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from BBC News (UK)
China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
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from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Media/News Company in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
'We, too, are part of this world': How Hutterites, Old Order Mennonites are responding to COVID-19
Conservative Christian communities are struggling to adapt to COVID-19 restrictions as they balance public safety with their communal lifestyle. Hutterites, the Amish and Old Order Mennonites live simply and separately from wider mainstream society.
'We, too, are part of this world': How Hutterites, Old Order Mennonites are responding to COVID-19
Conservative Christian communities are struggling to adapt to COVID-19 restrictions as they balance public safety with their communal lifestyle. Hutterites, the Amish and Old Order Mennonites live simply and separately from wider mainstream society.
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from CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies
Today, the entire world is consumed by the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Several Asian countries, including China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, are grappling with containment and mitigation on the tail end of their epidemiologic curves. In much of Europe and North America, countries are contending with accelerated outbreaks with rapid spikes in cases and deaths. Many countries, including the United States, remain several painful weeks away from their apex. Amid this global health crisis, it is important to consider what a post-Covid-19 world might look like and what destructive paths the pandemic might take. This commentary is an initial effort to succinctly capture the major drivers behind the pandemic—both natural and political—and to sketch three possible, broad scenarios for how the pandemic may play out in the United States. Similar trajectories may unfold throughout North America and Europe.
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from Defense News
A Russian Air Force cargo plane reportedly carrying medical supplies for coronavirus patients landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport just after 4 p.m. Wednesday. Moscow seized the chance to publicize the rare instance of a Russian plane bringing humanitarian aid — ordered by the U.S. government — to a U.S. airport, flooding social media with pictures and video shortly after the plane’s arrival. State media even had a live video feed of forklifts carrying brown boxes off the plane. “A propaganda bonanza as our own government shrinks from America’s leadership role in a global crisis,” Brett McGurk, former special envoy for the U.S. fight against ISIS, tweeted.
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from The Hill
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Jack, a British actor and dialect coach who appeared in multiple “Star Wars” films, has died at 76 due to complications from the coronavirus. Jack, who played General Ematt in “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens” and “Star Wars Episode VIII — The Last Jedi,” also served as dialect coach for films including “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Nightingale” and “Eastern Promises,” for actors including Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Robert Downey Jr.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
It's Time to Track the FDA's Death Toll
The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. Long after foreign nations had been ravaged and many cases had been detected in America, the FDA continued blocking private testing. The FDA continued forcing the nation’s most innovative firms to submit to its command-and-control approach notwithstanding the pandemic. South Korean is in a far better situation dealing with coronavirus, because its government did not preemptively cripple private testing. One of the clearest lessons from the current pandemic is that nothing has changed at one of the nation’s most powerful regulatory agencies.
In a Crisis, the Most Innovative Entrepreneurs Make the Most Money. That's a Good Thing.
Quick, what do Amazon, Gilead, and Netflix have in common? Obvious answer: they are getting valuable, even lifesaving, goods to people stuck in their homes; working hard to develop treatments and cures for the new strain of coronavirus; and helping relieve the tedium of government-enforced lockdowns. What a privilege to live in a mostly capitalist society, in which the pursuit of profit, rather than government directive, leads entrepreneurs, inventors, workers, and investors to move resources to higher-valued uses. It is precisely during a crisis that private property, the price mechanism, and the profit and loss system are most important, and when the government can do the most damage.
The Problem with the "Renters' Rights" Movement
Both renters and landlords have plenty of troubles when it comes to working together. But putting government regulators in the mix won't help matters.
The Federal Government Owns 92 Percent of Student Loans. Why Do Politicians Lie About It?
Representatives Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley just introduced the Student Debt Emergency Relief Act to provide student debt relief during the coronavirus pandemic. In reality, the crisis is a pretext to push through student loan forgiveness of as much as $30,000 per borrower. This should hardly come as a shock. Outstanding student debt is bordering on $1.6 trillion, and many Democrats have made debt relief a pillar of their election campaigns. As if their intentions weren’t already transparent enough, Representative James Clyburn publicly admitted that the crisis was “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.” Although many libertarians and conservatives oppose student loan forgiveness, I have previously argued that as long as the federal government owns the loans, there is no ethical dilemma with forgiveness—libertarians, at least, should be eager to cut off any stream of revenue to the government. The caveat for advocates of free market solutions, however, is that the federal government must accompany forgiveness with a repeal of all programs for subsidizing and guaranteeing loans. Anything less, I warned, would be a formula for socializing higher education.
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from MyNorthwest.com
Media/News Company in Seattle
SPD, so short-handed they cannot respond to burglaries in progress, had to close the tunnel for SDOT. Now, Carmen Best wants people to call 911 if someone is rude. Apparently she’s cool with burglaries and assaults, but, draws the line at people calling names.
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from The Roman Anglican (blog)
An Anglican review on art and history, based in Rome.
Over 105,500 is the number of people who were infected with Sars-Cov2 in Italy as of today, 12,428 is the number of people who died because of complications caused by this type of Coronavirus, 969 is the highest number of people who died in a single day due to complications caused by Sars-Covid19, four days ago. But there is one gleam of hope. Today our country, where the outbreak first spread without control in the West, has reached the peak. This means that we have slowly reached the worst moment of this crisis. We have seen many deaths, we have been bombarded by terrible news on television, as well as the sight of tragic and heartbreaking scenes all over the media.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Be Alert to Marxists Controlling the Coronavirus Narrative to Advance Totalitarianism
The coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID-19, is a real and growing pandemic around the world and inside the United States. UTT believes it is important during this time that Americans keep in mind there are hostile forces which appear to be actively using this “crisis” to advance their nefarious efforts. Specifically, UTT assesses the Marxist leadership in the U.S., primarily led by national democrat leaders and their surrogates, has control of the coronavirus narrative and is using this crisis to further totalitarian objectives.
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
The Treasury announced late Wednesday that Social Security beneficiaries who typically do not file a tax return will automatically get the $1,200 payment. The announcement is a reversal from earlier in the week when the Internal Revenue Service said everyone would need to file some sort of tax return in order to qualify for the payments. Democrats and some Republicans criticized the IRS for requiring so many extra hurdles for this vulnerable population to get aid when the government already has their information on file.
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from Understanding the Threat
EXTREME RIGHT BIAS, QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, Media/News Company in Dallas, TexasBe Alert to Marxists Controlling the Coronavirus Narrative to Advance Totalitarianism
The coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID-19, is a real and growing pandemic around the world and inside the United States. UTT believes it is important during this time that Americans keep in mind there are hostile forces which appear to be actively using this “crisis” to advance their nefarious efforts. Specifically, UTT assesses the Marxist leadership in the U.S., primarily led by national democrat leaders and their surrogates, has control of the coronavirus narrative and is using this crisis to further totalitarian objectives.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
The Treasury announced late Wednesday that Social Security beneficiaries who typically do not file a tax return will automatically get the $1,200 payment. The announcement is a reversal from earlier in the week when the Internal Revenue Service said everyone would need to file some sort of tax return in order to qualify for the payments. Democrats and some Republicans criticized the IRS for requiring so many extra hurdles for this vulnerable population to get aid when the government already has their information on file.
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