2023-02-04: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Chartered train arranged for migrant workers in Xinjiang. ecns.cn The T3295 train carrying 956 migrant workers departing from Lanzhou, Gansu Province arrived in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Wednesday. This is the first special train arranged for migrant workers heading to Xinjiang after the Spring Festival break.

Leena Paakkari, Elizabeth Balch-Crystal, Mari Manu, Jenni Ruotsalainen, Jenni Salminen, Emmi Ulvinen, Minna Torppa (2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Health-literacy education drives empowerment and agency. thelancet.com The Editorial1 on health literacy presents needful perspectives. However, two further aspects related to health literacy should be emphasised: the importance of sustained support for epistemic empowerment and the role of children's and adolescents' own agency in effecting change in their surroundings and in the systems they interact with.2…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-04). Half a million strike in the UK over wages. peoplesdispatch.org In what has been deemed the biggest industrial action in a decade, over 0,000 workers organized a general strike in the UK on February 1 in defense of the right to strike as well as over pay and working conditions. Organizations such as The Trades Union Congress (TUC), University and College Union(UCU), Unison, Unite the Union, National Education Union (NEU), Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) and more took part in the mobilizations.

repost (2023-02-04). Land Development Lawyer And SF Supervisor Mandelman Wants To Shutdown Remote Dial In. indybay.org Corrupt land development lawyer and SF Supervisor Raphael Mandelman wants to shut down remote public comment at the rules committee meetings at the SF Board of Supervisors. He has supported privatization of Balboa reservoir and supports the sale off of all public services and privatization of education.

WSWS (2023-02-04). "Operation Nightingale": Fraudulent nursing diploma scandal exposes US health care and education crises. wsws.org Twenty-five defendants are awaiting a trial and face up to 20 years in prison. The allegations reflect a deepening crisis in the health care and education systems, which the defendants sought to exploit.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Consumer Health: Cancer education at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and Saturday, Feb. 4, is World Cancer Day, which is a global initiative to raise awareness, improve education and promote action to create a cancer-free world. This is a good time to learn more about cancer education at Mayo Clinic. Patients with cancer who come to Mayo Clinic benefit from the knowledge of Mayo Clinic's specialists and the integrated approach to treating each patient. Mayo Clinic's approach to medical care means that…

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Chartered train arranged for migrant workers in Xinjiang. ecns.cn The T3295 train carrying 956 migrant workers departing from Lanzhou, Gansu Province arrived in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Wednesday. This is the first special train arranged for migrant workers heading to Xinjiang after the Spring Festival break.

Leena Paakkari, Elizabeth Balch-Crystal, Mari Manu, Jenni Ruotsalainen, Jenni Salminen, Emmi Ulvinen, Minna Torppa (2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Health-literacy education drives empowerment and agency. thelancet.com The Editorial1 on health literacy presents needful perspectives. However, two further aspects related to health literacy should be emphasised: the importance of sustained support for epistemic empowerment and the role of children's and adolescents' own agency in effecting change in their surroundings and in the systems they interact with.2…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-04). Half a million strike in the UK over wages. peoplesdispatch.org In what has been deemed the biggest industrial action in a decade, over 0,000 workers organized a general strike in the UK on February 1 in defense of the right to strike as well as over pay and working conditions. Organizations such as The Trades Union Congress (TUC), University and College Union(UCU), Unison, Unite the Union, National Education Union (NEU), Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) and more took part in the mobilizations.

repost (2023-02-04). Land Development Lawyer And SF Supervisor Mandelman Wants To Shutdown Remote Dial In. indybay.org Corrupt land development lawyer and SF Supervisor Raphael Mandelman wants to shut down remote public comment at the rules committee meetings at the SF Board of Supervisors. He has supported privatization of Balboa reservoir and supports the sale off of all public services and privatization of education.

WSWS (2023-02-04). "Operation Nightingale": Fraudulent nursing diploma scandal exposes US health care and education crises. wsws.org Twenty-five defendants are awaiting a trial and face up to 20 years in prison. The allegations reflect a deepening crisis in the health care and education systems, which the defendants sought to exploit.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-04). Consumer Health: Cancer education at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and Saturday, Feb. 4, is World Cancer Day, which is a global initiative to raise awareness, improve education and promote action to create a cancer-free world. This is a good time to learn more about cancer education at Mayo Clinic. Patients with cancer who come to Mayo Clinic benefit from the knowledge of Mayo Clinic's specialists and the integrated approach to treating each patient. Mayo Clinic's approach to medical care means that…

Editor (2023-02-03). New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course is Watered Down Version of Itself. scheerpost.com By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational …

_____ (2023-02-03). Universities Submit To Neoliberalism And Fascism. popularresistance.org We are witnessing the rise of a unique brand of U.S. fascism, which has once again reared its ugly head and has made higher education one of its primary targets. This fascist attack on the university is made possible by the longstanding neoliberal withering of its institutions, which now rely mostly on underpaid contingent workers. The disempowerment of university labor runs hand-in-hand with a right-wing ideological front — rooted in rampant anti-intellectualism and rugged individualism — which seeks to control what knowledge universities can produce and teach. In order to counter this attack on high…

Staff (2023-02-03). Benefits of Using Temporary Buildings to Host Events and Exhibitions. thealtworld.com Businesses and educational institutions such as schools and universities host various events from time to time. These events include anniversaries, product launches, conferences, dinners, award ceremonies, and many other occasions. There are also trade exhibitions where companies showcase their products and services to potential customers to create awareness and convince new customers to come on board. | Hosting events and exhibitions can pose a challenge as the companies and institutions need enough space to accommodate a potentially huge number of people. Also, there is a need for enough space for free movement…

_____ (2023-02-03). George Santos, the U.S. Military, and Lying. strategic-culture.org Newly elected Congressman George Santos of New York has become the butt of many jokes about his serial lying. Santos lied about pretty much everything: his education, his religion, his parents, his work background. It's hard to say what he didn't lie about. So far, he has survived because the Republican Party has stood behind him but also because Americans collectively expect politicians to lie. Another lying politician? Say it ain't so, Joe!

Editor (2023-02-03). Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade. mronline.org On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor pay, unfair working conditions, pensions and precarity.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). Standing Against NATO and AUKUS a Key Issue for the Peace Movement. libya360.wordpress.com Dr Jenny Clegg On Saturday January 21, Britain's Stop the War Coalition organised its first-ever trade union conference. Speakers included former Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn MP; President of the RMT rail workers union Alex Gordon; Deputy President of the PCS civil service union Martin Cavanagh; Alex Kenny from the National Education Union;…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-03). Massive workers' rallies across UK defend the right to strike. peoplesdispatch.org On Wednesday, February 1, over half a million people joined the 'Right to Strike' rallies called by trade unions across the UK to protest the austerity-ridden anti-worker policies of the Tory government, including a legislation which intends to curtail the right to strike. More than 40,000 people marched in London alone. Rallies were also held in cities like Glasgow, Sheffield, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge, Nottingham, Newcastle, among several others. The rallies were attended by activists and leaders of unions including the National Education Union (NEU), Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union,…

Press Associates (2023-02-03). Bernie Sanders to reintroduce the PRO Act into the Senate. peoplesworld.org Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., the new chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will reintroduce the Protect The Right To Organize (PRO) Act. He should use it to really throw the book at corporate crooks. Sanders will be able to push it through his panel, via a one-vote majority there. If all …

WSWS (2023-02-03). Money for war, but no money for special educational needs in England's schools. wsws.org The Department for Education is making International Monetary Fund-type "safety valve" deals with local councils facing bankruptcy, involving major cost cutting in the provision of special education needs and disability support.

Aarathi Prasad (2023-02-04). [Perspectives] Chelsea Watego: foregrounding Indigenous intellectual sovereignty. thelancet.com Chelsea Watego is Professor of Indigenous Health and the Executive Director of the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Her studies, which are "trying to shine a light on the structural dimension of race and its role in the production of health inequalities", focus on the survival of Indigenous peoples locally and globally, and the foregrounding of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty. She has spent more than two decades as a health worker and researcher on Indigenous health.

Kristina Jenei (2023-02-04). [Correspondence] Health literacy exists beyond the boundaries of medicine. thelancet.com The Editorial1 asks important questions about how individuals can make healthy decisions in an increasingly complex world that is overwhelmed with false information. Although these questions remain important for future research, past thinkers might offer relevant answers.

Mickey Z. (2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …

Jean-Franàßois Girard (2023-02-04). Video: "Something is Wrong, Why All Those Lies". Commemorating the Ottawa Freedom Convoy. Justin Trudeau Accused Them of "Violence" and "Racism". globalresearch.ca

Manlio Dinucci (2023-02-04). Cooperazione a 360 ∞ Con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? globalresearch.ca La Presidente Meloni, in visita ufficiale a Tripoli, ha impegnato l'Italia a una "cooperazione a 360 gradi con la Libia". Ma con quale Libia? Il "Governo di Unità Nazionale" libico, "internazionalmente riconosciuto", presieduto da Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Esso è stato …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-04). Video: Say No To World War III. Abolish NATO. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2023-02-04). Commemorating January 29, 2022: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Canada's Truckers Movement. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-02-03). And Iran will neither capitulate nor give in… journal-neo.org Kamikaze drones struck Iran from the air again on the night of January 28-29, 2023. A number of cities, including Rasht, Khoy, Hamadan, Ban, Karaj, Tabriz, Mazandaran, Mahabad, and especially Isfahan, where nuclear research facilities and military factories are located were targeted. The sounds of gunfire and air-raid sirens rang out in Tehran itself, Javanrud, Rasht, …

ecns.cn (2023-02-03). Chinese researchers reveal causes of increased agricultural drought in Central Asia. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have found that anthropogenic external forcing and the natural internal variability of the climate system together have led to aggravated droughts across southern Central Asia in its early growing season over the past three decades.

Kyle Anzalone, Connor Freeman (2023-02-03). Growing Number of Americans Say US Is Giving Ukraine Too Much Aid. news.antiwar.com As the war in Ukraine nears the end of its first year, Americans are starting to believe Washington is sending too much support to Kiev. Pew Research conducted a poll in January and found the number of Republicans that are opposed to the current level of support for Ukraine is now 40%. The U.S. has …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-03). Mayo Clinic to lead new radiotracer trial for detecting pancreatic cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — In an academic-industrial collaboration, Mayo Clinic is assessing in a clinical trial a new radiotracer in pancreatic cancer imaging. As part of the investigation, the new agent, 68Ga-Fibroblast-Activation-Protein-Inhibitors (FAPI)-46 (68Ga-FAPI-46), will be compared with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), which is the current standard-of-care radiotracer, in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of pancreatic cancer. "The research will focus on pancreatic cancer and evaluate whether this radiotracer does what it's supposed to do, and whether it…

Brian Shilhavy (2023-02-03). Video: 55 Performers Collapsing or Dying on Stage or Live Camera in Late 2022 through 2023. globalresearch.ca

David Skripac (2023-02-03). Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity's March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Brenda Baletti (2023-02-03). Pfizer Vaccine Bonanza Slows — But Bill Gates Sold Early, Made Huge Profits. globalresearch.ca Pfizer on Tuesday announced 2022 profits of $31.4 billion on record sales of $100.3 billion. Sales from its COVID-19 vaccine and However, …

Dr. Naomi Wolf (2023-02-03). Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide: Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer "Confidential Report" globalresearch.ca The truth is: I've been rendered almost speechless because recently I've had the unenviable task of trying to announce to the world that indeed, a genocide — or what I've called, clumsily but urgently, a "baby die-off" — is underway.

Emanuel Pastreich (2023-02-03). When Technology Buried Science in a Shallow Grave. "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" globalresearch.ca

F. William Engdahl (2023-02-03). How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis. globalresearch.ca The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate capital to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.

Marc Vandepitte (2023-02-03). War Fever: after Ukraine, Taiwan? globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-02-03). Tavistock Et Al, Black Cars, Torn Jeans and LGBTQ: Social Engineering, Mind Manipulation. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protest Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-02-03). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Rick Thomas (2023-02-03). Davos 2023: Fragmenting the World. globalresearch.ca

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-02-03). Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until 'You'll Own Nothing.'. globalresearch.ca

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-03). Did US Gov Work On A Myocarditis-Inducing Virus, Then Work To Aerosolize It? Let's Look At The Facts. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (2/3/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

SUN (2023-02-03). COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific Studies. globalresearch.ca

Uriel Araujo (2023-02-03). Eurasian Countries increasing Trade with Russia, GDP Growth forecasted by IMF. globalresearch.ca On January 3, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised upwards Russia's GDP forecast, expecting it to grow by 0.3 percent this year, which is a remarkable improvement from the previous estimate of a 2.3 percent contraction, even though some sectors …

Laith Fadel (2023-02-03). What is causing the increase in U.S. school shootings? america.cgtn.com The leading cause of death among children in the United States is gun-related violence. Research shows that guns are tied to an average of a dozen deaths among U.S. children each day. What is causing the increase in U.S. school shootings?Most recently, the story of …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-03). Mass Poverty. The Protests Movement. The Economic and Social Crisis (2020-2023). Building a Movement against "Corona Tyranny" globalresearch.ca

fvorinoco (2023-02-04). Maduro Welcomes De-dollarization of the Latin American Economy with Unit Currency 'Sur'. orinocotribune.com During his speech at the inauguration of the Science Technological Park of Venezuela, modeled after Iranian frameworks, in Miranda this past Tuesday, President Maduro vocalized his support of a Latin American and Caribbean common currency, stressing that "Latin America and the Caribbean have to have an economic integration bloc and monetary system." | For Maduro, a unitary currency and an integrated economic system would prove that Latin American countries can "show themselves united to the world" in the same way that the member states of the European Union remain united after the consolidation of their economy a…

Staff (2023-02-03). Falsas noticias de ciencia: El contrasentido de la divulgación del conocimiento. cubadebate.cu Por: Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent. Académico de Mérito, Asesor científico de Redciencia, Citmatel. | En los últimos tiempos se han publicado en medios de comunicación que se considerarían confiables, algunas informaciones que lindan con el sensacionalismo, y lo peor, que exageran y confunden las implicaciones de algunos resultados de la ciencia, más allá de todo límite ético y racional. Son lo que se puede calificar "fake science news", o "falsas noticias de ciencia" que por desgracia se reproducen at infinitum en medios alternativos y locales, promoviendo una visión totalmente confusa de la realidad. Lo peor al re…

The Lancet Editors (2023-02-04). [Comment] Thank you to The Lancet statistical and peer reviewers in 2022. thelancet.com Frank Aarestrup…

americanthinker (2023-02-04). American Students — Dumber and More Woke. americanthinker.com Judged by the standards of evolution, American students may be going backwards.

WSWS (2023-02-04). Temple University graduate students begin open-ended strike for higher pay, better health care. wsws.org Temple University students in Philadelphia began an indefinite strike this week after the university refused to bargain with them for cost of living and other improvements.

Editor (2023-02-03). 'We're Still Gonna Say No': Inside UnitedHealthcare's Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient. scheerpost.com After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn't pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer's hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

AS Art Gallery (2023-02-03). Friday 2/3: The Art of Protest. indybay.org AS Art Gallery | César Chávez Student Center (Terrace Level) | San Francisco State University | 1650 Holloway Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94132…

Fight Back (2023-02-03). Tampa students demand justice for victims of police crimes. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On the first day of Black History Month, February 1, students at the University of South Florida rallied in front of a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand justice for Tyre Nichols, Manny Páez Terán, and Keenan Anderson. The event was organized by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as part of a National Day of Action Against Police Terror with SDS chapters across the country participating. | These actions were called in response to the violent police murders of three, all of which took place in the span of two weeks. On January 3, the Los Angeles Police Department tasered Keen…

WSWS (2023-02-03). US media and policy outlets oppose student debt relief, claim it will subsidize "low value" degrees. wsws.org Media and policy outlets linked to both big business parties have attacked as over-generous or wasteful the Biden administration's proposed changes to REPAYE, which would reduce payments for some students without canceling their debts.

Richard Horton (2023-02-04). [Comment] Offline: Strange fruit. thelancet.com For a fleeting moment, guns re-entered the Oval Office. US President Joe Biden called for a federal ban on assault weapons. His plea, ignored, came after 11 people were killed in a Los Angeles ballroom dance studio and seven people were shot down in California's Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco. The Monterey Park killings were the deadliest since a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May, 2022, which left 19 children and two teachers dead. The killers in America's latest attacks were, unusually, in their 60s and 70s.

Evan Reif (2023-02-03). How a Network of Nazi Propagandists Helped Lay the Groundwork for the War in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com "History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be …

WSWS (2023-02-03). Woburn, Massachusetts teachers strike continues in face of injunction and court-ordered fines. wsws.org Teachers in Woburn, Massachusetts, struck for a fourth day on Thursday in the face of a court-ordered injunction, a fine of $40,000 plus an additional $5,000 to be levied for each day the strike continues.

WSWS (2023-02-03). Video: Teachers speak out at London, UK rally. wsws.org Teachers Jack and Sylvan spoke to the WSWS during the "Protect the Right to Strike" rally in London on February 1, 2023.

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