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NY Times latest to mislead public on new ivermectin study

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The New York Times on Wednesday sent an email blast to subscribers with the subject line: "Breaking News: Ivermectin failed as a Covid treatment, a large clinical trial found."

The Times was referring to a study I wrote about, that same day, for The Defender.

My article called out the Wall Street Journal for its March 18 reporting on the same study — before the study was even published — for its failure to provide an accurate, critical assessment of the study.

The study in question — "Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19" — was officially published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

In it the authors concluded:
"Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19"

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Bizarro Earth

Deaths among UK's homeless surges 80% in two years

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© Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock'Perhaps the most alarming thing about the record number of people dying homeless is that the figures are likely to get far worse over the next few years.'
Two years ago this week, the government launched a scheme called Everyone In, which did just what it said on the tin. It provided funding to ensure rough sleepers were housed in hotels or hostels during the first lockdown. In a single stroke, it essentially eradicated Britain's street homelessness crisis.

It remains among the only positives to emerge from the pandemic, even if it was introduced to remedy an emergency the Conservatives had ignored during their previous decade in power.

We hoped at the time it would be the start of a concerted, long-term plan to deal with homelessness in general and street homelessness in particular. How naive we were. A few months later the government quietly pulled the plug on the programme. Look around you now, and it's hard to imagine that rough sleepers were living in hotels only a couple of years ago.

Red Flag

Cruise ship that was 100% vaccinated hit with COVID-19 outbreak

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Princess Cruises confirmed that one of its cruise liners, the Ruby Princess, reported a COVID-19 outbreak before docking in San Francisco.

The cruise operator requires passengers and crew members to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.. Princess Cruises also mandates passengers to show a negative COVID-19 test and proof of vaccination to board, according to its website.

Those who tested positive were "isolated and quarantined while monitored and cared for by our shipboard medical team," Princess Cruises said in a statement to news outlets Monday. It did not say how many people tested positive or when they tested positive during the cruise.

Bad Guys

YouTube continues its assault on the press, removes 6 years of Chris Hedges' RT show from platform

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On Monday, YouTube removed six years' worth of episodes of the Emmy-nominated show On Contact by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. The show was produced by RT, formerly Russia Today, but Hedges maintained editorial control.

No explanation, forewarning or notice was given by YouTube, the videos simply disappeared, according to Hedges, who wrote about the experience on ScheerPost in an article titled "On Being Disappeared."
"I received no inquiry or notice from YouTube. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist, then you don't. I suppose this was done in the name of censoring Russian propaganda, although I have a hard time seeing how a detailed discussion of "Ulysses" or the biographies of Susan Sontag and J. Robert Oppenheimer had any connection in the eyes of the most obtuse censors in Silicon Valley with Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there is not one show that dealt with Russia."
On Contact contained interviews with a wide range of individuals. From social commentators like Noam Chomsky and Cornel West, novelist Russell Banks, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, among many others, the show provided a platform for many different voices.

Mr. Potato

US Army to reach its smallest size since 1940 due to recruiting difficulties

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The Army this week admitted it was having problems recruiting and announced an unprecedented reduction in its numbers that would shrink the active duty Army to its smallest size since World War II.

"We're facing, obviously, some challenging conditions in terms of our ability to recruit and attract talent," Under Secretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo said at a press conference on Monday.

Camarillo blamed a "very tight labor market" for the Army's recruiting woes.

"What we're just seeing is given the particular conditions of a very tight labor market, our ability to meet all of our projected recruiting goals were a little bit challenged in FY '22 and FY '23," he said.

Camarillo said the Army's end strength, or total number of forces, would go from 485,000 soldiers currently to 476,000 in fiscal year 2022, which ends in September, and further down to 473,000 in fiscal year 2023.

Chess

Russian military explains actions near Ukrainian capital

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Russian troops near the Ukrainian cities of Kiev and Chernigov are regrouping as the goal of the first stage of their military operation has been completed, the Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday. During a regular press briefing, its spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said the "planned regrouping of troops is taking place [in the] Kiev and Chernigov areas."

He explained that the initial stage of Moscow's military operation involved forcing Ukraine's military "to concentrate its forces, means, resources and military equipment to hold large settlements in these areas, including Kiev," to tie them up, while avoiding storming the cities, and to defeat them in such a way that would prevent them from using these forces "in the main direction of operations of our Armed Forces - in the Donbass."

The Donbass refers to the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, recognised as independent states by Moscow, last month.

Simultaneously, according to the ministry spokesman, Russia, in order to create "all the necessary conditions for carrying out the final stage of the operation to liberate the People's Republics of Donbass" continued targeting "long-term defensive fortifications created by the Kiev regime over eight years."

Bulb

Best of the Web: Another breakaway republic wants to unite with Russia

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South Ossetia, a partially recognized republic in the Caucasus region, will soon be taking legal steps in an attempt to join the Russian Federation, its president, Anatoly Bibilov, has announced.

Most of the world officially regards the territory as part of Georgia, although Tbilisi hasn't held control since the Soviet collapse in 1991.

"I believe that unification with Russia is our strategic goal. Our path, the aspirations of our people. And we will move along this path. We will take appropriate legal steps in the near future. The Republic of South Ossetia will be part of its historical homeland - Russia," Bibilov said.

Located in the South Caucasus, South Ossetia fought a brutal war with Georgia, in the early 1990s, and was recognized by Russia as an independent republic following the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia, prompted by Tbilisi's forces shelling the region, where Russian peacekeepers were stationed.

Attention

History repeats - Illegal to criticize politicians In Germany

Criticism of politicians in Germany is prohibited as "hate speech."
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Attention

Civilian Army leader led child porn ring, risked US security

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© Army via APThis photo shows an entrance to the Network Enterprise Technology Command HQ building at Fort Huachuca in Arizona on June 10, 2012. When David Frodsham returned to his home station in the fall of 2015, he rejoined NETCOM, the army’s information technology service provider, where he had served as director of personnel for a global command of 15,000 soldiers and civilians, according to his Army resume.
David Frodsham was a top civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan when Army commanders ordered him home after investigating multiple complaints of sexual harassment.

"I would not recommend placing him back into a position of authority but rather pursuing disciplinary actions at his home station," wrote one commanding officer when recommending that the Army order Frodsham to leave his post at Bagram Airfield and return to Fort Huachuca, a major Army installation in Arizona, according to a U.S. Army investigative file obtained by The Associated Press.

But when Frodsham returned to his home station in the fall of 2015, he rejoined the Network Enterprise Technology Command, the Army's information technology service provider, where he had served as director of personnel for a global command of 15,000 soldiers and civilians, according to his Army resume.

Comment: Back in 2017 it looks like the biological mother of a girl who was put under the Frodsham's care was trying to get her out with little success, until his egregious crimes got the child removed from his 'care.' An absolutely tragic story of the incompetence of all the agencies involved.

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Black Magic

Best of the Web: California introduces new bill that would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 7 days after birth

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After assaulting basic human rights for over two years, California Governor Gavin Newsom is working on a new INFANTICIDE bill that would legalize the murder of children up to nine months gestation and in the week(s) after birth. The bill has been proposed by Newsom's "Future of Abortion Council" which makes recommendations to "strengthen and expand" abortions in the state of California.

Under California AB 2223, a mother will be shielded from civil and criminal charges for any "actions or omissions" related to her pregnancy. These actions include not only abortion in any stage of pregnancy, but also "perinatal death." Perinatal death is defined as the death of a newborn up to seven days or more.

Comment: What level of insanity and ponerisation do we have in our society when the murder of unborn and born children would be codified as a legal act, and advertised as "women's reproductive rights." This is just unbelievable and unacceptable for any normal human being.

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