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Robin DiAngelo speaking about anti-blackness at the 2019 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.
Robin DiAngelo speaking about anti-blackness at the 2019 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.
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Late on Friday, South Korea reported 142 new confirmed cases, up a mindboggling 70% in just one day, to 346. A second death was also reported.
A virus outbreak in South Korea is expected to lead to similar economic disruptions that are currently visible in China. The most prone industries to supply chain disruption and factory shutdowns are electronic, automobile, and telecommunication firms.
The people in charge inherited an industrial superpower with unchallenged military dominance. In a little more than a generation, they squandered all of it.
In exchange for short-term profits, bigger vacation homes and cheaper household help they wrecked what they did not build.
Comment: See also:
- Democrats resurrect 'Russiagate' to go after both Trump and Bernie Sanders, hide their own election trickery
- The return of Russiagate: MSM & #Resistance ecstatically embrace evidence-free NYT claim Moscow 'helping Trump in 2020'
- Roger Stone's conviction could be the last hope to save RussiaGate
- Are DNC insiders weaponizing 'election security' to seize control of 2020 primaries behind the smokescreen of Russiagate paranoia?
- Iowa debacle fueled by anti-Bernie billionaires, Russiagate hucksters and failed DNC elites
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People walking in Tehran's Grand Bazaar wear protective masks to prevent contracting the virus
People walking in Tehran's Grand Bazaar wear protective masks to prevent contracting the virus
The latest cases appeared to bring the number of cases in Iran to 29 and the number of deaths to six.
News of the latest cases and deaths came from Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur and the governor of Markazi province in central Iran, cited by state TV.
The Health Ministry earlier on Saturday noted a total number of 28 cases and five deaths and the governor announced a death in Markazi province later in the day.
Comment: This year's Darwin Award goes to...
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'Mad' Mike Hughes
'Mad' Mike Hughes
Hughes and a colleague built the steam-powered rocket in hopes of shooting the daredevil 5,000 feet (1.5km) into the air. The endeavor was being documented by the Science Channel, which wanted to feature him in a new series called 'Homemade Astronauts'.
A video purportedly filmed at the site shows the rocket being launched into the sky near Barstow, California, before Hughes plunges back down to the earth.
Warning: This video contains disturbing images
Comment: Maybe he's not really dead and this is all just a NASA conspiracy?
See also:
- Flat-earth rocket scientist blasts off into California sky, lands in Mojave Desert
- Flat-Earth 'rocketeer' fails to launch yet again
- Flat-Earther is literally launching himself into space to prove planet is flat
- What fuels the flat-Earthers?
This is the speech I gave at a demonstration last night in Melbourne for Julian Assange, whose extradition trial begins February 24th.
Julian Assange started a leak outlet on the premise that corrupt and unaccountable power is a problem in our world, and that problem can be fought with the light of truth. Corrupt and unaccountable power responded by detaining, silencing and smearing him. His persecution has proved his own thesis about the world absolutely correct.
Power is the ability to control what happens. Absolute power is controlling what people think about what happens. Humans are story-oriented creatures, so if you can control the stories that the humans are telling each other about what's going on, you can control those humans.
This is the power of narrative management. This is why governments and billionaires use propaganda, advertising, buy up media conglomerates and fund think tanks, employ public relations and spin doctors, buy up troll armies and bot farms: because they know that those who control the narrative, control the world.
You can do whatever you like, as long as you can control what people think about what you're doing.
Comment: See also:
- Julian Assange case is the Dreyfus of our age, says John McDonnell
- Waters, Westwood join massive London rally against Assange extradition: 'First they came for Julian, next for you'
- 'Journalism is not a crime': Australian MP says charges against Assange must be dropped after visiting him in UK prison
- Lawyer tells court Trump offered WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a pardon if he admitted Russia was not involved hacking of DNC emails
The Wuhan seafood market, which is at the centre of the pneumonia outbreak, has been closed.
The study published on ChinaXiv, a Chinese open repository for scientific researchers, reveals the new coronavirus was introduced to the seafood market from another location, and then spread rapidly from market to market. The findings were the result of analyses of genome-wide data, sources of infection and the route of spread of 93 samples of the novel coronavirus collected from 12 countries across four continents.
The study believes that patient zero transmitted the virus to workers or sellers at the Huanan seafood market. The crowded market facilitated the further transmission of the virus to buyers, which caused a wider spread in early December 2019.
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Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump leave the stage at NRG Stadium after a rally in September 2019 in Houston, Texas.
Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump leave the stage at NRG Stadium after a rally in September 2019 in Houston, Texas.
A majority of Indians have confidence in Donald Trump to do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. Trump's image in India has gained favor since his candidacy in 2016, jumping from 14% confidence to 56% over three years. Much of this movement is accompanied by more people now offering an opinion about the U.S. president. The share volunteering a response of "don't know" or declining to answer has fallen precipitously over the same period, from 67% in 2016 to just 30% in 2019. Meanwhile, the small share of those saying they lack confidence in Trump when it comes to foreign policy has remained stable. These latest numbers resemble those of Trump's predecessor: Before Barack Obama left office, 58% of Indians had confidence in him in world affairs, while 9% had no confidence and 33% did not offer an opinion.
Comment: India has a favorable trade balance with the United States of $23 billion ($34.4 billion in imports and $57.6 billion in exports) and has an unfavorable balance with China by $56.7 billion ($74.7 billion imports and $18 billion exports).
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John McDonnell outside Belmarsh prison in London where he visited Julian Assange.
John McDonnell outside Belmarsh prison in London where he visited Julian Assange.
The shadow chancellor paid a two-hour visit to see Assange in Belmarsh prison in London on Thursday and said Britain's standing in the world would be severely damaged if the extradition went ahead.
On Wednesday it was claimed in a London court that Donald Trump had offered Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails.
McDonnell likening the plight of Assange to Alfred Dreyfus, the 19th-century Jewish French army officer who was tried and convicted on charges of treason amid a climate of antisemitism.
Comment: From RT: Assange London Rally
Flooding at Peets Bridge, Goldsborough.
The huge strain caused by the climate crisis could cause an economic recession "the likes of which we've never seen before," a US study has warned.
The increase in prevalence of extreme weather, bringing deadly heatwaves, more severe storms, and causing wildfires and floods, is insufficiently accounted for in financial markets, raising the possibility of a sudden correction when serious problems arise, according to new research from University of California.
"If the market doesn't do a better job of accounting for climate, we could have a recession - the likes of which we've never seen before," said Paul Griffin, an accounting professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Comment: At least the Independent refrained from pushing any global warming nonsense. The climate is changing and is already causing massive disruptions. As such, sounding a warning on how unprepared the business world is, is a reasonable thing. It would be more constructive though, to remember that in the end, businesses are made up of people, and to point out the complete lack of any government preparing to take care of its people. All the insurance in the world will not help if there is no system in place to help the insured get what they need in a timely manner.
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