.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado said February 27, the country needs to make sure it has the necessary resources to protect the public's health in light of the coronavirus threat. The Rhinebeck Democrat also noted the Trump administration should make sure it does not undermine the nation's ability to tackle the issue. "I think it's important that we have the resources that we need to have a defense system and make sure that we're protecting public health," Delgado said. He said he found it "concerning" the president's proposed budget calls for significant cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as approximately $25 million from public health preparedness and response allocations. The 2019 global novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has symptoms similar to the flu and first emerged in December in Wuhan, China. This week, the CDC warned the American public to prepare for a U.S. outbreak of the disease."We have to be aggressive in terms of making sure that we're communicating with China and other countries that are being impacted to make sure that we are requiring transparency and accountability across the country and across the globe," Delgado said, "and to make sure that we are incredibly forthcoming when it comes to the impacts that are on the ground." Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.
• It is not too often that the Hudson Valley delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives votes together, as Republican Elise Stefanik rarely agrees with Democrats Antonio Delgado, Paul Tonko, and Sean Maloney. But on Feb. 26, they all voted for the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. The bill would, if approved, make lynching a federal hate crime for the first time. The House vote was 410 to 4. The Senate passed a version of the bill last year. The bills will be reconciled, then sent to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign the measure.
• Mid-Hudson News reports that Rep. Antonio Delgado will run for re-election in November. The first-term Democrat from Rhinebeck has yet to make a formal announcement, but said Feb. 26 that, “My focus is just making sure that I keep doing the work. When I am home I am talking about the issues. I’m learning from the constituents. I’m focusing on the needs on the ground and I have to be relentless in that regard, whether it’s broadband, whether it’s PFAS contamination, whether it’s helping develop our workforce, whether it’s tackling climate change." Delgado, who beat incumbent Republican John Faso in 2018, has several announced opponents. Republican Millbrook attorney Kyle Van De Water and Republican fashion designer Ola Hawatmeh are running in a primary election later this spring, and Green Party candidate Steve Greenfield, from New Paltz, is also running for the 19th Congressional District seat. Read more about this story at the Mid-Hudson News website.
• Paul Tonko does list any public events this week on his website. Antonio Delgado lists public appearances on his website only if his staff organizes the events, and he currently does not have any listed.Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken’s public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
There is no other government that is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it via invasion, proxy wars, blockades, economic warfare, staged coups, and covert operations. There is no other government on earth whose violence has killed millions of people and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century. There is no other government waging nonstop wars around the world and dropping scores of bombs per day on human beings in foreign nations in order to perpetuate its iron-fisted domination of our planet.
And it just says so much about who is controlling the dominant narratives in our society that these actions are not considered human rights violations. Clearly we should all have a human right to not be murdered by explosives dropped from the sky, and we in nations where this does not commonly occur would be very upset if it suddenly began happening to us. Clearly it is an abuse of human rights to deliberately starve children to death because you don’t approve of the people who run things in their part of the world. Clearly it is an abuse of human rights to turn a nation to rubble and chaos for profit and geostrategic control.
Not a day goes by when the US government is not doing these things, both directly and through its imperial member states. Yet the US secretary of state spends all day tweeting that other governments are guilty of human rights violations. Because, as far as power is concerned, narrative control is everything.
If mass murder is not an abuse of human rights, then “human rights” is a meaningless concept. But even if bombing campaigns and other acts of military butchery do not transgress your personal definition of human rights, the US still does not care about human rights.
As journalist Mark Ames recently flagged, a few years ago the imperial narrative managers were very keen on informing us that Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was a despotic human rights abuser, but we haven’t been hearing much about what an evil brute he is of late.
So what happened? Did Duterte cease promoting the extrajudicial killings of drug users and spontaneously transform into a cuddly wuddly human rights advocate?
We saw the change in coverage because Washington and its imperial spinmeisters only care about human rights abuses insofar as they can be exploited against the few remaining nations like China that have insisted on their own sovereignty instead of allowing themselves to be converted into member states of the US-centralized empire. We know this not only from naked eye observations of the empire’s behavior from year to year, but also because they have blatantly said so.
As I never tire of reminding readers, a leaked 2017 State Department memo spelled out in plain English how the US only cares about human rights when they can be weaponized against its enemies, and has a standing policy of ignoring them when they are committed by its allies/vassal states.
In December 2017 Politico published an internal memo that had been sent the previous May to then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by virulent neocon Brian Hook. The memo provided useful insight into what it looks like when a toxic swamp monster orients a political neophyte to the inner mechanics of the empire, explaining the way “human rights” are really just a tool to be cynically leveraged to advance the goal of planetary hegemony. It reads like an old veteran explaining the backstory to the new guy in the pilot episode of a new TV series.
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Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Division Director, Reproductive Sciences; Director Reproductive Immunology Unit and Discovery to Cure Program; Editor in Chief, AJRI
Biographical Info
170 publications and is the editor of twoTreasurer of the American Society of Reproductive Immunology. He is also honorary member of several scientific societies in South America..
International Activity
- Ovarian Cancer Research
China (2011 - 2016)
Honorary Professor
- Reproductive Immunology
Israel (2009 - 2017)
Research on the factors associated with inflammation and implantation
- American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Editor in Chief
Education & Training
- M.D.
- Hebrew University (1987)
- M.Sc.
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988)
- Ph.D.
- Weizmann Institute of Science (1993)
Honors & Recognition
- J. Christian Herr Award
Society for Reproductive Immunology
- Harold Behrman Award
Department of Ob/Gyn Yale University
- Honorary Member,
Menopause Society-Argentina
- American Journal of Reproductive Immunology Award
American Society for Reproductive Immunology (2012)
- Honorary Member,
Menopause Society –Chile
Professional Service
- SPORE in Breast, Gynecologic and Genitourinary Cancers. NCI, NIH (2008)
- ED-1 Study Section, NHICD, NIH (2007)
- Organizer, 2003 American Society of Reproductive Immunology Annual Meeting. Yale university, New Haven CT (2003)
- HED-1 Study Section, NHICD, NIH (2003)
- Integration Panel Meeting, USAMRDC Ovarian Cancer Research Program (2002)
- Editor in Chief, American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (06/01/2009)
- American Society of Reproductive Immunology (06/01/2007 - 12/31/2009)
- American Society for Reproductive Immunology (06/01/2005 - 05/30/2008)What is ‘school security’?
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