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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

Party in Kentucky compares vaccination passports to yellow stars – The Jerusalem Post (Racist and dumb… vaccines against polio, small pox, measles save lives as do Covid-19 vaccines…)

The Libertarian Party noted that the vaccination program is comparable to the yellow stars sewn on the clothes of Jewish people during the Holocaust.

Source: Party in Kentucky compares vaccination passports to yellow stars – The Jerusalem Post

Three female polio workers gunned down in Afghanistan – The Washington Post (Me: Taliban… same old, same old dictators)

Three Afghan women carrying out polio vaccinations were shot dead Tuesday in two separate attacks in eastern Afghanistan, the latest in a string of targeted killings sowing unease in government-held towns and cities despite ongoing peace talks to end decades of war.

One woman was killed in Jalalabad, Nangahar’s provincial capital, and two others were shot farther to the west, according to spokesmen for the governor and the Ministry of Public Health. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Targeted killings in Afghanistan began last year as peace talks were launched between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and they are now a near-daily occurrence in cities such as the capital, Kabul and Jalalabad.

Source: Three female polio workers gunned down in Afghanistan – The Washington Post

WHO report indicates animal farms in Asia were likely origin of COVID-19 – UPI.com (Me: Most likely the Covid-19 source)

Daszak told NPR that China shut down the wildlife farms in February 2020. The wildlife farms are part of a project that the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years.

“They take exotic animals, like civets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoon dogs and bamboo rats, and they breed them in captivity,” Daszak said.

Then on Feb. 24, 2020, the Chinese government shut down the farms.

“What China did then was very important,” Daszak said. “They put out a declaration saying that they were going to stop the farming of wildlife for food.”

Daszak said the farms could be where the coronavirus jumped from a bat into another animal, and then into people.

The farms in the southern province of Yunnan breed animals known to carry coronaviruses. Virus experts found a bat virus that’s genetically 96% similar to SARS-CoV-2 in an area where many of the farms are located.

Daszak said evidence suggests these farms were supplying vendors at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan. That market was shut down on Dec. 31, 2019.

Source: WHO report indicates animal farms in Asia were likely origin of COVID-19 – UPI.com

Japan suspends new aid to Myanmar over military coup

Japan has suspended the provision of new aid to Myanmar in response to last month’s military coup, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday, as the violent crackdown against protesters draws a wave of international condemnation.

The move follows criticism Japan was taking a soft stance on Myanmar compared with the United States and other Western countries that have placed sanctions on individuals and companies linked to the military junta that ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Source: Japan suspends new aid to Myanmar over military coup

Myanmar protests: Death toll passes 500 | News | DW | 30.03.2021

Three of Myanmar’s armed ethnic rebel groups issued a joint statement threatening the military with retaliation.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army and the Arakan Army (AA) said if the junta did not stop the bloodshed, they would “cooperate with the protesters and fight back.”

Source: Myanmar protests: Death toll passes 500 | News | DW | 30.03.2021

Officials are getting creative to vaccinate homebound seniors – Los Angeles Times

A woman wearing a mask cringes as she is vaccinated On Friday, the Glendale Fire Department and Glendale Memorial Hospital co-launched a pilot program to vaccinate homebound seniors living in the Jewel City. Shaw was one of the first to receive a dose. The program is one of several grass-roots initiatives that have sprung up in recent weeks to bring shots to those too sick to leave home, a vulnerable population that some fear is being left behind even as vaccine access rapidly expands.

Source: Officials are getting creative to vaccinate homebound seniors – Los Angeles Times

Voter Rights And Suppression

In Saner Thought

All Americans have the right to vote….but about 43 states out of the 50 are trying to change that dynamic…..basically it is the GOP trying to avoid any defeats…..not what is best for the people of their state and the country…..it is all about party over country.

Some may ask….how could this happen?

It began in the where else….the South.

A little historic perspective……

George White of North Carolina served two terms in Congress between 1897 and 1901. He was the only Black member during those years, and he would be the last Black person elected to the U.S. House for nearly another three decades.

North Carolina Democrats made certain of that. A new state constitutional amendment, ratified in 1900, required passage of a literacy and education test before registering to vote, as well as pre-payment of a poll tax. By 1904, the number of registered Black voters in North…

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