(28.11.2020)
Daily Archives: 28. Dezember 2020
Coronavirus latest news: One million vaccinations a week will not bring pandemic under control, warns Sage expert
Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust who advises Number 10‘s advisory panel Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said: „We‘re not going to be free of this pandemic by February, this is now a human endemic infection.
No herd immunity through vaccine programme before summer, Sage scientist warns
Calum Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), described the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as a “game changer” if it is approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the coming days.
But he told BBC Breakfast…
SAGE demands ALL pupils are kept home till February: Scientists demand new national lockdown for kids after Gove says only Years 11 and 13 and primary schools will return on January 4
Pressure has also been growing on Boris Johnson from within his own party to keep all pupils in school at the start the new term – but the PM has sided with SAGE scientists, who are pushing for schools, especially secondary schools to close for all of January, at least, because of the new super-strain of Covid-19, according to Politico.
Mr Johnson was reportedly told last week by SAGE, led by Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance, that a stricter lockdown is required because the one in November, where schools remained open, did not keep the ‚R‘ rate below 1, an adviser has claimed.
Israel’s High Court Judges Are Playing Dumb About the Nation-state Law
Amit knows very well that the principle of equality wasn’t omitted from the law by accident, nor is it just a coincidence that it’s impossible to find a Knesset majority for passing a Basic Law on Equality. He knows that discrimination against Arabs in Israel isn’t just a by-product of the nation-state law but its main purpose – that discrimination is the essence of the law: enshrining Jewish superiority and Arab inferiority.
So why did Amit fake intimacy with Jabareen and inquire about his feelings as if he were a guidance counselor rather than a Supreme Court justice, and as if the only change that had occurred was in the lawyer’s emotions rather than Israel’s Basic Laws?
This Incredible Story Proves Netanyahu Has No Limits
The High Court, its president, Esther Hayut, the prosecution, Mendelblit, all have been subjected to brutal, ugly attacks. There’s no reason to envy them. But if there’s one thing they understand from their own life experience: Silence and capitulation is no way to stop a serial attacker.
ACLU sues FBI for information about its encryption-cracking skills
The FBI must be more transparent about its ability to break into people’s mobile devices, the American Civil Liberties Union says, and the group is suing for information about what the feds have in their toolkit.
The ACLU says the bureau should come clean about what its Electronic Device Analysis Unit (EDAU) is using “to unlock and decrypt information that is otherwise securely stored on cell phones.”
Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country
(22.12.2020)
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement, helping police departments, the FBI, and private investigators around the United States convert information collected by cellular providers into maps of people’s locations, movements, and relationships. Police records obtained by The Intercept reveal a troublingly powerful surveillance tool operated in obscurity, with scant oversight.
Secret, Invisible Evidence Of Russian Hacking Is Not Actually Evidence
Imagine if I really was claiming that the Chinese government is arming Antifa ninja warriors to kill patriotic Americans in the coming Biden Wars. How crazy would you have to be to believe what I was saying without my providing hard, verifiable evidence for my claims?
Now imagine further that this is something I’ve made false claims about many times in the past. If every few years I make a new claim about some naughty government arming Antifa super soldiers in a great communist uprising, which turns out later to have been bogus.
Der Techno-Faschismus
(08.07.2020)
Während ein Großteil der Bevölkerung in Virusangst und Schockstarre gefangen bleibt und die wahren Vorgänge hinter einer Nebelwand aus Falschbehauptungen verschwinden, festigen die Zentren der Macht ihre Herrschaft. Sie realisieren einen Techno-Faschismus bislang unvorstellbaren Ausmaßes, um die Welt nach dem Corona-Reset in eine 4. industrielle Revolution zu führen. Im Folgenden bezieht sich Raul Diego auf die Einführung eines digitalen Gesundheitspasses, der alle Orwellschen Vorstellungen in den Schatten stellt und Privatkonzernen endlose Profitmöglichkeiten eröffnet. Korrupte Regierungen stehen bei diesem weltumspannenden Projekt Pate.
Replying to @Eve6: learn to code
i had a famous song in the nineties and i cant afford health care
Millions more face being placed in Tier 4 in bid to control mutant coronavirus strain
Dr Zubaida Haque, who sits on Independent Sage, has questioned why the government haven’t placed the whole country in the harshest tier of restrictions to save lives.
Lockdown: a deadly, failed experiment
It has been a global catastrophe. We must never go down this road again.
Oxford coronavirus vaccine: 10,000 medics and volunteers recruited to administer jab
The Oxford/AstraZeneca jab could be approved early next week by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), after the final cut of data was submitted by the Government last Monday.
Still no Oxford vaccine emergency approval. Unbelievable.
(23.12.2020)
House Progressives: #ForceTheVote on Medicare for All Now
Rep. Nancy Pelosi is running for her fourth term as Speaker of the House. The election is in the first week of January and this time, because Democrats lost seats in the House and were left with a slim majority, she needs votes from congressional progressives to get re-elected.
Pelosi is refusing to bring Medicare for all to the floor of the House for a vote in the middle of a pandemic that has killed 300,000 Americans.
Voters sent progressives to Congress to fight for Medicare for all and this is their fleeting moment of leverage. Establishment Democrats make demands of Pelosi for their votes and so should progressives. Wall Street makes demands of Pelosi for their support and so should progressives.
Democratic Party Leader Warns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Not To Primary Chuck Schumer
In an interview with The New York Post, Jacobs warned the congresswoman against launching a primary challenge against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Jacobs argued that a race between Ocasio-Cortez and Schumer would harm both candidates’ careers and described Schumer as a “progressive.”
I am glad we are finally having a vote tomorrow on a $2000 stimulus. The question remains why we didn’t have this vote in March when @TimRyan and I proposed this. This is a lesson. It should not require permission from Trump or Republicans to vote on and push for bold policies.
Staatliche Corona-Hilfen – Arbeitgeberpräsident fordert „Ausgaben-Diät“
DGB-Chef Reiner Hoffmann warnte hingegen: „Wer jetzt den Gürtel enger schnallen will, der verspielt unsere Zukunftsfähigkeit.“ Nötig seien Investitionen in Milliardenhöhe, sagte der Gewerkschaftsboss. „Die digitale Infrastruktur in Deutschland hat in manchen Regionen den Status eines Entwicklungslandes. Das ist unerträglich.“
Trump unterzeichnet Konjunkturpaket gegen Corona-Krise
Trump hatte zuvor indirekt mit einem Veto gegen das Gesetzespaket im Umfang von rund 900 Milliarden US-Dollar (738,13 Mio. Euro) gedroht, das er als „Schande“ bezeichnete.
Trump forderte, dass die meisten US-Bürger eine einmalige Hilfszahlung von 2.000 Dollar pro Erwachsenem bekommen sollten. Das Konjunkturpakt sieht aber nur eine Zahlung von 600 Dollar vor.
Trump signs coronavirus relief bill, still pushes for $2,000 stimulus checks
“As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child,” Trump said in a statement.
“On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000,” he added. “Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200.”
Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay
The Covid-19 relief legislation was passed by Congress on Monday and was flown to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to await Trump‘s signature. But after sitting on the sidelines during the negotiations, Trump emerged with an eleventh-hour complaint that a separate provision in the deal, which the President‘s own White House helped broker, would only provide up to $600 in direct payments. Trump wanted to send out $2,000 checks.