CURRENT EVENTS - May 1 - May 7

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[nycfan]

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The nomination of sketchy supplement promoter Nesheiwat for this post apparently died in the Senate, but she will be offered an unspecified role at HHS anyway. Meanwhile a medical influencer focused on metabolism and “optimal cellular biology” as the secret to health is nominated instead. She seems sort of on California granola eat clean guru side of things — hopefully genuinely interested in promoting healthy behavior (though her website looks like a bajillion other diet sites).

Dr. Means’ website: Casey Means MD

Nesheiwat is a certified quack, so hopefully this is an upgrade to harmless wellness guru.

Interesting



Loomer’s beef is about support of the COVID vaccine and concern about vaccine hesitancy. But it also sounds like the former Fox personality was in hot water over misleading claims about her credentials. My guess is Loomer came hard after Nesheiwat after it became evident the nomination was in doubt, but if there finally was a scheduled hearing on the nomination in the Senate, then Loomer may well have tanked it since we know the Senate has been approving virtually anyone Trump nominates, and is unlikely to schedule a hearing if they lack the votes.

 

[Geisterfahrer]

Interesting



Loomer’s beef is about support of the COVID vaccine and concern about vaccine hesitancy. But it also sounds like the former Fox personality was in hot water over misleading claims about her credentials. My guess is Loomer came hard after Nesheiwat after it became evident the nomination was in doubt, but if there finally was a scheduled hearing on the nomination in the Senate, then Loomer may well have tanked it since we know the Senate has been approving virtually anyone Trump nominates, and is unlikely to schedule a hearing if they lack the votes.

Because Loomer, probably the key “weakness” was the candidate’s melanin levels.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Is this real life ?

and the beat goes on alienating one country after another...

'We will never sign!' Trump stuns as he issues 'bizarre' demand to Swedish city

The United States is requiring businesses and government offices in Stockholm, Sweden, to comply with the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies, according to Swedish news outlet Dagens Nyheter. "Stockholm's urban planning office must not work for diversity, equity, and inclusion," according...

www.rawstory.com

I don't think he is, but if Trump was secretly doing Putin's bidding and was deliberately trying to undermine our economy and international standing and political system he couldn't be doing a better job of it. In fact, if he was deliberately trying to wreck and undermine the country you'd have to say that he was doing a fabulous job. However, I don't think he is willingly trying to wreck the country, I think he's just a total idiot and moron who has no fucking clue what he's doing and whose greatest life success has been to convince half the country that he's some kind of patriotic savior and genius. Although he is no doubt a Putin stooge, albeit probably a clueless one, as well as a Saudi Arabian stooge, Orban stooge, and for pretty much every other global strongman.

 

[nycfan]

Interesting



Loomer’s beef is about support of the COVID vaccine and concern about vaccine hesitancy. But it also sounds like the former Fox personality was in hot water over misleading claims about her credentials. My guess is Loomer came hard after Nesheiwat after it became evident the nomination was in doubt, but if there finally was a scheduled hearing on the nomination in the Senate, then Loomer may well have tanked it since we know the Senate has been approving virtually anyone Trump nominates, and is unlikely to schedule a hearing if they lack the votes.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Has this person ever been on a farm before? As someone posted in the replies - “I can get a good look at a T-Bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it."

 

[Zoo_View]

I knew a woman in Freeport, ME who had a “herd” of 20 cows. It was a rare breed. She contracted for sperm from bulls of the same breed. She had no bulls on her farm. She sold off the new calves as soon as they were ready.

She sold raw milk and raw milk yogurt. Her farm was spotless. Her barn was spotless. She washed each cow thoroughly prior to milking. She washed each cow thoroughly after milking.

Her farm wasn’t organic. If a cow got sick, she called in the vet and followed the vet’s treatment advice. She was trying to preserve a rare breed, not be organic.

People paid a premium for raw milk and raw milk yogurt. But, she didn’t make squat. She was trying to figure out how to make and wholesale raw milk cheese (that’s where I fit in - she could sell me raw milk cheese - not wholesale milk or yogurt). If she could have wholesaled raw milk cheese, she’d never again have to deal with people coming to her farm to buy milk or yogurt. People coming to her farm wasted time and contaminated shit.

Raw milk cheese that’s aged 60+ days is pretty damn safe - it has a shitload of salt in it.

Raw milk and raw milk yogurt from this woman’s farm likely was safe. But, to buy it you had to go to her farm AND pay a lot for it.

It was a crunchy-granola wealthy person’s milk and obsession.

 

[dcphx]

“… Since the Republican began his second term in January, seven migrants have died while in the custody of immigration police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Blaise and two other migrants died in Florida, while one died in Arizona, another in Missouri, one in Texas, and one more in Puerto Rico. The individuals ranged in age from 27 to 55, and came from different corners of the globe: Haiti, Honduras, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Ethiopia.

… Last year, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) investigation found that between 2017 and 2021, during the first Trump administration and part of the Biden administration, 95% of deaths at ICE-operated facilities could have been prevented “if appropriate medical care had been provided.” …”

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The article does not address whether this rate of deaths in ICE Custody is consistent or a spike from prior years …

Doge will probably list them as saving the cost of the deportation flight.

 

[dcphx]

US has $21T underground city for rich to hide in a ‘near-extinction event’: official

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.

www.independent.co.uk

The U.S. has built a secret underground “city” costing $21 trillion where the ultra-wealthy can hide out druing a “near-extinction event,” a former government official has claimed.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under president George H.W. Bush, made the shocking allegation on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, according to Realtor.com.

A stunning $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” occurred in the department between 1998-2015, according to a 2017 report released by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore.


Skidmore’s report had been prompted by Fitts referring “to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”

“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.

While on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Fitts said she spent years investigating where the $21 trillion had gone – and discovered there were 170 secret underground bases across the U.S.

An underground city where the US President lives after a doomsday event is literally the general premise of a Hulu show called Paradise that started in January. At least be a little bit creative instead of just ripping off a show that is already being broadcast.

 

[hedge]

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