Recovered Biden touts progress against COVID, encourages vaccines
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Biden says many will still get COVID-19, but available vaccines, testing and treatment have made the virus less deadly.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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Biden says many will still get COVID-19, but available vaccines, testing and treatment have made the virus less deadly.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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Sri Lanka’s parliament extends state of emergency amid crackdown
The emergency powers enable troops to arrest and detain suspects for long periods.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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Sri Lanka’s parliament extends state of emergency amid crackdown
The emergency powers enable troops to arrest and detain suspects for long periods.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
Top 10 world news: Russia says 'Trump is one of our guys', Covid origins theory, and more
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A Kremlin propagandist has expressed his desire for Donald
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A Kremlin propagandist has expressed his desire for Donald
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Archie Battersbee's mother shows a video as evidence that her son is breathing on his own
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Archie Battersbee's mother has released a video, claiming that her son is still breathing.
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Archie Battersbee's mother has released a video, claiming that her son is still breathing.
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'Stay away from angry dolphin': Officials warn Japanese beachgoers
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Officials in the Japanese city of Fukui have advised beachgoers to keep their distance from a dissatisfied dolphin who is suspected of biting swimm
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Officials in the Japanese city of Fukui have advised beachgoers to keep their distance from a dissatisfied dolphin who is suspected of biting swimm
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Air pollution may increase possibility of Dementia, says report
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Air pollution is certainly not a good thing.
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Air pollution is certainly not a good thing.
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What do we know about Loch Ness monster? Fossil discovery suggests its existence is 'plausible'
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British scientists have claimed that the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is "plausible." Researchers said that
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British scientists have claimed that the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is "plausible." Researchers said that
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Biden tests negative for Covid
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The US president has apparently shaken off the coronavirus after five days in isolation
US President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday evening, his physician announced on Wednesday. Biden, who caught the virus despite having received a total of four vaccine doses, had suffered only mild symptoms.
The president tweeted a picture of a negative test on Wednesday morning, announcing that he would be going “back to the Oval [Office].” In a memo to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, physician Kevin O’Connor wrote that Biden’s symptoms had been...
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The US president has apparently shaken off the coronavirus after five days in isolation
US President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday evening, his physician announced on Wednesday. Biden, who caught the virus despite having received a total of four vaccine doses, had suffered only mild symptoms.
The president tweeted a picture of a negative test on Wednesday morning, announcing that he would be going “back to the Oval [Office].” In a memo to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, physician Kevin O’Connor wrote that Biden’s symptoms had been...
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Kosovo prepares EU membership bid
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The disputed territory faces a rocky road to joining the bloc
Kosovo will apply for EU membership by the end of this year, Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla said on Tuesday. The EU has taken on four new countries as candidates in recent weeks.
“We think that Kosovo meets all the prerequisites to be granted [official candidate status], and therefore, by the end of the year, we will choose the appropriate moment when we will also formally submit this application,” Gervalla said during a press conference.
The minister added that Kosovo has already implemented most of the EU’s framework for stabilization and free t...
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The disputed territory faces a rocky road to joining the bloc
Kosovo will apply for EU membership by the end of this year, Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla said on Tuesday. The EU has taken on four new countries as candidates in recent weeks.
“We think that Kosovo meets all the prerequisites to be granted [official candidate status], and therefore, by the end of the year, we will choose the appropriate moment when we will also formally submit this application,” Gervalla said during a press conference.
The minister added that Kosovo has already implemented most of the EU’s framework for stabilization and free t...
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US prepares military plan for Pelosi Taiwan visit – AP
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Washington сould shift its forces in the region to protect House Speaker if she visits the island, agency reports
The Pentagon could send additional ships, aircraft and surveillance systems to protect US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she proceeds with her plan to visit Taiwan, AP reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US officials.
A “contingency plan”, which is being developed by the American military, involves creating “overlapping rings of protection” for the speaker during her flight to the island and her stay there, the news agency said.
The officials also spoke of the n...
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Washington сould shift its forces in the region to protect House Speaker if she visits the island, agency reports
The Pentagon could send additional ships, aircraft and surveillance systems to protect US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she proceeds with her plan to visit Taiwan, AP reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US officials.
A “contingency plan”, which is being developed by the American military, involves creating “overlapping rings of protection” for the speaker during her flight to the island and her stay there, the news agency said.
The officials also spoke of the n...
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Got this Freaky Email From My Bank
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When I got this email Monday, I was slightly unnerved. It was a reminder that banks can wipe you out any time they want.
They weren't going to post my balance any more. But rest assured, the money is still there and they will continue to charge fees.
What was the purpose of this? I didn't ask. I closed the account.
While waiting to pick up my bank draft, I browsed through the three brochures on display.
One showed a black guy. Another an inter-racial marriage, and a third showed a mixed race family.
Banks are Rothschild franchises, much like McDonald restaurants are McDonald franchises. McDonald's product is a hamburger. The banks' product is Cabalist fairy dust, produced out of thin air and charged to our nati...
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henrymakow.com (RSS)
When I got this email Monday, I was slightly unnerved. It was a reminder that banks can wipe you out any time they want.
They weren't going to post my balance any more. But rest assured, the money is still there and they will continue to charge fees.
What was the purpose of this? I didn't ask. I closed the account.
While waiting to pick up my bank draft, I browsed through the three brochures on display.
One showed a black guy. Another an inter-racial marriage, and a third showed a mixed race family.
Banks are Rothschild franchises, much like McDonald restaurants are McDonald franchises. McDonald's product is a hamburger. The banks' product is Cabalist fairy dust, produced out of thin air and charged to our nati...
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‘Our European Values’: 1.21 Euro Minimum Wage in Ukraine
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Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking.
When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in Ukraine, in 2015, it was 0.34 euros, or 34 cents per hour. After that, it was increased: in 2017 it was 68 cents, in 2019 it was 10 cents more, which is 78 cents, and since 2021 it has been 1.21 euros. Ever heard of it?
Even this lowest wage is not always paid
Of course, that doesn’t mean that this minimum wage is actually paid correctly in this state. Thus, for a full work week in 2017, the monthly minimum wage was 96 euros. But in the textile and leather industry, for example, this minimum wage for one-third of the mostly female workforce was rarely paid on time. Payment by the piece is also widespread – a certain number of shirts must be sewn in one hour; if this does not work out, unpaid reworking is required.
If there were no orders, unpaid leave was ordered. In many cases, the annual vacation due by law was not granted or not paid. Management prevented the election of employee representatives. With this minimum wage, people were far below the official subsistence level: It amounted to 166 euros in the year in question.
The Hunger Wage Chain from Ukraine to Neighboring EU Countries
There are about 2,800 officially registered textile companies, but also a presumably equally high number of unregistered small businesses. For decades, they have formed a normal shadow economy, often in small towns and villages.
Yet most of these companies rank only as second-class suppliers for the internationally better-connected low-cost producers in neighboring EU countries, especially in Poland, but also in Romania and Hungary.
Thus 41 percent of the shoes go as starvation-wage semi-finished goods from Ukraine first to the low-wage factories of Romania, Hungary and Italy: there they get the innocent and beautiful label “Made in EU”.
Textile workers themselves can only afford second hand imports from Germany
The majority of the approximately 220,000 textile workers are older women. They keep their heads above water only by subsistence farming, for example by having their own garden with a chicken coop. Diseases due to malnutrition are common.
The textile workers mostly buy their own clothes from second-hand imports, which come mainly from Germany, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA. Ukraine imports much more textiles than it exports.
The expensive Boss and Esprit imports from the rich EU West, which are pre-produced in Ukraine, are destined for the rich elite and the NGO bubble in Kiev – while the majority of imports are the cheapest second-hand textiles. Textile workers, and indeed the majority of the population, can only afford the almost free disposable textiles from the rich states, as Clean Clothes Campaign reported.
But Western trade unions and “human rights activists” still look to Asia and Bangladesh when it comes to low wages in the textile industry that violate human rights. Although low wages in Ukraine are much lower. Also in the current discussions in the EU and in the German Bundestag about a supply chain law: There the view goes far out, globally, to Asia, while the EU-Ukrainian poverty chain is denied.
Here it sits, the corruption: C&A, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Marks&Spencer, New Balance, Esprit, Zara, Mexx are the profiting end users. They live from the exploitation which is against human rights. Here in the rich EU states sit the main players of corruption. They secretly welcome the non-existent or complicit labor inspectorate of the Ukrainian state, and the...
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Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking.
When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in Ukraine, in 2015, it was 0.34 euros, or 34 cents per hour. After that, it was increased: in 2017 it was 68 cents, in 2019 it was 10 cents more, which is 78 cents, and since 2021 it has been 1.21 euros. Ever heard of it?
Even this lowest wage is not always paid
Of course, that doesn’t mean that this minimum wage is actually paid correctly in this state. Thus, for a full work week in 2017, the monthly minimum wage was 96 euros. But in the textile and leather industry, for example, this minimum wage for one-third of the mostly female workforce was rarely paid on time. Payment by the piece is also widespread – a certain number of shirts must be sewn in one hour; if this does not work out, unpaid reworking is required.
If there were no orders, unpaid leave was ordered. In many cases, the annual vacation due by law was not granted or not paid. Management prevented the election of employee representatives. With this minimum wage, people were far below the official subsistence level: It amounted to 166 euros in the year in question.
The Hunger Wage Chain from Ukraine to Neighboring EU Countries
There are about 2,800 officially registered textile companies, but also a presumably equally high number of unregistered small businesses. For decades, they have formed a normal shadow economy, often in small towns and villages.
Yet most of these companies rank only as second-class suppliers for the internationally better-connected low-cost producers in neighboring EU countries, especially in Poland, but also in Romania and Hungary.
Thus 41 percent of the shoes go as starvation-wage semi-finished goods from Ukraine first to the low-wage factories of Romania, Hungary and Italy: there they get the innocent and beautiful label “Made in EU”.
Textile workers themselves can only afford second hand imports from Germany
The majority of the approximately 220,000 textile workers are older women. They keep their heads above water only by subsistence farming, for example by having their own garden with a chicken coop. Diseases due to malnutrition are common.
The textile workers mostly buy their own clothes from second-hand imports, which come mainly from Germany, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA. Ukraine imports much more textiles than it exports.
The expensive Boss and Esprit imports from the rich EU West, which are pre-produced in Ukraine, are destined for the rich elite and the NGO bubble in Kiev – while the majority of imports are the cheapest second-hand textiles. Textile workers, and indeed the majority of the population, can only afford the almost free disposable textiles from the rich states, as Clean Clothes Campaign reported.
But Western trade unions and “human rights activists” still look to Asia and Bangladesh when it comes to low wages in the textile industry that violate human rights. Although low wages in Ukraine are much lower. Also in the current discussions in the EU and in the German Bundestag about a supply chain law: There the view goes far out, globally, to Asia, while the EU-Ukrainian poverty chain is denied.
Here it sits, the corruption: C&A, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Marks&Spencer, New Balance, Esprit, Zara, Mexx are the profiting end users. They live from the exploitation which is against human rights. Here in the rich EU states sit the main players of corruption. They secretly welcome the non-existent or complicit labor inspectorate of the Ukrainian state, and the...
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Fed hikes rates by 75 basis points for 2nd straight month
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The US central bank is doubling down on fighting the highest inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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The US central bank is doubling down on fighting the highest inflation in over 40 years.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
US basketball star Brittney Griner testifies in Russian court
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Griner says during arrest, translator did not explain documents she was asked to sign, or relay all her responses.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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Griner says during arrest, translator did not explain documents she was asked to sign, or relay all her responses.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
US Senate passes bill to boost chip manufacturing
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The US hopes the $52bn in government subsidies for semiconductor production will help alleviate a persistent shortage.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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The US hopes the $52bn in government subsidies for semiconductor production will help alleviate a persistent shortage.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
Key takeaways from Kenya’s presidential elections debate
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The much-anticipated debate was a solo show as only Deputy President Ruto, a leading contestant, participated.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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The much-anticipated debate was a solo show as only Deputy President Ruto, a leading contestant, participated.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
Lavrov denigrates West’s stance towards Africa on Ethiopia visit
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Russian foreign minister visits Addis Ababa to end a four-nation African tour aimed at drumming up support for Moscow.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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Russian foreign minister visits Addis Ababa to end a four-nation African tour aimed at drumming up support for Moscow.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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As monkeypox surges, WHO urges reducing number of sexual partners
Advice comes days after the WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak an international health emergency amid rising cases.
Published On 27 Jul 2022
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As monkeypox surges, WHO urges reducing number of sexual partners
Advice comes days after the WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak an international health emergency amid rising cases.
Published On 27 Jul 2022