While the federal government indulged in semantics, Covid-19 deaths continued to rise in the woefully under-prepared residential aged care sector. Sarah Russell and Elizabeth Minter report on a horror year for older people living in residential aged care.

 #5 TOP IA STORY OF 2020: Scott Morrison's Pentecostal beliefs have affected Liberal Party policies

The impact of Scott Morrison's Pentacostal beliefs concern many Australians, as shown by this January article, which was read by only 45,000 .

 

 

by Robert Reich | January 1, 2021 - 8:04am | permalink

— from Robert Reich's Blog


About the only good thing that can be said about 2020 is that it’s over. It was an annus horribilis.

COVID took the lives of more than 340,000 Americans, about 1 out of every 1,000 of us.

Over 22 million of us lost our jobs in March and April, and unemployment is again surging.

The trend of fatal police shootings increased this year, with a total 864 civilians having been shot, 192 of whom were Black (as of December 1, 2020, the latest data available).

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Vice-President Mike Pence.

Mike Pence asks judge to toss lawsuit seeking to overturn election results

 There goes Trump's next VP (ODT)

Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, and a group of other Republicans filed the suit against Pence this week, arguing that the vice president has the constitutional authority to decide which states' Electoral College votes to count.