Zolna Report 2019 Part2

Democrats do not believe Pelosi should be speaker, at the same time if Trump and Pence both get impeached, as Speaker Pelosi will become president.

The city of Portland apparently has a gender problem with bathrooms.
According to KGW-TV, the city decided when they remodeled the Portland Building that urinals would be banned. Last February Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart emailed employees:

"We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage … I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as your employer, remove arbitrary barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values."

Radio talk show host Lars Larson told KGW, “I think it’s ridiculous. First of all, I know that it already makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Secondly, its gonna take up a lot more space and third, anyone who’s ever been to any public event — have you seen the line at the ladies room? Do you see any line at the men’s room?” Larson pointed out that urinals use far less water than toilets.
KGW reported, “The building’s 1st, 3rd and 15th floors will have large multi-stall bathrooms that men and women will use together. Other floors will have separate men’s and women’s bathrooms. But every floor will have at least one any gender bathroom. Overall there will be 42 ‘all-user stalls’ as the city calls them and 104 gender specific stalls.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gender-conscious-portland-bans-something-from-mens-bathrooms-in-city-building/

Swedish Women Experience Mass Rape By Immigrant Invaders

The mass rape of German Women in the aftermath of WW II is now the plight of Swedish women
Remember: the same Swedish authorities who do not want to hear rape charges against immigrant invaders made by white Swedish women are the authorities who launched accusations of rape against Julian Assange for consensual relations with two eager groupies.
Paul Craig Roberts
The Chairman of Sweden’s automobile production Company, Volvo, says that immigrant crime imported into Sweden by the Swedish government is so high that Volvo might have to move out of Sweden in order to conduct its business.
His factual acknowledgement of the crime that the treasonous Swedish government, a collection of some of the most evil and stupid people on earth, has committed against Sweden could lead to the indictment of the Swedish Chairman of Volvo as a “racist.”
This is not a far-fetched supposition. My column, which is read internationally, brings me emails from Swedish women who say that if they report their rape by dark-skinned “immigrants” unleashed on the Swedish population by a treasonous government, they risk being prosecuted, because a protest against an immigrant is regarded as a hate crime. Throughout the Western World, third world immigrants have power over the ethnic populations that “host” them. The entirety of the Western World is ceasing to exist as countries dissolve into preferential treatment for invaders.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/10/01/swedish-women-experience-mass-rape-by-immigrant-invaders/

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that any attempts to drive a wedge between China and its territories will "end in crushed bodies and shattered bones."

Xi made the remarks during a state visit to Nepal on Sunday.
"Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones," he told Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli , according to China's state broadcaster CCTV.
Chinese state media added that Nepal's leader pledged to "firmly support China in safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity and stand firm in upholding the 'One-China policy,'" which refers to China's position that there is only one Chinese government despite Taiwan's reference to itself as the "Republic of China."
"And any external forces backing such attempts dividing China will be deemed by the Chinese people as pipe-dreaming!" Xi told Oli.
https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-jinping-crushed-bodies-shattered-bones-china-hong-kong-2019-10?r=US&IR=T

Roy Potter, retired military officer, expresses his concerns in his live chat about the current conditions in American society and the nation's slide into violent confrontation. Will Trump be impeached or assassinated? How will current events unfold? Share the video in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4gd06f_A4&feature=youtu.be

Transgender Cyclist Rachel McKinnon continues to smash women’s cycling records, the latest being a “world record” in the women’s 200m sprint.

McKinnon, 37, not only set the record in the 35-39 category but also won the 200m gold medal at the Masters Track Cycling World Championships on Sunday. Canadian McKinnon beat out American Dawn Orwick, and Denmark’s Kirsten Herup Sovang, who took silver and bronze behind McKinnon.
Dr. Rachel McKinnon, who was born a man, also won the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles in 2018, among other events.
But not everyone was thrilled by the big win.
Jennifer Wagner-Assali, a competitor who lost to McKinnon in the past — but did not race last weekend — called McKinnon’s win “unfair,” the Times reported.
“It was an unfair race, and I accepted that when I pinned on the number, and I tried to do my best to overcome the unfairness,” Wagner-Assali said of McKinnon’s dominance over natural-born female racers.
“I do feel that hard-fought freedoms for women’s sport are being eroded. If we continue to let this happen, there will be men’s sports and co-ed sports, but there won’t be any women’s sports,” Wagner-Assali added.
Wagener-Assari also said that if men claiming to be women continue to dominate women’s sports, then many young girls won’t even bother to get into sports. “I see little girls competing . . . and I don’t want them to have to fight this issue,” she said
McKinnon, though, rebuffed the charge that she was dominating the women’s sport. “I haven’t won any Olympic medals. I haven’t won any elite world championships,” McKinnon said.
Before Sunday’s race, McKinnon defended the right of transgenders to compete alongside natural-born women saying that “preventing trans women from competing is denying their human rights.”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/10/21/transgender-cyclist-rachel-mckinnon-keeps-smashing-womens-records/

Iran cuts off man's fingers for theft [article from BBC News]

Amnesty International has condemned Iranian authorities for cutting off the fingers of a man convicted of theft.
The rights group said the amputation, carried out at a prison in the northern province of Mazandaran, was "an abhorrent form of torture".
Iranian officials said the man was found guilty of 28 cases of theft.
Iran's Islamic penal code says theft "on the first occasion" is punishable by the amputation of four fingers of the right hand.
Iranian authorities have defended amputation as the best way to deter theft despite protests by international human rights organisations.
However, reports of such punishments are rare.

Saleh Higazi, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement on Thursday that the premeditated "maiming and mutilation of individuals is not justice".
"It is a harrowing assault against human dignity. Reforms to Iran's penal code that would put an end to this outrageous practice are long overdue."
The Iranian judiciary's news agency Mizan said the sentence had been carried out on Wednesday in the capital of Mazandaran, Sari. The convicted man was not named.
Iran is an Islamic republic and its legal system is based on a strict reading of Sharia law.
In January 2018 authorities in north-eastern Iran amputated the hand of a 34-year-old man convicted of stealing sheep.
Similar punishments have been meted out in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Somalia.
Iranian authorities were widely criticised by rights groups last year for flogging a man who was convicted of consuming alcohol as a teenager more than 10 years earlier.
In February this year the US and human rights groups expressed anger after Iran executed two teenage boys for rape.
Amnesty said at the time that Iran had executed nearly 100 juvenile offenders since 1990 - the highest number of any nation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50179741

The End of Accountable Government Is Close at Hand
by Paul Craig Roberts

For about 70 years the CIA has been undermining a free press. It began with Operation Mockingbird, a Cold War operation against communism. The CIA recruited journalists into a propaganda network. The CIA paid journalists to write fake stories or to publish stories written by the CIA in order to control explanations that served the agency’s agendas. Student and cultural organizations and intellectual magazines, such as Encounter, were suborned into the CIA’s propaganda network. Thanks to the German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, we know that every European journalist of any significance is a CIA asset. In 1977 Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame wrote in Rolling Stone that the CIA “has secretly bankrolled numerous foreign press services, periodicals and newspapers—both English and foreign language—which provided excellent cover for CIA operatives.” Like most other people, Western journalists were all too willing to sell out their integrity for money. The few who were not were blackmailed into submission.
The few honest journalists who remain have been forced out of the “mainstream” or presstitute media onto Internet websites. Wikileaks is by far the best news organization of our time. To bring this organization to heel Washington, using its Swedish, British, and Ecuadoran vassals, has persecuted Wikileaks’ founder, Julian Assange, for years. The CIA’s media vassals, including the New York Times and The Guardian, both of which published the material leaked to Wikileaks that is being used to destroy Assange, have joined wholeheartedly in the persecution of the World’s Best and Most Honest Journalist.
Currently Assange is being tortured, apparently to death, while bring held in solitary confinement in a maximum security British prison awaiting his extradition to the US on false charges. As the CIA cannot be certain it has suborned all the federal judges, Washington is just as happy if Assange dies in a British prison as there is no valid case against him under current US law. Probably the absence of a valid case doesn’t matter as the rule of law in the US is very difficult to find.
The lack of any valid case against Assange is the reason the distinguished documentary film maker John Pilger describes Assange’s persecution as a Stalinist Show Trial.
What is astonishing about the CIA’s destruction of Julian Assange is the silence of American law schools and bar associations, the silence of universities, the absence of student and labor union protests, the absence of any protection of Assange’s rights from courts as the last news organization willing and capable of holding governments accountable for their crimes is destroyed openly in full view of the law schools, intellectuals, bar associations, courts, and print and TV media.
The CIA’s control over explanations is as complete as the control Big Brother has in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. And this doesn’t bother the citizens of the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Europe. Only a few individuals speak out for Assange, and they, too, are demonized in turn.
The Age of Tyranny has now descended upon the Western World.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/10/27/the-end-of-accountable-government-is-close-at-hand/

Visit PaulCraigRoberts.org for all his excellent articles.
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Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly referenced stolen and leaked information about his opponents.

Watch Trump praise WikiLeaks in the video at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnEoVzLKNPw&feature=youtu.be

Did Abu Bakar al Baghdadi die recently as claimed? Or has he been dead for several years? Gabe Zolna weighs in on they current claims surrounding Al Baghdadi's alleged death.

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https://dlive.tv/p/dlive-20125227+FGXxvO0WR

Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicide, Dr. Michael Baden reveals [article from FOX NEWS]

The body of disgraced money man and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in August, bore telltale signs of homicide despite an official ruling that he killed himself, a pioneering forensic pathologist revealed to “Fox & Friends” in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
The bombshell claim by Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner who has worked on high-profile cases during a five-decade medical career, is certain to reignite suspicions that surfaced immediately after Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls, was discovered dead in his cell on Aug. 10. Baden, who was hired by Epstein’s brother and observed the autopsy, told Fox News its findings are more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging. He noted that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam’s apple, as well as one fracture on the left hyoid bone above the Adam’s apple, Baden told Fox News.

“Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation,” Baden, who is also a Fox News contributor, said.
While there’s not enough information to be conclusive yet, the three fractures were “rare,” said Baden, who's probed cases involving O.J. Simpson, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, record producer Phil Spector, New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and many others.
“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” the 85-year-old medical legend told Fox News.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/forensic-pathologist-jeffrey-epstein-homicide-suicide

Big Mike [Michelle Obama] recently appeared at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, and had plenty to say. Gabe Zolna has plenty to say about Big Mike and doesn't hold back!

Click the link below for the article from The Daily Wire concerning the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-michelle-obama-says-she-cant-make-people-not-afraid-of-black-people-laments-white-flight/

You can now buy your very own Rainbow Licence Plate in the state of Tennessee.

Click the link below for more information
https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/available-license-plates/tennessee-arts-commission.html

Conservative Hungary Fines Coca-Cola for Ads Featuring Same Sex Couples. Gabe Zolna discusses the fallout and the topic at hand.

Click the link below for a short 12min video on the issues from Dr. Steve Turley YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmdHRGaDdX0&feature=youtu.be

California Now Wants to be First State to Mandate Adult Vaccines – Criminal Penalties for those Who Refuse [article from https://vaccineimpact.com/]

In a brazen act of medical tyranny, California recently became the first state in the U.S. where lawmakers removed religious exemptions to those opposing vaccines for their children. The bill now signed into law, SB277, faces legal hurdles in court next.
Now, legislators in California want to pass the “first US adult vaccine mandate with NO personal exemptions and CRIMINAL penalties for failure to comply.” SB 792, would eliminate an adult’s right to exempt themselves from one, some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure.

Will California soon become a medical police state?

SB792- The first US adult vaccine mandate with NO personal exemptions (only medical exemptions approved by a doctor and defined by the bill) and CRIMINAL penalties for failure to comply will be heard in the California Assembly Human Services Committee this Tuesday July 14th at 1:30 in Room 437.

SB 792 would eliminate an adult’s right to exempt themselves from one, some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure. This bill would make California the first state to require mandated vaccinations for all childcare workers, including all private and public school early childhood education programs (Headstart, Private preK and preschools), family daycares, and daycare centers.

Commencing September 1, 2016, a person shall not be employed at a family day care home if he or she has not been immunized against influenza, pertussis, and measles. An employee shall receive an influenza vaccination between August 1 and December 1 of each year.

This bill eliminates medical autonomy, crushes religious freedom, undermines personal freedom, and burdens quality providers with a non-optional series of medical interventions in the form of mandated vaccines that are not even 100% effective.

Bill SB 792 excerpt:
This bill, commencing September 1, 2016, would prohibit a day care center or a family day care home from employing any person who has not been immunized in accordance with the schedule for routine adult immunizations, prescribed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bill would specify circumstances under which a person would be exempt from the immunization requirement, based on medical safety and current immunity, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes to provisions that set forth qualifications for day care center teachers and applicants for licensure as a family day care center. Because the bill would extend the application of a crime under the act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/california-now-wants-to-be-first-state-to-mandate-adult-vaccines-criminal-penalties-for-those-who-refuse/

I heard that she can't even walk, let alone run!

President Eisenhower warned of the Military/Industrial/Complex and the many dangerous elements it would bring. Gabe Zolna reflects on Eisenhower's message and the current state of American life and culture.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=president+isenhower+warned+us+about+the+industrial+miliary+complex&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

An Obituary of the Western World by Paul Craig Roberts

During the course of my life I have watched the Western World abandon all of the values that made it successful. Despite all its crimes, and they are many, the Western World succeeded. Everyone wanted to be part of it, and it will be the demise of the Russians that they still do.
The Western World succeeded, because it believed in objective truth and searched for it. This resulted in scientific and technological discoveries, in architectural and artistic beauty, and in brilliant literature that educated the educatable into the human condition.
But objective truth is no longer acceptable in the Western Woke World, because it is contrary to the woke ideologies, such as there is no difference between men and women, that there are many genders and that men and women can be born into the wrong bodies, that hurt feelings are more important than empirical facts, that many subjects are not subject to examination or debate, because they offend emotive beliefs of feminists, people of color, Jews, the new transgendered species, and whoever else can make a claim of victimhood.
Click the link below for the full article from Paul's excellent website.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/05/an-obituary-of-the-western-world/

Why is God going to send a strong delusion in the end times?
https://www.gotquestions.org/strong-delusion.html

Please do your own research, if you come up with anything different, please do let me know.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released a plan pledging to fund “transition-related surgery” and other medical procedures for transgender military veterans.
The Democratic presidential hopeful published the plan to her website on Tuesday, Politico reported.
On a lengthy page titled “Keeping Our Promises to Our Service Members, Veterans, and Military Families,” Warren included a section on “LGBTQ+ Service Members.”
“I’ll include the LGBTQ+ population in the VA’s Center for Minority Veterans, ensuring that they receive targeted outreach and equal care and are treated with dignity and respect,” the Massachusetts senator wrote.
“A Warren VA will ensure that every LGBTQ+ person can get the equitable, gender-affirming, and culturally-competent health care they need.”
More specifically, her plan would provide “all medically necessary care related to the health of transgender people, including transition-related surgery.”
Warren wrote that such care would be covered by her signature “Medicare for All” plan.

The specific issue of funding so-called “gender transition” surgeries has come up before in the Democratic presidential primary race.
During a CNN town hall in October, Warren told host Chris Cuomo she regretted saying in 2012 that funding those surgeries for transgender inmates was a poor use of taxpayer dollars.
“I believe that everyone is entitled to medical care — and medical care that they need,” Warren told Cuomo.
“And that includes people who are transgender who, it is the time for them to have gender-affirming surgery. I just think that’s important.”
In the plan she released Tuesday, Warren also voiced her opposition to President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.
“I have opposed the Trump Administration’s shameful ban on transgender service members from the start,” she wrote.
“I’ll reverse it on the first day of my presidency.”
Warren has tied statements about transgender people to other policy issues throughout her campaign.
Last month, she tweeted about transgender illegal immigration, writing that “we must end unnecessary detention and enforce strict standards to keep trans migrants and asylum seekers safe.”

Click the link below for the full article from Son of 1776.
https://sonsof1776.com/2019/11/06/elizabeth-warren-promises-tax-payer-funded-sexual-reassignment-surgery/

The savagery of the Mexican drug cartels revealed itself once again this week, with the vicious murder of a police officer who was involved in the botched arrest against kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son last month.

According to Fox News, a 30-year-old officer, named only by police as Eduardo N., died on Wednesday by 150 bullets during a daylight assassination in Culiacan, Sinaloa. The killing came three weeks after the cartel successfully forced the police into releasing El Chapo’s son during a violent shootout that left eight people dead and more than 20 wounded. More from Fox News:

"Mexican newspaper Excelsior shared CCTV footage from Wednesday’s attack that showed the police officer parking his white vehicle outside a shopping center. Moments later, a red vehicle pulls up alongside him and armed gunmen men leap out, firing rapidly from close range.
Within 30 seconds, the gunmen fired 155 shots at the police officer, before leaping into the vehicle and running off, the outlet reported.
Officials said the officer was a member of Sinaloa’s State Preventive Police who had been assigned to protect Undersecretary of Public Safety Carlos Alberto Hernandez Leyva."

The targeting of Eduardo N. undoubtedly sends a message that the cartels will target anyone even tangentially involved in the crackdown on their operation, considering that the officer was only part of an anti-drug security unit patrolling the region at the time of the arrest and was not directly involved in the operation.

Click the link below for the full article from The Daily Wire
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cartels-murder-cop-who-aided-in-the-arrest-of-el-chapos-son/

Almost 80,000 California Retirees Receive Over $100,000 In Pension Pay

That’s according to an analysis of 2018 pension payout data posted on Transparent California — the state’s largest public pay and pension database.

Those receiving pension payouts of at least $100,000 accounted for nearly 20 percent of the $51.7 billion total payments made last year, which is also an all-time high, according to the data.
“The only reason public pensions are an issue of public concern is because of the costs they impose on taxpayers,” explained Transparent California Executive Director Robert Fellner.
“The data show that one out of every five dollars paid out by California’s public pension funds last year went to someone who is drawing an annual pension of at least $100,000,” Fellner said.
Data from the US Census Bureau reveals a similar explosion in taxpayer costs, which hit an all-time high of $39.3 billion last year, more than double the amount spent in 2013.
“Guaranteed, lifetime annual pensions of over $100,000 are quite expensive, as the soaring cost to taxpayers in recent years makes quite clear,” Fellner concluded.
Nearly half of all California cities face a “high risk” of fiscal distress due to rising pension costs, according to a recent analysis from the California State Auditor.
“Rising pension costs will force working class Californians to pay higher taxes, while receiving fewer public services,” Fellner explained.

Click the link below for the full article from Zero Hedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/almost-80000-california-retirees-receive-over-100000-pension-pay

California Approves $3.2 Billion Bond For High Speed Train To Nowhere

The high speed train is dead, long live the high speed train.
Less than a year after California Gov. Gavin Newsom brought California's dreams for a LA to San Fran bullet train crashing down, when he said in February that he is ending the state’s hugely expensive and hopelessly quixotic high-speed rail line fiasco (which would have been completed in 2033 at a staggering cost of $77 billion), California is about to unleash another high speed train project, and this one is even more idiotic.
The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) has authorized a $3.2 billion tax-exempt, fixed-rate revenue bond issuance to help DesertXpress Enterprises, an affiliate of Virgin Trains USA, build a high-speed train from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas. The new XpressWest service, at speeds of up to 180 miles per hour, will take about 90 minutes one way.
There is just one problem: Victorville, located in SoCal's high desert, is quite literally in the middle of nowhere.

More on that in a second.
DesertXpress will be able to use the money to pay for the 135 miles of the project located within the state of California. This, according to ConstructionDrive, includes the costs of design, development, construction, operation and maintenance of the rail system itself; a passenger station; a maintenance facility; train cars; and electrification infrastructure. DesertXpress will also be able to use the bonds, which are sponsored by the California county of San Bernardino, to establish a debt service reserve fund, as well as pay for interest and other bond-related expenses. While total spending is listed at around $4.8 billion, "hard construction costs" are $3.6 billion.
Construction, which is expected to begin in the second half of 2020 and wrap up in 2023, according to an IBank staff report, will generate more than 15,800 temporary construction jobs.
That's the good news. The bad news is... what the hell are they thinking?
In theory, it's not a terrible idea: California has for decades sought to find a fast path between Los Angleles and Las Vegas. In practice, the fact that the train runs to Victorville assures that the project is DOA.
The XpressWest between California and Las Vegas, according to the IBank staff report, will take about half the time of a car trip, but Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, thinks that there simply won't be enough potential passengers — at least enough to make the new bullet train a success.
"If you're driving from Los Angeles to Victorville, by the time you get there, you're pretty much halfway to Vegas," O'Toole said, "so why would you stop and leave your car somewhere and take a train and then have to walk to wherever your destination is — or take a cab or an Uber or Lyft — when you can just drive your car there?"

Click the link below for the full article from ZeroHedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/california-approves-32-billion-bond-high-speed-train-nowhere

Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday. It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.
The two recent patients, from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, were diagnosed with pneumonic plague by doctors in the Chinese capital Beijing, according to state media Xinhua. They are now receiving treatment in Beijing's Chaoyang District, and authorities have implemented preventative control measures.

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs.

Pneumonic -- the kind the Chinese patients have -- is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
During the Middle Ages, plague outbreaks devastated Europe, killing around 50 million people. Since then, we've invented antibiotics, which can treat most infections if they are caught early enough -- but the plague isn't gone. In fact, it's made a recent comeback.

From 2010 to 2015, more than 3,248 cases were reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, according to the WHO. The three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru.
In the United States, there have been anywhere from a few to a few dozen cases of plague every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2015, two people in Colorado died from the plague, and the year before there were eight reported cases in the state.
Having caused close to 50,000 human cases during the past 20 years, the plague is now categorized by WHO as a re-emerging disease.

Click the link below for the full article.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/13/health/china-plague-intl-hnk-scn-scli/index.html

Cold weather is hitting large swaths of the country this week and many could experience “record colds,” according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
The NWS forecasts “widespread record cold spreading from the Plains eastward toward the East Coast,” spreading across the eastern two thirds of the United States. The cold blast will last from Tuesday Nov. 12 until Thursday Nov. 14.
Around 240 million people will face winter weather warmings, watches, and advisories, according to CNN.
The Midwest and parts of northern New England already experienced snow on Monday, brought on by the “arctic air mass,” per the Associated Press.

“Record cold” temperatures will spread in the Ohio Valley and down into the southern Plains on Tuesday as the “arctic airmass” moves south and eastward, according to the NWS. By Wednesday morning, “record low temperatures” in the teens and 20s can be expected throughout most of the East Coast, the Ohio Valley, and as far south as the upper Texas coast. The NWS says it will “feel like the middle of winter for these areas.”
NWS predicted on Monday that more than 300 daily-temperature record lows could occur between Monday and Wednesday.
The cold has reportedly caused school closures or delays across the U.S., including in the Midwest, the Mid-South and even Texas.

Click the link below for the full article from TIME
https://time.com/5724944/arctic-blast/