Daily Archives: August 16, 2022

2022-08-16: News Headlines

James Patrick Jordan (2022-08-16). While Claiming to Defend Freedom Around the World, the U.S. Has Dozens of Political Prisoners—and the Majority are People of Color. globalresearch.ca

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-08-16). African seed fund for research and education launched by Imperial. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has launched a wide-ranging new seed fund for research and education projects with partners in Africa.

T.J. Coles (2022-08-16). How Britain Fueled Ukraine's War Machine and Invited Direct Conflict with Russia. globalresearch.ca

Pablo Dominguez (2022-08-16). Video: Sinjajevina, A Plateau in the Mountains of Montenegro which has become a Military Base for NATO. globalresearch.ca

Farooque Chowdhury (2022-08-16). Nuclear War Will Eliminate More Than 5 Billion People — Oppose War. globalresearch.ca

Stephen Sefton (2022-08-16). The Psychological Warfare Apparatus Creates False Beliefs. globalresearch.ca

Jessica Corbett (2022-08-16). Anti-War Veterans Group Asks Biden to 'Read Our Nuclear Posture Review Before Releasing Yours'. globalresearch.ca

Matthew Ehret-Kump (2022-08-16). Russia in Africa: Connecting Continents with Soft Power. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2022-08-16). Zur Aktualità§t des franzà∂sischen Philosophen-Schriftstellers und Existentialisten atheistischer Prà§gung Albert Camus. globalresearch.ca

Kevin Gosztola (2022-08-16). CIA, Pompeo Sued for Allegedly Spying on US Attorneys and Journalists Who Met with Assange. globalresearch.ca

Philip Giraldi (2022-08-16). Washington's Assassination Bureau. What Exactly Did Ayman al-Zawahiri Do? globalresearch.ca

Lokesh Choudhary (2022-08-16). Semiconductor Crisis: China-Taiwan Standoff Might Increase Global Chip Shortage. globalresearch.ca

William Van Wagenen (2022-08-16). Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support? globalresearch.ca

Rep. Ron Paul (2022-08-16). Supersized Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Will Shrink Liberty. globalresearch.ca

Threadsirish (2022-08-16). Have You Any Idea How Your Carbon Footprint and Your Carbon Wallet Are Really Going to Work in this Dystopian World the WEF Have Planned? globalresearch.ca

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-08-16). The Failings of Westminster: Australia's Former PM Scott Morrison's "Shadow Government" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Charles Hoffe (2022-08-16). Video: Biggest Disaster in Medical History. globalresearch.ca

Christian Beer (2022-08-16). Video: The Impact of the Corona Crisis on Businesses, Insolvency of the Manufacturing Sector. Christian Beer and Alex Turck. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Emanuel Garcia (2022-08-16). Video: "The Psychiatry of COVID-19". A Conversation with Dr. Emanuel Garcia. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2022-08-16). The Absurdity of the World — and the Meaning of Life. Albert Camus. globalresearch.ca

Layne Hartsell (2022-08-16). Korea as Commons. Where is the Peninsula heading in the Political, Economic and Cultural Senses. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-08-16). The Failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison's Shadow Government. globalresearch.ca

Aaron Boxerman (2022-08-16). Losing Battle with IDF, Palestinians in Firing Zone Face Largest Expulsion Since '67. globalresearch.ca

Jordan Schachtel (2022-08-16). One Year Later: How the Biden Admin, Big Tech, and Pfizer Fooled Americans into Taking "FDA Approved" COVID Vaccines that Never Actually Existed. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2022-08-16). Offener Brief an den Schweizer Bundesrat: Digitale Identità§t — Absolute und totale Kontrolle àºber den QR Code. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-08-16). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org BC government workers began a series of limited strikes over contract issues while Argentine teachers held a two-day strike last week in defense of jailed union leader.

The Expose (2022-08-16). PfizerGate: Official Government Reports prove Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Dying Every Single Week Due to COVID-19 Vaccination. globalresearch.ca

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-08-16). Imperial addiction researchers showcase work to improve treatments & reduce harm. imperial.ac.uk Dame Professor Carol Black, who led the government's independent review on drugs, visited the Division of Psychiatry's addiction research group.

Mary Merkenich (2022-08-16). What must be done to save public education. greenleft.org.au The crisis in public education will not be solved by pitting teachers against each other or by outsourcing responsibility for graduates' jobs. Mary Merkenich argues for greater funding for smaller classes and more teachers on fair wages.

____ (2022-08-16). Tianjin Customs issues 2,239 RECP certificates of origin in first seven months. ecns.cn North China's Tianjin Customs has issued a total of 2,230 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) certificates of origin from January to July this year. The certificates involved exports worth 905 million yuan ($1.33million), according to statistics from Tianjin Customs.

WSWS (2022-08-16). Students and teacher support zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org The WSWS continues to receive statements in defence of Dr Berger, an Australian physician and zero-COVID advocate.

Jamanetwork (2022-08-16). Medical Education—Progress of Twenty-Two Years. jamanetwork.com This week, for the twenty-second consecutive year, The Journal publishes statistics regarding medical education in the United States. During these years, medical education in this country has undergone extensive improvement, and educational standards have been brought to a reasonably high plane.

Global Research News (2022-08-16). Selected Articles: Worldwide Monkeypox Health Emergency (PHEIC): For Bill Gates, It's "Moneypox": Simulation of Fictitious Monkeypox Virus Pandemic in March 2021, Goes Live in May 2022. globalresearch.ca By Selected Articles: Worldwid…

WorkWeek (2022-08-16). WorkWeek: Fight Against Attack On Parker Liberation School, CCSF Parcel Tax & UAW Ranks. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the Fight Against Attack On Parker Liberation School & Regressive CCSF Parcel Tax For SF Community College Rank & File At UAW 2022 Convention Delegates Push Against Two Tier & For Democracy | CCSF HEAT On What's wrong with the City College of San Francisco Parcel Tax Initiative | drive.google.com/file/d/143rJV_ylQblMiq_… | Summary: | CCSF Higher Education Action Team (HEAT) welcomes more money for public education, but the San Francisco Workforce Education and Reinvestment in the Community Success Act (SF WERCS) initiative is not the way to support City College of San…

Jamanetwork (2022-08-16). Periviable Birth, Race, and Neonatal Resuscitation. jamanetwork.com This cross-sectional descriptive study uses National Center for Health Statistics natality data to assess whether the frequency of active treatment among live-born US neonates in the periviable period (22 weeks 0 days to 25 weeks 6 days' gestation) changed from 2014 to 2020 and whether active treatment differed by gestational age at birth and race and ethnicity.

WSWS (2022-08-16). Mobilize the working class in defence of public education and to stop the pandemic! Build the Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee! wsws.org Our committee aims to unite all education workers on a program of political class struggle against years of funding cuts enforced by Liberal and Conservative governments alike, wage cuts, and the abandonment of any effort to stop the spread of the deadly pandemic.

____ (2022-08-16). Central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau once a global floristic exchange hub: study. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have revealed that the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was a globally significant hub for floristic exchange tens of millions of years ago.

W.J. Astore (2022-08-15). The Ukrainian Boondoggle as a Black Hole. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-08-15). A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (20 Aug 1896 — 14 Nov 1977). transcend.org Swami Prabhupada was a spiritual teacher (guru) and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the "Hare Krishna Movement". Over half a billion books authored by him were distributed since 1965. He has been described as a charismatic leader with followers scattered throughout the world.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-15). Worldwide Monkeypox Health Emergency (PHEIC): For Bill Gates, It's "Moneypox": Simulation of Fictitious Monkeypox Virus Pandemic in March 2021, Goes Live in May 2022. globalresearch.ca

Mark J. Valencia (2022-08-15). US Warns of South China Sea 'Provocations' — But Who Is Provoking Whom? globalresearch.ca

Michael Welch (2022-08-15). Count-Down to Apocalypse: Are the US and Russia Finally on Course toward World War III? globalresearch.ca

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-08-15). Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity Pleads With Nina Turner And Democrats To Stop Faulty Debt Cancellation Math On Wealth Gap. moguldom.com Renowned, award-winning reparations scholar William "Sandy" Darity is not happy with former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner touting statistics that say canceling $ ,000 in student loan debt will help close the racial wealth gap. And he directly told her so on Twitter. "Canceling just $ ,000 of student debt per person would immediately increase Black Americans' …

Staff (2022-08-15). Iran students bag 3 medals at 34th Olympiad in Informatics. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) — High school students from Iran scooped three awards and a diploma of honor at the 34th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) underway in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-15). White House Says US to Conduct 'Air and Maritime Transits' in the Taiwan Strait. globalresearch.ca

David Hearst (2022-08-15). 'A Dangerous Message': How the West Is Enabling Israel's Orgy of Violence Against Palestinians. globalresearch.ca

Center For Economic, Policy Research (2022-08-15). Over 70 Economists Call for Biden Administration to Return Afghanistan's Central Bank Reserves. globalresearch.ca

Joseph Summers (2022-08-15). 17 Republican Governors Ask Biden to Drop COVID Jab Mandate for Foreign Travelers. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2022-08-15). Coordination of Censorship: United Nations Penalizes Criticisms Against Elitist Takeover. globalresearch.ca

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Hind Khoudary (2022-08-15). Social Media Giant Meta Carries Out 'Digital Massacre' of Palestinian Posts. globalresearch.ca

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Dr. Joseph Mercola (2022-08-15). How the Global Takeover Mirrors the Hijacking of Medicine. globalresearch.ca

Emily Mangiaracina (2022-08-15). World Economic Forum Adviser Claims the Planet No Longer Needs the 'Vast Majority' of the Population. globalresearch.ca

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-08-15). Inside The Move Of Hip-Hop President Walter Kimbrough From HBCU Dillard University To Morehouse. moguldom.com Former Dillard University President Dr. Walter Kimbrough has taken his talents to Morehouse. The self-proclaimed Hip-Hop President is now the interim Executive Director of Morehouse College's new Black Men's Research Institute (BMRI). Morehouse announced Kimbrough's appointment to lead the institute in a press release. In the release, Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse's Provost and Senior Vice President …

Paul Joseph Watson (2022-08-15). World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and AI Intel to Censor 'Hate Speech' & 'Misinformation'. globalresearch.ca

Judy Greenspan (2022-08-15). Teachers and community organize to fight retaliation and violence by the Oakland School District. workers.org Oakland, California The new school year in the Oakland Unified School District began on a seriously sour and disturbing note: a physical attack on people protesting a school closure and the retaliatory firings of teachers. A student-led demonstration in spring of 2022 opposing Oakland school closures. WW Photo: Judy Greenspan . . . |

____ (2022-08-15). China's surveyed urban unemployment rate continues to drop in July. ecns.cn China's surveyed urban unemployment rate continued to drop in July, down from 5.5 percent in June to stand at 5.4 percent last month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-15). Mayo Clinic Minute: Can your child hear the teacher? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Checking your child's hearing should be on your back-to-school list. Dr. Kelly Conroy, a Mayo Clinic audiologist, says children with an undiagnosed hearing issue can face both academic and social struggles. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/fyq4YhJ4YsE Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 00) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. You know your child can see the video board, but what if he can't hear the…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-15). Science Saturday: Addressing the challenges of chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) — a type of immunotherapy that reprograms a patient's T cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells — has revolutionized the treatment of blood cancers. While the technique has successfully sent patients with advanced disease into remission, it is far from perfect. CAR-T cell therapy has three main problems that Mayo is seeking to address to bring the full potential of this promising treatment to patients, says Saad Kenderian,…

____ (2022-08-15). Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning. transcend.org "A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn't see the butterfly which flies out of it." "How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-15). Preeclampsia linked to increased markers of brain cell damage, inflammation. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure and kidney damage. Mayo Clinic researchers found that women with a history of severe preeclampsia have more markers linked to brain cell damage and inflammation, compared to women who had uncomplicated pregnancies. The findings are being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in San Diego. Preeclampsia affects up to 15% of women. Left untreated, preeclampsia can lead to serious,…

Lynn Parramore (2022-08-15). United States of Death? Study Shows Worrying Mortality Rates of Broken Health System. commondreams.org Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic—and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-15). Monkeypox has been declared a public health emergency in the US: What's that mean? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Biden administration has declared monkeypox a public health emergency. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been over 6,600 confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S., with all but two states, Montana and Wyoming, reporting at least one. Dr. Richard Kennedy, co-director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, explains what the declaration means. "The declaration allows more flexibility to the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the…

____ (2022-08-15). China's fixed-asset investment expands 5.7 pct in first 7 months. ecns.cn China's fixed-asset investment went up 5.7 percent year on year in the first seven months of this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.

____ (2022-08-15). MIT App: Improve the News. transcend.org Aug 2022 – Based in part on the SPR Media Navigator, an MIT research group has developed an online app called Improve the News that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the "political bias" and the "establishment bias" of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm confirmed that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.

Staff (2022-08-14). Cuba advanced to the grand final of the XV Gatineau Volleyball Pan American Cup 2022. en.cubadebate.cu The Cuban men's team swept the Chilean team for the second time and advanced to the grand final of the XV Gatineau Volleyball Pan American Cup 2022, which takes place at the Slush Puppie Center, in Canada. In just one hour and eight minutes, the Antilleans sealed the commitment of the semifinal round against the South Americans, with partials of 25-16, 25-20 and 25-21. Thus they added their fourth success in a row and in the same way. Nicolás Vives's students had no setbacks against a team.

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