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... A revised WHO assessment has moved the risk level from "high" to "very high" at the national level, while risk remains "high" at the regional level and "low" at the global level, Tedros added.

WHO officials have acknowledged that a delay in detecting and responding to the outbreak enabled it to balloon, and that they are now racing to get ahead of the virus.

WHO representative Dr. Anne Ancia spoke during today's briefing from the DRC, saying that when officials got to the area, they found the virus was "already rampant and silently disseminating for a few weeks already." In the outbreak investigation so far, the earliest known suspected case was in a health worker, who developed symptoms on April 24 in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri. WHO only got word of a potential outbreak on May 5, with news of a cluster of deadly, unidentified infections that led to the deaths of four health workers. By the time a WHO team arrived, there were already 80 cases.

"Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, and because it is still transmitting for the time being, yes, the number [of cases] will keep rising for some time until we are really able to put all the response operation in place," she said. ...

@#8 ... "The Late Night Show with Colbert is costing CBS $40 million a season. Why should Paramount keep it going?" ...

Because to keep it going would have prevented the Trump approval of Paramount's merger.

As highlighted in a recent video Pres Trump posted ...

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... Taken together, they point to a broad softening of support rather than a single outlier, with negative ratings spanning overall job approval, issue-specific handling and key voter groups. ...

Five Unwanted Polling Records

- - - Disapproval hits record highs in both Fox News and New York Times/Siena polling

- - - Net approval drops to a new low among Republicans in Fox News data

- - - Republican dissatisfaction with Trump's handling of the economy reaches a new high in AP/NORC survey

- - - Millennials give Trump the weakest rating of his second term in YouGov/Economist poll

- - - Economic and inflation ratings fall to new lows, with widening negative net scores ...

@#7

OK more lyrics from the song ...

...
[Verse 1]
My lips are moving, and the sound's coming out
The words are audible, but I have my doubts
That you realize what has been said
You look at me as if you're in a daze
It's like the feeling at the end of a page
When you realize you don't know what you just read

[Chorus]
What are words for when no one listens anymore?
What are words for when no one listens?
What are words for when no one listens? It's no use talkin' at all

[Verse 2]
I might as well go up and talk to a wall
'Cause all the words are having no effect at all
It's a funny thing, am I all alone?
Something has to happen to change the direction
What little filters through is giving you the wrong impression
"It's a sorry state," I say to myself

...

[Verse 3]
Pursue it further, and another thing you'll find
Not only are they deaf and dumb, they could be going blind, no one notices
I think I'll dye my hair blue
Media overload bombarding you with action
It's getting near impossible to cause distraction
Someone answer me before I pull out the plug
...

@#5

I do not disagree.

But the question I have to ask is along the lines of ...

How long before the GOP realizes what they have been supporting?

And as a followup question ...

When might they eventually grow the backbone to do something about it?

@#55 ... The individual's right is no longer supreme. Liberalism is being replaced with oligarchy and autocracy...

Is Liberalism about the right of an individual being supreme?

Or is it about the rights of the People over the dictated rights of the oligarchy and autocracy?

The people of Hungary recently had the ability to express their opinion on that topic.

Taking a step back from this latest miasma to emerge from the mouth of Pres Trump ...

His comment indicates the qualification of those senior officials who surround him in the White House, and his possible interaction with those officials.

Stated differently, were Pres Trump's senior advisors chosen by Pres Trump because they would only agree with him, or were they chosen for their knowledge of their tasks?

Trump: Obey me, or be fired.

The law and the Constitution do not matter.

Just obey me or be fired.

So a Republican candidate for Governor of Connecticut seems to have been using Connecticut funds for her own personal reasons?

Quelle surprise.

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... Stewart suspended her campaign for governor this month after a law firm hired by New Britain released a report alleging that she used her city-issued credit card for "routine living expenses," political campaign-related expenses and purchases for family events.

The expense reports show that Stewart's spending increased over time, especially after her children were born. Overall, purchases on her card from June 2016 through November 2025 totaled more than $200,000. ...

@#10,11

... and that has to do with the security of the US ... how?

@#7 ... America deserves the destruction that he is reaping. ...

A lot of subtly in a reply to that. Allow me to try ...

I'd say that America needs to see the destruction of its electoral choices.

But does America deserve that destruction?

imo, too soon to tell.

Will America wake up and once again fight for Democracy? Or just allow itself to deteriorate into an autocratic oligarchy?

As I said, too soon to tell.

@#2 ... how "anti-war" protests cost Kamala Harris ..

You noticed that also?

MAGA seemed to be vehemently anti-war back then.

Now, not so much.

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... A developing El Niño that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued its seasonal outlook for the Atlantic, giving a 55% chance of a below average season. The agency forecasts 8 to 14 named storms, with 3 to 6 of them becoming strong enough to hit hurricane status and 1 to 3 of those intensifying to major hurricanes.

A normal hurricane season has 14 named storms, seven of them becoming hurricanes and three of them reaching major hurricane level, which is more than 110 mph (177 kph).

Eighteen other groups, private and academic, have also forecasted what they think the season will be like and most of them also call for a below average summer and fall. Those other forecasts average a dozen named storms, only five becoming hurricanes and two of those being major ones. Those forecasts also call for the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index, which takes into account strength and duration of storms, to be 80% of normal. ...

@#2 ... Do we have evidence of T-rex with longer chicken wings? ...

Insightful question.

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... Then, the researchers compared the length of the forelimbs with the length and robustness of the skull in 61 theropod species.

Sure enough, the link between reduced forelimbs and skull robustness was found to be strong in five separate families of theropods: tyrannosaurids, abelisaurids, carcharodontosaurids, megalosaurids, and ceratosaurids.

Skull or body size alone didn't seem to correlate with forelimb size. Many of these predators grew into behemoths, but some stayed relatively small, even while packing a powerful head/tiny arm combo.

Stranger still, the team found that, across different lineages, the arms shrank by different proportions. In some cases, the whole limb shrank in tandem, but in others, some parts shortened more than others. ...

If you want to learn more ...

imo worth a read.

But also keep in light that 2026 and 2028 are not 2024.

@#7 ... The local MAGAtards are sad little jokes. ...

I disagree.

It seems to be the comments they post that are the sad little jokes.

@#2 ... The subject is motor oil, ...

Yup.

And I mentioned, my annual motor oil change.

That reply is the best your current alias can come up with to gainsay my post?

So lame.

@#& ... Cuba is not a national security threat to America. It was not yesterday and it is not suddenly a threat today. ...

Pres Trump seems to have learned to carelessly throw around the word "security" when he wants something.

e.g. his billion-dollar ballroom is for security (though Secret Service seems to have issues justifying that assertion).

How, exactly is Cuba a security threat to the US, when Cuba is suffering under Pres Trump's embargo of Cuba?

Or is Pres Trump admitting his embargo is not working>

Pres Trump's question: Has there been any history regarding White South Africans that is an issue here in the United States?