Are We Ready For Vaccinating With Sputnik V?
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
Millions of people have died from Covid-19. Many more are infected; many more are at risk. With new variants popping up as the virus mutates, scientists around the world are searching for better protection with different vaccines. As supplies of the approved vaccines become limited, any new vaccine should be universally welcomed. After all, the pandemic has become a global danger. Any new and successful vaccine should be globally welcomed.
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The Value of Universal Vaccination Is So Great That Even the IMF Is Being Forced to Rethink Its Callousness to the Global South
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
The world seems to have turned topsy-turvy when the undisputed voices of global capital start talking about the virtues of "cooperation" among nations and "universal distribution of vaccines" to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its January 2021 report, talks about "strong multilateral cooperation" and…
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Argentina Allows the Use of India's Covishield Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2021-02-09
Argentina's Health Minister Gines Gonzalez on Tuesday authorized the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine "Covishield" produced by the Serum Institute of India. | RELATED: | India: Modi Asks Farmers to Cease Protest, Won't Repeal Laws | The decision was taken after the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) evaluated the Covishield clinical trials which showed "no serious adverse events or significant differences in efficacy." | "This vaccine is…
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Portland nurses demand COVID-19 protection
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2021-02-09
Nurses and other health care workers, along with community members, demonstrated in front of Providence Portland Medical Center on Feb. 5, demanding COVID-19 protection and better working conditions. The rally was one day after Providence gave the COVID-19 vaccine — meant for people most at risk — to certain large . . . | Continue reading Portland nurses demand COVID-19 protection at Workers.org…
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Cuba develops COVID-19 vaccines, takes socialist approach
W.T. Whitney Jr. | zcomm.org | 2021-02-09
Socialist Cuba's production of four vaccines is grounded in science, in a dedication to saving the lives of all Cubans, and in international solidarity…
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Why isn't Australia producing its own COVID-19 vaccine?
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-02-09
As the debate over the efficacy and availability of various privately marketed anti-COVID vaccines intensifies here and internationally, the time to re-establish our own critical public medical institution is right now, argues Jim McIlroy.
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Peru Starts Its COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
telesurenglish.net | 2021-02-09
Peru on Tuesday starts its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in areas of highest epidemiological risk, giving priority to redline health workers. The campaign started after the arrival of the first batch of 300.000 vaccines on Feb 7. | RELATED: | Peru Receives 300,000 Doses of Chinese Sinopharm Vaccine | The first health care facilities to receive the doses were the Second May National Hospital and the Archbishop Loayza National Hospital. | "Those working in intensive care units treating…
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Brazil To Assess COVID-19 Vaccination Impacts in a Small Town
telesurenglish.net | 2021-02-09
Brazil's Butantan Institute Director Dimas Covas on Monday announced a clinical study that plans to vaccinate the entire adult population in Sao Paulo State's Serrana municipality to evaluate the epidemiological impact of COVID-19 vaccinations. | RELATED: | Brazil Begins Production of Over 11 Million COVID-19 Vaccines | The study will begin on Feb. 17 with the vaccination of 30,000 people over 18 years of age, who will be inoculated with the Coronavac vaccine produced in collab…
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Cuba's COVID-19 Vaccines Serve the People, Not Profits
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
Cuba's socialist approach to developing vaccines against COVID-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world. Cuba's production of four vaccines is grounded in science and dedicated to saving the lives of all Cubans, and to international solidarity. The New York Times's running report on the world's vaccine programs shows 67 vaccines having…
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Progressives slam Tory government over disparities in COVID-19 relief
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-02-09
Research conducted by the Labour Party shows that richer areas in the UK are seeing bigger falls in COVID-19 infection rates following vaccine distribution compared to poorer, working-class areas…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/02/09/progressi…
Disabled Advocates Demand Better Vaccine Access as They Face Greater Risks of Dying from COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-02-09
As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus tops 465,000, we speak with two disability rights activists about growing calls to prioritize giving COVID vaccines to people with physical and mental disabilities. Some states, including California, are failing to prioritize vaccines for people with serious physical or developmental disabilities, even though studies show they are up to three times more likely to die from COVID-19. "I use a ventilator to breathe, and I have respiratory failure," says disabled activist Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project and host of the podcast "Disability Visibility…
www.democracynow.org/2021/2/9/advocates_…
Bolivia To Keep March 7 as Subnational Election Day
telesurenglish.net | 2021-02-09
La Paz Constitutional Court on Monday ruled out a claim that sought to postpone the Bolivian subnational elections over fears of an increase in COVID-19 infections. | RELATED: | Bolivia Investigates Killing of 35 Condors | The appeal was filed on Jan. 27 by candidate Amilcar Barral, who is running for La Paz Mayor's office on behalf of the National Action Party (PAN-BOL). | Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) President Salvador Romero argued that electoral authorities had approved…
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Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist
Alan MacLeod | thegrayzone.com | 2021-02-09
Nimmo has previously worked for NATO and the Integrity Initiative, a covert UK govt troll farm. His move to Facebook suggests more censorship on the way for anti-establishment voices. This report was originally published by Mint Press News. Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to "lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations" and "emerging threats." Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the …
thegrayzone.com/2021/02/09/facebook-nato…
Democrats WANT To Lose The Midterms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2021-02-09
Republicans: Good. | Democrats: We hear you and we honor your experience. | ‚ùñ | The USA is the single worst human rights offender on our planet. The fact that most of its transgressions take place outside its own borders makes it more egregious, not less. So-called human rights watchdog groups which fail to acknowledge this fact are propaganda constructs. | ‚ùñ | By 2024 the only mainstream US political debate allowed will be about whether America should nuke Russia or China. | ‚ùñ | "Kindly let me help you or you will drown, said the monkey putting th…
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Chile: Political Parties Urge Dissolution Of Carabineros
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-02-09
Chile's political parties and social leaders on Monday demanded the dissolution of the Military police (Carabineros) three days after an agent shot dead juggler Francisco Martinez, 27, during an identity check. | "We demand the Senate to debate on the re-foundation of Carabineros," Progressive Party (PRO) Senator Alejandro Navarro tweeted, recalling that police brutality is part of the "nefarious legacy" of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990). | Chile's Communist Party (PC) Secretary Eduardo Artes also demanded the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera, "who has defended the Carabineros despite the br…
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Your Official Souvenir Guide to the Trump Impeachment Trial
Stephen F. Eisenman — Sue Coe | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
Tickets: Congratulations! You are one of small number of Americans selected by U.S. Senators to witness in person the 2021 Impeachment Trial of former President Donald J. Trump. In keeping with Electoral College protocols, every senator has been allotted the same number of tickets, regardless of the size of their state. It is therefore expected…
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I analyzed all of Trump's tweets to find out what he was really saying
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-02-09
By Michael Humphrey | — The tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost — and he tweeted: "either a new election should take place or … results nullified." It sounds familiar, but it wasn't November 2020. It was February 2016. Trump was just months into his presidential campaign, and was already telling …
juancole.com/2021/02/analyzed-trumps-twe…
To End Systemic Racism, Ensure Systemic Equality
ReNika Moore | aclu.org | 2021-02-09
Over the past four years, we grew accustomed to a regular barrage of blatant, segregationist-style racism from the White House. Donald Trump tweeted that "the Squad," four Democratic Congresswomen who are Black, Latinx, and South Asian, should "go back" to the "corrupt" countries they came from; that same year, he called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas," mocking her belief that she might be descended from Native American ancestors. But as outrageous as the racist comments Trump regularly spewed were, the racially…
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Press Freedom Groups Call On DOJ To Drop Assange Charges
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-02-09
The letter comes just days before the United States' deadline to appeal the ruling in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. On January 4, British Judge Vanessa Baraitser blocked Assange's extradition last month on medical grounds, and the U.S. announced its intent to appeal that decision. It has until February 12 to file its appeal. | The New York Times' Charlie Savage writes, "The litigation deadline may force the new administration to confront a decision: whether to press on with the Trump-era approach to Mr. Assange, or to instead drop the matter."
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Whites still won't Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-02-09
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — One of Trump's biggest crimes for which he is unlikely ever to be held responsible was just discouraging mask-wearing in the midst of a pandemic of a respiratory disease. He, of course, contracted the disease himself, as did most of his prominent staffers, mainly because they refused to socially distance …
juancole.com/2021/02/discouraging-hundre…
Don't Impeach Trump. Impeach the Deep State for Its Conspiracy to Kill the Constitution
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2021-02-09
Impeaching Trump will accomplish very little, and it will not in any way improve the plight of the average American. It will only reinforce the spectacle and farce that have come to be synonymous with politics today.
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Trump's Twitter ban highlights need to democratise social media
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-02-09
Twitter's permanent suspension of Donald Trump's account on January 8 was an anti-climactic conclusion to a presidency that ultimately finished with a whimper rather than a bang, writes Leo Crnogorcevic.
greenleft.org.au/content/trumps-twitter-…
Democrats Disarm Themselves Before Trump's Senate Impeachment Trial
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
Donald Trump, has with luck, eluded the consequences of being a failed gambling czar with no respect for the law. But his luck has reached a new level with Congressional Democrats refraining from holding him accountable for breaking the law and violating the Constitution as regularly as the rising and setting of the sun for…
counterpunch.org/2021/02/09/democrats-di…
'Freedom is Never Voluntarily Given': Palestinian Boycott of Israel is Not Racist, It is Anti-Racist
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2021-02-09
Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, 'The Forward', point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine and Israel. Yang, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, is vying for the Jewish vote in New York City. According to…
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Union vote begins at Amazon distribution center in Alabama
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-02-09
Bessemer, AL – Voting formally began Monday, February 8 for Amazon workers at a large distribution center in Bessemer, Alabama. They are voting on whether or not to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Ballots are being mailed to workers and voting will continue through March 29. | Amazon's attempts at union busting included trying to stop the mail vote from happening by filing objections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) insisting on an in-person vote to take place at the worksite instead of the mail-in vote that was scheduled. Attempts to make voting harder are a common…
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Chicago Teachers Union to vote on tentative framework for resuming in-person learning
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-02-09
Chicago, IL – Late in the night of Saturday, February 6, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) received a tentative framework from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for the resumption of in-person learning. CTU members will evaluate this latest proposal and vote soon on whether to accept the offer and begin making arrangements to phase to in-person through this framework, or whether to reject the offer and face a potential lockout. | Until the rank-and-file teachers have made a decision, they will continue to teach remotely. CTU says the framework represents progress that they made at the bargaining table. They say it does…
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Andrew Yang Got it Wrong: Palestinian Boycott of Israel is Not Racist, It is Anti-Racist
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2021-02-09
Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, The Forward point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine and Israel. | Yang, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, is vying for the Jewish vote in New York City. According to the reductionist assumption that all Jews must naturally supp…
mintpressnews.com/andrew-yang-palestinia…
Will the left return to power in Ecuador?
Sameena Rahman | liberationnews.org | 2021-02-09
With nearly all the votes counted, left wing candidate Andrés Arauz has come in first place with over 32 percent of the vote in the first round of Ecuador's presidential election.
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Andres Arauz wins the first electoral round in Ecuador
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2021-02-09
According to unofficial results of an exit poll, Ecuador will have a run-off election. Andres Arauz won 36,2 percent of the valid votes and right-wing candidate Guillermo Lasso got 21,7 percent.
mronline.org/2021/02/09/andres-arauz-win…
Chicago Teachers Union to vote on tentative framework for resuming in-person learning
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-02-09
Chicago, IL – Late in the night of Saturday, February 6, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) received a tentative framework from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for the resumption of in-person learning. CTU members will evaluate this latest proposal and vote soon on whether to accept the offer and begin making arrangements to phase to in-person through this framework, or whether to reject the offer and face a potential lockout. | Until the rank-and-file teachers have made a decision, they will continue to teach remotely. CTU says the framework represents progress that they made at the bargaining table. They say it does…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/2/8/chicago-t…
Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2021-02-09
Health workers struck and marched February 4 to demand the Bolivian government implement health measures, while 700 warehouse workers in Tolleson, Arizona, have voted by a 98 percent margin to strike over COVID-related health and safety issues.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/09/wrkr…
The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2021-02-09
A now-deleted fact sheet published by the U.S. State Department on January 15, 2021, claimed that for over a year, "the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic's origin." The official release of that fact sheet focuses on the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV); a controversial research lab in the Hubei province of China which has been the target of well-earned suspicions over its work on bat-borne zoonotic diseases like SARS-CoV-2, better known as the COVID-19 coronavirus. | Missing from the…
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China, Papua New Guinea and Australia's Backyard Blues
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-02-09
Clever diplomacy rarely involves total commitment or unqualified fidelity to any one state. Treacherous waters require careful navigation, an understanding of shifty and shifting allegiances. The goal for the prudent statesperson is the pursuit of self-interest without alienation. In that regard, Papua New Guinea is proving increasingly interesting, finding itself between playground thugs with varying …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/china-papua-n…
Between a Heating Globe and a Nuclear Conflagration, Can Biden Meet the Urgency?
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-02-09
If you live in California, you're likely to be consumed on occasion by thoughts of fire. That's not surprising, given that, in last year alone, actual fires consumed over four and a quarter million acres of the state, taking with them 10,488 structures, 33 human lives, and who knows how many animals. By the end of this January, a month never before even considered part…
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This is Biden's Chance to End ICE's Abuses — For Good
Naureen Shah | aclu.org | 2021-02-09
President Biden's 100-day deportation moratorium, announced late last month, was a monumental achievement for immigrant justice activists and immigrant communities. Less visible but potentially groundbreaking: The Department of Homeland Security's promise to conduct a top-to-bottom review of programs and policies governing the arrests and deportations of immigrants in the United States. | While a Texas court temporarily enjoined the deportation moratorium (the ACLU has intervened in…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/this-is-…
Biden's Civilian Climate Corps comes straight out of the New Deal
Kate Yoder | peoplesworld.org | 2021-02-09
The article below is reprinted from The Grist. One of the most popular programs from the New Deal is making a comeback, nearly 90 years later. President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order to create a Civilian Climate Corps. The initiative, he wrote, will provide "good jobs" for young people and train them for environmentally …
peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-civilian…
Despite Biden's Moratorium, ICE Deports Dozens to Haiti — Including a Baby
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-02-09
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including a 2-month-old baby and 21 other children. The deportations appear to be a contradiction of the Biden administration's order to deport only people with serious charges against them. Haiti faces an increase in political violence and ongoing protests against President Jovenel MoàØse's U.S.-backed regime, and Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, says sending people t…
truthout.org/video/despite-bidens-morato…
Where is Biden's Foreign Policy Headed?
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2021-02-09
Biden has appointed many old guard interventionists and new Cold Warriors, but there is some hope for a better Iran policy. Watch out for attempts by Israel to scuttle the nuclear deal…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/where-is-bidens-fo…
From Concentration Camps to Overflow Facilities: With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids in Cages
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-02-09
The lack of critical coverage of Biden's new announcement suggests that corporate media will no longer be as concerned about "kids in cages" now their preferred candidate is in the White House.
mintpressnews.com/from-concentration-cam…
Amid Unrest in Haiti, ICE Deports Dozens — Including a 2-Month-Old Baby — into "Burning House"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-02-09
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including a 2-month-old baby and 21 other children. The deportations appear to be a contradiction of the Biden administration's order to deport only people with serious charges against them. Haiti faces an increase in political violence and ongoing protests against President Jovenel MoàØse's U.S.-backed regime, and Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, says sending people to Haiti is putting them in danger. "We should be providing protection for those people, but we are sending them in…
www.democracynow.org/2021/2/9/ice_haiti_…
How Rational Can The US Be In Dealing With Yemen And Iran?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-02-09
This announcement does not augur peace in Yemen any time soon. Rather it looks a bit like political mystification that some have chosen to celebrate now, regardless of what it actually means, apparently in hope of making it a meaningful, self-fulfilling prophecy some time in the future. This does not seem likely, given what Biden actually said, but we shall see. | For the foreseeable future, Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, will remain the victim of a Saudi war of aggression and Saudi war crimes. Since March 2015, with the full support of the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia and its allies have tu…
popularresistance.org/how-rational-can-t…
No Honeymoon for Biden — Jeff Cohen
Paul Jay | theanalysis.news | 2021-02-09
No Honeymoon for Biden is telling progressives you have to learn the lessons of history. Previous Democratic administrations have not delivered on promises made, and there should be maximum pressure put on Biden right away, says Jeff Cohen of RootsAction.org on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay.
theanalysis.news/interviews/no-honeymoon-for-biden-jeff-cohen/
Cancer Care Under the Biden Administration
Dusetzina SB. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-02-09
This Viewpoint evaluates Biden's health care proposals to help reduce the cost burden on patients with cancer should they be enacted legislatively.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…
How Biden Can Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs
Roger Bybee | progressive.org | 2021-02-09
The President's plan to reinforce the Buy American Act is the first step in reviving the U.S. industry.
progressive.org/dispatches/biden-manufac…
The EU's Infowar Outlet Inadvertently Debunked Its Most Important Propaganda Point
oneworld.press | 2021-02-09
"EU vs. Disinfo", which functions as the infowar outlet of the European External Action Service's (EEAS) East Stratcom Task Force, inadvertently debunked its most important propaganda point about Russia by drawing attention to the fact that publicly financed RT's Editor-In-Chief Margarita Simonyan has the professional freedom to voice views that differ from the Kremlin's official ones.
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Kuwaiti women speak up about sexual harassment online
Nadda Osman | middleeasteye.net | 2021-02-09
Kuwaiti women speak up about sexual harassment online | Women in Kuwait have launched a social media campaign in which they demand accountability and share their testimonies | Nadda Osman | Tue, 02/09/2021 – 12: 35 | Women in Kuwait are raising awareness about sexual harassment in the country (Screengrab/Instagram/Illustration: Mohamad Elasaar) | "I will not be silenced." | Such has been the rallying cry for women in…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/kuwait-women-…
Israel lashes out as ICC okays war crimes probe
Maureen Clare Murphy | zcomm.org | 2021-02-09
The International Criminal Court has territorial jurisdiction to investigate suspected war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a panel of judges affirmed last week…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/israel-lashes-out-…
Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi's water insecurity led to war in Yemen
Adam Robertson Charlton | juancole.com | 2021-02-09
Stavanger, Norway (Special to Informed Comment) — In the early hours of 14 September 2019, a fleet of drones attacked the Abqaiq-Khurais oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, the largest oil stabilisation plant in the world. The attack came shortly before Saudi Aramco –the Kingdom's state-owned oil company — was floated on the market, and Riyadh …
juancole.com/2021/02/climate-conflict-in…
New Government Tracking System Paves the Way for Expanded Role of Drones
Jay Stanley | aclu.org | 2021-02-09
The Federal Aviation Administration recently took a major step toward expanding the prevalence of aerial drones in American life by creating a system for identifying and tracking them. The new system is part of a steady march by the FAA to build a legal and technological infrastructure that allows for much greater freedom for drone flights. | Since drones first came to real public attention about a decade ago, the technology hasn't lived up to either its promise or its threat, primarily due to the FAA's cautious approach to allowing…
aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/new-gov…
Demands To Drop The Charges On The 646 Mass Arrested
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-02-09
Minneapolis, MN — Three months after six hundred forty-six people were mass arrested on Interstate 94 in Minneapolis, calls to drop the charges are continuing. A February 5 rally at the Hennepin County Government Center demanded specifically that a felony charge on college student Amina McCaskill be dropped, along with the charges and citations given to the other 645. Dozens braved single-digit temperatures for the Friday rally that featured Amina and numerous speakers that were also part of the 646. Unicorn Riot live streamed the rally and spoke with Amina afterwards. Civil rights lawyer, Nekima Levy Armst…
popularresistance.org/demands-to-drop-th…
The EU's Infowar Outlet Inadvertently Debunked Its Most Important Propaganda Point
oneworld.press | 2021-02-09
"EU vs. Disinfo", which functions as the infowar outlet of the European External Action Service's (EEAS) East Stratcom Task Force, inadvertently debunked its most important propaganda point about Russia by drawing attention to the fact that publicly financed RT's Editor-In-Chief Margarita Simonyan has the professional freedom to voice views that differ from the Kremlin's official ones.
oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1913
Shrinking Ireland: Global Warning in Local Communities
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-02-09
Portrane Beach, 2021 (Photo: Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin) A recent walk at a local beach revealed to me how fast coastal erosion is affecting local communities. This area where I live is essentially a peninsula with two large popular beaches, Donabate beach and Portrane beach which are joined by cliffs, on the coast of north County …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/shrinking-ire…
Saturday 2/13: Black History Month educators' roundtable: BLM, also Marcus Garvey
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2021-02-09
ZOOM conference meeting link sent upon request | (the link protected here to thwart "bombers")…
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The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror
C.J. Hopkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-02-09
If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you're going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It's just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the "Terrorists" are all "Domestic Violent Extremists" ("DVEs"), "Homegrown Violent Extremists" ("HVEs"), "Violent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists" ("VCTEs"), "Violent Reality Denialist Extremists" (VRDEs"), "Insurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists" …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/the-new-norma…
Algorithmic Stewardship in Health Care–Reply
Eaneff S, Obermeyer Z, Butte AJ. | jamanetwork.com | 2021-02-09
In Reply Mr Li and Dr Wang highlight valuable examples of regulation from other industries, including banking and insurance. We agree that best practices from these industries provide lessons for health care and that health system–level algorithmic stewardship should complement clear guidance and oversight from those with regulatory authority.
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