[BREITBART] Eleven people were shot, one fatally, Friday into Saturday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... .According to the Chicago Sun-Times, six people were shot in one attack at 12:15 a.m. Saturday when a gunman walked into "an establishment" and opened fire.
One of the maimed individuals was at death's door after being shot in the abdomen.
The weekend’s first fatality occurred around 3 a.m. Saturday, when a 47-year-old man "in the 1300 block of West 87th Street" was chased down by a gunman and shot in the head.
Seventeen people were shot, three fatally, last weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago, and 40 were shot, six fatally, over the weekend prior to that.
The Chicago Tribune reports that more than 4,000 people were shot in Chicago from January 1, 2020, through December 16, 2020.
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Here is a Site that has tacked ALL of CHICAGO Shootings for several years now.
HEY-JACKASS
It even tracks it down to even what body part was shot ☺.
Examples:
A 2020 Shot-in-the-Junk-O-Meter.
A 2020 Shot-in-the-Ass-O-Meter.
and A 2020 Selfie-O-Meter.
[NYPOST] A Texas woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison after dumping her 2-year-old daughter’s corpse — and then trying to pass off a life-sized doll as the girl.Tiaundra Christon, 23, was found guilty of tampering with a human corpse in the October 2018 disappearance of her daughter, Hazana Anderson, Click2Houston reported Tuesday.
The toddler was the subject of a massive search involving more than 160 people after Christon claimed she’d lost her in a College Station park.
The mom had just returned to the area after a trip to Houston to visit her boyfriend Kenny Hewett, Galveston County Criminal District Attorney Jack Roady said in a statement.
Friends reported seeing glimpses of Christon with the tot, and Walmart surveillance footage showed the mom pushing what appeared to be her daughter in a stroller, Roady said.
But the case took an even darker turn when police discovered a life-sized doll dressed in clothing identical to what Christon had said her daughter was wearing when she vanished.
The doll was found in a trash can across the street from where Christon parked her car.
Officers learned that Christon had carried the doll around after returning from Houston, "pretending it was her baby," Roady said in the statement.
Christon later admitted that the tot had died in her Houston hotel room — after she and her boyfriend abused her, according to the news release.
The twisted couple dumped the girl’s body in a Texas City lake, where she was fished out days later.
Her official cause of death was never determined.
Christon had pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in the case. Her co-defendant, Hewett, pleaded guilty to the same charge in November 2019 and was also sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison.
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Should be at least an equivalent penalty for trying to pass off a life-sized doll (with hair plugs, no less) as POTUS-elect
[AlAhram] With Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the United States already beginning to vaccinate citizens against the Covid-19 disease, there are fears some countries may be left behind.
Here is a snapshot of what vaccines are being preferred around the Middle East and North Africa, and which treatments are being used to help those infected by the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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As I understand it, the US Pioneered and produced a viable VAX back in JAN/FEB 2020.
Russia "acquired" the research and produced some VAX's to announce a Putin modernized USSR BEATS USA Pravda headline.
But some how only the USA is blamed for not make 7.8B (15.6B if the 2 shot process) doses to treat the whole world?
Once again why do we the USA accept any type of blame?
We are the ones trying to FIX Communist CHINA's global Screw-up.
It is China's Global Epidemic that killed MILLIONS?
It was Trumps executive order that cut Time to Market by 3 to 5 years to only 8 months.
But in a typical avoid the blame game fashion, the Socialist-Democrats are playing politics with the MEDIA's Help and are blaming Trump for China's screw-up.
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As I understand it, the US Pioneered and produced a viable VAX back in JAN/FEB 2020.
A potential vaccine candidate. Until the testing is done, nobody can know if someone’s bright idea actually works as it is supposed to, and if the benefits outweigh the side effects.
*shrug* My father, a brilliant organic chemist, discovered interferon. But because he retired before he had got very far into the experiment series that would have shown that it worked, the two or three other teams that discovered it independently and did do the work to demonstrate that it was both effective and safe legitimately got all the credit and the Nobel prize money a decade later.
[ABCNews] About 250,000 doses have been distributed free of charge by the US government to health care providers nationwide so far, with about 900,000 more doses to come by 31 Jan 2021. These are for outpatients only, and for recently diagnosed high risk patients, which includes everyone 65 years old or older.
News media coverage and government press releases giving locations of infusion centers, how many doses have been given, are very sketchy. The Texas Medical Association has gone the farthest, publishing an online GIS map tool showing all known infusion centers in Texas. In Ohio, there has been coverage of infusion centers in the Columbus and Dayton areas. I heard a rumor that the Cleveland Clinic started infusions 1 December but there is nothing publicly posted about that. Comments to this news article are interesting. One Massachusetts commented said her 90+ year old grandparents both recently turned positive for COVID19. Their PCP did not refer these elders for antibody infusions and refused to discuss them with the family. This commenter somehow got contacted the head of the infectious disease department of a Boston hospital. That physician ordered the infusions for both. Both received the infusions and were almost back to normal within 2 or 3 days. Very few adverse effects have been publicized.
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MCA can be very powerful anti-inflammatory. And it is not the virus that kills people, it is the immune overreaction to the viral cell damage that cascades inflammation and destroys breathing capacity by filling the lungs with fluid.
Certain anti-inflammatory drugs interrupt the inflammation chain, and prevent the excessive "cytokine storm", saving people from death. Some of these are in the MCA class, notably adalimumab (Hunira). Other RA anti-inflammatory drugs are etanercept (Enbrel), hydrochloroquine (Plaquenil, also used for lupus - more recent and targeted research shows that it may be effective in early stages at preventing progress) and dexamethasone, all in combination with other medications, all of which have shown at least in-vitro action against SARS-CoV-2 in human tissue.
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FYI the prices you linked are all for someone with ZERO insurance - in otherwords, not the typical instance. Even Medicaid gets them for considerably cheaper. Most of those multi-thousand dollar doses end up being $60-180 with insurance or pharma assistance.
Why do you attempt to mislead people? Are you one of those freaks that want to continue the fear?
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#3 The prices (and a new one one like the covid mAb should cost x10) explain why the treatment is not offered freely. Are you one of these geniuses who thinks that prices don't matter? Or only matter where YOUR ideological bulls are not gored?
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-----The drugs referred to in the source article were bought & paid for by the US government and distributed free of charge to various health care facilities.
---- The costs of the infusions will be extra. Medicare (19.5% of the 2019 population of the USA) patients will be covered for infusions costs in whole or in part.) States have indicated that Medicaid will cover infusion costs in a similar way.
------Compare these costs to the cost of a single ER visit, or to the cost of a hospitalization of 1 week duration for COVID-19. None of these services is offered freely, so why single out this unique method of possibly preventing hospitalization or death from COVID-19 to the most vulnerable population?
------ People without health coverage who get extremely ill from whatever illness are SOL in any case.
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NBC News 12/20/2020: A 'godsend' or not 'worth the effort'? Monoclonal antibodies divide overwhelmed Covid doctors. Some doctors are clamoring for the treatment, which, officials say, in some places is sitting unused.
12/2/2020 updated: the Infectious Disease Society of America issued this oracle: The guideline panel suggests against routine use of bamlanivimab for ambulatory patients with COVID-19. The panel recognizes that persons, including those at increased risk of progressing to severe COVID-19 (as defined by the FDA EUA [131]) who place a higher value on the uncertain benefits and a low value on the uncertain adverse events, may reasonably select this treatment after careful discussion with their clinician. Erm -- COVID-19 has been known for only a year. Are there ANY "routine" measures available for COVID-19 patients? I think not. But this "experts" seem to think otherwise. They are an example of "analysis paralysis" and physicians like them are more of a problem than a solution. The corresponding author of the panel is
Dr. Adarsh Bhimraj. He is the head for section of Neurologic Infectious Diseases at the Cleveland Clinic. He may be part of the reason the Cleveland Clinic has not gone public with any availability of outpatient monoclonal infusions for high risk newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients. Contrast him with the Boston infectious disease specialist mentioned in the comments of the ABC news article. When he was contacted, he prescribed this treatment for both of the commenter's 90+ year old grandparents. They received and did very well, thank you.
The USA has distributed 12,000+ doses of this treatment to various health care institutions in the state of Ohio so far. I don't know how many have actually been given to Ohio patients.
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[DW] The government of the Central African Republic said Saturday that the country's former president, Francois Bozize, is planning a coup in the lead-up to the December 27 presidential and legislative elections.
The government, which has little control outside of the capital, Bangui, said Bozize was intending on marching on the capital with his men. Bozize was banned by the country's top court from running in the upcoming election.
At the same time, the leaders of the three main rebel groups which control large swaths of the country announced an alliance on Saturday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... has called on all sides to work together and ensure credible elections. UN peacekeeping forces have also been deployed following recent outbreaks of violence.
FEAR OF DESTABILIZATION AND FRAUD Bozize, 74, came to power in 2013 following a coup and was later ousted in 2013 after a different group of fighters took control of the capital.
The court rejected the former president's request to run in the election citing the international arrest warrant filed by the Central African Republic for charges of murder, arbitrary arrest and torture.
Bozize was said to have accepted the decision. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the government in Bangui has claimed he is trying to "destabilize the country."
"This is clearly an attempted coup d'etat that the government denounces during this electoral period," said government front man Ange Maxime-Kaagui.
For their part, the opposition was concerned about possible large-scale fraud in the electoral process.
The UN mission in the country, MINUSCA, has deployed troops to disperse rebel hard boyz who had taken control of roads leading to the capital.
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak says that global #oil demand was still between 6 and 7 million barrels per day (bpd) below pre-crisis levels.https://t.co/bQaaQmL44g
#Hungary’s government will extend a moratorium on household and business loan repayments until July to mitigate the impact of the #coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.https://t.co/2KObUUJH3x
[FOX] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a news conference Friday said he sees the redistribution of wealth as an important factor toward ending structural racism in education.
"I’d like to say very bluntly our mission is to redistribute wealth," he said. "A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use."
He added the city's government needs to "more equitably redistribute resources" throughout the school system, which he said would include pre-K and 3-K for all and advanced placement courses in every high school.
The mayor said that minority students have been most affected by coronavirus school closures, adding his office would focus on closing the "COVID achievement gap," that disproportionately hurts kids without access to tech resources while distance learning.
He went on to announce several admissions changes in the city aimed at fighting segregation in selective schools, including expanding diversity planning in every district, eliminating geographic priority for the next two years and expanding grant applications to more districts.
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^It is, it is - from his point of view: too many hoi polloi kids manage to get into elite schools through merit programs, etc... . But once you assign all these merit niches to wakandans ...
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In Constitution 2.0, any politician who is comfortable enough to say that their job is to take money from one group and give it to another group is summarily executed.
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The friggin moron ought to be embracing education as the goal; not redistribution of wealth or indoctrination.
[Gateway] President Trump releases a video entitled ’Fight for Trump’ in the middle of the night.
Last night, President Trump sent out a tweet at 1:42 AM, where he promoted a "big protest" in DC against the election fraud that appears to have taken place in November.
President Trump included a link to a Washington Examiner story about Peter Navarro’s 36-page report alleging election fraud that was "more than sufficient" to swing the victory.
Navarro is the Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
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Furious Netanyahu slams 'secrecy' over coronavirus mutation
PM lashes out at Edelstein for not informing him of new strain currently being seen in UK as ministers plan for even more contagious form of virus; public health chief warns it is unclear whether vaccine works on latest form of coronavirus
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Question: is this new, more contagious form as deadly or less deadly than the the previous forms we are familiar with?
Because if it is less deadly, then catching it would convey some immunity to the old forms, like cow pox conveyed immunity to smallpox back in the old days, right?
[France24] The development of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the first approved jab in the West, is the crowning achievement of decades of work for Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko, who fled to the US from communist rule in the 1980s.
When trials found the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to be safe and 95 percent effective in November, it was the crowning achievement of Katalin Kariko’s 40 years of research on the genetic code RNA (ribonucleic acid). Her first reaction was a sense of "redemption," Kariko told The Daily Telegraph.
"I was grabbing the air, I got so excited I was afraid that I might die or something," she said from her home in Philadelphia. "When I am knocked down I know how to pick myself up, but I always enjoyed working... I imagined all of the diseases I could treat."
Born in January 1955 in a Christian family in the town of Szolnok in central Hungary — a year before the doomed heroism of the uprising against the Soviet-backed communist regime — Kariko grew up in nearby Kisujszellas on the Great Hungarian Plain, where her father was a butcher. Fascinated by science from a young age, Kariko began her career at the age of 23 at the University of Szeged’s Biological Research Centre, where she obtained her PhD.
It was there that she first developed her interest in RNA. But communist Hungary’s laboratories lacked resources, and in 1985 the university sacked her. Consequently, Kariko looked for work abroad, getting a job at Temple University in Philadelphia the same year. Hungarians were forbidden from taking money out of the country, so she sold the family car and hid the proceeds in her 2-year-old daughter’s teddy bear. "It was a one-way ticket," she told Business Insider. "We didn’t know anybody."
The German-Turkish couple are on the brink of claiming the first effective coronavirus vaccine but, like their predecessors, they ride everywhere on bikes, are not interested in the billions of dollars they could make from their discovery and are happiest working together in their white lab coats, even on their wedding day. Like Marie Curie, they are immigrants, their parents both came to Germany from Turkey as part of the guest worker program, and they may yet share a Nobel prize after their company, BioNTech — along with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — announced Monday their COVID vaccine is more than 90 percent effective.
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[RT] In a bizarre case of life imitating art, a parody Twitter account making fun of the woke movement ended up predicting exactly what that movement would do. Does the line between satire and reality even exist any more?
’Titania McGrath’ doesn’t exist, and is a creation of Spiked columnist Andrew Doyle. Yet her Twitter account, which parodies and ridicules modern society’s obsession with political correctness, has fooled the unaware before, even earning a ban from Twitter after a biting send-up of critical theory in which she argued doctors were "bullying and dehumanizing" sick people — i.e. "those who do not conform to their perceptions of "'wellness’" — and thus medical science should be banned as an oppressive, cisnormative, patriarchal construct.
While her satirical posts often imitated the most ridiculous declarations of the woke, they were never meant to be taken as an instruction manual. Yet, she now says that’s exactly what happened, crediting herself with the ideas that progressive organizations and media outlets apparently embraced well after her tweets describing them — and this time it might not even be satire.
"On 22 December 2018, I called for biological sex to be removed from birth certificates," McGrath tweeted on Friday. On Thursday, the New England Journal of Medicine actually suggested doing the same, leading some commenters to wonder if the prestigious medical journal had fallen victim to a prank.
Unfortunately it hadn’t, and was deadly serious. But it was far from the only outlet to "parrot" Titania’s woke ideas.
Last year, McGrath suggested that white parents who want to prove they’re not racist should "send your teenage daughters on unaccompanied walking holidays in the tribal regions of North Pakistain," areas hardly known for their enlightened view of women.
Just over a week later, Forbes Magazine "concurred," publishing an article explaining "why Pakistain should be on every solo female traveler’s bucket list."
McGrath described the skyscraper in 2019 as "a giant cock on the horizon, f**king the heavens." A year later, the Guardian ran an article calling the modern city "sexist," complete with "upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky."
McGrath wanted social media to "mute white males;" Instagram followed through with a "mute white people" sticker. She wanted the Oscars to ensure "diversity triumphs over merit;" the academy announced new diversity and inclusion plans. She called Mary Poppins’ soot-covered visage an example of "blackface;" the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... "agreed," criticizing the fictional nanny’s "shameful flirting with blackface."
Perhaps most ridiculously, McGrath singled out Helen Keller for her "staggering" white privilege in 2019. Just this week, Time Magazine agreed, writing that to some black activists, Keller was "just another, despite disabilities, privileged white person."
All of this begs the question, are the wokest, most liberal activists and journalists looking to McGrath’s account for inspiration?
It’s more likely that in the aftermath of every major civil rights battle having already been won, the fights picked by the woke in 2020 often cross over the line separating satire from reality. And with that line becoming ever more blurred, some commenters under McGrath’s Twitter thread were still fooled.
"Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore," American cartoonist Jules Feiffer famously said in 1959. One wonders what he makes of the likes of Titania McGrath.
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I've been reading that Twitter feed for a week or so now - it's sometimes hard to tell if it's a parody, just like The Bee.
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"We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known."
-- Malcolm Muggeridge
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
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...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
[NYPOST] A Texas woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison after dumping her 2-year-old daughter’s corpse — and then trying to pass off a life-sized doll as the girl.Tiaundra Christon, 23, was found guilty of tampering with a human corpse in the October 2018 disappearance of her daughter, Hazana Anderson, Click2Houston reported Tuesday.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
[France24] The development of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the first approved jab in the West, is the crowning achievement of decades of work for Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko, who fled to the US from communist rule in the 1980s.
