Метаморфоза

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Рождённый в России Владимир Зеленко опубликовал в прошлом году две книжки - мемуары под названием “Metamorphosis” и талмудические рассуждения под названием “Essence to Essence” (“This book uses Chassidic and Kabbalistic wisdom to describe the connection of the essence of the Jewish soul with the essence of G-d“).

Зеленко работает доктором в ортодоксальной талмудической общине в штате Нью-Йорк, которой недавно удалось отделится в свой городок под названием Palm Tree.

The Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in New York became what is said to be the first official ultra-Orthodox town in the United States.
Kiryas Joel on January 1 became the town of Palm Tree, when it officially split from the Town of Monroe, located in New York’s Orange County, the Times Herald-Record reported on Saturday.
The new town is made up of the 164 acres Kiryas Joel had annexed from Monroe, as well as 56 additional acres.
Kiryas Joel’s roots date back to the mid-1970s, when Hasidic Jews began settling in the area, under the guidance of Satmar Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.
Over 80 percent of Monroe voters in November 2017 backed a measure to make Kiryas Joel, a village of more than 20,000 Yiddish-speaking Jews associated with the Satmar Hasidic sect, the state’s first new town in 35 years.
Palm Tree, the town’s name, is an English translation of the Satmar rabbi’s surname, Teitelbaum.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palm-tree-becomes-first-official-ultra-orthodox-town-in-america/



В нарушение принципа отделения религии от государства жизнь в местечке Тейтельбаум идёт по своим законам.

About 3,000 families live here, many of them in boxy wood-frame homes built close to one another, with up to a dozen apartments stacked in four floors.
The village has no parks or public playgrounds, so children play with their colorful plastic toys on small front yards.
A network of sidewalks twirl across the village, so the women, who do not drive, are able to walk to the clinic and supermarket. Baby strollers seem to be everywhere: in the lobbies of buildings, on sidewalks, outside the stores. <...>
Mrs. Greenfeld and her husband, Joseph, 35, have five children, three boys and two girls, ages 3 to 13. The median age is 15, compared with 35 for the nation, according to the 2000 census. The village has one of the lowest median ages among communities nationwide with more than 5,000 residents.
The Greenfelds live on a dead-end street, in a third-floor apartment across from a girls’ school. Like most families here, they speak more Yiddish than English and have no radio, computer or television at home. Mr. Greenfeld owns a tile shop in Monroe, just outside the village borders.
His wife helps him run the business, which makes her a rare exception among Kiryas Joel’s women, who are married soon after they graduate from high school, work until they give birth to their second child and then become stay-at-home mothers. The men, meanwhile, board yellow school buses every morning and ride to New York City, to jobs in the diamond district or at B & H, the photo and video store near Herald Square.
Because of the sheer size of the families (the average household here has six people, but it is not uncommon for couples to have 8 or 10 children), and because a vast majority of households subsist on only one salary, 62 percent of the local families live below poverty level and rely heavily on public assistance, which is another sore point among those who live in neighboring communities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/nyregion/27orange.html


Doctor Zelenko who is treating patients in upstate NY with coronavirus says drug touted by @realDonaldTrump already Saved lives, boruch hashem. pic.twitter.com/Hl3Ft5QfHg
- Joel Fischer (@JFNYC1) March 23, 2020

Ныне к Владимиру Зеленко пришла всенародная слава. Его утверждения о чудодейственном лекарстве от короновируса, которое Трамп рекламировал по телевизору, дошли до главного рупора трампизма - Шона Хэннити на Fox News. Не называя Зеленко по имени, Хэннити пересказал это своими словами Майку Пенсу, ответственному за борьбу с вирусом. Кольцо пропаганды таким образом замкнулось.

Hannity did not mention on air that another of Dr. Zelenko’s claims was debunked by a county public health official just last week, after the doctor posted an “unsubstantiated and irresponsible” Facebook video that predicted - based on positive results from a mere nine out of 14 tests - the a massive outbreak of the disease would hit the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. Zelenko did not respond to press inquiries seeking comment on the story.
Also of note: As of last Thursday, Orange County, where both Kiryas Joel and Monroe are located, had officially reported a total of 68 positive cases of coronavirus. Zelenko, however, claims that he has treated 350 coronavirus patients from Kiryas Joel alone and nearly 150 more from nearby areas. Despite these red flags, Hannity read off the exact dosage and treatment durations that Zelenko claims has stopped the disease in his conversation with the head of the nation’s coronavirus task force, Vice President Mike Pence.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/hannity-touts-unverified-coronavirus-treatment-from-ny-family-doctor-who-posted-unsubstantiated-and-irresponsible-facebook-video-about-outbreak/

Millions of old people are scribbling down the names of drugs and recommended dosages https://t.co/1ymTj9nb1z
- Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 24, 2020

Рассказывая про лекарство с высокой трибуны, Трамп употреблял любимое выражение “What the hell do we have to loose?”

Q For clarity, Dr. Fauci said there is no magic drug for coronavirus right now, which you would agree. Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope, and misrepresenting the preparedness right now?
THE PRESIDENT: No. No, I don’t think so. I think that - I think it’s gotten -
Q The ship is not yet ready to sail. The not-yet-approved drug
THE PRESIDENT: Such a lovely question. Look, it may work and it may not work. And I agree with the doctor, what he said: It may work, it may not work.
I feel good about it. That’s all it is. Just a feeling. You know, I’m a smart guy. I feel good about it. And we’re going to see. You’re going to see soon enough. <...>
I have a feeling you may - and I’m not being overly optimistic or pessimistic. I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try. I mean, there’s been some interesting things happened and some good - very good things. Let’s see what happens. We have nothing to lose. You know the expression: What the hell do you have to lose? Okay?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-c-oronavirus-task-force-press-briefing/

Ответ на этот вопрос не заставил себя ждать.

A man died and his wife needed critical care after they both took a drug meant for aquariums that contains chloroquine, which President Trump recently touted as a treatment for COVID-19 in spite of a lack of study by health officials or approval by the World Health Organization.
According to the Banner Health hospital system in Phoenix, the couple, both in their sixties, ingested chloroquine phosphate, "an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks." One aquarium supply store online described it as a "wonder drug" that was once only available through veterinarians - for saltwater fish, not humans. The site is currently sold out of the drug.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus

Video here: https://t.co/40xq5frDD1 https://t.co/iIs6JrDMNT
- Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 23, 2020

Проблема с замыканием кольца пропаганды не только в том, что Трамп принимает на веру и вооружение увиденное на Fox News. Но и в том, что к кольцу подключаются другие источники дезинформации. К примеру, юзер steph93065.

Dr. Fauci, meet Steph93065 https://t.co/qdlyPEez1N
- Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 23, 2020

По всем характеристикам тролль steph93065 похож на бота, но не удаляется Твиттером, потому что идентификация затруднена. В прошлом этот полубот отметился борьбой с Рашагейтом и повышенной активностью в 2018 во время выборов в Конгресс.

@steph93065, which has over 247,000 followers (one of which is Sean Hannity, for some reason), tweeted 600 times over the past five days, according data from Twitter analysis tool AccountAnalysis. Roughly 94 percent of these tweets were retweets (the vast majority of which could be classified as right-wing propaganda) and 1.5 percent were independently composed.
https://theoutline.com/post/3713/political-propaganda-bots-flood-twitter-to-influence-upcoming-elections

We rounded up the other accounts frequently retweeted by the retweeters of @steph93065, then repeated the process on the retweeters of those accounts etc until we ended up with a relatively stable list of the top 100 most retweeted #MAGA accounts (based on this method, anyway.) pic.twitter.com/MJSFQrmLL5
- Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) August 24, 2019

Проблема пропаганды недоверия к экспертам и засорения информационного пространства - страшнее вируса.

Reminder: We don't have ANY proof Russia hacked the DNC or Podesta.

The ONLY evidence we have is, "Crowdstrike said so". The FBI never even investigated.

Crowdstrike: Founded by Dmitri Alperovitch (Russian expat that hates Putin), funded by Google and paid by the DNC/Hillary.
- Steph (@steph93065) April 4, 2019

"These GRU officers ... engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee,... This case was investigated with the help of the FBI’s cyber teams"https://t.co/DKh0vFatOn pic.twitter.com/tr3QPn3VJT
- gerald zuckier (@gzuckier) April 4, 2019