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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, there are growing questions in Russia about the official number of cases that have been declared. According to the count released by its health ministry, Russia currently has only 253 confirmed cases of the virus. That is vastly lower than in other major countries in Western Europe, where there are already thousands of cases.What really makes Russia an outlier, however, is the number of tests it is carrying out compared to its number of positive cases. Russia has done 133,101 tests, putting it behind only China, Italy and South Korea.But with just 306 cases of the...

Joe Biden reached a new and heady milestone when he shellacked Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois and Arizona to become the de facto Democratic nominee for president. But there was no soaring speech to acknowledge the moment. He never took the stage amid a sea of Biden signs or before an adoring crowd on national television. Biden was instead stuck in a makeshift studio in his Delaware home, webcasting his remarks with a low-quality personal computer camera against a straight-out-of-YouTube black backdrop and two American flags. He warned about the coronavirus contagion. He offered an olive branch to Bernie Sanders....

Mark Vincent Busenbark, a middle-aged man with a cross-dressing alter ego he calls Vica Steel, has been creating intellectual and moral havoc in Frank Allis Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin for a year. Last school year, Busenbark, a science teacher, created a creepy video about his creepy predilection for cross-dressing and pretending to be sometimes a man and sometimes a woman. Then, with the permission of his administration, he presumptuously showed his creepy “coming out” video to all K-5 students without their parents’ knowledge or consent. In this video, he describes in biased language his disordered and delusional view of...

Here's a video that Ammon Bundy linked to on Facebook..... The world is still turning...See Gavin Seim with his Mexican street tour streamed live Friday afternoon.... Well here we are in Venezuela but I thought that was socialism and a bad place that the United States wasn't or that voting the right way would save us from. The pride, the vanity, the arrogance.... Our insider elites driving negative narratives against China and Russia economic competitors but as I recall Republican President Richard Nixon opened up China.... Russia and China are the enemy, I still say its the Republicans and Democrats...

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence have both tested negative for the CCP virus, the White House announced on Saturday evening. “Pleased to report that the COVID-19 test results came back negative for both Vice President @Mike_Pence and Second Lady @KarenPence,” Katie Miller, the press secretary for the vice president, said on Twitter.

Cepheid, a California-based diagnostic testing company, announced on Saturday that the FDA approved the use of its XpertXpress Sars-CoV-2 rapid molecular diagnostic test for the detection of the Chinese coronavirus that causes COVID-19..... The test is designed to work on any of the company’s more than 23,000 automated worldwide testing systems. The test provides results in about 45 minutes, company officials said in a written statement. “The test we’re authorizing today will be able to provide Americans with results within hours, rather than days like the existing tests, and the company plans to roll it out by March 30, which...

(ATTN: UPDATES with details from 5th para) SEOUL, March 22 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, offering help with the communist nation's fight against the coronavirus, Kim's sister said Sunday. The letter is a "a good example showing the special and firm personal relations" between Trump and Kim, said Kim Yo-jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the North's Workers' Party, in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. (LEAD) Trump sent letter to Kim offering help on virus outbreak: Kim's sister - 1...

Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal With oil prices plunging to their lowest level in 22 years, state legislators are projecting an imminent budget crisis that’s likely to force the New Mexico Legislature into special session. Sen. John Arthur Smith, chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee, said the state could be facing a $1 billion loss in oil- and gas-related revenue if the crisis continues through this year and into 2021. ADVERTISEMENTSKIP In a Thursday letter to legislative leaders, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham indicated a special session is inevitable but said state officials need to have updated revenue estimates and a...

Australia's unofficial national anthem, "Waltzing Matilda" is a song about suicide. How can that be? Scroll down in this post for a glossary: https://tujuhbelasan.com/2020/03/22/sustainable-development-9-waltzing-matilda-in-indonesian/ It is worth noting that the Indonesian revolutionary war slogan "Merdeka atau Mati" (Free or Dead) can be made to work well rhythmically with the English "You'll never catch me alive" cred he. At least I think so. Indonesia is an incredibly free country. The West cannot afford to ignore it as a balance to totalitarian China. Who agrees? I have not ignored this huge republic.

Yost sent letters Saturday to Women’s Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood of Cincinnati Surgery Center after receiving complaints that 'both had refused to close following an order' from Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton. “You and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing non-essential and elective surgical abortions,” Yost said, reported the Columbus Dispatch: Non-essential surgical abortions are those that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient. If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the (health...

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.) is in critical condition due to complications of a non-COVID-19 related pneumonia after fracturing a rib Friday. He was admitted to a Washington, D.C., hospital where he appeared to be in stable condition. Physicians determined he was negative for the coronavirus. However, a statement later tweeted from the congressman's Twitter account to his followers revealed that his health had taken a turn for the worse. “Unfortunately, congressman DeSaulinier’s condition has deteriorated and he is in critical condition,” a statement posted on the congressman’s Twitter account Saturday read. SNIP

Distilleries nationwide are changing their operations to produce more hand sanitizer to combat coronavirus, the president announced at the White House on Saturday. President Donald Trump used Pernod Ricard USA as an example of this development: This is really an example where we are repurposing alcohol. They went out and repurposed their alcohol production capabilities in Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia to make hand sanitizer, and it’s a big difference.....And they’ve been unbelievable,” Trump said. Their first delivery will go out on Tuesday,” Trump said. “It’s going to go to various states.” “They’re going to start I think in New...

V.20 "Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. V.21 See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer."

Abortion clinics in Ohio have been ordered to cease abortion operations amid the COVID-19 outbreak as the state government and pro-choice groups spar over the definition of "essential" healthcare. On Friday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) sent a letter to two abortion clinics — Women's Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio's Cincinnati Surgery Center — ordering them to stop “non-essential” procedures that require equipment such as surgical masks. "You and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing non-essential and elective surgical abortions. Non-essential surgical abortions are those that can be delayed without undue risk...

Popular New Orleans Bounce Music DJ Passes Away At Age 44 From CoronaVirus Infection! Video is 5 min long

Yes, emphasize fear. Alexander’s argument (it was not a question) was asked and answered, and still Alexander persisted in grandstanding and nearly heckling the president with the implication the American people should be afraid, that the president was spreading false hope, and that the country would be better off feeling anxious because that would mean Trump will not be reelected. The reason the media and their Never Trump lackeys are covering up the truth is because they know The Truth exposes Alexander as the godless, left-wing hack he is. The reason the media and their Never Trump lackeys are covering...

GOJO, the maker of Purell hand sanitizer, is facing two class-action lawsuits accusing it of "misleading claims" that it can prevent "99.9 percent of illness-causing germs." The most recent lawsuit, filed by four people March 13 in federal court for the Northeastern District of Ohio, comes as retailers scramble to keep hand sanitizer in stock amid a coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 230,000 people around the world and forced millions of Americans to stay at home indefinitely. Purell's label states the product can kill "99.9 percent of illness-causing germs." The suit claims that it's misleading because it implies...

SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 – is completely new and attacks cells in a novel way. Every virus is different and so are the drugs used to treat them. That’s why there wasn’t a drug ready to tackle the new coronavirus that only emerged a few months ago. As a systems biologist who studies how cells are affected by viruses during infections, I’m especially interested in the second question. (snip) Compared with human cells, viruses are small and can’t reproduce on their own. The coronavirus has about 30 proteins, whereas a human cell has more than...

MINNEAPOLIS (KTTC) -- A former Mayo Clinic research coordinator is facing federal charges for attempting to provide support and resources to ISIS. 28-year-old Muhammad Masood was arrested at Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport (MSP) on Thursday by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Masood is a licensed doctor in Pakistan. According to his LinkedIn profile on Thursday, he worked at Mayo Clinic since February 2018. He was most recently a research coordinator. In a statement to KTTC, Mayo Clinic said Masood was not an employee at the time of his arrest. Federal authorities said Masood "expressed his desire for lone...

Election officials and voting rights groups are calling for a general move to an all vote-by-mail system for remaining primaries and the November general election as the spread of the novel coronavirus continues to shut down major cities and states across the U.S. Ellen Weintraub, one of three current members of the Federal Election Commission and its former chairwoman, said this week that voting by mail is a "necessary and urgent" step in the face of the pandemic. "As Congress and the White House race to save American lives and preserve America's economy, they must also act swiftly to protect...