Sunday, July 19, 2020

buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter


What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 7/19/20


and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):







Coronavirus Sa 7/18/20


John Lewis harnessed his history to be a moral compass for both parties


Abortion at university hospital
Fewer and fewer doctors: ready inside
Green politician Bärbl Mielich wants to introduce willingness to drop out as a recruitment criterion - and has to backtrack.  PATRICIA HECHT, DINAH GIANT
https://taz.de/Schwangerschaftsabbruch-an-Uniklinik/!5695313/

Trouble because of flight and train tickets
Complaints at record high
The corona pandemic strains the nerves of air passengers and rail customers. But not everyone can hope for goodwill.  SANDRA RÖSELER
https://taz.de/Aerger-wegen-Flug--und-Bahntickets/!5695294/


Texas AG to private religious schools: Local health orders can’t restrict reopenings
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-AG-to-private-religious-schools-Local-15416210.php

Texas GOP’s in-person convention can’t proceed, federal appeals court says
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-GOP-s-in-person-convention-can-t-15417612.php



SKINNY DIPPING
Why there is hardly anything nicer in summer than the nudist area in the goose heap
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000118807923/warum-es-im-sommer-kaum-schoeneres-gibt-als-den-fkk


Disappointed swingers: We'll catch up in 2021  PLUS Many hits canceled ✓ Here they meet
https://www.aftonbladet.se/relationer/a/LAJodV/corona-satte-stopp-for-swingerssasongen


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China and America: The era of great rivalry has only just begun
The American confrontation with China is not a thunderstorm that will quickly go away if Trump is voted out of office. This forces Europe to rethink and the West as a whole to adopt new strategies.



‘Let’s Go Fly, for God’s Sake.’ Behind American Airlines Chief’s All-In Strategy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-airlines-ceo-doug-parker-united-delta-covid-coronavirus-airplane-flying-11594944808

Detroit Protesters Block School Buses in Bid to Halt In-Person Summer Classes
HEADLINEJUL 17, 2020





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Coronavirus Th 7/16/2020 - Black Lives Matter


Now California's impatience is taking revenge
As of July 16, 2020 | Reading time: 5 minutes
DIE WELT photo shoot 2019
By Clemens Wergin
Chief correspondent for foreign policy
In California, people are more relaxed and carefree than anywhere else in the USA - also when dealing with Corona
Source: AFP
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Dhe US is currently being hit by a new wave of corona infections, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina and Alabama have the highest rates of infection. Which promptly led to a simple explanatory pattern on the political stage: The second wave raged worst in Republican states because they were the most willing to respond to Donald Trump's demand to quickly reopen the economy and public life. The explanation has only a few blemishes: Even in democratically governed California, the infection numbers are exploding.

So what went wrong in California? What warnings does the popular state have for Germany and other European states that fear a second wave?
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus211740787/Zahl-der-Covid-Faelle-steigt-Jetzt-raecht-sich-Kaliforniens-Ungeduld.html

Sweden
Twelfth school fire in Lund since March
UPDATED 2020-07-17 PUBLISHED 2020-07-17
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tolfte-skolbranden-i-lund-sedan-mars/


world
Strong earthquake off Papua New Guinea
UPDATED 2020-07-17 PUBLISHED 2020-07-17
A strong earthquake has been recorded southeast of the city of War in Paupua New Guinea, according to the US Geological Survey.


CORONAVIRUS
Hmong, Somali and Latino malls in Twin Cities devastated by economic effects of pandemic


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Coronavirus W 7/15/2020 - Black Lives Matter

Here’s what coronavirus testing on college campuses in Massachusetts might look like this fall


This judgment is a resounding slap in the face for the EU
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article211688287/Apple-Entscheidung-Dieses-Urteil-ist-eine-schallende-Ohrfeige-fuer-die-EU.html
ECONOMY
SMART LIVING JOB MARKET CAREERS DIGITAL MONEY SMES
OPINION
APPLE DECISION
This judgment is a resounding slap in the face for the EU
As of July 15, 2020 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Tobias Kaiser
By Tobias Kaiser
Correspondent in Brussels
Das zweithöchste EU-Gericht hat die Rekord-Steuernachzahlung für Apple in Irland annuliert Das zweithöchste EU-Gericht hat die Rekord-Steuernachzahlung für Apple in Irland annuliert
The second highest EU court has canceled Apple's record tax back payment in Ireland
Source: REUTERS
EU political star Margrethe Vestager fails for the second time to force tax payments from large corporations. The struggle against the market power of the tech giants must continue. But she should resist temptation.


This ruling is a resounding slap in the face for EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager: the second highest court in the Union has ruled that Apple does not have to make an additional tax payment of 14.3 billion euros in Ireland. The judges canceled a corresponding request by Vestager.


The EU is fighting tax competition and should know better
The EU Commission simply does not seem to be able to put up with the fact that the Member States structure their tax systems as they see fit. On the same day that the Commissioner for Competition suffered a bitter defeat before the EU court, Brussels already presented the next ideas against tax competition.




 Minneapolis
Minneapolis Park Board votes to reduce size of homeless encampments
The number of tents in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park — photographed Tuesday — has shrunk from 560 tents last week to 310.
The number of tents in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park — photographed Tuesday —
By Miguel Otárola , Star Tribune
July 16, 2020 - 12:10 PM

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on Wednesday night voted to limit the homeless tent camps that have sprung up across the city’s parks, including the two sprawling encampments in Powderhorn Park.





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Coronavirus Tu 7/14/2020 - Black Lives Matter

Globe Magazine
How a suspicious fire saved America’s first homeless shelter for women
In 1984, in Boston's swiftly gentrifying South End, a blaze tore through Rosie's Place. If it was meant to destroy the shelter, it only made it stronger.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/14/magazine/how-suspicious-fire-saved-americas-first-homeless-shelter-women/


Corona pandemic
Live. Germany abolishes quarantine requirements for Swedes
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/det-nya-coronaviruset-folj-utvecklingen-live-/


CORONA AND THE AFTERMATH
Corona infections on the high seas are puzzling the Argentine authorities
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article211610551/Corona-Infektionen-auf-hoher-See-geben-Behoerden-Raetsel-auf.html


Baker administration asks schools to prioritize in-person instruction this fall and not announce final plans until August
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley has asked schools to prioritize in-person instruction this fall — while creating plans that would also incorporate remote learning — and not to announce any final plans about reopening until early August.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/14/metro/baker-administration-asks-schools-prioritize-in-person-instruction-this-fall-not-announce-final-plans-until-august/


Sadtu calls for the closure of schools
Citing cases such as a school to which only four learners returned, to be met by 20 teachers, the union said Covid-19 is wreaking havoc on learning
BONGEKILE MACUPE
https://mg.co.za/education/2020-07-14-sadtu-calls-for-the-closure-of-schools/
National Coalition calls for universal income security – unions lukewarm
THE NATIONAL COALITION has declared its support for extending earnings-related allowance also to earners who are not members of unemployment funds.


The earnings-related allowance is an unemployment benefit that is paid only to unemployed job seekers who are members of an unemployment fund, even though 94.5 per cent of its funding stems from tax revenues and the statutory unemployment security contributions of employees and employers
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17854-national-coalition-calls-for-universal-income-security-unions-lukewarm.html


Future school closures unlikely in Finland, says THL’s Salminen
THE FINNISH INSTITUTE for Health and Welfare (THL) is unlikely to recommend that schools be closed in a bid to keep the coronavirus epidemic in check in Finland, Mika Salminen, the head of health security at THL, said on YLE Radio 1 on Monday.
School closures, he phrased, would definitely have to be weighed up carefully if the epidemiological situation warranted more restrictions.
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17856-future-school-closures-unlikely-in-finland-says-thl-s-salminen.html




Biden’s Foreign-Policy Blast From the Past
He thinks liberal multilateralism will tame China, Russia and woke Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-foreign-policy-blast-from-the-past-11594680389?mod=mhp





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buttercup (R. bulbosus): What I've been reading - 7/19/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-bulbosus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. austro-oreganus): What I've been reading - 7/12/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-austro-oreganus-what-ive.html

buttercup (R. auricomus): What I've been reading - 7/5/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/buttercup-r-auricomus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. asiaticus): What I've been reading - 6/28/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-asiaticus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. arvensis): What I've been reading - 6/21/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter + Black Books Matter

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-arvensis-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aquatilis): What I've been reading - 6/14/20 week - Coronavirus + BlackLivesMatter



buttercup (R. alismifolius): What I've been reading - 5/31/20 week - Coronavirus



buttercup (R. acris): What I've been reading - 5/17/20 week - Coronavirus


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/buttercup-r-acraeus-what-ive-been.html

buttercup (R. aconitifolius): What I've been reading - 5/3/20 week - Coronavirus










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SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020


What I've been watching

Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html









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