NEW YORK MAYOR BILL DEBLASIO ANNOUNCING QUARANTINE CHECKPOINTS STARTING TODAY AT KEY BRIDGE AND TUNNEL CROSSINGS INTO THE CITY. DEBLASIO SAYING THE CHECKPOINTS ARE TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH NEW YORK STATE'S 14-DAY QUARANTINE MANDATE FOR TRAVELERS FROM DOZENS OF STATES......REUTERS-METRO US......BILL DEBLASIO VIDEO-CNBC
The office of Oregon Governor Kate Brown telling lawmakers in that state there are active conversations concerning travel restrictions between Oregon and other states to slow coronavirus spread........OREGON LIVE
PARIS POLICE HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCING TUESDAY THAT MASKS-MUZZLES WILL BE MANDATORY IN OPEN SPACES OF FRANCE'S CAPITAL CITY WITH 'HIGH TRAFFIC'. DETAILS ON SPECIFIC LOCATIONS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMING DAYS.....(BFM-TV GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
FACEBOOK REMOVING A POST FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTAINING A CLIP FROM HIS FOX NEWS INTERVIEW THIS MORNING ALLEGING IT CONTAINS 'HARMFUL COVID MISINFORMATION'.......BBC NEWS
SOME 135 DEAD AND DOZENS OF OTHERS MISSING AFTER YESTERDAY'S MASSIVE EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT, LEBANON. SOME FOUR THOUSAND INJURED AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT 300-THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MADE HOMELESS BY THE BLAST......BBC NEWS
DAMAGE FROM THE DISASTER MAY TOTAL SOME 15 BILLION US DOLLARS.....TASS STORY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTING THAT SAUDI ARABIA IS EXPANDING ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITH SUPPORT FROM CHINA......WALL STREET JOURNAL
Politics in the USA and Democrat Congressman William Lacy Clay, a ten-term incumbent, the loser in yesterday's primary election in Missouri 1st Congressional District in St. Louis. He was defeated by a "progressive" challenger, Cori Bush, backed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders among others....CNN STORY (WITH VIDEO EMBEDDED)
AND TOMORROW IN TENNESSEE THE REPUBLICAN US SENATE PRIMARY WITH A HOST OF CANDIDATES BUT TWO MAIN RIVALS ONE BEING DR. MANNY SETHI BACKED BY LIBERTARIAN REPUBLICAN SENATOR RAND PAUL OF KENTUCKY.
THE OTHER TOP TIER CANDIDATE IS FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN BILL HAGERTY, BACKED BY SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL FROM KENTUCKY.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ALSO ENDORSED HAGERTY IN WHAT IS SEEN AS CONTEST BETWEEN THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT AND MORE LIBERTARIAN-CONSERVATIVE OUTSIDERS. MORE ON THE BIG MONEY IN THE RACE......OPEN SECRETS.ORG
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY SOME 55,148 NEW CASES IN THE COUNTRY WITH 9,625 ADDED IN TEXAS, 5,559 IN CALIFORNIA AND 5,409 IN TEXAS.......
Tonight police in Jerusalem imposing fines of 1469 dollars and 57 cents in US money (5000 Israeli shekels) on organizers of an Orthodox Jewish (Hasidic) wedding said to have been attended by ten thousand people indoors in violation of Israel's coronavirus restrictions. The grandson of a religious leader the groom at that wedding.....YNET NEWS......ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
IN EUROPE AND AROUND THE WORLD SHARP ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF THIS YEAR, BUT LESS SO IN SWEDEN. SWEDEN DID NOT IMPOSE THE STRICT LOCKDOWN MEASURES THAT OTHER NATIONS DID BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS.......BBC NEWS
The coronavirus story around the world as reported by the BBC on its daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/5/2020
ALSO A REMINDER THAT AN "UNPLUGGED" SPECIAL POST IS UP THIS WEEK BEING ADDED TO THROUGH FRIDAY "THE SUMMER STREAM".......NEXTRUSH UNPLUGGED: THE SUMMER STREAM
That's the way it really is Wednesday August 5th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of Covid-19.
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