Friday, July 10, 2020

In the news, Wednesday, July 1, 2020


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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City

There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts. If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn’t happen in many cities with the largest protests, including New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. In what’s considered the first systematic look at the question, a team of economists determined that only one of 13 cities involved in the earliest wave of protests after Memorial Day had an increase that would fit the pattern. It was Phoenix, where experts say cases and hospitalizations surged after a decision by Gov. Doug Ducey to end Arizona’s stay-at-home order on May 15 and eased restrictions on businesses. Arizona residents who were cooped up for six weeks flooded Phoenix-area bar districts, ignoring social distancing guidelines.

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

Mexico’s demolition derby picks up speed
As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to fail on all fronts, his mistakes are leading to a huge cost in human lives due to his inept handling of the pandemic. His refusal to mitigate the collapse of the economy with conventional economic tools is making matters worse and his behavior has become increasingly irrational.

China the world’s bad guy, says FBI boss Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray didn’t hold back during an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday. He described China’s Communist government as the biggest threat to the US and the world — revealing his agency has more than 2,000 active investigations which trace back to the “shadowy regime,” the New York Post reported. In an interview, Wray revealed there had been a startling 1,300% increase in espionage investigations into the Chinese region in the past decade and said the party was actively spying on Fortune 100 companies and trying to influence US politics.

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from BBC News (UK)

Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
Up to three million Hong Kong residents are to be offered the chance to settle in the UK and ultimately apply for citizenship, Boris Johnson has said. The PM said Hong Kong's freedoms were being violated by a new security law and those affected would be offered a "route" out of the former UK colony.

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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany

Donald Trump approves plan to pull 9,500 troops from Germany
US President Donald Trump approved a plan to withdraw 9,500 US troops from Germany, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Defense Secretary Mark Esper presented the plan to the president on Monday. It will "enhance Russian deterrence" and strengthen NATO, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

COVID Crisis Could Push 100 Million People into Extreme Poverty, New World Bank Study Says
The surge in extreme global poverty would be the first increase since 1998.

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from Foreign Policy
Magazine; owned by Graham Holdings Company (Washington Post)

What’s This Unit of Russian Spies That Keeps Getting Outed?
Unit 29155 of the GRU is behind plenty of Russia’s high-profile misadventures abroad—and now, apparently, the bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

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from KING 5 (NBC)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Seattle, Washington

25 arrested during overnight protests after Seattle police dismantle ‘CHOP’
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an executive order for protesters to vacate the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (CHOP) zone.

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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)

Gov. Inslee extends Safe Start an additional week
Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Wednesday that he is extending the Safe Start proclamation until July 9, in anticipation of additional modifications that will be made early next week. The governor's office says updated information on Safe Start will be issued Thursday. The order was set to expire at midnight on Wednesday. The Safe Start proclamation was announced at the end of May. It created a phased reopening plan for individual counties to reopen if they meet the requirements.

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from Medium
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform

Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong
The information in this article may be very unreliable - C. S.
Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.

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from The New Yorker
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, magazine in New York

What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
For decades, people have asked me why the oil companies don’t just become solar companies. They don’t for the same reason that Facebook doesn’t behave decently: an oil company’s core business is digging stuff up and burning it, just as Facebook’s is to keep people glued to their screens. Digging and burning is all that oil companies know how to do—and why the industry has spent the past thirty years building a disinformation machine to stall action on climate change. It’s why—with the evidence of climate destruction growing by the day—the best that any of them can offer are vague pronouncements about getting to “net zero by 2050”—which is another way of saying, “We’re not going to change much of anything anytime soon.” (The American giants, like ExxonMobil, won’t even do that.)

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

House passes China sanctions as Pelosi declares 'one country, two systems' dead
The speaker called for bipartisan action to penalize Beijing for violating Hong Kong's legal autonomy, but didn't commit to take up a sanctions bill.

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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, UK

U.S. House bill targets banks amid fears over China law for Hong Kong
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would penalize banks doing business with Chinese officials who implement Beijing’s draconian new national security law imposed on the former British colony of Hong Kong. China responded by saying the United States should stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs and warned that it would “resolutely and forcefully resist”.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Coronavirus autopsies: A story of 38 brains, 87 lungs and 42 hearts
What we’ve learned from the dead that could help the living

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