French police have attacked Yellow Vests protesters, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of demonstrators, who took to the streets to denounce French President Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies and pension reform.
French police attack Yellow Vests protesters in rally against Macron’s economic policies
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Emmanuel Macron presses ahead with pension reform as French discontent swells
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is now taking control of the content that is promoted on YouTube through its new partnership with Google.
World Health Organisation Partners With YouTube To Stop Spread Of ‘Misinformation’
H/T: TrialSite News
Fr. Nikolai Balashov, a senior official in the Moscow Patriarchate and a close advisor to the Patriarch gave an interview to Novosti, Russia’s largest news agency this past Friday describing the efforts of the Russian Orthodox Church to help their flock in the new regions to resume normal church life, attend services, give confession and receive communion.
150 Churches in the New Russian Regions (Former Ukraine) Damaged, Russia Will Repair Them (PHOTOS)
Gavin Newsom perhaps thought burying the news on Friday afternoon would be best for his future career. But we won’t forget.
Medical truth was criminalized by California today
H/T: Kim Iversen (recorded before Newsom signed the bill into law)
Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans
The decline means that several countries have caught up with or surpassed the U.S. According to World Bank data, Cuba’s life expectancy is 78.9, and China’s is 77.1, although both figures are from 2020 rather than 2021.
Other countries that are ahead of the U.S. in terms of life expectancy include: Colombia, Uruguay and Chile; Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico; and Turkey, Greece and Albania.
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Cubans have access to free healthcare, which is one of the key socialist principles. The country has a high ratio of medical professionals and focuses on prevention and primary care.
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Trying to strike a balance between free speech and public health, California’s Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would allow regulators to punish doctors for spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccinations and treatments.
California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information
Louisiana Woman Is Forced Carry Headless Fetus to Term or Travel to Florida for Legal Abortion
The U.S. already leads wealthy nations in maternal mortality, particularly among people of color. I can’t imagine that doctors being forced to choose between prison and helping patients, or a Nebraska teen being charged with a felony for self-managing her abortion, will improve these conditions. But this is our post-Roe world, where Republicans are pushing to ban birth control and IVF, hospitals are denying rape victims emergency contraception, top anti-abortion activists are romanticizing the new reality of 13-year-old forced parents, and in Louisiana, the state can force you to carry a headless fetus. As horror stories of immeasurable suffering pour in on a near-daily basis, we can’t afford to become desensitized to any of it.
Dr. Shefaali Sharma was just two patients into her day when a pregnant mother of two issued a startling request inside the exam room that made the Madison, Wisconsin, obstetrician-gynecologist “want to throw up.”
Healthy Pregnant Women Beg Docs in Anti-Abortion States: Don’t Let Me Die
The support by many African leaders and governments of Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, or at least reluctance to condemn the Russian military special operation, has frankly alarmed the current political elite in the West.
A New Phase Against Western Colonialism in Africa
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