Palestinian Authority to lock down all areas with confirmed cases
Daily Archives: 29. Juni 2020
After Gantz Pours Cold Water on Annexation, Netanyahu Says Issue Not Up to Him
„We are in contact with the American team here in Israel,“ Netanyahu said at a Likud meeting. „We are doing so discretely. The issue is not up to [Gantz‘s party] Kahol Lavan. They are not a factor either way.“
Earlier on Monday, Gantz met with Trump‘s special envoy Avi Berkowitz and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman to discuss the Trump administration‘s peace plan.
Netanyahu presses Trump by lobbying U.S. evangelicals to back annexation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked evangelical supporters to lobby in favor of Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, via a speech Sunday night to the American group the Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
QR-Code als Eintrittskarte für Griechenland-Urlauber
Wie die Regierung in Athen mitteilte, müssen alle Touristen 48 Stunden vor ihrer Einreise online ein Anmeldeformular mit einem Fragebogen ausfüllen und erhalten dann einen persönlichen QR-Code, über den nach Ankunft mitgeteilt wird, ob sie auf das Coronavirus getestet werden.
Israeli Activists Turn Trump Square Fountain Blood Red to Protest Annexation
The protest comes amid a wave of anti-annexation rallies throughout Israel as the government‘s July 1 annexation deadline approaches
‚Annexation is illegal. Period‘: UN rights chief warns Israel against West Bank move
„Annexation is illegal. Period,” Bachelet said in a statement. „I am deeply concerned that even the most minimalist form of annexation would lead to increased violence and loss of life, as walls are erected, security forces deployed and the two populations brought into closer proximity.“
François Fillon, former French PM, and wife guilty over fake job
The conservative politician was found guilty of paying Penelope Fillon €1.156m (£1.06m, $1.3m) for work she never did as a parliamentary aide.
Frankreichs Ex-Premier Fillon verurteilt
Das Pariser Strafgericht verurteilte den 66-Jährigen heute in einer Affäre um die Scheinbeschäftigung seiner Frau Penelope und seiner Kinder.
Progressives zero in on another House chairman in primary
Progressives energized by last week’s congressional primaries have another high-ranking House Democrat in their sights: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts.
Neal, 71, is facing a challenge from Alex Morse, a 31-year-old mayor who was born just a few weeks after Neal began his first term in Congress.
At this point: @Booker4KY won the Kentucky primary. The DNC is just trying to do for Amy McGrath what they did for Pete Buttigieg in Iowa.
Regardless of the official „outcome“, Booker fucking won. They‘ve spent the past 6 days just trying to fudge the numbers.
What Jamaal Bowman’s victory means for America’s progressive movements
Bowman‘s unseating of Eliot Engel shows that neither the power of incumbency nor the backing of the Israel lobby is enough to win an election.
Like Trump, Netanyahu Suddenly Seems Out of Touch and Off the Rails
Others see a cynical political gambit at play, as with the return of the coronavirus: Netanyahu is either aiming for a crisis that will allow him to call for an early election while blaming Gantz and other rivals on the left for the failure of his annexation move – or is actually banking on a crisis, foreign, domestic or both, that will allow him to seize emergency powers, delay his trial, seize control of the legal system and so on and so forth.
Coalition Against Annexation Meets Israeli Diplomats in 18 Cities Worldwide
Meetings like this have also taken place at the Israeli consulates in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco, as well as at the Israeli embassies in Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Copenhagen.
“In each meeting we have between three to ten representatives of local Jewish groups attend, because it’s important for us to show that this isn’t a concern just among the ‘usual suspects’ of the left.
„Fahrradgate“ bei Sachsens Polizei: Linksfraktion im Landtag sieht zahlreiche offene Fragen
Ermittelt wird laut Generalstaatsanwaltschaft in Dresden gegen insgesamt 114 Personen. Unter den Käufern der Fahrräder sollen demnach 65 Polizisten, zwei Beamte des Landeskriminalamts und mindestens ein verbeamteter Mitarbeiter der Staatsanwaltschaft Leipzig gewesen sein.
Stadt Jena dampft Meldepflicht für Auslandsrückkehrer ein
Die Stadtverwaltung kommt damit einem Beschluss des Verwaltungsgerichts Gera zuvor. Ein Jenaer hatte gegen die Regelung vor dem Gericht geklagt. Nach Angaben des Gerichts hat die dritte Kammer die Verfahrensbeteiligten wissen lassen, dass sie rechtliche Bedenken hinsichtlich der strengeren Jenaer Regelung hegt.
Trump claims intel on Russian bounties was deemed not credible
“Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP,” Trump tweeted late Sunday night. “Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!”
Kosovo-Anklage beweist Bill Clintons Gräueltaten im Krieg gegen Serbien
Werden die Amerikaner wieder leichtgläubig sein, wenn die politischen Entscheidungsträger in Washington und ihre Medienverbündeten das nächste Mal schwachsinnige Vorwände aushecken, um irgendein unglückliches fremdes Land in die Luft zu jagen?
Covid-19: Keine Hafterleichterungen für Aktivisten in Honduras
Doch die Erfahrung der vergangenen Wochen zeigt, dass die Regierung im Windschatten der Corona-Krise zahlreiche Dekrete verabschiedet, die die Sicherheit von Aktivisten zusätzlich gefährdet. So wurde beispielsweise das Recht auf Unverletzlichkeit des eigenen Wohnraums während der Krise ausgesetzt – staatliche Sicherheitskräfte können nun auch ohne richterlichen Beschluss in Privatwohnungen eindringen.
Indigene Frauen in Mexiko kandidieren für Nationalrat gegen Diskriminierung
Conapred ist seit dem 18. Juni dieses Jahres ohne Leitung.
SARS-CoV-2 detected in waste waters in Barcelona on March 12, 2019
(26.06.2020)
According to the researchers, these results show the validity of the surveillance of waste waters to anticipate cases, specially considering the significant contribution of the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic carriers in the spreading of the virus. “Those infected with COVID-19 could have been diagnosed with flu in primary care by mistake, contributing to the community transmission before the public health took measures”, notes Albert Bosch, also president of the Spanish Society of Virology.
“In the specific case of Barcelona –the virologist continues–, having detected the SARS-CoV-2 spread a month before could have improved the response to the pandemic”.
Analysis of frozen samples from 2018 and 2019
These results encouraged the researchers to analyse some frozen samples between January 2018 and December 2019, with the shocking results of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genome in March 2019, before any notification of COVID-19 cases in the world. “All samples were negatives regarding the SARS-CoV-2 genome presence except for March 12, 2019, in which the levels of SARS-CoV-2 were low but were positive, using two different targets”, says the researcher.
Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases
(13.06.2020)
This SARS-CoV-2 early detection in sewage supports the idea that COVID-19 cases may have been present in the population before the first imported case was reported. COVID-19 carriers may have been misclassified as influenza diagnoses in primary care, boosting community transmission before public health measures were taken(11).
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Most COVID-19 cases show mild influenza-like symptoms (14) and it has been suggested that some uncharacterized influenza cases may have masked COVID-19 cases in the 2019-2020 season (11).
Deactivation of Hal 9000
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Study Suggests Coronavirus Emerged Much Earlier Than Thought. Some Are Skeptical.
(25.06.2020)
Scientists not involved in the study seriously doubt the findings, which challenge the current consensus on where and when the virus originated.
SARS-CoV-2 Traces Detected in Barcelona Waste Water From March 2019
(27.09.2020)
Please note, the study from University of Barcelona is a preprint and as such has not undergone peer review yet.
COVID-19 was announced in Wuhan (China) in early December in 2019 and it would reach every place worldwide later, including Europe.
Stichwahl muss Präsidentenwahl entscheiden. Rekord-Wahlbeteiligung!
Bei der Wahl zum Präsidenten Polens zeichnet sich eine Stichwahl ab. In sogenannten Wählernachbefragungen (night poll) lag Andrzej Duda bei 42,9 Prozent. Der liberale Rafał Trzaskowski bekam 30,3 Prozent.