Here is sort of a companion to the recent amazing scientific/technical advances that led to the covid vaccines, that should really put a smile on your faces. This is a video from Boston Dynamics, which is a company that spun off from research done at MIT, which shows robots they built that are spectacularly getting down and dancing to "Do You Love Me (Mashed Potato)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
New Developments III
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Early this week, Gen. Frank McKenzie told NBC News that intel still hasn't established Russia paid Taliban 'bounties' to kill U.S. troops. I was pretty horrified by that story when I heard about it. Gen. McKenzie saying this doesn't mean that it didn't happen... but I try to approach these unverified stories with a little skepticism.danfrank wrote
This is perhaps closer to Nazi territory than anything else we’ve seen from this administration, which is saying a lot. Horrifying.
But this is absolutely horrifying. Horrifying.
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This is perhaps closer to Nazi territory than anything else we’ve seen from this administration, which is saying a lot. Horrifying.
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HOLY SHIT.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics ... index.html
Whistleblower alleges high rate of hysterectomies and medical neglect at ICE facility
Priscilla Alvarez byline
Washington (CNN)A whistleblower who previously worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia detailed a high rate of hysterectomies and alleged medical neglect in a complaint filed to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general Monday.
Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse employed by the center who's represented by the Government Accountability Project and Project South, stated in a complaint that while some women may have required a hysterectomy, "everybody's uterus cannot be that bad."
The Government Accountability Project provides representation for whistleblowers and Project South is a social justice organization. The complaint is also signed by several immigrant advocacy organizations: Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.
"Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody. He's even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy," Wooten explains in the complaint.
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"She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can't bear kids... she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary," she continued.
The complaint doesn't disclose the name of the gynecologist or the number of women allegedly coerced into receiving the procedure, nor when it occurred. ICE said it doesn't comment on matters presented to the inspector general.
"ICE takes all allegations seriously and defers to the (Office of the Inspector General) regarding any potential investigation and/or results. That said, in general, anonymous, unproven allegations, made without any fact-checkable specifics, should be treated with the appropriate skepticism they deserve," the agency said.
A detained immigrant told Project South, a social justice organization, that she had spoken to five different women at Irwin County Detention Center between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy.
"When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they're experimenting with our bodies," said the immigrant, whose name was not disclosed by the organization.
LaSalle Corrections, which operates the facility, did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
Wooten also describes speaking with detained women who didn't fully understand why they had the medical procedure.
"These immigrant women, I don't think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what's going to happen depending on who explains it to them," Wooten said.
Wooten will deliver remarks alongside representatives from Project South, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, South Georgia Immigrant Support Network, and Georgia Detention Watch at a noon press conference in Georgia.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics ... index.html
Whistleblower alleges high rate of hysterectomies and medical neglect at ICE facility
Priscilla Alvarez byline
Washington (CNN)A whistleblower who previously worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia detailed a high rate of hysterectomies and alleged medical neglect in a complaint filed to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general Monday.
Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse employed by the center who's represented by the Government Accountability Project and Project South, stated in a complaint that while some women may have required a hysterectomy, "everybody's uterus cannot be that bad."
The Government Accountability Project provides representation for whistleblowers and Project South is a social justice organization. The complaint is also signed by several immigrant advocacy organizations: Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.
"Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody. He's even taken out the wrong ovary on a young lady [detained immigrant woman]. She was supposed to get her left ovary removed because it had a cyst on the left ovary; he took out the right one. She was upset. She had to go back to take out the left and she wound up with a total hysterectomy," Wooten explains in the complaint.
CNN Underscored partnered with Decluttr to create this content. When you make a purchase, CNN receives revenue.
"She still wanted children—so she has to go back home now and tell her husband that she can't bear kids... she said she was not all the way out under anesthesia and heard him [doctor] tell the nurse that he took the wrong ovary," she continued.
The complaint doesn't disclose the name of the gynecologist or the number of women allegedly coerced into receiving the procedure, nor when it occurred. ICE said it doesn't comment on matters presented to the inspector general.
"ICE takes all allegations seriously and defers to the (Office of the Inspector General) regarding any potential investigation and/or results. That said, in general, anonymous, unproven allegations, made without any fact-checkable specifics, should be treated with the appropriate skepticism they deserve," the agency said.
A detained immigrant told Project South, a social justice organization, that she had spoken to five different women at Irwin County Detention Center between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy.
"When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they're experimenting with our bodies," said the immigrant, whose name was not disclosed by the organization.
LaSalle Corrections, which operates the facility, did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
Wooten also describes speaking with detained women who didn't fully understand why they had the medical procedure.
"These immigrant women, I don't think they really, totally, all the way understand this is what's going to happen depending on who explains it to them," Wooten said.
Wooten will deliver remarks alongside representatives from Project South, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, South Georgia Immigrant Support Network, and Georgia Detention Watch at a noon press conference in Georgia.
"How's the despair?"
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This is pretty cool.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/fauci-war ... ndemic-era
FAUCI WARNS THAT EARTH HAS ENTERED A “PANDEMIC ERA”
"THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES WHERE DISEASE EMERGENCES REFLECT OUR INCREASING INABILITY TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE."
BY DAN ROBITZSKI / SEPTEMBER 04 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top coronavirus advisor, warns that humanity is now living in a “pandemic era.”
At this point, nearly half a year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the U.S. to its knees, that may sound obvious. But as The Washington Post reports, Fauci is talking about something greater than just the current pandemic. Rather, he believes that human activity has become a major contributor to the emergence of new deadly diseases.
“COVID-19, recognized in late 2019, is but the latest example of an unexpected, novel, and devastating pandemic disease,” Fauci, along with his colleague Dr. David Morens, wrote in research published last month in the prestigious journal CELL. “One can conclude from this recent experience that we have entered a pandemic era. The causes of this new and dangerous situation are multifaceted, complex, and deserving of serious examination.”
Throughout the paper, Fauci and Morens point out numerous dangerous disease outbreaks that began as a downstream effect of industrialization or other ways that human civilization impacted nature. For instance, there’s the Nipah virus outbreak from around the turn of the 21st century that began because humanity burned down forests to make room for agriculture, which displaced infected bats closer to populated areas.
“There are many examples where disease emergences reflect our increasing inability to live in harmony with nature,” Fauci and Morens write.
In order to reverse course, the duo warns that we need to rethink many aspects of our society, from deforestation to living in crowded cities to unsanitary animal farming.
“Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues,” Fauci and Morens write.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/fauci-war ... ndemic-era
FAUCI WARNS THAT EARTH HAS ENTERED A “PANDEMIC ERA”
"THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES WHERE DISEASE EMERGENCES REFLECT OUR INCREASING INABILITY TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE."
BY DAN ROBITZSKI / SEPTEMBER 04 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top coronavirus advisor, warns that humanity is now living in a “pandemic era.”
At this point, nearly half a year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the U.S. to its knees, that may sound obvious. But as The Washington Post reports, Fauci is talking about something greater than just the current pandemic. Rather, he believes that human activity has become a major contributor to the emergence of new deadly diseases.
“COVID-19, recognized in late 2019, is but the latest example of an unexpected, novel, and devastating pandemic disease,” Fauci, along with his colleague Dr. David Morens, wrote in research published last month in the prestigious journal CELL. “One can conclude from this recent experience that we have entered a pandemic era. The causes of this new and dangerous situation are multifaceted, complex, and deserving of serious examination.”
Throughout the paper, Fauci and Morens point out numerous dangerous disease outbreaks that began as a downstream effect of industrialization or other ways that human civilization impacted nature. For instance, there’s the Nipah virus outbreak from around the turn of the 21st century that began because humanity burned down forests to make room for agriculture, which displaced infected bats closer to populated areas.
“There are many examples where disease emergences reflect our increasing inability to live in harmony with nature,” Fauci and Morens write.
In order to reverse course, the duo warns that we need to rethink many aspects of our society, from deforestation to living in crowded cities to unsanitary animal farming.
“Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues,” Fauci and Morens write.
"How's the despair?"
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He's trying to pass a law that will break the Withdrawal Agreement which basically breaks international law.
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Care to be more specific?Okri wrote:Prime Minister Johnson is out stupiding the USA at the moment. Brava.
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Prime Minister Johnson is out stupiding the USA at the moment. Brava.
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It seems there was one previous exception. FDR gave a state funeral for his advisor Louis Howe in the East Room of the White House in 1936.Big Magilla wrote:Not only have no other funerals of presidential family members been held at the White House, only THREE actual presidents have had their funeral held at the White House.
Previous White House funerals have been for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated while in office, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also died in office.
Howe was played by Hume Cronyn in 1960's Sunrise at Campobello.
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You know how everyone stares at a huge car wreck? I feel like we’re the car wreck.
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That he would honor his brother while ignoring the deaths of thousands of others? It's disgusting.
Not only have no other funerals of presidential family members been held at the White House, only THREE actual presidents have had their funeral held at the White House.
Previous White House funerals have been for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated while in office, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also died in office.
Not only have no other funerals of presidential family members been held at the White House, only THREE actual presidents have had their funeral held at the White House.
Previous White House funerals have been for Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated while in office, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also died in office.
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That he would honor his brother with a white house funeral? Is there a precedent for White House-set funerals for the death of family members?
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
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"What the hell?"
Win Butler
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