The American Far-Right Is Dangerous but Disorganized Foreign Policy
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The most common ad hoc weapon used in the French Revolution was the pike, not the pitchfork.
Funny how we’ve come full circle, with the flagpole filling in for the pike on January 6th.
The Rev Kev
The thing to watch for is when protestors start to have the same gear that police do and use them. During the Capital riots, a cop sprayed them with some white chemical spray – tear gas I assume. And immediately a rioter sprayed a brown spray right back at them. But lessons should be taken from the Romans. See the first minute of this clip to see how they dealt with the fact that being on the front line was physically exhausting-
London may run out of [hospital] beds in next few days, mayor says
From CNN’s Arnaud Siad in London
Nurses work on patients in the ICU at St George s Hospital in London on January 7. Victoria Jones/PA Images/Getty Images
London “may run out of [hospital] beds” in the “next few days” due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in the capital, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Thursday.
Khan, when asked by LBC Radio if Covid-19 was “out of control” in London, said: “Yes. This virus is out of control.
He added: The NHS is on the cusp of being overwhelmed. There has been no time during this pandemic where I’ve been more concerned than I am today.”
Group of US doctors write open letter to Biden begging his administration to manufacture and mail free N95 masks to EVERY American to protect against explosion of super-covid
Physicians from Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard and the founder of a YouTube educational channel wrote a letter to the Biden team
They said N95 masks, which protect against small virus particles, are the most effective at preventing coronavirus transmission
The group called for an initiative to mass produce and mail a set of masks to each U.S. household every month
It comes as more cases of the new UK variant of the virus are identified cross the country and the national vaccine rollout continues move slowly