[TheReload] The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.
The lobbying campaign spanned months and culminated with a private meeting between CDC officials and three advocates last summer, a collection of emails obtained by The Reload show. Introductions from the White House and Senator Dick Durbin’s (D., Ill.) office helped the advocates reach top officials at the agency after their initial attempt to reach out went unanswered. The advocates focused their complaints on the CDC’s description of its review of studies that estimated defensive gun uses (DGU) happen between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year in the United States–attacking criminologist Gary Kleck’s work establishing the top end of the range.
“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees, wrote to CDC officials after their meeting. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”
Bryant, who runs the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), argued Kleck’s estimate has been damaging to the political prospects of passing new gun restrictions and should be eliminated from the CDC’s website.
“And while that very small study by Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing,” he wrote in the same email. “Put simply, in the time that study has been published as ‘a CDC Study’ gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided.”
Despite initially standing behind the description in the defensive gun use section of its “fast facts” website on gun violence, the CDC backtracked after a previously-undisclosed virtual meeting with the advocates on September 15th, 2021.
“We are planning to update the fact sheet in early 2022 after the release of some new data,” Beth Reimels, Associate Director for Policy, Partnerships, and Strategic Communication at the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention, said in one email to the three advocates on December 10th. “We will also make some edits to the content we discussed that I think will address the concerns you and other partners have raised.”
The CDC did not respond to a request for comment on the decision, but none of the emails the agency released related to it did not show any attempts to obtain other outside points of view either before or after the meeting with the gun-control advocates. Hannah Bristol of the White House Office of Public Engagement did not respond to a request for comment on her role in the discussions beyond what the emails reveal. Emily Hampsten, Senator Durbin’s Communications Director, told The Reload their office’s only involvement was “simply connecting” “stakeholder organizations” with a federal agency as part of the “basic function of our work.”
The decision to remove a CDC-commissioned report from the agency’s website on gun statistics at the apparent behest of gun-control advocates may further strain its relationship with Congressional overseers, especially pro-gun Republicans who are set to take control of the House next year. The relationship between the two, already frayed over the Coronavirus pandemic, could reach new lows not seen in decades. During the 1990s, Congress put restrictions on CDC funding in response to officials openly working with gun-control groups to try and ban handguns.
“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes,” Mark Rosenberg, director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention, told The Washington Post in 1994. “It used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol–cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly–and banned.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Because that's worked so well for the American Indians?
The chair of California's reparations committee has hit out at reports that the group is planning to give out $225,000 to every black person in the state
Kamilah V. Moore said that the money is the 'maximum' and only applies to people who suffered housing discrimination between 1933 and 1977
The committee deciding which California residents will receive reparations and how much they will receive will have final meetings Wednesday and Thursday
A task force was set up in California to make proposals for slavery reparations
Nearly 6.5% of California residents - 2.5M - identify as Black or African American
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Come on, who imagined that a state which never had slavery would take money from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who never were slaves without a new, huge bureaucracy. Did I mention well (exorbitantly) funded?
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^ By that logic, everyone living today is entitled to "reparations" because they have ancestors who worked for less.
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More than likely we have all had ancestors who were slaves. The Romans, muslims , vikings etc really didn't give a damn what race you were when conquering and taking slaves.
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My ancestors wore blue 160 years ago...and would assert that the blood debt was paid by their last full measure of devotion.
The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well. pic.twitter.com/hOoeyI70jj
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Lost readers here as well. People are not reading online also. News is so negative people are avoiding negative media. USA sells better here in my area 2-1 better on average. Young people only viewing social media or gaming.
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Most people do news ala cart from trusted news sources online. There is probably a trend away from getting news via Facebook and YouTube, as well. Everybody saw the herding of viewpoints during Covid. A substantial percentage of Americans won’t put up with being herded. The remaining herd continues to dwindle, because fascist whining is boring and annoying to sane individuals. Also Americans have an inmate understanding that herd members are on the menu with regard to exploitation. Eventually, the herd will just consist of vociferating B-D list celebrities.
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The "choir" they preach to is shrinking with age. Kids may be as gullible and left-indoctrinated, but they get all their affirmation of the untruths they live by from their social contacts and social media. They are not buying WaPo or NYT and they are not tuning in cable news.
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I'd wager a lifestyle product would get a much better ROI, cost and audience reached, with a slate of current influencers than something like post whose business models seems to be attract views with the same stories everyone else is putting out.
Remember when Team Brandon wanted to sell, really wanted to sell especially among the young, that WW111 over Ukraine is a Happy Joy position, they went to the modern day door-to-door sales approach of influencers.
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THEY LOST 500,000 SUBSCRIBERS?
Out of how many? I think most newspapers don't even have that many subscribers, let alone being able to lose that many and stay in business. Is this the end of WaPo? That'd be the best news I've heard all year! Now if we could just get people to stop watching CBS...
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Out of 2.5M, supposedly, so 20%
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Well, it's a start.
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To lose a thousand subscribers is a tragedy, to lose half a million is just carelessness. Where did you have them last?
Well, this is what happens when you’re a bunch of scumbag liars.
You can ask CNN about that.
Did the Washington Post honestly believe it could do this…
Russia Collusion Hoax
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
Jussie Smollett Hoax
Covington KKKids Hoax
Very Fine People Hoax
Seven-Hour Gap Hoax
Global Warming Hoax
Russian Bounties Hoax
Trump Trashes Troops Hoax
Policemen Killed at Mostly-Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
Rittenhouse Hoax
Eating While Black Hoax
Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
NASCAR Noose Hoax
The Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax
Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax
Frame MAGA for Alleged Paul Pelosi Assault Narrative
…and hold onto its customers?
After a while, even leftists get tired of paying for lies.
You can ask CNN+ about that.
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I suggested they might try "Practicing *actual* Journalism"
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Youtube channels have more subscribers than the Washington Post.
From those pieces of shit who heard when we were getting laid off, laughed and told us "learn to code." The world was changing and it was our job to retrain and learn new skills.
Then their jobs were threatened by new technology, and when we told them "learn to code" Twitter banned us for hate speech.
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lon Musk revealed Wednesday night that he is taking “legal action” against the teenager who runs a since-suspended Twitter account tracking the billionaire’s jet flights.
The Twitter CEO made the announcement after implying the jet-tracking account operated by Jack Sweeney, a University of Central Florida freshman, was to blame for a Tuesday stalking incident where somebody followed Musk’s family.
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Just looking at their history of violent crimes and deeds. It is abundantly clear that Anti-FA uses the same violent tactics as the 1932 - 1945 Nazi's to attack and violently silence people they oppose.
Nationwide, they have caused $$ Millions in Private & Public property damages and seriously injured elderly citizens and 100's of others.
Using the LSD applied definition for MAGA. ANTI-FA are Domestic Terrorists, not peaceful protesters.
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For a South African with going to Mars technical chops you'd think he'd have better defenses when it comes to car jacking like scenarios involving himself or his family.
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The antifa person who jumped on Elon's son's car is a different person than the Planefag. Planefag isnt stalking Elon or his kids. This is silly, and harassment. Transponder info is public info - tracking planes is a hobby for some autists.
Knock me over with a feather!
[Zero Hedge] - A recount of votes in a Massachusetts state House of Representatives race has placed a Democratic challenger ahead of a Republican incumbent by a single vote after the latter was initially leading following the Nov. 8 elections.
Democrat Kristin Kassner, a first-time candidate, is now leading her Republican opponent Lenny Mirra in the race for the newly redrawn North Shore district, a coastal region between Boston and New Hampshire.
Prior to the recount, Mirra, a five-term Republican, had led Kassner by 10 votes out of the 24,155 votes that were cast across the district, according to the original certified results from Election Day.
However, the 10-vote margin is within the legal threshold that allows for a recount, and Kassner later submitted a petition asking for a district-wide recount of the Nov. 8 election.
Secretary of State Bill Galvin agreed to the hand recount, which was ordered on Nov. 30, as well as another in the First Middlesex District race.
After officials recounted the votes on Dec. 8, the results flipped to put Kassner up 11,763 votes to Mirra’s 11,762.
Kassner picked up a total of 19 additional votes, including 10 in Ipswich, four in Rowley, three in Topsfield, one vote in Newbury, and one vote in Georgetown, according to data provided by Galvin’s office (pdf). Mirra, meanwhile, added five votes in Ipswich, three in Topsfield, and one in Newbury.
The Republican candidate also lost a single vote in Rowley, according to the data.
Mirra told The Boston Globe that he plans to challenge the results.
Vote moves forward after being approved by a House committee Wednesday
It will decide whether PR becomes a state, independent nation, or sovereignty
It is unlikely to go anywhere as it must survive a House and Senate vote by Jan 3
WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? HOW PUERTO RICO COULD BECOME A US STATE
-The Puerto Rico Status Act was passed through a House of Representatives committee, and is now going to a full House vote on Thursday.
-The bill needs to receive majority approval from the house, then it will be passed on to the Senate.
-The bill needs to receive 60 votes in the Senate to pass.
-If it passes the Senate, the bill needs the signature of President Biden.
-Once the president inked the bill, a vote would be organized in which the people of Puerto Rico would be polled on what they wanted: their island to join the U.S. as a state, whether they would become their own sovereign nation, or choose sovereignty with free association with the United States.
-The latter option would establish Puerto Rico as its own nation, but would accept social services and funding from the U.S. in return for the U.S. being able to establish military bases there and citizens to come and go freely.
-If the vote does not make it through the Senate by January 3, when a new House and Senate are sworn in, the process will have to start again,
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Wasn't the English language requirement an issue?
They should go independent but they haven't been able to elect not corrupt leaders for a century and counting.
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-The latter option would establish Puerto Rico as its own nation, but would accept social services and funding from the U.S. in return for the U.S. being able to establish military bases there and citizens to come and go freely.
....Oh, no no no no no. You want to be independent, then you're independent. And not. A. DIME.
[GAZETTEXTRA] In a brief interview Monday evening, Feinstein said she was committed and looking forward to finishing this term.
"Yes. Absolutely," she said. "There's still two years, you know. A lot can happen in two years." "I've been promised a new Chinese-speaking personal assistant/driver"
Feinstein added that a decision on whether she will run again in 2024 will come "probably by spring." Riding the tiger?
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There is not enough cognition left for Bingo, why not stay on in the Senate until nature takes its course? We would be paying her in retirement anyway. This will also save on the logistics of having her lay in state. Just keep the coffin handy and you can box her where she falls.
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Her staff wants her in place as long as possible, to continue the various side-deals, influence peddling, ego-tripping merry-go-round that is Washington at its' finest. She and Fetterman can start their own Senate Committee, The Subcommittee on Shameless Use of Brain-Damaged Politicians.
[DailyWire] After a sarcastic phone exchange with then-Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked her daughter, a documentarian who was filming her, a rhetorical question that would likely elicit strong responses from conservatives. If you have to ask, well, you probably are (imo).
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I am told that there are two versions of the N word, a good one and a bad one. That is confusing to me. If there are two versions of the B word, she is definitely the bad one.
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I'll go with cunt, she gives bitches a bad name.
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It is rhetorical because everyone knows the answer.
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I'd settle for evil witch. No need to insult dogs. I would say reptile but I guess there's no need to insult snakes either. Oh wait, now I'm gonna get Wiccans after me. OK. How about just plain evil?
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Garbage Human
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A lot of people seem to think so, Nan.
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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.
[TheReload] The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.
