Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Soros Bankrolls Coronavirus Attack Ads Against Trump
Liberal groups spend millions on anti-Trump ads in Midwest
The Democratic Party's leading super PAC will begin hitting President Donald Trump over coronavirus in four battleground states, using millions from liberal billionaire George Soros.
Priorities USA Action—the Democratic Party's largest super PAC—will spend $6 million this week on advertisements criticizing Trump for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The ads will run in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The PAC received $3 million in contributions from Soros's Democracy PAC on Feb. 21, new filings show. Soros's seven-figure donation accounts for 77 percent of the $3.9 million the PAC reported hauling in last month.
Major Democratic donors have flooded battleground states, especially in the Midwest, with cash for anti-Trump campaigns in hopes of appealing to the president's voter base. CNN first reported Monday on Priorities USA's new ads, which are part of a larger plan by deep-pocketed liberal financiers and activist groups to divert large sums of cash into the region. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in several Midwestern states that she was expected to carry in the 2016 election.
As part of this plan, Priorities USA has said it intends to spend upward of $150 million against Trump in states like Michigan and Wisconsin. The PAC has hauled in $27 million since January 2019. Its largest donor has been billionaire hedge fund manager Donald Sussman, who has given the group $8 million this cycle. Soros is now the group's second-largest donor at $5 million.
The group did not respond to a request for comment.
Priorities is not the only group using the coronavirus pandemic to attack Trump. PACRONYM, a super PAC tied to the nonprofit ACRONYM, which was in charge of the botched Iowa app that caused chaos during the Iowa caucuses, is launching a similar campaign.
PACRONYM announced last Tuesday it will spend $5 million on digital advertising against Trump's response to the pandemic. Tara McGowan, the founder of ACRONYM, said it's imperative that Democratic groups push anti-Trump messaging while Democratic presidential contenders remain...
Eating A Bat With Ozzy Osbourne...
It was the chomp heard 'round the world when, on Jan. 20, 1982, Ozzy Osbourne dined on a bat while on stage in Des Moines in front of 5,000 or so witnesses.
"The name of the town of Des Moines is embossed in my head!" Osbourne told The Des Moines Register in November 2001, on the eve of his return to the auditorium for his first concert there since the incident. "I've had some mileage from Des Moines!"
No lie. An issue of Rolling Stone in 2004 ranked the bat-biting No. 2 on its list of "Rock's Wildest Myths."
Like most chapters of rock lore, the bat-biting was born of a rare mix of calculation and coincidence.
Osbourne already had been prone to decapitations of winged creatures: He bit the head off a live dove in 1981 in Los Angeles, during a meeting with horrified record-company executives.
The bat in Des Moines, however, was most certainly dead, closer to rancid, according to Mark Neal. He was 17 at the time he tossed the bat corpse on stage. Neal's younger brother had brought the bat home from school, alive and flapping, about two weeks before the concert. No surprise that the bat failed as a household pet. So Neal's friends, aware of Osbourne's carnivorous reputation, convinced the impressionable lad to seal the bat remains in a baggy and tuck them inside his coat.
David Leach of Des Moines, Mark Neal of Palm Springs, Calif., Carmen Martin-Kelly of Des Moines and Steen Andersen of Merrill, Ia., all were at the infamous 1982 Ozzy Osbourne concert at Vets Auditorium along with a couple of other friends. They're pictured here at a 2001 Ozzy concert in the same arena. Neal was the person who threw the dead bat on stage that became Ozzy's dinner.Buy Photo
David Leach of Des Moines, Mark Neal of Palm Springs, Calif., Carmen Martin-Kelly of Des Moines and Steen Andersen of Merrill, Ia., all were at the infamous 1982 Ozzy Osbourne concert at Vets Auditorium along with a couple of other friends. They're pictured here at a 2001 Ozzy concert in the same arena. Neal was the person who threw the dead bat on stage that became Ozzy's dinner.
Neal got more of a reaction than he bargained for.
"It really freaked me out," he told a Register reporter in 1982. "I won't get in any trouble for admitting this, will I?"
After the concert, Osbourne was rushed to Broadlawns Medical Center for rabies shots.
Pam Culver was the nurse supervisor on duty that night when Osbourne's tour bus rolled in. She didn't personally treat the rocker, but she did weather the aftermath of his visit.
"For a week that was probably 50 percent of my job — fielding calls from England and Canada and all over the United States," Culver said. "People wanted to know how much did it cost to do that, and did it hurt, and how may shots did he have to have, what part of his body did we have to attack."
Osbourne's antics also made a lasting impression on the facility's management.
By October 1982, auditorium directors had decided "to prohibit concert performers from using, presenting or in any way making live animals a part of a program at Vets without the consent of management."
What began as a publicity coup has become something of an albatross, according to Osbourne. The bat business has survived his subsequent roles as founder of the wildly successful Ozzfest summer concert tour and star of his own reality-TV series on MTV.
Osbourne in 2001 lamented that he will be plagued until his death with questions about the bat. How did it taste, Ozzy? Why did you do it, Ozzy!?
"And then they'll dig me up and ask me again!" he moaned.
Germany-bound shipment of 6 MILLION face masks vanishes in Kenya
A shipment of face masks, ordered by Germany to protect health workers battling the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, has mysteriously vanished in Kenya. It remains unclear whether the batch was stolen or simply misplaced.
The German military confirmed the loss of the shipment on Tuesday. The batch of six million FFP2 protective masks was due to arrive in Germany on March 20, but it went missing at an airport in Kenya.
“The authorities are trying to find out what happened,” a defense ministry spokesperson said, confirming earlier reports by German media. The Kenyan Airports Authority (KAA) told Reuters it was still “assessing the situation.”
It remains unclear how – and why – the shipment ended up in the east African country in the first place, as the masks are said to have been produced by a German company. It was also not immediately clear whether the six million masks were stolen or somehow got lost in transit.
On the bright side, the German government won’t suffer any financial losses even if the masks are never found, since payment for the shipment was due on delivery, the German military said.
Germany has over 27,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, including more than 100 deaths, following a spike in the numbers on Tuesday. Europe has become the main hotspot of the pandemic, recording more than 200,000 cases to date, with the majority originating in Italy – the country worst hit by the epidemic.
Italy remains under a nationwide...
Immigrants revolt against confinement in France, Germany
While drastic containment measures came into effect on March 17 at noon in France, carelessness and incivility persist in the immigrant districts of Paris. The police dispatched on the spot are exasperated with the inhabitants.
Compact and endless queues, mothers dragging their shopping trolleys through a dense crowd, food stalls still well supplied… At Château-Rouge, residents seem to have a different definition of confinement.
Among the streets littered with rubbish trampled by passers-by, a journalist from Actu Paris followed and filmed a brigade of the National Police, who came to try to enforce confinement announced by the government.
The commissioner of the 18th arrondissement of the capital, megaphone in hand, tries to enforce the barrier: “One person by one person in the store! Back off!”
The officials skim the queues to request compliance with the distance of one meter and check the exit certificates, required since noon. At the entrance of a supermarket, a security guard distributes several copies to customers massed around him, with the police calling him to order: “You are going to create a riot!”
The immigrants simply either ignore the police or challenge them.
La commissaire de #Paris18 force les commerçants à faire respecter les consignes de distance : "Reculez vous sinon je fais fermer le commerce ! Un mètre c'est pas compliqué !" Les clients ont du mal... #coronavirus #COVID19france #Confinementotal pic.twitter.com/hNCJGZalos— simon louvet (@simonlouvet_) March 17, 2020
The popular French commentator Eric Zemmour reported that migrant neighbourhoods in France have risen to the challenge of the Coronavirus crisis by rioting and looting supermarkets.
“We can see it precisely, there are already problems. In Saint Denis, as you have seen, in the 18th arrondissement, at the Duchère in Lyon, there are already many people in the immigrant neighborhoods who have started to revolt.
“They don’t want to respect the quarantine. This could end very badly. There is already looting in the supermarkets. In the big supermarkets.”
Similarly, in Germany, in the town of Suhl, to enforce the quarantine in a reception facility for asylum seekers, the Thuringian authorities have relocated 22 rioters. According to German police sources, the men have been taken to...
“We can see it precisely, there are already problems. In Saint Denis, as you have seen, in the 18th arrondissement, at the Duchère in Lyon, there are already many people in the immigrant neighborhoods who have started to revolt.
“They don’t want to respect the quarantine. This could end very badly. There is already looting in the supermarkets. In the big supermarkets.”
Similarly, in Germany, in the town of Suhl, to enforce the quarantine in a reception facility for asylum seekers, the Thuringian authorities have relocated 22 rioters. According to German police sources, the men have been taken to...
Trump Lashes Out At Congress For Working ‘Ridiculous Green New Deal’ Into Phase 3 Coronavirus Stimulus
“This is not about the ridiculous Green New Deal,” Trump wrote. “It is about putting our great workers and companies BACK TO WORK!”
This is not about the ridiculous Green New Deal. It is about putting our great workers and companies BACK TO WORK!
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The president’s comments echoed those made by the Senate Majority Leader following Monday’s failed procedural vote, the second in as many days, on the Phase 3 bill.
“Democrats won’t let us fund hospitals or save small businesses until they get to dust off the Green New Deal,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “This has got to stop. And today is the day it has to stop. The country is out of time.”
Congress must approve the deal, without all of the nonsense, today. The longer it takes, the harder it will be to start up our economy. Our workers will be hurt!
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Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi entered her own version of the bill, which was criticized for including billions in spending on issues not-related to the coronavirus. Of note, the Pelosi legislation included provisions for green energy tax credits and new fuel emissions regulations for airlines. It will cost an estimated $2.5 trillion, roughly double of the Senate’s package.
Both the Senate and House bills contain direct payments to American workers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, a major priority for...
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