tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6840915712682115994..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: How Big Of a "Hoax" Is That "Dirty Dossier"?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-5426991669055732342020-09-12T12:16:18.951-04:002020-09-12T12:16:18.951-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/chin...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/china-schools-reopening.html<br /><br />September 12, 2020<br /><br />How China Brought Nearly 200 Million Students Back to School<br />China says the reopening of classrooms proves that its top-down system is superior. To overwhelmed teachers and students stuck on campuses, its restrictions can feel like overkill.<br />By Javier C. Hernández<br /><br />[ New York Times reporters are all propaganda all the time in reporting on China. Shameful.<br /><br />No matter though, Chinese students are happily back in school... ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-5623791331240369752020-09-12T12:02:50.974-04:002020-09-12T12:02:50.974-04:00September 12, 2020
Coronavirus
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Cases ( 6,6...September 12, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 6,646,432)<br />Deaths ( 197,641)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-20976848399388424122020-09-12T11:21:54.006-04:002020-09-12T11:21:54.006-04:00http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/10/c_1393...http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/10/c_139356487.htm<br /><br />September 10, 2020<br /><br />Xi stresses building modern logistics system as support for new development pattern<br /><br />BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday stressed coordinated efforts to advance the construction of a modern logistics system to provide strong support for a new development pattern....<br /><br />http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/12/c_139361891.htm<br /><br />September 12, 2020<br /><br />Xi stresses development of science, technology to meet significant national needs<br /><br />BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed continuing to advance the development of science and technology to a deeper and broader level....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-69007320549458651732020-09-12T11:07:30.588-04:002020-09-12T11:07:30.588-04:00https://cepr.net/the-u-s-china-and-the-new-cold-wa...https://cepr.net/the-u-s-china-and-the-new-cold-warriors/<br /><br />September 7, 2020<br /><br />The U.S., China, and the New Cold Warriors<br />By Dean Baker<br /><br />On the days when he is not celebrating his friendship and trade deals with China’s president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump has sought to hype China as the United States’ major enemy in the world. This has meant not only absurd allegations about the pandemic (top Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro has claimed that China deliberately sent infected people to the U.S. to spread the virus and damage the U.S. economy), but also sanctions, tariffs, and hints of military confrontations. While much of this silliness will go away if Donald Trump is defeated, the idea that the United States is involved in an intense global rivalry with China has gained serious credence among elite types. This is both wrong and dangerous....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-4221146575936035772020-09-12T10:07:00.517-04:002020-09-12T10:07:00.517-04:00https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200653.shtml
...https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200653.shtml<br /><br />September 12, 2020<br /><br />China’s CDC warns of dual risks of influenza and novel coronavirus in autumn and winter<br />By Liu Caiyu and Chen Shasha<br /><br />Beijing and Shenzhen --<br />________________________________<br /><br />As concerns linger that humans may face dual risks of influenza and novel coronavirus in autumn and winter, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for wider populations at risk of having respiratory diseases to have influenza vaccinations in a new-issued guideline....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-68854986005336352012020-09-11T21:10:28.417-04:002020-09-11T21:10:28.417-04:00https://cepr.net/prices-2020-09/
September 11, 20...https://cepr.net/prices-2020-09/<br /><br />September 11, 2020<br /><br />Overall and Core CPI Both Rise 0.4 Percent in August Driven by Reversals from Earlier Price Declines<br />By DEAN BAKER<br /><br />Rental inflation continues to slow in high-priced areas.<br /><br />The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent in August, bringing its increase over the last year to 1.3 percent. The core index also rose by 0.4 percent, bringing its increase over the last year to 1.7 percent....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-23087729881068979402020-09-11T18:49:47.980-04:002020-09-11T18:49:47.980-04:00There are 4 distinct Chinese created coronavirus v...There are 4 distinct Chinese created coronavirus vaccines well into in stage 3 trials. Each vaccine uses a different approach. Production of doses is already underway, should any of the vaccines be finally approved. These vaccines will be treated as public goods and distributed in different countries at minimal cost.<br /><br />Also, Chinese health officials are recommending flu shots right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-24557334822983615772020-09-11T16:35:50.832-04:002020-09-11T16:35:50.832-04:00https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-11/Hundreds-of-...https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-11/Hundreds-of-thousands-have-been-given-Chinese-COVID-19-vaccines-THnoo6BcFG/index.html<br /><br />September 11, 2020<br /><br />Hundreds of thousands have been given Chinese COVID-19 vaccines without a single infection<br /><br />Hundreds of thousands of people have been given two Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates as part of an emergency program, without a single case of infection or adverse effects, a senior official of a state-owned vaccine developer has said.<br /><br />The two vaccines, developed by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), are expected to enter the market as soon as this December, and two shots will cost less than 1,000 yuan (about 146 U.S. dollars), said Zhou Song, the company's general legal counsel....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-32380538515872772912020-09-11T15:09:28.321-04:002020-09-11T15:09:28.321-04:00Again, there have been 97,654 new coronavirus case...Again, there have been 97,654 new coronavirus cases recorded in India today or more cases in the day than there have been on the Chinese mainland in all. How distressing. The health and economic effects to come for India, look to be daunting.<br /><br />September 11, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />India<br /><br />Cases ( 4,657,379)<br />Deaths ( 77,506)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-35414107871012767122020-09-11T14:41:24.936-04:002020-09-11T14:41:24.936-04:00It's quite an oversight on the part
of the Bos...It's quite an oversight on the part<br />of the Boston Globe to have passed<br />over the entire BLM matter that has<br />also been so compelling during this<br />horrible, no-good year.<br /><br />[ Good grief.<br /><br />Thank you. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-63367913907550621322020-09-11T14:40:27.791-04:002020-09-11T14:40:27.791-04:00Still, intelligence officials — along with public ...Still, intelligence officials — along with public health officials — did manage to send up early warning signs, but they had little impact. There is some evidence that US intelligence gathering out of...<br /><br />[ This has been declared incorrect by military intelligence, * and given the denial from the Office of the Joint Chiefs that this is here repeated is either irresponsible or malicious.<br /><br />* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-spy-agencies-collected-raw-intel-hinting-public-health-n1180646 ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-18731895379794534992020-09-11T13:07:25.965-04:002020-09-11T13:07:25.965-04:00It's quite an oversight on the part
of the Bos...It's quite an oversight on the part<br />of the Boston Globe to have passed<br />over the entire BLM matter that has<br />also been so compelling during this<br />horrible, no-good year.Fred C. Dobbsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-48417007324140073042020-09-11T12:47:16.755-04:002020-09-11T12:47:16.755-04:00Of course, the parallels break down when the warni...Of course, the parallels break down when the warnings reached the Oval Office. There is simply no president who has ever been as cavalier about his responsibilities, and indifferent to the lives of the American people, as Donald Trump. The president was briefed about the virus, and even told journalist Bob Woodward in February that it was “deadly stuff,” but chose to actively mislead the American people instead of organizing a response.<br /><br />Yes, the devastation caused by COVID-19 is certainly a “shock,” but it too “should not have come as a surprise.”<br /><br />Not when the president of the United States repeatedly lies to the American people, insisting that a virus will “just go away” — and life will return to normal — maybe by Easter. Remember that? Or maybe by September and kids will be back in school. Or maybe by Election Day, when surely there will be a vaccine, no?<br /><br />When the president waits until there is a full-blown crisis in much needed medical supplies to invoke the Defense Production Act, he has failed to protect the public.<br /><br />When he bends trusted public health institutions to his will to promote phony “cures” or ineffective treatments, he is endangering the people of this country. And when he fails to promote common-sense protections like wearing masks, he fails in the most basic role of a leader.<br /><br />When one day this nation is on the other side of this pandemic, there needs to be a way to memorialize those who lost their lives in a tragedy made worse by failures of leadership.<br /><br />But there is one more lesson from the 9/11 Commission Report that should not be lost on a nation now sorely divided among the mask-wearers versus non-mask-wearers, believers versus deniers.<br /><br />“We call on the American people,” the commission wrote in 2004, “to remember how we all felt on 9/11, to remember not only the unspeakable horror but how we came together as a nation — one nation.”<br /><br />In remembering those lost on that day, and in remembering those lost in these past painful months, it would be a fitting tribute that we at least reach toward that seemingly elusive goal.Fred C. Dobbsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-43131205038268779072020-09-11T12:46:39.617-04:002020-09-11T12:46:39.617-04:00A day with lessons for protecting American lives
...<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/11/opinion/day-with-lessons-protecting-american-lives/?event=event25" rel="nofollow">A day with lessons for protecting American lives</a><br /><br />Boston Globe - editorial - September 11<br /><br />This was the day a nation promised never to forget. And so even in the midst of a pandemic, the memorials to those nearly 3,000 lives lost 19 years ago will go on — changed, adapted for these perilous times, but still a time to remember.<br /><br />In New York City, at what for years after Sept. 11 was still called Ground Zero, families will no longer be the ones to read aloud the names of the loved ones lost on that day. The ceremony will be socially distanced; a recorded reading of the names will assure its brevity.<br /><br />It will be a day of wreath-laying and solemn remembrance as it always is. But if the deaths of some 3,000 human beings on American soil can continue to tug at our consciences, how then to acknowledge, mark, remember the more recent deaths on these shores that today approach 200,000?<br /><br />Where is their memorial? And, as this editorial page asked Thursday, where is the special commission that will eventually assign blame for all of the failures of leadership and political will that brought us to this day?<br /><br />The roots of these very different tragedies share more than our political leaders would ever want to acknowledge. In both cases, opportunities to protect Americans were wasted.<br /><br />As the 9/11 Commission Report, issued in 2004, put it, “The 9/11 attacks were a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise.”<br /><br />Going back to the 1993 truck bombing at the World Trade Center, this nation remained in denial of its vulnerabilities. “During the spring and summer of 2001, US intelligence agencies received a stream of warnings” the report said, or as Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet put it, “The system was blinking red.”<br /><br />The term “stovepiping” became part of the American phrase book — a way to describe how each of the nation’s intelligence-gathering agencies went its own way, rarely sharing information.<br /><br />Among the reforms to come out of that report was the creation of an all-seeing Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to whom 16 intelligence agencies now report. Of course, the post is now held by former Republican congressman John Ratcliffe, a man so lacking in intelligence experience he felt compelled to inflate his resume in his quest for the job.<br /><br />The global pandemic that is now the nation’s newest and most formidable enemy didn’t bring down buildings, but it has cost lives, produced untold suffering, and devastated the US economy in ways terrorists could not have dreamed possible.<br /><br />As it did before 9/11, the government took its eye off the ball. The Trump administration reduced funding for global public health security, dissolved a pandemic task force in 2018, and scaled back the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s overseas public health work.<br /><br />Still, intelligence officials — along with public health officials — did manage to send up early warning signs, but they had little impact. There is some evidence that US intelligence gathering out of Wuhan, China, found the first signs of what would become the pandemic as early as last November. ...<br /><br />Fred C. Dobbsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-73457724297543091882020-09-11T10:14:52.741-04:002020-09-11T10:14:52.741-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displa...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/magazine/displaced-war-on-terror.html<br /><br />September 8, 2020<br /><br />At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror<br />A new report calculates the number of people who fled because of wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.<br />By John Ismay<br /><br />At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report * from Brown University’s Costs of War project. That figure exceeds those displaced by conflict since 1900, the authors say, with the exception of World War II.<br /><br />* https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-51459338077226590702020-09-11T07:51:26.694-04:002020-09-11T07:51:26.694-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-trump-coronavirus.html<br /><br />September 10, 2020<br /><br />Trump’s Coronavirus Response Was Beyond Incompetent<br />He wasn’t oblivious to the danger. He just didn’t care.<br />By Paul Krugman<br /><br />Most cases in which cars kill pedestrians surely reflect negligence: drivers who were too busy talking on their cellphones or thinking about their golf games to notice the senior citizen crossing the street in front of them. A handful are acts of murder, like when a man killed a woman by plowing his car into counterprotesters at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va.<br /><br />But sometimes drivers end up killing other people because they were engaging in clearly dangerous behavior, like driving well above the speed limit and running multiple red lights. The resulting deaths aren’t considered murder. But they might be considered manslaughter, which is when you didn’t specifically intend to kill someone but your irresponsible actions killed them all the same.<br /><br />Until this week I thought that Donald Trump’s disastrous mishandling of Covid-19 was basically negligence, even if that negligence was willful — that is, that he failed to understand the gravity of the threat because he didn’t want to hear about it and refused to take actions that could have saved thousands of American lives because actually doing effective policy isn’t his kind of thing.<br /><br />But I was wrong. According to Bob Woodward’s new book, “Rage,” Trump wasn’t oblivious; he knew by early February that Covid-19 was both deadly and airborne. And this isn’t a case of conflicting recollections: Woodward has Trump on tape. Yet Trump continued to hold large indoor rallies, disparage precautionary measures and pressure states to reopen business despite the risk of infection.<br /><br />And he’s still doing the same things, even now....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-62507964330306638062020-09-10T19:48:37.547-04:002020-09-10T19:48:37.547-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-trump-coronavirus.html<br /><br />September 10, 2020<br /><br />Trump’s Coronavirus Response Was Beyond Incompetent<br />He wasn’t oblivious to the danger. He just didn’t care.<br />By Paul KrugmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-42687848590820643392020-09-10T16:09:17.685-04:002020-09-10T16:09:17.685-04:00September 10, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 6,5...September 10, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 6,574,585)<br />Deaths ( 195,973)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-46022796436608561462020-09-10T14:01:16.001-04:002020-09-10T14:01:16.001-04:00There have been 92,867 new coronavirus cases recor...There have been 92,867 new coronavirus cases recorded in India today....<br /><br />India began the year as the third largest economy, and so far has experienced a fierce recession that because of structural dislocations domestically is likely going to take a considerable time to recover from. This means an important driver of the international economy has been lost already and could well continue to be lost for a considerable time, and this will make an international recovery that much slower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-27888526076102288082020-09-10T12:55:50.728-04:002020-09-10T12:55:50.728-04:00Having apparently approached a containment of the ...Having apparently approached a containment of the coronavirus, the Israeli government incautiously opened schools and businesses, and the result has been a persistent community infection spread contributing to what are now 144,673 cases in the small country as compared to 85,153 through all of mainland China.<br /><br />Beyond the mistake of the incautious opening, the need is to look to what is obviously an unanticipated institutional public health or healthcare system weakness in Israel. Determining how the Israeli healthcare system can be strengthened, can serve as a model.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-32049721049808355182020-09-10T12:54:10.842-04:002020-09-10T12:54:10.842-04:00September 10, 2020
Coronavirus
Israel
Cases (...September 10, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 144,673)<br />Deaths ( 1,075)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 117)<br /><br />-----------------------------------<br /><br />July 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 29,170)<br />Deaths ( 330)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 36)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-40883726994461814522020-09-10T12:06:29.051-04:002020-09-10T12:06:29.051-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/health/coronavi...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/health/coronavirus-mental-health-long-hauler.html<br /><br />September 7, 2020<br /><br />For Long-Haulers, Covid-19 Takes a Toll on Mind as Well as Body<br />“It makes you depressed, anxious that it’s never going to go away.”<br />By Emma Goldberg<br /><br />Forty hours after treating her first coronavirus patient, on March 30, Angela Aston came home to her family with a cough. “Gosh, your throat is scratchy,” her husband told her. Right away she knew she had likely been infected with Covid-19. As a nurse practitioner, Ms. Aston, 50, was confident she knew how to handle her symptoms, and disappeared to her bedroom to quarantine and rest.<br /><br />By day 50 of her illness, that confidence had disappeared....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-36241719483888428312020-09-10T11:39:42.208-04:002020-09-10T11:39:42.208-04:00September 10, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 6,5...September 10, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 6,556,947)<br />Deaths ( 195,550)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-16868383084696641992020-09-10T10:49:42.197-04:002020-09-10T10:49:42.197-04:00How does coronavirus kill?
Science - April 17<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes" rel="nofollow">How does coronavirus kill?</a><br /><br />Science - April 17Fred C. Dobbsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-67642070447390425002020-09-10T10:46:35.340-04:002020-09-10T10:46:35.340-04:00How does coronavirus kill?">How does coron...<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes" rel="nofollow"> How does coronavirus kill?">How does coronavirus kill?</a><br /><br />Science - April 17<br /><br />Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes <br /><br />(Covid-19) “can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences,” says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz of Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, who is leading multiple efforts to gather clinical data on COVID-19. “Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”<br /><br />Understanding the rampage could help the doctors on the front lines treat the fraction of infected people who become desperately and sometimes mysteriously ill. Does a dangerous, newly observed tendency to blood clotting transform some mild cases into life-threatening emergencies? Is an overzealous immune response behind the worst cases, suggesting treatment with immune-suppressing drugs could help? What explains the startlingly low blood oxygen that some physicians are reporting in patients who nonetheless are not gasping for breath? “Taking a systems approach may be beneficial as we start thinking about therapies,” says Nilam Mangalmurti, a pulmonary intensivist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). ...<br /><br />Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen. Without larger, prospective controlled studies that are only now being launched, scientists must pull information from small studies and case reports, often published at warp speed and not yet peer reviewed. ...Fred C. Dobbsnoreply@blogger.com