Anastasis

Or maybe just turn off embeds on DT and CR for a few weeks. Give it it a shot during the off season. See if maybe that helps. Twitter is not all brain damaged cancer, but a shit load of what makes it posted here is.

‘We were desperate’ Together, the phony accounts used by the military had tens of thousands of followers during the program. Reuters could not determine how widely the anti-vax material and other Pentagon-planted disinformation was viewed, or to what extent the posts may have caused COVID deaths by dissuading people from getting vaccinated. In the wake of the U.S. propaganda efforts, however, then-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte had grown so dismayed by how few Filipinos were willing to be inoculated that he threatened to arrest people who refused vaccinations. “You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” a masked Duterte said in a televised address in June 2021. “There is a crisis in this country … I’m just exasperated by Filipinos not heeding the government.” Then-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte pleaded with citizens to get the COVID vaccine. “You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” a masked Duterte said in this televised address in June 2021. When he addressed the vaccination issue, the Philippines had among the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. Only 2.1 million of its 114 million citizens were fully vaccinated – far short of the government’s target of 70 million. By the time Duterte spoke, COVID cases exceeded 1.3 million, and almost 24,000 Filipinos had died from the virus. The difficulty in vaccinating the population contributed to the worst death rate in the region. A spokesperson for Duterte did not make the former president available for an interview. Some Filipino healthcare professionals and former officials contacted by Reuters were shocked by the U.S. anti-vax effort, which they say exploited an already vulnerable citizenry. Public concerns about a Dengue fever vaccine, rolled out in the Philippines in 2016, had led to broad skepticism toward inoculations overall, said Lulu Bravo, executive director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination. The Pentagon campaign preyed on those fears. “Why did you do it when people were dying? We were desperate,” said Dr. Nina Castillo-Carandang, a former adviser to the World Health Organization and Philippines government during the pandemic. “We don’t have our own vaccine capacity,” she noted, and the U.S. propaganda effort “contributed even more salt into the wound.” The campaign also reinforced what one former health secretary called a longstanding suspicion of China, most recently because of aggressive behavior by Beijing in disputed areas of the South China Sea. Filipinos were unwilling to trust China’s Sinovac, which first became available in the country in March 2021, said Esperanza Cabral, who served as health secretary under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Cabral said she had been unaware of the U.S. military’s secret operation. “I’m sure that there are lots of people who died from COVID who did not need to die from COVID,” she said. To implement the anti-vax campaign, the Defense Department overrode strong objections from top U.S. diplomats in Southeast Asia at the time, Reuters found. Sources involved in its planning and execution say the Pentagon, which ran the program through the military’s psychological operations center in Tampa, Florida, disregarded the collateral impact that such propaganda may have on innocent Filipinos. “We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

Pentagon ran an antivax campaign targeting Philippines and Middle East. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

Jeffery Epstein did not kill himself.

It’s ok. I am pretty certain bozo understands.

It's ok. I don't think that I've seen Bozo and consistent commitment to the principles of the rules based international order in the same thread at the same time.

Well, I did edit to add "probably".

"I will pull the lever to work within the system we have to try and stop/slow our slide into authoritarianism" - Thomas Jefferson, probably

And you will just keep pulling the lever to show them.

Sir I can not tolerate this filoquie analogy, however well played it may be.

100%

Am I nuts or was there something edited out of this? It's been a extremely rough day, so my brain may be scrambled. I hope that there wasn't any offense taken based on what I saw earlier. I don't remember that one, but do recall and appreciate the opportunity in a prior discussion to elaborate on my views of the ultimate reconciliation. As far as the above, I totally get it. I've spent more than my fair share in SB settings. I was not raised in a SBC family, but as a youth, I've been in their Sunday school classes, I've taken their biblical prophecy classes, I've taken their end times eschatology classes. I sat through a lot of services and was fucking confused as hell like I was watching an alien species because none of that stuff was even in the same universe of what I saw on Sunday. It took me a long time to reconcile the what, why and how of what I was seeing across these different experiences.

I got 99 problems but a latin translation ain't one. I feel like we really missed an opportunity to dig into homoousious, homoiousious, substantia, essentia, essence, substance, one, similar, same before the thread took a different direction. But frankly the recipe exchange was probably more enlightening, and the other discussion would have been some theological discussion navel gazing.

Other than driving past the sign on 281 outside of blanco, no really much experience with them.

Y'all just need to vote harder. And most importantly, never question the long term viability and functionality of the two party system and the war machine.

Its like basically Jehovah's witnesses, the LDS, and apparently the SBC.

Venison bone broth soup with blue oyster mushrooms.

BTW, hard to reply substantively without understanding what his particular "couple of issues" are. Could be like core christological shit, or just basic rhetorical anti-creedal southern baptist stuff. Or probably both. If their convention feels the need to relitigate something that was debated and largely resolved like 1700 years ago, for whatever reason, have at it. Time is a flat circle.

Heretics gonna heretic.

Release of hostages doesn't appear to be the primary sticking point. Timetables and durability, otoh, are. From the NYT (plain text paste mofos, learn how to use it): Hamas officials on Tuesday said they delivered to mediators in Qatar and Egypt a response to a cease-fire proposal endorsed by the United Nations Security Council, putting pressure on Israel to make the next move as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with negotiators in the Middle East. The Hamas response proposed amendments to the deal endorsed on Monday in a 14-0 Security Council vote that may prove to be another stumbling block to a cease-fire agreement. The counterproposal came as Mr. Blinken was in the region, meeting with top officials in Israel, Egypt and Jordan, in an effort to advance a peace agreement and urging Hamas to accept the U.N.-backed proposal. He was expected to fly to Qatar on Wednesday for meetings with officials there. Qatar and Egypt have acted as intermediaries between Israel and Hamas, which do not communicate directly with each other. An official with knowledge of the talks, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy, said the Palestinian response proposed amendments to the cease-fire plan, including firm timetables for not only a short-term truce but a permanent one, and for a full Israeli withdrawal. This differs from the three-phase deal Israel proposed, that the Security Council endorsed and that President Biden has been pushing. That plan calls for an immediate cease-fire in phase one as negotiators hammer out a plan for a permanent end to fighting in the second phase. If talks on a permanent end to hostilities take longer than six weeks, the temporary truce would be extended, according to the original proposal. Israel has said previously that it will not agree to a deal that doesn’t allow it to eradicate Hamas or would force what it considers a premature end to the war. An Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks, said the Israeli negotiating team had received a copy of Hamas’s response to the proposed agreement through Qatari and Egyptian mediators, characterizing it as tantamount to a rejection of the deal presented by President Biden. John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman for the National Security Council, said that the U.S. had received Hamas’s response but declined to discuss the details until it had been fully examined. “We are evaluating it right now,” Mr. Kirby said.

bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce

cehck that, friday is music, thursday is paella night.

The Rock and Tapas place is a change of pace. During hunting season they had some live music in there on Thursday evenings. Also, a trip out to Coras for some cheese nachos should be required eats.