Above Photo: Hospital staffers and union organizers waved signs and banners in protest over staffing shortages at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Roseville on Oct. 14, 2021. Fred Greaves for CalMatters. Labor advocates are calling it “Striketober.” As weary health care workers across California enter the 19th month of the pandemic, thousands are walking off the job and onto the picket line, demanding more staffing. The strikes and rallies threaten to cripple hospital operations that have been inundated by the COVID-19 Delta surge as well as patients seeking long-delayed care. More than two dozen hospitals across the state — including some Kaiser […]
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Azerbaijani artillery and aircraft have pounded a military base in Armenia, and a civilian bus has been hit in a “drone strike,” the Armenian Defense Ministry reported, telling its rival to brace itself for a “harsh response.” Azeri forces targeted non-combatants in the small Armenian border town of Vardenis on Tuesday, according to Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the Armenian Defense Ministry representative. The official uploaded to social media what he said was photographic documentation of the aftermath of a strike by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The images circulated online show the extent of the destruction. The defense official clarified that “fortunately, no […]
Next year will be brutal for the US currency, according to Yale University senior fellow Stephen Roach. He said that his “seemingly crazed idea” that the dollar will crash shouldn’t seem so crazy anymore. “We’ve got data that’s confirmed both the saving and current account dynamic in a much more dramatic fashion than even I was looking for,” Roach told CNBC. According to him, “The current account deficit in the United States, which is the broadest measure of our international imbalance with the rest of the world, suffered a record deterioration in the second quarter.” He added that “The so-called net-national […]
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa makes up a sizeable portion of the city’s population of roughly 100,000. Mayor Walt Maddox says losing an entire semester of school would be “economically disastrous for our community.” Wesley Hitt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Wesley Hitt/Getty Images The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa makes up a sizeable portion of the city’s population of roughly 100,000. Mayor Walt Maddox says losing an entire semester of school would be “economically disastrous for our community.” Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to decide how to teach students in the midst of […]
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are gathering in central Minsk for a new rally a day after a protest march resulted in scuffles with the police. Law enforcement is maintaining a heavy presence in the city. Crowds of protesters flocked to a spot near a war memorial in the Belarusian capital, gearing for a third massive Sunday rally in a row. They are demanding the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, who stands accused of rigging a recent election and of brutalizing members of the opposition. Similar events on two previous weekends attracted an estimated 100,000 participants each. Meanwhile, police armored […]
A hallway leads to a makeshift isolation ward for COVID-19 patients. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR A hallway leads to a makeshift isolation ward for COVID-19 patients. Kirk Siegler/NPR In the Idaho mountain town of Grangeville, population 3,200, signs in windows on Main Street advertise that Border Days “is on.” The annual Fourth of July celebration boasts street dances, Idaho’s longest-running rodeo and even the world’s largest egg toss. Like in a lot of small towns, Grangeville’s economy has been struggling throughout this pandemic. Border Days planners decided to go ahead with an altered, if slightly scaled back […]
… from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: The US world reputation has never been lower than it is now, and it is not all because of Trump. The Republicans have been fully onboard all the way, with the Democrats not far behind. Surprisingly Merkel admits that the jury is still out on whether liberal economic democracies are the superior system. The US loved emerging power China when it and Japan we buying the US debt every year, like it was a colonizer collecting tribute. Trump found himself trying to play tough guy against a country holding huge dollar cash reserves, […]
The US may voluntarily relinquish its status as a world power and Europeans must brace themselves for such a contingency, including by boosting their militaries, the German chancellor has warned. European nations need “to carry more of the burden than during the cold war” in terms of defense spending, Merkel said, because they cannot assume that the US will be there to protect them. “We grew up in the certain knowledge that the United States wanted to be a world power. Should the US now wish to withdraw from that role of its own free will, we would have to reflect […]
India 06:53 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): India has issued a new set of guidelines, as the government announced a phased reopening of the nation starting 1 June, with the restrictions poised to continue strictly in containment zones demarcated by state governments. The movement of people from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. IST will remain restricted. Religious places and shopping malls in India reopened on Monday for the first time since 25 March, following a phased reopening of the lockdown, despite the country registering the highest single-day hike in the number of coronavirus cases. The decision to open malls […]