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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 12:05:53 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 12:32:26 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/22/abigail-disney-twitter-furlough-coronavirus-pandemic-executives-paid/‘What The Actual F**k’: Abigail Disney Speaks Out On Disney Furloughs Abigail Disney has spoken out against Disney’s decision to furlough lower-paid employees after ensuring executives got paid. Disney, who is the granddaughter of Walt Disney’s brother Roy Disney, took to Twitter to slam the decision for theme parks to furlough workers after paying executives bonuses and dividends to shareholders. “WHAT THE ACTUAL F*** ??” Disney tweeted. “Look, dividends aren’t ALL bad, given the number of fixed income folks who rely on them. But still 80% of shares are owned by the wealthiest 10%. So that excuse only goes so far. But the REAL outrage is, of course, those bonuses…” The tweet came in response to an article published by the Financial Times claiming Disney was to stop paying 100,000 workers, which amounts to half of its workforce, in order to cut costs by an estimated $500 million per month. The furloughs also come after Bob Iger gave up his salary and Bob Chapek, plus other executives, took a 50% pay cut. (RELATED: REPORT: Bob Iger To Forgo Salary, Top Disney Executives Take Pay Cuts Amid Coronavirus Crisis) Disney said she was “quiet” in March when the top executives gave up their salaries because the salary is a “drop in the bucket.” “Mr Chapek could potentially earn an annual bonus ‘of not less than 300 per cent’ of salary, in addition to a long-term incentive award of ‘not less than $15m,'” Disney shared. “I told people to wait until we heard about the rest of the compensation package, since salary is a drop in the bucket to these guys,” Disney said in the thread. “The real payday is in the rest of the package By design because it is taxed differently.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 12:41:10 GMT -6
Looks like heads need to roll at the CDC from the top down. arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm/CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol. As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed. The contamination made the tests uninterpretable, and—because testing is crucial for containment efforts—it lost the country invaluable time to get ahead of the advancing pandemic. The CDC had been vague about what went wrong with the tests, initially only saying that “a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents” had led to the failure. Subsequent reporting suggested that the problem was with a negative control—that is, a part of the test meant to be free of any trace of the coronavirus as a critical reference for confirming that the test was working properly overall. Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times, federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination of the tests and their uninterpretable results. “Just tragic” Shortly after the problems became apparent in early February, the Food and Drug Administration sent Timothy Stenzel, chief of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the CDC to investigate what was going wrong. According to the Times, he found a lack of coordination and inexperience in commercial manufacturing. Problems that led to the contamination included researchers coming and going from labs working on the test kits without changing their coats and researchers sharing lab space to both assemble test components and handle samples containing the coronavirus. The CDC said in a statement Saturday to the Times that the agency “did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol.” Though the CDC appeared reluctant to admit contamination was at the root of the problem, the Times noted that in a separate statement the CDC seemed to acknowledge such problems, saying the agency has since “implemented enhanced quality control to address the issue and will be assessing the issue moving forward.” After the CDC first sent its test kit to states in early February, it took the agency around a month to fix the problem. By then, the virus had invaded many communities unimpeded, and any chance that the US had at containing its spread had virtually vanished. By mid-March, many states turned to mitigation efforts, such as social distancing, to try to blunt—rather than prevent—the life-threatening, healthcare-overwhelming effects of COVID-19. “It was just tragic,” Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told the Times. “All that time when we were sitting there waiting, I really felt like, here we were at one of the most critical junctures in public health history, and the biggest tool in our toolbox was missing.” As of the morning of April 20, the US has confirmed more than 760,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 40,700 deaths. The numbers are expected to be underestimates due to the slow and still limited amount of testing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 13:47:27 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 13:50:04 GMT -6
Suddenly, things begin to make sense:
In New York State the law required officials to bring COVID-19 patients back to nursing homes.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 13:52:47 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/22/cuomo-unemployment-essential-worker-coronavirus/Gov. Cuomo Tells Unemployed Americans To ‘Go Take A Job As An Essential Worker’ Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that unemployed Americans who have run out of money due to the coronavirus pandemic should “go take a job as an essential worker,” while dismissing concerns that increased economic hardship could lead to more death. “I understand the economic hardship. We all feel it,” Cuomo said. “The question is what do you do about it, and do you put public health at risk, and do you drive up the number of deaths for it, because you have no idea how to reopen now.” The reporter continued to press Cuomo, asking if there is a “fundamental right to work” if the government can’t disperse unemployment funds in a timely manner, and a person has already run out of money. Cuomo responded by telling New Yorkers who find themselves in that positions to go get a job at a workplace he has deemed “essential” and allowed to remain open. “By the way—you want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker. Do it tomorrow,” the governor said.
When the reporter pointed out that most companies aren’t currently hiring, Cuomo fired back.
“There are people hiring,” Cuomo said. “You can get a job as an essential worker. So, now you can go to work, and you can be an essential worker, and you’re not going to kill anyone.”New York is one of 43 states that has been placed under a stay at home order because of the virus. The shut down orders have forced businesses across the country to close, and led to tens of millions of unemployment claims in recent weeks.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 13:57:15 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/trending/michael-moore-admits-he-had-no-idea-where-the-juice-to-power-electric-cars-came-from/Michael Moore Admits He Had No Idea Where the Juice to Power Electric Cars Came From Michael Moore is out with a new film the media will hype but most Americans will never see. This speaks well of the latter and poorly of the former. In a Reuters story promoting Moore's latest, he admits: Moore said that he, like many people, thought electric cars were a good idea, “but I didn’t really think about where is the electricity coming from?” That's awesome. Moore has been going around for decades promoting politicians and policies that would basically wreck the economy. He wanted a coronavirus-level economic tsunami before we'd ever heard of Wuhan and its bats. But he had no idea what he was talking about. He continues. “I assumed solar panels would last for ever. I didn’t know what went into the making of them,” Moore added, referring to raw materials, including quartz, and the fossil fuels needed to manufacture the panels. What's the word I'm looking for here? Oh, right. Clueless. Michael Moore is clueless. I know, that's probably not news to most of our readers. But it's nice to see it confirmed from his own mouth. Michael Moore has pushed medical policy despite having no clue about it, and he has pushed environmental policy despite having no clue about that too. Let's take electric cars. They're not powered by peace, love and boutique dispensary pot. They're powered by a combination of oil, coal, natural gas, and the most heinous form of energy to some of the left -- nuclear power -- along with wind and solar. So that environmentally conscious and ostentatious Tesla you see zipping down the road isn't any better, really, than your gas car. Its emissions and consequences are just transferred from right where it is to somewhere else. If you're anti-nuke, electric cars are far worse. Never mind dirty coal. The batteries in those cars are highly toxic. Sometimes they spontaneously catch on fire. They require extensive mining, as do solar panels. Solar panels require rare earth minerals, for instance, and guess who currently controls a majority of the world's rare earth mineral sources? China. Those giant windmills? They're so big we can't crush them to put them in normal landfills and they'll probably never deliver enough energy to offset the amount of energy it takes to build them in the first place. As Michael Moore is belatedly figuring out, there is no free lunch...when it comes to energy.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 22, 2020 16:06:40 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/trending/michael-moore-admits-he-had-no-idea-where-the-juice-to-power-electric-cars-came-from/Michael Moore Admits He Had No Idea Where the Juice to Power Electric Cars Came From Michael Moore is out with a new film the media will hype but most Americans will never see. This speaks well of the latter and poorly of the former. In a Reuters story promoting Moore's latest, he admits: Moore said that he, like many people, thought electric cars were a good idea, “but I didn’t really think about where is the electricity coming from?” That's awesome. Moore has been going around for decades promoting politicians and policies that would basically wreck the economy. He wanted a coronavirus-level economic tsunami before we'd ever heard of Wuhan and its bats. But he had no idea what he was talking about. He continues. “I assumed solar panels would last for ever. I didn’t know what went into the making of them,” Moore added, referring to raw materials, including quartz, and the fossil fuels needed to manufacture the panels. What's the word I'm looking for here? Oh, right. Clueless. Michael Moore is clueless. I know, that's probably not news to most of our readers. But it's nice to see it confirmed from his own mouth. Michael Moore has pushed medical policy despite having no clue about it, and he has pushed environmental policy despite having no clue about that too. Let's take electric cars. They're not powered by peace, love and boutique dispensary pot. They're powered by a combination of oil, coal, natural gas, and the most heinous form of energy to some of the left -- nuclear power -- along with wind and solar. So that environmentally conscious and ostentatious Tesla you see zipping down the road isn't any better, really, than your gas car. Its emissions and consequences are just transferred from right where it is to somewhere else. If you're anti-nuke, electric cars are far worse. Never mind dirty coal. The batteries in those cars are highly toxic. Sometimes they spontaneously catch on fire. They require extensive mining, as do solar panels. Solar panels require rare earth minerals, for instance, and guess who currently controls a majority of the world's rare earth mineral sources? China. Those giant windmills? They're so big we can't crush them to put them in normal landfills and they'll probably never deliver enough energy to offset the amount of energy it takes to build them in the first place. As Michael Moore is belatedly figuring out, there is no free lunch...when it comes to energy. Oil? Natural gas? Coal? Or maybe just unicorn poo.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 16:11:58 GMT -6
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) responded Wednesday to a reporter asking about protesters outside his daily news conference in Albany calling for an end to the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus lockdown, saying that the resulting suicides and domestic violence were worth the price because the cost of the virus is “death” and is needed to save “my life” over those who commit suicide over their lives being ruined by the lockdown or victims of increased domestic violence from being locked in their homes with abusive partners for weeks without end. Shockingly, Cuomo said domestic violence does not equal death, when a recent study in Britain showed women in coronavirus lockdowns are getting killed by their male partners at at rate three times before the lockdowns were imposed.www.cbsnews.com/news/domestic-violence-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-3-times-higher-than-average-data-shows/The unknown reporter said to Cuomo that she spoke to the protesters before the press conference and explained to him their desperate situation, saying the protesters’ point was the cure can’t be was worse than the illness itself’. She also asked about those who commit suicide from not being able to pay their bills. Reporter: “I don’t know if you can hear but there are protesters outside right now honking their horns and raising signs. We did speak to a few of them before we came in and these are regular people who are not getting a paycheck. Some of them are not getting their unemployment check. And they’re saying that they don’t have time to wait for all of this testing and they need to get back to work in order to feed their families, their savings is running out, they don’t have another week, they’re not getting answers. So, their point is ‘the cure can’t be worse than the illness itself’. What is your response to that?” Cuomo: “The illness is death. What is worse than death?” Reporter: “But what if someone commits suicide because they can’t pay their bills? Cuomo: “Yeah, but the illness is maybe my death, as opposed to your death.” Cuomo: “You said they said, ‘the cure is worse than the illness’. The illness is death. How can the cure be worse than the illness if the illness is potential death?” Reporter: “But what if the, what if the economy failing…” Cuomo: “Worse than death?” Reporter: “…is, equals death, because mental illness, the people, the people stuck at home…” Cuomo: “No it doesn’t. No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t equal death. Economic hardship: Yes, very bad, not death. Emotional stress from being locked in a house: Very bad, not death. Uh, umm, domestic violence on the increase: Very bad, not death. And not death of someone else. See that’s what we have to factor in to this equation. Yeah, it’s your life, do whatever you want. But, you’re now responsible for my life. You have a responsibility to me. It’s not just about you. You have a responsibility to me, right? We started here saying, ‘it’s not about me, it’s about we’. Get your head about, around the ‘we concept’. So it’s not all about you, it’s about me too. It’s about we. Also, I get the economic hardship. Everybody gets it, everybody feels it, federal government is sending out a check uh, for individuals, six hundred dollars, an additional twelve hundred dollars. We are moving heaven and earth to get the unemployment uh, payments going. So, we get the economic anxiety. The question is how do you respond to it? And do you respond to it in a way that jeopardizes public health and possibly causes more people to die? And think about it as if it was your family that might get infected, right? And that’s what we’re talking about. And when you think about it as your family, you have a different perspective, I’ll tell you the truth. It’s not an abstract argument, well they say, ‘he says, she says, he says, she says’. I know that’s how it works: ‘Well, protesters say this, governor says this, protesters say this, governor says this’. Okay, think about it as your family might be in the mix. Because of when I see four hundred and eighty-four New Yorkers die, I feel that it’s like people in my family. And nothing comes before the public health risk of somebody else’s life and that’s where we are.” Reporter: “But they’re also saying, if you can’t afford to pay me unemployment, or you, or your system is not set up…” Cuomo: “You will be paid. You will be paid unemployment from the day…” Reporter: “But, they, they can’t wait, they can’t wait for the money. They’re out of money.” Cuomo: “Yeah. We’re talking about a couple of days lag on the unemployment insurance and they will get the check from the date of unemployment. Does not cost them an extra penny. Now, they can say, ‘unemployment insurance isn’t enough’, I get it. Uh, even with the six hundred dollar check and the twelve hundred dollar check and the unemployment insurance benefit is not enough. I understand the economic hardship, we all feel it. The question is what do you do about it? And do you put public health at risk? And do you drive up the number of deaths, for it? Because you have no idea how to reopen now.” Reporter: “But they’re saying that, ‘is there a fundamental right to work if the government can’t get me the money when I need it? Is there a fundamental right…” Cuomo: “Yeah,you wanna, by the way, you wanna go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker. Do it tomorrow.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2020 16:16:32 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/04/22/vegas-mayor-tells-smug-anderson-cooper-the-hard-truth-about-reopening-america/Vegas Mayor Tells Smug Anderson Cooper The Hard Truth About Reopening America Anderson Cooper was shocked that Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants to open the Strip, but has no answers for hotel workers. APRIL 22, 2020 By David Marcus In a CNN interview Wednesday, that was more like a botched hatchet job, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman sat down with Anderson Cooper. Goodman has taken the controversial position that hotels and casinos on the Vegas Strip should be opened. Cooper was aghast at the very thought of it and made his disdain felt throughout the entire 25-minute interview. It’s striking to watch Cooper move the goalposts from questioning the opening of the strip, to asking “so you don’t believe in social distancing?” It’s an off balance straw man. Social distancing exists on a spectrum, through hygiene and spacing, the spread of the virus can be reduced without closing every non-essential business. Cooper seemed absolutely gobsmacked when Goodman suggested that businesses themselves would find and implement methods to keep customers and employees as safe as possible, but ultimately this is what needs to happen, private businesses do not exist at the largesse of the government. It is important to understand that no governor of any state relaxing restrictions is forcing any business to open or any customer to go there. Rather, they are allowing free people the right to make their own choices. At some point don’t we need to get back to that? Isn’t that kind of central to the whole “freedom thing?” As Cooper harangued his guest with meme worthy “I can’t believe you said that” facial expressions, not the least bit interested in fleshing out anything she was saying, something telling occurred. Or, rather did not occur. When Goodman rightfully noted that reopening with no risk could not happen for over a year Cooper had absolutely no answer as to when they might be able to open. He chose to make the interview a debate, he chose the terms of the debate. It was a debate about when the Vegas Strip should open. But while the mayor was getting ripped on Twitter by smug CNN fans, the best Cooper could come up with was saying people not having jobs is “awful” but its too soon to open, we don’t know when it will be time, but we will be sure to let you know. That doesn’t put food on the table for hotel and casino workers in Nevada. From the outset of the virus, well, that’s not true, since CNN realized they could blame Trump for the virus, they have treated this as a moral issue, not a policy issue with legitimate competing interests. Nobody understands those competing interests better than mayors who will face severe budget shortfalls, huge unemployment, closed businesses, increased drug use and a host of social ills that hosts like Anderson Cooper don’t think matter compared to social distancing. But it’s not Anderson Cooper or anyone at CNN who will be dealing with the aftermath of this crisis in six months, they will be covering an election. It’s mayors like Carolyn Goodman who will have to be there for their communities and they deserve some modicum of respect and to be listened to. People need to hear what she thinks, presumably that’s why she was on. Everyone already knows what Anderson Cooper thinks; he just really loves saying it.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 22, 2020 17:58:51 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/04/22/vegas-mayor-tells-smug-anderson-cooper-the-hard-truth-about-reopening-america/Vegas Mayor Tells Smug Anderson Cooper The Hard Truth About Reopening America Anderson Cooper was shocked that Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants to open the Strip, but has no answers for hotel workers. APRIL 22, 2020 By David Marcus In a CNN interview Wednesday, that was more like a botched hatchet job, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman sat down with Anderson Cooper. Goodman has taken the controversial position that hotels and casinos on the Vegas Strip should be opened. Cooper was aghast at the very thought of it and made his disdain felt throughout the entire 25-minute interview. It’s striking to watch Cooper move the goalposts from questioning the opening of the strip, to asking “so you don’t believe in social distancing?” It’s an off balance straw man. Social distancing exists on a spectrum, through hygiene and spacing, the spread of the virus can be reduced without closing every non-essential business. Cooper seemed absolutely gobsmacked when Goodman suggested that businesses themselves would find and implement methods to keep customers and employees as safe as possible, but ultimately this is what needs to happen, private businesses do not exist at the largesse of the government. It is important to understand that no governor of any state relaxing restrictions is forcing any business to open or any customer to go there. Rather, they are allowing free people the right to make their own choices. At some point don’t we need to get back to that? Isn’t that kind of central to the whole “freedom thing?” As Cooper harangued his guest with meme worthy “I can’t believe you said that” facial expressions, not the least bit interested in fleshing out anything she was saying, something telling occurred. Or, rather did not occur. When Goodman rightfully noted that reopening with no risk could not happen for over a year Cooper had absolutely no answer as to when they might be able to open. He chose to make the interview a debate, he chose the terms of the debate. It was a debate about when the Vegas Strip should open. But while the mayor was getting ripped on Twitter by smug CNN fans, the best Cooper could come up with was saying people not having jobs is “awful” but its too soon to open, we don’t know when it will be time, but we will be sure to let you know. That doesn’t put food on the table for hotel and casino workers in Nevada. From the outset of the virus, well, that’s not true, since CNN realized they could blame Trump for the virus, they have treated this as a moral issue, not a policy issue with legitimate competing interests. Nobody understands those competing interests better than mayors who will face severe budget shortfalls, huge unemployment, closed businesses, increased drug use and a host of social ills that hosts like Anderson Cooper don’t think matter compared to social distancing. But it’s not Anderson Cooper or anyone at CNN who will be dealing with the aftermath of this crisis in six months, they will be covering an election. It’s mayors like Carolyn Goodman who will have to be there for their communities and they deserve some modicum of respect and to be listened to. People need to hear what she thinks, presumably that’s why she was on. Everyone already knows what Anderson Cooper thinks; he just really loves saying it. I could hve that attitude too if my mommy was rich as god - along with myself. He'll never have to sweat a check or rent or groceries. Just like all these elites. Wow. First Oscar and now Mrs. Oscar. I didn't know she was mayor.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 23, 2020 5:42:37 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 23, 2020 18:37:23 GMT -6
Bored? The comments here are outstanding.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 23, 2020 22:48:13 GMT -6
Thank goodness I tuned into Maddow. I found out that the first death in the Bay area in early January was Trump's fault. As are tens of thousands of other deaths. Who knew.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 24, 2020 1:01:17 GMT -6
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Post by redrex on Apr 24, 2020 6:22:04 GMT -6
Thank goodness I tuned into Maddow. I found out that the first death in the Bay area in early January was Trump's fault. As are tens of thousands of other deaths. Who knew. That Madcow is always on top of a story
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 24, 2020 7:29:21 GMT -6
Many of you have by now seen various photos of medical workers boldly standing in front of lock down protesters like they are in Tiananmen Square or something — but what the media hasn’t shown you is that the photos are being faked.
In an instance of photo staging by the media caught on Facebook Live, a car with lock down protesters comes to a stop at a traffic light. As soon as they did, a medical worker hopped in front of their car with photographers, had a few photos snapped, then crossed the street like nothing happened.
Some protest, right?!
The woman filming the staged photo-op quickly called the photographers out and urged them not to publish the faked photos.
“You’re a fraud!” she screamed as they walked off, never having actually protested.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 24, 2020 7:31:33 GMT -6
Bobby Kennedy Jr., the son of the late former US Attorney General and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, is warning the world of the perils of vaccinations. He claims the push for more vaccines is all about the money. Bobby Kennedy Jr. was on a podcast this past week where he dropped some bombs about the perils of vaccinations. In his interview at the 50:00 minute mark, Kennedy shares the following: You have the Vaccine Act of 86. Now you have a project that has no liability so they have no incentive to make it safe. Not only that they don’t have to test it and in fact they have an incentive not to test it because the only way you can get sued under the Vaccine Act is if you can show that the company knew of an injury and didn’t list it on the manufacturer’s insert. So there’s an incentive to know as little about the product as possible. And, you can’t sue them, and there’s no market force that keeps them in check. Because you can say that the vaccine is mandated for 78 million kids. And, so the industry got together and manufacturers said, holy cow, now we have a product that has no liability, and that’s the biggest cost for drugs. So they said, number one, we don’t have to test it, that’s a huge cost avoided. Number two, there’s no liability and that’s the biggest cost avoided. Number three, there’s no marketing or advertising costs, because it’s mandated. So it’s just like printing money. If you can get a vaccine on the CDC’s recommended schedule it averages about a billion dollars annually in pure profits for your company . When I was a kid I got three vaccines and was fully compliant and today’s kids get 72 vaccines. At the 59:00 minute mark, Kennedy shares the money and connections between Dr. Fauci and the Gates Foundation: Tony Fauci has many, many vaccine patents… and there’s one vaccine patent that he has that is a way of packaging a coronavirus with some other vaccine … in a protein sheet… and then delivering it through a vaccine… he somehow ended up owning that patent… Tony Fauci will be able to cash in …. So Fauci’s agency will collect half the royalties for that vaccine [related to the coronavirus]. Link to audio: www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/bobby-kennedy-jr-claims-dr-fauci-gates-foundation-will-make-billions-coronavirus-vaccine/
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 16:18:38 GMT -6
Video of former Democrat legislator and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams plotting to use re-districting to “stop white people” from governing has been uncovered. Abrams is being pushed as a possible Vice Presidential candidate for Joe Biden. The 2014 video, uncovered by Patrick Howley at the National File, reveals her plan to change the racial demographics of the electorate heading into the 2021 congressional and legislative re-districting efforts based on the 2020 Census. The comments were made at the 2014 Power PAC + National Conference, titled “Race Will Win the Race: The Progressive Path to Victory.” www.powerpacplus.org/conference_speakersMy eye is on 2021. Because when we do re-districting in 2021, if we have not changed the electorate, especially in the South, we will have a majority minority population that is governed by a minority white conservative coalition. And that’s the most dangerous precedent that we can possibly set for the South in the next 20 years,” Abrams said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 17:14:17 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 19:15:32 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nbcs-chuck-todd-touts-a-good-thing-about-this-economic-crisis-clean-air-and-good-viewsWATCH: NBC’s Chuck Todd Touts A ‘Good Thing About This Economic Crisis’: ‘Clean Air’ And ‘Good Views’ As millions of Americans lose their job, thousands lose their lives, and the economy faces total collapse, Chuck Todd of NBC wants everyone to reflect on the “good news” to arise from the COVID-19 pandemic: “clean air” and “good views.” During a Sunday broadcast of “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd closed out a segment by welcoming viewers to take pride in the clear skylines that are now happening due to everyone being forced indoors and not going to work.
“If there is a good thing about this economic crisis, it has been the clean air, and views we haven’t seen for a long time,” said Todd as the camera panned to a television screen showing before and after pictures of various skylines now free of pollution: Los Angeles, New Dehli, Paris.People on social media roundly roasted Todd for being so tone-deaf as Americans suffer unprecedented economic hardship. “Spoken like a true bubble dweller [who’s] still collecting his big paycheck…undeserved based on his performance,” said one Twitter user. “Have nonessential worker douche nozzle say it while he is receiving no income,” said another user. “Yes, as Chuck sits from his lofty perch drawing his million-dollar paycheck his view of the world is now unobstructed by the stench and grime of we deplorables,” said another. In the weeks since the lockdowns kicked into high-gear, environmentalists and their allies have used the COVID-19 pandemic to talk about how the sudden standstill of the economy has benefitted the earth. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that the pandemic was earth’s vengeance against humanity for our destruction of it through climate change. “Before Corona, after Corona, this is changing everything,” filmmaker Spike Lee recently said. “But you know why, the reason, I read an article about it, how pollution is clearing up, skies are clear, animals are coming out. I mean, you know, the Earth was angry at us. People may think I’m crazy that I believe it in my heart and soul, that we had gone too far and Earth said, ‘Hold up, we gotta change this.’” “We were killing this planet,” Lee continued. “And this time that everything was shut down, the Earth has come alive. Water is clear. … And the other day I read in The New York Times, LA had the clearest air in the world. Los Angeles! There was one day last week they had the cleanest air in the world, LA.” “One of the upsides of this whole drama is that we are forced to think together as a race,” said actor Idris Elba. “Our world has been taking a kicking. We have damaged our world, and it’s no surprise that our world is reacting to the human race.” “There’s no surprise that a virus has been created that is going to slow us down, and ultimately make us think differently about our world and ourselves,” he continued. “For me, that’s a stand-out thing that’s really obvious. This is almost like the world’s cry out. Like: ‘Hey, hey, hey — you’re kicking me, you know, and what you’re doing is not good, so I’ll get rid of you,’ — as any organism would do, is try to get rid of an infection. And maybe this is it for the world.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 21:49:44 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-goldblum-under-fire-for-questioning-anti-gay-anti-woman-aspects-of-islamJeff Goldblum Under Fire For Questioning Anti-Gay, Anti-Woman Aspects Of Islam So now people are blasting actor Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park”) because he dared to question the noticeable and verifiable anti-gay, anti-woman aspects of Islam. Speaking on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in a recent episode, Goldblum asked a Muslim about the more problematic aspects of the faith, which require women in certain countries to wear head-coverings, and leads to gay people being hanged in the public square. “Is there something in this religion that is anti-homosexuality and anti-woman? Does that complicate the issue? I’m just raising it and thinking out loud and maybe being stupid,” Goldblum asked, as reported by Page Six. Goldblum directed the question to Iranian-Canadian Jackie Cox (real name Darius Rose), who was wearing “a red and white striped caftan and a blue hijab with silver stars.” “You can be Middle Eastern, you can be Muslim, and you can still be American,” Cox said of the outfit. Cox wore the outfit as a means to represent religious minorities, not a representation of faith. “To be honest, this outfit really represents the importance that visibility for people of religious minorities need to have in this country,” Cox explained. Cox expressed misgivings about the treatment of LGBTQ individuals in the Middle East, while conceding it was a “complex issue.” As the clip went viral, Goldblum faced massive amounts of backlash from leftists and Islamist apologists accusing him of (yep) “Islamophobia.” “Jeff Goldblum felt the need to say ‘but isn’t Islam anti-gay and anti-woman’ to Jackie because she was wearing a stars-and-stripes hijab, as if America hasn’t been anti-gay and anti-woman from the outset, or killed and displaced millions of Muslims, including women and queers,” tweeted Muslim Omar Sakr. “America, and by extension Christianity, is forever allowed to be exemplified by the best of what it represents; Arabs and Muslims are forever and only allowed to be exemplified by the worst. This is not just tiresome, it’s also deadly in how it entraps a billion+ in villainy.” “Jeff Goldblum’s question about Islam to the performer wearing hijab always makes me wonder what folks say about us Muslims behind our backs. This was him holding back & trying to be sensitive. He’s well-traveled, informed & he’s from ‘liberal Hollywood.’ I wonder,” tweeted CNN contributor Wajahat Ali. “I really don’t need to see the islamophobic Jeff Goldblum clip on the second day of Ramadan so please stop sharing it and remember: if you bring up homophobia and sexism every time someone mentions Islam but not Christianity you’re racist. That’s it. You are,” said another user. Last week, acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said that the United States under President Trump’s watch will continue to seek the decriminalization of homosexuality in countries across the world. “If a country that we worked in as the United States intelligence community was arresting women because of their gender, we would absolutely do something about it,” said Grenell. “Ultimately, the United States is safer when our partners respect basic human rights.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 23:57:14 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 26, 2020 23:59:57 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/26/murder-burglary-soars-new-york-city-during-coronavirus-lockdown/Murder, Burglary Soars in New York City During Coronavirus Lockdown While New York City remains under lockdown orders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, major violent crime continues to soar. Cuomo implemented stay-at-home orders on March 20 that effectively force the closure of most businesses, except those deemed “essential,” to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Even with the lockdown, major crime categories such as murder, burglary, and auto theft have spiked across New York City. Over the last 28 days, in the middle of the lockdown, murders in New York City have jumped more than 55 percent compared to this same time last year, when there were no lockdown orders in place. Between April 13 to April 19, murders increased 100 percent compared to the same week last year. From year-to-date, murders are up by 5.7 percent. Likewise, grand larceny auto — a crime that no longer warrants bail in New York — has increased more than 53 percent compared to last year. Specifically, there have been 500 charges for auto theft in the last 28 days. During that same time in 2019, there were 326 charges for auto theft. Over the last week, grand larceny auto crimes across the city have jumped 50.5 percent and they are up more than 62 percent overall since the year before — the largest spike in crime year-to-date for any major category. The lockdown has also not stopped the rise of burglary in New York City — another crime that in many cases allows the suspect to be released from jail without ever paying bail. Burglaries are up by 25 percent in the last 28 days and up by more than 36 percent in the last week. From January 1 to April 19, burglaries are up 27.1 percent compared to this same time last year. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea told local media that burglary suspects are getting “released immediately” from jail due to existing bail laws. Though other crimes — such as rape, felony assault, and grand larceny — have brought down the total number of major crimes committed in New York City during the lockdown by 32.6 percent, overall crime is still up 4.6 percent year-to-date. The lockdown has dwindled the number of shootings and shooting victims in New York City but the overall year-to-date totals are still up. For instance, the number of shooting victims from January 1 to April 19 has increased 5.5 percent and total shootings have increased 4.1 percent compared to last year. At the beginning of the year, Cuomo implemented bail reform laws that eliminated bail for suspects accused of second-degree manslaughter, aggravated vehicular assault, third-degree assault, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, and about 100 other crimes. Simultaneously, Cuomo has ordered the release of thousands of inmates across New York to ensure prisons are abiding by social distancing guidelines. The New York Post has reported that at least 50 of the 1,500 inmates released in New York City have been rearrested for crimes.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 27, 2020 0:00:52 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/26/gates-criticism-of-china-coronavirus-deception-a-distraction-i-think-theres-a-lot-of-incorrect-and-unfair-things-said/Gates: Criticism of China Coronavirus Deception a ‘Distraction’ — ‘I Think There’s a Lot of Incorrect and Unfair Things Said’ During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic. Gates said it was not timely and it was also a “distraction.” “I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “You know, China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say they missed some things. Some countries did respond very quickly. They get their testing in place and they avoided the incredible economic pain. It’s sad that even the U.S. that you would have expected to do this well did it particularly poorly. But it’s not time to talk about that.” “This is the time to take the great science we have — the fact we’re in this together, you know, fixed testing, treatments, and get that vaccine and minimize the trillions of dollars and many things you that you can’t even dimensionalize in economic terms that are awful about the situation we’re in,” he continued. “So, that’s a distraction. I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said, but it’s not even time for that discussion.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 27, 2020 3:11:21 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/26/nancy-pelosi-fires-back-jake-tapper-tactical-mistake/Just Calm Down’: Nancy Pelosi Fires Back After Jake Tapper Suggests She Made ‘A Tactical Mistake’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNN anchor Jake Tapper to “just calm down” Sunday when he suggested that she may have made “a tactical error.” Tapper was referencing the latest coronavirus relief spending package and the fact that Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had allowed it to move forward without including state and local funding — which several states have said they desperately need. (RELATED: ‘No Money For The Post Office. Instead, Inject Lysol Into Your Lung’: Pelosi Uses Press Conference To Attack Trump) WATCH: Tapper began by suggesting that Pelosi and Schumer had compromised, saying, “You and senator Schumer made this major concession on the most recent legislation because you —” “It wasn’t a concession. It wasn’t a concession,” Pelosi interrupted, adding that state and local funding would be coming in the next package. “It was always an interim bill. We always said that C.A.R.E.S. II would be where we would go for state and local, and we will, in a big way,” she said. Tapper pointed out that some states — New York in particular — had been pushing hard for state relief to be included in that last package. Their situation could be further complicated since Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to oppose bailouts for the states. “So Cuomo says he would have insisted on state funding in the last bill. And now Senator McConnell is saying he wants to push the pause button. Was this a tactical mistake by you and Senator Schumer?” Tapper asked. “Just calm down,” Pelosi shot back. “We will have state and local and we will have it in a very significant way. It’s no use going into what might have been.” Pelosi continued to promise additional funding for state and local governments in an upcoming relief package, saying that the impatience of the governors impacted would only help Congress to come back with more money for them. “They should be impatient. Their impatience will help us get an even bigger number,” she explained.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 27, 2020 3:14:01 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/26/cuomos-new-york-inmate-arrested-rape-days-after-release-jail/An accused rapist released from Riker’s Island in New York due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Brooklyn days later. Robert Pondexter, 57-years-old, had been detained in jail on rape charges when he was released due the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) had ordered state prisons to release thousands of inmates to comply with social distancing guidelines. According to the New York Post, Pondexter was walking on a sidewalk when he allegedly forced a 58-year-old woman into a school parking lot. Pondexter, according to law enforcement, allegedly made the woman perform oral sex on him, choked her, and attempted to rape her. The woman was eventually able to kick Pondexter off of her. The attack occurred just 10 days after Pondexter had been released from Riker’s Island under Cuomo’s directives. Now, Pondexter has been charged with rape, sexual abuse, and criminal possession of crack cocaine. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office told News 12 that Pondexter’s “parole hold was lifted and he was released after it was revealed in court that his case was going to be dismissed because the victims were not cooperative,” explaining his release from Riker’s Island 10 days before the alleged rape. As of April 20, New York City had released more than 1,500 inmates from prisons due to the coronavirus even as some crime, such as car theft, has skyrocketed in the midst of Cuomo’s statewide stay-at-home orders.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 30, 2020 17:06:40 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 30, 2020 22:23:58 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/26/gates-criticism-of-china-coronavirus-deception-a-distraction-i-think-theres-a-lot-of-incorrect-and-unfair-things-said/Gates: Criticism of China Coronavirus Deception a ‘Distraction’ — ‘I Think There’s a Lot of Incorrect and Unfair Things Said’ During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic. Gates said it was not timely and it was also a “distraction.” “I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “You know, China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say they missed some things. Some countries did respond very quickly. They get their testing in place and they avoided the incredible economic pain. It’s sad that even the U.S. that you would have expected to do this well did it particularly poorly. But it’s not time to talk about that.” “This is the time to take the great science we have — the fact we’re in this together, you know, fixed testing, treatments, and get that vaccine and minimize the trillions of dollars and many things you that you can’t even dimensionalize in economic terms that are awful about the situation we’re in,” he continued. “So, that’s a distraction. I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said, but it’s not even time for that discussion.” Dr Gates was on CNN spreading his usual manure tonight. Unchallenged by AC100, of course.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 30, 2020 22:25:46 GMT -6
LGBTQIA
Intersex and asexual? WTF.
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