Analysis – Two conspiracy theories have merged into something very nasty online and into real world violence. David Farrier looks at how this came about.
— Read on www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/416991/how-5g-and-covid-19-mixed-to-make-a-toxic-conspiracy-cocktail
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U.S.-China Feud Over Coronavirus Erupts at World Health Assembly – The New York Times
China’s president pledged $2 billion to fight the virus, a move the U.S. criticized as an effort to head off scrutiny of its handling of the pandemic.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-who-china-trump.html
US continues childish antics
Germany’s Coronavirus Protests: Anti-Vaxxers, Anticapitalists, Neo-Nazis – The New York Times
The pandemic marginalized the far right, as Germans rallied behind Angela Merkel. But the reopening has brought them back, and they are preparing to seize new opportunities.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/world/europe/coronavirus-germany-far-right.html
Open Thread | Andy Slavitt Trying To Warn Us
Giving companies a free hand needs to be called out for what it is: permission to kill people with no consequences! An inhuman proposal by someone who has sold his humanity as Cain did.
Yet again, Mr. Slavitt is dropping truth. Keep your eyes open. Mitch McConnell will not pass any more Congressional aid for Americans losing income…
Open Thread | Andy Slavitt Trying To Warn Us
Texas reports largest single-day jump in coronavirus cases | TheHill — Truth Troubles – (me- So Sec. Azur lied)
Texas reported 1,801 new coronavirus cases Saturday, reportedly marking the state’s largest Source: Texas reports largest single-day jump in coronavirus cases | TheHill
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Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah Arrested Outside Tora Prison — Egyptian Streets
Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah was arrested earlier today outside the Tora Prison complex in Cairo, local media reports. The award-winning Egyptian journalist was reportedly conducting an interview with Laila Soueif whom sources claim had been attempting to deliver medical supplies to her son, jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah who has been on hunger strike…
via Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah Arrested Outside Tora Prison — Egyptian Streets
Canadian pastor charged in Myanmar for defying COVID-19 restriction on gatherings | CBC News
In one video posted in late March, Lah tells worshippers, “If you hear the sermon of God, the virus will never come to you; I declare it with the soul of Jesus Christ.
At another event in April, Lah waved around a Bible and said, “I can guarantee that the church that goes by Jesus’ teachings, there will be no infection.”
The irony of the message in those sermons became apparent when police made their move to lay charges, because the document that spelled out his alleged offence also revealed Lah could not immediately be arrested because he was in hospital.
Lah had tested positive for the coronavirus.
As of Friday, according to Worldometer aggregated data, Myanmar had 181 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including six deaths. Local health authorities link at least two of those deaths to Lah’s gatherings in early April.
Source: Canadian pastor charged in Myanmar for defying COVID-19 restriction on gatherings | CBC News
Steve Linick: State Department official investigating Pompeo is fired | US news | The Guardian
According to a Democratic congressional aide, just before his abrupt dismissal Linick had opened an investigation into allegations that Pompeo had been using a political appointee at the state department to run personal errands for him and his wife, Susan.
Source: Steve Linick: State Department official investigating Pompeo is fired | US news | The Guardian
Invisible deaths: from nursing homes to prisons, the corona toll is out of sight – and out of mind? | US news | The Guardian
The segregation of Covid deaths out of town and behind locked doors, where most Americans cannot see them, has provided a political boon for Donald Trump. It has allowed the president to downplay the significance of the virus for weeks on end, pushing for the reopening of the economy even though it risks the lives of tens of thousands of largely poor and black and Latino citizens.
That phenomenon was on full display this week when Trump scolded his top infectious diseases official, Dr Anthony Fauci, for saying opening up the country could risk a spike of new infections. Trump said of Fauci’s science-based, factual remark: “To me, it’s not an acceptable answer” – a claim he could never have got away with had the human costs of Covid-19 been more visible.

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