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A disturbing video posted to social media that appears to show a uniformed Los Angeles Police Department officer whaling on a man being detained has prompted an internal investigation for misconduct and excessive use of force.

COLUMBIA, SC- Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, many have resorted to at-home salon services as non-essential businesses have closed. A woman in South Carolina was attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community while attempting to do the homeowner's nails on Friday. Authorities say 58-year-old Cynthia Covert was trying to touch the alligator when it grabbed her. She was able to briefly get out of the animal's grip and stood waist-deep in the Kiawah Island pond. She told the homeowner, "I guess I won't do this again," but the alligator grabbed her in its jaws again and took her...

A massive fire erupts at a residential tower in Al Nahda in Sharjah. A massive fire was reported at a residential tower in Al Nahda in Sharjah on Tuesday night, Gulf News learnt. The quick response by Sharjah Civil Defence teams averted a major disaster, authorities said.Image Credit: Gulf News The name of the building is Abbco Tower. The fire started at 9.04pm, according to Sharjah Civil Defence teams. Residents have been evacuated. Civil Defence crew from Mina fire station and Al Nahda rushed to the spot to control the blaze after the police operation room received a call reporting...

I just got a call for a decent job - everything looked really good. The recruiter's name was Alex Jones - funny, he had an Indian accent. I'm out of work and so my resume is posted on the standard sites... free to download by all and sundry. Additionally, this job is 100% remote. Sound too good to be true? Read on... It started with an email from 'Alex Jones', I replied. Then he called. Just another Indian recruiter scouring the USA for tech resources... nothing eye popping so far. They have taken to using fake Anglo sounding names lately...

President Donald Trump has said he knows something of the North Korean leader’s condition – but he won’t disclose it. NORTH KOREA THIS WEEK provided halting signs that leader Kim Jong Un remains in power and control as sensational reports circulated unabated across the world claiming he is grievously ill or perhaps even dead. Though their significance is disputed, a series of dispatches were reportedly issued in Kim's name to Syria, Cuba and South Africa as well as a letter of praise for local workers. But, as is historically the case when issues arise about its leader's fitness, signals from...

Ali'jah Larrue and Khari Sanford are both charged with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide.→ More >>>

↑ Click on the image to see the video... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants us to blow up our elected officials' offices because they can do more... while she makes herself a Margherita.

It was only a couple of weeks ago when the Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, accompanied by Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services Krista Kiuru, and Minister of Finance Katri Kulmuni marched into a press conference and announced that there is no epidemic in Finland and not much needed to be done. At the time, there were only two confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country. Last Thursday, the same ministers walked in again in the same order to announce that now the epidemic in Finland can not be stopped,...

President Barack Obama's eldest daughter, who previously interned on the HBO show 'Girls,' is set to work with the Hollywood superproducer and Democratic donor. → MORE >>>

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The girl had been at the Jonas Brothers concert on February 14, where there were thousands of people: it will not be easy to track them down since the tickets are not nominal. The daughter of a police officer from Spinaceto had been to a concert at the Assago Forum on February 14th - . she would have been infectious there. Her father, the policeman is in bad shape and on a respirator...They're trying to track down people from the concert and the train she took to get there, but this could be a major vector for Italy.

After the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, investors are waking up to the all-too-familiar news of more coronavirus cases worldwide, and falling global stocks. The second U.S. death from the virus was reported on Sunday. Asian and European stocks started Monday positively — as central banks around the world sparked hopes of interest-rate cuts. But they moved into the red after an OECD report warned that the virus economic impact was “severe” and putting “the world economy at risk.” U.S. futures followed suit on a volatile morning. → More >>>

after this, you’ll welcome obstacles “The general principle of antifragility, it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” – Nassim Taleb“Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.” – Nassim Taleb“They have turned the wolf into a dog and man himself into the man’s best domesticated animal.” – Friedrich Nietzsche  The ideas in this post have been the most transformative in my life over the last couple years. I avoided writing about them because I didn’t feel I could. Finally, I feel that I’ve internalized, tested, and understand them...

NEW YORK - The New York Stock Exchange is preparing for the possible escalation of the novel coronavirus crisis that might include closing the trading floor in Lower Manhattan, according to Fox Business. Should the outbreak of COVID-19 escalate into a global pandemic, as is expected, then markets and firms are concerned that traders and other employees might not be able to get to work. "New York Stock Exchange is beginning to prepare for the possibility that the floor might not be able to open. It's a mixture of both humans and an automated trading system, computerized trading system," Charles...

↑ Click Above To View The Video On YouTube ↑ Coronavirus (COVID-19) is now a pandemic. I explain why in this video. COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a PANDEMIC. It might not be an official declaration by the WHO, but, there is no question, that this is a pandemic. The WHO already has a credibility problem with a lot of people, and that’s only going to get worse the longer they delay calling COVID-19 a pandemic. This reason this is a pandemic is that the endemic is now spreading in different continents. Specifically, there is...

The World Health Organization is sharing social media posts to debunk widely circulated rumors about coronavirus cures. Updated on Feb. 24 at 5:54 p.m. ET to include comments from Twitter and Facebook.The coronavirus outbreak has sparked what the World Health Organization is calling an "infodemic" — an overwhelming amount of information on social media and websites. Some of it's accurate. And some is downright untrue.The false statements range from a conspiracy theory that the virus is a man-made bioweapon to the claim that more than 100,000 have died from the disease (as of this week, the number of reported...

Japanese and Chinese at highest risk for Coronavirus What is your risk to get infected coronavirus? East Asians, Japanese, and Han Chinese are the most likely people to become severely sick by the coronavirus with a chance of more than 90% when exposed. Europeans only rank in the 50%, Africans in the 60% range, and considered low to medium. It also makes a difference if one is a smoker or non-smoker. The Travel and Tourism industry is in turmoil. Tourism leaders don’t want anyone to panic, but the story doesn’t yet have an end to it. At the same time,...

At the time of writing, 170 people have died of the Wuhan Coronavirus [Coronavirus Live Updates: Death Toll Rises, as Foreigners are Evacuated, New York Times, January 30, 2020], though that number is bound to have increased by the time this article is published.All of these deaths have been in China. The disease has spread to at least 16 other countries, including Canada, the USA, France, Germany, Finland, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, and a number of East Asian countries [This is where Wuhan coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide, by Eric Cheung, CNN, January 30, 2020]. The Main Stream Media, in Western countries, is stoking panic with...

Wear a body cam - ideally one that can livestream to the cloud - if you go to Virginia tomorrow. It's still not too late to pick one up at your local BestBuy. If things get ugly, and they may as Antifa is sure to show up to start trouble that they can pin on 'racists' or 'white supremacists' or whoever the bogeyman is they care to malign. Stay safe.Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase warns of a setup by Northam goons.

How the mighty have fallen... in this video, you can see a cringeworthy Prince Harry trying to pitch Meghan Markle's voiceover skills to Disney CEO. See it on YouTube. Twitter is deleting the video like mad, so this one may eventually be taken down too. Here's another where Meghan sees him talking with some important people, she interrupts, pushes him aside and jumps in front of them all silencing Harry.