February 8th, 2020

The following is a comment from youtube user Black Magic:

"My audience doesn't know what 'Crossfire Hurricane' is." -Bill Maher 2020, who then goes on to not enlighten them.
Bill's recipe for success: Treat your audience like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them a bunch of sh!t.

A military source, speaking to Military Times on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media, said at least two members of the 7th Special Forces Group — operating in eastern Afghanistan — were killed and several others wounded. U.S. officials told Military Times they could not immediately confirm reports about casualties. However, an official did say that the U.S. and Afghan forces conducting an operation in Nangarhar Province were engaged by direct fire on Saturday, according Col. Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for U.S. Forces–Afghanistan.

Over the past month, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has revamped a defense agreement with the United States, sent a warship to join a French naval battle group and will deliver defensive missiles to Saudi Arabia.

The latest flurry has exposed the recently elected, US-educated prime minister to accusations of "adventurism" in a particularly volatile Middle East...

This video is clearly another deceptive effort by @realDonaldTrump to mislead and manipulate the American people.

Hey @jack, show your commitment to cut down on the misinformation corroding our nation and take down this fake video. https://t.co/C2uAFPfWzL

— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) February 7, 2020

Video: Watch Chris Matthews GO OFF like a boss (no, I'm not joking) about the dangers of socialism re; Bernie, the pure evil of communism, the legitimate fears of a Red Scare in the Cold War, and how "there would have been executions in Central Park" if they won pic.twitter.com/2XxmZbsJTc

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2020

Summary:

• Fatalities in China reached a single-day high of 86 on Friday, raising the national death toll to 724
• WHO reported 31,481 confirmed global cases on Friday, up by 3,000+ cases from Thursday; SCMP says total cases closer to 35k
• First American citizen has died
• First Japanese citizen suspected of succumbing to virus
• France elevates travel advisory to orange after 5 Britons fall ill in ski resort

This reminds us of the Vault7 leaks from Wikileaks.

...One extreme purpose would be to gain control of the car and possibly assassinate the occupants in ways that would make it look like just another car accident. This claim is in the so-called Vault 7 dump of 8,761 documents Tuesday that WikiLeaks said came from the Central Intelligence Agency...

“More concerning to us, and we have leads on these kinds of cases in Boston, is agents of the Chinese government … come to the United States to exercise some ideological control over Chinese nationals who may be operating completely in good faith who are here to study, to learn in our schools or work at our institutions,” Lelling said...

“[Taurus] are devoted, patient and hard-working, traits which can make for a great personality in someone who is stable and good-natured, and an evil manipulator in someone who is not,” according to the paper. Among the psychos born between April 20 and May 20 include H. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer; Michael Ryan, the man behind the Hungerford Massacre; David Copeland the London Nail Bomber; the Canadian child killer Karla Homolka; cannibal Albert Fish, the “Werewolf of Wysteria; Levi Bellfield the British child killer and rapist; Orville Lynn Majors; Robert Black, the Scottish serial killer, and pedophile; Brit Steve Wright, and Martha Beck.

“But, I remember, for some reason or another, being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba," Bernie is seen saying while speaking at the University of Vermont in 1986. "I was a kid and I remember that. It just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against the ugly rich people.”

Sanders said it made him want to "puke" during the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate when John F. Kennedy expressed his opposition to communism pushing Nixon to be tougher on Cuba...

China has agreed to let the World Health Organization form an international team of experts that will travel to the mainland to study the virus and seek solutions, a US embassy spokesman told Reuters on Saturday.

Infectious disease experts from the United States will play a major role.

The service is looking to develop "man-portable systems that give the soldier the ability to detect, identify, and monitor persons, animals, and materials behind multi-leveled obstruction(s) from a long standoff range," according to a request for information released in late January. The Army explained that the system should be able to see through various types of obstacles, including dense vegetation, and use biometric data to track, positively identify, and differentiate between targets. For example, the resulting system should be able to tell friend from foe.

According to the alert posted on the Embassy's website, the Spanish Ministry of Interior has reported a steady increase in sexual assaults in the Iberian nation over the past five years. That rise includes an uptick in the number of sexual assaults of young U.S. citizens visiting or studying all over Spain. The alert comes just over a month after Spanish authorities arrested three Afghan men on suspicion that they sexually assaulted three sisters from Ohio on New Year's Eve in Murcia, a city in southeast Spain

Hackers attacked two of Facebook’s official Twitter accounts Friday night. The official Twitter account @Facebook and that of its messaging app, @Messenger, posted identical messages shortly before 7 p.m. Friday evening saying, “Hi, we are O u r M i n e. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.” A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Hill the two accounts were hacked, saying they were attacked “through a third-party platform.”

Despite a continued explosion of “gun sanctuaries” in nearly every corner of Virginia, the new Democratic-controlled legislature on Friday took the first step to ban sporting rifles, large-capacity magazines, and suppressors.

In a 12-9 vote, the House Public Safety Committee voted to ban “assault weapons” such as the popular AR-15 and AK-47, magazines that hold more than 12 rounds, and sound suppressors, effective July 1...