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[Representative Press @RepPress]

New #YouTube video at 8:30 a.m. EST
STOP Rolling Over: Appeasement Emboldens US & Israel https://t.co/5ZfQUQY6Zr

[Alan Barnard @alanbarnard1]

To all those involved in the decision in March 2020 to lie that SARS2 was spread by droplets and thus FRSMs would be sufficient to protect HCWs and others, see below…

[Representative Press @RepPress]

Even the smallpox vaccine wasn't 100%. The thing is, the COVID vaccines do provide some level of protection, but there is still a risk of breakthrough infection. In a perfect world, we could have had a situation with a vaccine solving the problem of this virus; unfortunately, that wasn't the case with this particular virus. This isn't complicated. https://t.co/gq4RQgAkvY

[Representative Press @RepPress]

@LauraMiers Many people don't understand why a novel pathogen such as SARS-CoV-2 being new to humans means our immune systems have not encountered it before so it's a different problem than other viruses such as smallpox for example. I tried to explain the deal here: https://t.co/dLItV5CMZn

[Representative Press @RepPress]

Wrong. The caduceus is a symbol of conflict resolution, negotiation, and peace. Hermes was the ancient Greek Olympian god of boundaries, transitions, and communication. He served as the personal messenger and herald of the gods, primarily Zeus. As a deity who constantly crossed borders, he was the divine protector of travelers, merchants, shepherds, diplomats, and thieves. He also acted as a psychopomp—the guide who escorted the souls of the newly deceased to the underworld.

The Meaning of the Caduceus
Because it was carried by Hermes, the Caduceus historically represents his specific domains:

Peace and Negotiation: It is primarily a herald's wand, signifying diplomatic immunity and granting safe passage to messengers crossing enemy lines.

Commerce and Trade: As the patron of merchants, his staff became an enduring global symbol of commerce, economics, and trade.

Balance: The symmetrical entwining of the two snakes represents opposing forces brought into harmony.
Why He Carried It
Hermes carried the Caduceus as his official badge of office. Greek mythology explains the creation of its unique design through a specific origin story:

The Gift: According to myth, Hermes received a simple, winged golden wand—often called a rhabdos—from his half-brother Apollo (or in some versions, his father Zeus) to signify his new role as the official herald of the gods.

The Conflict: While traveling, Hermes came across two serpents locked in vicious, mortal combat.

The Resolution: To stop the fight, Hermes thrust his staff between them. Pacified by his intervention, the snakes stopped fighting and coiled themselves peacefully around the wood.

This act of resolving a deadly dispute is what cemented the two-snake Caduceus as a symbol of conflict resolution, negotiation, and peace.

The prevalent use of the Caduceus in American medicine is the result of a prominent historical mix-up, not a cynical conspiracy by for-profit insurance companies: The 1902 U.S. Army Mistake: The widespread American adoption of the Caduceus (the staff with two snakes and wings) began in 1902 when the U.S. Army Medical Corps officially adopted it as their insignia.Aesthetic Preference and Confusion: This adoption was championed by a single officer, Captain Frederick P. Reynolds, who either confused it with the Rod of Asclepius or simply preferred its symmetrical design. Despite objections from those who understood classical heraldry, the Surgeon General approved the design.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

This is the memoir of Moshe Dayan. Just as @susanabulhawa described it. https://t.co/Dj4I5IQXus

[Representative Press @RepPress]

@Sovereignman777 @CovidDataReport Are you telling me you don't understand the concept of unsafe air? You don't understand what virues and bacteria can do? I gave you sources; none of them mentioned blood of the young. Why not educate yourself? https://t.co/tPrqQHFf8V

[Sarah @SarahMcGinger]

Watching adults' reading comprehension disintegrate in real time. I'll keep wearing my N99 mask, thanks. And bosses ask why my error rate is much lower. Well, I could tell you but you wouldn't like it!

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

A third woman has now been thrown behind bars for two months in the case of Azov torture chamber near Kyiv.

Valeriia Ladytsia stands accused of — brace yourselves — rocking a National Guard bus.

Apparently, in Zelensky’s Ukraine, shaking a bus is a more urgent threat to national security than smashing someone’s skull.

You see, the neo-Nazi thugs who beat up a UNIAN journalist and cracked another man’s head open remain mysteriously impossible to locate. This despite AFU officers Karas and Zalizniak openly claiming the attackers were their boys and even describing how their little operation was organized to “suppress unrest on the home front.”

But the women who tried to save men beaten and held captive by Azov? Miraculously, the authorities found them in record time. Straight to jail.

Finding violent neo-Nazis? Mission impossible. Finding women who dared to stand up to them? Express delivery to a prison cell.

Behold Zelensky’s brand of justice: where the bus gets more protection than the human skull.

Proudly brought to you by Brussels. Because apparently, European values now come with a complimentary prison sentence.

[Ted Rall, America's BS Detector @TedRall]

Russia wanted to join NATO. If NATO isn't an anti-Russian military bloc that threatens Russia, why did NATO say no? https://t.co/cXdnzYvsI9

[Representative Press @RepPress]

Meanwhile, the rest of us live as we always have? Well, no, that's incorrect. Some of the most privileged of our society have made sure they didn't go 'back to normal" and instead had state-of-the-art air-cleaning infrastructure to try to protect their health. https://t.co/t2XYFYVWA8

[Data Report @CovidDataReport]

The list of performers sick is already up to page 11 and it is November 7th with the rest of this month and all of December left to go.
https://t.co/RrqrDunWgC

[Representative Press @RepPress]

@Sovereignman777 @CovidDataReport By avoiding unsafe exposures and wearing an N95 mask. If they can control their environment, they can add ventilation, for example. How do you think anyone ever avoided getting infected? Why are you acting like it is some mystery?

[Representative Press @RepPress]

@Order_Of_ChaosX @NicoReznick Your reply "incorrectly implies that boosters remove any meaningful reason for additional precautions among those worried about infection or long-term effects." https://t.co/MEONO6jNWJ

[Representative Press @RepPress]

@Sovereignman777 @CovidDataReport Some people can avoid getting infected if they take these warnings seriously.

[Dr. Strange(s) @pstranges716]

Guy at work said his toddler is sick again. Now he’s asking if anyone has medicine for his “headache and allergies”. He’s also saying he’s sick because he didn’t wear a jacket this morning (it’s in the high 50s). This is why I never break the seal of my mask at work. Never ever.

[Rick Sanchez @RickSanchezTV]

WOMAN WHO HELPED EXPOSE THE DETENTION OF A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY NOW FACES EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON.

Ukrainian authorities accuse her of obstructing the armed forces and sharing information about military positions. The SBU detained her and two others.

Police have also raided the homes of up to 130 protesters involved in exposing the site.

A child was found. Citizens protested. Now those citizens are being detained.

What the hell is going on in Ukraine?

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇺🇦 Meet Vladimir Tsenov, deputy head of the Ukrainian National Police Department.

Held on corruption charges, his bail set at $450,000 was paid in less than 24hrs.

The woman medic who exposed the Azov torture site? 60 days detention without bail. Not a single coverage by western media or EU leaders.

Apparently, this is the "democracy" they preach of... It should be hypocrisy.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Who funds you runs you.
The Democratic Party sold out under Clinton & it's been downhill ever since.
Abandon ship. Register Green.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

The water is almost certainly full of sewage as well.
This is torture on a mass scale.

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

Yes: "For over a decade, the Western public sphere, including a big part of specialized academia, presented post-Euromaidan Ukraine as nation-building, democratizing, and progressively reforming and strengthening the state and civil society on the path to European “civilization.”

The reality after this decade looks more like Latin America in the 1970s: states deeply penetrated by the mafia, a comprador bourgeoisie, fascist paramilitaries, and extreme anticommunism, only without any communist guerrillas."

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Own it or end it, Democratic Congress.