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© RFELEmployees at the Haft Tapeh sugar factory in the southwestern city of Shush have been on strike for nearly 50 days.
Factory and city employees, coal miners, as well as health-care workers are among those who have been protesting in Iran in recent weeks.
Many say they have not received their wages for months while others have complained about a lack of job security and difficult conditions.
© unknownIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
A policeman on Thursday arrived at the home of a private citizen who had uploaded a photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Facebook and demanded that he remove it, the Haaretz newspaper reported Friday, in what appeared to be a striking case of police overreach.
Sagi Haber, a resident of Givatayim, uploaded the photo, from some 30 years ago, in which Netanyahu makes a hand gesture which can appear similar to the Nazi salute, tagging it with the words "A brand for idiots." The photo itself was not doctored in any way, and Haber made no allusions to Nazism in his post.
A commentator told Haber he had complained to police about the post. One hour after Haber uploaded the photo, a police officer arrived at Haber's door and told him he'd committed a criminal offense by inciting against the prime minister, and was required to remove the post.
Comment: Paranoid much, Bibi?
© Jaidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty ImagesIraqi protester Basra, Iraq
Hisham Dawood, the advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in a news conference, said:
"The tally of martyrs since the outbreak of the protests in October has reached almost 560 including civilians and military personnel...The demonstrations were accompanied by unjustified violence against the demonstrators."Dawood said that the Iraqi government has formed a fact-finding committee to reveal the perpetrators and those involved in violence against the demonstrators. He also added that the government is "seeking to put an end to the kidnapping cases and the enforced disappearances"..."stressing that the government's goal is 'a prestigious state of law'."
The advisor, however, did not refer to the number of injured people during the demonstrations.
© Getty Images via AFP/ Images North America/Cliff HawkinsCharles Barkley
Charles Barkley has long been an outspoken figure in American sports. Since he's retired from playing basketball, he's worked as a commentator and isn't shy about telling people how he feels about things. He's no stranger to controversy, in a sense. However, recently he committed one of the cardinal sins of the Church of Woke by saying it wasn't necessary to kneel in protest at a basketball game.
And immediately, woke Twitter took Barkley to task. One user said Barkley was "speaking for his white golf buddies." Another simply told him to shut the eff up. It seems that Charles Barkley is not allowed to have an opinion when it comes to the sport that he loves. He was even accused of supporting police brutality (when he did nothing of the sort).
© Ruptly
Footage published by RT's Ruptly video agency shows a group of protesters on Friday night gathered around a burning Bible, with several individuals mockingly warming their hands around the fire. Laughter and shouts of "F**k Trump" can be heard in the background.
US flags were also burned by the protesters, who were seen crowding around the fire and taking photographs.
"[A woman] is usually a success as a sick-nurse, for that profession requires ingenuity, quick comprehension, courage in the face of novel and disconcerting situations, and above all, a capacity for penetrating and dominating character."
- HL Mencken, In Defense of Women
"She never sleeps, the TikTok nurse. She is dancing, dancing. She says she will never die."
The Red Cross of Comfort, John Morton-Sale, c. 1919
Such is the case with my patient tonight. He is 85 years old, dying of pneumonia related to the coronavirus. His family has prudently decided not to inflict torture on his elderly, frail body, and has made him a DNR. It is 11:23, and he has just died.
Despite having nearly 10 years under my belt as an ICU nurse, this is my first night in this particular ICU as a travel nurse. I am unfamiliar with the location of certain supplies, and the postmortem paperwork. But caring for a dead body is the same as in any ICU - remove the IV catheters and tubes, wash the body, place him on fresh sheets, and transport him down to the morgue. I begin to wash his body. It is still warm. I place some gauze inside his mouth, and gently wrap a ribbon around his head and tie it under his chin, so as to keep his mouth from gaping open.
In the background, I hear music. It is loud pop music blasting from the nursing station. I can see through my patient door's window. A nurse has her hands on the desk and is thrusting her buttocks back and forth. Another is spinning in a chair next to her. Two more are standing by doubled over in laughter.
© GETTY IMAGES/AFP/MADDIE MEYER
Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna, a US-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, in a bid to steal data, according to a US security official tracking Chinese hacking.
China, on Friday, rejected the accusation that hackers linked to it had targeted Moderna.
Comment: See also:
- US charges two Chinese spies for a global hacking campaign that targeted COVID-19 research
- EU sanctions Russian, North Korean, Chinese firms over suspected cyberattacks
- US orders China to shut down its Houston, Texas consulate in 72 hours
- UK, US & Canada's baseless claims that 'Kremlin-linked' hackers targeting Covid-19 vaccine research
© REUTERS/Molly DarlingtonA sign seen outside a bar as the area faces local restrictions in a bid to avoid a local Covid-19 lockdown, in Manchester, Britain, July 31, 2020.
The changes, which were due to come in to effect from Saturday, would have seen facilities such as bowling alleys, casinos and ice rinks welcome back customers in England - but these have now been delayed.
Indoor performances, weddings of parties up to 30, and pilots of outdoor sports events with spectators - which were also all planned to go ahead from 1 August - are all postponed until 15 August.
Boris Johnson made the announcement on Friday.
Comment: RT reports on the growing resentment over the illogical and contradictory advice:
New Covid-19 lockdown rules in North West England 'crystal clear,' UK health minister says. Mess & 's**t show,' people replyEven a BBC interviewer couldn't avoid but point out that even the Health Minister sounded confused:
UK Health Sec. Matt Hancock is facing a furious backlash after claiming new guidance rushed out by the UK government on Thursday night regarding lockdown rules for some areas of North West England, were "absolutely crystal clear."
During an interview with Sky News on Friday, Hancock defended the government's rushed late night announcement in relation to restrictions being imposed on parts of Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and West Yorkshire in response to spikes in cases of coronavirus.
Hancock rejected claims the new guidance was confusing, insisting they were "crystal clear," and designed to cause as little disruption as possible. He said the rules had been put in place to cut transmission of the deadly disease from household to household.
The ban - which took effect from midnight at three hours' notice - restricts the mixing of two known households or more in all indoor settings, be they homes or social spaces like pubs, cafes, restaurants. However people in the affected areas will still be allowed to mix with strangers in these venues - and even go on holiday with another household.
UK media reported that some local public health directors didn't know about the new guidance until Hancock made an announcement in a short video clip after 9pm BST on Thursday.
The government eventually published the guidance at 22 minutes past midnight. Notably, while people will be handed a £100 fine for breaking the rules, the law to enforce this doesn't yet exist.
Chaos reigned for people in the affected regions of the North West with accusations of mixed messages and nonsensical new rules, which spilled over into Friday morning. Many people on Twitter have taken issue with who households can and cannot interact with and where.
One commenter tweeted: "So you can't go round to each other's house anymore.. but you can all meet up at the pub and go on holiday together."
Another person suggested that the new guidance was all about safeguarding "profits" made by business to the detriment of families socialising.
Others branded the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis as a "s**t show," urging British PM Boris Johnson's administration to focus on the ultimate fix, such as improving their much maligned Covid-19 test and trace system.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham - who is responsible for one of the affected regions - told Sky News that he supported the restrictions to stop people dying of coronavirus.
However, in what was perhaps a veiled dig at Hancock, he said UK ministers had "a habit of saying something and then it being a few hours until the detail emerges."
See also: UK: Three times more people dying of flu than coronavirus
© PA/GettyNew ONS figures show 917 flu and pneumonia deaths were registered for the week ending on July 10, compared to 366 Covid-19 deaths
In comparison, 366 people died that week after testing positive for Covid-19 - the lowest number of deaths involving the virus in the last 16 weeks and a 31.2% decrease compared with the previous week, which saw 532 deaths.
Overall, the number of deaths registered in the same week was 6.1% (560 deaths) below the five-year average - the fourth consecutive week it has been below average.
Comment: The lockdown has led to unprecedented death and incalculable destruction to the economy, and their claims that it was because of the dangers of the coronavirus, by their own admission, does not hold water; so it begs the question, what is the real motivation behind the lockdowns?
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Comment: Apparently residents in states all across the US have received packages of seeds, as officials from states including Louisiana, Virginia, Kansas, Ohio, Washington, Kentucky, and Wyoming have sent out alerts advising people to not plant the seeds. Seed packages have also appeared in parts of Utah, Arizona, and the UK. Photos of the packages showed they were delivered through China Post, a Chinese shipping company, and often consist of Chinese writing and labels describing the contents as necklaces or rings.