Daily Archives: August 15, 2021

2021-08-15: News Headlines

WSWS repost (2021-08-15). American educators speak out against school reopenings. indybay.org This report illustrates how some teachers are determined to fight back against the reckless subordination of human life to capitalist private profit.

Shatha Hammad (2021-08-15). Palestinians Fight for Right to Water, Survival in Jordan Valley. globalresearch.ca

United Health Professionals (2021-08-15). International Alert Message about COVID-19. United Health Professionals. globalresearch.ca We are more than 1,500 members (including professors of medicine, intensive care physicians and infectious disease specialists) from more than 30 countries. The lockdown has not only killed people, it has destroyed physical and mental health, economy, education and other aspects of social life.

Robert Reich (2021-08-15). How the System is Failing Young People. zcomm.org The reason a lot of young people are not doing nearly as well as their parents is that they're paying huge amounts for education, higher education or student debt, housing for rent, health care, even transportation…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-15). How a BLMLeader Started a 'Freedom School' Summer Program. zcomm.org Jasmine Richards views the education and empowerment of young Black and Brown children in her community to be just as important as fighting racist police brutality…

Pepe Escobar (2021-08-15). A Saigon Moment Looms in Kabul. globalresearch.ca

Sandipan Talukdar (2021-08-15). Abundance of oxygen may be linked to speed of Earth's rotation. peoplesdispatch.org Oxygen is a remarkable component of Earth's air — it is the component that fuels life. Oxygen on Earth has not always been abundant. About three million years ago, oxygen in the atmosphere and oceans was scarce. So, how did oxygen become abundant? This question has intrigued scientists for a long time, and they are still struggling to find a satisfactory explanation. | Recently, a research team proposed something new while explaining how oxygen became an abundant component in Earth's air. They hypothesized that there may be a link between how fast the Earth spins on its axis and the production of excess oxy…

Children's Health Defense (2021-08-15). 'Historic Win': CHD Wins Case Against FCC on Safety Guidelines for 5G and Wireless. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-15). øExiste el virus? øSe logró aislar el SARS-CoV-2? "El fraude más grande en la historia de la medicina" globalizacion.ca El infierno está vacío y los demonios están todos aquí , William Shakespeare , La tempestad, 1610-1611 | Introducción | Hay una secuencia de mentiras y fabricaciones descaradas que se utilizan para justificar decisiones políticas de gran alcance que en el transcurso…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Mayo Clinic Minute: Music on the brain. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Music soothes, energizes and inspires. It also fortifies pathways in your brain that neurologists say can lead to a better understanding of cognition and dementia. To help better understand how music strengthens the brain, Dr. Bernard Bendok, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, explains how music strikes a chord with researchers in this Mayo Clinic Minute. Note: Music composed by the musician and free to use. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/UrGabRHqWFs

Colin Todhunter (2021-08-15). Dystopian "Great Reset": "Own Nothing and Be Happy", Being Human in 2030. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on November 9, 2020 | The World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. …

David Skripac (2021-08-15). "Our Species is Being Genetically Modified": Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Analysis of the Microbiome and Virome. globalresearch.ca This year marks a turning point in human history. For the first time since human civilization began, our species is being genetically modified. Vaccine manufacturers have now made it possible for the human genome to be permanently altered —and humanity's relationship with nature forever changed.

John C. A. Manley (2021-08-15). Medical Doctor Warns that "Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise" from Mask Wearing. globalresearch.ca Important article by John C. A Manley. First published in October 2020 | "A group is suing Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart, saying the city's mask mandate is harmful to healthy people," reports

F. William Engdahl (2021-08-15). "The Great Reset" Is Here: Follow the Money. "Insane Lockdown" of the Global Economy, "The Green Agenda" globalresearch.ca The top-down reorganization of the world economy by a technocratic cabal led by the group around the Davos World Economic Forum— the so-called Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030— is no future proposal. It is well into actualization as the world remains in insane lockdown for a virus…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: It's like a Code Red hospital alert. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org An overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases is underway in the U.S. The delta variant continues to spread, the lambda variant is showing up, and some people are refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or wear face masks. "My message today is a hospital term and that's Code Red," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "It is Code Red in the U.S. and for the globe regarding…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Inspired by barnacles, medical glue stops bleeding in seconds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a rapid-sealing paste that can stop bleeding organs independent of clotting. The details are published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The inspiration for this paste? Barnacles. Barnacles are those sea animals that adhere to rocks, the bottom of ships and large fish with the aim of staying in place despite wet conditions and variable surfaces. They're successful because they exude…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Mayo researchers develop algorithm to predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Individualized Medicine and Division of Rheumatology have developed a first-of-its-kind machine learning algorithm that can predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in a patient. The algorithm analyzes biochemical metabolites ‚Äï the product of the body's metabolism ‚Äï in blood. Close up of rheumatism/arthritis medical examination. "Having fast, reliable and scalable measures for predicting the clinical course of disease activity is an important unmet need for patients with rheumatoid arthritis," says Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., a computational biologist within the Center…

Jonathan Cook (2021-08-15). Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires' Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream. globalresearch.ca

Colin Todhunter (2021-08-15). Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer, Same Old Playbook. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: How Mayo hopes to slam the door when COVID-19 comes knocking. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public awareness to vaccines and how vaccines work. A vaccine is any agent that causes the immune system to remember a specific disease-causing entity, thereby preventing future infections. In the case of COVID-19, that's a coronavirus. At Mayo Clinic, decades of research have led to development of a new vaccine platform — a single-cycle adenovirus nasal vaccine — that is now being tested in a phase 1 clinical trial for COVID-19….

Peter Koenig (2021-08-15). China vs. the WHO. "The Virus did not Originate in China". The WHO was an Initiative of the Rockefellers. globalresearch.ca Background | China …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-15). Science Saturday: A "sandbox" for innovation: The Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL) is a visionary space designed to continue Mayo Clinic's long tradition of pioneering patient treatments and diagnostics. The ADL's mission is to foster innovation — including grassroots innovation — across different specialties, through partnerships in-house as well as with external companies. Located on the third floor of One Discovery Square in a 9,600-square-foot space, the lab was born out of an initiative between Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) and the…

David Sirota (2021-08-15). WEEKEND READER: Calling Out Climate Denial. dailyposter.com | This week's Weekend Reader includes a look at the Democratic Party's climate denial, from President Joe Biden to former President Barack Obama, to Congress, who say they believe in science but keep backing continued fossil fuel development.As The New Republic writes, Democrats "don't dispute that the climate is changing, but they are absolutely in denial about what curbing it would entail." Biden and lawmakers need to start working to decarbonize the planet while we still have tim…

HEAT (2021-08-15). Monday 8/16: SF City College: Defend Health & Safety of CCSF Students, Faculty & Staff HEAT Action. indybay.org In front of Conlan Hall, Ocean Campus CCSF…

Labor Video Project (2021-08-15). Stop Privatization! Protest AT CCSF Board Pres Shanell Williams Summer Soirée. indybay.org A protest was held at a CCSF Board Pres. Shanell Williams Summer Soirée to retire her campaign debt for her campaign. Speakers said her role was to shut down campuses, lay off teachers and destroy programs.

James A. Lucas (2021-08-14). US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca Among Global Research's most popular 2020 articles | . | . | First published in November 2015 | . | . | . | . | . | GR Editor's Note | . | Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges …

scorinoco (2021-08-14). Eyewitness Venezuela: Digital Literacy Free to All Students. orinocotribune.com By Rachell Tucker — Aug 4, 2021 | As a teacher who has had to struggle alongside thousands of coworkers, students and parents during the pandemic with hybrid education, I was astounded by my visit to the Canaima computer factory that was created to fulfil the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez's dream of "one computer per child." | At the Bicentennial Congress of the People in Caracas hundreds of anti-imperialists worldwide convened to discuss the unity needed to defeat the brutal US sanctions Venezuela and many other countries are suffering under. The "sanctions," or unilateral coercive measures imposed by…

_____ (2021-08-14). Tribal Leaders React To Removal Of Native Americans in Curriculum. popularresistance.org Sioux Falls, S.D. — A draft of Social Studies content standards has been released by the Department of Education. The draft of standards released differ in some ways from the initial proposal, which was submitted by the Social Studies Standards Revision Workgroup, made up primarily of educators from across the state. | The main way that the standards appear to be altered in the removal of references to Native American culture and history. | Some examples of this are the removal of Kindergarten history standard K.H.6.1: 'Read or listen to Oceti Sakowin Oyate stories, such as Iktomi stories and historical lor…

Nanna Maalà∏e, Natasha Housseine, Tarek Meguid, Siri Tellier, Jos van Roosmalen, Dan W Meyrowitsch, Thomas van den Akker (2021-08-14). [Correspondence] Trends in population health and demography. thelancet.com Stein Vollset and colleagues forecasted that population increase in sub-Saharan Africa will continue until 2100. Consequently, three of the region's countries will join Nigeria among the ten most populous countries globally: DR Congo, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.1 Although we applaud the authors for including alternative scenarios based on change in educational attainment and access to contraception, the Article neglects safe childbirth as a co-driver of decreasing fertility rates.

Joachim Hagopian (2021-08-14). The Evils of Big Pharma Exposed. globalresearch.ca Originally published on Global Research in January 2015 | This article published six years ago, is of utmost relevance to the ongoing covid-19 crisis. What's wrong with America is what's wrong with Big Pharma. And what's wrong with Big …

Daily Mail (2021-08-14). UK Mainstream Media: "Fury over Public Health England's estimate is 'away with the fairies' and mathematically impossible" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-08-14). COVID-19 Vaccines are Killing "Huge Numbers" of People: Government Scrubs Stats on Vaccine-Related Deaths. globalresearch.ca First published on …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2021-08-14). No Jab for Me — And Here Are 35 Reasons Why. globalresearch.ca Fist published by …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-14). The "Killer Vaccine" Worldwide. 7.9 Billion People. globalresearch.ca The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized "vaccine passport". The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from the vaccine is overwhelming. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma.

Dr. Abbas Poorhashemi (2021-08-14). How the Covid-19 Crisis Affects Individual Rights and Freedoms. A New Crisis in International Law? globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on August 14, 2020 One of the direct impacts of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 is challenging human rights. The pandemic not only created and still creating health issues, economic challenges, political crises …

Geraldina Colotti (2021-08-14). Peru No Longer Wants to 'Wag Its Tail' in the Backyard of the US. orinocotribune.com By Geraldina Colotti — Aug 11, 2021 | In what stands out as the second progressive wave of this century for Latin America, Peru of rural teacher Pedro Castillo, who assumed the presidency on the bicentennial of independence, promises to do its part. The long and complicated wait for the ratification of the result and the aggressiveness of the conservative forces that support fujimorismo show, however, that it will not be easy for him to implement his projects. | The oligarchy and the large multinational interests, represented by the elites of the urban areas, have formed a ring around the Fuerza Popular part…

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