Stephan: Millions watch Fox and are deluded by the Murdoch propaganda operation masquerading as a news organization attuned the to MAGAt world. And there seems to be no accountability for their lies, deceits, scams, or the lives lost by people following the advice they spew out. I am sure you saw the stories on the hypocrisies of their propagandists about 6th January. Here's another despicable example.
Fox propagandist Bill Hemmer (left) and medical “expert” Nicole Saphier
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier on Wednesday called for unvaccinated people to get Covid-19 despite CDC guidance that says otherwise.
During a segment about Covid-19 safety rules, Fox News host Bill Hemmer falsely claimed that the “virus is dying out.”
“When the virus mutates and gets stronger, we might be in trouble,” Hemmer shrugged. “But when the virus mutates and gets weaker, that’s a great sign because the virus is dying out.”
The Fox News host pointed to reports from South Africa which say the Omicron variant of Covid-19 produces milder symptoms.
Saphier, a certified radiologist, praised the “large amount of natural immunity in our country.”
“We should be able to move forward and allow for the fact that this virus is causing very mild illness in people who are vaccinated and younger populations and including those people who have become boosted,” Saphier argued. “There will always be people who are vulnerable to this virus, just like every year we see people vulnerable to flu and other causes of pneumonia.”
Laurie McGinley and Katie Shepherd , Reporters - The Washington Post
Stephan: Bravo to the Biden administration. This is a wonderful act of political Aikido. The MAGAt states, of course, are already trying to stop telemedicine sessions by pregnant women, and the sale of pills that bring on an abortion. But how do you stop a doctor in a pro choice state from having such a session with a woman? And how do you stop a woman from getting her pills in the post? This FDA decision functionally assures women have a pro-choice option.
Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Dec. 1, when the court heard arguments about a Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Credit: Jose Luis Magana/AP
The elimination of the rule by the Food and Drug Administration means abortion pills can be prescribed through telehealth consultations with providers and mailed to patients in states where permitted by law. Previously, the pills could not be mailed, though that regulation had been temporarily suspended by the FDA.
In large swaths of the nation, however, strict state rules will dampen the impact. Several states ban sending abortion pills by mail and impose other restrictions.
The medication, mifepristone, was approved by the FDA in 2000 for what’s known as […]
Stephan: This is what happens when you have people who put their ideological view ahead of facts. The Critical Race Theory argument is particularly relevant to this point. First of all no elementary or high school in the country teaches a course in critical race theory It comes into play at universities, particularly at the graduate level. So the whole argument is really about fear; the fear of a segment of Whites that their comfortable assumptions about race, and White supremacy are not, in fact, historically accurate.
Race is, and always has been, baked into the American culture. That's a fact. In equity is written into the Constitution. George Mason would not sign the Constitution, even though he was one of the major authors of the document. He got up at the constitutional convention, and said he wouldn't sign it because it did not end the slave trade. He predicted the Civil War almost to the year. But he was also a slave owner. In fact if you look at just the major figures, Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Mason, they were all, except Adams, and Franklin, slave owners, as were many other less well known men. Of the 55 who signed the Constitution 25 were slave owners. Blacks individually were defined as 3/5s of a White. It is hard to get more baked in than that.
All of this is happening because we are becoming a majority minority nation, in fact in some places we already are. That is not going to change. The only question is, are we going to deal with this reality through democracy or autocracy? That is something each of us has to answer.
Student in a Texas library.Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Image/Getty
SAN ANTONIO — In late September, Carrie Damon, a middle school librarian, celebrated “Banned Books Week,” an annual free-speech event, with her working-class Latino students by talking of literature’s beauty and subversive power.
A few weeks later, State Representative Matt Krause, a Republican, emailed a list of 850 books to superintendents, a mix of half-century-old novels — “The Confessions of Nat Turner” by William Styron — and works by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Margaret Atwood, as well as edgy young adult books touching on sexual identity. Are these works, he asked, on your library shelves?
Mr. Krause’s motive was unclear, but the next night, at a school board meeting in San Antonio, parents accused a librarian of poisoning young minds.
Days later, a secretary sidled up to Ms. Damon and asked if district libraries held pornography.
“‘No, no, honey, we don’t buy porno,’” Ms. Damon replied.
She sighed. “I don’t need my blood pressure going crazy worrying about ending up on a politician’s radar.”
Texas is afire with fierce battles over education, race and […]
Thobey Campion, Former Publisher of Motherboard and the Founder of EXO Dynamics, - Vice
Stephan: I have been following the UAP (UFO) saga since the 1950s, when Donald Keyhoe, one of the early investigators came to dinner at the invitation of my mother. Over the decades I have had the good fortune to know many of the researchers in this field, although it is not within my own area of research. This is one of the most interesting reports on this area of research I have read in some years.
Material samples from UbatubaCredit: Garry Nolan
Dr. Garry Nolan is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. His research ranges from cancer to systems immunology. Dr. Nolan has also spent the last ten years working with a number of individual analyzing materials from alleged Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
His robust resume—300 research articles, 40 US patents, founding of eight biotech companies, and honored as one of Stanford’s top 25 inventors—makes him, easily, one of the most accomplished scientists publicly studying UAPs.
Motherboard sat down with Garry to discuss his work. It has been edited for length and clarity.
MOTHERBOARD:How long have you had an interest in UAPs? Dr. Garry Nolan: I’ve always been an avid reader of science fiction, so it was natural at some point that when YouTube videos about UFOs began to make the rounds I might watch a few. I noticed that this guy at the time, Steven Greer, had claimed that a little skeleton might be an alien. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, I can prove or disprove that.’ […]
Stephan: Over 1,000 people died today, a large percentage of them unvaccinated. It is becoming ever more obvious that not getting vaccinated is an deliberate anti-social act, and a kind of lottery death-cult. I see the response of the vaccinated to the choice to be unvaccinated dramatically changing, and think it is significant that this is occurring just as the the blatant hypocrisy and dishonesty of MAGAts in Congress and MAGAt media has been put on display.
As the U.S. marks one year since the first shots of COVID-19 vaccine were rolled out last December, some 28% of adults still remain unvaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Now, as the country surpassed 800,000 confirmed deaths from the disease, an analysis by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates 163,000 deaths could have been prevented by vaccination since vaccines became widely available in June.
“Most of these preventable deaths occurred well after vaccines became available. In September 2021 alone, approximately 51,000 people’s lives likely would have been saved if they had chosen to get vaccinated. In November 2021, over 29,000 COVID-19 deaths likely would have been averted with vaccines,” the authors wrote.
They estimated the number of Americans that could have been saved by vaccination by analyzing deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, as well as rates of COVID-related deaths among vaccinated people with breakthrough infections.
