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Trump preparing for GOP losses in the Georgia runoffs? He Tweets that the races are “illegal and invalid” – politicalbetting.com
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Losing both senate seats probably doesn't do Trump's future prospects any harm.
Case numbers were "mild" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors "really worried".
BBC News - Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55514363
On the other hand he might want two Democrat wins, since that will then prove just how rigged the contest was, and therefore that the outcome in the presidential was rigged as well.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-12-31-COVID19-Report-42-Preprint-VOC.pdf
... Available SGTF data indicate a shift in the age composition of reported cases, with a larger share of under 20 year olds among reported VOC than non-VOC cases. Fourth, we assess the association of VOC frequency with independent estimates of the overall SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number through time. Finally, we fit a semi-mechanistic model directly to local VOC and non-VOC case incidence to estimate the reproduction numbers over time for each. There is a consensus among all analyses that the VOC has a substantial transmission advantage, with the estimated difference in reproduction numbers between VOC and non-VOC ranging between 0.4 and 0.7, and the ratio of reproduction numbers varying between 1.4 and 1.8. We note that these estimates of transmission advantage apply to a period where high levels of social distancing were in place in England; extrapolation to other transmission contexts therefore requires caution....
... Early versions of our analyses informed the UK government policy response to this VOC and that of other countries. The substantial transmission advantage we have estimated the VOC to have over prior viral lineages poses major challenges for ongoing control of COVID-19 in the UK and elsewhere in the coming months. Social distancing measures will need to be more stringent than they would have otherwise. A particular concern is whether it will be possible to maintain control over transmission while allowing schools to reopen in January 2021...
Once again he's proving he is a risk to safety & security of the nation.
A very small amount of government intervention might have prevented that; it’s not like trying to keep steel mills or shipyards open.
Edit: it’s just occurred to me that with the NAHT suing him Williamson’s about to get Justice anyway,
I think that Trump sees the GOP as having betrayed him, by not following him on the election bullshit. The way he sees it, he gave them the judges, and didn't get anything in return.
So burning down the GOP majority in the Senate down is entirely in his wheelhouse. It's not like he is a life long Republican, after all....
They have shown that you don’t have to be greedy to dominate drug markets. They’ve gone down the route of sustainable prices, good quality.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime
And that's only if there hasn't been a decision made to sell production abroad. Watch this space....
"It is perhaps worth exploring a few more of these Covid myths, so that we can enjoy catharsis, if not put the issue to bed.
“Patients are dying ‘with’ Covid, not ‘of’ it.” The death certificate data from the Office for National Statistics, which provides us with the most reliable figures on Covid deaths, records causation. But even more obvious is what a patient with Covid pneumonia looks like clinically. They have very low oxygen levels, a dense white shadow in both lungs on their X-rays, a particular pattern of low platelets and specific white blood cells, and very high marker of clotting called D-Dimer. This is a clinical pattern doctors all over the world have seen time and time again. Trust us, they are dying of this disease."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/01/healthcare-workers-covid-conspiracies-coronavirus-deniers
https://wwf.panda.org/?196695/MONGOLIA-LEASES-LAND-FOR-RICE-FARMING#:~:text=MONGOLIA LEASES LAND FOR RICE FARMING | WWF&text=It has been recently decided,of Mongolia's "Food" programme.
South Korea for example (a similar size to the UK) has built and will be building some quite large capacity - as a commercial investment, rather than a pandemic response.
And as part of a plan to build a larger biopharma industry.
The Johnson who appointed him, kept him on when he failed in the summer and who insisted on "schools are open" because it gave him a win a PMQ's.
He's a complete and utter Johnson and the buck stops with him.
Water eventually finds its level. They will come to the UK if they get enough extra money. It just adds extra import costs that will be passed onto UK consumers. UK businesses may give up exporting if they can't eat the additional costs within their margins. There is some evidence of that already happening.
Incidentally an interesting insider account of what happened during last week's blockade in Kent
https://orynski.eu/imprisoned-at-the-border/
Except that wasn't the claim in the article. The quote is in the tweet.
https://twitter.com/AristotleSR/status/1345407398689861634?s=20
To be fair, the idea of drivers staying away for a while was widely predicted in December on the back of the combination, of both Brexit preparations , and so many having been stuck after Macron's closure of the border, so it wouldn't come as a huge surprise to many of those who were reporting on it , and interviewed some of them .
I think that there is almost no road with a reasonable traffic flow in central London where the police couldn't make a huge profit. Especially at night.
London councils need to embrace speeding in the same way they've done so with parking. I'm sure it could work elsewhere too, but I just know London.
And now twitter is knocking on abour Starmer quitting as Labour leader. Seems rather unlikely unless his personal life gets him into diffs but there you go, storys can not only be made to look to be something of substance but can sometimes be created from apparently nowhere.
And I don't buy into the story - for one thing, no-one writes down the stuff alleged. Except in bad movies. And the for another, the story involves "someone know someone who saw" - which guarantees it is bullshit.
So I am not going to repeat it.
edit:, ah.. 12 pack. Much more reasonable.
https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-2m-Braided-Cable/dp/B003CT2A2M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387589925&sr=8-1&keywords=diamond+hdmi
a snip at $1500. Read the reviews.
BUT if he were to go - who on earth takes over?
It is good that those who have benefited from fake news are now going to have to put up with it, not because its fair or moral that they should, but because it increases the chance that we might eventually agree to tackle it.
And to be honest brexit is so yesterday, it is all covid now and rightly so
Just for note, I have just ordered something from Amazon to come to me in NI. No issues. Order placed.
This might be because of the over-literal reclamation of figures like Adam Smith as part of national heritage, but dependent on a completely skewed and ahistorical account of their thinking.
https://mightygadget.co.uk/garmin-gps-accuracy-problems/
It's not hard to see why the SNP's platform - leaving the UK and re-joining the EU under the leadership of Sturgeon - is so appealing to many north of the border. Conservatives in England are seriously worried that Johnson doesn't have either the energy or passion needed to combat it.
"There is genuine fear that Scotland could go under this government and that there is no energy going into addressing that," says one MP on the government's payroll. "We've struggled to make an emotional case for the Union. Partly that's because our focus is on our heartlands in England, but we are going to need to make a positive case beyond the economic benefits to Scotland."
Also, the more now Britain shifts from the EU, the more in common Northern Ireland has with the EU, and thus the Republic of Ireland," says Katy Hayward, professor of political sociology at Queen's University Belfast. The issue of the north becoming closer to the Republic has put a spring in the step of those who dream of reunification.
"Soft-nationalists who were pro-European -- and even some soft-Unionists -- have been forced to seriously rethink what Northern Ireland is and should be," says Matthew O'Toole, a Northern Irish lawmaker for the pro-reunification Social Democratic and Labour Party.
Since Johnson faces the prospect of fighting in Scotland and Northern Ireland, he risks overlooking Wales. "Covid has highlighted what devolution actually means, in terms of Welsh politicians being able to make independent policy that directly affects Welsh people," says Roger Awan-Scully, professor of politics at Cardiff University. “If Conservatives take a more aggressive line against devolution and pro-centralised control from London, it risks emboldening the anti-Westminster movement in Wales”.
If Johnson is unable to make leaving the EU look like a success and he alienates the public in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, it's inevitable that more and more voters will wonder if the grass is greener outside of the United Kingdom.
BBC News - Coronavirus: Medics complain of 'bureaucracy' in bid to join Covid vaccine effort
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55516277
Looking at what I wrote I can see how it was misleading though, so sorry for the confusion.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1345372487337598977?s=20
No longer can they sit on the corner stool in the saloon bar, doing sod all while nursing their pint and railing against the status quo.
Their job now is to defend the messy, real world compromise that we are destined to suffer.
Meanwhile those of us who never signed into their misguided adventure can enjoy our time in the bar taking the piss out of it all.
More than 22,000 people were surveyed in a constituency-by-constituency poll, which predicts that neither the Conservatives nor Labour would win an outright majority if an election were held tomorrow.
The MRP poll was carried out over a four-week period in December, when Christmas was cancelled for millions of families as a super-strain of the coronavirus ripped through the country and as the country teetered on the brink of leaving the EU without a deal.
The MRP (multilevel regression and post-stratification) process is a statistical method that produces predictions based on small geographic areas, analysing elements of a person’s lifestyle and background to generate probabilities about their voting habits. It is believed to be more accurate than a more conventional poll.
The survey gives the first detailed insight into the public’s perception of Johnson’s handling of the Brexit talks and the pandemic, amid fears that Britain is heading into a third national lockdown.
According to the survey, conducted by the research data company Focaldata, the Conservatives would lose 81 seats, wiping out the 80-seat majority they won in December 2019.
This would leave the Conservatives with 284 seats, while Labour would win 282 seats, an overall increase of 82.
The Scottish National Party is predicted to win 57 of the 59 seats in Scotland, paving the way for a Labour-SNP coalition government.
The findings will be interpreted as a vote of confidence in Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, who is a vehement opponent of Brexit and has won plaudits for her response to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the poll, the Liberal Democrats would crumble to just two seats in parliament, down from 11 won in the last general election.
A quarter of those who voted Lib Dem in 2019 say they would now vote Labour. The poll says the Lib Dems would cling on only to Bath, and Kingston and Surbiton, both by the tightest of margins. The party won 62 seats in 2005.
Of the constituencies that Labour would gain, half (41) are seats in the north of England, Midlands and Wales that voted Labour in 2017 before switching to the Tories in 2019, suggesting that the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is on course to rebuild his party’s red wall.
Labour is also predicted to win five London seats from the Conservatives, taking Chingford and Wood Green, Chipping Barnet, Finchley and Golders Green, Hendon, and Kensington.
The Conservatives cling on to just eight of the 43 red wall seats that they won at last year’s general election — Bassetlaw, Bishop Auckland, Colne Valley, Dudley North, Great Grimsby, Penistone and Stocksbridge, Scunthorpe, and Sedgefield.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/detailed-poll-shows-boris-johnson-risks-losing-his-majority-and-his-seat-7tm9p3dp7
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1345428838470348801?s=19
"As President Trump continued to condemn the US Senate elections in Georgia as corrupt, Democrats took an early lead in the two runoffs as early voting ended on Jan. 1, according to an analysis of returns from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"While state law mandates that no ballots be opened before election night on Tuesday, Georgia’s largest paper said its review showed more ballots were cast by Democrat-leaning demographics and came from left-leaning parts of the state.
"A record total of 3,002,100 early votes have been cast. Black voters — who generally support Democrats in the state by overwhelming numbers — are voting in higher numbers than they did in the presidential election, the paper reported.
"Turnout in rural and more conservative-leaning portions of the state have lagged. President Trump is planning a last-minute rally Monday in Dalton in a last-ditch effort to rally the faithful to the polls."