"Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, tells CTV News the government has created effectively two classes of workers in the province's hospitals. ... Some examples Hurley gave are cooks, who are covered by the pandemic pay increase, and dietary aides, who are not. Hurley says many workers do similar jobs and encounter similar risk, but are not included in the government's program. "A dietary aide is just as important as a cook; a maintenance person is just as much at risk as a nurse. These workers are just as much on the front lines of COVID as anyone else in our hospitals." CUPE says some unionized workers at the Queensway Carleton Hospital plan to walk out at 3:30 p.m. ... No one will be walking off the job during working hours to attend the protest"

"At the height of the virus in Kerala, 170,000 people were quarantined and placed under strict surveillance by visiting health workers, with those who lacked an inside bathroom housed in improvised isolation units at the state government’s expense. That number has shrunk to 21,000. “We have also been accommodating and feeding 150,000 migrant workers from neighbouring states who were trapped here by the lockdown,” she says. “We fed them properly – three meals a day for six weeks.” Those workers are now being sent home on charter trains."

With UNRWA in tatters following the withdrawal of US funding, the Arab world is utterly failing Palestinian Refugees.

The absence of a strong world peace movement with the capacity to prevent this buildup by the United States is of considerable concern for the planet.

While selling 5G technology to the public as a means for faster downloads, Big Wireless -- comprising a web of telecom companies, lobbyists and law firms-- is spending millions to lobby governments the world over to implement the next generation of cellular technology because of its potential for data collection and surveillance of citizens.