The same New York “health officials” who told you to “hunker down” at home to prevent COVID-19 disease transmission for years are now blaming a heat wave that kept city-dwellers indoors as a likely driver in an increase in new cases.
Category: 8 August 2023
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LATEST COVID LOCKDOWN CASUALTY: STUDENTS DIDN’T LEARN BASIC SKILLS DURING REMOTE LEARNING
Employers are finding it difficult to fill professional service jobs and many companies are blaming remote learning for many of the shortcomings because of the lack of real-world training.
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DRUG COMPANIES BEHIND MIRACLE WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS HIT WITH LAWSUITS OVER STOMACH PARALYSIS
The drug makers behind two of the most popular weight-loss drugs on the market—Ozempic and Mounjaro—are facing lawsuits claiming that they failed to warn users that the drug can cause paralysis of the stomach.
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DUH-MOCK-RACY: ISRAEL HOLDING OVER 1,200 DETAINEES—MAINLY PALESTINIANS—WHO HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED
An Israeli human rights group said last week that Israel has about 1,200 Palestinians detained who have not had a trial and don’t even know the reason they’re being held because of a murky law that allows them to be held on secret charges.
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NATO INFRINGEMENT? POLAND SENDS TROOPS TO THE BORDER AFTER ALLEGATIONS THAT MINSK VIOLATED AIRSPACE
Poland announced last week that it will send more troops to its border with Belarus after claiming that Minsk violated its airspace with military helicopters—a claim that Minsk rejected.
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AS U.S. RAMPS UP TENSIONS WITH IRAN, TEHRAN GOES ON WEAPONS SPENDING SPREE
Iran has fortified its naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz with long-range missiles and drones after reports that Washington is set to put Marines on commercial ships sailing through the key oil waterway—which is seen as the latest escalation between the two countries.
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AMERICAN MAJORITY: STOP CUTTING CHECKS FOR UKRAINE
Most Americans polled now say they want Congress to stop funding the Ukraine War effort and just 17 percent say they would back a U.S. intervention with troops.
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POLAND’S RELATIONSHIP WITH UKRAINE TESTED OVER STEPAN BANDERA
Pawel Jablonski, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, warned last week that the acknowledgment of the WWII-era massacre of 60,000 ethnic Poles by Stepan Bandera, a national hero in Ukraine, remains the biggest obstacle in their relationship that has been tested in recent days.
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NIGER JUNTA EMERGES UNSCATHED AFTER THREAT OF MILITARY INTERVENTION FROM ECOWAS
The leadership behind the recent coup in Niger emerged unscathed by a deadline imposed by the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, to relinquish power in Niamey or face the possibility of military intervention.
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FRANCE CALLS NIGER COUP LEADERS ILLEGITIMATE, WILL KEEP FORCES IN COUNTRY
France, a former colonial power that invaded numerous nations across Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world to kill and conquer countries so they could steal natural resources and whatever they wanted, that has maintained a troop presence in the mineral-rich Niger, announced last week that it will not pull out its forces after a request by the military junta now in control of the country.