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- Executive Producers:
- Dame Jennifer Wieda of the Gypsy Nation
- Barron dude named Ben defender of mega Watts defender of the electric bridge protector of civilization
- Sir Otto Otto Land Surveying
- Kim keeper of the nutty fluffer's
- Sir Kelly Spongberg and Dame Andrea Garnier Spongberg
- Associate Executive Producers:
- Dame Astrid Duchess of Japan and all the the Disputed Islands in the Japan Sea
- Caitlin and Chris O'Donnell
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- Sir Dude named Ben Defender of Megawatts protector of the Electric Grid -> Barron dude named Ben defender of mega Watts defender of the electric bridge protector of civilization (protectorate: the North American electric grids)
- Knights & Dames
- Anonymous -> Sir Manila Envelope Only
- Bored Stupid -> Sir Bored Stupid
- End of Show Mixes: Sir Chris Wilson - Gucci Dragons - Pepe LA - Eric Colburn
- Engineering, Stream Management & Wizardry
- Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
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- Ida
- Louisiana no workers 21 days to restore some services
- Louisiana help from Jeremy Allen
- Supply drops are 8am to 6pm.
- Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd., Houma.
- Teche Action Clinic, 189 Mozart Drive, Houma.
- Ward 7 Community Center, 5006 La. 56, Chauvin.
- Montegut Recreation Center, 107 Recreation Drive, Montegut.
- Thibodaux Family Church 785 North Canal Blvd. Thibodaux.
- Raceland Ag Center 100 Texas St., Raceland.
- Lockport Central Station 806 Crescent Ave., Lockport.
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church 723 North Bayou Drive, Golden Meadow.
- The Hospitality Hub website, lafayettetravel.com/hospitality-hub, has launched to connect those displaced by Hurricane Ida with hotels, disaster relief and things to do while in Lafayette.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reviving its Operation Blue Roof program to get as many houses into livable condition as possible during Hurricane Ida recovery.
- Residents can sign up for the program at blueroof.us. Call 1-888-ROOF-BLU (1-888-766-3258) for information about the program.
- I don't see FEMA yet, but they claim people can start registration for snap benefits and disaster assistance.
- Again thank you. Today is my wife and I 21st wedding anniversary. Even eating potted meat by the generator smoke, we never had a fight...
- God Bless you and our people.
- Pfizer Marketing
- The Big Pharma Swamp
- 1. the case of Fred Hahn:
- He authorized Moderna's vaccine 6 months ago. Now, ex-FDA chief Hahn joins biotech's backer
- https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/six-months-after-granting-moderna-covid-19-eua-ex-fda-commish-joins-biotech-s-founding
- "But now, Hahn will head for another high pressure environment: biotech investing. He is now joining Flagship, the venture fund that birthed Moderna, the very company that earned Hahn's nod six months ago.
- Under Hahn's watch, the FDA granted emergency use authorization to the company's COVID-19 vaccine just behind a similar OK for Pfizer and BioNTech's jab. Tens of millions of Americans have now received a Moderna shot."
- 2. the case of Emer Cooke, a long time lobbyist of the pharmaceutical industry:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210416081355/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emer_Cooke
- "Starting in 1985, she held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry and from 1991 to 1998 she was a board member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), a lobbying organisation of the largest European pharmaceutical companies.[4][5] There she spent eight years lobbying for the "Big 30" of the European pharmaceutical industry, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novartis, and Johnson & Johnson.[6]
- She was appointed as Head of Regulation of Medicines and other Health Technologies with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016,[3]. In November 2020 she was appointed Executive Director of the EMA,[1] also taking the position of chairperson at the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) at the same time.[2] "
- Joe Rogan Says He Has COVID-19 And Is Taking Unproven Drug Ivermectin : NPR
- In an Instagram video, the 54-year-old host of the Joe Rogan Experience, said he felt "very weary" on Saturday and got tested for COVID-19 the following day.
- "Throughout the night I got fevers, sweats, and I knew what was going on," Rogan told his 13.1 million followers.
- After the diagnosis, he said he "immediately threw the kitchen sink at it."
- Rogan says he took a drug the FDA urges people not to use
- That included taking ivermectin, a deworming veterinary drug that is formulated for use in cows and horses. While a version of the drug is sometimes prescribed to people for head lice or skin conditions, the formula for animal use is much more concentrated. The Food and Drug administration is urging people to stop ingesting the animal version of the drug to fight COVID-19, warning it can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, neurologic disorders and potentially severe hepatitis requiring hospitalization.
- FDA omitted the advisory board
- The refusal of the FDA and its Acting Director, Janet Woodcock, to convene its Drugs Advisory Committee for discussion of the Pfizer and BioNTech decisions is even more shocking as in June three members of that same panel resigned in protest for being disregarded in another drug approval. NPR network reported, “Three experts have now resigned from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee after the agency approved an Alzheimer’s drug called Aduhelm against the wishes of nearly every member on the panel.” One of the three, Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, in his resignation letter from the FDA Advisory Committee (June 10, 2021), wrote: “For both eteplirsen and aducanumab, the decisions by FDA administrators to ignore the Advisory Committee’s clear recommendations led to their approval of two highly problematic drugs that offered little evidence that they would meaningfully benefit patients…With eteplirsen, the AdComm (Advisory Committee) and FDA’s own scientific staff reported that there was no convincing evidence that the drug worked; both groups were overruled by FDA leadership… “
- Booster Schedules
- In a previous job I had to keep track of immunizations in a school, and if there was an outbreak of some disease then notify parents of unvaccinated children that they'd need to stay home until the outbreak was over. I never had to do this, but in my son's school there was an outbreak (3 students) of whooping cough (pertussis) and he was supposed to stay home (my boys had waivers - I'm pretty much a no-vaxer). And, as it turns out, my other son had whooping cough that he got, likely from school, but it appeared the day before Christmas break started, so he only was out of school (because he was sick and I didn't think he'd be any good at school that day) for a half day.
- But these are the shots and number of shots/doses (both terms are used on the paperwork.
- Hepatitis B [Hep B] --- 4 or waiver
- Hepatitis B - 2 dose [Hep B - 2 dose] ---2 or waiver on each of the following.
- Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, combined [DTaP, DTP] --- 5 with a booster at age 13
- Hemophilus Influenza, type B [Hib] --- 5
- Varicella (chicken pox) --- 2
- Measles-Mumps Rubella [MMR] --- 2
- This was until the year about 2010.
- There are other recommended vaccines, like flu, HPV, Meningococcal etc, but they're not required.
- Top FDA vaccine regulators rush for the exits, resign posts as Biden jumps the gun on booster jabs
- While there was no official reason given for their departure, a former FDA bigwig told biotech outlet Endpoints that the pair complained that the CDC, and specifically its Advisory Committee on Immunization (ACIP), had seized the right to make decisions that had previously been left up to the FDA. The researchers were also supposedly upset with Marks for not standing up for them against the CDC. The Biden administration’s decision to announce a third round of mRNA “booster” shots without consulting them was merely the last straw.
- After finally supplying its approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine eight months after they were authorized on an emergency-use basis, the FDA hinted last week that it would be making a booster shot of the mRNA-based drugs available on September 20th to those who’d received their second doses eight months prior.
- Mandates
- Enamel pin with yellow star BOTG
- Today, September 1st, is Day #1 of the COVID Clampdown, a hospital-wide initiative to try to force doctors and nurses who refuse the “vaccine” to either take it or quit. We were all given an enamel pin on which is emblazoned, “All in This Together! Doing My Part at Meritus,” Meritus Medical Center, that is, otherwise known as “Meritless” or “Murderous,” depending on the unit you’re on and what kind of a day you had there. The hospital suits are not quite mandating the “stab,” but if you refuse it, you must consent to nasopharyngeal swabbing for a PCR test every week, a process that cannot be done on site but at some remote location with inconvenient hours which force people to test on Saturdays. I am, of course, refusing the needle, and I’m celebrating my new marginalized status by wearing my commemorative pin over a paper yellow 6-point star.
- Fortunately I am not alone, and I am enjoying the company of a few other doctors and a bevy of truly woke nurses, ward clerks, lab technicians, and medical assistants. The fight is afoot!
- Paying kids to get tested at school
- Black Balls
- So one of my employee tells me over the weekend , his friend went and got his vaccine , and within 2 days he was "feeling off" and decided to go to the hospital after having chest pains . He wound up spending 3 days hospitalized , he said his balls turned black , and was hemorrhaging in different parts of his body , had to be resuscitated once .
- he had received the J & J Vaccine
- thought you'd like to know
- WHO covid app - Blockchain
- The World Health Organization has just released a guiding document for a digital vaccine certificate that will be blockchain based. This will be used to implement a vaccine passport in every country. It’s funded by the Bill & Melinda Gate’s Foundation & Rockefeller Foundation.
- New Victoria restrictions
- However, from 11.59pm on Thursday 2 September, playgrounds will re-open – with strict rules to keep everyone
- safe. Playgrounds will be for children under 12 with only one parent or carer, and adults should not remove their
- masks to eat or drink. Playgrounds will also have QR codes for checking in.
- In-home care – like babysitters – will also be expanded to school aged children but only if both parents are
- When 70 per cent of Victorians have had at least one vaccine dose we will look to ease restrictions a little further.
- At that point, the 5km radius will expand to 10km – so exercise and shopping can take place up to 10km from your
- home. If there’s no shops in your 10km radius, you’ll be able to travel to the ones closest to you.
- WHO covid app - Blockchain
- The World Health Organization has just released a guiding document for a digital vaccine certificate that will be blockchain based. This will be used to implement a vaccine passport in every country. It’s funded by the Bill & Melinda Gate’s Foundation & Rockefeller Foundation.
- Vaxx Pass Fuckup
- This just happened to me yesterday and I had to share. I made an appointment for the j & j jab at a Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. Showed up for my appointment, checked in, filled out paperwork and was told to wait. Behind the sneeze guard I watched the nurse fill out my vax freedom passport in front of my very eyes, stickers and all. I asked how long the wait was and she said over an hour… I told her I would need to leave then because I had to get back to work and was under the impression this was a 10 minute appointment, not an hours long ordeal. What happened next stunned me. Not sure if I gave her the secret nod or what happened but she handed me my fully filled out vaccine card and told me to be sure to come back later. I walked out of there so fast before she could realize what she had just done. Hello fweedom!
- Healthcare Collapse
- Nurses leave shoes at hospital door as they lose jobs
- Afghanistan
- If you want to know who's running Biden, clue may be found in who is targeting them by leaking Biden's calls with foreign leaders.
- TAPI pipeline is back in play
- In March, the Taliban were surprise guests of honor at a US-brokered meeting in Ashgabat, between representatives of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – the four participating members of the long-awaited TAPI pipeline. The group assured attendees that they weren’t merely committed to not attacking the project’s infrastructure, but would actively ensure its safety and that of any and all other “developmental projects” in the country.
- Reuters: Excerpts of call between Joe Biden and Ashraf Ghani July 23
- BIDEN: You know, I am a moment late. But I mean it sincerely. Hey look, I want to make it clear that I am not a military man any more than you are, but I have been meeting with our Pentagon folks, and our national security people, as you have with ours and yours, and as you know and I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban.
- And there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.
- BLM Noodle Gun
- Jeopardy Exec is proof of how they talk AND that podcasting weeds out the douchebags
- Be Better Producers!
- The screen shot no link phenomenon
- The Purge
- DHS Warning
- Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) assess that Homegrown Violent Extremists (HVEs) are unlikely to initiate or accelerate attack plotting solely in response to the upcoming 20th anniversary of 9/11. However, the HVE threat remains difficult to predict and media produced by Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) referencing 9/11 attacks is likely to reinforce HVEs’ anti-US sentiments.
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- Apple analyst Kuo: iPhone 13 will likely support satellite connection
- CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, September 10, 2019.
- (This story is for CNBC PRO subscribers only.)
- Apple is "optimistic about the trend of satellite communications" and "will likely" include the ability to connect to extraterrestrial networks in its coming iPhone 13, TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted in a note to investors on Sunday.
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- Rachel Maddow Wins Big with MSNBC Contract Extension
- After losing his gig as overnight personality at now-defunct radio station Mix 105 in New York, Steve Kamer knew his best route to a lucrative life in broadcasting was going full throttle into a voice-over career.
- ''The choice was not mine, but the decision was easy to make,'' Kamer told BNM.
- He was able to parlay 17 years as a ''terrible jock'' into his on-air reinventing for himself.
- By the time Kamer was ''transitioning'' as air personality, he was already the announcer for NBC's Today show.
- Over the next three decades, Kamer has established himself as a leading sound for many media companies.
- Despite decades of high-profile voice-over work, with an upbeat and energetic style, there is no resting on any laurels for Kamer, 58, who is still working with coaches to hone and refine his style.
- ''It's how you stay at the top of your game and not become a flash in the pan,'' Kamer said. ''Even though I'm working at what some would consider 'the peak,' there's the next peak.''
- He just concluded work for the Olympics on NBC. For two weeks you heard him primarily announcing sponsor billboards. His voice-over work in the sports division goes back to the early 1990s. But under the new management his vocal responsibilities are only needed every two years.
- Kamer is also the voice of CBS Radio's Top of the Hour network newscasts. However, since Entercom took over (and since changed to Audacy), he isn't allowed to air on the affiliates.
- He is the local and network branding voice for Saga Communications' cluster of news/talk stations.
- ''In their case, Scott Chase, who's the group PD, likes the idea of having the network voice doing the local promos,'' Kamer said.
- Along with the news entities, Kamer ''found his voice'' in daytime talk shows. His promo list could be part of a Paley Center exhibit. He estimates being heard on 20 programs over the years'--Montel Williams, Geraldo, Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ananda Lewis among them and currently Tamron Hall.
- Others are familiar with Kamer for joining the final season of Judge Judy after original announcer Jerry Bishop died.
- Style aside, Kamer says he separates himself with customer service.
- ''If somebody commits to you as their announcer, you're expected to be available when they need you,'' Kamer said.
- That means if he's on vacation, Kamer is still expected to produce as necessary for his clients.
- ''I have a portable travel studio that I set up in the hotel room,'' Kamer said.
- Early in his voice-over career, he decided to create a home studio and be more accessible to his clients, while also saving himself from the commuting headaches.
- ''The bad news is everybody who has a home studio can compete for the same work,'' he said.
- The technical set-up doesn't feature many bells and whistles. He uses all Apple products, including a Mac mini. But there is no separate announcer booth for Kamer.
- ''The whole room is padded and the sound is great,'' he said.
- In 2018, Kamer left the studio to surprise Steve Harvey, who never met his announcer, as he was interviewed from the audience about being single and taking care of his 92-year-old mother.
- For Kamer, who hails from South Jersey, it started in radio at just 14 years old. His upbringing helped align the stars for his microphone mentality. At an early age, Kamer would sample stations from New York City and Philadelphia during the day and other markets at night.
- ''I always was intrigued by listening to voices on radio, and ultimately on television.'' Kamer said.
- The broadcasting bug bit as a youngster as his parents took him to several game show tapings in Manhattan and he was mesmerized by the announcers, especially watching the legendary Don Pardo do the audience warm-up for the original Jeopardy! on NBC.
- The love for the industry was there and so was the voice.
- ''Even at a young age, I had a voice that stood out,'' he said. ''It didn't have a New Jersey accent, which I think was probably a plus.''
- During the Olympics, Kamer had to block out time each morning to record the latest scripts for producers in Stamford, CT. There was overall a lead time of two days from producing the audio to airing.
- ''They want to call or page, and have you immediately drop what you're doing, get on the microphone and record with them,'' Kamer said. ''I always put my best voice forward.''
- Breaking news could also force Kamer to quickly rerecord a new promo for shows like Tamron Hall even just hours before airtime.
- Many weekdays Kamer can get in his recording booth at 8 a.m. and not finish until midnight.
- To New York area sports fans, Kamer is the voice of the YES Network with his famous ''Only on YES!'' delivery. He's been with the Yankees' broadcast home since its inception in 2002.
- ''TV pays the bills, but radio is very exciting,'' Kamer said. ''There's just no way around it. It's immediate. I like to record something, hear it on the air and know that I'm a part of the overall station.''
- He's recently got a three-year renewal to remain as the voice of WGN Radio in Chicago.
- ''People commit for long periods of time because they don't want you to go somewhere else in the market,'' he said.
- So, the value of voice affords him ''some sense of stability in a job that's considered a freelance job.''
- Even more so than traditional broadcasting, the voice-over business is highly competitive.
- ''There are a lot of great voice-over announcers, but there's one Steve Kamer,'' he said proudly. ''That's the mantel I claim. I play in my own sandbox.''
- The next generation of voice-over artists ask him often how they can also become successful. He said a good voice isn't enough. It can't be a hobby; you need a coach and demo tape that stands out and shows your strongest assets.
- ''You can't come across as desperate,'' he said.
- While every gig is important and treated with the same care by Kamer, he delineates the work, for example: ''When I'm doing a radio station in Atlantic City, Des Moines, or Nashville, I put on a voice that's reflective of wearing a pair of jeans or khakis,'' Kamer said. ''When I'm doing the Olympics, I put on my tuxedo voice.''
- Typically, he works independently without direction, a process he considers ''more efficient.''
- ''You might listen after a while and say, 'They all sound the same.' And maybe they do. But I try to give each one a little bit of its own uniqueness.''
- Kamer has to ''own the copy'' by fact-checking and, obviously, confirming any confusing pronunciations.
- CNN viewers were likely hearing him on promos in the run up to the cable network's airing of the NYC Homecoming Concert on August 21.
- However, his popularity has not translated into commercial work.
- ''[They] have not been an area that I've had a lot of success in,'' Kamer admitted.
- Another part of voice-overs that eludes Kamer are movie trailers and network prime-time promos.
- ''That's a hard one. That really borders on being a good actor,'' Kamer said. ''Although the jobs that I do require some acting, those movie trailers and network promos require all acting.''
- Those artists are storytellers and ''the minute I put on the headphones and read a script, I'm not as good a storyteller as many of the people who are currently booking them,'' he confessed. ''I haven't given up on those things, but those don't come as easily for me. I would say that a lot of the people who do movie trailers and network promos can't easily transition to what I do.''
- He was able to separate himself from those high-profile movie announcers who missed out on work for months during the pandemic. Kamer, though, has been busy throughout for his radio and TV gigs, including Inside Edition.
- ''The style changed in many cases. I couldn't be as hard hitting and abrasive in some reads. I had to pull it back and reflect what's going on in the world, even in subtle differences,'' Kamer said.
- You'll also find him doing narration work for the Smithsonian Channel, but ''you really have to stay committed and interested in the subject matter.''
- Despite his many assignments over the years, few people outside of the industry connect the dots to Kamer's work.
- ''My voice is a celebrity. I'm not. Only my voice is famous.'' Kamer said. ''It's exciting to be out and hear my voice on the TV or radio somewhere. But I like the anonymity of being in a room and not being known as the announcer guy.''
- That cache as a voice on marquee projects has helped bring more big-name jobs.
- Kamer is not worrying about spreading his voice too thin.
- ''If someone recognizes the voice, that's fine,'' he said. ''But we want the voice to sort of be in the background and the message to be in the foreground.''
- Sometimes his voice literally is spread too thin with a cold, or worse, laryngitis. Instead of it being a deal breaker, Kamer has been able to use the huskiness to his advantage.
- ''I've booked the job and then I can't duplicate it when my voice gets better,'' Kamer laughed.
- Upon a visit to Atlantic City you might hear Kamer welcoming guests to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, where ''they blast my voice with announcements constantly.''
- Plus, using his fondness for transportation and his Jersey roots, he ''greets'' PATH train riders with next stop alert and the famous ''please stand clear of the closing doors.''
- He also enjoys being heard on a handful of New Jersey radio stations.
- ''It's just really cool to be on local stations that you grew up listening to,'' Kamer said.
- When it comes to picking projects, Kamer needs to feel passionate about the topic.
- ''It's not driven by money,'' he admitted.
- Despite that, Kamer was intrigued by the chance to earn his annual radio salary in a month of voice-over work.
- That said, his rates are based on various factors, including market size and amount of copy per month.
- ''A local radio station isn't going to pay the same as NBC Sports. That would be ridiculous,'' Kamer said.
- With a great career that shows no sign of slowing, Kamer occasionally wonders ''what if''?
- ''Had radio continued to embrace me as a jock, I might still be doing it today,'' he said.
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- FDA warns health care workers to stop using N95 masks made by one Chinese manufacturer - pennlive.com
- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health gives this example of typical markings on approved filtering facepiece respirators.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert to health care providers about certain N95 respirator face masks.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has revoked its approval of N95 respirator face masks manufactured by Shanghai Dashen Health Products Manufacturing Co.
- The FDA said the approvals were revoked ''because the company did not implement, maintain, and control a quality management system. All previously authorized Shanghai Dasheng respirators are no longer authorized for emergency use as a result of the loss of NIOSH-approval.''
- The FDA provided the NIOSH approval numbers that are no longer valid. The numbers appear on the respirator. This also includes other brands manufactured by Shanghai Dashen.
- N95 and KN95 face masks have been in high demand since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The FDA said, an N95 respirator face mask ''is a respiratory protective device designed to achieve a very close facial fit and very efficient filtration of airborne particles. The edges of the respirator are designed to form a seal around the nose and mouth.''
- The revoked approval numbers are - TC-84A-4329, TC-84A-4330, TC-84A-4331, TC-84A-4332, TC-84A-4334, TC-84A-4335, TC-84A-4336, TC-84A-4337, TC-84A-4398, TC-84A-4399, TC-84A-4400, TC-84A-4401, TC-84A-4463, TC-84A-4464, TC-84A-4465, TC-84A-4466, TC-84A-4467, TC-84A-4468, TC-84A-4469, TC-84A-4470, TC-84A-4471, TC-84A-4472, TC-84A-4473, TC-84A-4483, TC-84A-4484, TC-84A-4485, TC-84A-4486, TC-84A-4487, TC-84A-8150, TC-84A-8425, TC-84A-8543, TC-84A-8544, TC-84A-8545, TC-84A-8546, TC-84A-8547, TC-84A-8634, TC-84A-8635, and TC-84A-8636.
- The FDA said there are ''serious concerns with the quality'' of the N95 respirator masks manufactured by Shanghai Dasheng.
- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health maintains a list of equipment it has approved.
- On its website, Shanghai Dasheng said the issue involves counterfeit masks using its company's NIOSH approval numbers.
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- Pfizer Is Now Developing A Twice-Per-Day COVID Pill That Must Be Taken Alongside Vaccines - National File
- Pharmaceutical megacorporation pfizer is now developing a COVID pill that is meant to be taken alongside the COVID vaccines that have already made the company a staggering amount of money. The new pill is expected to be released by the end of the year and will be required to be taken twice per day.''Success against #COVID19 will likely require both vaccines & treatments,'' Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Wednesday. ''We're pleased to share we've started a Phase 2/3 study of our oral antiviral candidate-specifically designed to combat SARS-CoV-2-in non-hospitalized, low-risk adults.''
- Success against #COVID19 will likely require both vaccines & treatments. We're pleased to share we've started a Phase 2/3 study of our oral antiviral candidate'--specifically designed to combat SARS-CoV-2'--in non-hospitalized, low-risk adults: https://t.co/su5VtfbWPX
- '-- AlbertBourla (@AlbertBourla) September 1, 2021
- Pfizer also put out a press release the same week that proclaimed, ''If successful, [the drug] has the potential to address a significant unmet medical need, providing patients with a novel oral therapy that could be prescribed at the first sign of infection, without requiring hospitalization.'' The company described the drug as an '' investigational orally administered protease inhibitor antiviral therapy designed specifically to combat COVID '' 19 '' in non '' hospitalized, symptomatic adult participants who have a confirmed diagnosis of SARS '' CoV '' 2 infection and are not at increased risk of progressing to severe illness , which may lead to hospitalization or death .''
- Media corporations have already expressed excitement about the new pill, and Pfizer is so confident that the pill will be swiftly approved and mandated by governments that it has already started a production line before the end of clinical trials.
- Twice a day Covid pill by Pfizer pic.twitter.com/S5guXlcm7z
- '-- Osler (@osler78) September 1, 2021
- Other companies are also hard at work on COVID pills to be taken indefinitely while governments and media corporations focus on COVID.
- In Singapore, a 16-year-old boy was ruled to be eligible for a $225,000 settlement this week after suffering a myocarditis cardiac arrest event that doctors ruled was likely in response to receiving his first dose of the Pfizer BionTech vaccine, with the Ministry of Health stating, ''The myocarditis was likely a serious adverse event arising from the COVID-19 vaccine he received, which might have been aggravated by his strenuous lifting of weights and his high consumption of caffeine through energy drinks and supplements.''
- COVID-19 May Cause Erectile Dysfunction, Claims Preliminary Research
- COVID-19 May Cause Erectile Dysfunction, Claims Preliminary Research
- In the initial steps of the study, scientists analysed testicular tissues of six men who died of Covid-19 infection. (Representative image)
- In the initial steps of the study, scientists analysed testicular tissues of six men who died of Covid-19 infection.A team of researchers at the University of Miami in the United States has discovered that Covid-19 infection can cause problems related to the male reproductive system. The scientists found that in one of the subjects of their study, the Covid-19 virus was still present in his testicles even after the infection had cleared up. Two other patients had developed severe erectile dysfunction after their recovery from Covid-19. However, the research is a preliminary study and the studied sample size was small.
- In the initial steps of the study, scientists analysed testicular tissues of six men who died of Covid-19 infection. The researchers found that one of the men had the Covid-19 virus present in his testicles, while three others had their sperm levels decreased after the infection. In a patient who survived the Covid-19 infection, the coronavirus was present in his testicles despite that the infection had cleared up. The scientists took tissue samples from two patients seeking penile implants and analysed them. The researchers found that even after nine months of their infection, the virus was present in their penises and reduced the blood supply reaching the male reproductive part. This effect caused severe erectile dysfunction in the two men even after their recovery.
- According to Ranjith Ramasamy, an associate professor of Urology at the University of Miami, the study is just the first step in understanding how the Covid-19 virus affects men's reproductive health. Ramasamy is one of the authors of the study that was published on May 7 in the World Journal of Men's Health. The researchers say that the study is the first to detect the presence of the coronavirus in the human penis.
- ''These findings are not entirely surprising. After all, scientists know other viruses invade the testicles and affect sperm production and fertility,'' Ramasamy said in a statement. The other viruses that can affect sperm production after infection include mumps and Zika viruses.
- According to the researchers, while the Covid-19 virus can pose a risk to men's reproductive health, the vaccines are entirely safe for the male reproductive system.
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- A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse' | WIRED
- Scientists have known for decades that an extreme solar storm, or coronal mass ejection, could damage electrical grids and potentially cause prolonged blackouts. The repercussions would be felt everywhere from global supply chains and transportation to internet and GPS access. Less examined until now, though, is the impact such a solar emission could have on internet infrastructure specifically. New research shows that the failures could be catastrophic, particularly for the undersea cables that underpin the global internet.
- At the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference on Thursday, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi of the University of California, Irvine presented ''Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse,'' an examination of the damage a fast-moving cloud of magnetized solar particles could cause the global internet. Abdu Jyothi's research points out an additional nuance to a blackout-causing solar storm: the scenario where even if power returns in hours or days, mass internet outages persist.
- There's some good news up front. Abdu Jyothi found that local and regional internet infrastructure would be at low risk of damage even in a massive solar storm, because optical fiber itself isn't affected by geomagnetically induced currents. Short cable spans are also grounded very regularly. But for long undersea cables that connect continents, the risks are much greater. A solar storm that disrupted a number of these cables around the world could cause a massive loss of connectivity by cutting countries off at the source, even while leaving local infrastructure intact. It would be like cutting flow to an apartment building because of a water main break.
- ''What really got me thinking about this is that with the pandemic we saw how unprepared the world was. There was no protocol to deal with it effectively, and it's the same with internet resilience,'' Abdu Jyothi told WIRED ahead of her talk. ''Our infrastructure is not prepared for a large-scale solar event. We have very limited understanding of what the extent of the damage would be.''
- That information gap mostly comes from lack of data. Severe solar storms are so rare that there are only three main examples to go off of in recent history. Large events in 1859 and 1921 demonstrated that geomagnetic disturbances can disrupt electrical infrastructure and communication lines like telegraph wires. During the massive 1859 ''Carrington Event,'' compass needles swung wildly and unpredictably, and the aurora borealis was visible at the equator in Colombia. But those geomagnetic disturbances occurred before modern electric grids were established. A moderate-severity solar storm in 1989 knocked out Hydro-Qu(C)bec's grid and caused a nine-hour blackout in northeast Canada, but that too occurred before the rise of modern internet infrastructure.
- Though they don't happen often, coronal mass ejections are a real threat to internet resilience, says Abdu Jyothi. And after three decades of low solar storm activity, she and other researchers point out that the probability of another incident is rising.
- Undersea internet cables are potentially susceptible to solar storm damage for a few reasons. To shepherd data across oceans intact, cables are fitted with repeaters at intervals of roughly 50 to 150 kilometers depending on the cable. These devices amplify the optical signal, making sure that nothing gets lost in transit, like a relay throw in baseball. While fiber optic cable isn't directly vulnerable to disruption by geomagnetically induced currents, the electronic internals of repeaters are'--and enough repeater failures will render an entire undersea cable inoperable. Additionally, undersea cables are only grounded at extended intervals hundreds or thousands of kilometers apart, which leaves vulnerable components like repeaters more exposed to geomagnetically induced currents. The composition of the sea floor also varies, possibly making some grounding points more effective than others.
- On top of all of this, a major solar storm could also knock out any equipment that orbits the Earth that enables services like satellite internet and global positioning.
- ''There are no models currently available of how this could play out,'' Abdu Jyothi says. ''We have more understanding of how these storms would impact power systems, but that's all on land. In the ocean it's even more difficult to predict.''
- Coronal mass ejections tend to have more impact at higher latitudes, closer to the Earth's magnetic poles. That's why Abdu Jyothi worries more about cables in some regions than others. She found, for example, that Asia faces less risk, because Singapore acts as a hub for many undersea cables in the region and is at the equator. Many cables in that region are also shorter, because they branch in many directions from that hub rather than being set up as one continuous span. Cables that cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at high latitude would be at greater risk from even moderate storms.
- The global internet is built for resilience. If one pathway isn't available, traffic reroutes across other paths, a property that could potentially keep connectivity up, even at reduced speeds, in the event of a solar storm. But enough damage to these vital arteries would start to destabilize the network. And depending on where the cable outages occur, Abdu Jyothi says that foundational data routing systems like the Border Gateway Protocol and Domain Name System could start to malfunction, creating knock-on outages. It's the internet version of the traffic jams that would happen if road signs disappeared and traffic lights went out at busy intersections across a major city.
- North America and some other regions have minimum standards and procedures for grid operators related to solar storm preparedness. And Thomas Overbye, director of the Smart Grid Center at Texas A&M University, says that grid operators have made some progress mitigating the risk over the past 10 years. But he emphasizes that since geomagnetic disturbances are so rare and relatively unstudied, other threats from things like extreme weather events or cyberattacks are increasingly taking priority.
- ''Part of the problem is we just don't have a lot of experience with the storms,'' Overbye says. ''There are some people who think a geomagnetic disturbance would be a catastrophic scenario and there are others who think it would be less of a major event. I'm kind of in the middle. I think it's something that we certainly as an industry want to be prepared for and I've been working to develop tools that assess risk. But yet there are a lot of other things going on in the industry that are important, too.''
- The internet infrastructure side contains even more unknowns. Abdu Jyothi emphasizes that her study is just the beginning of much more extensive interdisciplinary research and modeling that needs to be done to fully understand the scale of the threat. While severe solar storms are extremely rare, the stakes are perilously high. A prolonged global connectivity outage of that scale would impact nearly every industry and person on Earth.
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- Joe Rogan has covid-19, is taking unproven deworming medicine - The Washington Post
- Joe Rogan, host of a wildly popular podcast who has downplayed the need for coronavirus vaccines, announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
- In a brief video, Rogan told his 13.1 million Instagram followers that he returned home from the road Saturday night '-- he's currently on tour and just performed a series of comedy shows in Florida '-- feeling weary with a headache.
- ''Just to be cautious, I separated from my family, slept in a different part of the house, and throughout the night I got fevers and sweats. And I knew what was going on,'' Rogan said. ''So I got up in the morning, got tested '-- and turns out I got covid.''
- Rogan said he was now feeling ''great'' after ''one bad day'' on Sunday. After his diagnosis, he said he ''immediately threw the kitchen sink'' at the virus, and listed a litany of therapeutics and treatments he tried, including ivermectin, a medicine used to kill parasites in animals and humans but best known as a horse dewormer.
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- The treatment is one that has been promoted by conservative media figures, politicians and some doctors, but it also carries a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, which has advised against using it as a treatment for covid-19. Poison control centers have reported huge spikes of calls about ivermectin exposure.
- ''You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it,'' the FDA tweeted last month amid an increase of people getting sick from the medicine.
- Doctors dismayed by patients who fear coronavirus vaccines but clamor for unproven ivermectin
- ''The Joe Rogan Experience'' is the most popular podcast in the country, according to tracking firm Edison Research. In 2020, Spotify acquired Rogan's podcast library in a reported $100 million deal and now exclusively licenses the series. Before he moved to Spotify, Rogan's show had about 190 million monthly downloads.
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- Rogan, a stand-up comedian, is a lightning rod with a huge following. He's hosted controversial figures on his show, including Alex Jones, who has pushed the false theory that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. (Spotify eventually deleted 40 episodes from its service, including ones featuring Jones and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.)
- During the pandemic, Rogan has used his platform to flirt with coronavirus misinformation. In April, he said young and healthy people don't need to get vaccinated. After an outcry, he told his audience not to take his advice seriously, saying he's not ''an anti-vax person'' or a doctor, but rather ''a moron.''
- Joe Rogan is using his wildly popular podcast to question vaccines. Experts are fighting back.
- But months later on his podcast, he lambasted the push for mass vaccinations and also questioned whether the vaccines actually prevented the spread of the virus '-- even as he couched his remarks, saying ''this is neither pro- nor con-vaccine.''
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- Public health experts have said that vaccines are the most effective way of preventing the spread of the virus and are effective at preventing people from getting very sick and dying from covid-19, including the delta variant.
- Rogan also slammed vaccine requirements for event spaces in New York City and said that he would offer refunds to anyone who had tickets to his Madison Square Garden show this fall and didn't want to comply, saying he wasn't going to ''force'' anyone to get vaccinated to see a ''stupid comedy show.''
- His comments have attracted pushback from White House officials. Anthony S. Fauci, the country's highest-ranking expert on infectious diseases, criticized Rogan's comments during an April interview on NBC's ''Today'' show, emphasizing that young and healthy people should ''absolutely'' get vaccinated and that it was unvaccinated individuals who ''are propagating the outbreak.''
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- On Wednesday, Rogan told his followers his diagnosis forced him to reschedule his upcoming show in Nashville until late October.
- ''My apologies to everyone, obviously it's nothing I can control. It is what it is, crazy times we're living in,'' he said. ''But a wonderful heartfelt thank you to modern medicine for pulling me out of this so quickly and easily.''
- Scandal Behind the FDA Fake Approval of Pfizer Jab
- Scandal Behind the FDA Fake Approval of Pfizer Jab By F. William Engdahl30 August 2021 Image: Janet Woodcock M.D. ACTING COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS - FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATIONAttribution: Credit: US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. Unless otherwise noted, the contents of the FDA website (www.fda.gov) '-- both text and graphics '-- are not copyrighted. They are in the public domain and may be republished, reprinted and otherwise used freely by anyone without the need to obtain permission from FDA. Credit to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the source is appreciated but not required. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/janet-woodcock
- The US Government regulator for drugs, the Food and Drug Administration, has just announced that it has voted full approval for the mRNA genetic vaccine of Pfizer and BioNTech, or did they? This supposed new status is being used by the Biden Administration and many states and companies to impose mandatory vaccinations. The notoriously conflicted Biden covid adviser, Tony Fauci of the NIAID, using that ruling, is calling for national mandatory vaccination for the country. What is not being revealed is the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interest between the FDA and the major drug companies, including Pfizer, that stand behind the rushed approval. And it's not full approval for Pfizer's jab, only for BioNTech's legally different vaccine. .
- '''...final stamp of approval''?
- On August 23 as the FDA announced full approval for the Pfizer mRNA gene-edited substance. Or not quite, when the full papers of FDA are studied. Fauci, whose NIAID has financial interest in the vaccine, referred to the FDA decision as the ''final stamp of approval.'' It is however anything but final or an impartial, scientific rigorous medical evaluation. Rather it is a politically-motivated decision by an FDA that is corrupt beyond the imagination of most people.
- Backtracking on its statement in 2020 that it would hold normal FDA advisory committee hearings with independent experts to discuss the Pfizer application for full approval, now the FDA told the British Medical Journal that they did not believe a meeting was necessary ahead of granting full approval of what is the most controversial vaccine in modern history. The BMJ quotes Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who serves as a consumer representative on the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, ''These [FDA] public meetings are imperative in building trust and confidence especially when the vaccines came to market at lightning speed under emergency use authorization.''
- Witczak continued with the alarming note, ''It is already concerning that full approval is being based on 6 months' worth of data despite the clinical trials designed for two years. There is no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed.'' Read that again, slowly. Pfizer tests destroyed their own control group mid-stream! And its six month rollout of the mRNA jab worldwide has resulted in catastrophic side effects which have been totally officially ignored. Is this ''science'' Dr Fauci?
- The refusal of the FDA and its Acting Director, Janet Woodcock, to convene its Drugs Advisory Committee for discussion of the Pfizer and BioNTech decisions is even more shocking as in June three members of that same panel resigned in protest for being disregarded in another drug approval. NPR network reported, ''Three experts have now resigned from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee after the agency approved an Alzheimer's drug called Aduhelm against the wishes of nearly every member on the panel.'' One of the three, Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, in his resignation letter from the FDA Advisory Committee (June 10, 2021), wrote: ''For both eteplirsen and aducanumab, the decisions by FDA administrators to ignore the Advisory Committee's clear recommendations led to their approval of two highly problematic drugs that offered little evidence that they would meaningfully benefit patients'...With eteplirsen, the AdComm (Advisory Committee) and FDA's own scientific staff reported that there was no convincing evidence that the drug worked; both groups were overruled by FDA leadership'... ''
- Now the FDA refusal to convene their advisory committee for the Pfizer decision is all the more astonishing in light of the fact that the Government Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in its official VAERS data bank for recording vaccine negative effects has recorded 8,508 reports of fatalities following the Pfizer mRNA shot in the past seven months, a number more than for all vaccines combined in the past 30 years. By denying a public hearing the FDA avoided any discussion of these alarming fatality numbers, let alone the tens of thousands of serious side-effects including heart attacks, blood clots, miscarriages, permanent paralysis following the Pfizer-BioNTech jabs. The public declaration by Fauci before approval that he expected it, is also unethical influencing, but that is the least of the crimes.
- It seems the FDA executed a clever ruse in which it issued separate rulings for a Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech vaccine which is widely used in the USA, and another ruling for the similar vaccine of Pfizer's German-based partner and developer of the mRNA platform, BioNTech of Mainz. It is only BioNTech that got FDA approval, but conditioned on completion of a series of further tests on select groups including infants, pregnant women and youth, by 2027. The US vaccine, Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, only got extension of its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), not full approval!
- In their separate letter to Pfizer, the FDA stated, '''...On August 23, 2021, having concluded that revising this EUA is appropriate to protect the public health or safety under section 564(g)(2) of the Act, FDA is reissuing the August 12, 2021 letter of (Emergency Use) authorization in its entirety with revisions incorporated to clarify that the EUA will remain in place for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the previously-authorized indication and uses'...''(emphasis added).
- Buried in a footnote in the letter the FDA admits there are two legally separate entities and vaccines'--Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine and BioNTech GmbH of Mainz with its own vaccine trade-named Comrinaty. The FDA writes that ''The products are legally distinct with certain differences'...'' Legally distinct means two separate vaccines. If you find this confusing it is meant to be. Only under an EUA ruling is Pfizer presently exempt from vaccine liability. Some lawyers are calling the FDA ruse a classic ''bait and switch'' tactic, a form of fraud based on deception.
- US vaccinologist and a developer of the mRNA technique, Dr Robert Malone, has accused the FDA of playing a ''bureaucratic shell game'' with their supposed early approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. He cites the two separate FDA letters, ''There is a letter for Pfizer and a letter for BioNTech. The New York Times and the Washington Post got it wrong. The authorization is not for Pfizer. The authorization is for BioNTech, and it will only be initiated at the time BioNTech product becomes available'...''
- Adding to the bizarre irregularities, in their two separate letters, one to BioNTech and another to Pfizer, the FDA repeatedly deletes the location of the vaccine manufacturing they approve. Why that? Is it in China where BioNTech has a joint agreement with Fosun Pharma of Shanghai to jointly produce and market Comirnaty vaccine for COVID-19? Why do they need to hide that location data from the public? Would it expose the entire fraud?
- FDA-Pfizer Conflicts of Interest
- In 2019 Pfizer made a very conflicted appointment to its board of directors. It took Scott Gottlieb, who had just resigned as head of the FDA three months earlier. If this gives an appearance of a huge conflict of interest, it is. Alongside Gottlieb at Pfizer's Board of Directors sits Dr Susan Desmond-Hellmann, who headed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation until 2020. The Gates Foundation is behind every single key part of the covid vaccine rush and owns stock in Pfizer to boot.
- Another person who links Pfizer and Gates is Prof. Holly Janes, a bio-statistical expert in Gates' hometown Seattle, at the Fred Huff cancer research center. Janes is also a member of the FDA Vaccine Committee until 2023. Notably, she co-designed the controversial trials for both Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines for Fauci's NIAID from her Seattle center, which is also funded by the Gates Foundation.
- Janes is Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, known as Fred Hutch. Earlier she received Gates Foundation research money for a six year period when she worked for the Gates Foundation from 2006 to 2012 to develop ''statistical and study design support for pre-clinical vaccine performance trials.'' Prof. Janes also helped develop the program that tracks vaccine data at John Hopkins University.
- The person who runs FDA as ''Acting Director'' is Janet Woodcock. To call her tainted is mild. She has been at FDA since 1986, almost as long as Fauci at NIAID. Woodcock was Biden's choice to head FDA, but a massive opposition from 28 groups including state attorneys general and citizen groups forced him to name her ''acting,'' which does not need Congressional scrutiny.
- Woodcock was directly responsible for the FDA approval of deadly opioids over the objections of her own scientists and other advisors. Two decades ago as head of the FDA unit responsible, Woodcock was instrumental in the approval of a powerful opioid, Zohydro, even though the FDA's own scientific advisory committee voted 11-2 to keep the drug off the market because it was unsafe. The online Drugs.com writes, ''Hydrocodone (Zohydro) can slow or stop your breathing. Never use Zohydro ER in larger amounts, or for longer than prescribed. .. Swallow it whole to avoid exposure to a potentially fatal dose. Hydrocodone may be habit-forming, even at regular doses.'' Woodcock later approved the sale of a high-strength narcotic pill, OxyContin, as ''safer and more effective than other painkillers'' based on the false claims of the now bankrupt manufacturer, Purdue Pharma. Some 500,000 Americans have since died as a result of opioid addiction.
- Woodcock clearly is the key FDA person behind the duplicitous August 23 Pfizer decision, seeing to it that there were no public advisory hearings to review relevant data. It would be relevant to know what discussions or communications went on with her former boss, now Pfizer director, Scott Gottlieb.
- There are many unanswered questions in this twisted tale of corruption at FDA and Pfizer. Was this theater rushed through by the Biden Administration to accelerate the forced vaccination of millions of Americans uncertain or skeptical of taking an emergency or experimental jab? Why is there such an incredible pressure from mainstream media and politicians to vaccinate every man, woman and now child in the US? Are the vaccines really safe if there are so many dire cases of adverse events after the Pfizer jab? Why did the FD refuse to allow its independent vaccine committee to weigh in?
- It is worth noting that as of August 14 Pfizer does not mandate vaccines for its own employees. Also the Biden White House does not mandate vaccines for its staff. These are all serious issues that demand serious and honest answers.
- F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine''New Eastern Outlook''
- Australia Extends COVID-19 Emergency Powers to Mid-December
- Australia has announced a three-month extension of the ''human biosecurity emergency powers'' that allow it to restrict Australians from outbound international travel amid the CCP virus pandemic.
- Due to end on Sept. 17, the emergency powers, which have been in place since March 2020, will continue until Dec. 17.
- Under the Biosecurity Act 2015, the powers allow the government to impose measures in an attempt to prevent and control the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease.
- The emergency powers also allow the government to restrict cruise ships entering domestic waters, restrict retail trade at international airports, and mandate mask-wearing and pre-departure testing before any international flights.
- A COVID-19 testing sign is seen at Sydney International airport in Sydney, Australia, on June 23, 2021. (Jenny Evans/Getty Images)''The extension, declared by the Governor-General today, was informed by specialist medical and epidemiological advice provided by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) and the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer,'' Australian federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said in a press release on Sept. 2.
- ''The AHPPC has advised that the international COVID-19 situation continues to pose an unacceptable risk to public health,'' Hunt's press release stated, going on to say that extending the emergency period again was an ''appropriate response to that risk.''
- The emergency powers are critical to Australia's National Plan to transition its response to the CCP virus from one of suppression to one of preventing serious illness and death'--in other words learning to live with it.
- A man reads a book as he queues at a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 1, 2021. (William West/AFP via Getty Images)All of Australia's state and territory leaders and the prime minister form the National Cabinet, an intergovernmental body. They have agreed to the plan which requires state leaders to implement measures to ''accelerate vaccination rates'' during Phase A, the current stage of the national plan (pdf).
- Phase B is unlocked when 70 percent of people are vaccinated and may mean that restrictions are eased for the fully vaccinated, while Phase C is triggered when 80 percent of people are vaccinated, and this stage may include opening international borders.
- However, on Sept. 1, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk signalled a shift from the National Plan, indicating that she might not open her state's border to neighbouring state New South Wales (NSW) until Queensland children under 12 are vaccinated.
- Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is seen during a press conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia, on Aug. 11, 2021. (AAP Image/Darren England)In response, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg noted that the national medical advice was that children were not at risk of serious illness from the virus.
- He has urged all state and territory leaders to stick with the National Plan and open up the country at the same time.
- Australia is in the midst of a severe CCP virus Delta variant outbreak in the states of NSW and Victoria, where both state leaders refuse to lift restrictions until at least 70-80 percent of their residents are vaccinated with at least one dose.
- On Sept. 2, the federal health minister announced that Australia had passed 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered'--likely a mix of first and second doses in total, though he did not specify.
- ''Thank you, Australia, for coming forward in record numbers to be vaccinated. It helps to protect you, your family, your community, your country,'' he wrote on Twitter.
- Caden Pearson is a reporter based in Australia, with a background in screenwriting and documentary. Contact him at caden.pearson@epochtimes.com.au
- WHO Urges Countries To Hold Off Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots Through September
- The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to hold off on giving COVID-19 booster shots through September so that poorer nations can provide citizens with their first dose of the vaccine.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that some low-income countries, including many in Africa, have less than two percent of their adult populations fully vaccinated.
- In contrast, some high-income countries have adult vaccination rates of 50 percent.
- More than five billion COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered globally, with 75 percent of them administered in just 10 countries, according to the WHO.
- The United States has fully vaccinated more than 52 percent of its population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- President Joe Biden said the United States plans to widely distribute COVID-19 booster shots beginning the week of Sept. 20, pending clearance from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC scientists.
- ''That's why I have called for a moratorium on boosters, at least until the end of this month to allow those countries that are furthest behind to catch up,'' Tedros said at a press conference on Wednesday.
- While additional doses may be required for those with compromised immune systems or waning immunity, Tedros noted that ''for now, we do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated.''
- The WHO director-general's comments are in stark contrast to those of Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, who last week said that he was ''certain'' Americans would need booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- ''I'm certain we're going to need that third dose, looking at the data that we're seeing,'' Fauci said on NBC's ''Meet the Press.''
- Fauci said that the White House is still planning to move ahead with its plans to give out the boosters eight months after people received their second shot, noting that in mid to late July, they saw a ''waning in protection against infection.''
- However, the chief medical adviser said that they were ''totally open to data'' that suggests the dose should be available sooner and would ''be flexible about it.''
- ''Right now, we're sticking with eight [months] but we're totally open to any variation in that based on the data,'' Fauci said.
- Other WHO officials have previously defended booster vaccinations in wealthier nations, including Hans Kluge, the WHO European regional director.
- During a press briefing last month, Kluge said that booster shots serve as ''an important instrument'' to protect vulnerable people and keep them safe, while urging countries with excess doses to share them with other nations.
- ''A third dose of vaccine is not a luxury booster taken away from someone who is still waiting for a first jab. But it's basically a way to keep the people safe'--the most vulnerable,'' Kluge said. ''But at the same time, we need to share. We need to do it all.''
- Pharmaceutical companies with COVID-19 vaccines already developed, such as Pfizer, have requested full FDA approval for a booster shot in addition to their two-dose vaccine.
- The company said that 306 people given a third dose of its vaccine between five and eight months after their second shot showed levels of neutralizing antibodies that were 3.3 times the levels seen after their second shot.
- With reporting from Reuters.
- Judge will approve Purdue Pharma bankruptcy that shields Sacklers from opioid lawsuits
- Sept. 1, 2021, 5:32 PM EDT / Source: Reuters
- A federal judge said on Wednesday he would approve OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP's bankruptcy reorganization plan, clearing a path to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits and shielding the company's wealthy Sackler family owners from future opioid litigation.
- Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain said that with small changes he would approve the plan, which overcame opposition to garner support from nearly all states, local governments, tribes, hospitals and other creditors that voted on the restructuring. They became creditors in the bankruptcy by virtue of suing Purdue and Sackler family members over their alleged contributions to the nationwide opioid epidemic.
- Drain said it was clear the wrongful marketing of the company's opioid products contributed to the country's addiction crisis, which touched every corner of the country. "That makes the bankruptcy case before me highly unusual and complex," said Drain, who spent more than six hours reading his ruling from the bench.
- The plan, which Purdue values at more than $10 billion, dissolves the drugmaker and shifts assets to a new company not controlled by Sackler family members. The new company will be owned by a trust run to combat the opioid epidemic in U.S. communities that alleged the company and its owners aggressively marketed the painkiller OxyContin while playing down its abuse and overdose risks.
- It also includes legal releases shielding Sackler family members from future opioid litigation, a controversial provision that some states opposed. Congressional Democrats in recent weeks introduced legislation to block such legal releases.
- The Sacklers have denied allegations, raised in lawsuits and elsewhere, that they bear responsibility for the opioid epidemic. They have said they acted ethically and lawfully while serving on Purdue's board.
- The Purdue bankruptcy plan includes a $4.5 billion contribution from Sackler family members. The contribution is in the form of cash that will be paid over roughly a decade and also includes $175 million in value from relinquishing control of charitable institutions.
- Drain noted that he had expected a larger contribution from the Sacklers and said the evidence showed more might have been secured through litigation, although that was hard to predict.
- "This is a bitter result," he said. He also said he would not jeopardize what the plan did achieve by rejecting it and asked for small changes to secure his final approval.
- Still, the evidence showed the plan was negotiated by the creditors who all viewed the Sacklers as "the other side, the opposition, the potential defendants," Drain said. "This is not the Sacklers' plan."
- The Stamford, Connecticut, drugmaker pleaded guilty to criminal charges in November stemming from its handling of opioids. At the outset of its bankruptcy case, Purdue said there were a number of legal defenses it could mount in response to lawsuits alleging improper conduct.
- Several state attorneys general opposed the plan.
- ''This order is insulting to victims of the opioid epidemic who had no voice in these proceedings,'' said Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who said his office would appeal. Connecticut's Attorney General also announced he would appeal.
- RecommendedPeople familiar with the negotiations said that an appeal could disrupt or delay the distribution of settlement funds to the states.
- A lawyer for the Office of the U.S. Trustee, a bankruptcy watchdog and part of the Department of Justice, said his office would file a motion for a stay of the order confirming the plan during the appeal.
- More than 95% of creditors voting approved Purdue's restructuring, far above the legal threshold required for a bankruptcy judge's blessing.
- Sackler family members behind Purdue were prolific philanthropists, with their names on museum wings and other cultural institutions. They have also agreed to a prohibition on associating their name with charitable contributions until litigation settlement funds are fully paid and they have exited all businesses worldwide that manufacture or sell opioids, according to court records.
- Much of the plan's value is contingent on future donations of overdose reversal and addiction treatment medications that Purdue has under development.
- Sackler family owners testifying during bankruptcy proceedings before the plan's approval were at once apologetic and defiant. David Sackler testified that he and other relatives had a "moral responsibility" to help combat the opioid crisis in light of OxyContin's role.
- Both he and Mortimer D.A. Sackler, another Purdue owner, described the painkiller's contribution to the epidemic as unintentional. Mortimer said he was "sorry."
- David, though, made clear that he and other relatives would not contribute billions of dollars of their wealth toward resolving opioid lawsuits and combatting the crisis without the broad legal releases shielding them from future liability.
- When his father, former Purdue president Richard Sackler, was asked by a lawyer for Washington state opposing the bankruptcy plan whether the family or the company bear any responsibility for the opioid crisis, he responded with a firm ''no.''
- Purdue's owners are descendants of the late Raymond and Mortimer Sackler. Another Sackler, Arthur, died in 1987 and his shares in a predecessor company were sold before OxyContin's introduction.
- Purdue filed for bankruptcy in Sept. 2019 amid an onslaught of litigation against the company and its owners. Roughly 3,000 lawsuits nationwide sought to pin blame on Purdue and Sackler family members for contributing to a public health crisis that has claimed the lives of about 500,000 people since 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- In a statement on Wednesday's hearing, the family of Raymond Sackler said, ''This resolution is an important step toward providing substantial resources for people and communities in need, and it is our hope these funds will help achieve that goal.''
- Drain, the judge overseeing the case in a White Plains, New York, bankruptcy court, agreed early in the case to halt litigation against Purdue and Sackler family members who had not filed for bankruptcy themselves.
- Overall, the company resolved U.S. Justice Department criminal and civil investigations that carried penalties and other claims exceeding $8 billion. Much of that money, though, went unpaid due to factors in Purdue's bankruptcy case.
- Sackler family members have not been criminally charged. They previously agreed to pay $225 million to resolve separate civil allegations with the Justice Department. The family members have denied those allegations.
- Laura Strickler contributed.
- Resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Health System Workforce | NEJM
- To the Editor: Figure 1. Figure 1. SARS-CoV-2 Variants among Symptomatic Health Workers. Shown is the distribution of the B.1.1.7 (alpha), delta, and other SARS-CoV-2 variants according to vaccination status and month of diagnosis among health workers at University of California San Diego Health, March through July 2021. The number of workers indicates those who were symptomatic and had available variant data, and the number of positive tests indicates those that included data on variants.
- In December 2020, the University of California San Diego Health (UCSDH) workforce experienced a dramatic increase in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. Vaccination with mRNA vaccines began in mid-December 2020; by March, 76% of the workforce had been fully vaccinated, and by July, the percentage had risen to 83%. Infections had decreased dramatically by early February 2021.1 Between March and June, fewer than 30 health care workers tested positive each month. However, coincident with the end of California's mask mandate on June 15 and the rapid dominance of the B.1.617.2 (delta) variant that first emerged in mid-April and accounted for over 95% of UCSDH isolates by the end of July (Figure 1 ), infections increased rapidly, including cases among fully vaccinated persons. Institutional review board approval was obtained for use of administrative data on vaccinations and case-investigation data to examine mRNA SARS CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness.
- UCSDH has a low threshold for SARS-CoV-2 testing, which is triggered by the presence of at least one symptom during daily screening or by an identified exposure, regardless of vaccination status. From March 1 to July 31, 2021, a total of 227 UCSDH health care workers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by reverse-transcriptase''quantitative polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-qPCR) assay of nasal swabs; 130 of the 227 workers (57.3%) were fully vaccinated. Symptoms were present in 109 of the 130 fully vaccinated workers (83.8%) and in 80 of the 90 unvaccinated workers (88.9%). (The remaining 7 workers were only partially vaccinated.) No deaths were reported in either group; one unvaccinated person was hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2''related symptoms.
- Table 1. Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection and mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness among UCSDH Health Workers, March through July 2021. Vaccine effectiveness was calculated for each month from March through July; the case definition was a positive PCR test and one or more symptoms among persons with no previous Covid-19 infection (see the Supplementary Appendix). Vaccine effectiveness exceeded 90% from March through June but fell to 65.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 48.9 to 76.9) in July (Table 1 ). July case rates were analyzed according to the month in which workers with Covid-19 completed the vaccination series; in workers completing vaccination in January or February, the attack rate was 6.7 per 1000 persons (95% CI, 5.9 to 7.8), whereas the attack rate was 3.7 per 1000 persons (95% CI, 2.5 to 5.7) among those who completed vaccination during the period from March through May. Among unvaccinated persons, the July attack rate was 16.4 per 1000 persons (95% CI, 11.8 to 22.9).
- The SARS CoV-2 mRNA vaccines, BNT162b2 (Pfizer''BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna), have previously shown efficacy rates of 95% and 94.1%,2 respectively, in their initial clinical trials, and for the BNT162b2 vaccine, sustained, albeit slightly decreased effectiveness (84%) 4 months after the second dose.3 In England, where an extended dosing interval of up to 12 weeks was used, Lopez Bernal et al. reported a preserved vaccine effectiveness of 88% against symptomatic disease associated with the delta variant.4 As observed by others in populations that received mRNA vaccines according to standard Emergency Use Authorization intervals,5 our data suggest that vaccine effectiveness against any symptomatic disease is considerably lower against the delta variant and may wane over time since vaccination.
- The dramatic change in vaccine effectiveness from June to July is likely to be due to both the emergence of the delta variant and waning immunity over time, compounded by the end of masking requirements in California and the resulting greater risk of exposure in the community. Our findings underline the importance of rapidly reinstating nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as indoor masking and intensive testing strategies, in addition to continued efforts to increase vaccinations, as strategies to prevent avoidable illness and deaths and to avoid mass disruptions to society during the spread of this formidable variant. Furthermore, if our findings on waning immunity are verified in other settings, booster doses may be indicated.
- Jocelyn Keehner, M.D.Lucy E. Horton, M.D., M.P.H.UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
- Nancy J. Binkin, M.D., M.P.H.UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
- Louise C. Laurent, M.D., Ph.D.David Pride, M.D., Ph.D.Christopher A. Longhurst, M.D.Shira R. Abeles, M.D.Francesca J. Torriani, M.D.UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA [email protected]
- Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org.
- This letter was published on September 1, 2021, at NEJM.org.
- Dr. Laurent serves as an author on behalf of the SEARCH Alliance. Collaborators in the SEARCH Alliance are listed in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org.
- Drs. Keehner and Horton and Drs. Abeles and Torriani contributed equally to this letter.
- 1. Keehner J , Abeles SR , Torriani FJ . More on SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in health care workers. reply. N Engl J Med 2021 ;385(2): e8 .
- 2. Baden LR , El Sahly HM , Essink B , et al. Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. N Engl J Med 2021 ;384: 403 - 416 .
- 3. Thomas SJ , Moreira ED Jr , Kitchin N , et al. Six month safety and efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. July 28 , 2021 (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v1). preprint.
- 4. Lopez Bernal J , Andrews N , Gower C , et al. Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant. N Engl J Med 2021 ;385: 585 - 594 .
- 5. Israel A , Merzon E , Sch¤ffer AA , et al. Elapsed time since BNT162b2 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large cohort. August 5 , 2021 (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261496v1). preprint.
- Pfizer, the FDA, and Bribes Aplenty
- On December 28, 2019, just as news of the Wuhan plague sank its teeth into American society, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla confronted then-FDA director Stephen Hahn with what he described as an intractable dilemma: Bourla lamented Pfizer's ''revenue loss,'' a curious choice of words to describe a pharmaceutical manufacturer that netted $16.7 billion in 2019, the CEO of which earned $17mn in 2019 and $22mn in 2020''after the company's Covid-19 vaccine hit the shelves. Those figures exclude the tens of millions of dollars Bourla gets from benefits, per diems and stock options, assets which, if added to his yearly salary, place him among the highest paid CEOs in the world.
- Hahn, Bourla, and a gaggle of FDA and Pfizer officials held private talks to discuss Pfizer's self-perceived financial woes. The meeting did not take place at Pfizer's corporate headquarters in Manhattan. Nor did the conference happen at the FDA's mammoth complex in Silver Springs, Maryland. This was unusual because official talks between the FDA and big pharma typically occur at one of those two locations, not a boardroom suite at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C.
- Bourla had requested a clandestine gathering, having told Hahn that trade secrets would be analyzed and that Pfizer's codified agreement with the FDA stipulated that Pfizer had authority to request covert discussions to prevent public dissemination of confidential information. The FDA's acceptance of those terms shows that it and big pharma share a matrimonial bedchamber.
- At the meeting, Bourla divulged no trade secrets; rather, he bitched about how Pfizer had over the last decade missed out on ''potentially billions of dollars'' as many of its lucrative drugs lost patent protection and became available generically.
- For reference: Per FDA statutes, a medication patent lasts 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States, after which other pharmaceutical manufacturers may market the product using the name of its chemical ingredient. The painkiller Vicodin, for example, was patented by Abbott Laboratories in 1978; in 1999, the FDA granted manufacturers Mallinckrodt and Qualitest licenses to market the product, with a slice of the profits returned to the original patent holder'--Abbott Laboratories. Despite the kickbacks, most big pharma file for patent extensions, which are often given. Today, more than 46 companies worldwide manufacture Vicodin under various labels, most notably hydrocodone/APAP. Patent protections apply even to vaccinations, although the FDA has power to lift patent restraints in times of national crisis or if the pharmacological mechanisms between two vaccines differ but produce a similar immunological response.
- Bourla said he understood that Hahn was powerless to revise ''unfair'' patent protection programs, but he proposed a deal that would prove profitable for both Pfizer and the FDA.
- He claimed to have ''come into possession'' of the Genome sequence for a highly transmissible respiratory infection that was ravaging Wuhan China and would undoubtedly infect America. In describing the virus, Bourla said, ''It appears to be no more lethal than seasonal influenza. It seems to be airborne and spreads rapidly among infected populations. The symptoms may appear perilous, but based on our analysis, the average person has a 99.6% chance of full recovery.''
- Bourla put forward an agenda: If the FDA approved Pfizer's vaccine, which was already in the works, Pfizer would kick back 15% of profit over the next 36 months. ''You can use that money to disperse research grants or for whatever you want,'' Bourla told Hahn. ''Truth be told, we probably don't need a vaccine for this, but it's important that you impress upon your peers, the CDC and people like Anthony Fauci, that a vaccine is necessary to ensure survival of the American people. The Trump administration must be made to believe this. The quicker we get this rolling, the faster we can distribute the vaccine, and people will feel safe.''
- Bourla proposed a five-year vaccination plan, to include booster shots, to maximize profit. If society began to feel safe, a variation of the virus could be invented to frighten na¯ve people into demanding reformulated vaccinations, Bourla said.
- In response, Hahn made a startling confession: one of Pfizer's competitors had already pitched a similar plan to the FDA. Without naming the competitor, Hahn said emergency use authorization would have to be shared among ''reputable'' vaccine manufacturers, that ''there would be a big enough slice of pie for everyone to enjoy.''
- Hahn's admission proves big pharma shares a collective mentality'--profit before people.
- ''Factoring in global distribution earnings, I'd agree we all stand to profit. You can trickle out emergency use authorizations, but it's important to us that we obtain full approval first, leaving it up to you and your people to determine when that happens,'' Bourla said. ''And we'll make sure that we provide greater incentives than any competitors.''
- Hahn said he'd take the matter under advisement.
- The information in this article came from a former Pfizer executive.
- How the C.I.A. Exited Its Base in Kabul - The New York Times
- A compound outside Kabul was one of the most secretive '-- and notorious '-- in Afghanistan. Our visual analysis shows how the spy agency shut down its operations there '-- and how the Taliban then entered the site.
- The C.I.A. compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, captured by satellite on Aug. 24. Credit... Planet Labs Sept. 1, 2021 Updated 6:03 p.m. ET
- In the weeks leading up to President Biden's Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, a secretive and highly secure compound used by the Central Intelligence Agency became a hub for clandestine evacuations before parts of it were deliberately destroyed, an investigation by The New York Times found.
- The C.I.A. had used part of the compound called Eagle Base to train Afghan counterterrorism units. Another section '-- the C.I.A.'s first detention center in Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit '-- was where a U.S. government report found that the agency had carried out torture on detainees. Structures in both Eagle Base and the Salt Pit were demolished to prevent the Taliban from seizing sensitive materials.
- Even as several of these planned detonations were happening, the heliport at the compound was still used to conduct covert evacuations, according to visual analysis and a former agency contractor.
- The Times analyzed satellite imagery, corporate records, active fire data and flight paths to assess how the evacuations and planned demolitions played out '-- and how the Taliban eventually easily gained access to the compound.
- The CompoundSituated between Kabul's industrial outskirts and a mountain range, the compound is less than three miles from Hamid Karzai International Airport. It spans about two square miles and can be seen in satellite imagery, but there are virtually no on-the-ground photographs showing the inside of the site.
- Image Credit... Planet Labs The Salt PitThe C.I.A. first appeared to begin destroying buildings at the Salt Pit throughout April and May, after Mr. Biden's announcement that U.S. forces would leave the country by September.
- Image Satellite imagery from earlier this year shows that several buildings at the Salt Pit were completely razed to the ground. Credit... Planet Labs Construction on these demolished buildings began between 2002 and 2004 '-- the years that U.S. lawmakers say the C.I.A. engaged in ''enhanced interrogation techniques'' at the site.
- More destruction appears to have occurred on Aug. 27, the day the Pentagon said U.S. forces carried out controlled demolitions of their own equipment. Publicly available data from NASA sensors shows heat signatures at the site possibly caused by active fires and explosions. Satellite imagery taken the next day also shows two warehouses with apparent fire damage.
- Eagle BaseEagle Base, where the C.I.A. trained Afghan forces, was originally established in a former brick factory. It was later expanded into a larger complex of newly constructed buildings, current and former U.S. officials told The Times.
- These new structures, which a former government intelligence analyst says appear to include an ammunition depot and elaborate training site, were largely destroyed on Aug. 27.
- Image Eagle Base structures before and after demolition. Credit... Planet Labs The buildings very likely contained documents, hard drives and other sensitive information, according to a former agency contractor. Officials have confirmed Eagle Base was destroyed.
- EvacuationsOver several weeks in August, as the United States was rushing to close its diplomatic missions in Afghanistan, American citizens and Afghans who were likely to be targeted by the Taliban were evacuated from the compound.
- A satellite image taken for The Times by Planet Labs on Aug. 24 shows dozens of vehicles lined up inside the compound '-- well beyond the usual number typically seen at the site. Many of the vehicles appear to have later been deliberately set on fire.
- Image A satellite image from Aug. 24 captured dozens of vehicles at the compound, showing the scale of people who flocked there to be evacuated. Credit... Planet Labs Evacuees were flown by helicopter to Hamid Karzai International Airport to avoid Taliban checkpoints. Flight data reveals that three Mi-17 helicopters made at least 35 flights to or from the compound since the Taliban took control of Kabul on Aug. 15. Hundreds were evacuated from the site since that day, according to people briefed on the operations.
- Understand the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Card 1 of 6Who are the Taliban? The Taliban arose in 1994 amid the turmoil that came after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. They used brutal public punishments, including floggings, amputations and mass executions, to enforce their rules. Here's more on their origin story and their record as rulers.
- Who are the Taliban leaders? These are the top leaders of the Taliban, men who have spent years on the run, in hiding, in jail and dodging American drones. Little is known about them or how they plan to govern, including whether they will be as tolerant as they claim to be. One spokesman told The Times that the group wanted to forget its past, but that there would be some restrictions.
- In the graphic below, we picked three flights from Aug. 15 that show the routes these aircraft typically took over the past few weeks between the site, the airport and sometimes the U.S. embassy compound.
- Video The types of aircraft used '-- and their opaque ownership structures '-- provide clues that these flights were most likely designed to be covert and be involved in sensitive missions.
- The helicopters are Russian-made Mi-17s, which are commonly flown by the Afghan military, and normally wouldn't attract unwanted attention in the skies over Kabul. And the specific aircraft flying into the compound are registered to a private U.S. company whose manager has ties to U.S. defense agencies. For security reasons, The Times is not identifying the firm or tail numbers.
- We found that one of the flights was inadvertently captured in an Associated Press livestream broadcast by MarcaTV, a Spanish news outlet, as it flew toward the compound on Aug. 20.
- Video Credit Credit... MarcaTV/Associated Press, via YouTube The C.I.A. has previously acknowledged that it has flown Mi-17s '-- and even used one to enter into Afghanistan back in September 2001 to kick-start the war.
- According to flight tracking data, the helicopters mostly operate out of Apron 7, a secluded part of the airport in Kabul. Other aircraft based out of this same spot include those linked to Tepper Aviation, a company previously tied to the C.I.A.
- The Taliban ArriveThe evacuations and building demolitions at the C.I.A. compound appeared complete by Aug. 28. Videos that were shared online on Aug. 30 show that Taliban fighters had already made their way onto the site.
- Video Credit Credit... Prateek Pratap, via Twitter Even with some of the compound in ruins, it seemed clear that the fighters knew what they had stumbled upon.
- ''This was a very important place,'' said one member of the Taliban, as his camera panned across the wreckage.
- Additional production by Drew Jordan, Dmitriy Khavin and Phil Robibero. Reporting was contributed by Julian Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi, Adam Goldman, Brenna Smith, Evan Hill and Kitty Bennett. Translations by Masood Farzan.
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- NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state - ABC News
- Billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest has met with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push for a cashless welfare card to be rolled out across New South Wales.
- Created by Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, the income management scheme quarantines 80 per cent of a person's welfare money and cannot be used for alcohol, gambling, illicit drugs or be withdrawn as cash.
- "It is drugs and alcohol that is stopping our Indigenous brothers and sisters from going further, which leads to the hideous depression," Mr Forrest said.
- "I will do everything I can because I have seen the despair, the want and destruction that's happening among vulnerable and Indigenous Australia."
- Mr Forrest is one of Australia's biggest philanthropic donors and has set up Indigenous employment drives across the country hiring thousands of people.
- Andrew Forrest knows the damage too much cash can do to young people.(ABC News: Andrew O'Connor
- )Indigenous disparity is an issue close to home for Mr Forrest; his family has adopted three Indigenous children.
- The mining magnate met the Premier on Thursday to select regions in NSW where the scheme could be rolled out.
- "NSW regions are howling for the card and the Federal Government is yet to be persuaded to invest the political capital in NSW," Mr Forrest said.
- Gladys Berejiklian says she is considering the cashless welfare card in some parts of NSW.(ABC Illawarra: Chloe Hart
- )While visiting Wollongong on Tuesday the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian acknowledged the income management scheme was being considered across the state.
- "I am always willing to consider pilots and opportunities to improve quality of life especially in our remote communities who don't have access to services that others do," Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
- The Premier thanked Mr Forrest for his aspirations for New South Wales.
- "We are always willing to listen to people's ideas and appreciate people are very inspired and passionate about wanting to improve quality of life for the citizens of this state."
- Premier Berejiklian would not give any detail on the specific locations under consideration.
- "We are considering what we can do to support our most rural and remote communities, are always open-minded because as a government we want to improve the lives of the most vulnerable, we are listening to those who've done it elsewhere," she said.
- The debit card has been trialled for almost 18 months in the East Kimberley towns of Kununurra and Wyndham, and Ceduna in South Australia, which Mr Forrest said had proven a huge success.
- "Forty per cent of parents admitted looking after their children better, where drug and alcohol consumption has collapsed, where purchase of groceries has never been higher, fresh meat, school uniforms '-- welfare's getting spent on the things it should," Mr Forrest said.
- He saw it as vital for those aged under 18 too.
- "There is simply no argument that we are giving cash to homeless children, they should not have a need to go to the pub or buy illicit drugs," he said.
- Critics of Mr Forrest have labelled him a billionaire, with no qualifications on the topic.
- "And I say to them: When were you last in a jail? When did you last go and speak to 300 aboriginal people how to not suffer recidivism to land straight back in jail?"
- Through his mining enterprises Mr Forrest has hired thousands of Australians, but he said those opportunities were not being taken up in some Indigenous communities.
- "I'm unable to train any Aboriginal people in my region because everyone who could be and therefore could be employed can't do the training because of drugs and alcohol and we've reached this road block in New South Wales."
- Mr Forrest said Indigenous disparity would be eliminated by giving people a hand up, not a hand out, which would also save the nation billions of dollars.
- Editor's note (19/7/17): This story has been amended to remove personal details of Mr Forrest's family.
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- Pipeline proposals brought the Taliban to power first time round '' could the same be true again now? '-- RT Op-ed
- By Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg
- Washington helped the Taliban take power in Afghanistan before with a view to unlocking the country's natural wealth. Now the band is back together in Kabul, is something similar going on?
- Contrary to official claims the last US soldier has left Afghanistan, it's been reported that a ''diehard'' team of elite British and American troops are to remain in the country to ''avenge the deaths'' of those killed at Kabul airport in a suicide bombing by ISIS-K.
- The joint party '' which includes the SAS and the Navy Seals '' may seek to construct a base in the ''lawless'' Afghan-Pakistan border area to conduct stealth strikes against the terror faction, and will be supported by US drones. Of course, this effort will require the Taliban's approval '' but defence sources say this is ''likely to be given.'' Even more extraordinarily, the possibility of the taskforce working alongside the returned rulers of Afghanistan has not been ruled out.
- While seismically shifting alliances are nothing new for London or Washington, the speed and totality of this volte face is truly unprecedented. Nonetheless, the rationale for the resounding reversal '' and indeed the total withdrawal of coalition forces, despite defense chiefs having long known the illegitimate and unpopular Western-backed government would immediately collapse as a result '' may be straightforward.
- In March, the Taliban were surprise guests of honor at a US-brokered meeting in Ashgabat, between representatives of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India '' the four participating members of the long-awaited TAPI pipeline. The group assured attendees that they weren't merely committed to not attacking the project's infrastructure, but would actively ensure its safety and that of any and all other ''developmental projects'' in the country.
- The Taliban's intervention was clearly intended to reassure international financial institutions, which for so long have been deterred from investing in the endeavor by the very real threat of its destruction by insurgents, that the pipeline would be in safe hands once they were back in saddle '' if successful, construction can finally begin, marking the culmination of an effort almost three-decades in the making.
- Also on rt.com People are horrified the Taliban seized biometric devices, but the real scandal is the extent of US military data collection The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 destroyed the Iron Curtain that had for so long blocked Western access to Central Asia's vast energy wealth. Future Vice President Donald Rumsfeld declared in 1998 while chief executive of energy giant Halliburton, which reaped billions from government contracts on which only it was permitted to bid during the Iraq War, that ''I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant.''
- There was just one problem '' how could these vast riches be effectively extracted? Funnelling oil and gas through Russia would be expensive due to transportation fees levied by Moscow, brought in to reassert the country's influence over the region's newly-independent republics. US sanctions on Iran made even transiting resources through its borders illegal.
- That just left Afghanistan a barren wilderness with no infrastructure to speak of, where Westerners typically feared to tread. Undiscouraged, US oil major Unocal dispatched representatives to conduct feasibility studies across Central Asia starting in 1995. They concluded that once a stable government, or at least governing force, was in place in Kabul, a 1,000-mile pipeline, capable of carrying a million barrels per day, was attainable. At least one Unocal executive provided information they gained on these trips to the Central Intelligence Agency.
- The next year, the company opened an office in Kandahar '' coincidentally across the street from a compound owned by Osama Bin Laden, and not far from a Pakistani intelligence station '' as the Taliban were in the process of taking control of Afghanistan. Their subsequent success could well have been attributable to support provided by Unocal. A US Defense Intelligence Agency whistleblower who visited the country at this time heard from numerous informed sources the group's capture of Kabul wouldn't have been possible without the firm's assistance.
- Also on rt.com Hossain Rasouli: Afghan Paralympian landmine victim competes in Tokyo after evacuation from Kabul amid Taliban takeover Once that came to pass, Unocal's in-house security forces and the CIA both afforded the Taliban weapons and instructors to maintain its grip on power, and the company engaged in well-funded lobbying back home to secure Washington's recognition of the group as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, hiring numerous high-profile government officials for the purpose, including Henry Kissinger. He would later be appointed to head the 9/11 Commission, which specifically examined the pipeline effort, but stepped down rather than reveal potential conflicts of interest.
- Another lobbyist enlisted was Zalmay Khalilzad, a State Department veteran pivotal to increasing the Reagan administration's support for the Mujahideen's war against the Red Army in the 1980s. In October 1996, he authored a strident op-ed for the Washington Post, demanding the US ''reengage'' with Afghanistan, dismissing suggestions the Taliban were an extremist force, and speaking of ''common interest'' between Washington and the group. His Unocal role was unmentioned '' it also didn't factor into mainstream media coverage of his appointment as special envoy to Afghanistan in January 2002.
- Taliban were also flown into Texas to meet in person with Unocal executives in late 1997, as its fighters battled to seize control of the remaining third of Afghanistan not under its rule. Accounts of the VIP visit are rendered supremely surreal today '' the group travelled to a zoo, the NASA space center, and a massive Target outlet for a shopping spree, before retiring to the palatial homes of company chiefs, replete with golf courses and swimming pools, where they feasted on halal meat and rice, washed down with Coca Cola.
- The Taliban returned to Afghanistan bearing a number of gifts from Unocal, including a pledge to invest close to a million dollars in training Afghans how to construct the pipeline. For its part, Washington was very much open to recognizing the group, despite ever-growing domestic outrage at its treatment of women and extremely harsh interpretation of Sharia law.
- Also on rt.com 7 Taliban fighters killed in clashes with Panjshir valley resistance, as challenges remain for new rulers after US exit ''The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will beAramco, pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that,'' a senior US diplomat allegedly said at the time.
- That changed in August 1998, when US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Al Qaeda, killing over 200 people, and Washington responded with a series of cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan. By December, Unocal had finally withdrawn entirely from the pipeline project, and ended its operations in Kabul outright '' although the next year Graham Fuller, former Deputy Director of the CIA's National Council on Intelligence, made a revealing disclosure.
- ''The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvellously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army,'' he said. ''The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.''
- So, in 2005, with the US so firmly ''guiding the evolution'' of Islam in Kabul anew, the pipeline was back on the table, in the form of TAPI '' US officials were reportedly strongly supportive, because as before it would allow Central Asia to export energy to Western markets ''without relying on Russian routes.'' However, the project again stalled in short order, due to an increasingly volatile security situation. There's no such risk of that happening today though, given the Taliban's solemn pledge to defend it at all costs from bothersome incursions.
- Also on rt.com America's catastrophic miscalculation: 20 years of disaster in Afghanistan, by the numbers (PHOTOS) The aforementioned Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed in September 2018 as the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, and led talks with the Taliban. He has been condemned harshly in some quarters for the group's rapid reseizure of power '' but no reference to his time as a Unocal lobbyist, let alone discussion of how energy interests so intimately intersect with US foreign policy, can be found among the criticism.
- This may be attributable to suggestions oil and gas interests played any role in Afghanistan having long-been dismissed as lunatic conspiracy theorist fare. But the facts are what they are, and more than speak for themselves.
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- Wisconsin Lost Track of 4 Times More Ballots than Biden Won by in 2020
- Wisconsin lost track of more than 82,000 mail-in ballots cast in the state in the November 2020 elections'--more than four times the margin of difference separating the two presidential candidates in the state, according to a report by the nonprofit Public Interest Legal Foundation.
- The legal foundation, an election integrity watchdog group, released a research brief Friday looking at one of the most closely contested states in the 2020 presidential election.
- However, the Wisconsin Elections Commission disputes those findings, as the commission spokesman said the report ''mischaracterizes election systems and cherry-picks data,'' adding, it is ''unreliable and frankly, it's sloppy work.''
- Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump by 20,682 votes in Wisconsin in the November presidential election. However, according to the legal foundation's report, 82,766 mail-in ballots in the state were either undeliverable or suffered an unknown fate.
- A further breakdown by the legal group shows that 1.4 million ballots were sent by mail. Of those, 6,458 were undeliverable. An additional 2,981 mail-in ballots were rejected. The vast majority, 76,308, met an ''unknown'' fate.
- ''The federal data show the 2020 election had more mail ballots that were never counted than the margin of victory in the presidential election in Wisconsin,'' J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, said in a statement.
- ''This isn't the way to run an election,'' said Adams, a former Justice Department lawyer in the Voting Section. ''Mail ballots invite error, disenfranchisement of voters, and puts the inept U.S. post office determining the outcome of elections.''
- Wisconsin was among the three most closely contested states in the country, along with Georgia and Arizona, each of which Biden won by 0.6% or less. A Washington Post analysis in February found that flipping about 43,000 votes across those three states could have changed the Electoral College outcome.
- The Public Interest Legal Foundation previously determined 14.7 million mail-in ballots were unaccounted for nationally. The group bases the numbers on data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
- Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. In the nationwide popular vote, Biden received 81,268,924 votes to Trump's 74,216,154'--a victory margin of 7,052,770.
- The U.S. Election Assistance Commission asks local election officials to provide numbers on how many mail ballots were not returned as voted, were undeliverable, or were otherwise ''unable to be tracked.''
- The U.S. Postal Service inspector general found 13% of mail ballots in the 2018 election used the official tracking system.
- The inspector general says ballots in the ''unknown'' column could have been put in the wrong mailbox or thrown out with unpaid bills.
- Reid Magney, spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission, objected to the findings, in a detailed email statement.
- The statement asserted the legal foundation report does not use data from the Election Administration and Voting Survey report. Instead, Magney said, the information appears to be from raw data from the Election Assistance Commission.
- ''Their figures for ballots sent, undeliverable ballots, and rejected ballots count are all incorrect'--in some cases by a wide margin,'' Magney told The Daily Signal in the email statement.
- He referenced Wisconsin's own reporting that shows about 85,000 absentee ballots were not returned, ''but there is no indication they 'went missing' or were undeliverable.'' He said the number used for ''unknown'' ballots ''doesn't add up to any combination of ballot status classifications used in the State of Wisconsin.''
- ''The PILF report makes a big deal of how many more 'unknown' ballots there were in Wisconsin in 2020 compared to 2016,'' Magney continued. ''But as a percentage of all absentee ballots, ''unknown'' ballots plummeted from 7% in 2016 to 3.8% in 2020.''
- Trump has alleged his election loss was fraudulent. However, he has come up short in all of his legal challenges.
- Unaccounted-for votes do not prove the outcome would have turned out differently, as it's not knowable how many of the uncounted votes were for Biden and how many were for Trump. But according to the legal group, this marks the first time, going back to at least 2012, that the number of unaccounted-for ballots was larger than the margin of victory.
- For example, when Trump won the state of Wisconsin in 2016, defeating Hillary Clinton by 27,257 votes, there were only 12,984 unknown or undeliverable mail-in ballots, according to the report. In the 2012 presidential election, President Barack Obama carried the state by 205,204 votes, and there were only 54,077 unknown or undeliverable mail-in ballots.
- The Public Interest Legal Foundation report doesn't allege an incorrect election outcome, but focuses on the perils of mass mail-in voting, which occurred in 2020 primarily as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- ''Expanded vote-by-mail efforts create stress tests on a state's voter-registration list maintenance system and reveal if investments in ballot chains-of-custody were effective,'' the report says. ''When Wisconsin loses track of more ballots than the difference between winning and losing its Electoral College votes, that is a core system failure.''
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- Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours.
- The Australian government has been moving towards a surveillance state for some years already. Now they are putting thenail in the coffin with an unprecedented surveillance bill that allows the police tohack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts; without sufficient safeguardsto prevent abuse of these new powers.
- This month the Australian government has passed a sweeping surveillance bill, worse than any similar legislation inany other five eye country.
- The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 gives the AustralianFederal Police (AFP) andthe Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) three new powers for dealing with online crime:
- Data disruption warrant: gives the police the ability to "disrupt data" by modifying, copying, adding, or deleting it.
- Network activity warrant: allows the police to collect intelligence from devices or networks that are used,or likely to be used, by those subject to the warrant
- Account takeover warrant: allows the police to take control of an online account (e.g. social media)for the purposes of gathering information for an investigation.
- The two Australian law enforcement bodies AFP and ACIC will soon have the power to modify, add, copy, or delete your datashould you become a suspect in the investigation of a serious crime.
- What makes this legislation even worse is that there is no judicial oversight. A data disruption or network activitywarrant could be issued by a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, a judge's warrant is not needed.
- Australian companies obliged to complyWhen presented with such warrant from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Australian companies, system administrators etc.must comply, and actively helpthe police to modify, add, copy, or delete the data of a person under investigation. Refusing to complycould have one end up in jail for up to ten years, according to the new bill.
- Required hacking activities could include: altering, copying anddeleting data; intercepting and modifying communications; surveilling networks; andchanging account credentials.
- Justification of the billPoliticians justify the need for the bill by stating that it is intended to fight child exploitation (CSAM) andterrorism. However, the bill itself enables law enforcement to investigate any"serious Commonwealth offence" or "serious State offence that has a federal aspect".
- In fact, this wording enables the police to investigate any offence which is punishable by imprisonment of at leastthree years, including terrorism, sharing child abuse material, violence, acts of piracy, bankruptcy and companyviolations, and tax evasion.
- Criticism of the surveillance billThe Australian surveillance bill was heavily criticizedby Senator Lidia Thorpe, the Greens spokesperson for Justice:
- "The Richardson review concluded that this bill enables the AFP and ACIC to be 'judge, jury and executioner.' That'snot how we deliver justice in this country. The bill does not identify or explain why these powers are necessaryand our allies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada andNew Zealand do not grant law enforcement these rights."
- "In effect, this Bill would allow spy agencies to modify, copy, or delete your data with a data disruption warrant;collect intelligence on your online activities with a network activity warrant; also they can take over your socialmedia and other online accounts and profiles with an account takeover warrant."
- End of Human RightsThe new Australian surveillance bill signals the end of respect for Human Rights in Australia.
- For lawyer Angus Murray, Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia's Policy Team, the hacking powers pose aserious risk to our civil liberties.
- "This is now a regime in Australia where we have conferred power on law enforcement agencies to hack Australians',and potentially overseas persons', computers and totake over accounts and modify and delete data on those accounts," he told Information Age.
- "Australia doesn't have constitutionally enshrined rights to political speech and other human rights, but if we'regoing to give law enforcement these powers,that should be checked and balanced against a human rights instrument at Federal level."
- Murray warns that there could come a point where this power is used against society. In theory, at least, the policecould put something like child exploitation images onto your computer. While something like this is not the intentionof the bill, there are also no significant safeguards against it.
- Surveillance is powerHaving the ability to secretly hack into people's computers, take over their social media channels, and spy on themfundamentally undermines our right to privacy.
- Surveillance is power, and that is a threat to our free and open societies.
- In Germany, we know from recent history how devastating a surveillance state is.
- Together we must fight for privacy!
- Biden told Afghan President they needed to 'change perception' of the Taliban's rapid advance | Daily Mail Online
- President Joe Biden wanted the now-departed Afghan president to create the 'perception' that his government was capable of holding off the Taliban - an indication he knew it was only a matter of time before the US ally fell to the Islamic group even while reassuring Americans at home that it would not happen.
- In the last phone call between Biden and his Afghan then-counterpart Ashraf Ghani, the American president said they needed to change perceptions of the Taliban's rapid advance 'whether it is true or not,' according to excerpts published on Tuesday.
- The call took place on July 23 - weeks before the fall of Kabul - but Biden on Tuesday repeated his assertion that his team was caught flat-footed by the rapid Taliban takeover of the country.
- 'The assumption was that more than 300,000 Afghan national security forces that we had trained over the past two decades, and equipped, would be a strong adversary in their civil wars with the Taliban,' Biden told the nation in a televised speech from the White House on Tuesday.
- President Joe Biden spoke with President Ashraf Ghani for about 14 minutes on July 23. It was their last conversation before the Taliban captured the capital. Biden told Ghani he had a perception problem and said, 'There is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture'
- 'That assumption that the Afghan government would be able to hold on for a period of time beyond military drawdown turned out not to be accurate.
- 'But I still instructed our national security team to prepare for every eventuality, even that one. And that's what we did.
- 'So, we were ready when the Afghan security forces, after two decades of fighting for their country and losing thousands of their own, did not hold on as long as anyone expected.'
- Four weeks before Kabul collapsed, Ghani pleaded for more air support and money for soldiers who had not had a pay rise in a decade.
- A transcript obtained by Reuters from an anonymous source reveals two leaders oblivious to the impending disaster and an American president focused on spinning the message.
- 'I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,' Biden said.
- 'And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.'
- The Taliban were already capturing district after district across the country, while the US and Afghanistan were at loggerheads over tactics.
- In the months leading up to the chaotic US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was completed on Monday, Biden was telling the public a different story - that the withdrawal would be done smoothly and that Washington's Afghan allies were in control.
- 'I don't think anybody anticipated that,' Biden told ABC News when asked about the swift disintegration of the Afghan security forces.
- In April, Biden said that the US couldn't stay in Afghanistan forever and that it was time to bring the troops home.
- 'We'll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely. And we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners, who now have more forces in Afghanistan than we do,' Biden said.
- 'And the Taliban should know that if they attack us as we draw down, we will defend ourselves and our partners with all the tools at our disposal.'
- In July, Biden said that the withdrawal, which was to be complete by August 31, was 'proceeding in a secure and orderly way.' He gave no indication that it would be chaotic.
- When asked if a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable, the president responded: 'No, it is not.'
- Biden said that the Afghan government has '300,000 well-equipped (forces) as well-equipped as any army in the world - and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.
- When Biden was asked if he trusted the Taliban, the president replied: 'No. But I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war.'
- The president was then asked about his own intelligence community's assessment that the Afghan government would likely collapse.
- 'That is not true,' Biden responded. 'They did not reach that conclusion.'
- 'The intelligence community did not say, back in June or July, that in fact this was going to collapse like it did,' Biden told ABC News earlier this month.
- Biden said that he was not told that the Taliban would take over as quickly as they did. Instead, he said there was a possibility it would take more time.
- 'Not even close,' Biden said.
- Behind the scenes, however, Biden apparently knew that the situation was more precarious.
- Refugees are led through the departure terminal to a bus at Dulles International Airport after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
- aliban members gather and make speeches in front of Herat governorate after the completion of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Taliban forces patrol at a runway a day after U.S troops withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul
- Two weeks after his remarks to reporters denying that a Taliban takeover was inevitable, Biden and Ghani spoke for about 14 minutes on July 23. It was their last conversation before the Taliban captured the capital.
- Ghani fled the presidential palace, Kabul and the country on August 15.
- By then a chaotic evacuation was already under way, helping tens of thousands of people to safety as the cost of 13 American troops and dozens of Afghans killed in a suicide attack on Kabul airport.
- But in mid July, Biden was intent on Ghani delivering a public message and public plan that would shore up confidence in the Afghan government.
- 'You clearly have the best military, you have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they're clearly capable of fighting well, we will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is and what we are doing,' he said.
- He pushed Ghani to allow his Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi to pursue a strategy that would focus on defending major population centers.
- And he urged the Afghan president to bring together some of the most powerful anti-Taliban warlords in a show of support to reverse perceptions of a crumbling government.
- Taliban special forces fighters arrive inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal
- 'But I really think, I don't know whether you're aware, just how much the perception around the world is that this is looking like a losing proposition, which it is not, not that it necessarily is that, but so the conclusion I'm asking you to consider is to bring together everyone from [Former Vice President Abdul Rashid] Dostum, to [Former President Hamid] Karzai and in between,' he said.
- 'If they stand there and say they back the strategy you put together, and put a warrior in charge, you know a military man, Khan in charge of executing that strategy, and that will change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think.'
- Ghani responded by saying Afghanistan was facing not just the Taliban, but their foreign backers.
- 'We are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this,' he said.
- But he also asked that American close air support be 'frontloaded' to help with the challenges faced by the Afghan army immediately.
- Details of their conversation emerged a day after the last U.S. troops were flown out Kabul ending America's longest war.
- In a follow-up call later that day that did not include the US president, Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, General Mark Milley and U.S. Central Command commander General Frank McKenzie spoke to Ghani.
- Reuters also obtained a transcript of that call.
- In this call, too, an area of focus was the global perception of events on the ground in Afghanistan.
- Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Ghani 'the perception in the United States, in Europe and the media sort of thing is a narrative of Taliban momentum, and a narrative of Taliban victory. And we need to collectively demonstrate and try to turn that perception, that narrative around.'
- 'I do not believe time is our friend here. We need to move quickly,' McKenzie added.
- A spokesperson for McKenzie declined to comment. A spokesman for Milley did not respond by publication time.
- Top FDA vaccine regulators rush for the exits, resign posts as Biden jumps the gun on booster jabs '-- RT USA News
- Two high-level FDA vaccine officials have quit, raising eyebrows about the agency's future. In addition to failing to appoint an FDA commissioner seven months into his term, Biden promoted a booster shot without agency go-ahead.
- Two of the top executives involved in vaccine research and testing at the Food and Drug Administration are leaving the agency, according to a Tuesday letter from Peter Marks, chief of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Marion Gruber and Phil Krause were director and deputy director, respectively, of the agency's Office of Vaccines Research & Review.
- A 32 year FDA veteran is quitting the agency due to the WH politically strong arming their decision making. If this doesn't raise red flags among some of you, nothing will. https://t.co/om5VcnpxhC
- '-- Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) August 31, 2021While there was no official reason given for their departure, a former FDA bigwig told biotech outlet Endpoints that the pair complained that the CDC, and specifically its Advisory Committee on Immunization (ACIP), had seized the right to make decisions that had previously been left up to the FDA. The researchers were also supposedly upset with Marks for not standing up for them against the CDC. The Biden administration's decision to announce a third round of mRNA ''booster'' shots without consulting them was merely the last straw.
- After finally supplying its approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine eight months after they were authorized on an emergency-use basis, the FDA hinted last week that it would be making a booster shot of the mRNA-based drugs available on September 20th to those who'd received their second doses eight months prior.
- Gruber spent over 30 years with the agency and plans to retire at the end of October, while Krause has worked for the FDA for over a decade. Despite the departure of the top two officials in its vaccine division, FDA spokesperson Stephanie Caccomo insisted in a statement emailed to Reuters that the agency remained ''confident in the expertise and ability of our staff to continue our critical public health work, including evaluating COVID-19 vaccines.'' The agency is being closely watched as Americans await authorization to vaccinate their children under 12 years old, who remain outside the age range for existing approvals.
- Despite the FDA and the CDC's joint announcement last week promising a third shot for those in need of an mRNA booster, the FDA's seal of approval appeared to have been prematurely affixed. In a presentation on Monday, the ACIP called for a more targeted and cautious approach to the booster, arguing that fully vaccinated individuals continued to be protected against ''most severe illness,'' indicating there was little data to show the usefulness of booster shots in the general population. Instead, the committee suggested, medical authorities should focus on vaccinating those who hadn't received the shot yet '' including people in countries where the vaccine is scarce.
- Also on rt.com Biden urges all fully-vaccinated US adults to get booster jabs, after CDC & FDA say immunity wanes over time Like this story? Share it with a friend!
- Japan finds another Moderna vial suspected to contain foreign substance | Reuters
- TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Japan reported a fresh contamination case involving Moderna's (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such incident in less than a week, threatening to slow the country's sputtering inoculation campaign.
- Kanagawa prefecture said on Tuesday several black particles in one Moderna vaccine vial were found upon checking for foreign substances before its use, and it has put the rest of the lot on hold.
- Japan suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna shots last week after being notified of contamination in some of the supply. Moderna and Spanish pharma company Rovi (ROVI.MC), which bottles Moderna vaccines, have said the cause could be a manufacturing issue, and European safety regulators have launched an investigation.
- Moderna has said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified from the issue. No similar Moderna incident has been reported in other countries.
- Kanagawa prefecture said the vaccine's domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (4502.T), had collected the vial with the suspected contaminant and that about 3,790 people had already received shots from the same lot.
- More Moderna shots were temporarily halted in two other regions this week. In some cases, foreign substances have been found in unused vials, whereas others appear to be caused when bits of the vials' rubber stopper break off when needles are incorrectly inserted.
- Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed Moderna logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado RuvicTakeda did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Kanagawa incident. The company posted a notice on its website on Wednesday saying that on rare occasions during manufacturing, rubber stopper material can get mixed into the vaccine solution.
- Japan's health ministry, citing an investigation by Takeda, said on Wednesday that the vial sent to Kanagawa was from a different lot than the other lots, and rubber stopper material appears to have gone into it during the manufacturing process.
- Rovi did not have an immediate comment to a Reuters' request for an update on its investigation.
- Medical staff are advised to do a visual inspection of vials for discoloration or foreign materials before use, the notice said.
- The contamination incidents come as Japan is battling its worst wave of infections, driven by the Delta variant, with daily infections exceeding 25,000 in August for the first time.
- Tokyo reported on Wednesday 3,168 more cases, with NHK citing 20,031 new cases nationwide.
- Severe COVID-19 cases are at record levels in Japan, leaving many people to recuperate at home amid a shortage of critical care beds. Only 45.4% of its population has been fully vaccinated, lagging vaccination rates of several developed countries.
- Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim and Rocky Swift; Additional reporting by Corina Rodriguez in Madrid; Editing by Miyoung Kim, Michael Perry and Kim Coghill
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- 400 file Covid vaccine side effect claims as coverage nears 7m doses | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi
- File photo of a coronavirus vaccination centre. Image: Tiina Kokko / YleA total of 399 people in Finland have so far filed claims for damages related to experiencing adverse effects from a coronavirus vaccine.
- Under Finnish law, people can apply for monetary compensation for side effects caused by medicines or vaccines which have been authorised for use in Finland. The claims are handled by the Finnish Mutual Insurance Company.
- The firm's CEO, Tiina Hellgren, told Yle that the number of claims is "not surprising," considering that as of Wednesday 1 September, some 6.7 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed in Finland.
- Hellgren added that the insurer has issued decisions on a little under half the claims received, with 86 claims accepted and 88 refused.
- "Compensation has been paid for the typical side effects related to coronavirus vaccines, such as various muscle and joint pains, allergic reactions and swollen lymph nodes," Hellgren said. "Compensation has also been paid for some other individual reasons, but for data protection reasons these cannot yet be revealed because there are so few cases."
- Compensation is based on a probable causal link between the use of the medicine or vaccine and the side effect, which must be confirmed by a physician and noted in the patient's records.
- With regard to claims related to serious illness or even death, Hellgren told Yle that there have been a small number of cases where unusual blood clots with low platelets have occurred in people who received Vaxzevria, formerly known as the AstraZeneca vaccine.
- "Six claims have been made for such blood clots, five of which have been accepted and one case is still pending. There were fewer than five claims in which deaths have occurred, so unfortunately we cannot discuss these cases in public," she said.
- New Covid variant, known as 'Mu', under close WHO scrutiny due to concerns over its vaccine resistance '-- RT World News
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has reclassified the 'Mu' Covid strain, also known as B.1.621, as a ''variant of interest,'' amid concerns that its mutations indicate a potential risk of resistance to existing vaccines.
- The WHO announced the classification in the organization's weekly pandemic bulletin on Tuesday, several months after the Mu strain was first identified in Colombia.
- ''The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,'' the WHO said, adding that ''preliminary data showed it has the same behaviour as the Beta variant.''
- The decision to monitor the Mu strain comes amid concern from the WHO about the potential risk of resistance to vaccines posed by new mutations, as case numbers begin to rise globally in countries that have relaxed Covid restrictions.
- Since first emerging in Colombia back in January, the Mu variant has spread to other South American nations and some parts of Europe. Despite adding it to its monitoring list, the WHO says the Mu strain only has a 0.1% global prevalence among sequenced cases.
- Also on rt.com Covid jab figures prove the EU is anything but united, with poorer countries left lagging dangerously behind The addition of the Mu strain to the list of variants of interest marks the first time a mutated version of the virus has been added to the list since June, when the Lambda mutation '' first detected in Peru '' was included among those being monitored by the WHO.
- Currently, the WHO has identified four strains as ''variants of concern,'' including Alpha, which has spread to 193 countries, and Delta, which has fueled a rise in cases across the globe. Five strains, now including Mu, are being monitored as ''variants of interest.''
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- Video of Pelosi supposedly caught on hot mic was manipulated
- CLAIM: After President Joe Biden offered to answer questions during a virtual meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was caught saying, ''We don't want him to talk.''
- AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. A video clip that appears to show the awkward moment was actually manipulated and was first shared online with a label identifying it as satire. The original video shows Pelosi did not respond when Biden said he would take additional questions.
- THE FACTS: An altered video circulated widely on social media purportedly showing Pelosi caught in a hot mic moment, admitting that she didn't want Biden to answer questions.
- On March 3, 2021, Biden spoke at a virtual meeting during the House Democratic Caucus Virtual Issues Conference, where he discussed his legislation's legislative priorities. Pelosi addressed Biden on a virtual screen.
- After concluding his remarks, Biden said: ''And I'm happy to take questions if that's what you -- I'm supposed to do, Nance. Whatever you want me to do.'' In the manipulated video, a voice that sounds similar to Pelosi's, can be heard saying, ''Am I on? No, we don't want him to talk.''
- The voice was added to the video. In the actual video, Pelosi did not respond and the screen that showed her cut to a photo of Biden. The video ends shortly after that.
- A comedian and voice actor who performs under the name Michael Clive created the altered video as political satire. But some social media users then shared his video without the satire label.
- ''Yes, that's me, imitating Nancy Pelosi but that Twitter version has been edited,'' Clive, who also uses the name Michael Kaminski, told The Associated Press in an email. ''The original is labeled satire at the end.''
- In March, social media users shared a clip from the same event falsely claiming that the feed was cut off so Biden couldn't answer questions. But Biden did take questions, including one about systemic racism and the child tax credit, the AP reported.
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- WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named 'Mu'
- Issued on: 01/09/2021 - 07:25
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), delivering a speech on May 24, 2021. (C) Christopher Black, AFP The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January 2021.
- Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest", the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin.
- The WHO said the variant has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it.
- "The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape," the bulletin said.
- There is widespread concern over the emergence of new virus mutations as infection rates are ticking up globally again, with the highly transmissible Delta variant taking hold '' especially among the unvaccinated '' and in regions where anti-virus measures have been relaxed.
- All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19, mutate over time and most mutations have little or no effect on the properties of the virus.
- But certain mutations can impact the properties of a virus and influence how easily it spreads, the severity of the disease it causes, and its resistance to vaccines, drugs and other countermeasures.
- The WHO currently identifies four Covid-19 variants of concern, including Alpha, which is present in 193 countries, and Delta, present in 170 countries.
- Five variants, including Mu, are to be monitored.
- After being detected in Colombia, Mu has since been reported in other South American countries and in Europe.
- The WHO said its global prevalence has declined to below 0.1 percent among sequenced cases. In Colombia, however, it is at 39 percent.
- Alfred Kinsey - Wikipedia
- American scientist (1894''1956)
- Kinsey in Frankfurt, November 1955
- BornAlfred Charles Kinsey
- ( 1894-06-23 ) June 23, 1894DiedAugust 25, 1956 (1956-08-25) (aged 62)CitizenshipUnited StatesAlma materBowdoin College Harvard UniversityKnown forSexology and human sexuality: Kinsey Reports, Kinsey scale, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and ReproductionScientific careerFieldsBiologyInstitutionsIndiana UniversityAlfred Charles Kinsey (; June 23, 1894 '' August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University,[1] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally.
- Early life and education [ edit ] Alfred Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (n(C)e Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey.[2] He was the eldest of three children. His mother received little formal education; his father was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Kinsey's parents were poor for most of his childhood, often unable to afford proper medical care. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood. Rickets led to a curvature of the spine, which resulted in a slight stoop that prevented Kinsey from being drafted in 1917 for World War I.
- Kinsey's parents were devout Christians. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Most of Kinsey's social interactions were with other members of the church, often as a silent observer, while his parents discussed religion.[3] Kinsey's father imposed strict rules on the household, including mandating Sunday as a day of prayer and little else.
- At age 10, Kinsey moved with his family to South Orange, New Jersey.[2] Also at a young age, he showed great interest in nature and camping. He worked and camped with the local YMCA throughout his early years, and enjoyed these activities to such an extent that he intended to work for the YMCA after completing his education. Kinsey's senior undergraduate thesis for psychology, a dissertation on the group dynamics of young boys, echoed this interest. He joined the Boy Scouts when a troop was formed in his community. His parents strongly supported this (and joined as well) because the Boy Scouts was an organization that was based on the principles of Christianity. Kinsey worked his way up through the Scouting ranks to earn Eagle Scout in 1913, making him one of the earliest Eagle Scouts.[4] Despite earlier disease having weakened his heart, Kinsey followed an intense sequence of difficult hikes and camping expeditions throughout his early life.
- In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but hard-working student. While attending Columbia High School, he devoted his energy to academic work and playing the piano. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. Kinsey's ability to spend immense amounts of time deeply focused on study was a trait that would serve him well in college and during his professional career. He seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but earned respect for his academic ability. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. Kinsey was later to claim that his high school biology teacher, Natalie Roeth, was the most important influence on his decision to become a scientist.
- Kinsey approached his father with plans to study botany at college. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. Kinsey was not successful there, and decided engineering was not a field he was good at. At the end of two years at Stevens, Kinsey gathered the courage to confront his father about his interest in biology and his intent to continue studying at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in biology.[5]
- Initial research on entomology [ edit ] In the fall of 1914, Kinsey entered Bowdoin College, where he studied entomology under Manton Copeland, and was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, in whose house he lived for much of his time at college.[6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology.[8] Alfred Seguine Kinsey did not attend his son's graduation ceremony from Bowdoin, possibly as another sign of disapproval of his son's choice of career and studies.
- Kinsey continued his graduate studies at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States. It was there that Kinsey studied applied biology under William Morton Wheeler, a scientist who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Under Wheeler, Kinsey worked almost completely autonomously, which suited both men quite well.
- Kinsey did his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, zealously collecting samples of the species. He traveled widely and took 26 detailed measurements of hundreds of thousands of gall wasps; his methodology was itself an important contribution to entomology as a science. In 1919, Kinsey was awarded a Sc.D. degree by Harvard University. In 1920 he published several papers under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, introducing the gall wasp to the scientific community and describing its phylogeny. Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]
- Kinsey wrote a widely used high-school textbook, An Introduction to Biology, which was published in October 1926.[10][11] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany.
- An Introduction to Biology was unlike any other textbook on the market... Kinsey's textbook was noteworthy for the strong position it took on evolution...In his textbook Kinsey laid out the basic facts of evolution in a manner-of-fact matter, as though he were discussing the life cycle of the fruit fly. ... The chapter called "Further Evidence of Change" was especially blunt...Kinsey defined evolution as "the scientific word for change", and while he acknowledged that there are some people who "think they don't believe in evolution", he tried to show his students the folly of such reasoning. To find proof of evolution, students had only to look at things they used daily...Kinsey ridiculed the man who denounced evolution but owned a new breed of dog or smoked a cigar made from a recently improved variety of tobacco, saying, "When he says he doesn't believe in evolution, I wonder what he means."[12]
- Kinsey co-authored Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, published in 1943, with Merritt Lyndon Fernald. The original draft of the book was written in 1919''1920, while Kinsey was still a doctoral student at the Bussey Institute, and Fernald was working at the Arnold Arboretum.[13]
- Sexology [ edit ] The Kinsey Reports [ edit ] Kinsey (center) with staff of the Institute for Sexual Research, later renamed the
- Kinsey InstituteKinsey is widely regarded as the first major figure in American sexology; his research is cited as having paved the way for a deeper exploration into sexuality among sexologists and the general public, as well as liberating female sexuality.[14][15] For example, Kinsey's work disputed the notions that women generally are not sexual and that female orgasms experienced vaginally are superior to clitoral orgasms.[14][15] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. Kinsey had been studying the variations in mating practices among gall wasps. During this time, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey scale, which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual; a rating of X for "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" was later added.
- In 1935, Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his view that "delayed marriage" (that is, delayed sexual experience) was psychologically harmful. Kinsey obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to further study human sexual behavior.[16] He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, both of which reached the top of the bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into a celebrity. These publications later became known as the Kinsey Reports. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. The Kinsey Reports, which led to a storm of controversy, are regarded by many as a precursor to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Controversial aspects [ edit ] Kinsey's research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. He encouraged his staff to do likewise, and to engage in a wide range of sexual activity, to the extent that they felt comfortable; he argued that this would help his interviewers understand the participants' responses.[17][18] Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research;[19] Biographer Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy explains that this was done to ensure the films' secrecy, which would have caused a scandal had it become public knowledge.[20][21] James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, among others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs.[22]
- Some of the data published in the two Kinsey Reports books is controversial in the scientific and psychiatric communities, due to Kinsey's decision to interview volunteers who may not have been representative of the general population.[23] University of Chicago sociology professor Edward Laumann also argued that Kinsey's work was focused on the biology of sex and lacked psychological and clinical information and analysis.[23]
- Kinsey collected sexual material from around the world, which brought him to the attention of U.S. Customs when they seized some pornographic films in 1956; he died before this matter was resolved legally.[19] Kinsey wrote about pre-adolescent orgasms using data in tables 30 to 34 of the male volume, which report observations of orgasms in over three-hundred children aged from two months up to fifteen years.[24] This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation.[25] Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. Little attention was paid to this part of Kinsey's research at the time, but where Kinsey had gained this information began to be questioned nearly 40 years later.[26] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects".[27][28] Years later, the Kinsey Institute said that the data on children in tables 31''34 came from one man's journal (started in 1917) and that the events concerned predated the Kinsey Reports.[28][29]
- Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married",[30] and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, which may have distorted his studies.[17][18] While he has been criticized for omitting African-Americans from his research,[31] his report on the human male includes numerous references to African-American participants. Historian Vern Bullough writes that the data was later reinterpreted, excluding prisoners and data derived from an exclusively gay sample, and the results indicate that it does not appear to have skewed the data. Kinsey may have over-represented homosexuals, but Bullough considers that this may have been because homosexual behavior was stigmatized and needed to be better understood.[17][18] Paul Gebhard, who was Kinsey's colleague from 1946 to 1956 and who also succeeded Kinsey as Director of the Kinsey Institute following his death,[33] attempted to justify Kinsey's work in the 1970s by removing some of the suspect data where Kinsey allegedly showed a bias towards homosexuality.[33] After Gebhard recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures.[34]
- Bailey et al., in their 2016 review of the sexual orientation literature, stated that Kinsey's survey likely overestimated the frequencies of nonheterosexual attractions and expressions.[35]
- Personal life [ edit ] Kinsey, an atheist,[36][better source needed ] married Clara McMillen in 1921. Their marriage ceremony, like his college graduation, was avoided by Alfred Sr. The couple had four children. Their first son, Donald, born in 1922, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928.
- Kinsey was bisexual[37] and, as a young man, would punish himself for having homoerotic feelings.[38][39][40] He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other. Kinsey had sex with other men, including his student Clyde Martin.[41]
- Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana, at 1320 First Street. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[42]
- Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. The cause of his death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia.[43] The New York Times ran the following editorial on August 27, 1956:
- The untimely death of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey takes from the American scene an important and valuable, as well as controversial, figure. Whatever may have been the reaction to his findings'--and to the unscrupulous use of some of them'--the fact remains that he was first, last, and always a scientist. In the long run, it is probable that the values of his contribution to contemporary thought will lie much less in what he found out than in the method he used and his way of applying it. Any sort of scientific approach to the problems of sex is difficult because the field is so deeply overlaid with such things as moral precept, taboo, individual and group training, and long-established behavior patterns. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired.[44][45]
- Kinsey was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana.[46][47]
- Legacy [ edit ] The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it."[48] A character called "Dr. Kinsey" appeared on the September 15, 1953 television episode of The Jack Benny Program as a bow-tied man interviewing a young woman on board a cruise ship that has left Hawaii. When "Dr. Kinsey" identifies himself to Jack Benny, Benny steps away in embarrassment.[49] The first pop culture references to Kinsey appeared not long after the book's publication; Martha Raye [sold] a half-million copies of 'Ooh, Dr. Kinsey!'"[50] Cole Porter's song "Too Darn Hot", from the Tony Award''winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, devoted its bridge to an analysis of the Kinsey report and the "average man's favorite sport." In 1949 Mae West, reminiscing on the days when the word "sex" was rarely uttered, said of Kinsey, "That guy merely makes it easy for me. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints...We are both in the same business...Except I saw it first."[51]
- The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage. Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953 issue of Time.[52] The national news magazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research, career and new book,[53] the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle.[54] In the magazine's cover portrait, "Flowers, birds, and a bee surround Kinsey; the mirror-of-Venus female symbol decorates his bow tie."[55] The lead article concluded: "'Kinsey ... has done for sex what Columbus did for geography,' declared a pair of enthusiasts ... forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there.... Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must not be mistaken for the last word."[53] On September 15, 1953, Kinsey appeared as a character on the Jack Benny TV program. Kinsey and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program.[56]
- The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in Kinsey. In 2003 Theatre of NOTE produced the Steve Morgan Haskell play titled Fucking Wasps which followed Kinsey's life from childhood until death. Matt Sesow's paintings adorned the theater along with David Bickford playing piano live. Written and directed by Steve Morgan Haskell, Fucking Wasps received many accolades, including a Playwriting of the Year nomination from Backstage West. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. Sex focuses on the relationship between Kinsey, his wife, and their shared lover Wally Matthews (based on Clyde Martin). The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. It was produced off-Broadway in 2005. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. Mr. Sex, a BBC radio play by Steve Coombes concerning Kinsey and his work, won the 2005 Imison Award.[57]
- In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people.[58]
- In June 2019, Kinsey was one of the inaugural fifty American ''pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes'' inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City's Stonewall Inn.[59][60] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[61] and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.[62]
- Significant publications [ edit ] "New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 293''317. 1920. hdl:2246/1148 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . "Life Histories of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 319''357. 1920. hdl:2246/1149 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . "Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 357a''c, 358''402. 1920. hdl:2246/1150 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . Alfred C Kinsey (1926). An Introduction to Biology. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. OCLC 2901872. Austin, Andrew; Dowton, Mark (1929). "The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species". Indiana University Studies. 84''86: 1''517. ISBN 9780643066106. New Introduction to Biology. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1938 [1933]. Kinsey, Alfred C (1936). The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips. Indiana University. Merritt Lyndon Fernald; Alfred Charles Kinsey (1996) [First published 1943 by Idlewild Press, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.]. Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications (reprint of Harper 1958 edition). ISBN 0-486-29104-9 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . The Kinsey Reports:Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998)Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998)See also [ edit ] Judith Reisman, "the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement"[63]Notes [ edit ] ^ "Learn our history". The Kinsey Institute . Retrieved July 1, 2017 . ^ a b "American Experience | Kinsey | Timeline". PBS . Retrieved April 15, 2014 . ^ "American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events". PBS . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ "Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894''1956)". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on December 21, 2006 . Retrieved November 9, 2006 . ^ Newton, David E. Sexual Health: A Reference Handbook page 133 ^ Weinberg, Martin S. (1976). Sex Research: Studies from the Kinsey Institute. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 25. ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 37''38. ISBN 0-253-33734-8. ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey: A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 29. ^ Yudell, Michael (July 1, 1999). "Kinsey's Other Report". Natural History. 108 (6). ISSN 0028-0712. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey, A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-253-14625-9. ^ "If Kinsey's Textbook Could Talk '...". Textbook History. March 28, 2010 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. New York: W. W. Norton and Co. pp. 188''189. ^ Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." Natural History, ISSN 0028-0712, July 1, 2006, vol. 115, issue 6. ^ a b Irvine, Janice M. (2005). Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Temple University Press. pp. 37''43. ISBN 978-1592131518. ^ a b Charles Zastrow (2007). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People. Cengage Learning. pp. 227''228. ISBN 978-0495095101. ^ , Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life WW Norton New York, New York pages 441''445 ^ a b c Bullough, Vern L. (August 1, 1999). "Book Review "Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography " ". Journal of Sex Research. 36: 306''315. doi:10.1080/00224499909552001. ^ a b c Bullough, Vern L. (March 1, 2006). "The Kinsey biographies". Sexuality & Culture. 10 (1): 15''22. doi:10.1007/s12119-006-1002-8. S2CID 144490686. ^ a b "Kinsey Establishes the Institute for Sex Research". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on January 21, 2008 . Retrieved January 3, 2008 . ^ "The Kinsey Institute '' [Publications]". Indiana.edu . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ "The Kinsey Institute '' [Publications]". Indiana.edu. November 3, 1997 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1. ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04086-0. ^ a b Boothe Cosgrove-Mather (January 27, 2003). "50 Years After The Kinsey Report". Associated Press, CBS News . Retrieved April 4, 2014 . ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles; Clyde Eugene Mart (1998) [1948]. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press. pp. 178''180. ISBN 0-253-33412-8. ^ "Kinsey Institute statement denies child abuse in study". Kinseyinstitute.org. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Brown, Mick (November 2004). "The bedroom and beyond". Telegraph magazine. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009 . Retrieved December 7, 2009 . ^ Welsh-Huggins, Andrews (September 1995). "Conservative group attacks Kinsey data on children". Herald-Times. 'There couldn't have been any research if we turned them in,' he said. "Of course we knew when we interviewed pedophiles that they would continue the activity, but we didn't do anything about that.' Providing such absolute assurances of anonymity was the only way to guarantee honest answers on such taboo subjects, said Gebhard. ^ a b Pool, Gary (September''October 1996). "Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft '' head of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction". Humanist. Archived from the original on March 27, 2008 . Retrieved January 7, 2008 . ^ "Kinsey Institute director denies allegations by Reisman". Kinseyinstitute.org. Archived from the original on February 12, 2014 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton. ^ Reumann, Miriam (2005). "American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports". Archives of Sexual Behavior. University of California Press, Berkeley: Springer Netherlands. 36 (5): 294. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9230-z. S2CID 189871726. ^ a b New River Media. "NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: PAUL GEBHARD Colleague of Alfred Kinsey 1946''1956 Former Director of the Kinsey Institute". PBS.org . Retrieved October 27, 2014 . ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2005). Kinsey: A Biography, p 285. London: Pimlico ^ Bailey, J. Michael; Vasey, Paul; Diamond, Lisa; Breedlove, S. Marc; Vilain, Eric; Epprecht, Marc (2016). "Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 17 (2): 45''101. doi:10.1177/1529100616637616 . PMID 27113562. ^ "Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex." 'Kinsey' critics ready, Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times. Retrieved February 2, 2007. ^ Baumgardner, Jennifer (2008). Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 48''. ISBN 978-0-374-53108-9. ^ "Father of the Sexual Revolution". New York Times. November 2, 1997. ^ "Alfred's brush with pleasure". Times Higher Education Supplement. November 17, 1997. ^ James H. Jones (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 610. ISBN 0393327248. ^ Ley, David J. (2009). Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 59''. ISBN 978-1-4422-0032-6. ^ Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. City of Bloomington Interim Report. Bloomington: City of Bloomington, 2004-04, 90. ^ "Dr. Kinsey is Dead; Sex Researcher, 62". The New York Times. August 26, 1956. ^ Quoted in Pomeroy (1972). ^ "Dr. Kinsey". The New York Times. August 27, 1956. ^ "A Walk Through the Rose Hill Cemetery: Historic Tour Guide No. 12" (PDF) . City of Bloomington, Indiana. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 12, 2017 . Retrieved April 14, 2017 . ^ Wilson, Scott. 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- Christie Hefner - Wikipedia
- American businesswoman and activist
- Christie Ann Hefner (born November 8, 1952) is an American businesswoman and activist. Hefner served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises from 1988 to 2009. Hefner is the daughter of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
- Early life [ edit ] Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] She is the daughter of Mildred (Williams) and Hugh Hefner. Her parents had separated by the time she was five. When her mother remarried, she moved to Wilmette, Illinois. There she graduated from New Trier High School.[1] She attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen during the summers from 1964 to 1969.[2]
- She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in English and American literature in 1974. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.[3]
- Career [ edit ] After college, she free-lanced for the Boston Phoenix for a year, writing movie reviews. Thereafter, she moved back to Chicago and started working at Playboy.
- In 1982, she became president of Playboy Enterprises, and was made chairman of the board and CEO in 1988. She was the longest serving female CEO of a publicly traded company. She extended its magazine franchise overseas, to 25 localized foreign editions and also developed the company's profitable pay television business '-- the first time a magazine successfully leveraged its brand into a television network. The company also acquired adult-oriented businesses such as Spice Network and ClubJenna.[4][5] Continuing the company's electronic expansion, in 1994 Christie led the Company onto the Internet with the launch of Playboy.com, the first national magazine to launch a web site, and built an international, profitable, multi-revenue stream business including premium content, e-commerce, advertising and gaming, both online and mobile. She also built a highly profitable direct marketing, catalog and e-commerce business in film and music through both acquisition and organic growth. And, she greatly expanded the leveraging of the Playboy brand via licensing. In her last year as CEO, Playboy generated close to $1 billion in global retail sales, 80% of the sales to women. When she left over 40% of her executives were women. For three years, she was named to FORTUNE's list of ''Most Powerful Women.''
- In 2008, she released a memo to employees about her efforts to streamline the company's operations, including eliminating its DVD division and laying off staff.[6]
- On December 8, 2008, she announced her plans to step down as CEO of Playboy.[7] Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own. "Just as this country is embracing change in the form of new leadership, I have decided that now is the time to make changes in my own life as well," she said.[8] She stepped down from her position at Playboy on January 30, 2009.[9]
- In May 2011, Hefner was named executive chairman of Canyon Ranch Enterprises, a resort company that operates six premier spa destinations and an online website providing health and wellness advice.[10]
- As of 2015, Hefner was chairman of the board of Hatchbeauty Brands [11][12] and served on the board of the D.C. based Center for American Progress Action Fund,[13] a progressive public policy think tank. Christie also serves on the advisory boards of the R.D. Offutt company, an international, multi-billion dollar family owned agricultural conglomerate and Edge Beauty, the world's leading direct-to-consumer company in creating, designing, manufacturing and marketing unique, culturally relevant niche fragrance brands.
- Philanthropy [ edit ] Hefner created the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in honor of her father, and has helped to raise $30 million to build the CORE Center in Chicago, the first outpatient facility in the Midwest for people with AIDS.[14]
- Personal life [ edit ] Hefner married former Illinois state senator William A. Marovitz, a real estate developer and attorney in 1995. They divorced in 2013 and have no children. Marovitz was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly using inside information to trade illegally in shares of Playboy. In 2011, he settled out of court for $168,352.[15][16]
- She lives in Chicago and has one brother, David, a computer systems analyst. She also has two half-brothers, Cooper and Marston, from her father's marriage to Kimberley Conrad.
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- White Rabbit (song) - Wikipedia
- Single by Jefferson Airplane
- 1967 single by Jefferson Airplane
- "White Rabbit" B-side "Plastic Fantastic Lover"ReleasedJune 24, 1967 ( 1967-06-24 ) RecordedNovember 3, 1966 ( 1966-11-03 ) StudioRCA, Hollywood, California, U.S.GenrePsychedelic rock[1]Length 2 : 31 LabelRCA Victor Songwriter(s) Grace Slick Producer(s) Rick Jarrard White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. RCA Records 74-160269, stereo, single (1967). (2:31 minutes, HQ) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. From the album Surrealistic Pillow, stereo (1967). (2:32 minutes, HQ with lyrics) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. From the album Surrealistic Pillow (1967). (2:38 minutes, 8D Audio "multidirectional", with lyrics) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. Live from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967). (2:29 minutes) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Starship with Cathy Richardson on lead vocals, Paul Kantner, David Freiberg, Donny Baldwin, Slick Aguilar, Chris Smith, Marty Balin. Live from the 2012 PBS Special, My Music: 60s Pop, Rock and Soul. (2:45 minutes)"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight[2] on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[3] and Number 116 on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of All Time[4] and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
- History [ edit ] "White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with the Great Society. Slick quit them and joined Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society.[5] The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became top-10 hits[6] for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.[7]
- Lyrics and composition [ edit ] 1967 trade ad for the single
- "White Rabbit" is one of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written during December 1965 or January 1966.[8] It uses imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll'--1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass'--such as changing size after taking pills or drinking an unknown liquid.
- Slick wrote the lyrics first, then composed the music at a red upright piano she had bought for US$50 with eight or 10 keys missing'--"that was OK because I could hear in my head the notes that weren't there"[9]'--moving between major chords for the verses and chorus. She said that the music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis' treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez. She later said: "Writing weird stuff about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in step with what was going on in San Francisco then. We were all trying to get as far away from the expected as possible."[8]
- Slick said the composition was supposed to be a slap to parents who read their children such novels and then wondered why their children later used drugs.[10] She later commented that all fairytales read to little girls have a Prince Charming who comes and saves them. But Alice did not; she was on her own in a very strange place, but she kept on going and followed her curiosity '' "that's the White Rabbit". A lot of women could have taken a message from that story about how you can push your own agenda. The line "feed your head" is about reading, as well as psychedelics feed your head by paying attention: read some books, pay attention.[9]
- Characters Slick referenced include Alice, the White Rabbit, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.[11] Slick reportedly wrote the song after an acid trip.[12]
- For Slick, "White Rabbit" "is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity."[13] For her and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind expansion and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. Even Marty Balin, Slick's eventual rival in Jefferson Airplane, regarded the song as a "masterpiece". In interviews, Slick has related that Alice in Wonderland was often read to her as a child and remained a vivid memory well into her adulthood.[3]
- In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Slick mentioned that, in addition to Alice in Wonderland, her other inspiration for the song was Ravel's Bol(C)ro. Like Bol(C)ro, "White Rabbit" is essentially one long crescendo. The music combined with the song's lyrics strongly suggests the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens, and the song was later used in pop culture to imply or accompany just such a state.[14]
- The song was first played by the Great Society in a bar in San Francisco in early 1966, and later when they opened the bill for bigger bands like the Grateful Dead. They made a series of demo records for Autumn Records, for which they were assisted by Sly Stone. Grace Slick said: "We were so bad that Sly eventually played all the instruments so the demo would sound OK." When Slick joined Jefferson Airplane later in 1966, she taught the song to the band, who recorded it for their album Surrealistic Pillow.[8] ¨White Rabbit¨ is written in the key of A major.[15]
- Chart history [ edit ] Weekly charts [ edit ] Year-end charts [ edit ] Chart (1967)RankCanada[20]48US Billboard Hot 100[21]81US Cash Box[22]60Cashbox[23] (11 weeks): 59, 45, 23, 14, 12, 11, 8, 6, 7, 22, 41
- Personnel [ edit ] Grace Slick '' vocalsJorma Kaukonen '' lead guitarPaul Kantner '' rhythm guitarJack Casady '' bassSpencer Dryden '' drumsCovers [ edit ] Many artists have covered the song. Among the more notable examples are:
- Guitarist George Benson's jazz version from 1971, featuring an electric piano solo by Herbie Hancock.A single released in 1980 by punk/gothic rock band The Damned.The 1985 cover by the Zarkons, a new name at the time for the Southern California punk bank The Alley Cats.[24]The 1987 cover by American metal band Sanctuary on their 1987 debut album Refuge Denied.The 1993 cover by industrial rock group Death Method for the various artists compilation album Shut Up Kitty.A 1996 version by Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilana Torrini, used on the soundtrack for the 2011 film Sucker Punch.Born For Bliss covered the song in 1997 on their album Flowing with the Flue.The 2002 album Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again: A Compilation Benefiting American Veterans of the Vietnam War contains a cover by the band Enon.Blue Man Group used the song in their stage production and put it into their 2003 album, The Complex.Shakespear's Sister covered the song on their 2004 album "The Best of Shakespear's Sister".Patti Smith covered the song in 2007 on her album Twelve.Collide contributed a DnB-remix version for the soundtrack of Resident Evil: Extinction in 2007.Ladyhawke performed a cover on Triple J's "Like a Version" radio show in 2012.[25]Paul Kalkbrenner used the lyrics in his 2015 remix of the song named "Feed Your Head".Joe Hawley of the band Tally Hall covered the song for his solo album Joe Hawley Joe Hawley in 2016.Pop-rock singer Pink has covered the song in 2016 for the Disney movie Alice Through the Looking Glass without the version appearing on the soundtrack. Instead, her version appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her 2017 album, Beautiful Trauma.Haley Reinhart covered the song on her 2017 album What's That Sound?.Swedish artist Loreen used to perform the song live.Grace Potter and the Nocturnals covered the song on the concept album Almost Alice.[26]References in pop culture [ edit ] Jefferson Airplane's version of White Rabbit is used in the "Underworld" bunker smoking scene in Platoon, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which was released in 1986.[27]
- In the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo, high on LSD, is listening to "White Rabbit" in the bathtub. He asks Raoul Duke to throw the tape player into the bathtub when the song "peaks" but Duke refuses and throws in a grapefruit instead.
- In the 1999 Futurama episode "A Head in the Polls" Richard Nixon sings an alternate version of "White Rabbit". In 1969, Nixon hosted a tea party for graduates of Finch College, and Slick was invited under her former name of Grace Wing. She brought a known political protester as her guest, and planned to spike Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD. He comments that he is meeting those 'stupid hippies' halfway by singing a song about an LSD trip written by a woman who attempted to drug him with it.
- A remixed version of Jefferson Airplane's version was used as main menu theme for the 2004 game Battlefield Vietnam.
- The song is also used in the 2016 game Mafia III, it can be heard on one of the game's three radio stations.
- It is heard in Kong: Skull Island (2017) when Randa and Hawkins enter a bar in Saigon where Conrad is playing billiards.
- Featured in a full-length commercial for the Xbox 360 game Lost Odyssey.
- Jefferson Airplane's version appears in a 2020 TV commercial for Celebrity Cruises and in a 2015 feature film documenting the life of American chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer titled Pawn Sacrifice.
- Appears in "American Dad" Season 5, episode 1, when Steve is on his way to rescue his father Stan in a Vietnam war reenactment.
- The song appears in "The Sopranos" season 1, episode 7, "Down Neck", over the ending credits and while Tony remembers his childhood after taking Prozac.
- Used in the 1997 David Fincher film The Game starring Michael Douglas during the scene where Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) comes home to find his mansion vandalized by CRS and photos and police reports of his father's suicide in the clown's mouth.
- Jefferson Airplane's version was featured in a scene in the first episode of the Netflix show Stranger Things.
- It was used in an episode of "Warehouse 13" on the SyFy network. Pete and Myka go to Las Vegas to fetch an artifact, the Jubilee Grand Casino Chip, that is helping a married couple to win at the Casinos, but the mission goes awry because the real Myka is trapped in Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass with some help from Studio 54 Disco Ball.
- The song is also featured in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series) in season 1, episode 8, "Jezebels".
- The song appears in an episode of Big Little Lies when Ziggy is suspended from school and spends the day with his mom at the Monterey Aquarium.
- The song is also featured in the episode "Blue Scorpion" in Season 1, Episode 9 of the 2019 remake of The Twilight Zone.
- The song is used in the beginning of the 10th episode of the 2nd Season of Supernatural, "Hunted".[28]
- The song is used in episode 6 of the HBO documentary miniseries "Q: Into the Storm" in a scene depicting the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
- The song was also used in the 2020 Netflix movie The Babysitter: Killer Queen. It can be heard playing in the cassette player in Phoebe's rabbit hole.
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- Bush, Kerry & Hefner: Odd Cousins - CBS News
- By David Paul Kuhn,CBSNews.com Chief Political Writer
- President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry are related. Well, sort of. They're ninth cousins, twice removed. So what's a little competition between family?The two presidential contenders also share a widely known common relative, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who is the ninth cousin of both men (the number nine is a coincidence). Twice removed from Mr. Bush, Hefner is a slightly closer relation to Kerry, only once removed.
- "Well I feel closer to Senator Kerry," Hefner chuckled, over the phone from the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
- "You know I'm an 11th generation direct descendent of William Bradford, who came over on the Mayflower, a direct descendent of a puritan," Hefner continued proudly, finding no irony in the fact. "I suppose that it is not a big surprise but it is certainly unique to be a relation to both candidates."
- Previous research released last month found that Mr. Bush and his de facto Democratic challenger were 16th cousins. Now the two candidates expected to compete in one of the bitterest and certainly longest general elections in decades are nearly twice as close as first thought. Like brothers, more or less; well, more less than more.
- "You never know, they may be closer, this is only what has been connected so far," said Bruce Harrison, who heads a group called Millisecond Publishing which puts out a line of ancestral history CDs from Waimea, Hawaii. "I hope it means that people will be nicer to each other and you always hope for a nicer campaign."
- Millisecond Publishing's massive database collects family trees of notable figures. According to their research, the shared ancestors of both men are Thomas and Welthian Richards of Weymouth, Mass., early 17th century Plymouth Colony residents who were some of the original Pilgrims, emigrants from England.
- The Richards' daughter Mary married Thomas Hinckley, governor of the Plymouth Colony, and through their son, Samuel, they are the ancestors of President Bush. Their daughter Anna married Captain Ephraim Hunt, and through their son Thomas they are the ancestors of Kerry.
- Through the same lineage, both men are linked to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Franklin D. Roosevelt; even infamous traitor Benedict Arnold and attempted presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr., have thick enough blue-blood roots to call themselves relations. The two candidates also have very distant links to Princess Diana and President George Washington.
- Kerry's most quirky relation is Johnny Appleseed. Yes, there really was a Johnny Appleseed. Kerry and Appleseed are sixth cousins. Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, was born in 1774 and made a name for himself as a naturalist traveling the country for 50 years, growing, of course, apple trees among other things.
- "You have your first cousin and you share the same grandparents; your second and you share the same great grandparents. So when you get back to your ninth cousins that means you share the ancestor 11 generations ago," explained Tony Burroughs, a genealogist at Chicago State University.
- "Bush and Kerry might find it odd. They might not even like that they do share a common ancestor and I don't think they consider themselves relatives '' only a genealogist would," Burroughs said. "But it is a really good piece of trivia."
- Hefner, who also said he found his relationship to the two men interesting if not necessarily relevant, finds his link to Mr. Bush and Kerry through Major William Bradford. One of the Richards' daughters, Alice, married Bradford, and it's through their son, Lieutenant Thomas Bradford, that Hefner is descended.
- The Playboy magnate, who said he is keeping up with the election, finds it all very funny. Neither candidate has recognized the other as a relation, but Hefner thinks they should and that the link would lead to a less combative election year.
- "I hope they have a campaign that deals with the real issues and not personalities," Hefner said, adding that he would do his best to help Kerry raise money.
- Nonetheless, Hefner still had good words for Mr. Bush, his unbeknownst cousin until Thursday.
- "I wish him well, he's our president," Hefner said, hoping both men would visit him at the Playboy Mansion for a little rest and relaxation. "I would be delighted to invite both President Bush and Senator Kerry for a family reunion," Hefner added, laughing to himself.
- Methaqualone - Wikipedia
- Sedative''hypnotic drug withdrawn due to recreational abuse
- Methaqualone Pronunciation Trade namesBon-Sonnil, Dormogen, Dormutil, Mequin, Mozambin, Pro Dorm, Quaalude, Somnotropon, Torinal, TuazolonaMethaqualone hydrochloride: Cateudyl, Dormir, Hyptor, Melsed, Melsedin, Mequelon, Methasedil, Nobadorm, Normorest, Noxybel, Optimil, Optinoxan, Pallidan, Parest, Parmilene, Pexaqualone, Renoval, Riporest, Sedalone, Somberol, Somnifac, Somnium, Sopor, Sovelin, Soverin, Sovinal, Toquilone, Toraflon, Tualone, TuazolATC codeLegal statusProtein binding70''80%Elimination half-life Biphasic (10''40; 20''60 hours)2-Methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone;3,4-Dihydro-2-methyl-4-oxo-3-o-tolylquinazoline;2-Methyl-3-(2-methylphenyl)-4-(3H)-quinazolinone
- CAS NumberPubChem CID DrugBankChemSpiderUNIIKEGGChEMBLCompTox Dashboard (EPA) ECHA InfoCard 100.000.710 FormulaC 16H 14N 2O Molar mass 250.301 g·mol''13D model (JSmol)Melting point113 °C (235 °F)O=C1C2=C(C=CC=C2)N=C(C)N1C3=C(C)C=CC=C3
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- Y (verify) Methaqualone is a sedative and hypnotic medication. It was sold under the brand names Quaalude and Sopor among others, which contained 300 mg of methaqualone, and sold as a combination drug under the brand name Mandrax which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet, mostly in Europe. Commercial production of methaqualone was halted in the mid 1980s due to widespread abuse and addictiveness. It is a member of the quinazolinone class.
- The sedative''hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted in 1955. In 1962, methaqualone was patented in the United States by Wallace and Tiernan.[1] Its use peaked in the early 1970s for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.
- Methaqualone became increasingly popular as a recreational drug and club drug in the late 1960s and 1970s, known variously as "ludes" or "disco biscuits" due to its widespread use during the popularity of disco in the 1970s, or "sopers" (also "soaps") in the United States and "mandrakes" and "mandies" in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The substance was sold both as a free base and as salt (hydrochloride).
- Medical use [ edit ] Methaqualone is a sedative that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain and nervous system, similarly to benzodiazepines and barbiturates. When GABA activity is increased, blood pressure drops and breathing and pulse rates slow, leading to a state of deep relaxation. These properties explain why methaqualone was originally mainly prescribed for insomnia.[2]
- Methaqualone was not recommended for use while pregnant and is in pregnancy category D.[3]
- Overdose [ edit ] An overdose can lead to nervous system shutdown, coma and death.[4]Additional effects are delirium, convulsions, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, vomiting, kidney failure, coma, and death through cardiac or respiratory arrest. It resembles barbiturate poisoning, but with increased motor difficulties and a lower incidence of cardiac or respiratory depression.The standard single tablet adult dose of Quaalude brand of methaqualone was 300 mg when made by Lemmon. A dose of 8000 mg is lethal and a dose as little as 200 mg could induce a coma if taken with an alcoholic beverage.[5][better source needed ]
- Pharmacology [ edit ] Methaqualone peaks in the bloodstream within several hours, with a half-life of 20''60 hours. While the salt methaqualone hydrochloride is typically used clinically, methaqualone free-base was also marketed, namely as the methaqualone component of Mandrax, a combination drug which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet. Oral dosage forms of methaqualone hydrochloride were manufactured as capsules, whereas oral dosage forms of methaqualone free-base were manufactured as tablets.
- Regular users build up a physical tolerance, requiring larger doses for the same effect.
- History [ edit ] Methaqualone was first synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Husain Zaheer, who were doing research to find a new antimalarial medication.[5][6][7] By 1965, it was the most commonly prescribed sedative in Britain, where it has been sold legally under the names Malsed, Malsedin, and Renoval. In 1965, a methaqualone/antihistamine combination was sold as the sedative drug Mandrax in Europe, by Roussel Laboratories (now part of Sanofi S.A.). In 1972, it was the sixth-bestselling sedative in the US,[8] where it was legal under the brand name Quaalude. Quaalude in the United States was originally manufactured in 1965 by the Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, based pharmaceutical firm William H. Rorer, Inc. The drug name "Quaalude" combined the words "quiet interlude" and shared a stylistic reference to another drug marketed by the firm, Maalox.[9]
- In 1978, Rorer sold the rights to manufacture Quaalude to the Lemmon Company of Sellersville, Pennsylvania. At that time, Rorer chairman John Eckman commented on Quaalude's bad reputation stemming from illegal manufacture and use of methaqualone, and illegal sale and use of legally prescribed Quaalude: "Quaalude accounted for less than 2% of our sales, but created 98% of our headaches."[5] Both companies still regarded Quaalude as an excellent sleeping drug. Lemmon, well aware of Quaalude's public image problems, used advertisements in medical journals to urge physicians "not to permit the abuses of illegal users to deprive a legitimate patient of the drug". Lemmon also marketed a small quantity under another name, Mequin, so doctors could prescribe the drug without the negative connotations.[5] The rights to Quaalude were held by the JB Roerig & Company division of Pfizer, before the drug was discontinued in the United States in 1985, mainly due to its psychological addictiveness, widespread abuse, and illegal recreational use.[10]
- Society and culture [ edit ] Brand names [ edit ] It was sold under the brand name Quaalude and sometimes stylized "QuÄÄlude"[11] in the United States and Mandrax in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.
- Regulation [ edit ] Methaqualone was initially placed in Schedule I as defined by the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances, but was moved to Schedule II in 1979.[12]
- In Canada, methaqualone is listed in Schedule III of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and requires a prescription, but it is no longer manufactured. Methaqualone is banned in India.[13]
- In the United States it was withdrawn from the market in 1983 and made a Schedule I drug in 1984.[14]
- Recreational [ edit ] A variety of methaqualone pills and capsules.
- Methaqualone became increasingly popular as a recreational drug in the late 1960s and 1970s, known variously as "ludes" or "sopers" (also "soaps") in the United States and "mandrakes" and "mandies" in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
- The drug was more tightly regulated in Britain under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and in the U.S. from 1973. It was withdrawn from many developed markets in the early 1980s. In the United States it was withdrawn in 1982 and made a Schedule I drug in 1984. It has a DEA ACSCN of 2565 and in 2013 the aggregate annual manufacturing quota for the United States was 10 grams. Mention of its possible use in some types of cancer and AIDS treatments has periodically appeared in the literature since the late 1980s; research does not appear to have reached an advanced stage. The DEA has also added the methaqualone analogue mecloqualone (also a result of some incomplete clandestine syntheses) to Schedule I as ACSCN 2572, with zero manufacturing quota.
- Gene Haislip, the former head of the Chemical Control Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told the PBS documentary program Frontline, "We beat 'em." By working with governments and manufacturers around the world, the DEA was able to halt production and, Haislip said, "eliminated the problem".[15][16][17] Methaqualone was manufactured in the United States under the name Quaalude by the pharmaceutical firms Rorer and Lemmon with the numbers 714 stamped on the tablet, so people often referred to Quaalude as 714's, "Lemmons", or "Lemmon 7's". Methaqualone was also manufactured in the US under the trade names Sopor and Parest. After the legal manufacture of the drug ended in the United States in 1982, underground laboratories in Mexico continued the illegal manufacture of methaqualone throughout the 1980s, continuing the use of the "714" stamp, until their popularity waned in the early 1990s. Drugs purported to be methaqualone are in a significant majority of cases found to be inert, or contain diphenhydramine or benzodiazepines.
- Illicit methaqualone is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs in South Africa. Manufactured clandestinely, often in India, it comes in tablet form, but is smoked with marijuana; this method of ingestion is known as "white pipe".[18][19] It is also popular elsewhere in Africa and in India.[19]
- See also [ edit ] Bill Cosby sexual assault casesDrug-facilitated sexual assaultThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)References [ edit ] ^ US granted 3135659, Vithal SB, Campanella LA, Hays EE, issued 2 June 1964, assigned to US Filter Wallace and Tiernan Inc ^ "methaqualone reference". Enotes. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. ^ "Methaqualone in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding". TheDrugSafety.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-02 . Retrieved 15 August 2012 . ^ "recreational drugs tranquilizers". Drug Library EU. Archived from the original on 2013-03-02. ^ a b c d Linder L (28 May 1981). Simons Jr DC, Mayer B, Nordyke R, Torrey A (eds.). "Quaalude manufacturer: Image hurt by street use". Lawrence Journal-World. 123 (148). Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America. Associated Press. p. 6 . Retrieved 16 August 2013 '' via Google Newspapers. Eckman/Fisher ^ van Zyl EF (November 2001). "A survey of reported synthesis of methaqualone and some positional and structural isomers". Forensic Science International. 122 (2''3): 142''9. doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(01)00484-4. PMID 11672968. ^ Kacker IK, Zaheer SH (1951). "Potential Analgesics. Part I. Synthesis of substituted 4-quinazolones". J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 28: 344''346. ^ Foltz RL, Fentiman AF, Foltz RB (1980). GC/MS Assays for Abused Drugs in Body fluids (PDF) . National Institutes on Drug Abuse. 32. Washington, D.C: United States Department of Health and Human Services. p. 39. PMID 6261132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-10-22. ^ "Dividends: Dropping the Last 'Lude". Time. 28 November 1983. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008 . Retrieved 16 August 2013 . ^ Silverstein S. "Quaaludes Again". Captain Wayne's Mad Music.com. ^ Rile K (1983). Winter Music (First ed.). Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 41, 59. ISBN 978-0-316-74657-1. ^ Sandouk L. "green-lists". www.incb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-18 . Retrieved 2017-09-06 . ^ "Drugs banned in India". Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, Dte.GHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21 . Retrieved 2013-09-17 . ^ PubChem. "Methaqualone". pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov . Retrieved 2021-05-19 . ^ "The Meth Epidemic '' Haislip discusses parallels to current Methamphetamine epidemic". ^ Ferns, Sean, "Lecture: Gene Haislip : The Chemical Connection: A Historical Perspective on Chemical Control" Archived 2014-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, Drug Enforcement Administration Museum Lecture Series, Arlington, Virginia, October 25, 2007 ^ Piccini, Sara, "Drug Warrior: The DEA's Gene Haislip '60, B.C.L. '63 Battled Worldwide Against the Illegal Drug Trade '' and Scored a Rare Victory", William & Mary Alumni Magazine, College of William & Mary, Spring 2010 ^ "Mandrax". DrugAware. Reality Media. 2003 . Retrieved 2009-08-13 . ^ a b External links [ edit ] Erowid Vault '' Methaqualone (Quaaludes)2015 Molecular Pharmacology article on functional properties and mechanism of action of QuaaludesAlcoholsBarbituratesBenzodiazepinesCarbamatesFlavonoidsImidazolesKava constituentsMonoureidesNeuroactive steroidsNonbenzodiazepinesPhenolsPiperidinedionesPyrazolopyridinesQuinazolinonesVolatiles/gasesOthers/unsorted3-Hydroxybutanalα-EMTBLAA-29504AlogabatAvermectins (e.g., ivermectin)Bromide compounds (e.g., lithium bromide, potassium bromide, sodium bromide)CarbamazepineChloraloseChlormezanoneClomethiazoleDEABLDihydroergolines (e.g., dihydroergocryptine, dihydroergosine, dihydroergotamine, ergoloid (dihydroergotoxine))DS2EfavirenzEtazepineEtifoxineFenamates (e.g., flufenamic acid, mefenamic acid, niflumic acid, tolfenamic acid)FluoxetineFlupirtineHopantenic acidLanthanumLavender oilLignans (e.g., 4-O-methylhonokiol, honokiol, magnolol, obovatol)LoreclezoleMenthyl isovalerate (validolum)MonastrolNiacinNiacinamideOrg 25,435PhenytoinPropanididRetigabine (ezogabine)SafranalSeproxetineStiripentolSulfonylalkanes (e.g., sulfonmethane (sulfonal), tetronal, trional)Terpenoids (e.g., borneol)TopiramateValerian constituents (e.g., isovaleric acid, isovaleramide, valerenic acid, valerenol)Unsorted benzodiazepine site positive modulators: α-PineneMRK-409 (MK-0343)TCS-1105TCS-1205
- The rise and fall of Quaaludes - BBC News
- By Harry Low and Tom HeydenBBC News Magazine
- Quaalude was popular in the US in the 1970s. Now, the drug is back in the headlines after the revelation that comedian Bill Cosby admitted getting them to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
- The admission was made in 2005, but the court papers were only released this week.
- They refer back to a period when Quaalude was taken as a recreational drug - so much so that the sedative pill has been banned in the US for over 30 years.
- Anyone who has seen Leonardo DiCaprio's depiction of a Quaalude binge in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street - in which he can barely speak, can't walk and certainly can't drive - may well wonder what why anyone would take it intentionally.
- Quaalude is a tradename for methaqualone, which was first synthesised in 1951 in India. Germany and Japan were the first big markets, where the drug racked up an extensive record of addiction and abuse. In the UK it was known as Mandrax, a name still used in South Africa.
- image source Rex Features
- image caption Law enforcement officers confiscating Mandrax pills in South AfricaBy the time it reached the US in the 1960s, it was being used to treat insomnia and anxiety. However, it didn't take long for the drug's potent features to be misused.
- "Doctors were essentially giving them out like candy," says Justin Gass, author of a book about the drug. "It was very easy to obtain Quaaludes in the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s."
- People could buy them in semi-legal "stress clinics" without needing to visit a GP. They were pseudo-medical centres that would hand out the maximum legal prescription. These tactics would often be the clinics' eventual downfall, says David Herzberg, professor of history at the University at Buffalo.
- At its height during the 1970s, Quaalude could be found across the US and earned the nickname "disco biscuits".
- "America in the 1950s and 1960s was having a sedative boom," Herzberg explains, "so there was this wonderful market for them." As the barbiturates popular in the 1950s became stigmatised, drug companies introduced newer sedatives such as Librium and Valium, which claimed to be significantly different.
- Quaalude was part of that new wave. And although unpatented, meaning any pharmaceutical company could produce methaqualone, Quaalude was the name that stuck.
- Herzberg says people found it more pleasant to take than other sedatives.
- The main consumers - at least recreationally - were young people. "[They'd] decided that all the drugs their parents took were these soul-killing corporate things that would turn you into a conformist robot," Herzberg says.
- Musicians sang about them. David Bowie's Time references "Quaaludes and red wine" while Frank Zappa speaks of "Quaalude moonlight"
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- image caption David Bowie sang about QuaaludesQuaalude had a novelty but also a distinct selling point. "It got the reputation of relaxing people so that they can have freer sex," Herzberg says, which made them catch on across college campuses. Bay City Rollers lead singer Les McKeown has said he was raped by another man at the height of their fame after being given Quaaludes.
- It provides users with a "really powerful high", says Gass, now a professor of neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. It takes just 30 minutes to start having an effect, which can last up to six hours.
- But it could be dangerous, particularly when mixed with alcohol, as it often was. "People would lie down to go to sleep and just not wake up," says Gass. "That was quite common."
- In the UK, methaqualone was sold under the name Mandrax and became popular too. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards admitted possessing the drug in October 1973.
- Earlier that year, a tribunal heard testimony that a Mandrax addict had taken between 10 and 12 tablets before driving a car into a bus, killing two and injuring four others, the Times reported. "A further trend of misuse is mixing Mandrax and alcohol, with disastrous results," said a Church of Scotland committee report on moral welfare.
- They increasingly drew negative attention. "There's no doubt we've lost a considerable amount of business because of this substitution of the trade name for the generic name," Elliot Fisher, lawyer for Lemmon, who made the drug, told Associated Press in 1981. He said he was writing up to 50 letters a week to newspapers and police forces complaining about the use of the word "Quaalude" and finding many respondents were surprised it was a trademark.
- Regulators eventually stepped in. By 1984, the drug was listed as Schedule I in the US and a Class B drug in the UK, which makes its production and distribution illegal altogether.
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- Rohypnol, a drug commonly cited in rape cases, which is part of the Valium family, has sometimes been referred to as the Quaaludes of the 1990s. It has many of the same effects, says Gass. It's quick to work, erases memory and is a muscle relaxant.
- Methaqualone is no longer legitimately manufactured but it's still possible to find people claiming to sell Quaaludes on the streets, explains Gass.
- "But they are generally nothing more than a combination of different barbiturates which they hope would create the same effect but it certainly does not."
- An undercover operation smashed one of the most extraordinary drug rings the world has ever seen and changed British policing forever. What was Operation Julie?
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- New Information About Dead Playboy Playmate Reveal Life as a Beta Kitten Slave | The Vigilant Citizen
- Paige Young was the November 1968 Playboy Playmate of the Month and, after years of being used by powerful Hollywood men, she shot herself in the head. She was found dead laying on an American flag, next to a pentagram laid out on the ground, in a room full of pictures on which were written ''Hugh Hefner is the devil''.
- The flurry of abuse allegations against Bill Cosby lead to a closer look at the long forgotten story of Paige Young, a Playboy Playmate in 1968. The woman briefly ''dated'' Cosby and was passed around by Hugh Hefner and ''dozens of Hollywood leading men''. A recent article in the Daily Mail describes Paige Young's life in Hollywood and the gruesome details of her suicide. Many details in that article provide clear indications that the Playmate was a Beta Kitten Monarch slave who was handled by the Hollywood elite. (If you've never heard of Monarch Mind Control, read this article first)
- Like most Playboy models, Paige Young was young and naive when she became the Playmate of the Month in November 1968. She was soon swept up in the disgusting world of the Hollywood elite, where she became a literal sex slave. Ex-model Tamara Green Young while she was ''dating'' (''servicing'' would be a more accurate word) Bill Cosby in 1970.
- 'I was there seeing my boyfriend and Paige called me and said Bill was on tour and she was travelling with him.
- 'They picked me up at my friend's house and I remember sitting in the back of a stretched black limo with them both and Bill wanted to score some drugs.
- 'I called around and found a bag of pot some place on the edge of El Paso.
- 'Paige was in to her drugs and Bill wanted to get her some, she was along on the trip like his pet dog, she was a very subdued person, more like moon on the water in terms of her personality.
- 'They were clearly well acquainted with each other, it didn't seem like a new thing. As far as I know they dated for a while.
- 'Paige always seemed in a stupor, a daze, like he was controlling her. All I remember is that their relationship wasn't healthy.'
- 'Paige was a young thing who was very much taken advantage of by the men of Hollywood, she was intelligent and talented, it's a tragedy what happened to her.'
- The sentence 'Paige always seemed in a stupor, a daze, like he was controlling her' is significant as it perfectly describes the mind state of an MK slave.
- Hugh Hefner and Bill Cosby.
- Page Young's friend Richard Sample explains how she was passed around and manipulated by Hollywood elite.
- 'She told me about all the men who had abused her. She said she had an affair with John Huston, and that he had done things to her, abused her.
- 'I remember one incident in which John hid her shoes to make her think she had gone crazy. It was only a small thing but she was really bothered by it.' ('...)
- In another story Paige confided in Melanie that a relative of a major celebrity had made a sex tape of her.
- 'She was terrified of it coming out, in that day you knew your career was going to be over once it got round.
- 'For weeks all she could think about was getting hold of that tape, she thought it was going to ruin her.'
- Young was also a regular at the Playboy grotto where star-studded orgies were known to occur.
- At the age of 30, which is about the age where most MK slaves start to break down, Young was found dead in an apparent suicide. The details of her death are symptomatic of the mind state of a Monarch programming victim.
- Former model Melanie Myers, who still lives in Hollywood, remembers that fateful day clearly.
- 'Paige had the whole thing planned out down to the last detail,' she said.
- 'It was Palm Sunday and she came to tell me she was going to kill herself.
- 'She stayed in the back house of the duplex where we lived and I was at the bathroom window.
- 'She comes up to the window and calls out to me, ''I want to show you something.''
- 'I was like, ''What are you up to now Paige?'', I couldn't be bothered with any more of her drama.
- 'But she was like ''No you've gotta come and see it''. So I go to her apartment and she gave me a guided tour of her suicide scene in her bedroom.'
- Myers says that what she found still haunts her today.
- 'It was chilling,' she recalls. 'There was a large American flag draped across her bed and there was a pentagram laid out on the wooden floor.'
- Myers added: 'I remember her showing me around it because it was somehow important, but I didn't know what it meant.'
- But it was the bedroom wall that shocked Myers the most.
- 'It was covered floor to ceiling with photos of Hugh Hefner,' she said.
- 'There were news clippings, magazine articles, everything you could think of. Written across it was something like: ''Hugh Hefner is the devil''.
- 'The whole wall was a shrine saying, ''I hate Hugh Hefner'', the crux of her anger was against him.
- The description of Young's suicide room contains several revealing details. First, dark occultism is a integral part of Monarch Programming which leads MK slaves to become obsessed with occult symbols. This probably explains why a pentagram, a symbol that is used in ritual magick, was laid out on the floor of her room.
- MK slaves also develop an obsession with their handler/programmer whom they often end up referring to as ''the devil'' or ''Satan''. Not only do MK handlers force their slaves to undergo horrific torture to induce trauma, they subject them to all kinds of Satanic rituals. Some accounts describe slaves being forced in to a ''black wedding'' with Satan himself (played by the handler) in a ritual designed to cause intense trauma.
- Friends of Young believe that the elaborate setup of her suicide room was an attempt to bring mass media attention to the sick ways of the Hollywood elite. Like most MK-related deaths, mass media either ignored or spread disinformation about her life and death. All facts pointing to the dark side of Hollywood have been swept under the rug. To this day, most sources still wrongly state that Young died of an ''overdose'' '' the usual official cause of MK-related deaths '' despite the fact that police reports clearly state that her death was due to a gunshot to the head.
- ''Memorial site findagrave.com wrongly claims that she passed away from an overdose of sleeping tablets, as does the site whosaliveandwhosdead.com.
- And website allstarpics.net, which features several glamour shots of the brunette, incorrectly claims she committed 'suicide by barbiturate overdose'.'''' Ibid.
- One can even wonder if she was actually ''suicided'' by those who controlled her, as she was increasingly talking about ''leaving it all'' '' a sign of her programming wearing off. Whatever the case may be, the life and death of Paige Young provide yet another glimpse at the dark side of Hollywood '' one that is filled with powerful sadistic men and helpless slaves who suffer for years until they disappear '... forever.
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- Lark Voorhies - Wikipedia
- Lark Voorhies (born Lark Holloway; March 25, 1974)[3] is an American actress, singer, spokeswoman and model. Voorhies rose to fame playing Lisa Marie Turtle on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell (1989''1993). Voorhies was nominated for the Young Artist Award six times, winning in 1990 and 1993 for her work on the show.
- Early life [ edit ] Born Lark Holloway to Wayne and Tricia Holloway in Nashville, Tennessee, she later adopted "Voorhies" as a stage name.[4][5] Her mother named her "Lark" after the character in the 1972 film Cool Breeze, played by Margaret Avery.[6] By the time Voorhies was two years old, the family had moved to Pasadena, California. During this period, her mother took her to a talent agent, because of her belief that Voorhies was "a natural-born ham."[7] However, her first audition ended poorly when she froze up.[7] She appeared in a national television commercial for Universal Studios Tour at age 12, advertising its upcoming King Kong attraction. She said of the experience: "I was on this tram screaming with all these other people. I had such a great time doing that."[6][8]
- Entertainment career [ edit ] Acting [ edit ] Voorhies made her acting debut at the age of two. Though photogenic, she was shy, and her mother put Voorhies' acting career on hold until she was more comfortable in front of the cameras. Later, at the age of fourteen, Voorhies reappeared on an episode of Small Wonder in 1988. In June of that same year, she landed the role of Lisa Turtle in Disney Channel's television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss[9] and appeared in thirteen episodes from 1988 to 1989. She remained as the same character, as did Zack, Screech, and Mr. Belding, after Disney dropped the series and it was picked up and retooled by NBC and renamed Saved by the Bell.
- Voorhies has since appeared in several television sitcoms and soap operas. She played the role of single mom Wendy Reardon on Days of Our Lives in 1993.[10] On The Bold and the Beautiful Voorhies played the role of amiable intern fashion-designer, Jasmine Malone beginning in September 1995. She was released from her contract in November 1996 when her role required her to act in sex scenes, which the actress refused to do citing her religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness.[citation needed ] She returned in April 2004 when Jasmine Malone returns to LA when Eric and Stephanie hire her to work as a designer in the basement at Forrester Creations. She decided to renew her contract when the show offered to sign her to a one-year deal and departed the show again in July 2004 when her character Jasmine took a job at Forrester International in Europe, courtesy of Eric Forrester.
- In 1995, Voorhies guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Life Support". During the same year, Voorhies guest-starred in the Family Matters season six episode "Home Sweet Home", as Eddie's upstairs dream girl. She has continued to act in various roles since then, such as In the House, in which she played the girlfriend-turned-wife of Alfonso Ribeiro's character, Dr. Max Stanton. Previously, she played Ribeiro's love interest twice on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Besides sitcoms, Voorhies also appeared in movies and direct-to-video films. In 2001, Voorhies played a major role in the film How High as Lauren, a Harvard student. She was involved in a 1990 movie adaptation of the book The Black Man's Guide to Understanding Black Women[11] and played Ana Smith in the 2008 movie The Next Hit. Although she only has two acting credits since 2008, and none since 2012, Voorhies' representatives cited a busy work schedule when she did not appear in a SBTB-based mini-reunion sketch on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" alongside Gosselaar, Lopez, Thiessen, and Dennis Haskins in 2015. Voorhies publicly stated in 2020 that she was "hurt" that she was not invited to participate in the Saved by the Bell sequel series on Peacock.[12][13] Later that year, however, NBC announced that Voorhies would in fact reprise her role as Lisa Turtle for the new show.[14]
- Music [ edit ] Voorhies has appeared in several music videos. She plays Kenny Lattimore's love interest in his debut video "Never Too Busy", from his 1996 self-titled debut album. In Boyz II Men's music video "On Bended Knee", she plays Wanya's girlfriend. She is featured in Montell Jordan's "Somethin' for the Honeyz" and in Dru Hill's "These Are the Times". In 1994, Voorhies was in a group originally called the X-Girls (now known as Geneva) with Stacee and Yashi Brown (the daughters of singer and oldest Jackson family sibling, Rebbie Jackson). Voorhies founded and was the lead singer in Third Degree, an alternative band.[citation needed ]
- Writing [ edit ] Over 2010 and 2011, Voorhies self-published three books she authored: Reciprocity, Trek of the Cheshire, and A True Light.[15][16][17][18]
- Personal life [ edit ] Voorhies dated her Saved by the Bell co-star Mark-Paul Gosselaar for three years[19] during the show's run. Voorhies was engaged to actor Martin Lawrence in 1993 but it was later called off in 1994.[20] Voorhies married Miguel Coleman in 1996. They separated in 2001, and divorced in 2004.[21][22] Voorhies met music engineer Jimmy Green at a networking event in 2014. After a year of dating, Voorhies and Green married on April 30, 2015, at a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.[23] Voorhies filed for divorce in October 2015 after six months of marriage.[24]
- Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.[25][26]
- Dealings with media [ edit ] On May 30, 2006, Voorhies filed a lawsuit against The National Enquirer for libel over an article that included claims published in June 2005 that she had a drug problem.[27] The case was dropped in less than two months.[28]
- Books authored [ edit ] Voorhies, Lark (2010). Reciprocity. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450200660. Voorhies, Lark (2011). True Light. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450243544. Voorhies, Lark (2011). Trek of the Cheshire. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1462025985. Filmography [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Awards and nominations [ edit ] [citation needed ]
- References [ edit ] ^ Smith, Jessie Carney (1 December 2012). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578594252 '' via Google Books. ^ Riggs, Thomas (1 June 2007). Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Cengage Gale. ISBN 9780787690496 '' via Google Books. ^ McCann, Bob (26 September 2017). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786437900 '' via Google Books. ^ Baldwin, Suzy (March 25, 2005). "Signposts". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 30. ^ Diamond, Dustin (2009). Behind the Bell . Transit Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-0981239699. ^ a b Reichardt, Nancy M. (November 27, 1995). "Voorhies Boldly Jumps Into Daytime Drama". Palm Beach Post. p. 2D. ^ a b Novakovich, Lilana (October 20, 1996). "Soap star had long climb to Another World". Calgary Herald. p. C7. ^ Wilson, John M. (December 22, 1985). "Monkey Breath". Los Angeles Times. p. 35 . Retrieved October 19, 2012 . ^ Bark, Ed (June 3, 1989). "Shakeup set for Saturday morning TV". The Dallas Morning News. p. 5C. NBC also is experimenting with the first Saturday morning situation comedy. Saved By the Bell keeps track of six mischievous, adventurous teens played by flesh-and-blood actors you've never heard of unless you're one of their parents. Fave name: Lark Voorhies. ^ "Lark Voorhies Cast on "Days of Our Lives " ". Tulsa World. April 1, 1993. p. C3. ^ "Then/Now: 'Saved By the Bell ' ". FoxNews . Retrieved 10 November 2012 . ^ Ali, Rasha (February 18, 2020). " ' Saved by the Bell' star Lark Voorhies says she feels 'slighted and hurt' about not being a part of reboot". Usatoday.com . Retrieved October 9, 2020 . ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (February 18, 2020). "Lark Voorhies Responds To Being Excluded From 'Saved By The Bell' Revival: "I Feel A Bit Slighted And Hurt " ". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved August 31, 2020 . ^ Cordero, Rosy (October 29, 2020). "Time out! Here's your first look at Lark Voorhies' surprise return in Saved by the Bell revival". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 29, 2020 . ^ Lark Voorhies as author at Amazon.com ^ Voorhies, Lark (2010). Reciprocity. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450200660. ^ Voorhies, Lark (2011). True Light. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450243544. ^ Voorhies, Lark (2011). Trek of the Cheshire. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1462025985. ^ Abraham, Allison (2019-10-11). "Little known behind-the-scenes facts from Saved By the Bell". University Fox . Retrieved 2020-02-19 . ^ Brown, Jamie Foster (26 September 1994). "S2S Magazine". Jamie Foster Brown '' via Google Books. ^ Aradillas, Elaine (October 15, 2012). "A Saved by the Bell Star's Sad Spiral". People . Retrieved June 13, 2015 . ^ "Lark Voorhies' husband wanted by police". Washington Post. June 12, 2015 . Retrieved June 13, 2015 . ^ Saad, Nardine (June 12, 2015). "Lark Voorhies of 'Saved by the Bell' is a married woman". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 13, 2015 . ^ "Saved by the Bell Star Slams Ex-Husband on Instagram". ^ Ali, Rasha (February 18, 2020). " ' Saved by the Bell' star Lark Voorhies opens up about her mental illness, series reboot snub". Chicago Sun Times. ^ Hughley, D.L. (February 24, 2020). "Lark Discusses Mental Health on Dr. Oz". WZAK Cleveland. ^ " ' Saved By the Bell' actress sues tabloid". USA Today. Los Angeles. Associated Press. 1 June 2006 . Retrieved 10 July 2015 . ^ " ' Bell' Star Drops Cocaine Story Lawsuit". TMZ.com. 28 July 2006 . Retrieved 10 July 2015 . External links [ edit ] Lark Voorhies at IMDb
- Exposed! Bill Cosby's Cronies Who Enabled His Twisted Crimes | National Enquirer
- Even his former TV co-star Jimmie ''JJ'' Walker is now calling Bill Cosby ''the O.J. Simpson of the comedy world '' he's Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde.''
- But for decades, Cosby got away with his sick and twisted double life thanks to a high-priced team of Hollywood enablers.
- Here, The National ENQUIRER reveals the men responsible for helping to hide his criminal history.
- THE AGENT: Tom Illius According to the newly revealed court deposition, Cosby testified that he called his William Morris Agency rep, Illius, and asked him to send money to one accuser. He testified Illius didn't ask why, and he wasn't sure whether he asked him to send money to more women. He died at age 83 in 2011.
- THE DOCTOR: Mark Saginor Saginor, 77, is one of Hollywood's best-known ''Dr. Feelgoods.'' While he denied to The ENQUIRER that he ever provided drugs to Cosby, his daughter, Jennifer Saginor, has alleged her father was instrumental in providing drugs at the Playboy Mansion, where Cosby was a regular guest.
- THE PAL: Hugh Hefner In 1974, an ex-Playboy employee claimed Cosby raped her and up to a dozen other Playboy bunnies. Hef, 89, told The ENQUIRER: ''Bill has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. I would never tolerate this kind of behavior, regardless of who was involved.''
- THE FLUNKIE: Frank Scotti Former NBC exec Scotti, 91, said Cosby engaged him to deliver monthly payments to at least eight women in 1989 and 1990. Scotti claimed he has copies of money orders in his name. ''These reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension,'' said ''Cosby Show'' producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner.
- THE PUBLICIST: David Brokaw Publicists earn their pay by speaking for their clients, and Cosby's longtime mouthpiece Brokaw, 65, regularly denied Cosby did anything wrong. Recently he has served him by issuing ''no comment'' statements to almost every new accusation. Brokaw is now Cosby's only rep outside of his legal team.
- Sammy Davis, Jr., Bill Cosby, Hugh Hefner, and Jerry Lewis - YouTube
- Emmis Communications - Wikipedia
- American media conglomerate
- Emmis Communications is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Emmis, based on the Hebrew word for Truth, Emet[1] was founded by Jeff Smulyan in 1980. Emmis has owned many radio stations, including KPWR and WQHT, which have notoriety for their Hip Hop Rhythmic format as well as WFAN, which was the world's first 24-hour sports talk radio station. In addition to radio, Emmis has invested in TV, publishing, and mobile operations around the United States.
- History [ edit ] 1980s [ edit ] In 1980, Emmis Broadcasting founder Jeffrey Smulyan purchased his first radio station, WSVL-FM Shelbyville, Indiana. In July 1981, Smulyan changed the format from country music to adult contemporary and renamed the station WENS and later to WLHK.
- In 1982, Emmis acquired WLOL in Minneapolis, MN and quickly became a top contender for ratings.[2]
- Around 1984, the company bought Magic 106 in Los Angeles, California; at the time, L.A. Lakers player "Magic" Johnson was an early spokesperson for the station. Emmis also bought KSHE in St. Louis in the same year.
- In early 1986, Emmis changed Magic 106, which focused on traditional top 40 rock, to Power 106 KPWR, which would focus on dance, top40, and shock-jock talk.[3]
- In 1987, Emmis made a series of purchases including WQHT, WYNY, and WNBC in New York, WKZX-FM in Chicago, WJIB in Boston, WKUU and KXXX in San Francisco, and KKHT-FM in Houston. They also acquired WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C. from the Doubleday Broadcasting Company. Both KPWR and WQHT would pioneer the urban contemporary rhythmic format.[citation needed ] Emmis transformed WHN into the world's first all-sports radio station, WFAN.[citation needed ]
- In 1988, Emmis entered the world of publishing. Emmis purchased Indianapolis Monthly and added WKQX in Chicago to its radio portfolio. Also, Emmis acquired five NBC radio stations in 1988.[4]
- Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan purchased the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team in 1989.[5]
- 1990s [ edit ] Emmis kicked off the 1990s by selling KKHT-FM in Houston to Nationwide Communications in May 1990.[citation needed ]
- In 1991, Emmis sold two more stations: WLOL to Minnesota Public Radio[6] and KXXX, San Francisco, to Alliance Broadcasting. Also in 1991, KMGG became KPWR, "Power 106" and became the first rhythmic contemporary-focused top 40 formatted outlet.[7][8]
- In 1992, Emmis sold WFAN, New York, to Infinity for $70M,[9] which was one of the highest prices ever paid for an AM radio station. Emmis also sold WAVA-FM, Washington D.C., to Salem Broadcasting[10] and WJIB, Boston, to Greater Media.[11] In the same year, Jeff Smulyan sold the Seattle Mariners to Nintendo.[12]
- Emmis grew its publishing portfolio by adding Atlanta Magazine in 1993.[13] In the same year, Emmis launched its second hip hop station in America, Hot 97.[14] Emmis' Q101 in Chicago moved into an Alternative Rock Format.[citation needed ]
- In 1994, the company purchased WIBC (now WFNI) and WKLR (now WIBC (FM)) in Indianapolis from the Horizon Broadcast Corporation and WRKS in New York City from the Summit Communications Group. WKLR was changed from an oldies format to a classic hits format with the call letters of WNAP-FM in September 1994.[15] Emmis became a public company, EMMS on NASDAQ, with an IPO on March 4, 1994.[16]
- The following year, 1995, WQHT and KPWR were among the top rated radio station in each of their markets.[17] This resulted in a record-breaking accomplishment where Emmis was the first company to own top rated radio stations in the top 2 markets.[17] Later in 1996, WHHH (formerly WTLC-AM/FM) became top rated for Urban Adult Contemporary.[18]
- Emmis entered the world of international radio in 1997 when the company was awarded a license to operate in Hungary, Slger Radio, which debuted #1 nationwide and remained the country's most popular national radio station until the Hungarian government revoked the license in 2009.[19] Emmis added Cincinnati Magazine to its publishing group, as well as KIHT-FM and KPNT-FM in St. Louis to its rock collection.
- In 1998, Emmis Broadcasting changed its name to Emmis Communications[20] and moved into its current headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis.[21] Emmis acquired a lot of media in the same year including Texas Monthly,[22] WRXP in New York, WTHI and WWVR in Terre Haute, and six television stations in Honolulu, New Orleans, Green Bay, and Mobile, Alabama, from SF Broadcasting and in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Ft. Myers, Florida, from Wabash Valley Broadcasting[23] RadioNow was launched in Indianapolis as a Top 40 format.
- To round out the century, Emmis purchased Country Sampler Magazine in 1999[24] and Liberty Media purchased 2.7 million shares of Emmis for approximately $150M.[25]
- 2000s [ edit ] In 2005, Emmis changed the format of its first radio station from its long-term adult contemporary format to country, and the call letters were changed from WENS to WLHK. Emmis was also named one of Fortune ' s 100 Best Companies to Work For.[citation needed ] In March of that year, Emmis Communications and 98.7 KISS-FM, New York, celebrated Women's History Month by introducing their first annual salute to Phenomenal Women (also referred to as the Phenomenal Woman Awards).[26]
- n 2006, Emmis flipped KZLA Los Angeles to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as "KMVN, Movin' 93.9". The move gave Emmis a companion station to complement KPWR. However, on April 15, 2009, KMVN switched to Spanish-language programming, KXOS, under a seven-year Local Marketing Agreement with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City.[27]
- On June 9, 2009, Emmis announced it had formed a strategic alliance with StreamTheWorld, the radio industry's streaming technology and services company, to put all Emmis radio stations on a new streaming platform.[28]
- 2010s [ edit ] On January 12, 2011, the share price of Emmis stock surged 42% as insiders speculated that the company could be close to selling off several of its radio stations. In its January, 2011 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported that it had the necessary cash to survive through February, 2011. "Absent asset sales, which the company is actively pursuing," Emmis attorneys stated in the regulatory filing, "the company believes it is unlikely it will be able to maintain compliance with the financial covenants after Sept. 1, 2011".[29]
- On August 16, 2013, Emmis launched the NextRadio smartphone app on HTC One Android phones from Sprint.[30][31] A deal struck between the radio industry and Sprint facilitated the launch[32] which subsequently enabled FM radio support for the app on additional Android devices available on the Sprint wireless network.[33]
- On October 12, 2016, Emmis announced that it would sell its radio stations in the Terre Haute cluster to Midwest Communications and DLC Media. Midwest Communications would acquire WTHI-FM and the intellectual property of WWVR while DLC Media would acquire WFNF, WFNB and the broadcast license for WWVR. Midwest Communications would also sell WDKE to DLC Media to stay under FCC ownership limits. The sale was consummated on January 27, 2017.[34][35][36]
- On March 1, 2017, Emmis announced it had sold four of its magazines (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Orange Coast) to Hour Media Group, LLC for $6.5 million. It also sold Texas Monthly to Genesis Park, LP for $25 million.[37]
- On May 9, 2017, Emmis announced that it ould sell KPWR to The Meruelo Group for $82.75 million. The announcement came after Emmis made a deal in April with its lenders to seek $80 million worth of divestments by January 2018 to amend its credit agreement. The Meruelo Group began operating the station under an LMA on July 1, 2017, until the sale was consummated on August 1, 2017.[38][39][40]
- On January 30, 2018, Emmis announced it would leave the St. Louis market, selling KSHE and KPNT to Hubbard Broadcasting, and KFTK and KNOU to Entercom.[41]
- In June 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its controlling stake in its Austin stations to its minority partner Sinclair Telecable Inc. (d/b/a Sinclair Communications, unrelated to Sinclair Broadcast Group).[42]
- On July 1, 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its New York City stations WQHT and WBLS to Mediaco Holding'--an affiliate of Standard General'--for $91.5 million, a $5 million promissory note, and a 23.72% stake in the new company. Mediaco Holding will be a public company, and Emmis will continue to manage the stations.[43] The sale was completed November 27, 2019.[44]
- On April 24, 2020, Emmis announced that it would voluntarily delist from the Nasdaq, citing cost-saving concerns.[45]
- Company portfolio [ edit ] Emmis Interactive, Inc. [ edit ] Current clients include: Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, Emmis Radio, Greater Media, Lincoln Financial Media, and Renda Broadcasting,
- Emmis Interactive was sold to Marketron in October 2012.[46][47]
- Magazines [ edit ] Indianapolis MonthlyFormer Emmis-owned magazines [ edit ] AtlantaCincinnatiLos AngelesOrange CoastTexas Monthly [ edit ] The NextRadio smartphone app was developed by Emmis, with support from the National Association of Broadcasters, to take advantage of mobile devices with activated internal FM receivers.[48] NextRadio allows users of select FM-enabled smartphones to listen to live broadcast FM radio while receiving supplemental data such as album art, program information, and metadata over the internet.[49][50] Launched in August 2013 through a radio industry agreement with Sprint Corporation,[51] the app was preloaded on select devices and was also available for download in the Google Play Store.[52]
- The NextRadio app is powered by TagStation, an Emmis-developed cloud data service for enhanced radio broadcasting.[53][54] TagStation allows broadcasters a web-based platform for managing supplemental content for delivery to the NextRadio app,[55] HD Radio receivers,[56] and connected car dashboards.[57]
- During the quarter ended November 30, 2018, Emmis decided to dramatically reduce the scale of operations in TagStation, LLC and NextRadio, LLC. In connection with this decision, the company recognized $1.2 million of severance related to the termination of 35 employees.[58] Emmis Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan said on the company's second quarter earnings call that Emmis was ''unwilling and unable'' to continue funding the NextRadio and TagStation businesses.[59]
- Radio [ edit ] Currently owned stations '' Europe [ edit ] Rdio Expres in SlovakiaSlger Rdi" in Hungary. Emmis Communications' Hungarian national radio station, Slger, was taken off the air on November 18, 2009 because of the expiration of its broadcasting license. The license were given to another radio station, but Emmis went to court and won the trial on July 14, 2010.[citation needed ] Currently owned stations '' United States [ edit ] Operated by ESPN Radio/LMA by the Walt Disney Company under a local marketing agreementFormer Emmis-owned radio stations [ edit ] Now owned by The Meruelo GroupLos Angeles, California-KPWR[61]Sold to Merlin MediaChicago-WKQX;Q101 Chicago, the intellectual property of the station during Emmis's ownership, operated online by Broadcast Barter Radio Networks. WKQX currently owned by Cumulus Media.WLUP-FM-Sold with WKQX; now owned by Educational Media Foundation as of 2018.Now owned by EntercomNew York City '' WFAN-FM '' managed by Emmis from 1996 to 2001. Owned by Emmis 2001''2011. Was WQCD CD 101.9 playing Smooth Jazz/AC from August 1988 to February 2008. Became Modern Rock/Triple A hybrid WRXP in 2008. Sold to Merlin in 2011 '' flipped to All News WEMP in July. Reverted to Rock as WRXP in the Summer of 2012. Sold To CBS and flipped to Sports WFAN-FM simulcasting WFAN November 2012WHN/WFAN '' 1986''1988 '' bought the station as WHN which played Country and Southern Pop daytime and sports at night. Emmis expanded the Sports format to full-time on July 1, 1987 and dropped the WHN calls in favor of WFAN. Sold only the station license and transmitter (excluding building, contents, and intellectual WFAN Unit) to Spanish Broadcasting System to buy the 660 AM WNBC license and transmitter (and again excluding the WNBC Intellectual unit, building space, and contents such as equipment) to move the intellectual WFAN unit there. In October 1988 when WFAN's Unit moved to 660, 1050 took a Spanish AC format and became WUKQ. SBS swapped the station to Jewish Forward for 97.9 FM. The Spanish AC format went to 97.9 FM as WSKQ and the Jewish/Ethnic/Brokered programming from the WEVD unit moved to AM 1050 making that station WEVD. WEVD became an affiliate of ESPN Radio in 2001 and sold to ABC soon after becoming WEPN. When the ESPN Radio format went to 98.7 as WEPN-FM, AM 1050 took the Spanish feed of ESPN radio as WEPN.WFAN '' 1988''1992 '' The WFAN All Sports unit moved from 1050 to 660 October 1988. Neither Emmis or CBS claim history of AM 660 prior to 1988 when the station was WNBC playing a mix of talk, AC, Sports, and oldies (Was Hot AC and Top 40 in the late 1970s until about 1985) while Emmis does claim 1050's history. Emmis kept Imus In The Morning but otherwise 660 was WFAN's Intellectual unit. Emmis sold WFAN to Infinity Radio in 1992 which in a corporate deal became owned by CBS in 1997.St. Louis '' KNOU '' 96.3St. Louis '' KFTK-FM '' 97.1Now owned by Midwest CommunicationsTerre Haute, Indiana WTHI-FM '' 99.9Now owned by DLC MediaTerre Haute, Indiana WFNB '' 92.7Terre Haute, Indiana WFNF '' 1130Terre Haute, Indiana WWVR '' 105.5Now owned by Salem Media GroupWashington, D.C. '' WAVA-FM 105.1Washington, D.C. '' WAVA-AM 780Now owned by Hubbard BroadcastingSt. Louis '' KSHE '' 94.7St. Louis '' KPNT '' 105.7Sold to former minority shareholder Sinclair Telecable (unrelated to television broadcaster Sinclair Broadcast Group)Austin - KLBJ-AM - 590Austin - KLBJ-FM - 93.7Austin - KBPA-FM - 103.5Austin - KLZT-FM - 107.1Austin - KROX-FM - 101.5Austin - KGSR-FM - 93.3WorldBand Media HD Radio deal [ edit ] Emmis announced on September 9, 2008 that it had teamed up with digital radio network WorldBand Media and would be using the "HD-3" subchannels to produce programming for the South Asian communities in Chicago (on WLUP), Los Angeles (on KPWR), and New York (on WQHT), and would include a combination of local and international content that should be available by mid-October 2008.[62]
- Television [ edit ] In May 2005, Emmis announced its intent to sell some or all of the 16 television stations they owned at the time. In August 2005, the company announced the sale of nine television stations, as well as four more in October, an additional station in May 2006, another station in February 2007, and its final station in May 2008. Emmis no longer owns any television stations.[63]
- Former Emmis-owned television stations [ edit ] Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.
- (##) '' Indicates a station owned by Silver King Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Emmis in 1998.(¤¤) '' Indicates a station owned by Lee Enterprises prior to its acquisition by Emmis in 2000.City of license / MarketStationChannelTV (RF)Years ownedCurrent ownership statusMobile - Gulf Shores, AlabamaWALA-TV ##10 (9)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by Meredith Corporation (sale to Gray Television pending) WBPG55 (25)2003''2006The CW affiliate, WFNA, owned by Nexstar Media GroupTucson, ArizonaKGUN ¤¤9 (9)2000''2005ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyCape Coral - Fort Myers - Naples, FloridaWFTX-TV36 (35)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyClermont - Orlando -Daytona Beach, FloridaWKCF18 (17)1998''2006The CW affiliate owned by Hearst TelevisionHonoluluKHON-TV ##2 (8)1998''2006Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupKGMB ¤¤9 ( now 5 (23))2000''2007CBS affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionTerre Haute, IndianaWTHI-TV10 (10)1998''2005CBS affiliate owned by Allen Media BroadcastingTopeka, KansasKSNT ¤¤27 (27)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupWichita - Hutchinson, KansasKSNW ¤¤3 (45)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupGreat Bend, KansasKSNC ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 2 (22)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupGarden City, KansasKSNG ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 11 (11)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupMcCook, NebraskaKSNK ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 8 (12)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupNew Orleans, LouisianaWVUE-DT ##8 (29)1998''2008Fox affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionGrand Rapids - Battle Creek - Kalamazoo, MIWXMI17 (19)1998 1Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyOmaha, Nebraska - Council Bluffs, IowaKMTV ¤¤3 (45)2000''2007 2CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyManchester, New HampshireWMUR-TV9 (9)2000''2001 3ABC affiliate owned by Hearst TelevisionAlbuquerque - Santa Fe, New MexicoKRQE ¤¤13 (13)2000''2005CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupPortland, OregonKOIN ¤¤6 (40)2000''2006CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupTacoma - Seattle, WashingtonKTZZ22 (25)1998 1MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated (O&O), KZJOHuntington - Charleston, West VirginiaWSAZ-TV ¤¤3 (23)2000''2005NBC affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionGreen Bay, WisconsinWLUK-TV ##11 (11)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast GroupLegend:
- 1 Was bought by Emmis, but it was later swapped to Tribune Broadcasting for Tribune's WQCD New York City.2 In 2005, Journal operated KMTV under a local marketing agreement, until it was acquired outright in 2007.3 Was swapped in 2001 for Hearst-Argyle's KKLT, KMVP and KTAR-AM Phoenix; all three of which were subsequently sold to Bonneville International.Board of directors [ edit ] Jeff Smulyan '' Chairman of the Board, President and CEO; former owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle MarinersSusan Bayh '' Visiting Professor, Butler UniversityGary Kaseff '' Executive Vice President and General CounselRichard Leventhal '' President & Majority Owner of LMCS, LLC.Peter Lund '' Media Consultant and former President & CEO of CBS Television.Greg Nathanson '' former Television Division PresidentLawrence Sorrel '' Tailwind Capital PartnersPatrick Walsh '' Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial OfficerSee also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Hebrew Word of the Week - Emet". www.hebrew4christians.com . 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- Hannibal Buress - Wikipedia
- ( 1983-02-04 ) February 4, 1983 (age 38) OccupationComedianactorwriterproducerYears active2002''presentComedy careerMedium Stand-up comedyfilmtelevisionGenresSubject(s)African-American cultureAmerican politicscurrent eventseveryday lifehuman sexualitypopular culturerace relationsracismfoodreligionself-deprecationThe streetsWebsite hannibalburess.com Hannibal Amir Buress ( BURR -iss, born February 4, 1983) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University. He has starred on Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show since 2012, and was featured on Comedy Central's Broad City from 2014 to 2019.
- Early life [ edit ] Hannibal Amir Buress[1] was born in Chicago, Illinois,[2] on February 4, 1983,[3] the son of teacher Margaret and John Buress, a Union Pacific Railroad employee.[4] He was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. He was named after Carthaginian general Hannibal,[5] and has told stories in his stand-up act about his name causing women to turn him down because of its association with fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. After attending Steinmetz College Prep, he attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale for four years but did not graduate. While there he became friends with hip hop artist Open Mike Eagle, his RA at the time.[6][7]
- Career [ edit ] Buress performing in October 2007
- Buress performing in October 2009
- Buress began his stand-up career at an open mic in 2002. He has been featured in The Awkward Comedy Show special on Comedy Central, and alongside comics Baron Vaughn, Eric Andr(C), Marina Franklin, and Victor Varnado, and on the FX sitcom Louie. Beginning in 2012, he has co-starred as Eric Andr(C)'s sidekick on The Eric Andre Show.[8] In July 2010, Buress made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list.[9]
- His first stand-up comedy album My Name is Hannibal was released on July 27, 2010.
- Buress was a writer on Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2010.[10] He left with only one of his sketches having aired.[11] In September 2010, he began writing for the fifth season of the NBC comedy series 30 Rock.[12] He left after six months,[11] although he continued to portray various characters on the show for 9 episodes from 2010 to 2012 such as "Gus", "Homeless Guy" and "Bum".[13][14]
- He released his second album, Animal Furnace, in 2012, which also aired as a special on Comedy Central. The album received positive reviews.[15]
- His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central programs such as Live at Gotham and John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show. He has also performed on several late night talkshows such as The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Russell Howard's Good News, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Conan. Additionally, he performed a set at the 2012 Secret Policeman's Ball at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.[16]
- An hourlong Comedy Central show, Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago, aired on March 29, 2014.[11]
- He used to host a weekly stand-up comedy show at The Knitting Factory on Sunday evenings in Brooklyn, New York.[17] In October 2016, Buress began a podcast called Handsome Rambler.[18]
- Buress played Coach Wilson in the 2017 Marvel movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. Buress paid a lookalike who didn't look like him to attend the film's premiere in his place, because he was busy with the film Tag. He got in contact with the lookalike when he did a video for the MTV Movie Awards.[19][7]
- On February 8, 2020, he appeared on The Bob Ross Challenge, painting for the first time, coming up with the art nickname 7.[20]
- He had a comedy special for Cornell University via Zoom on April 17 at 9 pm exclusive to the students.[21]
- On April 30, 2020, he released a single called Judge Judy, paying homage to the series of the same name after it was announced that the show would end in 2021.[22]
- In 2020, Chelsea Peretti did a collaboration with Buress along with other musicians on the album, which theme is mainly about coffee, called Foam and Flotsam. The EP came out on April 21, 2020, and the full album will release soon.[23]
- Bill Cosby routine [ edit ] On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was recorded doing an extended routine about existing rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby.[24] Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talk[ing] down" to young black men about their style of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor's public moralizing by saying, "Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches." When the audience responded to Buress's accusation with incredulity (Philadelphia being Cosby's home town), he encouraged everyone to search for "Bill Cosby rape" on Google when they got home.[25]
- Buress had been doing the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response,[26] but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine's website.[27][28] A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his set, a "Teflon image" despite more than a decade of public sexual abuse accusations.[29][30][31][32]
- Comedian Eddie Murphy later referenced Buress's role in the allegations coming to light while impersonating Cosby during his 2015 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor acceptance speech, mockingly playing Cosby as threatening Buress's life.[33]
- Personal life [ edit ] Buress is an atheist.[34][35] After living in New York City, he moved back to his hometown of Chicago in 2017 and settled in its Wicker Park neighborhood. Buress is a fan of the Chicago White Sox.[36]
- In December 2017, Buress was arrested in Miami for disorderly intoxication.[37] Bystander footage of the arrest showed Buress mocking the police officers and demanding to know why he was being arrested.[37] The arrest report revealed that Buress was detained because he approached the police officers and would not stop asking them to call an Uber for him.[38] Buress later stated, "I asked the [officer] to call me an Uber, and he said, 'No.' He told me to leave the street. I go into this bar to get a phone charger for an Uber. He follows me into the bar, and told me I'm too drunk to go inside. [...] 'If I can't be on the street, where do you want me to be?' I ask him. I was in a state of trying to get home. [...] I don't really believe I was at fault."[39] The case was later dismissed. The Miami New Times reported that the arresting officer has an alleged history of violence and was previously disciplined by internal affairs for an alcohol-fueled assault. The report was included by Buress in a televised stand-up routine he did at the Olympia Theater in Miami, in August 2019.[40][41]
- Buress stated in a September 2018 interview that he had "quit drinking" after a number of "different situations [happened] that were alcohol fuelled," such as "arguments" stating that the ways he had handled things "were not smooth, just messy shit."[42]
- Buress has been called a "landlord".[43][44] Buress was later attacked on Twitter for behavior around his rental property. He attributed the criticism he received to fallout over comments he made on Bernie Sanders's age. Buress claimed that subsequent developments were jokes on his part. However, Buress also said a housing charity no longer wanted his $4,000 donation due to his perceived landlord advocacy.[45]
- Filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Web series [ edit ] Video games [ edit ] Discography [ edit ] Albums/Comedy Specials [ edit ] My Name is Hannibal (2010)Animal Furnace (2012)Live from Chicago (2014)Comedy Camisado (2016)Hannibal Takes Edinburgh (2016)Miami Nights (2020)Guest appearances [ edit ] Singles [ edit ] Judge Judy (2020)[22]Awards and nominations [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ BigBoyTV (August 30, 2016), Hannibal Buress on "The Eric Andre Show", Bill Cosby, And More! (Full Interview) | BigBoyTV , retrieved June 25, 2018 ^ Fishman, Elly. "Is Hannibal Buress the Funniest Man Alive?". Chicago Magazine. Chicago Tribune Media Group . Retrieved September 18, 2014 . ^ Raghav Mehta (February 4, 2013). "Interview: Hannibal Buress". vita.mn. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. ^ "Is Hannibal Buress the Funniest Man Alive?". Chicago magazine . Retrieved June 25, 2018 . ^ "Comedian Hannibal Buress' star is rising". Chicago Tribune . 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Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (2014). "Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series '' 2010". 62nd Primetime Emmys Nominees and Winners. Emmys.com. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Writers Guild of America (December 7, 2011). "2012 Writers Guild Awards Television, News, Radio, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America Awards 2012. Wga.org. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Matheson, Whitney (May 9, 2012). "Are you a Hannibal Buress fan yet?". USA Today. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . ^ Fox, Jesse David (May 17, 2012). "Talking with Hannibal Buress About His Hour Special, 'The Eric Andre Show', and Enjoying the Moment". Splitsider. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . ^ "Hannibal Buress". Carolines on Broadway. 2014. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . Further reading [ edit ] NPR Staff (September 12, 2013). "Hannibal Buress and the Comedy of the Unexpected". NPR. External links [ edit ] Official website Hannibal Buress at IMDb
- Why Roman Polanski Thought Bruce Lee Killed Sharon Tate - True Story Behind 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
- In 1969, after the brutal killings of five people, including actress Sharon Tate, at a Benedict Canyon home north of Beverly Hills, the police found a pair of horn-rimmed glasses they believed could belong to the killer.
- Roman Polanski was in London when he found out about the murder of Tate, who he was married to at the time. After he returned to the U.S., the crime remained unsolved for months'--and Polanski became obsessed with it. After learning about the glasses at the crime scene, he bought a Vigor lens-measuring gauge, he explains in his memoir Roman by Polanski, which he hoped could help aid in the investigation.
- And he continued to take self-defense classes with his friend, actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, who was charging nearly $1,000 an hour for lessons at that time.
- It was an off-hand comment during one of those sessions which led Polanski to incorrectly believe it could've been Lee who committed the mass murders'--though it was, of course, the followers of Charles Manson who killed Tate and the others that night.
- Lee's relationship with Tate is reexamined in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which comes out Friday. In the film, Lee, who is played by 35-year-old Mike Moh, has a brush with the Manson victims'--but, in this case, truth is stranger than fiction.
- Tate introduced Lee and Polanski in the 1960s. The actress met Lee on the set of The Wrecking Crew, when he taught karate to the cast. She hit it off with Lee, who at that point was just beginning to break into acting, and invited him over to have dinner with her and Polanski, telling her husband, ''You two will get on like a house on fire.''
- A publicity still of Sharon Tate from the 1969 film "The Wrecking Crew." Bettmann Getty Images
- They did get on, and Polanski hired Lee as his personal Kung Fu instructor.
- Not long after the couple formed a friendship with Lee, Tate was mysteriously killed. Lee was living just a couple of valleys away from the home where the mass murders took place in August 1969. Along with Tate, Lee and Tate's friend, celebrity hair stylist Jay Sebring was killed that night. Sebring was one of Lee's closest friends, and the one who helped him break into Hollywood, Lee's biographer, Matthew Polly, told me in an interview this week.
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- In Once Upon a Time, Tarantino shows Lee training with Sebring just hours before the murder takes place. In reality, there was only a rumor that Lee went over to Benedict Canyon the day of the murders, but his biographer says there's no evidence that happened. Lee's widow, Linda Lee, told Polly she has no recollection of Lee going to the house or seeing the victims that day, and the diary in which Lee kept a log of who he was training shows he wasn't training Sebring during that time, either.
- What really happened sounds even more far-fetched, though.
- Several months after the murders, Lee mentioned to Polanski during a Kung Fu lesson that he'd recently misplaced his glasses. Polanski immediately recalled the glasses found near Tate's body at the crime scene.
- Polanski and Tate at their wedding. Getty Images
- "I never liked your old pair anyway," Polanski told Lee, according to Polly. "After class, why don't I drive you to my optician's and buy you a new frame as a gift."
- "Bruce was the only person [Polanski] knew personally who had the physical skills to hurt a bunch of people at once," Polly tells me. "Bruce was the toughest guy he knew, and Bruce knew weapons."
- When Lee told the optician his prescription, Polanski realized his suspicion was unfounded. He never told Lee he suspected him. And he never publicly admitted it until he recounted the story in his memoir, which came out in 1985, more than a decade after Lee's death.
- Lee's widow, Linda, was amused by the absurd accusation when she read about it in Polanski's book, according to Polly, who interviewed her for Bruce Lee: A Life.
- Polly says Tarantino's manager requested a copy of his book, which includes the story about Polanski's suspicion. Moh, the actor playing Lee, read the biography, as well. But it's clear from the film that Tarantino took artistic license with the story.
- I reached out to Lee's family to see what they think about Lee's appearance in Tarantino's new film, but they didn't return my request to comment. His daughter Shannon Lee, however, told Deadline earlier this year when the cast was announced, ''With Tarantino's film, to not have been included in any kind of way, when I know that he reached out to other people but did not reach out to me, there's a level of annoyance '-- and there's part of me that says this is not worth my time and my energy.
- "Let's just see how the universe deals with this one.''
- Tarantino told Deadline he didn't contact Polanski before writing the film, either. But Polanski reached out through a friend.
- "After it was finished, he got wind of it and he reached out through a mutual friend. That friend called me and said, so what's up with this? He said that Roman wasn't mad. He didn't call up irate or anything. He was just curious. What is this?" Tarantino said. "So what I did was'...Roman's obviously stuck in Europe. I had the friend come over and read the script. He came to my house. He read the script simply so he could call Roman up and tell him the idea and what's in it. And basically that he didn't have anything to worry about."
- It was months before Charles Manson was connected to the murders. Getty Images
- Polanski is "stuck in Europe" because, in 1977, a grand jury indicted Polanski on six felony charges, including rape, furnishing a controlled substance to a minor and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, then fled the United States on the eve of his sentencing. He's remained in Europe ever since.
- Though he wasn't at the house that day, as the film portrays, Lee was deeply affected by the deaths of Tate and Sebring.
- "When he wrote the screenplay The Silent Flute, it had a level of violence in it which was extreme even for that era. You could feel the murders behind it influencing it," Polly says. "And when he moved to Hong Kong and became super famous himself, everyone noted that he seemed paranoid. His children never left the house without a minder, and he went around with security guards, which was unusual at that time.
- "I think that he forever after had an extra level of fear associated with being famous."
- Kate Storey Esquire Writer-at-Large Kate Storey is a Writer-at-Large for Esquire covering culture, politics, and style. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io
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- Spanish fly - Wikipedia
- The Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria) is an emerald-green beetle in the blister beetle family (Meloidae). It and other such species were used in preparations offered by traditional apothecaries, often referred to as Cantharides or Spanish fly. The insect is the source of the terpenoid cantharidin, a toxic blistering agent once used as an aphrodisiac.
- L. vesicatoria is sometimes called Cantharis vesicatoria,[1] although the genus Cantharis is in an unrelated family, Cantharidae, the soldier beetles.[2]
- Description and etymology [ edit ] Collecting cantharides, 19th century.
- Lytta vesicatoria is a slender, soft-bodied metallic and iridescent golden-green insect, one of the blister beetles. It is approximately 5 mm (0.20 in) wide by 20 mm (0.79 in) long.[3][4][5][6]
- The generic and specific names derive from the Greek Î>>ÏÏÏα (lytta) for martial rage, raging madness, Bacchic frenzy, or rabies,[7][8] and Latin vesica for blister.[9]
- Range and habitat [ edit ] The Spanish fly is a mainly southern European species[10][11] although its range of habitats is more completely described as being "throughout southern Europe and eastward to Central Asia and Siberia,"[3] alternatively as being throughout Europe, and parts of northern and southern Asia (excluding China).[12] It occurs locally in southern Great Britain[13] and Poland.[14]
- Adult beetles primarily feed on leaves of ash, lilac, amur privet, honey suckle and white willow tree while occasionally being found on plum, rose, and elm.[3][15]
- Life cycle [ edit ] The defensive chemical cantharidin, for which the beetle is known, is produced only by males; females obtain it from males during mating, as the spermatophore contains some. This may be a nuptial gift, increasing the value of mating to the female, and thus increasing the male's reproductive fitness.[16]
- The female lays her fertilised eggs on the ground, near the nest of a ground-nesting solitary bee. The larvae are very active as soon as they hatch. They climb a flowering plant and await the arrival of a solitary bee. They hook themselves on to the bee using the three claws on their legs that give the first instar larvae their name, triungulins (from Latin tri, three, and ungulus, claw). The bee carries the larvae back to its nest, where they feed on bee larvae and the bees' food supplies. The larvae are thus somewhere between predators and parasites. The active larvae moult into very different, more typically scarabaeoid larvae for the remaining two or more instars, in a development type called hypermetamorphosis. The adults emerge from the bees' nest and fly to the woody plants on which they feed.[17][3]
- Cantharidin [ edit ] Cantharidin, the principal active component in preparations of Spanish fly, was first isolated and named in 1810 by the French chemist Pierre Robiquet, who demonstrated that it was the principal agent responsible for the aggressively blistering properties of this insect's egg coating. It was asserted at that time that it was as toxic as the most violent poisons then known, such as strychnine.[18]
- The active agent has been estimated present at about 0.2''0.7 mg per beetle, males producing significantly more than females. The beetle secretes the agent orally, and exudes it from its joints as a milky fluid. The potency of the insect species as a vesicant has been known since antiquity and the activity has been used in various ways. This has led to its small-scale commercial preparation and sale, in a powdered form known as cantharides (from the plural of Greek κανθαÏίÏ, Kantharis, beetle), obtained from dried and ground beetles. The crushed powder is of yellow-brown to brown-olive color with iridescent reflections, is of disagreeable scent, and is bitter to taste. Cantharidin, the active agent, is a terpenoid, and is produced by some other insects, such as Epicauta immaculata.[4][1][19]
- Cantharidin is dangerously toxic, inhibiting the enzyme phosphatase 2A. It causes irritation, blistering, bleeding and discomfort. These effects can escalate to erosion and bleeding of mucosa in each system, sometimes followed by severe gastro-intestinal bleeding and acute tubular necrosis and glomerular destruction, resulting in gastro-intestinal and renal dysfunction, by organ failure, and death.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
- Preparations from L. vesicatoria and its active agent have been implicated in both inadvertent[19] and intentional poisonings.[19] Froberg notes a 1954 manslaughter case where cantharidin was administered in a coconut-flavoured candy as an intended aphrodisiac, resulting in illness and eventual death of two women (agent identified postmortem), and in facial blistering and criminal conviction of the perpetrator.[19]
- Culinary uses [ edit ] In Morocco and other parts of North Africa, spice blends known as ras el hanout sometimes included as a minor ingredient "green metallic beetles", inferred to be cantharides from L. vesicatoria, although sale of this in Moroccan spice markets was banned in the 1990s.[25] Dawamesk, a spread or jam made in North Africa and containing hashish, almond paste, pistachio nuts, sugar, orange or tamarind peel, cloves, and other various spices, occasionally included cantharides.[26]
- Other uses [ edit ] In ancient China, the beetles were mixed with human excrement, arsenic, and wolfsbane to make the world's first recorded stink bomb.[27]
- Noteworthy cases [ edit ] The Venezuelan leader Sim"n Bolvar may have been accidentally poisoned by application of Spanish fly.[28]
- Arthur Kendrick Ford was convicted and given a multiyear prison sentence in 1954 for the unintended deaths of two women surreptitiously given candies laced with cantharidin, which were intended to act as an aphrodisiac.[19]
- George Washington is thought to have been treated for epiglottitis (his cause of death)[29] with Spanish fly.
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- Excerpts From Bill Cosby's Deposition in 2005 and 2006 - The New York Times
- Views on Women and SexAfter describing what he depicts as a sexual encounter with Andrea Constand, Mr. Cosby explains in part why he viewed it as consensual.
- I walk her out. She does not look angry. She does not say to me, don't ever do that again. She doesn't walk out with an attitude of a huff, because I think that I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them.
- Asked if he ever talked with anyone else about what he described as his physical interaction with Ms. Constand, Mr. Cosby says he never discusses such things.
- I am a man, the only way you will hear about who I had sex with is from the person I had it with.
- A. When I was a boy it was a thing that girls used to say, please don't tell anybody. But it is something that I've learned as you grow older that they're the first people to go and tell somebody after something has happened.
- Mr. Cosby was asked to talk about his relationship with Beth Ferrier, one of the women who has accused him of drugging her. Ms. Ferrier has said that in the mid-1980s, after a brief consensual affair with the entertainer had ended, she met him before a performance in Denver, drank some coffee that he gave her, felt woozy and woke up in a car with her clothes a mess and her bra undone.
- Q. What was your relationship with her?
- A. We had sex and we had dinners and sex and rendezvous.
- A. Rendezvous is when you call somebody and say, do you want to be at such and such and they say yes and you go there.
- Q. Is there sexual contact associated with the rendezvous?
- A. There was with Beth every time.
- Q. Where did these rendezvous occur?
- Q. Do you know the cities?
- Q. Do you know if any of the rendezvous happened in New York City?
- Q. How did it end with her?
- A. Stopped calling for rendezvous.
- A. Don't want to see her anymore.
- After some debate with Mr. Cosby's lawyer, Ms. Troiani continued her questioning:
- Q. You said just moving on. What did you mean by that?
- Q. Had you decided to stop having extramarital affairs?
- Later Ms. Troiani asked Mr. Cosby to respond to Ms. Ferrier's account of an earlier time when, after a dinner in Manhattan, she went back to Mr. Cosby's New York City home with several people and stayed behind when the other people left.
- Q. She says that she stayed with you and that you began talking about her career and asking about her father who had died of cancer. Does any of that ring a bell with you?
- Q. Do you remember talking about that?
- Q. Do you remember what else you talked about?
- Q. Did you ask her those questions because you wanted to have sexual contact with her?
- Obtaining DrugsMr. Cosby acknowledges in the deposition that he secured seven prescriptions for Quaaludes in the 1970s over a period of two to three years from a Los Angeles doctor. He says that, while he told the doctor he had a sore back, he imagined that the doctor understood that he was not using them to treat his pain.
- Q. You testified that he knew you were not going to take them. And I'd like to -- explain your answer. How did he know that, or why do you say he knew that?
- A. What was happening at that time was that that was -- Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case.
- Mr. Cosby says he never took the Quaaludes himself because they made him sleepy and because he was using them in his efforts to have sex with women. He also says that, with the exception of one glass of beer, he stopped drinking alcohol when he was 16.
- Q. Why didn't you ever take the Quaaludes?
- A. The same as a person would say have a drink.
- A Testy DefendantThough he shows flashes of jocularity, Mr. Cosby is often testy under questioning, as in one sequence where Ms. Troiani asks him about the account of Therese Serignese, who says she could not have consented to the sex she had with Mr. Cosby one night in Las Vegas because she was incapacitated after taking Quaaludes he had given her. Mr. O'Connor, below, is Patrick O'Connor, Mr. Cosby's lawyer.
- Now, would you agree with me if she's right that this incident of you meeting her when she was 19, then you would be in your late 30s, early 40s at that time?
- MR. O'CONNOR: Well, it's 1976.
- THE WITNESS: I was born in 1937.
- MS. TROIANI: Q. Would you agree with me that would place you around 39, 40?
- In another instance, Ms. Troiani, after some debate with Mr. O'Connor about her line of questioning, asks Mr. Cosby about his state of mind after getting off the telephone with Ms. Serignese years later.
- Q. Now, what do you think about? Do you have a problem answering that question?
- A. I was waiting for you to stop talking.
- Q. Okay. What did you think about?
- A. Am I allowed to think?
- Mr. Cosby at one point acknowledges to Ms. Troiani that his chef met Andrea Constand when she visited Mr. Cosby's Pennsylvania home, and Ms. Troiani proceeds to ask some questions about the chef.
- Q. Have you spoken to him about the accusations that Andrea has made in this case?
- Q. What was the conversation?
- A. My lawyers wanted to talk to him.
- Q. Did you say anything else to him?
- Q. Why did he leave your employ?
- Q. What do you mean it's confidential?
- A. Look it up in the dictionary. I'm getting a little tired.
- Hiding From His WifeAt several junctures in the deposition, Mr. Cosby describes how he tried to keep his wife, Camille, from finding out about the women he had been pursuing and, by his account, having sex with. In one instance, he describes how he once planned to pay for Ms. Constand's educational expenses, not through a foundation he had established that provides education grants, but by ''our writing a check.''
- Q. Would your wife know about that?
- A. That's family. My wife would not know it was because Andrea and I had had sex and that Andrea was now very, very upset and that she decided that she would like to go to school or whatever it is. We can get back on track.
- Q. How would you explain to your wife that you were giving this personally as opposed to using the foundation?
- A. I would say to her that there is a person I would like to help.
- At another point, Mr. Cosby describes how he routed a payment to Therese Serignese, the woman who said she had been taken advantage of while drugged in Las Vegas, through his agent at the William Morris Agency. He says the agency sent Ms. Serignese $5,000 and he reimbursed them.
- Q. And did that come from your personal account or from the business?
- A. That's from my personal account.
- Q. So, was the purpose of that to disguise --
- Q. I have to finish my question. Was to disguise that you were paying the money to Theresa?
- Q. And the reason you were doing -- who were you preventing from knowing that?
- Bill Cosby Is Found Guilty of Sexual Assault - The New York Times
- Bill Cosby on Thursday after he was found guilty in his sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pa. Credit... Mark Makela/Getty Images NORRISTOWN, Pa. '-- [Update: Bill Cosby released from prison after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns sexual assault conviction.]
- A jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago, capping the downfall of one of the world's best-known entertainers, and offering a measure of satisfaction to the dozens of women who for years have accused him of similar assaults against them.
- On the second day of its deliberations at the Montgomery County Courthouse, the jury convicted Mr. Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, at the time a Temple University employee.
- Mr. Cosby's case was the first high-profile sexual assault trial to unfold in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and many considered the verdict a watershed moment, one that reflected that, going forward, the accounts of female accusers may be afforded greater weight and credibility by jurors.
- The Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin R. Steele, asked that Mr. Cosby's $1 million bail be revoked, suggesting he had been convicted of a serious crime, owned a plane and could flee, prompting an angry outburst from Mr. Cosby, who shouted, ''He doesn't have a plane, you asshole.''
- [Read reactions to the verdict.]
- ''Enough of that,'' Judge Steven T. O'Neill said. He did not view Mr. Cosby as a flight risk, he said, adding that he could be released on bail but that he would have to remain in his nearby home. The judge did not set a date to sentence Mr. Cosby on the three counts, all felonies and each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison.
- The National Organization for Women called the verdict a ''notice to sexual predators everywhere.'' Rose McGowan, one of the women who has accused Harvey Weinstein of assault, tweeted a thank you to the judge and jury and to ''society for waking up.'' Gloria Allred, the lawyer who represented many of Mr. Cosby's accusers, hailed the decision as an important breakthrough.
- ''After all is said and done, women were finally believed,'' she said outside the courtroom.
- The impression of change was evident within the trial itself when the defense attacked the credibility of five women who had testified that they, too, believed Mr. Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted them. Kathleen Bliss, one of Mr. Cosby's lawyers, called one of the women a failed starlet who slept around. She branded another a publicity seeker.
- The remarks inflamed Kristen Gibbons Feden, a prosecutor on the case. She called the attacks filthy and shameful and the sort of criticism that had long kept sexual assault victims from coming forward. Ms. Feden's colleague, M. Stewart Ryan, described Ms. Bliss's approach as ''the last vestiges of a tactic not to get to the truth, but to damage character and reputation.''
- Their boss, Kevin R. Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney, referenced the broader significance of the case when he thanked Ms. Constand for taking part in not one, but two trials. ''She has been a major factor in a movement that has gone in the right direction, finally,'' he said.
- The first trial ended with a hung jury after six days of deliberations last summer. When the jury announced its decision Thursday, Mr. Cosby sat back in his chair and quietly stared down. Several women who have accused him of abuse, and attended the trial each day, briefly cheered. Ms. Constand, who had been quiet throughout, stood up and was hugged by supporters, including her lawyer.
- [Did the #MeToo movement have an effect on the Bill Cosby jury?]
- Mr. Cosby did not comment as he left the courthouse, but his lead lawyer, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., said his client would appeal. ''We are very disappointed by the verdict,'' he said. ''We don't believe Mr. Cosby is guilty of anything.''
- The Woman Who Brought Down Bill CosbyAndrea Constand is the only woman among more than 50 accusers whose complaint against Mr. Cosby has resulted in a conviction. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday.This is Andrea Constand, the woman whose sexual assault complaint against Bill Cosby brought down the man once known as ''America's dad.'' ''Finally, we can say: Women are believed. And not only on #MeToo, but in a court of law.'' She's the only woman among more than 50 others whose case against Cosby has resulted in a conviction. ''I feel like my faith in humanity is restored.'' Constand and Cosby's story started more than 15 years ago in Philadelphia. She was 29 years old at the time, and worked for the women's basketball team at Temple University. Cosby was the university's most famous alum and a trustee. They met at a basketball game in 2002. Constand grew up in Toronto, Canada. She was a star high school basketball player and had dreams of playing professionally. Over the next two years, the pair had a friendly relationship. In 2004, Constand says Cosby assaulted her at his Pennsylvania mansion after giving her three pills that left her frozen. He claims the sex was consensual. The pills, he later said, were Benadryl. Constand reported the attack to the police a year later, but prosecutors decided not to charge Cosby at the time. She later filed a civil suit and got a settlement of over $3 million. Cosby's defense team used that to paint her her as a scheming former lover. ''Andrea Constand made up these fantastical stories in order to get rich.'' A criminal investigation was reopened in 2015. ''We're here because we want to seek the truth.'' At this point, more than 50 women had come forward with similar accusations of sexual misconduct. Many of these cases happened outside the 12-year statute of limitations. So Constand became the lone accuser who brought criminal charges. The jury came to their decision in just two days. ''We don't think Mr. Cosby is guilty of anything. And the fight is not over.''
- Andrea Constand is the only woman among more than 50 accusers whose complaint against Mr. Cosby has resulted in a conviction. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday. Credit Credit... Mark Makela/Getty Images In recent years, Mr. Cosby, 80, had admitted to decades of philandering, and to giving quaaludes to women as part of an effort to have sex, smashing the image he had built as a moralizing public figure and the upstanding paterfamilias in the wildly popular 1980s and '90s sitcom ''The Cosby Show.'' He did not testify in his own defense, avoiding a grilling about those admissions, but he and his lawyers have insisted that his encounter with Ms. Constand was part of a consensual affair, not an assault.
- The verdict now marks the bottom of a fall as precipitous as any in show business history and leaves in limbo a large slice of American popular culture from Mr. Cosby's six-decade career as a comedian and actor. For the last few years, his TV shows, films and recorded stand-up performances, once broadcast staples, have largely been shunned, and with his conviction, they are likely to remain so.
- At Mr. Cosby's retrial, in the same courthouse and before the same judge, a new defense team argued unsuccessfully that Ms. Constand, now 45, was a desperate ''con artist'' with financial problems who steadily worked her famous but lonely mark for a lucrative payday.
- The prosecution countered that it was Mr. Cosby who had been a deceiver, hiding behind his amiable image as America's Dad to prey on women that he first incapacitated with intoxicants. During closing arguments Tuesday, Ms. Feden told the jury: ''She is not the con. He is.''
- The defense's star witness was a veteran academic adviser at Temple who said Ms. Constand had confided to her in 2004 that she could make money by falsely claiming she had been molested by a prominent person. Mr. Cosby paid Ms. Constand $3.38 million in 2006 as part of the confidential financial settlement of a lawsuit she had brought against him after prosecutors originally declined to bring charges.
- [The Bill Cosby case: A timeline from accusation to conviction.]
- But Ms. Constand said she had never spoken with the adviser, and prosecutors rebutted her characterization as a schemer. Perhaps most damaging to Mr. Cosby, was the testimony from five other women who told jurors they, too, were Cosby victims. The powerful drumbeat of accounts allowed prosecutors to argue that Ms. Constand's assault was part of a signature pattern of predatory behavior.
- Mr. Cosby's lawyers had tried to block the additional women from testifying, arguing their accounts would be prejudicial. They noted that the scrutiny of sexual assault had heightened, and recently had ensnared a group of high-profile men, but they said it was only Mr. Cosby who was on trial in this instance. ''Mob rule is not due process,'' Ms. Bliss told the jury.
- When Ms. Constand testified, she took the stand as something of a proxy for the other women, more than 50, who have accused Mr. Cosby of abuses.
- Image Kathleen Bliss, left, and Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., two lawyers for Mr. Cosby, at the courthouse on Wednesday. Credit... Tracie Van Auken/EPA, via Shutterstock None of those accusations had resulted in prosecution. In many of the cases, too much time had passed for criminal charges to be considered, so Ms. Constand's case emerged as the only criminal test of Mr. Cosby's guilt.
- But Mr. Cosby has been sued by several accusers, some of whom said he or his staff defamed them by dismissing their allegations as fabrications.
- The suits are likely to draw momentum from the guilty verdict.
- Many of the accusers celebrated the verdict with laughter and tears. Patricia Steuer, 61, who accused Mr. Cosby of drugging and assaulting her in 1978 and 1980, said she and her husband were in a pharmacy at Lake Tahoe when the news arrived by text.
- ''We just collapsed in each other's arms,'' she said. ''We were just crying.''
- Mr. Cosby returned to the suburban mansion where, in the evening, his spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, said Mr. Cosby planned to appeal on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct and to also assert that the statute of limitations had expired before charges were filed in December 2015.
- ''God puts certain situations in your life, not to destroy you but to build you,'' Mr. Wyatt said. ''We build from here.''
- The case largely turned on the credibility of Ms. Constand, who testified that during a visit in early 2004 to Mr. Cosby's home near Philadelphia, when she was 30 and he was 66, Mr. Cosby gave her pills that left her immobile and drifting in and out of consciousness. He said he had only given her Benadryl.
- Image Ms. Constand, center, with the Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin Steele, left, and Kristen Gibbons Feden, the special prosecutor on the case, at a news conference after the conviction. Credit... Dominick Reuter/Agence France-Presse '-- Getty Images Image Mr. Cosby and his wife, Camille, arriving Tuesday at the courthouse for closing arguments. It was the only day Mrs. Cosby appeared at the trial. Credit... Tracie Van Auken/EPA, via Shutterstock ''I was kind of jolted awake and felt Mr. Cosby on the couch beside me, behind me, and my vagina was being penetrated quite forcefully, and I felt my breast being touched,'' Ms. Constand said. ''I was limp, and I could not fight him off.''
- In Mr. Cosby's first trial, only one other accuser had been allowed to testify. At the retrial, the five additional witnesses included the former model Janice Dickinson, who told jurors Mr. Cosby had assaulted her in a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 1982, after giving her a pill to help with menstrual cramps. ''Here was America's Dad on top of me,'' she told the courtroom, ''a happily married man with five children, on top of me.''
- The defense suggested that Ms. Dickinson had made up the account, pointing to her memoir, which recounted the meeting without mentioning any assault. But Ms. Dickinson's publisher testified that she had shared her account of rape and that it was kept out of the book for legal reasons.
- Another accuser, Chelan Lasha, said Mr. Cosby invited her to his suite at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1986, when she was 17, to help her with her modeling career. Mr. Cosby, she said, gave her a pill and liquor, and then assaulted her.
- In court, Ms. Lasha, who was often in tears, called across the courtroom to the entertainer.
- ''You remember,'' she asked, ''don't you, Mr. Cosby?''
- Image The jury deliberating the Cosby case inside the Montgomery County Courthouse was asked to decide on three counts of sexual assault. Credit... Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters The defense team tried to convince the jurors that Mr. Cosby's main accuser, Ms. Constand, saw him as her escape from financial straits. ''You are going to be asking yourself during this trial, 'What does she want from Bill Cosby?' And you already know the answer: 'Money, money and lots more money,''' Mr. Mesereau told the jurors as he opened his defense of Mr. Cosby.
- The defense emphasized inconsistencies in the version of events Ms. Constand had given the police, saying, for example, at one point that the assault had taken place in March 2004, then later changing that to January 2004.
- Mr. Cosby's lawyers cited her phone records to show she had stayed in touch with him after the encounter and they produced detailed travel itineraries and flight schedules in an effort to show that Mr. Cosby had not stayed at his Philadelphia home during the period in which she said the assault occurred.
- ''He was lonely and troubled and he made a terrible mistake confiding in her what was going on in his life,'' Mr. Mesereau said.
- Under cross-examination, Ms. Constand explained the lapses in her accounts as innocent mistakes, and said her contacts with Mr. Cosby after the incident were mostly cursory, the unavoidable result of her job duties.
- Mr. Steele told the jury that Mr. Cosby took away Ms. Constand's ability to consent with the pills he gave her, and that their later contacts were irrelevant.
- When Ms. Constand's mother called to confront Mr. Cosby about a year after the incident, the prosecution argued, his apology and his offer to pay for her schooling, therapy and a trip to Florida were evidence he knew he had done something wrong.
- Mr. Steele, the district attorney, also worked to rebut the defense claims. He said that Mr. Cosby, a member of Temple University's board of directors at the time and the university's most famous alumnus, set his sights on Ms. Constand, an employee in the athletic department who considered him a mentor.
- ''This case is about trust,'' Mr. Steele had told the jurors. ''This case is about betrayal, and that betrayal leading to a sexual assault of a woman named Andrea Constand.''
- Media allowed itself to be duped by one man on COVID-19
- The truth is starting to come out about Peter Daszak. Twitter
- The more we learn about Peter Daszak, one of the main villains of the COVID epidemic, the worse it gets.
- Daszak is president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization mostly funded by the US government. EcoHealth passed some of that money on to the lab in Wuhan, China.
- It was Daszak who organized the letter in The Lancet from February 2020 dismissing as ''misinformation'' claims that the virus may have originated from the Wuhan Virology Lab. The letter created the illusion of consensus, which internet companies proceeded to enforce through censorship, and the media reinforced by constantly interviewing Daszak himself.
- There might be journalistic value in hearing from the Chernobyl plant director about all those clouds floating over Ukraine. But if he suggests the rash of mysterious sores and cancers were due to a faulty shipment of microwaves recently arrived in Pripyat, you'd probably think he was engaged in a bit of ''motivated reasoning.''
- Apparently not the World Health Organization, which invited Daszak to join their microwave hunt in Wuhan.
- In the last two days, Daszak has been removed from The Lancet's own UN-backed commission investigating COVID's origins, though whether he removed himself or was fired remains unclear.
- It appears Daszak collaborated with Anthony Fauci as well, based on a recently released email in which he thanks the NIAID director for ''publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release.''
- To top it all off, the Trump administration canceled the EcoHealth grant in early 2020, a move that was characterized by ''60 Minutes'' and NPR as jeopardizing a possible COVID-19 cure. Both stories featured '-- guess who '-- Daszak.
- Anthony Fauci collaborated with Peter Daszak, newly released emails revealed. Pool/Getty ImagesNow we learn that Google's charitable arm may have also funded EcoHealth. Steve Hilton suggested Monday on Fox that the Google funding might have something to do with why information about COVID was so ruthlessly policed on social media platforms and search engines.
- We'll be sorting through the many failures of the COVID pandemic for years, failures by the most important institutions of society, from big tech to scientific research to public health to the media, but whatever blame rests on them, we can say Daszak helped break them all.
- What does it say about the state of our media and social media that one man can so wrongly shape a narrative?
- Arthur Bloom is online editor of The American Conservative.
- Fox News' 'Gutfeld!' Overtook Colbert's 'Late Show' Tuesday
- Fox News' 11 p.m. ET ''Gutfeld!'' finally beat every other late-night show '-- including Stephen Colbert's ''Late Show'' on CBS '-- Tuesday in total viewership and the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. When the right-leaning program debuted in April, host Greg Gutfeld and his promotional team made no secret of their ambition to overtake late-night rivals, but Colbert blocked him from the top spot.
- On Tuesday night, ''Gutfeld!'' took in a total average of 2.120 million viewers, with 434,000 in the key demo, on average. The ''Late Show,'' which has an 11:35 p.m. ET start time on CBS, grabbed an average of 1.896 million total viewers of whom 423,000 were in the demo. Jimmy Fallon's ''Tonight Show'' '-- an NBC program which also airs at 11:35 '-- came next with 1.216 million total viewers, on average, and 354,000 in the demo. (It's worth noting that ''Gutfeld!'' airs at 8 p.m. PT on the West Coast, and does not repeat at 11 p.m. when the broadcast networks' late-night shows are on.)
- In the 18-to-49 demo, however, Colbert still won, averaging 322,000 viewers to Gutfeld's 281,000 and Fallon's 255,000.
- ''Gutfeld!'' has routinely beaten Fallon's program, as well as Jimmy Kimmel's ''Live!'' on ABC in the past. ''Live!'' garnered an average of 1.978 million total viewers on Tuesday, of whom 301,000 were between 25 and 54 and 198,000 were between 18 and 49.
- ''Gutfeld!'' competes not only with the broadcast late-night shows, but the 11 p.m. offerings on CNN and MSNBC. On Tuesday, MSNBC's ''The 11th Hour with Brian Williams'' fell right behind the ''Tonight Show,'' pulling in an average of 1.120 million total viewers. In the 25-to-54 demo, MSNBC pulled in an average of 167,000 viewers and in the 18-to-49 demo, that number was 117,000. CNN's ''Don Lemon Tonight'' fell behind all of those as well as NBC's ''Late Night with Seth Meyers'' and ABC News' ''Nightline.'' In total, CNN garnered an average viewership total of 570,000 on Tuesday, with 186,000 of those being in the 25-to-54 demo and 124,000 of them being in the 18-to-49 demo.
- Protest Against Mandatory Vaxxing Turns Violent In Greece, 47 Detained
- On Sunday, protesters in Athens clashed with police against mandatory vaccination measures that go into effect on Sept. 1.
- Police estimate about 8,000 people attended the rally in Syntagma Square, the central square of Athens, chanting anti-vaxx slogans and demanding government officials reverse mandatory vaccinations for all health workers that begins Wednesday.
- At least 47 were detained in yesterday's demonstrations, police said in a statement Sunday evening, reported by local media Iefimerida.
- Police said unruly protesters ''threw objects'' at police, and riot control response teams had to use tear gas, stun grenades, and water cannons to disperse the crowd.
- Here's a stunning view of the demonstration.
- First night in Athens. Dinner on the balcony with a view '-- of both the Parthenon and a wild demonstration. This is my first experience with tear gas. I can confirm it burns bad. pic.twitter.com/2Wn0l5Iwsj
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- According to AFP, the demonstrators held signs that read: ''We are not against vaccines, but against fascism.''
- For several weeks, Greeks have been angered and taken to the streets to protest mandatory vaccinations, vaccine passports, and other virus-related measures.
- Event the largest industry union, Panhellenic Federation of Employees in Public Hospitals, released a statement earlier this month, indicating it was against mandatory vaccinations for hospital workers.
- The rise in government control over the lives of people under the guise of COVID is absolutely terrifying and continues to spread worldwide. Businesses and the government are forcing mandatory vaccinations and health passports, creating a multi-tier society of those who are vaxxed and unvaxxed.
- Meanwhile, businesses and the government are entirely ignoring natural immunity, which could be up to 13x more effective than vaccines.
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- Yesterday I posted an item that about collaboration in the news industry to help disseminate critical information. # An idea for the news industry to collaborate on. Sometimes a news org takes down the paywall on a story because it's important that everyone see it. Make an RSS feed that combines all such stories across all pubs. Make spreading the news even more efficient. # A simple idea, really -- not much tech, and news orgs are already doing it. The post got a lot of traction on Twitter, and favorable notice from a fair number of people inside news orgs, people who would be critical to making this idea a reality. # So what's needed, technically, beyond what's already there? Probably just this -- a way to tell, in an RSS feed, that an item is outside the paywall. # How to do that? Create a namespace, anyone can do that. Call it (say) the urgentNews namespace. You could have its url point to this post if you like. # To begin with the namespace has one element, isOutsidePaywall. # This is what an item might look like for such a news item. # <item> # <title>Sed do eiusmod tempor</title> # <description>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam.</decription> # <link>https://anytownnews.com/2021/923883.html # <urgentNews:isOutsidePaywall>true</urgentNews:isOutsidePaywall> # </item> #
- Important Information for Employers from America's Frontline Doctors - LewRockwell
- A SAMPLE LETTER TO BE SENT TO EMPLOYERS WHO ARE ILLOGICALLY CONSIDERING MANDATING EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES:
- As your employee, I am requesting that you review this document, provide the requisite information (item 14), and sign the form, in regards to your (proposed) requirement that I be inoculated with one of Big Pharma's experimental Covid-19 vaccines.
- NOTE TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE US MILITARY: The statements below apply tostudents or members of the US Military who are also threatened with being vaccinated '' against their will '' with experimental vaccines that have not yet been tested for long-term safety or efficacy.
- 1) If I agree to receive an EUA (experimental) Covid-19 injection, does my employee health insurance plan providecomplete coverage should I experience an adverse even, or even death?
- 2) As an employee, does my life insurance policy provide any coverage in the event that I die fromreceiving an EUA Covid-19 injection?
- 3) As an employee, will you be providing Workers' Compensation, disability insurance, or otherresources if I have an adverse event to an EUA Covid-19 injection and am unable to come to work fordays, weeks, or months, or if I am disabled for life?
- 4) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that EUA vaccine recipients be provided withcertain vaccine-specific information to help them make an informed decision about vaccination.8
- The EUA fact sheets that must be provided are specific to each authorized Covid-19 injection and aredeveloped by the manufacturers of the injections (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford/AstraZeneca,and the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen). The fact sheets must provide the most current andup-to-date information on the injections, and vaccine recipients must also receive information aboutadverse events. Have you read, understood, and provided me (and all other employees) with thesefact sheets and with current information on adverse events so that I/we can make an educateddecision?
- 5) Have you reviewed the available databases of material adverse events reported to date forpeople who have received Covid-19 injections?9,10,11,12 Potential and reported adverse events includedeath, anaphylaxis, neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders, other long-term chronic diseases,blindness and deafness, infertility, fetal damage, miscarriage, and stillbirth.
- 6) The FDA's guidance13 on emergency use authorization of medical products requires the FDA to''ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances'...[t]hat they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product'....'' Are you aware of this statement?Have you informed all employees that they have the option to refuse?
- 7) With respect to the emergency use of an unapproved product, the Federal Food, Drug andCosmetic Act, Title 21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(I-III)14 reiterates that individuals be informed of ''theoption to accept or refuse administration of the product, [and] of the consequences, if any, ofrefusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and oftheir benefits and risks.'' If EUA Covid-19 investigational/experimental vaccines are ever approved by the
- FDA, state legislation would be required to allow companies to mandate the Covid-19 injections. Are you aware of these facts?
- 8) EUA products are unapproved, unlicensed, and experimental. Under the Nuremberg Code'--thefoundation of ethical medicine'--no one may be coerced to participate in a medical experiment. Theindividual's consent is absolutely essential. No court has ever upheld a mandate for an EUA vaccine. InDoe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F. Supp. 2d 119 (2003)15, a federal court held that the U.S. military could notmandate EUA vaccines for soldiers: '''...[T]he United States cannot demand that members of thearmed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs'' (Id. at 135). Are you aware of this?
- 9) The United States Code of Federal Regulaons16 and the FDA require the informed consent ofhuman subjects for medical research. The EUA Covid-19 injections are unapproved, unlicensed,investigational vaccines that are still in their experimental stage. It is unlawful to conduct medicalresearch on a human being, even in the event of an emergency, unless steps are taken to secure theinformed consent of all participants. Are you aware of this?
- 10) According to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Guidelines17 and the FTC's ''Truth in Advertising,''18promotional material'--and especially material involving health-related products'--cannot misleadconsumers, omit important information, or express claims. All of this falls under the rubric of''deceptive advertising'' (whereby a company is providing or endorsing a product), whether presentedin the form of an ad, on a website, through email, on a poster, or in the mail. For example, statementssuch as ''all employees are required to get the Covid-19 vaccine to make the workspace safe'' or ''it'ssafe and effective'' leave out critical information.
- Critical information includes the facts that Covid-19 injections are unapproved EUA vaccines that ''may'' or ''may not'' prevent Covid, won't necessarily make the workspace safer, and could in fact cause harm.
- Not providing links or attachments of the manufacturers' fact sheets and current information on adverse events is omitting safety information. Are you aware of this?
- 11) Since the Covid lockdowns began over one year ago, there have been over 178 reported breachesof unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI), incidents investigated by the Office for Civil Rights(OCR). These breaches exposed millions of people's personal health information. Although many ofthese incidents were attributed to hacking, some of the breaches to PHI fell directly under the 1996Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), such as sharing a patient's or person'sinformation with an unauthorized individual or incorrectly handling PHI.19 Can you please explain yourobligations to me, under HIPAA law, and how you are going to protect my personal information ''both with respect to your requirement that I receive this injection?
- 12) Whereas pharmaceutical companies that manufacture EUA vaccines have been protected fromliability related to injuries or deaths caused by experimental agents since the PREP Act1 was enacted in2005, companies and all other institutions or individuals who mandate experimental vaccines onany human being are not protected from liability. Are you aware that you do not enjoy such liabilityprotection?
- 13) Are you aware that employees could file a civil suit against you should they suffer an adverseevent, death, or termination from their place of employment?________________________________________________________________________________
- 14) As the legally authorized officer of the company, I have read all of the above information,have provided my employees/students with all of the information that the FDA requires be provided torecipients of the Covid-19 injections, and do hereby agree to assume 100%, financial responsibility forcovering any and all expenses from adverse events, including death, through insurance coverage ordirectly. In addition, I affirm that the employee will not be subjected to the loss of their job shouldthey decline to receive a Covid-19 injection.
- 1. Congressional Research Service. The PREP Act and COVID-19: Liming Liability for Medical Countermeasures. Updated Mar. 19,2021. hJps://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10443.2. Del Bigtree interviews 3 medical professionals incapacitated by Covid injections. The Highwire, Apr. 29, 2021.hJps://www.bitchute.com/video/A4d8FB2cIBTc/.3. America's Frontline Doctors. Vaccines & the law. hJps://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.org/legal/vaccines-the-law.4. Layton, Catharine. Forced to get the COVID vaccine? ICAN may be able to help. The Defender, Jan. 29, 2021.hJps://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/forced-to-get-covid-vaccine-ican-may-be-able-to-help/.5. hJps://uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/,les/Vaccine%20AJorneys.pdf.6. The Solari Report. Family Financial Disclosure Form for Covid-19 injections. Mar. 1, 2021. hJps://pandemic.solari.com/family-,nancial-disclosure-form-for-covid-19-injecons/.7. The Solari Report. Form for Students Attending Colleges or Universities Requiring Covid-19 Injections. May 3, 2021.hJps://pandemic.solari.com/form-for-students-aJending-colleges-or-universies-requiring-covid-19-injecons/8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Fact Sheets for Recipientsand Caregivers. hJps://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/eua/index.html.
- UK Medical Freedom Alliance. COVID-19 Vaccine Info. hJps://www.ukmedfreedom.org/resources/covid-19-vaccine-info.10. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. hJps://vaers.hhs.gov.11. CDC WONDER. About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). hJps://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html.12. National Vaccine Information Center. Search the U.S. Government's VAERS Data. hJps://www.medalerts.org/.13. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products and Related Authorities:Guidance for Industry and Other Stakeholders. January 2017. hJps://www.fda.gov/media/97321/download.14. 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb''3 '' Authorization for medical products for use in emergencies.hJps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3.15. Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F. Supp. 2d 119 (2003). hJps://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2326816/doe-v-rumsfeld/.16. hJps://www.govregs.com/regulaons/expand/tle21_chapterI_part50_subpartB_secon50.24#regulaon_2.17. Federal Trade Commission. Advertising FAQ's: A Guide for Small Business.hJps://www.Yc.gov/ps-advice/business-center/guidance/adversing-faqs-guide-small-business.18. Federal Trade Commission. Truth in Advertising. hJps://www.Yc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-adversing.19. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office for Civil Rights. Breach Portal: Noce to the Secretary of HHS Breach ofUnsecured Protected Health Information.hJps://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf;jsessionid=618E88DD94EE65D46D5785CB2A64355 The Best of Gary G. Kohls, MD
- New COVID variant detected in South Africa, most mutated variant so far - The Jerusalem Post
- (photo credit: BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY)
- The C.1.2 variant first detected in South Africa is more mutated compared to the original virus than any other known variant.A new
- coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that it could be more infectious and evade vaccines, according to a
- new preprint study by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform. The study is awaiting peer review.
- Scientists first detected C.1.2 in May 2021, finding that it was descended from C.1, which scientists found surprising as C.1 had last been detected in January. The new variant has "mutated substantially" compared to C.1 and is more mutations away from the original virus detected in Wuhan than any other Variant of Concern (VOC) or Variant of Interest (VOI) detected so far worldwide.
- While first detected in South Africa, C.1.2 has since been found in England, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
- The scientists believe that the number of available sequences of C.1.2 may be an underrepresentation of the spread and frequency of the variant in South Africa and around the world. The study found consistent increases in the number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa on a monthly basis, rising from 0.2% of genomes sequenced in May to 1.6% in June and then to 2% in July, similar to the increases seen with the Beta and Delta variants there.
- The study also found that the C.1.2 lineage has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, which is nearly twice as fast as the current global mutation rate of the other variants. The scientists stated that this short period of increased evolution was also seen with the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants, suggesting that a single event, followed by a spike in cases, drove faster mutation rates.
- More than half of the C.1.2 sequences have 14 mutations, but additional mutations have been noticed in some of the sequences, suggesting that evolution within the lineage is ongoing, according to the study.
- More than half (about 52%) of the mutations in the spike region of the C.1.2 sequences have previously been seen in other VOCs and VOIs. The mutations N440K and Y449H, which have been associated with escape from certain antibodies, have also been noticed in C.1.2 sequences. The scientists stressed that the combination of these mutations, as well as changes in other parts of the virus, likely help the virus
- evade antibodies and immune responses, including in patients who have already been infected with the Alpha or Beta variants.
- The scientists added that further work is required to understand the exact impact of these mutations and to see if they give the variant a competitive advantage over the Delta variant.
- The study comes as a doctor in Turkey reported indications that a new coronavirus variant had been detected in the country, with tests detecting mutations that weren't found in the current variants named by the World Health Organization (WHO).
- People wearing protective masks walk along a street amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in Diyarbakir, Turkey (credit: SERTAC KAYAR / REUTERS)
- Dr. L¼tfi amlı told Turkish media that while tests were conducted to detect the presence of variants around Turkey, doctors found a new variant with no connection to the other variants, reaching a rate of about 50%-60% of cases in the northern province of Rize. amlı stressed, however, that it is still unclear whether they have actually found a new variant or if it was just the result of false negativity in PCR tests.
- The doctor additionally stressed that it is normal for new mutations to emerge in an epidemic and that the mutations recently found in Turkey may not have any serious effect on how the virus functions. amlı called for further research and for the results of genomic tests of the samples carried out in Ankara to be released to the public.
- As of last Wednesday, the WHO had identified four VOCs and four VOIs. As of last Thursday, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) had identified five and six respectively. A number of other variants have been designated for further monitoring.
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- Elizabeth Holmes likely to accuse ex-boyfriend and former Theranos executive of psychological and sexual abuse, court documents reveal - CNN
- By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business
- Updated 10:47 AM EDT, Sun August 29, 2021
- (CNN) Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder and former CEO of Theranos whose criminal trial is set to begin in a matter of days, is likely to defend herself by claiming she was the victim of a decade-long abusive relationship with her ex-boyfriend, also a former Theranos executive, court documents reveal.
- According to the newly unsealed documents, Holmes plans to have an expert testify about the psychological, emotional and sexual abuse she experienced from Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, who served as the company's COO, including the abusive tactics he allegedly used to "exert control" as well as the psychological impact. Balwani, according to a court filing, "adamantly denies" the claims.
- Holmes is also "likely to testify herself to the reasons why she believed, relied on, and deferred to Mr. Balwani," according to a filing from Holmes' attorney.
- In a separate filing from Balwani's attorneys, they acknowledge Holmes' plans to introduce evidence that Balwani verbally disparaged her, controlled what she ate, how she dressed, and who she interacted with, "essentially dominating her and erasing her capacity to make decisions." The filing calls the allegations "deeply offensive to Mr. Balwani" and "devastating personally to him."
- These tensions ultimately led to the separating of the highly anticipated trials of Holmes and Balwani. Both were indicted more than three years ago on multiple federal fraud and conspiracy charges over allegations they knowingly misrepresented the capabilities of Theranos' blood testing technology.
- Attorneys for both Holmes and Balwani did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
- The two are accused of engaging in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors from 2010 to 2015, and of defrauding doctors and patients who paid for the company's blood testing services from 2013 to 2016. They each face two counts of conspiring to commit wire fraud and 10 counts of federal wire fraud.
- Holmes and Balwani have pleaded not guilty and could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution for each count of wire fraud and conspiracy.
- Holmes' attorney noted in court papers that "a joint trial presents the serious risk that Ms. Holmes would revert to a pattern of compliance with Mr. Balwani," saying that Balwani's "presence and/or actions would trigger in Ms. Holmes significant psychological consequences" that could impact her during the trial.
- Meanwhile, Balwani's attorneys argued that the only way their client could have a fair trial would be to grant his motion to sever, allowing for two separate jury trials.
- The court documents were ordered to be unsealed by Judge Edward Davila on Thursday after Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, moved to have the filings made public. Holmes' attorney John Cline expressed preference to keep the documents sealed until after the jury had been selected and sworn in, ensuring that the jurors would "never be exposed" to the information prior to trial. Kelly Volkar, assistant US attorney, argued that unsealing in advance would allow the prosecution to sift out any potential prejudice in jurors. Formal jury selection for Holmes' trial is set to begin in San Jose next week following multiple delays due to the pandemic as well as the birth of her first child.
- Holmes' defense team had previously notified the government of its intent to use expert testimony from a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mindy Mechanic, whose work focuses on the psychosocial consequences of violence, trauma and victimization.
- Federal prosecutors were granted the ability to have Holmes examined by two experts '-- a psychologist and a psychiatrist '-- over two consecutive days for no more than 14 hours combined.
- Holmes, a Stanford University dropout, founded Theranos in 2003 at the age of 19 with the mission to revolutionize blood testing. Inspired by her stated fear of needles, the company promised patients the ability to test for conditions such as cancer and diabetes with just a few drops of blood. Once valued at $9 billion, Theranos had a retail partnership with Walgreens and touted a high profile list of board members and investors.
- Then it all came crashing down. A damning investigation by The Wall Street Journal in October 2015 called into question the capabilities of the company's proprietary blood testing machine, Edison, as well as Theranos' testing methods. Theranos was subsequently sued by investors for fraud and had its US blood-testing license revoked. The firm settled "massive fraud" charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission and ultimately dissolved in September 2018.
- Balwani, a former software executive, joined Theranos in 2009, becoming Holmes' second-in-command. Nearly 20 years Holmes' senior, the pair had met in 2002 on a trip to Beijing through Stanford University's Mandarin program.
- Balwani's case is slated to begin in 2022 after the completion of Holmes' trial.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud Precious Metals and U.S. Treasuries Markets | OPA | Department of Justice
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan), a New York, New York-based global banking and financial services firm, has entered into a resolution with the Department of Justice to resolve criminal charges related to two distinct schemes to defraud: the first involving tens of thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals futures contracts, and the second involving thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for U.S. Treasury futures contracts and in the secondary (cash) market for U.S. Treasury notes and bonds.
- JPMorgan entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connection with a criminal information filed today in the District of Connecticut charging the company with two counts of wire fraud. Under the terms of the DPA, JPMorgan will pay over $920 million in a criminal monetary penalty, criminal disgorgement, and victim compensation, with the criminal monetary penalty credited against payments made to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under a separate agreement with the CFTC being announced today and with part of the criminal disgorgement credited against payments made to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) under a separate agreement with the SEC being announced today.
- ''For over eight years, traders on JP Morgan's precious metals and U.S. Treasuries desks engaged in separate schemes to defraud other market participants that involved thousands of instances of unlawful trading meant to enhance profits and avoid losses,'' said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. ''Today's resolution '-- which includes a significant criminal monetary penalty, compensation for victims, and requires JP Morgan to disgorge its unlawful gains '-- reflects the nature and seriousness of the bank's offenses and represents a milestone in the department's ongoing efforts to ensure the integrity of public markets critical to our financial system.''
- ''JPMorgan engaged in two separate years-long market manipulation schemes,'' said U.S. Attorney John H. Durham of the District of Connecticut. ''Not only will the company pay a substantial financial penalty and return money to victims, but this agreement requires JPMorgan to self-report violations of the federal anti-fraud laws and cooperate in any future criminal investigations. I thank the FBI for its dedication in investigating these deceptive trading practices and other sophisticated financial crimes.''
- ''For nearly a decade, a significant number of JP Morgan traders and sales personnel openly disregarded U.S. laws that serve to protect against illegal activity in the marketplace,'' said Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI's New York Field Office. ''Today's deferred prosecution agreement, in which JP Morgan Chase and Co. agreed to pay nearly one billion dollars in penalties and victim compensation, is a stark reminder to others that allegations of this nature will be aggressively investigated and pursued.''
- According to admissions and court documents, between approximately March 2008 and August 2016, numerous traders and sales personnel on JPMorgan's precious metals desk located in New York, London, and Singapore engaged in a scheme to defraud in connection with the purchase and sale of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures contracts (collectively, precious metals futures contracts) that traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. and Commodity Exchange Inc., which are commodities exchanges operated by the CME Group Inc. In tens of thousands of instances, traders on the precious metals desk placed orders to buy and sell precious metals futures contracts with the intent to cancel those orders before execution, including in an attempt to profit by deceiving other market participants through injecting false and misleading information concerning the existence of genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts. In addition, on certain occasions, traders on the precious metals desk engaged in trading activity that was intended to deliberately trigger or defend barrier options held by JPMorgan and thereby avoid losses.
- One of the traders on the precious metals desk, John Edmonds, 38, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty on Oct. 9, 2018, to one count of commodities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, commodities fraud, commodities price manipulation, and spoofing, and his sentencing, at this time, has not been scheduled before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny of the District of Connecticut. Another one of the traders on the precious metals desk, Christian Trunz, 35, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to engage in spoofing and one count of spoofing in connection with his precious metals futures contracts trading at JPMorgan and another financial services firm, and his sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 28, 2021, before U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson of the Eastern District of New York.
- Finally, as part of the investigation, the department obtained a superseding indictment on Nov. 15, 2019 against three former JPMorgan traders, Gregg Smith, Michael Nowak, and Christopher Jordan, and one former salesperson, Jeffrey Ruffo, in the Northern District of Illinois that charged them for their alleged participation in a racketeering conspiracy and other federal crimes in connection with the manipulation of the precious metals futures contracts markets. An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
- Also according to admissions and court documents, between approximately April 2008 and January 2016, traders on JPMorgan's U.S. Treasuries desk located in New York and London engaged in a scheme to defraud in connection with the purchase and sale of U.S. Treasury futures contracts that traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, which is a commodities exchange operated by the CME Group Inc., and of U.S. Treasury notes and bonds traded in the secondary cash market (the U.S. Treasury futures, notes, and bonds, collectively, U.S. Treasury Products). In thousands of instances, traders on the U.S. Treasuries desk placed orders to buy and sell U.S. Treasury Products with the intent to cancel those orders before execution, including in an attempt to profit by deceiving other market participants through injecting false and misleading information concerning the existence of genuine supply and demand for U.S. Treasury Products.
- As part of the DPA, JPMorgan, and its subsidiaries JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMC) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS) have agreed to, among other things, continue to cooperate with the Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut in any ongoing or future investigations and prosecutions concerning JPMorgan, JPMC, JPMS, and their subsidiaries and affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees and agents. As part of its cooperation, JPMorgan, JPMC, and JPMS are required to report evidence or allegations of conduct which may constitute a violation of the wire fraud statute, the anti-fraud, anti-spoofing and/or anti-manipulation provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, the securities and commodities fraud statute, and federal securities laws prohibiting manipulative and deceptive devices. In addition, JPMorgan, JPMC, and JPMS have also agreed to enhance their compliance program where necessary and appropriate, and to report to the government regarding remediation and implementation of their enhanced compliance program.
- The department reached this resolution with JPMorgan based on a number of factors, including the nature and seriousness of the offense conduct, which spanned eight years and involved tens of thousands of instances of unlawful trading activity; JPMorgan's failure to fully and voluntarily self'disclose the offense conduct to the department; JPMorgan's prior criminal history, including a guilty plea on May 20, 2015, for similar misconduct involving manipulative and deceptive trading practices in the foreign currency exchange spot market (FX Guilty Plea); and the fact that substantially all of the offense conduct occurred prior to the FX Guilty Plea.
- JPMorgan received credit for its cooperation with the department's investigation and for the remedial measures taken by JPMorgan, JPMC, and JPMS, including suspending and ultimately terminating individuals involved in the offense conduct, adopting heightened internal controls, and substantially increasing the resources devoted to compliance. Significantly, since the time of the offense conduct, and following the FX Guilty Plea, JPMorgan, JPMC, and JPMS engaged in a systematic effort to reassess and enhance their market conduct compliance program and internal controls. These enhancements included hiring hundreds of new compliance officers, improving their anti-fraud and manipulation training and policies, revising their trade and electronic communications surveillance programs, implementing tools and processes to facilitate closer supervision of traders, taking into account employees' commitment to compliance in promotion and compensation decisions, and implementing independent quality assurance testing of non-escalated and escalated surveillance alerts. Based on JPMorgan's, JPMC's and JPMS' remediation and the state of their compliance program, the department determined that an independent compliance monitor was unnecessary.
- Today, the CFTC announced a separate settlement with JPMorgan, JPMC, and JPMS in connection with a related, parallel proceeding. Under the terms of that resolution, JPMorgan agreed to pay approximately $920 million, which includes a civil monetary penalty of approximately $436 million, as well as restitution and disgorgement that will be credited to any such payments made to the department under the DPA. Also, the SEC announced today a separate settlement with JPMS in connection with a related, parallel proceeding regarding trading activity in the secondary cash market for U.S. Treasury notes and bonds. Under the terms of that resolution, JPMS agreed to pay $10 million in disgorgement and a civil monetary penalty of $25 million.
- The FBI's New York Field Office investigated this case. Assistant Chief Avi Perry and Trial Attorney Matthew F. Sullivan of the Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Francis of the District of Connecticut prosecuted the case.
- Individuals who believe that they may be a victim in this case should visit the Fraud Section's Victim Witness website at https://www.justice.gov/criminal-vns/case/jpmorgan-dpa or call (888) 549-3945.
- The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the Department of Justice. Learn more about the history of our agency at www.Justice.gov/Celebrating150Years.
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- VIDEO - Ontario to require proof of coronavirus vaccination for gyms, cinemas, indoor dining starting Sept. 22 | CP24.com
- Ontario residents will need proof of COVID-19 vaccination to go to gyms, cinemas, restaurants, casinos, and a slew of other non-essential businesses starting Sept. 22.
- As part of the provincial government's vaccine certificate program, which was announced on Wednesday, all Ontario residents will be required to show that they received both doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days earlier in order to eat inside restaurants, work out inside fitness centres, go to nightclubs, cinemas, theatres, strip clubs and casinos, as well as attend concerts, sporting events, and other large, organized gatherings in indoor settings.
- "We have two options here. We either do this or we risk shutting down the economy, which would even be worse, having our hospital capacity maxed out and at the brink, having our kids stay at home, our college and university kids going back online. That is what we are trying to avoid," Premier Doug Ford said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
- A vaccine certificate will not be required for retail shopping and outdoor dining, or attending workplaces, religious services, and other essential businesses, including grocery stores, pharmacies, and banks.
- Exemptions will be given to those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and for children who are not currently eligible to be immunized in Ontario.
- From Sept. 22 to Oct. 12, unvaccinated individuals will be given a temporary exemption to attend funeral or wedding receptions at meeting and events spaces provided they show a negative COVID-19 test result 48 hours prior.
- Ontarians will be expected to use the paper or PDF vaccine receipt available online, along with photo ID to prove that they have been fully immunized, but the province said an app and QR code system is currently in development.
- According to officials, people will be provided a unique QR code that contains information regarding their vaccination status and an app will be developed for businesses to read that code.
- The app will show businesses a checkmark or an 'X' to confirm vaccination status, officials say, and the QR code can be displayed on smartphones or a printed sheet of paper. Users will also be required to show photo identification along with the QR code.
- Officials said the province will migrate to the QR code system by Oct. 22 and it will be compatible with the systems used by other provinces and the federal government.
- Processes are still being established for those with no email or health card/ID but more information is expected on that in the coming weeks, the province said.
- Medical exemptions will not immediately be integrated into the QR code system but officials said they plan to include that feature at a later date.
- The province said detailed guidance will be provided to businesses on how to implement the vaccine certificate program in advance of Sept. 22.
- A few notable indoor businesses were left off of the list, including barbershops and hair salons, which were shuttered for months during earlier waves of the pandemic.
- Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore told reporters Wednesday that the businesses were selected based on what the data revealed about transmission.
- "The venues that we have chosen are responsive to the risk that we have found in Ontario," he said. "If the risk increases in other venues, we can add and implement additional measures to protect Ontarians."
- The program, which is intended to be temporary, aims to reduce overall transmission in the community and encourage vaccine uptake as a high level of vaccination will be required to reach herd immunity with the more transmissible Delta variant, officials said.
- According to the province, unvaccinated individuals are seven times more likely to get a symptomatic infection, 27 times more likely to end up in hospital, and 42 times more likely to end up in intensive care.
- For individuals and businesses who do not comply with the program, fines will be issued under the Reopening Ontario Act, officials said.
- The fine, the province said, will vary depending on the offence but individuals could face tickets of about $750 and businesses may be hit with tickets in excess of $1,000 for non-compliance.
- In recent days, Ford's cabinet has met multiple times in an effort to hammer out the details of Ontario's vaccine certificate program after plans for vaccine passports were rolled out in multiple other Canadian provinces, including British Columbia, Quebec, and Manitoba.
- In the absence of government policy, several businesses and sporting organizations in Ontario, including the Blue Jays and Toronto FC, have taken it upon themselves to require patrons to produce proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result to gain access to their facilities
- When asked why it took so long to implement a program here in Ontario, Ford blamed the federal government for the province's inaction.
- "For the past three months, along with Canada's other premiers, I have called on the federal government to develop a national vaccine passport," Ford said.
- "We've seen this national leadership in countries around the world who have implemented their own national vaccine certificate programs, because it's clear that a national system is far better than a patchwork of certificates across every single province and territory in the country, especially as more Canadians travel, but Justin Trudeau has told us that they will not be rolling out a national passport."
- But in recent months, Ford and some of his cabinet ministers repeatedly spoke out against the use of vaccine passports, and even ruled out using them in Ontario.
- "We're not gonna do it. We're not gonna have a split society,'' Ford told reporters back in July. "We aren't doing it. It's as simple as that. We're just gonna move forward."
- At that time, Ford said he supported a federal vaccine passport as it pertains to international travel, a document the federal government has committed to creating.
- Uptick in vaccinations expected amid new rulesDr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases specialist, told CP24 on Wednesday that Ontario will likely see vaccination rates climb following the announcement.
- "We will likely see a pretty reasonable jump in people booking their vaccines. We saw that in France, we saw that in Quebec, we saw that in B.C. I think we will probably see the same thing in Ontario," he said.
- "People who might have been sitting on the fence are going to say, 'Wow, if I want to participate in non-essential activities, go to non-essential businesses, like restaurants, like bars, like concerts or whatever, I need a vaccine, I'm going to go get one.'"
- About 83 per cent of Ontario residents 12 and older currently have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and about 76 per cent are fully immunized.
- "This helps create a safer indoor space," Bogoch said of vaccine certificates. "This is not the only thing that needs to be done. This is one major policy decision that can be taken to keep places open."
- In a statement released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), the group said it is "disappointed" that the Ford government didn't remove remaining capacity limits before implementing additional restrictions.
- "Today's announcement adds an additional burden on these businesses and their employees. They need to know when they will be able to begin their recoveries," the statement read.
- "The Ontario government needs to provide more funding and a plan for allowing them to get back to 100 per cent capacity to these businesses now."
- Officials said they will continue to monitor vaccine uptake and the province's key metrics and may consider upping capacity limits at some point in the future.
- VIDEO - BOMBSHELL: Former Deputy SECDEF Claims Predator Drone Operator Ordered To STAND DOWN Against Kabul Airport Bomber | Newsbusters
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- Univision aired a bombshell allegation in the midst of its coverage of the United States' disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Per former Army Green Beret and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Roger Pardo-Maurer, the Department of Defense had knowledge of the homicide bomber at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and scrambled a Predator drone only to order it to stand down as it locked on its target. Per Pardo-Maurer, the stand-down order was given in deference to negotiations with the Taliban.
- Watch the stunning allegation, as aired on Univision's midday Edici"n Digital newscast on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021:
- ROGER PARDO-MAURER: What is being said by people who were involved is that the Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was, and when (the Kabul attack would happen), and that a Predator drone had a lock on him, OK, and that they refused to grant permission to fire upon that bomber. (Permission) was requested, and was denied. Why? Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban, who aren't even in control of their own government or their own people.
- More information will emerge in the days to come but this is a deeply disturbing allegation from which two questions emerge: For how long in advance did we have eyes on the Kabul bomber *prior* to his arrival at HKIA, and who issued the stand down order to the Predator drone operator that had a lock on the Kabul bomber?
- Click "Expand" to view the full transcript of the aforementioned interview as aired on Univision's Edici"n Digital on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021:
- PAULINA SODI: The Biden Administration faces serious criticism over the manner in which it has handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- SATCHA PRETTO: And we connect with Roger Pardo-Maurer, who was the Deputy Secretary of Defense and also served in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. We're glad to have you join us on Edici"n Digital.
- ROGER PARDO-MAURER: Thank you very much. Always a privilege.
- PRETTO: Well, Roger, the question many of us are asking ourselves today is: what;s going to happen with those nearly 200 or so Americans that were not evacuated out of Afghanistan?
- PARDO-MAURER: Look, we've got to get them out. They're American citizens. We can't leave anyone behind. Period. Either by reason or by force.
- SODI: Roger, considering the results to date, can it be said that this is a mission accomplished?
- PARDO-MAURER: No. Absolutely not. But, what mission do you refer to? Because this entire episode, which I call the Battle for Evacuation, we've gotten out, as you mentioned, about 122,000. There is an estimated, let's say, 100 or up to 200 thousand to whom we owe to get out, to get out of Afghanistan. So we're not even halfway to fulfillment but, indeed, the United States has left Afghanistan so this has entered into another phase. To all those who are asking, ''what can I do to help?'' ''What's going to happen?'' ''How are we going to honor our promises to the Afghans?'', I say: calm. We're going to see how it gets done, but it's going to get done. Somehow, something is going to get established which people are already talking about an Underground Railroad, inspired by the (original) Underground Railroad with which fugitive slaves were removed from the South prior to the Civil War. So this is by no means over. We're not even halfway there.
- PRETTO: But it will be interesting to see, then, what the strategy that the Biden Administration puts in place. Now, speaking of this president's legacy, when we're talking about 13 service members losing their lives over the past few days- in addition to the 2400 over the past 20 years. What legacy does he leave behind after this chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan?
- PARDO-MAURER: We can't even talk about a legacy. These are events that are still just now becoming news. And what they're already saying, people who are involved, for example, with those 13 service members who- by the way, half were Hispanics. Espinosa, Lopez, Sanchez, Merola, they were Hispanic. What is being said by people who were involved is that the Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was, and when (the Kabul attack would happen), and that a Predator drone had a lock on him, OK, and that they refused to grant permission to fire upon that bomber. (Permission) was requested, and was denied. Why? Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban, who aren't even in control of their own government or their own people. So what is the legacy? It's too soon to talk about that but it is total chaos, poorly managed.
- SODI: Without a doubt, a very interesting issue to analyze. Thank you very much for joining us, Roger Pardo Maurer. Thank you for these words.
- VIDEO - CNN's Don Lemon erupts on unvaccinated people going to hospitals: 'Don't take up resources!' | Fox News
- Published September 01, 2021
- 'That's how I feel and I have no apologies,' Lemon saidCNN host Don Lemon on Tuesday erupted over unvaccinated people "taking up the space" in hospitals from vaccinated people who are "playing by the rules," suggesting they should not go to the hospital if they get sick.
- Lemon, responding to a story about a man whose cancer-stricken wife was released from the hospital early because of a lack of beds and died, predicted to fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo that the future was going to be between the vaccinated and unvaccinated people across the country. He blamed "selfish" unvaccinated people putting stress and strain on the system.
- "If you're not going to get vaccinated, you don't want to social distance, you don't want to wear a mask, then maybe you don't want to go to the hospital when you get sick," Lemon said, visibly frustrated. "I know that sounds harsh, but you're taking up the space for people who are doing things the right way."
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- "You and I both agree '... this is going to be between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated moving forward in this country," he added. "And I just think if you don't want to play by any of those rules and then all of a sudden you end up in the hospital, I feel bad '' but maybe you shouldn't go and take up the resources from someone else. That's it."
- After the two further discussed the family affected by the early hospital release, and Cuomo saying, "I just don't know what's going to get through to people," Lemon reiterated his previous reporting on hospitals overwhelmed by the high number of coronavirus patients.
- "It is putting a stress and strain on the system and people all over this country because some people who are so selfish are saying it's my freedom and I don't want to get vaccinated," he added. "Fine. But think about someone other than yourself. And if you don't believe that Covid is real and that it can affect your health and possibly take your life, don't go to the hospital then when you get sick."
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- "Don't take up the resources from other people who are playing by the rules, getting vaccinated, social distancing and putting their lives on the line to try to take care of the people who are there. That's all I'm saying. That's how I feel and I have no apologies," Lemon said.
- While others have made similar brazen remarks about irresponsible citizens not deserving hospital treatment when they're overcrowded, almost all those hospitalized with coronavirus now are unvaccinated regardless. Others have bristled at the notion of denying care based on personal conduct, with examples like lifetime smokers who get lung cancer or someone injured in a car accident who wasn't wearing a seat belt.
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- VIDEO - Judge vacates order for man to get COVID vaccine
- CINCINNATI '-- On Tuesday, a Hamilton County judge vacated his four-week-old court order requiring a man to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation.
- The defendant, Brandon Rutherford, said he's not going to get vaccinated and that it was a violation of his rights to face the threat of being jailed for not getting the vaccine within 60 days.
- "I'm certainly not going to make a martyr out of you by incarcerating you" for not getting vaccinated, Judge Christopher Wagner told Rutherford Tuesday during a court hearing.
- Rutherford's attorney, Carl Lewis, argued in court that Wagner didn't have the authority to order anyone to get the vaccine, especially as a condition of community control, another term for probation.
- "Your authority, Your Honor, is not unlimited," Lewis told Wagner. "The community control condition must reasonably relate to doing justice, rehabilitating the offender and ensuring good behavior. Mr. Rutherford's argument is this honorable court does not have the power, the authority or the discretion to order him to be vaccinated."
- On Tuesday, Wagner continued questioning why Rutherford refused to get vaccinated and implied Rutherford showed poor judgment sharing his concerns about Wagner's court order with the WCPO 9 I-Team and other news media.
- "Quite frankly, Mr. Rutherford, as I said, it's (the court order) not to make an example out of anybody," Wagner told Rutherford. "Certainly it's not to put the scarlet letter on anybody either, but you kind of did this one on your own."
- Rutherford, who is on probation for felony drug possession, insisted that he will take advantage of opportunities to find work and not violate the conditions of his community control.
- "I'm happy now," Rutherford told the I-Team Tuesday after his court hearing. "I don't have to live with that over my back or in fear anymore."
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- VIDEO - Dairy Queen customer urinates at counter after mask dispute on Vancouver Island | CTV News
- VICTORIA -- A disgruntled customer at a Dairy Queen in Port Alberni, B.C., took out his frustration over being told to wear a mask by relieving himself in front of staff at the counter.
- The incident was captured on camera and appears to show the man urinating on the counter following an altercation with restaurant employees.
- In the video, the man can be heard arguing with staff and refusing to wear a mask before he unzips his pants.
- Staff can be heard shrieking as the man begins to relieve himself.
- The video was recorded by a customer and was shared with CTV News by his friend.
- The RCMP say the incident happened around 9 p.m. Saturday.
- "This is the first incident of this nature," said RCMP Sgt. Chris Manseau. "I think people should just wear their masks and be safe and be polite."
- Police have not made an arrest in the case but are asking anyone with video of the incident to share it with investigators.
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- VIDEO - Woman arrested at Honolulu airport for allegedly submitting fake vaccination card, avoiding quarantine | KTSM 9 News
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- Sep 1, 2021 / 12:01 AM MDT / Updated:
- Sep 1, 2021 / 12:01 AM MDTHONOLULU (KHON) '' A 24-year-old woman was arrested and charged on suspicion of falsified vaccination documents in Hawaii.
- Chloe Mrozak, of Illinois, is accused of using a fake COVID-19 vaccination card in order to avoid the state's mandatory 10-day quarantine. She also allegedly falsified information about her quarantine location.
- Hawaii uses a program called Safe Travels to verify incoming travelers' vaccination records and/or negative COVID-19 tests. On Aug. 23, Mrozak uploaded and presented the card to a screener at the Honolulu airport. The Safe Travels administrator flagged it as a possible fraudulent vaccination card.
- The screener also failed to confirm Mrozak's hotel reservation prior to her leaving the processing center. According to court documents, no reservation was found after contacting the hotel that she listed in her Safe Travels forms, and Mrozak did not provide her hotel reservation number and return flight information.
- Upon reviewing her vaccination card, authorities say they noticed Mrozak misspelled ''Moderna'' as ''Maderna'' and listed Delaware as the place where she got her vaccination. The special agent in charge of the investigation contacted Delaware officials to verify her vaccination status, but no record was found under her name and date of birth.
- The special agent found the woman's Facebook profile and determined that Mrozak had a distinctive tattoo on her left hip. On Thursday, he met with other special agents with the Quarantine Compliance Check (QCC) Team to discuss her case. The team believed she would return home via Southwest Airlines and not American Airlines (as she listed) due to the fact that majority of the flights are purchased as round-trip tickets to reduce the cost.
- After scouting the airport, the QCC team located Mrozak at the Southwest Airlines counter Saturday where another woman was traveling with her. The team says they spotted her because of her tattoo.
- She was arrested on suspicion of falsified vaccination documents at the airport before she could leave the island. Unable to post bail, the special agent reported that Mrozak was transported to Queen's for COVID screening and later transferred to the Honolulu Police Department. Bail was set $2,000.
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