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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Belgium facing ‘tsunami’ of Covid infections, health minister says | World news | The Guardian

The numbers in Belgium have, however, shot up since September, as adults returned to work and pupils went back to school after their summer break.

Between 9 and 15 October, an average of 7,876 new infections a day were reported, an increase of 79% from the previous week.

Last Tuesday, 12,051 infections with the corona virus had been identified, marking the “highest number of infections recorded in one day since the start of the pandemic,” said Dr Steven Van Gucht, the spokesman for the Belgian virus Crisis Centre, at a press conference on Monday. “We also passed the 10,000 infection mark on Wednesday, October 14, with 10,932 confirmed cases in one day.”

Source: Belgium facing ‘tsunami’ of Covid infections, health minister says | World news | The Guardian

The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers | Working-Class Perspectives

Domestic workers are facing unrelenting struggles. Their desperation is driven by unemployment rates of over 70% — far higher than what Americans faced during the Great Depression, when unemployment breached 25%. And most of those who have lost jobs during the pandemic have no idea whether their employers will ever hire them back. Most domestic workers surveyed by NDWA are their households main bread winners.  More than half were unable to pay the current month’s rent. Eight in ten now worry about eviction.  And for many, hunger is at their door. One third cannot afford to buy food for the week, and more than half were uncertain if they would have enough to feed themselves and their families.

The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act, if adopted at the federal level, would extend pay and leave rights to this workforce, along with health and safety protections. Similar bills are already in place in nine states. And a major segment of the domestic workforce would benefit from better-funded Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care services, mandating overdue wage increases for home care workers. We should also do our part to recognize that domestic work is critical to the economy’s functioning. This begins by seeing domestic workers — and seeing what they do as real work. Home care workers, nannies, and housecleaners have long kept our homes and families safe; now we should do the same for them. Source: The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers | Working-Class Perspectives

Whatever happened to Deborah Birx? – BY BRETT SAMUELS – 10/18/20 03:39 PM EDT — Just Sayin’

Deborah Birx is nowhere to be found at the White House these days. Though she retains the title of coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, Birx has not attended any of President Trump‘s press briefings on the pandemic since he started them anew in late July, nor was she at a recent event to tout the […]

Whatever happened to Deborah Birx? – BY BRETT SAMUELS – 10/18/20 03:39 PM EDT — Just Sayin’

Let The Kids Do It — In Saner Thought

Some of those apocalyptic films have wars being fought for generations and generations….well fact is not so far off….. Just last week our war inn Afghanistan entered into its 20th year……and soon the children of the original warriors will be fighting this conflict….. The longest war in US history now spans generations. Service members who […]

Let The Kids Do It — In Saner Thought

Madre y niño Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela

As Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in the “Metal Smoke” chapter of his book “Falling from Heaven”: “Now the prospectors make the forest stink with the smoke from their engines and the fumes of gold and mercury that burn together … ends up making us sick. Your poison is formidable. We don’t know how to fight it. This is why we are so concerned. … If the thinking of the whites does not change course, we fear that it will kill us all, then it also poisons them ”.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Como dice el portavoz de Yanomami, Davi Kopenawa, en el capítulo “humo de metal” de su libro “La caída del cielo”: “Ahora los buscadores hacen que el bosque apesta con el humo de sus motores y los vapores de oro y mercurio que arden juntos … termina enfermándonos. Tu veneno es formidable. No sabemos cómo combatirlo. Por eso estamos tan preocupados. … Si el pensamiento de los blancos no cambia de rumbo, tememos que nos mate a todos, entonces también los envenena”.

La fiebre del oro, COVID-19 y el genocidio Yanomami – actualizado

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Judge Strikes Down Trump Rule to Cut Food Stamps for Unemployed

The rule “would have not only made it harder for thousands to feed their families and risk them going hungry, but would have exacerbated the public health crisis we face and the economic recession we are still in the midst of under President Trump,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James.[Howell’s ruling is] a win for common sense and basic human decency.”  Source: Judge Strikes Down Trump Rule to Cut Food Stamps for Unemployed

Decode PROXY: A YES mindset to “SPREAD PEACE & SAVE ENVIRONMENT”

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– Proposed by Kamal Shrestha

Decode PROXY: An individual or a group operation executed by truly responsible representative of this Mother Earth who undertake YES mindset to “SPREAD PEACE & SAVE ENVIRONMENT” by decoding the PROXY Plans in our Global Village.

Quick Links
A. AbstractF. Decode PROXY Main Operation
B. IntroductionG. Guidelines for Article Writing
C. BackgroundH. Register/Feedback
D. Statement of ProblemI. Disclaimer
E. Goals or purpose

A. Abstract

The world is in the verge of encapsulating all the people, plants, animals, insects and sea creatures in one place which forms a Global Village through internet. Not only we can trace or track people but also all the living beings of the world can be traced easily through internet by tagging and inserting GPA sensor-chip.

The rapid growth of human’s rude and cruel violence inside and outside home due to frustration, depression, pandemic suffocation, lack…

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