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3 teens among 15 Iranians facing death penalty over killing of paramilitary officer
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-Great Cultural Revolution
FDA to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood without abstaining from sex ‐ reversing policy brought in during 1980s AIDS epidemic
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Gay or bi men are required not to have sex for three months before donating

  • But FDA plans to ease this rule for those who are in monogamous relationships

  • Campaigners welcomed the end of the 'discriminatory' rule today
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh boy! We can get AIDS-infected blood back into the blood supply again! Woo-hoo! #staywoke
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/01/2022 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice how Aids and Monkey pox have disappeared.
Posted by: Dale || 12/01/2022 3:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Do mRNA coronavirus vaccines contaminate the blood?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/01/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#4  If you are having surgery, donate your own blood for it ahead of time.
Posted by: Lowspark || 12/01/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, we have a new AIDS vaccine coming on-line soon, so everyone will get to take that.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  BTW, how did anyone enforce the previous 'requirement' to abstain for three months?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 Not as easy as you'd like it to be Lowspark.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/demand-for-untainted-blood-from-mrna-shot-increasing/
Posted by: Warthog || 12/01/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Why, its almost as if our country were being run by a cabal of its enemies...
Posted by: || 12/01/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Should be fine, but I will wear a condom during any future transfusions just to be safe.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2022 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Love how the future has gone from Science Fiction to Fiction Science.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2022 14:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Eventually, the only way to stop the mainstreaming of filth will be to eliminate the filth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2022 14:30 Comments || Top||

#12  testing blood for HIV has gotten more reliable, quicker and less expensive

when I give plasma, they take about 5 extra vials full of whole blood -- IIUC, these are for testing
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/01/2022 19:52 Comments || Top||

#13  "Testing blood for HIV is discriminatory"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2022 20:42 Comments || Top||


'It was a mistake': Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden's laptop story was a huge error - but claims it was because 'we did not know what was true'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said it was a mistake for the company to censor the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story

  • The story revealed Hunter's private life and controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to his father's presidential race against Donald Trump

  • Roth said the story set off 'hack and leak' alarms, but he did not believe it should have ever been censored

  • He said the uncertainty over the story was ultimately what led to it being suppressed for 24 hours, a decision slammed by new Chief Twit Elon Musk
  • 24 hours? Another lie.
  • Musk has vowed to release files detailing the company's decision to censor the story as Roth and former CEO Jack Dorsey appear to have passed the buck
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It wasn't "uncertainty". They were 100% certain that this exposed Biden for what he really is: a corrupt insider who is up to his eyeballs in behavior the rest of the world considers contemptible.

This would have led to him losing votes and is hence unacceptable. Thus, the censorship campaign.

Censors don't censor lies, they censor the truth. They don't want the world knowing the truth because it is too damaging to their diseased and corrupt cause. Think of that next time you censor anyone.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/01/2022 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  My guess is Twitter was a host for government and political censorship embeds.

The silent partner of censorship is disinformation.

Once discovered, Musk's mass termination program may have possibly been a technique to flush the platform of these embeds and bot makers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2022 5:45 Comments || Top||

#3  If it was intentional its not a "mistake".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Admits mistake ...
Or hoping to avoid being charged with conspiracy to cover up International Criminal Activities that reach deep into the DC Swamp?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/01/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Roth said the story set off 'hack and leak' alarms, but he did not believe it should have ever been censored

... says the guy responsible for censoring stories on Twitter.
Posted by: Raj || 12/01/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#6  "Honest mistake" Erred out of caution, no "bad faith" involved.

My ass.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  ZERO - Musk: Twitter Has "Interfered In Elections"

In a discussion over a Reuters article in which the company's former head of trust and safety says Twitter is 'not safer' under Musk, user @EvaFoxU posted: "Twitter has shown itself to be not safe for the past 10 years and has lost users’ trust. The past team of "trust and safety” is a disgrace, so it doesn’t have any right to judge what is being done now," adding "They had a chance, but they sold their souls to a corporation."

To which Musk replied, "Exactly. The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections."

Musk then said that "Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Election interference by an American is treasonous. I'm not sure what the crime for a foreign individual but I think we should have the right to lock some folks up while we figure it out. Mistake or not.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/01/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||


WH Won't Say If Biden Admin Will Try To Shut Twitter Down For Posts It Doesn't Like…
This could get very interesting.

HT: Weasel Zippers.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Out of all the Biden officials, she is the safest from criminal charges. There is just so much evidence of her being incompetent and stupid. Kamala might have edged her out, but the law degree is evidence of some cognitive abilities at least in the past.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2022 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't think it can't happen.
Remember, history tells us the German people supported the National Socialist (NAZI's) & Hitler's control of the Media, almost until the very last day.

If the US Liberal Socialist Democrat party (LSD's) feel it has the MSM and Social Media support, it will also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/01/2022 17:13 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Mid-term result for democrat candidates is supporting evidence. They will go to their grave as socialists.

"Red tsunami".... not so much.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||


Democrats pick Hakeem Jeffries as Nancy Pelosi's replacement: New York congressman becomes first black American to lead major party as part of younger generation of leaders
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Rep. Hakeem Jeffries made history Wednesday by being voted the first-ever black lawmaker to serve as a party leader

  • He will take over as House Democratic Leader in January as the longest-serving Speaker Nancy Pelosi steps aside from her leadership role

  • Vote was unanimous and Jeffries faced no challengers

  • New Democratic leadership will also include Rep. Katherine Clark, 59, as the party's whip and and Rep. Pete Aguilar, 43, as caucus chairman
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A fucking moslem. Another one.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/01/2022 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  an Election Denier as well
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I see him more as a potential stock market genius in the near term. I just have a feeling that he is going to get really smart very fast - not Guam capsizing smart, but smart nonetheless.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2022 14:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Big Mike and the Cackle Jackal are making preliminary moves, it makes me wonder if the demokrats are considering an all-minority Obama 4.0 for 2024?

Am. Thinker: Michelle O’s book starts her 2024 campaign

Fox News: Kamala meets with influential Dem donors
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/01/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'I'm worried she's not going to come home one of these days': Biden jokes at tribal summit that Jill might abandon him and move to a reservation!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Racist much, Joe?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "She's always entranced by the Indian accents at the local donut shop"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2022 12:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ They have a donut shop at the cas1no?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/01/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DHS dis-info documents
[Hawley web site] Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) revealed new documents obtained from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of his investigation into President Joe Biden’s plans to establish a so-called “Disinformation Governance Board” to monitor and suppress the speech of American citizens. The hundreds of pages of heavily redacted internal emails, which can be read in full below, expose that DHS’s plans for the Disinformation Governance Board were much more extensive than the Biden administration has publicly acknowledged.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/01/2022 05:24 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  “Disinformation Governance Board” to monitor and suppress the speech of American citizens.

Karine Jean-Pierre, MSNBC, CNN, Twitter, Google, and other web based disinformation platforms were simply not keeping pace. An actual federal bureau was desperately needed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2022 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Re-read yesterdays comment 7. An excellent explanation, so simple even KJP would understand.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||


Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen shuts down Cruz questions on Biden family corruption allegations
[FoxNews] New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got into a heated exchange Tuesday after Shaheen shut down Cruz's questions for an ambassador nominee concerning allegations that then Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the country's top prosecutor in 2016.

Cruz accused the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairwoman of "covering" for Biden after Shaheen prevented nominee George Kent from answering his questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Kent, who is Biden's choice to be the next ambassador to Estonia, had previously testified as a witness during former President Trump's first impeachment inquiry and told lawmakers that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden's lucrative service on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company – only to be rebuffed by the Biden administration.

The gas company, Burisma Holdings, was under investigation in 2016 by Ukraine's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who himself faced allegations of corruption. In 2018, Biden admitted that while he was vice president, he pushed Ukrainian officials to fire Shokin by threatening to cancel $1 billion of loan guarantees.

Cruz asked Kent, "Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor that is investigating the corrupt oligarch who's paying his son a million dollars a year? Did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like the reboot craze has spilled over from movies into State Dept nominees. At least Scooby Doo used new villains each week. Everything else was recycled but there was variety among the perpetrators.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2022 13:55 Comments || Top||


Biden admin's Commerce appointee was longtime business partner of Hunter Biden, emails reveal
[FoxNews] John Nevergole, who is serving on President Biden's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA), is former Rosemont Seneca senior adviser.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
To Republicans, election engineering is civics. To Democrats, it's business -- and they are great at it!
[AmericanThinker] Here’s How They Did it: Real-time Election Fraud

Database latency -- a geeky term, but that’s how they did it!

A policeman pulls over a speeder. The police computer reports that three hours ago a similar vehicle and person held up a liquor store -- so the police are on alert.

No database latency.

County election managers change the zip code of 31,000 voters on September 3. Ballots go out that week. Those 31,000 are undeliverable. Someone collects those valid ballots. On September 15th, those addresses are quietly changed back.

National Change of Address Database (NCOA) will not pick up those address changes. They didn’t happen because there is no history.

... Here’s the fraud equation taking place across the country:

  • Count the in-person votes on election day.

  • Count the early, in-person votes.

  • Shut down the system (Atlanta water leak, Maricopa County everything).

  • Bring in undeliverable ballots gathered when you changed voters’ names, addresses, or zip codes, then changed them back.

  • Determine the votes you need to win. Press the “WIN” button.

  • Wait for the Republicans to file a lawsuit months later.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The outlined scam is interesting but it still deals with real registrations where, theoretically, the person might vote. If you control the Eric system you can embed registrations for people that don’t exist and do the same thing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/01/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing to say that multiple schemes aren't at work.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2022 14:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The Republican message is: "Vote for me and I will make the country better."

The Democratic message is: "Vote for me and I will give you money."

Not even close.
Posted by: Matt || 12/01/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||



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