Thursday, February 20, 2020
'The quarantine process failed': Over 500 have tested positive for Coronavirus onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship - TheBlaze
'The quarantine process failed': Over 500 have tested positive for Coronavirus onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship - TheBlaze:
Some are questioning the effectiveness of the quarantine process after an additional 88 passengers onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, tested positive for Coronavirus Tuesday.
At the time of this writing, 542 of the 3,711 passengers and crew had tested positive for the infection.
Some are questioning the effectiveness of the quarantine process after an additional 88 passengers onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, tested positive for Coronavirus Tuesday.
At the time of this writing, 542 of the 3,711 passengers and crew had tested positive for the infection.
A Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Retracted - VICE
A Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Retracted - VICE- The paper, published by the American Heart Association's scientific journal, claimed that vaping could lead to a heart attack.
"After months of pressure from the scientific community, the American Heart Association's academic journal on Tuesday evening retracted a widely circulated vaping study, which claimed that using e-cigarettes increased the likelihood of having a heart attack.
...In a statement explaining the retraction, editors at the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) expressed worry that the study may have been based on misleading data..."
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History for February 20
History for February 20 - On-This-Day.com
Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lilies of the Field", "To Sir With Love"), Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver, Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton
Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player, Kurt Cobain 1967 - Musician, singer (Nirvana), Rhianna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) 1988 - Singer, actress ("Battleship")
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Alan Dershowitz: George Soros Asked Barack Obama to Investigate Undisclosed Person
Alan Dershowitz: George Soros Asked Barack Obama to Investigate Undisclosed Person:Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Breitbart News Sunday this weekend that billionaire left-wing financier George Soros told then-President Barack Obama to investigate someone.
Dershowitz would not identify who, precisely, the target of the investigation was, but said that the name would soon emerge in in a lawsuit that had yet to be filed.
Another money-stealing scam exposed-----America’s 'recycled' plastic waste is clogging landfills, survey finds | US news | The Guardian
America’s 'recycled' plastic waste is clogging landfills, survey finds | US news | The Guardian:- Many facilities lack the ability to process ‘mixed plastics’, a category of waste that has virtually no market as new products
"...“Let’s just get real about what is recyclable,” he said.
“Now instead of making money [by reclaiming valuable recyclables], we’re paying $75 a ton to subsidize these brands and packagers, who make all this stuff.”...
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Watch: Pilot lands 394-ton A380 sideways as Storm Dennis rages | Euronews
Watch: Pilot lands 394-ton A380 sideways as Storm Dennis rages | Euronews
"An Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, was forced to make a spectacular “crab” landing at the weekend amid fiercely strong winds at London’s Heathrow Airport..."
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"An Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, was forced to make a spectacular “crab” landing at the weekend amid fiercely strong winds at London’s Heathrow Airport..."
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‘I Can Teach Anybody … To Be A Farmer’: Bloomberg Once Belittled Agriculture And Factory Workers | The Daily Caller
“It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs.”
But the multi-billionaire businessman said the information economy is not so simple because “the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze” and that is “fundamentally different,” from agriculture or manufacturing, he told the audience.
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
- I AM ONE of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements. The funny thing is, I never even worked for Bloomberg.
"But my story shows the lengths that the Bloomberg machine will go to in order to avoid offending Beijing.
Bloomberg’s company, Bloomberg LP, is so dependent on the vast China market for its business that its lawyers threatened to devastate my family financially if I didn’t sign an NDA silencing me about how Bloomberg News killed a story critical of Chinese Communist Party leaders..."
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Only 1/3?-----Poll: One-Third of Americans Believe Media Are 'Enemy of the People' | Politics | US News
- A poll found that Americans in rural areas of the country are most likely to hold this belief of the news media.
...The poll released Monday found that the sentiment is strongest among Republicans, with 51% agreeing that media are the enemy.
Just 14% of Democrats say the same...
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Just 14% of Democrats say the same...
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Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam suffers embarrassing loss as assault weapons ban is rejected in Virginia - TheBlaze
Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's all-in push to ban the sale of assault weapons was rejected in the state's Senate after moderate Democrats joined Republican colleagues to sink the initiative Monday.
Cheers erupted in the committee room packed with gun supporters as senators voted to put the bill on hold for a year so that the state's crime commission could study the issue, the Associated Press reported.
"Safe space" for whom? From whom?-----MSU to build new multicultural center
EAST LANSING, MI (WILX) -- A new multicultural center will soon make its debut on the campus of Michigan State University.
The project was announced at the Board of Trustees meeting Friday.
The university said the project has been in talks for some time and students have been calling for a stand-alone center.
Several incidents have increased the call for a safe space on campus and a student organization gathered signatures to petition for the space..."
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Pro-abortion advocates pounce on Ted Cruz’s response to Alabama vasectomy bill, then miss the point about rights of the unborn - TheBlaze
Abortion proponents on social media are criticizing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his response to an anti-pro-life messaging bill out of Alabama, but the whole pro-abortion side of this story is missing the point about the rights of the unborn.
This story started last week, when Alabama state Rep. Rolanda Hollis (D) introduced a bill to force men in the Yellowhammer State to have a vasectomy at their own expense.
Squeegee men, scourge of the '90s, are back in NYC
Squeegee men, scourge of the '90s, are back in NYC"Just when you thought they were washed up, the notorious squeegee men are streaking back to Big Apple streets.
The panhandling window-washers, who became the face of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s quality-of-life crackdown in the 1990s, were back peddling their spotty services in Manhattan over the weekend..."
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History for February 19
History for February 19 - On-This-Day.com
Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick) 1473 - Polish astronomer, known for the Copernican theory: the sun is the center of our universe, Carson McCullers 1917 - Author ("The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye"), Lee Marvin 1924 - Actor ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Dirty Dozen", "Delta Force")
Smokey Robinson 1940 - Singer (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), Jeff Daniels 1955 - Actor ("The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Terms of Endearment"), Prince Andrew 1960 - British Duke of York
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt (D) signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
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