Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Ke...

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Judge Says Trump's Border Wall Is Illegal And Can't Be Built

Donald's Border Wall was self-declared a National Emergency
Late last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Donald Trump does not have the authority to re-appropriate money to pay for his border wall, thereby making the construction of the wall with this money illegal. The court has ordered the construction must immediately stop, presenting a huge barrier for Trump as he faces an already tough uphill battle for reelection. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

EALS COURT RULES TRUMP’S BORDER WALL ILLEGAL, BLOCKS FURTHER CONSTRUCTION

OCTOBER 10, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last night ruled that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds for the border wall is unlawful. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Sierra Club v. Trump, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition challenging President Trump’s abuse of emergency powers to build a border wall using funds Congress explicitly denied. Although the district court previously stayed its own injunction blocking these sections of wall, the court of appeals order lifts that stay and requires that construction cease immediately.

“The courts have once again confirmed what everyone knows: Trump’s fake ‘national emergency’ was just another pretext for targeting immigrants and border communities,” said Dror Ladin, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project.

“It’s past time for Trump to finally give up on trying to raid the federal budget for his wasteful and illegal project.”

Link - https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/a...

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Oct 13, 2020

The Lincoln Project

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Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan for coronavirus. He never will.

This election is the only way we’ll be able to protect ourselves.

The Nose Knows: Covid-19 Trained SnifferDogs Produce Near 100% Accuracy

That's good news - and it is non-invasive and used from a number of sources. Here's an upload from BBC News last month when the story recently changed. . . Covid-19: Growth in cases may be slowing in England. The growth in cases of coronavirus may be slowing down, the largest study of the infection in England suggests. . ."
So where are the hot spots? Airports

'It's a Game for Them.' Scientists Around the World Are Teaching Dogs to Sniff Out COVID-19

BY ALEJANDRO DE LA GARZA

OCTOBER 9, 2020 12:11 PM EDT

Now scientists are hoping that dogs’ keen sense of smell, 10,000 times better than that of humans, can help them identify people carrying COVID-19, too...Their goal: to train coronavirus-sniffing dogs, which could then be deployed at schools, airports and other public venues to reinforce existing nasal swab testing programs. A similar study is underway at the University of Pennsylvania...Other studies have produced promising, albeit early, results. In June, a team in France using a small number of samples collected from human patients who had been tested for COVID-19 in PCR tests (the current gold standard for testing) found a high degree of evidence that dogs could detect COVID-19 infections through differences in the smell of human subjects’ armpit sweat. (Also concluded: dogs don’t particularly mind sniffing people’s armpits.) In Germany, researchers ran a small pilot study, published in July, with trained coronavirus-sniffing dogs—corona-schnüffelnder hunde—and showed that the dogs were able to distinguish between coronavirus-positive samples and a control group with an average sensitivity (the rate of detecting true positives) of 83% and a specificity (true negative rate) of 96% after only one week of training. . ."

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'Close to 100% accuracy': Helsinki airport uses sniffer dogs to detect Covid

Researchers running Helsinki pilot scheme say dogs can identify virus in seconds

Sniffer dogs used to detect coronavirus in Helsinki airport as part of trial – video

Four Covid-19 sniffer dogs have begun work at Helsinki airport in a state-funded pilot scheme that Finnish researchers hope will provide a cheap, fast and effective alternative method of testing people for the virus.

A dog is capable of detecting the presence of the coronavirus within 10 seconds and the entire process takes less than a minute to complete, according to Anna Hielm-Björkman of the University of Helsinki, who is overseeing the trial.

'Close to 100% accuracy': Helsinki airport uses sniffer dogs to ...www.theguardian.com › world › sep › close-to-100-accur...

The Second Wave

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Calls BoJo 'and entitled horse-faced prick' and that's just one remark!

Jonathan Pie

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The new lockdown rules prove that the government has failed us all. 

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Trump TV

Had about enof yet?

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Oct 12, 2020

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