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August 6, 2016

What they're not telling you about Zika -Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/A-costly-journey-to-death-s-door-and-back_68981
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On his back in a hospital bed since July 2, 2016 in a state of near paralysis, Delano Franklyn, the former Chief Advisor to Prime Minister PJ Patterson, gives a chilling account of his near-death experience when the marauding Zika virus opened the door to a little known but deadly disease, Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).

Franklyn, a tall robust man whose clean-shaven face and head are familiar to many Jamaicans and Comrades of the People’s National Party (PNP), was reduced overnight to a mere shadow of his former self, bed-ridden and needing help to do even basic things most people take for granted.

Doctors treating him expressed shock that he was still alive, but he admits in an interview with the Jamaica Observer that had he not been able to meet the astronomical cost of the vital drugs that would save his life, this reporter would most likely be writing his obituary.

The United States Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes GBS as an uncommon sickness of the nervous system in which a person’s own immune system damages the nerve cells, causing muscle weakness, and sometimes, paralysis.
August 6, 2016

Have any M$Greedia Cable or Network stations even mentioned Judge Curiel's recent decisions?

https://verdict.justia.com/2016/08/05/trump-university-lawsuit-continues
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Donald Trump actually won a small skirmish in his Trump University (TU) legal battle in the U.S. District Court in San Diego this week, but he continues to lose the war. The judge whom Trump has maligned for his Mexican heritage—U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel—cut The Donald some slack vis-à-vis the media but refused to reverse his earlier rulings and dismiss the case against Trump for his role in bilking people who enrolled in TU and received none of the promised instruction on how to succeed in real estate.

You will recall in May, after Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republicans, he began his unprovoked racist attack on Judge Curiel claiming the lawsuit against him for his role in TU was “in front of a very hostile judge.” Trump noted, “The judge was appointed by Barack Obama,” and added, “Frankly, he should recuse himself because he’s given us ruling after ruling after ruling, negative, negative, negative.” Trump claimed Judge Curiel was ruling against him because the former wanted to build a wall along our southern border with Mexico, and Trump believed the judge was Mexican. Learning that, in fact, Judge Curiel was born in Indiana did not slow Trump down, since the judge’s parents were Mexican, so he ranted on that he was being “railroaded” by a “rigged” legal system. He claimed Judge Curiel was a “hater of Donald Trump,” and the judge was a “disgrace,” who should “be ashamed of himself.” And he called for other federal judges “to look into Judge Curiel.”
August 5, 2016

Send this to Don the Con

August 5, 2016

Black Lives Matter UK shut down Heathrow Airport

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36983852
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Black Lives Matter protesters caused simultaneous 'gridlock' on the M4 motorway at Heathrow and in Nottingham, in a day of anti-racist activism.

Campaigners lay on the tarmac on the slip road to the airport in London and across tram tracks in Nottingham city centre early on Friday morning.

The co-ordinated act came a day after the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police.

A number of activists across the country have been arrested.
August 5, 2016

George Zimmerman punched in the face for bragging at Florida restaurant about killing Trayvon Martin

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/zimmerman-punched-bragging-killing-trayvon-martin-article-1.2739089
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George Zimmerman was punched in the face at a Florida bar after bragging about killing Trayvon Martin, officials and witnesses said.

The former neighborhood watchman said he was clocked by a drunken diner who mistook him for someone else at the Gators Riverside Grille in Sanford around 5:00 p.m. Sunday, according to a police report obtained by the Daily News.

“This man just punched me in the face,” Zimmerman told a 911 dispatcher. “He said he was going to kill me. You need to send three or four cops.”

But staff at the restaurant and witnesses countered the acquitted murderer’s account and said the incident was nothing more than a shoving match that stemmed from Zimmerman bragging about his notorious past.

“They shoved each other and that was the end,” Gators Riverside Grille owner Edward Winters told The News.
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He's one more fugging coward who will get what's coming one of these days

August 4, 2016

See what Obama is doing here is giving sensible people an update on

everything - he's tearing them a new one. Damn I'm going to miss him - this is his birthday gift to America as politics defers to the Olympics.

August 4, 2016

Birthday Boy Press Conference at the Pentagon

Obama up now

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