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a smart arse 40 something CEO for RNZ our National radio
had funding cuts
so decided to cut aged listeners CONCERT FM
stating the youth market,was basically more important

NZ took less than 24 hours to have that bastard withdraw his Trumpalike dictatorship statement

ps

we dont have an aged constitution, complete with amendments to cover successive govt politicians arses
 

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paying for the privilege to be alive


HEARD AN AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN say that just now

how F'n sick, some are if thats the thought by some in authority over us ... ring bells as to others
and/or
those who are just as bad
secretly/closeted furtive mongrels
 

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  1. No, Coronavirus Isn't Easing Up[/paste:font]

    Yesterday's news that new infections appeared to be falling was followed by a shock today: Chinese authorities clocked 15,152 new cases and recorded another 254 deaths on the outbreak's deadliest day yet. That striking reversal is likely a result of health officials expanding their criteria for diagnosis — theoretically getting more people into medical care, but also raising questions about the capacity to treat them all.

    How serious are global concerns about coronavirus? High-profile events like Barcelona's Mobile World Congress and the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai have been called off or postponed.
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  1. Fears Mount Over Trump's Influence[/paste:font]
    "The fire’s been burning for months." That's how two former U.S. attorneys described what they claim is a steady erosion of the Justice Department's independence from the White House. Just one week after President Donald Trump's acquittal in the Senate's impeachment trial, critics worry he's roaring back with a vengeance, allegedly pressuring officials to ease up on longtime friend Roger Stone and suggesting they take aim at his perceived foes.

    What are Trump's allies saying? Former members of his legal team claim he "has the right to react" — especially if he believes the DOJ's original punishment for Stone was too severe.


  1. Are Harvard, Yale Hiding Foreign Cash?[/paste:font]
    Show 'em the money. The U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday that it's looking into whether the two Ivy League schools failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign financing. "This is about transparency," said Secretary Betsy DeVos. While the agency didn't specify how much Harvard might have failed to report, it suggested Yale let $375 million slip under the radar over the past four years. Colleges are required to report any foreign gifts and contracts topping $250,000.

    What's the bigger picture? The probe's part of a larger clash between federal authorities and educational institutions over countries like China and Saudi Arabia allegedly looking to steal research and spread propaganda.

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  1. Barclays CEO Probed Over Epstein Ties[/paste:font]
    The British lender confirmed Thursday that two U.K. watchdogs are investigating the long relationship between CEO Jes Staley and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Barclays said Staley — who visited Epstein's private island in 2015, but claimed he'd cut ties after becoming CEO later that year — had been "sufficiently transparent" during its own review.

    Could Barclays take a hit? Shares dropped 2.4 percent in morning trading, though the bank also posted a gross annual profit increase of 9 percent.

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pooh pooh

bit different to the wars you all love to create at will huh
reason for this,no denyingh

more paranoia and stress,less i feel for those in supposed authority
different when your not in control, right

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Why it's important that coronavirus was given an official name
By Alexis Moran
Updated earlier today at 7:37am

PHOTO: A computer artwork of a coronavirus, which is named after the corona (crown) of surface proteins (outer dots) that are used to penetrate a host cell. (Science Photo Library: PASIEKA)



Coronavirus is now called COVID-19. Here's why that's important
 

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Munich Security Conference puts focus on world crises

Credit: Michael Dalder/Reuters
World leaders, politicians and spies are gathered in the Bavarian capital for the Munich Security Conference — a three-day event focused on security and foreign policy. On the minds of attendees are conflicts and humanitarian crises in the Middle East and the continuing spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, among other pressing issues. In opening remarks, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, deplored the US, China and Russia for making the world more dangerous, while conference chairman Wolfgang Ischinger pointed to the unstable global environment ahead of the event.

"We have more crises, more serious crises, more horrific events than one can actually imagine," Ischinger said.

The conference is also likely to underscore the continued schism in the post-war order and looming existential questions around NATO and the transatlantic relationship.

Also: Merkel succession crisis in Germany leaves Europe leaderless, too

And: Trump says ‘good chance’ of deal with Taliban

800,000 people displaced in Syria

The escalation of violence in Syria's Idlib province is likely to continue between Turkey and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, as continued talks between Turkey and Russia has yet to lead to a ceasefire or de-escalation agreement.

The humanitarian toll of the conflict is massive, with some 800,000 people displaced. Syria's refugee crisis has also left many women and children vulnerable to exploitation and sex trafficking in Lebanon, where victims fall through the cracks of a broken system.

More: 800,000 Syrians have fled in three months. This is what it looks like.

Also: Could reclaiming public space be key to ending Lebanon’s sectarian system?

Can the US shore up long-distance relationships?

Three US senators are meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksiy in Kyiv this Valentine's Day to offer assurances of American support for the country. Sens. Chris Murphy, (D-CT) and Ron Johnson, (R-WI) also traveled to Ukraine last September as Zelenskiy was dealing with a freeze on aid — a question at the center of the impeachment inquiry that began a few weeks later. Murphy and Johnson decided to return with John Barrasso (R-WY) once the impeachment process was over to underscore bipartisan support for Ukraine from Congress — and, Murphy said, to urge Zelenskiy to ignore any political requests from Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal laywer.

But after all the heartbreak and scandal, can this relationship be repaired?

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began a trip to sub-Saharan Africa, looking to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.

More: Five ways Pompeo could revive Trump's Africa strategy

The Number in the News: 20,000

Hear how The Juliet Club began and who pens the letters in today’s episode of The Number in the News, The World’s daily smart speaker show. You’ll learn one number you won’t forget and why it’s the news today. Click here to add The Number in the News to your Amazon or Google flash briefing and hear a new episode seven days a week.

ICE deported a trans asylum-seeker. She was killed in El Salvador.

Camila Díaz, 29, was deported from the US, where she had sought asylum from violence she faced as a transgender person in her native El Salvador. Fourteen months later, she went missing — then, a friend found Díaz in a morgue. But hers is far from being the only case in which an immigrant or asylum applicant was killed after having been deported.

At least 138 people were killed after having been deported from the United States to El Salvador from 2013 to 2019, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The tally is likely much higher because many homicides aren’t reported, and neither the US nor the Salvadoran governments formally keep track of people after deportation.

The report points to both the Salvadoran and the US governments as responsible for not doing enough to guarantee the safety of people who have fled their homes because of violence.

Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound

Credit: Steven Davy/The World
Artist Christine Sun Kim has used her art to channel much of her frustration on living with deafness in a world geared toward hearing people. She created a series of charcoal diagrams she calls “Deaf Rage.” And her current work, “Off the Charts," on display at Boston’s MIT List Visual Arts Center through April 12, depicts personal decisions she has made as a Deaf person via pie charts.

“I always find that the best way to communicate with a wider audience who [is] not deaf is to use a format that people can easily understand,” Kim said. “It's like mathematical angles. How much rage [do] I have? You can see it in that size of the angle.”

Friendly and expressive, Kim’s sense of humor is just as deadpan as her pie charts. Her art is not necessarily meant to fit a hearing person’s understanding of the world. But she said it took her a while to learn that.

Love letters
Glean some centuries-old inspiration for your Valentine's Day card this year. The writer of this 1818 note speaks of "not a wild and romantic love, which abates after a short acquaintance — but an affection which time increases rather than diminishes.” On the other hand, this 1797 card sent by Catherine Mossday to Mr. Brown of Dover Place in London, reads like a Jane Austen novel of unrequited — or at the very least, intriguing — romance.

And in the UK, one village shows love for Valentine's Day romance.


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more important
as important
as what China is allegedly doing to the Uhigers
never hear anyone mention there plight
dont even bother rubbishing that she devil SU CHI/two faced nobel winner



Inside Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide

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Trump and Bill Barr are having the fakest fight ever right nowhttp://links.vice.com/u/click?_t=2f...haOL8BNfoIYnjOzGrdtfgn6gU3jx0U7bnQnSzaHn1_cs=

The attorney general has chosen a strange and ultimately inconsequential hill to die on: Trump’s tweets.




D.C. transit cops had a competition for arrests. The prize was a $20 movie gift card.

It might have gone unnoticed if not for a viral video of Metro Police arresting a 13-year-old boy.




Harvey Weinstein’s closing argument: Women need to take responsibility for ‘the men they flirt with’

“In the alternative universe that prosecutors have created for you, Harvey Weinstein is a monster,” his attorneys said.




Nevada’s most powerful union won’t endorse a candidate — but might keep trolling Bernie Sanders

The non-endorsement is a big blow to Biden's chances in the diverse Western state.




Mike Gravel’s teen campaign team: Bloomberg memes are ‘a disgusting phenomenon’

The candidate’s scheme to use popular meme accounts “shows how sick American life is.”

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Inside NASA’s epic plan to get Martian soil back to Earth. (WIRED)

The financial benefits of being Joe Biden’s brother. (ProPublica)

Falling in love in a migrant camp at the U.S.-Mexico border. (BuzzFeed News)

Why is Bloomberg getting a pass on his long history of sexism? (GQ)

“Coughing like I was going to die”: What it’s like to survive coronavirus at the epicenter of the pandemic. (TIME)
 

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Bloomberg’s Stop and Frisk Past Comes Back to Haunt Him


Mainstream media is trying to gloss over Bloomberg’s racist record, and they’re willing to discredit independent journalists to do it.


First Amendment Activist Hospitalized After Brutal Arrest
An activist known as Blind Justice was arrested after trying to film a state facility to check compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The encounter illustrates the risks citizens are willing to take to hold the government accountable.


700,000 Displaced as Syria and Turkey Descend into War
Syria and Turkey are fighting each other in the rebel-controlled Idlib region, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee for their lives as the bombings intensify.


Presidential Campaigns Begin in Bolivia Despite Ongoing Repression
As campaigning begins to repeat the Oct. 20 election that ended in a coup against former President Evo Morales, it remains far from certain whether this new election, under right-wing President Jeanine Añez, will be free and fair.


Trump’s Latest Immigration Policy: No More Africans or Muslims
The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban. It now prevents nearly a quarter of Africa from getting immigration visas.


Trump’s War Budget Slashes Support for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Trump promised he would not touch Social Security and Medicare. He lied. Now we have deficit spending with no social benefits and Democrats fooled into a compromise that allowed the military budget to soar.


El Salvador’s President Militarizes Legislature to Strengthen Police Force
President Nayyib Bukele tried to intimidate lawmakers into approving his national security plan, which is supposed to bring down El Salvador’s sky-high crime rate. But the law and order plan follows US dictates and doesn’t address real causes of crime.
 

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just sayin
surely not picking on your beloved leaders faultless industry

you do recall it was the last to get them to quit flying of course

3 days later, after CHINA being the first

looking after the American people huh

of course
according to some, this could be termed anti-Trump
what fact/a truth, anti-Trump huh

well
rest assured
if the politics forum disappears, theres no truth coming out for the world to see
mind you
we can all go on believing that every word muttered or tweeted by the almighty one,self credited, is gospel truth,, according to him,and his followers


After retiring from Boeing, Ed worried about 737 MAX safety issues. Then news broke of a crash
A former senior Boeing manager reveals he urged management to temporarily shut down the 737 MAX factory in the United States months before the first fatal crash.


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After retiring from Boeing, Ed worried about 737 MAX safety issues. Then news broke of a crash
 

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    Coronavirus Cases Spike Yet Again
    The death toll is now approaching 1,400 as Chinese health officials counted another 5,090 new cases. The silver lining, according to the World Health Organization? Cases outside China aren't rising much — apart from infections on one quarantined Japanese cruise ship, where 218 are now confirmed ill. Meanwhile, more than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been revealed to be infected.

    What's the bigger picture? Experts are holding out hope that authorities' new, broader method of diagnosing coronavirus means that the sudden spike isn't as bad as it looks.

    Read OZY's feature about the outbreak busting up China's Olympic dreams.



  1. Trump's Tweets Are Really Bothering Barr[/paste:font]
    They weren't just tweet little nothings. The White House shrugged off an explosive claim by Attorney General William Barr that President Donald Trump's constant tweeting makes it "impossible" to work. "I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody," he told ABC News yesterday. Barr's comments followed widespread criticism that the Justice Department appeared to ease its proposed sentence for convicted Trump ally Roger Stone in response to tweeted complaints from the president.

    Why did Barr pipe up? Some say staying silent would have meant risking a revolt inside his 115,000-employee agency.

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  1. US Hits Huawei With New Charges[/paste:font]
    Beijing and Washington may be headed toward new tensions after U.S. authorities accused the Chinese telecom giant and two of its subsidiaries of trying to steal trade secrets from six American tech firms. The indictment, filed in a Brooklyn federal court, also claims the company helped U.S.-sanctioned Iran spy on protesters in 2009. Huawei hit back, saying the charges are meant to "irrevocably damage" its reputation and business.

    How old is this legal spat? The new charges build on a case launched last January — but are rooted in an allegedly decadeslong effort by Huawei to pilfer from major industry players like Cisco, T-Mobile and Motorola.
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With New Hampshire Behind Him, Sanders Looks to Nevada Workers as Vegas Union Bosses Rally Against Him
Aída Chávez, Lee Fang
The Sanders campaign invested in Nevada early on, with substantial outreach to Latino voters, who make up a third of the population.

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Mike Bloomberg Is Hiring So Many Operatives, Local and State Campaigns Are Starving for Help
Ryan Grim
“This is hands down the toughest time I’ve ever had finding field staff,” said one operative, reflecting on the sweeping impact of Bloomberg’s spending.

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Ahead of South Carolina Vote, Joe Biden Faces Questions Over Claims of Civil Rights Activism
Robert Mackey
In 1987, Biden said he was a teenage civil rights activist, then said he wasn't. Now he says he was. Does he have a hazy memory or is this all malarky?

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Pete Buttigieg’s Policy Director Has Been Traveling the Country for Months to Meet With “Investors” in His Campaign
Ryan Grim
Sonal Shah, Buttigieg’s national policy director, has been meeting with high-level donors on at least a weekly basis throughout the fall and winter.

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How the Supreme Court Could Gut Reproductive Rights Without Ruling on a Single Abortion Restriction
Jordan Smith
A Louisiana suit threatens to unravel dozens of cases nationwide by blocking abortion providers from challenging restrictions on behalf of their patients.

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Senate Acquittal Gave Trump a Blank Check. With Roger Stone’s Sentencing, the President’s Crime Syndicate Is Cashing In.
James Risen
Barr and Mike Pompeo are no longer men of moral standing — only the avaricious lieutenants of a cult leader.

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AIPAC Is Helping Fund Anti-Bernie Sanders Super PAC Ads in Nevada
Ryan Grim, Akela Lacy
The group is telling donors that contributions to the Democratic Majority for Israel, whose ads are attacking Sanders, count as donations to AIPAC.

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Puerto Rico’s Power Failures Inspired a Rooftop Solar Movement. But Officials Are Undermining It — in Favor of Natural Gas.
Alleen Brown
The island’s electric grid is too centralized to be resilient. But politicians and investors are obstructing a grassroots movement for community solar.

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New York Schools Gang Unit Pushes Criminalization of Children
Alice Speri
A new set of documents raises questions about a New York City Department of Education gang “intervention” initiative that relies heavily on police.

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Mike Bloomberg Claims He Cut Stop-and-Frisk by 95 Percent — After Increasing It Sevenfold
Lee Fang
Bloomberg drastically ramped up an NYPD program to stop and frisk mostly black and Latino men. Now, he’s misleading the public about the history.

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“It’s Armageddon Time for the Democratic Party”
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Ralph Nader discusses the DNC’s shenanigans; Lee Fang details Mike Bloomberg’s attempt to buy the presidential nomination or block Bernie Sanders from winning it.

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How to Fix the Criminal (In)Justice System: With John Legend and Patrisse Cullors
Deconstructed
Mehdi Hasan talks criminal justice with the two prominent activists in front of a live audience in Los Angeles.

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REPORT: U.S. MILITARY RARELY VISITS BOMB SITES OR TALKS TO SURVIVORS WHEN INVESTIGATING CIVILIAN DEATHS

Nick Turse


February 14 2020, 3:00 a.m.

IT WAS THE midpoint of a 10-month battle to dislodge the Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul. Two ISIS snipers were holed up in a “defensive fighting position built into the second story of the structure” in the al-Resala district of Mosul’s al-Jadidah neighborhood. Iraqi troops were taking casualties and asked their American allies for help. “At 0824 on 17 March, 2017, in accordance with the applicable rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict, a coalition U.S. aircraft delivered a single GBU-38 precision guided munition against two ISIS snipers,” U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler said in the wake of the strike.

Everything was done by the book. The target was an enemy stronghold and the strike seemed precise and flawless — except that it wasn’t. Col. Mohammad Shumari, an Iraqi official working in the area, later told CNN that 141 bodies had been removed from the attack site after the American smart bomb detonated explosives stored by ISIS inside the building. The dead included between 137 and 140 civilians, including women and children, according to Isler.

After the attack, a U.S. team conducted two inspections of the strike location. While such site visits might seem an obvious prerequisite for any legitimate investigation into civilian casualties, they’re surprisingly rare.

Most U.S. investigations of alleged civilian casualty incidents never include even one such visit, according to a new analysis of 228 official U.S. military investigations conducted in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria between 2002 and 2015. The military conducted site inspections in only 16 percent of the casualty investigations reviewed for the study by researchers from the Center for Civilians in Conflict, or CIVIC, and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, or HRI.

“Site visits are important opportunities for investigators to review physical evidence, including weapons remnants, impact sites, and forensic evidence. They help investigators understand the extent of harm an attack has caused and what exactly was damaged,” Priyanka Motaparthy of the Human Rights Institute and a co-author of the report, told The Intercept. “Investigations that don’t take into account this type of information risk underestimating the impact of an attack or failing to understand what exactly was hit.”

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In Search of Answers: U.S. Military Investigations and Civilian Harm” examines U.S. efforts to track, assess, and investigate reports of civilian casualties caused by its forces. The researchers found that while the U.S. military can effectively investigate civilian casualty allegations, its inquiries are often perfunctory and marred by serious deficiencies, if they’re carried out at all.

“Civilians injured in U.S. military attacks, and the families of those who are killed, have endured long and painful struggles trying to find out why they or their loved ones were harmed and whether their communities are still at risk,” said Motaparthy. “They have a right to learn what steps the military has taken to investigate these often devastating losses.”

U.S. standard practice when it comes to collecting testimony may be even more troubling. While U.S. investigators regularly interview military witnesses, they almost totally ignore civilians — victims, survivors, family members, and bystanders — “severely compromising the effectiveness of investigations,” according to the study. U.S. military personnel interviewed civilian witnesses in just 21.5 percent of the investigations covered in the report.

Despite close surveillance of the structure bombed in Mosul in March 2017, Iraqi and U.S. forces said they were unaware that civilians were sheltering there. It took a site visit to find the corpses in the bottom floors of the building and conversations with relatives to identify the dead. An unpublished internal Defense Department study reinforced the importance of such “ground truth,” finding that in 90 percent of the cases analyzed, initial aerial bomb damage assessments in Afghanistan missed civilian casualties that were later identified through investigations by ground forces, according to the CIVIC and HRI report.

The U.S. military ultimately took responsibility for the strike that led to the bloodbath in Mosul. This, too, has been rare. A 2017 New York Times Magazine investigation of nearly 150 U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeting ISIS in Iraq found that 1 in 5 of the coalition strikes resulted in civilian death, a rate more than 31 times that acknowledged by the coalition. “Our reporting, moreover, revealed a consistent failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly or to keep records that make it possible to investigate the claims at all,” journalists Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal wrote.

The CIVIC-HRI team also noted that lessons learned from U.S. civilian casualty investigations are not systematically disseminated or implemented across the military, limiting the chances of avoiding similar incidents in future operations.

“While we found some examples of good practice in our review, these examples were overshadowed by the inconsistency — and, too often, inadequacy — of the overall record of military investigations,” said CIVIC’s Dan Mahanty, another report co-author. “From what we can tell, the military may even be shortchanging itself by not getting the total value out of its investigations.”

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will say one important issue on this site
so very much more things in countries and life than just

1 thread,back and fiorth
2 countries/well one really,truth be known

thinking
it wont be missed,after a few weeks

thats about it
simplicity as
 

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was a time
when Duterte was regarded as a worst pariah of the world
since thehn theres been plenty,just as BAD
BOLSANARO for eg
some wont agree
27-000 druggies killed in the Phillipines
equals about the amount killed/maimed annually,by we know who
in one war huh

LPSG politician/statisticians get your calculators out

 

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    Europe Has First Coronavirus Fatality
    The virus officially called COVID-19, which has killed 1,526 and infected 67,097, is now a fatal pathogen in Europe, with a Chinese tourist dying in a Paris hospital. The contagion is sparking remarkable moves by governments, including a U.S. evacuation of quarantined Americans aboard a cruise ship in Japan, and Beijing imposing a two-week quarantine on returning travelers. Meanwhile, Chinese medics, 1,700 of whom have been infected, are begging for coveted face masks.

    Are there other effects? The British Dental Association warns that a mask shortage could prevent dentists from working.

    OZY's Special Briefing explores Beijing's candor about the outbreak.

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    It’s not a democracy, but the elections Iran puts on Friday still have meaning. President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the decision to disqualify more than 9,000 prospective candidates, but he has nonetheless encouraged Iranians to ensure the turnout is high to show support for the Shiite Muslim theocracy. It’s a crucial vote for Rouhani, who faces pressures at home for failing to deliver on promises and pressure abroad to curb the country's well-armed proxies.

    Who will win? As is often the case, it’s a struggle between moderates and hardliners, seen as strengthened by recent clashes with the United States.


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    Can they shed their rogue-state rep? Since Sudanese activists and its military leaders collaborated on a new government last summer, the country’s been on a worldwide charm offensive, culminating last week with the head of its governing body meeting secretly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Seen as a potential move to get the country off a terror states list, it meshes with Khartoum seeking United Nations help, rather than clashing with peacekeepers.

    What’s the biggest shift? Most surprisingly, deposed President Omar al-Bashir appears headed to the International Criminal Court to face charges of genocide.

    OZY reports on Darfurs continued suffering.
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The Democrats Are Missing the Biggest Issue of the 2020 Election by Robert W. Merry

How the nation’s leaders will address the most pressing political reality of our time--namely, the crumbling of the American status quo and, more ominously, the global status quo. America is struggling through a Crisis of the Old Order. Read it here.

Why Is China Blaming America for Spreading 'Panic' Over the Coronavirus? by Gordon G. Chang

As coronavirus cases and deaths spike in China, the regime in Beijing is looking for a devil to blame. Read it here.

Is Bernie Sanders a National Security Realist? by Matthew Petti

The National Interest spoke to Bernie Sanders advisor Matt Duss to find out his foreign policy plans for the next four years. Read it here.

I Am In China Watching the Coronavirus Crisis Unfold. Here Is What I Am Seeing. by Mitchell Blatt

There are two small family-run restaurants still open on an otherwise completely empty pedestrian street nearby where I am staying in Nanjing, China. Read it here.

Trump Policy Tactics that Target Foreigners Put America's Artificial Intelligence at Risk by Sam Peak

The Optional Practical Training program has been one of the many Band-Aids holding together an immigration system that hasn’t been updated since the early 1990s before the internet became the world economy’s major driver. Now, the Trump administration is moving to eliminate this crucial but imperfect fix. Read it here.
 

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nay laff

managed to spin it out


not
a spent force yet haha

ie
exceptionally well preserved
ps
wonder if a mod is going to do me,with negative points
for FLOODING
because they can

given that authority, to keep fiends/ ie common members,in check .. DUH

nasty/naughty
but WTF
most claim, they cant understand downunder lingo

hail
the pretend educated
double duh