Monthly Archives: August 2022

2022-08-11: News Headlines

Colin Todhunter (2022-08-11). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Global Voices (2022-08-11). In Turkey, religious Values are used to censor online ontent. juancole.com By Arzu Geybullayeva | ( Globalvoices.org ) Turkish authorities are increasingly censoring content online that does not fit Turkey's religious values, morality, and family values in recent years. The most recent example is an investigation launched by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against Spotify. The Office claims the music streaming platform, approved …

Dana Sanchez (2022-08-10). Fact Check: 36% Of Americans Earning $2 K Or More Live Paycheck To Paycheck. moguldom.com With inflation driving up the cost of almost everything, workers in all income levels — including those who make more than $2 ,000 a year — report they are living paycheck to paycheck and devoting almost all their salaries to expenses with little or nothing left at the end of the month. Paycheck to paycheck generally …

_____ (2022-08-09). US Government Is World's Worst Violator Of Freedom Of Press. popularresistance.org The US government employs many strategies to try to justify its intervention in the internal affairs and violation of the sovereignty of foreign nations. Chief among these deceptive tactics is Washington's weaponization of accusations that its adversaries violate the freedom of expression. | This is quite ironic, given that the United States is the world's leading violator of press freedoms, according to any consistent definition of the term. | And unlike the countries that Washington claims supposedly repress the freedom of expression within their borders, US government censorship of independent media outlets an…

_____ (2022-08-09). A New Third Party Just Launched. popularresistance.org We finally have a real third party in the United States that the mainstream media is willing to talk about. I bet they'll give them ballot access and everything. And this new party has nothing to do with the Democrats or the Republicans, right? | As Reuters reported – "Former Republicans and Democrats form new third U.S. political party". | Wait? Made up of Republicans and Democrats? You can't form a new party out of the rejects from the old parties. That's like having a counseling group for trauma victims made up of former Seal Team Six members. | Let's keep reading. Maybe I'm being overly judgmental.

_____ (2022-08-09). A Legislative Staff Unionization Wave Is Hitting Blue State Capitols. popularresistance.org A white-collar unionization wave is hitting legislative chambers in Democratic-leaning states across the nation. | Frustrated by low pay and long hours, state house staffers in Massachusetts, California, New York and Washington state are seeking to organize. They hope to join their counterparts in Oregon, who became the first in the nation to unionize in 2021. | The organizing effort in state capitols mirrors a similar push in Congress. In May, the Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution giving congressional staffers the legal right to negotiate over salaries, schedules, pay di…

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2022-08-10: News Headlines

TeleSUR (2022-08-09). Cuba: Joint Forces Advance in Controlling Fire in Matanzas. telesurenglish.net Cuban authorities and emergency corps, together with teams from Mexico and Venezuela, continue the tasks to control the fire at the Matanzas supertanker base for the fourth consecutive day, amid complications due to the prevailing weather conditions in the area. | RELATED: | The second chief of the National Department of Extinction of the Cuban Fire Department, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander àÅvalos Jorge, explained duri…

Anonymous103 (2022-08-08). Administration Of Zaporozhye Region Unanimously Voted For Referendum On Joining Russia. southfront.org On August 8, the authorities in the Zaporozhye region, which is partially controlled by Russian forces, officially confirmed their intention to hold a referendum. After a vote, the head of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky signed an order on holding a referendum on joining Russia. | The Russian military are currently in control of the Kherson region and part of the Zeporozhye region, including the cities of Melitopol and Energodar. Civil-military administrations were created in these reg…

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