Friday, April 24, 2020

Profiles in Criminality, Grenon Bro's and Trump the traitor

America's President's Apparent Health Advisors:  Mark Grenon, Joseph Grenon, Jordan Grenon, and Jonathan Grenon sell and distribute a product called Miracle Mineral Solution through their Genesis II Church of Health and Healing.

Nothing is beyond the pale anymore.  While Trump's 40% keep getting nastier and more disconnected from reality, all because they refuse to take any responsibility for their own mistakes, hate learning and education and love pissing off liberals above all else - topped off by zero conception for the march of time and evolution.  It's a recipe for utter self destruction that seems to be unfold unabated, take this recent plunge into self-delusion:
Mark Grenon styles himself as “archbishop” of Genesis II – a Florida-based outfit that claims to be a church but which in fact is the largest producer and distributor of chlorine dioxide bleach as a “miracle cure” in the US. He brands the chemical as MMS, “miracle mineral solution”, and claims fraudulently that it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism.  
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com
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Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
Ed Pilkington in New York, April 24, 2020, Guardian.com

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment 


The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trumpat the White House this week.
In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

But wait, there's more!
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-end-illegal-online-sale-industrial-bleach-marketed-miracle-treatment 
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, April 17, 2020 
Justice Department Seeks to End Illegal Online Sale of Industrial Bleach Marketed as “Miracle” Treatment for COVID-19 
Court Orders Defendants to Stop Operating Website Selling Unlawful Bleach Product for Coronavirus Treatment 
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has entered a temporary injunction halting the sale of an unapproved, unproven, and potentially dangerous coronavirus (COVID-19) treatment product, the Department of Justice announced today. 
In a civil complaint and accompanying court papers filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida today, the Department of Justice alleges that the defendants, Genesis II Church of Health and Healing (Genesis) and its principals, Mark Grenon, Joseph Grenon, Jordan Grenon, and Jonathan Grenon sell and distribute a product called Miracle Mineral Solution, also referred to as MMS.  
Genesis sells MMS through its websites claiming that it will cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent Coronavirus, which includes COVID-19, as well as other diseases including Alzheimer’s, autism, brain cancer, HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis, among others.  MMS is a chemical product which, when combined with the included activator, creates a powerful bleach product that the defendants market for oral ingestion.  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has previously issued public warnings to consumers that MMS can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.  The Justice Department sought preliminary relief from the court. 
“The Department of Justice will take swift action to protect consumers from illegal and potentially harmful products being offered to treat COVID-19,” said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt.  “We will continue to work closely alongside our partners at the Food and Drug Administration to quickly shut down those selling illegal products during this pandemic.” 
“We will zealously pursue perpetrators of fraud schemes seeking to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.  “Not only are these products potentially harmful, but their distribution and use may prevent those who are sick from receiving the legitimate healthcare they need.” 
The complaint alleges that defendants’ disease-related treatment claims are unsupported by any well-controlled clinical studies or other credible scientific substantiation.  Additionally, the complaint asserts that MMS’s labeling is false and misleading and that since defendants make disease-related treatment claims about MMS in the absence of any clinical data, the products are misbranded.  
On April 8, 2020, FDA, jointly with the Federal Trade Commission, issued a Warning Letter to Defendants notifying them that they are violating federal law (both the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as well as the Federal Trade Commission Act) by, among other things, distributing unapproved new drugs and misbranded drugs in interstate commerce.  Despite this warning, the complaint alleges, the defendants not only continue to sell MMS with claims that it cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents Coronavirus, which includes COVID-19, but they have also expressly stated that they will not take corrective action. 
“Americans expect and deserve proven medical treatments and today’s action is a forceful reminder that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will use its legal authorities to quickly stop those who have proven to continuously threaten the health of the American public.  It is vital that sellers of drug products comply with the FD&C Act and do not sell products with false and misleading claims, especially to treat COVID-19 and other debilitating diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer’s disease,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.   
“Despite a previous warning, the Genesis II Church of Healing has continued to actively place consumers at risk by peddling potentially dangerous and unapproved chlorine dioxide products.  We will not stand for this, and the FDA remains fully committed to taking strong enforcement action against any sellers who place unsuspecting American consumers at risk by offering their unproven products to treat serious diseases.” 
FDA’s previous warning to consumers about the dangers of MMS can be found here: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/danger-dont-drink-miracle-mineral-solution-or-similar-products. 
The enforcement action filed today is being prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel Ross S. Goldstein and David A. Frank of the Department of Justice, Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch and Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Feeley of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, with assistance from Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement Joshua Davenport of the FDA, Office of General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services. 
The claims made in the complaint are allegations that, if the case were to proceed to trial, the government must prove to receive a permanent injunction against the defendants.
Additional information about the Consumer Protection Branch and its enforcement efforts may be found at www.justice.gov/civil/consumer-protection-branch.   
For more information about the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, visit its website at www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl.  For information about the Department of Justice’s efforts to stop illegal COVID-19-related activity, visit www.justice.gov/coronavirus.  For the most up-to-date information on COVID-19, consumers may visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO websites.  
The public is urged to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19 (the Coronavirus) by calling the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or by e-mailing the NCDF at disaster@leo.gov.
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Then it only get's worse, check out Seth Abramson documenting Trump's Treason against America and humanity, while demonstrating why Trump did nothing, and now is seemingly deliberately and with malice of heart trying to make a bad situation even worse.

Trump our Russian Obligation President also appears to be our Chinese Obligate President, check out the evidence by reviewing the information Seth and others have collected documenting the trump horrors against Americans.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1253805301792477184

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Considering my bias. Thanking Mom on International-Woman's Day.


Prost! πŸ»

The term "Bias" is often tossed around, yet how often do we examine our own biases and where they come from?

I am biased, I'm a thinker, a student of life and the world around me, a lover, a person who believes in family, community, creating, nurturing what I/we have, learning from sober science.  I’m not into domination, stealing what others have, self-importance or wielding power and pain over others - seems to me, and for who I am, that refining and living with a solid character is worth more than all those trappings of power and bling.  

Even if it means not having ‘stuff’ chained around my neck.  

For me, it’s the control of the kayaker that I strive for, as I'm swept down the cascade of time.  The dam builder’s control is a thing of passing domination, filled with fears of loss and fighting to hang onto what starts crumbling as soon as we build it.   Whereas the kayaker lives life, is present to living our fleeting moments, fully experiencing our day to days.  In the end, we all die and disappear back into the all.

Living a thoughtful life, getting to know oneself, not just the hero I want to be, but the bumbling fool who I am more often than I care to admit.  Still, I've learned to appreciate that it all gets lost in the sauce of who we are.  What’s left is a decent flawed man that strives to be a constructive part of world around him.  It’s all good because it’s the underlying character that matters most, not the transient trappings we collect and discard as we pass through our moments on this planet.

It’s what makes it possible for me to live aware of all aspects of life and our lives.  Being open to the beautiful and the people, while in full awareness That Our Greedy Society Failed Our Tests of Character, along with recognizing the monstrously destructive players out there who are ensuring worst outcomes.  

Trying to maintain balance as our future becomes the present populated with ever increasing destruction, loss, and grief.  It’ll be interesting discovering how l hold up as this slow motion global train wreck continues unfolding in our next couple decades, achieving unknown levels of ugly.  (It's an odd and profound sadness to be nearly 65 and thankful I'm not any younger.)

I blame my sweet baby sis for bringing on all this bellybutton gazing by waking me with the following text message for her sibs:

It's International Women's Day, 
so let's all drink a toast to our favorite international woman. 
Prost! 🍻





One thing leads to another.  Ildiko was a great mom and I’m certainly my mom’s son, and proud of it, which got me to thinking about my values and worldview.  She and my dad instilled curiosity and opened the world to me, but it’s mom that gave me the sensitivity to appreciate the world and we humans in a way most apparently can’t imagine.  

Thank you Mom for embodying the best humanity has to offer and for sharing it with me.
and
Thank you to all the wonderful woman of all ages who have come into my life and helped make my world a better place, and me, a better person !!!
Prost! πŸ»

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International Women's Day 2020: How it began and why it's still important 



March 7, 2020,  The Independent

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An equal world is an enabled world.

#IWD2020  #EachforEqual

International Women's Day is powered by the collective efforts of all
Collective action and shared ownership for driving gender parity is what makes International Women's Day successful. Gloria Steinem, world-renowned feminist, journalist and activist once explained "The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." So make International Women's Day your day and do what you can to truly make a positive difference for women.
Join the IWD Community 













Saturday, March 7, 2020

Coronavirus_COVID-19, San Juan Basin FAQ

I've have nothing to add, but I did read San Juan Basin Health webpage and found it worth bringing over here - since I like science and rational reactions to real threats.  I also believe in allowing serious experts to figure it out best they can and I appreciate it takes time.  Remember these are the same scientists who have been crying their warnings for years and advocating for us to take these threats seriously and take precautions, become prepared.  But who paid heed.

Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)


At San Juan Basin Public Health we anticipate and respond to conditions that impact the quality of life in southwest Colorado. We are committed to informing our community on issues related to public health and are here to help provide answers.
At San Juan Basin Public Health we anticipate and respond to conditions that impact the quality of life in southwest Colorado. We are committed to informing our community on issues related to public health and are here to help provide answers.
People who are ill or believe they may have been exposed to the virus should not present at SJBPH.
Instead, If you have symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath and you’ve been in contact with someone confirmed to have novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), or if you’ve recently traveled to parts of the world with high COVID-19 infection rates such as China, Italy, and South Korea, you should call your doctor to receive further instruction and to assess if you meet criteria for testing. If you do not have a doctor, call SJBPH’s front desk at 970.247.5702, option 1.

What is the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak?

There is an expanding outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel or new coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, China in early December 2019. This means that before this current outbreak, people had never experienced or been made sick by this virus. Cases have been detected in a number of countries, including the United States. As of March 5th, there are two confirmed case of COVID-19 in Colorado.

Understand the risk

Monday, March 2, 2020

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE - MAP


Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6


Not much to say, plus very crowded days, though I imagine I'll eventually come up with a record of trumpster vandalism against the CDC, NIH, MSHA, OSHA and the rest of the despised investigative and regulatory agencies.

Thursday, February 13, 2020

"The Day Democracy Died" Sung by The Founding Fathers

     It depressing, I keep hoping for some awakening that never seems to happen.  We just get deeper and deeper into this quagmire of Me First self-delusion.
Trump wants to destroy the fabric of our society and apparently that fabric is not strong enough to withstand his ruthless bullying and liberals seem lost.
     Integrity, respect for others, honesty, good faith interest in learning, considering future consequences it's all shit on by the trump Republicans with god in their back pockets and a totalitarian disregard for two-thirds of this nation, while pulling a great fraud on the other third (with Putin's help).  This is the prelude to a self-inflicted national tragedy like none other, yet we sleep and the Democrats fumble and can't even inform and engage their own grassroots, let alone change any minds.  ... and still nobody out there.

Sung by The Founding Fathers

Including the lyrics

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

House Intelligence Committee, December 3, 2019, Impeachment Draft Report

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., 
holds a news conference after his committee released their impeachment report.
Streamed live December 3, 2019  |  NBC News
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The Rachel Maddow Show 12/03/19 
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House Intelligence Committee Releases Draft Report As Part of Impeachment Inquiry
Report To Be Voted on This Evening
Washington, December 3, 2019

Washington, DC – Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the draft report – “The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report” – to all Members and the public.

Monday, December 2, 2019

C-SPAN's Trump Impeachment Inquiry Collection - days 1,2,3,4,5

Here's a collection of C-SPAN videos covering November's House Impeachment Inquiry Hearings.  I'm also including the time signature notes Make-Make has been posting as comments.  I think Make-Make has done a wonderful service worth sharing.  These notes can be helpful when trying to navigate the hours worth of questions, answers and GOP's rhetorical fancy dancing and diversions, (not to mention their god-awful normalization of out and out criminality and even treasonous behavior).  But I digress, this is about creating my own record of what was actually said. As a personal bonus, it would be cool if some others can find it helpful.  Feel free to copy and share.


https://www.rev.com/blog/category/political-transcripts
For Impeachment Hearing Transcripts link to: 

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Streamed live on Nov 13, 2019, by C-SPAN

House Impeachment Inquiry, Hearing Day 1 - Taylor & Kent Testimony

Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent testify on Impeach Inquiry before House Intelligence Committee. Go to 34:02 for gavel start of hearing. 




also notes from Matthew Caplan and Make-Make

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Matt Kiser - Impeachment Watch - WhatTheFuckJustHappenedToday.com


I'm always amazed at how the days and weeks speed by, between having to spend time getting caught up on pre-winter and now early-winter chores (we do live in the country and our little cabin is heated by wood) so there's work that needs to be done.   Plus the 500 mile trip down to spend a week with family and our young grandson.  Too much going on.  Enough time to get caught up on news, vent by starting yet more potential projects, while not enough to concentrate on getting any of them finished.  Now it's time to get back to it.

The following is a collection of links to resources provided by Matt and friends over at the blog, What The Fuck Just Happened Today, which has been tracking and compiling Trump news since day one, so that We The People have a record to learn from, to use and retain for future reference.  And me?, it simply seems like a patriotic duty to share and hopefully help spread this information.

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Impeachment Watch: Day 4.0 (and Day 3.0)

WTF Community Leader

1/ The U.S. ambassador to the European Union testified that he and senior administration officials “followed the president’s orders” to work with Rudy Giuliani to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations into Joe Biden and the discredited conspiracy theory that the country helped Democrats in the 2016 election. Gordon Sondland testified that he, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and special envoy Kurt Volker coordinated with Giuliani at the “at the express direction of the president of the United States” to pressure Ukraine into launching investigations. 
Sondland said he directly communicated the “quid pro quo” arrangement to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Sondland also provided House impeachment investigators with emails and texts showing that acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Perry, and others were all aware that Trump conditioned a White House meeting for Zelensky on his willingness to launch investigations. “They knew what we were doing and why,” Sondland said. “Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret.” 
2/ Sondland testified that he told Pence before his Sept. 1 meeting with Zelensky that he “had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations.”

Friday, November 22, 2019

How Trump 'Hijacked' American Politics With Delusions (and plain nastiness).

They meme’d Trump into the White House.  How was that possible?  How did We The People of the United States allow such a recognized lowlife self-serving deadbeat and showman to be handed the Presidency of this nation?
  
Well, it started with allowing the US House of Representative to be packed with a bunch of angry scared Tea-partiers with their open contempt for our American government.  They have had one thing in mind, that is to weaken our government to the point that it's easy pickings for the oligarch wannabes such as the Kochs and Murdochs and Ailes (who masterminded the past decades of descent into an alternate reality that dismisses physical reality with a self-certain arrogant contempt that beats all.)

A healthy democracy depends on an informed and engaged citizenry.  Here I share a series of stories that look at one of the reasons we got here.  This threat needs to be recognized and understood  - if we are to try and seriously confront it.  Confront it with what?  With a renewed demand that honesty, truth, ethics do matter to a civil society and our future.  I include excerpts from:

          Greg Epstein, TechCrunch.com         
          Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air
          Kara Swisher Book Review, New York Times
          Brian Feldman, New York Magazine
          Kathrine Schwab,  FastCompany
          Strand Book Store  |  YouTube Video
          J Oliver Conroy, The guardian.com
The Book:
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          Annie Karni, Kevin Roose and Katie Rogers, New York Times
          Drew Harwell, Tony Romm, Washington Post
          Allyson Chiu, Washington Post
          Yuliya Talmazan and Monica Alba, NBC News


          Charlie Warzel, New York Times
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Friday, November 15, 2019

Trump Impeachment Hearings (Day2) - Marie Yovanovitch

During today's Impeachment Hearing, Day Two, it was nuts listening to Jordan and Stefanik's dialogue, what's with all that melodramatic dripping contempt for our democratic government and it's rules?   

So now the GOP tells us it's a "performance" to expect the rule of law to be respected and obeyed?  It's "performance" that we're appalled at witnessing our President playing political extortion with an ally's self-defense needs.  What is going on here?  Actually, I do know, the GOP questioners are playing to their bubble and steadfastly ignoring the reality of the facts. 

What about simple FAIR PLAY.  What about Honest Constructive Debate?  Where both sides are bound by an expectation to be truthful?


Doesn't a sane government require a standard of honesty that applies to all sides?  But all I hear from the GOP is malicious slanderous innuendo, fabricated conspiracy theories, misdirection, and wasting time with ridiculous side stories, oh an the bullying - all justified because of their most grotesque partisan blindspots.


I wish someone would ask the GOP what they think of the other half of this country who believe in science and constructive debates, debates where honesty is expected from all sides?  Where learning and improving is the goal.  What about us?  Where do we go from here?



Watch: Day 2 of public Trump impeachment hearings
Washington Post  |  November 15, 2019

The Roger Stone Collection - November 15, 2019


I’ve been watching that amoral Roger Stone damage American politics all my life.  With his love of dirty tricks and hurting people, his prideful contempt for humanity and civility, ethics, dignity, honor, respect, empathy and then the self-worship and his own gluttony - he epitomizes the "Ugly American" as much as Trump does.  Winning is all that mattered.
Future of humanity?
Stone's response, Who the fuk cares!?  I got mine and fuk you and yours!  Too much is never going to be enough for me and it doesn't matter how much carnage I leave in my wake. 
He had a hell of run.  Roger Stone was tough enough, bullying enough, that Democrats wilted  time after time,  time after time,  and today in many ways our political mess is Roger Stone's legacy as much as anyone’s.
The Republican’s selective acceptance and their normalization of such criminality makes me more fearful for our short term future than ever before.  I think Democrats in general simply have no conception of the 'war footing' going on in their god-fearing minds.  But, I digress, here I wanted to share a selection of articles to introduce the uninitiated to why Roger Stone is a big deal.
Roger Stone found guilty on all 7 counts | ABC News

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Roger Stone’s New York intrigues

By Zach Williams November 15, 2019

The ‘malevolent Forrest Gump’ has never strayed far from his home state.

1960 – Fake news in school
1972 – Nixon’s reelection campaign
1980 – John Anderson campaign … 
1999 – Trump’s aborted Reform Party campaign
2000 – The Florida Recount
2002 – Billionaire Tom Golisano gubernatorial run
2004 – Al Sharpton campaign
2007 – The New York state Senate
2010 – The Kristin Davis for governor campaign
2015 – Trump campaign

Profiles in Criminality, Grenon Bro's and Trump the traitor

America's President's Apparent Health Advisors:  Mark Grenon, Joseph Grenon, Jordan Grenon, and Jonathan Grenon sell and distribute ...

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