Author and Reporter for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi shares insight on newly released documents about the government's handling of Michael Flynn's case and, "Russiagate." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=460&v=1ppMzbmJQhY&feature=emb_logo
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Is Kim Jong-un Dead? guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to the show to discuss the rumors of Kim Jong-un's death. Will explains the media reports suggesting Kim is dead, or will soon die, are based on flimsy sources. However, Kim has been absent from public life for a few weeks and missed a significant...
WSJ: Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported
MILAN—In the town of Coccaglio, an hour’s drive east of here, the local nursing home lost over a third of its residents in March. None of the 24 people who died there were tested for the new coronavirus. Nor were the 38 people who died in another nursing home in the...
COVID-19 Has Taken an Aircraft Carrier Out of Commission
Task and Purpose: The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will be pulling into Guam so that each of its nearly 5,000 sailors can be tested for COVID-19, the Navy announced on Thursday. The announcement comes days after Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said three...
The Coming Coronavirus Critical-Care Emergency
A New Yorker reporter has been talking to authors of studies about numbers of ICU beds available around the U.S. There will almost certainly be chaos and triage in hospitals around the country.
Coronavirus Doctor Says Lung Scans For Young Patients ‘Nothing Short of Terrifying’
From the NY Post: A Belgian doctor working to battle the coronavirus says he’s treated several seriously ill young patients — and their lung scans were “nothing short of terrifying,” according to reports. Dr. Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in Aalst, said an...
The Good News
The WSJ says that China and South Korea seem to have already peaked in their Corona virus outbreaks. It seems it never did break out in Shanghai. But apparently only due to totalitarian travel restrictions and Orwellian surveillance. Update: Oh shit. The bad news:...
Nominally Free
In this Washington Post piece about their Orwellian task master Jeff Bezos and Amazon's growing dominance over whathaveyou, the reporter refers offhand to America as a "nominally free" society. Sounds right.
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