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Virus outbreak in China sparks pandemic concerns: What to know about HMPV
The CDC has said it is monitoring the virus through its National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS).
"CDC is aware of reported increases in HMPV in China and is in regular contact with international partners and monitoring reports of increased disease," a CDC spokesperson said in a statement sent to Fox News Digital.
"These reports are not currently a cause for concern in the U.S., though some transmission of HMPV can be expected throughout the year, especially during the winter respiratory virus season."
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Why Fast Food is Panicking Over Higher Prices Now
Inflation is essentially an increase in the money supply, which causes the value of money to decrease. As a result, prices rise. It is primarily a monetary phenomenon. However, prices are also influenced by the availability of goods, which can change based on market conditions.
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Hydrogen Hype is Dying, And That's a Good Thing
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100% of New Job Creation Went to Immigrants?
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Peter Boghossian: Wokeness Has Been an Unmitigated Catastrophe for Society
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Where are the safest small cities in America?
In 2024, MoneyGeek analyzed the crime statistics and cost of crimes in cities with 30,000-100,000 residents.
Up first on its list, as the safest small city in the country, is Columbus, which is about 40 miles south of Indianapolis. According to the MoneyGeek, the town has the smallest crime cost per capita
Sunday, December 29, 2024
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Pat Boone - "Where Did America Go?" (Official Music Video)
The state GOP is now sending a robo-call throughout the state featuring none other than Pat Boone, warning that as a Christian he is concerned that Democratic nominee Steve Beshear, who has been way ahead in the polls, will work for "every homosexual cause."
"Now do you want a governor who'd like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?" Boone asks. "Please re-elect Ernie Fletcher."'
And at a campaign stop last night, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor made a direct attack upon the Democratic ticket: "Do you want a couple of San Francisco treats or do you want a governor?"
Monday, December 23, 2024
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What They Didn’t Want You to Know About Derek Chauvin's Case
According to Wikipedia and other sources, George Floyd's heart stopped en route to the hospital. Most sources say Floyd had a pulse detected by a paramedic before being loaded into the ambulance, although another source disputes that.
Floyd was pronounced dead in the Emergency Room. It is not true that he was alive in the hospital, although that might be a matter of definition. Paramedics tried to resuscitate Floyd for at least 30 minutes. One source says an hour.
So the video contains false information, making it a conspiracy theory. He states that the prosecutor and medical examiner lied and falsified records.
However, he may still have valid points. The trial is suspect and took place in a politically charged environment. I think that the cause of death is not clear. George Floyd had cardiovascular disease, a heart tumor, an active case of COVID-19, a lifetime of drug abuse, and a dangerous level of drugs in his system.
There is no evidence that Derek Chauvin intended to harm George Floyd. This makes the murder conviction unjust. At most Derek Chauvin is guilty of involuntary (or negligent) homicide. He was negligent, but these guys have difficult jobs. Chauvin was a police officer trying to do his job, however improperly.
Convicting the other police officers who were doing crowd control also seems unjust. At least one of these guys was a trainee who would likely be inexperienced and took direction from his superiors.
https://san.com/cc/judge-rules-chauvins-defense-may-examine-george-floyds-autopsy/
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/george-floyd-was-alive-when-he-arrived-at-the-hospital/116735751/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/us/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-day-13/index.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/lung-expert-testifies-george-floyd-died-because-his-breathing-was-restricted
https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/08/985347984/chauvin-trial-medical-expert-says-george-floyd-died-from-a-lack-of-oxygen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqEp63duIc
"Two autopsies, and one autopsy review, found Floyd's death to be a homicide.[26][27]
On March 12, 2021, Minneapolis agreed to pay US$27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On April 20, Chauvin was convicted of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter,[4][28] and on June 25 he was sentenced to 22+1⁄2 years in prison.[29]
All four officers faced federal civil rights charges.[30] In December 2021, Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd's civil rights by using unreasonable force and ignoring his serious medical distress.[31][32] The other three officers were also later convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.[33] Lane pleaded guilty in May 2022 to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter[34] and was sentenced on September 21, 2022, to three years in prison to be served concurrently with his federal sentence of 2+1⁄2 years.[35] Kueng pleaded guilty on October 24, 2022, to the state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and was sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years in prison, to be served concurrently with his federal sentence.[36][37] Thao waived his right to a jury trial on the state charge in lieu of a review of the evidence and a determination by a judge.[38] He was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter in a written verdict delivered on May 2, 2023, and he was sentenced to 4+3⁄4 years in prison.[7][13]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd
I don't see any of this being overturned, although I would like to see Chauvin get some leniency.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Floyd autopsy altered by political pressure
"I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd," said Sweasy under oath. "He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd's neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation," Sweasy added.
By day two, Baker knew the risks involved in telling the truth. Sweasy continued, "He said to me, 'Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn't match up with the public narrative that everyone's already decided on?' And then he said, 'This is the kind of case that ends careers.'" Although Sweasy knows very well why Baker altered his diagnosis, Carlson may not. This story bears retelling in the light of Sweasy's unwitting confirmation.
As I reported on these pages in August 2021, an exhibit surfaced in the case of Chauvin colleague Tou Thao that should have resulted in a new trial for Chauvin and the release of Thao and the other two arrested officers, Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng.
The exhibit, a memorandum, was that powerful. It memorialized a November 2020 conference between Dr. Roger Mitchell, former Washington D.C. chief medical examiner, and several prosecutors. Sweasy was not among the prosecutors present. Nor was Freeman. All but one were from the attorney general's office.
This should not surprise. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose affiliation with the Nation of Islam cost him a shot at becoming DNC Chair, kept a heavy hand on the case. "The AG taking over the Chauvin cases was difficult," said Senior Assistant County Attorney Judith Cole in her deposition in the Sweasy suit, "particularly when we had a governor who kind of threw us under the bus."
The memorandum detailed Mitchell's effort to coerce Baker into including neck compression in his diagnosis of Floyd's death. As noted above, Baker conducted an autopsy on Floyd on May 26, 2020, the day after Floyd's death. Baker reported that same day to the Hennepin County prosecutors, "The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries, or internal bruising."
Three days later — Friday, May 29 — the state filed its initial complaint against Derek Chauvin. According to the complaint, "The full report of the [medical examiner] is pending but the [medical examiner] has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation." Without a diagnosis of asphyxia, however, the state could not accuse Chauvin and the police officers of committing or abetting "Murder-2nd Degree." This is where Mitchell came into play.
A well-connected black political activist, Mitchell boasted of his involvement in Baker's diagnosis to the attorneys present. Their summary of that interaction reads in part:
When the preliminary result came out via the criminal complaint, Mitchell found the statement was bizarre. Mitchell was reading and said this is not right. So Mitchell called Baker and said first of all Baker should fire his public information officer. Then Mitchell asked what happened, because Mitchell didn't think it sounded like Baker's words. Baker said that he didn't think the neck compression played a part and that he didn't find petechiae. Mitchell said but you know you can not have petechiae and still have asphyxia and can still have neck compression.
Mitchell first called Baker on Friday, May 29. He "thought about it more that weekend" and on Monday he called Baker telling him he was about to send an op-ed to the Washington Post critical of Baker's findings. "In this conversation," the memorandum continued, "Mitchell said, you don't want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn't see what they saw. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong."
By that Monday cities across America had gone up in flames, none more ferociously than Minneapolis. The ever thoughtful Mitchell showed Baker a way out of the jam. According to the memorandum, "[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis."
Late on that same Monday, Baker's office sent out a press release that began, "Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." (Italics added). With a stroke of the pen and the complicity of the prosecutors, Baker turned four innocent cops into murderers and justified the self-destructive social revolution that followed.
"There was extreme premium pressure, yes. The city was burning down," Sweasy's former colleague Patrick Lofton said in his deposition. He and Sweasy withdrew from the cases against Lane, Kueng, and Thao on June 3, 2020, just a week after Floyd's death. They did not believe the three officers should be criminally charged. "I can tell you that everyone that I associate with to any degree, professionally or personally, agreed with our decision," Lofton testified. He described the pressure on the prosecutors as "insane."
Lofton wrote his letter of withdrawal, he said, "because I have to sleep at night." He and Sweasy might have slept better had they gone public with what they knew, namely that Chauvin and his colleagues were being tried for a crime they did not commit.
How did Floyd die? I asked my consultant on this case, John Dale Dunn, a veteran emergency physician and lawyer with expertise in matters of cause of death. Dunn is in a position to know. He wrote a chapter on forensic evidence for the American College of Legal Medicine. "Derrick Chauvin didn't kill Mr. Floyd," he told me. "His bad heart did." (READ More: The Semantic Burden of Speaking While White)
Dunn believes that Baker did an "assiduous and thorough autopsy." His findings, he argues, "did exonerate the police officers — there was no evidence of asphyxiation or strangulation, not any evidence of damage or compromise of the airway of breathing of Mr. Floyd from the prone restraint." In fact, Dunn made a video recreating the final minutes of Floyd's life. His conclusion, "The prone position restraint is not harmful or lethal."
There was, of course, evidence of methamphetamine and opiates in Floyd's system but not enough to kill. Floyd was a user. He had acclimated to fentanyl. There was compelling evidence, however, "that Mr. Floyd had three-vessel coronary artery disease of the heart" as well as an "enlarged heart from high blood pressure." The methamphetamine use increased the risk of Floyd having a sudden heartbeat regularity problem. "Mr. Floyd was upset and anxious," concludes Dunn. By resisting arrest, he set himself up for "sudden death from cardiac arrest, a sudden heart stoppage."
Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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You Are Not Evil
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Hank,
The data shows the temperature has taken 140 years to go up 1 degree Celsius.
This is relative to a dangerous and deadly cold period in the 1880's.
This slow rate of change shows that there is no climate emergency.
The current rate of change is at most 0.2 degrees per decade.
We will be running out of most fossil fuels by the year 2100.
Coal will be the last fossil fuel to go.
At the current level of usage, we only have 40 years of oil reserves remaining.
CO2 is a valuable resource.
It keeps the earth from freezing and it is plant food.
There is a greening of the earth because of it.
The CO2 level over the last 40 million years has been in a nose dive.
This is because calcifying marine organisms sequester CO2 (indirectly).
The CO2 level got so low during the last period of mass glaciation that it
reached 180 parts per million.
This is just barely above the 150 parts per million where all the terrestrial
plants die.
A funny thing happens to the climate roughly every 100,000 years.
The data shows that the temperature will quickly shoot up 8 to 15 degrees,
level off for 10,000 years, and then go back down almost as quickly.
Then we get 85 to 90 thousand years of mass glaciation where New York is covered
by ice.
We should already be in the cool-down cycle of the interglacial.
The only thing that has prevented the planet from cooling is those pesky humans
who added 150 parts per million CO2 into the atmosphere.
The infrared absorption range of CO2 is much narrower than other gasses like
water vapor, and it has already reached 90% of its absorption capacity.
Climate alarmism is dependent on as-of-yet unproven positive feedback models.
There are many feedbacks, some of which are negative.
There is much controversy over clouds, where common sense would indicate
negative feedback to temperature, but the IPCC says the opposite.
True science looks at data and then comes to a conclusion.
The IPCC does the opposite. They start with a conclusion and then support
that with evidence. The IPCC refused to hire anyone who did not already
believe in catastrophic man-made warming. This shows their bias. The IPCC
actively suppressed skeptical papers and tried to get skeptical scientists
fired. The head of U.N., António Guterres, was a Socialist Party politician
in Portugal, and he routinely makes outrageous statements about the climate
that are completely inaccurate.
Socialism is not palatable to the American people, so the socialists have been
pushing false crises to divide and conquer and to give us more government
control in incremental steps. I'm sorry that you have been duped by this mass
hysteria.
Best wishes,
John Coffey