2021-01-08: Social Media Postees

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UK minister criticised for demanding universities adopt IHRA antisemitism definition
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-08
UK minister criticised for demanding universities adopt IHRA antisemitism definition | Group of lawyers and retired judges say Secretary Gavin Williamson's initiative to require universities adopt resolution is 'legally and morally wrong' | MEE staff | Fri, 01/08/2021 – 19: 52 | Britain's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said if majority of universities fail to adopt IHRA definition by December, he may start cutting f…
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Betsy DeVos Resigns, Dodging 25th Amendment Push
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-08
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos late Thursday became the second Cabinet member to submit her resignation this week, a move teachers unions and lawmakers denounced as a spineless effort to sidestep widespread and growing calls for Vice President Mike P…
truthout.org/articles/betsy-devos-resigns-dodging-25th-amendment-push/

60 High School Seniors Refuse To Serve In The Israeli Army
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-08
Sixty Israelis of eligible draft age have signed a letter declaring their refusal to serve in the military because of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. | Departing from previous letters of this kind, the signatories call out the country's education system for various issues, such as encouraging enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces and emphasizing the Jewish narrative in Bible and history classes. | They also draw attention to issues they say the curriculum ignores, such as the expulsion of Arabs in 1948 and the current violation of human rights in the occupied territories. | In a letter sent…
popularresistance.org/60-high-school-seniors-refuse-to-serve-in-the-israeli-army/

Shippensburg faculty member demands action to save jobs and university education for working-class students
wsws.org | 2021-01-08
Layoffs, the closing of schools, and academic cuts are being pushed by the new chancellor at Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/ship…

Chicago educators returning to buildings find substandard conditions days before reopening to students
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-01-08
Chicago, IL – Thousands of Chicago Public Schools teachers, clinicians and staff returning to school buildings last Monday found conditions far below the standards and promises touted by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools in preparation for opening doors to students on January 11. Throughout the week, educators submitted photos, video and detailed reports of their findings, which included no masks available upon arrival, empty hand sanitizer dispensers, hallways filled with debris from locker installation and brown water in bathroom sinks. | Many classrooms appeared as if they had not been cleaned si…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/1/8/chicago-e…

Coronavirus hits jobs again, 140k jobs lost in December
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-08
WASHINGTON–The national coronavirus pandemic has hit workers' jobs again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Jan. 8 that companies shed a net of 140,000 jobs in December. The U.S. ended 2020 with a 6.7% jobless rate, compared to 3.6% in Dec. 2019. But those jobs numbers actually understate the virus's impact. And the day …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-hits-jobs-again-140k-jobs-lost-in-december/

How to Make a COVID-19 Vaccine @Home
Jackie Fox | realprogressives.org | 2021-01-08
This is a script of the video embedded below. | Hello Internet, I'm Jackie Fox and I have a new idea I want to bring you in the final hours of a dark year. This may be a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. It combines video games, community, scientific research, and even vaccines and medical treatments. In some ways it's a follow up to cover new info about vaccines in general I learned since the last series, but the core concept is about this project called Folding@Home. | See, back in 2007, I bought a PlayStation 3, and after a few updates, there was a mysterious app added called "Folding@Home" and I…
realprogressives.org/make-a-covid-19-vaccine-home/

2020 Year in Review: COVID, Collapsing America and the Most Censored Stories of the Year
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
"Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life….
globalresearch.ca/2020-year-in-review-covid-collapsing-america-and-the-most-censored-stories-of-the-year/5733883

Immunization with SARS [1] Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus
Chien-Te Tseng | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
This article was originally published in April 2012. | It pertains to Severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS-CoV (2002) which has, according to the WHO and the CDC similar features to SARS-CoV-2. | A vaccine was envisaged in relation to SARS-1. | This article …
globalresearch.ca/immunization-sars-coronavirus-vaccines-leads-pulmonary-immunopathology-challenge-sars-virus/5733902

Immunization with SARS [1] Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus
Chien-Te Tseng | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
This article was originally published in April 2012. | It pertains to Severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS-CoV (2002) which has, according to the WHO and the CDC similar features to SARS-CoV-2. | It is of relevance to the current debate on the …
globalresearch.ca/immunization-sars-coronavirus-vaccines-leads-pulmonary-immunopathology-challenge-sars-virus/5733902

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2021-01-08
Employees at British Gas walk out to defend pay and conditions; UK University students rent strike across 31 universities; Kenyan healthcare workers' strike continues despite union sending doctors back…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/wkrs…

More War by Other Means: Sanctioning the Wife of Syria's President Makes No Sense to Anyone
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
I am a recipient of regular, usual weekly, emails from the Department of the Treasury providing an "Update to OFAC's list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons." OFAC is the Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is tasked …
globalresearch.ca/more-war-other-means-sanctioning-wife-syria-president-makes-no-sense-anyone/5733890

"Forbidden Weapons" Used Against Gaza Strip Palestinians. Israel Deliberately Targets Palestinian Civilians
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
The following research article will explore three forbidden weapons that were and are still being used against the Palestinian civilians of the besieged Gaza Strip. These weapons are the DIME, the Flechette Shells and the Vacuum Bomb. Furthermore, this research …
globalresearch.ca/forbidden-weapons-used-against-gaza-strip-palestinians-israel-deliberately-targets-palestinian-civilians/5733924

Evidence Mounts of a Capitol Hill False Flag
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
GR Editor's Note | With regard to the coverage of the Wednesday Capitol Event, Global Research will be publishing opposing and contradictory points of view by several of our authors. | We are dealing with a complex and far-reaching political process. We …
globalresearch.ca/evidence-mounts-capitol-hill-false-flag/5733918

Capitol Hill Violence: America's Reichstag Fire?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
A week before 1933 German general elections, a strategically timed Reichstag fire was falsely blamed on communists. | In response to what happened, President Paul von Hindenburg signed an emergency decree. | Civil liberties were suspended. Weimar Republic democracy died, and Hitler …
globalresearch.ca/capitol-hill-violence-america-reichstag-fire/5733892

Censorship in America: The New Abnormal. President Trump Censored by Twitter
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
Speech, media and academic freedoms are too precious to lose. | Without them, all other rights are threatened — totalitarian rule replacing them, enforced by police state harshness. | What happened on Capitol Hill Wednesday has clear earmarks of an orchestrated false …
globalresearch.ca/censorship-america-new-abnormal/5733920

Censorship in America: The New Abnormal. POTUS Censored by Twitter
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
Speech, media and academic freedoms are too precious to lose. | Without them, all other rights are threatened — totalitarian rule replacing them, enforced by police state harshness. | What happened on Capitol Hill Wednesday has clear earmarks of an orchestrated false …
globalresearch.ca/censorship-america-new-abnormal/5733920

Capitol Hill Violence: America's Reichstag Fire?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
GR Editor's Note | With regard to the coverage of the Wednesday Capitol Event, Global Research will be publishing opposing and contradictory points of view by several of our authors. | We are dealing with a complex and far-reaching political process. We …
globalresearch.ca/capitol-hill-violence-america-reichstag-fire/5733892

Por trás do veredicto de Londres sobre Julian Assange
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
De um processo injusto — o de Londres referente a Julian Assange, fundador do WikiLeaks — resultou numa sentenàßa que, à primeira vista, parece justa: a nà£o extradiàßà£o do jornalista para os Estados Unidos, onde o aguarda uma sentenàßa de …
globalresearch.ca/por-tras-do-veredicto-de-londres-sobre-julian-assange/5733992

The US and UK May Not Will Assange's Death, but Everything They Are Doing Makes It More Likely
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the rest of his life, that she might finally …
globalresearch.ca/us-uk-may-not-will-assange-death-everything-they-are-doing-makes-more-likely/5733906

The Assange Saga: Practicing Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls. The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in thesis, on his way to — conditional — freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first …
globalresearch.ca/assange-saga-practicing-real-journalism-criminally-insane/5733888

VIDEO — ASSANGE: La Nostra Democrazia Dietro Le Sbarre
PANGEA | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
SERVIZIO DA LONDRA DELL'INVIATA DI PANGEA BERENICE GALLI | STASERA 8 GENNAIO SU DAVVERO TV | Mentre il Tribunale di Londra negava il 6 gennaio a Julian Assange il rilascio su cauzione, rimandandolo nel carcere di Belmarsh — la "Guantanamo britannica", la | …
globalresearch.ca/video-assange-la-nostra-democrazia-dietro-le-sbarre/5733986

Personal use of all recreational drugs should be decriminalised, experts argue
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-01-08
Non-violent criminals serving time for drug use or possession should be freed and personal use of recreational drugs decriminalised, experts have said, arguing that the 'war on drugs' is fuelling racism. | "Costly and ineffective": | Personal use of all recreational drugs should be decriminalised immediately, followed by legalisation, regulation, and restrictions on age, advertising and licensing, according to more than 60 international experts. | The group — including bioethicists, drug experts, criminal justice researchers, and psychologists — say prohibition and criminalisation has been "co…
thecanary.co/uk/2021/01/08/personal-use-of-all-recreational-drugs-should-be-decriminalised-experts-argue/

Telling War Stories
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-08
I don't have any personal war stories to tell. In my twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, I never saw combat. I started as a developmental engineer, working mainly on computer software, and morphed into a historian of science and technology who taught for six years at the USAF Academy. I worked on software projects that helped pilots plan their missions and helped the world to keep track of objects in Earth orbit. I taught military cadets who did see combat and served as the dean of students at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, where I saw plenty of young troops cross the graduation stage…
popularresistance.org/telling-war-stories/

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) Intrusion in Albania, Threatens Regional Stability in Middle East and Balkans
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
One can only imagine the risk when some citizens of a small country conceal hundreds of thousands of weapons and explosives. The nation becomes a powder keg, awaiting one small mistake to spark a deadly explosion. | This is the situation …
globalresearch.ca/the-mujahedin-e-khalq-organization-mko-intrusion-in-albania-threatens-regional-stability-in-middle-east-and-balkans/5733929

Georgia Twin Runoff Election Results Fuel Right-wing Unrest
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
GR Editor's Note | With regard to the coverage of the Wednesday Capitol Event, Global Research will be publishing opposing and contradictory points of view by several of our authors. | We are dealing with a complex and far-reaching political process. We …
globalresearch.ca/georgia-twin-runoff-election-results-fuel-right-wing-unrest/5733914

Is the Virus Real? Has It Been Photographed? What About Koch's Postulates?
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
Even though I thought I had answered these questions, smart people whom I respect keep asking if the virus is real. So here is another stab at answering this. | Yes, the virus is real. A misleading CDC/FDA document originally written …
globalresearch.ca/virus-real-photographed-what-about-koch-postulates/5733904

Student protests continue in Turkey in defiance of police-state measures
wsws.org | 2021-01-08
The mass student protests in Istanbul that started to oppose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a new rector to Boƒüaziàßi University, continued yesterday in defiance of police-state measures to suppress the movement.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/turk…

This Week's Most Popular Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
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Video: "The Thick Red Line": Law Enforcement, the "Plandemic"and the Unlawful Orders of Politicians
James Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-08
Howard Lichtman joins us today to introduce ThickRedLine.org, an effort to restore respect for law enforcement by abolishing victimless crime. | ThickRedLine seeks to upend the narrative that keeps the public afraid of breaking the unlawful orders of the politicians …
globalresearch.ca/video-solutions-thick-red-line/5733742

When the Left Side is the Only Hope Left: The Destruction of Mosul
Louis Yako | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-08
I wrote recently about the field research I conducted in the early months of 2020 for an international organization supporting Iraqi youth. The research focused on young boys and girls attending sessions in different parts of Iraq to engage in dialogues and conversations about pressing issues in Iraqi society such as citizenship, gender, culture and heritage, media,…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/08/when-the-left-side-is-the-only-hope-left-the-destruction-of-mosul/

Chicago mayor orders teachers back to schools under threat of termination
Nicholas Stender | zcomm.org | 2021-01-07
The situation in Chicago continues to develop. CTU has notified members about the potential for a protest action on Jan. 8…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-to-schools-under-threat-of-termination/

University Of Michigan Strike Showed The Power Of Student Organizing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-07
As the winter university semester is set to begin, the coronavirus is surging. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, like many universities reliant on tuition dollars, tried to reopen in September with a "public health-informed" semester, as the university called it. That meant a mix of in-person and remote classes and dormitories operating at about 70 percent capacity. | Throughout the summer, the graduate workers union at the University of Michigan, the Graduate Employees Organization, or GEO, and Local 3550 of the American Federation of Teachers, had also been preparing for the fall semester by organizing a…
popularresistance.org/university-of-michigan-strike-showed-the-power-of-student-organizing/

Guatemala: Former Military Charged for Indigenous Leader Murder
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-07
A Guatemalan court sentenced on Wednesday the former head of security at Central America's largest nickel mine, Mynor Padilla González, to two years in prison for the murder of indigenous leader Adolfo Ich Chamán, committed in 2009. | RELATED: | Guatemalans Demand Search for Missing Youth Soccer Player | Adolfo Ich, a Maya Q'eqchi' teacher, and community leader, was killed during violent evictions in the Las Nubes community. The evictions would give space for the operations of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Former-Military-Punished-for-Indigenous-Leader-Murder-20210107-0024.html

German teachers' union backs in-person learning as COVID-19 deaths soar
wsws.org | 2021-01-07
In enforcing their inhumane pandemic policies, the federal and state governments, consisting of a broad range of political coalitions, can rely on the close cooperation of Germany's trade unions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/07/gtea…

Charter School Accountability Will Remain Weak in 2021
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-07
Segregated charter schools have a high failure rate and are notorious for lacking accountability and oversight. Charter schools are also well-known for being non-transparent even though they are ostensibly "public" schools. This has been the case for nearly 30 years when charter schools first came into being. Over the years, endless reports, articles, and books …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/charter-school-accountability-will-remain-weak-in-2021/

Selected Articles: A Pandemic of Insanity
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
COVID-19: "Virus Isolation". Does the Virus Exist? | By Dr. Saeed A. Qureshi, January 07 2021 | This is a controversial issue which has been raised by several prominent scientists. On January 7, 2020 the Chinese authorities "identify a new type | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-a-pandemic-of-insanity/5733861

A Pandemic of Insanity
Arthur Firstenberg | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
You see them everywhere. Men and women walking down the street, all of them with masks on their faces and cell phones in their hands. People jogging, with masks covering their faces and cell phones in their hands. Mothers wheeling | …
globalresearch.ca/wrong-pandemic/5733749

France Grants Citizenship to Immigrant Essential Workers as Protests Against Racist "Security" Laws Grow
Danica Jorden | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
The government of France has decided to recognize the contributions of essential workers from other countries working within its borders during the pandemic by offering them French citizenship. On 22 December 2020, the day of the announcement, 74 immigrants were …
globalresearch.ca/france-grants-citizenship-immigrant-essential-workers-protests-against-racist-security-laws-grow/5733758

What to Look for in the December Jobs Report
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-07
The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, January 8th at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time. Soaring coronavirus infection rates are likely to be the main story in the employment report in December. Fear of the pandemic, coupled with new state and local restrictions, has led to a fall in…
counterpunch.org/2021/01/07/what-to-look-for-in-the-december-jobs-report/

Cuba: Infant Mortality Stayed Low in 2020
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-07
Cuba's Health Ministry (MINSAP) reported an infant mortality rate of 4.9 per 1,000 live births in 2020 despite the pressures put by the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. sanctions on the health system. | RELATED: | Implementation of New Monetary System Begins in Cuba | The Medical Records and Statistics Division informed that 105,030 children were born on the island, which represents 4,686 fewer births than in 2019. | Experiencing a reduction in the under-five years' mortality rate, the Carib…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Infant-Mortality-Stayed-Low-in-2020-20210107-0005.html

First Country Bans Ivermectin, a Lifesaver for COVID — Will the US be Next?
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
Ivermectin, a cheap generic drug used for hookworm, heartworm and scabies, with a half life causing it to remain in your system for months, is used as a "worming" medicine in children, dogs, horses. Due to its tremendous value as …
globalresearch.ca/first-country-bans-ivermectin-lifesaver-covid-us-next/5733764

In Cuba, All International Travelers to Receive Nasalferon
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-07
As announced during a session of Havana's Provincial Defense Council, the medicine will be administered in Boyeros and Diez de Octubre's municipalities. It then will be extended gradually to the rest of the capital city. | RELATED: | Cuba Restricts International Arrivals After COVID Cases Spike | The director of Science and Technological Innovation at the Ministry of Public Health, Ileana Morales, explained that a drop of Nasalferon would be administered nasally in the morning a…
telesurenglish.net/news/In-Cuba-All-International-Travelers-to-Receive-Nasalferon-20210107-0020.html

COVID-19: "Virus Isolation". Does the Virus Exist?
Dr. Saeed A. Qureshi | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
Editor's Note | This is a controversial issue which has been raised by several prominent scientists. | On January 7, 2020 the Chinese authorities "identify a new type of virus" which was "isolated". The CDC also confirmed that the virus had been …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-virus-does-not-exist-confirmed/5733819

COVID-19 Contact Tracing and State Surveillance
Tracy Rosenberg | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with "the worst of both worlds" — a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the epidemic. | "Low income communities, | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-contact-tracing-state-surveillance/5733802

Satire: Alien Invasion Dwarfs COVID-19 Hysteria
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
Note to our readers. This is a satire focussing on the "mysterious monoliths" which according to NASA is "paving the way for a full scale Alien invasion." | *** | A recent CBC article, reported that another one of those mysterious monoliths …
globalresearch.ca/satire-alien-invasion-dwarfs-covid-19-hysteria/5733824

Ivermectin: South Africa Bans 'Miracle' COVID-19 Treatment as "Unsafe"
Mwangi Githahu | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
The import into South Africa of ivermectin, a drug that has made international headlines recently as a so-called "miracle cure" for Covid-19, has been declared illegal by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra). | Ivermectin, which has been used …
globalresearch.ca/south-african-drugs-regulator-bans-miracle-covid-19-treatment-unsafe/5733766

Invermectin: South Africa Bans 'Miracle' COVID-19 Treatment as "Unsafe"
Mwangi Githahu | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
The import into South Africa of ivermectin, a drug that has made international headlines recently as a so-called "miracle cure" for Covid-19, has been declared illegal by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra). | Ivermectin, which has been used …
globalresearch.ca/south-african-drugs-regulator-bans-miracle-covid-19-treatment-unsafe/5733766

[Research Paper] Cost-effectiveness of scaling up short course preventive therapy for tuberculosis among children across 12 countries
Youngji Jo, Isabella Gomes, Joseph Flack, Nicole Salazar-Austin, Gavin Churchyard, Richard E Chaisson, David W Dowdy | thelancet.com | 2021-01-07
Based on this modeling analysis of available published data, household contact investigation with provision of short-course preventive therapy for TB has a value-for-money profile that compares favorably with other interventions.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30451-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Proxy Jailor: Denying Assange Bail
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-07
History, while not always a telling guide, can be useful. But in moments of flushed confidence, it is not consulted and Cleo is forgotten. A crisp new dawn can negate a glance to the past. Having received the unexpected news …
globalresearch.ca/proxy-jailor-denying-assange-bail/5733841