https://twitter.com/PaleoGroyper/status/1228863818425675776
On the move. . .
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Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s limo, a.k.a. ‘The Beast’
President Trump rolled up to NASCAR’s Daytona 500 on Sunday in his tricked-out limousine “The Beast.”
Trump, who was named the grand marshal of this year’s big race, was spotted arriving to the track in the $1.5 million, seven-seater limo, making roughly a quarter lap before pulling aside in an infield staging area.
Unveiled in 2018, the 20,000-pound fortified Cadillac CT6 stretch sedan, comes fully loaded with bags of the president’s blood type, as well as features to ward off just about every kind of terror attack or assassination attempt.
It can spew out a smokescreen, fire tear gas and leave an oil slick to thwart a car chase, NBC previously reported.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-limo-a-k-a-the-beast/
Iran’s president: Trump doesn’t want war ahead of 2020 vote
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) —
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that he doesn’t believe the U.S. will pursue war with his country, because it will harm President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid.
Rouhani said that Trump knows that war with Iran will “ruin” his chances of winning the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The Iranian leader added that war would be harmful to U.S. interests and those of its regional allies, as well as Iran.
“I think the Americans aren’t after war since they know what harm it could do them,” said Rouhani in a news conference.
He said that Persian Gulf nations like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar stood a lot to lose if conflict between Iran and the U.S. turns to war.
https://apnews.com/347907901ba8a847852286fa1744935e
Xi’s early involvement in virus outbreak raises questions
BEIJING (AP) — A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping that has been published by state media indicates for the first time that he was leading the response to a new virus outbreak from early on in the crisis.
The publication of the Feb. 3 speech was an apparent attempt to demonstrate that the Communist Party leadership had acted decisively from the beginning, but also opens up the Chinese leader to criticism over why the public was not alerted sooner.
In the speech, Xi said he gave instructions on fighting the virus on Jan. 7 and ordered the shutdown that began on Jan. 23 of cities at the epicenter of the outbreak. His remarks were published by state media late Saturday.
“On Jan. 22, in light of the epidemic’s rapid spread and the challenges of prevention and control, I made a clear request that Hubei province implement comprehensive and stringent controls over the outflow of people,” Xi told a meeting of the party’s standing committee, its top body.
The number of new cases in mainland China fell for a third straight day, China’s National Health Commission reported Sunday. The 2,009 new cases in the previous 24-hour period brought the total to 68,500.
Commission spokesman Mi Feng said the percentage of severe cases had dropped to 7.2% of the total from a peak of 15.9% on Jan. 27. The proportion is higher in Wuhan, the Hubei city where the outbreak started, but has fallen to 21.6%.
“The national efforts against the epidemic have shown results,” Mi said at the commission’s daily media briefing.
https://apnews.com/194c2fc481010f210de218dd9e9901d6
Syrian forces seize most of Aleppo province, ahead of Turkey-Russia talks
AMMAN/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces made significant advances on Sunday in the country’s northwestern Aleppo province, seizing most of the rebel-held region, state media said, a day before a new round of talks between Turkey and Russia on the escalation in the area.
The Syrian government’s recent advances in the northwestern region of the country have upset a fragile cooperation between Ankara and Moscow, which back opposing factions in the conflict but have collaborated toward a political solution to the nearly nine-year war.
Turkey, which backs rebels looking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been outraged since Syrian attacks in the Idlib region killed 13 Turkish troops in two weeks. It has urged Russia to stop the attacks, warning it would use military power to drive back the Syrian forces unless they withdraw by the end of the month.
On Sunday, Russian warplanes mounted heavy air strikes in the Aleppo province, bombing towns including Anadan, which was later seized by Syrian forces supported by Iranian-backed militias, activists reported.
Rebel military sources said opposition fighters had pulled back from the area, including Anadan and the town of Haritan.
“In day one, they took an area where for eight years they could not take a single village,” Rami Abdulrahman, director of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
“There is very rapid advance by the (Syrian) regime in this area,” Abdulrahman said. “The factions have withdrawn from most of the area,” he added. The Observatory said Syrian forces had seized 13 towns and villages in the area.
The advances come after Assad’s forces drove insurgents from the key M5 highway linking Aleppo to Damascus, and reopened the fastest route between Syria’s two biggest cities for the first time in years, in a major strategic accomplishment for Assad.
Turkey-backed rebels have meanwhile launched an operation in Idlib to retake areas lost to Syrian government forces. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said on Sunday that a 100-vehicle convoy of reinforcements, including troops, tanks and military vehicles and equipment, had been deployed to Idlib.
Turkey has so far sent thousands of troops and hundreds of convoys of military equipment to reinforce its observation posts in Idlib, established under a 2018 de-escalation agreement with Russia. Images from the region showed many houses draped in Turkish flags, while footage showed residents chanting slogans as convoys passed by.
A suicide bomber with the main insurgent group in the area, the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham faction, blew himself up in an attack on Russian positions in the town of Kafr Aleppo, the Ibaa news outlet affiliated with the group reported.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-russia/syrian-forces-seize-most-of-aleppo-province-ahead-of-turkey-russia-talks-idUSKBN20A0EZ?il=0
‘A complete disaster’: Fears grow over potential Nevada caucus malfunction
Volunteers complain of poor training for a vote-reporting system that was adopted on the fly.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/16/nevada-avoid-iowa-caucus-mess-115437
Weekend @ Boinies
gets cucked again (this time with bewbs!)
goto 51:30
he was inexorably drawn to the bewbs, wifey had to intercept.