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btw, never, ever check into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, L.A
Broadway actor Nick Cordero dies after battle with coronavirus at 41

Kloots recently told "CBS This Morning" that Cordero had been so critically ill that he may have needed a double lung transplant.

"That is most likely the possibility," she said. "A 99% chance that he would be needing that in order to live the kind of life that I know my husband would want to live."

archived April 24

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'Silent spreaders' may be responsible for half of COVID-19 cases

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FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian passes a notice for the Revival International Center (Centro Internacional de Avivamiento) food pantry, in a city hard hit by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., July 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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Studs Turkel, Hard Times. 1970

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News Outlets ["pre-trial publicity"] in George Floyd Cases

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill's gag order in the cases against former Minneapolis officers Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng.
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The nine-page ["news outlet"] motion includes a lengthy list of officials and others who could find themselves silenced under the order, which prohibits "all parties, attorneys, their employees, agents or independent contractors working on their behalf" from speaking to the public or press about "any information, opinions, strategies, plans or potential evidence that relate" to the cases, including discovery and exhibits.

archive Tue Jul 24th, 2018

Meanwhile, Texass Exempts Private Schools From Reopening Restrictions
"'blanket orders closing religious private schools' are violating the U.S. and Texas constitutions and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act." Free uighurs.

Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights

Among the traditions that formed the American spirit, three stand out. Protestant Christianity, widely practiced by the citizenry at the time, was infused with the beautiful Biblical teachings that every human being is imbued with dignity and bears responsibilities toward fellow human beings, because each is made in the image of God. The civic republican ideal, rooted in classical Rome, stressed that freedom and equality under law depend on an ethical citizenry that embraces the obligations of self-government. And classical liberalism put at the front and center of politics the moral premise that human beings are by nature free and equal, which strengthened the political conviction that legitimate government derives from the consent of the governed.

archived Mon Jul 3rd, 2017

de jokes Unalienable vs. Inalienable - What's the Difference?

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Analysts Blast Pompeo's China Speech as Unrealistic, Divorced From Reality  - US News

Robert Daly, a former diplomat with extensive experience in China, including translating for Nixon's former national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, calls Pompeo's view of the Chinese people and their hostility toward the government in Beijing "a dangerous illusion."

"In confronting China, we're not dealing with a wholly good people who have been 'imprisoned' or 'enslaved' by a purely malign party," Daly, now director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. at The Wilson Center think tank, said in an emailed statement. "Chinese are often frustrated by a government [that] ignores their wishes, moves too slowly or moves in the wrong direction, but the available evidence is that, as citizens of the PRC, most Chinese people feel proud and enabled, not constrained."

Pompeo described a Chinese people that he believes are broadly oppressed by the central government, and heralded dissidents - including some in attendance - saying the U.S. must "engage and empower the Chinese people - a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party."

Most Chinese people support their government most of the time, Daly said, citing 33 years of experience working in the country. The support is partly due to propaganda, but also economic progress, he said.

"China is not a land of innocent captives and evil master trolls. U.S.-China relations are not a children's story," Daly said. "In China, the United States faces something far more formidable than Secretary Pompeo suggests: China is a vast, complex, wealthy, ambitious, aggrieved nation. Americans should face this challenge squarely and stop blinding themselves with morally flattering fables."

Joe Biden selects Kamala?! Harris as his running mate
"If elected, she would be the nation's first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president" with baggage.
archived Sun May 5th, 2019

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