Daily Archives: April 22, 2021

2021-04-22: News Headlines

South Front (2021-04-22). Video: Towards All Out War? Worldwide Chaos Just a Step Away in Eastern Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Preparations for open conflict in Ukraine are ongoing as a sense …

Paul Antonopoulos (2021-04-22). Prague's Call for EU "Solidarity Expulsions" Against Russian Diplomats Falls on Deaf Ears. globalresearch.ca The U.S. failed to impose new sanctions on Russia and expel …

Paul Antonopoulos (2021-04-22). Zelensky's Failure to Secure Support in Paris Demonstrates Ukraine's Isolation from Europe. globalresearch.ca Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to his country after a failed …

Harriet Alexander (2021-04-22). Pentagon Scientists Reveal a Microchip that Senses COVID-19 in Your Body before You Show Symptoms and a Filter that Extracts the Virus from Blood. globalresearch.ca Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the …

Dorothy Cummings McLean (2021-04-22). Yale Public Health Professor Suggests 60% of New COVID-19 Patients Have Received Vaccine. globalresearch.ca An American Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University revealed that the …

Jesper D. Gunst, Nina B. Staerke, Marie H. Pahus, Lena H. Kristensen, Jacob Bodilsen, Nicolai Lohse, Lars S. Dalgaard, Dorthe Brà∏nnum, Ole Frà∂bert, Bo Hà∏nge, Isik S. Johansen, Ida Monrad, Christian Erikstrup, Regitze Rosendal, Emil Vilstrup, Theis Mariager, Dorthe G. Bove, Rasmus Offersen, Shakil Shakar, Sara Cajander, Nis P. Jà∏rgensen, Sajitha S. Sritharan, Peter Breining, Sà∏ren Jespersen, Klaus L. Mortensen, Mads L. Jensen, Lilian Kolte, Giacomo S. Frattari, Carsten S. Larsen, Merete Storgaard, Lars P. Nielsen, Martin Tolstrup, Eva A. Sà¶dder, Lars J. àòstergaard, Hien T.T. Ngo, Morten H. Jensen, Jesper F. Hà∏jen, Mads Kjolby, Ole S. Sà∏gaard (2021-04-22). [Research Paper] Efficacy of the TMPRSS2 inhibitor camostat mesilate in patients hospitalized with Covid-19-a double-blind randomized controlled trial. thelancet.com Under this protocol, camostat mesilate treatment was not associated with increased adverse events during hospitalization for Covid-19 and did not affect time to clinical improvement, progression to ICU admission or mortality.

Staff (2021-04-22). To Survive Next Pandemic, We Must Not Forget COVID Like We Forgot the 1918 Flu. truthout.org The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels like left me all the more grateful for my good fortune in avoiding the real thing and for being alive at a time when science had devised a 95% effective vaccine in record time. | To distract myself from the fever as I tried to sleep, I visualized strands of synthetic messenger RNA floating into my cells to produce the alien spike protein that attracted my warrior T-cells. I drift…

ecns.cn (2021-04-22). Research team member expresses surprise, consternation over WHO director's remarks. ecns.cn A scientist who took part in the international team studying the origins of COVID-19 has expressed surprise and dissatisfaction at remarks made by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom over the hypothesis the virus leaked from a laboratory in China.

The Canary (2021-04-22). Student leaders call on competition watchdog to take action over fee refunds. thecanary.co A group of students' unions have written to the competition watchdog, urging it to "take action to uphold students' rights" over tuition fees and rent payments amid the pandemic. | The open letter, backed by student leaders at 19 universities across the UK, calls on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to help students asking for blanket fee refunds as a result of Covid-19 disruption. | It urges the regulator to address the "broken" complaints process for students claiming refunds, and help advise students on their ability to withhold fee payments "if they have lost out" due to the pandemic. | The letter,…

Steve Early (2021-04-22). Why is AFL-CIO So Worried About Its Vermont Affiliate? counterpunch.org Two years ago, a group of local union activists launched a reform campaign, called "Vermont AFL-CIO United!." They were frustrated with their own labor council's lack of militancy and creativity, plus its inability to aid new organizing, contract campaigns, or strikes. In a rare contested election, the Vermont reformers called for greater rank-and-file activism, within AFL-CIO affiliated unions and other Vermont labor organizations which represent state employees and teachers.

Jonathan Cook (2021-04-22). In Our Hurry to Conquer Nature and Death, We Have Made a New Religion of Science. counterpunch.org Science has sought to shrink the realm of the inexplicable. We now understand — at least approximately — the laws of nature that govern the weather and catastrophic events like an earthquake. Telescopes and rocket-ships have also allowed us to probe deeper into the heavens to make a little more sense of the universe outside our tiny corner of it.

Stephen Lendman (2021-04-22). Fake News Reports. is Russia Preparing to Invade Ukraine? Zelensky Ready for War? globalresearch.ca When major media operate exclusively as press agents for wealth, power, …

Stephen Lendman (2021-04-22). Face Masks Don't Protect and Risk Serious Harm to Health. Stanford Study. globalresearch.ca US-dominated Western governments lie and otherwise mass deceive their people on …

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-04-22). Afghanistan: US Exit Is with Caveats. globalresearch.ca The United States and NATO are yet to begin the withdrawal …

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-04-22). Mitbàºrger, wollt Ihr einen Killer-‚ÄûImpfstoff" finanzieren und euch damit ‚Äûimpfen" lassen? Reicht mir den Schierlingsbecher! globalresearch.ca Nachdem meine Ehefrau den aufràºttelnden Artikel von Prof. Chossudovsky

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-04-22). Fellow Citizens, Do You Want to Finance a Killer "Vaccine" and be "Inoculated" with It? Pass Me the Cup of Hemlock! globalresearch.ca After my wife carefully read Prof. Chossudovsky's startling article

_____ (2021-04-22). Paulo Freire's Brazil: 'Return To Grassroots Popular Education'. popularresistance.org In my case, I spent four years in prison, two with political prisoners and two with ordinary prisoners. With the common prisoners, we experimented with popular education through theater, reading circles, crafts and painting. At the time, we were already inspired by the methodology devised by Paulo Freire. Next September will mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, and it is only right to recall how popular education, which he introduced, still has the potential to make the oppressed into social and political protagonists. I believe that it is also thanks to Paulo Freire that, in an elitist country like Brazil, w…

Dean Baker (2021-04-22). Biden's Education Proposals Sets Off Washington Post Orgy of Really Big Numbers. cepr.net In an article that ran under the headline "Biden's mammoth education agenda would the federal role from cradle to college," the Washington Post spewed a whole set of budget numbers with literally no context whatsoever, not even giving the number of years over which the money would be spent. For example, the piece told readers …

WSWS repost (2021-04-22). SEIU calls off Sacramento school strike at last minute, allowing all schools to reopen. indybay.org With less than two months left in the school year, scrapping the current distance learning plans and building new hybrid education models and work schedules from scratch is disastrous for public health, academics and family life. Over 90 percent of the union's members had authorized the strike, demanding greater personal protective equipment (PPE) and accommodations for workers with young children at home.

Dr. Jonathan Latham (2021-04-22). Agriculture's Greatest Myth. globalresearch.ca Sustainable, local, organic food grown on small farms has a tremendous …

Steven Sahiounie (2021-04-22). Syrian Election Amid Terrorism and the US Occupation. globalresearch.ca On April 19, the

Dr. Ingvild Bode (2021-04-22). Worried About the Autonomous Weapons of the Future? Look at What's Already Gone Wrong. globalresearch.ca To the casual observer, the words "military AI" have a certain …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-04-22). Guilty on All Charges: Chauvin, Cops and the Racist System. globalresearch.ca Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three …

Sustainability Times (2021-04-22). On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year. juancole.com ( Sustainability Times) — Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London in the United States, estimate in a new study that exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from fossil fuel emissions resulted in nearly one in five …

Makia Freeman (2021-04-22). Vaccine Passports: One Passport to Rule Them All. globalresearch.ca Vaccine passports are a major goal of those orchestrating Operation Coronavirus, …

Robert Wheeler (2021-04-22). Still Believe Digital Vaccine Passports Are Something Made Up by Conspiracy Theorists? globalresearch.ca In my past articles I wrote about

Eric Zuesse (2021-04-22). Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down from Provoking World War III. globalresearch.ca The stooge-President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appears to be trapped …

Justin Catanoso (2021-04-22). With British Columbia's Last Old-growth at Risk, Government Falters: Critics. globalresearch.ca For old-growth forest advocates in British Columbia last year, it sounded …

Eurasia Review (2021-04-22). California's Worst Wildfires Are Helping Improve Air Quality Prediction. eurasiareview.com UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to estimate the impact of California's destructive wildfires on air quality in neighborhoods affected by the smoke from these fires. Their research, funded by NASA and the results published in Atmospheric Pollution Research, fills in the gaps in current methods by providing air quality information at the neighborhood scales required by public health officials to make health assessments and evacuation recommendations. | Measurements of air quality depend largely on ground-based sensors that are typically spaced many miles apart. Determining how healthy it is to brea…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-22). Age At Menopause Can Be Assessed Using Predictive Modeling. eurasiareview.com The age at menopause is known to vary significantly between individuals and it has been associated with postmenopausal health. In a recent study, the researchers developed two models for predicting the age at natural menopause. The results of the study indicated that sex hormone levels, irregular menstrual cycles, menopausal symptoms, and life habits can be used for predicting the age at menopause. | The natural menopause occurs when the menstrual periods cease due to the naturally decreased ovary function. There is a significant interindividual variation in the age at natural menopause but, on average, women…

Andy Kroll (2021-04-22). The Great Forgetting. tomdispatch.com The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels like left me all the more grateful for my good fortune in avoiding the real thing and for being alive at a time when science had devised a 95% effective vaccine in record time. To distract myself from the fever as I tried to sleep, I visualized strands of synthetic messenger RNA floating into my cells to produce the alien spike protein that attracted my warrior T-cells. I drifted off envisioning an epic micro-battle underway in my blood and had a series of weird nightmares. At about two a.m., I woke u…

Eurasia Review (2021-04-22). NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen From Red Planet. eurasiareview.com The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task. The test took place April 20, the 60th Martian day, or sol, since the mission landed Feb. 18. | While the technology demonstration is just getting started, it could pave the way for science fiction to become science fact — isolating and storing oxygen on Mars…

_____ (2021-04-22). Ohio Students Sit-in To Demand University Cut Ties With Police. popularresistance.org Students at Ohio State staged a sit-in protest and demanded that the university cut ties with Columbus Police in the wake of the killing of Ma'Khia Bryant. | The protest took place one day after a police officer shot and killed the 16-year-old girl in the city, just as the verdict in the George Floyd trial was reached. | Students staged their Wednesday protest in the Ohio Union before taking to the streets to march. | Some carried signs with the victim's name, along with phrases like "say her name", while another student had a sign that said, "Being Black shouldn't be a death sentence." | "Ohio State supports the…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-04-22). Haiti: Teachers and students protest against increasing violence and insecurity in MoàØse regime. peoplesdispatch.org School teachers across Haiti are on a national strike from April 19 to April 23 against the rampant insecurity and violence in the country…

imperial.ac.uk (2021-04-22). Imperial student and alumnus join Fellowship aiming to transform venture capital. imperial.ac.uk Rohan Khanna and Ahmed Deyab have been selected from thousands of applicants for a Fellowship seeking to diversify the venture capital industry.

Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, Catherine McGowan (2021-04-22). Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students' Data. thenation.com Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, Catherine McGowan Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students' Data…

Ed Rampell (2021-04-21). Greta Thunberg's Quest to 'Listen to the Science'. progressive.org This stirring series about the Swedish campaigner against global warming is guaranteed to raise your temperature.

Zero Hedge (2021-04-21). European Drug Regulator Slaps Safety Warning on J&J Jab Due to Blood-Clot Links. globalresearch.ca While Europe grapples with its own vaccine safety scandal, the EMA, …

WSWS (2021-04-21). Texas withholds federal aid from public schools. wsws.org The Texas state government is refusing to disburse $17.9 billion of $19 billion in federal money intended for public education under the recently-passed COVID-19 stimulus bill.

Business Wire (2021-04-21). Clinical Trial Confirms Breakthrough Treatment for COVID-19. globalresearch.ca Patients with a self-administered nasal spray application found to have reduced …

teleSUR (2021-04-21). Zimbabwe: Gov't Intensifies COVID-19 Measures in Schools. telesurenglish.net The Zimbabwean government is intensifying enforcement of COVID-19 standard operating procedures in all schools following the outbreak of the pandemic at some boarding schools in the country, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said Wednesday. | RELATED: | Addressing a post-cabinet media briefing, the information minister said 145 students at a boarding school in Manicaland Province and another 91 learners at a boar…

VINS (2021-04-21). COVID-19 Exposes Extent of Student Debt Crisis. projectcensored.org In August 2020, Politico's Bianca Quilantan reported on how COVID-19 has affected colleges and universities across the US. According to the article, the pandemic forced many schools to close their…

WSWS (2021-04-21). Quebec teacher unions hold phony 90-minute strike to dissipate rank-and-file anger. wsws.org The strike was a diversionary tactic aimed at bolstering the unions' credibility among teachers, while they conspire with the CAQ government to keep schools open amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic and impose sellout agreements.

Children's Health Defense (2021-04-21). Herpes Infection Possibly Linked to COVID Vaccine, Study Says + More. globalresearch.ca Herpes Infection Possibly Linked to COVID-19 Vaccine, Study Says |

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-04-21). Pregnant Women Should Not Get a COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca By injecting pregnant women with novel COVID-19 mRNA gene technologies, the …

Tim Whitehouse (2021-04-21). Reversing Scientific Integrity's Race to the Bottom. commondreams.org From COVID-19 to climate change, and toxic chemicals to endangered species, the health of this nation and our ecosystem depends on scientists being able to "think, research, and speak freely" in both Democratic and Republican administrations. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-04-21). 20,000 people to receive COVIran Barakat vaccine next week. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) — The main researcher working on producing anti-Covid-19 vaccine dubbed COVIran Barakat said Wednesday that as many as 20,000 will start receiving the Iranian-made vaccine starting from next week.

Eurasia Review (2021-04-21). Simple Oral Hygiene Could Help Reduce COVID-19 Severity. eurasiareview.com COVID-19 could pass into people's lungs from saliva with the virus moving directly from mouth to bloodstream – particularly if individuals are suffering from gum disease, according to new research. | Evidence shows that blood vessels of the lungs, rather than airways, are affected initially in COVID-19 lung disease with high concentrations of the virus in saliva and periodontitis associated with increased risk of death. | The researchers propose that dental plaque accumulation and periodontal inflammation further intensify the likelihood of the SARS-CoV-2 virus reaching the lungs and causing more severe cases…

Juan Cole (2021-04-21). Systemic Racism won't End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a family to donate to political campaigns, to ensure a good education for their children, and to join influential civic clubs and organizations. The Center for American Progress reports that in 2019, before the distortions …

Global Research News (2021-04-21). Selected Articles: The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing. globalresearch.ca By These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry, but they don't work…

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