NYC Releases Largest And Most Detailed Coronavirus Antibody Testing Data To Date

Map showing percent of those testing positive for antibodies.

Map showing percent of positive results for people who took an antibody test.

Overall, 26% of those tested in the five boroughs had antibodies to the virus. [ more › ]

Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Anthology Celebrating the Indigenous heroes of the Marvel Universe — LRInspire

New York, NY — August 19, 2020 — This November, Marvel celebrates Indigenous history with a landmark special, MARVEL’S VOICES: INDIGENOUS VOICES , written and drawn by some of the industry’s most renowned Indigenous talent along with talents making their Marvel Comics debut!

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The Borscht Revolution — In Saner Thought

WE have had the Green Revolution….Yellow Revolution….Orange Revolution….and so on…..and now we are witnessing the “Borscht Revolution”…..the situation in Belarus. Why “Borscht”? It happens to be part of the national cuisine of Belarus….ergo “The Borscht Revolution”. About now someone is asking…”where the Hell is Belarus? After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, […]

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Will Saudis Get Nukes?

A Saudi bomb in the future?

In Saner Thought

Over a year ago I wrote bout the news that Jared was working to help MbS get nuke power for KSA…..https://lobotero.com/2019/05/14/saudis-and-nukes/

I said then that it was a bad idea to give the Saudis nuke technology and after months of bitching I see that Pompeo has reassured Israel that Saudis will got get access to nukes….

Following reports that this is a specific concern of Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he believes it is a “real risk” that Saudi Arabia will get nukes, and that the US views it as a “top priority” to try to prevent the Saudis from getting such arms.

Recent reports, all centering on the Israeli narrative, claim the Saudis are processing yellowcake uranium, and that they are getting secret help from China that could lead to the acquisition of nuclear arms in the future.

This is an unusual place for the administration…

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Navalny poisoning suspicion grows — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, 44, was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on August 20 after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison. According to his team he is still in intenstive care ward now. Navalny was in intensive care and on an artificial lung […]

Navalny poisoning suspicion grows — EUROPE DIPLOMATIC

Garzette che volano sopra l’Orinoco – NO alla distruzione da parte dell’Arco Minerario Orinoco di Maduro delle terre indigene in Venezuela !!!

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Foresta felice – disegno su carta – Meromi Yanomami

NO alla distruzione da parte dell’Arco Minerario Orinoco di Maduro delle terre indigene in Venezuela !!!

NO alla rimozione delle protezioni per i territori indigeni in Brasile da parte di Bolsonaro !!!

NIENTE ORO SANGUE !!!

MOSTRA “Pas de Cartier” ! – Lo YANOMAMI e gli ALBERI – Miniere d’oro e oggetti d’oro di lusso – COVID-19 propagato dai minatori d’oro… dal 3 settembre al 4 ottobre 2020

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A play-by-play account of Facebook’s hate speech controversy in India

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Since last week, Facebook India‘s director of policy, Ankhi Das, has been under the spotlight for her role in taking moderation decisions that favored the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). A report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published last Friday suggested that on multiple instances, Das overruled the moderation team’s decision to remove certain violence-inciting communal posts by BJP‘s leaders on the social network. According to the report, Facebook didn’t block several posts from BJP leaders that spoke against Rohingya Muslim community, and also blamed Muslims at large for spreading “Corona Jihad.” [Read: Most mobile apps suck — here’s how…

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‘Bored’ ravens straying from Tower of London as tourist numbers fall

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Legend warns monarchy and building will crumble if resident birds flee fortress

A lack of tourists is driving the ravens at the Tower of London to boredom and causing them to fly away.

Legend has it the monarchy and the Tower of London will fall if its six resident ravens leave the fortress.

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India study suggests millions more may have caught coronavirus

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NEW DELHI (AFP) – More than a quarter of New Delhi’s 20 million residents may have caught the novel coronavirus without showing symptoms, a study released on Thursday (Aug 20) indicated, raising fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers.

Extrapolated, the antibody study on 15,000 residents means 5.8 million people in the bustling capital could have caught the virus – more than 37 times the official tally of 156,139 infections.

India is already officially the third worst-hit country after the US and Brazil, and the health ministry reported a record daily jump of 69,652 new infections on Wednesday – taking the total to 2.84 million.

On Thursday, Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain said blood tests on 15,000 residents conducted earlier this month found 29.1 per cent of them had virus antibodies.

Scientists say, however, that antibody tests should be treated with caution because they also pick up other coronaviruses, not just the latest Covid-19.

A similar survey in June-July said 23 per cent of people tested had been exposed to the virus in the city.

Surveys in other Indian cities have also suggested more infections than the official numbers suggest.

In the western city of Pune, 51.5 per cent of respondents in five badly affected pockets had antibodies in their blood, a recent survey showed.

Another in late July found 57 per cent of those tested in Mumbai’s slums had the infection – far more than official data suggests.

“Such studies are useful and necessary but it is important how it is interpreted,” said Dr Rajib Dasgupta, who heads the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.

“It can’t be applied to the whole city,” he said, noting that the Pune study was done in a very densely populated area of the city.

Another survey released this week, testing sewage water in Hyderabad, estimated that some 6.6 per cent of the city of over nine million may have been infected – also far higher than the official data suggests.

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Kids Are Being Shoved Back to School in Iowa, and Teachers Aren’t Having It

Iowa’s largest teachers union and its fifth-largest school district are suing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds over a mandate she issued in July requiring schools to open this fall with at least 50% in-person instruction. It’s one of the highest-profile standoffs yet between educators and state governments that want them to return to the classroom.

Source: Kids Are Being Shoved Back to School in Iowa, and Teachers Aren’t Having It

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