Facebook Censors Viral Video of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference

Good move – “Doctor” is a money oriented person that believes high notice will get more money. Facebook removed a live video stream posted by Breitbart News earlier today, which at the time of removal was the top-performing Facebook post in the world, of a press conference in D.C. featuring frontline doctors speaking out against misinformation about COVID-19.

It is matters of time

time has come today

Ismael Mansoor

The power is safe.
But He is coming.
Yes, they made contact.
Others are coming with Him.
The truth has to get Peace
Oh, if you don’t find him, everything,
Everything and everything will be lost.
Your majestic, have you heard anything from him?
We need to make decisions,
Because He is coming
It will be all out to the hope of one man.
Where is Peace?
It is matters of time oh such urgent!
The truth has already begun
And Peace must be found immediately!

© Ismael Mansoor

View original post

A 20-Year-Old Black Medical Student Is Writing a Guide on How Common Medical Symptoms Appear on Dark Skin

A Zimbabwe-born medical student living in London is filling in an important blind spot in the medical community: informing healthcare providers and patients how symptoms for a broad range of conditions appear on darker skin. It’s the kind of problem that feels shockingly outdated for the 21st century, but as 20-year-old St. George student Malone Mukwende recently told the Washington Post, the lack of teaching about darker skin tones, and how certain symptoms would present differently on nonwhite skin, was obvious by his first class at the University of London school.

In the spirit of community input, the Mind The Gap team intends for the manual to be a “live document,” with ongoing contributions from patients, medical students and clinicians, the Post reports.

The input is crucial to the manual’s mission. While other texts on how to assess medical symptoms on darker skin have been written, Mind the Gap aims to be unique in its accessibility and its ability to be responsive to the people who use it.

Dr. Minal Singh, the curriculum director at the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Manchester, told The Post the book identifies “an absolute need” in the medical community, one that centers Black and darker-skinned patients in a much-needed way.

“It’s not so much just the visual pictures that are important,” said Singh, “it’s understanding the story the patient has told.”

Source: A 20-Year-Old Black Medical Student Is Writing a Guide on How Common Medical Symptoms Appear on Dark Skin

New Jersey’s quarantine advisory list expanded to 36 states, territories – (President not doing his job, so states have to act as if they are the nation)

The travel advisory applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a 10% or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.

Travelers and residents who may be returning from impacted states are asked to self-quarantine at their home, hotel, or other temporary lodging.

Source: New Jersey’s quarantine advisory list expanded to 36 states, territories

Coronavirus cases in Texas nursing homes more than doubled in July | The Texas Tribune

On Monday, the state released data on COVID-19 cases in Texas nursing homes after initially arguing that the information wasn’t subject to public disclosure.

COVID-19 infections have exploded in Texas nursing homes this month, with 8,291 confirmed cases through Monday — four times more than the number of cases recorded in all of June, according to the state’s health agency.

Texas initially required all nursing home residents and staff to be tested, but has since switched to less sweeping, targeted testing.

Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services committed to sending testing devices to nursing homes. The agency has allocated 57 of those devices so far to Texas facilities that have reported at least three confirmed COVID-19 cases in the previous week or one case among their staff or one death in the previous week.

But with more than 1,200 nursing homes and 2,000 assisted-living facilities in Texas, 57 devices are “not nearly enough,” Tran said.

Source: Coronavirus cases in Texas nursing homes more than doubled in July | The Texas Tribune

“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights — ProPublica

Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon: arrest them on offenses as minor as “failing to obey” an order to get off a sidewalk on federal property — and then tell them they can’t protest anymore as a condition for release from jail.

Legal experts describe the move as a blatant violation of the constitutional right to free assembly, but at least 12 protesters arrested in recent weeks have been specifically barred from attending protests or demonstrations as they await trials on federal misdemeanor charges.

Source: “Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights — ProPublica

Trump administration says it will reject new DACA applications while weighing future of the program

is he defying Court Order?
DACA recipients and supporters rally in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the program outside of the Immgration and Customs Enforcement offices in Phoenix in June.

DACA recipients and supporters rally in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the program outside of the Immgration and Customs Enforcement offices in Phoenix in June.
Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic via REUTERS

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a federal judge’s order earlier this month that new applicants should be given consideration.

The judge’s order came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t follow proper procedure when it ended the program in 2017 and allowed DACA to stand. But on Tuesday, DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said he was instructing staff “to take all appropriate actions to reject all pending and future initial requests for DACA” and exercise its authority to “to terminate or deny deferred action at any time when immigration officials determine termination or denial of deferred action is appropriate.”

As of December 2019, there were about 107,000 Texans with DACA permits, according to federal statistics. The program applies to undocumented immigrants who came to the country before they were 16 and who were 30 or younger as of June 2012. The program gave them a renewable, two-year work permit and a reprieve from deportation.

The DHS announcement on Tuesday also limits the protection for recipients who renew their DACA permits to one year instead of the original 24 months.

“As the Department continues looking at the policy and considers future action, the fact remains that Congress should act on this matter,” Wolf said in a statement. “There are important policy reasons that may warrant the full rescission of the DACA policy.”

Even after what many believed was a loss for the Trump administration at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, the president said he was instead given time to figure out how to end the program.

“The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won,” Trump tweeted at the time. But he made statements arguing he had the power implement action on DACA that would protect young immigrants, though he was unclear on details.

If the Wolf memo issued Tuesday is any indicator, the White House will likely put pressure on Congress to act and blame lawmakers if there is not a comprehensive solution in the late months of a contentious election year.

“Even if the DACA policy could have been justified as a temporary measure when it was created, Congress arguably has had more than sufficient time to consider affording permanent status or immigration relief to the class of aliens covered by the policy,” Wolf wrote. “And yet, although various proposals have been advanced to do that, Congress has so far declined to take action.”

13763658.gif

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian mosque in fresh price tag attack

Ramallah/PNN/

A group of Israeli settlers has torched a mosque in the central sector of the occupied West Bank amid continued acts of vandalism and violence by settlers, known as price tag attacks, against Palestinians and Muslim holy sites.

Palestinian sources, requesting anonymity, said the extremists stormed the city of al-Bireh, located 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) north of Jerusalem, in the early hours of Monday and scribbled racial slogans against Arabs and Muslims on the walls of the mosque, before setting parts of it on fire.

Local residents rushed to the site once they took notice of the fire, and managed to extinguish it before it could sweep through the whole building.

The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs denounced the arson attack in a statement, saying it exposes the racist nature of Israel. It further accused Israeli authorities of supporting settler groups as they press ahead with their price tag attacks.

If you want to continue to read our work and help us produce more news and reports from Palestine, click here to donate to our fundraising campaign

Speaking at the start of a weekly cabinet session in Ramallah, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the arson attack as a criminal act and held the Israeli regime responsible for the sacrilegious move.

“This is a criminal and racist act, and we hold the Occupation (Israeli) authorities fully responsible for the assault and the rising level of Israeli settler violence [against Palestinians],” he said.

Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates also censured the attack.

“The Ministry, while seriously following up cases of settlers’ attacks on places of worship, holds the Israeli regime and its prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] fully and directly responsible for the latest attack,” it said in a statement.

Moreover, the secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, decried the arson attack as an act rooted in “racism and apartheid.”

More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.

According to human rights groups, incidents of sabotage and violence by extremist settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.

التدوينة Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian mosque in fresh price tag attack ظهرت أولاً على PNN.

Update on Covid-19 among meatpacking workers: an American tragedy

Leah Douglas at the Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) is doing a great public service.  She has a website where she reports Covid-19 cases among workers in the food system.

These are not trivial.  As of July 24, she reports Covid-19 cases in:

  • 370 meatpacking plants
  • 139 food processing plants
  • 74 farms and production facilities

As for confirmed cases:

  • 37,197 meatpacking workers
  • 4,635 food processing workers
  • 4,927 farmworkers

She reports 188 deaths among these workers

  • 168 among meatpacking workers
  • 14 among food processing workers
  • 6 among farmworkers

Here’s what this looks like:

Where is all this happening?  She’s got a chart for that too.

These places have a lot to answer for.

This is an American tragedy.