Covid adds to ever growing list biological inequality between men & women.
> Arwady said estrogen can elevate immune responses, while testosterone can decrease it. At the same time, she noted that "a lot of your immune modulating genes" can live on an "x" chromosome, which women have two of, while men have one.

> "So there's all these reasons that sort of immunity in general goes up a little bit different in women than it does in men," she said. "And so we're seeing women, a little more likely to report some of the side effects."

>From Dec. 14 through Jan. 13, more than 79 percent of side effects were reported by women, the data showed. Meanwhile, women received roughly 61.2 percent of the doses administered during that same time.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/what-makes-you-more-likely-to-get-side-effects-from-covid-vaccines-and-more-faqs/2990163/

The Trial Over George Floyd's Death

https://www.nytimes.com trial-of-george-floyd-killing

George Floyd died after being pinned to the ground by the police in an episode that was captured on video, prompting nationwide protests. The former officer charged in Mr. Floyd's death, Derek Chauvin, is standing trial in Minnesota for murder.

Mauro Viale, 73 years old, died this Sunday of a thrombosis that caused a massive heart attack. The journalist was hospitalized after contracting coronavirus and being affected by bilateral pneumonia.

The driver from A24 and America had been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine on Thursday, but was already incubating the disease. The manifestation of some symptoms compatible with the coronavirus was what set off the alarms and what led him to get a swab that ended up testing positive.

In the ’80s, Viale was the great reporter of Argentine soccer television matches. It had started, earlier in the 70s.

The story of Diego Maradona’s goal against England in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico

“Who moves?, was a phrase widely used by Viale in his stories. Before the match of the day, the protagonist said “I move, Mauro”.

In 1977, Viale began to relate to Canal 7, that after the 1978 World Cup was renamed Argentina Televisora Color (ATC). His style is remembered for his sobriety, since he only limited himself to naming the footballer who carried the ball, without trying to gain prominence.

In 1989 Fútbol de Primera went to Channel 9, which had Marcelo Araujo as an outstanding voice, who would end up taking the lead with a totally different style. Surprisingly, Mauro Viale went to talk to Carlos Ávila, by then head of Tournaments, and warned him: “Black, I don’t want to tell more, I got bored.”

His last game was on July 27, 1989. It was a Superclásico between River and Boca for the Qualifying League for the Copa Libertadores.

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https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-statement-biden-must-reduce-pentagon-bloat-in-next-budget/

Following the news reports that President Biden’s preliminary fiscal 2022 budget will increase Pentagon spending above FY21 levels, Public Citizen president, Robert Weissman, released the following statement:

“It is disappointing to see the Biden administration increase Pentagon spending even one dollar above the excessive, wasteful and dangerous level inherited from the Trump administration. With so many pressing demands facing our nation, the last thing America needs is an increase in Pentagon spending – any increase in Pentagon spending. As the administration works to finalize its budget proposal and Congress moves to adopt a budget resolution, it is important that the bloated Pentagon spending be reduced from current levels.

“The Pentagon budget – which jumped more than $130 billion during the Trump presidency — is replete with spending on overpriced weapons that don’t work, rip-off deals for private contractors, gigantic investments in pointless or outdated weapons systems, and waste and mismanagement so severe the agency cannot pass an audit. It is, indeed, a tribute to the power of the military-industrial complex.

“There are hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved by appropriate cuts to the Pentagon budget. What is most important for the FY22 budget is that it be smaller than FY21, in order to signal that we are finally moving in the right direction and shifting resources from the Pentagon to investments in people.”

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Danish journalist had to clean the window in the Ukrainian train from the "ancient dirt"

The Danish journalist Johannes Wamberg Andresen, while traveling around Ukraine on the train of the Ukrzaliznytsia company, specially bought a mop to clean the dirty window in his compartment. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“Cleaning the Ukrainian Railway is not easy, but it needs to be done, right?” - signed a photo with a mop Andersen.

The journalist explained that during one of the stops he specially went to the platform and tried to clean the train window with a mop and cleaning agent. In the comments to the post, the man indicated that he used to use wet wipes for these purposes. However, according to him, the dirt in the trains of the Ukrainian Railways is "ancient and stable."

"The absurdity is that they claim that passenger rail travel is unprofitable, but they still ask for a very high price," Andersen wrote.

The Dane explained that he had bought a mop at a hardware store specifically before the trip, and also complained that he had not been able to clean the window of his compartment.

https://sharij.net/datskomu-zhurnalistu-prishlos-otmyvat-okno-v-ukrainskom-poezde-ot-drevnej-gryazi

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The parent company of the increasingly powerful Silicon Valley tech giant, Alphabet Incorporated, announced earlier this week on Wednesday that it will donate €25 million to the newly established European Media and Information Fund, an organization which claims to support "media literacy" and combat so-called "fake news".

According to a report from Reuters, the fund seeks to mobilize financial resources to recruit so-called "fact-checkers" and researchers to wage war against online "fake news".

In January, tech giants Google, Amazon, Apple managed to remove the conservative, free-speech social media network Parler from the web, which was one of the fastest growing applications in the preceding months. In what seemingly was a coordinated effort to take the new social media application offline, Apple and Google first removed Parler from their app stores, claiming that the social media company had not done enough to police its users from posting content which encouraged violence. Shortly after, Amazon banned Parler from using its web-hosting service for alleged violations of its terms of services. Collectively, these efforts managed to remove Parler from the internet for an extended period of time.

>https://rmx.news/article/article/googles-parent-company-alphabet-inc-donates-25-million-to-throttle-free-speech-in-europe

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Sole Survivor of Mass Shooting by Former 49ers Player Phillip Adams Dies

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/sole-survivor-mass-shooting-former-49ers-player-phillip-adams-dies/

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https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/500000-jefferson-davis-chair-stolen-in-selma-will-be-a-toilet-unless-confederate-group-meets-demands-email-claims

A Confederate monument valued at $500,000 was stolen in March from a Selma cemetery, officials confirmed today.

This morning, a group that claims to have taken the monument, the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, sent emails to AL.com saying they will give the chair to the United Daughters of the Confederacy if that organization agrees to hang a banner outside its Richmond, Va. headquarters.

In those emails, a group calling itself White Lies Matter say they stole the chair from the Old Live Oak Cemetery and are demanding that the UDC hang a large banner at 1 p.m. on Friday -- the anniversary of the Confederacy’s surrender in the Civil War -- and leave it there for 24 hours.

The banner bears a quote from Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army activist wanted by the FBI for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper: “The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”

White Lies Matter said it had already delivered the banner to the UDC.

“Failure to do so will result in the monument, an ornate stone chair, immediately being turned into a toilet,” the email states. “If they do display the banner, not only will we return the chair intact, but we will clean it to boot.”

A woman who answered the phone at the Virginia offices of the UDC said she had heard the reports of the theft and ransom demand were “fake news” and there was no immediate response to an email to the organization seeking further comment.

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An New York Times visual journalist admitted to working for one of China's major state-run media outlets and even "enjoyed" his time with the communist nation.

A shocking revelation came about when old tweets of New York Times Director of Cinematography Jonah M. Kessel resurfaced, in which he talked about working for the Chinese Communist Party, the National Pulse reported.

According to the Pulse, Kessel tweeted back in June 2009 about starting a new job at the state-run publication China Daily in Beijing, which he was thoroughly "psyched" for. Kessel mentioned in his tweets from 2009 to 2010 that he was the Creative Director of China Daily.

Kessel boasted on Twitter about how another publication mentioned his "redesign" of China Daily. After leaving China Daily, he became a China-based photographer and cinematographer for the Ministry of Information of the People's Republic of China.

The Economist reported in 2010 that China Daily had its "biggest makeover since the newspaper was launched in 1981 as China's first English-language daily" and was also "boosting the number of its foreign correspondents," including the New York Times's Kessel.

http://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/11434/20210409/new-york-times-staff-reveal-they-worked-for-the-chinese-communist-party-%E2%80%93-and-enjoyed-its-benefits.htm

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>https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985198566/biden-to-nominate-gun-control-advocate-law-enforcement-veteran-to-lead-atf
>https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/biden-to-nominate-gun-control-advocate-chipman-to-lead-atf/SC7HMXYI3VFHHN2QMG52SJ5XFQ/?outputType=amp
>https://wgem.com/2021/04/07/ap-sources-biden-to-nominate-former-special-agent-gun-control-advocate-david-chipman-as-atf-director/
>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/politics/david-chipman-joe-biden-atf-director/index.html
>https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/4/7/22372580/biden-to-nominate-gun-control-advocate-david-chipman-lead-atf
>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/biden-david-chipman-atf-director.html
He was part of the group that murdered 82 people, including 25 kids, and caused the death of 4 feds because the people were part of a weird sex cult and some dude might have been fucking a 14 year old he was polygamy married to. No helicopters crashed as a result of small arms fire at waco and no one on said helicopters were injured or died (even though the helicopters had people in them firing at the compound)
Biden did some other toothless EOs. Make sure to contact Tester, Sinema, and Mancine/your senator. This piece of shit might not even have 50 democrats to support him

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Student responsible for racist graffiti that was found in Albion College dorm, officials say

ALBION, MI — Albion College and the Albion Department of Public Safety say a student is responsible for racist graffiti found in a dorm last weekend.

Albion police brought the 21-year-old Black male in for questioning on April 6, according to Chief Scott Kipp. The student admitted to creating most of the graffiti, and video evidence from Albion’s Campus Safety Department confirms the statements made by the student, Kipp said.

The student was released after questioning, Kipp said. Once the investigation is complete, the information will be submitted to the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office for any charges related to the incident, he said.

The graffiti, which included racist epithets and multiple references to the Klu Klux Klan, was discovered in a stairwell inside Mitchell Towers on Friday, April 2, university officials said. Pictures of the graffiti were posted by City Watch NEWS Group on its Facebook page.

In a series of tweets Wednesday evening, April 7, college officials said the student was acting alone and acknowledged responsibility for the incidents. The student was immediately removed from campus and placed on temporary suspension while the college conducts a full investigation as part of its student judicial process, college officials said.

“We know the acts of racism that have occurred this week are not about one particular person or one particular incident. We know that there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community,” college officials tweeted. “We will change and heal together as a community, because we are committed to doing the work.”

https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-found-in-albion-college-dorm-officials-say.html

Investigators seize documents from Trump executive's former daughter-in-law

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/547200-investigators-seize-documents-from-trump-executives-former-daughter-in

Officials from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office took possession of documents potentially related to the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into the former president's finances.

The Washington Post reported that investigators took possession of at least three boxes of documents and a laptop computer from Jennifer Weisselberg, Allen Weisselberg's former daughter-in-law, after obtaining a grand jury subpoena for the materials.

Jennifer Weisselberg until 2018 was married to Allen Weisselberg's son Barry Weisselberg, who manages Central Park's Wollman ice rink for the Trump Organization. She has previously claimed, according to Yahoo News, to have numerous documents relating to the Trump Organization's finances as well as the Weisselberg family's which she obtained through divorce litigation.

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Millionaire Mortgage brokering, psychopathic scum pleaded guilty this week to the rare offense of outraging public decency, the BBC reported.

Last year, Richard Pusey, a mortgage broker from Melbourne, was driving his Porsche on a highway when four officers pulled him over for speeding.

As the officers were arresting Pusey, a passing truck driver veered into the lane and plowed into their cars on the side of the road.

The officers — Senior Constables Lynette Taylor and Kevin King and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney — all died.

Pusey, 42, had been standing away from the officers. Before fleeing, he pulled out his phone and filmed the officers, some of whom were pinned under the truck, for more than three minutes.

In the video, he can be heard blaming the officers for ruining his car.

"Amazing. Absolutely amazing," he said, according to the Australian Associated Press. "All I wanted to do was go home and eat my sushi, and now you have f---ed my f---ing car."

Experts said Taylor was most likely still alive while Pusey was filming, the BBC reported. The police found that Pusey had shared the video with some of his friends.

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APRIL 7--An inebriated partygoer who thought his girlfriend was performing a sex act upon him was actually being molested by an Iowa man who is now facing a sexual abuse charge, records show.

According to investigators, DNA evidence links defendant Kyle Ahrens, 20, to the assault of the victim, an Illinois college student who was attending a party at the Iowa City apartment his girlfriend shares with Ahrens and other roommates.

Ahrens, seen at right, last month pleaded not guilty to the felony count. Free on bond, he is scheduled for trial on August 10.

As detailed in police and court records, the victim “admitted that he had drank quite a bit and was intoxicated” when his girlfriend took him into a bedroom so that he could rest. The man recalled his girlfriend “laying with him until he fell asleep.”

The victim told police that his next memory was “his pants being pulled down and someone starting to perform oral sex on him,” adding that he kept his eyes closed and “thought it was his girlfriend performing oral sex on him, so he let it continue.”

Thereafter, the victim said, he heard the bedroom door open and saw what appeared to be a flash from a cellphone photo being taken by a male with a beard who was backing out of the room.

When the victim awoke the following morning, his girlfriend said that she “was not the one performing oral sex,” and that the description of the bearded man matched Ahrens, one of her roommates. Ahrens, a search warrant application states, arrived at the apartment around the time that the woman was putting the victim to sleep in another roommate’s bedroom.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/iowa-city-assault-472150