A Pew Research poll published last 28 October showed the coronavirus has added to the political divide already existing in the U.S., and Americans see the virus through a political lens more than any of the 12 other advanced economies surveyed. The poll was taken in the June-August period last year when President Trump was...
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MASK POLLUTION
One of the questions researchers at the University of Southern Denmark are asking is, “Has society recognized the huge environmental threat caused by some three million masks, most made from plastic microfibers, being thrown away EVERY MINUTE?” The research, published in the current journal Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, states, “With increasing reports on...
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MORE COVID, LESS COLLEGE
A recent study found that fewer U.S. high school students see themselves attending a four-year university on graduation, a drop of 20 percent in the past eight months, according to a report from the ECMG Group. CNBC, citing the ECMC Group’s report, stated 53 percent of high schoolers polled said they plan on attending the...
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CANADA LOCKDOWN: NURSING HOMES’ VICTIMS OF COVID
Last week, The New York Times ran a lengthy story on long-term care residents in Canada having expressed confusion over the fact that they have been vaccinated for COVID-19, yet they have not seen a return to normal life. “While the vaccines have given the majority of nursing-home residents protection from death by the virus,...
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GERMANY: MERKEL’S PARTY HIT BY DIRTY MASK DEALS
Three German MPs from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party were forced to resign last week after it was revealed they made hundreds of thousands of euros for doing dirty government deals with coronavirus mask manufacturers. “This has the potential to inflict long-lasting harm on the CDU,” Olav Gutting, a lawyer and politician, told the paper. He...
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DUTCH COVID COPS BEAT LOCKDOWN PROTESTERS
On Sunday, thousands of protesters in the Netherlands demonstrated against the country’s coronavirus lockdown they say has been unfairly implemented and is economically devastating. To prevent protesters from gathering, who carried banners that in Dutch read, “Love & Freedom: No Dictatorship,” trains headed to the city were halted. Several people were hurt and some 20...
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ITALY GOING DOWN: ANOTHER LOCKDOWN
Mario Draghi, the new Prime Minister of Italy, announced on Friday that major cities, including Rome and Milan, will be locked down and schools, shops, and restaurants will again be closed in its fight to win the COVID War. To “celebrate” Easter, Draghi declared the entire country will be considered a “red zone” over the...
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INTRODUCING JUICING INTO YOUR DIET
by Gary Null, PhD I’ve been juicing for myself and educating others about this natural way to consume maximal nutrients since I opened my first health food store, Creative Health Foods, in 1967. It also eventually had Manhattan’s first juice bar. Twenty years ago, I wrote the first edition of The Joy of Juicing. It was the...
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VACCINE HALTED IN EUROPE
Yesterday, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Slovenia joined a growing list of European nations that put a hold on jabbing their citizens with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Germany’s health ministry tweeted, “Following reports of cerebral vein thrombosis in connection with the vaccination in Germany and Europe, the Paul Ehrlich Institute considers further investigations...
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DEMOCRATS CRAFT PLAN TO “OUTCOMPETE” CHINA
Democrats in the U.S. Senate are drafting a bill designed to blunt China’s technological advantage and vault the U.S. into leadership in high-tech manufacturing and other industries that will define the global economy in coming decades. Senate committees are working on aspects of the legislation and could have a bill ready to introduce next month,...