A new report Wednesday shows President Donald Trump’s estimate that the U.S. could see “substantially under” 100,000 coronavirus deaths may be a massive underestimate because of the nation’s huge incarcerated population.

Adding in the conditions of the U.S. jail system means the death toll—even with highly effective social distancing measures—could be 200,000.

Source : Le Vent se Lève

A world-renowned Russian microbiologist says that the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of Wuhan scientists doing “absolutely crazy things” in their laboratory.

Ce fil d’actualités comprend des informations provenant de trois sources : Les Lives Covid-19 du Figaro, de 20 minutes et le compte Twitter @Conflits_FR.

Republicans hoping to give themselves an edge in swing states have set their sights on yet another voter roll purge in North Carolina.

A world-renowned Russian microbiologist claims Chinese scientists created SARS-CoV-2 in a Wuhan laboratory.

Will There Be Breadlines In America?

Today, Luke and Tim dive into a crisis in development. As millions of Americans are unemployed, industries like food processing are in need of workers.

Tim gets into the history of the Great Depression, the establishment of the Federal Reserve, and the Americans who are refusing to return to work because unemployment pays more than their jobs.

Proceeding with war crime is an “Israeli decision,” says Trump administration.

Palestinian dies in Israeli prison after alleged medical neglect.

Plant, Restore Soil, Repeat. Could Nature Help Curb Climate Change? (Mili)

From the Christian Science Monitor: “‘Nature-based solutions’ are the latest climate buzzwords, offering a strategy to fight climate change that is gaining widespread and bipartisan support. But what does it mean to do this well?”

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — A president’s daughter gets an important government job, becomes an omnipresent style icon, a businesswoman (whose success depends upon rampant labor abuses among other things), and philanthropist, and looks to a future in politics.

Sound familiar? 

No, this is not about Ivanka Trump. This is about Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov as she was circa 2010. 

Source : Futura Sciences

Le coronavirus responsable du Covid-19 est particulièrement contagieux. Et selon une nouvelle étude, il pourrait même être plus contagieux encore en tout début d’infection, avant même que les personnes déclarent des symptômes. Une donnée à prendre en compte pour lutter contre sa propagation.

Source : Recherche indépendante, Alexander Samuel

Alexander Samuel est Docteur en Biologie Moléculaire, et auteur de plusieurs publications en lien avec le neurodéveloppement.

Source : Le Monde diplomatique, Frédéric Lordon

Source : France inter, Laetitia Cherel, Jacques Monin, Cellule investigation de Radio France

Plusieurs maires sont décédés, après avoir été contaminés pendant la campagne et lors du premier tour des élections municipales. Pour permettre aux mairies de continuer de fonctionner malgré tout, le gouvernement a dû prendre une ordonnance modifiant les règles du code général des collectivités locales.

It’s bad enough that China has frozen exports of medical equipment to the US during the pandemic. Now a new report sheds light on some COVID-19 test kits from the country that were sent “contaminated.”

Ce fil d’actualités comprend des informations provenant de trois sources : Les Lives Covid-19 du Figaro, de 20 minutes et le compte Twitter @Conflits_FR.

In a brand new interview, Maria Farmer shares new details about her time with deceased serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, as well as who she believes is protecting Epstein’s longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell. Farmer has been reported to be the first victim of Jeffrey Epstein after she brought her story to the New York police and FBI in 1996.

Video shows driver running into, then chasing soldier.

Lots of big news coming in today…

Major Powderkeg Situation Brewing In IRAN!

In the wake of illness, economic collapse, and widespread panic and confusion, Luke and Tim get into the latest developments in social and political history as well as the wider economic implications.

And Now You Won’t Believe What They Won’t Let Us Talk About

Trevor Chinn has also bankrolled Labour Friends of Israel.

A cache of nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the World Health Organization (WHO), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wuhan Institute of Virology, Bill Gates Foundation and several other groups involved with the coronavirus pandemic response were dumped on 4chan before appearing on several other websites, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of

‘It Was Impossible. It’s Still Impossible.’ (Russ)

From the Washington Post: “Mikaela Sakal, on being an ER nurse in an overwhelmed hospital and the decision she had to make.”

As a young Republican Congressman from California, Pete McCloskey teamed with Democratic Sen. Gaylord Nelson (WI) and Stanford student body president Denis Hayes to launch the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970.

Source : Le Nouvel Obs

Source : Le Monde, Marc Gozlan

Source : Libération

Le nombre de décès rapporté à la population est l’un des plus hauts du monde. Une surmortalité qui s’explique par des errements politiques mais surtout par un mode de comptage sûrement plus proche de la réalité que celui utilisé ailleurs.

Source : Le Media

Ce fil d’actualités comprend des informations provenant de trois sources : Les Lives Covid-19du Figaro, de 20 minutes et le compte Twitter @Conflits_FR.

A shocking new study found that SARS-CoV-2’s ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated…

A group of researchers at Zhejiang University, a top-flight research university situated in Hangzhou, the capital of the eastern coastal Chinese province of Zhejiang, have made what just might be remembered as a critical breakthrough in our understanding of the wide range of symptoms that patients face.

If you’re not washing your wrists, you could be doing it wrong. And forget hand sanitizer. A primary care doctor explains how to most effectively get germ-free hands.

The post You’re Still Washing Your Hands Wrong. Here’s How. appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

The state of Missouri became the first in the nation to file a lawsuit against China over their role in the coronavirus pandemic. Also named in the suit are the Communist Party of China, the government of Wuhan City, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, along with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Here’s what the media won’t tell you about the Stanford study and Sweden…

Money Won’t Be Worth the Paper It’s Printed On: Bailouts, Oil & Gold

After yesterday’s historic oil price collapse, Luke and Tim get into why the exact opposite of what happened with oil yesterday could happen with gold in the near future.

With all of the added bailouts and stimulus, it’s not a question of if but when money won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.

Anti-Semitism report lumps human rights advocacy with murder of Jews.

Human rights groups are urgently calling for a coronavirus action plan.

The Parched West Is Heading Into a Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries (Chris)

FromInside Climate News: “Several other megadroughts, generally defined as dry periods that last 20 years or more, have been documented in the West going back to about 800 A.D.

Source : La Marseillaise, Benjamin Grinda

Source : La Croix Pierre Cochez

Explication Le pays affiche un total de 600 morts depuis le début de l’épidémie, très loin du drame vécu par son voisin espagnol. Il a su anticiper les mesures nécessaires pour endiguer l’épidémie.

Winston Hodges is a comic based in Richmond, VA. This past January, his prospects for 2020 were bright: He regularly hosted for a nationally franchised comedy production company, Don’t Tell Comedy, and he was booked on shows at the Washington, DC, Improv Comedy Club. It seemed likely he would be accepted into the Just for Laughs comedy festival, an event where many comics finally break into the upper tiers of the industry. 

Source : 24heures.ch

Coronavirus Les autorités ne se sont pas résignées à imposer le confinement, ni même le semi-confinement. Le pays paie un tribut sans commune mesure avec ses voisins finnois, danois et norvégiens.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Sur le plateau d’Interdit d’interdire :

– Le professeur d’histoire Christian Greiling pour son livre «Le Grand Jeu» chez Héliopoles

– La chanteuse Moonlight Benjamin pour la sortie de son nouvel album «Simido»

Lire la suite

Source : The New York Times, Marc Lipsitch

Sur cette question, de grandes décisions sont en train d’être prises, et c’est ainsi que cela doit être, mais on se base sur bien peu d’éléments.

Mr Lipsitch est épidémiologiste et spécialiste des maladies infectieuses.

Ce fil d’actualités comprend des informations provenant de trois sources : Les Lives Covid-19 du Figaro, de 20 minutes et le compte Twitter @Conflits_FR.

Source : Les Echos, Gabriel Steg

Au terme de quatre semaines de confinement, il est possible de tirer un premier bilan de l’épidémie de Covid-19 et de son impact sur un système de santé qui, malgré ses qualités indéniables, était en difficulté depuis quelques années.

Facebook has removed several pages promoting protests against state quarantine orders designed to slow the spread of coronavirus.

The social media giant acknowledged removing the posts promoting protests in California, New Jersey and Nebraska which violated measures taken by governors to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Republicans have spent decades making it more difficult for core Democratic constituencies to vote by implementing things like voter ID, “exact-match” signature requirements, voter purges, poll closures, and other election rules that voting-rights groups say disenfranchise millions of Americans every year.

Now, their efforts are facing a much tougher test than a Supreme Court that usually lets them have their way: a pandemic that highlights the need for making voting easier.

The economic upheaval is exactly what they need for you to accept the digital fed dollar!

Oil Price PLUMMETS. What Does that Mean for You?

Luke and Tim dive into the INSANE news that the price of oil has plummeted, but what does that mean for the broader economy? And how will it impact you?

The post Coronavirus in times of occupation appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather (Chris)

The author writes, “Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information.

The post Barack Obama Is Not Worth Even the Dirt Under Paul Robeson’s Left Toenail appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit Frédéric Bizard, président de l’Institut Santé

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

In February, after the first votes of the 2020 election had been cast in Iowa, voting rights experts were primarily worried about the usual issues: disenfranchisement, long lines, computer glitches, and faulty voting machines.

Source : Science et Avenir

Le coronavirus s’attaque aussi au cerveau

Le SARS-CoV-2 n’épargne pas le système nerveux. Plus d’un tiers des cas confirmés dans une étude chinoise ont en effet présenté des atteintes neurologiques.

Source : VIDAL – Stéphane Korsia-Meffre

Source : CNBC

Les responsables de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé ont déclaré lundi que toutes les personnes qui se remettent du coronavirus n’ont pas les anticorps nécessaires pour combattre une seconde infection, ce qui fait craindre que les patients ne développent pas une immunité après avoir survécu au Covid-19.

Source : PerrUche en Automne

Closing the economy was a mistake!

The Government Should NOT Be Doing This RIGHT NOW

Will There Be Bank Runs???

The post I’m Fed Up With This “ONE WORLD” EVENT! appeared first on We Are Change.

It is said that history often puts the right person in the right job during a moment of crisis. That clearly hasn’t happened during the current pandemic-driven economic meltdown.

Source : Professeur Pierre Sonveaux – Maître de recherches FNRS – UC Louvain

Comprendre la maladie pour mieux la combattre – Pierre Sonveaux

Une note de Pierre Sonveaux, Maître de recherches FNRS et Professeur de pharmacologie à l’UCLouvain – Université catholique de Louvain.

Chères toutes et chers tous,

Source : Huffington Post

Selon un médecin français qui a vécu la crise sanitaire depuis une clinique internationale à Wuhan en Chine, berceau de la pandémie de Covid-19, le président aurait dû prendre des mesures de confinement plus fortes.

Source : Le Vent Se Lève, Vincent Ortiz

Source : Numerama

La chloroquine et son dérivé l’hydroxychloroquine peinent à prouver leur efficacité et, inversement, de plus en plus d’effets secondaires sont rapportés.

Reading Time: < 1minute Although some banks say they won't do it, the law that authorized the issuance of the $1,200-per- person economic stimulus checks allows banks to keep part of the money to cover their (often ridiculous) overdraft and late fees.

The post Greed Is Getting Back to Normal appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

Here’s our response to disinformation and why you should still take this seriously.

What Comes Next? To Protest or Not To Protest?

Tim and guests John Sneisen (The Economic Truth), Chris Karabats, and Dan Dicks delve into the latest saga in developing American history.

To protest or not to protest?

Should Americans’ constitutional right to freely assemble be interrupted to protect public health? And how far should that go?

Comme vous le savez, cet espace d’auto-défense intellectuelle fonctionne essentiellement grâce à l’action bénévole de nombreuses personnes. Nous lançons aujourd’hui un appel à l’entraide, car nous souhaitons développer notre couverture des crises actuelles.

Nous comptons vraiment sur vous – Merci d’avance !

Americans stranded in Morocco since the outbreak of the coronavirus have received assistance from the federal government that has been expensive, poorly organized, and difficult to access, interviews with multiple travelers by WhoWhatWhy reveal. 

By Gilad Atzmon

Source : Le Figaro, Eugénie Bastié

FIGAROVOX/GRAND ENTRETIEN – L’économiste et directeur de recherche au CNRS nous donne ses pistes pour sortir après le confinement de la plus grave crise économique depuis 1945. Il plaide pour un retour massif de l’Etat dans l’économie et l’annulation d’une partie de notre dette.

Source : La Marseillaise, Mireille Roubaud