Daily Archives: January 12, 2022

2022-01-12: News Headlines

from Dr. Ron Daniels (2022-01-12). Dr. Cheryl Grills Appointed to National Reparations Commission. indybay.org On the ground, in the streets of Sacramento County, seat of the Capitol of the Great State of California, "Racism" declared a Public Health Crisis by Sacramento County Supervisors. Slavery in California cloaked, authentic California History by people of African Descent distorted, discredited and being destroyed as Dr. Carter G. Woodson suggested in his seminal work, "Mis-Education of the Negro" – oftern it is darkest before the dawn.

WSWS (2022-01-12). Committee for Public Education (Australia) sends messages of solidarity to Chicago teachers. wsws.org "Your principled stand will undoubtedly save many American lives and is a beacon for all working people across the globe."

WSWS (2022-01-12). Committee for Public Education (Australia) sends messages of solidarity to Chicago teachers. wsws.org "Your principled stand will undoubtedly save many American lives and is a beacon for all working people across the globe."

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-12). Anachronistic Frivolity: Australia's Recent Tank Purchase. asia-pacificresearch.com

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-12). Anachronistic Frivolity: Australia's Recent Tank Purchase. asia-pacificresearch.com

Global Research News (2022-01-12). Selected Articles: What War with Russia Would Look Like. globalresearch.ca By The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It's just the …

Global Research News (2022-01-12). Selected Articles: What War with Russia Would Look Like. globalresearch.ca By The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It's just the …

Staff (2022-01-12). China builds artificial moon. rt.com The national research facility simulates the low-gravity environment on the Moon | China has built an artificial moon on Earth that simulates low-gravity conditions — the first of its kind. The facility is expected to play a key role in China's future lunar missions. | Speaking on Tuesday, scientist Li Ruilin, from the China University of Mining and Technology, said that the artificial moon project in eastern city of Xuzhou is expected to be officially launched in the coming months. | Li described the program as "first of its kind in the world" and said it takes lunar simulation to a completely new level…

Staff (2022-01-12). Natural disasters cost country $145bn. rt.com 2021 marked the third-costliest year on record for weather cataclysms in US | New research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showed that fire, floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters cost the United States $145 billion in losses last year while resulting in 688 deaths. | According to the "Disaster costs over the last five years exceed…

ecns.cn (2022-01-12). China's goal of engaging 300 million people in winter sports achieved: survey. ecns.cn Over 346 million Chinese people have participated in winter sports activities since Beijing's successful bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, according to statistics released on Wednesday by China's National Bureau of Statistics.

WSWS (2022-01-12). One thousand Oakland, California students plan strike in opposition to deadly school reopening. wsws.org High school students in Oakland are threatening to strike if school is not taken online, or conditions made safer.

WSWS (2022-01-12). "The teachers are with us, and we have their backs": 1,000 K-12 students in New York City walk out to protest unsafe reopening of schools. wsws.org The New York City walkout was organized by high school students at Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School, who formed the group "NYC Student Walkout for COVID Safety" to organize their fellow students.

WSWS (2022-01-12). "The teachers are with us, and we have their backs": One thousand K-12 students in New York City walk out to protest unsafe reopening of schools. wsws.org The New York City walkout was organized by high school students at Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School, who formed the group "NYC Student Walkout for COVID Safety" to organize their fellow students.

WSWS (2022-01-12). One thousand Oakland, California students plan strike in opposition to deadly school reopening. wsws.org High school students in Oakland are threatening to strike if school is not taken online, or conditions made safer.

WSWS (2022-01-12). The way forward for high school students in the fight against the pandemic and the reopening of schools. wsws.org In fighting against the unsafe reopening of schools, youth are fighting not only for their own health and safety, but for the community as a whole.

WSWS (2022-01-12). Amid record COVID infections, say no to Australian school reopenings! Educators, students, parents—join the fight for rank and file safety committees! wsws.org In this third year of the global pandemic, a rational and scientifically-based approach to the virus is more urgent than ever before.

WSWS (2022-01-12). Amid record COVID infections, say no to Australian school reopenings! Educators, students, parents—join the fight for rank and file safety committees! wsws.org In this third year of the global pandemic, a rational and scientifically-based approach to the virus is more urgent than ever before.

WSWS (2022-01-12). "The teachers are with us, and we have their backs": One thousand K-12 students in New York City walk out to protest unsafe reopening of schools. wsws.org The New York City walkout was organized by high school students at Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School, who formed the group "NYC Student Walkout for COVID Safety" to organize their fellow students.

WSWS (2022-01-12). The way forward for high school students in the fight against the pandemic and the reopening of schools. wsws.org In fighting against the unsafe reopening of schools, youth are fighting not only for their own health and safety, but for the community as a whole.

Shawgi Tell (2022-01-11). Poor Working Conditions Widespread in Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org About 3.5 million students currently attend roughly 7,400 privately-operated charter schools in the U.S. This represents around 7% of all students and 7% of all schools in the country. Unlike public schools, all charter schools are run by unelected individuals. Approximately 90% of these outsourced privatized schools have no teacher unions. The vast majority of …

Final Straw (2022-01-11). Final Straw: The Battle for Abortion and Reproductive Autonomy with Bay Ostrach. itsgoingdown.org Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast the Final Straw speaks with Bayla Ostrach on reproductive healthcare. This week on the show, we sat down with Bayla Ostrach, an activist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproductive healthcare. We speak about experiences researching and working on the issue in Catalunya, the battle…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-11). Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Versus the Australian Commonwealth. asia-pacificresearch.com

Wyllie AL, Premsrirut PK. (2022-01-11). Saliva RT-PCR Sensitivity Over the Course of SARS-COV-2 Infection. jamanetwork.com To the Editor In their Research Letter, Mr Congrave-Wilson and colleagues reported findings from the Household Exposure and Respiratory Virus Transmission and Immunity Study (HEARTS) comparing SARS-CoV-2 detection in symptomatic and asymptomatic populations. However, we have concerns that this study's conclusions about clinical diagnoses and the utility of each sample type were not robustly supported by the study design.

Pannaraj PS, Congrave-Wilson Z, Lee Y. (2022-01-11). Saliva RT-PCR Sensitivity Over the Course of SARS-COV-2 Infection—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In our Research Letter, we reported that saliva was more likely to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the 163 infected symptomatic individuals compared with 93 infected asymptomatic individuals based on nasopharyngeal swabs. This difference was most significant during the first 2 weeks of acute infection, with sensitivities of 88.2% vs 58.2% at week 1 and 83.0% vs 52.6% at week 2 (both P‚Äâ<‚Äâ.001).

Mâsse B, Robitaille N, Lacroix J. (2022-01-11). Duration of Anticoagulant Treatment for Acute Provoked Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Patients. jamanetwork.com A critical aspect of clinical care is determining when to start and when to stop a treatment. Clinicians and researchers have given more attention to the first decision because starting an intervention too late can be detrimental. For example, starting antibiotic therapy as soon as possible in critically ill patients with sepsis improves survival. Less attention has been paid to the question of when a treatment should be stopped. Prolonged antibiotic therapy increases the risk of antibiotic resistance in critically ill patients. The variation in time to antibiotic cessation in clinical practice is substantial. Ho…

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-01-11). Por qué las pruebas de Covid-19 se han convertido en una máquina de hacer dinero. El fraude de la prueba PCR. globalizacion.ca No hay duda de que el modelo de negocios de hoy está impulsado por una campaña de miedo cuando se trata de la estafa de Covid-19. La histeria del virus corona lleva a las personas que están muertas de miedo…

Moderator (2022-01-11). Oceans Hotter in 2021 Than Any Time in Recorded HistoryÔøº. scheerpost.com By Kenny Stancil / Common Dreams New research out Tuesday shows that the world's oceans last year were hotter than they've ever been in recorded history—part of a long-term warming trend driven primarily by planet-wrecking fossil fuel emissions. According to an annual study published in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, the past five years have been the five hottest for …

Editor (2022-01-11). Cuba shows an alternative to Big Pharma hegemony through global solidarity. mronline.org Cuba puts people before profits — showing the world an alternative to the monopolistic practices of Big Pharma. It promotes a public health system, state-funded research and shows global solidarity through tech transfer and vaccine delivery to developing countries.

Ernst Wolff (2022-01-11). Descubriendo la narrativa alrededor del coronavirus: øSe planeó todo cuidadosamente? Análisis de Ernst Wolff. globalizacion.ca ‚Å£‚Å£Explicación magnífica de una gran razón por la que el mundo se volvió psicótico corona. Conferencia de Ernst Wolff, reconocido economista y periodista alemán. Su enfoque está en el sistema financiero y monetario global, especialmente el papel del FMI, el…

Gérard Delépine (2022-01-11). High Recorded Mortality in Countries Categorized as "Covid-19 Vaccine Champions". The Vaccinated Suffer from Increased Risk of Mortality compared to the Non-vaccinated. globalresearch.ca This "health strategy" based on false simulations, lies, promises never kept, propaganda and the fear campaign has become unbearable. In turn it has been followed by the extortion of consent to be vaccinated, by outright blackmail.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-01-11). Por qué las pruebas de Covid-19 se han convertido en una máquina de hacer dinero. El fraude de la prueba PCR. globalizacion.ca No hay duda de que el modelo de negocios de hoy está impulsado por una campaña de miedo cuando se trata de la estafa de Covid-19. La histeria del virus corona lleva a las personas que están muertas de miedo…

Wolfgang Effenberger (2022-01-11). Encrucijada Peligrosa: El mundo al borde de la guerra øLa nueva guerra fría se pone caliente? globalizacion.ca Llamamos la atención de Global Research sobre este importante artículo (traducido del alemán, ediciones menores de GR) del renombrado autor y analista geopolítico Wolfgang Effenberger | *** | El viernes 3 de diciembre de 2021, la séptima ronda de las conversaciones mencionadas…

Wolfgang Effenberger (2022-01-11). Encrucijada Peligrosa: El mundo al borde de la guerra øLa nueva guerra fría se pone caliente? globalizacion.ca Llamamos la atención de Global Research sobre este importante artículo (traducido del alemán, ediciones menores de GR) del renombrado autor y analista geopolítico Wolfgang Effenberger | *** | El viernes 3 de diciembre de 2021, la séptima ronda de las conversaciones mencionadas…

Global Research News (2022-01-11). Selected Articles: High Recorded Mortality in Countries Categorized as "COVID-19 Vaccine Champions" globalresearch.ca By Sinc…

teleSUR (2022-01-11). World Ocean Heat Hits Record High In 2021. telesurenglish.net The year 2021 was the hottest for the world's oceans in recorded human history, according to a new study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by 23 researchers from China, the United States, and Italy. | RELATED: | They found that the upper 2,000 meters in all oceans last year absorbed a greater amount of heat than the previous record set just the year before, equal to 145 times world electrici…

Moderator (2022-01-11). Oceans Hotter in 2021 Than Any Time in Recorded HistoryÔøº. scheerpost.com By Kenny Stancil / Common Dreams New research out Tuesday shows that the world's oceans last year were hotter than they've ever been in recorded history—part of a long-term warming trend driven primarily by planet-wrecking fossil fuel emissions. According to an annual study published in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, the past five years have been the five hottest for …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-11). The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of "Positive Cases" are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis. globalresearch.ca One year later the WHO retracts. They don't say "We Made a Mistake". It's carefully formulated. While they do not officially deny the validity of their misleading January 2020 guidelines, they recommend RT-PCR "Re-testing" (which everybody knows is an impossibility).

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-01-11). Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Versus the Australian Commonwealth. asia-pacificresearch.com

Global Research News (2022-01-11). Selected Articles: High Recorded Mortality in Countries Categorized as "COVID-19 Vaccine Champions" globalresearch.ca By Sinc…

Ernst Wolff (2022-01-11). Descubriendo la narrativa alrededor del coronavirus: øSe planeó todo cuidadosamente? Análisis de Ernst Wolff. globalizacion.ca ‚Å£‚Å£Explicación magnífica de una gran razón por la que el mundo se volvió psicótico corona. Conferencia de Ernst Wolff, reconocido economista y periodista alemán. Su enfoque está en el sistema financiero y monetario global, especialmente el papel del FMI, el…

Manlio Dinucci (2022-01-11). Green pass nucleare: esce a maggio la Bomba per l'Italia. globalresearch.ca Fra quattro mesi, in maggio, inizia negli Usa la produzione su larga scala della nuova bomba nucleare B61-12: lo annuncia la U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (L'Amministrazione per la sicurezza nucleare nazionale, NNSA, facente parte del Dipartimento …

jamanetwork (2022-01-11). Important Contribution to Egyptian Medicine. jamanetwork.com One of the most important announcements made at the recent annual meeting of the American Historical Association at St. Louis is of special interest to physicians. Professor Breasted of the University of Chicago told of the recent discovery in this country, where it has been for a number of years without its value being recognized, of an Egyptian papyrus on medical science. This proves, indeed, on investigation to be one of the four most important medical documents from Egypt which the modern world has discovered. These four are the Ebers Papyrus of Leipzig, the Berlin Medical Papyrus, the Hearst Medical Papyrus,…

Niknam BA, Zubizarreta JR. (2022-01-11). Using Cardinality Matching to Design Balanced and Representative Samples for Observational Studies. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods discusses cardinality matching, a method for finding the largest possible number of matched pairs in an observational data set, with the goal of balanced and representative samples of study participants between groups.

WSWS (2022-01-11). Chicago Teachers Union attempts to ram through agreement to reopen schools as Omicron surges. wsws.org The deal reached with Chicago Public Schools and Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot would send over 300,000 students back into overcrowded, poorly-ventilated classrooms, setting the stage for a massive surge of infections.

Staff (2022-01-11). Presidential hopeful says no to 'politically correct propaganda' in schools. rt.com French far-right figure Eric Zemmour wants to rid schools of 'feminist, LGBT ideologies' | Eric Zemmour, who is running in the 2022 French presidential election, has vowed to stop the "brainwashing" of school students and focus on academic excellence instead. | "Over the past 40 years, our children have been indoctrinated," Zemmour, an essayist and a political pundit, said on Monday. | "Schools can't be a place where feminist, LGBT and decolonial ideologies brainwash our children." | "There's no prosperous nation without a school that transmits knowledge, and without a school that makes it possible to strive f…

Staff (2022-01-11). Ivy League schools acting like 'price-fixing cartel,' lawsuit says. rt.com Lawsuit alleges that 16 major US universities are 'conspiring' to limit financial assistance packages for needy students | Sixteen top US universities, including a number of prestigious Ivy League schools, have been accused of violating antitrust laws by working together to decide how much financial help should be awarded to prospective students. | The

WSWS (2022-01-11). Vote "No" on the CTU-CPS deal to reopen infected schools and spread COVID-19! Educators must launch a walkout now to save lives! wsws.org The move by the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union to end the remote work action is an utter surrender to Mayor Lightfoot and the homicidal campaign by the Biden administration to send educators and students back into infected schools.

WSWS (2022-01-11). More than half a million children infected with COVID-19 in the US last week, shattering previous records. wsws.org Educators and students across the US are fighting for remote instruction as the Omicron surge leads to record infections and thousand of school closures.

People's Dispatch (2022-01-11). Chile: Boric victory hailed across the globe. greenleft.org.au Former student leader Gabriel Boric, from the left-wing Approve Dignity coalition, won Chile's presidential election in December with 55.87% of the vote, reports People's Dispatch.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-01-11). Israeli raid of Birzeit University met with sharp condemnation. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli forces did not specify the reason for storming the university campus apart from saying that its forces shot a "wanted Palestinian". Three out of five students abducted by the Israeli security forces from the university were later released.

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