Daily Archives: October 9, 2022

2022-10-09: News Headlines

____ (2022-10-09). China launches observatory to unveil mysteries of Sun. ecns.cn China launched a satellite dedicated to research into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Sunday, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

____ (2022-10-09). China's tallest tree reaches 83.4 meters. ecns.cn A Chinese research team on Sunday announced that China's tallest tree, a Abies ernestii var. salouenensis in Zayu County, Tibet Autonomous Region, broke a previous record to set a new high with 83.4 meters, about the height of a 28-story building.

____ (2022-10-09). Macao science workers actively join payload specialist selection for manned space program. ecns.cn Science workers in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) have responded actively to payload specialist selection for the country's manned space program.

____ (2022-10-09). New spider genus discovered in China. ecns.cn A research team from Jinggangshan University discovered the Iban spider, a new spider genus, in east China's Jiangxi Province, marking the second time this genus had been found in the world, the university said Saturday.

____ (2022-10-09). Scholar finds U.S. history textbooks teach racism since 1832: Time. ecns.cn A scholar has found that history textbooks in the United States traditionally came to focus on the experiences of white Americans and downplay the experiences of Black Americans, the Time magazine has reported.

Nick Thorkelson, Jim O'Brien (2022-10-09). Underhanded History of the USA. indybay.org From Grade 5, many schools are becoming binary and anti-racist. | "Attitude instead of Education" is by Willy Meyer.

Chris Menahan (2022-10-08). U.S. Buying $290M Worth of "Anti-Radiation Drugs" for Use in 'Nuclear Emergency'. "Billions in high-tech Weaponry to Ukraine to Strike inside Russia" globalresearch.ca

Paul Fitzgerald (2022-10-08). Zbigniew Brzezinski: Drawing the Russians into the Afghan Trap… globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-10-08). (Red Star over China in the New Era) Lu Yajuan: The gap between China and the West is narrowing. ecns.cn Lu Yajuan, executive director of the Entrepreneurship Foundation of Chinese Students in Europe said she is impressed by China's development and the gap between China and the West is narrowing and China's even catching up.

____ (2022-10-08). Ei Sun OH: China's future economic development is important to the world. ecns.cn Ei Sun OH, principal advisor of the Pacific Research Center in Malaysia, has paid attention to China's achievements concerning poverty alleviation and environmental protection in the past decade. He also expects his optimism for China's future.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-10-08). Dozens of Jewish Settlers Attack Palestinian School in Occupied West Bank. orinocotribune.com Dozens of Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian school in the town of Hawarah, south of Nablus on Tuesday, hours after another settler mob clashed with Palestinian inhabitants in the town's streets, The New Arab reported. | "Around 8: 20 in the morning, Israeli settlers broke into the schoolyard and attacked a teacher and two students," Eyad Awad, the coordinator for the Palestinian education ministry in the southern Nablus region based in Hawarah, told The New Arab. | t.co/HPebOlcgQL — IMEU (@theIMEU)

Michael Welch (2022-10-08). Conform or be Cast Out! The New Model of Journalism During a Time of War. globalresearch.ca

Ricardo Gomez (2022-10-08). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Biden's Midterm Marijuana Play. levernews.com Good things are happening! For starters, ahead of the midterms, Biden is taking some steps (although not nearly enough) to change his position on cannabis policy. What's more, young Americans are taking the labor movement's message to heart, a new act in California rolls back the harmful effects of criminal records, workers have a new tool in salary negotiations, and researchers have found that embracing basic food waste practices could have major impacts on the climate crisis. All this and much more in this week's edition of You Love To See It, available for supporting subscribers below.Biden (Somewhat) F…

Lydia Wheeler (2022-10-08). Government Credibility: Joe Biden Hands Pandemic Policy Opponents "Leg Up" in Legal Disputes. globalresearch.ca

Louis Henri Seukwa & Claudia Jansson (2022-10-08). We need an Enlightenment 2.0: On Misguided Colonial and Gender Policy. indybay.org Colonial knowledge was imposed by force. The West has set our planet on fire. To extinguish it, we need all archives of knowledge with their different references to the world. We cannot do it any other way. Therefore, it is urgent to initiate a paradigmatic change in education, not only in Germany, to correct this deplorable state of affairs.

WSWS (2022-10-08). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Delhi University teachers strike to defend jobs; Punjab power distribution workers protest privatisation; Australia: Hydro Tasmania workers strike for higher pay; Western Australian public hospital nurses plan to strike.

____ (2022-10-08). Iran's export of gas condensate, petrochemicals at 39% growth. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) — Statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade said that export of petrochemicals and gas condensates in the first four months of the current year (from March 21 to July 23) increased 38.8 percent.

Human Agenda (2022-10-08). Saturday 10/8: Break the Mold: Free Education for All / Free Health Care for All ! indybay.org Technology Center, Room T-415 | San José City College | 2201 Moorpark Avenue | San José, CA 95128…

WSWS (2022-10-08). Rank-and-file Ontario education worker denounces union bureaucracy's bogus "Why vote yes!" campaign. wsws.org The main thrust of the OSBCU leadership's campaign was that education support workers should vote "yes" for a strike to prevent any job action from taking place.

Staff (2022-10-08). Uni. students not to allow enemy's false dreams to come true. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) — Referring to the footprints of the enemy in recent riots in the country, President Raeisi says that Iranian university students and professors will not allow the false dreams of the enemy to come true.

WSWS (2022-10-07). Millions driven into poverty by pandemic, soaring prices and recession. wsws.org A World Bank report has found that in 2020 global median income declined by 4 percent, the first such decline since it began measurements in median income in 1990, with the most impoverished suffering "setbacks in education and health, with massive learning losses and shortened lifespans."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-07). Sudanese Resistance Committees Agree on Revolutionary Charter for the Establishment of People's Power. libya360.wordpress.com Sudanese demonstrators attend rally to demand the return to civilian rule, in Khartoum, Sudan, October 6, 2022. (AP) More than Sudanese pro-democracy groups have agreed on a new draft constitution, in one of the largest shows of unity from the country's opposition since the 2019 popular uprising. The document, signed Wednesday evening, is meant…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-10-07). With union backing, women to march on October 8 for reproductive rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—With endorsements from the AFL-CIO, the Teachers (AFT) and the Service Employees, hundreds of thousands of women and their allies will march in cities nationwide on October 8 for restoration of reproductive rights. The Women's March, which organized the demonstrations, has gathered dozens of allied groups, including the two unions and the labor federation, though …

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