Stupid “against the grain” article second guessing another country’s choice. 2.3% fatality rate of your total population or the world’s population. With millions of people living in isolation due to entire towns being sealed-off amidst Coronavirus outbreak, business leaders and economists in China are increasingly saying, Enough. While China must stop the outbreak, they argue, some of its methods are hurting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people while contributing little to the containment effort.
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How Hispanic voters view minimum wage, government health care, gun laws | Pew Research Center
Most Latino registered voters (71%) say they want government to be more involved in solving the nation’s problems.
Source: How Hispanic voters view minimum wage, government health care, gun laws | Pew Research Center
Inoreader – Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a new analysis finding that a quarter of all tweets about climate on an average day are produced by bots, the Guardian can reveal. The stunning levels of Twitter bot activity on topics related to global heating and the climate crisis is distorting the online discourse to include far more climate science denialism than it would otherwise.
Source: Inoreader – Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
Trump jabs at Parasite’s Oscar win because film is ‘from South Korea’
Racist plain and simple.

President says US has trade problems with South Korea and wonders if ‘we can get Gone With the Wind back’
Donald Trump has taken a jab at the Oscars for awarding this year’s best picture honor to Parasite, because the film is South Korean.
“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” Trump asked a rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The crowd responded with loud boos.
Analysis: Will Donald Trump use his greatest power to help an old friend who knows his secrets?

If Donald Trump decides to free Roger Stone, his act of seemingly random kindness in pardoning a slew of criminals will look more like an attempted smokescreen than a coincidence, writes David Lipson.
Trump Denounces Selection of ‘Parasite’ as Best Picture
A racist first. “And the winner is a movie from South Korea,” the president said at a rally. “What the hell was that all about?”
Russia Backs Trump’s Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support – The New York Times – {GOP does not care that their leader is a Putin Poodle?}
A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.
Surat trainees forced to stand naked for med test
Indian men who ordered these humiliations ignorant and cruel. Barely a week after 68 students of a Bhuj girls’ college were lined up and forced to strip to prove they weren’t menstruating, female trainee clerks of the Surat Municipal Corporation were on Thursday allegedly made to stand naked in a state-run hospital for a long time while lady doctors subjected them to a gynaecological finger test.
Opinion | The Stone Sentence Was Fair. What Barr Did Was Still Wrong. – The New York Times
Has the Trump Department of Justice ever asked for a lower sentence for someone who wasn’t a presidential ally?
politicalsci: “We should realize that the problems of racial…
“We should realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Poor People’s Campaign was a 1968 effort to gain economic
justice for poor people in the United States. It was organized by Martin
Luther King, Jr., and was the last campaign he was working on before he
was assassinated in April 1968. King shifted his focus to these issues after observing
that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of
life for many African Americans.
The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort—including
African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans,
Appalachian White people, and Native Americans—aimed at alleviating
poverty regardless of race. Just as King began his multiracial campaign for economic justice he was murdered.

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