"Use of placebos on children in study draws researcher’s ire" by Liz Kowalczyk Globe Staff February 12, 2018
Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital and in four other US cities are facing criticism over the ethics of a study exploring whether vitamin D prevents dangerous asthma attacks in children, because only half of the 400 participants are receiving the potential treatment.
Dr. Bruce Davidson, who researches respiratory diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle, has complained to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that the vitamin D study puts young children at risk. All participants, who are being recruited in emergency rooms and doctors’ offices, have serious asthma and low levels of vitamin D.
Half of the participants in the federally funded randomized trial are getting high doses of the vitamin, but half will not get any vitamin D supplements. They will get a placebo — a dummy pill.
In a letter to the federal agency in August, Davidson said two recently published studies determined that giving a placebo to children who have too little of the vitamin is unethical. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children get at least 400 international units of vitamin D a day.
While many children get enough of the vitamin from fortified milk, certain foods, and sunshine, some do not.
Davidson asked the agency to require significant changes or stop the study.....
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What is never asked (or focused on) is why the rates of asthma are so high to begin with, nor is there any thought to the idea that these are the same people who fed radiated cereal to retarded kids and now fills them full of vaccines and off-label prescription drugs.
Of course, the most important story is the right-hand side of the front page: A Zionist Jew taking over at Harvard in what looks like some sort of Faustian bargain.
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"The police chief offered details of the accident and victims during a news conference Sunday at Needham police headquarters that was focused on another tragedy that took place Saturday, the stabbing death of a 20-year-old woman who lived on Marshall Street in Needham..... "
They also mention a stabbing in Millis that seems to be related to domestic violence (an issue only now resurfacing), and something I view as far more destructive to women than grope and grab.
Kind of leaves me down as I flip open the pos paper.
A2:
Trump not looking to replace John Kelly, aides say
Stories being fed to the agenda-pu$hing deep $tate pre$$ ‘‘by people who are unhappy’’ about says it all. Wasn't Tillerson supposed to be long gone by now?
Police had previously gone to home where Ohio patrol officers were killed
I spaced out before glancing at the horrific murder spree in Kentucky.
3 die in crash of tour helicopter crash in Grand Canyon
New York state AG files lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein
For some reason the web Globe blacked out the A3 articles on Seth Moulton (friend of Bill Kristol, btw) and the Democratic memo and replaced it with an article about Puerto Rico.
A4:
"Russian plane crashes near Moscow, killing 71 on board" by Neil MacFarquhar and Ivan Nechepurenko New York Times February 11, 2018
MOSCOW — A Russian plane carrying 71 people crashed near Moscow shortly after takeoff Sunday afternoon, killing all on board.
Flight 703, operated by the Russian regional carrier Saratov Airlines, was carrying 65 passengers and six crew members. The plane went down near the village of Stepanovskoe, about 50 miles southeast of Moscow in the Ramenskoye district, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.
There were no survivors, Moscow’s regional transportation prosecutor general confirmed. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but officials said there were no reports of malfunctions from the plane before the crash.
FlightRadar24, an online site that tracks real-time flight information, shows the plane losing altitude just six minutes after takeoff. It reached 6,400 feet before dropping to 5,800 feet, rising again briefly and falling sharply — all within one minute.
The propaganda pre$$ then mentions a series of Russian plane crashes, casting suspicion upon CIA, etc, etc.
The most recent devastating crash occurred on Dec. 25, 2016, when a Tupulov TU-154 operated by the Ministry of Defense and headed for Syria plunged into the Black Sea moments after taking off from the southern resort of Sochi. All 92 people on board died, including many members of a military choir traveling to Syria to entertain the troops.
Hey, Joe Biden warned them long ago, but don't be fooled!
In March 2016, all 62 people on board a FlyDubai 737 died when it crashed upon landing at Rostov-on-Don.
The third most recent aviation disaster was attributed to a terrorist act. In October 2015, a Russian charter flight ferrying 224 passengers and crew members to St. Petersburg from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, crashed soon after taking off, killing everyone on board. Egypt later acknowledged that terrorists had most likely brought down the plane.
Yeah, speaking of Egypt, who didn't see that coming, what with their cooperation with Israel and all (actually, you wouldn't have seen it along with the tensioning increasing between India and Pakistan, cui bono? Battle lines being drawn as I type)?
In another terrorist incident, 90 people were killed in April 2004, when female suicide bombers blew up two Russian airliners after takeoff from Domodedovo. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility.
This latest "accident" looks like a Mossad job!
President Vladimir Putin put off a planned trip to Sochi to monitor the investigation. He was to meet Monday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the Black Sea resort, where the president has an official residence.
Instead, Abbas will meet with Putin in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies.....
OMFG!!!!
Netanyahu must not have liked what Putin said during his last visit.
Or is it possible that Putin is just as much of a captive of certain interests and tool of Israel as is the West?
For example, Treasury restrictions could hurt foreign investors who hold more than a third of Russia’s local and international sovereign bonds. BlackRock Inc., Stone Harbor Investment Partners, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are the three biggest holders of ruble debt.
Intere$ting Globe scrub, no?
Yes, indeed, all wars ARE bankers wars!
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A bus in Indonesia is no safer.
UK official criticizes Oxfam on sex abuse
Stumbled upon a pedophile procurement network in Haiti, did she?
South Africa’s deputy president says power transfer to be finalized
Dumping Zuma.
A5:
Now, heeeeeeeeere's Israel trying to drag the world into WWIII!!
"Israel promises more action against adversaries after intense cross-border clashes" by Aron Heller Associated Press February 11, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister said Sunday his country delivered ‘‘severe blows’’ to Iranian and Syrian forces and vowed to take further action against its adversaries after the most serious Israeli engagement in Syria since the war there erupted almost seven years ago.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s tough words to his Cabinet came a day after Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes in Syria. Israel ordered the airstrikes after it intercepted an Iranian drone that had infiltrated its airspace, and an Israeli F-16 was downed upon its return from Syria.
Well, Netanyahu needs a war now and it is interesting to note how undisputed is the idea that an Iranian drone penetrated Israeli airspace (Isreal, on the other hand, has the undisputed right to violate anyone's airspace at any time) after what was reported yesterday:
"There was no immediate indication that it was armed, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry denied the drone had strayed into Israeli airspace and rejected as “laughable” reports that Israel had intercepted a drone launched from Syria....."
It's another casus belli from Israel, and it's almost as laughable as this or the fact that the rest of the article is all spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces and what Israel has said.
Israel has tried to stay on the sidelines since civil war broke out in neighboring Syria in 2011, though it has periodically carried out airstrikes against suspected weapons shipments believed to be headed for Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian and Syrian-allied militant group.
PFFT!
But as the Syrian war winds down, Israeli officials have voiced increasing concern that Iran and its Shi’ite allies are establishing a permanent presence in Syria and could turn their aim toward Israel.
Israeli leaders said the airstrikes sent a clear message to Iran. ‘‘We do not just talk, we act,’’ said Cabinet Minister Yoav Galant, a former Israeli deputy chief of staff and member of Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet.
Yeah, the WORLD KNOWS, WE GOT IT!
In a separate development, President Trump questioned Israel’s interest in making peace with the Palestinians in a newspaper interview published Sunday, spotlighting its West Bank settlements as a complicating factor.
UH-OH!!!!
That's not the way to stay alive, Don, and one can't help wonder if he failed to consult with Jared before saying such a thing.
Btw, the development is NOT SEPARATE! It wouldn't be in the article if it were!!
In the interview in the Israel Hayom daily, Trump also cast doubt on the Palestinians’ desire to strike a deal. But his comments about Israel mark rare criticism from a president who has publicly sparred with the Palestinians while forging warm ties with Israel ahead of the expected presentation of a US peace outline.
‘‘Right now, I would say the Palestinians are not looking to make peace. . . . And I am not necessarily sure that Israel is looking to make peace. So we are just going to have to see what happens,’’ Trump was quoted as saying.
Well, when Israel steals more land using the ruse of false flag fictions or fakes..... what are we to think? It's not like the U.N. is going to step in by naming names.
Israel Hayom is owned by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Trump backer and a supporter of Netanyahu.
Saturday’s airstrikes marked the toughest Israeli aerial assault in Syria in decades.....
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Right under that piece is adversary in their target sights:
"Hundreds of thousands of Iranians mark anniversary of Islamic Revolution" by Nasser Karimi Associated Press February 11, 2018
TEHRAN — Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on the streets Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, just weeks after antigovernment protests rocked cities across the country.
Demonstrators burned American and Israeli flags, as well as images of President Trump.
Such activities commonly mark the anniversary, which commemorates the overthrow of US-backed Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. That began a period of hostilities between Iran and the West, including an attack on the US Embassy in Tehran and the subsequent hostage crisis.
However, President Hassan Rouhani made a point to call for unity among Iran’s people across its political spectrum, from hard-liners backing the theocratic government to reformists demanding change.
‘‘When the Revolution took place, we pushed some off the revolutionary train that we should have not,’’ Rouhani told a massive crowd at Tehran’s central Azadi Square. ‘‘Today, we have to let them board the train again.’’
Rouhani didn’t specifically name those pushed aside, though the Islamic Revolution and its aftermath saw the Islamists surrounding Ruhollah Khomeini purge liberals, communists, and others.
More recently, Iran has put leaders of its 2009 Green Movement under house arrest, where they remain even today despite Rouhani’s pledges to free them.
In a separate development, an Iranian-Canadian university professor detained in Tehran has died in custody, activists and a family member said Sunday, marking the latest suspicious death of a detainee in Iran after a crackdown on dissent following nationwide protests.
AGAIN, not really separate or it wouldn't have been brought up!
They identified the deceased as Kavous Seyed-Emami, a 63-year-old professor of sociology at Imam Sadeq University in Tehran and the managing director of the Persian Heritage Wildlife Foundation.
His son and the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran say that authorities told Seyed-Emami’s family that he committed suicide in custody, something they described as suspicious following other detainee deaths.
Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi confirmed the professor’s death on Sunday, saying he had been detained in an alleged espionage ring.
Rouhani’s comments Sunday appeared aimed as being a salve after antigovernment protests marred the start of the new year. The demonstrations initially focused on Iran’s poor economy despite the nuclear deal, but quickly spiraled into chants directly challenging Iran’s theocratic government.
Meaning the CIA-sponsored protests fizzled and went dry.
Speaking of water, managing it is the government’s “most important policy challenge” -- after cleaning up the banks, of course.
[Why did Flint just cross my mind, even though he ate lead as child (which explains a hell of a lot if you think about it): ‘‘I'm sure when I was 2 years old I was somewhere eating a paint chip,’’ he said with a chuckle, and he encouraged parents to get medical checkups for their children. ‘‘They will be fine . . . as long as we’re looking after them’’]
He said it with a chuckle as he told you he had your back?
Thank God that treasonous, negligent, mass-murdering war criminal monster is out of office.
I have to step aside a moment because I'm hyperventilating.
In his speech, Rouhani promised more job opportunities and better economic condition in the near future......
Yeah, we get that all the time over here.
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A7:
Well, I can see what is going to take up tons of print the rest of the week, and I give them to you.
I have no opinion to offer or comment to make as I skip on past that section.
B1:
I just kept walking because I don't care about the Conn. governor’s race.
(Flip)
Intractable school challenges awaiting state’s new education commissioner
They gave it to a white man?
Nor do I care what the charlatan Al Gore feels about climate change in the Trump era -- as the Globe buries the weekend snowstorm that killed two. You have to put your waders on for that $hit $tream.
B2:
Who cares what Framingham’s new seal will look like?
Violent crime levels remain low on MBTA, Transit Police say
Keolis gets no credit.
Two men arrested on drug charges in Whitman
New Jersey Teens Cited for Alcohol Party in Vermont
More than 50 teenagers from New Jersey are in trouble in Vermont because of a "right of passage."
B3:
Marchers support homeless in 2-mile Winter Walk
Out of breath by now.
Baker, invoking words of MLK, advocates for lives of ‘purpose’ at Mattapan church service
The Super Bowl ad also usurped his words.
B8:
WEEI hosts peddle cheap and vile shock. It’s time for a change.
The Japanese were not offended as she calls for fighting back.
All in all, I'd rather not talk about it.
B16:
"‘Fifty Shades Freed’ commands $38.8 million to top box office" By Brooks Barnes New York Times February 11, 2018
LOS ANGELES — In one of the more awkward box-office pairings in memory, the steamy, sexy sequel “Fifty Shades Freed” was No. 1 at North American theaters over the weekend, while the cuddly cute “Peter Rabbit” did well with children and finished in second place.
“Fifty Shades Freed” (Universal Pictures), which did not delight critics, opened to ticket sales of roughly $38.8 million. Based on the third and final book in the “Fifty Shades” series by E.L. James, “Fifty Shades Freed” cost an estimated $55 million to make, not including marketing. It was directed by James Foley (“Glengarry Glen Ross”) and stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
The “Fifty Shades” cultural fever ended a long time ago: Most readers discovered that a little of James’s writing goes a long way. But ticket sales for the final movie adaptation were solid, declining only 16 percent from initial results for its series predecessor, “Fifty Shades Darker,” a year ago.
“Fifty Shades of Grey” kicked off the trilogy in 2015 with $85 million in opening-weekend ticket sales, an astounding total for an erotic drama, a genre that had long been out of favor at multiplexes. All told, the series has collected roughly $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, including $98.1 million in international ticket sales over the weekend for “Fifty Shades Freed.”
BDS is bad, BDSM is good. How sick.
“Peter Rabbit,” an animated-live action hybrid that cost Sony Pictures about $50 million to make, after accounting for government production incentives, took in $25 million in the United States and Canada, according to comScore, which compiles box office data.
Hollywood did not expect “Peter Rabbit” to register much interest. But a newly rejuvenated Sony picked a savvy release date — there are few family films in the market — and backed the film with a marketing campaign that made the 116-year-old Beatrix Potter character feel contemporary and even a smidgen cool, at least to the primary-school set.
The thought of kids being enticed by the perverts of Hollywood.... ugh!
Clint Eastwood had a tougher weekend with “The 15:17 to Paris.” A reconstruction of the 2015 effort by Ayoub el Khazzani to kill passengers aboard a European train — thwarted by vacationing US servicemen — “The 15:17 to Paris” collected about $12.6 million, Eastwood’s lowest wide-release opening result since “J. Edgar” in 2011.
Poor reviews and the absence of marketable stars (the servicemen starred as themselves) likely hurt the film, which cost Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow a modest $30 million to make. About 60 percent of ticket buyers were over the age of 50.
As well as the endless ma$$ media propaganda over the war-driving, fear-inducing false flag fictions and staged and scripted crisis drill productions gone live has soured the American appetite for such slop.
Two films that just won’t quit rounded out the top five over the weekend: ‘‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’’ fell to fourth place with $9.8 million and ‘‘The Greatest Showman’’ took fifth with $6.4 million.
What happened to Jedi?
Overall the marketplace is still down around 1.8 percent for the year and around 27 percent from the same weekend last year, which, comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian notes, saw the launch of ‘‘The Lego Batman Movie,’’ ‘'Fifty Shades Darker’,’ and ‘‘John Wick: Chapter 2,’’ all of which opened over $30 million.
But the box office is expected to pick up this coming weekend with the release of ‘‘Black Panther,’’ which some analysts are pegging for a $150 million start.
‘‘This is the calm before the Marvel storm,’’ Dergarabedian said. “‘Black Panther’ is going to supercharge this marketplace when it opens later this week. I think it’s going to break records and spark a huge conversation.’’
I DON'T THINK SO! I'm not going to see it. Sick of comic book crap.
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You know, I may not like smut but it shouldn't be banned.
I need a rub down.
