By Leslie Kaufman at Bloomberg. pics added shared with thanks

Rollback of environmental protections and politicising of COVID pandemic led to thousands of excess deaths: The Lancet.

The Trump administration deliberately harnessed racism and class animosity to push policies that caused hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths, according to a scathing new report in the British medical journal The Lancet.

After undertaking a comprehensive assessment of the health and environment impacts of Donald Trump’s presidency, the 33 scientists who co-authored the article estimated that rollbacks of environmental and workplace protections led to 22,000 excess deaths in 2019 alone. 

They also found that 40% of U.S. deaths during 2020 from Covid-19 would have been avoided if the country’s death rate had been closer to that of its G7 peers, and blamed Trump for eschewing the advice of public health agencies and politicizing common sense responses to the pandemic such as mask-wearing.

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Don’t believe the lies about “racism”, the actress and former athlete has been found guilty of wrongthink. Nothing more. By Kit Knightly | OffGuardian | February 11, 2021 We don’t comment on pop-culture much, but as the incredibly fine line between politics and entertainment begins to fade totally out of existence the overlap becomes harder […]

What REALLY Got Gina Carano Cancelled — Aletho News

Call by the Solidarity Assembly with Dimitris Koufontinas for an international day of action on February 12, 2021.

Originally published by Act For Freedom Now! Posted on February 8, 2021 by enough14 — 3 Comments

At the end of last December, the Greek government approved a reform of the national penitentiary system that, in addition to other measures that worsen prison conditions, establishes that those convicted of terrorism cannot access “rural prisons,” more “open” institutions to which long-term prisoners have access. The approval of this law has led to the immediate transfer of political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas from the rural prison of Kassevitia.

Dimitris is a comrade convicted for participating in the revolutionary organization 17 November, in prison since 2002. The new set of laws stipulates that inmates in rural prisons are reclassified and then transferred to the last prison they were in. In Dimitris’s case it should have been the Athenian prison of Koridallos. However, the prison administration decided to transfer him, manipulating the transfer papers, to Domokos prison. Although there are no differentiated circuits in Greece, in recent years, the prison administration has turned Domokos into a “hard” prison.

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info del San Francisco Chronicle, el journal Science…compartido con agradecimiento. traducción thefreeonline

Read in English HERE

El mundo sueña con acabar con el coronavirus. Los países luchan por inmunizar a sus poblaciones para que se despierten de una pesadilla que comenzó hace aproximadamente un año. Todos los días, millones de dosis de las vacunas inciertas se vacían en los brazos de todo el planeta. Sin embargo, otra posible solución acecha bajo la superficie.

Biólogos de Pharmamar recolectando Aplidium Albicans cerca de Ibiza

“El COVID es como si necesitara una fotocopiadora para extenderse y la plitidepsina (Apladin) lo desenchufa”

En las aguas que rodean la isla de Ibiza vive un pequeño invertebrado llamado Aplidium albicans. Este organismo forma parte de la familia de las ascidias, una criatura que pasa sus días inmóvil, pegada a una roca, mientras filtra el agua para conseguir alimento. Ejemplar en el que se podría encontrar una cura para el coronavirus.

Continue reading “¡Un ‘Sea Squirt’ de Ibiza mata al Covid! Comienzan los ensayos finales de la fase 3”