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Coronavirus vaccine guinea pigs will be military, vulnerable and essential workers - US officials

Patricia Kime
Military.com
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:31 UTC
Corps
© (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Stormy Mendez)Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, receive Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals for their role in Operation Gotham, on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, June 16, 2020.
U.S. service members would be among the first Americans to receive the vaccine against COVID-19 if one is proven to be safe and effective, senior administration officials told reporters Tuesday.

Speaking about the Trump administration's effort to develop, make and distribute a working vaccine against the deadly coronavirus by early next year, officials said those likely to receive it first include the most vulnerable, such as the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, workers in essential businesses and the U.S. military.

"Our role, as the federal government, is to ensure anyone who is vulnerable, cannot afford it and desire it can get it, those critical to infrastructure get it, essential workers get it, and those associated with national defense get it. That's our obligation," the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak in an official capacity.

Comment: And the story comes full circle: CDC suddenly shuts down US Army's Fort Detrick bioweapons lab due to 'lapses in safety'

Although it's nothing new because the military often uses its soldiers as guinea pigs:

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Another K-pop singer dies young: Yohan aged 28


The Guardian
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:44 UTC
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© InstagramK-pop star Yohan, who has died aged 28.
Kim Jeong-hwan, known as Yohan in the Korean pop group TST, has died aged 28.

TST's record label, KJ Entertainment confirmed the news, saying: "We are sad to relay the most unfortunate, sorrowful news. On June 16, TST member Yohan left this world. The late Yohan's family is currently in deep mourning." The cause of death has not been announced.

Yohan entered the K-pop scene in 2013 with the group NOM (No Other Man),and in 2017 joined the six-piece group TST, who reached the South Korean Top 30 with their EPs Time's Up and Wake Up.

Comment: See also: Disturbing list of K-Pop star deaths leaves many wondering what's behind them

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'Defund the UN'? World body blasted after tweeting defense of Antifa


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:36 UTC
Antifa activists
© Reuters / Stephanie KeithAntifa activists fly flags during a protest in Warren, Michigan.
A tweet from Geneva objecting to US authorities describing Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization has provoked calls to defund the United Nations and accusations that the UN is covering for the group.

"UN Human Rights experts express profound concern over a recent statement by the US Attorney-General describing [Antifa] and other anti-fascist activists as domestic terrorists, saying it undermines the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly in the country," the UN Geneva office, home to the Human Rights Council, tweeted on Friday, accompanied by a photo of the Antifa banner.
No further information was given about who these experts might be, or whether this was the official position of the Human Rights Council, a body the US demonstratively left in June 2018, citing its criticism of Israel.

Comment: See also: Project Veritas releases 'Expose Antifa Part 3': Left-wing militia group Redneck Revolt aims to 'abolish the system, including police'

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Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy shines rapper Lecrae's shoes after saying white people should show 'shame' for racism

Nicole Darrah
The Sun
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:32 UTC
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© Passion City ChurchChick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy is seen here shining Christian rapper Lecrae's shoes on Sunday.
The CEO of Chick-Fil-A shined a black rapper's shoes on Sunday and said white people should feel ashamed for "our silence."

Speaking on a panel discussion at the Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, with Christian rapper Lecrae and Louie Giglio, the church's founder, Dan Cathy said of racial injustice: "Most of us, white people, we're out-of-sight, out-of-mind oblivious to it."

Cathy, the son of Chick-Fil-A founder S Truett Cathy, added: "We cannot let this moment pass."

Comment: Chick-fil-A was doing so well on the identity politics nonsense, but eventually they caved. Now their CEO is shining the shoes of rapper in a sign of woke servitude. How far they've fallen.

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Fake doctor accused of causing over three deaths in Greece

Helena Smith
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:30 UTC
Surgeons washing their hands.
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Colleague who saw man seemingly unable to properly sterilise his hands raised alarm

A Greek man accused of fabricating medical qualifications to pose as a doctor, whose bogus cures allegedly resulted in three deaths, fell under suspicion after a real medic spotted his inability to properly sterilise his hands.

The 47-year-old was arrested in Athens on charges of manslaughter and fraud this week.

"He was introduced to us through the church," the father of one of the purported victims told Open TV. "The truth is we believed him [at] first because he was introduced with very important studies from America, New York."

The suspect allegedly administered quack cures to at least 45 people, many suffering from cancer and other incurable conditions.

Comment: Sadly, this isn't the first time we're learned about a psychopath impersonating a physician and inflicting injury or death on hapless victims:

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Oh, come on! Now TV networks are using private detectives to check if reality show stars might have sent a racist tweet or two?

Damian Wilson
RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:18 UTC
Twitter
© Getty Images/Omar Marques
Sending in the thought police to cynically mine the social media accounts of TV show contestants is sinister - and is simply about allowing the networks to take a metaphorical knee to Black Lives Matter.

As the surge towards historical purity continues in the UK and USA, corporates are battling colleges for the upper ground in self-righteous moral superiority. Not only are they toppling statues, but in the entertainment industry even the talent are facing historical cleansing.

The gang of four big television networks in the States that have hired heavyweight private investigator Edwards Myers to deep-mine the social media histories of their reality TV stars are surely just leading the way for what can be expected in the UK and elsewhere.

A closer look at those who have been binned, following the resurfacing of racist social media comments from the past, says it all.
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Watch Portland police tear down 'Autonomous Zone' in front of mayor's house


RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:49 UTC
autonomous zone
© Reuters / Terray SylvesterFILE PHOTOS.
Videos show Portland police removing barricades and disbanding a nascent 'Autonomous Zone' set up by protesters in front of the mayor's home after activists' demands were not met at a city hall meeting.

Demonstrators set up a row of barriers outside Mayor Ted Wheeler's apartment on Thursday morning, but Portland police officers had little patience for the project, moving in quickly to tear them down after declaring the gathering a "civil disturbance" at 5:30 a.m.

Around two dozen officers showed up to the scene in full riot gear to dismantle the barricades, as seen in footage obtained by local channel KATU News.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Americans should never again comply with pandemic lockdown orders

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Jake Vanaman
We're told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We've heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.

What these experts and officials don't seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again. They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.

Simply put, the people in charge have shown themselves to be rank hypocrites who care more about politics than science. For months, we were told that large gatherings were deadly because of the coronavirus, but when protests broke out in late May, large gatherings were suddenly okay.

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Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies aged 92


The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:23 UTC
Jean Kennedy Smith
© Photograph: Jose Goitia/APJean Kennedy Smith walks on the beach at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba on 24 March 2001.
Jean Kennedy Smith, the youngest sister and last surviving sibling of John F Kennedy, who as US envoy played key role in Northern Ireland's peace process in the 1990s, has died aged 92, her daughter confirmed to the New York Times.

Smith died on Wednesday at her Manhattan home in New York City, her daughter Kym told the newspaper.

She was the first Kennedy woman of her generation to take on a serious political job. Like her sisters and the wives of her brothers, she had had roles in family political campaigns, but not in public service.
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Brother of Robert Fuller killed after shooting at police

Vivian Ho
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:13 UTC
Robert Fuller
© Photograph: Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty ImagesA protest in front of Palmdale sheriff’s station to demand an investigation into the death of Robert Fuller, whose body was found last week.
The half-brother of a black man found hanged in a southern California park was killed by the Los Angeles county sheriff's department, the same agency investigating the hanging.

Deputies shot and killed a man in Rosamond, just north of the Los Angeles county border, during a shootout on Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff's department officials said.

The man was identified as Terron Boone by an attorney representing the family of Robert Fuller, the 24-year-old man who was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale last week and whose death is under investigation.

Boone was Fuller's half-brother.
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