The number of COVID-19 infections worldwide surpassed 15 million
yesterday. In less than five days, another million cases have been
added. More than 618,000 people have died in little more than seven
months since the virus took its first victim. There are also six million
active cases globally, which provides only a very indirect measure of
the burden being carried by health care workers facing shortages of PPE,
medical supplies and stamina. Ten percent of all cases occur among
health care workers.
More than 25 countries have posted over 1,000 new daily cases. These
include some of the poorest nations such as Indonesia, the Philippines,
Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Ecuador. The poorest
and most vulnerable people are at risk.
Lack of political representation and economic access make indigenous
people, numbering 500 million on the planet, among the most vulnerable
populations. Specifically, the World Health Organization has raised
concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous people of the
Americas, such as in the Peruvian Amazon. In the Americas, 70,000
indigenous people have been infected and more than 2,000 have died.
However, one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, with the
highest number of ultra-high net worth individuals, those with more than
$50 million, continues to lead every other country in cases of
COVID-19. Yesterday, the United States registered another million-case
milestone, with the total number of infections passing four million.
There were another 67,140 cases of COVID-19 and 1,122 new fatalities in
one day, the highest number of deaths since June 9.
The rise in fatality figures comes on the heels of rising infections
over the past month, as states such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and
California moved quickly to reopen. California, with 10,278 new cases
Tuesday, registered 120 fatalities. With 410,176 total COVID-19 cases,
it is poised to pass New York state by week’s end. Hispanic communities,
with many workers deemed essential and frequently living in
impoverished multigenerational households, have been hit the hardest.
Texas has seen 357,127 cases of COVID-19, half of these just during
July. Yesterday, the state reported 118 new fatalities, pushing the
total to 4,299. Statewide, on Tuesday hospitalizations rose to the
highest level since the pandemic, with 10,848 patients admitted to
overcrowded hospitals. According to the Houston Chronicle, this marked 12 straight days with more than 10,000 hospitalized patients.
The Texas-Mexico border area has been ravaged. Hispanics make up 90
percent of the population and suffer from significant chronic
morbidities. Hidalgo County, with a population of 870,000, has reached a
death rate of 33 per 100,000. Public health officials believe the
reported number of deaths is lagging and expect that the worst has yet
to come. Funeral homes and crematories are running out of space.
Arizona logged 3,500 new cases and 134 deaths, with bed occupancy and
ventilator use staying steady, which the health department attributes
to increased use of face masks.
This is not good at all.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Dario Hunter wants to blame everyone else for
his failed campaign and Cindy Sheehan gives him a place to throw a
public temper tantrum.
He
tells Cindy Sheehan, "I wanted to take that fight to the country as a
whole" -- Green Party issues -- "to ensure to move that agenda, that
platform forward." Really? He lies so very well, doesn't he?
Gate
keepers are in the Green Party, he insists. He doesn't want to tell
the world that, you understand, but "It's a truth that I have to
share." He says he and other Green candidates had to claw their way to
get access to the voters to . . .
Oh, shut up.
The
Green Party may be all of those things. Howie co-founded it. He might
have reaped the same backdoor benefits that Hillary Clinton did in
2016. He might not have.
But Dario is not the one to make those charges. Lazy Dario is not the one to make those charges.
Did the Green Party stop him from Tweeting? Did the Green Party stop him from posting to FACEBOOK?
He was a lazy ass candidate.
I agree with Dario on the issues probably 100%. I was hoping he'd get the nomination. But months ago, when
Jess and
Ann
turned against him and decided to support Howie, it was because lazy
Dario wasn't running a real campaign. You don't control the media or
what it covers. You do control your campaign site and you do control
you social media.
We started out noting Dario
here every Saturday or Sunday that we noted Howie. Then I wasn't
noting Howie. Why? I had nothing to note from Dario's campaign. Was
that fair to Howie -- or anyone running a real campaign -- that they
didn't get noted because their opponents were too lazy to even Tweet
once a week?
No.
Dario's
nonsense plays with Cindy because (a) she likes him and (b) she wasn't
paying attention to his campaign -- as she notes, she's not a Green.
I'm not either but we try to note all candidates for president and have
done that from the beginning. Much to David Cobb's displeasure in
2004. I believe he was our first e-mail complaint from a
non-journalist.
I wish Dario had gotten the
Green Party's presidential nomination. I think he has a great stand on
the issues. But Dario didn't get the nomination -- apparently he's this
year's Hillary Clinton in that he's just not going to go away -- and
that is his fault. He needs to own that.
His
criticism of the Green Party may be accurate, it may not. But he needs
to start taking ownership for the fact that he didn't run a real
campaign. If Dario was not happy that a co-chair of the party (I
believe he means Dr. Margaret Flowers) was on Howie's campaign, guess
what? He had months to object to that. He could have Tweeted and
reTweeted that.
He would have had to have named her and he's too much of a chicken s**t to name her, but we would've noted it.
After
he fails as a candidate, he refuses to look at his mistakes, he refuses
to be honest. He also refuses to discuss anti-war or peace in anything
but platitudes which may have been the second most disappointing thing
about the interview. And, so no one e-mails me, I don't call US troops
War Criminals. I don't do that for Iraq, I don't do it for Vietnam.
Stephen D. Green was a War Criminal. His actions were War Crimes. But I
do not use him to smear other troops. I don't know why, in that
interview, we're calling Howie Hawkins a War Criminal because he served
in Vietnam but, to be clear, that's their interview, that's not me.
The
Green Party needs to respond to Dario's charges. Flowers -- with or
without her husband Kevin Zeese -- needs to respond to this. If they
don't, these charges are going to linger all the way through November.
And
people need to tell him that a Green Party convention is not
"fascist." He has no idea what fascism is when he trots out that.
And
he's got no idea of anything. He needs to close his mouth right now
and work on his campaign site. He's too late on many ballots and he's
too stupid to use his campaign site.
Click here. It's a list of state's where he has ballot access and where he's working on it and --
Oh,
no, it's not. That was published at least three months ago (see bottom
of the page). He's supposedly campaigning as an independent and
working on ballot access . . . but he hasn't even updated his campaign
site. If someone believed in him and wanted to work for ballot access,
if they visited his site, they would either be misled or wasting their
time.
He says he's running as an independent
and he says he has left the Green Party but the bottom of this page --
his official campaign site -- says "Green for President."
I'm
really disappointed in this interview. It's one thing to allow Dario
to come on and trash the Green Party -- I've got no problem with that --
but considering how lazy he was -- not to mention he hid out in
California for weeks not working on his campaign -- to allow him to
whine that the nomination was stolen from him, that's outrageous.
Dario's
sour grapes are his own, the rest of us don't need to share them and we
don't need to pretend that he was denied anything except by himself.
I've never seen a more fake ass run for a nomination than Dario's and he
needs to grow the hell up and grasp that Howie Tweeted repeatedly each
day, that Howie's campaign site updated many times a week. Dario
didn't.
That's
him hurling accusations again. They may be true, they may be false.
But the reality is that no one harmed his campaign more than he did.
And
the Green Party better start responding to these charges. If they
don't, they're going to spread and they'll be believed because that's
the only information that's out there.
From yesterday, here's Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins speaking on REAL PROGRESSIVES.
Joseph Kishore is the SEP's presidential candidate. In the last 24 hours,
he's Tweeted this:
Trump’s plan to send paramilitary police throughout the US: The ruling class prepares for civil war
Bezos makes $13bln in one day. Meanwhile the #coronavirus rages out of control.
Trump's creeping coup: White House sending federal police into major American cities. On Portland: "They grab a lot of people and jail the leaders... These people are anarchists, people that hate our country and we’re not going to let that go forward."
When
Dario was seeking the Green Party's presidential nomination, those
three Tweets would have been all he offered for a whole month. Joseph
Kishore's done them in one 24 hour period. It's about being a real
candidate. Every day, you need to be offering something so that people
have a reason to discuss your campaign.
As
ALJAZEERA notes above, Iraq's prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi,
arrived in Tehran yesterday and met with the country's president Hassan
Rouhani. The leaders share a border and many other things. Mustafa
repeated that he would not allow Iraqi soil to be used for war on Iran.
He's made that comment before.
Iraq's
airports aren't yet open for international travel but Mustafa visited
Iran and his oil minister visited Saudi Arabia. In a country already
plagued with corruption and where the leaders are not trusted, how wise
is it for them to be traveling when the Iraqi people cannot?
Iraqi health workers are warning that patients in need of critical
medical care are at risk of death as a result of increased restrictions
at checkpoints at the border between Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region
and the rest of the country.
Following the outbreak of the coronavirus
pandemic in early 2020, travel between much of Iraq was heavily
restricted, particularly between the areas in northern Iraq controlled
by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
This has left Iraqi patients in need of life-saving treatment unable
to travel to better-equipped and resourced hospitals in the KRG.
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