Except Oswald was not such a loser, as he was a double agent while in the SSSR [1], and he was staying at the home [2] of George de Mohrenschildt [3], who used to be member [4] of the Nazi Gehlen SS Division which was incorporated the CIA and german BND after WWII [5], and who was expulsed in 1957 by Yugoslavia for having spied on military installations there [6].
Most interestingly, the day of his "suicide", de Mohrenshild had given an interview to a certain journalist named Jay Epstein (! - supposedly no relations), during which he claimed "that in 1962, Dallas CIA operative J. Walton Moore and one of Moore's associates had handed him the address of Lee Harvey Oswald in nearby Fort Worth and then suggested that de Mohrenschildt might like to meet him." - which he had also told the Warren commission.
Oh, and he personnaly knew G.H.W. Bush before he became the director of the CIA, the latter having been the roomie of de Mohreshild's nephew [7].
I know that the sound of hooves generally means horses are coming, and the "six degrees of separation" theory...
Yet, don't you get the distinct impression we're in the middle of the savannah and insted those sounds might be zebras ?
You just used an easiy disproved oblique ad-hominem to lessen his credibility without even having actually researched the man. It sounded like a "sources have indicated" TV hit piece.
He developped part of the early treatment protocols Covid everybody is using in Spring 2020. Before that, he was one of the foremost authorities in clinical cardiology in the US, full Professor at a major university (Texas A&M), Masters in public health, also editor of two journals, and is in the five most cited researchers in the US.
He was "the man" in his field, and people around the world can thank his discoveries for having survived Covid.
Yet, he somehow started being a misinformer and losing credit the moment he talked about the vaccines in a less than flattering way.
The "talk" page tab of the same wikipedia page you are citing is quite revealing in that regard.
"Statistical significance" is a qualification in statistical jargon regarding how certain you can be in the absolute of your result (how the experiment was designed, how precise the measurement inherently is, number of measures, presence of cofounding phenomena, how much the measurement inherently varies, etc).
You may have a very clear positive trend, but, because of other factors, you can't say without a trace of doubt : "This is what happens, that's a bulletproof correlation".
This is why when you say there's not a "Statistical Significance" it doesn't mean the result is wrong if the trend shown is strong, rather just that you need to improve your experiment and measurements, and check for cofounders to be certain, to validate it to a sufficient degree.
I find it somewhat clickbait-y to call Delta an outbreak, since it's already endemic and active everywhere.
This makes it sound there will somehow be twice the impact on public health, which is highly doubtful.
The SA chief medical officer reported case severity of Omicron cases was accross the board lower. Moreover, Omicron will probably overtake Delta as the dominant strain the same it has in SA.
So, seeing the Analysis section is mostly specifically dealing with the truthfulness and honesty of this "fatwa", and that it constitutes almost half of the text of the article, I find your comment a little strange. Moreover, two third of the sources cited are western sources.
Thankfully, there is the always "Talk" tab at the top of the page, which shows you it was written by a diverse set of editors. Most are generally active in other non-proliferation articles.
You'll also see that the editors even had an exchange regarding "taqqiya", which is roughly a religious exemption to lying and dissembling when a muslim believes him/herself of being in danger due to religious prosecution/discrimination.
In conclusion, you might want to read it again, or in full, as well as the Foreign Policy article the quote came from.
P.S.: Also, please consider that foreign enemies of the USA are not necessarily the cookie-cutter comic book villains they are made out to be by mainstream news and politicians. They are like onions. They make you cry, yes, and hurt your eyes, yes, but they also have many layers which might surprise you.
Just look on a map. Yelnya is halfway between Minsk and Moscow, in Smolensk oblast.
It's on the approach to Moscow if you are invading, and where some of the hardest fighting between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht took place, defending the capital.
Not quite exactly "on the border of Ukraine, ready to invade Kiev" (that would be around Belgorod, Briansk, Voronez, Koursk), more like "ready to intervene in case of the kerfuffle betwen Minsk and Warsaw escalates".
This is pure posturing by Ukraine, so people forget they'll freeze for lack of Russian and anybody else's gas this winter.
"Don't be evil" was just a reminder placed above the revolving door located between the military-industrial complex and Google, not a public-facing branding exercise.
Epic irony this massive troll comes from Bellingcat... but a good piece of work nevertheless. Good job lads, had me laughing in shadenfreude for a full minute.
I guess it took them a full year to write this because they were laughing too much in between sentences thinking how much this would aggravate their counterparts...
France had 14'000 ICU beds in 2020 (down from 24'000 some years ago). They cut it by half after summer 2020 because (quoting the minister of health) : "hospitalized people need to social-distance".
In Switzerland, the two hospitals which were overwhelmed (Geneva fur sure and think but am not sure Aarau), did the same by cutting ICU personnel in two last spring...
Most interestingly, the day of his "suicide", de Mohrenshild had given an interview to a certain journalist named Jay Epstein (! - supposedly no relations), during which he claimed "that in 1962, Dallas CIA operative J. Walton Moore and one of Moore's associates had handed him the address of Lee Harvey Oswald in nearby Fort Worth and then suggested that de Mohrenschildt might like to meet him." - which he had also told the Warren commission.
Oh, and he personnaly knew G.H.W. Bush before he became the director of the CIA, the latter having been the roomie of de Mohreshild's nephew [7].
I know that the sound of hooves generally means horses are coming, and the "six degrees of separation" theory... Yet, don't you get the distinct impression we're in the middle of the savannah and insted those sounds might be zebras ?
[1] https://knrasm.typepad.com/.a/6a0154328936da970c0168e5939b50...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt#Dallas...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt - a German noble from Bielorussia, where Oswald had "defected" in 1957
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt#House_...
[5] https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/germany/gehlen.h...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt#cite_n...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt#Later_...