Daily Archives: December 20, 2020

2020-12-20: Social Media Postees

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Elderly 110 lb. woman shot and killed by jail guard in Spokane, Wa
Tiago Correia | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-20
“We demand justice for Nancy King, which begins with a thorough and independent investigation and by jailing killer cops.”
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Iran performed better than Europe in fight against COVID-19
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-20
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces says Iran, in comparison to European countries who are not under the US sanctions, performed better in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic in recent 10 months.
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At least 140 Palestinians contract COVID-19 in Israeli jails
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-20
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — At least 140 Palestinian inmates in the Zionist regime’s jails have contracted COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic in early March this year, a Palestinian official said.
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81 Taliban members killed in Afghanistan’s Kunduz, Kandahar
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-20
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan in separate statements announced that 81 Taliban members were killed in Kunduz and Kandahar provinces.
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The Evolution of U.S.-Backed Death Squads in Honduras
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-20
U.S. intelligence agencies and corporations have pushed back against the so-called Pink Tide, the coming to power of socialistic governments in Central and South America. Examples include: the slow-burning attempt to overthrow Venezuela’s President; Nicolás Maduro; the initially successful soft coup in Bolivia against President Evo Morales; and the constitutional crises that removed Presidents Lula…
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The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies
Prof. Nolan Higdon | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
This Project Censored Review by Prof. Nolan Higdon and William Smith on the H1N1 “pandemic” and vaccine scandal was originally published in 2010 following the 2009 H1N1 virus outbreak. | Below is the link to Michel Chossudovsky’s detailed article which was …
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Evictions Are Violence
Kathryn Leifheit | zcomm.org | 2020-12-20
Millions Could Lose Homes Amid COVID Pandemic If Federal Moratorium Expires…
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2.7 Million Jobs in the Arts Have Been Lost Since the Pandemic Began
Sasha Abramsky | zcomm.org | 2020-12-20
It’s past time for the United States to make similar investments to protect the people and institutions who provide us with art, with song, with melody during good times and bad…
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Now a Mirror editor is pushing the ‘poor Boris Johnson’ line
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-12-20
Boris Johnson’s latest disastrous attempt at handling the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has hardly gone down well. Tier 4 measures have swept across the country amid widespread criticism of his catastrophic flip-flopping. So, enter an unlikely ally to bolster the PM up:…
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Bangladesh’s coronavirus cases cross half million mark
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Dhaka, Dec 20 (efe-epa) — The number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh on Sunday crossed the 500,000-mark, authorities said, even as the densely populated South Asian country struggles to contain the pandemic. The country recorded 1,153 new patients within the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 500,713. The death toll from …
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Effects of Covid-19 felt in Spain’s Christmas lottery
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
By Jesús Lozano Madrid, Dec 20 (efe-epa).- The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of life in Spain and the special Christmas lottery, which has been held uninterrupted for more than 200 years, is no exception. The winning numbers will be read out by schoolchildren at Madrid’s Royal Theater on 22 December as is …
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A Christmas crisis in Mexico City as Covid red alert declared
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Mexico City, Dec 19 (efe-epa).- A Covid-19 red alert was re-imposed on Saturday in Mexico City, which is facing its worst moment of the pandemic and now also a Christmas crisis with all non-essential shops closed until Jan. 10 . “This could have been done a month or two ago. Unfortunately it is happening right …
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Covid-19 cases linked to Thai market rise to 689
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Bangkok, Dec 20 (efe-epa).- Thai authorities on Sunday raised the number of new Covid-19 infections linked to an outbreak at a seafood market to 689. It is the biggest single outbreak in Thailand since the pandemic started. Authorities have traced it to a market in the province of Samut Sakhon, which borders Bangkok. Many of …
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Everyday War Crimes: Israeli PM Netanyahu Gets Covid Vaccine, Squatters Get Vaccine, But Not Occupied Palestinians
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-12-20
Vaccines will be supplied to the hundreds of thousands of government-backed illegal Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank, but not to the indigenous Palestinian population. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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2020 Saw Resurgence Of Strikes Around the World
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-20
Like every other social movement in the U.S. this year, the compounding crises of 2020 proved a catalyzing force for the labor movement, compelling essential and frontline workers to join picket lines to ensure basic protections and increased pay as they continue to face disproportionate risks and increasingly perilous working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | But essential workers weren’t the only sector on strike this year: Prisoners and tenants across the country also withheld their labor and rent to fight for their fundamental human right to life and housing. Building momentum after major strike waves…
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Video: Is Israel Searching for A Pretext to Invade Southern Syria?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
The Russian military and Russian-backed Syrian forces have been increasing their presence on the border with Iraq. | Less than a week ago, the Russian Military Police established a local HQ in al-Bukamal. Recently, the 5th Corps of the Syrian Army, …
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Ex-UK Ambassador: war on Syria continues with US occupation, sanctions, propaganda
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-12-20
Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, on how the US and its allies continue to wage war on Syria via sadistic sanctions, an illegal US military occupation, the OPCW cover-up, and media propaganda that masks the brutality. Syria and its allies prevented regime change, but the US and its allies are continuing to squeeze Syria’s population with crippling sanctions on all aspects of civilian life and a US military occupation in Syria’s northeast breadbasket. Peter Ford, the former …
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Reject Morrison’s anti-union laws
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-20
The Socialist Alliance issued the following statement on December 19, 2020.
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Tuesday 12/29: Revolutionary New Year’s Party: Celebrating Working-class Resilience & Resistance!
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-12-20
Zoom (registration link in description)…
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Solidarity with the Russian Communist Workers Party
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-20
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following solidarity statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to the Russian Communist Workers Party. | To: Russian Communist Workers Party | From: Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Dear Comrades, | Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) stands in solidarity with you, and we condemn the cowardly attack that was carried out by the authorities of Tyumen at the November 7 event to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. | We are particularly angered by the police assault on the First Secretary of the Tyumen Regional Committee…
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Solidarity with the Russian Communist Workers Party
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-20
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following solidarity statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization to the Russian Communist Workers Party. | To: Russian Communist Workers Party | From: Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Dear Comrades, | Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) stands in solidarity with you, and we condemn the cowardly attack that was carried out by the authorities of Tyumen at the November 7 event to mark the 103rd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. | We are particularly angered by the police assault on the First Secretary of the Tyumen Regional Committee…
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Project Veritas Releases Audio of Assange Warning U.S. Government of Damaging Leak of Classified Information
Project Veritas Action | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
Project Veritas released today an exclusive audio tape of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaking in 2011 with State Department attorney Cliff Johnson, pleading with the government lawyer to act to contain the release of information classified by the U.S. government….
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Minnesota: Workers demand COVID childcare, caregiver leave at full pay
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-20
Minneapolis, MN — More than 30 mothers, parents, children and supporters who work for Hennepin County gathered at Painter Park, December 19, to call on Hennepin County Commissioners to hold an emergency board meeting to pass COVID Childcare and Caregiver Leave at full pay until schools and daycares are fully functional. | The action took place one day after Board Chair Marion Greene met with mothers and union representatives and refused to exercise her power and act. | Last spring the federal government passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), authorizing leave at two-thirds pay for paren…
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Hearing Without Listening. The Pfizer “Experimental” Covid Vaccine. The FDA Vaccines Advisory Committee Review Process
David Hilzenrath | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
The meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines advisory committee last week was perhaps the most momentous in the agency’s history. A panel of outside experts chosen by the agency was asked whether the FDA should authorize emergency use …
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The COVID-19 Pathology: Class and Information Warfare, Algorithms and the Role of Artificial Intelligence
Emanuel Pastreich | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
COVID-19 is a cultural and institutional virus that eats away at the foundations of organized human action. The COVID19 campaign is best seen as a horrific coupling of two linked, but distinct, phenomena: the emergence of full-scale class warfare as …
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Iran COVID-19 update: 6,312 new cases, 177 deaths
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-20
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 6,312 COVID-19 infections and 177 deaths due to respiratory disease in the past 24 hours.
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A day with head nurse of COVID-19 ward of hospital in Tabriz
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-20
TABRIZ, Dec. 20 (MNA) — Ms. Azam Ghorbani is the head nurse of coronavirus ward in Sina Hospital in Tabriz. She wishes a day free from wearing mask by all people throughout the country.
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Tne Vaccine Court, RFK Jr., Anthony Fauci, Covid-19 And Animals
AVFN | indybay.org | 2020-12-20
The unconstitutional actions of the US’ Vaccine Court | Robert F Kennedy Jr. Vs Anthony Fauci | Animals Can Catch Covid-19…
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The Netherlands bans flights from UK amid new coronavirus strain fears
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
The Hague, Dec 2 (efe-epa).- The Netherlands has banned flights from the United Kingdom until at least the end of the year amid concerns about a contagious new strain of the virus that causes Covid-19 that has emerged in southern England. The Dutch health ministry said in a statement Sunday that the same strain had …
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US gears up for massive vaccination drive after Moderna’s approval
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
By Beatriz Pascual Macías Washington, Dec 19 (efe-epa).- With the help of the United States armed forces, logistics personnel were on Saturday filling thousands of cold-storage boxes with the Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, a day before they were set to distribute them to over 3,700 places across the country. The first of these vaccines are set …
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‘Predator’ keeps Malaysian public safe from Covid-19
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Dressed as movie character Predator, Mohd Nor Hisham Awang Nong has been handing out Covid-19 face masks and stopping to have his photo taken with captivated children and adults around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. Hisham, who lost most of the sight in his right eye in 2016 and was forced to retire as …
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Sydney tightens restrictions around Covid-19 cluster
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Sydney, Australia, Dec 20 (efe-epa).- Australian authorities on Sunday tightened restrictions on the residents of the city of Sydney, who will not be able to travel to the neighboring state of Victoria, given the increase in cases of Covid-19. The government of New South Wales announced in a statement the limitation of private gatherings to …
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Israel begins push to vaccinate health workers against Covid-19
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-20
Jerusalem, Dec 20 (efe-epa).- Israel on Sunday began a campaign to vaccinate hospital workers against Covid-19, a program that saw the country’s president get involved in a bid to boost public confidence in the jab. “When you go and you get vaccinated, you are not only taking care of your own health but also of …
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Important wins for Bristol rent strikers, but the fight has only just begun
Aaliyah Harris | thecanary.co | 2020-12-20
As the first term of university comes to an end, the battle for fair rent continues.On the job hunt? *Sigh*…: If coping with coronavirus (Covid-19), isolation, and dismal employment prospects with an increase of redundancies wasn’t enough to worry about, now students are forced to take strike action over halls of residence that they can’t use and…
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The new coronavirus strain — key questions answered
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-20
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has said that the new variant of coronavirus (Covid-19) can spread more rapidly. But he also stressed there was currently no evidence that the new strain causes higher mortality rates or that it affected vaccines and treatments.Here the PA news agency answers some of the key questions about the variant: — Is this something unusual?: There have been many mutations in the virus since it emerged in 2019. This is to be expected — SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus and these viruses mutate and change.Public Health England (PHE) said that, as of 13 December…
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UPS and Postal Service Workers Struggle With COVID and High Volume
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-20
This article was originally published at Labor Notes. | Every year, workers at…
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A Tribute to Three Great Internationalists. Robert Fisk, André Vltchek and Kevin Zeese
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.” | — Martin Luther King …
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Dear Mackenzie: There’s One More Donation You Owe to the World
Hamilton Nolan | zcomm.org | 2020-12-20
Unionize Amazon…
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On Contact: Censorship And Criminalizing Love
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-20
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to author Naomi Wolf about the bitter legacy of the British and Western colonialism of rampant homophobia, so virulent that people to this day are murdered for being gay in countries such as Egypt or Uganda. | Naomi Wolf in her new book, ‘Outrages, Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’, examines through the life of the British poet and gay activist John Addington Symonds how imperial power used, and uses, rigid sexual stereotypes as tools for repression and social control.
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Russia’s Hypersonic ‘Zircon’ Missile Takes Flight. “Can’t Be Seen on Radar”. Strategic Implications
Brian Berletic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
Russian state media reported a successful test flight of its new hypersonic missile, the Zircon. Flying at Mach 8 (8 times the speed of sound or around 10,000 kph), the missile poses a new and credible threat to the air …
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The New Battle of the Alamo
John Savage | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-20
On a balmy evening in November, a somber, slow-moving 68-year-old man removed his wide-brimmed cowboy hat and placed it over his heart. Moments earlier, Karl Gleim had laid a wreath in front of the most famous building in Texas. To Gleim, the wreath laying was a sacred act, one the retired state worker has participated…
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“Global Security Bill: French government’s posture is hypocritical and dangerous”
Muhammed Shabeer | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-20
Sofian Nejjari of Mouvement Jeunes communistes de France, a communist youth organization, talks about the protests against the Global Security Bill, the repression unleashed against the protesters and the impact of the policies of the Macron government…
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‚ÄûNàºrnberger Prinzipien”: Alle Verbrecher nach dem gleichen Maàü messen!
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
Robert H. Jackson, US-amerikanischer Chefanklà§ger im Nàºrnberger Prozess gegen die deutschen Hauptkriegsverbrecher im Zweiten Weltkrieg sagte in seiner Erà∂ffnungsrede am 21. November 1945: | ‚Äû…wir dàºrfen niemals vergessen, dass nach dem gleichen Maàü, mit dem wir die Angeklagten heute messen, | …
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“The Virus Lies Dormant Waiting to Strike”: Getting Better — Not if Boris Has His Way
John Goss | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
“And how are you today? Are you feeling all right?” | “Couldn’t feel better, Doc. Thanks.” | “Good. Good. But you do realise it hasn’t gone away.” | “No, I feel great.” | “Unfortunately this is one of those illnesses you can never get …
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Auto union enters new phase with federal consent decree
Jerry Goldberg | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-20
The United Auto Workers international union entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice on Dec. 14, to resolve a fraud and embezzlement complaint brought against the union. The complaint was a product of an investigation conducted over several years by the DOJ, which resulted in criminal charges being brought against former UAW …
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems. | Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the …
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Defaults raise concerns on financial markets over Chinese debt
wsws.org | 2020-12-20
The economic slowdown due to the coronavirus has intensified the debt problems of major Chinese enterprises, which have been building since the global financial crisis of 2008.
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Corona Mask Mandates: Science or Political Dogma?
Michael J. Talmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-20
When it comes to masks, U.S. government officials have more waffles than a pancake house. Back in March we were told not to wear masks. Then, starting in April, they do an about-face and for the past several months have …
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