Friday, May 15, 2020

In the news, Monday, May 4, 2020


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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH;  News & Media Website based in Hong Kong

Buffett sold all of Berkshire’s airline shares
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet announced over the weekend that his company had sold all its stakes in four major US airlines last month, as the pandemic clobbered the travel industry.

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from Conciliar Post

THE PANDEMIC AND THE WRATH OF GOD
What if God, seeing our worship of Mammon, our reckless disregard for his creation, our cynical and inhumane governments, has seen fit to bring the whole thing down? What if God, in his wrath, has decided to crash the economy, ground the aeroplanes to a halt, let every social and political norm dissolve, and push the reset button?

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from Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia)

Coronavirus NSW: Dossier lays out case against China bat virus program
China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens of thousands of lives, according to a dossier prepared by concerned Western governments on the COVID-19 contagion. The 15-page research document, obtained by The Saturday Telegraph, lays the foundation for the case of negligence being mounted against China. It states that to the “endangerment of other countries” the Chinese government covered-up news of the virus by silencing or “disappearing” doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of it in laboratories and refusing to provide live samples to international scientists who were working on a vaccine.

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from The Moscow Times (Russia)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, English-language online-only newspaper based in Moscow

Third Russian Doctor Falls From Hospital Window After Coronavirus Complaint
A paramedic who complained about being forced to work despite contracting coronavirus is in critical condition after he fell from a hospital window in western Russia this weekend, local media reported. This is at least the third incident in which a Russian healthcare professional has plunged from a hospital building under mysterious circumstances in the past two weeks. The two previous doctors have died from their injuries.

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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia

SEVERAL MORE MOSCOW CLERICS, INCLUDING RETIRED METROPOLITAN, REPOSE IN THE LORD
A wave of coronavirus infections and deaths continues to move through the Russian Orthodox Church, especially affecting the Moscow Diocese. Several more clerics and monastics of the Church have reposed in the Lord in recent days, including a retired hierarch.

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from POLITICO
LEAST BIASED, HIGH, news and opinion website in Arlington, Virginia

It was April 2009 and the 3-month-old Obama administration was desperately grappling with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression when homeland security adviser John Brennan arrived at the Oval Office to warn the president and Vice President Joe Biden of a new crisis: H1N1, the swine flu virus, was showing signs of rapid spread in Mexico, while cases were popping up in California and Texas. Brennan pointed out that the Spanish flu — the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history — was an H1N1 strain. “It made their eyebrows go up,” Brennan says now, recalling Biden’s reaction in particular.

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from Rasmussen Reports

More Are Ready to Return to Work, Less Fearful of COVID-19 Risk
Voters are more eager to get back to work but aren’t convinced things will be returning to normal for many by next month. Most remain worried, too, that they’ll get the coronavirus if they return to the workplace. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s time for America to get back to work, up from 36% less than three weeks ago. Thirty-eight percent (38%) still disagree, down from 49%, while 19% are not sure. But 65% are concerned personally about getting the coronavirus if they go back to work, with 33% who are Very Concerned. That compares to 71% and 41% respectively in mid-April. Thirty-three percent (33%) don’t share that concern, but that includes only 13% who are Not at All Concerned. Among those who are ready to return to work, however, only 45% are concerned about getting COVID-19 in the workplace, with 17% who are Very Concerned.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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