...that’s a stark form of psychological trauma in and of itself,”...

The entire City of Flint was traumatized. There was a considerable number of miscarriages of fetuses during the water crisis.

April 16, 2021
By Cornell University

Ithaca, NY - Since state austerity policies initiated a potable water crisis seven years ago in Flint, Michigan, public health monitoring has focused on potential developmental deficits associated with lead exposure in adolescents or fetuses exposed in utero.

New research from Cornell and the University of Michigan offers the first comprehensive evidence that the city’s adult residents suffered a range of adverse physical and mental health symptoms potentially linked to the crisis in the years during and following it, with Black residents affected disproportionately.

In a survey of more than 300 residents, 10% reported having been diagnosed by a clinician with elevated blood lead levels – well above national averages – after a state-appointed city manager, as part of a cost-saving measure, switched the city’s water source to one that became contaminated with lead and harmful bacteria on April 25, 2014.

Nearly half the survey respondents reported experiencing skin rashes and more than 40% experienced hair loss, among physical symptoms associated with elevated levels of bacteria and heavy metals in water. More than a quarter of respondents reported symptoms of depression or anxiety, and nearly a third had PTSD symptoms specifically related to the water crisis.

“If you don’t trust your water and you actively avoid it over persistent concerns on its safety, that’s a stark form of psychological trauma in and of itself,” said Jerel Ezell, assistant professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences....

The politics of Trump lead directly to this violence.

Aaron Danielson was shot and killed by an ANTIFA activist. Accounts I read had both men exchanging gunfire in a parking garage.

August 21, 2020

By Madeline Holcombe, Shawn Nottingham, and Eric Levenson

Get this he has a "Go Fund Me" page (click here) If you have to work then contribute to your favorite violent activist.

Police officials (click here) identified the man fatally shot Saturday night in downtown Portland, Oregon, amid clashes between pro-Trump groups and left-wing protesters as Aaron J. Danielson of Portland.

Police said Danielson died at the scene of a wound to the chest. He was positively identified by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office, the Portland Police Bureau announced in a statement.

The far-right group Patriot Prayer, which has previously clashed with left-wing demonstrators, mourned Danielson's death.

"(H)e had a huge heart," group organizer Joey Gibson said on his Facebook page. "God bless the life he lived."...

He was a supporter of "Patriot Prayer" (click here) a White Supremacist organizer. 

No Republican or Democrat should be supporting violence. We know there are states that have issues of violence with these extreme-right groups.

...Patriot Prayer is a far-right group active in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past three years, the group has hosted and promoted rallies in progressive cities like Portland, frequently engaging in violence against their political opponents. Patriot Prayer rallies regularly include the Proud Boys, a hate group, and various antigovernment extremist groups. In 2018, the FBI included the Washington-Oregon Proud Boys during a presentation to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office on “domestically inspired acts of violence.” The FBI advised, “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington,” a report from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office stated....

Clark County Sheriff’s Office - Law enforcement DEPENDS on the FBI to combat violence and terrorism. If Republicans want to make enemies of the FBI then they don't care about the USA Constitution or peace and tranquility in the USA. The FBI is one of the most valuable "on the ground" intelligence services in the world. 

President Biden is using the intelligence services appropriately. Recently, he stated there was only minimal to moderately reliable information about Russia using local terrorists to assassinate American soldiers. There was no exaggeration in his statements.

Intelligence agencies are vital to the USA's democracy. It is how this country monitors and eliminates dangers. Republicans attacking USA intelligence does not believe in democracy or practicing it.

The only thing that bothers me about this case is the fact Trump issued orders to form a federally funded task force. Reinoehl was not simply added to the Most Wanted by the FBI, he was targeted to be found.

My understanding is that the task force consisted of US Marshals (click here). Congress needs to investigate this issue and decide if that was an appropriate use of the US Marshals. Any law enforcement agency should be taking orders from its commanders. This was a group of US Marshals giving the assignment to find one particular American. I find that more than upsetting. I don't mind that Reinhoehl was found. It is unfortunate he was killed, but, what does bother me is that other than the murder of a White Supremacist sympathizer he was not a danger to the country. It is worrisome to realize one particular American was hunted down and killed. That is a problem the USA Congress needs to address.

March 31, 2021
By Conrad Wilson

The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office (click here) announced Wednesday it has completed its seven-month investigation of a federally deputized task force that shot and killed Portland activist Michael Forest Reinoehl last summer....

...The incident took place at an apartment complex in Olympia, where Reinoehl had been on the run for his suspected role in the shooting death of a pro-Trump demonstrator in Portland days earlier. Surveillance footage of that shooting obtained by OPB shows Reinoehl seeming to initiate contact with 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson outside a parking garage....

...After Danielson died, Reinoehl fled Oregon.

While the investigation is complete, the sheriff’s office has not yet released the full report. On Wednesday, investigators released a two-page statement with some of their findings.

The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab matched a .380 casing found in Reinoehl’s vehicle after the police shooting to the .380 pistol in his possession. Reinoehl was the only person with a .380 caliber weapon on the scene, according to the investigator managing the case, Lt. Cameron Simper.

“The casing to that was found inside his vehicle in a position that would be consistent with him firing out that window,” Simper said.

Reinoehl did have a loaded .380 pistol on him when he was killed, but it was found inside his right front pants pocket. Despite that, investigators insist that, based on law enforcement and witness statements, they believe Reinoehl fired the round, was shot by police, and put his gun inside his pants pocket....

October 15, 2020

By Matt Perez

During a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, (click here) on Thursday, President Trump again praised the U.S. Marshals who shot and killed anti-fascist activist Michael Reinoehl, who was suspected of killing far-right supporter Aaron J. Danielson days earlier during a clash between protesters in Portland, adding that the officers "didn't want to arrest him."

While criticizing anti-racism protests in Portland, Trump spoke about Reinoehl, who was shot at with 37 rounds by a U.S. Marshal task force on September 3 in Olympia, Washington.

"We sent in the U.S. Marshals, took 15 minutes, it was over, 15 minutes it was over, we got him," Trump said.

The situation has been marred by conflicting reports, both from the officers and several eyewitnesses interviewed by the New York Times....

Trump used the US Marshals to carry out his politics. Fact.

ANTIFA is the natural enemy of the Republicans. Democrats should know how to address it.

Online battles between far right groups and anti-fascists (click here)– or "Antifa" – are now regularly spilling out onto the streets of America. But who are Antifa and what do they represent? Anisa Subedar and Mike Wendling went to the West coast of America to find out for Seriously... podcast Political Violence in America. Here are seven facts you need to know.

1. How long have Antifa been around?

Some Antifa groups date the origins of their movement to fights against European fascists in the 1920s and 1930s. Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, says the modern American Antifa movement began in the 1980s with a group called Anti-Racist Action. Its members confronted neo-Nazi skinheads at punk gigs in the American Midwest and elsewhere. By the early 2000s, the Antifa movement was mostly dormant - until the rise of Donald Trump and the alt-right....

The BBC has no problem addressing extremism. ANTIFA is a movement with no central headquarters or regular meetings. It is an affiliation for those that feel the need to counter the political hatred of the Republicans in supporting White Supremacy/White Nationalism as was displayed at the insurrection.

The intelligence networks in the USA are targets of the same hatred shown ANTIFA because they appear to be biased. There were no ANTIFA arrested during or after the insurrection. The fact there were no ANTIFA demonstrators only means they didn't get the same message from Trump as the White Supremacists did. Normally, ANTIFA will manifest where White Nationalists are gathering. No opposition group to Trump White Nationalists were there that day. That is interesting. 

Governor Roy Cooper reached by the right wing divide in North Carolina with this ad.

He made sure to let the people of North Carolina know there was a danger to them and to health care workers in one ad. It put together the ideas of stressed hospitals, their staff, and the idea that health care workers are God's work. 

This is a governor that accepts his responsibility in protecting the citizens of North Carolina from disease. Other governors play the Trump Card and gamble with people's lives. Mississippi is a proven problem for the USA as citizens there go unvaccinated.

The political power of disblief and mistrust is a political teaching of the right wing politicos.

April 16, 2021
By David Leonard

...This pattern made me wonder (click here) whether many progressive-led governments were spending so much effort designing fair-seeming processes that they were failing at the most basic goal of a mass vaccination program: getting shots into arms. That error has held down vaccination rates across much of continental Europe. And it appeared to be an early problem in California and New York.

But it has not turned out to be much of an issue in the U.S. Instead, the states with the highest vaccination rates are now mostly Democratic-leaning, and the states with the lowest rates are deeply conservative....

The very science of the vaccines is rejected by most of the south and it is no surprise that Mississippi leads the way in failed relationships with the vaccine and American citizens. They believe in religion and not science. They elect people out of habit, not competency.

Now, the problem today is not necessarily race so much as the church. We saw religious leaders intentionally expose their congregations to danger because they of the demand of proving god is all-powerful.

Internationally the same paradigm is true. There was a Korean group that believed being given some sort of solution on the tongue was protection from the virus so long as their religious leader supplied the liquid. That congregation saw illness and death with no protection from the virus. 

In the UK, the power of disbelief and mistrust was carried as a mantle by Prime Minister Boris Johnson until he became deathly ill and nearly didn't survive the virus. Only then did he begin to shut down areas of the UK and administer shots.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus lives on a year later because of the failure of faith leaders leading the way to take a vaccine or giving voice to the dangers and precautions. The one church that was most vocal and protective was the Roman Catholic Church. They were the last churches to open to a congregation again. And why? Because the Roman Catholic Church believes in science and has it's own scientific branch to bring its insight to the Pope.

There is a problem in the world and in the USA with religion interfering in applications of sound science in relation to disease. We saw the same paradigm with HIV in Africa when it came to using condoms to stop the spread. This paradigm is not new but, we know now it is more deadly than ever. 

The Republicans are a public nuisance. They don't believe in government or science.

Currently, the legislative Republicans are complaining more than being concerned about the people of this country. That is narcissism and they are diagnosable. Why? Because they are unethical and dangerous to the public. They want chaos and refuse to be a part of sincere governance. The patterns of disbelief and mistrust work for their political goals because it is ensconced in the party.

April 15, 2021

By Martin Matishak and Connor O'Brien

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee (click here) used the panel’s first public hearing in five years on the United States' most dire global threats to air a range of domestic grievances to intelligence and law enforcement leaders Thursday — from the prosecution of former Trump administration official Michael Flynn to the Steele dossier to antifa....

Republicans have not governed for some time now, they practice politics every minute of every day. They don't love this country for the success it brings in the way of support to a global economy, they loath it for the taxes they have to pay. If it weren't for taxes the USA would not be a global economic leader or opportunity.

April 15, 2021

By Julian E. Barnes

Washington - House Republicans (click here) sharply questioned intelligence officials on Thursday about their work on domestic violent extremism, expressing concerns about the fact that the agencies could be asked to spy on Americans.

In a contentious hearing of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican lawmakers expressed doubts about intelligence agencies and said they were worried about how they had handled a range of matters, including the suspension of a former senior Trump administration official as the general counsel of the National Security Agency and the F.B.I.’s view of the threat from the loose far-left movement known as antifa.

The most enlightening exchange was between Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah, and Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence. Mr. Stewart began by asking whether the intelligence community was spying on Americans by doing work on domestic violent extremism....

They don't care about the country, they care about themselves and the power-holding an office brings.

Look at Georgia. Finally, Georgia has broken free of the tyranny of disbelief and mistrust. It took a herculean effort lead by Stacy Abrams to bring citizens to vote at all and then vote for Democrats. Georgia's future is better today than before they turned the state blue in the US Senate. The people are empowered by the VOTE and what does the state legislature do? Rather than rewarding the people for taking charge of the future of the state, they pass voting laws deliberately to oppress the very people that voted in 2020.

The map above shows clearly the states where Republicans have oppressed the people when it comes to freedom. Those states trust their faith leaders more than they trust the government. 

There is a DIRECT LINK between Republicans, poverty, and insurrection. It should not be a surprise that faith leaders are a danger to the public when it comes to their willingness to be political leaders as well. That isn't supposed to happen in the USA, but, is anyone taking away non-profit status from churches mired in political activism from the pulpit?

Republicans CHRONICALLY turn the truth into lies and it manifested to a pinnacle with Trump. The Republicans are again trying to turn the truth into lies through right-wing media that profits from being the propagandists. That is the trouble with fighting SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in the USA. People will die of the disease before they will get vaccinated. It is a problem that has faced the country for decades.

The difference today is that Trump was and remains incompetent because it serves his purposes. Narcissism.

George W. Bush when faced with SARS from China lead the world to end the virus before it killed any Americans or other citizens of other countries. George W. Bush was competent enough to realize what SARS would do to the American economy and the global economy he and his father helped to build.

In states overwhelmed by the virus and it's variants probably need health care workers to invoke a massive strike in those states where people refuse the vaccine. They are the front line in this particular struggle and it is they that also die when hospitals are overwhelmed and lack sufficient PPE to protect them. If health care workers would take a stand in the states where the fewest are vaccinated and refuse to provide care, it might work. If nothing else it would protect the hospitals and their workers to practice their craft with people in sincere need of medical treatment and not simply savage lives that could have been protected with a vaccine.

The hospitals in the states with the fewest citizens vaccinated are used to recover "the Trump herd." They survive if they are lucky enough and have some degree of immunity. 

Poverty is a catalyst to Republican rhetoric and votes. Religion enforces poverty as a burden that when lived correctly finds it's greatest rewards in heaven. It is notable that Republicans enforce the poverty paradigm and do not fight it. Decades of poverty. Decades. Is it profoundly racism or simply power politics?