Earlier this week, it was reported that a record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August alone, with food and retail employees leaving in droves according to Labor Department statistics.
“Quits hit a new series high going back to December 2000, as 4.3 million workers left their jobs,” reported <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/a-record-4point3-million-workers-quit-their-jobs-in-august-led-by-food-and-retail-industries.html">CNBC</a>. “The quits rate rose to 2.9%, an increase of 242,000 from the previous month, which saw a rate of 2.7%, according to the department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The rate, which is measured against total employment, is the highest in a data series that goes back to December 2000.”
“As job openings and hires fell in August, the quits rate hit a new series high, surging along with the rise in Covid cases and likely growing concerns about working in the continuing pandemic,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
“There is an enormous labor shortage in the country right now and it is not just because people are quitting or have child care problems, or can’t get to work due to the Delta variant,” wrote Chris Rupkey, chief economist at Fwdbonds. “The economy is strong as a bull, that is why there is a tremendous demand for labor.”
And not only are people leaving the workforce, but according to the latest consumer data discussed by <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-consumer-prices-inflation-prices-e80c0c24a6ec5ca1c977eccd6294d01b">The Associated Press</a>, inflation is up 5.4% compared to one year ago, with the Labor Department reporting that the annual increase in the consumer price index matched readings in June and July as the highest in 13 years. 
However, despite the millions of workers leaving their jobs, President Joe Biden released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/14/statement-of-president-joe-biden-on-unemployment-insurance-claims-2/">statement</a> on Thursday celebrating the economic success of his policies by narrowly focusing on weekly figures for new unemployment claims.
“Today, we learned that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment has fallen below 300,000 for the first time since the pandemic began — a drop of more than 60 percent since I took office, and the lowest weekly figure since March 14, 2020.  While this is just one week, the fact that the four-week average declined is yet another sign of progress.  With wages rising and our unemployment rate back below 5 percent for the first time since the pandemic struck, it is clear that our economy is getting back to normal despite the global challenges posed by the Delta variant,” Biden said in the statement. “I have said from the beginning that we cannot fully bring our economy back unless we beat the pandemic — and here, too, we are seeing encouraging signs.  As vaccination requirements have gone into effect, more and more Americans are getting vaccinated.  In fact, we now have 66 million eligible Americans that are unvaccinated, down from almost 100 million in July.  We are making important progress against the Delta variant, and our economy is gaining strength in turn.”
The president again lauded a supposed “historic economic recovery” and used this “success” to justify his “Build Back Better” agenda.
“With both COVID-19 cases and unemployment claims declining, it is clearer than ever that America is in the midst of an historic economic recovery — one that continues to lead the world.  The first half of this year saw our economy grow at the fastest rate in four decades.  The last three months have seen the largest fall in long-term unemployment since we began keeping records in 1948,” he said. “And with an average of 600,000 new jobs created each month since I took office, we have dramatically outpaced the previous record of job growth under a new president.  But to transform this historic momentum into a sustained economic boom, it is critical that we take action now to invest in our nation and our people.  We must pass both the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Build Back Better Act to strengthen the foundations of our economy, revitalize our middle class, and position America to compete and win for decades to come.”
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Biden Celebrates ‘Historic Economic Recovery’ Despite Skyrocketing Inflation As Millions Of Workers Quit

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On Thursday, LinkedIn announced that it would be shutting down its networking platform in China later this year, due to a “more challenging operating environment” and greater “compliance requirements” in the communist state.”
“Our decision to launch a localized version of LinkedIn in China in February 2014 was driven by our mission to connect the world&#8217;s professionals to make them more productive and successful,” LinkedIn announced in a <a href="https://blog.linkedin.com/2021/october/14/china-sunset-of-localized-version-of-linkedin-and-launch-of-new-injobs-app">blog post</a> titled, “China: Sunset of Localized Version of LinkedIn and Launch of New InJobs App Later This Year.” “We recognized that operating a localized version of LinkedIn in China would mean adherence to requirements of the Chinese government on Internet platforms. While we strongly support freedom of expression, we took this approach in order to create value for our members in China and around the world. We also established a clear set of guidelines to follow should we ever need to re-evaluate our localized version of LinkedIn in China.”
“This strategy has enabled us to navigate the operation of our localized version of LinkedIn in China over the past seven years to help our members in China find a job, share and stay informed. While we’ve found success in helping Chinese members find jobs and economic opportunity, we have not found that same level of success in the more social aspects of sharing and staying informed,” the post continued. “We’re also facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China. Given this, we’ve made the decision to sunset the current localized version of LinkedIn, which is how people in China access LinkedIn’s global social media platform, later this year.”
LinkedIn then outlined their replacement strategy for China, which involves a new platform that does not include a social feed or the ability to share posts or articles.
“Our new strategy for China is to put our focus on helping China-based professionals find jobs in China and Chinese companies find quality candidates. Later this year, we will launch InJobs, a new, standalone jobs application for China. InJobs will not include a social feed or the ability to share posts or articles. We will also continue to work with Chinese businesses to help them create economic opportunity,” the post concluded. “This decision aligns with our commitment to creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. While that has been our vision for nearly two decades now, it feels more important than ever as we all strive to build a global economy that delivers more prosperity and progress to people all over the world.”
LinkedIn was one of the few American social media companies operating in China, where platforms like Facebook and Twitter are banned. 
To engage in business in China, “LinkedIn censored the posts made by its millions of Chinese users in accordance with Chinese laws, something that other American companies were often reluctant or unable to do,” reported <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/technology/linkedin-china-microsoft.html">The New York Times</a>. “In March, China’s internet regulator rebuked LinkedIn for failing to control political content, three people briefed on the matter said at the time. Officials required LinkedIn to perform a self-evaluation and offer a report to the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s internet regulator. The service was also forced to suspend new sign-ups of users inside China for 30 days.”
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LinkedIn Will Turn Off Platform In China, Blames ‘Challenging’ Environment, ‘Compliance Requirements’

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After the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a resurgent Taliban formed an all-male interim government in early September. Based on available information, at least 14 of the 33 Taliban government ministers are designated terrorists under the U.N. Security Council’s 1988 Sanctions Committee.
As the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/nearly-half-of-the-taliban-governments-leaders-are-designated-terrorists/">Washington Free Beacon</a> reported, “this designation includes Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund and his two top deputies, Mullah Baradar Akhund and Mawlavi Hanafi.”
Also included in this list of designated terrorists are the Taliban’s defense minister, foreign minister, and deputy foreign minister.
Meanwhile, the Taliban’s interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is on the FBI’s <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorinfo/sirajuddin-haqqani">most wanted list</a>.
“Sirajuddin Haqqani is wanted for questioning in connection with the January 2008 attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed six people, including an American citizen,” the FBI states in the “Terrorism” section of their “Most Wanted” list. “He is believed to have coordinated and participated in cross-border attacks against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Haqqani also allegedly was involved in the planning of the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2008.”
Just days ago, despite the demonstrated connection between the new Taliban government and terrorism, the Biden administration allegedly agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, while conditions in the country worsen under Taliban rule.
“The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers,”  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1044912355/the-taliban-says-u-s-has-agreed-to-provide-humanitarian-assistance-to-afghanista">The Associated Press </a>reported. “The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August.”
State Department Spokesman Ned Price <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-delegation-meeting-with-senior-taliban-representatives-in-doha/">said</a> in a statement that the U.S. delegation “focused on security and terrorism concerns and safe passage for U.S. citizens, other foreign nationals and our Afghan partners, as well as on human rights, including the meaningful participation of women and girls in all aspects of Afghan society.”
“The two sides also discussed the United States’ provision of robust humanitarian assistance, directly to the Afghan people,” the statement added. “The discussions were candid and professional with the U.S. delegation reiterating that the Taliban will be judged on its actions, not only its words.”
And concerns about the rise of terrorism in Afghanistan have been fueled further by the Taliban announcing that they will not be working with the U.S. to combat extremism, insisting that terrorist groups like ISIS would be handled internally.
“We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen, using the Arabic acronym for the terrorist group ISIS, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-taliban-islamabad-middle-east-islamic-state-group-4d419bb70259f93f7165169889d05ff1">told</a> the AP
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-says-it-wont-work-with-u-s-to-contain-terrorist-groups-in-afghanistan">The Daily Wire</a> noted at the time: “The statement comes just hours before senior Taliban officials and representatives from the U.S. are set to meet to discuss extremist groups and evacuating the remaining U.S. citizens and Afghans with special visas from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s statement regarding cooperation on containing extremism could complicate the meeting.”
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Taliban Government: 14 of 33 Ministers Are Designated Terrorists

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William Shatner — the star of the original Star Trek TV series as Captain Kirk — became the oldest person in history to have traveled to space after his journey on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft successfully reached the edge of space on Wednesday morning.
&#8220;Everybody in the world needs to do this,&#8221; the Canadian actor <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58885555">told</a> Bezos after the Blue Origin craft safely returned to Earth. &#8220;It was unbelievable.&#8221;
“It’s just — there is Mother Earth, life and comfort down there and up there,” he <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/blue-origin-blasts-star-trek-actor-william-shatner-to-space/">said</a> gesturing upward, “is it just death? I don’t know.”
“What you see is black and what you see down there is light.”
&#8220;What you have given me is the most profound experience,” Shatner added, through tears. “I&#8217;m so filled with emotion about what just happened. I hope I never recover from this. I hope I can retain what I feel now. I don&#8217;t want to lose it.&#8221;
As Blue Origin announced on their <a href="https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-18-mission-updates">website</a>, they “successfully completed its second human spaceflight on board New Shepard on Wednesday, October 13, 2021.”
“The flight included four astronauts, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner, as well as thousands of postcards from Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future,” the release continued.
“At Blue Origin, we are motivated by the dreamers that inspire us and the builders who turn those dreams into reality. Today’s crew represented both dreamers and builders. We had the honor of flying our very own Audrey Powers, Vice President of New Shepard Operations, who fulfilled a lifelong dream to go to space and has been an integral part of building New Shepard. Our two customers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries, have built their own successful ventures and have now realized their own dreams of space travel. And, as everyone knows, William Shatner has played an important role in describing and imagining the wonders of [the] universe and inspired many of us to pursue a career in the space industry,” said Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin. “This flight was another step forward in flying astronauts safely and often. It’s an incredible team and we are just getting started.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/william-shatner-90-famous-for-playing-captain-kirk-blasts-into-the-final-frontier">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier, “The rocket launched at 9:49 a.m. CST, reaching more than 50,000 feet in just one minute. The craft hit a top speed of more than 2,200 mph.”
“The capsule and booster separated a few minutes later and the craft eventually reached a top altitude of 351,185, a little more than 66.5 miles off the surface of the Earth. On descent, the craft created a loud sonic boom,” The Daily Wire continued. “Three small parachutes then popped out, pulling along three main red, white, and blue chutes.”
In a <a href="https://www.blueorigin.com/news/shatner-powers-announced-ns18">press release</a>, Blue Origin explained that Shatner was included in the latest crew.
“William Shatner’s career as an actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist, and horseman has spanned 60 years,” the company said. “He originated the role of ‘Captain James T. Kirk’ in 1966 for the television series Star Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where Shatner returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the Star Trek movies, one of which he directed. He has long wanted to travel to space and will become the oldest person to have flown to space.”
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According to W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, frustration is at an “all-time high” in the black community regarding Biden’s presidency.
The Black Male Voter Project claims to have reached more than 1.2 million black men in Georgia during the 2020 general election and the Georgia runoffs for U.S. Senate.
“I think the frustration is at an all-time high, and Biden can’t go to Georgia or any other black state in the South and say, ‘This is what we delivered in 2021,’” said Robinson in an interview with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-falling-poll-numbers-georgia/2021/10/10/3606c99e-2002-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. “Black men are pissed off about the nothingness that has happened.&#8221;
&#8220;Does it make the work harder? It makes the work damn near impossible,&#8221; he added later.
According to the article, there are numerous factors behind this growing frustration, including the willingness of Democrats in May to “significantly weaken a policing-reform bill to get Republican support,” and Biden’s decision not to “push for changes to the filibuster to enact a $15 minimum wage,” or to “halt a raft of voting restrictions passed by Georgia’s GOP-led legislature.”
According to the latest <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/">polls</a>, Biden’s approval rating has declined to just 44.5%, with 49.2% disapproving of Biden’s performance as president. And based on <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/23/views-of-biden-and-congressional-leaders/">Pew Research Center</a> data, Biden’s popularity has fallen across all racial groups in just the past few months. For example, Biden’s approval rating was 85% among black voters in July, and it dropped to 67% by September. 30% of black voters disapprove of Biden’s performance as president.
Conversely, Biden’s approval rating has dropped from 45% to 37% for white voters, 72% to 56% for Hispanic voters, and 68% to 54% for Asian voters during the same time period. 61% of white voters, 40% of Hispanic voters, and 44% of Asian voters disapprove of Biden’s performance as president.
“If midterms are about enthusiasm and turnout, who do you think is excited to vote on November 2 at this moment?” said Nsé Ufot, chief executive of the New Georgia Project, another organization which aimed to register voters. “Because it ain’t Democrats. It ain’t black folks. It ain’t young people.” 
Earlier in October, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/10/06/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-october-6-2021/">asked</a> about Biden’s expectations “when it comes to dealing with the black agenda, particularly with those that have this small window, like voting rights and also the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.”
“What is he expected to do?” a reporter asked. “What is he planning on committing to make sure these things happen?”
“He wants to get both done. He wants to sign them into law,” Psaki responded. “As you know, and you’ve told me in the past, the black agenda is bigger than voting rights and bigger than the George Floyd Police and Justice Act.”
According to Robinson, Biden must improve his outreach to the black community if he hopes to turn the tide.
“They can’t call me and ask me to serve my brothers up on a platter for their benefit,” he said. “They can’t have my data, they can’t have access to what I know about black men from the work that we do, unless I see something serious for black men. And that requires a conversation with [black men] long before Labor Day on an election year.”
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‘Frustration Is At An All-Time High’: Biden’s Support Collapsing Among Black Voters

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On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas further limited Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) powers to combat illegal immigration, ordering them to halt mass worksite deportation raids.
The <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/memo_from_secretary_mayorkas_on_worksite_enforcement.pdf">memo</a> was addressed to several officials, including the acting director of ICE, the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the acting commissioner of CBP, and titled, “Worksite Enforcement: The Strategy to Protect the American Labor Market, the Conditions of the American Worksite, and the Dignity of the Individual.&#8221; Mayorkas began the memo, saying, “Thank you for your leadership as we work to more effectively accomplish our Department&#8217;s critical missions.”
“Our worksite enforcement efforts can have a significant impact on the well-being of individuals and the fairness of the labor market,” Mayorkas wrote, before stating that the focus of the agency’s efforts should be on the exploitation of “undocumented workers.”
“Our accomplishments in this area make clear that we can maximize the impact of our efforts by focusing on unscrupulous employers who exploit the vulnerability of undocumented workers,” he wrote. “These employers engage in illegal acts ranging from the payment of substandard wages to imposing unsafe working conditions and facilitating human trafficking and child exploitation. Their culpability compels the intense focus of our enforcement resources.”
“In addition, unscrupulous employers harm each worker competing for a job. By exploiting undocumented workers and paying them substandard wages, the unscrupulous employers create an unfair labor market. They also unfairly drive down their costs and disadvantage their business competitors who abide by the law,” Mayorkas continued. “We can most effectively protect the American labor market, the conditions of the American worksite, and the dignity of the individual by focusing our worksite enforcement efforts on unscrupulous employers.”
Mayorkas then listed “policies and practices” regarding the enforcement of “wage protections, workplace safety, labor rights, and other laws and standards. 
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Reduce the demand for illegal employment by delivering more severe consequences to exploitative employers and their agents;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Increase the willingness of workers to report violations of law by exploitative employers and cooperate in employment and labor standards investigations; and,</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Broaden and deepen mechanisms for coordination between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and state labor agencies.</li>
</ul>
Mayorkas then gave “immediate guidance,” which included the demand that ICE “cease mass worksite operations.”
“The deployment of mass worksite operations, sometimes resulting in the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of workers, was not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country&#8217;s unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers,” Mayorkas said. “These highly visible operations misallocated enforcement resources while chilling, and even serving as a tool of retaliation for, worker cooperation in workplace standards investigations.”
“I look forward to working with you on these critical efforts,” Mayorkas concluded.
“After the issuance of today’s memorandum effectively ending worksite enforcement – on top of other radical policy changes that are getting hard to count — one thing is clear: Secretary Mayorkas is the biggest disaster for border security and immigration enforcement in American history,&#8221; RJ Hauman, head of government relations for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-orders-ice-stop-worksite-raids-limit-immigration-deportations">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Since the Biden administration cannot abolish ICE outright, Mayorkas is destroying it from within.&#8221;
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Mayorkas Is ‘Destroying’ ICE ‘From Within’: Demands End To Mass Worksite Raids, Must Focus Instead On ‘Exploitation’ Of ‘Undocumented Workers’

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A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife are facing a potential maximum penalty of life in prison after they were accused of selling nuclear secrets to an unknown foreign power.
“Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, of Annapolis, were arrested Saturday in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on espionage-related charges,” reported <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-couple-navy-nuclear-secrets-life-prison">Fox News</a>. “Federal prosecutors say they should remain in custody pending their trials as they face a potential maximum penalty of life in prison and are at ‘serious risk’ of fleeing.”
The couple is being charged with violating the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-atomic-energy-act">Atomic Energy Act</a> (AEA). In 1946, the AEA established the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to promote the &#8220;utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes to the maximum extent consistent with the common defense and security and with the health and safety of the public.&#8221;
As Fox News explained, the AEA “restricts the disclosure of information related to atomic weapons or nuclear materials.”
&#8220;Unfortunately there always will be people willing to compromise our nation’s security for personal gain. It’s treasonous, it’s rare, but such individuals are traitors and should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,&#8221; former acting United States Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly told Fox News. &#8220;Our nuclear submarine force provides a significant military capability for the United States. It is a capability our adversaries both covet and fear. Information related to it must be protected — and for the most part, it is.”
As the <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-toebbe-espionage-folo-20211011-rdtwskeq55asbddq5nu72x7oee-story.html">Baltimore Sun</a> reported, a criminal complaint was unsealed on Sunday in U.S. District Court in West Virginia which alleges that Jonathan Toebbe “reached out to an unidentified foreign country in the spring of last year offering to sell secrets but the package was obtained by the FBI, which began communicating with him in December.”
“Jonathan Toebbe allegedly communicated with undercover agents via secure channels, received secret signals and left memory cards with sensitive information embedded in a peanut butter sandwich and a Band-Aid wrapper at prearranged locations, according to the complaint. His wife was observed assisting with the drops, the FBI says,” the Baltimore Sun added.
Diana Toebbe — a teacher at the private Key School in Annapolis — is also being accused of “acting as a lookout” for her husband. She has now been indefinitely suspended from her job.
&#8220;Although most spy cases don’t involve peanut butter and Band-Aids, the facts alleged follow a familiar pattern: Insider within the U.S. government approaches a foreign power to sell U.S. secrets for money, is compromised despite their best efforts at tradecraft, and — to their surprise — is subsequently arrested,&#8221; David Laufman, a former senior Justice Department official, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/toebbe-navy-spy-annapolis/2021/10/11/ef1b4364-2a9e-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html">told The Washington Post</a>. 
Prosecutors in the case also claim that Jonathan Toebbe informed his contact that he may be required to leave the country urgently.
&#8220;Should that ever become necessary, I will be forever grateful for your help extracting me and my family,&#8221; said Toebbe, according to documents. &#8220;I surmise the first step would be unannounced travel to a safe third country with plans to meet your colleagues. We have passports and cash set aside for this purpose.&#8221;
Both are scheduled for an initial appearance on Tuesday.
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According to data released by Johns Hopkins University, more people have died from COVID-19 in 2021 than in 2020.
Despite President Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hey-remember-bidens-im-going-to-shut-down-the-virus-pledge/">promise</a> to &#8220;shut down the virus,&#8221; since January 1, 2021, more than 353,000 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19. This is around 1,000 more than the number of people who died from COVID-19 during the first ten months of the pandemic in 2020.
According to medical experts, there are several key differences between 2020 and 2021 which could account for this change.
“Florida International University professor and Department of Epidemiology chairwoman Dr. Mary Jo Trepka told the <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/johns-hopkins-data-more-people-221500638.html">New York Daily News</a> that the much more contagious delta variant upped the number of cases,” the outlet reported, “making cumulative totals much higher. That was compounded by the lack of herd immunity because of low vaccine uptake.”
“So there were a lot of people being exposed, in the face of not really having herd immunity anywhere, and having the delta variant, which is much more contagious,” Trepka said.
Trepka also noted that caseload, as well as vulnerability to COVID-19, are important factors to consider.
“The more cases you get, the more deaths you’re going to have,” she said, while that also depends on who contracts COVID-19 since risk levels increase with factors like age and health.
“There’s a certain risk of death in all age groups, so the more cases you have the more deaths there’ll be,” Trepka said.
Another factor is that the emergence of the “delta variant” may have changed the vaccination rate required to achieve herd immunity.
“We’re hoping that we can improve vaccination rates so that we don’t get another sizable surge like we had this summer,” she said. “The level of vaccination that you need to get herd immunity depends on the pathogen. When you have something that’s very communicable, you have to vaccinate a much higher percentage of the population to get herd immunity.”
“The coronavirus doesn’t really know what year it is,” said Dr. David Dowdy, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “And the death has largely come in waves.”
“I think it is fair to say that had we been better about vaccinating the population before this most recent wave, we could have averted a substantial number of those deaths,” Dowdy continued.
“It’s still true that even now a third of our adult population is not fully vaccinated, and so we still have a large number of people — you’re talking over 50 million people — who are at risk of getting really sick from this disease and potentially dying,” Dowdy said. “If we were able to get those people vaccinated, that would bring the risk of death from this disease down to — not to nothing, but to a very manageable level.”
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html">The New York Times</a>, there have been a total of 44.3 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States since the pandemic began, resulting in more than 714,000 deaths.
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Despite Biden’s Promise To ‘Shut Down The Virus,’ More Americans Died From COVID In 2021 Than 2020: Johns Hopkins Data

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Pharmaceutical company Merck announced Monday that they and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics were requesting emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for molnupiravir, its experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill.
“Merck has submitted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral medicine, for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults who are at risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization,” Merck announced in a press release. “The companies are actively working with regulatory agencies worldwide to submit applications for emergency use or marketing authorization in the coming months.”
The request was based on “positive results from a planned interim analysis” which “evaluated molnupiravir in non-hospitalized adult patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who were at risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.” According to the interim analysis, “molnupiravir reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by approximately 50%.”
“7.3% of patients who received molnupiravir were either hospitalized or died through Day 29 following randomization (28/385), compared with 14.1% of placebo-treated patients (53/377); p=0.0012. Through Day 29, no deaths were reported in patients who received molnupiravir, as compared to 8 deaths in patients who received placebo,” the release added.
“The extraordinary impact of this pandemic demands that we move with unprecedented urgency, and that is what our teams have done by submitting this application for molnupiravir to the FDA within 10 days of receiving the data,” said Robert M. Davis, Merck chief executive officer, and president. “We are grateful to the patients and investigators in our study, and of course to our own colleagues who have exemplified Merck’s high standards of scientific excellence and our unwavering commitment to patients. I also want to take this moment to applaud our colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry and our collaborators in global health for rising to the challenge of bringing forward medicines and vaccines to fight COVID-19 — medicines and vaccines are both essential to our collective efforts. We look forward to working with the FDA on its review of our application, and to working with other regulatory agencies as we do everything we can to bring molnupiravir to patients around the world as quickly as possible.”
“We are grateful to the clinical investigators and patients who have helped bring us to this important milestone. Without their significant contributions, today’s achievement would not be possible. The submission to the FDA is a critical step towards making molnupiravir available to people who may benefit from an oral antiviral medicine that can be taken at home shortly after diagnosis with COVID-19,” said Wendy Holman, chief executive officer of Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. “We are pleased to partner with Merck and regulatory authorities to help provide molnupiravir to the people who need it here in the U.S. and around the world.”
Merck &amp; Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, with annual revenue of $47.994 billion as of 2020.
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On Friday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced that they had agreed to a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%, after years of debate and disagreement.
“The landmark deal, agreed by 136 countries and jurisdictions representing more than 90% of global GDP, will also reallocate more than USD 125 billion of profits from around 100 of the world’s largest and most profitable MNEs to countries worldwide, ensuring that these firms pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate and generate profits,” the OECD said in a <a href="https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/international-community-strikes-a-ground-breaking-tax-deal-for-the-digital-age.htm">statement</a>.
136 jurisdictions out of the 140 members of the OECD and G20 “Inclusive Framework on BEPS” joined the “Statement on the Two-Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalization of the Economy.”
“Today’s agreement will make our international tax arrangements fairer and work better,” said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann. “This is a major victory for effective and balanced multilateralism. It is a far-reaching agreement which ensures our international tax system is fit for purpose in a digitalized and globalized world economy. We must now work swiftly and diligently to ensure the effective implementation of this major reform.&#8221;
This agreement marks a significant change for smaller economies that, in the past, have relied on lower tax rates to attract larger corporations. Some such countries which were long-term opponents of raising corporate tax rates — such as Ireland and Hungary — were convinced to join after some alterations were made to the original proposal. One such important change was the stipulation that the 15% tax rate would not be increased and that the new rates would not apply to small businesses.
In a <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0394">statement</a>, Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, called the agreement a “once-in-a-generation accomplishment for economic diplomacy.”
“We’ve turned tireless negotiations into decades of increased prosperity – for both America and the world,” she wrote. “As of this morning, virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation. In its place, more than 130 nations — including all 20 in the G20 — have agreed to a new and specific set of provisions to uniformly tax the income of multinational companies, including a global minimum tax. Rather than competing on our ability to offer low corporate rates, America will now compete on the skills of our workers and our capacity to innovate, which is a race we can win.”
“This deal is a victory for American families, who will benefit from the revenues this deal raises to pay for infrastructure, child care, and clean energy; it’s a win for American businesses, which will no longer have to compete on an international playing field tilted against them; it’s a victory for the international business community, which will enjoy a more stable and certain environment, with fewer tax and trade disputes; and it’s a victory for the members of Congress who have drafted their own international tax reform proposals. This deal paves the way for Congress to enact those proposals, and I’m hopeful they’ll do so swiftly through the reconciliation process,” Yellen added. “International tax policymaking is a complex issue, but the arcane language of today’s agreement belies how simple and sweeping the stakes are: when this deal is enacted, Americans will find the global economy a much easier place to land a job, earn a living, or scale a business. President Biden often talks about a ‘foreign policy for the middle class.’ Today is what foreign policymaking for the middle class looks like in practice.”
As <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/oecd-reaches-deal-on-corporate-tax-after-ireland-agrees.html">CNBC</a> explains, ‘The deal marks a shift in tax policy because it not only imposes a minimum corporate tax rate, but it also forces companies to pay taxes where they operate — not just where they have their headquarters.”
However, “The exact formula for working out how much companies will owe across the various jurisdictions is one detail that still needs to be finalized.”
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan &#8220;for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.&#8221; In other words, for the invention in 2000 of an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way to precisely construct molecules.
&#8220;It&#8217;s already benefiting humankind, greatly,&#8221; said Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, a member of the Nobel committee for chemistry, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/world/nobel-prize-chemistry-winner-scn-2021/index.html">adding</a> that their discovery “initiated a totally new way of thinking for how to put together chemical molecules.”
&#8220;This new toolbox is used widely today, for example in drug discovery, and in fine chemicals production and is already benefiting humankind greatly,&#8221; Wittung-Stafshede added. 
List and MacMillan’s invention has since become a “staple for creating a wealth of materials integral to our lives,” as <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-environmentally-friendly-molecule-construction-tool/">CNET</a> explained. 
&#8220;I thought someone was making a joke with me,&#8221; List said to the committee when he learned he had won the Nobel Prize. &#8220;I was having breakfast with my wife.&#8221;
&#8220;Sweden appears on my phone, and I look at her, she looks at me and I run out of the coffee shop to the street and, you know, that was amazing. It was very special. I will never forget,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I hope I live up to this recognition and continue discovering amazing things,&#8221; List told reporters.
“In 2000, the two researchers uncovered a third kind of catalyst &#8212; a substance which brings about a chemical reaction — called asymmetric organocatalysis. Scientists had previously believed that there were just two types of catalysts: metals and enzymes. Enzymes contain hundreds of amino acids or proteins, but the winners were able to demonstrate that a single organic molecule can act as a catalyst,” CNN reported.
&#8220;This concept for catalysis is as simple as it is ingenious, and the fact is that many people have wondered why we didn&#8217;t think of it earlier,&#8221; said Johan Åqvist, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Meanwhile, the committee credited them with &#8220;bringing the greatest benefit to humankind,&#8221; with their invention being used in a multitude of ways, including to create new pharmaceuticals — such as blood pressure, respiratory infection and depression medication — and, as CNN reported, “building molecules that capture light in solar cells.”
As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html">The New York Times</a> reported, Peter Somfai, a member of the Nobel Committee, compared the tool to a new player on a chessboard. “You can think about the game in a different way, and you can execute the game in a different way,” he said after the Nobel conference on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, H. N. Cheng, the president of the American Chemical Society, said the invention goes beyond a new player. “It’s more than just a chess piece. They have opened up the board,” Dr. Cheng said. “Now it is up to you to play the game.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. 
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According to reports, three California parents are suing to stop the state’s public school system from encouraging students to recite prayers to Aztec gods, which have been worshipped using human sacrifices. Their argument is that doing so violates both the U.S. and California constitutions.
“The issue emerged earlier this year when researcher Chris Rufo reported on that particular aspect of the state&#8217;s ethnic studies curriculum,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-students-pray-aztec-gods-school-lawsuit">Fox News</a> reported, adding that “the curriculum suggests chants that invoke the deity [Tezcatlipoca].”
Tezcatlipoca is an Aztec god “honored” using human sacrifices. The <a href="https://www.ancient.eu/Tezcatlipoca/">World History Encyclopedia</a> explained that the heart of an impersonator of Tezcatlipoca — usually played by a prisoner of war — would be removed with an obsidian knife, and presented as a sacrifice. 
The parents are being represented by The Thomas More Society, a group that described the curriculum as “blatantly unconstitutional” in court documents.
&#8220;Our clients are not opposed to having students learn about different cultures and religions, including the practices of the Aztecs,&#8221; said Paul Jonna, partner at LiMandri &amp; Jonna LLP and Thomas More Society special counsel. &#8220;But the California State Board of Education’s approved Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum goes far beyond that by directing students to pray to Aztec deities. This portion of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is not only offensive, but blatantly unconstitutional.&#8221;
“The Aztecs regularly performed gruesome and horrific acts for the sole purpose of pacifying and appeasing the very beings that the prayers from the curriculum invoke,” Jonna <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10042959/Parents-sue-California-public-school-unconstitutional-chant-Aztec-deities.html">said</a>. “Our clients have both a religious and civic objection to the Aztec prayer, and they do not want their children chanting it, being asked or pressured to do so, or risking ostracism if they refuse.”
“Both the California and the United States Constitutions prohibit prayer in public schools,” he added. “Can you imagine if elements of the Christian faith were proposed to be included in the public school curriculum? What if a class incorporated praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or even reciting the Lord’s Prayer? How would that be received?”
The California Board of Education and Department of Education are listed as defendants in the lawsuit, which seeks a temporary restraining order that would prevent &#8220;Defendants from authorizing, promoting or permitting the use of Aztec prayers and the &#8216;Ashe&#8217; chant in California’s public schools and also requiring Defendants to direct those under their authority not to use the Aztec prayer or &#8216;Ashe&#8217; chant in public schools.&#8221;
Fox News explained that “Under the curriculum&#8217;s ‘Lesson Resources,’ the [California Department of Education] lays out the chant and more generally defends chants as ‘energizers’ that can bring unity.”
&#8220;This section includes several ethnic studies-oriented chants, proverbs and affirmations,&#8221; the document reads. &#8220;These can be used as energizers to bring the class together, build unity around ethnic studies principles and values, and to reinvigorate the class following a lesson that may be emotionally taxing or even when student engagement may appear to be low.&#8221;
The “ethnic studies curriculum” was approved to be taught across all public schools in the state earlier this year, and looks to teach students about the “histories, struggles and contributions of Asian, Black, Latino and Native Americans.” The chant to Aztec gods forms a part of Chapter 5 of the curriculum, titled, “Affirmation, Chants, and Energizers.”
&#8216;The curriculum&#8217;s unequivocal promotion of Aztec gods or deities through repetitive chanting and affirmation of their symbolic principles constitutes an unlawful government preference toward a particular religious practice,&#8217; said President of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, Frank Xu, in a <a href="https://thomasmoresociety.org/california-department-of-education-sued-for-curriculum-that-has-students-praying-to-aztec-gods/">statement</a>. 
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