While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has warned that “we are your future,” since “what happens to New York is going to wind up happening to California and Washington state and Illinois” and the New York Times has blared that “This Is Going to Kill Small-Town America,” the COVID-19 death rate in the United States appears to be more than twice as high in large urban counties as in high-density suburbs, and nearly twice as high in high-density suburbs than in lower-density ones.
New York, by far the nation’s biggest and most transit-dependent metropolitan area, has suffered deaths at 10 times or more the rate of other large urban areas like Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston while Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul, which benefited from experiences with previous pandemic along with far more disciplined, and less diverse, populations, are all facing a new upsurge of cases. In Japan, a third of the cases are in Tokyo, with hospitals stressed from recent rises forcing the country to go back under lockdown.
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Want to know how many tuberculosis cases there were in the U.S. last year? Ask the CDC. Want to know about health-care-associated infections? Ask the CDC. It knows.
But ask how many Covid-19 tests have been done, and the CDC’s doesn’t have an answer. Want a daily update on how many people are getting hospitalized for Covid-19? The CDC isn’t tracking it. Want to know if social distancing is making a difference? The CDC doesn’t know.
During this pandemic, when accurate, timely, nationwide information is the lifeblood of our response, the CDC has largely disappeared.
Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski, who runs the department’s criminal division, said prosecutors have contacted 15 to 20 of the largest loan processors and the Small Business Administration, which oversees one relief program, as part of an effort to police the trillions of dollars in federal aid being pushed out hastily to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The review has already turned up several red flags in the data prosecutors have examined over the past week, Benczkowski said Thursday in a telephone interview.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
mmigrant-rights groups asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon to issue a temporary injunction against Trump’s order blocking green card applications from foreign nationals living outside the United States, with the plaintiffs attempting to tie their request to a previous decision by the judge that blocked Trump’s ban on immigrants who could not afford health care.
Simon, however, ruled that the order is not related to the previous case.
It was probably a great disappointment to him that Ted Kennedy was dead. If he remembered.
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Stacey Abrams, who hopes to become Biden’s vice presidential pick, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) – whose father was involved with the NXIVM sex cult which exploited countless women, have both rushed to Biden’s defense. Now, instead of ‘believe all women,’ they’re saying that women have the ‘right to be heard,’ but that they don’t believe former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s claims that he sexually assaulted her in 1993, according to The Hill.
Unless conservatives attain an unlikely victory in the culture war, success in electoral politics will not easily be translated into cultural respect or recognition. The past two decades of Republican electoral victories and simultaneous progressive cultural drift demonstrate the point. Even Donald Trump has been unable to induce respect for conservative culture, though his denigration of elites may serve as a short-lived cultural equalizer of sorts. So here is another idea: conservatives should look to decentralized speech infrastructure, free of the chokepoints so often captured by progressive activists.
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Feng Chen, a Brooklyn resident, was seen looking inside medical collection bins at a closeted medical office and then walking into the gated area of a second building carrying what New York Police Department officers said looked like mail.
The officers confronted Chen and discovered checks, stimulus payments totaling more than $12,000, credit cards, and opened envelopes and letters with names of various individuals.
Yeah, whenever I see the name ‘Feng Chen’ I think ‘New York man’, as I’m sure you do.
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The Washington Post makes a couple of easy “demands” — that Joe Biden actually answer whether he raped a woman instead of letting his female surrogates spin on his behalf, and that he open up his records for examination.
It isn’t easy.
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The Pentagon’s current Director of the Office of Net Assessment had extensive communications with Washington Post reporter and deep-state conduit David Ignatius during the Russiagate fiasco, according to 143 pages of new records from the Department of Defense obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by legal watchdog group Judicial Watch.
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Talking points circulated by the Biden Campaign asking supporters to cite a New York Timesinvestigation into sexual assault accuser Tara Reade “inaccurately suggest” that the Timesconcluded the 1993 incident never happened.
You have to be quite a liar to be a Democrat and have the NYT call you a liar.
So Mr. Clyburn’s district is dominated by two cities that are far apart and have little to do with each other: Charleston and Columbia. But it excludes Charleston and Columbia – at least the parts of those cities that are populated largely by *gasp* white people. So he basically controls very specific areas of those two cities and the entire coastal region of South Carolina. Except for the actual coast, of course, because that rather expensive real estate is populated largely by *gasp* white people. Like me, for example. I really should be in Mr. Clyburn’s district. But I’m not, because too many of my neighbors are *gasp* white.
I live in Hilton Head, which is in South Carolina’s first congressional district, which looks even more absurd that Mr. Clyburn’s district, as you can see from the map at the left. Interestingly, Mr. Clyburn’s 6th congressional district and my 1st congressional district are the only Democrat districts in the state, and that clearly was not an accident. Look at the maps. They worked hard to get two Democrats into congress from South Carolina – one from poor blacks and one from wealthy whites.
Kevin Williamson does some yeoman work for his Establishment masters.
None of this really comports with the facts on the ground in that “Real America” we hear so much about on talk radio. In the real America, rural farmers are part of a very large and complex network of industrial and scientific innovation, international trade, and business innovations made possible by the “financialization” dismissed by populists Right and Left. American farmers rely on scientific work done at elite universities, on technology from Silicon Valley, on high finance, and — horrors! — on international trade, not least trade with China. Some of them employ a fair number of immigrants, too. The American farmer is as much of a “rootless cosmopolitan” as any Connecticut hedge-funder or California code monkey.
I keep expecting him to break into the ‘resistance is futile’ rant from Howard Beal in Network.
National Review once prided itself on ‘standing athwart history yelling “Stop!”‘. Nowadays they spend their time standing athwart history saying ‘wait for me!’.
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The criminal case against Michael Flynn imploded Friday. First, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia provided Flynn’s legal team with documents discovered by an outside review of the Flynn prosecution — documents withheld for years. Then, Sidney Powell, the attorney who took over Flynn’s defense nearly a year ago, filed new documents in the case, revealing a secret “lawyers’ understanding” not to prosecute Flynn’s son if the retired lieutenant general pleaded guilty.
In our days we need to solve problems harder than ever before and we have a lot of intelligent people to do that. Or do we? You see, even if you are intelligent, there is a prerequisite every single time you wake up which will decide if your intelligence will be used or wasted that day. That prerequisite is focus.
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Iran has managed to break through the long-term US blockade to deliver a large amount of oil to the Syrian Arab Republic, a tanker tracking website has revealed.
According to the website Tanker Trackers, Iran has significantly increased their oil exports to Syria, with several cargoes reportedly reaching the Port of Baniyas in the Tartous Governorate.
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All new presidents change the courts by filling vacancies. But what is only now coming into focus is the impact that Trump’s unprecedented number of judicial appointments is having on the courts, ruling by ruling, and on the day-to-day lives of Americans, in areas such as healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice, anti-discrimination efforts and the climate.
This is The Guardian, so they’re awash in Trump Derangment Syndrome, but Trump’s achievement in this area needs to be more widely appreciated.
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They analysed three brass links as part of continuing scientific investigations into the artefacts recovered during the excavation of the wreck in the Solent. These links have often been found joined to make a sheet or a chain and are most likely to be from a suit of chainmail armour. By using several X-ray techniques available via the XMaS beamline to examine the surface chemistry of the links, the team were able to peer back through time to the armour’s production and reveal that these links were manufactured from an alloy of 73% copper and 27% zinc.
They’re going to be pretty embarrassed when somebody who knows the subject points out that (a) brass wasn’t use for chain mail and (b) chain mail rings were riveted, not butted.
The exceptionally high sensitivity analysis revealed traces of heavy metals, such as lead and gold, on the surface of the links, hinting at further history to the armour yet to be uncovered.
… which means that they were coated and were probably decorative.
I would have thought that they would give this sort of analysis to professionals, somebody who knew something about the period.
Guess not.
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Reading and math scores in the US have suffered ‘historic’ declines since most states implemented the Common Core curriculum standard six years ago, according to a new study from the Pioneer Institute.
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It looks like Nancy Pelosi will be forced to plow through ice cream from her the forseable future after House Democrats changed their minds on Tuesday about returning to Washington next week over fears about whether it’s safe to return to the Capitol during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As a teenager, Justin Rohrwasser had a symbol tattooed on his arm that has since been adopted by a white supremacist group. The former college place-kicker was drafted by the New England Patriots over the weekend, and said Saturday he does not associate with that group and he will cover up the controversial tattoo. Guilty until proven innocent, says self-appointed “white supremacist cop” Jemele Hill, who’s refusing to accept his denial of racism.
I read somewhere that certain African tribes have persons called ‘witch sniffers’ whose job it is (evidently) to sniff out witches. I guess that’s one gene that made it across the water to America, considering how many People of Color seem to think it their calling in life. Oddly enough, a lot of these people wind up as ‘journalists’, both in print and on the air.
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In the absence of a vertical set of reciprocal relationships, we get this weird lattice work of horizontal relationships, elevating the profane and vulgar, while pulling down the noble and honorable. The public culture is about minimizing and degrading those who participate in the public culture. In turn, the public culture attracts only those who cannot be shamed or embarrassed. The great joy of public culture is to see those who aspire to more get torn down as the crowd roars at their demise.
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We found tree trimmers in Chicago making $106,663; nurses at state corrections earning up to $277,100; junior college presidents making $491,095; university doctors earning up to $2 million; and 111 small town managers who out-earned every governor of the 50 states ($202,000).
Our interactive mapping tool allows users to quickly review the 110,000 public employees and retirees across Illinois making more than $100,000 (by ZIP code). Just click a pin and scroll down to see the results in your neighborhood rendered in the chart beneath the map.
The President of the U.S. gets $400,000 per year.
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‘I Don’t Think There Is Anyone Left Who Will Vote For Him’: Howard Stern Says Of Trump, Adds He’s ‘All In’ For Biden Evidently Biden has a lock on the degenerate vote.
Say what? Most of us still remember when we did listen to the World Health Organization on COVID-19.
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Tedros and WHO ignored the warning from Taiwan and instead pushed the party line coming out of Beijing. Why? China’s Communist Party has blocked Taiwan from having any separate standing in the United Nations, and WHO is a subsidiary of the UN. Rather than following the science, Tedros ignored Taiwan’s input when Beijing overruled it. It would take more than two weeks before Tedros and WHO acknowledged the risk of community spread. And let’s not forget that Tedros and WHO got warned of that risk from its own researcher at the same time, and ignored her as well.
Tedros shows the danger of putting Communist hacks from obscure African nightmare dictatorships into positions of real responsibility at our horrible joke international institutions. But other than that, he’s ok.
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Will the Clinton Strategy be sufficient to drag Biden past the finish line?
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As we start hearing reports of entire dairy herds, refined for generations being sold for hamburger, of entire herds of pigs being slaughtered and buried, and as our chickens are not coming home at all but being destroyed at the peep stage, all because of strangle points in distribution, it is time to ask: Has any other nation ever done this to itself in history? And has any nation done this to itself without an open civil war.
And I can’t imagine any other country — except those who are blindly following our example — doing this for so little reason.
Mexico has almost completely cleared out its migrant centers as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak, its government announced.
The National Migration Institute (INM), the agency in Mexico that manages immigration, said it has been deporting immigrants from the country’s 65 migrant facilities since March 21, according to Reuters. The actions are being made in order to comply with safety and health guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Which implies that their flooding the U.S. border before the pandemic hit was a political decision on their part. These people are not our friends.
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Dysfunctional Blue states are using the pandemic as an excuse to raid the Treasury (and the American taxpayer) to bail them out of decades of cronyism in favor of government employees and their unions.
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White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro said Monday that China is flooding the United States with faulty coronavirus antibody testing kits and accused the Chinese Communist Party of profiteering off of the pandemic.
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