"If there is life on Venus, it might want to start learning Russian. The boss of Russia's government space agency has claimed it as a 'Russian planet.'… The bold territorial claim comes on the heels of scientific research suggesting life could exist on Earth's celestial neighbor, the second planet from the sun." Ah, yeah, Sergie.
"Scientists have found a clever new way of measuring ocean warming, using sound waves from undersea earthquakes… Their new method shows the decadal warming trend in the Indian Ocean was far higher than previous estimates."
"Nearly 30 Massachusetts high school students have been told to quarantine after parents sent their child to school despite knowing that the teen was positive for the coronavirus." Jazz hands!
"This means the same proportion of people have been infected in Kenya's two biggest cities as have been infected in some of the hardest hit parts of New York City. But not only has the death rate been low, but the country's health ministry has repeatedly stated that about 90 percent of Kenyans who have tested positive have proven asymptomatic."
"Now at the beginning of the Jewish High Holiday season, Israel entered a second lockdown on Friday as coronavirus cases soar in a country of around 9 million people."
"Britain was on Friday considering whether to impose a second national lockdown, after new COVID-19 cases almost doubled to 6,000 per day, hospital admissions rose and infection rates soared across parts of northern England and London."
"'Pandemic fatigue' has set in across parts of Europe where the outbreak is on the rise again in some countries that were hailed early on for stamping out massive outbreaks." Whispers, pandemic fatigue is not just in Europe.
"The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that weekly coronavirus case numbers are rising in Europe at a higher rate than during the pandemic's peak in March… At a virtual news conference, Dr. Hans Kluge, regional director of WHO in Europe, warned, 'We do have a very serious situation unfolding before us.'" Rhut rho.
"That apparent lack of footage is critical, considering that the narrative of what happened during the attempted arrest of Reinoehl in the town of Lacey, Washington, is so confusing. An eyewitness interviewed by VICE News said he did not see Reinoehl pull a weapon; U.S. Marshals, who led a fugitive task force arresting Reinoehl, initially said he drew his weapon on officers and was subsequently shot… The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office (TCOS), which was not involved in the shooting but is investigating the Reinoehl killing, clarified that he had a handgun at the time of his death, but the TCOS wasn’t yet sure whether he drew or fired it… President Trump has described Reinoehl's killing as 'retribution.'" How convenient.
"A Salt Lake City police officer is facing a felony charge stemming from an April encounter in which he ordered a police dog to attack a Black man who was on his knees with his hands raised, seemingly complying with officer commands… Salt Lake City District Attorney Sim Gill announced the aggravated assault charge on Wednesday. He alleges that officer Nickolas Pearce did "attempt, with unlawful force or violence, to do bodily injury to another" during the April 24 encounter with Jeffery Ryans."
The economic toll of the pandemic isn't being distributed evenly. "Sixty percent of Black households are facing serious financial problems since the pandemic began, according to a national poll released this week by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. That includes 41% who say they've used up most or all their savings, while an additional 10% had no savings before the outbreak." Again, the pandemic isn't causing these inequities, it's just making them easier to see.
"Belarus's president, beleaguered by six weeks of mass protests demanding his resignation, has announced he is putting troops on high alert and closing the country's borders with Poland and Lithuania."
"Citing national security concerns, the U.S. government said it will bar downloads in the U.S. of the Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat apps starting Sunday… In its announcement Friday, the Commerce Department accused China's communist leaders of having shown 'the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the U.S.,'" Funny how this only came about after TikTok users spoofed the Trump campaign's Oklahoma rally.
Remember when conservatives lost their minds over Common Core which basically said, “kids who graduate should be able to read and do math” as being something forced down their throats by the Federal Government and we need to keep local control of schools? President Trump just said, "Hold my beer." "In austere, starkly divisive remarks, President Trump on Thursday said he would create a commission to promote 'patriotic education' and announced the creation of a grant to develop a 'pro-American curriculum.' The move is largely political — a reaction to a growing push by some academics for schools to teach an American history that better acknowledges slavery and systemic racism." Hang on to your asses, folks. The crazy is only just starting.
"The precarious financial position that some friends of Trump and other hotel executives are now in has fueled an intense lobbying campaign aimed at persuading the Trump administration, the Federal Reserve and Congress to rescue hundreds of hotel industry players that relied on riskier Wall Street debt to finance their lodging empires before the virus hit… They are making the case that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has the power — and access to the billions of federal funds he needs — to extend existing coronavirus relief efforts to the commercial real estate sector, which so far has been cut off from most of the stimulus money." And now you know why Mnuchin wanted full control over the money with no overbite. The swamp in all it's glory.
"The one person Republicans were using as a source of 'dirt' on former Vice President Joe Biden, Andrii Derkach, was officially sanctioned by President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department for being an 'active Russian agent.' Now, Trump’s favorite conservative outlet, OANN, is scrambling to remove any mention of his name from their website. They neglected to remove other spellings of his name, however."
"A woman has accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the 1997 U.S. Open in New York. In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Amy Dorris said Mr. Trump groped various parts of her body and forced his tongue into her mouth outside a bathroom at the event." Wow, it's almost like that Access Hollywood tape was correct.
"Some Jewish Americans are fiercely condemning President Donald Trump for repeating rhetoric they consider to be 'textbook anti-Semitism.'… During an annual White House conference call to honor the upcoming High Holidays on Wednesday, Trump told American Jewish leaders, 'we really appreciate you, we love your country also and thank you very much.'"
How's that swamp draining going? "In late 2019, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina co-sponsored a bill on prescription drug prices — and WBTV, the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, is reporting that Tillis received more than $20,000 in campaign contributions from pharma-associated political action committees 'within two weeks.'" All the money is being drained right into their pockets.
"Election workers around the country are preparing for what could be one of the most chaotic elections in history. There's not only a pandemic, but dozens of ongoing legal fights over voting rules. That's left a lot of things up in the air only weeks before Election Day… In election offices such as the one in Lehigh County, Pa., workers are trying to deal with the uncertainty." The uncertainty, including the outcome, is the plan.
"Across the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has threatened the democratic process ahead of the presidential election. But the situation is even more acute in Texas, where Republicans have long devised a tortuous system that actively disadvantages minority communities who would generally lean Democratic. Long lines, voter intimidation, voting machine malfunctions and other issues afflicted almost 278,000 Texans during the midterm election in 2018, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project."
"Specifically, DeJoy told the officials that his agency was undertaking a public information campaign to explain to voters that the U.S. Postal Service is equipped to handle the expected increase in mail volume that comes during election season, according to New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who leads the National Association of Secretaries of State, which organized the call." Uh huh. Sure. Yeah, you betcha. If you're going to vote by mail, request your ballot as early as you can, follow the directions, and utilize your state's ballot tracking measures to make sure it's counted.
"A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed President Donald Trump's response to the pandemic in a new video Thursday, adding to the growing list of former Trump administration officials who have criticized the President and, in several cases, endorsed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden." Seems like a trend.
"This year campaigns and political parties have staffed up their legal war rooms, making this election season one of the most litigated ever. A lot of the on-going lawsuits are due to coronavirus-related election issues, with at least 248 nationwide."
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