(2021-08-05). Headlines for August 5, 2021. democracynow.org WHO Calls for Moratorium on Third Doses Amid Stark Global Vaccine Inequity, Amid Soaring Profits, Moderna and Pfizer to Raise COVID-19 Vaccine Prices , Over Half of China's Provinces Log New COVID Cases; Tokyo Olympics Registers Worst Daily Toll, Illinois Issues Mask Mandate for Schools; Arkansas Governor Regrets Signing Anti-Mask Bill, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Bans Mask Mandates, Blames Immigrants & Biden for Record COVID Surge, Landlords Ask Federal Judge to Block Biden CDC's New Eviction Moratorium, Protesters in Lebanon Demand Justice on First Anniversary of Beirut Port Explosion, Unfolding Climate Crisis Fu…
(2021-08-05). Seattle vigil: 'No justice, no peace, it's the doctors & the police!'. liberationnews.org 
Kaloni Bolton. Image: Change.org petition. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Westlake Park in Seattle on the afternoon of July 24 for the Healthcare Equity March. This was the most recent of a series of protests centered around Kaloni Bolton, a 12-year-old Black girl who died tragically at the beginning of this year as a result …
(2021-08-05). The Politics of Spectacle: On Eviction Moratorium, The Squad Talks the Walk. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Haiphong — Aug 3, 2021 | The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that not even the most "progressive" elected officials in the U.S. are willing to do what is necessary to meet the needs of the people. | Members of Congress departed for a seven-week vacation at the same time that the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) national eviction moratorium expired on July 31. The Squad, a subset of members of the House of Representatives who espouse Bernie Sanders' policy agenda, gathered at the Capitol building to demand that Congress come back to work and hold a vote to renew the moratorium. Cori Bush, Jamal…
(2021-08-05). Rep. Ilhan Omar: We Need to Cancel the Rent, Not Just Postpone Evictions. democracynow.org 
Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar was among the progressive Democrats who camped outside the U.S. Capitol to pressure the Biden administration into passing a new eviction moratorium after the previous moratorium lapsed July 31. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new two-month moratorium earlier in the week that covers areas of the country where there is "substantial" or "high" spread of the coronavirus. "As lawmakers, we have a responsibility to protect those that sent us to legislate on their behalf," says Omar, adding that she has personal familiarity with housing precarity. "I certainly…
(2021-08-05). Biden White House Dismisses WHO Call for Moratorium on Vaccine Boosters. commondreams.org
(2021-08-05). The Progressive Death of Progressivism. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris — Aug 3, 2021 | Emblematic of our times, the Berniecrat organization Our Revolution — never remotely revolutionary — has rebranded itself as " Our Revolution surrenders | Good bye Medicare-for-A…
(2021-08-05). When Did CDC Know Their Approved COVID-19 Tests, Faulty PCR Testing Would Make Case and Death Data Unreliable? globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-05). Video: CDC Says PCR Tests Can't Differentiate Between Coronaviruses! The Cold & COVID Are Synonymous! globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-05). Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China. counterpunch.org Back in March, the World Health Organisation's report on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic coronavirus confirmed something that had long been widely presumed. Since the pandemic began, there has been an enormous virus hunt in China. The purpose of this hunt has been to find the viruses intermediate between SARS-CoV-2 and its coronavirus relatives
(2021-08-05). Why investigating U.S. EVALI outbreak important in COVID-19 origin-tracing?>. ecns.cn Amid global efforts in tracing the COVID-19 origins, the connection between the coronavirus and an outbreak of e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases in the U.S. in August, 2019 has raised many concerns.
(2021-08-05). Comicomment: In origin tracing, U.S. leads a 'blaming chorus'. ecns.cn The COVID-19 origin tracing is a serious scientific issue that must be studied by scientists and medical experts around the world through cooperation. However, some U.S. politicians placed their hope on the intelligence community, trying to answer a science question with political means.
(2021-08-05). French biosecurity expert dismisses Wuhan "lab leak" theory. ecns.cn "The theory that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab is not credible," a French biosecurity expert who had monitored the construction of the Biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has said recently in reference to COVID-19.
(2021-08-05). Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — With the Delta variant of Covid 19 now producing escalating case counts and hospitalizations, talk among pundits has turned to the possibility of a federally imposed vaccination mandate. Many of these discussions and debates have revolved around familiar albeit simplistic dichotomies, such as voluntary choice versus government …
(2021-08-05). Study shows masks offer protection as COVID-19 infections tick up. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended this week that people vaccinated against COVID-19 resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces in areas of the United States where the virus is spreading. "Appropriate masking in addition to vaccination remain the best methods to help protect individuals from the Coronavirus," says Gregory Poland, M.D., an infectious disease expert at Mayo Clinic. In fact, published data from Mayo Clinic researchers have found that…
(2021-08-05). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Telemedicine before and after orthopedic surgery. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In health care, one of the biggest changes during the COVID-19 pandemic was the expansion of telemedicine. Virtual visits have been used in many specialties, including orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. While the use telemedicine escalated out of necessity during the pandemic, Dr. Shawn O'Driscoll, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon, believes its use will continue to be used going forward. "I think that the advantages to patients are really going to be the driving forces behind…
(2021-08-05). Trade Rep Tai and Major Religious Leaders Hold Historic Meeting on COVID, Vaccines, Trips. indybay.org Some of the highest ranking religious leaders met with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to express support for waiving vaccine patents. The measure, the religious leaders argue, will increase COVID vaccine access for developing countries.
(2021-08-05). Saturday 9/4: End COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid International Activist Assembly. indybay.org Online event…
(2021-08-05). Death by Disinformation: GOP Accomplices to Covid Apocalypse. thenation.com Death by Disinformation: GOP Accomplices to Covid Apocalypse…
(2021-08-05). Without Public Health Safety Mandates and Containment Actions–Vaccines Will Leave Us All. indybay.org Vaccines and Public Health Science both are necessary to beat fCovid-19…
(2021-08-05). COVID-19 vaccine equality, 'most pressing issue of our times' — UN chief. news.un.org The remarkable and rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines offers "great hope" that the devastating pandemic can be overcome, the UN chief told the first International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation on Thursday, but everyone must be reached everywhere, "as quickly as possible".
(2021-08-05). Sri Lankan state employees ordered back to work amid rising COVID-19 infections. wsws.org The Rajapakse government is desperate to drive up vaccinations, not with the aim of saving lives but in order to lift all remaining health restrictions.
(2021-08-05). COVID-19 vaccine urgency as delta variant continues to spread. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Viruses constantly change through mutation, and new variants of viruses are expected to occur. Multiple variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been documented, including a highly transmittable form of COVID-19 known as the delta variant. The delta variant, which was first seen in December 2020 in India, is spreading globally. It's more contagious than the previous strains that have been detected in the U.S. It's also causing more severe illness.Dr. Melanie Swift, co-chair of Mayo Clinic's…
(2021-08-05). Shifting blame reflects selfishness of U.S. ecns.cn Recently, the U.S. has led several countries and media outlets in hyping up the claim that the novel coronavirus was the result of a "lab leak".
(2021-08-05). U.S. closure of Fort Detrick lab not coincidental: expert. ecns.cn The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic's origins, a Russian political observer has said.
(2021-08-05). The War in Afghanistan: The real "Crime of the Century" behind the Opioid Crisis. dissidentvoice.org 
In May, the HBO television network aired a new two-part documentary exploring America's ongoing opioid epidemic entitled The Crime of the Century. The first episode summarized the role of the pharmaceutical industry in the crisis, specifically that of Sackler family drug-maker Purdue Pharma and its deadly prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Part One also thoroughly investigates the …
(2021-08-05). Vaccines, Variants, and Vilification. dissidentvoice.org 
I tried listening to some podcasts the other day, but every one of them — regardless of their general theme — chose to focus on "vaccine hesitancy." None of them offered any new evidence to back up their jab fetish. However, that did not stop them from creating a straw man army to gleefully mock …
(2021-08-05). WHO asks rich countries to stop booster dose program to enable greater vaccine supply to poorer countries. peoplesdispatch.org Some countries have already vaccinated more than half of their population, whereas vaccination has just begun in many countries. WHO argues that the gap in the level of immunization among the rich and poor countries could cause the emergence of newer mutant strains…
(2021-08-05). Video: Ted Cruz Introduces Anti-Vaccine Passport Amendment, Slams CDC Mask Mandate for Vaccinated. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-05). Massive Death Wave Coming Amidst Vaccine Mandates While Truth and Revolution Fill the Air. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-05). Meng extradition case concluding. ecns.cn Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the U.S.
(2021-08-05). IPS Mourns the Death of AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka. ips-dc.org 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact: Olivia Alperstein, (202) 704-9011 | Washington, D.C. — The Institute for Policy Studies joins our allies in the labor movement, the poor people's movement, and other justice movements in mourning the loss of the great labor leader Rich Trumka. | Long before he was elected president of the AFL-CIO, Rich displayed his amazing coalition-building skills as the president of the United Mine Workers Union. In 1989, he built the coalition that sustained the 10-month Pittston strike that won health benefits for thousands of coal miners. For this and other innovative justice work, he…
(2021-08-05). Craig Murray's Jailing is the Latest Move in a Battle to Snuff out Independent Journalism. orinocotribune.com 
By Jonathan Cook — Jul 30, 2021 | Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification". | Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court for their journalism in half a century — a period when such different legal and moral values prevailed that the British establishment had only just ended the…
(2021-08-05). Why Community Broadband Matters. counterpunch.org President Joe Biden introduced "The American Jobs Plan," a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes broadband upgrades, on March 31st. "Broadband internet is the new electricity," he proclaimed. The White House Statement noted: It is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, to participate equally in school learning, health care, and to stay connected. Yet,
(2021-08-05). Xinjiang residents refute accusations of human rights violations. ecns.cn Residents of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have hit back at accusations of human rights violations, saying some Western countries' claims of "genocide" or "forced labor" are fabricated.
(2021-08-05). Iran lodges protest to IMO over rising rhetoric. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Ambassador to the UK Mohsen Baharvand has penned a letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to protest the rhetoric recently raised against Tehran after suspicious incidents with tankers in Persian Gulf.
(2021-08-05). Embassy urges caution against false flag operations in region. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Embassy in London reviewed the recent days' propaganda against Iran, urging vigilance against false flag operations in the Persian Gulf region.
(2021-08-05). Deadly Silence from the Guardians of Public Health. indybay.org Where are the Guardians of Public Health…
(2021-08-05). Secret deal between U.S. Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed. ecns.cn The United States pardoned members of a notorious Japanese germ warfare unit after World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons, research by a Chinese historian has revealed.
(2021-08-05). Science Saturday: How geologic rock formations inform novel treatments for kidney stones. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Human kidney stones are at least as old as the Giza pyramids. The oldest known kidney stone was found in Egyptian burial satin from 4400 B.C. In 2020, Mayo Clinic processed and analyzed some 90,000 kidney stones from all over the world. That number increases each year, reflecting a global uptick in kidney stone disease. But new research has unlocked how kidney stones actually form, which could be the key to treating or even eliminating…
(2021-08-05). Consumer Health: 10 ways aerobic exercise can help you live longer and healthier. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A well-rounded fitness routine contains several elements, including strength training, core exercises, balance training, and flexibility and stretching. The fifth element is aerobic fitness. Aerobic activity causes you to breathe faster and more deeply, which maximizes the amount of oxygen in your blood. Your heart will beat faster, which increases blood flow to your muscles and back to your lungs. The better your aerobic fitness, the more efficiently your heart, lungs and blood vessels transport oxygen throughout…
(2021-08-05). 20-year Mayo Clinic study suggests return to play is manageable for athletes with most genetic heart diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Receiving the diagnosis of a genetic heart disease such as long QT syndrome, which can cause sudden cardiac death, has long been a game-ender for young athletes. But a 20-year study at Mayo Clinic following such athletes who were allowed to return to play suggests that the risks can be managed through a shared decision-making process. The retrospective study findings will be presented at the annual meeting of the Heart Rhythm Society…
(2021-08-05). Consumer Health: Balance training — easy, fun and important. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A well-rounded fitness routine contains several elements, including aerobic fitness, strength training, core exercises, and flexibility and stretching. The fifth element is balance training. Balance refers to the ability to stay upright and steady, whether you're standing, kneeling, sitting or squatting. Several sensory systems in your body contribute to good balance. Your vision, inner ear and joint receptors provide a sense of where your body is in space. The neuromuscular system synthesizes this information to give…
(2021-08-05). Consumer Health: Are you ready to add something new to your fitness routine? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org If you know exercise is important and you're making time for a well-rounded fitness routine, good for you! But you may become bored with the same routine day after day. And if you're bored, you may be more apt to lose interest after a while. If it's time to add a new spark to your fitness routine, here are three ideas to consider: Aquatic exerciseSwimming pools are not just for swimming laps. Aquatic fitness options also include aerobics…
(2021-08-04). Israeli warplanes pound southern Lebanon, as IDF vows to 'continue & intensify' retaliation to rocket fire (VIDEO). rt.com 
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanese territory, calling them retaliation for cross-border rocket attacks after earlier firing scores of artillery rounds in response. | The IDF Video footage has circulated online purporting to show the IDF strikes in progress. | BREAKING…
(2021-08-04). Medicare for All, Not for Some. realprogressives.org "The state-based strategy relies on states passing their own healthcare systems… they must fund these programs on their own… This constraint means only a very few states are even capable of carrying out this strategy."
(2021-08-04). 'Time for Medicare for All': US Healthcare System Ranks Dead Last Among Rich Nations—Again. commondreams.org "For years, the EPA has avoided protecting children from learning disabilities and has kept chlorpyrifos on the market, in our food, and in our water."
(2021-08-04). Venezuela: Government leads fight against pandemic, cancels rent. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela -The bustling streets of Caracas are full of masked people, during "open week." You hear Latin music flowing from the stores, children playing soccer and laughing, merchants selling empanadas. 95% of the people you see are wearing masks outside, since it's the government mandate. | Every other week is a "closed week," where everything is closed in the afternoons besides grocery stores, healthcare, gas and other essentials. Many people work from home during the "closed week." You will still see people in the streets, but far fewer. | Government Human Resources Department worker Oliver Rujano sta…
(2021-08-04). More Than Two-Thirds of US Adults Support Mask Mandates as Variants Spread. commondreams.org "There's no question: our cruel, for-profit healthcare system is broken," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
(2021-08-04). CDC issues new eviction ban for most of U.S. through Oct. 3. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3, as the Biden administration sought to quell intensifying criticism from progressives that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic. The ban announced Tuesday could help keep millions in their …
(2021-08-04). Cori Bush, Progressive Lawmakers and Activists Hailed for New CDC Eviction Moratorium. scheerpost.com By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Pressure from progressive lawmakers and grassroots activists to extend the expired federal eviction moratorium paid off Tuesday when the Biden administration took action to shield most—but not all—U.S. renters at risk of losing their homes. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the new moratorium "is intended to target specific areas of the… |