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It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing Wuhan Flu 35 Comments

As has been predicted for weeks, world markets are finally taking a hit.

Shares on Wall Street have plummeted at the opening bell and European markets are also a sea of red, with the Italian market the worst hit, amid reports of rising deaths from the coronavirus in the country.

The high price of conspiring with China: Iran becomes the new epicenter of infection.

Now 600 cases in South Korea, who the hell knows what’s going on in the North.

More: Trump’s fury over coronavirus patients being repatriated may be justified

Dead Country Walking

The Libranos Western Separatism 75 Comments

Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves and heading south.

Canada is now reaping the whirlwind.

I Want A New Country (Bumped)

Uncategorized 99 Comments

I’ve often said that I wished I owned all the oil companies in the world.

I guess they were listening.

What now, Mr. Kenney? Surely you have more than a tweet in response.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal (Updated)

Drain The Swamp Russiagate 7 Comments

This suggests the dam is about to break: The New York Times admitted on Thursday that the Obama administration deployed multiple spies against the Trump campaign in 2016, confirming recent comments by Attorney General William Barr that ‘spying did occur’ during the campaign. (Update — old article. I’m surprised it’s the first time I’ve seen it. )

This is new, however.

The Justice Department Inspector watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
 
Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI’s New York field office, was identified only as “Case Agent 1″ in Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, released in December. Sources told the New York Times that Somma is that official. The FBI did not comment for the report.
 
Somma was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions” during the process of obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, according to Horowitz. Horowitz confirmed the FBI relied heavily upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier when pursuing the secret surveillance.
 
The DOJ watchdog found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page, who was under suspicion of being an agent for Russia. He was never charged with any wrongdoing.

Related: What a difference a new acting Director of National Intelligence makes.

We Are All Treaty People$

Chief Big Screen TV Shiny Pony The Libranos We Are All Treaty People 56 Comments

This is Trudeau’s mob.

Update.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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I sometimes think of Stephen Harper and wonder what might have been…

‘Boris Johnson has privately confirmed that he will definitely privatise Channel 4,’ a Conservative MP told the Sunday Express. ‘He thinks it’s a great idea.’

Shipley MP Philip Davies, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said: ‘I’ve been arguing for years it should be sold off.’

Channel 4’s relationship with Downing Street has been in the deep freeze since the prime minister cancelled a planned interview with the broadcaster at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, in August, following Ms Byrne’s claims.

Mr Johnson also cancelled a planned interview with the channel at the Tory party conference in October, and snubbed their political debate on climate change in November.

The prime minister was replaced by an ice sculpture at the debate, which gradually melted throughout proceedings.

Related: Read the comments below this pro-BBC tweet.

What Would We Do Without Peer Review?

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“The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex”. For those of us who enjoy long form podcasts (and have a little knowledge of genetics) this is a fascinating story. Eric Weinstein can be a pompous asshole, but if you’re interested in stories of scientific malfeasance and the implications of “broken” mice, stick with it. The real meat begins at about 45 minutes in.

Besides, I have lots on my plate and it may be all you get today.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing Wuhan Flu 20 Comments

And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.

You heard me right.

Updates

Untraceable clusters alarm US officials.

Infections surge in South Korea.

Italy – Tens of thousands of Italians prepared for a weeks-long quarantine…

8 dead in Iran, which seems to have a abnormally high death rate or an abnormally low detection rate.

2 more young doctors die from coronavirus in China

Nevada Caucuses

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Stephen Green is drunk blogging.

Short night: Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Nevada caucuses, Fox News is projecting, furthering the democratic socialist’s lead over his Democratic rivals and raising the question as to whether he can be stopped on his path to the Democratic nomination. With six percent of delegates in, Sanders leads with 54.7 percent.

And here you have it: the pivotal moment in history when Chris Matthews signals he’s voting for Trump.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing Wuhan Flu 14 Comments

@AFP #BREAKING Italy’s coronavirus infections jump to 79, including two deaths, says official

Health officials worry as untraceable virus clusters emerge

Russia! Russia! Russia!

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By the time the Democrat Media Complex is finished working him over, Bernie will be endorsing Trump.

Related: You Bernie Suckers Are Going to Get Fooled Again.

I Want A New Country

We Are All Treaty People Western Separatism 62 Comments

Police move in…

A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction.

The roughly two dozen protesters, acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs contesting a British Columbia natural gas pipeline, had begun dismantling the encampment earlier in the evening following discussions with police.

They took downs tents and carried items such as sleeping bags, pots, propane tanks and a wood stove to the edge of a security perimeter established earlier in the day by Longueuil municipal police.

… a day late and a billion short: Coastal GasLink’s final report has been rejected by B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office.Construction in #Wetsuweten territory can’t proceed without this approval, and stands to be delayed by several months.
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