Cleansing by fire? Hong Kong protesters set QUARANTINE-slated building alight as locals reject any coronavirus patients near them

In a bizarre attack, masked protesters have thrown Molotov cocktails into the lobby of a building that the Hong Kong authorities were planning to use to quarantine people in need of testing for the deadly coronavirus.

As of Sunday, a total of eight people in Hong Kong had been diagnosed with the disease originating from the mainland China city of Wuhan, with three more patients added to the list. Hong Kong has declared a state of emergency over the outbreak and rolled out measures to prevent the spread of the infection.

One of these was meant to reserve a newly-built empty public housing building in the Fanling area as a backup quarantine area for people who may have contacted infected patients but don’t show symptoms themselves.

#LIVE: a room which appears to have been set up by the government as a quarantine site for the #coronarvirus. #China#CoronavirusOutbreak#2019_nCov#VirusCorona#HongKongpic.twitter.com/uCEpd5Lnxs

— Vernon Yuen (@vernon_yuen) January 26, 2020

But the decision has sparked protests from some local residents fearful that the building would pose a public health threat. On Sunday, some seemed to have taken their fears to another level, by using firebombs.

https://www.rt.com/news/479235-hong-kong-quarantine-building-torched/

Brazil breaks oil production record

Brazil produced more than 1 billion barrels last year, the first time it has breached the 1-billion-barrel mark, Reuters reports, citing the country’s oil regulator, ANP.

The daily average stood at 3.106 million bpd, up 7.78 percent on 2018, ANP also said.

More than half of the total oil production Brazil recorded in 2019 came from the prolific presalt zone off its coast. The contribution of the presalt zone stood at 633.98 million barrels, which was an annual improvement of 21.56 percent.

Brazil’s crude oil production topped 3 million barrels per day for the first time ever in November 2019, the ANP reported last month, adding that total oil and gas production rose to 3.95 million barrels of oil equivalent daily - also a record-breaking figure.

https://www.rt.com/business/479099-brazil-oil-production-record/

Cruelty to Animals Gets More Media Coverage than Beheaded Christians

The Bishops' Conference of Nigeria described the area as "killing fields", like the ones the Khmer Rouge created in Cambodia to exterminate the population.

"We are Aramaic people and we don't have this right to have anyone protect us? Look upon us as frogs, we'll accept that – just protect us so we can stay in our land". — Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, home to many of the Christians who fled jihadis, National Catholic Register, April 7, 2017.

In an era of round-the-clock information… the abominations suffered by Christians have been left without images, while the brutality against the Chinese pig was streamed all over. Christians are an endangered species; pigs are not.

One of the last Nigerian Christians was executed by an Islamic State child soldier. Slaughterhouses' workers go on trial in France for abuses to animals. But the same France has already repatriated more than 250 ISIS fighters, the same people who turn Iraqi churches into slaughterhouses.

First there was the beheading of 11 Nigerian Christians during the recent Christmas celebration. The next day, a Catholic woman, Martha Bulus, was beheaded in the Nigerian state of Borno with her bridesmaids, five days before the wedding. Then there was a raid on the village of Gora-Gan in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, where terrorists shot anyone they met in the square where the evangelical community had gathered, killing two young Christian women. There was also a Christian student killed by Islamic extremists who recorded his execution. Then pastor Lawan Andimi, a local leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, was beheaded.

"Every day", says Father Joseph Bature Fidelis, of the Diocese of Maiduguri, "Our brothers and sisters are slaughtered in the streets. Please help us not be silent in the face of this immense extermination that is taking place in silence".

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15483/animal-cruelty-beheaded-christians#.Xi18KlsuSJI.twitter

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Historical Context for Today's Surveillance Debates: The 1945 Legal Memo on What Became Operation Shamrock

Section 702 is coming up for renewal later this year, and it is clear we'll be hearing a lot in that context about the impact of SIGINT collection activities on US person communications. When that topic comes up, inevitably there follows at least a brief reference to the Church Committee's exposure of Operation SHAMROCK and Operation MINARET. In light of all this—or perhaps just because I love archival finds—I'm writing this post to capture some 1940s history that helps us better understand those 1970s revelations—and how if at all they pertain to today's controversies.

The archival find in question isn't mine. It's Steve Budianksy's. His recent book Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union is a must-read volume for those interested in the history of SIGINT in general and the NSA in particular. It’s not primarily about the legal regulation of SIGINT activities, yet there are many nuggets of legal interest in it. One that caught my eye was a reference to an August 1945 memo from the Army Judge Advocate General (Myron Cramer) to Secretary of War Henry Stimson, titled “Legality of Signal Intelligence Activities.”

https://www.lawfareblog.com/historical-context-todays-surveillance-debates-1945-legal-memo-what-became-operation-shamrock

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UK takes one step down in global corruption rankings

The UK has slipped one place down a respected league table of global corruption levels, marking the third straight year in which the country’s score has worsened.

Public sector corruption is seen as having worsened over the latest year in Britain, according to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which measures the perceptions of people in business.

The UK is ranked 12th least corrupt country in the world. That compares to 11th in 2018 and eighth in 2017. The UK scored 77 on a scale in which zero counts as “highly corrupt” and 100 counts as “very clean”. It scored 80 in 2018 and 82 in 2017.

Its score was affected by the results of the World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey, which includes questions about the risks of doing business in various jurisdictions….

Source: UK takes one step down in global corruption rankings

https://anticorruptiondigest.com/2020/01/24/uk-takes-one-step-down-in-global-corruption-rankings/

Iranian Plane Catches Fire After Leaving Gorgan Airport - Reports

An incident has taken place on board of an Iranian passenger plane mere minutes after taking off from an airport in the administrative centre of Golestan province, the city of Gorgan, located in northern Iran.

An engine on a plane flying to Tehran from Gorgan has caught on fire, forcing the pilots to return to the departure airport, Alsumaria reported, citing a Mehr correspondent.

According to preliminary information, none of the passengers was seriously injured as a result of the emergency landing at Gorgan Airport. The Iranian aviation authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire on board the aircraft, reports say.

An alleged photo of the incident has appeared online.

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— (@iranazadi1395) January 26, 2020

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001261078143367-iranian-plane-caught-on-fire-after-leaving-gorgan-airport/