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The anecdotal reports are true: people who get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine say they have more side effects than people who get the Pfizer / BioNTech shots, according to new data published this week in JAMA.

Sometimes, while trying to connect to remote systems via SSH, you may encounter the error “Received disconnect from x.x.x.x port 22:2: Too many authentication failures”. In this short article, I will explain how to fix this error in a few simple steps.

I discovered that this resulted from existence of many ssh identity keys on my machine, and each time I run the ssh client, it would try all my ssh keys known by the ssh-agent and all other keys, when attempting to connect to the remote server (vps2 as shown in the above screenshot). This is the default behavior of ssh.

Since ssh server (sshd) on the remote server expects a particular identity key, the server rejects the connection and ssh client aborts with the above error.

To fix this error, you need to add the IdentitiesOnly with a value of yes, which instructs ssh to only use the authentication identity files specified on the command line or the configured in the ssh_config file(s), even if ssh-agent offers additional identities.

According to the emails obtained by Fox News, Beatrice then requested Zill de Granados and Gordon interview Moskowitz, who she said was available that day and Friday to do an interview either in a studio or by Skype.

The "60 Minutes" producer replied that they had requested an on-the-record interview with Moskowitz "repeatedly" since February and claimed that he had not responded to messages since mid-March.

DeSantis' office stressed that it was "important" for CBS News to interview Moskowitz and Palm Beach County Mayor David Kerner, who Zill de Granados said was not responsive to inquiries.

"Thank you for your input. Unfortunately, the deadline has passed," Zill de Granados told Beatrice on Thursday afternoon. "As you may know, the Covid pandemic makes our interview protocol much more complicated and time-consuming due to new distancing and testing requirements for correspondents and camera crews." //

However, that standard appeared not to apply to Florida State Rep. Omari Hardy, a DeSantis critic who "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed remotely.

"Luckily, we have already spoken to Director Moskowitz several times," Zill de Granados continued. "We appreciate his perspective on the roll out in Florida. We have included the information he provided on background as it pertains to this story". Zill de Granados also noted that Moskowitz had been asked to do on-camera interviews on Feb. 28 and March 12.

When asked by Fox News if he thought "60 Minutes" "appreciated his perspective" on the vaccine rollout, Moskowitz replied, "Did you see the perspective that the person in charge of the Covid response told them how Publix was selected in their agency and that the contribution story was garbage?

"They ran with pay to play, when I told them it was done by my agency and why and how. Did you see that perspective?" Moskowitz added.

Dr. Ryan Cole, MD, who is a member of the Independent Doctors of Idaho (IDID). He gave a presentation a couple of weeks ago on behalf of Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin’s Capitol Clarity initiative, which contains some amazing information and perspective about the overall misguided response to the virus in the US-led by the “government experts.” //

Here are some key points from Dr. Cole’s video presentation that focus on immune system health. As you read these points, ask yourself why none have been repeatedly hammered home by the likes of Fauci and other government public health “experts” over the past year:

Public health messaging about the virus has been completely wrong
Coronaviruses are seasonal and follow a 6-9 month lifecycle (the pandemic is virtually over in almost all states in the US)
The average age of COVID-related deaths is 78.6 years; the average age of death in the US due to all causes is 78.6 years (we gave stopped society and the economic for something that attacks people who are already at death-risk age)
The highest risk factors are advanced age, obesity, and low vitamin D
The virus is fragile and is inactivated by sunlight and ventilation (wearing masks outside is insanity; no super-spreader events have happened outdoors; all have been indoor events)
There is no such thing as a “cold and flu season”; there is only a low vitamin D season (totally unreported by government public health institutions including the CDC and NIH)
Vitamin D is the master key to the human immune system; if one has a D level of 50 nanograms per milliliter, one cannot develop a “cytokine storm,” which is the killing mechanism associated with COVID
70-80% of Americans are vitamin D deficient, including 82-88% of nursing home patients (!), 83% of African Americans, 72% of Latino Americans, and 47% of Caucasian Americans
80% of all hospitalized patients and 96% of ICU patients are vitamin D deficient
D deficiency is immune suppression/dysregulation (meaning, if you are D deficient, you are much more susceptible to the virus – and other pathogens)
The best mask of all is a healthy immune system, which requires a sufficiency of vitamin D
For six winter months of the year above 35 degrees north latitude (the northern half of the US), people cannot synthesize vitamin D from the sun; a vitamin D3 supplement is required to maintain the appropriate level to avoid being “immune system suppressed”
Normal D levels also decrease the incidence of colon, breast, thyroid, and other cancers, as well as depression and suicide (8 of 10 of the states with the highest suicide rates in the US are in the northern tier of states)
80% of Americans are deficient in magnesium, which is a critical cofactor for vitamin D function (supplements are required)
70% of Americans are deficient in zinc, which also directly affects immune system health
Obesity drastically reduces the ability to get vitamin D into the body because it is fat-soluble
Most physicians do not understand the criticality of vitamin D to the immune system
Healthy D levels reduce susceptibility to COVID by 90% (many studies around the world)
The darker the skin, the more difficult to synthesize vitamin D (explains higher COVID death rates for blacks and Latinos, NOT social circumstance!)
Dr. Fauci mentioned in passing in a November 2020 interview that he takes 8,000-9,000 units of D supplements per day, yet there is no national public health message advising Americans to do the same (he understands the personal impact of the science but chooses not to propagate a simple life-saving supplement to others!)
Cutting out sugar, processed foods, and carbs is the next best COVID preventative after vitamin D supplements because they are all inflammatory (as is general obesity, which is an inflammatory state of being), making the human body more susceptible to the virus (and other pathogens)
Supplements to bolster the immune system, and dietary changes to deal with obesity. Who knew? How many Americans are aware of the above points made by Dr. Cole? How many lives could have been saved through a massive public health messaging effort at the beginning of the pandemic last year that emphasized the taking of inexpensive vitamin D, magnesium, and zinc supplements in order to bolster the immune systems of at-risk Americans? Or saved through messaging on the critical virus risk factor of obesity and the need to eliminate sugars and processed food from one’s diet and lose weight accordingly?

But the Democrat Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz was having none of this, pointing out, yet again how he told 60 Minutes the Publix story was untrue, but they didn’t care. //

'60 Minutes' Doubles Down on Its Outrageous Attack on Ron DeSantis, They Get Busted Again by Dems
By Nick Arama | Apr 07, 2021 1:00 AM ET

AP Photo/Chris O'Meara
As we previously reported, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” deceptively edited a video clip of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responding to an accusation of a pay for play deal with Publix over the vaccine rollout. DeSantis explained why that was nonsense, but the show then ran a clip eliminating almost his entire explanation as well as running other false insinuations.

Publix and even Democrats called out the ’60 Minutes’ fake narrative.

Ron DeSantis completely shredded them on Tucker Carlson’s show and in another statement yesterday.

DeSantis made it clear that they weren’t going to get away with it, “I’m punching back.”

At this point, ’60 Minutes’ should have just apologized and slunk away. But it seems that they have no morals, so they’re doubling down.

Apparently it’s everyone else in this story including the Democrats who are wrong, according to 60 Minutes.

But the Democrat Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz was having none of this, pointing out, yet again how he told 60 Minutes the Publix story was untrue, but they didn’t care.

Moskowitz had previously explained that they reached out to all the pharmacies but that Publix was the only one who could execute on the mission at that point. He also explained that Publix was not recommended by the Governor’s office.

Moskowitz reiterated that that CBS failed to include that it was a decision made by his office, according to Fox.

When asked by Fox News if he thought “60 Minutes” “appreciated his perspective” on the vaccine rollout, Moskowitz replied, “Did you see the perspective that the person in charge of the Covid response told them how Publix was selected in their agency and that the contribution story was garbage?

“They ran with pay to play, when I told them it was done by my agency and why and how. Did you see that perspective?” Moskowitz added.

Democratic Palm Beach Mayor David Kerner had also flamed the 60 Minutes piece calling it intentionally false.

If a GOP politician can’t stand up to prevent physical abuse of children, then that person doesn’t have any business being a Republican at all. //

I believe Hutchinson is term-limited for governor in Arkansas, but if he had any aspirations of jumping to the Senate, those are over. His career was effectively ended during this interview. //

Rachel Bovard
@rachelbovard
Hutchinson making a totally straight faced appeal to the "limited government principles" of Reagan and Buckley as a justification for allowing children to chemically castrate themselves show you how just how intellectually hollow the the GOP has become. //

What’s so nuts about Hutchinson’s reasoning is that he’s effectively making a pro-abortion argument. If he believes that he can’t involve his state in certain “medical” procedures, he’s endorsing the excuse given by the left to justify killing children in the womb. Further, what he’s saying is nonsense anyway. The state absolutely has a duty to protect kids in society and already does so on a variety of levels. By Hutchinson’s logic, why have child labor laws? Why have child abuse laws at all? Preventing children from being shot up with hormone blockers and chemically castrated is not government overreach. It’s common sense, and it’s completely consistent with being a conservative.

But Hutchinson thinks you’re an idiot, which is why he tries to hide behind the ghost of Ronald Reagan.

A team of scientists has come up with a radical solution to heat cities using spent nuclear rods, which they say is cost-effective and greener than natural gas. As the EU moves away from coal, many are interested.

Getting COVID-19 can cause all manner of odd skin reactions. A new study finds some of them, including COVID toes, a measles-like rash and shingles also can be rare, and thankfully brief, side effects of getting the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.

The minor, though sometimes itchy and annoying, reactions were seen in a database of 414 cases of delayed skin problems linked to the vaccines and reported to health care professionals. The cases were collected between December and February before the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been authorized, so it was not included.

None caused a life-threatening reaction, a finding the study's senior author Dr. Esther Freeman found reassuring.

“People can get full-body rashes, and that can be surprising and a little scary, but these patients did extremely well, recovered and were able to go back and get their second dose,” said Freeman, director of global health dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Barakah unit 1 entered commercial operation today, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced. The unit, which is operated by Nawah Energy Company, has been the single largest electricity generator in the UAE since reaching 100% power in early December. ENEC said the 1400-megawatt unit, which is in the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi, is now providing "constant, reliable and sustainable electricity around the clock". //

The Barakah nuclear power plant, which is being built by a consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation, consists of four APR-1400 units. Construction of the plant began in 2012. Unit 2 has now completed the fuel loading process and is working through all of the required processes prior to start-up, which is scheduled for later this year. Construction of units 3 and 4 are 94% and 89% complete, respectively.

The giant container ship “Ever Given” was stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for nearly a week, providing endless fodder for news outlets and meme creators. But the piscatorially-minded among us had only one question on our collective minds during this debacle: If we were stuck on a 1,300-foot-long boat run aground in the desert, could we at least catch fish while we wait?

The trickle is starting but we need to create a roaring river, a current of good sense. It is time to put diplomacy on pause. It has its place, and for those of us still engaged in public debate and discussion, we should never completely abandon it. Persuasion is a vital part of winning any culture war. There is value in walking softly, but sometimes persuasion can only be made palatable to the other side by carrying a big stick.

So draw your line. Decide where it is. It won’t be the same for all of us. //

Your line will be different from my line and that’s ok. The battle has many fronts. But it’s important to understand this:

The quiet season is over. We are in a noisy season. Grab a bullhorn and start screaming. //

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Churchill had it right. True then. True now.

"If you will not fight for right when you can win easily without bloodshed. . .you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

On Sunday, January 23, 1957, a large American audience gathered around their television sets to watch the weekly episode of Disneyland, a popular show created and hosted by Walt Disney in return for an investment from ABC that he used to build Disneyland. On that evening, the audience was treated to a compressed course in atomic physics and science history titled “Our Friend, The Atom.”

The show’s narrator, Heinz Haber, was a knowledgable, respected nuclear scientist. With the help of the professional storytellers and animators who worked for Walt Disney, he wove a fascinating, informative tale that compared the discovery of atomic energy to the fable from The Arabian Nights titled The Fisherman and the Genie (some translations use the title “The Fisherman and the Demon”).

Coincidentally, today is Booker T. Washington’s 165th Birthday: he was born April 5, 1856. In a time when racial disparities and tension were the real deal, rather than so much of this manufactured nonsense, Washington made this controversial statement in his 1911 book, My Larger Education.

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Washington described them as “problem profiteers”, and it is interesting that Booker and Barkley saw this so clearly. There are some people for whom it is more important to drive their agenda than it is to actually get things done and solve problems. If work is accomplished and problems are resolved, it means those profiteers can no longer earn their prestige or dollars. Both Booker T. Washington and Charles Barkley are the latter. Our political class and much of our legacy media are the former. //

It was at a second job in a local coalmine where he first heard two fellow works discuss the Hampton Institute, a school for formerly enslaved people in southeastern Virginia founded in 1868 by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman. Chapman had been a leader of Black troops for the Union during the Civil War and was dedicated to improving educational opportunities for African Americans.

Washington walked the 500 miles from Malden, Virginia to Southeastern Virginia to get to the Hampton Institute. //

Brigadier General Chapman was so impressed by Washington, that he was invited to return to Hampton as a teacher. Chapman then referred Washington for a role as principal of a new school for Blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama: The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University. At age 25, Washington took on the task, and was there until his death in 1915.

Washington is too often seen as a supporter of segregationist views, and he and W.E.B. Du Bois famously battled in their writings over this. Washington encouraged Blacks to embrace skilled labor and the trades to build their own wealth as an avenue of integration, rather than Du Bois’s chosen method of pushing to change laws and forcefully integrate into what was at that time, white society.

In an 1895 speech which Du Bois dubbed, “The Atlanta Compromise,” Washington told a majority white audience in Atlanta that the way forward for Blacks was self-actualization to “dignify and glorify common labor.” Washington saw showing through actions and accomplishments that you are a valuable part of contributing society as a wiser path toward desegregation than some of the attempts being made by his contemporaries. Washington encouraged a measured approach, as opposed to blowing up the system:

“The wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house.” //

So Barkley and Washington embody a powerful work ethic and an insatiable drive that sadly, is lacking in much of what is touted as “success” today. Instead of upping that quotient, some would rather blame a generation of Blacks’ lack of success on racism. //

Bottom line, both men encourage us to: Get our own. Then, OWN it. Then, BUILD wealth and legacy through it.

My people still have not exploited these lessons to their full extent. We’re still fighting the battles that W.E.B. Du Bois waged and that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others fought and won. Both should capture our attention, and where we have allowed that legacy of civil rights to erode, we need to shore it up. But what I most find is a fixation that no progress has been made. When someone like Barkley points out this is not the case and that certain actors are invested in ensuring we stay divided, his premise is questioned and marginalized, rather than examined for its veracity.

Washington had this to say in his autobiographical novel, Up From Slavery, page 103.

I said that the whole future of the Negro rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character, of such undeniable value to the community in which he lived that the community could not dispense with his presence.

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Google did not infringe Oracle’s copyright when it used that company’s programming code in the Android cellphone operating system, the Supreme Court ruled this morning overturning a lower court ruling that favored Oracle.

Oracle had been seeking an estimated $9 billion in damages in the decade-old litigation between the tech companies that could have changed the rules of the road for the software industry.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the 6-2 decision for the high court in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., court file 18-956. The case came to the court on appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Justice Clarence Thomas filed a dissenting opinion that Justice Samuel Alito joined. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the case. She was not yet a member of the court when the case was heard telephonically Oct. 7, 2020.

60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC. https://cbsn.ws/3rYmnHj //

The Partyman
@PartymanRandy
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Apr 4, 2021
I don’t understand what the scandal is supposed to be. Publix wasn’t the only store distributing vaccines. No one is alleging that they pocketed the money or even that they did a bad job. The program was very successful.

It’s 100% trying to manufacture a scandal by implication. //

The Partyman
@PartymanRandy
It should also be pointed out that @60minutes got caught deceptively editing the exchange between DeSantis and their reporter.

They cut out a big part of his answer where he explained the process and made the reporter look like an idiot. //

Jared MASKowitz 😷
@JaredEMoskowitz
@60Minutes I said this before and I’ll say it again. @Publix was recommended by @FLSERT and @HealthyFla as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey. https://twitter.com/jaredemoskowit //

Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
This is Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. He’s a Democrat, served as one in the state legislature until 2019, and campaigned for Gore and Obama. He’s not falling for this absolute garbage, and neither should you.

Today is Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar, how we remember that Jesus died for our sins and then rose again to eternal life.

But today, of all days, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), the newly elected senator from Georgia and an ordained minister for many years, tweeted out something that shocked a lot of people.

The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.”

Now of course nothing is more transcendent on Easter or in Christianity than the resurrection. Christians believe it is only because Jesus died and rose to save us from our sins that we are in fact saved. Pretty much the whole point of Easter. //

Some tried to argue that Warnock was talking about doing good works. But the problem with the comment wasn’t about the importance of good works, but failure to seemingly understand the fundamental necessity of the dying and rising of Jesus for the salvation, that one does not “save” oneself.

“This is what the heresy of liberation theology does—reduces the significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to self-salvific moralism and thereby making ourselves God,” radio host Darrell B. Harrison, who works at John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, said. We can see that’s exactly where some of the defenders of Warnock were going in their arguments.

Apparently, at some point Warnock realized that the tweet was earning a backlash and deleted it

But Dr. Chris Gill, an infectious disease specialist at Boston University, points out that a single injection of Pfizer's vaccine may be even more effective than this estimate suggests. Looking at data from a smaller window between the time the first injection should have started working and before the second injection kicked in, Gill says the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may have an efficacy rate as high as 80 or 90% with just a single dose.

Moderna actually collected data from people who only received one dose of its vaccine, Gill says. Some 2,000 participants in Moderna’s phase three clinical trial received just a single injection of either a placebo or the vaccine. In that population, the efficacy of the single vaccine dose was roughly 80 to 90%.

“[Moderna] was not shy about showing that a single dose was so effective, and they do the math right," Gill says. “After 14 days, the [single dose] vaccine is remarkably effective.” //

Dr. Benjamin Linas, an epidemiologist also at Boston University, is still mulling over the question. There’s still a lot of information that is yet to be revealed, he says. For example, is it less effective to receive the second dose of the vaccine a few months later than recommended schedule?

“Probably not, but no one knows,” Linas says.

And nobody knows how long the protection from a single dose will last. Of course, nobody knows how long the protection from two doses of the vaccines will last, either. Beyond the roughly two-month period of the clinical trials, those studies haven't been done yet.

There is another concern throwing its shadow over the proposal to vaccinate more people now with a single dose: How to convince millions of people to show up for a second dose at an unspecified point in the future. It's hard enough to get people to arrive at pre-scheduled appointments for a second shot a month later, Linas says, let alone an unknown date based on an unknown supply of vaccines.

“If we gave all the vaccine now and back fill the second doses later, do we really have the logistical support to do that without entering chaos?” Linas says. “It makes me a little nervous.”

Single doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are more than 92 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 illness after two weeks, Canadian researchers are saying.

The FDA’s own data show that a single shot of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine is 92.6 percent effective after two weeks, and a single Moderna jab is 92.1 percent effective, the researchers note in the New England Journal of Medicine. //

“There may be uncertainty about the duration of protection with a single dose,” the researchers said.