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Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD

@houmanhemmati

🧵 In a shocking/unbelievable move,

@CASenateDems

@AssemblyDems are about to pass #AB2098 & send to

@GavinNewsom

to sign into law. Would take away any doc’s medical license for “COVID misinformation” as defined by THEM (not necessarily scientific fact). https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD

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Please read the full text of #AB2098 at the link. I have pasted and highlighted most of the text. Senators

@DrPanMD

@Scott_Wiener

with support from @CMAdocs want to silence MDs by threatening to end careers of any doc who doesn’t follow COVID “standard of care” ie what THEY say.

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098

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🧵 In a shocking/unbelievable move, @CASenateDems @AssemblyDems are about to pass #AB2098 & send to @GavinNewsom to sign into law. Would take away any doc’s medical license for “COVID misinformation” as defined by THEM (not necessarily scientific fact). leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098

Please read the full text of #AB2098 at the link. I have pasted and highlighted most of the text. Senators @DrPanMD @Scott_Wiener with support from @CMAdocs want to silence MDs by threatening to end careers of any doc who doesn’t follow COVID “standard of care” ie what THEY say.

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“Standard of care” is a legal term that doesn’t mean what is scientifically/medically factual or correct but rather what many/most MDs in that particular community practice (even if it’s wrong or imperfect). It allows #AB2098 to destroy MDs who speak the TRUTH by defining truth.

#AB2098 would turn CA into a medical police state where POLITICIANS practice medicine, not doctors, where any doctor perceived to disagree or even QUESTION @GavinNewsom or state (who have been wrong - a LOT!) will never again practice. How’s THAT for loss of trust in healthcare?

It is BEYOND shocking that the text of #AB2098 (Section 1e) actually says that “Major news outlets” report that “some of the most dangerous propagators of misinformation” are MDs! Let me guess, they’re not including highest-rated @FoxNews @IngrahamAngle @TuckerCarlson as “major”?

I’m particularly ashamed that Senators I personally know like @HenrySternCA @BenAllenCA would vote Yes on #AB2098 without consulting non-lobbyist MDs who objectively question some state policies and HAVE been right. We are better than this.

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I fled from Iran at the age of 3 with my parents, with NOTHING but our clothes, to escape a system that silenced and seriously harmed professionals including physicians who didn’t parrot the regime’s policies. With #AB2098 the @GavinNewsom regime will be doing the very same.

I urge any state politician who wants to discuss #AB2098 to contact me or any of the outstanding docs/scientists fighting against it like @DrJBhattacharya @TracyBethHoeg @akheriaty and hear us out in a non-political context, to learn how medicine REQUIRES skepticism to improve.

Any California state politician or organization that supports extorting, silencing, and ending careers of good doctors who may disagree with government bureaucrats (who are often wrong) through #AB2098 has declared themselves an enemy of science/medicine/people and must step down

I urge everyone to contact & tweet anyone involved and urge them to vocally distance themselves from #AB2098 and stand on the side of freedom. PS it’s blatantly unconstitutional and no court will ever uphold it. Read this about a @StanfordLaw professor:

Does Free Speech Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation? | Stanford Law School

We all know, or have heard about, someone who's refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine. While some individuals have medical or religious reasons for a

https://law.stanford.edu/2022/04/22/does-free-speech-protect-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation/

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Think we have a doctor shortage in California now? Wait til #AB2098 becomes law - which doctor in their right mind would want to practice in a state where politicians and bureaucrats have legal power to indiscriminately take away their license & destroy their careers? 🤦🏽‍♂️🤬

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you need to make noise about #AB2098. This is far worse than any criminal policy or tax increase as it would forever turn over medical decision making to politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists in CA. Do NOT let this happen. @RoxanneHoge

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FYI.

The rest of the nation, the rest of the world, have moved far beyond COVID, but in @GavinNewsom California, they’re JUST getting started as #AB2098 proves. Why NOW, with near 0 deaths/hospitalizations for COVID esp among younger/healthier people, do they want to control docs?

It’s clear that #AB2098 isn’t about COVID — it’s about codifying the very same permanent “emergency powers” @GavinNewsom gave himself to have a permanent control over docs/medicine & use them to push their agenda/meds onto the population. What’ll happen? People will lose trust.

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Utah FBI employee arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of child sex abuse

https://ksltv.com/504108/utah-fbi-employee-arrested-on-suspicion-of-multiple-counts-of-child-sex-abuse/

STANSBURY PARK, Utah — A Utah man, who is also an employee of the FBI, has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse.

Robert Alexander Smith, 65, was arrested at his home in Stansbury Park and booked into the Tooele County Jail after an investigation by the county sheriff’s office that included interviews with up to five minor girls who said they were victims of Smith.

“He was booked on four counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child without incident,” court documents state.

Smith is an employee of the FBI. In a statement, the FBI said the possible misconduct has been referred to the bureau’s internal affairs department in the following statement:

“We are aware of the arrest of an FBI employee. The FBI takes allegations of misconduct very seriously. As such, the incident has been referred to the FBI’s Internal Affairs Section. We cannot comment further on an ongoing personnel matter.”

Smith’s specific role with the FBI was not immediately clear.

An affidavit of probable cause filed in 3rd District Court in Tooele said the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a possible sex offense case that involved several girls. In June one girl spoke to the person who filed the complaint to report something “very uncomfortable.” The girl told the trusted person that Smith had touched her sexually, multiple times, two years before she spoke up about it. She said she was 6 or 7 years old when the abuse took place.

The complainant individually spoke with other minor girls who were in close contact with Smith. The girls ranged in age from pre-teen to high-school aged and reportedly, each of the girls became emotional and started crying when asked if anything inappropriate had happened with Smith.

Each of the girls was interviewed at a Children’s Advocacy Center and recorded. Each of the girls reported inappropriate touching, including some who reported genital touching.

“Mr. Smith occupied a position of special trust as it pertains to the victims in this case,” documents state. He was described as a caregiver and was said to have authority over the girls.

On Aug. 24 law enforcement contacted Smith at his home. He declined to speak with law enforcement about the accusations and was placed into custody without incident, documents state.

China Threatens To Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-threatens-destroy-elon-musks-starlink

In December 2021, China filed a complaint with the United Nations, claiming that two of Musk's Starlink satellites had nearly collided with the Tianhe module of its Tiangong Space Station in April and October of 2021 and that Chinese astronauts had been forced to maneuver the module of the station to avoid the collision. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX and the satellites are part of a plan to make internet coverage from the satellites available worldwide, with the goal of launching nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

Space is becoming crowded and risks of collision whether with satellites or space debris are not new. Tellingly, China was among the first to help create much of that debris: In January 2007, China tested its first successful anti-satellite missile (ASAT), destroying one of its own inactive weather satellites and creating one of the world's largest space debris incidents. That space debris is still floating around in space, causing collision risks every day.

The United States rejected China's claims that the Starlink satellites had endangered China's space station. The US stated that if there had been a "significant probability of collision" with China's space station, the U.S. would have given notice to China ahead of time. "Because the activities did not meet the threshold of established emergency collision criteria, emergency notifications were not warranted in either case."

China is now taking things a step further: Chinese military researchers are threatening that Musk's Starlink satellites must be destroyed. The problem, however, does not appear so much to be the fear of collision, but rather that China believes that Starlink could be used for military purposes and thereby threaten what China calls its national security.

Five senior scientists in China's defense industry, led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher with the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications – which is under the People Liberation Army's (PLA's) Strategic Support Force – recently wrote that "a combination of soft and hard kill methods should be adopted to make some Starlink satellites lose their functions and destroy the constellation's operating system."

Soft kill methods target software and operating systems of the satellites, whereas hard kill methods physically destroy the satellites, such as using an ASAT weapon.

According to the scientists, China should "vigorously develop countermeasures" against Starlink, as such capabilities are necessary for China "to maintain and obtain space advantages in the fierce space game."

Unsurprisingly, China has eagerly copied Elon Musk's SpaceX to achieve its own space ambitions: China's Long March 2C rocket, for instance, which China launched in the summer of 2019, had parts that were "virtually identical" to those that are used to steer the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

China is not the only state actor to show an interest in interfering with Musk's Starlink satellites.

Russia too has sought to jam Starlink's internet service in Ukraine and failed. "Starlink has resisted Russian cyberwar jamming & hacking attempts so far, but they're ramping up their efforts," Musk tweeted in May.

Starlink is a problem for Russia because Musk's satellites have enabled Ukraine to stay connected to the internet – and the rest of the world – amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempts to cut the country off.

Musk began to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine in late February at the request of Ukrainian government officials, as a backup for when Russia would predictably try to cut off internet access. According to one US general, the use of Starlink in Ukraine ruined Putin's attempts to isolate the country.

"The strategic impact is, it totally destroyed Putin's information campaign," said Brig. Gen. Steve Butow, director of the space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit.

"He never, to this day, has been able to silence Zelenskyy."

"We've got more than 11,000 Starlink stations and they help us in our everyday fight on all the fronts," Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice prime minister, told Politico.

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China recently launched its third crewed mission to the Tiangong Space Station's Tianhe module, where three astronauts will work on completing the space station before returning to Earth in December. China only launched the first module of the Tiangong Space Station in April 2021, but expects to have the space station fully crewed and operational by the end of the year, when the space station will have an additional two science lab modules and a robotic cargo ship. The space station will also help China to deploy and operate its new space telescope, Xuntian, meant "to rival NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope, with a field of view 300 times larger and a similar resolution. It will make observations in ultraviolet and visible light, running investigations related to dark matter and dark energy, cosmology, galactic evolution, and the detection of nearby objects." Xuntian is scheduled to launch in 2024.

China's explicit goal is to become the world's leading space power by 2045. It is important to keep in mind that China's space program – even what might look like harmless, civil aspects of space exploration – is heavily militarized. The organization in charge of China's manned space program, for instance, is the China Manned Space Engineering Office, which is under China's Central Military Commission Equipment Development Department. Similarly, the People's Liberation Army runs China's space launch sites, control centers and many of China's satellites.

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Jordan Grimes 🚰

@cafedujord

Holy hell, it actually happened: California just eliminated minimum parking requirements for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit stops statewide!

A truly incredible day for housing and climate policy in the world's 5th largest economy!

https://www.poppyfieldscafe.com/?l=en

https://twitter.com/DolanGeraldine/status/1564392353300889603

https://twitter.com/BallymakennyF/status/1564592637209894912

Ballymakenny Farm®

@BallymakennyF

I am literally losing sleep at the moment. Electric bill in the Thousands running fridges for potatoes from Oct/May. We have stepped up to challenge after challenge to keep things going, but THIS is just a step too far. I am tired & so disillusioned. Its just not worth it anymore

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@DolanGeraldine

· Aug 29

I got this electricity bill today, how in the name of God is this possible, we're a small coffee shop in westmeath

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https://twitter.com/KMcKinneyreal/status/1564781264330055681

Kristi McKinney 🇺🇸

@KMcKinneyreal

So California, a state that has rolling blackouts because it can't keep the power grid going, just banned gas cars by 2035.

So what happens when they force you to drive a vehicle that requires electricity, then they cut the power off?

You're trapped and can't leave.