Current Affairs Articles and Ezines
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1. Global Crisis - Coronavirus Appeal
June 12, 2020
In this global crisis, so much is under threat. It is not just about the risk to our health, our lives, and that of our loved ones. It is also about what this is doing to the world we live in. Society is changing. People have lost their income, children are not able to attend school, seniors are in homes and unable to see loved ones. The world is struggling economically and people are in isolation and scared. People are having to manage as best they can. But those in communities that were already disadvantaged and vulnerable are being hit harder than anyone else. We are focusing on helping the... (read more)
Author: Richard Conard
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2. Government scheme for getting life cover after retirement
June 10, 2020
The Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) is a retirement advantage government scheme that gives budgetary coverage to the workers (EPF account holders) after retirement. In any case, do you realize that the EPF rules additionally gives life coverage to the workers? Thus, let us think about this component of the EPF plan. Life Coverage for EPF Account Holders Truly, all EPF Account Holders can get free life cover u/s 17(2a) of the Employees' Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI) 1976 guidelines when his EPF account gets opened. The amount Life Coverage for EPF Account H... (read more)
Author: Anjali Devri
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3. Unlock 1.0 special safety measures by health ministry of India
June 06, 2020
The world is battling a quiet war with Coronavirus however the truth of the matter is it is difficult to stay at home for a considerable length of time, in this way, Lockdown 5.0 or Unlock 1.0 has been presented now. India is the nation that has joined together and done all of the exertions to spare crown patients.
Outline of Unlock 1.0 otherwise known as Lockdown 5.0
It has been over 70 days from lockdown now the Union Health Ministry has discharged the new Standard Opening Procedures (SOPs) in which a proposition for re-opening lodgings, eateries, and shopping centers as Unlock... (read more)
Author: Anjali Devri
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4. Importance of Aarogya setu app
June 02, 2020
To battle the Novel Coronavirus malady or COVID-19, the Indian government has now forced Lockdown 5.0. Subsequent to considering the effects of the Lockdown 4.0 on the COVID-19 circumstance, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has now discharged a warning under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, for additional expanding the Lockdown. The Lockdown 5.0 otherwise known as Unlock 1 will go on till 30th June 2020.
Know:- Which activities allowed while Lockdown 5.0? According to the MHA rules, downloading of the Aarogya Setu application on cell phones is obligatory for all residents. Le... (read more)
Author: Anjali Devri
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5. Covid-19, Crisis or a Crossroads - When Defiance Becomes a Delusion
May 08, 2020
Like blind men stumbling around in the dark, daily we hear more about the great efforts to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic. While President Trump sends a hospital ship to New York and the Javits Center field hospital opens up for treating patients – endlessly vociferous Gov. Cuomo, keeps sending people to nursing homes - to die.
State governors are violating every part of the constitution they can think of and are feeling the backlash and the wrath of the people in some states. Who is not now aware of a Texas woman sent to jail and fined $7K for opening her salon?
In another big help... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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6. COVID-19: A Micro Godzilla
April 30, 2020
COVID-19, certainly not to be taken lightly, has interrupted life as we know it including the international economy and other things interesting like visiting relatives, eating out, and other forms of socializing. Typical of people in crisis we’ve developed a herd mentality. The media and politicians, who as long as I can remember, have had 20-percent integrity, believability and credibility ratings exaggerate and spread panic; and suddenly we believe everything they bloviate. Go figure. To be more precise, the scribes insist on being called journalists, which they are NOT—in any sense of... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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7. COVID-19 Update: No need for DSC for GSTR-3B filing during the lockdown!
April 30, 2020
Today the world is nearly trapped in a significant fiasco as COVID-19 pandemic. India has been put under complete lockdown till May 3, 2020. Because of the failure of the representatives to satisfy their normal consistency, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has given certain relaxations. The due date for filing FORM GSTR-3B for the long stretch of February, March, and April 2020 has been as of now expanded. Moreover, the notice has been likewise discharged on the GST Portal that from now onwards, the citizens have been given the alternative of filing GSTR-3B by... (read more)
Author: Anjali Devri
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8. Covid-19: Four Ways to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times
April 17, 2020
The fragile global economy has taken a major hit from Covid 19 pandemic. The global supply chain(s) was the first economic system to be impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak occurred in China. Since then, business operations and personal finances have been on a downward spiral due to the lockdowns and “social distancing”. Therefore, its important to look at time-tested ways to reduce the consequences to our wallets. We also have a large number of alternative financial opportunities available (to us) using the Internet.
There is no doubt that these are some of the most challenging times we... (read more)
Author: David Love
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9. Covid-19 and Our Money: Managing Money and Staying on Top
April 17, 2020
Money can be a slippery customer at the best of times. Maybe we don’t quite hit our projected income targets for a certain period. Perhaps we ended up spending a little more than we would like to. Or it could be that we simply can’t pin down the reason our finances don’t quite add up. This is because money management is... well, it’s tricky. Factor in global issues like Covid-19, and it becomes even more tricky. The coronavirus has had far-reaching effects across the planet, causing death, misery, social division, and economic depression. When faced with something like this, kee... (read more)
Author: David Love
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10. Covid-19 and Our Money: Fighting a Psychological Battle
April 17, 2020
Across the world, governments and populations alike are encountering the same challenges – namely, how to treat the coronavirus and prevent its spread.
But this is just the beginning. Certainly, in the here and now – in the immediate future – bringing the virus under control is the priority, and we salute the legions of scientists, medical personnel, and key workers who are making that happen each and every day. But what comes next? How do we deal with the economic depression that follows such a crisis? How do we avoid global recession? There is one thing we must do: We must not give in.... (read more)
Author: David Love
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11. REVERIE
April 17, 2020
MEMORIES POP-UP at random times during a lifetime, sometimes triggered by music, return to a familiar place, a sudden thought about a particular person, an old photograph; it could be any of a number of things. Today, a song on the radio took me back to a long ago event. It was one of those pleasant recollections that had me reminiscing for a while; the kind that prompts one to wonder aloud, “Where did the time go?”
That got me off on a sidetrack of wondering about what my final memory will be—you know, just before the lights go out, the music fades, and all goes silent behind my eyes. F... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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12. The Mirror Rearview; Report # 15
April 03, 2020
Special Report # 15: Stephen P. Bye, correspondent for the Mirror Rearview.
An on-going series from Stephen P. Bye, a Correspondent for the Mirror Rearview, a fictional newspaper in Laicos County, an imaginary USA municipality. Please refer to the previous 14 reports for further background.
(April 3, 2020) I’m back on the beat as an unpaid reporter for The Mirror Rearview after a twelve-month absence, while serving my sentence in prison. Thankfully, my attorney, Sue Yourbutt, took my case to the State Supreme Court, who ruled I was inappropriately arrested for expressing free speech ... (read more)
Author: Stephen Bye
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13. Cybersecurity & Covid-19: Vulnerability and What to Do About It
March 31, 2020
Cybersecurity & Covid-19: Vulnerability and What to Do About It
Steve Burgess, 2020
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about.
With so many of us working from home (close to 90% of American corporations are encouraging or requiring employees to do so) and having little time to set up corporate cybersecurity barriers, employees and their companies may be more vulnerable than ever. Hardly anybody has had their home setup properly pen tested or security-checked.
Cybercriminals, ever ready to jump on an opportunity, are likely to take advantage immediately with malware, phishi... (read more)
Author: Steve Burgess
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14. Government gives relaxations in GST laws due to COVID-19
March 27, 2020
The flare-up of horrendous pandemic Novel Coronavirus otherwise known as COVID-19 has caused a boundless financial downturn. The Indian government has forced a lockdown all through the nation till fourteenth April 2020. Because of the interruption of the ordinary course of business, specialists can't satisfy their lawful compliances in the present time allotment. In an offer to give some unwinding, the Honorable FM Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman had directed a live public interview over Video Conferencing and reported that Due Dates for all the Business Compliance will currently be delayed in the... (read more)
Author: Anjali Devri
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15. A TIME TO LIVE
March 21, 2020
A TIME TO LIVE, AND A TIME TO DIE are two appointments all living things must keep; and is the thesis for a poem by Audrey Heller. Further, she charged us not to let precious time go by. I consider this very good advice, which I’ve attempted to follow during my allotted time. I say, burn a candle at both ends (and maybe in the middle) rather than throw it in a closet to waste away. The “living” part is (by far) my favorite, mainly because the other is a mystery. Hospice workers report that as individuals near death, they’re not afraid and even see family members waiting on the other side ... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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16. Coronavirus, the Economy and the Great Eschaton - Fair Warning
March 14, 2020
Coronavirus, the Economy and the Great Eschaton – Fair Warning
Some doomsdayers are well onboard with dire and severe warnings about the emergence of the coronavirus outbreak. Some, like CNN are already calling it a “pandemic.” But level heads, both in and out of prophetic warnings, are more cautious and see it as a foretoken or even a formula for worldwide problems, yet to come.
Speculations abound.
Some say Covid-19 is a bioweapon, yet others think it came from outer space, like astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology.
Where does it... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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17. ROLLER DERBY, POLITICS, and the NBA
March 02, 2020
This essay is about quality, or rather about the disintegration of quality in certain aspects of my life, much of it occurring since the end of the 1980s. I admit “quality” is in the perception of the beholder; that is, it varies from person to person. However, no matter how you cut it, QUALITY has two aspects.
The first aspect is CONFORMANCE TO REQUIREMENTS; that is, whatever the product or service is; it must conform to whatever standards one requires as an individual or customer. To fall short of one’s expectations is to NOT have “quality”. The second aspect is DESIGN FEATURES. These ... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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18. METAMORPHOSIS: Transformation of an Opinionated Man
January 10, 2020
AS GREGOR SAMSA AWOKE from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. --Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Ever know anyone who has experienced a life-altering metamorphosis? Come to think of it, that’s probably a rhetorical question. Chances are we all have. The experience may not have been as extraordinary as that described by Franz Kafka, but to me, my particular creeping transformation is just as unwelcome as turning into Kafka’s giant bug. Read on… So, things being what they are, I’m in a brooding and reflective mood, y’know? Just between u... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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19. Prophecy 2020 - Will it be a Year of Success or Catastrophe?
January 01, 2020
Touching briefly on current events is enough to cause trauma!
The year 2019 found over 12 major nations in protests and unrest, fulfilling many prophetic warnings including those of Jesus…
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” (Mt 24:6)
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are co... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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20. Political Correctness in Professional Team Nicknames
December 23, 2019
Political Correctness in Professional Sports Team Nicknames
With the groundswell of political correctness rising from multiple tribes and polarized camps involving gender equality, politics, age discrimination, religion, and other mainstream issues, there is growing pressure to change the nicknames of several professional sports teams.
Politics: Republicans vs. Democrats…Red vs. Blue. Several teams must change their colors or nicknames in order to avoid protests from opposite party voters. These include the St. Louis BLUES; Boston RED Sox, Washington REDskins; Detroit REDwings... (read more)
Author: Stephen Bye
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21. Trump Probe Reveals Controversial Citizen Surveillance Program
December 19, 2019
With the articles of impeachment being formally written up this month, and the division of the country ever-widening, new information on a citizen surveillance program was discovered today during a closed door interrogation that may actually link the Trump and Obama Administration. The information about the citizen surveillance program, classified as the Optic Drift Project (ODP), was discovered during the continuing Ukraine probe when investigators further searched the classified computer system that held the Trump/ Zelensky phone conversation transcripts.
The search revealed plans to re... (read more)
Author: Sam Terrance
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22. Christmas and Pontius Pilate - The Universal Question
December 19, 2019
A lifetime of Christmas television specials asking or trying to answer the “true meaning of Christmas” question, may have our heads swimming in uncertainty. Is it, home, family, giving, kindness, brotherhood or some secret spiritual meaning that only the deepest thinkers or more indoctrinated can gather?
Scouring the pages of scripture for the answers always brings us to the same answers, but one answer stands out above them all.
It turns out that it is the same question asked by Pontius Pilate the Roman Procurator. Pilate held Jesus in custody and he alone had to decide his fate, ev... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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23. WORDS, SPINMASTERS & DECEPTION
December 19, 2019
Words… Racism is a word that has pretty much lost power due to frequent and deliberate misuse; especially by a political party whose history has been blatantly racist. During my lifetime, I recall vociferous integration opponents emerging from their dugout; viz., George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Robert Byrd, Al Gore, Sr. et.al. I tend to yawn when I hear the word anymore. Nevertheless, I refer to it in this essay to contend that the accusers are guilty of it for the devious purpose of buying votes, avoiding scrutiny, exploitation, and/or projecting their own bias onto so-called enemies.... (read more)
Author: Gene Myers
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24. Entering 2020 with the most Perverted Judicial Ruling and most Obsessive Political Party in America
November 29, 2019
It would seem that the entire democratic party has long forgotten the adage spoken by former President Rutherford B. Hayes who declared – “He serves his party best who serves the country best.”
With only a few exceptions the entire democratic party has become obsessed with only one matter – the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. No one in America would dare to say that the democrats have done anything to serve the country in the last two years.
The party of dead unborn babies and the defense of homosexual and transgender perversions, now has, Congressman Adam Schiff, coming on... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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25. God's Final Dispensation - Seven Reasons Why the World Won't See it Coming
November 07, 2019
Denying history is rapidly becoming the trend among the world’s progressives and liberals, the lessons not learned are now more costly than anyone can imagine.
In the Church, which is rampant with apostasy, (falling away) are those who name dates for the second coming of Christ. They cause scoffing among non-believes and are working directly against the clear commandment of the Lord.
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” (Mt 25: 13)
The most extreme reaction to those naming dates is to totally trash everything to do with the s... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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