2020-12-28: News Headlines

Zero Hedge (2020-12-28). Thousands of Americans "Negatively-Affected" Following COVID-19 Vaccination. Anaphylaxis, Severe Allergic Reaction. globalresearch.ca Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new As of …

Dan Cohen (2020-12-28). Meet The Pseudo-Left Imperialists Fighting Against Universal Healthcare. mintpressnews.com Since comedian Jimmy Dore called on progressive members of Congress to pressure Nancy Pelosi to hold a floor vote on Medicare For All, a collection of media personalities have launched vicious attacks against him while deflecting from his overwhelmingly popular argument.

Richard Gale (2020-12-28). A More Honest Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic. globalresearch.ca Since the first cases of the new coronavirus strain outside of China, every aspect of the pandemic's ever-changing amoebic narrative has been carefully controlled by the World Health Organization and major government health agencies. | High officials within a syndicate of …

news.un (2020-12-28). Vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication: WHO officials. news.un.org In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is "not necessarily the big one", and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.

Toby Freeman, Fran Baum (2020-12-28). In the Fight Against Poor Health, the USA Is Punching Well Below Its Weight. commondreams.org By focusing more on battling inequality, new research shows, the United States could significantly improve American life expectancy. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Kareem Chehayeb (2020-12-28). Lebanon's president compelled to say he'll take Covid vaccine as conspiracies spread. middleeasteye.net Lebanon's president compelled to say he'll take Covid vaccine as conspiracies spread | Michel Aoun's spokesperson had told MEE 85-year-old was yet to make a decision on getting the jab, as healthcare officials urge a public awareness campaign | Mon, 12/28/2020 – 16: 44 | A supporter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun wears a face mask with a drawing of the president and the writing in Arabic t…

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2020-12-28). 'Surge on a Surge': Fauci Leads Health Officials Warning of Post-Holiday Coronavirus Spike. commondreams.org "Our darkest days in the battle against Covid-19 are ahead of us, not behind us," the nation's top infectious disease expert predicted. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Online News Editor (2020-12-28). Argentina prepares to roll out Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine. laprensalatina.com Buenos Aires, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Argentina mobilized Monday to distribute 300,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to hospitals in each of the 34 provinces amid concerns about a second wave of infections in the South American country that has already lost nearly 43,000 lives to Covid-19. The operation was on track "to initiate …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-12-28). Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market. globalresearch.ca First published on January 27, 2016. | Of relevance to an understanding of the Covid Vaccine Initiative | The business of vaccines is soon to become a major source of profits for the world's largest pharmaceutical corporations. A press release (Business Wire, …

FB Post Feed: NAACP Silicon Valley (2020-12-28). Tuesday 12/29: COVID-19 Vaccine & the Black Community: Safety, Efficacy & Dispelling Fear. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich (2020-12-28). Health Imperialism and Discriminatory International Laws. globalresearch.ca "Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promise, for never intending to go beyond promise costs nothing." — Edmund Burke | Joe Biden's statements on resuscitating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has also reignited an old …

teleSUR (2020-12-28). US Blockade Prevents Venezuela From Funding COVAX. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Health Minister Carlos Alvarado on Sunday said that the economic blockade imposed by the United States is preventing his country from funding the COVAX initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO). | RELATED: | He recalled that his country offered to place US$18 million into the COVAX fund, but as a result of the U.S. blockade, Venezuela has not "been able to free those resources to pay…

Staff (2020-12-28). Fauci and Other Health Officials Warn of Post-Holiday Coronavirus Spike. truthout.org The United States will most likely experience a "post-seasonal" spike in coronavirus infections largely due to holiday travel and gatherings, current and former U.S. health officials said on Sunday. | "We very well might see a post-seasonal — in the sense of Christmas, New Year's — surge… a surge upon a surge,"

Mehr News Agency (2020-12-28). Lifting sanctions, nation's health, livelihood top proiority. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) — Iranian President Rouhani said on Mon. that in the few months left of his tenure, his administration has the Iranian nation's health and their livelihood besides breaking the sanctions at its top priority.

Derek Royden (2020-12-28). The troubling rise of vaccine nationalism. nationofchange.org "No one should be blocked from getting a life-saving vaccine because of the country they live in or the amount of money in their pocket."

Dean Baker (2020-12-28). Is the Distribution of Vaccines the Biggest Trump Screw Up Yet? cepr.net The Washington Post tells us that 7.7 million first doses of vaccines have been shipped to date (two million shots have been given), with a target of 16 million by the end of the year. This is warp speed? By comparison, we manage to get over 170 million flu shots in people's arms every year, …

Dierdre Imus Transmitter (2020-12-28). Toxic Vaccine Ingredients: The Devil is in the Details. indybay.org Dierdre Imus, NY radio host, bestselling author, wants toxic ingredients removed from vaccines.

Robert Norse (2020-12-28). Educating the City Manager (and his Neighbors). indybay.org On December 20th and 21st, Santa Cruz Union activists demonstrated and spoke in front of City Manager Martin Bernal's suburban house at 96 Brookwood Drive. Bernal's police have begun demolition of the San Lorenzo survival campgrounds destroying tents, gear, and other property. In winter weather, with no winter shelter, defying a shelter-in-place CDC order–Bernal's decree raised much outrage.

_____ (2020-12-27). US Economic Sanctions On Cuba In The context Of The COVID-19 Pandemic. popularresistance.org On March 12, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.1 Shortly after that, on Friday, March 26, during his participation in a virtual summit of leaders from the G20 countries, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for the waiving of sanctions that could undermine countries' capacities to respond to the pandemic.2 A few days later,the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, made a similar call for the immediate lifting of international sanctions to prevent hunger crises in countries hit by the pandemic: "The continued imposition of crippling economic sanctions on S…

RT (2020-12-27). VaccinEUnity? European bloc launches Covid jab program — but Germany, Hungary & Slovakia already started ahead of schedule. rt.com The EU launched a bloc-wide vaccination program on Sunday in what Ursula von der Leyen called a "moment of unity." Yet, each member state has got only around 10,000 doses so far, and some decided to start earlier than planned. | The beginning of the vaccination program, scheduled for December 27, 28 and 29, is "a touching moment of unity," EU Commission President von der Leyen said in an address published on Saturday, a day ahead of the rollout. She said that the vaccine had been delivered to all EU nations and described the jab as being "the lasting way out" of the pandemic crisis. | Today, we start turning t…

Global Research News (2020-12-27). Selected Articles: Warning: COVID Vaccines! Huge Risks, Huge Injuries — Huge Compensations? globalresearch.ca By The Covid cases here are thankfully small but the lock-downs apply all the same with the closure of busin…

MEE and agencies (2020-12-27). Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian security prisoners. middleeasteye.net Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian security prisoners | Order defies health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of second group of Israelis to be vaccinated | Sun, 12/27/2020 – 15: 26 | Public Security Minister Amir Ohana's statement did not single out Palestinian inmates, but there are no non-Palestinian security prisoners in Israel (AFP) | Israel's P…

John C. A. Manley (2020-12-27). Medical Doctor Warns that "Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise" from Mask Wearing. globalresearch.ca First published in October 2020 | "A group is suing Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart, saying the city's mask mandate is harmful to healthy people," reports

Ashlie D. Stevens (2020-12-26). Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease. salon.com The soapy teen ballet series is high on melodrama, but its eating disorder plot rings true to life…

F. William Engdahl (2020-12-25). What's Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. "Human Guinea Pigs"? globalresearch.ca The Pharma giant Pfizer use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision.

Judy Greenspan (2020-12-25). Demonstrators besiege California prison HQ: 'Mass releases now!'. workers.org Sacramento, Calif. Dec. 17 — Under the banner "From Balloons to Bullhorns," an angry group of protesters converged on the steps of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to demand mass releases of incarcerated people due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The vigil and rally organized by Sistas With Voices . . . |

Kenny Stancil, staff writer (2020-12-25). 'Holidays Can't Be Jolly If Your Family Is Not Safely Housed': Progressives Urge CDC to Extend Eviction Moratorium. commondreams.org "Allowing tens of millions of people to be evicted in the dead of winter in the middle of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases and deaths is unconscionable." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Jill Richardson (2020-12-25). The Coming Battle Over Vaccines. counterpunch.org With the new COVID-19 vaccine available, Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans can begin to achieve herd immunity by next summer. Herd immunity occurs when so many people are immune to the virus that it can't spread, because an infected person won't have anyone left to spread it to. Yet as of November, four in ten

Peter Koenig (2020-12-25). Warning: Covid Vaccines! Huge Risks, Huge Injuries — Huge Compensations? globalresearch.ca Did you know that the US Government since 1988 paid as of 1 December 2020 more than 4.4 billion dollars to vaccine-injury victims? — It's your money — Taxpayers Money. This is

2020 news (2020-12-25). Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon File Application for Suspension of All SARS CoV-2 Vaccine Studies and Call for Co-signing the Petition. globalresearch.ca On December 1, 2020, the ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr. Michael Yeadon and the lung specialist and former head of the public health department Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg

Margaret Flowers (2020-12-24). US Airports Are Portals for Disease Spread. Venezuela Shows Another Way. zcomm.org People in the United States do have a lot to learn from Venezuelans and from people in many other countries that are handling the pandemic well…

commondreams (2020-12-24). 'The Courts Are a Sham': New Hampshire Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Rights of Nature, Healthy Climate Arguments. commondreams.org ______________________________…

WSWS (2020-12-24). Reject the SEIU sellout: Mobilize the working class to defend HCA nurses in southern California! wsws.org With the pandemic spreading out of control and California hospitals strained beyond capacity by the flood of nearly 20,000 COVID-19 patients, including at least 3,500 in ICUs, nurses in Southern California have taken a stand to demand safe staffing levels and protections that are critical to save the lives of health care workers and patients alike.

Anthony D. Romero (2020-12-24). Incarcerated People Should Get Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine. It's the Smart and Human Thing to Do. aclu.org Governor Jared Polis of Colorado — otherwise a trailblazer when it comes to criminal legal reform — recently

Anand Naidoo (2020-12-24). The Heat: Climate Change Challenges for 2021. america.cgtn.com In 2020, the world reeled from the worst public health crisis in a century and extreme weather events brought on by climate change. So, what challenges lie ahead in 2021?>

Malik Washington (2020-12-24). Racist practices at the SF Health Service System will no longer be tolerated: Remove Mitch. indybay.org SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington reports on systemic racism in the SF Health Service System…