Bank of England Is Predicting the Biggest Contraction Since the 1709 'Great Frost,' Here Is What Happened Then
Juan Arreseigor | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-10
In the first months of 1709, Europe froze and stayed that way for months. People ice-skated on the canals of Venice, church bells broke when rung, and travelers could cross the Baltic Sea on horseback. This freakish winter ultimately claimed the lives of a vast number of Europeans and disrupted two major wars–but to this day, there is no conclusive theory for its cause. | IT HAPPENED LITERALLY overnight in the first few days of 1709. On January 5, temperatures plummeted–not, perhaps, a surprise in European winter. But 1709 was no ordinary cold snap. Dawn broke the next morning on a continent that had…
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Lockdown Fanatics Scare Me Far More Than Covid-19
Brendan O'Neill | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-10
I know I'm meant to be scared of Covid-19. But I'm far more fearful of the lockdown fanatics. These people who are so blase about the halting of economic life, and who bristle at any suggestion that the lockdown should be eased, pose a graver threat to the future of the UK than coronavirus does. They are a menace to liberty, reason and people's livelihoods. Our society is taking steps to tackle Covid
Imperial College's COVID-19 Coding Is Unintelligible, "Quite Possibly the Worst Production Code I Have Ever Seen"
Ben Lewis | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-10
It may be surprising to those outside the bubble, but it is no great secret within the academic community that the quality of most computer codes used is very poor. Prof. Neil Ferguson's group at Imperial have now published their pandemic modelling code, and it is even by those standards exceptionally abysmal. | What is even more alarming is that the published code has supposedly been improved over a number of weeks to be less dire. So what it looked like back in March when Prof. Ferguson was predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths is anyone's guess. | But…
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Funeral Directors in Covid-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic, Fear Numbers Are 'Padded'
Project Veritas | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-10
Judge Calls Bullsh*t on Relative's COVID-19 Cause of Death | Funeral Home: To Me all You're Doing is Padding the Statistics…Making the Death Rates in New York City Higher than Estimated | Staten Island Funeral Director Questions Mayor DeBlasio's Role and Adds: I Think It's Political | Brooklyn Funeral Director: They Are Padding Numbers; Medical Examiners Too Busy to Investigate | Brooklyn Funeral Director: 40-year-old Died in Home with No Symptoms Other Than Fever, Toe-Tagged as COVID-19 Victim | | Project Veritas today released another video featuri…
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Brazil using pandemic as smokescreen for new attacks on the Amazon, activists warn
Tiffany Duong | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-09
"The invaders think they can enter the indigenous reserve because of the government agenda."
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In WWII 3 out of 4 German KIA Were by Soviet Army
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
State Department's Odd Way of Commemorating WWII
Paul Robinson | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
Co-signed by the foreign ministers of a bunch of Eastern European states, including Hitler's one-time allies Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, the following statement of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on the website of the US State Department yesterday, to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Nazi Germany gets one brief mention. Thereafter, as you will see, it's all 'The Soviets were evil, the Soviets were evil'. To say the least it's a very odd way of commemorating…
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Women In Prisons Say They're Being Punished For Speaking Out About COVID-19 Risks
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
Women say they're being punished for contacting people outside about their living conditions. Activists are planning an action May 23 at Jessup Correctional Facility in response.
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Anti-goldmine activists are 'sickened' by company's £50k donation to a charity for the terminally ill
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-05-09
Anti-goldmine activists in Greencastle in county Tyrone said they were "sicken[ed] to read" that charity Marie Curie accepted a £50k donation and 150 litres of hand sanister from gold mining company Dalradian Gold Ltd. Marie Curie assists peo…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/05/09/anti-goldmine-activists-are-sickened-by-companys-50k-donation-to-a-charity-for-the-terminally-ill/
US Health Care Sector Has Shed 2 Million Jobs in a 'Pandemic'
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
American Institute for Economic Research: Overall, private payrolls lost 19.5 million jobs in April with private services losing 17.2 million and goods-producing industries losing 2.4 million. For private service-producing industries, the declines were led by a 7.7 million decrease in leisure and hospitality. Three other industries lost more than 2 million jobs each: professional and business services declined by 2.128 million with temporary help accounting for 842,000 of that total, retai…
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Europe's Freest Nation Holds the Continent's Only Victory Day Parade (VIDEO)
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
Russia Shot Itself in the Foot With the Corona Hysteria, but the Economic Fallout Will Be Far Less Than in the West
Jon Hellevig | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
In a global comparison, Russia's corona epidemic response has been very strong. The best and most foolproof indicator is the fatality rate. Russia has experienced the lowest Covid-19 mortality among all countries in the Northern Hemisphere, significantly lower than nearly all Western countries. Presently the fatality rate in Russia is 10 per 1 million, compared to 684 in Belgium, 544 (Spain), 483 (UK), 481 (Italy), 386 (France), 274 (Sweden) and 211 (USA). | Russia's initial decisive response helped reduce the spread. The Russian healthcare system proved superior to most other countries in terms of adequate fa…
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100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was…
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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. | MPN– May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler's war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith…
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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler's war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith now split up into a myriad of smaller ones, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Marathon, was crucial to both prolon…
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Jimmy Kimmel's non-apology for pushing FAKE NEWS about VP Pence shows partisanship rules MSM
rt.com | 2020-05-08
After even mainstream outlets objected to a deceptively edited video of VP Mike Pence, comedian Jimmy Kimmel issued a sarcastic apology suggesting that lying about the Trump administration is fine because they don't "value truth." | A 40-second segment seen by millions showed Kimmel mocking Pence for delivering empty boxes of personal protective equipment into a Virginia nursing home. Democrat activists online
This Is Not a Conspiracy, It Is a Terrifying Opportunity
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-08
Brad EVANS"To create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a 'thirdworlding of human societies', representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the terminal empire". |
UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
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UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/uk-supreme-court…
Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Members of Unite the Union, a British and Irish labor union, show support for the Palestinian people. The Palestine Solidarity Committee won a legal victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain when the country's highest court issued a landmark ruling that struck a blow against the Whitehall . . . | Continue reading Palestinian movement scores big legal win for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in Britain at Workers.org…
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Facebook deletes dozens of Palestinian activists' accounts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-07
Social media site Facebook has blocked dozens of pages belonging to Palestinian activists on Monday and Tuesday, May 5 and 6, using the vague category of "not following the community standards". The real figure may rise as reports of more accounts being blocked are still emerging. | According to Facebook, it has already "reviewed" the decision and hence there is no grievance redressal available for those whose pages have been blocked or deleted. | Speaking to Middle East Eye, one of the activists, Imad Jibreen, who lives in the occupied West Bank, claimed that Facebook "did not provide any specific reason" for de…
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Johnson compared to Chamberlain in protest video on White Cliffs of Dover
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-07
Boris Johnson's response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis has been compared to Neville Chamberlain's "peace for our time" moment, in a giant projection beamed on to the White Cliffs of Dover.The Kent landmark was lit up with a mock-up of the prime minister holding a scrap of paper saying "Highest death toll in Europe".The stunt was the brainchild of Led By Donkeys, a group of activists famed for their giant billboards of politicians' tweets.The group said the black and white creation is a comment on the government's "profound failure" and compares Johnson's conduct to Chamberlain's appeasement policy in the l…
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Protesters say: 'Shelters = Death, Hotels = Haven'
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-07
Cops stop activists from delivering demands to a city official's home. After the COVID-19 deaths of dozens of seniors at Philadelphia nursing homes and at least one homeless person in a city shelter, community activists converged on a city official's home on May 6 to deliver a message: The city . . . | Continue reading Protesters say: 'Shelters = Death, Hotels = Haven' at Workers.org…
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Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America's Long Lost Wars
Medea Benjamin | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
Despite a U.N. call for ceasefire and his promise to bring troops home, Trump is continuing U.S.'s unwinnable wars.
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100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was …
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100 Years of Shame: The Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-06
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened in a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera to seal the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I.
mintpressnews.com/100-years-annexation-p…
"It's Very Scary": COVID Surges in Meat Plants as Activists Demand Worker Safety & Meatless Mondays
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-04
At least 20 workers at meat processing plants have died from COVID-19, and around 5,000 have tested positive, but President Trump invoked an executive order to bar local governments from closing meat plants. We hear from meat plant workers and organizers about conditions during the pandemic and speak with Sindy Benavides, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is supporting the workers with a virtual town hall on food worker safety with presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and calling for Meatless May Mondays.
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Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/faceb…
Caravan for Life: Protesters in Puerto Rico Demand More Tests & Resources to Combat the Coronavirus
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-01
On Thursday in Puerto Rico, activists in dozens of cars held a "Caravan Por La Vida," or "Caravan for Life," through San Juan to demand the government provide more COVID-19 tests and sufficient resources for people to stay at home during the pandemic. At least 92 people have died from COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, and last week the island was reporting a testing rate lower than any U.S. state, at an abysmal average of 15 tests a day for every 100,000 people. No one in Puerto Rico has received $1,200 checks from the government, according to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. Police stopped the caravan and said their sou…
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