Over 23,000 Palestinians dead, about 11,000 are children, most of the rest are women. There are an estimated 2 million people homeless and displaced, with no shelter or food in the winter cold and rain. Israel said it won’t stop, it says it will continue what it is doing all through 2024. Their plan is for an incredible dense small area reservation tightly controlled by Israel, which hopes to force the Palestinians to become so desperate they will either overwhelm the Egyptian border or die off and leaving until there are no Palestinians left. Israel has said they are working to force deport the all Palestinians from Gaza and the West bank. This is a land grab genocide by Israel. Different officials in the government admit it. Bibi brags about knifing the US in the back as he has demanded more money, he laughs as he claims he prevented any attempt to form a two-state solution. He is as racist against Palestinians as republicans are toward brown people. Hugs. Scottie
Now 100 days old, the latest Israel-Hamas war is by far the longest, bloodiest, and most destructive conflict between the bitter enemies.
Like everyone, I always have the best of intentions. I planned this weekend for getting to comments and putting away old saved tabs. But fate and my memories get in the way. And right now I hurt badly. Not asking for sympathy, I just want to explain if I end up late on doing what I said I would.
This last week I have fluctuating between active memories of my abuse including the feelings as it was happening, to being very depressed and not wanting to even get out of bed. So I went from if I sleep having nightmares to not being willing / able to sleep to when sleeping not being willing to get out of bed to function. Plus Friday I had my allergy shots, had a bad reaction had to take Benadryl, and while tearing my skin off went to bed early.
This morning is an example. I went to bed at 4 pm yesterday (remember having a bad allergy reaction and taking Benadryl) telling Ron I wanted to get up at 6 pm. But when he came to me then, I said I was not ready to get up. He understood. Since I opened up to him more about my abuse he understands some of the moods I have and me trying to hide in being distracted. I woke at midnight but couldn’t bring my self to get up. I laid there watching the clock, the thoughts in my head fighting with each other. Some telling me to get up and do computer stuff, the other voices told me to stay in bed, ignore everything, maybe sleep. A couple of times I did sleep for a few minutes until the dreams turned bad, and I woke up agitated. Once Ron woke me asking if I was OK because I was having a bad dream about my abuse and verbalizing it. At 2 am, I reminded my self of my promise to get up and work on comments. At 4 am, I told my self the outside cats needed to be fed and cared for. Finally at about 5 something I forced my self out of bed but mostly because my stomach was hurting due to lack of food (something I knew all too well and was triggering on its own which caused its own bad feedback loop in my head. As an adult in a restaurant I would order far more than I could eat, and it took Ron a long time to teach me how not to do that. At home I would cook for far more people than the two of us could eat. When Ron would cook I would fill my plate with far more than I could eat. Only after I told him how I had been denied food, hospitalized and went clinically dead from being starved and was suffering malnutrition for long periods of my childhood did he understand. If my grandfather had not grabbed me and taken me to the ER I would not be here.) and plus my bowels needing relief.
I got up and was doing well, I feed and took care of cats, I did other chores and went to town on the computer stuff I needed to get done. But yesterday the water was off for most of the day, so we didn’t wash the dishes from yesterday. So about 10 am I started washing dishes, cleaning up the kitchen, and washing the more dishes. Also pre-making the coffee for morning. For some reason that whole thing took me until 2 pm! During that I had to take extra medication, and now I am having a vodka cola drink.
All this to say, I am going to concentrate on current comments while saving posts so that by morning they won’t disappear. I will work as long as I can (Ron has already been asking me what I want for supper as he knows how tired I am and wants to make sure I eat before going to bed) doing the comments and will save those I don’t get to for tomorrow, which should be a slower day. I saved all the comments from the last few days so if you left comments know I will answer them, I really love that you commented. Thank you. It just has been a struggle for a few months with my memories, emotions, and my body. Hugs, loves, best wishes to all. Scottie
A U.N. court began hearings this week on South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide — a bid to stop the conflict in Gaza and document what the Palestinian ally calls Israeli forces’ “genocidal conduct.” The U.S. calls the case “meritless.” Anita Powell reports; Patsy Widakuswara contributed.
Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of Covid-19, according to a study by French researchers.
The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,” the researchers point out in their paper, published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
Now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. — may have died as a result.
That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against Covid-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.
Researchers from universities in Lyon, France, and Québec, Canada, used that figure to analyze hospitalization data for Covid in each of the six countries, exposure to hydroxychloroquine and the increase in the relative risk of death linked to the drug.
In fact, they say the figure may be far higher given the study only concerns six countries from March to July 2020, when the drug was prescribed much more widely.
Hydroxychloroquine gained prominence partly due to French virologist Didier Raoult who had headed the Méditerranée Infection Foundation hospital, but was later removed amid growing controversy.
It was also considered something of a “miracle cure” by the then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who said: “What do you have to lose? Take it.”
And why? I still don’t fully understand what made Trump and the GOP decide to deny vaccines publicly (while often taking vaccines privately) and to turn every medical decision into a toxic political decision based on misinformation. Why was this in their interest? Once they started down this path, they just kept doubling down, leading to the ridiculously unqualified and dangerous Florida State Surgeon General currently in power.
It’s exactly why Rand Paul invested in hydroxychloroquine early on in the early months of COVID, and then regularly attacked Dr Fauci…as the good doctor was bad for Brillohead’s bottom line.
I think it’s a combination of things. It brews mistrust of experts, education, science, and medicine, which keeps people afraid. It’s a cult in that way, you must trust the leader and exclude information that might potentially prove them wrong. By putting in a mistrust of one area of expert, it can be extended to others as well, cementing that only the in group can be trusted.
By denying that people are dying, they make people distrust reports of people dying. When people do get sick, they wait or take ineffective ‘treatments’, which then overtax the hospital facilities if/when the person actually goes in for real treatment – and then the cult leaders can say that the hospital system is failing and can’t save you, only dear leader can.
But ultimately, I think they simply don’t care. As you say, they privately take the vaccines and have top flight health care. Everyone else is less than a pawn on the board to them.
At this point on the right the tail wags the dog. These memes are coming from somewhere and being picked up by people looking around down the Q and other right wing rabbit holes. The Republican leadership has little in the way of actual leadership. First it was Limbaugh and company but now it’s faceless, nameless internet bot farms setting their agenda. They can’t hold on to power without pandering to this shit and they are more afraid of losing power than killing their own supporters.
There’s little leadership in our politics. Few Democrats supported gay marriage until public polling showed a majority in favor. If that had been the case earlier in our history how long would it have taken for civil rights laws to be enacted or interracial marriage to be legal. We didn’t get to 50% in favor of interracial marriage until the late 80s! I realize you can’t be too far off public opinion and get elected, but leaders should be leading public opinion, not following it. Consensus can be created if people with good writing and oratorical skills get out there and make the case. Of course that means risking your access to power if you don’t succeed and that right there is the big problem we face in our politics.
Remember, it’s all part of Putin’s plan to undermine democracy. Part of that is to undermine the trust in any institutional authority. As soon as Covid hit, they realized it was easy to spread lies and made up stories, and they did. Eventually, it pitted some people against other people, which is exactly the goal. And when a mass of people are distrustful of government all the grifters realize they can get viewers by fanning the flames. So it spreads around and feds on itself. And it worked! If some people die, who cares?
Echoing Randy Ellicott & Houndentenor. Republicans intentionally sow so much distrust against doctors and research that they can promote quacks into their ranks without consequence.
it was in their interest because these people gain power by making other people afraid of anything and everyone. It was in their interest because these people gain power by making other people not trust respectable and respected authorities. It was in their interest because fear, doubt, confusion, And the politics of resentment are always in the interests of authoritarians, conmen, and grifter.
Evangelicals (the MAGAt base) quite literally worship a genocidal deity. Extend that fantasy into their nearly hermetically sealed reality and voila, we have a cult with a full on death wish.
Politics because the CDC and the “Democratic appointed” Fauci had to be opposed by GOP and for no other reason. Well, yes, because Trump had no idea how to act as President.
See, the problem was that they didn’t follow all of TFG’s advice and drink bleach and stick UV light in their butts after taking the hydroxychloroquine. /s
Republicans’ successful sowing of distrust towards science and doctors during the pandemic is the biggest consequence. When President Obama successfully led the creation of the H1N1 vaccine, no one blinked. But Trump and his like-minded lackeys lied and lied and lied about the vaccine that many Republican voters trust a rando podcaster or anti-vax preacher on the street more than peer-reviewed research.
And while these anti-vaxxers scam their viewership and rake in the $$, they take the vax behind the scenes.
Touting quack remedies instead of effective treatment for a disease that can kill you, or leave you seriously disabled for long stretches, is not the finest re-election tactic–especially when your opponent is urging his voters to get highly effective vaccines.
Touting quack remedies instead of effective treatment for a disease that can kill you, or leave you seriously disabled for long stretches, is not the finest re-election tactic–especially when your opponent is urging his voters to get highly effective vaccines.
Yesterday Ladapo called for banning COVID vaccines due to “DNA integration,” a claim that was immediately ridiculed by vaccine experts and Ladapo’s own DeSantis-appointed predecessor in Florida.
So this is the crazy nutcase that Tildeb used to justify anti-trans hate. He is the Florida Surgeon General, handpicked by DeathSantis because of his anti-covid vaccine stance. He was given the job even though not qualified, and DeathSantis tried to force the state university to hire him at a huge sum of money. He refused to answer questions asked him by the Florida legislature and lied to them when forced to answer. He was part of the demon seed doctor’s team that scammed maga people by charging them huge fees for an online consultation, then prescribed Ivermectin to cure or prevent covid. It has been well proven that Ivermectin doesn’t do anything to cure or prevent covid. He has been soundly mocked by the scientific and medical communities. Remember if DeathSantis is elected to the presidency this is the type of people he hires. Below I will post the first part of the Wikipedia entry on him. Hugs. Scottie
JosephLadapoJoseph Abiodun Ladapo (born December 16, 1978) [1] is the surgeon general of Florida. [2] He has attracted attention for spreading misinformation on COVID-19 and promoting vaccine hesitancy. [
DeSantis’ Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo says covid mRNA vaccines “the Anti-Christ of all products… That’s so wrong, you know, it’s just complete disrespect to the human genome and the importance of protecting it and preserving it, and that is our connection to God.” pic.twitter.com/r1aGzHsBqz
mRNA, of course, is messenger molecules telling some of your immune cells to make specific antibodies. They don’t mess with DNA, they don’t get into your ova or sperm, they just wash out of your body within a few days. That’s what they were telling him when “They talked about a bunch of other things” that he didn’t understand.
The biggest thing about the new mRNA technology is getting the mRNA to survive long enough to make any proteins. The cells have a zillion RNAses waiting to chew up improper RNA not tagged with the exact signal for temporary protection. It has been nearly 20 years since I was a bench researcher handling RNA, and I still remember what a PITA it was to handle.
Remember this is for emergencies when the pregnant patient is dying! The keywords are emergencies and dying! Yet the republicans in Texas and in the Texas courts are so “pro-life” they are demanding a woman die rather than abort a non-viable fetus which can not survive outside the womb because it is not a baby yet. The keywords there are non-viable, can not survive, and not a baby yet. So we need to stop calling these people pro-life, and admit they are forced birth. Their ruling if you read the article says that the doctor has to balance the needs of the woman AND the needs of the fetus, but the court ruling calls it an unborn baby and give it priority over a living woman. The fetus is not a baby yet if it is non-viable, and if it is certain to die before being born, cause the death of the person carrying it, or will not survive long after being born then you can disregard anything it might need even if viable right then at exam time. But the court claims that the policy rule is silent on what to do if the state bans abortion. But that is not true. The policy rule says doctors must give an abortion to save the life of the woman! But Texas simply doesn’t want to do that! This is 100% about controlling women, making women livestock for men, simply breeding mares for men’s issue. A woman by herself has no rights, her duty is to the man who owns her at the time, it starts out as her father and then becomes her husband. That is why they call it giving away the bride! A female from birth is property and good only to serve and breed. In the minds of republicans.
I think the ruling is also over broad. It bans the Biden administration from enforcing the policy against the two religious doctors groups anywhere in the country not just in Texas. How can that be legal? The constitution specifically calls on the government to protect the welfare of the people. Apparently the Texas courts don’t that applies to pregnant people. Hugs. Scottie
An operating room sits empty at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services, an abortion clinic that closed its doors following the overturn of Roe v. Wade and plans to reopen in New Mexico and Illinois, in San Antonio, Texas, August 16, 2022. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare/File Photo
The U.S. government cannot enforce federal guidance in Texas requiring emergency room doctors to perform abortions if necessary to stabilize emergency room patients, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, siding with the state in a lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of overstepping its authority.
The ruling by a unanimous panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes amid a wave of lawsuits focusing on when abortions can be provided in states whose abortion bans have exceptions for medical emergencies.
The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment. The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and two anti-abortion medical associations that challenged the guidance – the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations– did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Biden administration in July 2022 issued guidance stating that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law governing emergency rooms, can require abortion when necessary to stabilize a patient with a medical emergency, even in states where it is banned. The guidance came soon after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which since 1973 had guaranteed a right to abortion nationwide.
Texas and the associations immediately sued the administration, saying the guidance interfered with the state’s right to restrict abortion. A lower court judge in August 2022 agreed, finding that EMTALA was silent as to what a doctor should do when there is a conflict between the health of the mother and the unborn child and that the Texas abortion ban “fills that void” by including narrow exceptions to save the mother’s life or prevent serious bodily injury in some cases.
Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt, writing for the 5th Circuit panel, agreed, writing that EMTALA also includes a requirement to deliver an unborn child and it was up to doctors to balance the medical needs of the mother and fetus, while complying with any state abortion laws.
The law “does not provide an unqualified right for the pregnant mother to abort her child,” he wrote.
The ruling upheld a lower court order that blocked enforcement of the guidance in Texas and also blocked the administration from enforcing it against members of two anti-abortion medical associations anywhere in the country.
The federal court’s decision comes a month after Texas’s highest state court ruled against a woman seeking an emergency abortion of her non-viable pregnancy. That court is currently considering a separate lawsuit by 22 women about the scope of the emergency medical exception to Texas’s abortion ban.
A federal judge last year reached the opposite conclusion in a similar lawsuit in Idaho, blocking that state’s abortion ban after finding it conflicted with EMTALA. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hear the state’s appeal of that ruling later this month.
Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and David Gregorio
The Republican Party has already been using “1984” as an instruction manual for at least two decades if not longer. Why would they stop there? Why wouldn’t they also choose to throw “The Handmaid’s Tale” in there for good measure?
Once again: states that banned abortions with exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother WILL NOT honor those exceptions. It’s all a charade.
Remember the logic for testing witches? Weigh her down, toss her in the pond, and if she dies, she was innocent. If she survives, she’s a witch, so execute her.
Obviously, you don’t know whether emergency action is required to save a woman’s life until you don’t do it and she’s dead. Until she’s dead, then you can’t know if an abortion was actually needed to save her life.
Besides, these people have made it abundantly clear since, well, forever, that their concern for life ONLY extends to the unborn. Once you’re alive – whether you’re the mother or the child – the only interest they have in you is fucking you over.
Since ecclesiastical SCOTUS brought us this nightmare we can’t look to them to save us. We gotta rip out all Christian Nazis from state houses. Gonna be a very tough thing with gerrymandered districts.
Ladies (and gentlemen) we need to remember $#!+ like this next November and get out there and VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE! Pass it on! (with 4-part harmony and feeling
Back in the 80s, when I would attend pro-choice marches, we used to chant Right to Life You’re name’s a lie You don’t care If women die That was 40 years ago, and nothing has changed.
Years ago, there was a pregnant woman who was found to be nonresponsive but the state forced the hospital to keep her “alive” until the fetus, which itself had a low or no probability of live birth, could be delivered.
Also, “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to all registered voters.”
It’s against the law to save a woman by aborting her pregnancy that’s going to kill her. I’m at a loss for words at the moment…… The right are taking away women’s rights and lgbtq rights at deadly consequence. Take note of you live with HIV because the meds that are keeping you alive will not be available if we continue to give these monsters power. I hope Biden stacks the court and we return to safe sanity again.
This video was recorded weeks ago. Yet at this point Israel had destroyed 98,000 buildings, and most if not all would have had people in them or near them. At this time the Palestinian death toll is over 20,000 and 1/3 of them are children. Hugs. Scottie
Ari Tolany, research consultant for Women for Weapons Trade Transparency, to discuss her recent piece that she co-authored in In These Times entitled “How Israel Got an Endless Supply of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs.”
Tolany walks Sam through the particular proliferation of Precision Guided Missiles in these overseas stockpiles, and the contradictory nature of why these missiles are manufactured (reducing collateral damage) and how they have been used by US allies – namely Saudi Arabia and Israel – before wrapping up with a brief conversation on the importance of international investigation in actually holding the US accountable for their bombs.
Same sex relationships and male gay brothels were normal until Christianity took hold. Then the bigotry started. Sexual activity was an accepted part of everyday life, until regressive repressive Christians ruined it for everyone. And they are still at it today. Hugs
Welcome back to 🤪Crazy Histories🤪 As long as humanity has existed, there have been physical and romantic relationships between people of the same gender. And like straight people, those of varying sexualities have also looked for release in more promiscuous places. They say the oldest job in the world is prostitution, and these gay brothels that date from antiquity to modern day certainly prove that… #ancienthistory#historydocumentary#homosexual
