Daily Archives: July 15, 2023

2023-07-15: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Insights | Cambodian student: Chinese education has many impressive advantages. ecns.cn

Fight Back (2023-07-15). Minneapolis solidarity for Tampa 5 at Mayday Plaza. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – 30 people gathered at Mayday Plaza on July 12 to demand that charges be dropped against the Tampa 5. This was also the day of the Tampa 5's second court appearance. They chanted, "Justice for the Tampa 5! Down with Desantis! Protesting is not a crime!" | The Tampa 5 are members of Tampa Bay SDS who were brutalized and arrested by police on March 6. They were rallying and marching against Governor Ron Desantis' reactionary legislative attacks on education that primarily target Black, Chicano and LGBTQ+ students. The campus protesters were thrown to the ground, shoved against walls, and one even g…

Jake Johnson (2023-07-14). Republicans look to give themselves a pay raise after securing benefit cuts for the poor. nationofchange.org "House Republicans are moving to give themselves a raise while taking an ax to education, health, and other essential programs that help grow the economy by growing the middle class."

Fight Back (2023-07-14). Teacher fired for violating ban on LGBTQ content. fightbacknews.org Waukesha, WI – On July 12, nearly 800 people silently rallied to support Waukesha public school teacher Melissa Tempel. Waukesha Alliance for Education organized the rally and encouraged participants to wear black armbands. This is a subtle nod to Mary Beth Tinker, the lead plaintiff in the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District ruling, a landmark 1969 decision regarding censorship in education settings. | The Waukesha School District (WSD) held a hearing for Tempel, a teacher at Heyer Elementary School. Tempel was also a union representative within the Wisconsin Education Association Council…

Fight Back (2023-07-14). New York activist solidarity with the Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – 20 activists held a solidarity rally at City Hall in Manhattan to demand that charges be dropped against the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are campus activists arrested for protesting the attacks on education by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The solidarity rally was part of a national day of action on July 12. | On March 6, four members of Tampa Bay's SDS and a union worker were arrested for protesting for more diversity on their University of South Florida campus. They rallied and marched against the repressive laws that DeSantis passed in Florida, specifically around the bills that target LGBTQ people, a…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-14). Biden Administration Announces It's Forgiving Student Debt for 800,000 Borrowers. truthout.org On Friday, the Education Department announced that it is going to cancel student debt for over 800,000 borrowers who previously qualified for forgiveness but were still saddled with loans, in one of the first major student debt moves since the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden's plan for broad forgiveness late last month. The administration is labeling its latest move as a "fix" to… |

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-14). BRICS outlines education and training priorities. plenglish.com Pretoria, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) Education ministers from the Brics group of emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—met in South Africa this week to hear how universities have boosted efforts to expand the bloc's reach.

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-14). The Dystopian Future Of US Public Education Is On Display In Houston. popularresistance.org

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-15). Mayo Clinic researchers pave the way for individualized obesity therapy, tailoring interventions to a person's needs. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In a pilot study of 165 people, Mayo Clinic researchers looked at the effectiveness of two different approaches to weight loss: a standard lifestyle intervention and individualized therapy. The standard lifestyle intervention included a reduced diet, exercise and behavior therapy. The individualized approach was based on phenotypes and included different interventions depending on the person's predominant underlying cause of obesity. A diet based on phenotypes considers a person's genetic and phenotypic characteristics to create a…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-15). Yale University-Mayo Clinic CERSI Receive up to $50 Million FDA Grant to Advance Medical Research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Yale University-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), a joint effort between Yale University, Mayo Clinic and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct research and develop tools to support regulatory decision-making, has received renewed FDA funding to advance its efforts to improve public health. The renewed funding — spanning 5 years and up to $50 million —will support a wide range of research projects focused on areas such as the development of…

Anmol Arora (2023-07-15). Correspondence] Moravec's paradox and the fear of job automation in health care. thelancet.com The role of artificial intelligence in health care is becoming an increasingly topical and controversial discussion. There remains uncertainty about what is achievable regarding ongoing medical artificial intelligence research. Although there are some people who believe that artificial intelligence will be used, at best, as a tool to assist clinicians in their day-to-day activities, there are others who believe that job automation and replacement is a looming threat.1…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). "Billionaires Try to Shrink World's Population": Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of "The Good Club" globalresearch.ca

Colin Todhunter (2023-07-15). An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance. globalresearch.ca The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people's needs and genuine food security.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). Ukraine and the "Politics of Anti-Semitism": Contemporary Neo-Nazi Threat against Ukraine's Jewish Community. The Complicity of US-NATO-EU. globalresearch.ca The US and the EU are supporting the formation of a coalition government integrated by Neo-Nazis which are directly involved in the repression of the Ukrainian Jewish community. There are about 200,000 Jews living in Ukraine, most of them in Kiev.

His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganà≤ (2023-07-15). The Heroic Archbishop Viganà≤: The Corrupt Billionaire Agenda, "SARS-CoV-2 Virus is Nothing but a Seasonal Flu" globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-07-15). Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Weaponization of Money? WHO's Health Tyranny: Towards a Totalitarian World Government? No Way! globalresearch.ca

Dr. Carla Peeters (2023-07-15). Climate Hysteria: The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands. globalresearch.ca

James A. Lucas (2023-07-15). The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). Nuclear War. "90 Seconds to Midnight": The Pentagon's 1945 "Doomsday Blueprint" to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map" globalresearch.ca

SUN (2023-07-15). COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific Studies. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Joseph H. Chung (2023-07-15). America's Perpetual War: Six Questions. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-07-15). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca

Fidel Castro Ruz (2023-07-15). Fidel Castro's Message against Nuclear War: "In a Nuclear War the 'Collateral Damage' would be the Life of All Humanity." globalresearch.ca A forceful message calling for World peace and the survival of humankind.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

F. William Engdahl (2023-07-15). The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset. globalresearch.ca Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Nazi. globalresearch.ca

Paul Haeder (2023-07-15). We Are in Collective Alexithymia. dissidentvoice.org No words for emotions — alexithymia New psychology research shows maltreatment in childhood is linked to alexithymia in adulthood. Its etymology comes from Ancient Greek. The word is formed by combining the alpha privative prefix ·ºÄ- (a-, meaning 'not') with ŒªŒ≠ŒæŒπœÇ (léxis, referring to 'words') and Œ∏·ø°ŒºœåœÇ (th»≥mós, denoting 'disposition,' 'feeling,' or 'rage'). The term can …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-07-15). "Shrink the World's Population": Secret 2009 Meeting of Billionaires "Good Club" globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-07-15). World Needs A New Development Theory That Does Not Trap The Poor In Poverty. popularresistance.org In June, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 'From 2015 to 2019', the network wrote, 'the world made some progress on the SDGs, although this was already vastly insufficient to achieve the goals. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and other simultaneous crises, SDG progress has stalled globally'. This development agenda was adopted in 2015, with targets intended to be met by 2030.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Deep-sea submersible mother ship Tansuo-2 attracts global scientists. ecns.cn The ship is 87.2 meters long and 18.8 meters wide, with a full-load displacement of 6,800 tons . It can carry 60 researchers and has a maximum speed of 14.2 knots and a cruising range of 15,000 nautical miles.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-15). Climategate is the worst scientific scandal of our generation. expose-news.com The term Climategate was coined in 2009 to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit ("CRU"). The senders and recipients of the …

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-07-14). More than 800 tons of agricultural pesticides leach into world's rivers each year, research finds. nationofchange.org Agricultural pesticides leach into the world's rivers and oceans each year at an alarming rate, damaging a variety of ecosystems.

teleSUR (2023-07-14). Demand for Cooling to Increase Due to Global Temperature Rise. telesurenglish.net Countries like New Zealand, Canada, and Britain will likely see the greatest relative increase in the number of days that cooling will be needed each year as global temperatures rise. | RELATED: | Researchers from the University of Oxford simulated likely temperatures around the world under 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming to estimate the demand for cooling in different countries. | The study led by Jesus Miranda published in Nature Sustai…

Michael Welch (2023-07-14). Canadian Support for Ukraine Nazi Collaborators after World War II. "Lest we Forget" globalresearch.ca

US Department of Justice (2023-07-14). Video: Pfizer Has a Criminal Record with the U.S. Department of Justice (2009). Pfizer's Secret Report on the Covid mRNA Vaccine Confirms Extensive "Crimes against Humanity" globalresearch.ca Introductory note: | In September 2009, the U.S

Dr. James Gomez (2023-07-14). Singapore Under the Pandemic: The Normalisation of Digital Authoritarianism. asia-pacificresearch.com

The Vigilant Fox (2023-07-14). Video: Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer's Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents. globalresearch.ca

Aydin Sezer (2023-07-14). Is Turkey's Alliance with Russia in Jeopardy? globalresearch.ca

RT News (2023-07-14). NATO Is 'Malicious Poison' — Former Australian PM. globalresearch.ca

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-07-14). Aggressive U.S. Push for Military Supremacy in the Arctic Could Trigger Nuclear War. covertactionmagazine.com From 1959 to 1966, the U.S. illegally stored nuclear weapons in Greenland in preparation for a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union and built an underground scientific research center right out of a James Bond movie. It resulted in the displacement of natives and has left a residue of environmental destruction in the Arctic that …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023-07-14). Is Washington "Begging" for a Preemptive Nuclear Attack From Russia? globalresearch.ca

Michael Snyder (2023-07-14). The Globalists Are Making Really Big Moves Which Would Fundamentally Change How Our Society Operates. globalresearch.ca

Zero Hedge (2023-07-14). Not Weaponized? Biden DOJ Indicts Whistleblower Prepared To Testify Against Biden Family. globalresearch.ca

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2023-07-14). Baltic Sea Labelled "NATO Lake" After Summit in Vilnius. globalresearch.ca

Al Mayadeen (2023-07-14). Cambodian Premier Reminds Ukraine of the Horrors of Cluster Bombs. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-07-14). U.N. Warns Pandemic, Climate & Ukraine War Have Dramatically Increased World Hunger. democracynow.org The United Nations this week released its annual report on nutrition, finding that the pandemic, extreme weather shocks and the war in Ukraine have all contributed to food insecurity around the world — now higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials estimate that the world saw an increase of more than 100 million people facing hunger in 2022 compared to 2019. For more, speak with Million Belay, general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, as well as Raj Patel, research professor at the Univer…

Alex Miller (2023-07-14). Rep. Matt Gaetz Joins Bipartisan Push to Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine. globalresearch.ca

Bharat Dogra (2023-07-14). Planning to Avoid Extreme Harm From Floods Should be Based on Improved Understanding. globalresearch.ca

Cubaminrex (2023-07-14). Cuba Rejects Presence of U.S. Nuclear Submarine in Guantanamo Bay. Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-07-14). Top Sweetener Officially Declared a Carcinogen. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2023-07-14). Driving COVID-19 Vaccinated — A New Road Hazard. globalresearch.ca

Jan Oberg (2023-07-14). Why No One Will Win the Proxy War in Ukraine and Why It Must and Will End by a Negotiated Solution. globalresearch.ca

Mike Whitney (2023-07-14). The Great Chessboard: China's Economic Rise and the Collapse of America. Mike Whitney. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-15). Science Saturday: A novel testing approach for newly identified VEXAS syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org VEXAS syndrome is a severe autoinflammatory disease that results in a spectrum of rheumatologic and hematologic conditions. Mostly affecting men over age 50, VEXAS is caused by somatic mutations in the UBA1 gene of blood cells, which is a gene located in the X chromosome. Until just a few years ago, patients presenting with features of VEXAS syndrome were not unified under a specific diagnosis. The underlying cause of newly identified VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory,…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-07-15). Russia develops drone for dousing fires using AI. plenglish.com Moscow, Jul 15 (Prensa Latina) Students of Irkutsk University developed a unique drone that allows extinguishing fires using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, the Russian National Technological Initiative program reported Saturday.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Flywire offers WeChat payment option for Chinese students. ecns.cn Flywire, a third-party payment platform in the United States, announced a partnership with Tencent Financial Technology, a fintech arm of China's tech giant Tencent, on Thursday.

Fight Back (2023-07-15). Washington DC groups demand "Justice for the Tampa 5!" fightbacknews.org Washington, DC — On July 13, over 30 people gathered at the gates of the White House and joined at least 13 other cities in demanding, "Justice for the Tampa 5!" The Tampa 5 are five women from Tampa, Florida who were brutally arrested while staging a campus protest at the University of South Florida (USF). | The Tampa 5 are Chrisley Carpio, Gia Davila, Laura Rodriguez, Jeanie Kida and Lauren Pineiro, students and workers shoved, beaten and arrested by University of South Florida police at a March 6 campus protest. | At their second court hearing, the Tampa 5 case was continued to August 9. Before entering…

Fight Back (2023-07-15). Tallahassee rallies for "Justice for the Tampa 5!" fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On July 12, 20 students and community members rallied in front of Florida State University's (FSU) Student Union to demand justice for the Tampa 5. Attendees chanted, "Free the Tampa 5!" "Protesting is not a crime. Drop the charges now!" and "No hate! No fear! Diversity is welcome here!" | Chrisley Carpio, Jeanie K., Lauren Pineiro, Gia Davila, and Laura Rodriguez, collectively known as the Tampa 5, were arrested in March for protesting DeSantis's proposed cuts to diversity programs and ethnic studies at Florida public universities. The five were brutalized and sexually assaulted by University o…

Taru Taylor (2023-07-15). Biden's Unconstitutional "Bankruptcy Abuse" Act Makes Peons of Student Debtors. truthout.org The Supreme Court recently blocked the Biden administration's plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. The decision disappointed 43 million borrowers owing $1.6 trillion in student debt. Regardless, the failure of the Biden plan misdirects us from the root problem: It's not that student loan borrowers need debt relief; it's that they merit a debt discharge. Every honest… |

John Perry (2023-07-15). The attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018: Why support for it collapsed. mronline.org Of course, the accepted history of the coup attempt, as told by the U.S. government, international bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council and most of the media, is that nearly all the victims were protesters, mainly students, killed by police or by Sandinista "paramilitaries". The truth is far more complicated; people on the ground, especially those living in the places most affected, became increasingly aware of the opposition's intentions.

ecns.cn (2023-07-15). Insights | Malaysian student: China has developed by leaps and bounds under the leadership of the CPC. ecns.cn The year 2023 marks the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Malaysian student Toh Wei Yuan is quite impressed with how China has developed and progressed by leaps and bounds over the years under the leadership of the CPC. During an interview with ECNS, she shared her observation.

WSWS (2023-07-15). Biden administration announces new limited student loan forgiveness program for 804,000 borrowers. wsws.org The Biden administration announced it will begin immediately to forgive $39 billion in student loan debt for a group of borrowers who have been paying back their debts for more than two decades and others who qualify for income-driven repayment plans and have been cheated by the government.

splcenter (2023-07-14). Students, teachers and advocates fight against censorship in Alabama schools. splcenter.org

Fight Back (2023-07-14). Los Angeles responds with solidarity for Tampa 5. fightbacknews.org Boyle Heights, CA – On July 12, over 25 people gathered at Mariachi Plaza and joined the emergency and national day of action for the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are five women from Tampa who were brutally arrested while staging a peaceful protest at the University of South Florida (USF). | The protest was for diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at USF, and July 12 was the second court hearing for the five activists, mostly members of the Tampa Bay Students for Democratic Society (SDS). The five are facing up to ten years of incarceration. The SDS and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressi…

Fight Back (2023-07-14). Minneapolis protest against U.S. Supreme Court decisions. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – 30 protesters gathered in front of Mayday Books in the West Bank neighborhood on July 8 to oppose the recent U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions that end affirmative action, enable LBGTQ discrimination, and block student loan forgiveness. | Activists also commemorated the first anniversary of the June 24, 2022, overturn of Roe v. Wade by the SCOTUS in the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. In the year since, 14 states now have near, or total, abortion bans while six states have gestational restrictions. | "When Roe was overturned, many activists sensed that this was only the beginning. Unfortunately…

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