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World Now Knows POTUS is Both Weak and Dumb
Civil War, global warming , societal collapse by 2050 - now entering the end game of civilisation. -
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American version of Adolf Hitler': Major Jewish newspaper makes stark Trump comparison
It is not a straw man gambit. Rather, it is about understanding who and what the Nazis were. The term is tossed about so easily and without any consideration of the history or the actual social and political policies referenced. In the USA, there are no racial purity laws, no confiscation of property based upon religion or ethnicity, no forced sterilizations, no euthanasia, no denial of access to an education or state services based upon religion or ethnicity, no slave labour camps, and no death camps. I get it; some of the Trump administration social policies are unpopular and upsetting. The enforcement of the immigration laws and the use of every possible tool to address a long neglected problem irks multiple vested interest groups. However, these policies are not nazi policies. nor are they enforced in a nazi like fashion. The continued labeling of actions in the USA as nazi, diminishes the actual horrors of the Third Reich and its enablers and supporters last century. -
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Stocks, dollar slide as Trump's attacks on Fed shake markets
Thread gone a bit quiet. Anyone know what the s&p & nasdaq is doing today? Was the whale oil beef hooked prophecies from the forum left another dud? 😂 -
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Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress
I have to grimace every time I read the anti vac nonsense. I think most of the demographic reading this remember a time before vaccines. I was the first generation to receive the polio vaccine when I was 5 years old. I remember my mother thanking the doctor so much as I got the vaccine on a sugar lump, she cried when she thanked the Doctor Back then there were hospitals still full of folks destined to spend their lives in iron lungs Measles, chickenpox mumps, kids died ffs. Our mothers took us to pox parties to try to head it off, but kids still died or were handicapped because of it. The trouble with young parents today, they have no memory of what it was like before vaccines, and they buy into the nonsense of online conspiracy theories -
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25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding
Use other means to improve the lives of the US tax payers... for the US ending global health funding potentially has a harsh impact on the US tax payer... If the US cuts global health funding, those in the USA will feel the impact too, there are numerous facets to this.. The 'per-capita' amount of the US pays is higher than other nations. On a per-capita basis the US pays 2x the UK, 5x the EU, and 35x China... IMO the US would do better to lobby other nations to pay more... simply not paying could have issues... such as... Higher Risk of Imported Infectious Diseases Without strong disease surveillance and containment abroad, diseases can spread internationally before detection. Think Ebola, Zika, or new flu strains—they don’t need a passport. Planes make the world small, and what festers in one region today can be in US emergency rooms tomorrow. Elevated Ebola & Other Outbreak Risks The US currently helps fund early detection, lab networks, and response teams in Africa and Asia. Cut that, and you risk late detection and delayed response to outbreaks like: Ebola in West or Central Africa Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola Lassa fever, Nipah virus, or avian flu If these aren't caught early, they can hop borders and oceans, especially if outbreak zones also lose infrastructure due to the funding pullback. Strained US Public Health System If an outbreak spreads to the US, hospitals, testing labs, and health departments could quickly be overwhelmed, as seen in COVID’s early days. Diseases like drug-resistant TB or even measles can spread in under-vaccinated communities—and once they’re here, they’re expensive to treat and contain. Skyrocketing Costs at Home Preventing outbreaks abroad is orders of magnitude cheaper than managing epidemics domestically. Ebola in the US (2014) cost millions for just a handful of cases. COVID, of course, wrecked trillions in economic loss and health burden. Pulling global health funding is like sacking your home’s fire department to save money, then praying no one lights a match. Increased Risk of Dangerous Mutations With less global vaccination and treatment, viruses and bacteria get more chances to mutate. That means: More drug-resistant TB New COVID variants Superbugs that antibiotics can’t touch These could make their way into the US and render current medicines useless. In summary: Slashing global health funding doesn’t just hurt "over there" - it leaves America open to new pandemics, exotic diseases, and spiralling healthcare costs. The frontline isn’t just the US border - it’s every health outpost overseas that stops the next outbreak from becoming our the crisis - this is as equally important to all nations as it is the USA... ... All nations, at least developed nations should be paying into this with a per-capita equality.
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