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A Majority of Voters Support Calls for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
(November 21, 2023)
More Democratic voters are expressing dissatisfaction with Biden’s handling of the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict, young people are becoming more sympathetic to the Palestinians and older voters are giving more thought to people on both sides.
Head of doctors’ protests says Israel in a ‘dystopic reality’
“Health workers in Israel oppose discrimination in treatment. We are currently in a dystopic reality. The Israeli government is controlled by dangerous extremists that support discrimination against women, the elderly, Arabs, secular people and homosexuals,” Levine who is also chairman of the country’s Association of Public Health Physicians, says.
Australische Polizei taserte 95-jährige Frau
Die Frau ist 1,57 Meter groß und 43 Kilogramm schwer und auf eine Gehhilfe angewiesen. Der Polizist ist laut BBC nicht suspendiert worden, werde aber derzeit nicht mehr eingesetzt.
French unions announce new day of pension protests, strikes for June 6
With lawmakers poised to discuss on June 8 a draft bill proposed by the opposition Liot party to cancel the retirement age reform, the unions said in a joint statement that the day of industrial action on June 6 was meant to “allow all workers to make themselves heard by the MPs.”
Fresh protests across France as Constitutional Council largely upholds Macron‘s pension reform
(14.04.2023)
The French constitutional court on Friday approved the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron‘s controversial pension reform while rejecting certain parts of the legislation. Pushing the legal age for drawing a full pension from 62 to 64, the legislation is deeply unpopular in France and has triggered months of mass protests. Follow our blog to see how the day‘s events unfolded
‘Democracy at stake’: French protesters vent fury at Macron over pension push
French protesters downed their tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities on Thursday, galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram his deeply unpopular pension reform through parliament without a vote, in what critics have branded a “denial of democracy”.
Emmanuel Macron: France’s Caligula?
Instead, on Macron’s orders, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne used a controversial clause in the Constitution, Article 49.3, to pass the bill.
The Republican Party are widely supportive of Macron’s reform bill, which raises the age of retirement from sixty-two to sixty-four, and issued instructions for its sixty-one Members of Parliament to vote against the motion. But nineteen of its MPs defied orders, adding to the dissent and disorder which has swept France in recent days, in parliament and on the street.
Macron holds firm on pension reform bill as protests escalate
Dismissing calls for a snap election or a referendum, he said the plan to raise France’s minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 would continue on its “democratic path” and come into force by the end of 2023.
The French president also reaffirmed his faith in Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, whose government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote triggered by Macron‘s use of special executive powers to bypass parliament.
Nur neun Stimmen fehlten beim 3ten Misstrauensvotum – was den Sturz der Regierung nach sich gezogen hätte… #Macron-Regierung
(21.03.2023)
Paris erupts in violence after Macron wins no-confidence vote by just nine
(21.03.2023)
The first motion, which was the only one ever likely to succeed, failed thanks to the decision of the conservative Republican party not to support it.
… and reform pensions so that most Czechs work until 68. This is the age in which most citizens are no longer fit and healthy. It is good to add that pensions in the Czech republic are ridiculously low, and the country spends a below-average share of GDP in the EU comparison.
What a shame. To appease the warmongers, during this time the Czech government raised annual military budget to match 2% GDP as they are planning to purchase F-35 fighter jets costing 100 billion CZK. The pension cuts will save them 19 billion this year.
Anger as French government pushes through pension change without vote
Opposition parties said they would request a vote of no confidence in the government, which will be voted on in the coming days, possibly on Monday.
The French parliament saw chaotic scenes after President Emmanuel Macron‘s unpopular plan to reform the country‘s costly pension system was pushed through without a vote
Protests erupt as French government forces through higher retirement age
The pension reform bill passed the French Senate earlier on Thursday, but was not expected to pass the National Assembly – the lower house of the country’s parliament – where lawmakers were due to vote this afternoon.
The session was stopped early for Borne’s announcement. Lawmakers erupted into chaotic scenes as she explained the government’s decision, fighting to be heard as lawmakers sang French national anthem “La Marseillaise” and others held signs reading “No to 64 years.”
French President Macron overrides parliament to pass retirement age bill
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday resorted to using special constitutional powers.
The pensions overhaul has been met with widespread protests and strikes across France.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced to the assembly that the government would trigger Article 49.3 of the French Constitution.
Protests in Paris as Macron forces through controversial pension reform
But the government was unsure of the vote numbers in the National Assembly, forcing French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to announce the triggering of Article 49.3.
The decision runs the risk of further inflaming the protests and strikes that have rocked France over the last months. It also gives the opposition the right to immediately call a confidence vote in parliament.
The opposition reacted with fury to the decision to avoid a vote after weeks of debates on the legislation.
La retraite, c‘est comme la galette, on la veut complète ! #NonALaReformeDesRetraites #OnBloqueTout #15mars #greve15mars #manifestation15mars
#ReformeDesRetraites #64ansCestNon #Pontivy #Morbihan #CentreBretagne #Bretagne
Philippe Martinez : « La détermination […] est plus forte suite au courrier que nous a adressé le président de la République, où globalement il nous fait un bras d’honneur » #NonALaReformeDesRetraites #manifestation11mars
Will strikes force Macron to back down over French pension reforms?
France saw a wave of strikes against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms on Thursday, causing disruption to trains, flights, schools and even hospitals. Polls show a majority of the French oppose the president’s measures – and analysts say maintaining public support of strikes will be crucial to unions’ chances of forcing a U-turn.
France‘s Senate passes controversial pension reform
French senators passed the deeply unpopular plan by 195 votes to 112 late Saturday, bringing the package another step towards becoming law. The vote came hours after hundreds of thousands of people again marched in protest in rallies across the country, but in fewer numbers than expected.
France pension protests enter seventh day, affecting multiple economic sectors
Protestors in France Saturday demonstrated for a seventh day against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan, which has been widely disputed across the country since his announcement of the plan in January.
According to the Confederation of Labor (CGT), a national federation of French trade unions, hundreds of thousands of employees, young people, and retirees went on strike and protested in the streets of French cities Friday against Macron’s plan.
Non à la retraite à 64 ans ! – La campagne
Retrouvez ici toutes les infos et ressources concernant la campagne commune de la NUPES contre la réforme de la retraite à 64 ans !
Generalstreik in Frankreich beginnt mit voller Wucht. Überall strassenblockaden und Besetzungen wichtiger Betriebe und Universitäten.
Widerstand gegen Rentenreform: Streiks bremsen Frankreich aus
In Frankreich geht der Streit um die Rentenreform in die nächste Runde: Massive Streiks führen zu Problemen im Bahn- und Nahverkehr, Flüge fallen aus, auch bei der Müllabfuhr und an Schulen ruht die Arbeit. Die Gewerkschaften wollen das ganze Land lahmlegen.
Call for a General Strike in France on March 7, in opposition to Macron‘s retirement & pension overhaul
France against pension reform, unions vow to ramp up strikes
The unions said in a joint statement that they would call for a national strike that would „bring France to a standstill“ on March 7 if the government „remained deaf to the popular mobilisation“.
F: Hunderttausende demonstrierten gegen Pensionsreform
Nach Angaben des Innenministeriums beteiligten sich landesweit 963.000 Menschen an den Protesten, die Gewerkschaften sprachen von 2,5 Millionen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern.
France braces for a fourth day of pension reform protests
The protests are a crucial test both for Macron and his opponents. The government has insisted it’s determined to push through Macron’s election pledge to reform France’s generous pension system. But strong popular resentment will strengthen efforts by labor unions and left-wing legislators to try to block the bill.
Frankreich erneut vor Massenprotesten wegen Pensionsreform
Bereits jetzt arbeiten viele Menschen in Frankreich länger als bis zum Alter von 62 Jahren, wenn sie mit Erreichen der Altersgrenze noch nicht lange genug für eine abschlagsfreie Pension eingezahlt haben. In vielen anstrengenden Berufen könnten die Menschen kaum länger arbeiten, meinen die Gegnerinnen und Gegner der Reform.
Macron begründet die Reform mit einem drohenden Defizit in der Pensionskasse.
France sees bigger crowds on second strike day against Macron pension reforms
French protesters launched a new push Tuesday to pressure President Emmanuel Macron into dropping a pension reform plan, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in bigger crowds than those seen on the previous day of rallies on January 19.
Strikes over pension reform disrupt France for second time in a month
From tiny islands to major cities, demonstrators poured into France‘s streets Tuesday in the latest clash of wills with the government over its plans to push back the retirement age. Labor unions aimed to mobilize more than 1 million demonstrators in what one veteran left-wing leader described as a “citizens‘ insurrection.“
F: Massenprotest und Streik gegen geplante Pensionsreform
Mit 67 Jahren gibt es dann unabhängig von der Einzahldauer Rente ohne Abschlag – das will die Regierung beibehalten. Die monatliche Mindestrente will sie auf etwa 1.200 Euro hochsetzen.
Die Gewerkschaften hatten zu dem Streik- und Protesttag aufgerufen. Sie halten die Reform für ungerecht und brutal.
Streik und Proteste in Frankreich: Mehr als eine Million gegen Rentenreform
Für den 31. Januar kündigten die Gewerkschaften einen neuen landesweiten Streik- und Aktionstag an. Bereits am ersten Aktionstag gingen bereits mehr Menschen gegen die geplante Rentenreform der Mitte-Regierung unter Präsident Emmanuel Macron auf die Straße als beim Höhepunkt der Proteste in dessen erster Amtszeit. Damals hatten sich nach wochenlangen Streiks gegen eine Rentenreform Ende 2019 an einem Tag gut 800.000 Menschen beteiligt.
More than 1 million protest across France against Macron’s pension reform
– More than a million people took to the streets across France to protest against the Macron government’s plans to reform the pension system, of which a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is among the most controversial. Macron insists the reform is needed to reform a moribund system – but some of the government’s own experts have said the pension system is in relatively good shape and would likely eventually return to a balanced budget even without reforms.
– The interior ministry said some 1.2 people protested across France, 80,000 of them in Paris. Union organisers, however, estimated the number at 2 million, with 400,000 protesting in Paris.
Perfide: Pflegeheim will Bewohnern Elektrogeräte verbieten
Kaffeemaschine – verboten. Ventilator – untersagt. Auch Eierkocher, Wasserkocher und Kühlschränke dürfen die Bewohner auf ihren Zimmern ab dem 1. September nicht mehr benutzen. Das hat die Heimleitung angeordnet. Begründung: Die Einrichtung will in der Krise Strom sparen. Und um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, greifen die Verantwortlichen knallhart durch“, schreibt der Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (SHZ) in einem Artikel, der leider hinter einer Bezahlschranke versteckt ist.
Parade and pageant highlights final day of Queen‘s Platinum Jubilee
The fourth and final day of the Queen‘s Jubilee is underway in London.
UK-Desaster: 92 Prozent der Covid-Toten geimpft
Die britische Regierung sieht aber keinen Zusammenhang. Noch immer heißt es im Bericht auf Seite 38 „die Rate der Krankenhauseinweisungen wesentlich höher bei ungeimpften als bei geimpften Personen“.
Die Aufschlüsselung der Todesopfer zeigt etwas ganz anderes: 92 Prozent der Menschen, die mit Covid gestorben sind, sind geimpft.
Quelle, Seite 43.
72 Prozent, also 3.687 von 5.084 Opfern, sind auch geboostert. Es ist wichtig zu betonen, dass die meisten der Verstorbenen sehr betagt sind, deren Tod nicht an Covid gelegen haben muss. 401 Personen waren ungeimpft.
Schockierend: Polizei reißt alten Mann brutal zu Boden
Dann, so berichten es Bürger, seien drei Mannschaftswagen der Polizei auf den Marktplatz gefahren. Die jungen Polizisten seien ausgestiegen und hätten Ausweise kontrollieren wollen.
Um 19.25 Uhr, so zeigen es die Zeitmarkierungen der Fotos und der Filme, hätten die Polizisten von einem älteren Mann den Ausweis sehen wollen. Der Mann wollte erst den Dienstausweis der Polizisten sehen. Es gab ein Hin und Her. Der ältere Mann soll „Bananenrepublik“ gesagt haben. Das wollen Passanten gehört haben.
Das Weitere kann man auf dem kurzen Video sehen. Ausweiskontrolle auf Pfälzisch.
Einstürzende Kartenhäuser
Wieso sterben kurz nach einer Impfung plötzlich Ungeimpfte, die damit doch gar nichts zu tun haben? Und wieso sterben kurz nach der zweiten Impfung plötzlich die erst einmal Geimpften?
Die Antwort könnte lauten: weil sie gar nicht ungeimpft beziehungsweise einmal geimpft sind, sondern lediglich ihre zweite Spritzung noch keine zwei Wochen her ist. Diesen Schluss legt eine Arbeit der auf diesen Seiten bereits zum Thema „Pandemie der Ungeimpften“ zitierten Londoner Professoren Norman Fenton und Martin Neil et al. nahe, die den vielsagenden Titel trägt: „Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination“ (deutsch: Jüngste Statistiken zur Sterblichkeit in England deuten auf eine systematisch falsche Zuordnung des Impfstatus und unsichere Wirkung der Covid-19-Impfung hin).
Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination
(December 2021)
At first glance the ONS data suggest that, in each of the older age groups, all-cause mortality is lower in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. Despite this apparent evidence to support vaccine effectiveness-at least for the older age groups-on closer inspection of this data, this conclusion is cast into doubt because of a range of fundamental inconsistencies and anomalies in the data. Whatever the explanations for the observed data, it is clear that it is both unreliable and misleading. While socio-demographical and behavioural differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated have been proposed as possible explanations, there is no evidence to support any of these. By Occam‘s razor we believe the most likely explanations are systemic miscategorisation of deaths between the different categories of unvaccinated and vaccinated; delayed or non-reporting of vaccinations; systemic underestimation of the proportion of unvaccinated; and/or incorrect population selection for Covid deaths.
The Berlin police are doing this today against elderly German citizens protesting their government’s lockdown and Covid mandates. They’re speaking out and this is the result.
Campaigners start legal action over Covid ban stopping care home residents aged over-65 from taking trips to see family and friends during pandemic
Legal action has begun against the government challenging guidance stopping care home residents taking journeys from their homes.
Pressure group John‘s Campaign has started the proceedings in a pre-action letter sent to the Department of Health and Social Care.
The group – which is made up of both care home residents and their families – say that the ban on over-65s going on trips from the homes is unlawful.
Facts about Covid-19
Overview
1. Lethality: According to the latest immunological studies, the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) of covid-19 in the general population is about 0.1% to 0.5% in most countries, which is most closely comparable to the medium influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968.
2. Treatment: For people at high risk or high exposure, early or prophylactic treatment is essential to prevent progression of the disease. According to numerous international studies, early outpatient treatment of covid may reduce hospitalizations and deaths by about 80%.
3. Age profile: The median age of covid deaths is over 80 years in most Western countries (but 78 in the US) and only about 5% of the deceased had no serious preconditions. The age and risk profile of covid mortality is therefore comparable to normal mortality, but increases it proportionally.
4. Nursing homes: In many Western countries, up to two thirds of all covid deaths have occurred in nursing homes, which require targeted and humane protection. In some cases, care home residents died not from the coronavirus, but from weeks of stress and isolation.
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Fakten zu Covid-19
Übersicht
1. Letalität: Laut den neuesten immunologischen Studien liegt die Letalität von Covid-19 (IFR) in der Allgemeinbevölkerung in den meisten Ländern bei insgesamt circa 0.1% bis 0.5%, was am ehesten mit den mittelstarken Grippepandemien von 1957 und 1968 vergleichbar ist.
2. Behandlung: Bei Personen mit hohem Risiko ist eine frühzeitige Behandlung entscheidend, um eine Progression der Erkrankung zu vermeiden. Laut internationalen Studien können Hospitalisierungen und Sterbefälle dadurch um etwa 80% reduziert werden.
3. Altersprofil: Das Medianalter der Verstorbenen liegt in den meisten westlichen Ländern bei über 80 Jahren (in den USA bei 78 Jahren) und nur circa 5% der Verstorbenen hatten keine ernsthaften Vorerkrankungen. Das Alters- und Risikoprofil der Covid-Mortalität entspricht damit im Wesentlichen der normalen Sterblichkeit, erhöht diese jedoch proportional.
4. Pflegeheime: In vielen westlichen Ländern ereigneten sich bis zu zwei Drittel aller Todesfälle in Pflegeheimen, die einen gezielten und humanen Schutz benötigen. In einigen Fällen staben die Bewohner nicht am Coronavirus, sondern an wochenlangem Stress und Isolation.
5. Übersterblichkeit: Die Pandemie führte 2020 in den meisten westlichen Ländern zu einer Übersterblichkeit zwischen 5% und 15%. Bis zu 30% der zusätzlichen Todesfälle wurden nicht durch Covid verursacht, sondern durch die indirekten Folgen von Pandemie und Lockdowns.
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113 Menschen nach Impfung verstorben: Fachleute geben dennoch Entwarnung
In einigen Senioreneinrichtungen kam es zudem kurz nach der Impfung zu Corona-Ausbrüchen. In einem Alten- und Pflegeheim in Leverkusen starben 18 Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner, auch in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen am Bodensee starben bereits Geimpfte an dem Virus. Sie waren wohl schon zum Zeitpunkt der Impfung unerkannt infiziert oder die Infizierung hat kurz danach stattgefunden.
Covid France: Five deaths after vaccine, no link proven
(20.01.2021)
The deaths were all among elderly care home residents aged 75 and over with pre-existing conditions. France‘s health minister has said studies will be carried out to determine if there is a link to the vaccine or it is just ‚bad timing‘
German specialists probing 10 deaths of people vaccinated against Covid-19
(15.01.2021)
According to the medical expert, the deceased were aged from 79 to 93, all with antecedent diseases. The time between vaccination and death ranged from several hours to four days.
TV: Several vaccinated elderly tested positive for COVID, but had no symptoms
Pfizer and Moderna, which produce the vaccines used in Israel, have said their shots appear to be slightly less effective in preventing the so-called South African strain of the virus, though the companies say they remain quite potent.