COLD WAR II: The Strange Story of a Las Vegas Radio Station Co-Opted by China. “Las Vegas Public Radio, the ‘People’s Voice of Las Vegas,’ is a registered lobbyist for Chinese tech giant Huawei.”

More like the PRC’s Mouthpiece of Las Vegas.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry.

UNHINGED: Pelosi Calls Scandal-Plagued Gaffe-Prone Biden ‘A Voice of Reason’ on Coronavirus, Man of ‘Integrity.’

FASTER, PLEASE: Smart contact lens accurately monitors blood sugar in rabbits, human tests next.

ANDREW CUOMO’S STAR FALLING: Questions arise about NY forcing nursing homes to admit infected patients.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California Ammunition Purchase Law Shut Down by Federal Judge. “In truth, red tape and the state’s disastrous database errors made it impossible for hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Californians to purchase ammunition for sport or self-defense. The Court found that the flimsy reasons offered by the government to justify these Constitutional infringements … woefully inadequate.”

If you can’t get ammo for it, you aren’t bearing a firearm — you’re the holder of an over-engineered club.

WOW, THANK GOODNESS THE CLIMATE CHANGED: Predator-packed Sahara was most dangerous place on Earth 100M years ago.

A BILL WHITTLE PODCAST: The Cold War: What We Saw | The Liberators – Episode 12.

WHY ARE THINGS SO BAD IN NEW YORK? ONE “UNIQUE” FACTOR IS THAT IT HAS BOTH AN AWFUL MAYOR AND AN AWFUL GOVERNOR. ALSO, THEY HATE EACH OTHER. Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not.

WEIRDLY, THEY WERE ALL NAMED KAREN: Personal information from 900+ St. Louisan tipsters exposed on social media. “A spree of social media posts this week warn that St. Louis County released the information it got from people who reported businesses in violation of the stay-at-home order. The document, released in response to a Sunshine Law request, included names and contact information of the people making the reports. In their messages, some asked for anonymity. . . . The Missouri Sunshine Law gives the public and media the right to request records made or received by any public agency, with some exceptions. Among those exceptions is a clause allowing tips to municipal hotlines about abuse and wrongdoing to be withheld. But the county’s review of the request found no reason to withhold information about who sent the tips.”

You can ask for anonymity, but you may not be entitled to it. And the presumption should be against anonymity.

HAVING ROYALLY SCREWED UP AT A COST OF MANY LIVES, CHINA-PUPPET WHO DIRECTOR TRIES TO REWRITE HISTORY:

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A LESS COHERENT BLOG: BidenWatch for April 27, 2020. “The Tara Reade rape-accusation scandal isn’t going away, nor is the Bejing Biden tag, no matter how hard Team Joe might try to jujitsu it away. Plus Q1 fundraising numbers drop.”

Plus: “Want to guess which Democrat is calling on Biden to bow out over the Tara Reade accusations? Would you believe notorious Hillary shill Peter Daou?”

Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face could not be reached for comment.

IF THEY WANT YOU TO FOLLOW THE LAW, THEY NEED TO MAKE IT READILY AND CHEAPLY ACCESSIBLE: Georgia Loses Legal Code Copyright Clash at Supreme Court. That includes the state’s annotations.

BILL DE BLASIO, LEADING BY EXAMPLE: Bill de Blasio and wife stroll through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park amid coronavirus. “‘Seriously you guys have a park. You live in the middle of a park. You don’t need to non-essentially travel to Brooklyn,’ Twitter user Darren Goldner says, referencing Carl Schurz Park near Gracie Mansion, in a clip posted to Twitter Saturday…This is selfish behavior,’ Goldner shouts to the backs of the mayor and McCray. ‘This is so terribly selfish. You call yourself a progressive, but you chauffeur yourself to Brooklyn. You force people to drive you.’”

Related: de Blasio’s latest crazy, no-good nepotistic job for Chirlane McCray. McCray was appointed head of “coronavirus racial inequality task force.”

STACEY LENNOX: Can We Have a Word About Insisting on 5M Test Per Day Before We Can Reopen?

NOT GOOD: Tyson Foods chairman warns that ‘the food supply chain is breaking’: In recent weeks, the poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country.

This needs immediate attention, but it also calls into question the wisdom of having a relatively small number of huge processing plants staffed by cheap, often illegal, immigrant labor.

UPDATE: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has a deregulation plan that would let farmers bypass a lot of middlemen to reach consumers more directly.

JAKE KNOWS HIS ROLE, AND IT DOESN’T INVOLVE STEPPING ON THE DEMOCRATS’ MESSAGING:

YOU MIGHT NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: YouTube Removes Biotech Company’s Video Showing Potential Internal UVA Light Treatment for Coronavirus.

RUSSIA IS LOSING ITS SPACE LAUNCH EDGE: As well it should.

Russia is trying to adapt to its reduced presence in space. While Russia still spends about $1.6 billion a year on its space program, even that is a financial strain. Most (62 percent) of that goes towards building and maintaining its military satellites, which comprise the majority of their 160 satellites in orbit. Most of the rest went to maintaining 27 GLONASS satellites, the Russian version of GPS. Another $100 million is for maintaining the military satellite launch center at Plesetsk with the remainder going to other ground-based space facilities.

One aspect of the decline became obvious back in early 2018 when Russia confirmed the obvious and admitted they had lost their huge market share of commercial satellite launches. As recently as 2013 Russia had half that market. Five years later their market share had fallen to about ten percent and Russian showed no signs of regaining their dominance and now expects their share of the commercial market to sink to as low as four percent.

Jim Dunnigan wrote this post. It’s packed with technical observations, but provides excellent background for understanding the current space race. He compares SpaceX’s reusable launchers to fracking, an “unexpected new American technology that drove down the world price of Russians’ main export; oil and natural gas.” He also points out America’s real space competitor is China.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? California: Triumph of the Woke Oligarchs. “Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California’s progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to off-load the state’s recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes.”

HERE’S THE REOPENING PLAN for Knoxville and Knox County.

And note this bit of realism:

Through the joint effort of citizens in “flattening the curve,” the number of active COVID-19 cases has stayed far below the capacity of the health care system.This has provided the region with time to increase supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), hospital surge capacity, testing capacity and the ability to surge contact tracing should it be needed and appropriate. As we locally advance through the phases, we anticipate an increase in active cases at each phase due to the low number of initial active cases. The focus of the benchmarks outlined in this document is on assessing the local ability to manage an increase in cases while preventing the unobstructed growth of transmission. Our low initial active case counts will likely mean we will not obtain a downward trend throughout the phases of the reopening process. Our community demonstrated success in flattening the curve before it truly started. Due to this initial success, future phases will result in increased numbers of active case counts. This alone is not a reason to revert to a previous phase or not advance to the next phase.

That seems sound. I should note that even though they have different parties and different philosophical orientations, it’s nice to see that Knoxville City Mayor Indya Kincannon and Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs have worked together well on this. That hasn’t been the place in some other metro areas in Tennessee.