DailyClout
Opinion: “Meghan Mansell, Florida-based ADA, OSHA and PPE Specialist, Warns That Masks Seriously Harm Children’s Linguistic Development”
Meghan Mansell, Florida-based ADA, OSHA and PPE specialist, warns that masks seriously harm children’s linguistic development, as children learn to make words and sounds by observing the mouth, teeth and tongue. Mansell cautions that kids will need months of speech therapy as a result of policies masking children in schools. …
Opinion: “Could a Group of Square Dancers Save The World?”
My wife and I belong to a medium sized square-dancing club in Southern California with about 150 members. In fact, we serve as the presidents of this square-dancing club. Square dancing is still enjoyed all over the country, and in Southern California, most square-dancing clubs rent hall space in City-run …
Opinion: “No Takers For China’s COVID-19 Vaccines in Cambodia and Vietnam”
China, the architect of the COVID-19 misery, is trying hard to project its COVID-19 vaccines as face-saver amidst worldwide condemnation of the country as the originator of the coronavirus. China’s two major vaccines are Sinopharm with 72.5% efficacy and Sinovac that is 50.6% effective, the latter having one of the …
Opinion: “Chinese Media Goes Overboard to Cover Embarrassment on Its LAC Assertiveness”
The Galwan Valley clash between India and China gave a rise to new issues between the two nations. As China violated the border rules and entered far into the Indian Territory, the latter had to give a befitting retort to the aggressors. Although both the nations fought and lost the …
Opinion: “Vastly Expensive Dem-Driven “Rescue Act” Showcases Vaccines, Tax Credits, Child Poverty”
As I completed my read of The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, with its price tag of $1.9 trillion, I was filled with mixed emotions. As a fiscal conservative, I winced at the cost. When this bill passes, Congress will have authorized a total of $5.3 trillion in COVID …
Opinion: “Covid-19 Variants and the Safety of Students”
This month one year ago, schools and universities across the United States closed down to assure the safety of students, faculty members, and their families from SARS-CoV-2. Since then, more dangerous, infectious variants have emerged that should have us redoubling efforts to make schools and universities safe. The first variant …
Opinion: “The Game of Party and Patriotism in Hong Kong”
During the video broadcast of the annual duty report by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that Hong Kong “must always be governed by patriots”. He asserted that “patriotic” politicians were the precondition to the implementation of Chinese Central Government’s comprehensive jurisdiction over Hong …
Opinion: “Pandemic Blunder – Fauci And Public Health Blocked Early Home Covid Treatment”
Americans have every right to be in a fit over the news that 500,000 Americans have died from the COVID-19 infection. Hard to imagine worse news. What is missing from this news is that way over 300,000 of these deaths could have been prevented through the widespread use of cheap, …
Opinion: “The Systematic Failure of The Act of Free Choice”
West Papua was handed to Indonesia in 1963 by the United Nations from the Dutch in 1963. Exposing them to marginalization, poverty and inequality, land appropriation at the hands of the Indonesian government. Which utilized a hierarchical framework to exploit, and marginalize, creating inequality of health care and standards of …
Opinion: “How to Redesign Covid-19 Vaccines So They Protect Against Variants”
Given that the SARS-CoV-2 variants can evidently evade immunity produced by vaccines or previous infections, scientists are exploring the idea of redesigning the vaccines currently being rolled out worldwide. While researchers are still debating whether the new variants have an effect on the first generation Covid-19 vaccines, some vaccine developers …
Opinion: “Trump’s Frivolous First Amendment Defense Won’t Shield Him in a Criminal Case”
Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-frivolous-first-amendment-defense-wont-shield-him-in-a-criminal-case/ At his impeachment trial for inciting insurrection, Donald Trump’s lawyers claimed that Trump’s exhortations to his followers before the attack on the Capitol were protected free speech under the First Amendment. But as 143 other constitutional law scholars from across the political spectrum and I collectively noted, that …
Opinion: “Citizen Power Initiatives for China Calls for Signatures on Petition Demanding Full Transparency Regarding WHO’s Recent Trip to China to Investigate Origins of COVID-19”
February 18, 2021 Washington, DC Today, Citizen Power Initiatives for China (CPIFC) launched a worldwide petition on Change.org. The petition, addressed to Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO), demands full transparency regarding the WHO’s recent trip to China to investigate the …
Opinion: “The Lasting Trauma of School Closures on a Generation of Children”
I find myself stunned and enraged every day since March 13 that my kids, San Francisco public school students, and approximately 50% of students across the country have no in person instruction at all for what amounts to almost a full year. They are going without classroom education, socialization, and, …
Opinion: “Crackdown On Religious Minorities, In China, Across Party Lines, Xi Jinping Exerts More Pressure”
Reinforcing the belief that China has no religion as a state, and atheism is the way forward, Jinping’s government has strongly objected to party officials found practicing ‘feng shui’, a traditional practice that finds its origin from ancient China, that harnesses energy to synchronize believers with their surrounding environment. Supremacy …
Opinion: “Moms For Liberty”
Parental rights group, Moms for Liberty is a fast-growing organization that has launched 5 chapters since forming in January and is currently fielding chapter requests in over 15 states. Founded by former school board members, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, the group unifies parents, grandparents, educators and community members to exercise their …
Opinion: “Australia’s Superannuation Calamity”
Australia’s superannuation guarantee has left Australian workers behind, frozen at 2014 rates. The Morrison government insists, now is not the time to be renewing the superannuation guarantee rate of Australian workers, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and recession. Despite the obvious benefits of increased production and employee well-being, …
Opinion: “Why Not Vitamin D For All?”
Watch Dr Naomi Wolf’s Interview With Dr Vatsal G. Thakkar HERE Studies about the effects of vitamin D on Covid-19 started trickling in a year ago. What started out as a highly plausible theory was quickly bolstered by dozens of observational studies showing that the lower one’s blood level of …
Nelson Mandela called him a ‘Hero’. South African Jurist Edwin Cameron’s Statement re Harms of Magdalen College Head Representing Anti-Marriage-Equality Cayman Islands
Statement by Edwin Cameron, Chancellor of Stellenbosch University The President of Magdalen prosecutes a homophobic case to deny LGBTIQ persons in the Cayman Islands equal rights. I express my distress and dismay that Ms Dinah Rose QC, the new President of Magdalen, is lead counsel on behalf of the government …
Opinion: “The Death of Free Speech and the Beginnings of American Tyranny”
Former President Ronald Reagan said that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. He also said that fascism would come to us from the Left. And here we are. If readers may think that somehow this time and this country is different or immune to that prediction, they …
Opinion: “China’s Human Rights Report Card for 2020”
The Human Rights Watch, in its 2021 iteration of annual publication ‘World Report’, began its observation on China as ‘the Chinese government’s authoritarianism was on full display in 2020’. According to the report, the human rights movement in China suffered through its ‘darkest period’ since the ‘1989 massacre which marked …