[FOX] A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocation of those two antibody treatments last Thursday amid the rise of omicron, which the CDC had said days earlier was responsible for 73.2% of all new cases.
But the CDC backtracked on that alarming estimate this week, revising it down to just 22.5% for the week ending Dec. 18, more than a 50-point drop.
The delta variant, which Regeneron and Eli Lilly's treatments are effective against, was actually responsible for 77% of all new cases when the federal government stopped distributing those antibody drugs.
Now, one doctor says the government's massive miscalculation cost lives.
"I am as angry as I possibly can be about this," Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the medical director and CEO of FirstCall Medical Center in Gambrills, Maryland, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
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It is untrue that the discontinued monoclonal antibodies are not effective. Some have found they are less effective but not without some effect. In addition, individual patients with positive RT-PCR tests and their prescribers have no way of knowing what variant they have -- the tests aren't set up that way. So the gubmint decides to shoot in the dark and take all of the less than perfect meds out of the pipeline despite these unknowns. Beyond stupid...
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F--king liars. Now they're claiming “vaccines were never supposed to stop spread, just reduce severity.”
This is after these lying assholes promised for MONTHS that the vaccines would absolutely positively stop spread, contagion, and provide herd immunity. They even doubled down on this claim by even changing the very definition of “herd immunity” to exclude natural immunity.
A sample of their f--king lies over the past year:
1. CDC head Walensky, March 29: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick and that it's not just in the clinical trials data but also in the real world data."
2. Fauci , May 15: "Vaccinated people become dead ends for the virus and cannot spread it”
3. Fauci, May 20: "If 70% of Americans get vaccinated we can avoid a Fall surge."
4. Biden, July 2021 town hall: "You're not going to get Covid if you get vaccinated."
And now the Dwarf is lying about what he and his minions repeated all year:
Fauci today Dec. 29 in CNBC:
TV Host: "Do you feel there was a communication error?" Fauci: " well I think it was the question of what people interpreted..."
If they're not lying then they're just bloody incompetent f--ks at a minimum. Either way, they clearly don't know what the hell they're doing and are just making sh!t up as they go along.
[NATION.PK] At this moment, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime in Afghanistan is acting (or at least trying) as a counter insurgency force. Though not in swathes, but whatever the presence of IS-K is in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Kunar, it has kept the Taliban on its toes ever since they took Kabul. Furthermore, there is an imminent humanitarian crisis on the horizon because of the uncertainty prevailing around the status of Taliban government and subsequent diplomatic relations with the world. While the west and other countries are reluctant for obvious reasons, Taliban and Pakistain are pushing for international recognition as a solution for regional and global security. However,
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There is a strong likelihood of a massive spillover of fighters to IS-K if Taliban secure loans from international lenders or even states on a certain interest rate. IS-K has accused the Taliban regime of betraying the religion in letter and spirit and this could be a really big nail in the coffin of the group, if not the final.
The assumption here is that these people really believe what they preach. Maybe jihadism is just a horse each player is riding to temporal power. They'll use Islamic rhetoric against their enemies within and without, but flout these principles if that's what it takes to hang on to power.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] The film "Granite" was released about the trip of "tourists" to Mozambique in 2019, where they trained and supported local security forces in the fight against ISIS terrorists in the northern regions of Mozambique. The film continues the general line of propagation of influence of Russian contractors in African countries in the period after the start of operations in Syria in 2015, which actually opened the door for Russia to Africa. The word tourists in quotes is a reference to the film Tourist, which is the call sign of the main character SIGN OF THE TIMES.
If in Soviet times wars and conflicts in distant Africa (for example, in Angola) remained either unknown or little known to a wide range of citizens, then in the modern realities of universal informatization, many things become public knowledge very quickly. So it is with the events in Mozambique in the film "Granite". In fact, the active events that are going to be shown in the film took place there in 2019. And already in 2021, a feature film based on the theme will be released.
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Saw "Don't Look Up" on Netflix.
Two academic astronomers from Michigan State discover a world killer comet. They quickly also discover that the people and institutions which should be alarmed and responsive to an ELE are so jaded with information overload and interpersonal value inspection that few can be bothered.
Good performances by Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, actors whose work I seldom track and often choose to avoid.
One of the many beefs Russia has with the current government of Ukraine is this incident in May of 2014. Commentary from the video site:
May 2, 2014 people of Ukrainian Odessa were trapped in a building and set on fire. Because they protested against new nationalist government that came to power in Kiev as a result of a coup d'état. Officially, 42 were announced dead, including 7 women and 1 minor. No one has been held responsible for this massacre. Alexander, one of the few survivors, shares his memories of what really happened and new battles he has to fight in the aftermath.
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Look at the photos including the photo of the burned, still-alive man who managed to escape the building these monsters set on fire -- and was hacked and mutilated in the street by these animals.
This is Mogadishu North. Savages fighting over a shithole pseudo-nation.
For once we need to stop pretending we have any vital interest in nation-building and have the good sense to stay the f--k out
From everything I have read from Russia, Memorial wore its welcome thin. They started going off mission.
[RFERL] A Moscow court has ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Center, one day after another court shut down the group's main parent organization, capping a year of administrative moves by the state to throttle civil society across the country.
The widely expected ruling on December 29 by the Moscow City Court was based on the finding that the organization had violated the country’s draconian "foreign agent" law, which has been used with growing frequency against rights groups, journalists, lawyers, civil society activists, and others.
Among other things, the law requires organizations deemed to be "foreign agents" to include an intrusive label on everything they publish or broadcast.
Outside the court building, a crowd of several dozen stood in freezing temperatures chanting "Shame! Shame!" after the ruling was announced. Read the rest at the link
And now, apparently, it is necessary to wait another 8 years so that Memorial is not closed.
In general, if you think about it, some international body located on the territory of a military-political bloc pursuing an aggressively hostile policy against the Russian Federation requires the Russian Federation to obey its decisions in matters of the internal policy of the Russian Federation.
De facto, these are echoes of external political dependence, rooted in the 90s and which have not yet been completely eliminated. Hence, such impudent demands, as if now are 2001 or 2011, and not 2021, when there are practically no special illusions left in the relations between the intentions of the United States and its European satellites regarding the Russian Federation.
So this demand, of course, is not a reason to cancel the liquidation of Memorial, but rather a reason to think about the current format of relations with the ECHR.
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Very odd ... the original group had a Russian name: Памать, or [To] Remember, and its focus was 100% historical. IIRC the goal was to raise public awareness of, and rescue from the Soviet memory-hole, documented human rights abuses of the Soviet system.
How and when did this morph from an uncontroversial, purely historical, Russian-directed effort to something focused on contemporary partisan political activism under a transliterated English name ("Memorial")?
Was this something cooked up by that idiot McFaul and the other Soetoro morons?
How did they think Russians would react to a heavy-handed foreign-supported openly partisan political effort on Russian home soil?
Did they even bother to think of how they'd react if Russia and China began supporting election monitors in the US and trailing cops around our urban shitholes in order to document "human rights abuses"?
Perhaps I'm missing something or have this wrong, but this reeks of Obama-ist ham-handed human rights bullshit and interference in Russia.
[Townhall] Despite President Biden's assurances to the contrary, inflationary pressure is apparently here to stay as his administration looks toward the start of his second year in office and may hope for some relief from the negative "Democrats in disarray" narrative swirling around the White House.
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However badly Biden may want the economy to improve, Americans surely wish so more fervently. With the most expensive Thanksgiving and Christmas in memory in the rear-view mirror, there are unfortunately more price hikes to come as manufacturers and producers pass the costs of lasting inflation on to consumers. As The Wall Street Journal announced, "Everything from coffee to mustard is getting more expensive next year."
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This will the the third time the Fed has presided over a depression (that was no Great Recession). Time well past the termination of the Fed which was suppose to oversee the end to 19th Century "crashes". Instead it fuels them.
[NYPOST] You can’t blame Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... for the COVID pandemic any more than you can blame Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... , yet when it comes to fighting the virus, the current prez seems to be doing more wrong things than right — and then spinning facts to deflect criticism.Perhaps that explains some of the recent chaos across the nation, particularly among people trying to get tested for the virus.
On Monday, for example, Biden simply denied a report No, no! Certainly not! that his team rejected a plan in October to produce 732 million free, at-home COVID-19 test kits by Christmas. If true, that now seems like a mistake.
According to the Vanity Fair report, the White House told the experts who’d developed the plan that it wouldn’t adopt it. One expert, Dr. Steven Phillips, accused Team Biden of "playing small ball."
The White House’s claim that it didn’t reject the plan was downright lame: "The characterization of ’rejection’ is not an accurate reflection of a productive meeting, and, in fact, we are implementing many measures that were discussed as capacity now allows us to do," a spokesperson said. Plus, for the past few weeks, Biden has been expressing regret for not acting more quickly to make tests more widely available.
Then, just last week, he announced his own plan to make almost as many tests, 500 million, available (that may yet prove insufficient).
So which is it: Did Team Biden merely nix a plan in October and then regret it? Or did it also fib about what it failed to do back then, too?
At the same time, the White House has been active when it shouldn’t be, as when the president issued a federal vaccine mandate for private-sector workers — even though he now says "there’s no federal solution; this gets solved at the state level."
That statement, incidentally, and the current chaos stand out because Biden and fellow Democrats unfairly blamed so much of last year’s COVID deaths on Trump, as if there were a "federal solution" back then. And also because there’ve been more COVID deaths under Biden than Trump, even though Biden vowed to "shut down the virus."
The irony is that the latest COVID "crisis" is now as much the result of hysteria (which Team Biden has only fueled) as anything else. Yes, the number of positive test cases is surging, as the latest variant, Omicron, appears to be more transmissible and so many more people are getting tested.
But daily COVID hospitalizations and deaths are nowhere near what they were a year ago. Vaccines and treatments have made an enormous difference.
Bottom line: Team Biden’s hype, incompetence, hypocrisy and downright lies aren’t instilling confidence. The president and his staff need to take a breath and figure out a calmer, saner course.
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They compared OrangeMan to Nero, but Magoo's more like a doddering version of Caligula. Twisted and demented and completely incompetent.
[BBC] In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle.
Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties. A thousand years ago, the Mississippian settlement – on a site near the modern US city of St Louis, Missouri – was renowned for bashes that went on for days.
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if you live near DC or Balt or Phil or Pitts, it is a relatively short trip to see the Grave Creek Mound near Wheeling WV.
not as big as Cahokia but a tall structure that you can climb and get a view
also in the area is WV Prison and the New Vrindaband temple
nice in the spring and summer
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"I keep wondering 'Where were they trading? Who was making money?'," Newitz said. "The answer is they weren't were using Buck $kins, items brought for the feast, general labor to cover the mounds in dirt, etc. (tribal socialism).
You need a revision Annalee Newitz (Timothy Pauketat) in their (?) recent book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age consider that common theme for a 2nd edition ---- or not, really up to you.
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.
[FOX] A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time.
[Townhall] Despite President Biden's assurances to the contrary, inflationary pressure is apparently here to stay as his administration looks toward the start of his second year in office and may hope for some relief from the negative "Democrats in disarray" narrative swirling around the White House.
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...
