The six hundred dollars added to the unemployment check was used wisely. Americans have increased their savings while paying bills. It is measurable.  That saving is insurance for the future should the government not protect them in the future.

Additionally, there was a transition cost that was somewhat covered by the six hundred dollars added to the unemployment check. There are issues of buying masks, as well as other items like air purifiers. Those six hundred dollars a week were used to help with chaos in lives including children that now have a requirement to be in the virtual classrooms. In families where one computer was enough, now the family needs a computer for every student to attend classrooms online.

Americans put that weekly $600 to work for them. It helped a great deal.

There are issues such as COBRA payments, too. That is not cheap.

For anyone, including the Republicans, that want to defame Americans as lazy or reluctant to return to work because of the extra $600; they are wrong and are pandering to political dogma.

A banner at a business doesn't mean they have reformed their practices.

Chase website (click here)

July 13, 2020
By Chris Hedges

Hundreds of corporations, (click here) nearly all in the hands of white executives and white board members, enthusiastically pumped out messages on social media condemning racism and demanding justice after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. Police, which along with the prison system are one of the primary instruments of social control over the poor, have taken the knee, along with Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of the serially criminal JPMorgan Chase, where only 4 percent of the top executives are Black. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world whose corporation, Amazon, paid no federal income taxes last year and who fires workers that attempt to unionize and tracks warehouse laborers as if they were prisoners, put a "Black Lives Matter" banner on Amazon's home page....

There it is. Trump is tampering with the election.

July 15, 2020
By Roger Sollenberger

President Donald Trump's (click here) newly confirmed U.S. postmaster general ordered the endangered public service Monday to make major cost-cutting changes, which could slow mail delivery.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a top Trump donor who has given more than $2 million to the GOP, warned employees that the agency needed to make "difficult" decisions to stay afloat, according to a new report in The Washington Post....

Statements like, "The northerners are coming to the south to spread the virus."

Us and them.

It is to start the war of "The South shall rise again." It is racism.

Freedom of Information Act

The CDC should sue. They require this information to protect the country.

July 14, 2020
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Washington - The Trump administration (click here) has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday. The move has alarmed health experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the public.

The new instructions were posted recently in a little-noticed document on the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on, the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic....

This is utter fraud. No one owns the Moon!

July 15, 2020

A Gaya based businessman (click here) has bought an acre of land on the moon on his birthday. Neeraj Kumar said that he had heard about Sushant Singh Rajput, Shah Rukh Khan and others owning land on the moon and he also wanted to have land on the moon. He said that while the price was not very high the process was very long. Watch this video for all the updates. 

India is solidifying a strong relationship with the EU.

July 15, 2020

By  Sparshita Saxena

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (click here) will take part in the India-EU Summit at 4:30 pm today via video conferencing. Taking to Twitter, the prime minister tweeted, “I am confident this Summit will further strengthen our economic as well as cultural linkages with Europe”.

The Summit is aimed at further broad basing ties on a range of areas including trade, investment and defence, officials of the 27-nation bloc said.

During the Summit, the two sides are also expected to kick off a process for effective cooperation between the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Europol, unveil a five-year roadmap to further expand ties and are likely to launch a separate dialogue on maritime security and for boosting trade and investment, the officials said.

The Indian delegation at the summit will be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi while the European side will be headed by President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, news agency PTI reported....

...As the world is fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the leaders will discuss global cooperation and solidarity to protect lives, to mitigate the socio-economic consequences and to strengthen preparedness and response capacities, they added.

Ahead of the virtual Summit on Wednesday, India and the European Union on Tuesday sealed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement.

The agreement provides for extensive cooperation in the civil nuclear energy sector including in research and development for peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the officials said....

July 15, 2020
By Rahul Singh

Amid the border row in Ladakh (click here) and worst tensions there since the 1962 India-China war, the government on Wednesday authorised the Armed Forces to process cases for buying urgently-needed weapons and equipment worth up to Rs 300 crore to meet their critical operational requirements, a defence ministry spokesperson said.

“This will shrink the procurement timelines and ensure placement of orders within six months and commencement of deliveries within one year,” the ministry said in a statement....