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Global deaths from Covid-19 have now topped 3 million

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Imagine that everyone living in Chicago died of a deadly disease. The world passed this grim milestone on Saturday, according to the <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">Johns Hopkins Covid-19 tracker</a>, which has officially recorded 3 million Covid-19 deaths around the globe — roughly 300,000 more people than all the current residents of the Windy City.
The number comes as some governments have begun ramping up vaccinations while simultaneously racing against outbreaks of multiple variants of the virus. As some may be beginning to sense an end to the pandemic, the virus still continues to spread at an alarming rate globally.
Globally, new infections are up recently, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-brazil-caracas-portugal-india-ccad03475cfd5c846f11189a8bfd99c7">according to the Associated Press</a>, averaging more than 700,000 cases and 12,000 deaths a day.
“This is not the situation we want to be in 16 months into a pandemic, where we have proven control measures,” Maria Van Kerkhove, one of the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 leaders, told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-brazil-caracas-portugal-india-ccad03475cfd5c846f11189a8bfd99c7">the AP</a>.
The death toll is accelerating, as the world passed 2 million deaths just two months ago. Brazil is an outlier for its Covid-19 death rate, accounting for about 3,000 deaths daily, approximately a quarter of the global daily death count. The country’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/04/16/brazil-coronavirus-jair-bolsonaro-rio-de-janeiro-darlington-pkg-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn">alarming mortality rate</a> can largely be attributed to President Jair Bolsonaro and his Health Ministry’s tepid response to the virus. The Brazilian president has consistently opposed lockdowns and only recently came around to accepting vaccines as a means of fighting the pandemic.
In the US, the vaccination rate continues to grow, with 206 million doses administered as of Saturday, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/">a Bloomberg report</a>. But while wealthier countries may be eyeing a vaccine-facilitated end to the pandemic, less economically fortunate areas have been left waiting.
Vaccinations are being administered in about 190 countries worldwide, but some, like the US and the UK, are well ahead of less developed nations. Of the 700 million jabs administered worldwide, 87 percent have gone to high-income or upper middle-income countries, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-director-laments-shocking-imbalance-covid-19-shot-distribution-2021-04-09/">according to comments last Friday</a> from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“On average in high-income countries, almost one in four people has received a Covid-19 vaccine,” he said at a press briefing. “In low-income countries, it’s one in more than 500.”
While the US and some western European countries have vaccination programs well underway, American drug companies have been waging a battle to preserve intellectual property rights over their vaccine formulas for as long as possible. This means that cheaper, generic vaccines are not yet available for widespread manufacturing in less developed countries.
In February, India and South Africa <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/rich-countries-block-india-south-africas-bid-to-ban-covid-vaccine-patents/a-56460175">appealed to the World Trade Organization</a> to issue an intellectual property waiver on Covid-19 vaccines that would facilitate more widespread production of the shots. That move, however, was blocked by wealthier Western countries, who argued that it would stifle innovation.
Recently, 10 Democratic and progressive senators <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/16/us-senators-call-on-biden-to-back-covid-vaccine-patent-waive">wrote a letter</a> to President Joe Biden, asking him to lobby the WTO to relax Covid-19 vaccine IP rules. “Simply put, we must make vaccines, testing, and treatments accessible everywhere if we are going to crush the virus anywhere,” the letter read.
Though Biden hasn’t yet made a decision one way or the other, the White House said it was studying the issue.
In the meantime, variants continue to spread, and US health officials worry about a recent decline in testing, which is critical to detecting new variants, as more and more Americans turn their attention toward getting vaccinated.
“I think the testing pillar of the pandemic response is still as vital as it’s ever been,” Joseph Petrosino, chair of molecular virology and microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22321794/covid-19-testing-test-vaccine-coronavirus-variants">told Vox’s Umair Irfan last month</a>. “Not only do we need to test, we need to start identifying which variants of the virus are spreading in a given area.”
 
 
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vox Global deaths from Covid-19 have now topped 3 million

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Biden vows to increase refugee cap after criticism from Democrats

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The White House pulled back from its decision earlier this week not to raise the US refugee cap, pledging late Friday to accept more refugees than the historically low levels set by the Trump administration.
Last year, Trump <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/11/21431157/trump-refugee-admissions-resettlement-cap-2021">lowered the refugee cap to 15,000</a>, the lowest number allowed into the US since the refugee cap was introduced in 1980. Immigration and refugee advocates had hoped for an ally in Biden, who pledged during his campaign to raise the cap, and proposed <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22266410/biden-refugee-executive-order">in early February</a> to accept up to 62,500 refugees this year.
But earlier this week, the White House broke that promise, placing blame on the former administration’s gutting of the refugee program, which is run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
“For the past few weeks, [President Biden] has been consulting with his advisors to determine what number of refugees could realistically be admitted to the United States between now and October 1,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/16/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-the-emergency-presidential-determination-on-refugee-admissions-for-fiscal-year-2021/">in a statement on Friday</a>. “Given the decimated refugee admissions program we inherited, and burdens on the Office of Refugee Resettlement, his initial goal of 62,500 seems unlikely.”
The initial decision drew a strong rebuke from some Democratic lawmakers. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called the decision “shameful” in a tweet Friday. She and fellow Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) sent a letter to the White House Friday reiterating their call for an increase in the refugee cap.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) was also critical of the decision. “Facing the greatest refugee crisis in our time, there is no reason to limit the number to 15,000,” Durbin said in a statement, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/16/us/biden-news-today#biden-refugees-cap">according to the New York Times</a>. “Say it ain’t so, President Joe.”
After reversing their stance on the refugee cap, the White House tried to tamp down criticism by claiming there was “confusion” over the decision not to raise the cap in the first place. Democratic lawmakers applauded the reversal overall, but some of them also pointed out the continuously disorganized response to the refugee crisis.
Rep. Verónica Escobar (D-TX) said as much on Twitter Friday, tweeting that she was “heartened” by the White House clarification while also urging the administration to adopt better communication regarding the matter. “Protecting the most vulnerable seeking a safe haven is who [we] are, it’s at the heart of our nation’s values,” she concluded.
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While I’m heartened to learn that <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> still intends to increase the number of refugee admissions, I urge the admin. to move with urgency and communicate with clarity.
Protecting the most vulnerable seeking a safe haven is who are, it’s at the heart of our nation’s values.
— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepEscobar/status/1383164900697051137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Biden administration has taken a number of steps to reverse Trump’s extreme nativist immigration policy. In January, Biden <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/1/20/22235986/biden-trump-travel-muslim-ban">reversed the controversial Muslim travel ban</a>. On the flip side, the president has come under criticism from progressives for <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22299135/biden-kids-cages-migrant-children-carrizo-homestead">continuing to hold unaccompanied minors</a> crossing the border at temporary detention centers.
The administration has also struggled with the politics around a recent surge in <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/4/15/22383123/migrant-border-asylum-biden-cameroon-guatemala-cuba">people crossing the US southern border</a> in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest in Central America.
While the Biden administration has taken many steps to undo the harmful immigration policies of the Trump administration, the initial balk at raising the cap and the eventual reversal illustrate what a delicate political situation the president finds himself in, early in his first term. Appealing to nativist panic and fearmongering over border surges has become a staple — and successful — electoral strategy for right-wing politicians, and Biden’s careful navigation on this issue may indicate that the president is attempting to avoid a political trap.
Making matters even more complicated for Biden is conservative media’s tendency to stoke this kind of paranoid nationalism. Just this week, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson once again promoted the <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/15/16141456/renaud-camus-the-great-replacement-you-will-not-replace-us-charlottesville-white">“great replacement” theory</a>, a myth created by white supremacists which states that Democrats purposely encourage immigration by people of color in order to dilute the electoral power of white people, and by extension, the Republican base. The myth underpins the beliefs of former Trump administration officials like Stephen Miller, who helped guide the former president’s restrictive immigration policies.
Though refugees are not immigrants — nor are they asylum seekers — the Trump administration made no such distinction, viewing them all as political threats. Under Trump, the US refugee cap <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/26/20886038/trump-refugee-cap-executive-order">was lowered repeatedly</a> until it hit a low of 15,000 in October last year. That represents the lowest number of refugees accepted into the US in history, at a time when the number of internationally displaced persons is at its highest since World War II.
In 2020, the Trump administration delayed making a decision on the cap number, triggering a one-month pause on new refugee resettlements. That, combined with the pandemic, meant that from October 2019 to September 30 the following year, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/11/21431157/trump-refugee-admissions-resettlement-cap-2021">just 11,814 refugees were resettled</a> within the US.
Biden, by contrast, ran his campaign on reversing the immigration legacy of the Trump administration. In February, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22266410/biden-refugee-executive-order">he signed an executive order</a> raising the refugee cap to 125,000 starting this October, all while attempting to ramp up current resettlements before the new fiscal year starts.
Biden acknowledged the bureaucratic challenge ahead of him when he signed the order. “The United States’ moral leadership on refugee issues was a point of bipartisan consensus for so many decades,” <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22266410/biden-refugee-executive-order">he said</a> in a speech at the State Department in February. “It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged.”
But the controversy this week also illustrates that the left flank of the Democratic party remains committed to holding Biden’s feet to the fire on immigration issues. In this round, the progressives seem to have won.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/17/22389136/biden-will-increase-refugee-cap-criticism-from-democrats">https://www.vox.com/2021/4/17/22389136/biden-will-increase-refugee-cap-criticism-from-democrats</a>

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Emergency Saturday Broadcast: Reporters Discover Secret Flights, Secret Centers, and More

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Alex Jones joins Owen Shroyer and the Infowars crew on the southern border in McAllen, Texas to reveal more pieces of the illegal immigration pipeline from South and Central America through Mexico into the United States, including <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=607a1a745b15392aa717bbd4">secret flights</a> out of a private airport, hidden holding centers for illegal immigrants, and much more.
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The Genetic Sabotage Of Humanity

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While the social engineers of the United Nations slowly force Agenda 2030 through the manufactured totalitarian Covid lockdown scheme, a decades-old secret human cloning and hybrid operation is testing the water of public scrutiny.
It’s an operation that will replenish the elite with harvested organs from their genetic creations, while continuing the work of Nazi Dr. Mengele’s Superhuman Master Race.
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Video: CNN Reporter Called Out As Propaganda By Passerby After Project Veritas Bombshell

A CNN reporter was left speechless when a passerby called out the fake news network for peddling propaganda after Project Veritas caught a CNN director admitting as much in <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-1-cnn-director-admits-network-engaged-in-propaganda-to-remove-trump/">undercover video</a>.
CNN reporter Sara Sidner was covering the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis amid the Derek Chauvin trial when a friendly masked individual appeared, seemingly to take a selfie with her.
“How are you doing today?” he asked Sidner. “I see you’re reporting on Twitter.”
“Uh oh,” she said, appearing to think she was about to be confronted by another angry protester.
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“Hey, but I seen them <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-cnn-director-charlie-chester-reveals-how-network-practices/">Project Veritas stuff</a> about CNN, what do you guys think about that?” he asked.
“Ehhhhhh….” Sidner replied as she tried walking away from him, adding, “that’s not my job, I deal with this.”
“Okay, no comment,” the man laughed.
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This comes a few days after an irate protester told Sidner that CNN was fomenting racial divide in its coverage of BLM.
“Y’all be twisting up the stories and shit,” the man <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/547858-cnn-reporter-confronted-in-minneapolis-suburb-im-not-going-anywhere">said</a> to Sidner during a live report from Brooklyn Center on Tuesday. “All the press and all the extra shit y’all do makes this worse.”
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe was <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/james-okeefe-responds-to-twitter-account-suspension-following-bombshell-cnn/">permanently suspended from Twitter</a> earlier this week after releasing <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-3-cnn-director-charlie-chester-says-network-is-trying-to-help-the-black/">Part 3</a> of the damning CNN tapes.
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Alex Jones breaks down the Project Veritas footage of <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=607a1b345b15392aa717d79b">Brian Stelter being confronted</a> over the footage of a CNN director admitting to propaganda.
 
 
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