We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses — who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown — are now leaving the bedside. The pandemic arrived with many people having great hope for reform on many fronts, including the nursing industry, but much of that optimism seems to have faded.

In the Opinion Video ..., nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis: chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic. “I could no longer work in critical care under the conditions I was being forced to work under with poor staffing,” explains one nurse, “and that’s when I left.” They also tear down the common misconception that there’s a shortage of nurses. In fact, there are more qualified nurses today in America than ever before.

To keep patients safe and protect our health care workers, lawmakers could regulate nurse-patient ratios, which California put in place in 2004, with positive results. Similar legislation was proposed and defeated in Massachusetts several years ago (with help from a $25 million “no” campaign funded by the hospital lobby), but it is currently on the table in Illinois and Pennsylvania. These laws could save patient lives and create a more just work environment for a vulnerable generation of nurses, the ones we pledged to honor and protect at the start of the pandemic.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opinion/covid-nurse-burnout-understaffing.html

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In light of the civil disturbances which have swept across Kazakhstan, the risk of a biological catastrophe is growing because of secret US military laboratories in regions of Central Asia and the South Caucasus, which are potentially susceptible to sociopolitical unrest. Aside from the fact that the US’ development of delayed-action bioweapons in Kazakhstan is an issue that has already been raised repeatedly, hardly anyone will disagree that this risk is increased in the event of more riots, either when ‘demonstrators’ force entry into such laboratories, or as a result of an outbreak of the US’ own biological catastrophe in the form of a ‘leak’ of especially dangerous biomaterials.

Incidentally, witnesses reported that during recent events in Kazakhstan, on the night from January 5 to 6, there were allegedly armed infiltrations into the Pentagon’s Central Reference Laboratory. This was at the Aikimbaev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections in Alma-Ata. Some media outlets even disclosed, again based on eyewitness accounts, that they supposedly saw people in hazmat suits, which generated mass concern due to the possibility of lethal biomaterials escaping from the laboratory.

In this context, Kazakhstani media outlets emphasize that US military specialists have conducted active operations in the region, where serious unrest occurred from the start of the year, in at least two biological laboratories: the Central Reference Laboratory in Alma-Ata and another laboratory in Jambyl Region. It is a known fact that both these facilities have a high (third) level of protection and were financed by the Pentagon. One of the areas of work of these centers was the collection and exportation to the US of biomaterials from research which was conducted in the region in Soviet times, as well as the modelling of disease outbreaks.

The general budget for the Pentagon’s ‘scientific programs’ in Kazakhstan is over $400 million. A department of the DTRA, run by colonel Steven Colder, in the US Embassy in Nur-Sultan oversees its expenses. The American Central-Asian Office for the Control of Diseases (CDC) acts as a political facade in the region. It is led by Daniel Singer, who US diplomats describe as a doctor. However, he actually acts as a colonel of the US Air Force Medical Service who manages the Reference Laboratory and the Center for Especially Dangerous Infections. It is noteworthy that this center is a contractor of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), which manages operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria; this follows, in particular, from declassified documents about five of the US Department of Defense’s programs in 2017-2018.

A report published in the Frontiers of Public Health journal in 2021 confirms the link between the US and its NATO allies over military research in the Pentagon’s laboratories in Kazakhstan. It is about the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology’s (Munich) eight years of work in Kazakhstan. Military specialists from Germany worked in Kazakhstani institutes, controlled by the DTRA, studying the specifics of the spread of infections in the region. Financing was conducted through the OR12 branch of Germany’s Foreign Office, which is responsible for biological and chemical weapons. According to data on research funding, published in open sources, over eight years 28 projects have been carried out in Kazakhstan on behalf of the US army. Military personnel from the US Naval Medical Center (Maryland), employees from the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (Munich) and soldiers from laboratories in Porton Down (Great Britain) were involved in them.

Under these circumstances, the local media reports and eyewitness accounts of the forced entry into one of these laboratories, and ‘people in hazmat suits’ during the protests on the night from January 5 to 6, take on a special significance with regard to regional safety. This was in Alma-Ata, where serious clashes occurred with armed bandits who appeared outside the building. Although nobody has officially confirmed this information, it provokes a special concern. This is especially so if one takes into account that in the background of the mass looting and the flight of security forces before the clashes began, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the premises of the Committee of National Safety were left unguarded.

In the same context, it is worthy to note that, despite the very high risk of terrorists entering the laboratory during the attempted coup by jihadists, according to local sources Russian soldiers were told not to protect the facility and the complex of affiliated buildings. “During the violence in Alma-Ata, local media reported how unknown people opened windows and made their way to the first floor of a strategically important facility. Being referred to here is the Aikimbaev Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Research (the US Central Reference Laboratory operates at its base)… Local residents claim that the laboratory is now almost abandoned and is in a dismal state… When agreeing on a list of strategically important buildings that were planned to be protected by CSTO CRRF peacekeepers, the laboratory in Alma-Ata was ruled out. The Russian side pressed the need to do so, but the government of Kazakhstan decided not to submit it to the protection of the CSTO.”

In these conditions, the issue of safety in a secure location, controlled by the authorities of Kazakhstan, with biologically hazardous drugs from US laboratories, becomes the most important component not just for Kazakhstan’s own security, but for that of the entire region. For, not only militants sent by the West to carry out a coup attempt in Kazakhstan, but also the US intelligence services themselves can take advantage of this state of affairs by carrying out a manufactured incident in the form of a supposedly ‘accidental leak’ of elements of biological weapons, unleashing biological catastrophe.

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https://journal-neo.org/2022/01/19/there-must-be-a-response-to-the-risk-of-biological-catastrophe-posed-by-us-military-laboratories/

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Washington: US President Joe Biden has predicted that Russia would make a move on Ukraine to “test the West” but warned that a full-blown invasion would spark a devastating response for President Vladimir Putin and his country.

In a press conference to mark his first year in office – Biden’s first extended one in months – the President also acknowledged that he should have done more to address coronavirus, vowed to tackle rising prices in America, and would spend more time out of Washington seeking advice and speaking to voters.

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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/one-year-in-office-biden-defe...

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When a major conflict like Ukraine breaks out, journalists always ask themselves: “Where should I station myself?” Kyiv? Moscow? Munich? Washington? In this case, my answer is none of these. The only place to be for understanding this war is inside Russian President Vladimir Putin’s head. Putin is the most powerful, unchecked Russian leader since Stalin, and the timing of this war is a product of his ambitions, strategies and grievances.

But, with all of that said, America is not entirely innocent of fueling his fires.

How so? Putin views Ukraine’s ambition to leave his sphere of influence as both a strategic loss and a personal and national humiliation. In his speech on Monday, Putin literally said Ukraine has no claim to independence, but is instead an integral part of Russia — its people are “connected with us by blood, family ties.” Which is why Putin’s onslaught against Ukraine’s freely elected government feels like the geopolitical equivalent of an honor killing.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/putin-ukraine-nato.html

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