Daily Archives: April 7, 2020

2020-04-07: News Headlines

Staff (2020-04-07). Stir Crazy! Episode #8: How awful is Covid-19? therealnews.com Stir Crazy Episode #8 on The Real News Network. Journalist Baynard Woods just recovered from COVID-19 and talks with writer/organizer Jesse A. Myerson and TRNN's Kim Brown, Leandro Lagera, and Lisa Snowden-McCray about how to prepare for self-quarantine. Today's Show: Cuomo is not a hero; Amazon fights its own workers; Wisconsin Republicans conspire to kill…

Kristinn Hrafnsson (2020-04-07). Video: Collateral Murder 10 Years On. globalresearch.ca Today April 05, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the WikiLeaks publication of the Collateral Murder video. | The video shows how two Apache helicopters murdered 11 Iraqi people including two Reuters journalists. | This is one of the publications Julian Assange…

Andrew Korybko (2020-04-07). Trump and the COV-19 Hydroxychloroquine Cure. globalresearch.ca The intense politicization over the topic of experimenting with the promising drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients strongly suggests that the "deep state" has intensified its Hybrid War on Trump's America at its most vulnerable moment in modern history, all …

Nino Pagliccia (2020-04-07). A Simple Democratic Transition Framework for Venezuela: End All "Sanctions" counterpunch.org On March 31 the US Secretary of State issued a press statement proposing a "pathway" by which all Venezuelans would live happily ever after. At least that is what Mike Pompeo seems to wish. He "call[s] on all Venezuelans, whether military or civilian, young or old, of all ideological tendencies and party affiliations, to consider

Clio Chang (2020-04-07). Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem. thenation.com Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem…

Staff (2020-04-07). Headlines for April 7, 2020. democracynow.org Boris Johnson in Intensive Care for COVID-19, U.K.'s Foreign Secretary Deputized | , Most of U.S. Population Told to Stay Home as Medical Equipment Shortages Continue to Mar Response, Trump Ignored Coronavirus Warnings from His Own Administration as Early as January | , Grocery Stores Report Coronavirus Deaths as Workers Say They Are Not Receiving Adequate Protection, WI Primary Vote Goes Ahead After Ruling by State Supreme Court; SCOTUS Throws Out Mail-in Ballot Extension, New York Appears to Flatten COVID-19 Curve as Cuomo Tightens Preventive Measures, Gov't Called to Release Data on Racial Makeup of COVID-19 D…

sputniknews (2020-04-07). WikiLeaks Alarmed by News of First COVID-19 Death in Prison Holding Assange. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks reiterated its concerns about the health of its founder, Julian Assange, on Tuesday after the high-security Belmarsh prison, where he is being held, confirmed its first COVID-19 death.

Consortiumnews (2020-04-06). Assange Extradition: Assange Won't be Released Amid Virus Crisis, Australian Newswire Reports. globalresearch.ca The British Ministry of Justice has told the Australian Associated Press that Julian Assange is not eligible for early release from prison in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. | *** | Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is not eligible for an …

The Iranian (2020-04-04). Iran Develops Its Own AI Software to Swiftly Detect COVID-19. iranian.com Head of Coronavirus Management Center in Tehran Alireza Zali said that Iranian researchers have launched a new system based on artificial intelligence which can diagnose infection to COVID-19 virus in patients without access to a specialized physician. "The system is used in regions where there is no (specialized) doctor or radiologist and it gives precise …

RT (2020-04-03). 'Not even a little bit!' Trump sees no witch-hunt in US Navy firing Covid-19 whistleblower captain. rt.com US President Donald Trump rejected claims that a recently sacked Navy captain was unfairly persecuted for blowing the whistle on an inadequate response to a Covid-19 outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, calling for evacuation. | Asked whether the aircraft carrier commander, Captain Brett Cozier, was being "punished" for sending a letter directly to senior officials urging them to save the lives of his crewmen, the president was dismissive. | "No, I don't agree with that at all. We're going to wait for a little while… but I don't agree with that at all," Trump told reporters at a White House briefing on Th…

Christian Sorensen (2020-04-02). War Profiteering in the Time of Corona. dissidentvoice.org On 11 March, executives from the war corporation CACI, which sells goods and services to CIA, NSA, and the U.S. Armed Forces, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. That ceremony embodies the war industry's business as usual approach to the coronavirus. Industry executives are doing their best to keep the gears …

Aaron Maté (2020-04-01). Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission. thegrayzone.com Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…

Steven K. Choi (2020-04-01). The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19. aclu.org Last year around this time, my biggest worry was how the inclusion of the Trump administration's proposed citizenship question would depress participation in the decennial census. Thankfully, our Supreme Court victory means there is no citizenship question on the census. Now, I have a new worry: a global pandemic and the health of my loved ones. As it turns out, the 2020 Census plays a role here too, as it will have enormous implications on our health care for decades to come. | Specifically, the census will determine the allocation of $300 billion dollars of federal aid for the states' health care — mo…

Kathryn Casteel and Will Tucker (2020-03-24). Arbitrary & excessive: Marijuana trafficking sentences in Alabama. splcenter.org Alabama resident Lee Carroll Brooker garnered national attention in 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the marijuana trafficking case that put Brooker, in his 70s at the time, in prison for life.

Staff (2020-03-20). Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness. truthdig.com Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions. As the head of the intelligence …

Justin Stebbing, Anne Phelan, Ivan Griffin, Catherine Tucker, Olly Oechsle, Dan Smith, Peter Richardson (2020-02-27). [Comment] COVID-19: combining antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatments. thelancet.com Both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) are characterised by an overexuberant inflammatory response and, for SARS, viral load is not correlated with the worsening of symptoms.1,2 In our previous Correspondence to The Lancet,3 we described how BenevolentAI's proprietary artificial intelligence (AI)-derived knowledge graph,4 queried by a suite of algorithms, enabled identification of a target and a potential therapeutic against SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; the causative organism in COVID-19).

Jason Ditz (2020-02-17). DOJ Investigating Former CIA Director's Role in Russiagate. theantimedia.com The Justice Department is investigating the role of John Brennan in the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

2020-04-07: Social Media Postees

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Video: Collateral Murder 10 Years On
Kristinn Hrafnsson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-07
Today April 05, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the WikiLeaks publication of the Collateral Murder video. | The video shows how two Apache helicopters murdered 11 Iraqi people including two Reuters journalists. | This is one of the publications Julian Assange…
globalresearch.ca/video-collateral-murder-10-years/5708923

Trump and the COV-19 Hydroxychloroquine Cure
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-07
The intense politicization over the topic of experimenting with the promising drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients strongly suggests that the "deep state" has intensified its Hybrid War on Trump's America at its most vulnerable moment in modern history, all …
globalresearch.ca/hydroxychloroquine-hybrid-war-trump-america/5708946

A Simple Democratic Transition Framework for Venezuela: End All "Sanctions"
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-07
On March 31 the US Secretary of State issued a press statement proposing a "pathway" by which all Venezuelans would live happily ever after. At least that is what Mike Pompeo seems to wish. He…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/07/a-simple-democratic-transition-framework-for-venezuela-end-all-sanctions/

Stir Crazy! Episode #8: How awful is Covid-19?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-07
Stir Crazy Episode #8 on The Real News Network. Journalist Baynard Woods just recovered from COVID-19 and talks with writer/organizer Jesse A. Myerson and TRNN's Kim Brown, Leandro Lagera, and Lisa Snowden-McCray about how to prepare for self-quarantine. Today's Show: Cuomo is not a hero; Amazon fights its own workers; Wisconsin Republicans conspire to kill…
therealnews.com/stories/how-awful-is-covid-19

Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem
Clio Chang | thenation.com | 2020-04-07
Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem…
thenation.com/article/culture/susan-fowler-whistleblower-review/

WikiLeaks Alarmed by News of First COVID-19 Death in Prison Holding Assange
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-07
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks reiterated its concerns about the health of its founder, Julian Assange, on Tuesday after the high-security Belmarsh prison, where he is being held, confirmed its first COVID-19 death.
sputniknews.com/uk/202004071078865971-wikileaks-alarmed-by-news-of-first-covid-19-death-in-prison-holding-assange/

Assange Extradition: Assange Won't be Released Amid Virus Crisis, Australian Newswire Reports
Consortiumnews | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-06
The British Ministry of Justice has told the Australian Associated Press that Julian Assange is not eligible for early release from prison in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. | *** | Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is not eligible for an …
globalresearch.ca/assange-wont-released-amid-virus-crisis/5708810

[Department of Error] Department of Error
thelancet.com | 2020-04-04
Mease PJ, Rahman P, Gottlieb AB, et al. Guselkumab in biologic-naive patients with active psoriatic arthritis (DISCOVER-2): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial. Lancet 2020; 395: 1126–36–In this Article, the following sentence from the Participants section has been corrected as follows: "Patients were permitted, but not required, to continue stable use of selected standard treatments, including NSAIDs or other analgesics up to the regional marketed dose approved; oral corticosteroids (‚â§10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent dose); or non-biologic DMARDs (limi…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30741-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Iran Develops Its Own AI Software to Swiftly Detect COVID-19
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-04-04
Head of Coronavirus Management Center in Tehran Alireza Zali said that Iranian researchers have launched a new system based on artificial intelligence which can diagnose infection to COVID-19 virus in patients without access to a specialized physician. "The system is used in regions where there is no (specialized) doctor or radiologist and it gives precise …
iranian.com/2020/04/04/iran-using-artificial-intelligence-to-diagnose-coronavirus-infection/

'Not even a little bit!' Trump sees no witch-hunt in US Navy firing Covid-19 whistleblower captain
rt.com | 2020-04-03
US President Donald Trump rejected claims that a recently sacked Navy captain was unfairly persecuted for blowing the whistle on an inadequate response to a Covid-19 outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, calling for evacuation. | Asked whether the aircraft carrier commander, Captain Brett Cozier, was being "punished" for sending a letter directly to senior officials urging them to save the lives of his crewmen, the president was dismissive. | "No, I don't agree with that at all. We're going to wait for a little while… but I don't agree with that at all," Trump told reporters at a White House briefing on Th…
rt.com/usa/484846-trump-navy-captain-witchhunt/

You Don't Need to Believe China About China's Coronavirus Success
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-04-02
Accusing China of deception provides a ready excuse for the Trump administration's failures: "The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming," says Vice President Mike Pence (Bloomberg, 4/1/20). | Bloomberg News ( 4/1/20) reported that anonymous US officials say that a secret US intelligence report says that China's statist…
fair.org/home/you-dont-need-to-believe-china-about-chinas-coronavirus-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-dont-need-to-believe-china-about-chinas-coronavirus-success

You Don't Need to Believe China About China's Coronavirus Success
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-04-02
Accusing China of deception provides a ready excuse for the Trump administration's failures: "The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming," says Vice President Mike Pence (Bloomberg, 4/1/20). | Bloomberg News ( 4/1/20) reported that anonymous US officials say that a secret US intelligence report says that China's statist…
fair.org/home/you-dont-need-to-believe-china-about-chinas-coronavirus-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-dont-need-to-believe-china-about-chinas-coronavirus-success

War Profiteering in the Time of Corona
Christian Sorensen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-02
On 11 March, executives from the war corporation CACI, which sells goods and services to CIA, NSA, and the U.S. Armed Forces, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. That ceremony embodies the war industry's business as usual approach to the coronavirus. Industry executives are doing their best to keep the gears …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/war-profiteering-in-the-time-of-corona/

Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-01
Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/01/pompeos-transition-plan-tells-venezuela-to-suffer-into-submission/

The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19
Steven K. Choi | aclu.org | 2020-04-01
Last year around this time, my biggest worry was how the inclusion of the Trump administration's proposed citizenship question would depress participation in the decennial census. Thankfully, our Supreme Court victory means there is no citizenship question on the census. Now, I have a new worry: a global pandemic and the health of my loved ones. As it turns out, the 2020 Census plays a role here too, as it will have enormous implications on our health care for decades to come. | Specifically, the census will determine the allocation of $300 billion dollars of federal aid for the states' health care

Arbitrary & excessive: Marijuana trafficking sentences in Alabama
Kathryn Casteel and Will Tucker | splcenter.org | 2020-03-24
Alabama resident Lee Carroll Brooker garnered national attention in 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the marijuana trafficking case that put Brooker, in his 70s at the time, in prison for life.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/28/arbitrary-excessive-marijuana-trafficking-sentences-alabama

Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-20
Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions. As the head of the intelligence …
truthdig.com/articles/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness/