I know…NO SHIT Professor! There is other ways that it is deadly other than the Taleban and friendlies and IEDs…… It seems that someone put bounties of American soldiers…..and that someone was RUSSIA….. United States intelligence agents believe that Russia offered Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. soldiers and other coalition troops during peace talks […]
Afghanistan Can Be Deadly! — In Saner Thought
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Daily number of coronavirus cases in India nears 20,000 as Mumbai extends lockdown, South Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – India reported close to 20,000 fresh novel coronavirus cases for the second day running on Monday (June 29), as the financial hub of Mumbai extended its lockdown by a month.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
‘Feeling Like Death’: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Virus Peak – The New York Times
Tritico Saranathan, a charge nurse on one of Methodist’s virus wards, said she had noticed that patients were younger than those first hit by the coronavirus several months ago. “We’re seeing a lot of people in their 30s — they’re out there partying and not wearing their masks,” she said. “As soon as the city opened up, they were very eager to go to the bars, to the clubs, to the restaurants, just to hang out in groups. And no one was social distancing or wearing a mask.” “What I’m seeing is that they’re pretty sick — the younger ones are pretty sick,” she said. “They’re struggling a lot with respiratory issues. They’re having a hard time breathing,” she added, “just feeling like death.”
‘The new gold’: demand for PPE soars again amid shortage as US cases rise | World news | The Guardian – Deja vue all over again – US behind 8-ball.
Jude Derisme, another SEIU vice president, in Palm Beach county, said some hospitals stopped forcing workers to wear N95 masks for days at a time when, “when the Covid numbers went down”. But with cases rising, “The majority of the hospitals I see here in Palm Beach county are reverting back to that practice because of the surge of Covid-19 cases,” either because they lack supplies or worry supply chains will again break down. In Texas, Lubbock Kids Dental CEO Kay Kennel said: “I haven’t been able to buy any [PPE] in nine weeks.” Texas, like most other states, created a supply chain task force to deal with PPE shortages. But Kennel said she watches daily in disbelief as the governor updates the state on new PPE shipments, and yet she cannot obtain the supplies she needs. As of Thursday, she had nine days worth of PPE left for her staff.
Gilead prices COVID-19 drug candidate remdesivir at $2,340 per patient in U.S. – Reuters – Grotesque profiteering
Only for the rich and Trump family
Source: Gilead prices COVID-19 drug candidate remdesivir at $2,340 per patient in U.S. – Reuters
What it means to be black and African in Lebanon – hummus for thought
In this survey, 91% of students reported experiencing some form of racial discrimination during their time in Lebanon (both on AUB campus and off campus), and 48% reported facing sexual harassment or assault during their time in Lebanon.
Source: What it means to be black and African in Lebanon – hummus for thought
As Lebanon’s elite lose cash, they’re dumping their foreign maids on the streets

Women and girls who work in the homes of Lebanon’s wealthy say they have long been subjected to violence and mistreatment. But as the country’s economic crisis spirals, they’re now being abandoned.
Donald Trump shares then deletes video of supporter shouting ‘white power’
Oops!

The White House says US President Donald Trump did not hear an activist shouting “white power” in a video he shared on Twitter, instead only seeing “tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters”.
Florida’s Covid Cases Up Fivefold in 2 Weeks: ‘The Numbers Are Scary’ – The New York Times
Ms. Ferraro’s entire family caught the virus last month, but only she is still ill. Her 13- and 14-year-old daughters had very mild symptoms, losing their sense of taste and smell for a while. “The whole age thing is — I don’t want to say offensive, but it’s untrue,” she said. “Coronavirus is affecting everyone. People protesting the masks think it’s fake. It’s not fake. It sucks to wake up and you can’t catch your breath, or to have a headache you can’t get rid of, no matter how much Advil you take. It sucks to take a shower and fall down because you got dizzy.”
UK’s top senior civil servant steps down as Johnson adviser seeks change
Same kind of lies that Trump uses to fire inspectors and prosecutors to protect from people discovering he is selling his country out – Boris doing the same!
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s most senior civil servant stepped down on Sunday after reports of clashes with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top political adviser, part of what is expected to be a wider shake up of officials at the heart of power.
Johnson’s senior political adviser, Dominic Cummings, has long been critical of the civil service, saying government is not nimble enough to deliver change. Some newspapers reported he warned aides last week that a “hard rain is going to fall”.
Mark Sedwill, a career diplomat, was appointed cabinet secretary and national security adviser by Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May. In a letter to Johnson released on Sunday, he wrote that, having stayed on for “the acute phase of the Covid-19 crisis,” he was now leaving as “the government’s focus is now shifting to domestic and global recovery and renewal”.
Johnson’s office released a letter in which he thanked Sedwill for his “outstanding service”, and asked him to lead a new G7 panel on global economic security as Britain assumes the presidency of the rich nations’ group.
David Frost, Britain’s chief negotiator with the European Union, will replace Sedwill as national security adviser and that there will be a competition to appoint a new cabinet secretary and head of the civil service.
Johnson’s team has been criticised over its response to the coronavirus crisis, blamed by opposition parties and some scientists for being too slow to tackle the pandemic. Britain now has one of the world’s highest death tolls from the crisis.
Sedwill also bore the brunt of criticism from Brexit supporters during Britain’s earlier negotiations with the EU, with some Conservatives accusing him of not doing enough to prepare for a so-called no deal departure.
Earlier on Sunday, interior minister Priti Patel hinted that there could be changes.
“This is the people’s government, delivering on the people’s priorities, and effectively any reforming government will be based around the type of delivery that our prime minister wants to drive for our great country and obviously have the right kind of support around him to deliver that,” she told Sky News.
Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Peter Graff
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