[FOX via WND] The suspect behind the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville has been identified as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, authorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday.
Police said Warner owned the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville early Friday, and that he died in the blast.
Human tissue was found amongst the debris left behind by the explosion, and DNA examinations of tissue samples by The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and FBI were found to be consistent with Warner. In addition, the Tennessee Highway Patrol uncovered a vehicle identification number from the remains of the RV, which revealed it was registered to Warner.
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Its 2020 Everybody dies of COVID no matter what the circumstances.
Prepair for Covid mutant strain 501.V2 found in South Africa the strain was detected in the country and contains a higher viral load and also, perhaps more worryingly, seems to impact young people more seriously.
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I'm sure a Netflix version will be out before year end. With an all black G-man/woman/thingy squad investigating how age and whiteness cause these things.
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Cancer, depression, junk-science and paranoia make a pretty destructive combination I guess. I’m betting the media let’s this one wobble to a quiet, ignored end if they can’t blame it on Trump or Conservatives. Right now the guy seems to have been apolitical.
I guess the liberalpress can always go after toxic masculinity since he is male, and since he had an ex girlfriend cited, that means he is “cis- heterosexual” and of course he was white.
That was a laundry list of terms... The left sure has a lot of labels and classifications they use for determining how a person is treated. Frighteningly reminiscent of the Third Reich isn’t it?
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The oligarch-press nexus is quietly happy that one of the legacy spectrum-owners was targeted. Conversely if the target had been Amazon or one of Googoo's data centers, our prostitute media and Big Tech would be all over it.
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Lack of discussion about the explosives is, indeed, curious.
package.
I don't know what it is, but something about this incident makes me twitchy - that feeling there is something we are not seeing here. Everything is just wrapped up into a nice tidy package. Move along, nothing to see here.
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First house given to the LA lady a year ago.
Second house this summer.
RV a month ago.
RV was white and no pin striping
RV that blew up was yellow with pin striping
Odds on him being dead and on ice for a few months or a year?
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I heard he was the first NON BINARY to get covid from AFRICA and the CIA and MILITARY were just doing another biological weapon test! OPERATION RV AEROSOL FRUITCAKE WITH NUTS!
LA lady (Michelle L. Swing, 29) then signed the first house over to bomber’s mother, Betty Christine Lane, the ex-wife of the bomber’s father. The mother had been living in the house all along. She had sued the bomber for self dealing by disposing of the thing without her agreement after his brother died without a will, and only dropped the suit after LA lady gave it to her. Ms Lane is still living in the first house.
My take is that he signed the second house over to the Ms Swing in the hope that this time she would accept the valuable gift.
Odds on him being dead and on ice for a few months or a year?
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Looks to me like a homemade fuel air bomb made from propane filling the camper shell then detonating. A propane bottle with detonator rolled into a house in Fallujah would take the roof off.
And an obvious question never asked on the ATT data center was what’ was going on there? 3 days and the case is solved, and the media is lapping it all up like a dog’s breakfast. Give me a break.
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Sure seems like an FAE.
In early reports, there was mention of a rapid series of gunshots before the whole mess jumped off. I have not seen any further discussion of this.
Bong-addled Speculation: This was an operation against AT&T (or Solar Winds who is also in the neighborhood). The perp is a state-level actor, either a foreign govt or a faction within our own Intel Community. Warner is just a patsy. Motive: AT&T or Solarwinds was engaged in surveillance and espionage, presumably on behalf of some part of the US FedGov, maybe for someone else.
AT&T can't even associate a bill to a household correctly... let alone engage in sophisticated espionage
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mention of a rapid series of gunshots before the whole mess jumped off.
I’ve seen speculation that thr gunshots were also a recording, played to wake people up so they’d be able to oay attention to the announcement. Because there weren’t any reports of people actually shot or physical evidence of a shooting.
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AT&T can't even associate a bill to a household correctly.
Heh. I am certainly not attributing superpowers to them. But they do get to look at everyone's traffic. Hey, maybe all the smart guys are up to nefarious stuff and their IT Dept is staffed with affirmative action hires.
speculation that the gunshots were also a recording, played to wake people up
That was my guess. No bodies except possibly (cue reverb) Mr Warner himself... and he is not available at the moment, what with being blown to flinders and all. Presumably.
[AOL] Alec Baldwin is sharing his two cents. Hours after his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, addressed questions posed by some on social media about her background and heritage, the 30 Rock alum took to Instagram to express his thoughts.
While Alec didn't overtly address the drama regarding allegations that his wife has misrepresented her cultural background and identity, he did slam both Twitter trolls and tabloids, asking fans to "consider the source" when evaluating a news story.
"We live in a world where we're hidden behind the anonymity of social media, and people feel they can say anything," Alec, 62, said in video shared to Instagram on Sunday afternoon. "They want to spray it all over you and spit it all over you, their venom and their hate."
Alec explained that he was motivated to share a video because, "There are things that have been said lately about people that I love, that I care about deeply, which are just ridiculous."
Alec didn't refer to Hilaria by name, although it appears he's responding to posts from a journalist on social media -- and several outlets who have followed in a similar path -- calling into question Hilaria's alleged claims of her Spanish heritage.
The series of posts included clips in which Hilaria, 36, appears to speak with a prominent Spanish accent, juxtaposed against clips in which she appears to have no noticeable accent. The posts also delve into both of Hilaria's parents' backgrounds, which seem to indicate that both her parents have American ancestry.
"I would say the majority of what's been said... is false. It's so spectacularly false. And they've said it about people I love, false things," Alec said in his lengthy video message, later adding, "When you love somebody, you want to defend them."
Hilaria herself addressed the allegations in two separate videos she posted to Instagram on Sunday.
"I'm born in Boston, I then spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain... everybody is over there in Spain now and I'm over here. So there was a lot of back and forth my entire life," Hilaria shared, adding that she "grew up speaking two languages."
Regarding the videos in which she appears to have a thicker accent, Hilaria said she speaks both English and Spanish, however, "If I'm speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them... If I start to get nervous or upset, I start to mix the two. And this is something I've always been a little insecure about."
Addressing those who have claimed she's lied about her ethnicity, and that she is actually white, Hilaria responded, "Yes, I am a white girl. And let's be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there, and my family is white. Ethnically, I'm a mix of many, many, many things, and culturally, I grew up with the two cultures. It really is simple as that."
"Ultimately this boils down to this idea where this is a country of a lot of different cultures and I think we can be different parts of ourselves with lots of different people," she stated.
[NYP] Some COVID-19 survivors claim the virus has wreaked havoc on their sense of scent — leaving them smelling "disgusting" odors such as fish and burnt toast.
Dr. Nirmal Kumar, an ear, nose and throat surgeon in the UK, said the "very strange" phenomenon among recovered virus patients is known as parosmia, Sky News reported.
"This morning I saw two patients with parosmia. One said they could smell fish in place of any other scent, and the other can smell burning when there is no smoke around," Kumar said.
Kumar said he’s observed strange symptom at an "increased incidence in young people and also in healthcare workers because of exposure to the virus in hospitals."
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in the US, severe allergic reactions to the vaccine have been quite uncommon, no more than one in 500 I think I heard
not sure what the rate is in Europe or how they define an allergic reaction
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Does this fit leftist US politicians' continual maundering that the US should be "more like Europe?"
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Well to be honest, for younger people, there's a low, short term and quantifiable risk from COVID and an unquantifiable long term risk from the vaccine.
You don't exactly have to be good at maths to work out this is one to skip if you're under 55.
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1. About 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 1,000,000 vaccinations of all kinds (flu, tetanus, hepatitis) result in a immediate severe anaphylactic shock. That is why you should wait a few minutes before leaving the vaccination room. Usually it is because the person vaccinated has a pre existing allergy (e.g., to eggs).
2. About 1 in 20 to 1 in 10,000 vaccinations of all kind result in a mild delayed reaction of various kinds (low fever, weakness, hives). These go away by themselves.
3. In the phase III trials that Pfizer and Moderna conducted, people with known severe allergies were, I think, not enrolled in the trials.
4. There is a large grey area between people with known severe allergies and people who are becoming allergic or have underlying allergies that haven't manifested yet or haven't manifested in many years. It's one of the unfortunate gaps in knowledge.
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Crazy old video with a great song. One of my New Years resolutions is to learn how to embed this stuff...
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Seems like your path to learning 'Embedment Nirvana' is on the right track, MM.
Thank you.
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One of the mods did the embed, but I'm working on figuring it out.
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MM You are doing a good job trying to learn "code", and your subject matter is "unique". Sugarloaf was a good band in its day, a hat tip for you on that one. I have remained with your chosen group, but have changed your "artistic subject matter" to "Ladies of the Day". ;-) Delightful.
‘Twas I. And very proud to have climbed this far up the learning curve, too, thanks to coaching from a few of Rantburg’s skilled denizens. :-)
To embed a YouTube video:
Go to the video’s YouTube page. Starting from here, you get there by clicking on the article headline.
Immediately below the video you’ll see an up thumb, a down thumb, and then an arrow swooping left labelled Share.
Clicking on the arrow will yield a pop-up window whose first icon is labelled Embed.
Click on the circle over Embed to get a new pop up window that contains a block of code, below which in the very bottom right corner is written COPY.
Click on Copy, and suddenly in the bottom left corner of the main screen you will be informed that Link copied to clipboard.
Now you can paste the block of code containing the link in an article post or a comment.
Anyone practicing this skill is welcome to paste your attempts over in the O Club until you have mastered it, as chat room comments are not archived, and I do not believe posts there will slow Rantburg’s loading time.
Embedding a tweet is a similar exercise.
If you encounter the tweet outside of the Twitter environment — for example, in an article — click on the little blue bird in the top right corner of the thing to open a tab in Twitter.
In Twitter, click on the three grey dots in the top right corner of your desired tweet, which will give you a little pop up window offering you /> Embed Tweet Embed Tweet to get a new tab that should automatically scroll down to a square with a line of HTML in it, labelled Copy Code.
Click on that, and you’ll get s pop up with a check on a green background and the exclamation Copied!.
Once again, paste the block of code in an article post or comment.
And again, my dears, please practice in the O Club rather than here.
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TW, thank you for the tutorial. I have pasted it into a document where I keep HTML snippets and tips. I used to write a lot of dBase II / III but that was a long time ago and does nothing to make my 60+ year old brain understand HTML, but I learn where I can.
Again, much thanks.
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[Express] Update: In an official statement, the fire brigade confirmed there had been no fire today.
Instead, they revealed it had been smoke caused by a generator.
They said: "Firefighters were called to reports of smoke coming from some flats on Parliament Square in Westminster this morning.
"The smoke was caused by a generator starting up."
And thank goodness for that, after the Notre Dame in Paris lost an attic, if I recall correctly, because someone tossed a cigarette on a pile of oily rags.
[OANN] A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” her lawyer said.
Zhang Zhan, 37, the first such person known to have been tried, was among a handful of people whose firsthand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicentre than the official narrative.
Zhang’s lawyer Ren Quanniu told Reuters: “We will probably appeal,” adding that the trial at a court in Pudong, a district of the business hub of Shanghai, ended at 12.30 p.m.
“Ms Zhang believes she is being persecuted for exercising her freedom of speech,” he had said before the trial.
Critics say that China deliberately arranged for Zhang’s trial to take place during the Western holiday season so as to minimize Western attention and scrutiny.
“Beijing’s selection of the sleepy period between Christmas and New Year’s suggests even it is embarrassed to sentence citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison for having chronicled the uncensored version of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan,” tweeted Kenneth Roth, the Geneva-based executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Criticism of China’s early handling of the crisis has been censored, and whistle-blowers such as doctors warned. State media have credited the country’s success in reining in the virus to the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
The virus has spread worldwide to infect more than 80 million people and kill over 1.76 million, paralysing air travel as nations threw up barriers against it that have disrupted industries and livelihoods.
In Shanghai, police enforced tight security outside the court where the trial opened seven months after Zhang’s detention, although some supporters were undeterred.
A man in a wheelchair, who told Reuters he came from the central province of Henan to demonstrate support for Zhang as a fellow Christian, wrote her name on a poster before police arrived to escort him away.
A former lawyer, Zhang arrived in Wuhan on Feb. 1 from her home in Shanghai.
Her short video clips uploaded to YouTube consist of interviews with residents, commentary and footage of a crematorium, train stations, hospitals and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Detained in mid-May, she went on a hunger strike in late June, court documents seen by Reuters say. Her lawyers told the court that police strapped her hands and force-fed her with a tube. By December, she was suffering headaches, giddiness, stomach ache, low blood pressure and a throat infection.
Other citizen-journalists who had disappeared without explanation included Fang Bin, Chen Qiushi and Li Zehua.
While there has been no news of Fang, Li re-emerged in a YouTube video in April to say he was forcibly quarantined, while Chen, although released, is under surveillance and has not spoken publicly, a friend has said.
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It was that out litigate him for four years. I guess that's the difference between the US and China.
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A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist ...on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble"
That's the ticket. Coming soon to a woke neighborhood near you.
Note that this is a perfect description of how the Uniparty will suppress any and all stories or claims of electoral fraud: Picking quarrels! Provoking trouble!
Felonies both, punishable by multi-year prison terms. Plus 5- or 6-figure fines.
MILAN/TOKYO (Reuters) - Global shares rose and the dollar softened on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion spending package and as investors continued to celebrate a last-minute trade deal clinched between Britain and the European Union.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump has signed into law a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package aimed at restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a partial federal government shutdown.
President Trump released a statement announcing his decision to sign the relief bill in which he said, "I will never give up my fight for the American people":
As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus. I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work. Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act earlier this year, we avoided another Great Depression. Under my leadership, Project Warp Speed has been a tremendous success, my Administration and I developed a vaccine many years ahead of wildest expectations, and we are distributing these vaccines, and others soon coming, to millions of people. As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child. As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, "whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message" describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683. I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill. I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more. On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200. Additionally, Congress has promised that Section 230, which so unfairly benefits Big Tech at the expense of the American people, will be reviewed and either be terminated or substantially reformed. Likewise, the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election. The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and starts an investigation into voter fraud. Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230! Voter Fraud must be fixed! Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!
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I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.
Rest assured, Congress will be moving quickly to implement these requested changes.
That said, President Trump had no choice but to sign the damn thing.
Let’s look at the pros and cons:
CONS:
It’s crap legislation that won’t do what it’s supposed to do
It saddles our kids and grandkids with yet more unsustainable debt
Congress doesn’t care about the first two items because they used that debt to bribe one another into voting for it
The bill is a living testament to our broken and corrupt Congress, yet will be lauded by our broken and corrupt infotainment industry
We could go on, but won’t.
PROS:
Congress bought itself enough votes to override Trump’s veto, a veto Dems would bludgeon the GOP to death with in the Georgia runoff — and if they lose the Senate the Wuhan Flu relief bill will look cheap
And that’s it. That’s the only pro. But that one pro item is a trump card, if you’ll forgive the unintended pun.
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The brexit, referendums, Boris and his johnson... all are a facade for the subjects to swallow. A safety valve operation to give the people an illusion of democracy.
#5
It’s imperfect, but better than nothing. And much of the rest of Europe is ready to follow suit, as soon as they elect politicians willing to fight.
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We need new political structures.
Libel laws that can actually be enforced.
Anti-Monopoly laws that actually will be enforced.
Electoral districts that cannot be gamed and subverted by the Uniparty.
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's central bank on Thursday hiked its main interest rate to 17 percent in what economists greeted as a sign that the financially troubled country was embracing monetary orthodoxy once again.
The decision means that Turkey's policy rate has shot up by 6.75 percentage points in just a month -- a stark contrast to many countries' decisions to bring borrowing costs down to help revive economies badly hit by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
The sharp move higher follows two years in which it was held steady or lowered due to President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... 's unconventional belief that higher rates cause inflation.
That policy saw the Ottoman Turkish lira lose roughly a third of its value against the dollar as the central bank burned through its reserves in an effort to prop up the currency.
The accompanying rise in the annual inflation rate to above 10 percent forced Erdogan to reshuffle his economic team and appoint market-friendly former finance minister Naci Agbal as central bank chief last month.
The lira managed to claw back about 10 percent against the dollar after the change on market expectations that traditional monetary policy was returning to Turkey.
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So - the same as San Francisco in the late '70s.
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Trying to stimulate their International Bond Market, perhaps.
Won't help their general population at all, and will probably create greater hardships. Luckily all their Gulenists have been put away as the thought of (another) revolution springs to mind.
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What's that old saying , " when people miss food for three days in a row they tend to revolt. "
[Rudaw] Iraq is facing more electricity shortages as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... further reduces its gas export to Iraq to 3 million cubic meters (mcm) a day, according to a spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity.
"Iran will reduce its gas exports to three mcm as a result of the Iraqi side not paying the money they owe for buying gas," Ahmad Moussa told Iraqi state media on Sunday.
"This reduction will mainly affect Baghdad and central provinces," Moussa added.
The spokesperson also called on the Ministry of Finance to pay the money Iraq owes to Iran, and said the Iranian Minister of Energy will visit Iraq next Tuesday to discuss the issue with Baghdad officials.
Iran had initially reduced its daily gas exports to Iraq from around 40 mcm daily to 10 mcm.
"They said the weather has gotten cold in Iran, and we need more gas ourselves," Moussa told Rudaw earlier this month.
Iraq has long suffered from chronic outages and shortages of electricity. Rampant electricity shortages have in past years been a rallying call for protesters, most notably in the summer of 2018.
Iraq signed a two-year contract with Iran in June, renewing commitments to import Iranian gas for electricity, Iranian state media reported.
Iran previously exported 1200-1500 megawatts of electricity to Iraq on a daily basis, in addition to 38-40 million cubic meters of natural gas to feed several of Iraq’s power stations, according to Sayyid Hamid Hosseini, secretary general of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce.
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[OANN] Surgeon General Jerome Adams is calling attention to the history of medical racism across the U.S. amid the pandemic.
During an interview on Sunday, Adams said the issue needs to be addressed immediately in order to properly combat the ongoing coronavirus crisis within the black community. His comments came after alleged racist medical care led to the death of a black doctor in Indiana.
In a recent video, Dr. Susan Moore was allegedly begging for treatment in the hospital before she passed.
Adams said in order to combat the coronavirus in the black community, we need to acknowledge the past and make adjustments. According to a number of reports, communities of color in the U.S. have a greater chance of being impacted by the pandemic, primarily due to undiagnosed and untreated pre-existing conditions.
Adams also touted the work of a black female doctor who helped develop ‘Moderna’s’ COVID-19 vaccine. He commended the vaccine by saying, “We need to walk the talk,” citing his recent vaccination.
Adams said the reason he was vaccinated on live television was to show the public that he looked at the data from both his scientist and doctor perspective. The Surgeon General also praised the vaccine’s effectiveness and noted the trial groups were made up of diverse participants.
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we need to acknowledge the past and make adjustments... communities of color in the U.S. have a greater chance of being impacted by the pandemic... due to ... pre-existing conditions.
Did he actually just claim that black people are more susceptible because they're biologically inferior?
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I suspect — or hope, anyway — that he is spouting this PC nonsense in an attempt to overcome the higher resistance to getting the Covid vaccine in the Black community, rather than believing it himself.
I believe that statistically there is more and worse Covid among African-Americans, very likely a combination of lower serum levels of Vitamin D, higher rates of obesity and therefore diabetes and heart disease, higher incidence of asthma (which apparently leads to lower rates of contracting the disease, but worse outcomes for those who do contract it), higher density living quarters, and a higher proportion of the working population being unable to work from home, and finally for all sorts of reasons a delay in seeking and getting treatment until the disease has reached a dangerous point.
Accusations that he is nonetheless an Oreo in 3...2...1...
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he is spouting this PC nonsense in an attempt to overcome the higher resistance to getting the Covid vaccine in the Black community, rather than believing it himself
Exactly. This is precisely the expected behavior under the Woke Dispensation.
You have to signal assent, make gestures toward the holy pieties, genuflect and cross yourself 3x before stating any view that might be construed as conflicting with the narrative.
Invoke St Floyd's holy name.
Do penance and seek absolution for your sins.
Drop a Benjamin or two (or a million) in the BLM collection basket.
So this intelligent and competent doctor has to recall the Martyrs of Tuskegee before going on to point out that US blacks today are in the grip of racist and foolish superstitions -- like the ghetto myth that the CIA concocted AIDS in order to wipe out the black population
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYP] Some COVID-19 survivors claim the virus has wreaked havoc on their sense of scent — leaving them smelling "disgusting" odors such as fish and burnt toast.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
