The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill expressly greenlights not merely MI5 but 10 other agencies – including HM Revenue and Customs, the Food Standards Agency, police, and the Gambling Commission – would be permitted to engage in criminal conduct, as long as they’re committing the lesser evil in service …
Read More »Cure worse than the disease? Study says UK lockdown linked to thousands of excess deaths
Stay-at-home orders prompted countless people suffering from serious medical conditions to avoid hospitals, according to the study’s findings, which were published in the Heart medical journal and first reported by the Daily Mail. The paper noted that deaths from heart disease in private homes surged by 35 percent from March …
Read More »‘The only thing worse than 2020’: LinkedIn joins Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat in offering Stories… but reviews are mixed
The professional networking site has over 700 million users worldwide and has been testing its new look, complete with the Stories function, for the past few months in Brazil, the Netherlands, Australia, UAE and France. Recently, users in the US and Canada were given access to the new LinkedIn, and …
Read More »Medvedev: the current crisis may be worse than in 2008-2009
The current crisis in the economy might prove harder than in 2008-2009. This opinion was expressed by the former head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev, who now holds the position of Chairman of the security Council. “The current crisis, obviously, certainly not less severe, and may be more severe …
Read More »The Russians because of the coronavirus have become worse to pay for utility services
Payments for utility services in the whole country decreased by 7-10% in may-June in connection with the epidemiological situation of coronavirus, said the Vice-Premier of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin. “We see that while the people were in isolation – payments was bad. In the whole country the fall of …
Read More »The quality of traditional medical care will become worse for many years to come
Reminded of the promise to write about the false hope of postcolony the heyday of medicine. For starters, the term needs to be clarified. What is considered medicine? If a medicine is considered public procurement in the field of subjects relevant to health, the following forced marketing, building temporary hospitals …
Read More »What can beat Russia worse drop in oil prices and coronavirus
Russia now has so many internal problems that it would seem not up to the international agenda. With its problems to understand, which grow like a snowball. One way out of the “regime of isolation” (not spelled out in the Russian legislation) from the General impoverishment of the population and, …
Read More »Economic data is much worse than feared on wall street:”the Economy is clearly in shambles”
Reports of consumers and producers for March showed that the blow to the economy of coronavirus was deeper in the first week of the shutdown than expected. March retail sales fell by 8.7%, which is the largest index of government data, and manufacturing activity in new York reached a record …
Read More »The hazing got worse
Hazing in the army after the reform has not disappeared. On the contrary, the contract, which is now led by the conscripts, are often more violent than were “old”. Mass shooting in the TRANS-Baikal part of the representatives of the defense Ministry immediately after the incident explained to a nervous …
Read More »Demographics getting worse
In the I quarter of 2019, the natural decrease of the population, i.e. the excess of deaths (461,9 thousand) over births (of 355.2 thousand), amounted to 106.7 thousand people. This is substantially more compared to the same period last year: -87,3 thousand people, that is, the already bad demographic situation …
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