Authored by Alan Macleod via MintPressNews.com, The job is being presented as a voluntary service. But in reality, prisoners have little choice… One month ago, MintPress News reported that, in the case of a particularly bad COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in New York City, authorities had drawn up contingency plans to dump the bodies in mass graves on Hart Island, a small island just off the Bronx in the Long […]
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Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “We’re not letting Boeing go out of business.” – Donald Trump, President USA Something Stinks On Tuesday, in anticipation of several trillion dollars of Congressional pork, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rallied 11.37 percent. This marked its best day since 1933. Some Dow 30 stocks did much better. For example, Chevron was the top performer; closing up 22.74 percent. […]
Palestinian groups in Gaza cancelled mass rallies planned for next week along the border with Israel amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus in the densely-populated territory, organizers said on Saturday, Reuters reports. The rallies were called for March 30 to mark the second anniversary of the so-called “Great March of Return” which had prompted weekly protests by Palestinians seeking to regain access to land, now […]
Photo credit: Evan Vucci-Pool, Getty Images. The White House abruptly cancelled a General Motors joint venture project to build tens of thousands of desperately-needed ventilators after FEMA officials expressed concern that the costs of the effort could exceed $1 billion — or roughly 0.05 percent of the massive coronavirus stimulus bill that passed the Senate the day before. According to the New York Times, the project between […]
We Desperately Need A Mass Strike Against The Billionaire Class By Mindy Isser, In These Times. March 22, 2020 We Desperately Need A Mass Strike Against The Billionaire Class2020-03-222020-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/strike-e1584891292465.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Good Jobs Nation. An interview about politics and power. The Democratic presidential primary is becoming a pitched battle between the interests of workers and billionaires—the type of fight that Jane McAlevey knows well. The […]
Sudan confirmed its second case of coronavirus on Friday in the capital Khartoum, as Khartoum state announced a range of measures to prevent the spread of the disease. The case was a foreign man in his 40s working for an international organisation, and he and his family were receiving the required health care, state news agency SUNA reported. Khartoum state has decided to ban all mass […]
In the aftermath of last week’s cryptocurrency market crash, the Huobi exchange has launched a new liquidation mechanism that would pull the plug on trading should prices become too volatile. The Singapore-based firm said Wednesday that the new mechanism, integrated into its crypto derivatives marketplace, would halt all liquidations – where a trader’s position is automatically closed – during periods when volatility starts to present a […]
In many ways the US economy is currently in the eye of the coronavirus storm: cities and states are under quarantine lockdown, the CDC has prohibited any groupings of more than 50 people; stores, clubs, restaurants, bars and hotels are voluntarily shuttering indefinitely as the economy grinds to a halt and yet besides a tapestry of ghost cities across the nation, the immediate impact of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107854/00/1078540064_0:358:3004:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_0e5317b4b7adf13a90b55db38e8eb617.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202003141078563392-uk-government-mulls-banning-mass-gatherings-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-report/ On Friday, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Britain climbed to 798, amid reports that a newborn baby has tested positive for COVID-2019. The BBC has quoted an unnamed government source as saying that the UK may ban mass gatherings in the country as of next weekend because of the outbreak of the coronavirus, also known […]
We already wrote weeks ago about how the coronavirus was wreaking havoc among Chinese business owners in various cities across the U.S. Since then, fear of the virus has been ramped up significantly, and so it should come as no surprise that people are starting to cancel events at NYC restaurants en masse, according to Eater. Restaurants across NYC are reporting that parties are being cancelled and business is “seeing […]
Lizzo would like everyone to feel less fear and more love. In the face of a growing COVID-19 epidemic, the singer announced Thursday that she would lead a group meditation the next morning—and on Friday she did just that, playing the flute behind a cluster of crystals and urging everyone watching to reject fear and stay connected, even as social distancing demands that we all physically […]
COVID-19 is rapidly changing people’s day to day lives across the globe. China has instituted large-scale lockdowns on travel, quarantining whole cities, while France has banned large gatherings, and the U.S. has taken moves to allow huge sections of the workforce to work from home, and is even exploring measures to pay hourly workers who are sick, or forced to self-quarantine. As the headline of a […]
The government in Warsaw has decided to cancel all mass events due to the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday. “At this morning’s meeting we took a decision to call off all mass events,” Morawiecki reporters. The central European country of 38 million people has reported 17 cases of coronavirus. Polish President Andrzej Duda has said he will not organize large campaign meetings […]
Wayne State Teachers Protest Mass Firings By Jamie McQuaid, Workers World. March 8, 2020 Wayne State Teachers Protest Mass Firings2020-03-082020-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/detroit-aaup-protest.jpg200px200px Above photo: Lecturers and allies call out Wayne State administration Feb. 26 On Feb. 26, nearly 100 lecturers, graduate instructors, students and allied workers marched through Wayne State University’s main campus in Detroit to protest the mass firing of lecturers, who are nontenured instructors, announced in […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency on Saturday on fears Covid-19 cases are set to increasein the coming days. The emergency declaration gives Cuomo the ability to bolster the medical response to combat the virus outbreak, primarily centered in Westchester County, a region outside of New York City. As of Sunday, New York state has 105 confirmed cases. Cuomo made an appearance on Sunday […]
As a result of monitoring for coronavirus, the Chinese government is now requiring Chinese citizens to provide personal data, including travel and health conditions, via apps on their smartphone to the government. Based on the answers that citizens give to the apps, provided by Alibaba and Tencent, algorithms will try to decide whether or not the person is likely to have coronavirus. The apps then assign […]
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, With the Covid19 virus popping up across the country, people who are preppers are adding a few last-minute things to their stockpiles. Those who aren’t preppers are starting from scratch to get what they think they might need to handle a potential quarantine at home. While most of the folks on this website would read this and think, “Of […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Marine Le Pen has called for a national referendum in order to stop what she called the “submersion” of France via a “globalist” program of mass immigration. Speaking during a debate on the issue in the French Parliament, the leader of the National Rally political party scorched the political establishment for overseeing the dilution of French identity at […]
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the […]
No gatherings of more than 5,000 people in confined spaces will be allowed in France due to fears of the coronavirus epidemic, Paris has announced, as neighboring nations have canceled mass events, bracing for an outbreak. The French authorities announced the restrictions as the number of confirmed cases in the country climbed to 73. Fifty-nine people remain in the hospital after testing positive for the infection, […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The Milwaukee man who killed five co-workers at a beer company’s corporate office is a black Elizabeth Warren supporter, providing a clue as to why the mass shooting disappeared from the discussion so quickly. 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill showed up at the MillerCoors facility from where he had been fired earlier in the day wearing his uniform and carrying […]
Senator Elizabeth Warren announced a bill that would use funding for President Donald Trump’s “racist border wall” to combat the coronavirus outbreak – a plan that is earning plenty of eye rolls on social media. Warren is not letting the coronavirus crisis go to waste. The Massachusetts senator tweeted on Thursday a bill that would move funding from construction of the southern border wall in the […]
19 Feb, 2020 23:23 German police have responded in force after a lethal shooting rampage in the city of Hanau, with heavily armed officers, vehicles and helicopters on the scene as they attempt to apprehend the gunman. Source
19 Feb, 2020 22:47 What appears to have been a drive-by shooting at two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau-Kesselstadthas resulted in multiple deaths, local media reported. The perpetrator is still at large. Video of the mass police response was posted to social media on Wednesday evening local time, along with speculation that up to seven people may have been killed at the two […]