DannSim

@nxt888 I visited Washington D.C. thirty years ago. The tour guide told us how long the wall was. I regret not asking her how long the wall would have to be to include the names of Vietnamese casualties.

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died. And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop. As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience." They built a wall in Washington with American names on it. A beautiful wall. A solemn wall. Good. Mourn your dead. But understand what that wall does not say. It does not say why they died. It does not say what they were doing there. It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was. It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned. Three years. House arrest. Pardoned. For five hundred people murdered in a ditch. It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today. Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today. Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought. And the chemical companies that made it are still in business. Still profitable. Still un-prosecuted. And yet they send us human rights reports. They grade our democracy. They warn us about our behavior. The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive. Almost.

@MillzBryan @Irishshitposter @Its_ereko A Cuban American talks about paying "taxes to a government that is using those taxes to impose scarcity and hunger in a country of 11 million people." youtube.com/watch?v=knvYdX…

@dannXsim @Irishshitposter @Its_ereko I don't entirely disagree with you but I think these are two different things. I do believe there is something up with that situation as well though.

🚨🇲🇽🇨🇺 JUST IN: Mexico just shipped over 96 tons of food to Cuba. Beans, rice, provisions. Total aid now over 3,125 tons. Not sanctions. Not bombs. Not regime change. Food. Solidarity. Humanity. While the US starves Cuba with a 60-year blockade, Mexico sends grain. While Washington demands obedience, Mexico offers brotherhood. This is what the Global South looks like when it works together. No empire. No conditions. Just people feeding people. Cuba sends doctors to the poorest places on earth. Mexico sends food to Cuba. The US sends bombs. The empire sends silence. The world sends solidarity. The blockade is a crime. The aid is a witness. And history is recording both.

@Irishshitposter @MillzBryan @Its_ereko The first cases in🇨🇺were MPI, but the recent cases shown by 60 Minutes & The Insider are genuine physiological illnesses with perfectly natural causes that are then attributed to the #HavanaSyndrome , e.g. Minor's syndrome and other vestibular disorders. theins.ru/en/inv/290088

@dannXsim @MillzBryan @Its_ereko It's complete horse shit and actually insane that anybody took it seriously It's at very most a psychosomatic illness and at least people lying through their teeth for attention

@Irishshitposter @MillzBryan @Its_ereko I've been following the 'syndrome' closely since September, 2017: cuba-venner.dk/havana-syndrom… 60 Minutes no longer does investigative journalism. The most recent episode about #HavanaSyndrome was based on nothing but insane anecdotes: internationalskeptics.com/forums/threads…

@dannXsim @MillzBryan @Its_ereko You know at Trump's first term they used Havana syndrome as a reason to start hammering cubans with more sanctions etc Absolutely psychopathic nation Biden too for not reversing them

@MillzBryan @Irishshitposter @Its_ereko It does have something to do with 🇩🇰 – and with all other countries. Since Trump began to covet 🇬🇱, he has been paying people to lie about 🇬🇱 & 🇩🇰: thedailybeast.com/bonkers-backst… Lies used to justify an invasion (or to 'send a hospital ship' in the case of 🇬🇱). 🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇺🇵🇷, unite!

dude you still don't get it, they don't take care of their people I don't know what your fighting for. So what if a few doctors get trained or whatever. It's not paradise, most people live in some of the worst conditions. All because of their Gov't. Need free elections and trade deals, that is the only way to help them make the money they need to build their own society. You live in a country that does little to nothing to help the world and you want to criticize us. This honestly has nothing to do with someone in Denmark.

@Irishshitposter @MillzBryan @Its_ereko Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala. They gave up on developing a nasal spray, Mambisa. I got the Soberana plus jab the last time I was there.

@dannXsim @MillzBryan @Its_ereko Developed a few vaccines if I remember right, they also develop cheap vaccine to give to developing countries They're also pioneering Alzheimer's research They're a nice peaceful country that helping people is basically their constitution And they are being starved for it

@MillzBryan @Irishshitposter @Its_ereko The Cuban government doesn't blockade Cuba. Trump does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…

@Irishshitposter @dannXsim @Its_ereko Their own gov't is starving them not the US so what's your point.

@mayiobros @JorgeLT18 @Its_ereko Indeed! thenation.com/article/politi…

@JorgeLT18 @Its_ereko You're not be a smart guy... As example, try to find about USAID, and come back and offer an apology.

@Irishshitposter @MillzBryan @Its_ereko And after 2020, Cuba tackled the pandemic much better than the majority of Western nations. Protected its citizens, including the children with vaccines developed in Cuba. Western countries more or less ignore this accomplishment: ourworldindata.org/explorers/covi…

@MillzBryan @Its_ereko No it's the blockade you fucking idiot Before 2020 the cubans had the lowest infant mortality rate in the hemisphere, they had free education right to the PhD level, they had a growing private sector and was one of the most progressive nations in latin America More than the usa.

@awgaffney Don't forget that the #HavanaSyndrome narrative also harmed 11 million Cubans. en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-04-… And it's still harming them. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Finally, I don't think people realize how harmful the "Havana Syndrome" narrative has been for the individuals who attribute physical suffering to attacks by nefarious agents — and who consequently believe that a vast government coverup is underway to conceal these truths.

Great rejoinder to CBS News' desperate attempts to revive debunked "Havana Syndrome" microwave weapon hypothesis. No, there has not been important new evidence brought to light. Yes, there are totally prosaic explanations for these nonspecific symptoms. skeptic.com/article/sellin…

@awgaffney The 🇳🇴researcher was allegedly known (!) as one of the leading opponents of the #DEW idea. I'm 🇩🇰. I would have heard of this guy if he existed. I never did. Apropos of Scandinavia: Have you heard about this 🇸🇪MPI case? sverigesradio.se/artikel/efter-… Also here: cuba-venner.dk/havana-syndrom…

And the bizarre narrative about a Norwegian scientist performing experiments on himself with a captured microwave weapon appears basically spurious.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney It sounds as if their idea of 'directionality' is based entirely on what the subjects told them, i.e. their subjective interpretation of their symptoms and what caused them. Relman's expertise is microbiology & immunology. He seems to know less about sound than most 5-year-olds.

@dannXsim @awgaffney His pronouncements about general relativity are probably misinformed also. I pay closer attention to his medical opinions and those of the docs who interviewed the subjects. But they did not do physical examinations so even that evidence is limited.

@LenBerMd @stopeg @awgaffney It is CONTENDED, not ELIMINATED - in spite of your efforts to confuse Grok. As for "attributional convenience," that's what 60 Minutes and The Insider exhibit when they treat the diagnoses of well known diseases as if they were caused by #DEW attacks: internationalskeptics.com/forums/threads…

@stopeg @awgaffney Its true. Psychogenic causation in AHI1 phenotype of Havana Syndrome has been is eliminated. Critiques of Psychogenic Causation: #critiques-of-psychogenic-causation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grokipedia.com/page/Havana_sy…

In this thread, @awgaffney demonstrates a complete lack of understanding (or the knowledge of) the AHI1 phenotype in Havana Syndrome and reaches demonstrably erroneous conclusions. His arguments align 100% with the outdated Intelligence Community narratives that continue to block the new Havana Syndrome Assessment.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney When experts diagnose, and the disease turns out to well known, then it's not unreasonable to draw conclusions about the alleged #DEW 'attack'. 60 Minutes and The Insider didn't even ask 'Joy's' surgeon but relied on what she said. (Planigale's an MD!): internationalskeptics.com/forums/threads…

@dannXsim @awgaffney Relman is not an engineer and may make errors about acoustics. Neither you nor I are neurologists and may make mistakes about patients symptoms. As you wrote earlier it is best to confer with experts when dealing with matters outside ones expertise.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney Yes, it would be nice to see the classified documents, but it's not difficult to read what Relman said about sound and see that it's nonsense. Even children have a better idea of how sound behaves.

@dannXsim @awgaffney There is lots of disinformation/ inaccurate/motivated reporting. I can only try to identify primary sources, including the docs who actually interviewed the AHI people. There is more to the story than the govt discloses, and I need to know it before setting my opinion.

@mepeiso @CamaradaCuba In the mid-2010s, Cuba looked forward to a boom in tourism after Obama's diplomatic thaw. The insane #HavanaSyndrome story, Trump, the pandemic, and the blockade destroyed that calculation.

@CamaradaCuba “A strategic ally [Russia] offered, from the mid-2010s, to finance up to 800 MW of new thermal capacity, but the Cuban state was unable to mobilize the required 10% [contribution]—even as it built dozens of high-end, low-occupancy hotels in Havana ..." storage.googleapis.com/mailerlite-upl…

⚡️🇨🇺 | Todos los jóvenes coincidimos en una sola verdad: los molestos apagones nos golpean a todos, y no son culpa de nuestro país. Son la consecuencia directa de una política hostil que busca asfixiarnos a cualquier precio, sin importar el sufrimiento de un pueblo entero.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney Other cases have been diagnosed, e.g. 'Joy's' semicircular canal dehiscence, and yet both CBS and The Insider continue to claim that her scar from surgery is evidence that she's a victim of a #DEW attack. It's as insane as Relman's mysterious directional sound, no more, no less.

@dannXsim @awgaffney My only more or less direct information comes from the Relman report, written by senior physicians who interviewed 8 subjects. Neither you nor I can render a diagnosis, nor can Giordano et al based on second hand information. Ber certainly cannot with his bizarre "reanalysis"

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney I don't speculate about "Relman's internal feelings." He has been very open about how he thinks sound behaves, and it's nonsense! internationalskeptics.com/forums/threads… (quotation from CBS News, Feb 20, 2022)

@dannXsim @awgaffney Don't speculate about Relman's internal feelings, you don't know and neither do I. This issue involves a handful of USG employees, and is different from the nonsense that Ber is pushing.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney Relman, Hoffer, Giordano, Benford ...?

@dannXsim @awgaffney The DEW attack has no publicly available info to support it, for sure. Multiple people with inside access told me that such evidence exists, and if so the govt needs to release that info.

@KFosterUPenn @awgaffney There were at least 8 recordings, the first one Patient Zero's. And Relman is very fond of the idea that the 'syndrome' sufferers heard 'directional' sound. Besides, the cricket recording were (and still appears to be) the only hard 'evidence' of the #HavanaSyndrome.

@dannXsim @awgaffney I don't think that the "AHI1" cohort recorded cricket or any other sounds. At least those interviewed by the Relman committee.