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

Millions of sites are inaccessible as Google appears to have lost control of blogspot.in

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If you have a blog on Google‘s Blogger site in India, you might want to check it. Millions of blog pages are inaccessible at the moment as Google seems to have lost control of “blogspot.in” URLs. To be clear, the blogs are still online, and you can access them by changing ‘blogspot.in‘ to ‘blogspot.com‘ in the URL — currently, your browser won’t be automatically redirected to the working URL. Running a WHOIS query for the URL reveals Google no longer owns the domain. We’ve contacted the National Internet Exchange of India, which controls the “.in” registry for comment, and will update…

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Monument For Traitors – Gulf South Free Press

Lincoln basically founded the Republican Party…..and now the GOP is defending the very traitors that Lincoln had to face……why is this?  Plus it is pointed out that many of our earlier presidents owned slaves……yes they did but not one of them fought in a war against the USA…..

There is nothing left to say……traitors do not deserve monuments or admiration or some “patriotic” nonsense…

It is simple….they were traitors….PERIOD!

 

Source: Monument For Traitors – Gulf South Free Press

Open Thread | This Isn’t Rocket Science, But, It Is Science

Wear a Mask😠😠

It’s amazing how much good one little mask can do! Check out how a normal, everyday mask keeps respiratory droplets from spreading outside your body, potentially sharing viruses. pic.twitter.com/zeXyemJwO8

— Providence Eastern WA (@providence_phc) June 26, 2020

Video simulation of how a single cough spreads microdroplets throughout an entire room. Opening doors and windows to allow air to circulate is critical. pic.twitter.com/U3NcFSo5Fh

— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) July 5, 2020

1. Stay 6 feet apart, especially indoors, outside your home, 2. No big gatherings, especially indoors, 3. When you can’t stay apart, everyone wears a mask, correctly, 4. Isolate all who are sick or test positive for Covid, 5. Find and stop clusters. Hard, but not so complicated.

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) July 6, 2020

From @jamescdownie: No wonder the Trump administration doesn’t want Anthony Fauci on TV https://t.co/WXCph4Aonq

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) July 6, 2020

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Why isn’t the Governor calling the Army Corps of Engineers to make hospitals out of convention centers and professional sports arenas?

Why isn’t the Governor calling for medical professional help from around the country like Cuomo did?😒

Key Words:
Young people
Shortage of ICU Beds
Texashttps://t.co/qVLpln2aZZ

— Ron *Thug* Hall (@RonHall46) July 6, 2020

Texas GOP convention will happen in person — but Republican leaders will speak via video

hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy
Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey spoke during the final afternoon of the 2018 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio.

Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey spoke during the final afternoon of the 2018 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio.
Robin Jerstad for The Texas Tribune

The Republican Party of Texas is moving forward with its controversial in-person convention during the coronavirus pandemic — but elected officials including Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will be giving their scheduled speeches virtually.

“All the elected officials are switching from a live, in-person speech to videos,” Kyle Whatley, the party’s executive director, said during a town hall livestreamed Tuesday night. “They’re doing that for us in order to focus all the attention on the business of the meeting and to get everybody in and out of here as quickly and as safely as possible.”

Texas Republican officials typically headline their party’s biennial state convention, which this year is scheduled for July 16 to 18 at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center. Roughly 6,000 people are expected to attend the event. Attendees will be required to wear masks during most of the gathering, according to party Chair James Dickey, after Abbott issued a statewide mask mandate last week.

Still, as the state has seen a surge in coronavirus cases, calls have been growing for the party to cancel its event. The State Republican Executive Committee, a 64-member body that serves as the party’s governing board, met last week to consider moving the convention online, but it approved a resolution supporting an in-person gathering in a 40-20 vote.

After that vote, at least two groups — the Texas Medical Association and the Texas Craft Brewers Guild — have withdrawn as sponsors for the event. Both cited safety concerns because Houston is one of the country’s hot spots for the virus.

In a letter Monday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner asked the party to cancel the gathering and warned that health inspectors would have the authority to shut down the event if certain guidelines are not followed. His letter included a list of the Houston Health Department’s requirements.

“A virtual convention would protect the health and perhaps the very lives of those who intend on attending an in-person event, as well as the hundreds of workers needed to support such an event,” Turner wrote. “The best way to minimize risk is to hold a virtual convention.”

In his response, Dickey said the party planned to limit entry points, use thermal scans, create space for social distancing, place hand sanitizer stations in the center and provide attendees with face masks.

“That need to assemble is important, and we are taking every precaution to ensure it is done safely,” Dickey said.

He also suggested that Turner “must not have had the information about the measures being voluntarily implemented.”

Asked Tuesday about the health guidelines Turner included in his letter, Dickey said there have been “several questions about [the mayor’s] demands.”

“We just got that letter late this morning,” Dickey said on the livestream. “Our legal team is reviewing it, and we will let you know if there are any updates. We shall see.”

Shortly before Whatley made the announcement, Abbott was noncommittal in a TV interview when asked if he’d attend the convention in person.

“Yeah, listen, as for myself, as well as for everybody else, we will continue to see what the standards are that will be issued by the SREC, by the state Republican Party, to determine what the possibility will be for being able to attend,” Abbott told KENS-TV in San Antonio.

Patrick Svitek contributed to this report.

Disclosure: The Texas Medical Association has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

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Stop trying to fight racism with corporate diversity consultants | Bhaskar Sunkara

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Inclusivity seminars and books like White Fragility protect power; they don’t challenge it. We’re being hustled

Millions of Americans are still nobly protesting against police violence and the gross inequities of American life. Like the activists before them, they are realizing just how hard reform is to come by in the United States.

For a certain kind of progressive liberal, the only thing left to do, it would seem, is to continue “the conversation” about race. That has opened the door to the immediate beneficiaries of this political moment – a cottage industry of diversity consultants.

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