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2020-04-16: Social Media Postees

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The Decade of Transformation: Being in Balance with Nature
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
This is the fourth newsletter in our series on the 2020s as a decade of transformation See Remaking International Relations, Remaking the Economy for the People, and Remaking Healthcare. In addition to COVID-19 and the economic collapse, …
globalresearch.ca/decade-transformation-balance-nature/5709799

Video: Coronavirus: Economic and Social Collapse: Mass Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Poverty and Despair
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
There is a serious health crisis which must be duly resolved. But there is another important dimension which has to be addressed. | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. In developing countries, poverty and despair prevail. …
globalresearch.ca/video-corona-virus-economic-and-social-collapse-bankruptcy-debt-and-poverty/5709883

As COVID-19 pandemic rages, World Bank backs restructuring of education in Brazil
wsws.org | 2020-04-16
Joining Brazilian education officials and the private sector in an online meeting, a World Bank representative offered directives for a permanent for-profit distance learning system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/16/bred…

COVID-19: Children need protection too
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-16
Education Fred FuentesIssue 1261 Australia COVID-19 JobKeeperApril 16, 2020The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young peoples' lives should not be discounted. An entire generation of children and teenagers are s…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-children-need-protection-too

Elizabeth Warren Joins the Biden Bandwagon, Betrays Supporters
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Judge them by their actions, never their rhetoric, a rule of thumb in evaluating others, notably politicians. They all lie with the rarest of rare exceptions. | Warren's sellout to Dem party bosses followed Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders going the …
globalresearch.ca/elizabeth-warren-joins-biden-bandwagon-betrays-supporters/5709852

How Top Labour Officials Plotted to Bring Down Jeremy Corbyn
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The findings of a leaked, 860-page report compiled by the British Labour Party on its handling of antisemitism complaints is both deeply shocking and entirely predictable all at once. | For the first time, extensive internal correspondence between senior party officials …
globalresearch.ca/how-top-labour-officials-plotted-bring-down-jeremy-corbyn/5709816

Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shown that Mediterranean Europe Does Not Need THE EU
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Germany's long history of wanting to rule the entirety of Europe extends back to both World Wars in the 20th Century, and perhaps even earlier. The German political structures believed that through war and conquest it could dominate the continent …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-pandemic-shown-mediterranean-europe-does-not-need-eu/5709824

The Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The Russia-Saudi oil-price war is a fabrication concocted by the media. There's not a word of truth to any of it. Yes, there was a dust up at an OPEC meeting in early March that led to production increases and …
globalresearch.ca/russia-saudi-oil-price-war-fraud-farce/5709856

Are COVID-19 Death Certificates Being Manipulated? A Conversation with Dr. Annie Bukacek
Dr. Annie Bukacek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Dr. Annie Bukacek of Kalispell, Montana speaks with me about COVID19 death certificates. | How do doctors decide whether or not to attribute a death to COVID19 and are the COVID19 deaths being exaggerated? | We also discuss what care is not …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-death-certificates-being-manipulated-dr-annie-bukacek/5709836

Video: Syria and Iraq Launch Operations Against ISIS in Border Area
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party have four times shelled positions of the Syrian Army in the provinces of Lattakia and Hama over the past 24 hours, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria reported. At the …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-iraq-launch-operations-against-isis-border-area/5709787

Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
Don Fitz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between people is primary and the production of things is secondary and flows from social factors. Investors in profit-based medicine cannot comprehend this concept. Nothing could exemplify it …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-aids-dengue-ebola-covid-19/5709803

74 Million in Arab Region at Risk of COVID-19, Access to Clean Water: UN Report
Eurasia Diary | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The …
globalresearch.ca/74-million-arab-region-risk-covid-19-un/5709846

The Russians Get Blamed Again, but Who Is Really Subverting American Democracy?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
It is perhaps inevitable that a major health panic like the coronavirus will have political ramifications based on whether those most affected by the illness will perceive that the government performed well or poorly in the crisis. The government for …
globalresearch.ca/russians-get-blamed-again-who-really-subverting-american-democracy/5709858

"World War C" Presents a Host of Challenges for Central Asia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Central Asia is at risk of collapse if the socio-economic consequences of World War C aren't addressed after much-needed remittance flows from Russia were abruptly cut off as a result of that country's emergency quarantine measures, which in turn could …
globalresearch.ca/world-war-c-presents-challenges-central-asia/5709810

Star proves Einstein's theory as it orbits supermassive black hole in stunning 'SPIROGRAPH' pattern (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-16
Observations of the star S2, which orbits a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, show that not only does it prove predictions made by Einstein's theory of general relativity, it does so in spectacular fashion. | Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have been tracking S2's orbit around the black hole Sagittarius A* since the 1990s. After poring over the data from the observations, the researchers have now concluded that S2's orbit isn't a fixed-in-position ellipse but instead shifts position like a spirograph drawing, as illustrated in this incredi…
rt.com/news/485972-star-orbits-black-hole-pattern/

Trump Regime Immunity Certificates for Mass Vaxxing and Population Control
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Orwellian control over the lives and welfare of ordinary people would pose the greatest threat to free and open societies. | They'd no longer exist if the worst of it was imposed, notably by manipulating the public mind to accept the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-immunity-certificates-mass-vaxxing-population-control/5709849

Visà£o Factual Epidemiológica: Portugal é um dos países mais perigosos do mundo na Covid-19
Mondialisation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Os portugueses està£o entre os povos mais afetados e em maior risco do mundo em casos confirmados de infectados de Covid-19 e mortes no mundo pelo SARS-Cov-2, considerando o tamanho da populaàßà£o. | Sou cientista fármaco-epidemiologista formado em Harvard e a …
globalresearch.ca/visao-factual-epidemiologica-portugal-e-um-dos-paises-mais-perigosos-do-mundo-na-covid-19/5709888

Are American Cities on the Path to Bankruptcy?
Jose Nino | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
According to financial watchdog Truth in Accounting's 2020 Financial State of the Cities report, numerous American cities are in dire fiscal straits. Out of the 75 most populated cities observed in the report, 63 do not have the means …
globalresearch.ca/american-cities-path-bankruptcy/5709794

COVID-19 Prompts Austerity Budget in Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Detroit is one of the epicenters for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic where the city in southeast Michigan has the highest death rate from the infection in the United States. (See this) | This majority African American municipality (79 …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-prompts-austerity-budget-detroit/5709800

In Palestine, COVID-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation
Yara Hawari | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that were linked to a Greek tourist group. The Palestinian Authority (PA) declared a state of emergency and …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-covid-19-meets-israeli-occupation/5709832

COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-16
Under capitalism, disease is an immensely profitable industry, and huge pharmaceutical corporations excel at extracting enormous amounts of wealth from our public health. Of course, big pharma would have us believe that without their investments in scientific research, millions of people would not benefit from the dizzying array of drugs they sell us, but the…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/covid-19-how-big-pharma-and-big-philanthropy-consume-the-world/

The Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis this Time
Prof. Sam Gindin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
"…so many of the out-of-the way things had happened lately, that Alice has begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible"

Danish study reveals that coronavirus may be almost 20 TIMES less deadly than WHO predicted
rt.com | 2020-04-16
Research on a group of blood donors in Denmark points to its Covid-19 mortality rate being well below one percent of the number of people infected with the disease, according to a team at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. | Tests were carried out on 1,487 samples from Danish blood donors at the hospital showed a mortality rate of just 0.16 percent. | That puts the Danish scientists' estimates up to 20 times lower than those of the World Health Organization, which is putting deaths at anywhere between one percent and three percent of the number who contract Covid-19. | The study also suggested that far more Dan…
rt.com/news/486017-denmark-covid19-mortality-study/

50 Headlines: Welcome to the "New Normal"
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Our erstwhile collaborators at Consent Factory have put together a wonderful collection of all the great work being done by our Beloved Governments to keep us all safe. | Always remember that these Measures are for your own good. Doubting The …
globalresearch.ca/50-headlines-welcome-new-normal/5709838

COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-16
Under capitalism, disease is an immensely profitable industry, and huge pharmaceutical corporations excel at extracting enormous amounts of wealth from our public health. Of course, big pharma would have us believe that without their investments in scientific research, millions of people would not benefit from the dizzying array of drugs they sell us, but the…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/covid-19-how-big-pharma-and-big-philanthropy-consume-the-world/

Science Saturday: The new super power of handwashing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-16
Researchers are hard at work identifying ways to help patients with COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But in the meantime, one common household object can be used to help prevent infection. Soap. Good old soap, the Clark Kent of clean, is really the superhero fatty acid salt, the Superman of clean. Soap …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-the-new-super-power-of-handwashing/

Boris Is Back as the Blame Game Begins in Britain
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
A humble Boris Johnson addressed the nation last weekend after his release from hospital. The British Prime Minister had been admitted the week before after succumbing to coronavirus. In his emotional address, he spoke of the 'love' which he had …
globalresearch.ca/boris-back-blame-game-begins-britain/5709865

Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela. The U.S. government has maintained punishing sanctions against the people of Iran and …
globalresearch.ca/intensifying-sanctions-iran-venezuela-trump-weaponizing-coronavirus/5709831

Ukraine to Build Military Base in the Sea of Azov
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Ukraine recently announced that it will start building a military base in the Sea of ‚Äã‚ÄãAzov, just 67 km away from the Russian coast. The news was confirmed on the last visit of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to Berdiansk, where …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-build-military-base-sea-azov/5709821

More Than 40 Entities in China Donate Health Materials to Cuba
Prensa Latina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
More than 40 companies and institutions in China have prepared donations of medical supplies to help Cuba strengthen its capacity to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, official sources reported today. | The ambassador of Havana in Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, explained …
globalresearch.ca/more-than-40-entities-china-donate-health-materials-cuba/5709815

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-16
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, researchers are still learning how the virus affects the body. And this raises questions for pregnant women. Can COVID-19 affect pregnancy? Is breastfeeding safe? How can a pregnant woman protect herself from the disease? On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-pregnancy-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to "normalize" the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump. | "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-crisis-african-american-human-rights/5709781

New Discovery to Make Green Energy Much More Efficient
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-16
Scientists at the National Research University of Electronic Technology "MIET" (Moscow, Russia), together with colleagues from Lodz University of Technology (Lodz, Poland), have developed a material that allows increasing the production efficiency of promising methanol fuel by more than 20 times.
sputniknews.com/science/202004161078978805-new-discovery-to-make-green-energy-much-more-efficient/

"Something Has Gone Wrong": UK Government, Banks Screw Up Coronavirus Loans, Small Firms Near Collapse. Better Results in Other Countries
Nick Corbishley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Thanks to its Brexit planning, the UK should have been better positioned to help its small businesses through the coronavirus crisis than most of its European peers. In early 2019, the UK treasury, together with the business department and the …
globalresearch.ca/uk-government-banks-screw-up-coronavirus-loans-small-firms-near-collapse-better-results-other-countries/5709840

Selected Articles: COVID-19: Why the US Has the Highest Infection Rate
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-covid19-why-us-has-highest-infection-rate/5709860

Bay Area Refuse Fascism Members Bang Pots, Call for Removal of Trump/Pence
On 2nd "OUTNOW! Tuesday" | indybay.org | 2020-04-16
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Refuse Fascism updated their 2020 Statement of Conscience/Call To Act. Included here are photos and a 4 second video of members displaying signage, wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing and banging pots on an "Out Now Tuesday" April 14. At the same time, 7pm, at other locations in the Bay Area, members shouted "Trump Pence Out Now!" for neighbors to hear.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/15/18832371.php

Bay Area Refuse Fascism Members Bang Pots, Call for Removal of Trump/Pence
On 2nd "OUTNOW! Tuesday" | indybay.org | 2020-04-16
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Refuse Fascism updated their 2020 Statement of Conscience/Call To Act. Included here are photos and a 4 second video of members displaying signage, wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing and banging pots on an "Out Now Tuesday" April 14. At the same time, 7pm, at other locations in the Bay Area, members shouted "Trump Pence Out Now!" for neighbors to hear.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/15/18832371.php

China rejects news report about Covid-19 origin, says WHO found 'no evidence' virus was made in lab
rt.com | 2020-04-16
China's Foreign Ministry has said that claims about the novel coronavirus originating in a lab are not based on science, citing the WHO as it rebuked the latest news story on Covid-19 'patient zero.' | "I want to remind you that the head of the [World Health Organization] has repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that the novel coronavirus has been produced in the laboratory," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters on Thursday. | He added that "many well-known medical experts in the world also believe that the claims about the so-called leak [of the virus] from a laboratory are not base…
rt.com/news/485993-china-who-coronavirus-news/

Is American Exceptionalism Shaping Our Scientific Response to the Coronavirus?
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-16
While New York City suffers through coronavirus, it's worth recalling that in the name of science in 1966, the U.S. government released bacteria in the New York subways. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
mintpressnews.com/american-exceptionalism-shaping-scientific-response-to-coronavirus/266695/

Scientists discover potentially habitable planet
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-16
Using data from a now-dead telescope, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized planet that may be capable of supporting life.Believed to be in the habitable zone of a star located around 300 light-years from Earth, a group of transatlantic scientists said that the temperature on the planet, called Kepler-1649c, could be similar to Earth's."This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found," said Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, of the discovery, based on data from the Kepler Space Telescope, w…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/scientists-discover-potentially-habitable-planet-3517109

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left
FLSFDS | thenation.com | 2020-04-16
Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left…
thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/

Medical students share their thoughts on joining the NHS frontline
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-16
Newly-qualified doctors from Imperial College London have spoken about joining frontline NHS staff in the fight against COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/196914/medical-students-share-their-thoughts-joining

Iran sends plane to Russia to return stranded students
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-16
TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA)

It's the End of the World Economy as We Know It, Just Like the Great Recession
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-04-16
Neil Irwin tells us there will be fundamental changes in the world economy as a result of the pandemic. While he repeats many things that are conventional wisdom, as is often the case, the conventional wisdom is not very wise. First, the pandemic is supposed to teach us the dangers of having foreign sources of …
cepr.net/its-the-end-of-the-world-economy-as-we-know-it-just-like-the-great-recession/

"Pure Baloney": Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-16
With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet

The COVID-19 Impact on Academia from a Contingent Faculty Perspective
James Anderson | zcomm.org | 2020-04-16
That sort of pedagogical movement might be just what is necessary for many of us

Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Calling It "Pure Baloney"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-16
With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet

Comments on OMB's Considerations for Additional Measures of Poverty
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-16
To: Office of the Chief Statistician Re: Response to OMB's Request for Comment on Considerations for Additional Measures of Poverty, Docket Number OMB-2019-0007 PDF The Process for Adopting Poverty Statistics OMB should immediately publish a notice extending the comment period on this notice until at least 30 days after the end of the current National …
cepr.net/comments-on-ombs-considerations-for-additional-measures-of-poverty/

How Ecuador Descended into COVID-19 Chaos
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-16
In the last few days and weeks, media outlets around the world have been publishing shocking stories and images of the COVID-19 crisis in Ecuador. Scenes of corpses abandoned in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city, have shaken audiences in Latin America and beyond. Statistics, even the highly untrustworthy official ones, have confirmed the …
cepr.net/how-did-ecuador-spiral-into-its-covid-19-nightmare/

Due to COVID-19, We Had First March Since 2002 Without a School Shooting
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-16
The nationwide lockdown to stem the rise of the coronavirus has had one silver lining

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2020-04-15: News Headlines

imperial.ac.uk (2020-04-15). Imperial welcomes world-leading health, research and education designation. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre has been redesignated an AHSC for a further five years.

RT (2020-04-15). 'My child is not a guinea pig' petition gets thousands of signatures as Denmark re-opens schools amid Covid-19 pandemic. rt.com Denmark has made the decision to reopen schools for younger children after a month-long lockdown, becoming the first country in Europe to relax coronavirus restrictions on education. | Schools have been given new guidelines around limiting the number of children in classrooms and rearranging the desks two meters apart from each other. The measure was welcomed by some parents. Caroline, a 38-year-old mother of two, told AFP that she feels "really good about the kids going back to school." | However, others are still worried that the easing of restrictions may be coming too soon. A petition titled 'My child is n…

Rob Boston (2020-04-15). 'Slaying Goliath': Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America's public schools. peoplesworld.org In her new book Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it's righteous anger, it's justified and it's what we need right now. Ravitch, a longtime education writer and a research professor of ed ≠u ≠cation at New York University, examines the forces determined …

Basic Education (2020-04-15). 10th Amendment on Presidential Powers; Destruction of Food Crime Against Humanity. indybay.org Contrary to Nazi Trump, his powers are limited by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. Meanwhile, neither he nor any governor is buying the vegetables and milk being destroyed by farmers who lost schools and restaurant customers and donating the food and milk to food banks where millions of starving people line up every day for food, or what is left of the food since the food banks are running out of food.

commondreams (2020-04-15). DeVos Group, Right-Wing Fringe Organization Threaten Public Health. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Scott Ritter (2020-04-15). Is Putin Laying a Petroleum Trap for Trump? globalresearch.ca The G20 met in virtual session on April 10,

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-04-15). Trump's Cyprus Signalling Is More Against Turkey Than Russia. globalresearch.ca The

Stephen Lendman (2020-04-15). Corruption at the WHO. Trump Regime COVID-19 Blame Game Diverts Attention from Its Own Failings. globalresearch.ca Trump is the latest in a long line of US leaders and other key officials who time and again blame others for their own harmful actions and failings. | On Tuesday, Trump directed his blame game at the World Health Organization …

RT (2020-04-15). Researchers blast Swedish govt for disastrous Covid-19 strategy, claim country's death toll headed for 'heights of Italy'. rt.com A group of 22 researchers has penned a letter demanding "swift and radical action" by the Swedish government to prevent the further spread of coronavirus in the country and the potential collapse of its healthcare system. | The scientists According to the group, Sweden's Public H…

James J. Zogby (2020-04-15). A Lethal Brew: Israel's Racism and the Pandemic. globalresearch.ca While reporting from Israel/Palestine has focused on Israel's difficulties in forming a new government and on measures being taken by Israelis to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic, the story behind the story is the role anti-Arab racism has played in …

Kurt Nimmo (2020-04-15). German Lawyer Sent to Psychiatric Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 Lockdown. globalresearch.ca In the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness. |

RT (2020-04-15). Pick your poison: Scientists develop opioid alternative using VENOM from 'extremely aggressive' spider. rt.com Scientists in Australia have made a significant if somewhat strange breakthrough in the development of non-addictive, but equally effective, alternative painkillers to opioids… by using spider venom. | Dr Christina Schroeder and her team of researchers at the University of Queensland have created novel tarantula mini-proteins by using the venom of a Chinese bird spider, "considered extremely aggressive and highly venomous." | The mini protein, called Huwentoxin-IV, binds to pain receptors in the body and has been engineered for greater potency and targeting of specific pain receptors. | The experimental new…

Adam Dick (2020-04-15). People 'Should be Leery About' a Coronavirus Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Ron Paul, in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth, warns that people "should be leery about" coronavirus vaccines that may come out. Further, says Paul, a doctor and former United States House of Representatives …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-15). Science Saturday: The new super power of handwashing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Researchers are hard at work identifying ways to help patients with COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But in the meantime, one common household object can be used to help prevent infection. Soap. Good old soap, the Clark Kent of clean, is really the superhero fatty acid salt, the Superman of clean. Soap …

RT (2020-04-15). Indian scientists discover new type of coronavirus in two species of fruit BAT. rt.com While the world battles against the rapidly spreading Covid-19 disease, another type of coronavirus has been discovered in bats inhabiting India, a new study has found. | Some 25 bats have tested positive for the new coronavirus dubbed BtCoV, local media reported, citing a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The tested animals are from the bat species Rousettus and Pteropus, commonly referred to as fruit bats. They were found in India's southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, as well as in Himachal Pradesh state in the Western Himalayas. | "These bat coronaviruses have no rela…

Alex Snowdon (2020-04-15). Labour's Explosive Report Shows How Right-wing Officials Sabotaged the Party. globalresearch.ca A leaked 850-page report provides a wealth of information about how senior officials undermined Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party. Titled 'The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019', it particularly documents …

Barbara Nimri Aziz (2020-04-15). "Madam, How Can I Have Any Plans?" globalresearch.ca "I am searching for medicine for my mother; I've no money to repair my car; I have my sister asking me to help her son; I have come to the end of our food ration for this week." | A reply …

Peter Oborne (2020-04-15). How Coronavirus Is Destroying Donald Trump's Presidency. globalresearch.ca The Mercifully, Trump himself has

The Global Research Team (2020-04-15). Global Research: Your Daily Panoramic View of World Events. globalresearch.ca Since 2001, Global Research has established an international network of authors, scholars and investigative journalists. Our news coverage comes from a multitude of diverse perspectives to offer you a panoramic view of the current state of the world on a …

Telesur (2020-04-15). Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America. globalresearch.ca According to data compiled through April 11, Venezuela had carried out 181,335 COVID-19 tests, which allowed this South American country to detect patients in time and become the Latin American nation with the lowest infection rate. | " …

Wayne Dupree (2020-04-15). US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as 'Coronavirus'. globalresearch.ca Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He's also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingram where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association is now "encouraging" doctors to overcount …

Prof. John McMurtry (2020-04-15). Will Covid-19 Awake Us? The Unconscious System Plague. globalresearch.ca Like others, I have thought from the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic that it was forcing us to awake from exponential life-system destruction by 'business as usual' to our common life-ground. | In the words of the formerly neo-liberal Governor …

Staff (2020-04-15). 37,000 More Americans May Die Because Trump Did Not Take COVID-19 Seriously. truthout.org Two epidemiologists, writing an op-ed together in The New York Times on Wednesday, are suggesting that earlier efforts to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus — even implementing social distancing measures by just a week or two — could have saved tens of thousands of American lives. | Britta Jewell, a research fellow in the department of infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College, London, and Nicholas Jewell, chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at London School…

Almasdar News (2020-04-15). US Flexes Military Might in Front of Russian Forces with F-35 Flight Over Syria. globalresearch.ca The U.S. military flew their new F-35 stealth jet over Syria's skies this past week, as they display their strength in front of the Russian Armed Forces who are only a few kilometers away from the American troops in the …

Peter Koenig (2020-04-15). IMF Projects Global Economy in 2020 to Contract by a Mere 3%. Is this a Joke? globalresearch.ca Background | The International Monetary Fund projects that the global economy will fall by three percent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. | The IMF chief economist branded the widespread restrictions around the world as the Great Lockdown. Gita Gopinath said …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-15). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, researchers are still learning how the virus affects the body. And this raises questions for pregnant women. Can COVID-19 affect pregnancy? Is breastfeeding safe? How can a pregnant woman protect herself from the disease? On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …

teleSUR (2020-04-15). Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die. telesurenglish.net Eleven people died in Manaus, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, during a study conducted with high doses of the drug chloroquine. | RELATED: | Eighty-one patients participated in the research, 41 of whom received a high dose of chloroquine. | After three days of treatment, those who received the highest dose of chloroquine began to have heart arrhythmias. | On the sixth day of treatment, 11 of thm died, leading the gr…

Michael Kern (2020-04-15). Coronavirus and the Coming Financial Revolution. globalresearch.ca The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest and unprecedented seismic shifts in the global economy that we've ever seen in modern history, and it's just getting started. | Already, economies around the world are shutting down. The federal reserve has …

Cory Morningstar (2020-04-15). COVID-19 as a Weapon. The Crushing of the Disposable Working Class — by Design. globalresearch.ca The arrogance and brutality of the ruling class — is nothing less than breathtaking. | Let's begin. |

South Front (2020-04-15). Video: Turkish Forces Clash with Their Own Proxies on M4 Highway in Southern Idlib. globalresearch.ca On April 13, the Turkish Army and its proxies from the so-called Free Syrian Police clashed with supporters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other radical Idlib groups east of the town of Nayrab on the M4 highway. | According to sources …

sputniknews (2020-04-15). Scientists Study Relationship Between Emotions and Touching Different Textures. sputniknews.com Russian scientists have found that the sensations of touching various textures affect the emergence of certain emotions. According to the authors of a study, the findings will help research the perception of emotions through touching objects in greater detail.

sputniknews (2020-04-15). Astronauts Spending Long Time in Space Have Greater Dementia Risk, Claims New Study. sputniknews.com Researchers are now working to solve all these issues as space agencies prepare to launch manned missions to Mars. The journey to the Red Planet lasts between 200-300 days.

On 2nd "OUTNOW! Tuesday" (2020-04-15). Bay Area Refuse Fascism Members Bang Pots, Call for Removal of Trump/Pence. indybay.org In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Refuse Fascism updated their 2020 Statement of Conscience/Call To Act. Included here are photos and a 4 second video of members displaying signage, wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing and banging pots on an "Out Now Tuesday" April 14. At the same time, 7pm, at other locations in the Bay Area, members shouted "Trump Pence Out Now!" for neighbors to hear.

KOAT (2020-04-15). This is where all 50 states stand on reopening. koat.com Along with expanding testing and tracing, governors across the country are highlighting the importance of using science and advice from health officials rather than politics to choose when to reopen the economy.

Ariel Dorfman (2020-04-15). Trump's attack on science. zcomm.org My own dire prophecies failed to adequately predict the future and today I see Trump as someone far more terrifying…

Ariel Dorfman (2020-04-15). I Warned About Trump's Attacks on Science, But Didn't Predict the Horror That Lay Ahead. counterpunch.org " °Abajo la inteligencia! °Viva la muerte!" 5Those infamous words — "Down with intelligence! Long live death!" — were pronounced in 1936 by General Millán Astray, a fascist general who was a mentor and friend of Francisco Franco, soon to be Spain's dictator for over four decades. They were part of a ranting speech Millán delivered

WSWS (2020-04-15). German National Academy of Sciences demands reopening of primary schools. wsws.org The call for human life to be weighed against economic value runs through the statement from start to finish.

yenisafak (2020-04-15). Vitamin C effective against COVID-19: Expert. yenisafak.com Vitamin C is a simple yet effective molecule in fighting the novel coronavirus, according to an expert."Our most important agents are hydroxychloroquine and favipiravir. Besides these, we also have high-dose vitamin C treatment," Professor Mutlu Demiray, a scientific advisor at the Health Sciences University in Istanbul, told Anadolu Agency."Vitamin C does not interact with these drugs, has no side effects and is safe," Demiray added.Stressing that vitamin C is effective in treating COVID-19, Demiray cited a study in scientific journal JAMA that "pointed out that administering vitamin C to intensive-care patients…

sputniknews (2020-04-15). Fortnite Fans Mourn, Scoff New Season Delay on Social Media as Epic Games Expects Early June Release. sputniknews.com One of the world's most popular games with millions of players has delayed the release of its new season to June, sparking disappointment and anger on social media, it was found on Wednesday.

Wayne Madsen (2020-04-15). U.S. Will Always Be Remembered as a COVID-19 Pariah State. iranian.com The anti-science, conspiracy-driven, and radical right-wing agenda of the Trump administration has directly led to the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans and foreign citizens amid the worst pandemic to strike the world since the 1918 influenza scourge. Like any fascist tyrant, Trump requires scapegoats to maintain his power base and he has …

Douglas Medina (2020-04-15). Working-Class Students Doing Double Duty During Coronavirus. commondreams.org A medical worker walks near a coronavirus intake tent at the University Hospital of Brooklyn on April 14, 2020 in New York City, United States. New York has been the hardest hit city in the nation from the COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

KOAT (2020-04-15). Hawaii governor proposing a 20% pay cut to teachers, 10% reduction to other public workers, unions say. koat.com News outlets said unions have reported the governor's proposal would involve a 20% pay cut for teachers and 10% reduction for other public workers, such as nurses.

RedDiaperette (2020-04-15). Michigan Governor bans stores from selling vegetable seeds. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 16 Replies | | 3496 Views | Last post by RedDiaperette…

KOOK (2020-04-15). Drive-Thru Service for Antibodies to CCP-Wuhan Corona Virus. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post | | 267 Views | Post by KOOK…

graham (2020-04-15). 21 million Chinese dead due to COVID-19 story is FAKE NEWS. truepublica.org.uk Did new US intelligence data reveal that 21 million people died in China from December 2019 to March 2020 due to the novel coronavirus? No, that's not true: An online article being shared uses a statistic about a drop in cellphone users to make a faulty supposition that this figure reflects COVID-19 deaths in China. …

jackalopelipsky (2020-04-15). Czech Police Make Nude Sunbathers Wear Corona-Virus Masks. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 8 Replies | | 2525 Views | Last post by jackalopelipsky…

Captain Craptek (2020-04-15). Life in Cuba exposed in rare video. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 5 Replies | | 1414 Views | Last post by Captain Craptek…

jackalopelipsky (2020-04-15). Finally – A Theory That Holds Water. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 1 Post | | 455 Views | Post by jackalopelipsky…

$.$. Halliburton (2020-04-15). Whitmer authorizes lethal force to maintain state lockdown. thepeoplescube.com <h5><a href="https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/" title="People's Blog">People's Blog</a></h5> | <b>Statistics</b> : 7 Replies | | 3312 Views | Last post by $.$. Halliburton…

Aminata Tour√© (2020-04-15). Africa Is Relying on its Own Forces in Fight Against Covid-19. commondreams.org A scientific staff member works in a secure laboratory, researching the coronavirus, at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar on February 3, 2020. (Photo: Seyllou / AFP / Getty images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …

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