Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Mass Use of Hand Gels to Control Covid Risks Creating Superbug ‘Armageddon’
August 31st, 2020Via: Daily Mail: The mass use of hand gels during the coronavirus pandemic may create a superbug ‘armageddon’ as other bacteria and viruses build up a resistance, researchers have warned. Dr Andrew Kemp has said that the overuse of alcohol-based hand gels during the pandemic will allow other bacteria and viruses on our hands to […]
New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs
August 31st, 2020Via: DNYUZ: Since the pandemic began, the suburbs around New York City, from New Jersey to Westchester County to Connecticut to Long Island, have been experiencing enormous demand for homes of all prices, a surge that is unlike any in recent memory, according to officials, real estate agents and residents. In July, there was a […]
Thousands of Swedes Got False Positive COVID-19 Result Due to Faulty Test Kits from China
August 27th, 2020Via: Reuters: About 3,700 people in Sweden were told in error that they had the coronavirus due to a fault in a COVID-19 testing kit from China, the Public Health Agency said on Tuesday. The kit from BGI Genomics could not distinguish between very low levels of the virus and a negative result, the agency […]
CNN: “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful” Riots in Kenosha
August 27th, 2020Via: Summit News: A CNN reporter described the mayhem in Kenosha as “mostly peaceful” even as cars set on fire by rioters burned behind him. Omar Jimenez describes “multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of the night” before characterizing the unrest as “largely peaceful.” The CNN chyron below Jimenez […]
The States with the Worst Unemployment Rates
August 27th, 2020Keep in mind, these are official rates. The actual rates are far worse. Via: Yahoo Finance: According to the Department of Labor’s latest report, which breaks out the insured unemployment rate (a ratio of people on unemployment benefits divided by labor force) through August 8, Hawaii is currently suffering the worst employment picture with a […]
Journalism’s Gates Keepers
August 26th, 2020Via: Columbia Journalism Review: As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, […]
Hungry New Yorkers Form Quarter-Mile Line for Free Food in Queens
August 26th, 2020Via: New York Post: The line stretched a quarter-mile before the sun was barely up Saturday, snaking around corners like bread lines in the 1930s. But the hungry in Queens are today’s New Yorkers, left jobless by the coronavirus. Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to hand out groceries to […]
UK Government Scientist Admits Lockdown Was a “Monumental Mistake on a Global Scale”
August 26th, 2020Via: Summit News: A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale.” Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think […]
The Fatal Attraction of Techno-Fascism
August 26th, 2020Via: Off Guardian: Corporate media focuses on those stories they are paid to propagate, i.e., those which support the financial and ideological agendas of their owners, who themselves are all, without exception, central parts of the larger global ruling oligarchy. A key part of the propagandist’s handbook is to simply leave unexplored stories that they […]
Kenosha: Two Shot Dead, One Injured
August 26th, 2020Via: USA Today: Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, said early Wednesday that two people had been shot and killed and a third injured as protests over police brutality and the shooting of Jacob Blake continue to rock the country. For three nights, violent protests have torn through Kenosha after a police officer shot Blake from behind […]
