(2020-04-08). Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead. wsws.org Judge Vanessa Baraitser has decreed that Assange will remain behind bars and that his extradition show-trial will proceed in May, even as the coronavirus pandemic spreads rapidly in British prisons.
(2020-04-08). Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice. dissidentvoice.org Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to avoid the clutches of the US Justice Department, not to mention its legal system, and …
(2020-04-08). Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice. globalresearch.ca Scribes covering the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to …
(2020-04-08). Prisons: Breeding Grounds for Disease. Julian Assange's Life in Danger. globalresearch.ca The US gulag prison system is the world's largest by far, the largely unreported in the mainstream shame of the nation. | Official numbers significantly understate the true number of incarcerated inmates annually. | According to a Prison Policy Initiative analysis, nearly …
(2020-04-08). Montana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters. counterpunch.org In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck down New York's distribution requirements. Distribution requirements give voters in some geographical areas more power than voters residing in other areas in blatant disregard for a
(2020-04-08). The Cruel Truth Behind Wisconsin's Uncancelled Election. progressive.org State Republicans exploited the coronavirus crisis in an effort to elect a state Supreme Court candidate who objects to the idea of government helping people in need.
(2020-04-08). UK school unleashes smartphones to seek virus treatment. yenisafak.com A new project will use the power of smartphones to search for COVID-19 treatments, Imperial College London announced on Wednesday.Collaborating with the Vodafone Foundation, the Corona-AI (artificial intelligence) project will use the free DreamLab app, which crunches calculations using a smartphone's computing power while its user sleeps."The app has already helped find potential new cancer drugs and is now aiming to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic," according to the college's website.DreamLab uses machine learning on a mobile supercomputing network to analyze billions of combinations of exist…
(2020-04-08). Assange's Life in Constant Danger as Belmarsh Prison Confirms First COVID-19 Death – WikiLeaks. sputniknews.com WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson stressed that Assange, quarantined on the grounds of the max security London facility, is "in very bad shape", specifically bringing up the latter's chronic lung condition which makes him particularly susceptible to the raging virus.
(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…
(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…
(2020-04-07). Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem. thenation.com Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem…
(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…
(2020-04-07). 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy': This Is What It Looked Like When Wisconsin Forced In-Person Voting During a Pandemic. commondreams.org As footage of Wisconsin's crowded polling stations flooded the internet Tuesday, public health officials and civil rights advocates condemned the state's Supreme Court and Republican legislative leaders for allowing in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic and thwarting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' last-minute efforts to address voter safety concerns. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12173910311.jpg …
(2020-04-07). Outrage as Wisconsin Forces Residents to Vote in Person During COVID Pandemic. truthout.org In spite of coronavirus fears gripping the country, Wisconsin is ultimately moving forward with in-person voting on Tuesday. | Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made several attempts over the last several days to delay the spring elections in order to find an alternative to in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Instead, Republican lawmakers, the conservative state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court itself have all acted in ways that will either cause the virus to spread or disenfra…
(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 …
(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…
(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…
(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.
(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 …
(2020-03-03). 'We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal' Pompeo: Recent Congressional Hearing Reveals Why No One Trusts Mike. thelastamericanvagabond.com It is not hard to see today just how much of our political process (and those invested in its survival) depends on a near constant state of narrative control — which in this day and age simply means your government is willfully deceiving you for one reason or another. Today, no single individual embodies this …
(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).
(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.