News Burst 4 March 2020
- Moralizing the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait.
- “We don’t need this kind of riff-raff on our shores,” screamed The New York Times in 1892 in response to Russian Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island by boat. (The occupants hosted lice which, in turn, led to typhus.)
- Italian immigrants in the United States would be also accused as being the bearers and spreaders of polio in 1916. Given that many, as a study by Alan Kraut from 2010 documents, lived in “tightly concentrated neighbourhoods, and because immigrants were viewed by many as a marginal and potentially subversive influence upon society, the incidence of Italian polio made a dramatic impact upon the imagination of a public already shaken by the virulence of the epidemic and the youth of its victims.”
- The jaundiced eye nervously looked to the origin of AIDs, seeing dark Africa, exotic primates, bestiality. Ebola, as sociologist Kevin J.A. Thomas notes, received much the same press. When it infected some 28,000 across 10 countries some five years ago, “many people were surprised to learn that four of these cases were diagnosed on US soil.”
- Trump campaign files libel suit against Washington Post over Russia conspiracy stories. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia by the law firm Tobin, O’Connor & Ewing, noted that former special counsel Robert Mueller’s April 2019 report on the investigation into alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government conclusively disproved those allegations, finding there was no evidence of collusion. Further, the suit notes that no Trump campaign official has ever spoken with the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), much less invited either North Korea or Russia to assist Trump’s re-election campaign.
- At an animal park in the Pakistani city of Lahore, four lions killed a 17-year-old grass reaper. However, how Muhammad Bilal Hussain managed to get near the lions in the evening was yet to be ascertained. Safari officials said Hussain climbed a 3.7m high fence on Tuesday night and jumped into the safari zoo to cut grass from the rear end of the enclosure which looks like a thick jungle. Four lions devoured him and the next morning parts of his skeleton were found in the lions’ enclosure.
Sun Activity
Sunspot number: 0
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 30 days
2020 total: 46 days (73%)
Movements continue to favor North Africa towards the Azores skipping Central Europe. The European plate felt the push, shown by movements both in Iceland, M3.2, and towards the North Pole with a M5.0 in the Svalbard Islands, home of the Global Seed Vault… all the seeds would have vibrated. The border of the African plate, not only in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, has been under constant pressure for weeks, in recent months in Europe the shocks have only sporadically occurred in Africa, most have been in Europe, now it is the opposite.
Strongest EQ in Europe M4.8 Azores
Strongest EQ in North America M4.0 California
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.0 North of Svalbard
Deepest EQ M3.5 217 km Argentina News Burst 4 March 2020
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