Giorno: 24 Agosto 2021

Dr. Jha to Newsmax: FDA Approval of Pfizer Vaccine a ‘Good Sign’

There’s no doubt that the Food and Drug Administration will move to approve other COVID-19 vaccines now that it’s given full approval for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Dr. Ashish Jha said on Newsmax…

Biden Ready to Trade Imprisoned Afghan Drug Lord for US Hostage

The Biden administration is prepared to release an Afghan drug lord to the Taliban in exchange for the last American hostage abducted last year in Afghanistan, Newsweek reported. Bashir Noorzai was arrested in New York City on drug trafficking charges in April 2005. He’s…

Everything you want to know about the at-home COVID tests available in Israel

Read More Israel’s Health Ministry recently approved the use of COVID self-testing kits – rapid antigen tests that my fellow hypochondriacs can pick up at pharmacies. Now that they’re finally on sale, Haaretz has sent your correspondent on a mission to do something mildly unpleasant for your benefit: to acquire, test and chronicle the experience […]

Jewish Agency invites staff to radical West Bank settlement for holiday trip

Read More The new acting chairman of the Jewish Agency did not wait long before starting to promote his political agenda. Hardly a month after temporarily assuming the helm of the organization, Yaakov Hagoel, the former head of World Likud, was already helping plan a trip for Jewish Agency staffers to the West Bank city […]

Israel restores state stipends to seven Palestinian activists

Read More The National Insurance Institute has restored medical and social benefits to seven Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem and their families that had been taken away from them during the Gaza conflict last May. The seven are among some 20 political activists from the area who discovered in May, during the disturbances in the […]

Security forces remain on alert as ‘national shutdown’ fails to materialise

Read More Security forces in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng remain on the alert despite the apparent failure of a national shutdown on Monday to demand the release of former president Jacob Zuma from jail and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ahead of the shutdown and marches in Durban and other centres — called […]

Unemployment rate hits record high — again

Read More South Africa’s unemployment rate has yet again hit a record high, climbing to 34.4% of the labour force in the second quarter of 2021. According to the Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) quarterly labour-force survey released on Tuesday, the country added more than half a million workers to its unemployed labour force — […]

An introduction to investing in Cardano

Read More What is Cardano? Cardano is a third-generation proof-of-stake blockchain. Cardano, like Ethereum, will allow developers to use the Cardano blockchain for familiar features, including running custom programming logic (smart contracts) and building programmes (decentralised applications). Cardano launched its smart contracts on testnet in May 2021, with a mainnet launch to follow later in […]

Vaccine imperialism chips away at faith in the market economy

Read More Johnson & Johnson (J&J) would like us to believe the company “is committed to helping individuals and communities around the world manage the unprecedented impacts of Covid-19” as part of its commitment to “the communities in which we live and work”. In South Africa, the company claims both to have made “significant investment […]

ANC member accused of instigating July unrest makes it to party’s candidate list

Read More One of the accused instigators of the July attempt at an insurrection that resulted in billions being destroyed or stolen has allegedly made it to the ANC’s list of council candidates submitted to the Electoral Commission of South Africa on Monday.  In a letter seen by the Mail & Guardian, the Ahmed Timol […]