Bennett doesn't rule out lockdown, (click here) says Israel on eve of COVID-19 infection storm with nearly 3,000 cases diagnosed in a single day.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Omicron
Just to clarify, omicron is mutating. That has been reported by all authorities I have read. If the Israeli death is omicron it needs to be looked at from the issue of co-morbidities as well as the arrival of a Level Three omicron virus that has mutated into a deadly strain that no immunity can oppress. The Israeli death could be the first of a deadly mutant strain.
If by chance a COVID variant becomes deadly, given how quickly it spreads and the transmission between countries, there is no reason to postpone a shutdown of the globe to end it before it gets started. The New Zealand model is the only one that applies, no exceptions.
Omicron should not be taken lightly. It is a Level Three virus still mutating.
Israel is reporting it's first death from omicron of a vaccinated woman. The vaccine when followed up with a booster is invaluable to the well being of people.
28 December 2021
By Tal Schneider
Over 600 new cases of strain confirmed; (click here) eight patients with variant hospitalized, including 2 unvaccinated in serious condition; PM: Pfizer treatment pill due to arrive Wednesday
The Health Ministry on Tuesday announced the death of a woman from a suspected Omicron infection, as it confirmed over 600 more cases of the new coronavirus variant.
The woman had been vaccinated against COVID-19 and had received a booster shot, according to a ministry statement.
If verified, the woman would be the first Omicron fatality recorded in Israel. A reported death from Omicron last week was later clarified to have been caused by the Delta strain of coronavirus....
I would like to address an issue with coverage of Ukraine.
Ukraine has a very violent history. It is the strength of democracy to realize how far the people of Ukraine have brought their democracy since the massacre in the Maidan.
Ukraine has been a border state with Europe while a part of the Soviet Union. It was that part of the Soviet Union that specialized in nuclear weapons and their deployment, especially as a threat to Europe, ie: The Cuban Missile Crisis for the USA. But, also the continued existence of intermediate nuclear weapons in proximity of Europe can't be overlooked.
Ukraine has had all sorts of issues, including genocide in it's history. The entire existance of Ukraine while under Soviet control has been laced with a population difficult to unite (typical of communists) because of ethnic issues. The population of Ukraine, as exampled in Crimea, where severely division exists into ethnic groups that oppose each other.
We saw in Ukraine, under Viktor Yanukovych the decommissioning of the Ukraine military and the splintering of domestic interests with each major city or town equiped with a military unit that would serve to keep order. There was no national military under Yanukovych. In that, kindly realize, ethnic divides were enforced which allowed Putin to rule in Ukraine as a person able to maintain order and protect national security. Putin was a very populous figure in Ukraine. He always made appearances with wresters and basically storng men known for their phyiscal strength.
These enteries are heavily based on the insights of primarily one scholar, Professor Ivan Katchanovski. He is based securly away from Russian influence in:
School of Political Studies
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel. 613-407-1295
ikatchan@uottawa.ca
Professor Katchanovski's writings are prolific since the Maidan Massacre and have inspired others to right including women professors on women's rights. The collection of evidence as exhibited in the writings of these magnificent people is extensive and could easily bring about it's own small library of collected works, of which I have witnessed nearly weekly in my inbox. That is incredible since the Maidan Massacre was on February 20, 2014.
First to address the misconceptions of The West regarding the Maidan massacre. The violence of the Maidan went unrecognized for it's diverse participants. That I find a little unsettling since Ukraine is such an important ally in freedom, anti-corruption and democracy.
This is a bit of a lecture, but, The West cannot be afraid of being liberators and eager to recognize how divided a peoples are during and after such rebellious acts. To know the DIVERSITY of an event, be it good and/or evil, if there is such a thing, is only to realize the aftermath that claimed democracy as it's governance, FINALLY, and over came hatred, fear of independence from Russia and the willingness to live an autonomous existance as an ally to those in the world that love democracy.
There is significant criticism by Professor Katchanovski of the Western Press. That is due to the lack of insight of the entire domestic picture of Ukraine and the proposful ethnic divisions enforced by Russian influence. We still see those ethnic divides in Crimea and the civil war at the Russian border.
Professor Katchanovski can be a very valuable voice to the Western Press in understanding the domestic picture of Ukraine and the hopes of it's people. As I have said there are others that began publishing to benefit the goal of democracy and Ukraine's journey to freedom of oppression and hatred.
Prof. Ivan Katchanovski: (click here) My studies found that the Maidan massacre of the protestors
and the police on February 20, 2014 involved the far right and oligarchic parties, and it
was a key element of the violent overthrow of the corrupt and oligarchic but
democratically elected government in Ukraine. This mass killing was a successful false
ag operation, which was organized and conducted by elements of the Maidan leadership
and concealed armed groups in order to win the asymmetric conict during the
“Euromaidan” and seize power in Ukraine.
Various evidence examined in my studies shows that concealed groups of Maidan snipers,
which were based in particular in Music Conservatory and the Hotel Ukraina, started the
massacre in the early morning on February 20 by targeting Berkut and Internal Troops
units on the Maidan itself with live ammunition re, inicting their mass casualties, and
forcing them to retreat. Then the armed Maidan groups, in particular the same ones,
massacred the unsuspecting Maidan protestors from concealed positions. The analysis of
circumstances, timing, and locations of specic killings of 49 protestors presents evidence
that at least the absolute majority of them were killed from the Maidan-controlled
buildings....
It is best to understand the divisions and hatred by Post Soviet countries to best understand the people and their ambitions to be autonomous. Democracy and freedom require acceptance of DIVERSITY not its enforcement.
This article in JStor (click here) can explain the domestic geopolitics of the USSR. It is not an article by the Ukraine scholars I referred to, but, does precede one of the articles that speak to genocide that occurred under the flag of WWII. Kindly remember, the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin was an ally in WWII.
The Soviet Union without czars was not that old or well established at the time of WWII. The Russian Revolution was begun in 1917 when there was a beginning of the global bird flu pandemic which claimed the lives of 50 million people (click here). The Russian Revolution ended in 1923. A dictatorship or COMMITTEE following the revolution was placed in governance as the country recognized a single czar. The idea of a communist committee representing the people satisfied the populous unrest by the rebels which included the rebel known as Joseph Stalin.
As with many other issues of genocide it sometimes is viewed as a conflict or war. Certainly, the Baltic States under Clinton (click here) is a clear example of that. Below is the abstract to the paper that raises clear divergence of opinion by scholars. I think it is time to reconcil those opinions to a clear understanding of genocide or not. It most certainly appears to be a genocide that was carried out during WWII.
There can be such dynamics in a major war. The USA is mostly vigilant of that possiblity as witnessed by prosecution of the individuals that carried it out. That type of prosecution existed with Vietnam and Iraq.
Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide or Ukrainian-Polish Conflict? The Mass Murder of Poles by
the OUN and the UPA in Volhynia1
Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D.
Paper prepared for presentation at the 19th Annual World Convention of the Association for the
Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, US, April 24-26, 2014.
Draft
This paper analyzes the mass-murder of Poles in Volhynia (click here) in Western Ukraine during World
War II. The mass murder of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Stepan
Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) during the Nazi
occupation of Volhynia in 1943 became an important political issue in Poland and Ukraine after
the collapse of communism. Previous studies by Polish, Ukrainian, and Western researchers
offered different and often divergent theories of this historical event. It is often presented in
Ukraine as a mutual Ukrainian-Polish conflict. In contrast, in Poland, the mass murder of Poles
in Volhynia is often characterized as genocide. A research question is whether this was a
Ukrainian-Polish conflict, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This study analyzes a variety of archival
documents, historical studies, and eyewitness accounts. It offers an estimate of Polish casualties
derived from analysis of OUN-UPA, Polish, and Soviet, and sources and demographic data. This
study concludes that the mass murder of the Polish minority in Volhynia by the OUN-B, the
UPA, and their security service (SB) represented not a mutual Ukrainian-Polish conflict or
genocide of Poles but that it was a part of ethnic cleansing.
The reason I decided to bring this to the blog is because Russia has amassed a large number of troops at the borders of the Post-Soviet States. It along with Belrus has begun a humanitarian crisis at the feet of Western Democracy to use as a propaganda tool. This strategy by the communists is a clear understanding of injecting still yet another unsettled ethnicity into the region.
If the Soviet Union carried out ethnic cleansing during WWII, that has to be viewed as a reason to bring about clarity to such dynamics at a time when the communists seem intent on rebuilding the Soviet Union and all it's human rights abuses.
In reporting about this region, there needs to be a clear understanding that the history of these lands is unsettling to say the least, that countries with smaller footprints than the USA or Russia carry heavy ethnic populations and that unification against human rights abuses is the focus and NOT DIVISION of people to facilitate hate and increased reasons for war.
Ukraine and the Maidam are clear indications that strong democracies emerge when given strong allies unified for one purpose of peace and the end of human suffering.
I might add, the 50 percent of Russian citizens now demanding democratic elections for their leaders must be preserved and fostered. Democracy will happen without divisions that bring about hatred and violence. Currently, the Russian elections are extremely corrupt with power players that imprison under the current court system. The Russian Duma has given permission for the corruption time and again.
Very Trumpian, conflating the truth. "Oh, this is so unfair."
The image from Thesaurus.com leaves out the word TRUTH.Trumpian politics has a clear element of criminality. One thing Trump said very frequantly, was how life was treating him unfairly. This conflating of two separate events on opposite sides of the country is so much like the politics of Trump. Included in Trumpian politics is the idea that Trump appointed judges should be indulging "The Big Lie."
By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen
The rioters in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2020 weren't attempting a coup of the 2020 elections. That should be very plain in the differences of the severity of the lawbreakers.
December 29, 2021By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen
Two Trump-appointed federal judges (click here) have rejected claims from January 6 defendants that they're being treated unfairly, because of their conservative politics, compared with left-leaning rioters in Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 2020.
Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday became the second judge in two weeks to reject the comparisons, which are popular in right-wing circles, after his colleague in Washington, DC's, federal court Carl Nichols made a similar ruling last week.
McFadden and Nichols both said the US Capitol riot defendants' arguments didn't have enough evidence to show discrimination....
Harry Reid, a career dedicated to the USA and the people of Utah.
By Dennis Romboy
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, (click here) one of the highest-ranking Latter-day Saint elected officials during his long tenure in office, died Tuesday at age 82.
“I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He died peacefully this afternoon, surrounded by our family, following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer,” his wife of 62 years, Landra, said in a statement.
“We are so proud of the legacy he leaves behind both on the national stage and his beloved Nevada. Harry was deeply touched to see his decades of service to Nevada honored in recent weeks with the re-naming of Las Vegas’ airport in his honor.”
Landra Reid described her husband as a devout family man and deeply loyal friend.
Reid, a Democrat, retired in January 2017 after five terms in the U.S. Senate, including eight years as majority leader and four as minority leader. He also served for years in the U.S. House before being elected to the Senate....
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