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Argentina's government rules out free dengue vaccine despite record deaths

Presidential Spokesperson Maneul Adorni says there is no plan to make Dengue vaccine free and compulsory to citizens despite a record number of deaths this year.

President Javier Milei’s government will not include a vaccine for Dengue fever in its national vaccination calendar. Speaking at a press conference in Buenos Aires on Monday, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni shot down suggestions that the state would make the jab free and compulsory to citizens despite a record number of deaths this year.

Adorni, who also questioned the vaccine’s effectiveness, said talks over its inclusion on the national vaccination calendar are “not on the agenda,” though the decision could be revisited in the future. "Immunity is achieved over time, so vaccinating now would mean that immunity will be achieved in four months, where the mosquito is no longer a problem, even though its effectiveness has not been proven," said Adorni.

Argentina has seen 79 deaths from dengue over the last eight months, 69 of which have been registered since the turn of the year. In the past week, 22 people have died after infection from the virus. Infection numbers are soaring. So far in 2024, more than 102,000 cases have been reported, which is 86 percent of the 120,000 cases registered in total, another record.

Milei said in an interview last Sunday that the dengue crisis is "part of Kirchnerism's negligence" – a reference to the government which preceded his in office. He accused them of “not having run a good campaign a year ago.”

For those seeking vaccination, the TAK-003 vaccine, also known as Qdengam, produced by the Japanese laboratory Takeda, is available in Argentina privately. Each dose against the virus, which is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, costs about 70,000 pesos (about US$80 at the official exchange rate), while the minimum wage is set at 202,800 pesos (USS$232).

Eduardo López, an infectious disease doctor at the Buenos Aires Children's Hospital, contradicted Adorni’s remarks. "Studies show that vaccines are safe and effective," he told the C5N news channel.

Andrea Gamarnik, a virologist, specialist in the dengue virus and researcher at the CONICET scientific research institute, denounced on the X social network that Argentina is "in the worst dengue epidemic in history" but that experts are not "allowed to work" because, she believes, the government is dismantling the scientific system.

A month ago, tens of thousands of people around the world shared videos of mosquito swarms in Argentina. That particular one was an invasion of Aedes Albifasciatus, a species that grows especially after the rains and in open, grassy places, unlike Aegypti, which grows mainly in cities and spreads Zika and chikungunya as well as dengue.

Both my mother and sister have dengue, both had serious fever but are now recovering. Hospitals wont give them tests, stating that "they don't have any" or are reserved for some special cases. "Come back tomorrow" they say. So far I've been able to avoid the disease, but I work in the streets so it's a matter of time one of these little fuckers bite me.

Also, oncologic patients are getting their help completely shut down by the government, leaving them to fend off by themselves against predatory pharma practices. The state decided to fuck off and the market will never help, we're all being left alone.

I try to mask it all off with some jokes and whatever, try to sound positive. But deep down I'm reaching a breaking point. Everywhere I look there's misery, hunger and desperation and it's all catching up to me.

Libs on Twitter are celebrating the 25th anniversary of NATO bombing Yugoslavia.

Fortune - Intel wins $19.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding as ‘historic’ semiconductor spending spree heats up

If Intel meets performance targets in the deal, it’ll be eligible for $8.5 billion in federal grants, an additional $11 billion in CHIPS Act loans and a 25% Treasury tax credit. A senior administration official said that the Intel grant was expected to be the largest single grant administered through the CHIPS Act, and once the Commerce Department and Intel agree on final terms, the government expects to start delivering funds by the end of the year.

So, three years after Congress passed the CHIPS act, they're finally thinking about possibly doing the first major disbursement by the end of the year.

Oh boy, America is really showing China what they can do when they eventually get off their asses because the graft checks finally cleared the bank.

This is the real reason Brandon went to Arizona, nothing to actually do with the primaries.

DROP OUT BIDEN! DROP OUT YOU FUCKING SACK OF SHIT OLD GENOCIDAL FUCK

DROP OUT AND NOMINATE HILLARY AS THE CANDIDATE. COME ON, I NEED TO SEE HER LOSE AGAIN

(It's her turn)

I try very hard to maintain my love of humanity in the face of overwhelming despair. Sometimes it can be very hard not to hate people, to not pray that some day death will rain down from the sky onto the oppressors and that they will know even a fraction of the torment that they are inflicting. I want to tell myself that the average person, even the average citizen living under fascist governments, is a decent person worthy of life and dignity. I don't want to be someone who poisons my soul by wishing ill on others, even if they might rightfully deserve it.

Anyways here's an article about how Israelis are so stressed out by their genocide that they're becoming fat.

Russia and China veto US "ceasefire" resolution at UN

Found this rabid comment on r/thedeprogram quoting an r/israel user: https://www.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1biqqy1/netanyahu_i_made_it_clear_to_biden_we_must_enter/kvm7kgo/?context=3

has Ukraine issued a commemorative postage stamp for the Crocus City Hall attack yet?

In honor of the mega's image this week, I dug through my account to find this edit:

It seems that the US has chosen some politicians to elect Haiti's interim prime minister, while right-wing paramilitaries, gangs and left-wing groups continue to clash with the police and advance on the capital.

These right-wing gangs and paramilitaries are the remnants of the old Haitian army and the death squads of right-wing dictator François Duvalier and his son. When Haiti's first democratically elected president was elected in 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Catholic socdem, he tried to destroy these groups after being temporarily removed in a coup by the Haitian elite.

Then, some of Aristide's supporters created a left-wing paramilitary group called Chimères to help the government. These groups ended up engaging in a low-intensity guerrilla war against the US, France, the UN and pro-coup groups in the 2000s, after they illegally removed Aristide from power.

Now, these groups are fighting for control of the country after the US and French puppets failed to do anything but line their pockets with public money and foreign aid.

US House Speaker ‘may’ invite Israeli PM to address Congress | Al Jazeera

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s considering inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

“It’s one of the things that we have in mind, and we may try to arrange for that,” Johnson told reporters. He said it’s “very important” for the United States to show solidarity and support for Israel “right now in their time of great struggle”.

Johnson said he held a “lengthy conversation this morning” with Netanyahu and reiterated House Republicans’ “strong support for Israel”.

Last week by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections in Israel and criticised Netanyahu’s leadership. Johnson said, “We think it is not only foolhardy, it’s dangerous for him to be trying to suggest how Israel should run its domestic affairs in the midst of their conflict.”

Independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he does not support a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. | The Guardian

Speaking to Reuters, he told it Israel was a "moral nation" that was justly responding to Hamas provocations with its attacks on Gaza. Asked if he supported a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Kennedy told Reuters: "I don't even know what that means right now." Kennedy said that each previous ceasefire "has been used by Hamas to rearm, to rebuild and then launch another surprise attack. So what would be different this time?" he said.

Recent polling has suggested Kennedy is backed by 15% of registered voters in the US, nowhere near enough to attain the presidency, but in a position where he could take votes from incumbent Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Earlier this week Trump said that Jewish people who voted for the Democratic party "hated Israel" and "hated their religion".

The scotland Hate Crime bill is simply magical. It purports that anything published online and read in Scotland, is considered posted from Scotland. This means you could commit a crime in Scotland without ever leaving your home or having set a foot in the country. Furthermore, every single thing published before the bill passed is now retroactively subjected to the new law, meaning ten year old content read in Scotland and reported as a Hate Crime will then be eligible for prosecution.

This is possibly the most fantastical piece of legislation ive ever read, I burst out laughing numerous times, sent it to friends studying law and several replied with variants of "what the fuck." Given the tenuous nature of the bill and how fucking vague it is, theres zero doubt this will be weaponized to persecute palestine activists and leftists of all stripes.

Getting reports now that the attack was committed by three guys in a boat

Compilation of the IOF getting owned:
https://twitter.com/revolutionaryem/status/1770893496662032866

It's old footage, but it's cool to see them in one compilation.

What's going on with ukraine rn? Something about huge missile attack?

Least racist Zionists (CW: Cartoonish racist levels of Blackface):
https://twitter.com/BesDMarx/status/1770992250488488272

I had to stop telling people "Kill the X in your head" bc the saying "Kill the Cop in your Head" is apparently unknown so I just get banned for blah blah blah violence. Which, if I'm going to be banned for inciting violence, let me actually incite some fucking violence first.

Shooting and blast reported at concert hall near Moscow - agencies

~10 dead, ~50 wounded according to reports.

There appear to be at least two perpetrators (edit: looks like at least four now) according to a video, which suggests an organized attack.

Apparently gunmen have stormed a police station in the Armenian capital.

I've heard from Armenians from the country that there's a lot of hatred towards the police as they really protect Pashinyan and tend to violently put down protests, moreso than they used to.

This also happened a few years ago before the color revolution by a group called Sansa Tsrer.

So Russia has been incredibly restrained in their smo in ukraine. I wonder if that will change now.

Inger Støjberg, convicted criminal, darling for Denmark's far right and leader of one of the American puppet state's fascist parties, has proposed that applicants for Danish citizenship has to sign a loyalty oath to the illegal zionist entity. The succdem minister of integration (ie. racism) has chosen not to run with the ball though, declining to give interviews. Denmark's foreign minister is talking about the need for a ceasefire, although he still refuses to connect the dot between the actions of the zionist ocvupiers and the man-made famine in Gaza.

Even my lead-poisoned boomer dad who will believe any conspiracy theory about Muslims and the woke has lost his taste for the illegal zionist entity and their atrocities.

Zionism is slowly becoming a weird fringe position in the west and being an outspoken zionist is becoming an embarrassment.

You know what the terrifyingly bleak part of this whole ordeal is? It's more than likely that, if the US wasn't responsible for the attack in Moscow, that their loud and very public announcement that an attack was going to happen by March 9th forced the terrorists to tighten their operation and reschedule, losing the heaps of intel that intelligence and law enforcement parties presumably had on the attack beforehand. Blood. On. Their. Hands.

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CIA chief William Burns travels to Argentina for meetings

Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse meets with the head of the US intelligence services at the Casa Rosada; CIA head latest in a long list of officials from Washington to visit Buenos Aires since President Javier Milei took office.

William Burns, the director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency of the United States), arrived in Argentina on Wednesday for meetings with government officials in Buenos Aires. Arriving from Brazil, where he met with government officials in Brasília, the CIA chief was expected to stay two days in Argentina’s capital, though his itinerary was not released to the public.

Government sources confirmed that Burns, the head of the United States’ intelligence services, met Cabinet Chief Nicolás Posse at the Casa Rosada on Wednesday. No public confirmation of the encounter was provided.

The meeting was also attended by the head of Argentina’s own intelligence services, the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Silvestre Sívori, and US ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley. Various topics were discussed by the officials, from bilateral cooperation and the progressive penetration of China in Latin America to recent cyber-attacks carried out from Russia, reported Noticias Argentinas.

According to the news agency, Washington has been closely monitoring criminal drug organisations active in Argentina and is concerned about their links to terrorist cells deployed in the Triple Frontier area that answer to the Islamic group Hezbollah.

Burns is the latest top official to travel to Buenos Aires since President Javier Milei was sworn-in as head of state last December. The visit of the CIA director comes just weeks after the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Chief of United States Southern Command Laura Jane Richardson is due to visit the country in April to assist with Argentina's purchase to US F-16 fighter jets through the Danish government.

Since his inauguration, Milei has notably shifted Argentina’s foreign policy, aligning himself with the United States and Israel, among others. In recent public remarks, Burns has expressed concerns over the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and said that he believes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a turning point in the reconfiguration of forces internationally and brought the post-Cold War period to an end.

Wednesday's meeting was not the first between Posse and Burns. The duo first encountered each other last January 31, when Argentina’s Cabinet chief travelled to Washington and they spent more than an hour in talks. Rumours that Burns would meet with Milei during his stay in Buenos Aires were unable to be confirmed by press time.

When there are drugs, the CIA is there. The city of Rosario has been a hotbed of drug related homicides and general violence, extreme poverty, corrupt government officials and mafias that have taken over a seizable chunk of the city for many years now. The port itself, which connects to the Río de la Plata, is literally controlled by these gangs. Now, this is not like a typical drug cartel scenario, Rosario and Argentina altogether are not the final destination of drugs that are coming over from other places, Argentina serves as the exit point from which the drugs are shipped to Europe. They are consumed here but not really. Moreover, these gangs are nowhere near as big, powerful or influential like the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Nueva Generación or the Medellín Cartel, these cartels literally operate military-grade weapons and gear, our "cartels" can, at best, have a bunch of FN FALs stolen or, "gifted" by the army.

The violence is indeed bad and the proposed solutions by milei and his cabinet are way over the top. They want to emulate the "Bukele Formula", just jail whoever has a tattoo and be done with it, eventually you will jail (some of) the bad guys. So like two weeks ago, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich decided to show a number of heavily armed policemen watching over half naked and bald prisoners, to whom she referred to as "captured gangsters", just like Bukele does in his country. This immediately backfired and that same night, rival gangs allied and sent gunmen to just kill normal people. One bus driver, one taxi driver and one gas station worker were executed in cold blood, no robberies, nothing, just killed. This was their message to the government and their display of "authority". The situation escalated and now Bullrich ordered the Armed Forces to actively participate in clean up and security operations within the city, and you know where this ends.

Even Bukele shared his word about the situation in Rosario and said that, yes, it's bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as it is in El Salvador, that his methods should not be applied there because there are easier solutions. But they went ahead regardless.

Crime is indeed running rampant in Rosario, innocent people are indeed afraid and are dying due to drug and gang related violence. Poverty is at the base of this issue, and if you don't fix the material conditions of people, the problem will persist. Now, why is the CIA here you ask? Oh I don't know, they have quite the history with drugs. Do they want a cut from this rather lucrative business? Are they here also to advice the government on dealing with dissent? The social panorama is looking very bad and no economic program can be applied if the people are against you. I don't have to teach this to anyone on Hexbear, we know what this means.

Another study finds that Havana Syndrome is still fake

Folks, let's say the U.S. actually did have nothing to do with the terrorist attack on Russians. Would you really expect that they then wouldn't immediately come up with a lie saying they knew Ukraine didn't do it? Come on. The U.S. is going to issue that propaganda no mater what.

Not saying not to suspect them (or Ukraine). Just saying that, short of some kind of (accidental†, of course) actual admission, nothing the U.S. says should likely move the needle one way or another on what we suspect or believe.

† Probably DuE tO BiDeN'S StuTTeR™ and totally not his senility, stupidity, and general incompetence. I mean—true story‡—I once knew a guy with a stutter who accidentally blurted "I killed my whole family and half my n***** neighbor's household" when he meant to say, "Let's have a potluck next Tuesday."

‡ LOL

Huawei Tests Brute-Force Method for Making More Advanced Chips

Bloomberg always has such cute takes on semiconductors. They should probably hire staff that at least somewhat understands the minutiae of the field.