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15 days to flatten the curve and other silly lies they told us
Pam Vernon, Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch - 11 hours ago
Originally posted on NoFakeNews.net: Dr. John Reizer Do you remember when the United States’ federal government told its citizens that there was a plan to flatten the curve concerning the coronavirus in 15 days? Do you remember the posters that were displayed and printed? Do you remember the daily press conferences that were being…
New Zealand Government Proposes Breeding Larger Cattle to Defeat Climate Change
Pam Vernon, Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch - 11 hours ago
Originally posted on Iowa Climate Science Education: Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the New Zealand government, so long as farmers continue productivity improvements, increasing the meat content per head of cattle, it should be possible to maintain current meat production with a substantially reduced cattle head count. Electric cars, fewer cows in New…
WHO Team Visits Wuhan Food Market in Search of Virus Clues
AP News, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited the food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections.
Major Winter Storm moving from Midwest to Mid-Atlantic to Northeast – 80 million people under watches
Robert, Ice Age Now - 11 hours ago
Northeast bracing for a powerful Nor’easter that could dump up to two feet foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions, bring down tree branches, and trigger widespread power outages. ________ Heavy snow and a wintry mix will produce hazardous travel from portions of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic, including ... Read more The post Major Winter Storm moving from Midwest to Mid-Atlantic to Northeast – 80 million people under watches appeared first on Ice Age Now.
Lynx could be reintroduced to Scotland for the first time in 500 Years
White Wolf, White Wolf - 11 hours ago
Experts from charities SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, Trees for Life and Vincent Wildlife Trust have launched a new study this month called 'Lynx to Scotland' to understand whether people would be willing to live alongside the big cats. Peter Cairns, Executive Director of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, said: 'With a global biodiversity crisis, we have a responsibility to have open and constructive conversations around restoring key native species to the Scottish landscape – and science shows that apex predators like lynx play a vital ecological role in maintaining healthy living systems.' ...
Upping the Ante - Satan Klaus Speaks
greencrow, Greencrow As The Crow Flies - 5 hours ago
*"You Will Own Nothing...And He Will Be Happy"* *Reuters - LIVE: China's President Xi Jinping* * addresses a virtual Davos WEF | Facebook* *Read the comments! We are Winning!!* *Good morning Readers!* It's a cold and rainy day in the Pacific Northwest. A perfect "inside day". But I must go out later to visit my brother Paul who has been locked down in his residence for getting close to a year now. When I visit him I will dress warmly because we must visit sitting outside on the exposed verandah/deck. Before I get ready to leave I will post my re-count of Yesterday's Vancouve...
Gender Equality Back on the Agenda: the White House Gender Policy Council
Linda McClain, Balkinization - 9 hours ago
In a steady stream of executive orders and policy proposals, President Biden has taken steps to undo some of the damage done by the Trump Administration and to declare the values and priorities of the new Biden/Harris Administration. Fortunately, gender equality is among those priorities. On January 19, the day before their inauguration, President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced the creation of a White House Gender Policy Council, co-chaired by Jennifer Klein, chief strategy and policy officer of TIME’s UP, and Julissa Reynosa, incoming assistant to...
the hand of fellowship is intended to express itself
Bob Dinn, balance10 - 11 hours ago
And the hand of fellowship is intended to express itself through the Pan American Union so that there will be friendship, in God’s name, extended as hands of light clasped over the Panama Canal, from North America and the far fastnesses of Lord Michael’s retreat in Canada to the very tip of the cape in South America. Precious ones of the light, a girdle of light is intended to surround the world at the equator and equate, in perfect balance for the Earth, both the north and the south, that the hemispheres may become coordinated in perfect balance through the hearts of the peo...
"The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded By The Truth, Will Stumble And Crash"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 11 hours ago
*"The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded By The Truth,* *Will Stumble And Crash"* by Charles Hugh Smith "The stock market has just been punctured by the thin blades of truth. It is fatally wounded but nobody dares notice. The wounds are barely visible, but the internal damage is mortal. The stock market is already stumbling and will soon crash. The banquet's participants ignore the faltering market because the rules are we never reveal the truth, or acknowledge it, or discuss it, no matter how obvious, because truth is fatal to fraud. So the stock market's vital signs are in free-fall b...
Major nor'easter impacts the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through early next week
The Watchers » Latest articles - 11 hours ago
A major nor'easter will impact the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast through early next week. Widespread heavy snow accumulating to 200 mm (8 inches) is expected, with isolated totals of more than 460 mm (18 inches) possible. Freezing rain is also likely in North...... Read more »
Does ‘Homework’ Spelled Backwards Mean ‘Child Abuse’ in Latin?
Alex Kasprak, Snopes.com - 11 hours ago
Thousands of languages have existed throughout the history of humanity. There is no evidence the word "krowemoh" ever belonged to any of them.
How to Save California’s Housing Market from a Growing Disaster
Michael D. Tanner, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Michael D. Tanner* *economy, The Americas* The solution to California’s housing crisis is the same as it was before the pandemic: build more homes. Despite a pandemic, recession, and unemployment at higher than 8%, the price of a home in California is reaching record levels, with the median San Francisco Bay Area home going for just short of one million dollars. To Californians, this will come as little surprise, but it’s worth putting it in context: according to the National Association of Realtors, almost 58% percent of counties nationwide have median home prices less than $15...
America's North Korea Strategy Has Failed. What Will Biden Do?
Hazel Smith, The National Interest - 11 hours ago
*Hazel Smith* *North Korea, Korea* U.S. policy on North Korea has also been ill-served by the extraordinarily naïve and empirically ignorant idea that, if only sanctions can be made to “work” or if North Korea can be “squeezed” a bit more, the population will rise up and change government policy. Every post-Cold War United States administration has failed to achieve the core goal of the denuclearisation of North Korea. This is an urgent foreign policy problem that requires careful analysis of the context, constraints, and complexity of North Korean security behavior. Yet too ofte...
This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 31
Joel Wing, MUSINGS ON IRAQ - 12 hours ago
1941 PM Gaylani stepped down fearing civil war due to his reaching out to Axis that had split govt and angered British (Musings On Iraq review *The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies*) 1941 UK Foreign Office decided to give money to Regent to help him return to power (Musings On Iraq review *Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq*) (Musings On Iraq review *Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941*) 1964 Barzani met with Sulaymaniya governor Govt said it would accept Kurdish rights release pol...
"GameStop Short Squeeze Explained - Jeff Carlson: Why Govt Shouldn’t Step In - Epoch Times"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 12 hours ago
"*Insider Intel: *I work for a bank whose name I won’t disclose. You fools. You have no idea what you’re doing." - https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ The sanctimonius hypocrisy is astounding, considering this is what *THEY* do every day, all day long! *"Stipendium peccati mors est..."* ○ *"GameStop Short Squeeze Explained - Jeff Carlson:* * Why Govt Shouldn’t Step In - Epoch Times"* by Jan Jekielek "Recently, small investors organized online to buy large amounts of GameStop stock and caused billions in losses to Wall Street hedge funds looking to short that stock and benefit from it...
Israel’s obscene mismanagement of the Covid-19 vaccine
contact@ifamericansknew.org, Israel Palestine News - 12 hours ago
“No country has done what we are able to do,” said Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu. He is so right – but not in the way he thinks he is.
The 300
Kate, Small Dead Animals - 12 hours ago
Jonathan Kay; For years now, progressives have been warning that neo-fascism represents a growing cancer within Canada. Since the riot at the Capitol, in particular, the Toronto Star has instructed us that “white supremacy” — not just everyday racism, but the real deal — is now an overt presence in public life. The NDP has… Continue reading →
Big Tech tries to rescue Robinhood. Robinhood tries to rescue hedge funds
The Duran, The Duran - 12 hours ago
Big Tech tries to rescue Robinhood. Robinhood tries to rescue hedge funds The Duran: Episode 875 Melvin Capital Lost A Stunning $7 Billion In January, 53% Of Its Capital; Here’s How Everyone Else Did Melvin Capital Lost A Stunning $7 Billion In January, 53% Of Its Capital; Here’s How Everyone Else Did We already knew […]
GOP Lawmakers Urge Biden to Meet with Them on Virus Relief
AP News, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
A group of Senate Republicans called on President Joe Biden to meet them at the negotiating table as the newly elected president signaled he could move to pass a new $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package with all Democratic votes.
What Would We Do Without Gas?
Hifast, Climate Collections - 12 hours ago
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood http://energodock.com/united-kingdom/total-generation .. Yesterday, a not untypical January day weather wise, wind and solar power contributed just 11.1% and 0.7% of the UK’s electricity. As usual, the country is dependent on gas and coal to keep the lights on. But electricity is only…
Did Former QAnon Believer Apologize to Anderson Cooper for Thinking He Ate Babies?
Alex Kasprak, Snopes.com - 12 hours ago
"You actually believe that I was drinking the blood of children?" Anderson Cooper asked the guest.
Bill Gates whines about mean people on the internet
Alex Christoforou, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Bill Gates whines about mean people on the internet ****News Topic 272***** Bill Gates shocked by conspiracy theories about him and Fauci, suggests social media firms may help censor such ‘evil’ talk Bill Gates shocked by Covid conspiracy theories about him and Fauci, suggests social media firms may help censor such ‘evil’ talk Microsoft co-founder […]
Macron Flounders; Le Pen Surges
Alexander Mercouris, The Duran - 13 hours ago
Macron Flounders; Le Pen Surges News Topic 35: Marine Le Pen polling close to Macron after double-digit defeat in last French presidential election. A recent survey found far-right leader Marine Le Pen polling neck-and-neck with French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time. Marine Le Pen polling close to Macron after double-digit defeat in last […]
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Police No Evil
jearl, Lawfare - 14 hours ago
Rioters gather on the steps of the U.S. Capitol before overwhelming police and storming the building on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo credit: TapTheForwardAssist via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DC_Capitol_Storming_IMG_7961.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0 Editor’s Note: *One of the many upsetting aspects of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was the passive police performance, which stands in stark contrast to the aggressive security response to Black Lives Matter protests, among others. The University of Arizona’s Jennifer Earl and David Cunningham of Washington University...
Is The Biden Administration Progressing In Curtailing The Covid-19 Pandemic?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 12 hours ago
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about his plan to beat COVID-19 in Wilmington, Delaware, October 23, 2020. Kevin Lamarque, Reuters *Politico:* *‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s first 10 days dominated by vaccine mysteries * *Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort.* Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guide...
Untitled
Jenna Orkin, From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog - 13 hours ago
From Jenna Orkin Meet Keith Gill, the man who drove the GameStop Reddit mania and made millions How Many House Republicans Believe the Jews Attacked California With a Space Laser? Radical ideas spread through social media. Are the algorithms to blame? Congressman gets COVID-19 after second vaccine shot Seattle hospital rushes to vaccinate hundreds after freezer breaks What One Covid-19 Cluster on an Airplane Tells Experts About Risk Factors While Flying Chinese warplanes simulated attacking US carrier near Taiwan Travel restart unlikely in 2021: Health boss - Australia Macron: Astr...
Increasing Hurricane Intensity Study Fatally Flawed
Hifast, Climate Collections - 13 hours ago
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? Last May this story was being widely covered: ? Stronger, deadlier and more frequent — that’s the trend scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have seen in the past few decades, and they expect that trend to…
RAND Corporation study on regime change in Russia
Bruce K. Gagnon, Organizing Notes - 13 hours ago
This is a Rand Corporation study (remember them for 'The Pentagon Papers' during the Vietnam War) outlining US-NATO plans for regime change in Russia. The plan includes heavy doses of internal destabilization. See the entire study *here * Just last week the US Embassy in Moscow published a list of protests inside the country on its web site. The CIA, USAID and other US agencies are known to be funding much of the protests inside Russia in recent years. Washington complains about alleged Russian interference in US elections - but this study (and the actions now taking place) ...
Julian Assange Deserves A Nobel Peace Prize
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Julian Assange has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. We think he deserves to win. There is an incredibly long list of actions that Julian has taken toward a more peaceful world. As Julian has said, “If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.” More than one individual can nominate Assange; he’s already been nominated this year by people including former Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Maguire and four other Peace Prize winners wrote a letter to then-President Trump recounting Assange’s contributions towar...
Russia Arrests over 4,000 at Wide Protests Backing Navalny
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
"Always Preparing..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 13 hours ago
"We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us. We conceal it from our sight, because it troubles us; and if it be delightful to us, we regret to see it pass away. We try...
“6 Steps to Release Your Fear and Feel Peaceful”
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 13 hours ago
*“6 Steps to Release Your Fear and Feel Peaceful”* by Nicolas Perrin “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.” ~ Mary Catherine Bateson “It was a balmy spring morning and I started my day as per usual, but I soon realized that my mind was entertaining fearful thoughts about my financial insecurity. With many new ventures within the seedling stage, my income flow was erratic and unpredictable, while my financial responsibilities were consistent and guaranteed. At the time I ignored these thoughts as “petty,” like a parent dismissing a crying child after a mild fal...
Who Is Alexei Navalny?
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 13 hours ago
Compressed into a two-minute soundbite, the story of Alexei Navalny and the recent protests that have erupted across Russia seems simple enough. The Russian opposition figure who recently survived an attempt on his life — an alleged poisoning delivered via Novichok-laced pants — was arrested and convicted of breaching his bail conditions in a process that can be fairly described as unjust. In response, his supporters took to the streets across the country in protest. Ask a Russian, like Katya Kazbek, and they will tell you something different: things are way more complicated than ...
Where Is Zwally’s New Study?
Hifast, Climate Collections - 13 hours ago
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? https://www.thegwpf.com/antarctica-ice-stable-not-losing-ice-nasa-researcher-finds/ ? You might recall Jay Zwally’s inconvenient study published in 2015, showing that the Antarctic ice sheet was actually growing. Zwally has since continued this research, and was confident in 2018 that his new updated study would confirm this.…
"Today Is The Day..."
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 13 hours ago
"We are fast moving into something, we are fast flung into something like asteroids cast into space by the death of a planet, we the people of earth are cast into space like burning asteroids and if we wish not to disintegrate into nothingness we must begin to now hold onto only the things that matter while letting go of all that doesn't. For when all of our dust and ice deteriorates into the cosmos we will be left only with ourselves and nothing else. So if you want to be there in the end, today is the day to start holding onto your children, holding onto your loved ones; onto tho...
"Suck It, Wall Street!"
CoyotePrime, Running 'Cause I Can't Fly 2 - 14 hours ago
*"Suck It, Wall Street!"* by Matt Taibbi "In the fall of 2008, America’s wealthiest companies were in a pickle. Short-selling hedge funds, smelling blood as the global economy cratered, loaded up with bets against finance stocks, pouring downward pressure on teetering, hyper-leveraged firms like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. The free-market purists at the banks begged the government to stop the music, and when the S.E.C. complied with a ban on financial short sales, conventional wisdom let out a cheer. "This will absolutely make a difference," economist Peter Cardillo told CNN. "N...
Policing And Punishment In Minneapolis’ ‘SafeZone’
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
The criminal “justice” apparatus faces increasing criticism for emphasizing punishment, violent abuse and incarceration of criminals rather than rehabilitation. However, few observers recognize the active role community “justice” programs and businesses play in this displacement. The public/private SafeZone initiative launched in downtown Minneapolis in 2004 serves as an instructive example of how programs lauded as reforms can still impose punitive “law and order” tactics onto targeted populations. “A month ago I was driving down Nicollet going to pick up my girl, somebody shot a...
On Contact: Radical As Reality Itself
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Michael Smith about civil rights attorney Michael Ratner's recently published memoir, "Moving the Bar – My Life as A Radical Lawyer". Smith was a close friend and collaborator of Ratner's for over three decades. Michael Ratner was one of the most important civil rights attorneys in our era. He spent his life fighting on behalf of those who state and empire sought to crush, from the leaders of the prison uprising at Attica to Muslim prisoners held in Guantanamo, to Julian Assange. The post On Contact: Radical As Reality Itself appeared f...
Chicago Teachers’ Struggle At A Crossroads
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 14 hours ago
The drive to reopen Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third largest school district in the country, has become a pitched battle between educators and the state apparatus, the latter backed up by the corporate media and the unions. The fight by Chicago educators to prevent the reopening of schools is the focal point of the class struggle in the United States, with every other major district in the country looking to Chicago to set a precedent. In this context, it is of the utmost importance for teachers and other educators to organize independently of the unions and join the Chicago...
Save our forests? Not now. We’re too busy destroying them
Stephen Kimber, Halifax Examiner - 14 hours ago
A protester in Santa costume at the Nova Scotia forestry blockade. (Facebook) “There is a time and place to debate [the validity of protestors’ concerns about forest harvesting practices], and this courtroom is not it.” Ian Dunbar Lawyer for WestFor Forest Management January 26, 2021 *** If you met Sandra Phinney, the last words that […]
Why the US Will Continue to Meddle in Thailand...
Land Destroyer, Alt Thai News Network ATNN - 16 hours ago
*January 31, 2021* (Brian Berletic - LD) - I explain why US foreign policy never changes regardless of who is in the White House - how corporate-funded think tanks actually produce US foreign policy and how Washington merely rubber-stamps it. I also explain steps nations like Thailand can take to protect themselves from constant US interference in their internal political affairs. References: Council on Foreign Relations - Revisiting U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China: https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Tellis_Blackwill.pdf Council on Foreign Relations - Corporate Members: ...
Former Republican legislator speaks to the absence of truth in the Trump party
Keith, musingsofanoldfart - 17 hours ago
Carly Roman wrote in the Washington Examiner an article called “Eric Cantor: Republicans refusing to tell truth led to Capitol siege.” A few paragraphs follow, with a link to the entire article below. “Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said … Continue reading →
Explained: Inside Israel’s Plans to Fight the Next Major War
Seth J. Frantzman, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Seth J. Frantzman* *Israel, * Israel’s enemies don’t face Israel on a conventional battlefield, tank to tank or soldier to soldier. Rather, terror armies like Hezbollah, want to find vulnerabilities. Here is how Israel is thinking ahead. Hezbollah has dug in north of Israel’s borders, with bunkers and hidden weapons depots, festooned among the civilian population. If Israel has to fight another war in southern Lebanon, as it did in 2006, it will need to avoid civilian casualties while also seeking to minimize casualties among its own soldiers. These are some of the challenges f...
How Joe Biden Hopes to Shift U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Kirsten Fontenrose, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Kirsten Fontenrose* *Joe Biden Middle East, Middle East* In real terms, what aspects of US policy toward the Middle East will remain relatively unchanged under Biden, and what will be notably different? The Middle East is the only major region of the world not mentioned by name in the “Restore and Reimagine Partnerships” section of Biden’s foreign policy platform. According to remarks by Biden advisors in recent weeks, the new administration’s top priorities in the Middle East will be the following four: 1) Contain Iran’s nuclear program and its programs that destabilize the reg...
27 Percent of California's Unemployment Pay Outs May Be Fraudulent
Matt Weidinger, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Matt Weidinger* *economy, The Americas* California’s US senators and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have now asked President Biden to create a federal task force “to help coordinate and support states in identifying, preventing, and combatting unemployment benefit fraud by international and interstate criminal organizations.” A senior California official overseeing the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD), which administers unemployment benefits, admitted yesterday that potentially 27 percent of benefits paid in the state since the coronavirus crisis began have be...
Russia's Romeo-class Submarine: Really Old And Everywhere
Mark Episkopos, The National Interest - 13 hours ago
*Mark Episkopos* *Romeo-class Submarine, * From China to North Korea this old Cold War Submarine simply won't go away. Conceived as an ill-fated Soviet submarine project in the early years of the Cold War, the Romeo-class line of diesel-electric boats has lived a long service life beyond the Soviet Union. Project 663, a submarine line known by its NATO reporting name the Romeo class, was proposed and adopted as an advanced development of the prior Whiskey class of diesel-electric attack submarines. As compared with the Whiskey class, the Project 663 was to offer across-the-board...
SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Common Sense in a Senseless World (2020)
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 13 hours ago
*SUNDAY SCREENING* | An incredible biographical film about one of America's greatest living intellectuals.
Episode #360 – ‘Welcome to the Machine’ with host Patrick Henningsen
NEWS WIRE, 21st Century Wire - 13 hours ago
*SUNDAY WIRE* | Strap yourselves in and lower the blast shield – this is your brave new world…
Anti-Vaccine Protesters Temporarily Shut Down Vaccine Site
AP News, Snopes.com - 13 hours ago
One of the largest vaccination sites in the country temporarily shut down Saturday because dozen of protesters blocked the entrance, stalling hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours, the Los Angeles Times reported.
American Taxpayers Have Spent $161 Million On Keeping 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed In Prison And Alive
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
This February 2017 photo provided by his lawyers shows Khalid Shaikh Mohammad in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. (Courtesy Derek Poteet via AP) *FOX News*: *American taxpayers have spent jaw-dropping amount on keeping 9/11 mastermind alive * *Guantanamo Bay has grown into what seems to be the most expensive prison on earth* Built nearly 18 years ago to detain suspected terrorists on a remote island off Cuba, Guantanamo Bay has grown into what seems to be the most expensive prison on earth. The U.S. government has spent an estimated $161.5 million housing the suspected mastermin...
Has The Common Flu Been 'Wiped-Out'?
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 13 hours ago
Fewer people are being struck down by flu than at any time in the past 130 years (file photo) *Daily Mail:** Flu is 'almost wiped out' and at lowest level in 130 YEARS as seasonal virus plummets by 95% * * Experts say bug appears to have been 'almost wiped out' after 95 per cent drop * Week in January saw 1.1 in 100,000 people report flu-like symptoms to their GPs * This compares to five-year average of 27 in what is typically worst time for virus Fewer people are being struck down by the flu than at any time in the past 130 years. Experts say that the bug appears to have ...
Let me just jump in...
Craig, Is the BBC biased? - 14 hours ago
Talking of David Buik, his reaction to today's *The Andrew Marr Show *was *this*: *David Buik*: Well done Liz Truss for standing her ground in good humour against a cantankerous Andrew Marr! My word this seasoned inquisitor wears his heart on his sleeve! And the leader of the Conservative group in the London Assembly wasn't too impressed with Mr Marr either: *Susan Hall AM*: Andrew Marr, you are a disgrace. You apologise gently when interrupting your other guests but barge in all through your interview with Liz Truss. Bring on GB News - Andrew Neil treats all his guests the...
TRUMP WANTS A CRACKPOT IMPEACHMENT DEFENSE -- AND REALLY, WHY SHOULDN'T HE HAVE ONE?
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog - 14 hours ago
With his second Senate impeachment trial about to begin, Donald Trump has no legal team, CNN reports. Former President Donald Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy.... A person familiar with the departures told CNN that Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and that the election was stolen from him rather than focus on the legality of convicting a president after he's left office. Trump was no...
New Report Highlights How COVID Lockdowns Helped the Rich Get Richer and Decimated the Poor
Don Via Jr., The Free Thought Project - 14 hours ago
[image: wealth]Thanks largely in part to government COVID lockdowns, the robber barons stuffed their coffers to the brim and the average citizen is left penniless and starving.
I understand that I live in a totally lawless state, in a police state, with no independent courts. -Navalnaya
Bob Dinn, balance10 - 14 hours ago
Police had detained at least 3062 people nationwide, including 844 in Moscow, according to OVD-Info, a protest monitoring group. The figures were expected to rise. Yulia Navalnaya, the opposition politician's wife, was among those detained. "If we stay quiet, then they could come for any of us tomorrow," she wrote on Instagram before joining the protests. "I understand that I live in a totally lawless state, in a police state, with no independent courts. In a country ruled by corruption I would like to live differently," she said. https://au.news.yahoo.com/thousands-arrested-n...
NATO Sources: Foreign Troops To Stay In Afghanistan Beyond May Deadline
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 14 hours ago
FILE PHOTO: A U.S. soldier keeps watch at an Afghan National Army base in Logar province, Afghanistan August 5, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani/File Photo *Reuters:** Exclusive: Foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond May deadline - NATO sources * ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban’s deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials said, a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal. “There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end,” one o...
Labor’s soft-on-crime policies cause mayhem across the Far North
Editor, cairnsnews, Cairns News - 14 hours ago
By staff writers Serious juvenile crime has finally hit the sleepy Tablelands town of Atherton in Far North Queensland, set among evergreen pastures and running creeks when last week two Aboriginal youths pulled a 47 year old woman from her sedan, threatened her, stole her purse then drove off in her car to continue their […]
Students Continue To Pressure Northwestern University To Abolish The Police
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
After several months of continuous pressure on Northwestern administration to abolish University Police and divest from policing and other militarized entities, NUCNC is continuing their work into the new quarter. Since their campaign of more than 30 days of consecutive actions, the group has not held any mass protests or demonstrations, but they continue to pressure the University and practice mutual aid — a core tenet of prison-industrial complex abolition. “Prisons are the biggest social service we have,” NUCNC member Eliza Gonring said. “So poor people, homeless people, Black ...
Where's The Exit?
Owen Gray, Northern Reflections - 15 hours ago
Maggie Haberman reports in this morning's *New York Times *that the five lawyers who were going to defend Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial have quit: Former President Donald J. Trump has abruptly parted ways with five lawyers handling his impeachment defense, just over a week before the Senate trial is set to begin, people familiar with the situation said on Saturday. Those departures include his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, whose hiring was announced last week, a person familiar with the situation said. Four other lawyers who were reported to be joining, including Debo...
Sunday Sermonette
Larry-Lambert, Virtual Mirage - 15 hours ago
I’m not sure where this is, but I thought that it was a simple and yet cool picture of a church. How Many Universes? I don’t know. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? But…is space being recycled? There is this: Ghost Black Holes “We are not living in […] The post Sunday Sermonette appeared first on Virtual Mirage.
Why Joe Biden's $15 Minimum Wage Plan Is Bad News
Chris Edwards, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Chris Edwards* *Economics, * Yes, some will lose. As part of his $1.9 trillion relief plan, President Joe Biden proposes to double the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. If enacted, the higher mandated wage would eliminate jobs for younger and less‐skilled workers. In 2019, 58 percent of minimum wage workers were age 24 or younger. Biden’s website says that he wants to create jobs for young people to “reach full employment as fast as possible,” but his minimum wage plan would do the opposite. Young people need entry‐level jobs to start climbing the care...
Donald Trump Didn't Break American Democracy
Alasdair S. Roberts, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Alasdair S. Roberts* *Politics, The Americas* The hubris of the early 2000s was misguided, and so is the despair of 2021. Like many other countries, the United States is engaged in a never-ending effort to maintain unity, contain political violence and live up to democratic principles. For many people, the lesson from the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 – and more broadly from the experience of the last four years – is that American democracy has become newly and dangerously fragile. That conclusion is overstated. In fact, American democracy has always been fragile....
“Elephant Walks”: Why This Photo Is North Korea's Worst Nightmare
David Axe, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, Americas* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_RC20BE9HXWHN&share=true] The exercise of being able to rapidly deploy a lot of stealth fighters sends a clear message. *Key point: *Rapid depoyment during a crisis or war makes a difference in victory. This is why the Air Force practices such exercises. On Nov. 19, 2018, two U.S. Air Force wings in Utah launched thirty-five F-35 stealth fighters in a short span of time. *This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.* The air force...
Will the World War II Strategy of Using Convoys Come Back?
David Axe, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*David Axe* *Security, Asia* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2019%3Anewsml_RC18113D62C0&share=true] America and its allies might need to do so if it ended up fighting China. *Key point: *Having good sealift and convoy capacity would matter in a major war. This capability would be needed to get ships and supplies to the front. Aconvoy of five American cargo ships made a simulated run through hostile waters in September 2019 during a sprawling, short-notice test of the U.S. fleet’s ability to ship people and cargo during a major war. The simulate...
Study This Photo: This Might Be How Many Get Coronavirus
Ethen Kim Lieser, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Ethen Kim Lieser* *Public Health, World* [image: https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1855C05B40&share=true] It turns out that choir practice could be more dangerous than some realize. New studies out of Japan are suggesting that singing in certain languages can increase transmission risk of the novel coronavirus. What the researchers discovered was that singing in consonant-heavy German is especially dangerous, while it’s far better to sing in Japanese, as the language’s softer consonants don’t eject potentially virus-laden droplets long di...
Armed Gun Trucks Will Help Russia Project Power Into Asia
Michael Peck, The National Interest - 14 hours ago
*Michael Peck* *Security, * Armed pickup trucks, or “technicals,” have become the poor man’s tank. *Here's What You Need to Remember: *Gun trucks enjoy other advantages over armored vehicles. “They are much faster if it in rough terrain or impassable dirt,” Izvestia pointed out. “In the steppes and deserts of Central Asia, wheeled vehicles can most of the year drive off-road. Another strength of automobiles is that they are cheaper to manufacture and operate and have almost double the power reserve.” Armed pickup trucks, or “technicals,” have become the poor man’s tank. Acr...
Tweets Of The Day
War News Updates Editor, War News Updates - 15 hours ago
WHO team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections detected https://t.co/9AKG02xKF2 pic.twitter.com/sGBH84qTnz — Reuters (@Reuters) January 31, 2021 Covid: EU and UK 'reset' relations after NI vaccine row https://t.co/iq25nN2btC — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 31, 2021 "They've had enough, they want change, they want the right to choose a different future" BBC correspondent @sarahrainsford says protesters in Moscow tell her they are "overcoming their fears" to protest for change in Russia, as thousands are detained https://t.co/p7XmM9meKL pic.twitter.com/5LETG5c0ak — BBC...
The People Of Ecuador Are Fighting To Recover Their Popular Sovereignty
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
On 7 February, the citizens of Ecuador will express their constitutional right to popular sovereignty, electing a new president and National Assembly to carry the country out of its most severe crisis in a generation. Between violent crackdowns on IMF protests in 2019 to persistent threats to cancel next month’s election, Ecuador’s democracy is on the brink. The vigilance of the world will be critical to preserve it — and help restore democracy to a region in the midst of an authoritarian backslide. Ecuador has been hit harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than almost any country in t...
After Cops Killed His Son, Veteran Achieves Historical Bill for Independent Investigations of Killer Cops
Jack Burns, The Free Thought Project - 15 hours ago
[image: bell]“This is five years in the making,” Bell said. “It was emotional for me ... it’s a big deal, it would be improving the system dramatically.”
‘Real Theory Is In What You Do And How You Do It’
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
When I first put forward “wages for housework” in March 1972, I was unsure of the implications. I knew that wages for housework was qualitatively different from wages for housewives, which I had been considering; it spoke about the work and didn’t identify necessarily with women, which I thought—and others did too—was crucial. I had recently studied volume one of Capital in a reading group—without a teacher. l realized that women reproduce labor power, the basic capitalist commodity, unwaged. That was a new idea then. A year later, I went on a lecture tour of North America with Ma...
‘Top Trump Campaign Donor’, Alex Jones Reportedly Funded Rally Before US Capitol Riot
People for Life and Freedom, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Sputnik On 6 January, a rally of Trump-supporters led to a deadly attack on the Capitol building, as the certification of the Electoral College vote... The post ‘Top Trump Campaign Donor’, Alex Jones Reportedly Funded Rally Before US Capitol Riot appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Tax implications for investors riding the Reddit-fueled stock surges
Misty, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
Yahoo News Uncle Sam is watching your wins — and losses — from the Reddit-fueled surge in GameStop (GME), AMC (AMC), and other stocks. If... The post Tax implications for investors riding the Reddit-fueled stock surges appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
The Virus Changed
Terrace, PopularResistance.Org - 15 hours ago
Are you tired of COVID? I fucking am. But as a longtime science writer and the author of two books on pandemics, I have to report what you probably don’t want to hear. We have entered the grimmest phase of this pandemic. And contrary to what our politicians say, there is only one way to deal with a rapidly mutating virus that demonstrates the real power of exponential growth: Go hard. Act early. And go to zero. Last January, one strain of this novel virus began its assured global conquest, and since then our leaders have hardly learned a goddamn thing. So yes, I am angry, and I ...
6 year old girl who is blind and autistic plays guitar for the first time
Norm, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
TenK Cliff Aug 11, 2018 Lacie is blind and autistic, when she hears the sound of the music coming from Grimsby busker TenkCliff she is... The post 6 year old girl who is blind and autistic plays guitar for the first time appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
Reopening LA County: Outdoor dining again allowed at restaurants, but without screens for TV broadcasts
Galen, From the Trenches World Report - 15 hours ago
ABC 7 LOS ANGELES (KABC) — After a two-month shutdown due to surging COVID-19 cases, outdoor dining again was allowed in Los Angeles County on... The post Reopening LA County: Outdoor dining again allowed at restaurants, but without screens for TV broadcasts appeared first on From the Trenches World Report.
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