Re: #68 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Böhse Tante]

Hier die Übersicht nach Monaten! 2020 Fällt praktisch nicht auf...#COVIDIOT @LWiehler @reitschuster @goddeketal @pfmayer @talkimhangar7 @Markus_Krall @MLevitt_NP2013 @QuakDr @usouedi @welt @Zeruyu

2/4 pic.twitter.com/E9tOtKPzBK

— Ben Marten (@BenMarten) January 25, 2021

Complete thread:

https://twitter.com/benmarten/status/1353588967262679042

Graph in English:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18cE2aRy-PVvR70nl9zk-KW8w_C_RdHpNDWGIiPw7bWA/edit#gid=1634923637

Perhaps someone did similar calculation (age and per capita adjusted) for other countries?

One should bear in mind that mortality at >80 rises to values of ~5-10 %. With an increase in the age cohort of >80 by 1 million, >50,000 more deaths are to be expected, without any "cause", whether corona or not. And since 2016, the number of >80-year-olds in Germany has risen by almost 1 million.

If this doesn't exist in your countries, Bern Marten is a software engineer, but maybe you know a mathematician or statistician you can put to work, or with a little brainpower, time and good equipment you can do it yourself and perhaps publish it.

[Böhse Tante]

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Found this:

Hier nochmal ergänzt um...

die 2020er Baseline
das Ausreißer-Jahr 2019
den Durchschnitt 2010-2019
den Durchschnitt 2015-2019
Erstellungsdatum der Grafik (Danke für den Hinweis :-) https://t.co/HiLsOxXWHx pic.twitter.com/YE4AvS01JR

— jens_ (@jens140180) January 26, 2021

In this thread is more info about other countries:

https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1353919754507968512

Something for the laughter:

Des einen Leid, des anderen Freud...oder so ähnlich... pic.twitter.com/rlIDTRtTdR

— Peace Love (@PeaceLo77602490) January 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

SDF open fire during pro government protest to lift the blockade in Hasaka city pic.twitter.com/vl0WjCHHwa

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) January 27, 2021

[hillbilly]

Perhaps someone did similar calculation (age and per capita adjusted) for other countries?

https://ourworldindata.org/

[刘汉]

Al-Masdar News
@TheArabSource
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Heavy Israeli military movements along Lebanese border: NNA https://aml.ink/g2cCO #Israel #Lebanon

Al-Arabiya claims: "Israel deploys military reinforcements in the Golan heights"

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/27-january-alarabiya-claims-israel-deploys-military-reinforcements

Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV continues to report "intense overflights" by Israeli aircraft across the south, the mountains, the Lebanese capital Beirut, and its suburbs

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-hezbollahs-almanar-tv-continues-to-report-intense

Ongoing Israeli army artillery excercise/ drill in occupied Golan Heights, northern Israel. Drill expected to end at 1300 hrs today and resume from 1700 hrs until 2000 hrs tonight

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-ongoing-israeli-army-artillery-excercise-drill

Israeli army Chief of Staff: Attacking a launcher in Lebanon will prevent harm to dozens of our citizens. It is our duty to attack all launchers and all missiles." "It is my duty to remind the citizens of Israel: on a day of war, a great many missiles will fall here"

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-israeli-army-chief-of-staff-attacking-a-launcher

Israeli army Chief of Staff: "I warn the citizens of Lebanon: as soon as the war begins, leave the places laden with missiles & rockets. The missile & rocket spaces will be flooded with Israeli army attacks. Anyone who does not leave knows today that he lives in a field of missiles & rockets"

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-israeli-army-chief-of-staff-i-warn-the-citizens

Israel: In the next war, thousands of rockets will fall on us, but we will respond in a large way

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-israel-in-the-next-war-thousands-of-rockets-will

The next war with Lebanon is going to be extremely bloody, Kochavi says "the Israeli army making great efforts to increase its bank of targets, the rate of which has increased significantly"

https://lebanon.liveuamap.com/en/2021/26-january-the-next-war-with-lebanon-is-going-to-be-extremely


Something is up there....

[刘汉]

Defense Minister Gantz will deliver a statement from the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv at 18:00

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) January 27, 2021

[Zambeezi]

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Daily COVID-19 cases have dropped from 100 to a dozen in a week in the Chinese province of Heibei, as the city issued restrictions on travel and gatherings, and public transport is still suspended. @EbravoteleSUR pic.twitter.com/PI5NkGCM23

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) January 27, 2021

Hebei 河北 not "Heibei", it means "North of the River". The pronunciation is like a French e or similar to German ö.
Movement is restricted in many towns now, also in "Manchuria", modern 东北 "North East" (dongbei). I am also blocked now.

wow hope that doesn't last long. can you travel to work? get paid? interact w/ your students? have guests at your home? travel local to buy food?
i am curious about your welfare. hope all is ok.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Mainstream media, what is happening in Madrid (Spain)? pic.twitter.com/n1Tuc6MN9y

— Oh boy what a shot (@ohboywhatashot) January 27, 2021

[Zambeezi]

just like the flu.

Here's a graph they don't want you to see - Sebastian Rushworth M.D.
Is Sweden approaching herd immunity?
The data look compelling. https://t.co/lIJuaXyB0d

— Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3) January 27, 2021

Russia finding antibodies good for about 7 months. it becomes 'seasonal' like every other damn Virus/Exosome in history.

[Zambeezi]

Four Saudi F-15SA armed with AIM-9X missiles and LANTIRN pods along with a USAF B-52 today (Jan 27) near Persian gulf coast. A repetitive show of force to Iran.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Roslyn Ward. pic.twitter.com/wthkxVZl6E

— Mehdi H. (@mhmiranusa) January 27, 2021

[Zambeezi]

US expected to return funding/aid to Palestinians

'The signals we are getting from the Biden Administration is that they will return funding to us'

-@UNRWA Gaza Director @matzschmale on Joe Biden, Israel's exclusion of Palestinians from its vaccination program & more

FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/oMTn9K3z4M pic.twitter.com/0WbyPOYPx4

— Going Underground on RT (@Underground_RT) January 27, 2021

[Zambeezi]

Occupiers promoting Thieves

Turkey’s state-run press agency is churning out angry coverage of Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea producing a TV series about the Syrian Kurdish women fighters who were key in defeating the Islamic State https://t.co/ZKtVPwKZgZ by @amberinzaman

— Al-Monitor (@AlMonitor) January 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

spriters
@neccamc1
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Jordan: Syrian-Jordanian agreement to supply Syria with energy in exchange for water

[KneelB4Zod!]

Oh boy what a shot
@ohboywhatashot
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Mainstream media, how is this possible?

- No lockdown
- No face masks (mandatory)
- No curfew

https://worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden

[KneelB4Zod!]

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant https://t.co/dmEaWcrreL pic.twitter.com/s1yXbdaa1c

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) January 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Wtf?

[Zambeezi]

Wtf?

100% efficiency

[KneelB4Zod!]

For a while I thught it was just satire...

American rock band The Flaming Lips have come up with a creative way to put on live shows in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - putting themselves and their audience in protective 'space bubbles' https://t.co/Rk7m3Z13iy via @MLGumuchian 1/4 pic.twitter.com/wAtUkBzl2k

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2021

[Zambeezi]

They'll be OK. They may get $1,400 checks soon. They should call their Senators, keep the pressure up. https://t.co/Oloh0uX5Zv

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 27, 2021

Why is Wall Street obsessed with GameStop, the video game chain that until recently was known for middling performance? The company’s stock has soared to scarcely believable levels thanks to an army of small traders spurred on by a Reddit message board. https://t.co/Hp202CpMS7

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 27, 2021

 https://archive.is/QpoYB
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/dealbook/reddit-wallstreetbets-gamestop.html

[KneelB4Zod!]

Al-Masdar News
@TheArabSource
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48s
#Israel pledges to return cows to #Lebanon after shepherds complain of unlawful seizure

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/israel-pledges-to-return-cows-to-lebanon-after-shepherds-complain-of-unlawful-seizure/

[Zambeezi]

https://t.co/FlogxELJKZ

— spriters (@neccamc1) January 27, 2021

 

hmmmm... made me think of this:
The Bush Family Owns 300K Acres In Paraguay. WHY?
https://hardnoxandfriends.com/2018/12/16/the-bush-family-owns-300k-acres-in-paraguay-why/
(Google snuffed the link) Here's a snapshot:
http://web.archive.org/web/20181220063111/https://hardnoxandfriends.com/2018/12/16/the-bush-family-owns-300k-acres-in-paraguay-why/

[刘汉]

#FromTheSouth News Bits | Daily COVID-19 cases have dropped from 100 to a dozen in a week in the Chinese province of Heibei, as the city issued restrictions on travel and gatherings, and public transport is still suspended. @EbravoteleSUR pic.twitter.com/PI5NkGCM23

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) January 27, 2021

Hebei 河北 not "Heibei", it means "North of the River". The pronunciation is like a French e or similar to German ö.
Movement is restricted in many towns now, also in "Manchuria", modern 东北 "North East" (dongbei). I am also blocked now.

wow hope that doesn't last long. can you travel to work? get paid? interact w/ your students? have guests at your home? travel local to buy food?
i am curious about your welfare. hope all is ok.

Everything is perfectly fine. I am living on site (on campus ). It's Chinese New Year, so all students are at home with their families. And yes, we can buy food (once a week). All towns people had a Covid-19-test now and the situation is stable. We hope, we can re-open the school for next term.



Internet is slow during daytime, so I did not have the chance to watch the video in full until now. For now I can only say, that I would call the Han (汉 short form，漢 long form) a dynasty and not a civilisation. Dynasties are coming and going. The poet in the beginning is describing Luoyang, one of the two capitals, after it was burnt down by a war lord. This was no surprise at this time. All Chinese know this time very well from TV-series made from the novel 三国 (short form) 三國 (long form) "Three Kingdoms". Like the contemporary Roman Empire the Chinese Empire was breaking apart, Rome into two parts and China into three parts. After 400 years China could recover, Rome could not.
I do not like the word "civilisation", because it sounds so technical to me. I prefer "culture", because it sounds more organic. This might be a German-English difference.
And there is another problem: the Western term "China" or "Chinese" confuses two complete different things:
(1) 中国，中國, "Middle Kingdom". 国，國 does not say, whether it is ruled by a king or an emperor or the Communist party. Maybe the best translation would be "realm" (German: "Reich"). The people, who are living in this "realm" are 中国人。This is independent from ethnicy or nation. Manchu, Mongols, Tibetans, Uigur etc. are all 中国人.
(2) 汉，漢 "Han". This refers to all dynasties ruled by the house of 刘 "Liu". The most famous one of course ruled all of 中国 between about 220 BC and 220 AD. But there are more smaller dynasties ruled by this family. And it refers to the most important nationality in 中国, the Han-people.
Wrongly, 中国人 and 汉 is both translated into Western languages with "Chinese". This is confusing, but there is a political agenda behind it. Because this huge empire or realm should be cut into pieces.
From this, I would say, to call the Han-dynasty a "civilisation" is misleading. The burning of Luoyang was a disaster, but it was not the end of the culture. The Chinese culture was and is much more than just this dynasty, even if this dynasty was the most defining one.

[KneelB4Zod!]

From India:

Hindistan'ın başkenti Yeni Delhi'ye traktörleriyle eylem yapmaya giden çiftçiler...#Hindistan #India #Delhi #FarmersProtest pic.twitter.com/R7K6yrDzv1

— Fetih Başlıyor (@sagduyuluerkan) January 26, 2021

[刘汉]

A backed Hezbollah twitter account publishes the whereabouts of Benny Gantz, the Israeli Defense Minister during his speech a short while ago. https://t.co/4aCiKkOnCD

— INTELSky (@Intel_Sky) January 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Hmm, im tempted to applaud...https://t.co/PiUsySVvqT

— Phil Greaves (@PhilGreaves01) January 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Woman injured in #Eindhoven. Hit by water cannon. #curfew #covid19 #protest #Netherlands pic.twitter.com/6QTMBVNFHg

— NewsBlog (@newsblogmedia) January 24, 2021

 

She's Czech and she suffered a skull fracture...

https://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/evropa/clanek/cesku-behem-demonstraci-v-nizozemsku-zasahlo-vodni-delo-utrpela-frakturu-lebky-40349177

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
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BREAKING — F-35 jets sale to UAE have been temporarily suspended by the Biden administration.

• Munitions sale to Saudi Arabia is under review

— Bloomberg

[KneelB4Zod!]

Su-57 5th Gen Fighter
@5thSu
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Canceled the construction of the "Trump Wall", on which five hundred eight hundred million dollars of taxpayers have already been spent.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Su-57 5th Gen Fighter
@5thSu
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So. During the early days of his presidency, Joe Biden reversed a bunch of #Trump executive orders. Of these:
Canceled the ban on transgender people from serving in the US Army.
via @SputnikInt




What a circus...