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The El Mozote massacre, 39 years later

Thirty nine years ago, Salvadoran troops commenced a scorched earth operation in the remote, rural community of El Mozote and surrounding hamlets in the department of Morazan in northeast El Salvador.  Over the next few days, with savage brutality, they would slaughter almost 1000 civilians, including more than 400 children under the age of 12, in the worst single massacre in the history of Latin America.

Source: The El Mozote massacre, 39 years later

Morocco Confirms 4,096 New COVID-19 Cases, 57 Deaths in 24 Hours

Morocco’s Ministry of Health recorded 4,096 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. This brings the country’s total number of confirmed infections to 388,184. Morocco also reported another 3,966 COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours.  The total number of recovered COVID-19 carriers in Morocco is now 341,685. The national recovery rate rose to 88%. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health counted 57 more COVID-19-related fatalities, bringing the death toll to 6,427. The mortality rate stands at 1.7%.

Source: Morocco Confirms 4,096 New COVID-19 Cases, 57 Deaths in 24 Hours

DeSantis appointee resigns in protest of “unconscionable” raid on COVID whistleblower | Salon.com

Filipkowski, a former state and federal prosecutor, said in his resignation letter that he was “increasingly alarmed” by DeSantis’ “reckless and irresponsible” pandemic response but the raid on Jones was “unconscionable.”

Filipowski, a Marine veteran, said that even if Jones was behind the message he would “still call her a hero.” He added that he found the governor’s office claim that DeSantis was unaware of the raid “not credible.”

Jones said on Monday that police pointed guns at her and her family, which the Florida Department of Law Enforcement denied, and seized her computers and hardware that she used to maintain her own coronavirus data dashboard. The FDLE said they traced the source of the message to Jones’ home.

Source: DeSantis appointee resigns in protest of “unconscionable” raid on COVID whistleblower | Salon.com

Covid and Me

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Remember, no good deed goes unpunished, but do them anyway.

We supported a friend by attending his father’s funeral a year ago, in December 2019. No one really talked about Covid then, just of a few deaths caused by an unknown disease in China. The funeral was crowded, with a mix of young and old. The father was a life-long New Yorker, but the service was just across the river, near Fort Lee. There had been some tension in the family, and the friend appreciated our presence.

We came home and life was normal for a couple of weeks. Around New Years, I got sick, low fever, chronically exhausted, couldn’t get out of bed. The symptoms were odd for me, but I thought it was a bad case of flu. My wife took ill a couple of days later. Maybe two weeks after that, as I was starting to feel…

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More Than 58 Percent of Kids in LA County’s Juvenile Halls Are Now Quarantined for COVID-19 Exposure | (Fix…before some die or suffer permanent damage)

At Central Juvenile Hall, the aging youth facility located northeast of downtown Los Angeles, on Saturday, December 5, nine kids were in quarantine for exposure to the virus.

Three days later, however, that number had jumped to 111 kids at Central who had been exposed and thus quarantined for 14 days.

In total, that is 207 kids — or 58.2 percent of the two halls’ combined population of 346 young people — who are being quarantined for two weeks because of their exposure.

Source: More Than 58 Percent of Kids in LA County’s Juvenile Halls Are Now Quarantined for COVID-19 Exposure |

Brexit was never a grassroots movement, but an elitist political takeover | Aditya Chakrabortty

The 2016 referendum was won by rightwing millionaires using the poor and ignored as political cover

Lodged in my mind is an image that grows in significance with each of this week’s Brexit headlines. Through leaks, briefings and Boris Johnson’s mercy dash to dinner in Brussels, the memory nags at me. Unpack it and you will find some of the seeds of this chaotic moment.

Related: ‘Quick and easy’: what leavers said about a UK-EU Brexit trade deal

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