Friday, May 10th, 2024

Time	Event
8:46a	Medieval leprosy via fur trade In medieval England, leprosy was transmitted between humans and red squirrels. It may have reached England on squirrels' furs. (Comment on this)
8:46a	Where venomous snakes can live and bite *Venomous snakes likely to [move substantial distances to new habitats] en masse amid global heating, says study. Researchers find many countries unprepared for influx of new species and will be vulnerable to bites* (Comment on this)
8:46a	Nahla and Sami Al-Arian Two Columbia graduates who are journalists went back to campus to cover the student protest, and their mother, Nahla Al-Arian, came along for an hour. Night-Mayor Adams cited her as an example of an "outside agitator", fictitiously responsible for organizing the protest. Their father, Professor Sami Al-Arian, was smeared as a terrorist by Dubya's men. The jury found him innocent on most of the charges, but there were some minor charges that the jury could not decide on. He was pressured into a plea bargain which is now being used by New York's thug department as an excuse to smear Nahla Al-Arian as an "outside organizer" of the protests, as if that would justify their violence. (Comment on this)
8:46a	Student-protester wounds, NY, CA NYPD thugs beat up and injured some of the students they arrested. They put several in solitary for hours, and they denied water (and food) to one for 16 hours. This while fabricating accusations to smear the protesters. *[Uniformed thugs] let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like.* A large mob attacked the protesters with firecrackers and sprayed gas, then attacked with fists and poles. 25 of the protester/victims were hospitalized. The thugs did nothing to protect them. The next day, thugs arrested 200 of the protesters. Major news media disregarded the facts and pretended that the protesters and the mob were equally to blame. A generation of American students is learning the old lessons: that cops are cruel, violent liars when they deal with members of groups they despise, and that the mainstream media work hard to create false justifications. Biden endorsed that same injustice of blaming the protesters for the violence that was done to them. I will vote for Biden anyway, because the corrupter hatefully proclaims that he will be even worse. Meanwhile, the UCLA administration condemned the thugs failure to protect the protesters and said they will investigate what happened. If this is sincere, if that investigation is honest and unbiased, it could be an important step forward. But I am skeptical of that. If the UCLA administration really feels this way about the attack on the protesters, why did it tell LA thugs to arrest them? (Comment on this)
8:46a	Rafah residents flee, Gaza Palestinians who have left east Rafah and tried to go to the "safe area" Israel recommended say it is difficult to get there, it is not a good place for inhabitance, and it is already filled with people who fled there first. (Comment on this)
8:46a	Noam, VP hopeful: Kill yer dog *Noem book contains threat against Biden dog: "Commander, say hello to Cricket."* This is a hint at a threat of violence — a standard right wing tactic, popularized by the wrecker. It is designed to fill his opponents with helpless rage, because it is too vague for any legal action. Meanwhile it sends right-wing supporters on a power trip imagining violence against whoever does not support them. All in all, it demonstrates the vicious hate right-wingers display towards their chosen targets and scapegoats. But this is mild compared with what they usually do and threaten. Usually they target human beings. (Comment on this)
8:46a	Counter-protester racial misconduct, MS At the University of Mississippi, a provocateur who harassed a protest on behalf of Palestine is being investigated over violence. (Comment on this)
8:46a	Lula finds who ordered Marielle's murder * Two powerful politicians and Rio de Janeiro’s former chief of police have been arrested* in connection with the 2018 murder of city councilor Marielle Franco.* (Comment on this)

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