Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
MERCED (BLJ) – The Merced County Public Health Department reported on Friday, Sept. 18, that 134 have died of Covid-19.
California reported 14,911 deaths (an increase of 195).
The United States reported 201,735 deaths (an increase of 1,092).
The global count for the day was 951,787 deaths (an increase of 6.900).
It must be. Even Los Angeles says so.
9-13-20
Los Angeles Times
How climate change is fueling record-breaking California wildfires, heat and smog
By Susanne Rust,
Tony Barboza
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-13/climate-change-wildf...
MERCED (BLJ) – The Merced County Public Health Department on September 11 reported that 127 corona virus patients who were residents of the County had died (an increase of two in the last couple of days). The County is reporting a 5.8 percent for the last seven days, which has dropped the overall average to 17.57 percent on a total number of tests of 49,346. The number of tests amounts to 59 percent of the population of the City of Merced, 18 percent of the County population.
California reported 14,265 deaths, an increase of 171.
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MERCED (BLJ) – On September 9, the Merced County Public Health Department reported 125 deaths (5 new) from Covid-19, and a radical drop in the percentage of positive test results, from nearly 18.27 percent down to 7.5 percent. The difference is due to the larger figure being a cumulative amount while the smaller amount represents only those tested in the last seven days. Nevertheless, it appears to be an improvement.
California reported 13,990 deaths (147 new).
What does moral journalism look like?
In a word: WikiLeaks.
What is to be done about it?
Now, its founder, the Australian Julian Assange, is being torn apart by a lion in the zoo and a Bald eagle.
Who among journalists defends Assange?
Fellow Australian John Pilger. Consortium News published Pilger's defense. Damn few others have had the courage to either write or to publish defenses of Julian Assange during his years' long, epic captivity and fight for freedom. -- blj
9-6-20
Consortium News
UC Merced’s newest chancellor, Juan Muñoz, told the Merced Sun-Star on August 23, that about 500 students will be returning to dormitories owned by third parties, in the university's win-win public-private partnership for growth with the Australian developer, Plenary, and other national and international corporations.
MERCED (BLJ) – The Merced County Public Health Department on September 4 reported 120 deaths from Covid and an 18.47% infection rate.
California reported 13,497 deaths (109 new).
The United States reported 190,635 deaths (1,363 new).
The global report was 871,205 deaths (3,986 new).
“The university used to be a ‘grazing land,,’ Chancellor Juan Muñoz said, and seeing the campus now “the word that comes to mind is ‘transformation.’
“You come up Lake (Road) or Bellevue (Road), and you see the campus. Everyone has the same reaction,” he told The Bee during a Zoom interview. “It’s sort of like coming out of the tunnel, and you see Yosemite for the first time. It emerges like the city out of a prairie.” -- Monica Velez, Merced Sun-Star, August 23, 2020
Four years to the day after Colin Kaepernick first sat out the National Anthem on the 49ers bench, the NBA began a series of playoff boycotts, which spread to other sports including for a day or two Major League Baseball and tennis star Naomi Osaka. Kaepernick and the other athletes, or Civil Rights workers 60 years ago, were all protesting the same issue, the oppression of African-Americans, which gone on in this country in one form or another since the beginning of slavery.