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Coronavirus: Sweden’s COVID-19 death toll passes 6,000 with PM in isolation

Source: Coronavirus: Sweden’s COVID-19 death toll passes 6,000 with PM in isolation

COVID-19 Scan for Nov 06, 2020 | CIDRAP

  • The researchers found that Asian people were overrepresented—nearly 1 in 5—in the COVID-19 stroke group (18.8% vs 6.7%, < 0.0002). “Our study suggests that COVID-19 has had more impact on strokes in the Asian community than in other ethnic groups,” Perry said in the UCL release. “We cannot say from our data whether this is because people of Asian descent are more likely to catch COVID-19, or whether Asian patients with COVID-19 are more likely to have ischaemic strokes, or both.”

 

Source: COVID-19 Scan for Nov 06, 2020 | CIDRAP

Police arrest two in alleged plot to attack Philly voting center: What we know

Members of the Pennsylvania National Guard stand guard across the street from City Hall in Philadelphia on November 2. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

The men were arrested outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where vote counting is taking place.

Police in Philadelphia are probing an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Thursday night after receiving a tip that a group traveling north from Virginia in a Hummer planned to storm the location of vote-counting efforts.

No one was harmed; the police arrested two men in connection with the alleged plot, and no attack or other violence was carried out.

Photographs taken by Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jessica Griffin and Hamilton Nolan of In These Times Magazine show that the Hummer in question had decals linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

QAnon decals on back window of Hummer parked near Pa. Convention Center and under investigation after police got a tip that occupants were armed and targeting the Convention Center where vote-counting in presidential election is underway. pic.twitter.com/SKAUhcmBvQ

— Robert Moran (@RobertMoran215) November 6, 2020

The arrests come hours after President Trump alleged the ongoing count in Pennsylvania and other states was illegal and his son called for “total war,” but it’s important to be clear that the men’s motivations for the alleged plot remain unknown.

Here’s what we do and don’t know about the situation:

What we know

  • Two men were taken into custody in Philadelphia on Thursday night, according to CNN and Philadelphia’s Action News.
  • The individuals drove a Hummer from Virginia to Pennsylvania, according to multiple sources. The Philadelphia radio station KYW and a journalist for In These Times Magazine reported the vehicle sported a sticker supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
  • Action News and KYW report the arrests were made Thursday night after police were alerted to a potential plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where vote counting is taking place. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, police were alerted to be on the lookout for multiple people coming to Philadelphia from Virginia Beach to “straighten things out” at polling places.
  • According to Philadelphia’s Fox 29, several weapons, including an AR-15, were found in the men’s vehicle.

What we don’t know

  • Exactly how many people were in the vehicle
  • The individuals’ motivations or planned activities

Sticking Together

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You can’t stop the future
You can’t rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
…is to press play. You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is…now.
Many of us face problems and are not willing to share with anyone. We tend to hide them because hiding makes it easier. Drifting away from everyone in their own cloud of thoughts unaware about the world, creating an imaginary world of their own seems to suit the ones facing anxiety and pain. People with these problems weren’t born with them neither they invite them intentionally but were handed over by us in some way. We like messing with people’s emotion even if we don’t realise how much we have messed with their souls. We don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but our own. And when we mess with…

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L’Amour de la Marchandise – La Valeur que les Blancs donnent à l’Or qu’ils convoitent tant

Before the epidemic fumes decimated them, our people were numerous here. In those distant times, factories and metal machinery did not exist. There were no engines, planes, or cars. There was no oil or gas. The men, the forest and the sky were not yet sick of these things. For me, only the forest is a precious commodity. ”

Barbara Crane Navarro

photo: Yanomami: transformation chamanique – Barbara Crane Navarro

Comme le dit le porte-parole des Yanomami Davi Kopenawa dans son livre “La chute du ciel”: “Aujourd’hui, il ne reste plus beaucoup de grands chamans dans notre forêt. La fumée d’or des épidémies l’a presque complètement vidée. Nos pères et nos grands-pères ne faisaient pas confiance aux blancs et avaient toujours craint leurs fumées épidémiques. Ils ne savaient pas qu’ils étaient venus marquer les limites du Brésil au milieu de notre terre. Ils n’ont jamais imaginé que plus tard les enfants et petits-enfants de ces personnes reviendraient en grand nombre pour extraire l’or des rivières. Ils n’ont jamais pensé que ces étrangers les chasseraient un jour de leurs maisons pour prendre leurs terres! Puis les épidémies de xawara arrivent sur leurs traces et nous commençons immédiatement à mourir les unes après les autres! Nous sommes les rares habitants de la forêt à…

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