Accused held for almost two years without charge.

Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going (Bethany)

The authors write, “This wasn’t Carnival’s first outbreak, nor its last. In February, another of its ocean liners, the Diamond Princess, accounted for more confirmed Covid-19 infections than any nation except for China.

Palestinian victims of Israeli occupation violence are guilty until rights groups prove them innocent.

While some people are happy with the outcome of Wisconsin’s primary, the ongoing litigation is a reminder that what happened there on April 7 is an omen of bad things to come as the coronavirus pandemic meets electoral politics. 

Source : Le Figaro, Adrien Jaulmes

Malgré la propagation du virus, Donald Trump envisage de rouvrir le pays pour relancer l’activité.

Correspondant à Washington

Source : Libération, Jean-Baptiste Soufron

L’application StopCovid n’est pas une réponse au virus mais une démarche idéologique destinée à limiter les libertés des personnes. Il faut s’opposer à ce projet qui ne sera ni efficace, ni sans danger.

Source : Le Monde, Paul Benkimoun

Source : CNRS – 10-04-2020

After a one-two punch of disappointing news for Gilead out of China, where as we reported yesterday a trial of remdesivir in Covid-19 patients with mild or moderate symptoms was suspended as no eligible patients could be recruited according to an update on ClinicalTrials.gov, which in turn followed a trial of the drug in severely ill Covid-19 patients which was also terminated for similar reasons, it felt like one or more hedge funds would seek to manipulate public sentiment – and the market – and get out of an underwater position.

Source : Financial Times, Yuval Noah Harari

La tempête passera, mais les choix que nous faisons aujourd’hui pourraient changer nos vies pour les années à venir.

As officials in the U.S. begin to make plans for a return to public life, technology is being implemented in strange and startling new ways.

In New Jersey, Connecticut, and other major hotspots in the U.S., local officials have announced that they will be rolling out temperature-sensing drones that will send out audio messages reminding people to be cautious and follow social distancing guidelines.

These drones are made by a company called Draganfly. The company has recently distributed similar technology to authorities in Australia for their pandemic response.

A Facebook fact checker who has ‘debunked’ articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute – which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.

Is the storm over or is this just the beginning?

22 Million Americans Unemployed. Will US Bailout Humans Now? Nah!

Another 5.2 million Americans have filed for unemployment, bringing the total jobless to over 22 million, and that doesn’t even account for those who work in the gig economy.

How do they calculate these numbers anyway?

Is the World’s Richest Man’s Dark Past Catching Up with Him?

Palestinians experience unequal access to health care.

Just hours after President Trump, General Milley, and now the mainstream US media, increase the rhetoric volume on the source of the “Chinese Virus”, with questions about leaks from the Wuhan Lab growing louder, American firms producing medical goods in China have been slapped new export restrictions, stranding much of the supplies in warehouses across the country.

Caring for and helping each other is a necessity for our collective survival.

By now you’ve probably caught up on most of your home projects, and your Netflix queue is getting thin. Somebody told me today that going out to collect his snail mail was a big item on his daily to-do list. It’s clear that with self-isolation and social distancing we all have a little too much time on our hands. 

Why Are So Many People Dying of COVID-19 in New York City? (Russ)

FromLive Science:“‘New York had multiple, multiple, multiple introductions from Europe and also had the misfortune to have a superspreader at the beginning,’ said [George Rutherford, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco].”

On Easter Sunday and into Monday, dozens of tornadoes carved destructive paths from northern Florida to southwest Virginia and as far inland as Texas and Arkansas. The unforgiving storms left blackouts, devastation, and heartbreak in their wake.

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Source : Pour la science, Dominique Emilie, Marc Humbert, Pierre Galanaud

source : Bastamag, Agnès Rousseaux

Source : Nature, David Adam

Comment les épidémiologistes se sont empressés de modéliser la pandémie de coronavirus.

Le personnel d’une usine automobile à Wuhan, en Chine, observe les mesures de distanciation sociale pendant leur pause déjeuner. Crédit : AFP/Getty

Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret.

In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security.

On Tuesday, a 2-1 majority rejected an appeal from one of the victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein which would have thrown out a non-prosecution agreement that provided immunity to Epstein, his aides, and unnamed “co-conspirators.”

Epstein’s escapades became front page news in the summer of 2019 when he was arrested and faced charges for abusing dozens of young girls at his homes in Florida, New Mexico, New York, and Paris. Epstein died of an alleged suicide on August 2019 while in custody on new sex-crime charges filed in New York.

The Pennsylvania senate has passed a measure which would partially reopen the state by lifting the lockdown on most of the state’s businesses imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf (D), according to The Hill.

Fox News reports that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that “patient zero” was a lab employee who became infected before spreading it in the community – just as we have reported repeatedly over the past three months, in exchange for which Twitter’s “appropriate content” arbiters deplatformed us without reason or explanation.

Israeli police shut down coronavirus testing center serving Palestinians.

The banksters are screwing us over worse than 2008!

Stimulus Checks: Fact vs Fiction

Luke and Tim dive into today’s economic developments.

WHO Lost the Power?

Luke and Tim get into more crazy news from today, focusing on the debate about the president cutting funding from the WHO.

VIDEO: Reporter Who Investigated Weinstein Says Biden’s Accuser Deserves to Be Heard (Chris)

From Rising:“Investigative reporter Rich McHugh shares exclusive information on Biden accuser Tara Reade’s criminal complaint filed with D.C. police last week.”

We provide you today with a scientific analysis of the trial on chloroquine conducted by Raoult, Gautret & al. , and which was widely covered by the press two weeks ago, something which has triggered the current controversy.

This is the translation of this article, originally in French. Our apologies for the possible typos…

Every month, about 52 women in the US are shot and killed by their partners. But that figure was compiled under “normal” circumstances, before the coronavirus took hold of the country.

Source : Facebook, Gaël Giraud

L’intervention de Gaël Giraud débute à 10’00 :

Source : Sciences et Avenir, Sylvie Riou-Milliot

De nouvelles données chinoises laissent entendre que quatre infections sur cinq au coronavirus sont asymptomatiques.

Source : Marianne, Kévin Boucaud-Victoire

La crise sanitaire actuelle pose la question de la place de la science dans notre société. Physicien, philosophe des sciences français et grand vulgarisateur, Etienne Klein s’y attelle.

Source : Le Parisien, AFP

Les Finlandais attendaient impatiemment leurs masques, mais… Deux millions de protections achetées par le pays à la Chine pour freiner la propagation du coronavirus, ne sont pas adaptées à une utilisation à l’hôpital, a admis mercredi le gouvernement finlandais.

Source : Le Figaro, Luc Lenoir

Pékin supplante l’Occident dans l’aide à l’Afrique, et s’apprête à utiliser sa puissance financière pour sécuriser, ou non, les régimes locaux.

Just as he threatened last week, and was threatened back with “body bags,” President Trump tonight confirmed he will halt US funding for The World Health Organization, while US reviews virus warnings regarding China.

You won’t believe what they knew about this back in 2018…

Let’s Not Forget: Cui Bono. Who Benefits? Follow the Money

Luke and Tim dive into the economics news for the last couple of days. Discrepancies between finance authorities abound, but are we headed for the next great depression? Or will this be just a blip on the radar?

Hostility to Corbyn Curbed Labour Efforts to Tackle Anti-Semitism (Chris)

The author writes, [A] new internal report … said it had found no evidence of antisemitism complaints being treated differently to other forms of complaint, or of current or former staff being ‘motivated by antisemitic intent.’”

Israel treats minimal adherence to its obligations as acts of magnanimity.

Source : actu.fr, Loraine Dion

En une semaine, la prise de chloroquine, dans le cas d’automédication, a causé l’hospitalisation de dix patients de Nouvelle-Aquitaine en soins intensifs de cardiologie.

Source : Le Point, Jérôme Vincent, 30-03-2020

VIDÉO. Des morts et des effets toxiques cardiaques ont été recensés dans plusieurs hôpitaux français chez des personnes positives ayant pris de l’hydroxychloroquine.

Source : Ouest-France, AFP, 30-03-2020

L’agence régionale de santé de Nouvelle-Aquitaine a mis en garde contre le médicament, vanté par certains professionnels de santé. Certains patients atteints du Covid-19 ont pris de l’hydroxychloroquine en automédication et ont été hospitalisés en réanimation.

Source : France inter, Danielle Messager

INFO FRANCE INTER – Prendre des anticorps de personnes guéries du coronavirus pour les injecter à des malades, c’est le principe d’un nouvel essai clinique qui a commencé lundi 6 avril, avec l’espoir de pouvoir bloquer rapidement le virus avant qu’il ne fasse trop de dégâts.

Risking their lives to deliver food to your home in the age of the coronavirus is hard enough. But most home-delivery people do so without a chance to have their day in court if anything goes wrong on the job. 

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit Franck Lepage, militant de l’éducation populaire

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire

Source : France culture, Benoît Collombat et Cellule investigation de Radio France

Source : Les Echos, Joël Cossardeaux

Si elle devait s’étendre sur 45 jours, la mise sous cloche de l’Europe pour lutter contre le coronavirus ferait chuter de 5 % le bilan annuel de ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre, selon le cabinet international Sia Partners. Le transport et la production d’énergie sont les premiers secteurs concernés.

Source : Futura Science, Julien Hernandez

Selon des données préliminaires consultées par des journalistes du quotidien Le Monde, 83 % des patients en réanimation seraient en surpoids.

Source : Le Parisien, Marc Payet

Israel’s notorious NSO Group is looking to capitalize on coronavirus.

Microsoft just took down their new “commercial” featuring Marina Abramovic.

This Makes My Blood BOIL! It’s Getting Ridiculous.

Luke and Tim dive into the latest news about worldwide police efforts to stop the spread of the sickness.

A War of Words: Fire Trump or Fire Fauci???

Watch Luke and Tim discuss the ongoing war of the words between world leaders. Is Twitter really an indicator of whether a government official is getting fired?

In a move that is stunningly hypocritical even for Washington standards, Citizens United, the group eponymous with destroying the few meaningful campaign finance rules the United States once had, now wants to get the money out of politics.

Well, at least money that goes to Democrats. 

Ninth Circuit Revives Claims Facebook Tracks Logged-Out Users (Chris)

The author writes, “[A] three-judge panel found the plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded several claims that Facebook violated privacy laws by tracking users’ internet activity after they had logged out of their accounts.

Twitter has banned yet another news outlet providing ‘non-approved’ information about COVID-19, this time banning Steve Bannon’s “War Room: Pandemic” account without explanation.

Wtf, @jack? https://t.co/z3Xnpe7yeC

— HARLAN Z. HILL (@Harlan) April 13, 2020

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects millions of Americans, and one common symptom of this anxiety disorder is excessive handwashing due to an extreme fear of germs. As we are all instructed to increase our personal hygiene to reduce transmission of the novel coronavirus, many people with OCD are facing added stress.

Source : Marianne, Étienne Girard

Les experts-médecins des conseils scientifiques chargés d’éclairer Emmanuel Macron pendant la crise du coronavirus ont touché 450.000 euros des firmes pharmaceutiques ces cinq dernières années. Faut-il s’inquiéter pour leur indépendance ? Eléments de réponse.

Source : France inter, Benoît Collombat

Alors que la France manque cruellement de masques face à l’épidémie de coronavirus, une entreprise française, installée en Bretagne, qui pouvait en fabriquer jusqu’à 200 millions par an, a fermé en 2018 après avoir été rachetée par un groupe américain. Qui est responsable de ce fiasco ? Enquête.

Source : France info, Charlotte Causit

Source : Huffington Post, Mélany Le Barz-Ceretta

Arrêtez de parler des soignants comme de bons petits soldats. Les soldats ont des armes. Nous, on a des sacs-poubelle.

Source Le Monde, Marc Gozlan

As the United States and the entire world become enveloped in the worst pandemic in a century, many have embraced self-isolating and sheltering in place as a basic responsibility to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. However, for many of the most vulnerable—such as children—home can be the most unsafe place due to domestic violence and abuse

It’s logical and reasonable to distrust all governments.

The post The Bio Lab In China Got US Funding! What You Should Know appeared first on We Are Change.

Recent findings regarding the origin of COVID-19 continue to support our January reporting that the disease may have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – which was experimenting with bat coronavirus found to be 96% genetically identical to COVID-19.

Source : BMJ, Michael Day

President Donald Trump lacks the social graces and the administrative competence of the French monarch, Louis XIV. But he does share one sentiment with him. “L’etat c’est moi,” Louis is believed to have proclaimed. “The state, it is I.”