Russian astronaut on the ISS claims to see UFOs in new footage
The Rapid Decline of New York City
Crazy prediction: NYC voters will overwhelmingly vote Democrat in November. But remember, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
The Sound Of Settled Science
It's almost as if the virus spreads more readily in lockdown, precisely as every study has thus far shown. But opening up is a lot less fun for would-be dictators. pic.twitter.com/0Qga1GhMO2
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) August 20, 2020
And a would be dictator she is.
Don’t Ever Let Them Take Your Guns
Police are preparing to launch their aerial arsenal as part of a crackdown on COVID rule breakers. High powered drones will be used to find people not wearing masks, and cars too far from home. https://t.co/5zYfOfohG3 @tdolling #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/Yy84UBTH0V
— 7NEWS Melbourne (@7NewsMelbourne) August 17, 2020
Diversity Is Our Strength
NOT GUILTY by reason of ethnicity;
A doctor accused of being at the centre of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Campbellton region in May that claimed two lives, infected dozens and forced that northern part of New Brunswick back into the orange phase of recovery is facing a charge under the provincial Emergency Measures Act.
Dr. Jean Robert Ngola has been issued an appearance notice to attend Campbellton provincial court on Oct. 26 under Section 24(1)(b) of the act for alleged failure to comply with a direction, order or requirement, his lawyer, Joël Etienne, confirmed to CBC on Sunday.
It stems from an RCMP investigation following a complaint filed by the provincial government and the Vitalité Health Network on May 30 “related to an individual who may have violated the mandatory order under the current Emergency Measures Act by travelling outside of N.B., and not following the guidelines of self-isolating upon their return,” RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jullie Rogers-Marsh said in an emailed statement.
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Etienne contends Ngola, who is from Congo, is “absolutely innocent of any wrongdoing. … At all times, he conducted himself correctly in fact and in law, with the utmost diligence.”
His defence team, which now includes constitutional lawyer Christian Michaud, who has successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Canada and established victories in minority linguistic rights in New Brunswick, plans to initiate legal proceedings against the provincial government and Vitalité for what Etienne described as “misconduct.”
“The singling out of a racialized medical worker by a premier and his government, the calling out to criminalize a racialized medical worker by a premier and his government, the scapegoating of a racialized medical worker by a premier and his government is tantamount to conduct unprecedented in North American history,” he said. “No other jurisdiction has ever done what New Brunswick has done in these matters.”
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
It’s Probably Nothing
h/t LazyJones: Bank of Canada Assets and liabilities, weekly. I’m sure this is totally normal.
I’m Old Enough To Remember When A 1/4 Million People Taking To The Streets Was A Good Thing
Juxtapose time!
TMZ, August 8; Though the reasonable, safe and smart decision would have been to cancel the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally … the South Dakota city’s doing what it can to keep it from becoming a COVID super-spreading event, and good luck with that.
TMZ, May 30th: Machine Gun Kelly & More Stars Hit the Streets … To Protest George Floyd’s Death
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
The title of this video is “How coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”. But the actual title should be “How the reaction to the coronavirus has devastated the retail industry and malls”.
Clown Karen World!
Will Medical Malpractice Suits Run Rampant in 2021?
If someone lost a family member to Covid-19, whose doctor refused to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc, can that doctor be sued for malpractice?
Weaponized Blue Mayor Garcetti Amps Up the Totalitarian Rhetoric
Following reports of large parties that violate health orders aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that he will authorize the city to shut off water and power services to residents who hold such gatherings.
Beginning Friday night, if Los Angeles Police Department officers respond to and verify that a large party is occurring at a property, and there’s evidence that the venue has repeatedly engaged in such behavior, the department will request that the city shut off water and power services within 48 hours.
Mischief Is Important
The Dark Night Of Fascism Is Always Falling On Trump
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
John Lewis Memorial Services Highlights Arbitrary Double Standards Of Coronavirus Policies: In all, there were more than ten ceremonies across five different cities. The final ceremony, the funeral, was invite-only, but many of the pews were still filled with people sitting shoulder-to-shoulder.
It’s behind a paywall, but one really doesn’t need to read further to get the point.
It’s Probably Nothing
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
Something doesn’t add up in WIV’s story of RaTG13 origins. Now they concede it was sequenced in 2017-18, and not in 2020. But why did WIV in their 2020 preprint seem to imply they only had a short RdRp fragment in 2020? And why did Daszak say the sample was forgotten until 2020? https://t.co/I9CsTKvr5T
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) August 1, 2020
WIV is Wuhan Institute of Virology. If you poke around in the replies and links, you’ll find a morning’s coffee worth of discussion, including this thread by Alita Chan. As a reminder, Yuri Deigin is the author of this Medium post of April, which if you haven’t read yet I recommend. But be warned, that will take a morning pot’s worth of coffee.
Jim Jordan Corners Fauci
RIP Herman Cain
A better link at Newsmax (h/t Larry);
He was born Dec. 13, 1945, in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up poor in Atlanta, Georgia, where his father worked three jobs — as a janitor, barber, and chauffeur — while his mother toiled as a domestic worker.
A stellar student who worked hard, Cain graduated from Morehouse College with a mathematics degree in 1967. A year later, he married Gloria Etchison, whom he met when he was a sophomore at Morehouse and she was a freshman at Morris Brown College.
Cain went on to earn a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971, and helped develop fire control ballistics for ships and fighter planes for the U.S. Navy.
Next, he joined The Coca-Cola Company as a systems analyst, and after considerable success, moved to Pillsbury.
After serving as regional vice president of Pillsbury’s Burger King, Cain then took on the biggest challenge of his career as president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a national chain teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
In 14 months, he returned Godfather’s to profitability and led his management team to a buyout of the company.
A tribute from a former campaign aid.
Weinstein And Heying
One of their better podcasts: on Portland, fake Protest Moms, on Trump derangement and the politicization of COVID and its consequences.