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For Rana Ahmad, doubting the existence of God meant leaving her family behind – and becoming a refugee. When speaking about the arrival of migrants in Europe, people often ask why newcomers keep travelling north, rather than staying in the country where they arrived. For Rana Ahmad, a Syrian woman who fled Saudi Arabia because of her non-religious beliefs, it was Germany’s eminent roster of physicists, from Albert Einstein to Werner Heisenberg, which inspired her to continue journeying through Europe to study physics there. Rana began to doubt her religious convictions when reading science and philosophy books at the age...

The company said Thursday that sales at its stores open for at least one year, a key metric, increased 9.1% during its previous quarter compared with the same period last year. Sales at Costco in February were up 12.4% from a year ago. The company attributed around 3% of that to “an uptick in consumer demand” from concerns over coronavirus. Shoppers have posted pictures on social media in recent days of lines snaking around Costco stores. They have also posted pictures of shelves empty of sanitizers at Costco, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and other drug stores. Shares of Costco, Walmart, other...

I'd be interesting to know how much money was moved out of stocks around mid-January and by whom. As the economy was humming along and Trump sailing into re-election, the fear-mongering started, and the markets tanked. Whoever is coordinating the hysteria, I am sure is attached to their money. There must be a way to pin-point clusters of large and early withdrawals just prior to January 23.

PHOTO OF LEGS & CO, 1977, ("FIGHTING FOR YOU.") As T.S. Eliot said, “it’s time.” PHOTO OF OBAMA KISSING BIDEN https://vosizneias.com/ Time to close up and get the hell out of Dodge. Time for all good Democrats to hang up, stop drinking, and go home. Because it looks like they want to nominate an old, senile, baby-touching, hair-sniffing, digit-sucking pervert named Joe Biden. That’s actually fine with me in-so-far-as the upcoming 2020 election is concerned. But I am dumbstruck by the choice. Actually, it can’t really be Biden, whom the Masters have chosen. No. Something else is afoot. This, about...

SEOUL -- More foreign governments are moving to restrict entry from coronavirus-hit South Korea, with the tally reaching 81 as of Monday. Infections rose 599 from a day earlier to 4,335, the government announced Monday. Thirty-six countries and regions are barring arrivals from all or part of South Korea, while 45 are requiring such steps as 14-day quarantines, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The U.S. has not restricted arrivals but has raised its travel warning to the highest level, "do not travel," for the city of Daegu and to "reconsider travel," the second-highest level, for the rest of...

A while ago there used to be this thread. Well, I have not seen it for a while. Let's light this candle.

A top animal rights group wants Marines to trade the reptiles and other animals they're eating during an annual jungle training exercise for plants and other vegan survival options.

Men are 65 per cent more likely than women to die from coronavirus, according to statistics. Figures from the World Health Organization and Chinese scientists have revealed that 1.7 per cent of women who catch the virus will die compared to 2.8 per cent of men, even though neither sex is more likely to catch it. More than 98,000 people around the world have now been diagnosed with the virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, and at least 3,383 have died. Some experts have put the higher risk among men down to higher smoking and drinking rates – both...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that it's not the right time to put additional travel restrictions on South Korea over the coronavirus. Trump was asked at a White House press briefing whether he is considering restricting travel to and from South Korea, Italy and other countries affected by COVID-19. "At a right time we may do it," the president said. "Right now it's not the right time, but at a right time." South Korea has seen a rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases, with nearly 1,200 infections and 12 deaths as of Wednesday. The U.S. State Department...

Donald Trump to sign $8.3 billion bill to combat coronavirus outbreak after canceling trip to CDC amid growing scandal over testing kit failure President Trump is expected to sign a $8..3 billion measure to combat the coronavirus outbreak But he canceled a trip scheduled for Friday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta 'The President is no longer traveling to Atlanta today. The CDC has been proactive and prepared since the very beginning and the President does not want to interfere,' a senior administration official told DailyMail.com Trump will travel to Tennessee to view tornado damage President...

Federal investigators discovered a loaded gun in the Manhattan jail where financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide last year. Investigators with the Bureau of Prisons began searching the facility last week after receiving information that a loaded gun had been smuggled inside the jail, a serious violation of security, according to the Associated Press. The bureau has faced significant pressure to improve its security practices after Epstein, who was facing charges of rape and sex trafficking, was found dead in his cell on Aug. 10. Attorney General William Barr named a new Bureau of Prisons director last week: Michael Carvajal, a...

Mitt Romney became persona non grata in certain parts of the conservative movement last month by becoming the first senator of a president’s own party to ever vote to remove them from office. Romney indicated Thursday that he is skeptical about the need for the Senate Homeland Security Committee to issue a subpoena related to Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company. “I would prefer that investigations are done by an independent, nonpolitical body,” Romney told The Post’s Mike DeBonis. “There’s no question the appearance is not good.” Republicans have a 8-to-6 majority, meaning Romney’s vote, when...

Super Tuesday has finally served its intended purpose for the first time since it was invented for the 1988 presidential cycle, 32 years ago. Those were the days when Democrats controlled practically every Southern legislature and when most Southern whites were, in homage to their Civil War heritage, registered Democrats. Moderate Democratic politicians hit on the idea of setting up a multistate early set of Southern primaries to increase the chances of moderate candidates being better in November than the nominees who lost to former President Richard Nixon and then-President Ronald Reagan. The strategy worked in 1988, but for the...

Hillary Clinton started it: kaleidoscopic pant suits.Short ones, long ones, collared, collarless, in every imaginable hueDemocratic National Convention August 26th, 2008: A couple of men of men standing on the stage holding up two blazers a piece — red, tangerine, pale teal, and a calm light blue — to determine which color would look best under the lights when Clinton gave a speech in support of her party's nominee, Barack Obama. Other female politicians attempted to followed suit.Lizzy went full Hillary, with ultimately the same electoral result: Never go full Hillary  Turns out they were doing it wrong. No need...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 119 Psalm 119[a] ר Resh 153 Look on my suffering and deliver me,     for I have not forgotten your law. 154 Defend my cause and redeem me;     preserve my life according to your promise. 155 Salvation is far from the wicked,     for they do not seek out your decrees. 156 Your compassion, Lord, is great;     preserve my life according to your laws. 157 Many are the foes who persecute me,     but I have not turned from your statutes. 158 I look on the faithless with loathing,     for they do not obey your word. 159 See...

This overview is an attempt to provide some context and clarity around the COVID-19 outbreak and to avoid some of the noise and “bite-size” information that is flowing through traditional mainstream media outlets. Please note that the “media” discussion is simply regarding the speed of information flowing and the lack of a “contextual” approach to what is happening around the globe due to that speed. The 30,000-Foot View The risk assessment for most of the world remains very low according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be referenced throughout...

ou can’t trust MSNBC or the New York Times to do the maths. – Seriously, you could never make this stuff up, folks. Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million" NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing” It's $1.53 per person Embedded video Understand that both of these corrupt “journalists” spent a good deal of time preparing for this moment. They prepared actual talking points for it. Both certainly...

In 2019, in response to a single criminal act, faced with intense media pressure, resulting in political pressure, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, (BATFE) moved to ban bump stocks. They did so, claiming bump stocks were machine guns, contrary to numerous findings they had made over the last several decades. The new regulation was challenged in the courts. The first case to be appealed to the Supreme Court was filed in the District of Columbia. On 2 March, 2020, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari, the legal term to say they declined to hear the...

Idaho last year was the nation's fastest-growing state, with close to 37,000 new residents boosting its population to nearly 1.8 million. In the past decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the deeply conservative state has seen a population jump of more than 200,000. Studies indicate many have come from liberal-leaning California, Oregon and Washington. But are those new residents bringing blue-state politics? Or are they Republicans fleeing the coast for conservative Idaho? An answer could emerge Tuesday when Idaho holds its presidential primaries. Democrats are using a primary for the first time after picking Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary...

During the Trump era, CNN's "Reliable Sources" has featured a roster of those whom the network calls "legendary journalists" to exhort the media masses and drive President Donald Trump out of the White House. The words "legendary journalist" are put on screen, and even in CNN transcripts. That would include PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers, Watergate welterweight Carl Bernstein, disgraced Dan Rather and the long-yelling former ABC anchor Sam Donaldson. The more aggressively liberal (and less professional) you are, the more "legendary" you become in the eyes of CNN. On Valentine's Day, CNN's Anderson Cooper brought on Donaldson to announce he...