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290 journalists killed, 23 media institutions damaged in Saudi-led war: Yemeni Media Union


PressTV
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:39 UTC
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© ReutersDust rises from the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Sana’a, Yemen, on March 30, 2020.
The Yemeni Media Union says the ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against the war-ravaged Arab country has resulted in the death of approximately 300 journalists and damaged nearly two dozen media institutions.

The union, in a statement issued on Sunday on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, announced that the Saudi-led acts of aggression have claimed the lives of more than 290 journalists, and led to the demolition of 23 media institutions over the past five years.

The statement noted that the Saudi-led military coalition's strikes "have killed about 90 war journalists during the fifth year [of the war]," bringing the total number of journalists killed in Yemen to 290 within the past five years.

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Bug

More than half of French départements on high alert for disease-bearing tiger mosquitoes


TheLocal.fr
Mon, 04 May 2020 19:19 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse
They obviously didn't get the memo about travel bans - Asian tiger mosquitoes are back and this year more than half the country is covered by red warnings.

This year 57 of France's 101 départements have been given a red warning about the potentially deadly insects.

A further 10 départements have an orange warning from the wildlife group Vigilance-Moustiques.

The black and white striped mosquito, which can deliver a painful bite as well as potentially deadly tropical diseases including dengue fever, zika and chikungunya, was first spotted in France in the last decade and made it to Paris in 2014.

Comment: French authorities are right to be concerned. This is not the first outbreak of mosquito-born tropical diseases northern Europe has dealt with.

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NPC

Greta Thunberg donating $100K to help children during coronavirus pandemic

Rebecca Klar
The Hill
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:58 UTC
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Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is donating $100,000 to UNICEF toward efforts to protect children from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the agency announced on Thursday.

Thunberg is donating the $100,000 prize she was awarded for her global activism by Human Act, and the organization is donating a similar amount to UNICEF.

"Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis," Thunberg said in the announcement. "It will affect all children, now and in the long-term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most. I'm asking everyone to step up and join me in support of UNICEF's vital work to save children's lives, to protect health and continue education."

Comment: It's likely lost on Greta and her supporters that it is the lockdown, not the virus, that is causing such massive harm to all populations. This is basically what the UN report is saying, but it's positioned in a way that this is simply an unavoidable consequence of the 'pandemic'.

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Red Flag

Spain's jobless rate slows, but record number of people claim benefits

Joao Manuel Mauricio and Belén Carreño
Reuters
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:16 UTC
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Unemployment in Spain rose again in April, pushing the number of people depending on unemployment benefits to a record 5.2 million as one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns brought the economy to a halt.

The number of people in Spain registering as jobless rose by 7.97% in April from a month earlier, or by 282,891 people, leaving 3.8 million people out of work, the Labour Ministry said on Tuesday. The number of registered jobless people had risen in March by 9.31%.

The cost of the benefits paid to the 5.2 million people fully or partly depending on unemployment benefits in April skyrocketed 207% from a year earlier to 4.5 billion euros.

"It is the highest spending in the history" of the unemployment services in Spain, Secretary of State for Employment Joaquin Perez Rey told a news conference.
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NPC

The gender sleep gap? Wake me up when the nightmare of modern feminism is over

Peter Lloyd
RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:10 UTC
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© Getty Images / Symphonie
Men may be dying disproportionately from Covid-19, but apparently the really important issue is that males are 'stealing' up to three hours of sleep from their weary female partners.

When you're a hammer, everything's a nail.

That's the wisdom of American psychologist Abraham Maslow, who coined the phrase back in 1966 with his law of the instrument theory.

This metaphor helped explain the idea of cognitive bias, which involves over-reliance on a familiar tool or social theory.
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Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: European rebellion growing: Police detain dozens protesting against coronavirus lockdown in The Hague


RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 18:28 UTC
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© REUTERS/Yves HermanMounted police patrol streets in The Hague
Dozens of people have been arrested following scuffles with police during an unauthorized anti-lockdown protest in The Hague.

Reports suggest roughly 200 people gathered in the Dutch city of The Hague on Tuesday for a demonstration against measures taken by the government to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The Dutch government banned public gatherings in mid-March, and the protest was not authorized but had not been banned outright either. However, Mayor Johan Remkes said the protest could continue in the Koekamp park once those involved maintained a distance of at least five feet from one another. When they failed to comply, the mayor reportedly ordered their arrest.

Comment: The elite control is starting to crack as the consequences of an unnecessary quarantine is starting to hit home with people.

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Chart Bar

Why allegedly 'high' American and Russian Covid-19 numbers are deceptive

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 18:13 UTC
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© Global Look Press/Keystone Press Agency
You've probably seen the headlines about the US having the most cases of coronavirus and Russia moving into the worldwide top seven. Meanwhile, Italy receives a huge focus, but badly stricken Belgium is largely ignored.

When you read that there have been over 67,000 American deaths and over a million reported infections, it seems shocking. It also feels hugely worrying that Russia has over 145,000 diagnosed sufferers. Nevertheless, the fact is the US is a big country, with 328 million people. Russia is even larger, of course, but has a smaller population of 146 million. So although these figures are enormous, they don't tell the whole story, especially given both nations have done huge amounts of tests: over 7 million in the US and more than 4.3 million across Russia.

By comparison, Ukraine has only tested 134,592 people, according to its own government's data, and Brazil's tally is under 400,000 on the Worldometer aggregator. This information is key to understanding the real spread of coronavirus in any given country - because, like everything, it's all relative.

Comment: A similar look at internal U.S. politics dictating how to interpret respective numbers in states like Florida (R) and California (D): See also:

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Arrow Down

London NHS Nightingale hospital will shut next week - limited demand, no new Covid-19 cases

Denis Campbell and Rowena Mason
The Guadian
Mon, 04 May 2020 18:06 UTC
nightingale hospital
© Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
The showpiece Nightingale hospital in London will shut next week after treating a small number of patients but will be kept "in hibernation" in case a second wave of Covid-19 infections emerges.

No further patients will be admitted to the facility, which was created amid much acclaim in just 10 days, and the 12 patients being treated there at the moment are being transferred to other London hospitals.

The Nightingale, built in the ExCel conference centre in the Docklands area of London, has proved surplus to requirements in the fight against coronavirus because established hospitals in the capital coped much better with the influx of critically ill patients after hugely expanding their intensive care units.

It will close on 15 May. Doctors, nurses and other staff working there were told the news on Monday morning. They will return to their usual hospitals during this week and next.

Originally planned to have 4,000 beds, the Nightingale has treated just 54 patients since it was opened by Prince Charles on 3 April and received its first patient on 7 April. It has not admitted a new patient for a week as London hospitals have had spare capacity in their own intensive care units.


Comment: Oops? Looks like those model projections weren't so accurate after all, no?
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Heart - Black

Israel settler accused of murdering Palestinian mother returns to his settlement


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 04 May 2020 17:35 UTC
Aisha Muhammad Talal Al-Rabi
© Ethan Anderson/Twitter47-year-old Aisha Muhammad Talal Al-Rabi was killed after illegal Israeli settlers attacked her and her husband with stones in the West Bank
An Israeli settler who stoned a Palestinian mother to death has been allowed to return to the occupied West Bank settlement where he lives.

Forty-seven-year-old mother of eight, Aisha Al-Rabi, was killed in 2018 after being hit on the side of her head by a rock which was hurled by Jewish settlers through the windshield of the car in which she was travelling.

The rock-throwing attack by the 16-year-old Jewish Israeli, who cannot be named due to a court-imposed gag order, and four others took place at Za'atara Junction, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, as Aisha and her husband Yaqoub Al-Rabi were driving past an illegal settlement, causing Al-Rabi to lose control of their car.
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Bizarro Earth

Oxford's calls for MORAL quarantine isn't only an attempt to undermine free speech, it's DEGRADATION of academic teaching & learning

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 16:52 UTC
Oxford graduates
© Reuters / Hannah McKayGraduates outside the Sheldonian Theatre after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University, in Oxford, Britain, July 15, 2017
For Oxford University Student Union the current lockdown is not enough. They have voted to impose a quarantine to protect themselves from the threat of "ableist, classist and misogynistic reading lists."

The new student policy statement, 'Protection of Transgender, Non-binary, Disabled, Working-class and Women Students from Hatred In University Contexts' aims to shut down discussion on anything that any of the 'aforementioned groups' deem prejudicial.

Supporters of the policy explicitly reject the idea that freedom of speech is an essential feature of academic life. This policy document - passed by the Oxford SU and then mercifully rejected by Oxford University - explicitly states that arguments based on "free speech policy are inapplicable" when students are "required by the University to listen to the speech in question."

Comment: Here we see how giving life to 'trigger warnings' has allowed this warped structure to grow and consume the minds of its advocates as well as the institutions that provide support. This is the nature of pathological corruption: it seeks never-ending power and control. Maoist China gave similar support to its 'oppressed students', and the outcome was a devastating blow to the soul of Chinese culture. The West is set on this same course.

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