Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Was political party affiliation a risk factor associated with excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida and Ohio?
In this cohort study evaluating 538 159 deaths in individuals aged 25 years and older in Florida and Ohio between March 2020 and December 2021, excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults ...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617?fbclid=IwAR0xcX4zcKcxj_vO6iulHZSGn2Ch4KPEubCjPqp5-WWua2Rj79B5uEvGkSk
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Trump did indeed have a right to challenge the election—which he did, and lost. He also had a first-amendment right to lie about the election.
What he did not have was a right to use “unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results.”
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More than 15 pages of the 45-page indictment establish that Trump knew the allegations he was making about election fraud were lies.
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/algorithms-as-a-weapon-against-women-how-youtube-lures-boys-and-young-men-into-the-manosphere/?fbclid=IwAR1xcg0_Yeah5LKtp046lVuCtZlx7y4ElNiOQ1bOvLmjJG9r6dJ8eJGeWAk
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This film helps us understand how half a country - including most of the Christians, sadly - were deceived, bamboozled and radicalized to the far right.
A Storm Foretold Documentary 2023 by Christoffer Guldbrandsen
"A Storm Foretold is a chilling, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Roger Stone, the real mastermind of the events which led up to the January 6 insurrection. He planned the 'election steal' storyline way before there even was an election. Donald Trump's 'fixer', and one of the first to turn on Trump when he lost. A searing indictment of the MAGA movement, and a portrait of breathtaking hypocricy on too many levels to list."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6EIwFNrXH8
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Most Americans will concede that Nixon was corrupt.
Roger Stone honed his wickedness in that administration.
He has a tattoo of Nixon on his back.
After a lifetime of sexual depravity, political manipulation, bullying and corruption, he now claims to be a "Christian", so I guess that makes everything alright then (sc).
Watergate Created Roger Stone. Trump Completed Him.
Stone may not have been in Nixon’s inner circle, but he saw enough to shape his view of politics for life.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/29/roger-stone-donald-trump-watergate-224383/
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Shuhada Sinead O'Connor
Was a prophet before her time
The world was not ready for her
As a very young woman
With powers of perception forged by generational abuse
Holding epigenetic trauma in her marrow
She said theocracy was bondage long before we all realized
She said the church was systemically raping, incarcerating and torturing children long before we were willing
To have the scales scraped from our bleeding eyes
She said misogyny was a black ball & chain, weighing a nation down, long before #metoo
A devoted & ecstatic mother in her early youth, she perceived that abortion bans would only escalate misogyny and result in rising rates of DV, rape culture, miscarriage ... and abortion
She said racism, prejudice and discrimination, anywhere, were the roots of fear and hate and conflict and war
She said rapacious greed and Mammon idolatry, all wrapped up in the pretty bow of capitalism, would drag humanity to destruction
She said
She said
She said
And no one listened
They were affronted
They were offended
O Jerusalem, city who stones the prophets
You stoned her
You killed her
Yet still
She lives
You buried her
But she is a seed
As am I.
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"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.
And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes.
And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war.
And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”
- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War
- Performed by Sinead O'Connor in tribute to Bob Marley
- Original speech by Haile Selassie
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One of my favourite Sinead O'Connor songs: This is a Rebel Song
She introduces it saying, "This is a LOVE song".
It's about the English invasion of Ireland.
It's really about invasion, colonialism, empire everywhere.
Between nations, religions ... and individuals.
It is allegory, poetry, or prophecy?
It's the howl from the soul of a fractured world.
It's the wail of every unloved, bewildered wife everywhere.
"Meanwhile, crazies are killing our sons" - she nails the futulity of ego-driven conflict ... the domination game.
The voices of the four young girls on BVs undo me every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbre5Fs9m8I
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PORN AND PATRIARCHY SHARE THE SAME CORE BELIEF.
"Here’s the common thread. Pornography, sex trafficking, and what we know today as patriarchy all share the same core belief—the belief that one person is entitled to exercise power over another person through control and domination. That another human is less human than oneself. That another person is consumable. That one person is entitled to be served while the other owes him service.
How about in the church? Research indicates that 68% of church-going men and over 50% of pastors consume porn regularly. Is that because they view women as equals?
Not only do porn and patriarchy share the same core belief, they also share the same dehumanizing message—you were made to serve me. You are valued to the extent that you fulfill my wishes.
Let’s just say it like it is. When we say “68% of church-going men struggle with porn” what we are actually saying is 68% of church-going men struggle to see women as fully human.
You can’t say that church-going women today are viewed as equals by church-going men when they are repeatedly dehumanized and objectified by their Christian brothers on a regular basis.
- by Aleassa Jarvis
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10168290293195077&id=810515076&mibextid=Nif5oz
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ASPI has identified a multi-language network of coordinated inauthentic accounts on US-based platforms including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook (archived), Reddit, Instagram (archived) and blog sites that we assess are likely involved in an ongoing Chinese Communist Party influence and disinformation campaign targeting Australian domestic and foreign policies, including by amplifying division over the Indigenous voice referendum, and sustained targeting of the Australian parliament, Australian companies (including the big-four banks) and our organisation, ASPI.
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-cyber-interference-narrows-in-on-australian-politics-and-policy/?fbclid=IwAR33kNqL6MssMoJBMiCyrDfV8JJc7dT6MyV5_7Ggz2pM3q6EfgLtU-rsIHw
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Russia’s Anti-Vaccine Propaganda is Tantamount to a Declaration of War
"Moreover, the source of much of the misinformation about vaccines comes from an unobvious source: the Russian government’s propaganda apparatus, which cultivates and exploits foreign anti-vaccine “useful idiots,” causing palpable harm to Americans and citizens of other Western countries.
This is part of a much broader and long-standing pattern of attacks by Russia."
https://medecon.org/russias-anti-vaccine-propaganda-is-tantamount-to-a-declaration-of-war/?fbclid=IwAR3kRkjtfFfAkB5E6w33UWtAqbobUiSsP4ATRIV2T6NpdN0y6-GCOSmF3UY