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LA Paramedics Told Not To Transport Some Patients With Low Chance Of Survival

Please follow the COVID-19 state of california orders and stay healthy.

npr.org Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that have inundated ICUs, the Southern California county is also asking ambulance crews to conserve bottled oxygen.

Yemeni boy, ravaged by hunger, weighs 7 kg

No words. 😢

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The village where Palestinians are rendered completely powerless

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'A Huge Relief': British Judge Rejects Trump Administration Attempt to Extradite Julian Assange

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/04/huge-relief-british-judge-rejects-trump-administration-attempt-extradite-julian?fbclid=IwAR1-7bDzflXJ6ZA4xPn1GwJsY2N8zFkKmjOUz5sNa7c26gZn-NHqmcZG8jg

commondreams.org "Let this be the end of it," said whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Building Resilience & Confronting Risk in the COVID-19 Era: A Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Radicalization

For parents. https://www.splcenter.org/PERIL

splcenter.org Features and Stories Building Resilience & Confronting Risk in the COVID-19 Era: A Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Radicalization June 30, 2020 We’ve known for years that it can be all too easy for people to become radicalized without even leaving home. The proliferation of extremist spaces a...

So true!

COVID-19 meant these schools took free lunch to students. What teachers saw surprised them. — USA TODAY

America’s poor children. https://apple.news/ALZ44uEZuShSbr_ejjUv6Vg

apple.news When schools closed because of COVID-19, teachers delivered free food to students at their homes. Many encountered poverty firsthand for the first time.

Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers

theguardian.com Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination

Perspective | Near the end of life, my hospice patient had a ghostly visitor who altered his view of the world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/feeling-loving-paranormal-presence-at-death/2020/12/31/50a0dfbe-2833-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1Y7sV4Q932PeFfukvhmQljRp-f2uL4WwnnvYys0v0WnjX-6W-D8TLlKAc

washingtonpost.com In this stressful era, I feel grateful that this WWII veteran pulled up these memories and told me about the apparition.

U.S. Firms Continue to Fund Network of Destruction in the Amazon

amazonwatch.org As the Amazon rainforest smolders from another disastrous burning season and its Indigenous communities face spiking violence and land invasions incited by a racist president, we must stand in solidarity with Brazil's grassroots resistance. Amazon Watch's and APIB's innovative reporting does just th...

Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel's 'secret' nuclear weapons | Desmond Tutu

theguardian.com The cover-up has to stop – and with it the huge sums in aid, says Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu

Lawyer Paul Dickinson: The U.S. Promised Iraqis Justice. Trump’s Blackwater Pardons Took It Away.

democracynow.org President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors has sparked outrage in Iraq and in the United States. Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqis in 2007, when contractors for the mercenary firm opened fire on civilians in ...

People’s Vaccine: Calls Grow for Equal Access to Coronavirus Vaccine as Rich Countries Hoard Supply

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/1/people_s_vaccine_calls_grow_for?fbclid=IwAR2fcCKBczGjUyRNT19LloiJhOnyKvOG5RNQnLunQEKP0cM8F0xeLTvXyAA

democracynow.org While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much....

A high school student needed help with tuition, so an unlikely group stepped up: Prison inmates

washingtonpost.com Inmates pooled what they earned from jobs like mopping the floors, which pays 8 cents an hour. They ended up raising $32,000.

Opinion | "Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit": A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies ...

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Wall Street minted 56 new billionaires since the pandemic began — but many families are left behind

nbcnews.com The coronavirus has destroyed the lives, savings and small businesses of innumerable Americans — but the year wasn’t a financial washout for everyone.

The legacy of 2020: Riches for the wealthy and White, financial pain for others

cnbc.com The Covid pandemic fueled extreme inequality in 2020, as rich, White Americans saw their wealth grow and others were stuck in poverty and joblessness.

Saudi court sentences women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to prison

middleeasteye.net Prominent activist sentenced to five years and eight months in case that has drawn international condemnation

As Israel Leads In COVID-19 Vaccines Per Capita, Palestinians Still Await Shots

npr.org Israel aims to vaccinate 25% of its citizens by end of January but the country has not provided any to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, which are scrambling for shots.

Column: He was convicted in a historic healthcare fraud. Trump is letting him walk free

latimes.com Among all the loathsome recipients of Trump pardons or commutations, healthcare fraudster Philip Esformes stands out.

Exclusive: Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk

The US drug companies act worse than the drug cartel. At time of poverty and pandemic they only are concerned about profits. Shame on them.

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Lorraine Hansberry Was an Unapologetic Radical

jacobinmag.com Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her classic play A Raisin in the Sun. But she was also a committed radical who insisted that black workers must be at the heart of the struggle for liberation.

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel in latest Trump parting gift

washingtonpost.com Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the former U.S. Navy analyst and his wife, Esther, with a celebratory Jewish prayer.

National park ranger condemned for attacking unarmed Indigenous man on sacred native land

alternet.org Indigenous and wilderness conservation groups were among those on Wednesday responding with outrage to video of a National Park Service ranger tasering an unarmed Indigenous man after he walked off a trail in Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico on Sunday and then refused to comply with the ra...

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.

'Hypocrisy and Horror': Outrage After Trump DOJ Clears Cleveland Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice

commondreams.org "The Rice family has been cheated of a fair process yet again," said family attorney Subodh Chandra.

Trump pardon of Blackwater Iraq contractors violates international law - U.N.

reuters.com U.S. President Donald Trump's pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, U.N. human rights experts said on Wednesday.

Rev Martin Todd Allen

Rev Martin Todd Allen at Ethics in Technology event. Save the night of Feb 11th for another Ethics in Tech event. Focused on Presidential Priorities https://youtu.be/1YsmmHOer-U

youtube.com Rev Martin Todd Allen Advisor To Ethics In Technology Rev. Martin Todd Allen is an Associate Minister at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. He is...

Companies Took $1.8 Billion to Save Jobs and Laid Off 90,000 Workers Anyway

truthout.org Businesses that don’t rehire all their workers may have to pay back the loans plus 1 percent interest.

“Blackwater’s Youngest Victim”: 9-Year-Old Ali Kinani Was Among Victims of Trump’s Pardoned Killers

democracynow.org President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq. The Blackwater guards include Nicholas Slatten, who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the 2007 Ni...

Longtime Anti-Nuclear Activists Face Prison, Again, After Breaking Into Naval Base

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/948116757/longtime-anti-nuclear-activists-face-prison-again-after-breaking-into-naval-base

npr.org In the midst of a pandemic that's wreaking havoc on prisons and disproportionately affects older people, activists known as the Kings Bay Plowshares have been sentenced to up to 33 months in prison.

China jails citizen journalist Zhang Zhan for Wuhan reports

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Ohio Police Leave Bodycams Off and Kill Unarmed Black Man Who Had a Cellphone in His Hand. Incident Captured on Video Anyway

https://www.theroot.com/ohio-police-leave-bodycams-off-and-kill-unarmed-black-m-1845940271

theroot.com I’m angered and exhausted to report that another unarmed Black man has been killed by police, this time in Columbus, Ohio.

Blackwater attack survivor to Trump: You will have to face God - CNN Video

cnn.com Four US security personnel from the private company Blackwater, who were convicted of shooting unarmed civilians in the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq, have been included in a swathe of pardons announced by President Trump. In total 17 people were killed in the massacre. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.

Under Trump, the nuclear weapons industry has boomed – Center for Public Integrity

publicintegrity.org Expansion could be scaled back as President-elect Biden and Congress prioritize pandemic and recession problems.