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Half of Russians don't want to take world's first Covid-19 vaccine, only 42% willing to try 'Sputnik V'

RT
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:36 UTC

A majority of Russians don't want to be vaccinated against coronavirus, according to a brand-new survey, which showed only 42 percent of the country wants to be immunized with the homegrown 'Sputnik V' formula, unveiled last week.

On August 11, Russia's president Vladimir Putin announced that the country had registered the world's first Covid-19 vaccine. Developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the vaccine will be available to the general public from January 2021, but is to be offered to teachers and medical workers first. The process of creating the vaccine has been criticized by some Western countries, who claim that the speed of the development means it hasn't yet been proven safe.

When asked whether they are ready to take Sputnik V, 42 percent of respondents said yes, with 52 percent saying no. The survey was conducted by WCIOM, a Russian state-owned pollster.

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Nursing homes were bullied into accepting Covid-19 patients

Express & Star
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC

Nursing homes were pressured into accepting patients with coronavirus while simultaneously being refused treatment for residents by hospitals and GPs, according to research.

A report by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) found homes were told hospitals had a blanket "no admissions" policy at the height of the pandemic.

The QNI, a charity which focuses on the improvement of nursing care of people in their own home, found care home residents were regularly refused treatment in April and May. Published by the Independent, the research found GPs and local managers in some homes had placed unlawful do not resuscitate orders on residents.

The survey of nurses and managers in 163 care homes across England, Wales and Northern Ireland found 56% said their physical and mental health had suffered due to the stress of the pandemic.

Seventy homes, 43% of those surveyed, said they had received a patient discharged from hospital during March or April that had not been tested for the virus. A fifth said they had received a patient discharged from hospital who was Covid-19 positive.

Palestinian village Farasin defiant despite threats of being wiped off the map

Akram Al-Waara, Yumna Patel
Middle East Eye
Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:28 UTC

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Wajdi Amarneh and his five children stand in front of their single-room home in Farasin. Israeli authorities gave Wajdi 96 hours to demolish the home.

Sitting on the porch of his neighbour's home, Mahmoud Amarneh, 56, shuffles through his briefcase, filled to the brim with papers and red-tabbed folders. As the summer breeze passes through the tiny village of Farasin, the papers, printed in Hebrew and stamped with the insignia of the Israeli Civil Administration, go flying across the outdoor seating area.

Amarneh is the head of the village council in Farasin, a tiny hamlet in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, just a few kilometres east of the Green Line.

Up until last week, Amarneh's job was mostly symbolic, keeping the peace between the 200 residents of Farasin, who are mostly descendants of the same two families, settling any land disputes, and welcoming any visitors that may come to the village. Now, he's in charge of fighting what he says is a concentrated effort on the part of Israeli authorities to expel the people of Farasin from their land.

New Jersey gym owner says 'now we made it political': Becomes campaign rally location to keep doors open

Angelica Stabile
Fox News
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:50 UTC

Atilis Gym co-owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti and U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Rik Mehta

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Atilis Gym co-owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti have rebranded their gym as the campaign site for U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Rik Mehta.

New Jersey's Atilis Gym co-owners Frank Trumbetti and Ian Smith have fought to keep their doors open during the coronavirus pandemic and now, partnering with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rick Mehta, the gym has become an official campaign rally location.

"We took a stand for our constitutional rights and for the rights of all small business owners throughout the country," Smith told Fox & Friends Weekend Sunday.

"And it wasn't intended to become political. We were trying to offer a solution to a problem where the government was failing, and it turned political. And that was because of Gov. Murphy's actions. So now we made it political just as much as he has."

Comment: Brilliant aikido move, gentlemen!

Not just Portland: Protesters smash windows & set fires across Denver, try to breach Colorado State Capitol fence

RT
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:19 UTC

Dozens of anti-police protesters have been swarming around downtown Denver, Colorado, setting fires and smashing windows, with authorities seemingly struggling to contain the hit-and-run violence.

Police officers in riot gear were seen guarding the Denver Police Department on Saturday night, but elsewhere across downtown Denver, local reporters described "ugly scenes" of arson and vandalism.

Comment: Trump repeated his veiled threat to sort out Democrat-run cities if they can't quell the violence on their own:

President Donald Trump has offered federal assistance to the mayors of cities dealing with violent "antigovernment" protests, saying he can "solve [the] problem fast" if they can't properly police their own communities.

The tweet comes as multiple cities saw Black Lives Matter-related protests again devolve into violence over the weekend, including Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado.

Trump previously deployed federal agents to Portland after protesters targeted a federal courthouse by attempting to start a fire on the property. Though the tactics of the officers in dealing with protesters were controversial, and the president agreed to allow the city's mayor to take control in dealing with the ongoing demonstrations, violence in the city has prompted him to threaten a more federal response several times.

On Saturday, he offered the services of the National Guard to help control the "rioting" in the city, promising this would "end the problem immediately."

Unfortunately, the president is in a bind. Though his base (and all normal people) would be glad to the violence ended and the perpetrators punished, it would hand his opponents the opportunity to portray him as the fascist they've always claimed he is. And the citizenry suffer.

Life imitates art: 'Footloose' comes to New York as Governor Cuomo bans dancing

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:08 UTC

Governor Cuomo has become Reverend Shaw Moore from the movie Footloose after issuing a new set of commands for New Yorkers that includes a ban on dancing. This is not a joke. Syracuse.com reported the story.

There is no dancing allowed in New York's bars and restaurants, even at a wedding reception, according to the New York State Liquor Authority.

To control the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's liquor authority has also specifically banned darts, pool, cornhole, karaoke and exotic dancing. Bar owners are already struggling to stay open after being shut down for months. The new rules are causing a lot of anxiety as business owners are being threatened with their licensing if they don't comply.

Hypocrite Cuomo allows rock stars to bypass New York quarantine to attend VMAs

David Ng
Breitbart
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:53 UTC

Kanye West; Miley Cyrus; and Ariana Grande

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Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and other stars were granted exemptions from NYC's quarantine restrictions

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is allowing rock stars to bypass the state's mandatory 14-day quarantine so that they can perform at the MTV Video Music Awards, one of the music industry's biggest nights that is set to take place August 30, according to a report from the New York Post.

The Post said that the state's Department of Health has granted the VMAs a semi-exemption to the quarantine rule. Musicians can "participate in the production of the show," a spokeswoman for Cuomo told the newspaper, "but they will only interact with other members of the cast and crew and will quarantine when not working."

She said the VMAs agreed to police itself with "rigorous safety protocols including testing and screening and compliance checks by a special compliance officer."

Comment: Orwell got it right. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

New Zealand secretly allowed Hollywood team working on 'Avatar II' exemption from lockdown as 'essential workers'

Seattle business owners slam city leaders after latest vote to defund SPD

The Daily Caller
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 17:38 UTC

Seattle business owners Andrea and Joe Raetzer of Steepologie Teas have closed their downtown store location due to public safety concerns, citing the Seattle City Council's 7-1 vote to defund the Seattle Police Department by $3.4 million.

The budget cuts mean the department will lay off 100 police officers including officers from the Navigation Team, a unit designed specifically to deal with the city's homeless population.

"We were putting all of our resources into this business, we are not funded by anyone else, everything put into the business came out of our pocket," Andrea told the Daily Caller. "This hurts, but it was absolutely necessary to take a stand and say we can no longer be put at risk nor can our team members."

The lack of police presence and the recent uptick in crime in the downtown area will push many more businesses out of the area, the Raetzer's told the Caller.

Police searching for man who gave strangers 'COVID hugs' in Walmart

Vincent Barone
New York Post
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC

© Springfield Police Department
This suspect allegedly embraced strangers before telling them they were infected with COVID-19.

This suspect's wanted for a different kind of bearing arms.

Police in Springfield, Massachusetts, are searching for a man who gave unsolicited "COVID hugs" to strangers in a local Walmart.

The man, pictured on surveillance footage wearing a black T-shirt and camouflage shorts, has embraced multiple customers before informing them they were just infected with the coronavirus, according to the Springfield Police Department.

During one of the hostile hugs reported last Saturday evening, he took an item out of a cancer survivor's hand to hold him close, the department wrote in a Facebook post asking for help identifying the man.

"He told the victim, 'Just giving you a COVID hug. You now have COVID,' the department said.

The man allegedly laughed and walked away.

The suspect is being sought for charges of assault and battery and making terroristic threats, according to Masslive.com.

Comment: Whether in government or on the street, there's no shortage of people willing to terrorize people with fear of a relatively benign virus.

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Fury as Rule Britannia & Land of Hope and Glory may be cut from BBC Proms amid BLM protest

Steven Brown
Daily Express
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:36 UTC

The Defund the BBC campaign has hit back at the Beeb over its potential plans to axe the British anthems from the Proms line-up. Defund the BBC tweeted: "If the BBC do go ahead with stripping the last night of the Proms of patriotic songs #DefundTheBBC will organise a mass defund in retaliation."

Defund the BBC accused the broadcaster of "using every licence fee payer funded opportunity to signal its disdain for the British people".

Calvin Robinson, who describes himself as a Defund the BBC campaign champion, also tweeted: "Why is the BBC pandering to hard-left extremists?

"Last Night of the Proms is a British institution. It's one of the rare occasions we still expect a little patriotism; That's not a bad thing, our Britishness is something that unites us! #DontDivideUs #DefundTheBBC"

Back in June, protests erupted around the world after African American George Floyd was killed by white police officers in the US.

The protests also sparked a review into the UK's colonial history. Several statues and monuments were destroyed in wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Society's Child

Half of Russians don't want to take world's first Covid-19 vaccine, only 42% willing to try 'Sputnik V'

Nursing homes were bullied into accepting Covid-19 patients

Palestinian village Farasin defiant despite threats of being wiped off the map

New Jersey gym owner says 'now we made it political': Becomes campaign rally location to keep doors open

Not just Portland: Protesters smash windows & set fires across Denver, try to breach Colorado State Capitol fence

Life imitates art: 'Footloose' comes to New York as Governor Cuomo bans dancing

Hypocrite Cuomo allows rock stars to bypass New York quarantine to attend VMAs

Seattle business owners slam city leaders after latest vote to defund SPD

Police searching for man who gave strangers 'COVID hugs' in Walmart

Fury as Rule Britannia & Land of Hope and Glory may be cut from BBC Proms amid BLM protest

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