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Russia's new coronavirus cases return to highest levels, near 10,000

Right wing president cracking down on left leaning protesters, happened because of increasing taxes on the middle class. Their wages are stagnant and the rich are killing it, so when the government increased once more the public transportation. It evolved into mass civil unrest from college aged students. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/03/chilean-police-throw-boy-16-off-bridge-during-protests

https://see.news/merkel-warns-of-new-dangerous-wave-of-coronavirus-within/

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2020/09/30/for-the-first-time-scientists-successfully-extract-dna-from-insects-embedded-in-tree-resin/#282f1b391445

They would enter orders and then cancel them before they executed. A process called "spoofing"...... this would effect the pricing of the gold and silver which they would then profit on. Steal BILLIONS for decades.... get a fine in the millions...... = cost of doing business

Our Brother Bill Underwood wrote an interesting article in the newspaper: If you had to choose between Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech, which would you choose?Now, you’re thinking, ‘I don’t have to choose, I already have both.’ Are you sure?Last August, the central district court of Tver – the oblast or ‘state’ in which Moscow resides, banned a religious website, jw.org. They did this secretly, not notifying the owners of the website until the day before the ban was to go into effect – January 22, 2014. Had they prevailed, their rationale would have been to claim, as they have in the past, that the ‘free speech’ on jw.org defames other reli…

I have just one word of advice for you: “Plastics,” said the parent’s comfortable friend to Benjamin Braddock. Plastics—the new growth field in 1967, the year The Graduate movie came out—just as computers and then the internet would be to succeeding generations. Plastics—a graduate could make a killing in it. But Ben didn’t want any career advice just then. Just out of college, with no goals at all, the only thing he knew is that he wanted no part of the phony monied world that had been his upbringing. He lolled around aimless at his folks’ upper crust home that year and ended up in an affair with his mom’s socialite friend—her idea, not his. “Mrs. Robinson, are you …

Any collective belief in some approach as "the way" to solve problems is, literally, a bringing together of individuals (re = again, ligio = bond, reverence, and religare = to bind).

Bitcoin adoption took another boost in South America yesterday after the Argentinian central bank announced measures to tighten controls on the movement of foreign currency. The announcement came shortly after the Argentine peso plunged over 10%, setting the long-suffering Argentinian people back further. Only 20 years ago, the Argentine peso was 1:1 with the USD, but corruption and mismanagement has seen its economy collapse and the national currency is now artificially pegged at 72:1 USD. The Board of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) justified the new measures saying they were attempting to promote a more efficient allocation of foreign c…

So, a supreme court nominee up for grabs ...

K/DA, an augmented reality K-Pop group composed of stylized video game characters, has held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts for the past two weeks.

The drones can deliver blood or other medical supplies up to 50 miles away. From fighting wildfires to inspecting pipelines to spying on poachers, aerial drones have been put to all sorts of uses. And now they're helping save human lives. In 2016 a Silicon Valley startup began using its drones to deliver blood in the East African nation of Rwanda — and the company plans to bring the service to the U.S. later this year. Made by Zipline in Half Moon Bay, California, the battery-powered drones look like small planes and weigh about 25 pounds. They fly at speeds of up to 80 miles an hour and can deliver up to four pounds of blood or other medical supplies over …

Morris and his wife Esther went to the state fair every year, and every year Morris would say, "Esther, I'd like to ride in that helicopter". Esther always replied, "I know Morris, but that helicopter ride is 50 dollars and 50 dollars is 50 dollars". One year Esther and Morris went to the fair, and Morris said, "Esther, I'm 85 years old. If I don't ride that helicopter, I might never get another chance." Esther replied, "Morris that helicopter is 50 dollars and 50 dollars is 50 dollars". The pilot overheard the couple and said, "Folks I'll make you a deal. I'll take the both of you for a ride. If you c…

"We have a good chance that we will know if the product works by the end of October"—Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla discussing his company's potential coronavirus vaccine. Bourla thinks regulators could approve the drug before 2021. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/516194-pfizer-ceo-preparing-for-likelihood-of-vaccine-approval-before-end-of-year

"Rockets are hard"—Elon Musk tweeting encouragement after a rocket launched by the startup Astra failed to reach orbit in Alaska Friday night. Astra, which also shrugged off the launch as "valuable experience," wants to eventually provide cheap, frequent trips for satellites. https://www.space.com/astra-launches-first-orbital-mission.html

"75 per cent are willing to pay for flights to nowhere"—The Straits Times describing Singapore Airlines's plan to launch "no-destination flights" to boost business. The flights would take three hours, cost hundreds of dollars, and not take you anywhere. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/sia-eyeing-flights-to-nowhere-to-give-a-lift-to-ailing-business

Is Microsoft THAT desperate for money that they can't offer just an ad at the top? I think I might be spotting an opening for competition here. Google is currently only placing 3 on top and 3 on the bottom of search results. Sigh...

Mostly I use Wikipedia for details on out-of-the-way topics that you wouldn’t think would be subject to bias—lately it has been to corroborate some background on Voltaire, for instance. But not always—sometimes I use it as though a base stock, like you would in cooking, to develop a post on some contemporary issue. Others do this, too—pretty routinely—to provide backdrop for points they are making. @JW Insiderand @Araunaare doing that right now with a thread about China and its modern-day & changing role. It’s an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is—that’s how everyone thinks of it. As such, it is unbiased—that supposedly is it’s mission statement. Anyone can edit it …

"When two protons graze each other, their squished electromagnetic fields intersect. These fields skip the classical “amplify” etiquette that applies at low energies and instead follow the rules outlined by quantum electrodynamics. Through these new laws, the two fields can merge and become the “E” in E=mc². “If you read the equation E=mc² from right to left, you’ll see that a small amount of mass produces a huge amount of energy because of the c² constant, which is the speed of light squared,” says Alessandro Tricoli, a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory—the US headquarters for the ATLAS experiment, which receives funding from DOE’s Office of Science. “But…

When Anderson Cooper interviewed Jakob Blake’s dad, the latter answered a question with ‘Some people like Brussel sprouts.’ Anderson was flummoxed over this answer and when he pressed the dad, the dad explained that he hated Brussel sprouts—which also flummoxed Anderson. This only registers because about two weeks ago on my blog, someone answered with a similar reply about food choices. This only registers because @The Librarian(that old hen) has at times thrown in a complete non-sequitor about “I love pizza” or ‘I love tacos.’ Am I looking at a new evolution in memes and language? When the old hen does it, I think she is being snarky about those who …

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The meaning of the song was hidden in plain sight after all. Although... I thought I saw an interview where Freddie denied "Boehemian Rhapsody " as his coming out song? I could be wrong.