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Mary Shaw is a Guilty Murderer

Hon. Mary Shaw.jpgThat’s the judge who signed Breonna Taylor’s death warrant.

Like the kids in the street chant: Say Her Name: Judge Mary Shaw, The Guilty Murderer.

Now, of course, each and every single one of us knows for an absolute scientific fact that Mary Shaw will never ever be held accountable for orchestrating the murder of this wonderful young woman, Ms. Taylor.

But at least she can be stuck living in a society where everyone knows that Mary Shaw is a guilty murderer. She murderers innocent women in their sleep. She is a dangerous psychopath. Her family is forever dishonored by her heinous crime.

The disgusting human butcher, Mary Shaw.

Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists

When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict and embraced one state with equal rights for all, he quickly drew the ire of orthodox Zionists, some of whom went so far as to describe Beinart as a “Nazi” who favors a single state as the “Final Solution” for the more-than-century-old problem. By this, Beinart’s critics mean that equal rights in the unified land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River would surely bring the extinction of Jews.

It’s a repulsive smear, of course, one that well confirms what Beinart wrote in his Jewish Currents article. What gets overlooked, however, is that the early Jewish anti-Zionists, especially the founders of American Reform Judaism, warned that the incipient movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine would nourish the anti-Semite  potentially endangering Jews everywhere, including the United States, where they enjoyed unprecedented freedom.This view was no better articulated than by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), founder of American Reform Judaism.

Wise insisted that Jews did not constitute a single people, nation, or race but rather a worldwide religious community embracing many cultures and nationalities. Embracing one of the traditions of Judaism (which for much of its history was unified on little if anything), he preached a universalist, against a separatist, conception of his religion. This entailed the view that the human race was one people deserving of equal individual rights and freedom. For Wise, Judaism and Americanism were cut from the same cloth. (Ironically, in our time Israeli geneticists frantically and futilely search for the Jewish gene, which the Nazis also believed existed.)

As he watched the Zionist movement develop, Wise was horrified at what the future held. Writing in the final years of his life, he said: “The only class that will derive any advantage from the [1898 second Basel Zionist] Congress will be the anti-Semites, whose strongest argument that the Jews the world over are mere sojourners in countries, not a constituent part of their peoples, will receive expected support from the public acts and declarations of the Jews themselves.”

He was not stretching the point. Theodor Herzl and his Zionist colleagues appealed for the support of European rulers by vocally assuming the anti-Semitic slur that Jews were a parasitic alien presence in the nations of the world and that the “Jewish Question” could be answered only by establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. All Jews could then be concentrated there and away from the gentiles. (I use the word concentrated advisedly.) Whether the Zionists believed what they said or were just lied strategically, they made a consequential move.

A year before Wise made his statement, a committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, a Reform organization Wise founded, stated: “Such attempts [to establish a Jewish state] infinitely harm our Jewish brethren where they are still persecuted [Russia and Romania, for example], by confirming the assertion of their enemies that the Jews are foreigners in the countries in which they are at home, and of which they are everywhere the most loyal and patriotic citizens.”

This point has been a staple of the anti-Zionist case ever since. It was so widely known that the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which expressed official British approval of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, lamely tried to address it by stating that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” How’d that work out, Zionists?

When Zionists today cite Hitler’s attempted Judeocide as proof that the Zionist movement should have been listened to in 1897, one can reasonably ask, in light of what the anti-Zionists foresaw: is it unreasonable to view the horrors of 20th century as resembling a self-fulfilling prophecy? In other words, notwithstanding the tentativeness of counterfactual history, might things have been different had prominent and well-connected European Jews not adopted the anti-Semites’ smear that Jews were indeed parasitic aliens who could never belong to their societies and had instead joined forces with the world’s liberals to promote equal rights for all?

Feds Out of Portland

Maybe no one would have noticed if Trump had sent in some FBI guys just to help guard the federal courthouse in Portland, but Trump lives by the motto “Be ominously obnoxious or go home.” So he sends in unidentified agents from customs, the border patrol, and other such agencies to scoop demonstrators off the streets. Now he’s threatening to do the same thing in other cities, including Chicago. State and local officials in Oregon and around the country are concerned.

Trump may like the optics in this election season. To many of us, however, it looks bloody fascistic. Let local communities work this stuff out. The last thing they need is an escalation of trouble compliments of an invading federal force.

If That Ain’t The Most Soviet Thing…

Guys, check out this screed against a payroll tax cut at CNN.com.

Their awesome points:

  • Trump wants it.
  • Some Republicans and Democrats don’t want it.
  • Some people say it won’t “boost” the economy now.
  • It won’t help people who don’t have jobs.
  • There’s still a virus, and payroll tax cuts can’t change that fact, so there!
  • Some people say direct welfare payments are always preferable to tax cuts.
  • And of course: how are we going to afford all those direct welfare payments if we cut tax revenue?

I tell ya what.

 

Potent SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Isolated From Patients With Severe Symptoms Show Promise

The main stream media devoted considerable ink to try and dispel the notion that herd immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus was not likely due to the nature of the immune response to the virus. They claim (mainly citing evidence from non-peer reviewed studies), that the immune response was short-lived and that as little as 10-15% of the population may be immune. However, research published in Nature paints a different picture of how our bodies immune system responds to the virus and how different levels of exposure and disease severity may illicit an immune response that produces potent antibodies against the virus.

As the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine race continues, and effective COVID-19 treatments remain scarce, many researchers are looking to find antibodies that would be an effective way to treat patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, especially early in the course of infection, and to prevent infection, particularly in the elderly. They could also be used to protect those in high-risk situations, such as healthcare workers in COVID-19 wards.May18 2020

These antibodies can either be designed and engineered, based on similar infections such as SARS and MERS. Or, they can be isolated from people who survived a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

A team from Columbia University Irving Medical Center noted that they have isolated antibodies from several COVID-19 patients that are, to date, among the most potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Their work is published today in Nature in a paper titled, “Potent neutralizing antibodies directed to multiple epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 spike.

The team reported the isolation of 61 SARS-CoV-2-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies from five infected patients hospitalized with severe disease. Among these are 19 antibodies that potently neutralized the authentic SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, nine of which exhibited exquisite potency, with 50% virus-inhibitory concentrations of 0.7 to 9 ng/mL.

“We now have a collection of antibodies that’s more potent and diverse compared to other antibodies that have been found so far, and they are ready to be developed into treatments,” said David Ho, MD, scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and professor of medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, who directed the work.

The researchers have confirmed that their purified, strongly neutralizing antibodies provide significant protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection in hamsters, and they are planning further studies in other animals and people.

More at Genetic And Engineering News

On The Ballot

Rapp Hooper Pg RgbLooks like the Counsel On Foreign Relations won’t be endorsing Trump this year.

At Foreign Affairs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the United Kingdom and Denmark this week amid a strain in the transatlantic alliance. President Donald Trump has criticized the low levels of defense spending among fellow NATO members since his 2016 campaign, and his administration has clashed with European allies over issues ranging from trade to the coronavirus pandemic response to relations with China.

 

The transatlantic alliance has been a pillar of U.S. foreign policy for decades. How should Washington approach the next phase of its partnership with Europe?

Mira Rapp-Hooper explains why the U.S.-led alliance system worked so well in the past—and why the United States needs the support of its allies now more than ever.

Scott R. Anderson and Christopher C. Fonzone propose that Congress check the president’s ability to unilaterally withdraw from international agreements.

Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger contend that the coronavirus crisis could be an opportunity to repair U.S.-European relations.

Julianne Smith and Torrey Taussig consider Europe’s role amid the intensifying U.S.-Chinese rivalry. Finally,

Philip H. Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro argue that there’s no return to the old transatlantic alliance—but the next U.S. president could craft a new one in its place.

 

 

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