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English Councils banned staff from smoking at their desks at HOME

Christopher Hope
The Telegraph, UK
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:37 UTC
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A leading Labour-run council banned staff from smoking at their desks if they were working from home in what campaigners say is an emerging "moral crusade" by local authorities against tobacco lovers.

Hammersmith and Fulham council, which represents one of the country's richest areas in London, told its staff in guidance that "any part of a private dwelling used solely for work purposes will be required to be smoke-free".

The guidance was issued in 2015 in a joint "bi-borough corporate health and safety "document setting out the council's no smoking policy with Royal Kensington and Chelsea.

A spokesman for Kensington and Chelsea, which had told its staff that "home workers should not smoke at their workstation during office hours", dropped the smoking ban on home workers when it issued new guidance in February this year.

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Professor suspended for telling students she hopes Trump supporters catch coronavirus and die

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Marshall University professor Jennifer Mosher

Marshall University professor Jennifer Mosher
A professor at Marshall University has been suspended by the school after she told a group of students during a virtual lecture that she hopes all of President Trump's supporters contract the coronavirus and die before the November election.

"I've become the type of person where I hope they all get it and die," Professor Jennifer Mosher said. "I'm sorry, but that's so frustrating — just — I don't know what else to do. You can't argue with them, you can't talk sense with them, um, I said to somebody yesterday I hope they all die before the election."
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Just 51% of Americans would get coronavirus vaccine right now

Paul Best
Fox News
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:50 UTC
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President Trump gives a press conference in the White House
Trump predicted Friday every American will have vaccine by April 2021.

Americans are divided on the forthcoming coronavirus vaccine as just 51% say they would get vaccinated for the disease if a vaccine was available today, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

That's a 21% drop from May, when 72% of Americans said they would definitely or probably get a vaccine.

The percentage who say they would definitely get a vaccine has been cut in half to just 21%.

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Belarusian police disperse anti-Lukashenko 'women's march' in Minsk, more than 100 arrests made


RT
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:45 UTC
Nina Baginskaya
Police dispersed an all-female rally in Minsk, on Saturday where protesters were demanding the resignation of longtime Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. More than 100 arrests were made, in the the crackdown.

Around 2,000 people, mainly women, flowed onto the streets of the country's main city for the unsanctioned event. They were eventually blocked outside a shopping mall by security forces wearing green uniforms and balaclavas. "Only cowards beat women," the protesters shouted, according to Western news agency Reuters, as the police started detaining people in large numbers.

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Stephen Cohen has died. Remember his urgent warnings against the new Cold War

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
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Stephen F Cohen, the renowned American scholar on Russia and leading authority on US-Russian relations, has died of lung cancer at the age of 81.

As one of the precious few western voices of sanity on the subject of Russia while everyone else has been frantically flushing their brains down the toilet, this is a real loss. I myself have cited Cohen's expert analysis many times in my own work, and his perspective has played a formative role in my understanding of what's really going on with the monolithic cross-partisan manufacturing of consent for increased western aggressions against Moscow.

In a world that is increasingly confusing and awash with propaganda, Cohen's death is a blow to humanity's desperate quest for clarity and understanding.

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At least 2 dead, 14 wounded in shooting at house party in Rochester, New York, authorities say

Will Cleveland
USA Today
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:21 UTC
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The Rochester Police Department mobile command unit at the scene of a mass shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue where 16 people were shot.
Two young adults were killed and 14 people wounded early Saturday in the largest Rochester shooting in memory, an act of violence that occurred at a backyard house party with more than 100 people present.

The violence occurred on Pennsylvania Avenue, at a residence located not far from the Rochester Public Market.

The identities of the two victims, one man and one woman, have not been made public pending notification of next of kin. Acting Police Chief Mark Simmons said both victims were in their late teens or early 20s.

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Study finds 50% of British residents show at least some degree of support for conspiracy thinking about COVID-19

Beth Ellwood
PsyPost
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:31 UTC
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A British study published in Psychological Medicine suggests that the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 may be more widespread than expected. Furthermore, this lack of trust in public health information could be impeding the country's efforts to slow the spread of the virus.

When navigating a public health emergency like the coronavirus pandemic, collective action by everyday citizens is crucial. Conspiracy claims about the virus that continue to circulate may have an impact on citizens' interpretation and acceptance of public health guidelines.

Study author Daniel Freeman and his team suggest that the very conditions created by the pandemic form an ideal ground for the emergence of conspiracy theories. "Uncertainty about the future is widespread," the authors express. "Expectations about everyday life have changed rapidly and dramatically . . . Normal routines and plans have been thwarted." The ongoing pandemic not only threatens people's physical health but poses a threat to mental well-being and financial security, leaving people feeling increasingly vulnerable.

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Radical left threatens riots, war, and to 'burn it down' if RBG replaced

Matt Margolis
PJ Media
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:58 UTC
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
© AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday evening sparked some very solemn responses from people of all political stripes.

While generally most would prefer to use the time immediately following the death of a public figure to remember their legacy, the political implications of RBG's death left people on the Right and the Left to speculate about what will happen with the vacant seat left now on the highest court in the nation.

In fact, RBG's death sparked a huge surge in donations on ActBlue.

But some on the Left started promising violence, not just political action.


Comment: But aren't they already burning everything down? See also: Caitlin Johnstone: RBG death means two-headed uniparty will threaten Americans with removal of civil rights

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Atlantic writer of '1619 Project' claims America was founded with arrival of slave trade then changes story when presented with screenshots


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:32 UTC
Twitter
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Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project called it the "founding of America" but is now arguing she didn't mean it that way
Now that US President Donald Trump has declared the 1619 Project 'toxic,' its lead author tried to accuse "the right" of making up her main point. One writer who had defended her all along refused to accept the gaslighting.

"One thing in which the right has been tremendously successful is getting media to frame stories in their language and through their lens," Nikole Hannah-Jones tweeted on Friday, adding that the 1619 Project "does not argue that 1619 is our true founding."

Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic called her claim "staggering," given what he himself had written about Hannah-Jones's Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
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'BLM Karen' rages at drugstore manager who called police on shoplifters


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:50 UTC
karen blm
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A Black Lives Matter activist in Washington has gone into social media hiding after her efforts to dox a CVS drugstore manager for calling the police on two suspected shoplifters didn't go over as swimmingly as she planned.

The chain of events began when the woman, Charity Sade, started recording police who were questioning two black men outside a CVS store. At one point, an officer warns one of the suspects not to interrupt him while he's talking to the other man, saying "His freedom is dependent on your actions." Sade then interjects, asking the officer for his name and badge number.

She then films another video of herself confronting the CVS manager inside the store for calling the police. The manager explains that it's company policy to contact the police when a shoplifter exits the store without paying for merchandise. He added that he chose not to press charges against the men, but asked the police to inform them that they could no longer shop at his store.

Comment: See also: Hysterical 'Karen' shamed in viral video, but things are not quite how they seem

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