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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned, Berlin hospital says
Berlin (CNN)The hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny says tests indicate that he was poisoned.
Berlin's Charite Hospital noted that the Kremlin critic was suffering from "intoxication by a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors."
It added that Navalny, who was transferred to the German capital from the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday morning, is in an artificial coma in an intensive care unit. "His state of health is serious, but there is currently no acute danger to his life," the hospital said in a statement Monday.
The specific substance used to poison Navalny has not yet been identified, according to the hospital.
Cholinesterase inhibitors are widely used as dementia medications. They are also found in pesticides and chemical warfare nerve agents, including sarin and Novichok, which was used in a 2018 attack on ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England. They can slow the heart rate and are toxic to the brain.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/europe/alexey-navalny-germany-poison-grm-intl/index.html
Masks are required at RNC 2020 in Charlotte. But many are not wearing one.
Face masks were supposed to be worn at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte. In addition to North Carolina’s COVID-19 statewide mask mandate, RNC staff agreed to enforce the rule inside the convention center.But on the floor of the RNC, strict coronavirus protocols quickly fell by the wayside Monday.
Social distancing was expected too — in addition to COVID-19 symptom screening and testing — to prevent a virus flareup as more than 300 delegates gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center Monday, in a dramatically scaled-down RNC to renominate President Donald Trump.
But many inside were seen not wearing masks and some attendees shook hands and huddled in tight-knit circles as the RNC recessed awaiting the arrival of Vice President Mike Pence. Among delegates and convention staff, some people did wear masks. Still others did not or were seen wearing face coverings ineffectively, such as having the mask slung below their chins.
Mecklenburg Public Health Director Gibbie Harris said Monday she contacted the RNC about the lack of masks and social distancing, observed not only by journalists inside the convention hall but also easily seen on live streams from the event.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article245196385.html?utm_source=pushly&intcid=pushly_645928
RNC kicked off with criticism of Democrats folded into prayer
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1297895007974817793?s=21
#RNC kicked off with criticism of Democrats folded into prayer, anthem, and pledge. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel noted on mic that delegates were standing for anthem (implying that Dems didn't). Prayer had quick criticism of Catholics who didn't oppose abortion. (1/2)
And before leading the crowd in the pledge, Alaska delegate Peter Goldberg reminded them that "at least two caucuses" at the DNC did not say "under God" in the pledge.
"We would never do that," he said. "Let me remind you, there is no comma before 'under God.'"
When Biden wins, Trumpism is far from over
https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1297845625950818304?s=21In Trump campaign land, Donald Trump Jr. is the hottest ticket other than his dad.
Top Psychologists Compare Trump to Hitler and Mussolini in New Documentary
In the eye-opening documentary “#UNFIT,” premiering in virtual cinemas Aug. 28, psychologists and former allies of President Trump diagnose why he’s a danger to America.
Donald Trump’s psychosis is on full display for everyone to see, day in and day out, on TV and on Twitter. But for those interested in getting a fuller, damning portrait of his headspace—and who have already devoured his niece Mary Trump’s bestseller Too Much and Never Enough—#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump has arrived to further mark the current commander-in-chief as a madman ill-suited for public service. Premiering in virtual cinemas on Aug. 28 and on digital/streaming TVOD on Sept. 1, it’s a cogently argued and executed evisceration of a president who’s fundamentally—and dangerously—unworthy of the Oval Office.
Director Partland begins his breakdown of the current president by turning to esteemed psychologists, including John Gartner, Lances Dodes, and Justin Frank, who diagnose Trump as a “malignant narcissist,” a classification that has four components: Narcissism, Paranoia, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Sadism. Trump’s exhibition of those qualities is thoroughly detailed in passages that make great use of his audio interviews, press conferences, rally speeches, and a 1993 Howard Stern interview in which he ranks celebrity females by their hotness, and semi-jokingly admits that he doesn’t treat women with respect.
Trump is a sociopath. A sadist. A con artist. A racist. A misogynist. A sexist in general. And I think it is a problem,” says Frank, providing the most amusing understatement of this entire affair. Having initially probed Trump’s mind and found only arrogance, selfishness, greed, a hunger for power, and a total disinterest in his fellow man—or knowledge about the world, competing views, or any number of other subjects—#Unfit proceeds to expand its purview by explaining his corrosive tactics, such as gaslighting. Additional examples, such as a discussion about the Ash Experiment—in which lies told by the many convince the few to doubt the obvious facts they see—speak to Trump’s method of using deception to sow seeds of confusion and distrust.
While Trump might be a historically awful president, #Unfit doesn’t contend that he’s an altogether unique figure, since as Gartner says, he shares the same psychological profile, and characteristics, of autocrats like Mussolini and Hitler. Gartner’s claim that “they’re cut from the same cloth” is bolstered by other historians and mental health professionals who draw direct links between Trump’s MO and those of 1930s fascists who exploited and magnified existing economic fears, prejudices, and discontent to seize power and then systematically neuter institutions that might challenge him. #Unfit illustrates, clearly and concisely, that Trump is playing by the standard-issue authoritarian playbook, including by stoking ethno-nationalist movements and aligning himself with fellow despots such as Erdogan, Bolsonaro, and Putin
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-psychologists-compare-trump-to-hitler-and-mussolini-in-new-documentary-unfit?source=articles&via=twitter_page
Trump wants to fast-track UK Covid-19 vaccine before US election
The Trump administration is considering bypassing normal US regulatory standards to fast-track an experimental coronavirus vaccine from the UK for use in America ahead of the presidential election, according to three people briefed on the plan.
One option being explored to speed up the availability of a vaccine would involve the US Food and Drug Administration awarding “emergency use authorisation” (EUA) in October to a vaccine being developed in a partnership between AstraZeneca and Oxford university, based on the results from a relatively small UK study if it is successful, the people said.
The AstraZeneca study has enrolled 10,000 volunteers, whereas the US government’s scientific agencies have said that a vaccine would need to be studied in 30,000 people to pass the threshold for authorisation. AstraZeneca is also conducting a larger study with 30,000 volunteers, although the results from that will come after the smaller trial.
If the FDA, which is led by commissioner Stephen Hahn, were to grant emergency approval to the AstraZeneca vaccine based on the Oxford study, it could provoke a string of resignations from the agency.
https://www.ft.com/content/b053f55b-2a8b-436c-8154-0e93dcdb3c1a?success=true
The young white supremacist from NC , Madison Cawthorn, is scheduled to speak at the RNC
https://twitter.com/jimmorrill/status/1297583915926986752?s=20Maybe he'll entertain the crowd with tales of his trips to Hitler's Eagles Nest and Russia.
Here are some more convention speakers. What a shitshow!
https://twitter.com/zekejmiller/status/1297339281879556096?s=21Convention speakers include: Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pompeo, Ivanka Trump, Jeff Van Drew, Kellyanne Conway, Ben Carson, Alice Johnson, Carl and Marsha Mueller, Ric Grenell, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Dana White
Jeff Van Drew is the Guy who switched from being a NJ Democrat to a Trumper.
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