veteranstoday--2020-06-10--Polio Led to the Invention of the Ventilator

How a Polio Outbreak in Copenhagen Led to the Invention of the Ventilator More patients than ventilators .
Understaffed hospitals .
A snowballing pandemic .
Seven decades before COVID-19 , a similar crisis strained the city of Copenhagen .
In August 1952 , the Blegdam Hospital was unprepared and overwhelmed .
A 12-year-old victim , Vivi Ebert , lay paralyzed before anesthesiologist Bjørn Ibsen , “ gasping for air ” and “ drowning in her own secretions.
” Seven years after liberation from Nazi occupation , a new shadow darkened the streets : the poliovirus .
With his hands , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ metal tube , Ibsen reset the boundary between life and death and taught the world how to breathe .
“ We were very afraid , ” remembers Ibsen ’ s daughter Birgitte Willumsen of the 1952 outbreak , “ everyone actually knew somebody ” affected by polio .
Waves of young people with fever , headache , upset stomach and stiff neck heralded the arrival of the “ summer plague ” in cities throughout the United States and Europe .
Masquerading as a common stomach virus , the infection established itself in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spinal cord .
The clinical picture ranged from a self-limited stomach bug to paralysis , shock and asphyxia .
Some recovered , but lasting disability , or death , was typical .
At the time , the best way to treat respiratory complications of polio was with the “ iron lung , ” ... read more : ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content , VT can not guarantee content validity .
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How a Polio Outbreak in Copenhagen Led to the Invention of the Ventilator
by Bradley M. Wertheim/Smithsonianmag.com
More patients than ventilators. Understaffed hospitals. A snowballing pandemic. Seven decades before COVID-19, a similar crisis strained the city of Copenhagen. In August 1952, the Blegdam Hospital was unprepared and overwhelmed. A 12-year-old victim, Vivi Ebert, lay paralyzed before anesthesiologist Bjørn Ibsen, “gasping for air” and “drowning in her own secretions.” Seven years after liberation from Nazi occupation, a new shadow darkened the streets: the poliovirus. With his hands, a rubber bag, and a curved metal tube, Ibsen reset the boundary between life and death and taught the world how to breathe.
“We were very afraid,” remembers Ibsen’s daughter Birgitte Willumsen of the 1952 outbreak, “everyone actually knew somebody” affected by polio. Waves of young people with fever, headache, upset stomach and stiff neck heralded the arrival of the “summer plague” in cities throughout the United States and Europe. Masquerading as a common stomach virus, the infection established itself in the gut before spreading to the brain and spinal cord. The clinical picture ranged from a self-limited stomach bug to paralysis, shock and asphyxia. Some recovered, but lasting disability, or death, was typical. At the time, the best way to treat respiratory complications of polio was with the “iron lung,” ...read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-06-10--It Begins: Coronavirus-Related Fraud

It Begins: Coronavirus-Related Fraud

Health Editor ’ s Note : Politicians , scamsters , conspiracy theorists , ill-doers , etc .
all just need a brief blip in life as we know it to come out of the wood work and steal all the money they can .
The coronoavirus pandemic is not a blip but a major change in life as we have known it .
We are seeing only the tip of the COVID-19 iceberg .
Heads up !
…Carol Federal authorities unsealed charges Tuesday against the president of Sunnyvale medical technology company Arrayit , alleging that he attempted to mislead investors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fraudulent claims about the company ’ s coronavirus testing and other testing capabilities .
The U.S. attorney ’ s office in San Francisco charged Mark Schena , 57 , with one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud .
The charges relate to a scheme that allegedly saw Schena and others submit $ 69 million in false and fraudulent claims for allergy and coronavirus testing , including $ 5.9 million in fraudulent charges submitted to the federal Medicare program .
In a statement , federal authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has been brought by the Department of Justice.
” Arrayit did not immediately return calls and emails requesting comment .
Calls to the Schena family were also not returned .
Mark Schena is married to Arrayit CEO Rene Schena , according to corporate filings .
Federal authorities said the alleged scheme began in 2018 when Mark Schena bribed doctors and others and submitted claims to the federal Medicare program for fraudulent allergy tests , many of which were not medically necessary .

Health Editor’s Note: Politicians, scamsters, conspiracy theorists, ill-doers, etc. all just need a brief blip in life as we know it to come out of the wood work and steal all the money they can. The coronoavirus pandemic is not a blip but a major change in life as we have known it. We are seeing only the tip of the COVID-19 iceberg. Heads up!…Carol
Sunnyvale medical technology executive charged with coronavirus-related fraud
by Chase DiFeliciantonio/San Francisco Chronicle
Federal authorities unsealed charges Tuesday against the president of Sunnyvale medical technology company Arrayit, alleging that he attempted to mislead investors and inflate the company stock price with fraudulent claims about the company’s coronavirus testing and other testing capabilities.
The U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco charged Mark Schena, 57, with one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The charges relate to a scheme that allegedly saw Schena and others submit $69 million in false and fraudulent claims for allergy and coronavirus testing, including $5.9 million in fraudulent charges submitted to the federal Medicare program.
In a statement, federal authorities called the case “the first criminal securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has been brought by the Department of Justice.”
Arrayit did not immediately return calls and emails requesting comment. Calls to the Schena family were also not returned. Mark Schena is married to Arrayit CEO Rene Schena, according to corporate filings.
Federal authorities said the alleged scheme began in 2018 when Mark Schena bribed doctors and others and submitted claims to the federal Medicare program for fraudulent allergy tests, many of which were not medically necessary.
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veteranstoday--2020-06-10--NEO – Police, the Blue Gang that terrorizes America

[ Editor ’ s Note : This is a brutal story , brutally told and one that many writers would choose to take a pass on .
But Gordon has ‘ been there and done that ’ , as it been a patrol cop , state patrol , prison criminal investigation officer , ( who handled 65 homicides ) , and was the director of a large prison system for a period of time .
He also has received the highest recognition given out to police officers for bravery , for a day when he stripped down to jump into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a guy that had missed both the grab lines .
These are hard to hold onto in fast current .
( Note : actually true , the medal , of course not the pumped up narrative supporting it ) So Gordon has was we call a VT ‘ standing ’ inside the blue line , and he takes us inside for a peek at what has those riled up now with access to what goes on not only in a lot of police departments , but also the courts and the DA office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ W Dean ] One thing is clear , a majority of American people are unwilling to accept the brutal killing of African Americans by police .
What is also clear is that a minority , and it is a strong and very well armed , albeit ignorant and brutal minority , that encourage police crimes and from whose numbers police are too often recruited .
The explosion happening now in the US was predicted , since 9/11 the American people have become “ terror suspects ” within their own country , a nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a police state , a nation drowning in corruption and one now ruled by a dictator .
It has become popular nowadays to blame Israelis and Jewish organizations for turning American police forces into militarized thugs .
The NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) just requested that American Jewish organizations stop supporting Israeli military training for American police , a major source of income for Israel .
This has been a factor , with police trained to treat citizens as terrorists leading to military type assaults on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Worse still , of course , Trump tried to unleash the combat power America used to crush Iraq on the American people and only stopped when confronted by a possible military coup .
As easy a target as Trump may be or blaming Israel , America ’ s problem with police brutality is not only an old one but one tied to wider problems of broad corruption within America ’ s social and economic way of life dating back to the earliest days of the republic .
We are watching Americans across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police brutality .
Every American who isn ’ t wealthy and powerful , risks prison , possibly though totally innocent .
American courts serve the rich , judges are appointed by the rich , police exist to fill the courts and fill privately owned “ for profit ” prisons which pours cash into the same people who appoint the judges .
Nearly half of Americans have some kind of criminal record , due not so much to actually being a criminal but rather to the excess of laws in America .
Thousands of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousands , everything is criminalized , for the poor at least .
America is coming apart .
It isn ’ t Trump though his presidency with 110,000 dead from the mishandling of a pandemic and another 100,000 dying , is shattered as is the nation that allowed him to seize power .
The police are now , officially , the enemy , but Americans are finally figuring a few things out .
Cities like Flint , Michigan and others have police forces who are joining demonstrators .
Others , they are something different @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not of the police officers themselves , but of the inherent corruption of America ’ s system of government .
Police corruption and brutality has turned America into a sewer for those who live on limited resources , who live on the fringe of America ’ s laws , for those who can ’ t insulate themselves from being targeted .
Color and race , ethnicity , are huge factors in America .
“ DWB , ” is called “ Driving While Black , ” and any person of color who has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this means , you don ’ t travel while “ black ” without being stopped by police and being berated or even assaulted and arrested .
Too often “ DWB ” ends in a police killing .
It is impossible for someone not of color to understand .
I look to my own limited experiences as I try to explain to others what I am only barely grasping for myself .
My own first brush with discrimination was during the 1960s when I served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uniform , here in the US , it was common to be heckled by people driving past who would often throw things from their cars .
There was a stinging feeling there , one I had never known but suddenly realized those around me of color had suffered all their lives .
I had never known ; I still didn ’ t know but I had an idea and I didn ’ t like it one bit .
After the military , while a graduate student , I served as a police officer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lifetime .
Since that time , I have worked with police in dozens of nations as an intelligence liaison for counterintelligence/counterterrorism and run a critical incident response team looking into such issues as terror attacks in Kenya , gas attacks in Syria and airline mishaps over Ukraine .
What is always clear is that police are the face of government .
In America , the police have become an untrusted face in too many communities , one feared not only by people of color but by others as well .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white Americans largely control are , to a significant extent , intended as protection against militarized police .
That said , let ’ s move to the US and why we have seen not hundreds of thousands but millions marching , not just against the police and injustice but against the Trump regime and , in particular , Attorney General William Barr .
A Failed Presidency Like No Other Trump and Barr are notorious for their politics of division , playing Jews against Muslims , black against white .
First of all , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , investigate crimes and hold themselves as an example .
Many do , perhaps most .
This is a hard job , emotionally exhausting , and requires exceptional mental stability and interpersonal skills to perform .
Many thousands with these attributes serve as police and do so with distinction .
Most , however , do not .
Many , very many , are openly corrupt , brutish , ignorant , openly prejudiced and deeply jaded .
Rural America has always been a breeding ground for extremism , for racism and corruption .
Rural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signs of order are home to a subtext of hate and criminality .
This is where America ’ s out of control police come from , raised on isolation , bigotry and fear .
I will give examples from my 20 years as an investigator for a law firm owned by a close friend .
Investigative work , other than by the government , is unaffordable unless , as was the case here , done pro bono ( without cost ) .
If someone is arrested , the evidence against them , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenged .
Few judges challenge police and bringing up the record of a corrupt police officer to question their testimony is .
One case , still in appeal , happened in Wauseon , Ohio .
In one case , a collision on a rural highway left one woman dead , and two injured .
Cars collided head-on at high speed .
One driver , a young woman , was arrested and charged with murder .
Police said she fell asleep , hit a guard rail and her car careened sideways at very high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struck an oncoming vehicle .
As was later proven , what the police described was not only false , their investigative conjecture required an outright abandonment of all principles of Newtonian physics .
The accused , a young lady of modest means , an unmarried mother , faced 20 years in prison based on police assertions .
Police on the scene , who investigated , reported the findings of an investigation that didn ’ t yet happen to local news who declared her guilty on TV , radio and print media .
Police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in almost all cases , what they are told to report , with no questions asked .
Police in America are never questioned , not ever , not until only a few days ago .
While the young woman was pinned in her car with several broken bones , massive blood loss and other injuries , she was chastised by first responders and refused medical care , which only arrived after 45 minutes anyway , something falsified in reports .
Then when in an ICU , she was interrogated by police while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It was this testimony police used to back up a later to be proven faked accident investigation .
Testimony by medical personnel that the young lady was incoherent and legally unable to even make medical care determinations for herself was blocked by a judge , no rationale or case law was given .
It never is .
Then a state investigator from the Ohio Highway Patrol was called in , one with impressive credentials and 20 years ’ experience and his investigation confirmed everything told to the press .
However , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did talking to witnesses .
There was a third car that fled the scene , that was telling , but more .
Cars have “ black box ” recorders which log speed , steering and breaking .
Both cars had them and when the results were downloaded and run through a European based physics simulator , most advanced in the world , the wild story given by the investigator was shown to be 100 % fabricated .
This was done with series of dramatic animations and a wealth of data , just like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seemed that the woman in the 2nd car , who survived but her passenger was killed , one seen as the victim , had been on a cocktail of hypnotic sedatives including high doses of Ambien , narcotic pain relievers and anti-psychotics , enough to prohibit driving , and legally make her drunk/impaired .
The animations showed her car careening into oncoming traffic , using data from her car ’ s black box , showing her steering , losing control and simply plowing into the oncoming car without breaking or even letting up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the evidence , physics analysis , witness testimony , medical records , toxicology and black box driven animations , all disallowed because it contradicted police testimony that would now show that hundreds , perhaps thousands of other accident investigations had been faked .
Appealing this travesty , were the case not pro bono , would cost tens of thousands of dollars and take more than two years , as has been proven out .
Parallel to the investigation of the accident , experts investigated Wauseon police and prosecutor and the state expert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ totally faked accident reports had been fabricated and false testimony had been given countless times under oath by “ police accident experts.
” What happened in this accident and others also applies to both criminal and civil cases as well , every case that involved the courts , with or without police or prosecutor , was subject to bias , be it economic , racial or other .
Justice simple died quietly and there was no one to speak up .
Suppression of evidence , falsification of evidence was part of every criminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all others , not just in Ohio but across the US .
When we go past this , let ’ s look at another issue .
Currently , the US Civil Rights Commission is investigating a nationwide scandal involving African American women with children who are arrested .
Few , really almost none , are ever tried but always plead guilty .
Why ?
First of all , their children are taken .
They are then “ over-charged , ” with prosecutors piling charge upon charge even if evidence is scant or even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case .
Those arrested are held in jail , months , even up to a year , for crimes that would have no sentence whatsoever in many cases and are told they can only be released if they plead guilty .
Pleading innocent in an American court can get you a year of pre-trial detention and only a guilty plea can get you released .
Might this explain why millions and millions of Americans are now convicted felons ?
The answer , as of 2016 was 110,000,000 or 44 % of the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9/11 became worse under Trump as extremist elements felt bolstered by racist rhetoric from the White House .
What was broken for decades , even centuries , has come to a head as the corrupt and brutal of America ’ s unequal system have been running rampant with White House backing .
Behind this is a climate of fear , not of crime or poverty but of police and that fear , as we are seeing , is everywhere in America .
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues .
He ’ s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today , especially for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook .
”

…by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow … 1816
[ Editor’s Note: This is a brutal story, brutally told and one that many writers would choose to take a pass on. But Gordon has ‘been there and done that’, as it been a patrol cop, state patrol, prison criminal investigation officer, (who handled 65 homicides), and was the director of a large prison system for a period of time.
He also has received the highest recognition given out to police officers for bravery, for a day when he stripped down to jump into a rain swollen river to go after a guy that had missed both the grab lines. These are hard to hold onto in fast current. (Note: actually true, the medal, of course not the pumped up narrative supporting it)
So Gordon has what we call a VT ‘standing’ inside the blue line, and he takes us inside for a peek at what has those riled up now with access to what goes on not only in a lot of police departments, but also the courts and the DA office. It ain’t pretty… Jim W Dean ]
– First published … June 09, 2020 –
One thing is clear, a majority of American people are unwilling to accept the brutal killing of African Americans by police. What is also clear is that a minority, and it is a strong and very well armed, albeit ignorant and brutal minority, that encourage police crimes and from whose numbers police are too often recruited.
The explosion happening now in the US was predicted, since 9/11 the American people have become “terror suspects” within their own country, a nation no one recognizes, a surveillance state, a police state, a nation drowning in corruption and one now ruled by a dictator.
It has become popular nowadays to blame Israelis and Jewish organizations for turning American police forces into militarized thugs. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) just requested that American Jewish organizations stop supporting Israeli military training for American police, a major source of income for Israel.
This has been a factor, with police trained to treat citizens as terrorists leading to military type assaults on peaceful protests in dozens of American cities. Worse still, of course, Trump tried to unleash the combat power America used to crush Iraq on the American people and only stopped when confronted by a possible military coup.
As easy a target as Trump may be or blaming Israel, America’s problem with police brutality is not only an old one but one tied to wider problems of broad corruption within America’s social and economic way of life dating back to the earliest days of the republic.
Today
We are watching Americans across the nation in numbers unimagined standing against police brutality. Every American who isn’t wealthy and powerful, risks prison, possibly though totally innocent.
American courts serve the rich, judges are appointed by the rich, police exist to fill the courts and fill privately owned “for profit” prisons which pours cash into the same people who appoint the judges.
Nation of Crooks?
Nearly half of Americans have some kind of criminal record, due not so much to actually being a criminal but rather to the excess of laws in America.
Thousands of laws are enacted each year, endless thousands, everything is criminalized, for the poor at least.
America is coming apart. It isn’t Trump though his presidency with 110,000 dead from the mishandling of a pandemic and another 100,000 dying, is shattered as is the nation that allowed him to seize power.
The police are now, officially, the enemy, but Americans are finally figuring a few things out. Cities like Flint, Michigan and others have police forces who are joining demonstrators. Others, they are something different, and it is the failing, not of the police officers themselves, but of the inherent corruption of America’s system of government.
Police corruption and brutality has turned America into a sewer for those who live on limited resources, who live on the fringe of America’s laws, for those who can’t insulate themselves from being targeted.
Color and race, ethnicity, are huge factors in America. “DWB,” is called “Driving While Black,” and any person of color who has been in an automobile in America knows what this means, you don’t travel while “black” without being stopped by police and being berated or even assaulted and arrested.
Too often “DWB” ends in a police killing.
“White Blindness” may be Ending
It is impossible for someone not of color to understand. I look to my own limited experiences as I try to explain to others what I am only barely grasping for myself. My own first brush with discrimination was during the 1960s when I served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War (and in Vietnam).
If in uniform, here in the US, it was common to be heckled by people driving past who would often throw things from their cars. There was a stinging feeling there, one I had never known but suddenly realized those around me of color had suffered all their lives. I had never known; I still didn’t know but I had an idea and I didn’t like it one bit.
After the military, while a graduate student, I served as a police officer for over two years, seemingly a lifetime. Since that time, I have worked with police in dozens of nations as an intelligence liaison for counterintelligence/counterterrorism and run a critical incident response team looking into such issues as terror attacks in Kenya, gas attacks in Syria and airline mishaps over Ukraine.
What is always clear is that police are the face of government.
In America, the police have become an untrusted face in too many communities, one feared not only by people of color but by others as well.
In fact, the vast arsenal of military weapons that white Americans largely control are, to a significant extent, intended as protection against militarized police.
That said, let’s move to the US and why we have seen not hundreds of thousands but millions marching, not just against the police and injustice but against the Trump regime and, in particular, Attorney General William Barr.
A Failed Presidency Like No Other
Trump and Barr are notorious for their politics of division, playing Jews against Muslims, black against white.
First of all, police are supposed to protect and serve, investigate crimes and hold themselves as an example. Many do, perhaps most. This is a hard job, emotionally exhausting, and requires exceptional mental stability and interpersonal skills to perform.
Many thousands with these attributes serve as police and do so with distinction. Most, however, do not. Many, very many, are openly corrupt, brutish, ignorant, openly prejudiced and deeply jaded.
Rural America has always been a breeding ground for extremism, for racism and corruption. Rural communities often lined with churches and overt signs of order are home to a subtext of hate and criminality.
This is where America’s out of control police come from, raised on isolation, bigotry and fear.
I will give examples from my 20 years as an investigator for a law firm owned by a close friend. Investigative work, other than by the government, is unaffordable unless, as was the case here, done pro bono (without cost).
If someone is arrested, the evidence against them, if given by police, cannot be challenged. Few judges challenge police and bringing up the record of a corrupt police officer to question their testimony is rare.
One case, still in appeal, happened in Wauseon, Ohio. In one case, a collision on a rural highway left one woman dead, and two injured. Cars collided head-on at high speed. One driver, a young woman, was arrested and charged with murder. Police said she fell asleep, hit a guard rail and her car careened sideways at very high speed, executed a 90-degree spin and struck an oncoming vehicle.
As was later proven, what the police described was not only false, their investigative conjecture required an outright abandonment of all principles of Newtonian physics.
The accused, a young lady of modest means, an unmarried mother, faced 20 years in prison based on police assertions. Police on the scene, who investigated, reported the findings of an investigation that didn’t yet happen to local news who declared her guilty on TV, radio and print media.
Police have always used the media who reports, in almost all cases, what they are told to report, with no questions asked. Police in America are never questioned, not ever, not until only a few days ago.
While the young woman was pinned in her car with several broken bones, massive blood loss and other injuries, she was chastised by first responders and refused medical care, which only arrived after 45 minutes anyway, something falsified in reports.
Then when in an ICU, she was interrogated by police while in a semi-conscious state on IV Fentanyl. It was this testimony police used to back up a later to be proven faked accident investigation. Testimony by medical personnel that the young lady was incoherent and legally unable to even make medical care determinations for herself was blocked by a judge, no rationale or case law was given. It never is.
Then a state investigator from the Ohio Highway Patrol was called in, one with impressive credentials and 20 years’ experience and his investigation confirmed everything told to the press.
However, a real forensic examination revealed something else as did talking to witnesses. There was a third car that fled the scene, that was telling, but more.
Cars have “black box” recorders which log speed, steering and breaking. Both cars had them and when the results were downloaded and run through a European based physics simulator, most advanced in the world, the wild story given by the investigator was shown to be 100% fabricated.
This was done with series of dramatic animations and a wealth of data, just like is used in airline crashes.
It seemed that the woman in the 2nd car, who survived but her passenger was killed, one seen as the victim, had been on a cocktail of hypnotic sedatives including high doses of Ambien, narcotic pain relievers and anti-psychotics, enough to prohibit driving, and legally make her drunk/impaired.
The animations showed her car careening into oncoming traffic, using data from her car’s black box, showing her steering, losing control and simply plowing into the oncoming car without breaking or even letting up on the accelerator.
This was withheld and the evidence, physics analysis, witness testimony, medical records, toxicology and black box driven animations, all disallowed because it contradicted police testimony that would now show that hundreds, perhaps thousands of other accident investigations had been faked.
Appealing this travesty, were the case not pro bono, would cost tens of thousands of dollars and take more than two years, as has been proven out. Parallel to the investigation of the accident, experts investigated Wauseon police and prosecutor and the state expert.
Over the years, thousands of totally faked accident reports had been fabricated and false testimony had been given countless times under oath by “police accident experts.”
What happened in this accident and others also applies to both criminal and civil cases as well, every case that involved the courts, with or without police or prosecutor, was subject to bias, be it economic, racial or other.
Justice simple died quietly and there was no one to speak up.
Suppression of evidence, falsification of evidence was part of every criminal case in this jurisdiction and in almost all others, not just in Ohio but across the US.
When we go past this, let’s look at another issue. Currently, the US Civil Rights Commission is investigating a nationwide scandal involving African American women with children who are arrested.
Few, really almost none, are ever tried but always plead guilty. Why? First of all, their children are taken. They are then “over-charged,” with prosecutors piling charge upon charge even if evidence is scant or even non-existent, as is too often the case.
Those arrested are held in jail, months, even up to a year, for crimes that would have no sentence whatsoever in many cases and are told they can only be released if they plead guilty.
Pleading innocent in an American court can get you a year of pre-trial detention and only a guilty plea can get you released. Might this explain why millions and millions of Americans are now convicted felons?
The answer, as of 2016 was 110,000,000 or 44% of the US population.
Conclusion
What had been bad after 9/11 became worse under Trump as extremist elements felt bolstered by racist rhetoric from the White House. What was broken for decades, even centuries, has come to a head as the corruption and brutality of America’s unequal system have been running rampant with White House backing.
Behind this is a climate of fear, not of crime or poverty but of police and that fear, as we are seeing, is everywhere in America.
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of VT, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”


veteranstoday--2020-06-12--Still Searching for Ways to Prevent COVID-19’s Life-Threatening Blood Clots

Searching for Ways to Prevent Life-Threatening Blood Clots in COVID-19 Six months into the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) pandemic , researchers still have much to learn about the many ways in which COVID-19 can wreak devastation on the human body .
Among the many mysteries is exactly how SARS-CoV-2 , which is the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 , triggers the formation of blood clots that can lead to strokes and other life-threatening complications , even in younger people .
Recently , I had a chance to talk with Dr. Gary Gibbons , Director of NIH ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( NHLBI ) about what research is being done to tackle this baffling complication of COVID-19 .
Our conversation took place via videoconference , with him connecting from his home in Washington , D.C. , and me linking in from my home just up the road in Maryland .
Here ’ s a condensed transcript of our chat : Collins : I ’ m going to start by asking about the SARS-CoV-2-induced blood clotting not only in the lungs , but in other parts of the body .
What do we know about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gibbons : It seems like every few weeks another page gets turned on COVID-19 , and we learn even more about how this virus affects the body .
Blood clots are one of the startling and , unfortunately , devastating complications…read more :

Searching for Ways to Prevent Life-Threatening Blood Clots in COVID-19
NIH Director’s Blog:
Six months into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers still have much to learn about the many ways in which COVID-19 can wreak devastation on the human body. Among the many mysteries is exactly how SARS-CoV-2, which is the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, triggers the formation of blood clots that can lead to strokes and other life-threatening complications, even in younger people.
Recently, I had a chance to talk with Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of NIH’s Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) about what research is being done to tackle this baffling complication of COVID-19. Our conversation took place via videoconference, with him connecting from his home in Washington, D.C., and me linking in from my home just up the road in Maryland. Here’s a condensed transcript of our chat:
Collins: I’m going to start by asking about the SARS-CoV-2-induced blood clotting not only in the lungs, but in other parts of the body. What do we know about the virus that would explain this?
Gibbons: It seems like every few weeks another page gets turned on COVID-19, and we learn even more about how this virus affects the body. Blood clots are one of the startling and, unfortunately, devastating complications…read more:


veteranstoday--2020-06-11--Sir Dearlove Joins Anti-China Counter-Gang Operation

Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove ’ s new role as anti-China provocateur gives us the opportunity to look into the mind of empire and see how our society is being played to acquiesce to an agenda that will ultimately lead to WW III .
By adding his voice to those Anglo-American fanatics blaming China for creating COVID-19 in a lab and intentionally spreading it around the world , Sir Dearlove has demonstrated a classic case of “ gang/counter-gang operations ” practiced by the British Empire for centuries .
British agent Frank Kitson produced an insidious little 1960 handbook called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coordinating special operations against the 1955 Mau Mau uprising in Kenya which threatened to break this valuable African region free of British colonialism .
Kitson ’ s handbook was a modern adaption of a centuries-old practice according to the needs of putting down independence and civil rights movements that threatened to undo the age of empires .
During his work in Kenya , Kitson recognized that when outnumbered and faced with organized independence movements , it is just not very effective for thinly spread colonialists to try to put them down by force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rules of the game by a slight of hand .
The formula for changing the game is to cultivate one or more opposition groups to whatever force is posing a threat to the empire… and then cultivate a counter-gang to that opposition group to create a new set of conflicts within your target population ( Hence the name “ gang/counter-gang ” ) .
While the target society becomes polarized by the two warring ( yet ultimately controlled ) opposition movements , the genuine independence movement simply gets diffused and lost in the chaos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be put to use in the FBI ’ s COINTEL program within America soon thereafter , Kitson wrote : “ As a result of our informers and pseudo gangs we were getting to know a bit about the future movements of the gangs which was much better than merely analysing past events .
We had a long way to go before we could say that we were producing the information that would enable the Security Forces to destroy the Mau Mau in our area… I began to feel that at last I was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ desired goal.
” [ p.90 ] The Case of the Civil War A useful pre-20th century example of this sort of operation was witnessed with British Intelligence ’ s support for BOTH southern rebels one the one side of the 1861-65 Civil War and radical abolitionists on the northern side of the war .
To add a degree of sophistication here , the abolitionist movement itself was polarized between violent vigilante abolitionists like John Brown vs the “ peaceful ” abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison who really just wanted the Union to dissolve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the slave-loving confederacy to the South .
Before and during the war , President Lincoln and his allies had to contend with all of these controlled opposition movements who could only seem to agree on one thing : Break up the Union .
When he realized how this gang/counter-gang operation was being run , former slave Frederick Douglass broke with the abolitionists in order to support Lincoln whom he recognized had the only principled strategy to fully ending slavery ( and colonialism ) forever from the earth ( 1 ) .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strategy can be found in the efforts to lay the blame on the coronavirus pandemic squarely on China .
In late January 2020 , with the publication of a report from the Kuzuma School of Biological Sciences , the theory of COVID-19 ’ s natural evolution was first put into serious doubt .
Although the Indian team was forced to retract their paper under immense pressure , researchers such as Dr. Luc Montagnier , Francis Boyle , Dr. Judy Mikovits and Pierre Brigage increasingly pointed out the anomalous traces of HIV sequences spliced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ origin .
Increasingly doctors working on the front lines in New York such as Dr. Kyle-Sidell began reporting the anomalous behaviour of COVID-19 symptoms as unlike any pneumonia he had ever seen and observed that COVID-19 acted more like some form of high altitude sickness , with ventilators not only useless but resulting in deaths in 9 out of 10 patients ( meaning they were actually provoking deaths ) .
With these growing anomalies , thinking citizens became increasingly concerned by the disturbing matter of the vast Pentagon-controlled bioweapons infrastructure scattered throughout the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s reported on the Pentagon ’ s 25 bioweapons labs– all of whom were conducting billions of dollars of secretive research on new and more virulent forms of viruses , with over $ 50 billion spent on the practice officially ever since Dick Cheney ’ s Bioshield Act of 2004 was signed into law .
By March , even China ’ s foreign Ministry raised the possibility that the virus came to China via the American team who participated in the Wuhan Military Games in October 2019- an event at which several athletes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ May 13th , the Russian government directly put into question America ’ s bioweapons laboratories in Georgia and Ukraine with Sergei Lavrov saying : “ These [ U.S. ] laboratories are densely formed along the perimeter of the borders of the Russian Federation , and , accordingly , next to the borders of the People ’ s Republic of China.
” A May 14th report from China ’ s Global Times stated : “ The U.S. can ’ t just claim all reasonable inquiries to its bio-labs as “ conspiracy theories , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s lab in Wuhan as the origin of COVID-19 without providing any evidence , they should respond to the questions on U.S. bio-labs , including the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.
” It is tough to dismiss this sort of matter as “ conspiracy theory ” when North Carolina ’ s Chapel Hill bioweapons labs went so far as to create a novel coronavirus called SHCO14 designed to jump from bats to humans with USAID/CIA grant money in 2015 and events sponsored by both the Rockefeller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been using novel coronaviruses in their pandemic scenarios for over a decade ( 2 ) .
When it became evident that the story of the laboratory origins of COVID-19 wasn ’ t going to disappear on its own , a new counter-narrative was spun which involved embracing the evidence of the laboratory origins while shifting the blame from the hands of Anglo-American intelligence to… China .
Emerging out of the bowels of Oxford ’ s Henry Jackson Society , the lie was concocted early on that the culprit behind this virus ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan had been conducting research on novel coronaviruses and had received $ 3.7 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Health from 2014-2019 .
Is this proof that China caused COVID-19 ?
Some people who want you to think emotionally while ignoring big swaths of reality say so .
Here the story subdivided itself further , as one group represented by Niall Ferguson , Mike Pompeo and Steve Bannon maintain that the international spread of the virus was done deliberately with China apparently going so far as to intentionally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contaminate the world ( a lie entirely annihilated by Daniel A .
Bell on April 211st ) , and another group which includes some well-intended dupes like Francis Boyle or Montagnier which maintain that COVID-19 leaked out by accident .
No matter what form this sleight of hand has taken , it has been just that : a misdirection designed to ensure that the truth of the Pentagon ’ s bioweapons labs would be lost in the chaos stirred up by the blame-game with President Trump now falling for the anti-China line and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all relations with China unless nations suffering from COVID are paid trillions in reparations .
Now we should not be surprised to find MI6 ’ s very own former director Sir Richard Dearlove to be a loud voice in this anti-China clamor .
The same Sir Richard Dearlove that covered up Princess Diana ’ s death while director of MI6 ’ s Special Operations from 1994-1999 , who oversaw the Yellowcake Dodgy dossier while director of MI6 in 2002 and who vetted another dodgy dossier created by his former employee Christopher Steele in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usher in a war with Russia , has now joined the propaganda operation to blame COVID-19 entirely on China .
On June 4 , Sir Dearlove stated “ I think this started as an accident… if China ever admits responsibility , will it pay for repairs ?
I think this will make every country in the world rethink how it sets up its relations with China and how the international community will behave towards Chinese leadership… Of course , the Chinese must have thought “ If we are to suffer a pandemic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to warn our competitors , so to speak , that they will suffer from the same disadvantages that we have.
” Sir Dearlove ’ s comments were timed to coincide with a new University of London peer-reviewed paper entitled “ A Reconstruction of Historical Etiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic ” which stated that the virus ’ sequencing indicated “ intentional manipulation ” .
The British researchers stated that the virus “ was probably designed through a Wuhan laboratory experiment to develop ‘ high potency chimeric viruses ” .
Amidst the turmoil and confusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and polarization across the political and scientific landscape , the reality of the financial collapse looms over head as one system sits upon the precipice of collapse and a battle wages over who will control the emergence of the new system .
Will this inevitable new system be a multi-polar order defined by cooperation on space exploration , new discoveries and long-term infrastructure benefiting all nations and cultures , or will it be an order defined by a 21st century Anglo-American oligarchy sitting atop an ivory tower as a divided world of chaos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 ) As I wrote in my recent report , while the Civil War raged on , the British Empire ’ s strategists under the leadership of the X Club ’ s Thomas Huxley to polarize the scientific community around a controlled debate between Darwinism on the one side vs radical creationism on the other while all principled approaches to creative/directed evolution developed by Cuvier , von Humboldt , von Baer and Dana were lost in the sandstorm .
( 2 ) Philanthrocapitalism , past and present : The Rockefeller Foundation , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ) of the international/global health agenda by Anne-Emanuelle Birn , University of Toronto , 2014 is one useful resource as is the September 2019 Global Vaccination Summit and October 2019 Event 201 .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
His works regularly appear on Strategic Culture , the Duran , Fort Russ , Greanville Post , Off Guardian , Zero Hedge , Lew Rockwell , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at [ email protected ]

Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove’s new role as anti-China provocateur gives us the opportunity to look into the mind of empire and see how our society is being played to acquiesce to an agenda that will ultimately lead to WW III. By adding his voice to those Anglo-American fanatics blaming China for creating COVID-19 in a lab and intentionally spreading it around the world, Sir Dearlove has demonstrated a classic case of “gang/counter-gang operations” practiced by the British Empire for centuries.
British agent Frank Kitson produced an insidious little 1960 handbook called Gangs and Counter-gangs based on his work coordinating special operations against the 1955 Mau Mau uprising in Kenya which threatened to break this valuable African region free of British colonialism. Kitson’s handbook was a modern adaption of a centuries-old practice according to the needs of putting down independence and civil rights movements that threatened to undo the age of empires.
During his work in Kenya, Kitson recognized that when outnumbered and faced with organized independence movements, it is just not very effective for thinly spread colonialists to try to put them down by force directly and much wiser to change the rules of the game by a slight of hand. The formula for changing the game is to cultivate one or more opposition groups to whatever force is posing a threat to the empire… and then cultivate a counter-gang to that opposition group to create a new set of conflicts within your target population (Hence the name “gang/counter-gang”). While the target society becomes polarized by the two warring (yet ultimately controlled) opposition movements, the genuine independence movement simply gets diffused and lost in the chaos.
Describing his insight which would later be put to use in the FBI’s COINTEL program within America soon thereafter, Kitson wrote:
“As a result of our informers and pseudo gangs we were getting to know a bit about the future movements of the gangs which was much better than merely analysing past events. We had a long way to go before we could say that we were producing the information that would enable the Security Forces to destroy the Mau Mau in our area… I began to feel that at last I was on the road which led to the desired goal.” [p.90]
The Case of the Civil War
A useful pre-20th century example of this sort of operation was witnessed with British Intelligence’s support for BOTH southern rebels one the one side of the 1861-65 Civil War and radical abolitionists on the northern side of the war. To add a degree of sophistication here, the abolitionist movement itself was polarized between violent vigilante abolitionists like John Brown vs the “peaceful” abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison who really just wanted the Union to dissolve and liberally “agree to disagree” with the slave-loving confederacy to the South.
Before and during the war, President Lincoln and his allies had to contend with all of these controlled opposition movements who could only seem to agree on one thing: Break up the Union. When he realized how this gang/counter-gang operation was being run, former slave Frederick Douglass broke with the abolitionists in order to support Lincoln whom he recognized had the only principled strategy to fully ending slavery (and colonialism) forever from the earth (1).
A more recent display of Kitson’s strategy can be found in the efforts to lay the blame on the coronavirus pandemic squarely on China.
COVID-19’s Anomalous Origins
In late January 2020, with the publication of a report from the Kuzuma School of Biological Sciences, the theory of COVID-19’s natural evolution was first put into serious doubt. Although the Indian team was forced to retract their paper under immense pressure, researchers such as Dr. Luc Montagnier, Francis Boyle, Dr. Judy Mikovits and Pierre Brigage increasingly pointed out the anomalous traces of HIV sequences spliced throughout the COVID-19 genome implying a laboratory origin.
Increasingly doctors working on the front lines in New York such as Dr. Kyle-Sidell began reporting the anomalous behaviour of COVID-19 symptoms as unlike any pneumonia he had ever seen and observed that COVID-19 acted more like some form of high altitude sickness, with ventilators not only useless but resulting in deaths in 9 out of 10 patients (meaning they were actually provoking deaths).
With these growing anomalies, thinking citizens became increasingly concerned by the disturbing matter of the vast Pentagon-controlled bioweapons infrastructure scattered throughout the globe. Bulgarian researcher Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s reported on the Pentagon’s 25 bioweapons labs– all of whom were conducting billions of dollars of secretive research on new and more virulent forms of viruses, with over $50 billion spent on the practice officially ever since Dick Cheney’s Bioshield Act of 2004 was signed into law.
By March, even China’s foreign Ministry raised the possibility that the virus came to China via the American team who participated in the Wuhan Military Games in October 2019- an event at which several athletes were hospitalized for COVID-like symptoms.
On May 13th, the Russian government directly put into question America’s bioweapons laboratories in Georgia and Ukraine with Sergei Lavrov saying: “These [U.S.] laboratories are densely formed along the perimeter of the borders of the Russian Federation, and, accordingly, next to the borders of the People’s Republic of China.”
A May 14th report from China’s Global Times stated: “The U.S. can’t just claim all reasonable inquiries to its bio-labs as “conspiracy theories,” and when U.S. politicians keep accusing China’s lab in Wuhan as the origin of COVID-19 without providing any evidence, they should respond to the questions on U.S. bio-labs, including the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.”
It is tough to dismiss this sort of matter as “conspiracy theory” when North Carolina’s Chapel Hill bioweapons labs went so far as to create a novel coronavirus called SHCO14 designed to jump from bats to humans with USAID/CIA grant money in 2015 and events sponsored by both the Rockefeller Foundation, the CIA and Bill Gates have been using novel coronaviruses in their pandemic scenarios for over a decade (2).
The China Counter-Gang Narrative
When it became evident that the story of the laboratory origins of COVID-19 wasn’t going to disappear on its own, a new counter-narrative was spun which involved embracing the evidence of the laboratory origins while shifting the blame from the hands of Anglo-American intelligence to… China.
Emerging out of the bowels of Oxford’s Henry Jackson Society, the lie was concocted early on that the culprit behind this virus’ origins was none other than China whose BSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan had been conducting research on novel coronaviruses and had received $3.7 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Health from 2014-2019. Is this proof that China caused COVID-19? Some people who want you to think emotionally while ignoring big swaths of reality say so.
Here the story subdivided itself further, as one group represented by Niall Ferguson, Mike Pompeo and Steve Bannon maintain that the international spread of the virus was done deliberately with China apparently going so far as to intentionally pack planes full of sick people to contaminate the world (a lie entirely annihilated by Daniel A. Bell on April 211st), and another group which includes some well-intended dupes like Francis Boyle or Montagnier which maintain that COVID-19 leaked out by accident.
No matter what form this sleight of hand has taken, it has been just that: a misdirection designed to ensure that the truth of the Pentagon’s bioweapons labs would be lost in the chaos stirred up by the blame-game with President Trump now falling for the anti-China line and entertaining the possibility of cutting America from all relations with China unless nations suffering from COVID are paid trillions in reparations.
Now we should not be surprised to find MI6’s very own former director Sir Richard Dearlove to be a loud voice in this anti-China clamor.
The same Sir Richard Dearlove that covered up Princess Diana’s death while director of MI6’s Special Operations from 1994-1999, who oversaw the Yellowcake Dodgy dossier while director of MI6 in 2002 and who vetted another dodgy dossier created by his former employee Christopher Steele in 2016 designed to overthrow President Trump and usher in a war with Russia, has now joined the propaganda operation to blame COVID-19 entirely on China.
On June 4, Sir Dearlove stated “I think this started as an accident… if China ever admits responsibility, will it pay for repairs? I think this will make every country in the world rethink how it sets up its relations with China and how the international community will behave towards Chinese leadership… Of course, the Chinese must have thought “If we are to suffer a pandemic, perhaps we should not try too hard to warn our competitors, so to speak, that they will suffer from the same disadvantages that we have.”
Sir Dearlove’s comments were timed to coincide with a new University of London peer-reviewed paper entitled “A Reconstruction of Historical Etiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic” which stated that the virus’ sequencing indicated “intentional manipulation”. The British researchers stated that the virus “was probably designed through a Wuhan laboratory experiment to develop ‘high potency chimeric viruses”.
Amidst the turmoil and confusion caused by these gang/counter-gang operations radiating noise and polarization across the political and scientific landscape, the reality of the financial collapse looms over head as one system sits upon the precipice of collapse and a battle wages over who will control the emergence of the new system. Will this inevitable new system be a multi-polar order defined by cooperation on space exploration, new discoveries and long-term infrastructure benefiting all nations and cultures, or will it be an order defined by a 21st century Anglo-American oligarchy sitting atop an ivory tower as a divided world of chaos and depopulation suffers from below?
Notes
(1) As I wrote in my recent report, while the Civil War raged on, the British Empire’s strategists under the leadership of the X Club’s Thomas Huxley to polarize the scientific community around a controlled debate between Darwinism on the one side vs radical creationism on the other while all principled approaches to creative/directed evolution developed by Cuvier, von Humboldt, von Baer and Dana were lost in the sandstorm.
(2) Philanthrocapitalism, past and present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the setting(s) of the international/global health agenda by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto, 2014 is one useful resource as is the September 2019 Global Vaccination Summit and October 2019 Event 201.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. His works regularly appear on Strategic Culture, the Duran, Fort Russ, Greanville Post, Off Guardian, Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell, Sott and Global Research. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com


veteranstoday--2020-06-11--Brazil Also Has A Denier For President: What Citizens Are Doing to Fight Coronavirus

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veteranstoday--2020-06-11--General Milley apologizes for Trump’s using him for political gain

[ Editor ’ s Note : “ Why now ” has Milley taken this step ?
Was he consulting with others ?
Was he waiting to see what Trump would do to back up his claims of taking America ’ s streets back from rioters ?
We have already seen them use excessive force on pumped up protesters .
Milley has effectively lined up with a growing and respected list of top command officers who have charged Trump with misusing the military as a political tool to frame him as Mr. Law and Order saving the country .
At the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is treating Covid like he claimed early on with his “ it ’ s all going to disappear ” statement early in the pandemic .
Dr. Fauci has been effectively banished , with no more White House briefings , which appear to be an attempt to steer the public ’ s attention away from the pandemic , while Trump claims victory for , in between sipping his bleach drink .
I would bet $ 5 that General Milley might be daring Trump to fire him so that Milley can resign , retire and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizen , but still representing the troops .
The list of top ranking government officials continues to grow , with 1300 requesting that the DoD ’ s inspector general look into the clearing of a peaceful public protest in Lafayette Square that enabled Trump to stage a campaign photo op .
Trump can not brand them all Obama lovers , as we had an earlier batch of former Pentagon people protest Trump ’ s threat to put troops on America ’ s streets to frame himself as the tough guy president .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was an Ivanka idea , which means one of her Israeli handlers .
Trump sent the National Guard back home , but the damage can not be undone .
The Orange buffoon is collecting and manufacturing diversions , hoping people will forget about his earlier claim that the virus threat was a hoax .
Weeks later , he was asked a question in a White House press conference , “ Did he feel any responsibility for those that died ?
” Trump replied that he was “ not responsible for anything ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > Milley advised the students that it is important to keep “ a keen sense of situational awareness ” and that he had failed to do so as he walked from Lafayette Square in combat fatigues alongside the president , Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and other senior advisers .
“ As many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ photograph of me in Lafayette Square last week , that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society , ” Milley said .
“ I should not have been there .
My presence in that moment , and in that environment , created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics.
” The apology follows a backlash from several retired senior officers , including Jim Mattis , who served as Trump ’ s first defense secretary .
In a scathing message , Mattis , a retired Marine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working to divide the country and took exception to the events in Lafayette Square .
Mattis was motivated to write in part because he was appalled by the appearance of Milley in an event that critics said made it look as though Trump could use the military as a political club against opponents , several people close to Mattis told The Washington Post .
Mattis ’ remarks marked an extraordinary shift , after he said repeatedly that he believed it was his duty to stay out of politics following his resignation as Pentagon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other opponents of the president had criticized him for his stance , in light of his standing and knowledge of the president .
Senior defense officials , speaking on the condition of anonymity , had said Milley and Esper did not know what the president had planned at St. John ’ s Episcopal Church after walking through Lafayette Square .
Milley did not appear in a group photograph in front of the church that Trump called for , but Esper did .
The two leaders had worked that day to talk the president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ included active-duty soldiers on America ’ s streets , the defense officials said .
Milley ’ s apology came at the end of a speech in which he decried the “ senseless , brutal killing ” of Floyd , a black man who died in custody after a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes .
The incident was captured on video and has prompted protests around the globe about police brutality and racism .
“ His death amplified the pain , the frustration , the fear that so many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in and day out , ” Milley said .
“ The protests that have ensued speak not only to his killing , but to the centuries of injustice toward African Americans.
” Milley also called for military leaders to look for ways to improve equality , noting the military ’ s “ mixed record ” on the issue .
While the military has come to reflect the diversity of the nation , he said , only 7 percent of generals and admirals are African American .
“ We , too , have not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We can not afford to marginalize large portions of our potential talent pool , or alienate certain demographic groups.
” Milley ’ s speech followed an announcement this week by state officials in Kentucky that another black man , David McAtee , was killed May 31 by the Kentucky National Guard at a barbecue restaurant he owned , thrusting the military further into the spotlight about its involvement in quelling national unrest .
The Louisville Metro Police Department have released surveillance footage that it says shows McAtee had fired a pistol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his restaurant with pepper balls .
Guard members returned fire along with police after McAtee fired from the door of his shop , the Guard said in a statement .
Brig .
Gen. Hal Lamberton , the Kentucky National Guard ’ s senior officer , said in the statement that he believes an investigation “ will conclude that it was a measured response from the National Guard that night.
” Milley did not mention the killing in Louisville .
He said the National Guard has provided excellent support to law enforcement authorities as @ @ @ @ @

…from the Washington Post
[ Editor’s Note: “Why now” has Milley taken this step? Was he consulting with others? Was he waiting to see what Trump would do to back up his claims of taking America’s streets back from rioters? We have already seen them use excessive force on pumped up protesters.
Milley has effectively lined up with a growing and respected list of top command officers who have charged Trump with misusing the military as a political tool to frame him as Mr. Law and Order saving the country.
At the same time, Trump’s administration is treating Covid like he claimed early on with his “it’s all going to disappear” statement early in the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has been effectively banished, with no more White House briefings, which appear to be an attempt to steer the public’s attention away from the pandemic, while Trump claims victory for, in between sipping his bleach drink.
I would bet $5 that General Milley might be daring Trump to fire him so that Milley can resign, retire and enter the reelection fray as a private citizen, but still representing the troops. The list of top ranking government officials continues to grow, with 1300 requesting that the DoD’s inspector general look into the clearing of a peaceful public protest in Lafayette Square that enabled Trump to stage a campaign photo op. Trump cannot brand them all Obama lovers, as we had an earlier batch of former Pentagon people protest Trump’s threat to put troops on America’s streets to frame himself as the tough guy president. There had been a rumor that Lafayette Square was an Ivanka idea, which means one of her Israeli handlers. Trump sent the National Guard back home, but the damage cannot be undone. The Orange buffoon is collecting and manufacturing diversions, hoping people will forget about his earlier claim that the virus threat was a hoax. Weeks later, he was asked a question in a White House press conference, “Did he feel any responsibility for those that died?” Trump replied that he was “not responsible for anything”, something no American president has ever said … Jim W. Dean ] Jim's Editor’s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal
Jim's work includes research, field trips, Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more. Thanks for helping. Click to donate >> – First published … June 11, 2020 – The Pentagon’s top general apologized on Thursday for appearing alongside President Trump near the White House after authorities forcibly removed peaceful protesters from the area, saying that it “was a mistake that I have learned from.” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the remarks in a prerecorded graduation speech to students at the National Defense University. He has been roundly criticized for thrusting the military into politics by walking alongside the president on June 1 as Trump traveled on foot to a nearby church that had been damaged during protests following the police killing of George Floyd. Milley advised the students that it is important to keep “a keen sense of situational awareness” and that he had failed to do so as he walked from Lafayette Square in combat fatigues alongside the president, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and other senior advisers. “As many of you saw the results of the photograph of me in Lafayette Square last week, that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society,” Milley said. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment, and in that environment, created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” The apology follows a backlash from several retired senior officers, including Jim Mattis, who served as Trump’s first defense secretary. In a scathing message, Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, blasted the president for working to divide the country and took exception to the events in Lafayette Square. Mattis was motivated to write in part because he was appalled by the appearance of Milley in an event that critics said made it look as though Trump could use the military as a political club against opponents, several people close to Mattis told The Washington Post. Mattis’ remarks marked an extraordinary shift, after he said repeatedly that he believed it was his duty to stay out of politics following his resignation as Pentagon chief in 2018. Many Democrats and other opponents of the president had criticized him for his stance, in light of his standing and knowledge of the president. Senior defense officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, had said Milley and Esper did not know what the president had planned at St. John’s Episcopal Church after walking through Lafayette Square. Milley did not appear in a group photograph in front of the church that Trump called for, but Esper did. The two leaders had worked that day to talk the president out of a much heavier response that included active-duty soldiers on America’s streets, the defense officials said. Milley’s apology came at the end of a speech in which he decried the “senseless, brutal killing” of Floyd, a black man who died in custody after a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The incident was captured on video and has prompted protests around the globe about police brutality and racism. “His death amplified the pain, the frustration, the fear that so many of our fellow Americans live with day in and day out,” Milley said. “The protests that have ensued speak not only to his killing, but to the centuries of injustice toward African Americans.” Milley also called for military leaders to look for ways to improve equality, noting the military’s “mixed record” on the issue. While the military has come to reflect the diversity of the nation, he said, only 7 percent of generals and admirals are African American. “We, too, have not come far enough,” he said. “We cannot afford to marginalize large portions of our potential talent pool, or alienate certain demographic groups.” Milley’s speech followed an announcement this week by state officials in Kentucky that another black man, David McAtee, was killed May 31 by the Kentucky National Guard at a barbecue restaurant he owned, thrusting the military further into the spotlight about its involvement in quelling national unrest. The Louisville Metro Police Department have released surveillance footage that it says shows McAtee had fired a pistol as police cleared a parking lot outside his restaurant with pepper balls. Guard members returned fire along with police after McAtee fired from the door of his shop, the Guard said in a statement. Brig. Gen. Hal Lamberton, the Kentucky National Guard’s senior officer, said in the statement that he believes an investigation “will conclude that it was a measured response from the National Guard that night.” Milley did not mention the killing in Louisville. He said the National Guard has provided excellent support to law enforcement authorities as they respond to protests.
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veteranstoday--2020-06-11--Does Your Blood Type Determine If You Will Get Coronavirus?

People With O Blood Type Appear to Have a Lower Risk of Catching Coronavirus , Preliminary Study Says Having the O blood type may reduce a person ’ s chances of catching the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 , according to preliminary research by biotechnology company 23andMe .
Early data from over 750,000 people taking part in an ongoing study suggests that those with the O blood type are between 9 to 18 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus than others .
In individuals who had likely been exposed to the virus , such as healthcare and essential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases , those with the O blood group were 13 to 26 percent less likely to test positive .
The team didn ’ t find a significant difference in how susceptible those with other blood types were .
Those with type O were also less likely to be hospitalized .
A spokesperson for 23andMe told Newsweek the results were released on the company ’ s website , and have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal .
Participants of the ongoing study , which launched in April , answered survey questions about whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and whether they had been diagnosed with , received treatment for , or had been hospitalized with COVID-19 .
They also shared their genetic information using 23andMe kits .

People With O Blood Type Appear to Have a Lower Risk of Catching Coronavirus, Preliminary Study Says
by Kashmira Gander/Newsweek
Having the O blood type may reduce a person’s chances of catching the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to preliminary research by biotechnology company 23andMe.
Early data from over 750,000 people taking part in an ongoing study suggests that those with the O blood type are between 9 to 18 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus than others. In individuals who had likely been exposed to the virus, such as healthcare and essential workers and those with known contact with cases, those with the O blood group were 13 to 26 percent less likely to test positive. The team didn’t find a significant difference in how susceptible those with other blood types were. Those with type O were also less likely to be hospitalized.
A spokesperson for 23andMe told Newsweek the results were released on the company’s website, and have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Participants of the ongoing study, which launched in April, answered survey questions about whether they have had cold or flu-like symptoms, and whether they had been diagnosed with, received treatment for, or had been hospitalized with COVID-19. They also shared their genetic information using 23andMe kits. Read More:
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veteranstoday--2020-06-11--Regeneron Begins Human Testing of Experimental Antibody Cocktail to Treat COVID-19

( Reuters ) – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Thursday said it has begun human testing of its experimental antibody cocktail as a treatment for COVID-19 , the disease caused by the novel coronavirus .
The trial has an “ adaptive ” design and could quickly move from dozens of patients to eventually include thousands , Chief Scientific Officer George Yancopoulos told Reuters .
“ If it goes perfectly well , within a week or two we will move to the second phase .
Within a month or so of that we will have clear data that this is or isn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of summer , we could have sufficient data for broad utilization.
” The dual antibody , called REGN-COV2 , is being compared with a placebo treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients , and in COVID-19 patients who have symptoms but are not sick enough to be hospitalized .
Regeneron also plans to study REGN-COV2 for preventing the infection in people at high-risk of exposure – such as healthcare workers – and in uninfected people with close exposure to someone who has tested positive for the virus .
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Regeneron begins human testing of COVID-19 antibody cocktail
by Deena Beasley/Reuters
(Reuters) – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Thursday said it has begun human testing of its experimental antibody cocktail as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
The trial has an “adaptive” design and could quickly move from dozens of patients to eventually include thousands, Chief Scientific Officer George Yancopoulos told Reuters.
“If it goes perfectly well, within a week or two we will move to the second phase. Within a month or so of that we will have clear data that this is or isn’t working. By the end of summer, we could have sufficient data for broad utilization.”
Regeneron shares rose about 2% in early trading.
The dual antibody, called REGN-COV2, is being compared with a placebo treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and in COVID-19 patients who have symptoms but are not sick enough to be hospitalized. Regeneron also plans to study REGN-COV2 for preventing the infection in people at high-risk of exposure – such as healthcare workers – and in uninfected people with close exposure to someone who has tested positive for the virus.
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veteranstoday--2020-06-11--Lilly COVID-19 Treatment Could Be Approved In September

Exclusive : Lilly COVID-19 treatment could be authorized for use as soon as September – chief scientist ( Reuters ) – Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing , its chief scientist told Reuters on Wednesday .
Lilly is also doing preclinical studies of a third antibody treatment for the illness caused by the new coronavirus that could enter human clinical trials in the coming weeks , Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Skovronsky said in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human trials with two of the experimental therapies .
The drugs belong to a class of biotech medicines called monoclonal antibodies widely used to treat cancer , rheumatoid arthritis and many other conditions .
A monoclonal antibody drug developed against COVID-19 is likely to be more effective than repurposed medicines currently being tested against the virus .
Skovronsky said the therapies – which may also be used to prevent the disease – could beat a vaccine to widespread use as a COVID-19 treatment , if they prove effective .
“ For the treatment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretty fast , ” he said in an interview .
“ If in August or September we ’ re seeing the people who got treated are not progressing to hospitalization , that would be powerful …..read more :

Exclusive: Lilly COVID-19 treatment could be authorized for use as soon as September – chief scientist
by Carl O’Donnell, Michael Erman/Reuters
(Reuters) – Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing, its chief scientist told Reuters on Wednesday.
Lilly is also doing preclinical studies of a third antibody treatment for the illness caused by the new coronavirus that could enter human clinical trials in the coming weeks, Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Skovronsky said in an interview.
Lilly has already launched human trials with two of the experimental therapies. The drugs belong to a class of biotech medicines called monoclonal antibodies widely used to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and many other conditions. A monoclonal antibody drug developed against COVID-19 is likely to be more effective than repurposed medicines currently being tested against the virus. Skovronsky said the therapies – which may also be used to prevent the disease – could beat a vaccine to widespread use as a COVID-19 treatment, if they prove effective. “For the treatment indication, particularly, this could go pretty fast,” he said in an interview. “If in August or September we’re seeing the people who got treated are not progressing to hospitalization, that would be powerful …..read more:
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veteranstoday--2020-06-12--Brain Cells Can Hide and Spread HIV Virus to the Body

Brain Cells Can Harbor and Spread HIV Virus to the Body Researchers have found that astrocytes , a type of brain cell , can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs .
HIV moved from the brain via this route even when the virus was suppressed by combination antiretroviral therapy ( cART ) , a standard treatment for HIV .
The study , conducted by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and published in PLOS Pathogens , was funded by the National Institutes of Health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role of the brain as a reservoir of HIV that is capable of re-infecting the peripheral organs with the virus , ” said Jeymohan Joseph , Ph.D. , chief of the HIV Neuropathogenesis , Genetics , and Therapeutics Branch at NIH ’ s National Institute of Mental Health , which co-funded the study .
“ The findings suggest that in order to eradicate HIV from the body , cure strategies must address the role of the central nervous system.
” HIV attacks the immune system by infecting CD4 positive ( CD4+ ) T @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cell that is vital to fighting off infection .
Without treatment , HIV can destroy CD4+ T cells , reducing the body ’ s ability….read more :

Researchers have found that astrocytes, a type of brain cell, can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs. HIV moved from the brain via this route even when the virus was suppressed by combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), a standard treatment for HIV. The study, conducted by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and published in PLOS Pathogens, was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“This study demonstrates the critical role of the brain as a reservoir of HIV that is capable of re-infecting the peripheral organs with the virus,” said Jeymohan Joseph, Ph.D., chief of the HIV Neuropathogenesis, Genetics, and Therapeutics Branch at NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health, which co-funded the study. “The findings suggest that in order to eradicate HIV from the body, cure strategies must address the role of the central nervous system.”
HIV attacks the immune system by infecting CD4 positive (CD4+) T cells, a type of white blood cell that is vital to fighting off infection. Without treatment, HIV can destroy CD4+ T cells, reducing the body’s ability….read more: