While you were occupied ... This is the real news

While you were occupied ... This is the real news

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

While you were occupied ... This is the real news

But first: BREAKING NEWS: President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday. Some reports were saying he was going to be “processed” and held “loosely” by U.S. Marshals. Other reports said he is “in federal custody.” The latter sounds much scarier. This is the first time a former U.S President has been arrested by the federal Department of Justice. Last month he was arrested by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.

There’s a giant hole where the news should be. Under most circumstances, the following stories would be considered a big deal. Only now, when the only goal of the media industrial complex is to destroy one flashy billionaire, are these stories buried.
But these stories — and the ignorance about them — will have consequences for every single American. They reach into our schools and our homes. But for some reason, they have been minimized, censored and discredited by both corporate and social media.

How is it even possible that Twitter can't keep child porn off of its site?

How is it even possible that Twitter can't keep child porn off of its site?

Tatiana Prophet
Technology

The key to understanding Twitter is to realize that it’s a den of child exploitation, and that the company’s default position is that explicit material is unknowingly becoming part of its revenue stream. But there is evidence going back 10 years that the company is at a minimum guilty of placing children at the bottom of its priority list.

As of December 2020, Twitter received the lowest overall rating, compared to other platforms – including Bing, Facebook, Pornhub, and XVideos – by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection® for its reporting structure of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)..

Is Biden slow-walking Trump's Canada drug import rule?

Is Biden slow-walking Trump's Canada drug import rule?

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

Last-minute switcheroos are common in the Canada drug importation proposals: who can forget the outcry from progressives when in early January 2017, Cory Booker and several other Democrats voted against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ amendment (co-sponsored with Sen. Amy Klobuchar) to the lame-duck budget resolution that would have “establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to lower prescription drug prices for Americans by importing drugs from Canada.”

DOJ's Breonna Taylor suit ignores key evidence

DOJ's Breonna Taylor suit ignores key evidence

Tatiana Prophet
Public Safety

The investigation by the Louisville Police Department into the drug ring that included Breonna Taylor has been misrepresented by both local and national media, and most recently by the attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland. We know this because of the police file that was leaked after her death, which showed a pattern of evidence dating back to 2016 that connected her to the drug kingpin.

Finally, some real data on pregnancy and Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine

Finally, some real data on pregnancy and Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine

Tatiana Prophet
Covid-19

There were 270 women who became pregnant in the course of the Pfizer/BioNTech clinical trials. In the three months after emergency use authorization (EUA), 23 women had “spontaneous abortions,” a rate of 8.5 percent. In all of 2019, the U.S. rate of fetal death was 5.7 per 1,000, a rate of .57 percent. That amounts to a 15-fold increase in fetal death compared with the 2019 “control” group.

The Mystery of SARS-CoV-2: Why does it kill some and not others?

The Mystery of SARS-CoV-2: Why does it kill some and not others?

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

The key to virus and vaccine side effects is the deadly spike protein that can bind to cells all over the body

PHOTO: Rutland (Mass.) Police Detective John Songy and his wife Joanne Songy. Both were hospitalized with Covid-19 in the spring of 2020. John didn’t make it.

By Tatiana Prophet

The SARS-CoV-2 virus attaches to a type of cell receptor that is found almost everywhere in the body, including white and red blood cells. So it would seem obvious why people have such widely differing symptoms. This is not just a respiratory disease.

The body’s ACE2 receptors are the locks that the virus’s iconic spike protein “key” penetrates. And these “locks” are found in the lungs, kidneys, gut and brain. This is why preventing cell entry is so important – and by many accounts, is not as complicated as we’ve been led to believe. This is why keeping the body environment hostile to the virus is easing the fears of many who seek healthy food, clean air, exercise and an alkaline bodily environment.

There are 2,555 'surge' beds in LA County, and they are 11% occupied

There are 2,555 'surge' beds in LA County, and they are 11% occupied

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

By Tatiana Prophet

LOS ANGELES — For the second time this year, beaches in the sprawling Los Angeles County show warning signs in blinking lights: “do not gather.” Swing sets are taped up high above parents’ heads. Outdoor dining is banned. Public schools are clearing out their teachers, who had been conducting zoom classes from their classrooms to the children at home. (And yet, unexpectedly, the L.A. County Parks and Recreation web site hasn’t updated its “Trails Closed” alerts since Sept. 9.)

Governor Newsom’s tweet above states that regions in the state that fall below 15 percent ICU capacity will impose stay-at-home orders for three weeks. Los Angeles County has had the brunt of cases, hospitalizations and deaths all year. But it’s being lumped together with other counties inland where existing ICU beds have filled up rapidly. So then why isn’t he telling us about the more than 2,500 beds that are currently not staffed, but are waiting to be brought online in L.A. County?

10 ways to make Democrats love FOX News

10 ways to make Democrats love FOX News

Tatiana Prophet
Media

By Tatiana Prophet

In spite of dominating the national cable ratings for 18 years as the most-watched cable news station, for decades, FOX News channel has been knocked around by other media and pundits as a pariah, as the Guardian put it in January 2017, with “a cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over the network at all times.”

In fact, bashing “Faux News” is almost an entry ticket into polite society — at least the one with college graduates in it. It was accepted as fact that FOX News viewers were “bitter,” as candidate Obama put it, because of the loss of factory jobs, and that this loss made them “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” He was speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in April 2008.

But what “polite” society missed for those 18 years was that FOX News’ viewer base was made up of much more than bitter Christians and gun “nuts.” What the elite missed, and what they’re still missing, is the unifying factor for FOX News viewers: the belief in personal responsibility and hard work, the belief in actual common sense, self-reliance and the importance of instilling those values into their offspring. These were the FOX News viewers, and in their opinion, traditional networks, plus Ted Turner’s CNN, were no longer reporting the news. They were spinning it. College grads and corporate worker bees tittered each time they heard Bill O’Reilly tell his audience (sadly made up of their own often parental family members) that they were entering the “no-spin zone.”

The Big and Little Lies About Reproductive Health

The Big and Little Lies About Reproductive Health

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

Photo: Jemarius Jachin Harbor, Jr., born at 21 weeks gestation in December 2019 at Emory University Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., is the youngest preemie ever to be born. His mother, Jessica McPherson, had lost her previous two pregnancies at 22 weeks. She told Fox 5 Atlanta: “We looked at each other in the eye and I told him just give it a try. I just want you to try as long as you try that’s all that matters to me, don’t just up and say that you can’t do it. Just ‘cause you haven’t done it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”

By TATIANA PROPHET

Every year in the United States, between 7,000 and 15,000 fetuses are aborted late in their development (21 weeks or more). More than half are healthy.

Wait, this can’t be true – right? Only 1 percent of all abortions are after 21 weeks. With total annual abortions hovering over or under 1 million, that 1 percent is actually a lot of procedures.

By abortion advocates’ own admission, the number of late-term abortions per year is roughly 15,000.

Further, according to the same study, most late-term abortions are elective.

“The body of research on women who have dealt with fetal anomalies or life endangerment … describes … pregnancy wantedness and tragic circumstances,” wrote Professor Diana Greene Foster in 2013. “But data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

Her life mattered, even to those whose actions led to her death

Her life mattered, even to those whose actions led to her death

Tatiana Prophet
Public Safety

Phone calls from jail reveal a love triangle and a tragic double life

By TATIANA PROPHET

Breonna Taylor is a legend. Not just because her tragic death has led to the search for social justice in our local, state and national communities; but because her life, and death, when accurately known, are more powerful and game-changing than the narrative we’re receiving.

As an EMT for two hospitals, Taylor’s life was a story of achievement and excellence. It was also about being pursued by a man whose company was somehow so potent, that she was willing to bail him out of jail, hide thousands of dollars for him, and go on drug drop-offs with him, even though she had begun dating someone else — someone with a much more positive pathway.

How unfortunate for us all that we are receiving a watered-down, one-sided, and frankly quite empty characterization of the night of March 13, 2020, as systemic racism emerging with the worst of police overreach: casting about in Louisville for a drug bust.

CDC drops an unexpected bomb: 6 percent of Covid-19 deaths list Covid alone; All others list 2.6 conditions

CDC drops an unexpected bomb: 6 percent of Covid-19 deaths list Covid alone; All others list 2.6 conditions

Tatiana Prophet
Covid-19

STAFF REPORTS

On Saturday night, August 29, 2020, many noticed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a data point on their page entitled “Provisional Deaths.”

The surprising statement was in the introduction to a rather innocuous-seeming chart included under the title: “Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics.”

Under the heading “Comorbidities” came the description: “Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with each condition or cause is shown for all deaths and by age groups. For data on comorbidities, click here to download.”

The Ugly Uncertainty About Covid-19 Deaths

The Ugly Uncertainty About Covid-19 Deaths

Tatiana Prophet
Covid-19

By TATIANA PROPHET

COVID UNCERTAINTY NO. 1: Overall U.S. deaths have risen; but non-Covid deaths appear to be sharply dropping compared with 2019 (year-to-date).

Every year, CDC death records include top causes of death -- and then any remaining causes as a bulk number.

*Preliminary data shows that total deaths YTD for 2020 went up by 153,388 from YTD 2019. But the total "selected" (top-15 plus Covid) deaths use overlapping categories, and they went up by 278,496 (see bar graph).

*We would expect the remaining deaths to stay flat or grow if Covid-19 were causing excess deaths. But instead, non-Covid deaths appear to be headed for a steep drop in 2020 compared with previous years (see lowest bar for 2020). In fact, the “selected” deaths suddenly make up 80 percent of all deaths instead of 70 percent for all previous years since 2014, and did not go up in proportion with the remaining deaths as a portion of the whole.

Read the stories of recent victims of lethal police confrontation

Read the stories of recent victims of lethal police confrontation

Tatiana Prophet
Public Safety

Is there a better way?

April 9, 2020, Brandon, Colo.: Zachary Gifford, 39, was shot after a traffic stop in sparsely populated Kiowa County, Colo. He was a passenger in the pickup truck, and he fled after police pulled over the unnamed driver. “At some point during Gifford's attempted escape, a struggle ensued between two deputies and shots were fired, according to CBI,” stated KRDO.

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This is the only death in this series by an ex cop and not a current police officer. Brunswick, Georgia, Feb. 23, 2020: Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot by an ex-cop’s son after the two were chasing him down suspecting him of robbery.
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Fort Worth, Texas, October 12, 2019: Atatiana Jefferson, 28. A neighbor called police after noticing Atatiana’s door was open. When she heard officers approach, Atatiana (a pre-med graduate) pulled a gun from her purse and pointed it out a bedroom window. Fort Worth Police Chief said she was justified in doing so. Tarrant County DA asked a grand jury to hand down an indictment for murder, saying the officer violated protocol.

COVID-19 TIMELINE: PREDICTION AND DIAGNOSIS

COVID-19 TIMELINE: PREDICTION AND DIAGNOSIS

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

By TATIANA PROPHET

A healthy society should not only have one voice. - Dr. Li Wenliang, reluctant whistleblower, who died of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, after warning his fellow doctors to be alert in their facilities, on a private chat system. Someone leaked his comments and he was reprimanded publicly by police.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 RALPH BARIC, AN INFECTIOUS-DISEASE RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a chimeric virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine. The team included four scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one from the Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens in Wuhan, China, one from Zurich and two from Harvard.

How a California woman went untested for coronavirus for 4 days

How a California woman went untested for coronavirus for 4 days

Tatiana Prophet
Health Care

By Anna Maria Berry-Jester and Rachel Bluth

Just weeks into the federal government’s efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, a new California case has exposed weaknesses in the testing procedures that could be masking more widespread reach of the disease.

A woman in Solano County, California, who hadn’t traveled abroad or had contact with another known patient with the illness was diagnosed with the virus Wednesday, raising concerns that cases are going undetected because of the federal government’s narrow testing protocols.

The patient sought care at a local hospital before being transferred to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento because of the severity of her case, according to a letter hospital officials sent to members of the campus community. Suspecting coronavirus, doctors at UC Davis asked public health officials about testing for COVID-19, the name given to the illness believed to have originated in Wuhan, China.

In defense of Ukraine

In defense of Ukraine

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

By Tatiana Prophet

In the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Democrats have pointed to lethal defensive aid for Ukraine that was held up by the President as a clear example of abuse of power.

According to a Government Accountability Office decision released Jan. 16, 2020, President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated the law when he ordered a pause in lethal aid to Ukraine that was authorized by the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019.

“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the decision stated. “OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.”

What you need to know: An impartial impeachment guide

What you need to know: An impartial impeachment guide

Tatiana Prophet
Impeachment

By Tatiana Prophet
Editor-in-Chief

Think back if you can to the utter firestorm that exploded during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, coming just a day after Adam Schiff dropped a huge bombshell in a letter to acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire. The letter accused Maguire of withholding a whistleblower complaint submitted August 12 to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who had deemed it credible and then sent it on to Maguire on August 26.

The complaint, released by the whistleblower’s lawyers at Compass Rose Law Firm

The nation was still reeling from three mass shootings in a row and the violent death of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan federal prison cell, either at the hands of himself or someone else.

And the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting was about to begin.

Burisma founder: From 'wanted man' to 'in-demand'

Burisma founder: From 'wanted man' to 'in-demand'

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

Part IV: From ‘wanted man’ to ‘in demand’
How Burisma’s founder turned scrutiny into prestige

“I said I’m going to be leaving here in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting a billion dollars. Well, son of a bitch. Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid. At the time.” — Joe Biden, January 2018.

By Tatiana Prophet

According to James Risen at The Intercept and Lucian Kim at National Public Radio, when Joe Biden called for a prosecutor to be fired in 2016, that prosecutor was not investigating Biden’s son Hunter; according to everyone in the Western world, Viktor Shokin was corrupt himself and had no interest in exposing corruption. Why, then, did Shokin’s replacement close the books on the investigation into Hunter’s employer, Burisma Holdings?

Wrote Risen: “The then-vice president issued his demands for greater anti-corruption measures by the Ukrainian government despite the possibility that those demands would actually increase – not lessen — the chances that Hunter Biden and Burisma would face legal trouble in Ukraine.”

Follow the money ... if you can

Follow the money ... if you can

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

Part II: Billions in, billions out

Ukraine is still the second poorest country in Europe in wealth per capita, so where does U.S. aid go?

By Tatiana Prophet

From a large American think tank to scads of non-governmental organizations to the American embassy in Kyiv, the “concern trolls” have been working overtime in Ukraine. Time and again, when you look at the last two decades, these always well-meaning outsiders have been laying out action plans and guiding principles for Ukrainians to end corruption and enact “market reforms” – and yet, money is still being laundered, oligarchs have continued living abroad to avoid prosecution, and almost half of Ukrainian citizens admitted in 2017 to giving petty bribes to doctors and universities, often for convenience.

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