The Covid Story Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

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We’ve take another step forward in explaining the lasting effects of Covid in some patients — and the explanation, coming from British autopsies, just isn’t going to make anyone happy.

In turns out the spike protein that allows the virus to adhere and penetrate a cell can break off from the virus and act as an independent source of inflammation in the brain.

In examining the brains of people after death, and presumably long after exposure to Covid-19, British researchers found spike proteins lodge in cells of the brain.

The current theory is that the spikes can be collected by tiny crevasses or openings in the skull or even in the layer of cells separating brain tissue from the skull (the meninges). The fragments can build up over time and then cause inflammation and the resulting brain fog typical of “long Covid.”

Now, doesn’t that make you feel better?

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Babies and COVID-19

“Bottom line: You need to increase the amount of money you are saving. The near term goal should be to save one entire year of income. And that may not be sufficient.”

Save what money? Tens of millions are out of work because of COVID19, have no income or any hope of obtaining stable jobs, and what little money may be gotten through unemployment benefits is insufficient to even sustain life, let alone set money aside.

Without single-payer health insurance through the federal government, Americans are fucked. There is no other solution to the coming healthcare collapse. It’s already happening. We are merely at the beginning.

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Based on an analysis of data from 27,000 households in Wuhan, China:

1. Children in the first year of life are more likely than older children to contract COVID-19.
2. Children are 60% more likely to share the coronavirus with other members of the family than are adults, including the very elderly.(1)

Some infants get the coronavirus from the mother, either in the womb or during delivery. Some catch it later. After all, who doesn’t like to touch or hug a baby?

There remains a lot we don’t know, and the insurance industry is finally coming around to admitting what I’ve been saying since last summer:

“While it is still too early to know how many people will file claims for death, long-term illness or disability, insurers worry that the consequences could reverberate for decades to come.

“‘We have attempted as a company to strategize about modeling this and have made some…

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Dead in the Water: USS Liberty (BBC)

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Sick of Far Right Democrats Fucking EVERYTHING Up for the Rest of Us

Joe Biden helped overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine in 2014 and aided in installing a neo-Nazi regime, abused the power of his VP position again to get his coke-addled brat Hunter a seat on Burisma’s board despite him having no qualifications for the job that paid $50k a month, and then again by having the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired under threat of withholding a billion dollar loan to the Ukrainian coup government.

This is FACT, whether you admit it or not.

Caligula Drumpf, for all his ACTUAL crimes, was merely inquiring about that and allegations that the illegal server Hillary Clinton had used to hide her State Department communications had been stashed in that country.

Now, before you write me off as anyone remotely supportive of that orange-painted idiot, I point out that the boy is demonstrably guilty of emoluments violations, misappropriating federal funds to pay for his asinine border wall, caging children like dogs without adequate hygiene care and in an atmosphere of physical and sexual abuse, war crimes including the attacks on Syria and Afghanistan and now the assassination of an Iranian military leader, and his illegal travel ban, among other offenses.

THOSE are what Democrats SHOULD HAVE impeached him for, but most of them are COMPLICIT in those crimes, and so instead chose one they knew all along was entirely fabricated and based on ZERO credible evidence from people with proven records for LYING to the public.

How does this shit show NOT get that idiot re-elected, as Democrats AGAIN cheat the ONE candidate capable of defeating him at the polls to deny him the nomination in favor of some corporate whore who will only LOSE to the clown shoe?

Oh, and don’t even get me started on that far right hag Nancy Pelosi, who engaged in empty theatrics while extending a conciliatory hand to that degenerate in his SotU lie-fest last night, and has been his chief ENABLER in the House of Representatives giving him his border wall, his even more asinine space force, his cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and SNAP benefits not to mention even deeper cuts to public education and housing and have I mentioned any other public program she hasn’t been all too eager to help that kumquat annihilate on the “rationale” that “this is a capitalist country” (HER words)?

But THIS clown and her dishonest cohorts like Schiff and Schumer who ALSO enable that degenerate at every turn are somehow protecting the Constitution after helping him destroy it? NO NO NO NO NO, do NOT pretend that this mind-numbingly stupid display of empty political theater was at all for the sake of upholding the rule of law or the Constitution. If it ever was, then Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes, and Obama would all have been impeached, removed, and thrown into prison for life at hard labor without parole for their multitude of high crimes and (in many instances regarding Reagan and both Bushes) treason.

The TWO candidates with even a modicum of decency and common sense, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, are being sidelined and denied votes they clearly won in Iowa and other states that will soon be undergoing massive vote fraud courtesy of the far right DNC, all so they can ONCE AGAIN anoint a far right buffoon GUARANTEED to blow it in November against that fucking NAZI-wannabe, because God FORBID we get an actual liberal in the White House or have anyone left of Hitler taking over the no-longer-democratic-for-forty-years-now Democrat Party.

But hey, why exercise common sense or critical thinking when we can just blame Russians, third party candidates and voters who never came anywhere close to affecting electoral outcomes since 1992 when H. Ross Perot ran his campaign to punish George H.W. bush for letting taxes on the wealthy go up a smidgen? Because FUCK the liberal “purists” with all their high-minded principles demanding adherence to common sense, decency, and compassion for the least of society!

I’m pissed about Iowa and I’m pissed that my kids will live just long enough to see humanity go extinct from global climate change because idiots who never think to question tribalistic politics and never look at reality outside their tribalistic bubbles insist on playing pointless blame games while the planet literally burns. And I’m sick of having to listen to people whine about how awful Republicans are (although they truly are) while giving their enablers in the Democrat Party a free pass all the time and punching left.

Calling Bolton as a Witness would Backfire on Democrats in a Big Way

Impeachment news in the last week and a half was all a-flutter over alleged revelations by former secretary of state John Bolton and damning allegations in his latest book. Democrats seeking to remove Caligula Drumpf from his dictatorship position following his impeachment in the House are now cozying up to the warmonger in hopes that his testimony would achieve their aim of undoing the results of the 2016 election. There’s just one problem, though:

John Bolton is a serial liar and war criminal whose testimony would be at best unreliable and at worst a fatal blow to Democrats’ impeachment efforts. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who testified last year before the House on the lack of merits in the impeachment dog and pony show, explained why this would open up a can of worms. Here are three relevant paragraphs to consider:

A few hours after the start of the president’s defense, details from Bolton’s forthcoming book leaked, including his account of Trump asserting that $391 million in military aid would be withheld until Ukraine announced investigations into the 2016 election and the Bidens. If that seems a tad contrived for either an episode or an impeachment, that is because it is. In responding to a defense built around Trump’s insistence that his call was “perfect,” this leak was perfect to a fault. Perfect timing. Perfect content. It was so perfect that there is little doubt that the Senate is being played.

The leak happened at the exact time that it would inflict the most damage on the defense and throw the trial into disarray. It occurred hours after the White House team gave opening statements that seriously undermined critical points made by the House managers, including the assertions that Trump never previously raised corruption in other countries or that this type of hold on aid was uncommon. It felt like the sudden discovery of a gun near the victim at the scene of a police shooting.

That does not mean the leak will not succeed. The disclosure about Bolton’s book could well make the difference in securing the four Republican votes needed to obtain witnesses. But it could also succeed too well if it leads senators to plunge into the unknown of calling witnesses such as former vice president Joe Biden or his son Hunter. There are already indications that the leak may have secured the four votes for witnesses, while even Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) has said the Senate may need to subpoena the book draft itself.

Bolton’s testimony would be exposed as perjury, though it’s unlikely he’ll face serious consequences as he remains a darling of the neoconservative establishment that rules both the Republican and Democrat parties.

But it becomes even more damaging should Bolton’s leak result in a vote to bring in witness testimony.

Subpoenaing the Bidens would present a dilemma for Democrats. Joe Biden said he’d refuse to comply with any subpoena to testify, and I presume his son would also refuse a subpoena. Democrats are impeaching Drumpf in part because he refused to comply with subpoenas, thereby obstructing justice. If the Bidens do likewise, Democrats will be forced into the position of having to defend against their preferred candidate for the presidency doing exactly that for which they are attempting to impeach and remove the orange idiot from office.

I expect the Democrats to have no shame in engaging in such absurd efforts to justify crimes committed by their own party members while condemning those same crimes committed by Republicans. Hypocrisy is par for the course in Washington, D.C. and tribalistic politics. But it would likely sink what is left of Biden’s hopes for the nomination. Just as voters were fed up with Democrats running criminally corrupt Hillary Clinton in 2016, they will not turn out to throw their ballots away on the equally criminally corrupt Biden even if he somehow manages to go on to the general election.

What’s more, the Senate could easily issue a subpoena to the leaker, Eric Ciaramella, demanding his testimony. If that happens, Ciaramella—reported to be a registered Democrat and a Biden shill—cannot escape being exposed for the fraud he is and always has been. The GOPhers would have a field day over Ciaramella constructing a conspiracy narrative in which the Biden campaign sought to sabotage Drumpf through a C.I.A. officer loyal to Biden and through him, the political establishment Drumpf rightly claims is out to get him.

In short, calling Bolton opens up a can of worms Democrats are likely to regret ever having opened. Drumpf would absolutely be re-elected if the D.N.C. succeeds in denying Bernie Sanders the nomination for the presidency. That may be the preference of far right Democrats who are desperate to prevent a left-takeover of their party, but it’s tantamount to suicide—no, genocide—for humanity itself as climate change kicks into high gear while Drumpf’s policies send us over the climate tipping point.

Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative: First-Hand Account

Tulsi Gabbard Clear Winner of 2nd Debate

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Predictably, look for the fake foundation-funded “progressive” media to smear her and call it the work of invisible “Russian trolls.” Pathetic.

If you want to see Tulsi in the 3rd debate, she desperately needs donors, as little as $1. Do your part to push an anti-war, anti-interventionist policy.

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Deposed President of Honduras: What the US Did

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Just a little trivial game from Saint Obama and Hillary the Untouchable.

The coup turned Honduras into hell’: President Manuel Zelaya on 10th anniversary of overthrow by US

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The House Guest From Hell

Roosh Valizadeh: Rape Apologist

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#MeToo, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Hypocrisy, Les Moonves, Rape, Rape Culture, Roosh Valizadeh

This happened a couple of years ago, but in light of #MeToo, it’s still relevant. You may have heard of right-wing liar, extremist, and purveyor of toxic masculinity Roosh Valizadeh. He’s a dimwitted, fascist ass clown who writes regularly for his own blog, right-wing liefest Return of Kings (a sort of Infowars wannabe), and he makes dishonest videos for his own YouTube channel.

Roosh wrote an entry a couple of years ago blaming women for contributing to their own rape by supposedly failing to take necessary precautions and control their own behavior. You can read about it here, among other web sites.

“If a woman got raped, that is a sad thing. It’s a bad thing. But whose fault is it? Is it the woman’s fault? No, I’m not saying that,” Roosh said. “But a woman can do things to reduce the likelihood that she will get hurt. If I get a BMW car right now and I leave the key inside and park it in a bad area and it gets robbed, whose fault is that? Is it the thief’s fault, or is it my fault for being a moron?”

He also said that he doesn’t think the women who say Bill Cosby raped them are being “honest.”

“The evidence I’ve seen is girls wanting to be with him and take drugs with him, and then 20 years after that say he hurt them,” he said, trailing off skeptically.

When reporters pressed him on whether he had raped a woman he said was too drunk to legally consent in one of his books, Roosh dismissed it as “macho sex writing.”

Oh, little boy, you dare call yourself a man? Silly child. Oh, but wait, his degenerate whinefest got even better:

Pressed again on whether having sex with a woman too drunk to consent met the legal definition of rape, he shot back, “How about the man?” and later deflected: “You’re trying to redefine the definition of consensual sex so that every man is on the hook for rape.”

In an age when serial rapists like Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Les Moonves are finally being exposed and taken down for their crimes, Roosh Valizadeh is making lame excuses for them, and when rightly called out on it, acts like the massive hypocrite he is and refuses to take personal responsibility for his own words and actions. For a boy who regularly lectures others about personal responsibility, he sure has a suspicious aversion to it himself.

Maybe if Roosh Valizadeh didn’t have his head so far up his ass, he’d get enough oxygen to his brain and stop lying for a living. But that would require enough presence of mind to recognize he has a problem with his mental processes. And he can’t recognize it because he’s too busy posting stupid shit like blaming women for being raped.