Parents Admit ‘Time Has Run out’ for Charlie Gard

/0 Comments/in , /by

The parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard have admitted defeat.

After the parents battled Britain’s medical and legal establishment for months to bring their infant son to the U.S. for potentially life-saving treatment, a lawyer for Chris Gard and Connie Yates told London’s High Court Monday that they would no longer seek to have the terminally ill infant brought to the U.S. because the treatment can no longer help him.

“It is no longer in Charlie’s best interests to pursue this course of treatment,” attorney Grant Armstrong told Judge Nicholas Francis.

“Poor Charlie. It is too late. The damage has been done. Sadly time has run out,” the lawyer said. “Sadly the window of opportunity no longer exists. The parents have taken an extremely hard decision.”

Charlie has a rare genetic condition called mitochondrial depletion syndrome, which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage. He is being kept alive on life support.

Armstrong said that an American neurologist, Dr. Michio Hiranoh, who had come to Britain to examine the infant last week and held out the hope of an experimental therapy, withdrew that offer after seeing a new MRI.

“Charlie has suffered extensive muscular atrophy,” Armstrong said in court. “This is irreversible even with (nucleoside therapy). Chance of improvement can’t now be delivered.”

“The parents’ worst nightmare have been confirmed,” he added.

He said Charlie’s parents agreed that more efforts to save their son would cause him pain. The case was “worthy of a Greek tragedy,” Armstrong said.

“Dark days lie ahead for these parents,” he added. “The parents wish to treasure their remaining time with Charlie, however short that may be.”

Gard and Yates plan to establish a foundation so that Charlie’s voice “continues to be heard,” Armstrong said. (For more from the author of “Parents Admit ‘Time Has Run out’ for Charlie Gard” please click HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

After Seven Deaths Reported, New Zealand Officials Warn Public of Dangers of Synthetic Marijuana

/0 Comments/in , /by

In an effort to deter people from using synthetic marijuana, officials in New Zealand have released a video depicting the deadly effects of the drug.

The 33-second video, put out Friday by the Counties Manukau Police, illustrates “how human beings turn into zombies,” according to the New York Post.

The video shows footage from an incident in the New Zealand city of Auckland several months ago in which the police said “a male was violently ill and could barely stand after smoking synthetic cannabis.”

The potentially deadly drug has killed seven people in Auckland this month, prompting officials to issue a public warning about the effects of synthetic cannabis, which is illegal.

According to Chief Coroner Deborah Marshall, it is believed that each of the seven used synthetic marijuana recently before dying. Synthetic marijuana was found in several of the bodies.

“I’ve also been advised by St. John that there have been a significant number of non-fatal cases where people have been hospitalized after using the drug, which is known to cause potentially fatal seizures,” Marshall said.

Tony Smith, medical director at St. John, a New Zealand medical organization, said that on consecutive days last week, ambulance officers responded to at least 20 cannabis-related incidents.

“If we don’t do something about this, further people are going to die,” Detective Inspector Gary Lendrum said at a press conference Friday.

“It is a dangerous, illegal substance and we will arrest those who are selling this harmful drug and place them before the courts,” he added.

Lendrum said that his officers are coming across “people unable to walk, vomiting, they’re lying in their own vomit in the street, they’re taking off their clothes, it’s having a major effect on the chemicals in their brain.”

“We have grave concerns as users don’t know what poisonous chemicals they are potentially putting into their bodies when they’re smoking this drug.”

Devonte Pierce, 17, died after doing a “spot” of synthetic cannabis earlier in July, according to his best friend, 18-year-old Trey Patterson of West Auckland. Patterson said the drug is easier to buy than normal marijuana and can be purchased on the streets relatively easily.

“It makes me heartbroken and angry, I used to smoke that stuff,” Patterson said. “Knowing he died of it, I want to stop everybody selling it and stop it getting on the street.”

Dr. Paul Quigley, an emergency medicine specialist at Wellington Hospital, said that one drag of synthetic cannabis could have the equivalent effect of smoking 15 marijuana cigarettes.

“These drugs are insidious. Let the message be that the consequences of these drugs can be incredibly tragic,” Police Minister Paula Bennett said in a statement. (For more from the author of “After Seven Deaths Reported, New Zealand Officials Warn Public of Dangers of Synthetic Marijuana” please click HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

FACT CHECK: Has Mueller Crossed Trump’s ‘Red Line’ in the Russia Investigation?

/0 Comments/in , /by

. . .Towards the end of an interview with The New York Times last Wednesday, reporters asked Trump about the Russia investigation.

“If Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia – is that a red line?” asked a Times reporter.

“Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is?” a different Times reporter interjected.

“I would say yeah,” replied Trump. “I would say yes.”

Although it’s unclear from the transcript which question Trump answered, some news outlets have characterized the remark as the president drawing a “red line” for Mueller on the Russia investigation. The president did not draw it himself, but the White House has not disputed the “red line” either. (Read more from “FACT CHECK: Has Mueller Crossed Trump’s ‘Red Line’ in the Russia Investigation?” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Paul Ryan Just Said Something That Will Get Trump’s Attention

/0 Comments/in , /by

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Monday that it isn’t congressional Republicans’ role to defend President Trump from the investigations into Russian election interference and pushed back against the notion that special counsel Robert Mueller is biased against the president.

The comments from Ryan came a day after Trump tweeted that “it’s very sad that Republicans…do very little to protect their president.” Trump’s top aide Kellyanne Conway also attacked Mueller Sunday and described his legal team as a “band of Democratic donors.” Mueller has brought seven attorneys onto his legal team that have donated a combined $60,787 to federal Democratic donors, a practice Trump has dubbed “ridiculous.”

Ryan was asked on local Wisconsin radio Monday morning about why Republicans aren’t doing more to protect President Trump from Mueller’s investigation and those being conducted by Congressional committees. The radio host Jay Weber mentioned the Democratic donors hired, and in his response Ryan said, “Bob Mueller is a Republican who was appointed by a Republican.” (Read more from “Paul Ryan Just Said Something That Will Get Trump’s Attention” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Disney’s Next Movie Could Be Watching You, Too

/0 Comments/in , /by

There’s this term in the processed food industry for when something is quantifiably at its most delicious, but also–critically–still unsatisfying enough that you always crave more. It’s called the bliss point, and it’s what ensures that you always want another sip of that soft drink, or the crunch of that potato chip. It’s about maximizing the bliss of consumption so that you consume more.

Now, Disney Research has developed a neural network that seems to be chasing a similar idea–but for the world of movies. The system has been trained to watch an audience of theatergoers as they watch a film. It can track reactions like smiling and laughter on hundreds of faces in a dark theater, allowing Disney to quantify whether or not a film is working as intended on a granular scale. It’s easy to imagine such technology eventually reaching well beyond the movie theater, into the real world, where Disney parks could react to your mood with real-time Disney magic.

Disney’s researchers tested the system across 150 showings of several Disney films like The Jungle Book and Star Wars: The Force Awakens in movie theaters. Studios like Disney have used the reactions of test audiences to gauge early cuts of films for decades, often making changes to the edit or ending if the film wasn’t hitting as hoped. What’s different in this instance is the sheer amount of analysis Disney Research was able to produce with this methodology: 3,179 people generated 16 million points of data. (Read more from “Disney’s Next Movie Could Be Watching You, Too” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Boy Scouts Chant ‘We Love Trump!’ at National Jamboree

/0 Comments/in , /by

The scouts chanted “We Love Trump!” tonight at the National Jamboree in West Virginia.

The massive crowd of tens of thousands of boy scouts cheered the president at the jamboree. The crowd was enormous – nearly 40,000 people!

Trump ripped Barack Obama for NEVER attending a jamboree. The massive crowd grumbled then started chanting—

“We love Trump! We love Trump!… “ (Read more from “Boy Scouts Chant ‘We Love Trump!’ at National Jamboree” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Eyewitnesses Take You Inside Abortion ‘House of Horrors’

/0 Comments/in , /by

The police knew there was a problem in the Women’s Medical Society of Philadelphia, but they didn’t realize just what the problem was until they got there.

They thought they were raiding the largest supplier of illicit prescription painkillers in the City of Brotherly Love, but once inside, they found that Kermit Gosnell’s medical office was something much worse . . .

There was blood on the floor and the smell of urine in the air. The two surgery rooms were dirty and unsanitary, completely unbefitting a surgical facility. Semi-conscious women scheduled for abortions sat on filthy recliners covered with blood-stained blankets in the waiting room or recovery room.

And then there were the severed body parts of late-term aborted babies displayed in jars over a dirty sink.

And the remains of 47 aborted babies crammed into a freezer and packed into boxes in the basement, all with mysterious wounds across the backs of their necks. (Read more from “Eyewitnesses Take You Inside Abortion ‘House of Horrors'” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

State Revolts Against Feds: No More Refugees!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Of all the recent state lawsuits filed against the federal government’s refugee resettlement program, which annually distributes tens of thousands of Third World migrants to more than 300 U.S. cities and towns, the one filed by Tennessee might be the most significant.

Tennessee doesn’t just ask the feds to do a better job of “vetting” refugees or to “consult” more closely with state officials, like the failed lawsuits filed by Alabama and Texas. Tennessee attacks the program at its core, challenging the federal government’s self-proclaimed right to secretly plant foreign nationals of its own choosing – and the choosing of the United Nations – into U.S. cities and towns. Tennessee contends this is a blatant violation of the 10th Amendment and an unconstitutional infringement on state sovereignty.

The 10th Amendment says the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the U.S. Constitution, with all other powers reserved for the states.

Tennessee filed its lawsuit in March, and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the case in June claiming the state was seeking to stop the influx of refugees as part of a discriminatory policy that treats refugees as inferior to other immigrants.
But the state claims just the opposite. In its 33-page answer, filed July 14, Tennessee claims the only reason it felt compelled to sue the feds was because the feds were demanding that states grant refugees special rights and special favor not available to other immigrants. (Read more from “State Revolts Against Feds: No More Refugees!” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Obamacare Critic With “Enormous Impact” on DC, Dead at 34 of “Undetermined” Causes; Last Article Hammered RINO’s

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Mr. [Joseph] Rago made his biggest mark writing about health care. In 2011, he captured the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for what the Pulitzer organization called his “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”

“No matter where you fall in the debate of health care reform, the arguments advanced by Joseph Rago in his series of editorials in The Wall Street Journal were impossible to ignore,” the judges wrote. “Not paying attention to these editorials was not an option for policymakers.”

Mr. Rago gained credibility with the policy community and with politicians because he did his homework, becoming one of the most well-sourced people around on health care, with sources throughout Washington and among academics on the left and right, Mr. Gigot said in an interview on Friday.

“Through his editorials, he had enormous impact on events in Washington,” he said.

The last editorial Mr. Rago wrote, on Wednesday, was titled “The ObamaCare Republicans,” Mr. Gigot said. Read more HERE about the young journalist, unafraid of crossing the global elite.

“Mega-Donor” to Gay and Bisexual Groups Named Trump’s New Spokesperson as Spicer Resigns

/0 Comments/in , , /by

By Miranda Green. Sean Spicer said Friday night that President Donald Trump did not want him to resign as White House press secretary but “understood” that it was in the best interest of the administration.

Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Spicer said that while he had previously considered resigning, it was his decision alone to leave his post as press secretary and give it over to a new communications team under Anthony Scaramucci, who was named the new White House communications director, and deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who will be taking over the press secretary position. The White House announced Spicer’s resignation earlier on Friday.

“He’s been very gracious throughout this process,” Spicer said of Trump. “My decision was to recommend to the President that I give Anthony and Sarah a clean slate to start from, so that they can talk about the President’s agenda and help move it forward. And he, after some back and forth, understood that the offer that I was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration.” (Read more from “”Mega-Donor” to Gay and Bisexual Groups Named Trump’s New Spokesperson as Spicer Resigns ” HERE)

________________________________________

Little Known Facts About Scaramucci

By Newsmax. * Goldman Sachs was Scaramucci’s first job out of law school, and he was fired a year later. “I was terrible at it,” he told New York Magazine. He would return to Goldman Sachs soon after and stay there until 1996, when he left to start his own business.

* In 2008, he was a fundraiser for Barack Obama, whom he knew in law school, he told Gawker. It was the only time he crossed the aisle, returning to the Republican side to help Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012. . .

* He’s spoken out in favor of gun control in the past. “We (the USA) has 5% of the world’s population but 50% of the world’s guns. Enough is enough. It is just common sense it apply more controls,” he tweeted in 2012. (Read more from “Little Known Facts About Scaramucci” HERE)

________________________________________

Gay Rights Sympathizer Scaramucci Selected for Role as Key Adviser to Trump

By Peter LaBarbera. Anthony Scaramucci, who describes himself as a committed “gay rights activist,” has been picked for a top job advising President-elect Trump that is comparable to Valerie Jarrett’s preeminent role in the Obama White House, The Washington Post reported Friday.

As LifeSiteNews previous reported, Scaramucci told BBC in November: “I’m … a gay rights activist. … I’ve given to the [pro-“gay” Republican] American Unity PAC … to the Human Rights Campaign, I’m for … marriage equality.”

“We don’t want to be on the wrong side of history,” Scaramucci told the Huffington Post last April, explaining why his investment company, Skybridge Capital, gives to LGBT groups. Scaramucci, a 2012 Mitt Romney mega-donor, last year invited “transgender” activist Bruce (“Caitlyn) Jenner to speak at his annual SALT conference, which he describes as a “premier thought leadership and global investment forum” for fellow hedge-fund investors. (Read more from “Gay Rights Sympathizer Scaramucci Selected for Role as Key Adviser to Trump” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.