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WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency
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More people died in their bathtub in the United States than the monkey pox killed on the entire earth. So keep that fear porn rollin, tard.
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Jon Stewart Expertly Trolls Fox News Viewers While on Fox News
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-st...le-on-fox-news
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republicans are shit for not voting this through
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Opinion: There’s a good reason Jon Stewart is angry at Ted Cruz
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/opini...lah/index.html
Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. CNN — “Their constituents are dying. And they’re going to get it done after recess?” Those were the words from a visibly angry Jon Stewart after 41 Republican senators voted to block advancement of legislation that would help thousands of veterans suffering from cancer, respiratory illness and other ailments. While Senate Democrats voted unanimously to pass the measure, Republicans voted to stall the Honoring Our PACT Act, which aims to provide assistance to veterans who have become ill after being exposed to burn pits during their military service. Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah Stewart, the former late night comedian-turned-activist arguably has been the most vocal critic of GOP lawmakers who voted the measure down in a procedural vote, a move that looked likely to delay the measure until after lawmakers return from their summer break in September. The veterans don’t have the luxury of waiting another month, he said. “Tell their cancer to take a recess,” he told CNN one day after learning that the measure had stalled. “Tell their cancer to stay home and go visit their families.” Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to hold a new vote on the measure this week, giving Republicans a chance to prove that they actually do support the troops to whom they so often pay lip service. The GOP is trying to score political points by delaying this vital piece of legislation that would assist an estimated 3.5 million military veterans. This issue is literally a matter of life and death for those sickened by exposure to toxins emitted from burn pits. WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 11: A flower and two American flags are left at the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Veterans Day on November 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. Veterans Day is when Americans honor those who served the country in the Armed Forces. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall contains 58,320 names of those who gave their lives during the conflict in Vietnam. It was designed by Maya Lin and was completed in 1982. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) What Veterans Day means to me and my family Burn pits were commonly used to burn trash, munitions, hazardous material and chemical compounds at military sites throughout Iraq and Afghanistan until about 2010. They were often operated at or near military bases, releasing dangerous toxins into the air that may have caused short- and long-term health conditions.. But in the past, more than 70% of claims filed for disabilities connected to burn pit exposure were denied by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The PACT Act would fix that. The legislation would provide hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to help them. And going forward, veterans exposed to burn pits will now have the presumption of having contracted certain respiratory illnesses and cancers, allowing them to more easily obtain disability payments. So why did Senate Republicans block legislation that would help millions of vets? Could it be that the GOP doesn’t want to hand President Biden a legislative win on an issue he has long championed – especially so close to November’s midterm election? Some speculate that Republicans backtracked as part of a backlash after being caught by surprise over the deal announced last week by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer – forged in secrecy with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin – on legislation to address climate change, help lower prescription drug costs and increase tax revenues. HARLEYSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA - MAY 12: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a campaign event for fellow Republican, senate candidate Dave McCormick at Leddy's Pub on May 12, 2022 in Harleysville, Pennsylvania. Cruz joined the former hedge fund executive McCormick for the event ahead of the May 17 primary to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. Ted Cruz's stance on same-sex marriage raises a huge red flag GOP Senator Ted Cruz – who not only voted against the bill to aid veterans, but despicably, was seen fist-bumping other GOP Senators to celebrate the blockage of the legislation – claimed it was because the measure contained a budget “gimmick.” Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who is a leading voice in oposition to the bill, said in a statement after the vote that scuttled the bill that if it were to approve the bill in its current form, “Congress would effectively be using an important veterans care bill to hide a massive, unrelated spending binge.” Cruz told TMZ that the bill represented “part of the out-of-control spending by the left.” But Cruz and his Republican colleagues in the Senate in mid-June passed an almost identical version of the bill, which cleared the chamber by a vote of 84-14, (with all 14 “no” votes coming from Republicans). Stewart, who has been publicly advocating for this legislation since September 2020 (and who also championed efforts to increase federal funding for 9/11 First responders) called out Cruz on Twitter. “This isn’t a game. Real people’s lives hang in the balance… People that fought for your life,” he wrote. Stewart is 100% correct about Republican game-playing. The PACT Act passed the House several weeks ago with only minor tweaks – but those minor changes prompted another vote by the Senate. Last week, 25 GOP senators, including Cruz – flipped their earlier “yes” votes to block it. Democratic Senator Jon Tester, who co-wrote the bill with Kansas Republican Senator Jerry Moran, said Republicans’ explanations for why they pulled their support just don’t hold water. GET OUR FREE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER Sign up for CNN Opinion’s newsletter. Join us on Twitter and Facebook “My colleagues can make up all sorts of excuses as to why they decided to change their vote for this bill,” he said. All in all, it amounts to the worst type of political gamesmanship, with the lives of America’s veterans in the balance. They deserve far better. |
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Karma justhit Alex Jones between the eyes
https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-la...GvupQb5yuKZ_KZ
While being cross-examined at his defamation trial in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Alex Jones was informed that his attorneys accidentally sent two years of text messages from his cellphone to a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents suing him — and then failed to note that the messages were protected under attorney-client privilege. Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, presented a text message about Sandy Hook that Bankston said came from Jones’s cellphone. “Do you know where I got this?” Bankston asked Jones. “No,” Jones replied. Bankston explained: “Twelve days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cellphone with every text message that you’ve sent for the past two years — and when informed, did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected.” Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his text messages at his defamation trial in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. (Briana Sanchez/Pool via Reuters) Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his text messages at his defamation trial in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. (Briana Sanchez/Pool via Reuters) In a pretrial deposition, Jones had testified under oath that he had searched his phone for text messages about Sandy Hook in preparation for the trial and found none. “That is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn’t have any text messages about Sandy Hook,” Bankston told Jones. “Did you know this?” Jones said he did not, and that he had given his phone to his attorneys. "I guess this is your 'Perry Mason' moment," he added. "You know what perjury is, right?" Bankston asked. “Yes, I do,” Jones replied. “I mean, I’m not a tech guy.” The dramatic exchange came during cross-examination of Jones on the second day of his testimony. Earlier Wednesday, Jones sought to portray himself as a victim who had been “typecast” for claiming that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was staged. Jones, the only witness called by his defense team, began by complaining about media outlets that refuse to report that he now believes that the massacre, which left 20 children and six educators dead, actually happened. “It's 100% real,” Jones said under direct questioning from his lawyer F. Andino Reynal. Neil Heslin, father of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, testifies at trial. Neil Heslin, father of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, testifies against Alex Jones on Tuesday. (Briana Sanchez/Pool via Reuters) The concession came a day after Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook, told the jury that false claims that the attack did not occur have made their lives a “living hell.” Heslin and Lewis are suing Jones and his media company Free Speech Systems for $150 million for the harassment they've received as a result of the unfounded conspiracy theory spread by Jones and his guests on Infowars, a far-right website that hosts talk shows and other content. Jones was asked by Reynal to explain what he now thinks about the massacre in Newtown. “I think Sandy Hook happened. I think it was a terrible event,” he said, before adding: “I think it was a cover-up. The FBI knew it was going to happen.” Under cross-examination, Bankston peppered Jones with questions about statements that have been made on Infowars during the trial, including the suggestion that Judge Maya Guerra Gamble is rigging the proceedings with an actual script, and that Gamble is somehow involved in a pedophilia ring. Bankston asked Jones if such statements were evidence that he is taking the trial seriously. “I think this is serious as cancer,” Jones replied. Mark Bankston shows a document to Alex Jones, who looks perplexed. Mark Bankston, a lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, asks Jones about his emails and text messages during the defamation trial Wedneday. (Briana Sanchez/Pool via Reuters) Bankston also asked Jones about other mass tragedies that he has claimed were "false flag" events, including the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Parkland, Fla., and Sutherland Springs, Texas, and the Boston Marathon bombings. As was the case during Jones's testimony on Tuesday, Gamble repeatedly reminded him to answer only the questions he was asked. “This is not your show,” the judge said. The case is now in the hands of the jury. Deliberations are scheduled to resume on Thursday morning. During closing arguments, Reynal said that lawyers for the plaintiffs did not show the entire amount of Infowars video footage entered into evidence — about 8 hours — and instead presented just 9 minutes to the jury. In their rebuttal, Kyle Farrar, an attorney for the parents, said that was by design, and that the lawyers chose not to play for the jury video segments unrelated to Sandy Hook. “Why would I play you his conspiracy theories about frogs being gay? Why would I play that to you?” Farrar asked, adding: "Nobody wants to see that." |
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Jones must pay $45.2 million
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/media...ook/index.html Thats just Two sets of parents. |
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The Feds and Alex Jones cell phone
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...167af4621ef8d1
After conspiracy theory promoter Alex Jones was hit with a $49.3 million total verdict for lying about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, his attorneys sought to claw back the contents of Jones' cell phone, which they inadvertently sent to the plaintiffs. The attorney for the plaintiffs has said he will cooperate with requests to obtain the evidence from federal law enforcement and the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Friday, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble refused the request to get involved. “I’m not standing between you and Congress," Gamble said. ALSO IN THE NEWS: Anne Heche ‘expected to live’ after suffering severe burns in car crash: report Related video: Alex Jones rocked in court by surprise evidence from his own phone Play Video Alex Jones rocked in court by surprise evidence from his own phone Unmute View on Watch "That is not my job," she said. "I’m not going to do that.” Mark Bankston, the attorney for Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, used the contents of Jones' phone to successfully impeach the InfoWars host for lying. When Jones' lawyer called for a mistrial, Bankston revealed that the 2.3 gigabytes of information include every text Jones sent in the past two years, including intimate messages to Roger Stone. |
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Us old fuckers who have had small pox vaccination are probably ok.The rest of you are on your own. Since some of you dont believe in vaccination, sucks to be you |
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Chernobyl part 2
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/europ...hnk/index.html
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What did they expect from Putin? He is merely a thug. America is fighting a proxy war with Russia. Its not about supporting Ukraine, its about power. Always has been, always will be.
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Giant squid
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...8683126833c8f5
Cool picture in the article. We’re gonna need a bigger boat |
Ivermectin among generic drugs that failed to help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitaliz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...13df49e17cdfa9
Apparently, if it wasnt designed to work on a virus, it didnt work. |
House panel details Trump pressure on FDA for discredited COVID treatment, vaccines
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...4de947bb576b40 Top Trump administration officials pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reauthorize the discredited COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine, and to speed up the release of the first COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new report Democrats on the House select coronavirus subcommittee released Wednesday. Emails, text messages and testimony obtained by the committee show the Trump White House “exerted extreme and inappropriate pressure” on the FDA to reauthorize hydroxychloroquine even after it was shown to be ineffective and potentially dangerous. The report found administration officials like trade adviser Peter Navarro enlisted outside allies like Fox News host Laura Ingraham and daytime TV talk show host Mehmet Oz — now the GOP nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania — to amplify pressure on the FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine, a drug normally used to treat malaria and lupus, as a COVID-19 treatment. Hydroxychloroquine has been heavily promoted as a treatment for the virus by Trump allies despite almost no evidence. Navarro and Steven Hatfill, an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington University brought on by Navarro as an adviser to the coronavirus response, led coordinated attacks on FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci and other health officials who refused to support hydroxychloroquine. “Newly released evidence shows that Dr. Hatfill and Mr. Navarro used their direct access to top public health officials in an attempt to strongarm them into supporting hydroxychloroquine,” the report stated. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine in late March 2020, but then revoked it less than three months later. The report also details how the Trump administration influenced the FDA to deliver misleadingly positive news about convalescent plasma as a coronavirus treatment on the eve of the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) and White House attempts to block the FDA from collecting additional safety data on the first coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to ensure that it could be authorized before the 2020 presidential election. Trump later attacked Hahn, without evidence, for deliberately slowing down the authorizations of the vaccine and convalescent plasma because of politics. “The Select Subcommittee’s findings that Trump White House officials deliberately and repeatedly sought to bend FDA’s scientific work on coronavirus treatments and vaccines to the White House’s political will are yet another example of how the prior Administration prioritized politics over public health,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the panel’s chair, said in a statement. The efforts by members of the Trump administration, including the former president, to meddle with public health agencies has been well documented. However, the report offers new levels of detail on the pressures put on the FDA in 2020. Clyburn noted the Trump administration’s attacks on public health officials helped contribute to a politicization of science, and reduced the public’s trust in the government. “These assaults on our nation’s public health institutions undermined the nation’s coronavirus response—and are precisely why we must never again settle for leaders who prioritize politics over keeping Americans safe,” Clyburn said. In testimony before committee staff, Hahn said he felt pressure because of Navarro’s “persistence” in insisting that hydroxychloroquine worked and should be reauthorized, despite strong evidence to the contrary. “We took a different stance at the FDA,” Hahn said. “So that disagreement, which of course ultimately became somewhat public, was a source of pressure.” In an emailed statement, Navarro said the select subcommittee was “wrongly” perpetuating that hydroxychloroquine “was somehow dangerous.” Navarro also cited excerpts from his memoir that chronicled his clashes with what he described as the “never-Trump FDA.” The subcommittee report also details how the FDA wanted to advise vaccine manufacturers that the FDA wanted 60 days worth of follow-up patient safety data before applications for emergency use authorization were filed. That request would mean authorization wouldn’t occur until after the November 2020 election. Trump had repeatedly said the shots would be authorized before Election Day, despite experts and agency scientists signaling it was unlikely. Hahn told the committee the agency faced “pushback about the issue” from multiple officials, including Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Meadows said the White House wouldn’t sign off on the guidance, because of the 60-day requirement. The agency eventually circumvented the White House by quietly publishing the 60-day data request as part of a larger set of background documents for industry. Meadows later that day told Hahn the White House had cleared the release of the guidance. Trump later attacked the FDA on Twitter. “New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job!” Trump wrote, tagging Hahn. |
US life expectancy lowest in decades
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When I was in health class in 10th grade in the Spring of 1981, Mr. Racicot told us that Americans were the fattest people in the world ...... 41 years later, Americans may or may not be THE fattest people in the world, but they are certainly up there near the top of the list. I'm a strong advocate for National Health-Care, like they have in Canada and Great Britain ...... but all of the health-care in the world won't help if people don't exercise enough and have bad diets. o |
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So how do you fix a space probe 14 billion miles from Earth?
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One year of any administration cant account for this drop. As I posted above, every smoker kicking the habit and increase the number of people getting a flu shot and the numbers go up. BTW, cut back on booze and we would all be better off. Wow, I just noticed my ice cubes are a little dry, so to quote a movie, “Jobu needs a refill” |
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