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Russia records highest number of new coronavirus cases since January — Meduza

On the morning of June 24, Russian officials announced that the country had recorded 20,182 new coronavirus infections in the past day, marking the highest daily increase since late January.

According to official data, Russia has registered more than 5.38 million cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

Another 568 people died of the disease over the past day, bringing Russia’s total number of deaths caused by COVID-19 to 131,463. In addition, St. Petersburg and Moscow both registered record daily mortality rates, with 99 and 92 fatalities caused by the coronavirus, respectively.

Source: Russia records highest number of new coronavirus cases since January — Meduza

Understanding Our Present — CRT: Part II

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In Part I, I provided a bit of the history of racism in the U.S., how it started and how it has expanded and morphed through the centuries. Today, I want to talk a bit more at length about Critical Race Theory, the facts vs the rhetoric we’ve all been hearing from certain politicians and the likes of Fox ‘News’.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) proposes that racism is systemic, that it is built into our very foundations and institutions, for it has been a part of the “American Way” since the first white settlers landed on the Eastern shores of this nation. Contrary to what you have heard by people such as Tucker Carlson, CRT is NOT taught in elementary nor secondary schools today, though I would argue vehemently that it should be. If we teach our children only half of the story, then we are painting a picture of…

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Hancock is gone, but the rot at the heart of UK government is only getting worse | openDemocracy

The Hancock affair is about much more than a senior minister breaking his own COVID rules

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So, Matt Hancock has resigned as Britain’s health secretary. A line has now been drawn under a scandal that gave the British press the ‘public interest’ licence to splash photos of a cabinet minister locking lips with his aide. Nothing more to see here.

This, at least, is what the government wants us to think. On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday morning, justice secretary minister Robert Buckland insisted any queries about Hancock were either prurient or irrelevant since “Matt has resigned”. Move along, folks.

But the Hancock affair is about much more than a senior minister breaking his own COVID rules with his adviser, Gina Coladangelo. The whole episode highlights – once again – the gaping hole in the middle of Boris Johnson’s government where transparency, probity and honesty should be.

Forgot about how the footage of Hancock and Coladangelo leaked into the media, the real question to ask is how did the minister’s paramour end up with a paid government job in the first place?

Source: Hancock is gone, but the rot at the heart of UK government is only getting worse | openDemocracy

Our Documents – Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. Source: Our Documents – Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

Jolly Monday — Smiles Galore!

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Good Monday morn, my friends!🌻  No, I’m not bright and cheerful, I’m just trying to put on a good act … is it working?  So, how was your weekend … do anything special?  Miss Goose and I were reminiscing a day or two ago about the last time we went to the book shop and out to eat at a restaurant … over 15 months ago.  That was the weekend that the governor of our state announced that all non-essential businesses must close, and I remembered how I turned to my daughter and said, “Well, it better not last past next weekend!”  We laugh about that now, some 64 weekends later!  Ah well, we’re alive and surviving, and in truth, Miss Goose and I have gotten quite comfortable with staying home in our jammies all day every day!

I promised after last week that there would be a better…

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How India’s Covid-Hit Hospitals Ran Out of Oxygen – The New York Times

At 9:45 p.m., alarms blared across the intensive care unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throats as if they were being strangled.

Mechanics sprinted to the maintenance room to see what was wrong. Nurses grabbed small plastic pumps to fill the lungs of critically ill patients by hand.

It wasn’t enough. Jaipur Golden, a respected hospital in Delhi, had run out of medical oxygen. Over the next seven hours, 21 coronavirus patients died.

“Nobody can forget that night,” said Shaista Nigar, the hospital’s nursing superintendent. “It was a total breakdown.”

Across India, amid a devastating second wave of Covid-19, hospitals ran out of beds and critical supplies, contributing to the deaths of untold thousands of people and worsening an already tragic outbreak. By one count, oxygen shortages alone have killed at least 600 people over the past two months.

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An alley of rows of young men and women, clad in cool attires and sitting in ergonomic chairs, are glued to their laptops.  Their trendy glassed office overlook a vast expanse of swanky business towers that dot the skyline. Sipping endless cups of coffee and working extended hours, they always are in a hurry to beat the excruciating client deadlines to complete the project in hand and move over to the next. These smart, tech savvy and highly paid bunch of youngsters are the Indian IT professionals tasked to develop top notch software products for companies worldwide..and millions of such techies work in cities across the country fulfilling an ever increasing global demand for ITservices.  They were the poster boys and ambassadors of the new nation,  a confident and aspirant India taking rapid strides in frontier technologies … and the world lapped up this image, until the events…

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हर कदम जीत की ओर

Harshita Singh

बाधाओं के शिखर होंगे ,
मुश्किलों का कहर होगा ,
परेशानियों का ढेर होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
राह में गहरे गड्ढे भी होंगे ,
लहरों में मुझे डुबाने का शोर भी होगा ,
हवाओं में मुझे गिराने का जोर भी होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
असफलताओं के ढेर भी होंगे ,
संकल्प हिलाने को मेरा प्रयास भी बेजोर होगा
गिरने पर मेरे , हँसने का इंतजार भी जरूर होगा ,
फिर भी हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
असफलताओं , बाधाओं से ना मेरे सपने खंडित होंगे ,
हर बार गिरने पर मेरा उठने का प्रयास जरूर होगा ,
हैं यकीन मेरी सफलता का भी एक दिन शोर होगा ,
क्योंकि हर कदम मेरा जीत की ओर होगा ।
-हर्षिता

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