Because of the wretched Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz and the Democrats 3rd-world import welfare scam, we’ve all been forced to learn Somali tribal politics.
Jacob Frey actually won his recent election against Omar Fateh, because he made a point of getting the tribal vote of Somaliland Isaaq tribe migrants in MSP.
Somaliland Isaaq tribesmen hate the Ilhan Omar clan - and her in particular, given her father’s connections to the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre, who tried to wipe Somaliland its tribe off the map.
Recognizing Somaliland also helps Israel create a wedge against the influence of Omar in the United States too
more background from this Indian news program from five months ago:
I also am waiting for the press to recognize that many of the Somali resettled in Maine are not Somali tribal members but descended from their Bantu Slaves whose ancestors were kidnapped in the 19th century to work on their farms.
Human contraction of the virus may lead to asymptomatic infection, acute respiratory infection or fatal encephalitis. Clinical signs typically manifest within 3–14 days which include fever and headache, often accompanied by a cough, throat soreness, difficulty breathing, and other common signs of respiratory illness.[1] Patients may also initially present with symptoms of myalgia and vomiting.[2] This can be followed by dizziness, drowsiness, altered consciousness, and neurological signs that indicate acute encephalitis. Some people can also experience atypical pneumonia and severe respiratory problems, including acute respiratory distress. Encephalitis and seizures occur in severe cases, progressing to coma within 24 to 48 hours.
several articles insist there is a high rate of death and complications including long term brain problems. But what percentage of people have mild infections that don't go to hospital?
The mortality rate ranged from 7.7% (1/13 NiV patients) in Singapore (Chew et al. 2000) to 92% (11/12 patients) in Bangladesh
could this be because of better nourishment in Singapore, or because they tested more people and found those with mild infections?
In poor countries, a lot of sick people don't see doctors unless they are reallu really sick so mild cases won't get diagnosed.
ironically what was found is that those in contact with patients might develop the virus but most don't.
And there are drugs to use that stop it, especially if you start it early (and will keep you from getting it if you are in contact with a case).
so no, unless someone stupidly does Gain of function research and increases it's ability to transmit to others easier, the disease won't be the next pandemic problem.
Alas, because of the question of which variation of the virus is most dangerous, there is a suspicion that gain of function research will be done anyway, claiming they need to investigate which mutations will become more lethal. Which is what Dr. C is worried about.
Rubaya produces about 15 percent of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, a heat-resistant metal that is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components and gas turbines.Coltan is used primarily for the production of tantalum capacitors, used in mobile phones and almost every kind of electronic device
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The mine, where locals dig manually for a few dollars per day, has been under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group since 2024, after previously changing hands between the DRC government and rebel groups.
The heavily-armed M23 rebels, whose stated aim is to overthrow the DRC government in the capital Kinshasa, captured even more mineral-rich territory in the east of the country during a lightning advance last year.
The United Nations has accused M23 rebels of plundering Rubaya’s resources to help fund their rebellion, backed by Rwanda, an allegation that the government in Kigali denies.
The problem is that often it is mined in poorly regulated mines, where there are no safety precautions.
One wonders who was buying this mineral from a poorly dug mine under a rebel group who doesn't care about locals. And the locals are so poor that they are willing to risk their lives.
I took ASL when I was working at an institution for the mentally disabled, and there are some schools which specialize with these students, including the school in Rochester where my brother got his degree.in engineering.
ASL is not just used for the deaf but children with speech impediments (for example, those with Down's syndrome) can learn it more easily to communicate.
And although I have forgotten most of my signing, I still use it when a kid is noisy or afraid of me: I sign to them and they are intrigued.
But there are other ways to communicate, and so DataRepublican's mom has an X post about how they raised their daughter.
I posted the tweet but blogger ate it and didn't publish it even though it is still there in my html. So here is the address: Copy and paste: https://t.co/yqJuy5SqDV
I should note that she lost her hearing from meningitis at age 2, so already had the template of her brain wired with speech, so this might have been easier for her to learn than a kid who never was able to hear.
they put signs up on objects then increased the signs to include vocabulary. So she could read then lip read and did learn to sign later in life.
The ASL community is like other minorities and support each other, and resent those who don't want to join them. But now with cochlear implants, the controverxy is getting sharper.
You might prefer to raise your child is in your deaf culture, but if you get cochlear implants, they no longer are in that culture. This article from an Australian news site discusses.
The mother of DataRepublican (small R) chose to integrate her child into the wide world because her family was a hearing family, and as I noted, she already had the developmental part of her brain wired for speech. Nevertheless, it was a struggle.
Update: Blogger is now allowing me to post the X link
I am not sure if this is true, but it is well known that China uses organs from prisoners for transplant.
but don't feel superior: Canada is using organs from depressed people asking to be killed, and indeed even sending the organs into the USA to be transplanted.
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of course, this will encourage people to die instead of getting proper help
Indeed, we are already seeing propaganda films about how wonderful it is for folks to kill themselves to do this.
with all the high prices of treatment, and when proper experts might not be available for those in the inner city or in rural areas, how many people will easily be seduced to kill themselves to get proper pain relief, and not know that thee is treatment including proper pain relief for their disease.
Don't believe mme?? Scott Adams got pills to kill himself but admitted he was in pain (i.e. poor pain control by his doctors) and had was not given hormone blockers because he didn't want it, even though variations of this has been used to treat prostate cancer since the 1940s. However, after he posted about this, some people came to his aid and got him decent treatment. True, it only prolonged his life for six months, but according to his vlog, when he died he was pain free and able to vlog until the day before he died.
But how many others never got proper treatment?
the irony is that minorities often refuse to sign living wills, or sign up as donors on their drivers license, because they fear that the (white or foreign) doctors will just let them die.
I would like to say this is paranoia, and that things like the Tuskeegee experiment, where those with syphilis were divided into two groups, and some were never treated (I had one of these patients as a medical student: He had a huge Aortic aneurism, which 40 years ago was not operable). \
And it's not just in Black patients: In the 1950s some Red Lake Indians were not treated for impetigo despite the danger of acute glomerulonephritis in a previous epidemic, just to see what would happen
And then there was the triage of babies with Meninomyelocoel, where if you don't meet a criteria that included poverty/education, you didn't get treatment: A few years later, a black doctor checked it out and found out that it meant most of the patients not offered life saving treatment were black.
Mexican authorities arrested Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, “La Diabla,” in Juarez last month for allegedly presiding over an infant smuggling and organ harvesting operation.
Aguilar, reportedly a leading member of the Jalisco Nuevo Genaracion cartel, would capture poor, pregnant mothers and force them to get a C-section before murdering them. The women’s organs were harvested and sold. Their babies were trafficked into the United States for between $13,000 and $14,000 each.
one would think I could find a video about this explosive story but all I could find was this, where it is meneioned near the end of a short report
Hannibal is often portrayed as the greatest general in history. But do you know how he was defeated?
By going behind him to destroy his supplies and reinforcement, so for 15 years all he could do is terrorize the locals in Italy wandering around stealing their food etc.
And he was finally stopped when Scipio Africanus invaded North Africa. . And no, those terrible elephants which was their superweapon, didn''t work. (or maybe not).
so why am I pointing this out?
Because China is weaponizing against a weak Europe (and Canada) in many ways:
and Trumpieboy is hitting them at their periphery so they can't exploit Latin America (stopping China from taking over Venezuelan oil and rare earth metals, and giving a headsup to other countries where there is already resentment against Chinese tactics of lending them aid and then taking over the projects when the loans are not repaid: i.e. exploitation worse than the Yankees, sort of like better the devil you know than the devil you don't know).
and now by publicizing the importance of Greenland, Trump is giving a headsup about China trying to use their economic stranglehold by usual means to take over that land's wealth (build stuff by importing their own workforce, and then take over the ports/resources when the country can't pay them back).
This is the geostrategy behind Trumpiboy's moves.
I may not like it, but we see how weakness shown by PNoy and Obama allowed China to take over the West Philippine sea, build and weaponize shoals into artificial islands which have the ability to block shipping and the internet that goes through this area.
Someone said Trump plays three dimensional chess, a term that refers to the game popularized by StarTrek and as Wikipedia notes it that term is now used to describe geopolitical moves:
The expression "three-dimensional chess" is sometimes used as a colloquial metaphor to describe complex, dynamic systems with many competing entities and interests, including politics, diplomacy and warfare. To describe an individual as "playing three-dimensional chess" implies a higher-order understanding and mastery of the system beyond the comprehension of their peers or ordinary observers, who are implied to be playing "regular chess"
