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Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes. – Keith McCoy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These mires and bogs are generally known for their natural qualities … and high biodiversity. They are places where special plants, animals (live) and they are very important carbon stocks that protect against climate change, but if you look at this type of research, we could say they are extremely valuable cultural archives as well, which yield really high quality evidence about human behavior for millennia. – Van Beek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the armed forces be vaccinated against Covid-19, issued in my August 24, 2021 memorandum … I hereby rescind that memorandum. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
President [Donald] Trump repeatedly mislabeled COVID with racist language, such rhetoric coincided with spikes in hate-based acts of violence and discrimination against people of Chinese or Asian origin across our country. This language has no place on this committee or anywhere in Congress. – Jim McGovern	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Obviously, Kelly Armstrong know, paying attention to what is being unleashed by Twitter The House seems like every other week now, The House is number one, when Byron Donalds have one of the, I believe it’s one of the staffers out of the White House basically emailing Twitter to remove Twitter accounts, do n’t Byron Donalds think that’s weaponization of the federal government against the American people ? I sure think so. – Byron Donalds	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> SummaryCompaniesSome cities say peak of COVID infections was last monthToo early to say how many infections are severe-Chinese expertChina embassy in South Korea suspends short-term visasChinese state media criticise Pfizer over Paxlovid priceBEIJING, Jan 10( Reuters) - Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on Tuesday, with officials further downplaying the severity of the outbreak despite international concerns about its scale and impact.A summary by Health Times, a publication managed by Peoples Daily, Peoples Daily, said infections have been declining in the capital Beijing and several Chinese provinces. One official was quoted as saying nearly all the 100 million people in Henan province had already been infected.The virus has been spreading freely in China since a policy U-turn in early December after protests against a zero-COVID regime ruthlessly enforced for three years. China reopened its borders on Sunday, removing the last major restrictions.The frequent lockdowns, relentless testing and various levels of movement curbs since early 2020 have brought the worlds second-largest economy to one of its slowest growth rates in nearly half a century and caused widespread distress.With the virus let loose, China has stopped publishing daily infection tallies and has been reporting five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn, figures that have been disputed by the World Health Organisation.Many Chinese funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least 1 million COVID-related deaths in China this year.On Tuesday, a Health Times compilation of reports from local government officials and health experts across the country, suggested the COVID wave may be past its peak in many regions.Kan Quan, director of the Office of the Henan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control, was cited as saying the infection rate in the central province was nearly 90 % as of Jan. 6. The number of patients at clinics in the province reached a peak on Dec. 19, but the number of severe cases was still high, he said, without giving further details.Yin Yong, acting mayor of Beijing, was cited as saying the capital was also past its peak. Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission in the city of Chongqing said the peak there was reached on Dec. 20. In the province of Jiangsu, the peak was reached on Dec. 22, while in Zheijiang province the first wave of infections has passed smoothly, officials said. Two cities in the southern Guangdong province, Chinas manufacturing heartland, reached their peaks before the end of the year.Separately in the state-run China Daily, a prominent health official said the percentage of severe cases remained unclear.It is still too early to conclude the overall percentage of severe and critical COVID patients in China as different types of hospitals report different numbers, Wang Guiqiang, head of Peking University First Hospitals infectious disease department, was quoted as saying.PFIZER CRITICISMChina has dismissed criticism over its data as politically-motivated attempts to smear its success in handling the pandemic and said any future mutations are likely to be more infectious but cause less severe illness.Testing requirements introduced by several countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and others in response to Chinas COVID outbreak, were called out by foreign ministry as discriminatory.Financial markets see the new curbs as mere inconvenience, with the yuan hitting a nearly five-month high on Tuesday.South Korean and Japanese shop owners, Thai tour bus operators and K-pop groups were among those licking their lips at the prospect of more Chinese tourists.Although Beijing also demands negative COVID test results from people landing in China, officials have threatened retaliation against countries mandating tests for visitors from China.The Chinese embassy in South Korea said on Tuesday it will stop issuing short-term visas for Korean citizens.State media has also taken a swipe at Pfizer Inc( PFE.N) over the price for its COVID treatment Paxlovid.It is not a secret that U.S. capital forces have already accumulated quite a fortune from the world via selling vaccines and drugs, and the U.S. government has been coordinating all along, nationalist tabloid Global Times said in an editorial.Pfizers Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday the company was in discussions with Chinese authorities about a price for Paxlovid, but not over licensing a generic version in China.The abrupt change of course in COVID policies has left Chinas health system unprepared, with many hospitals ill-equipped to handle patients in critical conditions and smaller cities scrambling to secure basic anti-fever drug supplies.Yu Weishi, chairman of Youcare Pharmaceutical Group, told Reuters Li Pan firm boosted output of its anti-fever drugs five-fold to one million boxes a day in the past month.Wang Lili, general manager at another pharmaceutical firm, CR Double Crane, told Reuters that intravenous drips were their most in-demand product.The company has since Jan. 5 done away with weekends to meet demand.We are running 24/7. – Wang Guiqiang	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
I’m against the rules for a couple different reasons. One is the cut in defense spending, I think that’s an absolutely terrible idea, the other is the vacate the chair. I mean I don’t want to see us every two months be in lockdown. – Tony Gonzalez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Chinese leadership might adopt a strategy of diplomatic isolation, gray zone pressure, or economic coercion against Taiwan. – Ann Wang/Reuters Taiwan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you’ve not gotten that bivalent booster, I don’t think the original vaccinations are going to protect all that well against XBB.1.5. – Peter Hotez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let’s stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us – even having my favorite president call us and tell us to knock this off. I think it actually needs to be reversed and the [former] president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw. – Lauren Boebert	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s not clear that the latest FDA move means that states couldn’t enforce different abortion restrictions against doctors who prescribe medication abortion, or pharmacists who fulfill prescriptions, or people who take medication abortion to induce an abortion. – Leah Litman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let’s stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us – even having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off, i think it actually needs to be reversed. The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, sir, you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw. – Lauren Boebert	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let's work together. Let's stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against, even having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off. – Lauren Boebert	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I’m friendly with a lot of those people who are against Kevin. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them, but I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We do have a highly successful cancer vaccine against HPV-driven cancers. Now, like myself, Martina Navratilova was not of the age that could have benefited from this vaccine. But certainly, the generation behind us has an opportunity to prevent the vast majority of cervical cancers and up to six different head and neck cancers through HPV vaccination. – Karen Knudson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I appreciate the fact that the governor … he was very against the MAGA movement from its inception – for years, he’s been calling the MAGA movement dangerous, which it is … and I thank him for that. – Wes Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents. – Benjamin Weingarten	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
None of the matters involving January 6th, however, are relevant to the specific allegations of voter fraud concerning Mr. and Mrs. Meadows that were referred to my office for review, my office has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt against either Mr. or Mrs. Meadows, so my office will not prosecute this case. If further information relevant to the allegations of voter fraud comes to light in any subsequent investigation or prosecution by authorities in other jurisdictions, we reserve the right to reopen this matter. – Josh Stein	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s true, he’s Catholic and observant. And personally, he is against abortion, but as president, he tends to present himself in continuity with the line of the Democratic Party … and on gender policy, we still don’t really understand what his position is. – Jens Meyer/AP Benedict	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Against this backdrop, we expect consumers will rein in their spending further in coming months, real consumer spending should see modest growth in the final quarter of the year, but we expect it will barely grow in 2023. – Gregory Daco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes’s fine, i have n’t seen the video, but I know that’s the last thing Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes wanted to do. Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley is held back against The Pistons. Nic Antaya/Getty Images. – Moe Wagner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is not a national policy, but there are those that join governments that have very extremist views towards Muslims and Christians, as there are on the other side obviously, and we have to unify against that. – King Abdullah	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s part of the Russian national identity that the Russian army helped to win the war (against Hitler’s Germany) and now it feels absolutely wrong because this message was used by Putin. You start questioning the history. – Andrei Soldatov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was with some other guys, and then we were starting to push against them, and they were beating us and putting that pepper spray stuff in your eyes. But there were a bunch of people pushing behind us. – Gregory Gillespie	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes.

– Keith McCoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These mires and bogs are generally known for their natural qualities … and high biodiversity. They are places where special plants, animals (live) and they are very important carbon stocks that protect against climate change, but if you look at this type of research, we could say they are extremely valuable cultural archives as well, which yield really high quality evidence about human behavior for millennia.

– Van Beek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the armed forces be vaccinated against Covid-19, issued in my August 24, 2021 memorandum … I hereby rescind that memorandum.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President [Donald] Trump repeatedly mislabeled COVID with racist language, such rhetoric coincided with spikes in hate-based acts of violence and discrimination against people of Chinese or Asian origin across our country. This language has no place on this committee or anywhere in Congress.

– Jim McGovern

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Obviously, Kelly Armstrong know, paying attention to what is being unleashed by Twitter The House seems like every other week now, The House is number one, when Byron Donalds have one of the, I believe it’s one of the staffers out of the White House basically emailing Twitter to remove Twitter accounts, do n’t Byron Donalds think that’s weaponization of the federal government against the American people ? I sure think so.

– Byron Donalds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> SummaryCompaniesSome cities say peak of COVID infections was last monthToo early to say how many infections are severe-Chinese expertChina embassy in South Korea suspends short-term visasChinese state media criticise Pfizer over Paxlovid priceBEIJING, Jan 10( Reuters) - Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on Tuesday, with officials further downplaying the severity of the outbreak despite international concerns about its scale and impact.A summary by Health Times, a publication managed by Peoples Daily, Peoples Daily, said infections have been declining in the capital Beijing and several Chinese provinces. One official was quoted as saying nearly all the 100 million people in Henan province had already been infected.The virus has been spreading freely in China since a policy U-turn in early December after protests against a zero-COVID regime ruthlessly enforced for three years. China reopened its borders on Sunday, removing the last major restrictions.The frequent lockdowns, relentless testing and various levels of movement curbs since early 2020 have brought the worlds second-largest economy to one of its slowest growth rates in nearly half a century and caused widespread distress.With the virus let loose, China has stopped publishing daily infection tallies and has been reporting five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn, figures that have been disputed by the World Health Organisation.Many Chinese funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least 1 million COVID-related deaths in China this year.On Tuesday, a Health Times compilation of reports from local government officials and health experts across the country, suggested the COVID wave may be past its peak in many regions.Kan Quan, director of the Office of the Henan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control, was cited as saying the infection rate in the central province was nearly 90 % as of Jan. 6. The number of patients at clinics in the province reached a peak on Dec. 19, but the number of severe cases was still high, he said, without giving further details.Yin Yong, acting mayor of Beijing, was cited as saying the capital was also past its peak. Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission in the city of Chongqing said the peak there was reached on Dec. 20. In the province of Jiangsu, the peak was reached on Dec. 22, while in Zheijiang province the first wave of infections has passed smoothly, officials said. Two cities in the southern Guangdong province, Chinas manufacturing heartland, reached their peaks before the end of the year.Separately in the state-run China Daily, a prominent health official said the percentage of severe cases remained unclear.It is still too early to conclude the overall percentage of severe and critical COVID patients in China as different types of hospitals report different numbers, Wang Guiqiang, head of Peking University First Hospitals infectious disease department, was quoted as saying.PFIZER CRITICISMChina has dismissed criticism over its data as politically-motivated attempts to smear its success in handling the pandemic and said any future mutations are likely to be more infectious but cause less severe illness.Testing requirements introduced by several countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and others in response to Chinas COVID outbreak, were called out by foreign ministry as discriminatory.Financial markets see the new curbs as mere inconvenience, with the yuan hitting a nearly five-month high on Tuesday.South Korean and Japanese shop owners, Thai tour bus operators and K-pop groups were among those licking their lips at the prospect of more Chinese tourists.Although Beijing also demands negative COVID test results from people landing in China, officials have threatened retaliation against countries mandating tests for visitors from China.The Chinese embassy in South Korea said on Tuesday it will stop issuing short-term visas for Korean citizens.State media has also taken a swipe at Pfizer Inc( PFE.N) over the price for its COVID treatment Paxlovid.It is not a secret that U.S. capital forces have already accumulated quite a fortune from the world via selling vaccines and drugs, and the U.S. government has been coordinating all along, nationalist tabloid Global Times said in an editorial.Pfizers Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday the company was in discussions with Chinese authorities about a price for Paxlovid, but not over licensing a generic version in China.The abrupt change of course in COVID policies has left Chinas health system unprepared, with many hospitals ill-equipped to handle patients in critical conditions and smaller cities scrambling to secure basic anti-fever drug supplies.Yu Weishi, chairman of Youcare Pharmaceutical Group, told Reuters Li Pan firm boosted output of its anti-fever drugs five-fold to one million boxes a day in the past month.Wang Lili, general manager at another pharmaceutical firm, CR Double Crane, told Reuters that intravenous drips were their most in-demand product.The company has since Jan. 5 done away with weekends to meet demand.We are running 24/7.

– Wang Guiqiang

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I’m against the rules for a couple different reasons. One is the cut in defense spending, I think that’s an absolutely terrible idea, the other is the vacate the chair. I mean I don’t want to see us every two months be in lockdown.

– Tony Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Chinese leadership might adopt a strategy of diplomatic isolation, gray zone pressure, or economic coercion against Taiwan.

– Ann Wang/Reuters Taiwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’ve not gotten that bivalent booster, I don’t think the original vaccinations are going to protect all that well against XBB.1.5.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us – even having my favorite president call us and tell us to knock this off. I think it actually needs to be reversed and the [former] president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw.

– Lauren Boebert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not clear that the latest FDA move means that states couldn’t enforce different abortion restrictions against doctors who prescribe medication abortion, or pharmacists who fulfill prescriptions, or people who take medication abortion to induce an abortion.

– Leah Litman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us – even having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off, i think it actually needs to be reversed. The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, sir, you do not have the votes and it’s time to withdraw.

– Lauren Boebert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let's work together. Let's stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against, even having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off.

– Lauren Boebert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m friendly with a lot of those people who are against Kevin. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them, but I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do have a highly successful cancer vaccine against HPV-driven cancers. Now, like myself, Martina Navratilova was not of the age that could have benefited from this vaccine. But certainly, the generation behind us has an opportunity to prevent the vast majority of cervical cancers and up to six different head and neck cancers through HPV vaccination.

– Karen Knudson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I appreciate the fact that the governor … he was very against the MAGA movement from its inception – for years, he’s been calling the MAGA movement dangerous, which it is … and I thank him for that.

– Wes Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That House Democrats' final act in the majority was to strike one last blow in their relentless war against Donald Trump — in the process running roughshod over the very norms and institutions they so claim to cherish — marks a fitting end to their progressive rule, and tells you all you need to know about their priorities and posture as they lose their grip on power, this was of a piece with the Soviet show trial-style January 6th Committee that recently reached its unceremonious conclusion, the primary purpose of which was never to unearth truth or hold people to account, but to politically persecute political foes declared guilty at the outset while the Biden Justice Department does the Democrats' legal bidding in criminalizing its political opponents.

– Benjamin Weingarten

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

None of the matters involving January 6th, however, are relevant to the specific allegations of voter fraud concerning Mr. and Mrs. Meadows that were referred to my office for review, my office has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt against either Mr. or Mrs. Meadows, so my office will not prosecute this case. If further information relevant to the allegations of voter fraud comes to light in any subsequent investigation or prosecution by authorities in other jurisdictions, we reserve the right to reopen this matter.

– Josh Stein

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s true, he’s Catholic and observant. And personally, he is against abortion, but as president, he tends to present himself in continuity with the line of the Democratic Party … and on gender policy, we still don’t really understand what his position is.

– Jens Meyer/AP Benedict

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Against this backdrop, we expect consumers will rein in their spending further in coming months, real consumer spending should see modest growth in the final quarter of the year, but we expect it will barely grow in 2023.

– Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes’s fine, i have n’t seen the video, but I know that’s the last thing Detroit Pistons guard Killian Hayes wanted to do. Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley is held back against The Pistons. Nic Antaya/Getty Images.

– Moe Wagner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not a national policy, but there are those that join governments that have very extremist views towards Muslims and Christians, as there are on the other side obviously, and we have to unify against that.

– King Abdullah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s part of the Russian national identity that the Russian army helped to win the war (against Hitler’s Germany) and now it feels absolutely wrong because this message was used by Putin. You start questioning the history.

– Andrei Soldatov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was with some other guys, and then we were starting to push against them, and they were beating us and putting that pepper spray stuff in your eyes. But there were a bunch of people pushing behind us.

– Gregory Gillespie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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