Month: August 2020

Great Game India

The Indian government is planning to launch a mandatory digital health card modeled on Bill Gates’ concept. Under the ‘One Nation One Health Card’ scheme, a person’s medical history records, including all the treatments and tests that the person has undergone, will be digitally saved in this card. Hospitals, clinics, and doctors will all be linked to a central server. The move is aimed at mapping the health records of every citizen of the country in a digital format. Continue reading “Indian Govt To Launch Mandatory Digital Health Card On Bill Gates Concept”

MSN

A Florida sheriff barred deputies from wearing facial coverings in most work settings, authorities said Wednesday, even as the state continues to struggle with record-breaking coronavirus numbers.

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods insisted there’s no conclusive evidence that wearing masks curbs the spread of the virus — despite explicit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines saying just that. Continue reading “Florida sheriff orders deputies not to wear masks, bans civilians in masks from office”

Sightline Institute

Portland’s city council seems certain Wednesday to set a new bar for North American housing reform by legalizing up to four homes on almost any residential lot.

Portland’s new rules will also offer a “deeper affordability” option: four to six homes on any lot if at least half are available to low-income Portlanders at regulated, affordable prices. The measure will make it viable for nonprofits to intersperse below-market housing anywhere in the city for the first time in a century.  Continue reading “On Wednesday, Portland will pass the best low-density zoning reform in US history”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In an almost unheard of and unprecedented scenario, an Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Manassas, Virginia after someone shot at the helicopter from the ground.

The incident happened Monday, and military sources are now revealing the dangerous incident, which actually injured a member of the crew.  Continue reading “Air Force Helicopter Shot At From Ground Over Virginia, Injuring Crew”

Press TV

A video has emerged of a teary-faced young Palestinian girl screaming “where will we live?” as her family’s home was being bulldozed in front of her eyes in the south of the occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds; a scene all too familiar to Palestinians, whose homes have been bulldozed by the Israeli regime over the past few years. Continue reading “Where will we live?: Palestinian girl weeps as Israel razes her home”

Daily Mail

A county in California this week approved a pilot program that will establish a $1,250 stipend to encourage those who test positive for coronavirus to stay at home and self isolate.

Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors set aside $10million for the stipend program which will allow payments to 7,500 people, in the hopes of preventing a sudden financial crisis if a family member tests positive.  Continue reading “California county is paying $1,250 to residents who test positive for coronavirus to get them to stay home and self-isolate”

ESPN

Big Ten conference presidents and chancellors voted Tuesday to postpone all fall sports seasons, including football, amid the coronavirus pandemic with the hopes of playing in the spring.

Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren told ESPN on Tuesday evening that when the conference released its schedule only six days ago, he reiterated the season might not happen — a message he has been consistent with. Continue reading “Big Ten nixes fall college football season, eyes spring”

TASS

MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The vaccine against the coronavirus infection developed in Russia may cause certain changes in the human body but they are of short-term nature and are directed at the protection of the body, said President of Russia’s Bakulev National Medical Research Center of Cardiovascular Surgery Leo Bokeria. Continue reading “COVID-19 vaccine may cause short-term changes in body, expert thinks”

The Great Recession

Measured by the common man (or common girl), we’re on the road to ruin. The US has been in decline for decades, but you can’t see that by looking at stocks. You can’t tell it from those who lie about the economy to make their living, but look at longterm real numbers, and you see an empire in decline that just got its wobbly legs kicked out by COVID-19. Continue reading “US in Longterm Economic Decline”