Apr 8, 2022
Biden jokes about expanded fight with Russia: 'If I gotta go to
war, I'm going with you guys'
Biden tells union workers, 'This fight is far from over'
https://www.foxnews.com/
President Biden joked about the possibility of the Russian invasion
of Ukraine to expand to directly involve the U.S. military on
Wednesday, telling union workers, "If I gotta go to war, I'm going
with you guys."
Biden made the statement during an address to union workers at the
North American Building Trades Unions legislative conference
Wednesday. Biden opened his speech with a lengthy section
addressing new sanctions against Russia.
"This fight is far from over," Biden said. "Here's the point: This
war could continue for a long time, but the United States will
continue to stand with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in their
fight for freedom."
"And by the way, if I gotta go to war I'm going with you guys. I
mean it," he added.
Biden's statement comes after months of he and other administration
officials stating that the U.S. will not deploy troops to Ukraine.
The U.S. military has limited its deployments to nearby NATO
countries, and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that
invasion of one of those countries would mean direct war with the
U.S.
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In fiery speech, Ukraine's Zelensky implores U.N. Security Council
to hold Russia to account
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an impassioned address
to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, likened perceived Russian
atrocities in his homeland to Nazi war crimes, calling for
Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold Moscow accountable.
“They shot and killed women outside their houses. They killed
entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the
bodies,” Zelensky said in a video appearance before the Security
Council, a day after an emotional visit to the ravaged town of
Bucha, outside the capital, Kyiv.
“They cut off limbs, slashed throats, raped women in front of their
children," the Ukrainian leader said in his most forceful
excoriation to date of the Russian invasion.
In a perhaps risky strategy of sharply criticizing the body from
which he is seeking help, Zelensky issued a stark challenge to
world institutions such as the United Nations to make sweeping
changes to the global security architecture, asking sardonically at
one point: "Are you ready to close the U.N.?"
“It is obvious that the key institutions of the world … simply
cannot work effectively,” said the 44-year-old president, who has
won worldwide accolades for presiding over his compatriots' fierce
and sustained resistance to the Russian attempt to subjugate
Ukraine.
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Some hoped FDA approval of Pfizer's COVID vaccine would convince
unvaccinated Americans. It didn't, study finds.
But a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open found the
shift from emergency use authorization of the vaccine to full
approval did not sway unvaccinated Americans.
Researchers from the University of Utah analyzed vaccination data
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starting July
25, a month before full FDA approval, to Sept. 9, the day before
President Joe Biden made his vaccine mandate announcement.
Using the vaccination rate leading up to full approval, they
estimated how many doses would have been administered compared to
the actual recorded number.
Study authors found FDA approval was associated with an overall 36%
increase in vaccinations, but most were second doses. First doses,
they found, were 16% lower than predicted.
Health experts are not surprised by the study’s findings.
“The reason why people get vaccinated has very little correlation
with whether or not something is approved or an EUA,” said Dr. Jay
W. Lee, a family physician and chief medical officer of Share Our
Selves community health center in Orange County, California, who is
not affiliated with the study.
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Anti-vaccine beliefs come from a childhood of mistrust, study
claims
Are recent politics really to blame for the widespread resistance
to the COVID-19 vaccine? A new study suggests that the real answer
may go much deeper than people think. Researchers from Duke
University say the passionate opposition to vaccinations and
policies like mask mandates can trace its roots back all the way to
a person’s childhood. Their study claims that growing up in an
atmosphere of mistrust leads to these attitudes later in life.
“We had so many friends and family who initially said that the
pandemic was a hoax, and then refused to wear a mask or
social-distance, and kept singing in the choir and attending
events,” says study senior author Terrie Moffitt in a university
release.
“And then when the vaccines came along, they said ‘over their dead
bodies,’ they would certainly not get them,” adds Moffitt, Duke’s
Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor of Psychology
& Neuroscience. “These beliefs seem to be very passionate and
deeply held, and close to the bone. So we wanted to know where they
came from.”
‘Don’t trust the grownups’
Researchers used data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and
Development Study, which has been tracking nearly all of the 1,000
people born between 1972 and 1973 from a single town in New
Zealand. Researchers have been measuring each person’s social,
psychological, and health factors since childhood — giving
scientists insights into how these early years impact
adulthood.
Study authors conducted a special survey of the group in 2021 to
examine each participant’s stance on the COVID-19 vaccine before
the shots became available in the country. The team then matched
each person’s responses to the records on their upbringing and
personality over the years.
Results show that, 40 years ago, respondents who are now
vaccine-resistant or express vaccine hesitancy had more adverse
childhood experiences than others. These include incidents of
abuse, neglect, threats, and other hardships such as poverty.
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Democrats Interrogate Oil Executives About "America's Pain At The
Pump"
As public opinion poll after public opinion poll has confirmed,
surging gas prices is one of the most controversial issues in the
US. As President Biden made clear when he announced his plans to
release 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
Democrats are doing everything they can to try and blame rising
prices on President Putin and the American energy industry (which
Biden accused of greedily holding back on production, even though
his own energy policies have made it harder for shale producers to
do so).
So, in their latest attempt to blame the spike in prices on evil
corporate America, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations are holding a hearing
on Wednesday, where they will interrogate the CEOs of Exxon Mobil,
Chevron, BP America, Shell USA, Devon Energy Corp and Pioneer about
the dynamics driving the surge in prices at the pump. The title of
the hearing tells one everything they need to know about the
overall tone: "Gouged At The Gas Station: Big Oil And America's
Pain At The Pump".
In testimony submitted to the subcommittee, the oil executives
explained that a combination of labor and supply shortages have
stopped their companies from raising output back to pre-pandemic
levels, while the price of oil and gas are largely determined by
international market conditions beyond their control.
Of course, this reasoning was apparently lost on the Democrats. In
an interview with Reuters, Democrat members of the committee are
already sharpening their knives.
"We will not sit back and allow the fossil fuel industry to take
advantage of the American people and gouge them at the pump," Diana
DeGette, a Democrat and chair of the subcommittee, said about the
hearing at which executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP America,
Shell USA , Devon Energy and Pioneer will testify.
"We want to know what's causing these record-high prices and what
needs to be done to bring them down immediately," she said. Many
Democrats have complained that oil companies have made record
profits while consumers face high prices.
In addition to the executives, former Trump Administration National
Security Advisor HR McMaster, now a senior fellow at Stanford's
Hoover Institute, will also participate.
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