Germany: Calls grow for harder lockdown ahead of Christmas holidays

Germany’s health minister and the country’s Leopoldina sciences academy said harder measures were necessary to reduce infections. Saxony became the first state to impose a hard lockdown starting next week. With German coronavirus caseloads plateauing, but not sinking, calls for … Read More

Ingraham warns Biden presidency will strip Americans of their freedom

INGRAHAM: Got it. All right. I’m Laura Ingraham, this is The Ingraham Angle from a busy Washington tonight. Can you believe it, one week to go and the president is still out on the trail as we speak? Omaha, Nebraska … Read More

Spain’s foreign minister on Brexit: ‘We need a deal’

Arancha González Laya said Brexit had demonstrated ‘the illusion of independence.’ Spain’s Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya | Pool photo by Andre Pain/AFP via Getty Images With Brexit negotiators now under orders to turn matters over to their political bosses, … Read More

Biden will stop the border wall and loosen immigration again

Immigration policy would be the most dramatic and immediate reversal of Trump policies when Biden takes office. The most dramatic reversal in the Biden administration versus the Trump administration will come on President Donald Trump’s signature campaign issue from 2016: … Read More

Masks Not Very Effective at Protecting Wearers, Says New Danish Study

But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus. (Salvatore Laporta/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) The urgency of trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public health researchers to search for evidence-based measures that might work to protect the … Read More

Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine

Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists’ contentment with the way things are now. (Esther19775 | Dreamstime.com) The New York Times asked 700 epidemiologists to describe their COVID-19 habits, how their thinking has changed since the pandemic began, and when … Read More

Small Business And Jobs Smashed By COVID-19 Lockdowns

Analysis by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of recently released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that over 230,000 small businesses are expected to close and 470,000 jobs will be permanently destroyed once COVID-19 support … Read More

Migrant Camp Built on Army Firing Range Could Be Giving Asylum Seekers Lead Poisoning

Human Rights Watch has warned that is very likely there is lead in the soil of the camp housing former residents of the burned down Moria camp. When Greece’s notorious Moria migrant camp burned to the ground in September, its thousands of … Read More

Garcetti issues stronger warning to Angelenos: ‘Hunker down … cancel everything’

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is again asking Angelenos to stay at home and “hunker down” as the city experiences a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The city revised its “Targeted Safer at Home … Read More

USDA reports show drop in domestic production, global stocks

A pair of reports from Department of Agriculture economists project a drop in American grain and oilseed production and overseas stocks on hand, prolonging a bump in commodity prices. The forecasts — monthly Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports — … Read More

Supreme Court gives temporary win to California churches over coronavirus restrictions

Ruling comes after the court blocked caps on religious service attendance in New York. The Supreme Court gave a positive sign to a California church fighting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s restrictions on the number of people allowed at houses of worship due to the coronavirus pandemic. … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 4 December 2020

Greetings from Tyler, Everyone is bracing for the most stringent lock-downs yet.  Compliance was gained when they told us it was a two-week exercise to “flatten the curve.”  When the “curve was flattened,” they told us just a bit longer … Read More

Pentagon blocks visits to military spy agencies by Biden transition team

The Trump administration has refused to allow members of President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to meet with officials at U.S. intelligence agencies that are controlled by the Pentagon, undermining prospects for a smooth transfer of power, current, and former U.S. … Read More

Brexit talks paused over lack of agreement

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the shock a no-deal Brexit would bring would be the “last thing” citizens need. Crunch Brexit talks between the EU and the UK aimed at avoiding a no-deal have been paused because of a lack of … Read More

‘Israel has tape of slain Iran nuke chief talking about building five warheads’

Report says ex-PM Olmert played a top-secret recording of Fakhrizadeh for President Bush in decisive 2008 meeting that boosted US-Israel cooperation against Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. (Agencies) Israel intelligence managed to recruit an Iranian official close … Read More

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