Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like.

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Preview / Viral Persistence / Long Covid Action Project

In this podcast episode, I analyze United States President Joe Biden's COVID-19 response through the political figure of Jeff Zients, who was the COVID-19 Response Coordinator early on in Biden's administration before becoming the White House Chief-of-Staff. I introduce Zients as a former bagel chain owner, using his occupation as an inconspicuous entry point into Zients' career. I then peel back the layers of Zients' past as a businessman to reveal that he has consistently prioritized corporate profits and self-interest over public health. 

The Pandemic Politics of Jeff Zients

Adopté mardi matin au Palais des Nations à Genève, l’Accord sur les pandémies marque une étape clé pour la santé mondiale. Fruit de plus de trois années de négociations menées sous l’égide de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), ce texte pose les bases d’une meilleure préparation, d’une prévention renforcée et d’une réponse coordonnée face aux futures menaces sanitaires.

Dans un entretien accord à Alexandre Carette d'ONU Info Genève, Anne-Claire Amprou, Ambassadrice de la France pour la santé mondiale et co-présidente de l’Organe intergouvernemental de négociation de l’OMS, revient sur les coulisses de cet accord, ses avancées majeures, et ce qu’il révèle de la capacité des États à coopérer malgré les tensions internationales.

Adoption d'un accord sur les pandémies : « C’est une victoire du multilatéralisme »

Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like.

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385 / Viral Persistence / Long Covid Action Project

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Beatrice and Artie discuss Trump’s nomination of prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency overseeing healthcare, infectious disease, food safety, and more. We discuss some of RFK’s more unseemly beliefs, the responses to his nomination so far, and how his nomination doesn’t come out of nowhere, but instead follows decades of struggles over the political economy of health that have laid the groundwork for a figure like him to come into power.

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RFK, Health Capitalism and the Myths of Wellness (Re-Air)

This podcast concerns a determination from the Tax Appeals Commission regarding an appeal against tax assessments issued by the Revenue Commissioners. The core issue is the eligibility of the Appellant, a newsagent business, for the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Respondent (Revenue Commissioners) assessed that the Appellant was not eligible for the EWSS payments received, totaling over €75,000, arguing the Appellant did not demonstrate the required 30% reduction in turnover and failed to perform monthly eligibility reviews. The Appellant contended it was a "New Business" and met the criteria, but the Commissioner found it was a continuation of a pre-existing business and had not proven the required turnover reduction or consistent monthly reviews, ultimately upholding the assessments.

122TACD2025 - EWSS

This podcast discusses the Tax Appeals Commission concerning an appeal against assessments raised by the Revenue Commissioners. The assessments relate to payments received by the Appellant under the Employment Wages Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), a program introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. The core issue is whether the Appellant demonstrated the required 30% reduction in turnover or customer orders to qualify for the scheme and whether they conducted the necessary monthly rolling reviews of their business circumstances. The document details the background of the EWSS, the legislation governing it, evidence presented by both parties, and the Commissioner's analysis and finding that the Appellant failed to meet the EWSS requirements.

123TACD2025 - CRSS - Covid Relief

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Beatrice and Artie discuss the “GOP Murder Bill” just passed in the House of Representatives, with a particular focus on why adding work requirements to Medicaid is so dangerous, and how brazen the attacks on trans care are under the bill. Then we discuss Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary’s attempts to use the FDA to make it impossible to get a covid vaccine.

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Teaser - Here Come the Long Knives (05/26/25)

 This week on the Global Research News Hour, as the wildfires in Manitoba and across Canada are raising concerns and has many figures pointing to Climate Change as a major culprit, we resurrect an earlier interview pertaining to secret technology being used that not only affects forest fires, but also weather, earthquakes, hurricanes and even shockingly people! We will speak to the author of the Geoengineering trilogy and discuss the fourth book, “The Geoengineered TransHuman: The Hidden Technologies of HAARP, Chemtrails, 5G/6G, nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and the Scientific Effort to Transform Humanity.”

End Goal of Geoengineering - Control of the Earth, and All of Humanity

GOOD CALL

As a man who wears nail polish, life sometimes gets... interesting.

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© Ken Cumberlidge 23-04-2021
First published in “Fragmented Voices”, 01-10-2021


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Good Call

Toute l'actualité de l'Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) en langue française

KEN CUMBERLIDGE: POETRY
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"Honest, unflinching, emotionally intelligent and stunningly crafted." - Cathy Carson

Multiple slam-winner, finalist at Hammer & Tongue Cambridge 2018 and 2019, Ken Cumberlidge cut his performance teeth on the pub poetry scene of the 1970s.

Since 2011 Ken has been based in Norwich, but can be lured out of cover by good company and an open mic - a proclivity that has led him to become an habitué of the slam poetry/spoken word scene.

Ken writes about love, sex, nature, loss, identity and queerness, with an occasional foray into the eerie and macabre.  Poke him with a sharp enough stick and he may even wake up long enough to get shouty about politics.

His work has appeared widely in print and online (Algebra of Owls / Allegro / As Above So Below / Bi All Accounts / Bogg / The Fiction Pool / Fire&Dust Anthology / Fragmented Voices / Impspired / Ink, Sweat & Tears / Ludd's Mill / Message in a Bottle / The Open Mouse / Picaroon / Pulsar / Pure Slush / Rat's Ass Review / Runcible Spoon / SMOKE / Snakeskin / Songs of Eretz / Spilling Cocoa… / Strange Poetry / Talking Soup / Timber Ghost Press ...etc).

Headline/featured poet at numerous events/venues, including:

Allographic Open Mic
Beth Hartley "A Holding" book launch
Cambridge PRIDE
FenSpeak
Fire&Dust, Coventry
Hammer & Tongue, Cambridge
High St Poetry, Ely
Incite! LGBTQIA+ Spoken Word Cabaret
Last Poet Standing, Norwich
Oooh Beehive
Poetry at Jurnet's
Poetry Non-Stop podcast
St Andrews Festival, Cambridge
Sunday Night Lives at the Flying Pig
Vron McIntyre "Random Trail" book launch

A podcast about transitions, death, the ruptures of life in between.

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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