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One enormously moving moment in the House Select Committee hearings in 2021 was the testimony by Shaye Moss (Andrea ArShaye Moss) about the abuse she and her mother (Ruby Freeman) endured after they were unjustly accused of election fraud by Rudy...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
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Anthrax. The bogeyman of the early 2000s, a weapon of mass destruction, a soil bacterium gone rogue. Anthrax can kill within 10 days and spores survive outside a host up to 48 years. But does it still matter, nearly two decades on? Thirty-five infected...
by Avani Sudhakar
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on Mon Mar 07, 2022 at 08:28 AM PST
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A news report at Huffington Post tells of Frog News Network podcaster and antivaxxer Doug Kuzma who has ended up on a ventilator in a medically-induced coma after attending a “ReAwaken America” event in Dallas in December. Right-Wing Podcaster...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Dec 27, 2021 at 07:35 PM PST
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Do you ever wonder why the “arsenal of democracy”—which co-invented (with Germany) the astoundingly effective mRNA vaccines—can barely produce enough vaccines for its own people, while viral variants like omicron, with more likely to come, require...
by dratler
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on Fri Dec 24, 2021 at 06:27 PM PST
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In yet another extreme departure from reality and into the stuff of sci-fi, several presenters and attendees at the ReAwaken America Tour fell ill after the Dallas, Texas, event—but, instead of putting the blame where it obviously lies (we are in the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Wed Dec 22, 2021 at 12:30 PM PST
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Last night’s new episode of Bull started with Michael Weatherly giving a disclaimer: the episode is a work of fiction. Although it seems to address current health concerns, the episode was written,
by Alonso del Arte
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on Tue Mar 17, 2020 at 08:10 PM PDT
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Climate science denier and conspiracy theorist Jim Steele is arguing that a recent outbreak of deadly anthrax in northern Russia was not caused in the way it was caused.
Now, Jim is not a Big Name Celebrity. He's an occasional blogger at the...
by OutOnALimb
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on Fri Sep 02, 2016 at 04:52 PM PDT
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It started about a decade ago when I read a book on the 1918 Spanish Flu, during which the worst month in Oct 1918 almost 200,000 died in America. Thousands dead in every major American city and 30 to 50 million people across the globe died. . We have...
by radicalink
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on Sat Aug 06, 2016 at 09:26 PM PDT
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As if mystery sinkholes and rubbery ground were not warnings enough, climate change and unusual warming have brought new threats to the north of the planet. Anthrax, also known as the “Siberian ...
by tubacat
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on Tue Aug 02, 2016 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Kaci Hickox reports in the Dailas News that a nurse who has been treating Ebola patients for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone is complaining that she is being held in mandatory quarantine ...
by HoundDog
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on Sat Oct 25, 2014 at 05:02 PM PDT
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While the C.D.C. asserts that U.S. Hospitals are well prepared for any cases of Ebola, Julie Steenhuysen writes that U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients.
by HoundDog
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on Fri Oct 03, 2014 at 12:04 PM PDT
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CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden angry and shuts down labs after scares with anthrax, smallpox, and H5N1 CDC Special Pathogens Branch (SPB) lab tech
immerses pathogens in liquid nitrogen ...
by HoundDog
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on Sat Jul 12, 2014 at 05:39 PM PDT
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"It's Alive!" Smallpox vials misplaced in 1972 are still alive, NIH promises to look around for more
Jen Christensen of CNN reports the alarming news that CDC: Smallpox found in NIH storage room is alive.
(CNN) -- At ...
by HoundDog
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on Fri Jul 11, 2014 at 08:36 PM PDT
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Both CNN and The Guardian are reporting that Anthrax exposure a risk for as many as 75 US scientists, CDC says. By failing to follow proper procedures the scientist did not "inactivate" or ...
by HoundDog
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on Thu Jun 19, 2014 at 01:13 PM PDT
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Letter to Obama contained 'suspicious substance'
A letter addressed to President Obama containing what the Secret Service calls "a suspicious substance" was intercepted Tuesday at a mail screening ...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Apr 17, 2013 at 08:28 AM PDT
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I don't pretend to know what the repercussions of such testing would be for children. But I do know that for me, regardless of the chances of a possible threat from Anthrax spores in the future; I ...
by markthshark
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on Wed Mar 20, 2013 at 06:02 AM PDT
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As a quick glance at his record shows , no American political figure has been as consistently and catastrophically wrong on matters of national security than John McCain. (Worse still, McCain's out-
by Jon Perr
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on Thu Jan 31, 2013 at 11:14 AM PST
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In today's New York Times International Herald Tribune, Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, considers the ...
by kck
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on Sat Sep 08, 2012 at 12:50 PM PDT
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/bidens-brother-says-suspicious-package-was-mailed-to-1890849.html
OCEAN RIDGE — The envelope mailed to the Ocean Ridge home of Vice President ...
by route66
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on Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 07:33 AM PDT
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Breaking at Salon and Raw Story
"President Obama... actually threatened to veto the entire intelligence authorization bill if it included a proposed bipartisan amendment (passed by the House) ...
by Bardo
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on Tue Jul 19, 2011 at 12:27 PM PDT
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