Saturday 14 November 2020

President Trump Says New York State Will Not Receive COVID Vaccine As Soon As It’s Available

 



  President Donald Trump announced Friday a coronavirus vaccine will be available in April for the entire country, except New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo fired back Friday night. The president spoke at a press conference on Operation Warp Speed and vaccine distribution. “Millions of doses will soon be going out the door,” Trump said.

Trump said two vaccines could be approved by the end of the year and be available to all Americans a few months later, but then, the president suddenly said New York will not get its vaccine unless the governor approves it. “As soon as April the vaccine will be available to the entire general population with the exception of places like New York State, where, for political reasons, the governor decided to say, and I don’t think it’s good from a political standpoint, but he wants to take his time with the vaccine,” Trump said. “We won’t be delivering it to New York until we have authorization to do so, and that pains me to say that. This is a very successful, amazing vaccine and 90% and more. But, so the governor, Governor Cuomo will have to let us know what he’s ready for it.”

Cuomo has said he won’t take the Trump administration’s word that the vaccine is safe.

“He doesn’t trust the fact that it’s this White House, this administration, so we won’t be delivering to New York until we have authorization to do so,” Trump said. “We can’t be delivering it to a state that won’t be giving it to its people immediately.”

The governor appeared on MSNBC to respond to the president’s comments.“Everything is personal with this president. There can’t be a disagreement on principle, and he retaliates,” Cuomo said.Cuomo has appointed a panel to examine any vaccine before its distributed in the state.“An overwhelming percentage of Americans are worried about political interference in the vaccination process, in the approval process by the president,” the governor said.

Tuesday 16 June 2020

New Music : Danny Boy - Good Life




The Nigerian fast rising  conscious music singer and songwriter Danny Boy gift his fans a new tune titled “Good life” 
cool mid tempo contemporary afrovibes .
The video was shot by @blaanation and
song produced by @soclassic
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Tuesday 14 April 2020

Coronavirus Conspiracy Claims: For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy


People gathering on a beach in Rio de Janeiro last week. Brazil’s president has implied that the virus is less dangerous than experts say.

As scientists continue to study how the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Wuhan, China, and around the world, the infection’s early pathways have proven fertile ground for speculation and conspiracy theories. Although COVID-19’s earliest origins may remain uncertain, the story of one volley in the ongoing U.S.-China blame game shows that misinformation about the disease can be traced to specific speculations, distortions, and amplifications. A hostile messaging war between U.S. and Chinese officials seeking to deflect blame for the pandemic’s harms has included the U.S. president labeling the pandemic a “Chinese virus” to a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson spreading unfounded speculation that the U.S. military had a hand in introducing the virus to Wuhan.


 That speculation fed off of widely debunked theories that the virus was human-engineered and the fact that U.S. military personnel took part in the Military World Games in Wuhan in October 2019. On March 12, Zhao Lijian, a deputy director-general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Information Department, took to Twitter with a video clip in which U.S. Centers for Disease Control chief Robert Redfield said some patients who died from COVID-19 might not have been tested. Zhao added: “It might be US army [sic] who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.” the coronavirus that became a global pandemic first surfaced late last year in Wuhan, China.

 But according to one common narrative making its way around Chinese messaging apps, an American soldier was patient zero. “Chinese netizens and experts” are urging the United States to release health information about a U.S. delegate who attended the Military World Games in Wuhan, asserted a February 22 story from Global Times. \The publication, an offshoot of the Chinese Communist Party organ People’s Daily, insinuated that a U.S. military cyclist might have brought the disease from Fort Detrick in Maryland. Chatter about American origins of the disease had begun a month earlier, in the wilds of China’s chat services and on tiny YouTube channels.

 That alone wouldn’t have amounted to much; conspiracies are as common on social media as ants at a picnic, and the small accounts speculating about “bioweapons” and “the USA virus” got little early traction. But this time, Chinese state media picked up the story from internet chatter and turned it into an international phenomenon involving not only official media channels but influential diplomats as well. State channels with massive Facebook followings backed away from prior acknowledgments that the virus had originated in Wuhan, recasting the idea as merely a theory—just one of many unknowns. Zhao Lijian, the spokesman and deputy director general of the Information Department of China’s Foreign Ministry, speculated to his half-million followers on Twitter that the United States was secretly concealing early 2020 COVID-19 deaths in annual flu counts. In an unusually overt act of tinfoil-hat diplomacy, he shared an article from the notorious anti-American crackpot site GlobalResearch. 


The headline reads, “COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the U.S.” Zhao’s implication that the United States and its military could be behind Wuhan’s outbreak, even inadvertently, sparked outrage. The U.S. government summoned Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, over the remarks. Cui later publicly disavowed the U.S. military conspiracy theory, and Chinese officials have not further amplified it. Groundless speculation about the origins of the pandemic did not begin with Zhao, but the case of his eye-catching tweets reveals how China’s changing propaganda tactics have interacted with mangled news reporting, social media conspiracy theorizing, and underlying U.S.-China tensions—all resulting in high-profile misinformation about a public health crisis.

Wednesday 29 January 2020

Danny Boy Set to Dazzle Music Fans with New Release, Feel Am



Julius Daniel Ogah, known by stage name Danny Boy, has dropped the first visuals for his highly anticipated 5 track EP OG, New Single titled FEEL AM. The EP was carefully selected tunes from the talented act formerly known as DBoy.
Danny Boy, an acolyte of Afro Dance All music genre and signed to Signed to SMMHK, makes his musical debut in 2019. With the good impressions so far, Danny Boy says he’s not slowing down this year.

Friday 10 January 2020

people should be extremely grateful and happy' as Iran stands down after attack

President Trump addresses the nation from the White House on Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, President Trump on Wednesday sought to assure Americans that the United States was not on the brink of another war in the Middle East. “The American people should be extremely grateful and happy no Americans were harmed,” Trump said in a statement from the White House’s Grand Foyer, flanked by members of his national security team. “We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.”

 “Iran appears to be standing down,” the president continued, “which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.” Trump reiterated his long-held complaint that the United States does more than its allies in securing Middle East peace. “Today I’m going to ask NATO to be much more involved in the Middle East process,” he said. Trump also criticized the 2015 Iran nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama, from which Trump withdrew in 2018. “Instead of saying thank you to the United States, they chanted ‘death to America,’” the president said. “In fact, they chanted ‘death to America’ the day the agreement was signed.