Victoria, Australia, has taken some of the world’s most aggressive and intrusive steps in its campaign to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The local government reportedly has launched drones to make sure people outdoors are wearing a mask, have shut down businesses and erected a “ring of steel” to limit regional travel, have threatened...
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AUSTRALIANS LASH OUT AT LOCKDOWNS
Some residents in Victoria, Australia, have lashed out at the government over what they call over-the-top mandates to deal with the coronavirus outbreak despite an “extraordinarily low” level of people who require treatment after diagnosis. Off-guardian.org, a website in the country, wrote that officials there seem to be “undeterred by inconvenient truths” regarding the infection...
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MASK-WEARINGS DETRIMENTAL AFFECT ON CHILDREN
Absent in mainstream media coverage is the reporting of an open letter written by doctors in Belgium to the country’s top education official last week, calling on him to reverse his face-mask requirement at school due to its effect on the children’s well-being. The Brussels Times reported that 70 doctors signed the letter to Ben...
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GO TO SCHOOL. DON’T PARTY!
Old people telling young people, “Don’t go out and party” is the new Abnormal. From sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to shelter-in-place, in school districts across America, the new regulations being imposed on young people by school administrators and politicians are: “Don’t go out and party with friends – you’ll either get COVID-19 and...
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INCOME INEQUALITY: OFF WITH THEIR HEADS 2.0
The one big message 2011’s Occupy Wall Street protests brought to light was income inequality: how the 1 percent owns so much and how the rest of civilization owns so little. A new study by the RAND Corporation, in collaboration with the Fair Work Center, has clarified just how much the vast majority of Americans...
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AMERICA: IN FARMERS WE TRUST
The analytics company Gallup has been polling Americans on their opinions of various businesses and industries. This year’s poll, which came out on 3 September, states, “For the first time in Gallup’s 20 years of tracking Americans’ views of various business and industry sectors, farming and agriculture is the clear leader.” Farming and agriculture had...
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BIDEN TRUSTS VACCINES. TRUMP? NOT SO MUCH
Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, said last week that he trusts “science” and will trust a vaccine after it is approved by top health officials, but he said he puts no stock in what President Trump says about advances in the search for an inoculation. Biden’s comments are not surprising and follow in...
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U.S. OFFICIALS AT RISK FOR WAR CRIMES CHARGES
The U.S. State Department has not addressed the legal ramifications of selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and could be increasing its exposure to war-crimes charges for top U.S. officials, according to a report last week. The New York Times reported that President Obama’s State Department first raised the issue back in 2016, during the air...
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BODYBUILDERS’ SUPPLEMENT STALLS AGING
BODYBUILDERS’ SUPPLEMENT STALLS AGING Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG), a supplement bodybuilders use to bulk up, has delayed the symptoms of aging and extended healthspans in mice, researchers at California’s Buck Institute for Research on Aging have found. AKG occurs naturally in mammals, including humans, and is a compound needed to convert food into energy. Physicians sometimes prescribe...