American journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria on August 13, 2012.

The former Marine reported for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, the AP, CBS and others.

** The Gateway Pundit reported on Austin's disappearance in 2012.

In August Austin's parents pleaded for the return of their son.

Officials say a man in his 50s came to EvergreenHealth Medical Center with serious respiratory issues and tested positive for COVID-19. He had no history of travel or known contact with anyone suffering from COVID-19.

Apart from the man who died, three presumptive positive cases of coronavirus were confirmed Saturday in King County.

EvergreenHealth confirms that there was also a second patient who tested positive for the virus. They remain in isolation and are receiving treatment. The patient was also not linked to any outside U.S. travel.

Two additional cases came from the LifeCare Center in Kirkland, including an employee in her 40s who remains in satisfactory condition and another women who is a resident and in her 70s. She remains in serious condition at EvergreenHealth Hospital. Both had not traveled outside of the U.S.

Dutch reporter Danny Ghosen conducted an interview with pedophile and 'pedoactivist' Nelson Maatman who was planning to establish a political party in order to legalize sexual abuse of children. The political party he wanted to create was to be titled 'the party for family, love, freedom and diversity', with its main aim to overthrow laws that prohibit sex with children, claiming he wants to "make the world a better place". Nelson says he's sexually attracted to young boys between the age of 4 to 14, and also wants to give rights to children, allowing them to decide what happens to their bodies:

Ghosen: What would you specifically like to change with your political party?
Pedophile Nelson: I want everyone in the Netherlands to be equal. That free speech is once again respected and that children also get rights and are no longer treated as second-class citizens. And that they also get things like voting rights, for example.
Ghosen: And what else? Because I guess that's not the only thing?
Pedophile Nelson: No. Of course, we also want everyone to be able to decide what happens to their bodies, including children yes.
Ghosen: So, you want to walk up to a 2 or 3-year-old child and ask "do you want to have sex?" - but a 2 or 3-year-old can't decide that, they're not fully developed. How do you see this, explain it to me.
Pedophile Nelson: If a 2 or 3-year-old child hasn't developed enough, then why are they capable of answering questions such as "do you want an ice cream" or "do you want to go to the playground"?
Ghosen: But you can't compare those two things,
Pedophile Nelson: I think you can. I think those things are very easy to compare.

It is absolutely sickening.

In the video, you can also see Ghosen and Nelson standing near the University of Amsterdam where Nelson is going to give a lecture about pedophilia and freedom of speech in the Netherlands. He told Ghosen that he expects around 50 students to attend his lecture, and that he has given frequent lectures at the university on this topic.

Burger-flipping robots are changing the food service industry by offering their services to restaurants for about $3 an hour.

Miso Robotics' machine named Flippy is "the world's first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant that can learn from its surroundings and acquire new skills over time," according to the company's website.

This is good news for restaurant owners because it would cost them less to employ Flippy than a minimum-wage worker, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

The article continued:

Off-the-shelf robot arms have plunged in price in recent years, from more than $100,000 in 2016, when Miso Robotics first launched, to less than $10,000 today, with cheaper models coming in the near future.

As a result, Miso can offer Flippys to fast-food restaurant owners for an estimated $2,000 per month on a subscription basis, breaking down to about $3 per hour. (The actual cost will depend on customers' specific needs). A human doing the same job costs $4,000 to $10,000 or more a month, depending on a restaurant's hours and the local minimum wage. And robots never call in sick.

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's Super Bowl 2020 performance sparked outrage in the US, with many viewers condemning the sexual nature of the show which was compared to 'soft porn' inappropriate for a family event.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received a total of 1,312 complaints from outraged viewers condemning the organizers for converting the highly-anticipated sporting event into a "disgraceful and amoral" show.

The vast majority of the viewers who shared their anger with the FCC were outraged with the singers' tight-fitting outfits and gyrating dance moves which they found offensive and non-family friendly.

"I do not subscribe to The Playboy Channel, we do not buy porn for $20 a flick, we simply wanted to sit down as a family and watch the Super Bowl," one complaint read. "God forbid we expected to watch football and a quick concert but instead had our eyes molested."

Reddit seems to have decided that special rules need to be enforced for the most popular pro-Trump subreddit, the_Donald. Subredditors there claim half their moderators have been purged and new ones are being installed from above.

There aren't many bigger gathering places on the internet for Trump fans than Reddit's the_Donald subreddit. Boasting over 790,000 subscribers, it is a massive hub of fans of Trump. Like all subreddits, it serves as a forum to share and discuss news, in this case political stories related to the United States president or to his policies. Threads will commonly be created to discuss immigration policy, the media's issues with Trump, anti-socialism rallying calls, and so forth. The most distinctive feature is that the board has always had a strict "no cucks or leftists" policy, meaning they don't tolerate people of the extreme left politically, or people they deem to be political sellouts. It's a sort of He-Man Trump-Lovers club.

In February, the Atlantic published a much discussed essay by David Brooks entitled "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake." Brooks noted that the conditions that once made nuclear families viable — strong unions, plenty of jobs that paid living wages, inexpensive housing and transportation and education costs, stay-at-home mothers, high numbers of churchgoers — were products of a very brief window of time that only lasted from about 1950 until about 1965. For centuries prior to that, Americans tended to divide themselves into extended families, vast networks of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, all of whom remained connected to one another by some sort of family enterprise. Here's how Brooks sums up the extended American family:

In 1800, three-quarters of American workers were farmers. Most of the other quarter worked in small family businesses, like dry-goods stores. People needed a lot of labor to run these enterprises. It was not uncommon for married couples to have seven or eight children. In addition, there might be stray aunts, uncles, and cousins, as well as unrelated servants, apprentices, and farmhands...Extended families have two great strengths. The first is resilience. An extended family is one or more families in a supporting web. Your spouse and children come first, but there are also cousins, in-laws, grandparents — a complex web of relationships among, say, seven, 10, or 20 people. If a mother dies, siblings, uncles, aunts, and grandparents are there to step in. If a relationship between a father and a child ruptures, others can fill the breach. Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens — when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job.

Up to 30,000 people were estimated to have seen Greta Thunberg's 'School Strike for Climate' in Bristol. But with police warnings and the shadow of coronavirus looming over Europe, should parents be condoning their kids' activism?

As sporting events around the world are canceled and schools across the UK weigh up the prospect of closing their doors for two months due to fears of coronavirus infection, the idea of 30,000 people, many of them schoolchildren, gathering in Bristol for a Greta Thunberg rally on Friday seems a bit irresponsible on behalf of the organizers.

Bearing in mind that most schools only finished their mid-term holidays last week and Friday of this week would mean another day skipping school, police also warned parents that the expected number of people flocking to hear the 17-year-old Swedish activist speak puts children in danger of tripping, falling or being crushed.

Thousands of people attended marches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, on Saturday, to commemorate Russia's former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered five years ago in the capital.

The memory of Nemtsov, a veteran politician who became a leading figure in the western-leaning opposition after the turn of the century, is a unifying point for various anti-Kremlin political groupings who are frequently at odds with one another.

Leaders of the march, who have described themselves as "pretty much the entire democratic spectrum" in Russia, expected that as many as 30,000 people would participate in the Moscow event, according to their application to the mayor's office. The opposition-aligned "White Counter" monitor claimed 22,300 took part, while authorities estimated the number of attendees at 10,500. News outlet 'Znak' said 1,500 were at the Saint Petersburg commemoration.

Is this just mass hysteria, or is a major play in the pipeline?
Another day, another round of shrill headlines. The coronavirus could spread to "every country in the world" (like chickenpox), we might have to cancel the Olympics. Ban handshakes! We're running out of masks!


We've been over the statistics, there's no need to go over them again. Thus far, scientifically speaking, the Coronavirus is nothing all that remarkable.

And yet... here we are. A world on the verge of all-out, no-holds-barred panic.

Two days ago the scare was related to a woman in Japan who allegedly got the disease twice.

Today the authoritarians' mouths are watering over discussion of stadium quarantines in Australia and the possibility of the military having to aid the struggling NHS in the UK.