PAKISTAN: In a so-called Islamic “honor” killing, a woman and her newborn son are murdered by her brothers who buried them alive FEBRUARY 29, 2020 According to Mukhtiar Hussain, husband of the dead woman Aiman and father of the baby, they went against the family by marrying for love (instead of an arranged match). Consequently, in order to preserve the family ‘honor,’ her brothers kidnapped her along with her son and then buried them alive, where both died. Parhlo Upon finding her wife missing, Mukhtiar went to the police police whose investigations led to her brothers who admitted to the...
  • Strangers Attend Funeral for Unclaimed Veteran With No Family

    02/29/2020 10:41:52 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    WTHR ^ | FEB 29TH, 2020
    Strangers laid an unclaimed Air Force veteran to rest in her hometown of Dandridge, Tennessee on Saturday. More than 100 people, including veterans and community members, chose to pay their respects to a woman they never met. Charlotte "CJ" Birch was from Dandridge, but died from pancreatic cancer while living in Pennsylvania. Her remains weren't claimed by family for over a year and a half. One of Birch's close friends who lives in Illinois, Genie Wachter, decided her friend deserved a proper burial. She took the 81-year-old Air Force veteran's ashes down to Hills Union Cemetery in Dandridge, where she...
  • China officials knew of coronavirus in December, ordered cover-up, report says

    02/29/2020 10:38:52 PM PST · by bitt · 77 replies
    nyPOST ^ | 2/29/2020 | sara dorn
    Chinese scientists knew about the coronavirus and its deadly effects as early as December — but were ordered by government officials to suppress the evidence, according to a report. In late December, several genomics companies tested samples from sick patients in Wuhan — the center of the coronavirus outbreak — and noticed alarming similarities between their illnesses and the 2002 SARS virus, the Sunday Times of London reported, citing Chinese business news site Caixin Global. The researchers alerted Beijing of their findings — and on Jan. 3, received a gag order from China’s National Health Commission, with instructions to destroy...
  • Hollywood's Concierge Doctors Inundated With Coronavirus Calls

    02/29/2020 10:19:53 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 38 replies
    Hollywood Reporter ^ | 2/29/2020 | Tara Bitran
    Sought-after on-call physicians offer their thoughts on the coronavirus hitting L.A., share preventative measures to take and treatments Hollywood is asking for. Stars. They're just like the rest of L.A. dwellers, fearful of the spreading coronavirus, but with a doctor on speed dial to probe with their questions. "My day started at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with some hours of sleep here and there," Dr. Leslie D. Michelson, CEO and chairman of Private Health Management, told The Hollywood Reporter. "We've been advising people for about four weeks now, since the very first case was presented," he said of the coronavirus....
  • Joe Coulombe, Founder of Popular Trader Joe’s Markets, Dies

    02/29/2020 10:11:29 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 41 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Saturday, February 29, 2020 | John Rogers
    Joe Coulombe envisioned a new generation of young grocery shoppers emerging in the 1960s, one that wanted healthy, tasty, high-quality food they couldn’t find in most supermarkets and couldn’t afford to buy in the few high-end gourmet outlets. So he found a new way to bring everything from a then-exotic snack food called granola to the California-produced wines that for flavor compared with anything from France. And he made shopping for them almost as much fun as sailing the high seas when he created Trader Joe’s, a quirky little grocery store filled with nautical themes and staffed not by managers...
  • Prepping/SHTF Knowledge Base

    02/29/2020 10:09:18 PM PST · by Oshkalaboomboom · 19 replies
    Vanity ^ | 3/1/2020 | Oshkalaboomboom
    I have been working on a knowledge base of topics related to prepping and SHTF situations. It is geared towards making people more self sufficient with topics ranging from unarmed self defense to small space gardening to how to sew your own clothes. I'm one of those types of people who believe that we are going to go out with a whimper, not a bang, so there is a lot of content on how to do your own repairs, build your own stuff and live a more frugal lifestyle. In order to get access you need to send me a...
  • The Last Day To Prepare (Mostly) (for Coronavirus)

    02/29/2020 10:00:26 PM PST · by DannyTN · 83 replies
    PeakProsperty ^ | Feb 29, 2020 | PeakProsperty
    Don't watch this or read further if you're panicking about Coronavirus. This is a youtube blogger, that breaks down a lot of the news and the numbers on worldometers. Highlights: He and others are being censured. Goes through Worldometers but has good insights on things that don't look right. Thailand - showed a graph yesterday that looks like Thailand has a problem with "viral pneumonia". Washington State - already talking about triage-ing care and won't be testing all cases. Implies resources aren't available. UK only has 28 beds for most severe respiratory distress patients. Only 15 are available. (ECMO's available)....
  • State Of Emergency Declared In Washington State Over Coronavirus

    02/29/2020 9:51:18 PM PST · by blam · 81 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 2-29-2020 | Bob Price
    Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) declared a state of emergency on Saturday following the announcement of the first coronavirus-related death in his state and the nation. The governor directed all state agencies to use all resources necessary. He also authorized the use of National Guard troops. “This will allow us to get the resources we need,” the governor said in a written statement. “This is a time to take common-sense, proactive measures to ensure the health and safety of those who live in Washington state. Our state agency directors have been actively preparing since the nation’s first case appeared in...
  • America Prayer Vigil – March 1, 2020 [Prayer]

    02/29/2020 9:43:36 PM PST · by SisterK · 35 replies
    Free Republic ^ | today | Free Republic Intercessors
    Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, Farmers, Sanctity of Life, Health Care, and the Media Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; Whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Galatians 6:8
  • Man Accused Of Raping 3-Year-Old At McDonalds Previously Arrested At Texas/Mexico Border 

    02/29/2020 9:42:35 PM PST · by lowbridge · 47 replies
    dfw.cbslocal.com ^ | February 28, 2020
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says a man who prosecutors allege sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl in the stall of a Chicago McDonald’s restroom should have been turned over to the agency last year. Christopher Puente, 34, is charged with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault. Cook County prosecutors said he confessed to detectives that he’d placed the child on his lap while he was in a restroom stall, pulled off her pants, and covered her mouth when she started calling out “daddy daddy.” -snip The father took both children to the restroom, taking his son into a stall...
  • British PM Boris Johnson and partner Carrie Symonds reveal pregnancy, engagement

    02/29/2020 9:34:34 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 39 replies
    New York Post ^ | February 29, 2020 | Dean Balsamini
    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds are engaged and expecting a baby in early summer, according to multiple reports Saturday. Johnson, 55, and Symonds, 31, became the first unmarried couple to occupy Downing Street when they moved in last July. Symonds is also the youngest partner of a prime minister in 174 years, according to BBC News. In a post on her private Instagram account, Symonds gushed: “Many of you already know but for my friends that still don’t, we got engaged at the end of last year… and we’ve got a baby hatching early summer....
  • Video shows Tampa boat captain scraping manatee with fishing pole, and the internet isn’t pleased

    02/29/2020 9:25:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
    Tampa Bay Times ^ | February 26, 2020 | DANIEL FIGUEROA IV
    The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating. David Beede of Shallow Point Fishing Charters is getting death threats.The internet was aflame this week with comments criticizing a Tampa charter boat captain after drone video surfaced showing him scrape a manatee’s back with a fishing pole while taking clients to fish near Weedon Island. The internet onslaught has been so bad, David Beede said, he’s now getting death threats. Beede told the Tampa Bay Times he thought he was helping the manatee. The video, he said, doesn’t show the whole story. “I thought I was helping,” Beede told the...
  • Two Months of Searching Ends in Pic of Elusive White Squirrel

    02/29/2020 8:55:29 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 47 replies
    Morning Sun ^ | Feb 21, 2020 | Eric Baerren
    It was shortly after the new year when Jim Holton, owner of Mountain Town Station, sent word of an unusual critter roaming around the grounds of his restaurants at 506 W. Broadway just west of downtown Mt. Pleasant. He reported seeing a white squirrel. A quick search of the grounds by Morning Sun staff turned up lots of snow and not much else during a chilly hour-long search. It became a mild winter obsession. Reports were made of the animal on different parts of the ground: near the garbage receptacles in the back, behind Water Works Salon, 502 W. Broadway,...
  • Bloomberg once said Social Security is a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff's

    02/29/2020 8:47:37 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 48 replies
    The Week ^ | February 26, 2020
    Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg twice compared Social Security to a Ponzi scheme when he was in office, CNN reports, which is a far cry from his current stance as a Democratic presidential candidate. Nowadays, Bloomberg has vowed to to strengthen entitlement programs, but he used to see them as a major hurdle in the effort to shrink the United States' deficit. During appearances on his old radio program "Live from City Hall," which were reviewed by CNN's KFile, Bloomberg made the Ponzi scheme comparison once in 2006 and again in 2009. The latter instance was...