Daily Archives: July 17, 2022

2022-07-17: News Headlines

SLAP (2022-07-17). Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-17). Science Saturday: Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In January, as part of Mayo Clinic's Digital Pathology Program, the Division of Anatomic Pathology in Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, transitioned a significant portion of its clinical practice, including both surgical and biopsy cases, into digital workflows. The transition means all surgical — or frozen section — biopsy slides will be scanned into digital images prior to a pathologist's review. Historically, patient tissue has been evaluated by generating glass slides, applying stains, and evaluating…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-17). Brentuximab vedotin may improve overall survival in patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A study led by researchers from Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that the addition of brentuximab vedotin to standard chemotherapy treatment improves overall survival in patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma, when compared to the current standard of chemotherapy alone. Results of the research were presented by Stephen Ansell, M.D., Ph.D., at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO) in Chicago and were published today in the New England…

Norman Solomon (2022-07-17). Why Grassroots Democrats Have Turned Against Biden. zcomm.org The president's refusal to issue executive orders that could enact such popular measures as canceling student debt and many other policies has been part of a derelict approach as national crises deepen…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-07-17). What you need to know about the BA.5 omicron variant. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cases of COVID-19 are once again surging in the U.S., and the BA.5 omicron variant is fueling this latest wave, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, says the BA.5 variant is hypercontagious and is contributing to increases in hospitalizations and ICU admissions. A new study published in Nature found the variant was four times more resistant to messenger RNA vaccines than earlier strains of…

Shane Quinn (2022-07-16). Six Years on from Malaysia Airlines MH17 Destruction: A Clear Lack of Evidence that Moscow Was Behind It. globalresearch.ca The fighting that erupted in the east of Ukraine can be traced to a US-instituted coup d'état of February 2014 — confirmed by president Obama on CNN when he confided that Washington had "brokered a deal to transition power" in the country, forcing Viktor Yanukovych from office.

_____ (2022-07-16). Purchasing Power Of Workers' Wages Take Biggest Tumble In 40 Years. popularresistance.org San José, California – Real earnings, or workers' wages after adjusting for inflation, had their biggest drop in 40 years last month, as prices continued to rise faster than paychecks. Real average weekly earnings, which best reflect workers' paychecks after adjusting for changes in wages, prices and hours worked, fell 1% in June of 2022 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the last year, real average weekly earnings fell 3.9% as inflation outpaced pay raises and average weekly hours fell by almost an hour. | Prices paid by production and non-supervisory workers (the CPI-W) rose 9.7% as compared…

Editor (2022-07-16). Ralph Nader: Students, Campuses and Dominant Corporate Power. scheerpost.com A protest organized by students in Des Moines, Iowa ( By Ralph Nader / When it comes to corporate power and control over their lives, now and into the future, today's college students are perilously dormant. When it comes to putting pressure on Congress to counter the various dictates of corporatism, there is little activity other than some stalwarts contacting their lawmakers on climate violence. | Much of campus activity these…

Staff (2022-07-16). Biden's approval rating below 39%: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — News sources announced that US President Joe Biden's approval rating is now below 39%; the statistics come days after Biden has kicked off his West Asia tour.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-07-16). Ttra poco. In Italia le nuove bombe nucleari made in USA. globalresearch.ca "Inizia la produzione della bomba nucleare B61-12": lo annunciano dagli Stati Uniti i Sandia National Laboratories. La B61-12, che sostituisce la precedente B61 dislocata dagli USA ad Aviano e Ghedi e in altre basi europee, è un'arma di nuovo tipo. …

Mary Triny Mena (2022-07-16). Mule bookmobiles in Venezuela. america.cgtn.com Bibliomulas, a mobile library carried by mules began 12 years ago to fight illiteracy in Venezuela's most vulnerable communities. They're bringing education to rural communities.

Dr. Nicole Delépine (2022-07-16). The Incidence of Cancer, Triggered by the Covid 19 "Vaccine" globalresearch.ca Vaccinating cancer patients or former cancer patients may affect the mechanism of the gene injection on immunity. Several geneticists had expressed concerns about the possible interference between active or dormant cancer cells and the activity of gene therapy on lymphocytes in particular.

Contributing Writers (2022-07-16). The B61-12 Mini-nukes "Made in America" to be Used in "A Nuclear First Strike". Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands./ By Manlio Dinucci. marktaliano.net Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War. By Manlio Dinucci Global Research, July 15, 2022 ..]…

Allen L Roland (2022-07-16). Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America. globalresearch.ca We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-07-16). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.

WSWS (2022-07-16). Washington D.C. teachers, school system facing impasse three years after contract expiration. wsws.org Roughly 4,000 teachers in Washington D.C.'s public school system have been without a contract since 2019 and haven't been given a base pay increase in just as long.

____ (2022-07-16). Iran export to CA states, Caucasus, Russia 'upward trajectory. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Stating that Iran is among world's top 10 countries in science and technology terms, Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy said that exports to Central Asian, Caucasus, Russian and EU have considerably risen.

Contributing Writers (2022-07-16). Destroying the Narrative: 20 Reasons Why a COVID-19 Pandemic Never Existed/By Jesse Smith. marktaliano.net Part I By Jesse Smith Global Research, July 15, 2022 Truth Unmuted 19 September 2021 *** First published by GR on September 30, 2021 …

Hilary Humphreys (2022-07-16). [Correspondence] Payment and progress in peer review. thelancet.com Phaik Y Cheah and Jan Piasecki1 raise important issues about the peer review process arising from the assessment of Aczel and colleagues,2 including the under-representation of female reviewers and reviewers from low-income countries, and they suggest that payment for reviews should be trialled to address these issues. Traditionally, agreeing to review manuscripts and grant applications has been largely motivated by philanthropic motives to contribute to a key aspect of biomedical research and the pursuit of knowledge, ultimately offering a potential public benefit.

Kevin Funk (2022-07-16). What Chile Could Teach the US About Constitutions—and Democracy. commondreams.org Constitutions are the product of political debate and struggle, something that Chileans understand but U.S. liberals so often ignore.

Daniel Guinart, Victor Pérez-Sola, Benedikt Lorenz Amann (2022-07-16). [Correspondence] A fair day's wage for a fair day's work. thelancet.com We read with interest the discussion about compensation for scientific peer review.1 Voluntary peer review used to be the foundation of high-quality science. Peer review was based on an honour system, by which scientists would review the work of their peers for free, as part of their scientific duty, with the implicit assumption that someone else would do the same for them in the future. Although the system had flaws, including a limited number of scientific journals and insufficient access to science outside of academic circles, a certain balance was possible.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-07-15). New book to inspire next generation of engineers. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has partnered on a project to show the broad ranging possibilities of engineering in a new educational book.

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