>It’s just a fat guy laying on a mattress who’s been making all of them.
Brian Stelter?
I'm gonna need a stronger coffee to get through this.
https://streamable.com/jtzqbe
https://streamable.com/7xksxg
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>https://archive.org/details/ADC-6291
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_German_nobility_in_the_Nazi_Party
https://web.archive.org/web/20040704012556/http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/comdti.htm
Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin
Report of a multi-country study
Onchocerciasis remains a serious public health in large parts of tropical Africa where some 18 million people are affected. The most severe consequence of onchocerciasis is blindness, which may afflict over one third of the adult population of the most affected communities. Other important problems are severe skin disease and maddening itching which cause great suffering to millions of people.
>Onchocerciasis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis
Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. Symptoms include severe itching, bumps under the skin, and blindness. It is the second-most common cause of blindness due to infection, after trachoma.
The parasite worm is spread by the bites of a black fly of the Simulium type. Usually, many bites are required before infection occurs. These flies live near rivers, hence the common name of the disease. Once inside a person, the worms create larvae that make their way out to the skin, where they can infect the next black fly that bites the person. There are a number of ways to make the diagnosis, including: placing a biopsy of the skin in normal saline and watching for the larva to come out; looking in the eye for larvae; and looking within the bumps under the skin for adult worms.
A vaccine against the disease does not exist. Prevention is by avoiding being bitten by flies. This may include the use of insect repellent and proper clothing. Other efforts include those to decrease the fly population by spraying insecticides. Efforts to eradicate the disease by treating entire groups of people twice a year are ongoing in a number of areas of the world. Treatment of those infected is with the medication ivermectin every six to twelve months. This treatment kills the larvae but not the adult worms. The antibiotic doxycycline weakens the worms by killing an associated bacterium called Wolbachia, and is recommended by some as well. The lumps under the skin may also be removed by surgery.
About 15.5 million people are infected with river blindness. Approximately 0.8 million have some amount of loss of vision from the infection. Most infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa, although cases have also been reported in Yemen and isolated areas of Central and South America. In 1915, the physician Rodolfo Robles first linked the worm to eye disease. It is listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a neglected tropical disease.
>Efforts to eradicate the disease by treating entire groups of people twice a year are ongoing in a number of areas of the world. Treatment of those infected is with the medication ivermectin every six to twelve months. This treatment kills the larvae but not the adult worms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerciasis#Ivermectin
Ivermectin kills the parasite by interfering with the nervous system and muscle function, in particular, by enhancing inhibitory neurotransmission. The drug binds to and activates glutamate-gated chloride channels. These channels, present in neurons and myocytes, are not invertebrate-specific, but are protected in vertebrates from the action of ivermectin by the blood–brain barrier. Ivermectin is thought to irreversibly activate these channel receptors in the worm, eventually causing an inhibitory postsynaptic potential. The chance of a future action potential occurring in synapses between neurons decreases and the nematodes experience flaccid paralysis followed by death.
Ivermectin is directly effective against the larval stage microfilariae of O. volvulus; they are paralyzed and can be killed by eosinophils and macrophages. It does not kill adult females (macrofilariae), but does cause them to cease releasing microfilariae, perhaps by paralyzing the reproductive tract. Ivermectin is very effective in reducing microfilarial load and reducing number of punctate opacities in individuals with onchocerciasis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_trial
In May, the WHO announced an international coalition for simultaneously developing several candidate vaccines to prevent COVID-19 disease, calling this effort the Solidarity trial for vaccines.[4]
The treatments being investigated are remdesivir, lopinavir/ritonavir combined, lopinavir/ritonavir combined with interferon-beta, and hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine investigation was discontinued in June 2020 due to concluding that it provided no benefit.
>Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine investigation was discontinued in June 2020 due to concluding that it provided no benefit.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-17/hydroxychloroquine-testing-halted-in-who-sponsored-covid-trial
https://outline.com/WXCDMx
Hydroxychloroquine Halted in WHO-Sponsored Covid-19 Trials
June 17, 2020
Tests of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump, were halted in a World Health Organization trial of potential Covid-19 treatments.
The hydroxychloroquine arm of the WHO’s Solidarity trial was stopped after advisers concluded that the drug shows no benefit compared to the standard of care in reducing deaths, Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, a WHO medical officer, said Wednesday at a briefing in Geneva.
Trump has touted the antimalarial as a treatment for the coronavirus since the early weeks of the global outbreak, calling it a “game-changer,” but its prospects have faded. U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked emergency-use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, a related antimalarial drug, after determining they were unlikely to treat the virus and could have dangerous side effects.
The WHO’s Solidarity trial is one of several worldwide that pits a few drugs against each other to identify those that are most effective against Covid. The trials are designed so that ineffective drugs can be weeded out and promising new ones can be added.
Cheap Steroid
One of these experiments run by the University of Oxford released data Tuesday showing that the inexpensive, generic steroid dexamethasone improves survival in severely ill Covid patients. The only other drug to show benefit in a robust trial is Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir, an antiviral.
Controversy has swirled around hydroxychloroquine since Trump began promoting it. The U.S. bought millions of doses, while shortages ensued for patients with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis other conditions the drug has been shown to treat as well as malaria. There were reports of people taking the drug preventively, and Trump himself said he took a course of the medication to ward off infection after two White House staffers contracted Covid-19 in May.
Various studies have supported and detracted from the drug’s effectiveness against the coronavirus, but until recently, few were designed in a way that
would determine its benefit. On June 5, Oxford researchers released data from a placebo-controlled trial showing that the drug didn’t lower Covid patients’ risk of death.
The decision for the WHO’s trial was made by independent experts and doesn’t constitute a guideline by the agency, Henao-Restrepo said. It also didn’t consider whether hydroxychloroquine could help prevent Covid-19, she said.
The World Health Organization had earlier halted the hydroxychloroquine portion of the trial temporarily after a study of patient records in the Lancet medical journal linked it to deaths and heart risks. The study was retracted after its data source came into question, and the WHO’s research on the drug was restarted.
— With assistance by Corinne Gretler
(Updates with details on Solidarity trial in fifth paragraph)
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial
The following treatments have previously been included in the trial and were closed to new entrants after being shown to be ineffective:
Hydroxychloroquine (used to treat malaria and rheumatism)
On 5 June 2020, the trial determined that there was no clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in people hospitalized with COVID-19.
https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-investigators-of-the-randomised-evaluation-of-covid-19-therapy-recovery-trial-on-hydroxychloroquine-5-june-2020-no-clinical-benefit-from-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-hospitalised-patients-with-covid-19
>https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-investigators-of-the-randomised-evaluation-of-covid-19-therapy-recovery-trial-on-hydroxychloroquine-5-june-2020-no-clinical-benefit-from-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-hospitalised-patients-with-covid-19
No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
Statement from the Chief Investigators of the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) Trial on hydroxychloroquine, 5 June 2020
Professor Peter Horby and Professor Martin Landray, chief investigators of the RECOVERY Trial, said ‘In March this year, RECOVERY was established as a randomised clinical trial to test a range of potential drugs for COVID-19, including hydroxycholoroquine.
‘The trial has proceeded at unprecedented speed, enrolling over 11,000 patients from 175 NHS hospitals in the UK. Throughout this time, the independent Data Monitoring Committee has reviewed the emerging data about every two weeks to determine if there is evidence that would be strong enough to affect national and global treatment of COVID-19.
‘On Thursday 4 June, in response to a request from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the independent Data Monitoring Committee conducted a further review of the data. Last night, the Committee recommended the chief investigators review the unblinded data on the hydroxychloroquine arm of the trial.
‘We have concluded that there is no beneficial effect of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. We have therefore decided to stop enrolling participants to the hydroxychloroquine arm of the RECOVERY Trial with immediate effect. We are now releasing the preliminary results as they have important implications for patient care and public health.
‘A total of 1542 patients were randomised to hydroxychloroquine and compared with 3132 patients randomised to usual care alone. There was no significant difference in the primary endpoint of 28-day mortality (25.7% hydroxychloroquine vs. 23.5% usual care; hazard ratio 1.11 [95% confidence interval 0.98-1.26]; p=0.10). There was also no evidence of beneficial effects on hospital stay duration or other outcomes.
‘These data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. Full results will be made available as soon as possible.
Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, and Chief Investigator for the trial, said:
‘Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have received a lot of attention and have been used very widely to treat COVID patients despite the absence of any good evidence. The RECOVERY Trial has shown that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. Although it is disappointing that this treatment has been shown to be ineffective, it does allow us to focus care and research on more promising drugs.’
Martin Landray, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, and Deputy Chief Investigator, said ‘There has been huge speculation and uncertainty about the role of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, but an absence of reliable information from large randomised trials. Today’s preliminary results from the RECOVERY Trial are quite clear – hydroxychloroquine does not reduce the risk of death among hospitalised patients with this new disease. This result should change medical practice worldwide and demonstrates the importance of large, randomised trials to inform decisions about both the efficacy and the safety of treatments.’
>No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
Notes
Full details of the study protocol and related materials are available at www.recoverytrial.net.
A range of potential treatments have been suggested for COVID-19 but it has been unclear whether any of them will turn out to be more effective in improving survival than the usual standard of hospital care which all patients will receive.
The RECOVERY Trial is a large, randomised controlled trial of possible treatments for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Over 11,000 patients have been randomised to the following treatment arms, or no additional treatment:
Lopinavir-Ritonavir (commonly used to treat HIV)
Low-dose Dexamethasone (a type of steroid, which is used in a range of conditions typically to reduce inflammation)
Hydroxychloroquine (related to an anti-malarial drug)
Azithromycin (a commonly used antibiotic)
Tocilizumab (an anti-inflammatory treatment given by injection)
Convalescent plasma (collected from donors who have recovered from COVID-19 and contains antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus).
For this particular analysis, follow-up is complete for just over 80% of participants. The lower bound of the confidence interval rules out any meaningful benefit.
The RECOVERY Trial is conducted by the registered clinical trials units with the Nuffield Department of Population Health in partnership with the Nuffield Department of Medicine. The trial is supported by a grant to the University of Oxford from UK Research and Innovation/National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and by core funding provided by NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Department for International Development, Health Data Research UK, the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, and NIHR Clinical Trials Unit Support Funding.
The RECOVERY Trial involves many thousands of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and research administrators at 175 NHS Trusts across the whole of the UK, supported by staff at the NIHR Clinical Research Network, Public Health England, Department of Health & Social Care, and the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17690408/
Elimination of Onchocercia volvulus transmission in the Santa Rosa focus of Guatemala
To eliminate transmission of Onchocerca volvulus, semiannual mass treatment with ivermectin (Mectizan; donated by Merck & Co) has been underway in Guatemala since 2000. We applied the 2001 World Health Organization (WHO) elimination criteria in the Santa Rosa focus of onchocerciasis transmission in Guatemala (10,923 persons at risk). No evidence of parasite DNA was found in 2,221 Simulium ochraceum vectors (one-sided 95% confidence interval [CI], 0-0.086%), and no IgG4 antibody positives to recombinant antigen OV16 were found in a sample of 3,232 school children (95% CI, 0-0.009%). We also found no evidence of microfilariae in the anterior segment of the eye in 363 area residents (95% CI, 0-0.08%). Our interpretation of these data, together with historical information, suggest that transmission of O. volvulus is permanently interrupted in Santa Rosa and that ivermectin treatments there can be halted.
>Our interpretation of these data, together with historical information, suggest that transmission of O. volvulus is permanently interrupted in Santa Rosa and that ivermectin treatments there can be halted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120916014001/https://www.who.int/blindness/partnerships/onchocerciasis_oepa/en/
Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA)
OEPA is a regional initiative with the goal of eliminating morbidity and interrupting transmission of river blindness in six endemic countries in the Americas: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela distributed in 13 foci (see map below). This is again a partnership programme including six endemic countries, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a private sector (Merck & Co., Inc.) a specialized institution (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC) and international Nongovernmental Development Organizations (INGDOs) (The Carter Center, Lions Clubs International Foundation and CBM).
The OEPA strategy is to encourage the endemic countries to provide sustained ivermectin mass treatment every six months with the aim of reaching at least 85% of 503 285 persons at risk of the disease. By the end of 2007, all six endemic countries have established effective national programmes in all 13 foci with the treatment coverage of at least 85% twice a year. There are no new cases of blindness attributable to onchocerciasis in the American region. All eye lesions attributable to onchocerciasis had been eliminated in 9 of 13 foci in the Americas.
"I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing they've built. They've built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners, and as a result, they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison."
And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree and he said, "This is a pine tree." He put it in my hand and he said, "Escape before it's too late."
Trudeau Dodges The Mob in Welland #PPC in Full Force
Canadian patriots block a campaign bus. Chant, “Fuck Trudeau!”
Peanuts Castro, man.
https://streamable.com/9fh777
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/biden-coronavirus-advisers-experts-rick-bright/index.html
November 9, 2020
Biden transition team announces coronavirus advisers, including whistleblower Rick Bright
Biden's transition team earlier Monday morning announced the group of public health experts that will make up his coronavirus advisory board, which includes Rick Bright, a whistleblower from the Trump administration who alleged that his early warnings about the pandemic were ignored and ultimately led to his removal.
The inclusion of Bright, who said that he was met with skepticism by Trump administration officials when he raised concerns in the early throes of the pandemic about critical supplies shortages, is a clear signal of the contrasted direction that Biden intends to take his administration when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-protestors-gravel-1.6166378
Trudeau hit by gravel as protesters surround campaign bus in London, Ont.
Liberal leader says he's OK; O'Toole calls incident 'disgusting'
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was hit by some gravel Monday while boarding a campaign bus in London, Ont.
As Trudeau went to get on the bus, which was surrounded by angry protesters, small objects could be seen thrown in his direction. A masked Trudeau looked startled before he went into the vehicle.
Trudeau later confirmed to reporters on the campaign plane that he was hit by gravel but said he is okay. He compared the incident to when pumpkin seeds were thrown at him.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/trudeau-1.jpg
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/15864349-who-people-disrupting-trudeaus-campaign-events-angry
Who are the people disrupting Trudeau’s campaign events — and why are they so angry?
A week ago, crowds of protesters at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s campaign stops became violent and forced the cancellation of other rallies. This week, the protesters are still at it. Most of them are opposed to COVID vaccine mandates and masks. Some are pushing unhinged conspiracy theories. Postmedia political journalist John Ivison was travelling with Trudeau’s team when the violence erupted. He spoke with some of the protesters and says the level of vitriol is unlike anything he's ever seen in Canadian politics.
>Peanuts Castro.
it was gravel, we have to pivot towards pumpkin seeds
sounds better anyway
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1435055102633652227
Wishing everyone celebrating #RoshHashanah a happy new year. Shanah tovah!
https://globalnews.ca/news/8101592/moderna-vaccine-plant-announcement/
New Moderna plant welcomed by public health experts but more details needed
New plans for Moderna to open a vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada are being welcomed by experts as a way to strengthen the country’s capacity to address future pandemics – even if it might not help directly with the current one.
The federal government announced Tuesday that it had reached a memorandum of understanding with the vaccine developer for it to build a facility in Canada to produce mRNA vaccines for a variety of diseases, capable of producing 30-million doses of vaccine per year.
>projectile analyst
https://globalnews.ca/news/8170813/canada-election-trudeau-rocks-protesters/
Protesters throw small rocks, debris at Trudeau as he leaves Ontario campaign stop
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he “might have” been hit by gravel thrown by protesters at an election campaign stop in London, Ont., on Monday.
Trudeau was leaving the event when he was surrounded by angry protesters, some of whom appeared to be throwing handfuls of gravel and debris at the party leader.
RCMP security detail were forced to hold up their hands to try and protect Trudeau from getting hit as he got on his campaign bus. Some members of the media following the Liberal campaign were hit by the small projectiles, but were not hurt.
>enters rehab after being shot in the head
https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-patients-cant-know-which-variant-infected-them-delta-2021-8
You aren't legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the US, even if it's Delta
Most people with COVID-19 in the US are legally prevented from knowing which variant infected them.
That's because sequencing tests have to be federally approved for results to be disclosed to doctors or patients, and most are not yet.
Lab scientists say the process of validating the tests for approval is too costly and time-consuming.
>sequencing tests have to be federally approved for results to be disclosed to doctors or patients, and most are not
hello
<sequencing tests have to be federally approved.. and most are not
>the process of validating the tests for approval is too costly and time-consuming
of course
Has anyone isolated it yet? Covid Wuhan Bat Soup 19?
>I think I’d have a better time of it trying to convince you the tooth fairy exists. Certainly more evidence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3688656/A-fully-equipped-dentist-s-chair-close-photos-young-girls-backsides-eerie-images-videotaped-walk-billionaire-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Florida-mansion.html
In one bathroom sits a chair. Next to it is a fully equipped dentist's cart, complete with what appear to be drills, a lamp and other instruments. The dentist's cart is complete with what appear to be drills, a lamp and other instruments.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/jeff-bezos-invests-in-anti-aging-startup-altos-labs/
Jeff Bezos has reportedly invested in anti-aging startup Altos Labs
https://nypost.com/2021/07/20/inside-the-billionaire-funded-fight-to-conquer-aging-and-death/
Inside the billionaire-funded fight to conquer aging — and cheat death
Elections Canada said in August that it was prepared for a spike in mail-in ballots — up to five million, compared to 50,000 in 2019 — for this pandemic-time election.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pandemic-election-results-could-take-few-days-1.6128878
Final outcome of a pandemic election could take a few days: chief electoral officer
Mail-in ballots would not be counted until the day after the election
the anti-vax crowd
https://madison.com/ct/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/opinion-responsibility-and-duty-two-words-lost-on-the-anti-vax-crowd/article_939c9dd1-6267-5620-9c92-02e8f651ebf5.html
Responsibility and duty: two words lost on the anti-vax crowd
Where was she trying to fly when Trump blocked her?
What were the details of that, wasn't it Afghanistan?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cancels-pelosi-trip-president-writes-letter-postponing-speakers-overseas-trip/
President Trump took a swipe at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday by denying her use of a military plane and postponing an imminent trip abroad, one day after she asked him to postpone his State of the Union address.
Mr. Trump told the new House speaker in a publicly released letter - less than an hour before she and other House Democrats were scheduled to leave - that he was postponing the trip to Brussels and Afghanistan to visit troops "due to the shutdown." Pelosi and other Democrats were preparing to load buses to take them to Joint Base Andrews for the trip, where they were scheduled to use U.S. military transportation. Mr. Trump has the authority to halt such military aircraft, senior White House officials said. In his letter, Mr. Trump suggested Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip to visit troops.
>Mr. Trump told the new House speaker in a publicly released letter - less than an hour before she and other House Democrats were scheduled to leave - that he was postponing the trip to Brussels and Afghanistan to visit troops "due to the shutdown." Pelosi and other Democrats were preparing to load buses to take them to Joint Base Andrews for the trip, where they were scheduled to use U.S. military transportation. Mr. Trump has the authority to halt such military aircraft, senior White House officials said. In his letter, Mr. Trump suggested Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip to visit troops.
"Due to the shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed," Mr. Trump wrote. "We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the shutdown is over.
The speaker's trip was a closely held secret, and a source familiar with the delegation's planning argued it was irresponsible and reckless for Mr. Trump to tell the world Pelosi was headed to a war zone — particularly since the president was just in Iraq and saw how much care had to be taken to keep the trip secret and secure. A senior White House official, however, said the administration sees no security risks, since the trip isn't happening.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cancels-pelosi-trip-president-writes-letter-postponing-speakers-overseas-trip/
Trump takes swipe at Pelosi by postponing her trip abroad
President Trump took a swipe at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday by denying her use of a military plane and postponing an imminent trip abroad, one day after she asked him to postpone his State of the Union address.
Mr. Trump told the new House speaker in a publicly released letter — less than an hour before she and other House Democrats were scheduled to leave — that he was postponing the trip to Brussels and Afghanistan to visit troops "due to the shutdown." Pelosi and other Democrats were preparing to load buses to take them to Joint Base Andrews for the trip, where they were scheduled to use U.S. military transportation. Mr. Trump has the authority to halt such military aircraft, senior White House officials said. In his letter, Mr. Trump suggested Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip to visit troops.
Pelosi wrote to the president on Wednesday asking him to delay his State of the Union address, as the ongoing government shutdown would mean federal law enforcement officers would be working the event without pay. Mr. Trump did not specifically respond to Pelosi's State of the Union address request in his letter, and a senior White House official claimed the president's letter is unrelated to Pelosi's request.
"Due to the shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed," Mr. Trump wrote. "We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure that you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate."
The speaker's trip was a closely held secret, and a source familiar with the delegation's planning argued it was irresponsible and reckless for Mr. Trump to tell the world Pelosi was headed to a war zone — particularly since the president was just in Iraq and saw how much care had to be taken to keep the trip secret and secure. A senior White House official, however, said the administration sees no security risks, since the trip isn't happening.
While hundreds of thousands of federal employees are affected by the shutdown, the Pentagon is a fully funded department for the rest of the fiscal year.
A senior White House official claimed Mr. Trump made the decision because he wants Pelosi in Washington to negotiate.
"She should not leave the country for seven days in the middle of a government shutdown," the official said. "She's the person on her side that has to be present to make a deal."
A senior White House official told CBS News the Pentagon was informed of the postponed trip before Pelosi was.
Meanwhile, a number of high-profile Trump administration officials will be heading to Davos, Switzerland, for an economic forum next week, and Mr. Trump himself made a trip to Iraq to visit troops over the Christmas holiday.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called Mr. Trump's decision to call off the military plane "beneath any president of the United States to take," noting Pelosi is third in line to the presidency.
"The actions of the president were petty, mean-spirited, and beneath any president of the United States to take," Hoyer told reporters. "Doing this small, petty act is unfortunately all too regular for this president."
Sen. Lindsey Graham called it "inappropriate" for the president to cancel Pelosi's trip to visit troops.
"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," Graham wrote in a statement. "Speaker Pelosi's threat to cancel the State of the Union is very irresponsible and blatantly political. President Trump denying Speaker Pelosi military travel to visit our troops in Afghanistan, our allies in Egypt and NATO is also inappropriate."
Ed O'Keefe and Fin Gomez contributed to this report.
>Trudeau says provincial passports will be an "interim measure, that will perhaps last a year or so, before (the feds) bring in a formalized passport version"
https://streamable.com/85i3rv
>how does Egypt fit in to Brussels and Afghanistan?
Ever Given? Where did it end up docking after all that noise? Destination Rotterdam wasn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Rotterdam
https://i.imgur.com/JISGzZs.png
largest seaport in Europe, and the world's largest seaport outside of East Asia, located in and near the city of Rotterdam, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. From 1962 until 2004, it was the world's busiest port by annual cargo tonnage. In 2004 overtaken first by the port of Singapore, and since then by Shanghai and other very large Chinese seaports.
>Also think Obama, Arab springs.