Amerika

• Planet’s largest ecosystems collapse faster than previously forecast
• US grocery costs jump the most in 46 years, led by rising prices for meat and eggs
• Bulgarian fossils suggest Homo sapiens arrived in Europe earlier than previously thought
• It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal
• St. Louis County Restaurant Faces Fierce Backlash Over Racist Piñata

  

• Hijabi Anchor Files a Lawsuit Against US-Based TV Channel Over ‘Discrimination’
• Cozying up to the commies
• As Brazil’s challenges multiply, Bolsonaro’s fans call for a military takeover
• Chinese Choppers Violate Indian Airspace in Ladakh, Reinforcements Upped on Both Sides Post Aggression
• Majority of remote workers are more productive and communicative

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• Luckin Coffee fires CEO, COO after sales fraud investigation
• This ‘haunted’ Louisiana mansion is being given away for FREE to anybody brave enough to live in it

  Future site of the Nationalist Clubhouse? We can purge it with sage and Dead Sea salt.

• Bheki Cele forbids neighbourhood watch groups from operating
• Hungarian top court confirms Roma students unlawfully segregated at school, awards $310,000 to children’s families.
• Tuberculosis crisis in India: disease that kills the most people in the world gains ground with testing and treatment disrupted by lockdown for coronavirus

  Over a thousand dead a day.

• Man Charged With Placing Target at NAACP Leader’s Home
  

  Caldwell told The Tennesseean over the weekend that he viewed the target as “an act of intimidation,” but in a Facebook post Monday he said it no longer appeared the act was racially-motivated.

  America: ruining lives for the propaganda value.

• Coronavirus: ‘Modern slavery’ at the heart of German slaughterhouse outbreak
• Greek migrant hotel ransacked in latest tensions over relocations
• University of California should suspend SAT and ACT admission requirement, university system president says
  

  In the meantime, UC would come up with “a new test that better aligns with the content UC expects applicants to have learned and with UC’s values,” UC President Janet Napolitano wrote.

  The move comes amid a widening national discussion of the usefulness and efficacy of the tests in selecting what students will be admitted to a college or university. Critics of the standardized tests argue they don’t give an accurate picture of students’ academic ability and the process is biased against those from lower-income families.

  Lower-income families are generally lower-intelligence families. We are dumbing down education to make it inclusive yet again.

• Zinc-hydroxychloroquine found effective in some COVID-19 patients: study

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• Saudi Arabia triples taxes, cuts $26B in costs amid pandemic
  

  Additionally, the government will discontinue the cost-of-living allowance, starting in June. Those allowances had cost the state about $13.5 billion annually.

  Saudi Arabia said it would also increase value-added tax from 5% to 15% as of July. The tax on most goods and services was first introduced in Saudi Arabia in 2018 as a way to increase revenue.

  The first of many entitlements states to go broke and recognize it, Saudi Arabia is cutting benefits.

• U.S. Navy ships operate in Russia’s Barents Sea for first time since 1980s
• Croatian police accused of spray-painting heads of asylum seekers
• Twitter says it will label misleading coronavirus tweets — even if they’re from Trump

  “Freedom.”

• Sinkhole opens near the Pantheon, revealing 2,000-year-old Roman paving stones
• Anti-Semitic incidents in US hit record high in 2019
  

  The ADL tallied 1,127 harassment incidents last year, a 6% increase over 2018. The group defined these incidents as cases in which at least one Jewish person reported feeling harassed by the perceived anti-Semitic words or actions of another person or group.

• Couple arrested for hate crime in Brooklyn, allegedly blaming spread of COVID-19 on Jews: Police
  

  Paulo and Clelia Pinho, 35 and 46 respectively, of Queens, were charged with hate crimes for the incident that took place around 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Ross Street, the police said. Paul Pinho allegedly called 911 to report a large crowd gathering, according to police.

• China Blocks Some Australian Beef Imports Amid Rising Tension Over Calls for Coronavirus Investigation
• Hardwood logging on Manus Island has not delivered promised local benefits, report finds
• Global carbon dioxide levels at record high despite coronavirus lockdown

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• Mix of Western, Chinese medicine promising against COVID-19: Taiwan
• Two piglets for a kayak: Fiji returns to barter system as Covid-19 hits economy
• Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak, but more research needed – WHO
• Sweden sees higher coronavirus death rate than US after refusing lockdown

  This will even out because their society took the hit up front, and will have fewer problems later. Lockdown societies will be introducing new victims to Corona Chan for the first time.

• Buffett-Backed Solar Project Near Vegas Wins Trump Blessing
• High school senior, mother say large group of armed people, including off-duty deputy, terrorized them in their home
• Germany passes law banning ‘gay conversion therapy’ for minors
• The U.S. and China are sliding into a Cold War nobody needs

  Moralizing against the actual arc of history, which shows Leftism failing and globalism disintegrating.

• Ancient Andean Genes Reveal DNA Continuity Amid Cultural Clashes
• Naming of Pinochet’s great-niece as Chile women’s minister sparks outrage

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