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2020-05-01: Social Media Postees

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UK: Indian Students Starving and Unable to Return Home
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-01
The closure of borders in India left thousands of students stranded in the United Kingdom. Now they depend on food donations from charity institutions to survive. | RELATED: | Thousands of Migrants Workers Demand Indian Govt Trains to Go Back Home | According to local media, most Indian college students work part-time in low-paying jobs to support their studies in this European country. | "The confinement forced by COVID-19 has caused many of them to lose their jobs,"
telesurenglish.net/news/uk-indian-students-starving-and-unable-to-return-home-20200501-0004.html

Harvard Postpones Commencement Indefinitely? Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Founded in 1636, Harvard commencements began in 1642, a handful of graduates alone in its early years, nine in 1642. | There were few college entrants at that time. In the 17th century after the school's founding, there were no graduates …
globalresearch.ca/harvard-postpones-commencement-indefinitely-tele-education-tele-medicine/5711501

Dr. Anthony Fauci: COVID-19 "May Turn Out to be Like a Bad Flu Season". His Peer Reviewed Article Versus His Public Statements
Ana Laura Palomino García | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Dr. Anthony Fauci and two co-authors published an article on March 26, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine. | Anthony Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the article, linked below, he states …
globalresearch.ca/dr-fauci-covid-19-may-turn-out-like-bad-flu-season/5708222

All of the Coronavirus Models Were Wrong
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
How is it possible that all of the coronavirus models could have been so completely and utterly wrong about what was going to happen? Very early in this pandemic, some models that were predicting millions of deaths caused quite a …
globalresearch.ca/all-coronavirus-models-were-wrong/5711454

A Protest From France. The Great Danger of Ill-Conceived Lockdowns
Jà∂rg Guido Hàºlsmann | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: "I protested." The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in | …
globalresearch.ca/protest-france/5711469

Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Rent Strike in NYC
Natasha Lennard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Want a grim picture of the state of American dissent during the coronavirus pandemic? Take an overview of media coverage from the last week. The press focused disproportionate attention on a few hundred white reactionaries, in a small number …
globalresearch.ca/millions-unable-pay-housing-next-month-organizers-plan-largest-rent-strike-nearly-century/5711443

Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace to Iran's 'Terrorist Airline' After Venezuela Deliveries
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The US is going on the offensive once again against Venezuela, this time attempting to break up growing Iranian cooperation and assistance to Caracas. The two so-called 'rogue states' recently targeted for US-imposed regime change are helping each other fight …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-demands-countries-block-airspace-iran-terrorist-airline-after-venezuela-deliveries/5711461

Scuttling New START Treaty: Trump's China Distraction
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
"If we want to preserve strategic stability using arms control as a counterpart of that, as a tool in that toolkit, then China should be in as well."

Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. | Claiming that they do not wish to …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-cannot-get-swiss-respirators-due-us-inhuman-blockade/5711453

Uncivil Corporate Discourse
Michael Schwalbe | zcomm.org | 2020-05-01
Focusing on the manners and debating skills of undergraduates makes the real problem disappear and serves the interests of those who would like to ally research universities all the more tightly to "corporate partners."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/uncivil-corporate-discourse/

Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
"Meat Improves Mental Health" mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the "study," published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an "unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat. Whereas only…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/meat-mental-health-story-latest-in-fake-nutritional-science/

International May Day 2020. Workers of the World Unite!
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In order to survive the plague of global capitalism and prosper, working people must join hands nationally and internationally. | As the indisputable producers, they must become the new owners of the means of production. | There is no other solution. | ….
globalresearch.ca/international-may-day-2020-workers-of-the-world-unite/5711429

"Food Supply Chain Is Breaking": Tyson Foods
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
News feeds in April have been inundated with food supply chain disruption stories due to coronavirus-related shutdowns. At least a third of US meatpacking facilities handling hogs have shifted offline this month, other plants that process cows and chickens …
globalresearch.ca/tyson-foods-warns-food-supply-chain-is-breaking/5711445

Video: Planet of the Humans. Michael Moore's Documentary
Michael Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day

"They're Writing COVID On All the Death Certificates": NYC Funeral Directors Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic
Project Veritas Action | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. | *** | Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with …
globalresearch.ca/funeral-directors-covid-19-epicenter-doubt-legitimacy-deaths-attributed-pandemic-fear-numbers-padded/5711447

It's Crucial to Distinguish Between Can't and Won't–With a Million Lives at Stake
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-01
CNN ( 5/1/20) fails to note that its expert is predicting a seven-figure death toll for the United States. | In a story predicting two more years for the coronavirus pandemic, CNN ( 5/1/20) quotes Michael Osterholm, who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota: "This thing's not going to stop until it infects 60 to 70% of people," he said. "The idea that this is going to be done soon defies micr…
fair.org/home/its-crucial-to-distinguish-between-cant-and-wont-with-a-million-lives-at-stake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-crucial-to-distinguish-between-cant-and-wont-with-a-million-lives-at-stake

Heads up! More than 16,000kg of EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL blasts Earth every year, study reveals
rt.com | 2020-05-01
Groundbreaking fresh research has revealed that Earth is under constant assault from the heavens with 16,000kg of space material raining down on our planet every year. | A team of UK scientists went to Antarctica to hunt for meteorites in order to work out how often Earth is battered by space projectiles. It turns out that it happens all the time, as their calculations revealed that more than 16,000kg of meteorite material with a mass above 50g wallops the planet each year. | When smaller material is included, the figure rockets up to a staggering total of 40 million, but this is mostly made up of fine space d…
rt.com/news/487516-amount-meterorites-hit-earth-every-year/

How Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence in its COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
Artificial intelligence has a vital role in helping researchers in their efforts to fight COVID-19 and is an important tool in the work being done at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Andrew Badley is an infectious diseases specialist and leads Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Research Task Force. In this Q&A, Dr. Badley answers questions about the task force …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-mayo-clinic-is-using-artificial-intelligence-in-its-covid-19-research/

Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/physicians-scientists-and-physician-scientists-connect-dots-between-heart-disease-potential-for-worse-covid-19-outcomes/

Big-Pharma Put in Charge of COVID-19 "Vaccine"
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Big-Pharma is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 "vaccine." Would you trust your health to these profit driven criminals? | Coronavirus Disease 2019 or "Covid-19″ hysteria is sweeping the globe

France Says COVID Was Already 'Silently Circulating' & DARPA's "Implantable Nanoplatform" Vaccines
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-01
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 (4/30/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/france-says-covid-was-already-silently-circulating-darpas-implantable-nanoplatform-vaccines/

For World's Rarest Great Ape, COVID-19 Is Latest in a Litany of Threats
Ayat S. Karokaro | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia, the rarest great ape species of all and one already under severe pressure from a range of human threats. | The critically endangered species, Pongo tapanuliensis…
globalresearch.ca/world-rarest-great-ape-covid-19-latest-threats/5711467

Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond
Tyler Olson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they …
globalresearch.ca/alito-orders-pennsylvania-respond-case-asking-supreme-court-halt-enforcement-stay-home-order/5711436

Global smartphone market suffers largest annual decline in history due to coronavirus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-01
The coronavirus has hit the global smartphone market hard, sinking worldwide shipments by up to 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020, new data from analyst firms shows. | While the International Data Corporation (IDC) says that the smartphones shipments tumbled 11.7 percent, analysts from Counterpoint Research and Canalys indicate that they fell even worse – by 13 percent. Whichever numbers are more accurate, this means that the global smartphone market declined the fastest ever. | Companies shipped fewer than 300 million smartphones in the first three months of 2020, with the IDC quarterly mobile tracker s…
rt.com/business/487488-smartphone-market-worst-decline/

The Yemeni Quagmire
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
A Saudi-led coalition has rejected the enforcement of a "self-administration rule" by the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen and called on all the parties to honor the Riyadh Agreement that includes the formation of a technocrat government with equal …
globalresearch.ca/yemeni-quagmire/5711486

Video: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created in Laboratory
Paul Anthony Taylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has added his voice to those who believe the new coronavirus was …
globalresearch.ca/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-discovered-hiv-says-coronavirus-created-laboratory/5711463

As US Unemployment Reaches Great Depression Levels, Millions Still Unable to Obtain Assistance
Shannon Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
More than 3.8 million workers in the US filed for unemployment benefits last week as the country faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 30 million American workers have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of …
globalresearch.ca/us-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-levels-millions-still-unable-obtain-assistance/5711499

The Defeat of Bernie Sanders and the Perfidy of the Democrats
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The sudden collapse of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency comes amidst what official sources are calling the worst influenza pandemic to hit the United States and much of the world since the misnamed 'Spanish Flu' in 1918. Sensational …
globalresearch.ca/defeat-bernie-sanders-perfidy-democrats/5711493

Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antimalarials-covid-19-cardiac-arrest/

COVID-19: When schools reopen, it needs to be on a radically different basis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-01
Education Fred FuentesIssue 1263 Australia COVID-19 schools teachers parentsMay 1, 2020R…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-when-schools-reopen-it-needs-be-radically-different-basis

Surveillance System and Privacy: Britain's NHS Ordered to Hand Over Security Keys of NHS Data to UK Intel and Security Authority GCHQ
Rob Woodward | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Britain's NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, …
globalresearch.ca/nhs-ordered-hand-over-security-keys-nhs-data-gchq/5711458

Video: Prospects of Turkish-Russian Military Conflict in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The region of Greater Idlib remains the main source of tensions in Syria. | The March 5th ceasefire deal reached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow allowed an end to be made to the …
globalresearch.ca/video-prospects-turkish-russian-military-conflict-syria/5711491

Trump Regime Threatens Escalated War on China by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Hegemons aren't like other nations. They operate extrajudicially on the world stage by their own rules

Blaming the Victim Is the West's Latest Infowar Tactic Against China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Fewer and fewer people believe Western officials and their media, which is the West's own fault for confusing their targeted audience with the mixed messages that they disseminated about COVID-19 over the past couple of months. It was an epic …
globalresearch.ca/blaming-the-victim-is-the-wests-latest-infowar-tactic-against-china/5711478

Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…

Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…

Imperial community pays tribute to Lord Robert May (1936-2020)
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-01
Colleagues remember a 'towering figure in UK science', with a 'sharp, penetrating mind' and a passion for croquet.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197256/imperial-community-pays-tribute-lord-robert

EFF Off! Nonprofits Score Major Net Neutrality Win As ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale To Ethos Capital
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-01
The 'important' ruling has been seen as a victory to preserve the internet for millions of non-for-profit entities and organisations, according to a major internet defence campaign.
sputniknews.com/science/202005011079157813-eff-off-nonprofits-score-major-net-neutrality-win-as-icann-rejects-org-sale-to-ethos-capital/

Two Down, Two More to Go: Earth is Bombarded by Asteroid Visits
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-01
The development comes after NASA announced that a potentially hazardous asteroid is expected to fly by our planet on 7 May. 2009 XO belongs to the category of Apollo asteroids, whose orbit crosses that of the Earth.
sputniknews.com/science/202005011079158831-two-down-two-more-to-go-earth-is-bombarded-by-asteroid-visits/

Teacher, symbol of kindness, love
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-01
SHABESTAR, May 01 (MNA)

Quebec workers denounce government's rush to "reopen" the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
"We are being sent out to babysit so that business can make profits on the backs of working people," a Montreal teacher told the WSWS.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/quco…

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/wor2…

Ayatollah Khamenei congratulates teachers on their national day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-01
TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA)

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/wor2…

Quebec workers denounce government's rush to "reopen" the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
"We are being sent out to babysit so that business can make profits on the backs of working people," a Montreal teacher told the WSWS.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/quco…

What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond
Diana Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that the Institute had achieved, including the development of interferons to successfully fight viral diseases such as dengue and ebola. Little did we imagine that…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/what-cuba-has-to-teach-in-pandemic-times-and-beyond/

What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond
Diana Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that the Institute had achieved, including the development of interferons to successfully fight viral diseases such as dengue and ebola. Little did we imagine that…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/what-cuba-has-to-teach-in-pandemic-times-and-beyond/

Poorest in England MORE THAN TWICE as likely to die from Covid-19 as richest, new stats reveal
rt.com | 2020-05-01
New UK figures show that the deadly coronavirus does indeed discriminate in unequal societies, and badly, revealing that Covid-19 deaths in the most deprived areas of England are over double the amount in the least deprived areas. | Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on F…
rt.com/uk/487505-coronavirus-deaths-double-poorest/

Bolsonaro & COVID-19 push Brazil towards military dictatorship
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brazilian journalist and researcher, Aline Piva, after Brazil's Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, caught…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/30/bolsonaro-covid-19-push-brazil-towards-military-dictatorship/

Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, …
globalresearch.ca/video-how-us-makes-countries-pay-its-wars-economics-american-imperialism-michael-hudson/5711354

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2020-04-30: News Headlines

news.un (2020-04-30). How can schools open up again safely? The UN has some new guidelines. news.un.org As countries grapple with severe disruptions to education caused by COVID-19, several UN agencies — as part of the Global Education Coalition — issued new guidelines on Thursday to help Governments make decisions on safely reopening schools for the world's 1.3 billion students affected by ongoing closures.

WSWS (2020-04-30). Citing COVID-19 crisis, Ontario teacher unions impose concession-filled contracts. wsws.org The unions have sabotaged a months-long struggle by education workers that had the potential to spearhead a working-class upsurge against the hated Ford government.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-30). Vice President Pence to visit Mayo Clinic in Rochester on April 28. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Rochester, Minnesota, on Tuesday, April 28. He will tour Mayo Clinic facilities that support COVID-19 research and treatment, and speak with staff. Later that evening, Vice President Pence will return to Washington, D.C. Additional details about the vice president's trip are forthcoming. Members of the media can contact …

The Canary (2020-04-30). More than 1,700 UK deaths avoided due to improvement in air quality during lockdown. thecanary.co More than 1,700 deaths in the UK have been avoided in the past month due to better air quality caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown, according to a Europe-wide study. | The Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) report says levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) — produced by road traffic and heavy industry — have dropped by some 40% in the past 30 days. | The study also found a 10% reduction in the average level of particulate matter pollution across Europe. | These decreases have resulted in an estimated 11,000 avoided deaths related to air pollution across Europe, inclu…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-30). Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-30). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 news briefing with Dr. Greg Poland. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, covers the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Poland discusses current outbreak numbers, why there may be a second wave of infections, and research on a vaccine. Click the player below: Mayo Clinic Q&A is …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2020-04-30). Seniors, Prisoners and the Plight of the Detroit Majority. globalresearch.ca Statistical indicators from the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan reveal that the rate of infections and deaths resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are on the decline. | During the early weeks of April the state of Michigan was …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-30). Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-04-30). How Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence in its COVID-19 research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artificial intelligence has a vital role in helping researchers in their efforts to fight COVID-19 and is an important tool in the work being done at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Andrew Badley is an infectious diseases specialist and leads Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Research Task Force. In this Q&A, Dr. Badley answers questions about the task force …

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-30). Dismantling The Superficial "China Did It" Narrative (Origin Unknown) & CDC "Suspends" Flu Reporting. 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 (4/29/19). 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 …

W. T. Whitney (2020-04-30). COVID 19: Think Science and the People. counterpunch.org The people need science. The teaching is a legacy of pathologist Rudolph Virchow who was at the barricades in Berlin in 1848. A journal entry in that year of revolutions reads, "Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale." The pioneering Virchow first pronounced upon the biological importance of cells in health and disease. He was the "chief founder of modern scientific medicine." (William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1902),

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2020-04-30). The Power and Plight of Science. counterpunch.org The Greeks used the word episteme for science. Episteme means knowledge, techne (craftsmanship), understanding, and experience. Episteme / science was primarily knowledge from the observation of nature and natural phenomena, which slowly eclipsed the role of the divine and superstition in the organization and understanding of life and the cosmos. In the fifth century BCE,

WSWS (2020-04-30). German students oppose reopening of schools. wsws.org Under the slogan "average grade 2020," students are demanding the suspension of final exams and the closing of schools so long as the lives of students, teachers and their relatives are at risk from COVID-19.

WSWS (2020-04-30). The lessons of the University of California grad student strike. wsws.org Lacking any viable political strategy, the leaders of the UC grad student strike capitulated to the United Auto Workers, the same union teaching assistants rebelled against.

(2020-04-30). On Mumia's birthday, global event honors political prisoners. workers.org By Mirinda Crissman and Judy Greenspan From behind prison walls nearly 39 years, Mumia Abu Jamal continues to educate, energize and unite prison abolitionists, former and current political prisoners, and the global activist community. On April 24, his 66th birthday, Abu-Jamal's story and legacy brought together a virtual gathering "U.S. . . . |

Staff (2020-04-29). Students Face Unequal Access During COVID-19 Shutdown. truthout.org We look at the impact of the pandemic on schools, universities, students, parents, teachers and professors — and who is at the table to shape what happens next. "We now have an economic crisis on top of the public health crisis, and the ways that we're choosing to educate children is simply unequal and is going to lead to an educational crisis," says education scholar and Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. | TRANSC…

Staff (2020-04-29). Education Crisis: From Pre-K to Higher Ed, Students Face Unequal Access During Coronavirus Shutdown. democracynow.org We look at the impact of the pandemic on schools, universities, students, parents, teachers and professors — and who is at the table to shape what happens next. "We now have an economic crisis on top of the public health crisis, and the ways that we're choosing to educate children is simply unequal and is going to lead to an educational crisis," says education scholar and Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks, author of "Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education."

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-04-29). Western Accusations of Russian Interference in Libya in Favor of Haftar's LNA. globalresearch.ca Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has declared that his forces will take control of Libya, arguing that the UN-negotiated unity agreement is dead. The statement was made during a televised

imperial.ac.uk (2020-04-29). New guidance to support innovators fighting COVID-19. imperial.ac.uk Imperial researchers have set out key regulations innovators must comply with when designing and building technologies safely to tackle COVID-19.

Barry Grey (2020-04-29). Round Two of the "Paycheck Protection Program": Another Disaster for US Small Businesses and Their Employees. globalresearch.ca The launch Monday morning of the second round of the US "small business" Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a debacle. Millions of family-owned entities, desperate for credit and tottering on the brink of permanent closure, were once again shut out …

David H Freedman (2020-04-29). "One of the Most Influential Scientists Alive" Read This 2010 Profile of Dr. Ioannidis, the COVID Doomsday Cult Slayer. anti-empire.com Excerpt: Indeed, given the breadth of the potential problems raised at the meeting, can any medical-research studies be trusted? | That question has been central to Ioannidis's career. He's what's known as a meta-researcher, and he's become one of the world's foremost experts on the credibility of medical research. He and his team have shown, again and again, and in many different ways, that much of what biomedical researchers conclude in published studies—conclusions that doctors keep in mind when they prescribe antibiotics or blood-pressure medication, or when they advise us to consume more fiber or les…

Steven Sahiounie (2020-04-29). Syrian Resistance to the US Occupation Escalates. globalresearch.ca US President Trump ordered a surprise withdrawal of US troops from Syria in October 2019; however, he bent to pressure from aides and Pentagon officials and soon reversed his decision. He then ordered about 500 US soldiers to occupy the …

yenisafak (2020-04-30). Tajikistan confirms first cases of coronavirus. yenisafak.com Tajikistan reported Thursday the first coronavirus cases in the country.The Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced that 15 people, 10 in Khujand and five in Dushanbe, have been diagnosed with COVID-19.Meanwhile, the country made it compulsory for people to wear protective mask upon the decision taken by the Coronavirus Prevention Center during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda.With the decision, a break is announced for all university students in the country starting from May 4.On April 28, the ministry said that 319 people, including 126 health workers, had been hospitalized with s…

yenisafak (2020-04-30). EU unemployment rate up 6.6% in March. yenisafak.com The European Union's unemployment rate rose to 6.6% in March, the bloc's statistical office reported on Thursday.The figure was up from 6.5% in the previous month, while it dropped from 6.9% in the same month last year, Eurostat said in a press release.Meanwhile, the unemployment rate was 7.4% in the euro area, the office said, rising from 7.3% in the previous month and decreasing from 7.7% in the same month of 2019.The eurozone/euro area or EA19 represents member states that use the single currency

sputniknews (2020-04-30). New COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Offers 'No Significant' Benefit, More Research Needed-Study. sputniknews.com The first randomised trial for a promising new antiviral drug, lauded by many as a positive treatment for SARS-CoV-2 patients, suggested that there were no significant clinical benefits, with researchers urging further trials, a study released on late Wednesday revealed.

sputniknews (2020-04-30). Scientists Discover Potentially Oldest Mammal Dubbed 'Crazy Beast' in Madagascar. sputniknews.com Researchers have discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a mammal that lived on the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, according to the magazine Nature.

sputniknews (2020-04-30). If ET Sapient Life Exists, It Can Intercept Our Signals, Chinese Astrophysicist Says. sputniknews.com According to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), China has started searching for extraterrestrial civilisations with the world's largest FAST radio telescope.

sputniknews (2020-04-30). Brighter Than Trillion Stars: Scientists Predict Enormous Flare From Two Supermassive Black Holes. sputniknews.com These blackholes are located in the galaxy OJ 287, which has been observed by scientists since the 19th century. OJ 287 is not an ordinary galaxy, it's a blazar, a special type of active galactic nuclei powered by a material — gas, dust, or stars — falling onto supermassive black holes. This blazar generates relativistic jets beaming toward Earth.

sputniknews (2020-04-30). Killer From Heaven: Turkish Scientists Uncover Earliest Evidence of Meteorite-Struck Person. sputniknews.com A new scientific report suggests one was killed and another paralysed by a celestial body that allegedly hit Earth in August 1888, with many locals reporting to have seen a massive fireball in the sky above present-day Iraqi Kurdistan.

Manlio Dinucci (2020-04-29). Video: Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra. globalresearch.ca "Convegno internazionale "Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra" in occasione del 75 ∞ anniversario della Liberazione d'Italia" | Michel Chossudovsky (Canada), economista, direttore del Centro di ricerca sulla globalizzazione; Peter Koenig (Svizzera), economista con lunga esperienza nella Banca Mondiale, Guido Grossi, già dirigente …

South Front (2020-04-29). Video: Israeli Military Buildup Near Golan Heights Follows Strikes on Syrian Capital. globalresearch.ca Israel has deployed additional units of the Iron Dome and Patriot air defense systems near the borders of Lebanon and Syria. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the country's military is preparing to repel possible retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed …

Peter Oborne (2020-04-29). Will China Replace Islam as the West's New Enemy? globalresearch.ca It's just over a quarter of a century since the American political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote his famous essay on Huntington was writing after the fall …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2020-04-29). The Myth of V-Shape US Economic Recovery. globalresearch.ca The spin is in! Trump administration economic 'message bearers', Steve Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, and Kevin Hasset, senior economic adviser to Trump, this past Sunday on the Washington TV talking heads circuit launched a coordinated effort to calm …

Kevin Reed (2020-04-29). Millions of US Workers Blocked from Applying for Jobless Benefits. globalresearch.ca While the US government has proceeded expeditiously to hand over trillions of dollars to the Wall Street banks and corporations, millions of workers who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic have been blocked from applying for unemployment benefits….

Howie Hawkins (2020-04-29). The Coronavirus 5th "Relief Package" We Need. globalresearch.ca The coronavirus depression is fast becoming as deep as the Great Depression. The federal government's response has been too little, too late. | While sickness and death spread, while unemployment and small business failures soar, while health care and essential workers …

Comitato No Nato (2020-04-29). Giulietto Chiesa: Lets Free Ourselves from the Virus of War. globalresearch.ca GIULIETTO CHIESA remained on the front line of the fight, to implement Article 11 of the Constitution, to take Italy out of the "War System". | Giulietto Chiesa passed away a few hours after the conclusion, on the 75th Anniversary of …

RT (2020-04-29). Covid-19 was already 'silently circulating' in France before virus arrived from China & Italy — study. rt.com The outbreak of the coronavirus in France has little to do with cases imported from China or Italy, as another strain of the disease of unknown origin had already been infecting people in the country, research claims. | The virologists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have sequenced the genomes from samples taken from 97 French and three Algerian coronavirus patients between January 24 and March 24. | What they found is that the dominant types of Covid-19 viral strains in France differed from those that arrived from China or Italy, and belonged to another group, or 'clade.' | The earliest sample in the French…

F. William Engdahl (2020-04-29). The Dubious COVID Models, The Tests and Now the Consequences. globalresearch.ca Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for …

Pepe Escobar (2020-04-29). How to Think Post-Planet Lockdown. globalresearch.ca Between unaccountability of elites and total fragmentation of civil society, Covid-19 as a circuit breaker is showing how the king — systemic design — is naked. | We are being sucked into a

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-04-29). Western Media Continues to Spread Fake News About North Korea. globalresearch.ca In modern warfare, one of the greatest weapons is the power to manipulate information. In a globalized international society, extremely integrated and connected by an infinite information circulation network, a media which controls the dissemination and content of such information …

imperial.ac.uk (2020-04-29). Being male or overweight can lead to more serious COVID-19 hospital admissions. imperial.ac.uk New UK research has found that being male or obese reduces chance of survival from severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

UNCTAD (2020-04-29). Data and Privacy Unprotected in One Third of Countries, Despite Progress. globalresearch.ca Only 66% of the nations of the world safeguard people's data and privacy, despite an 11 percentage point increase in the adoption of data protection and privacy legislation in the period 2015-2020, according to new UNCTAD data. | Results of a …

Elijah J. Magnier (2020-04-29). Iraq Facing a Great US Threat: Expanding the US' "Harir" Military Base in Iraqi Kurdistan. globalresearch.ca No country could fail to be shaken by the kind of profound struggle between all its political groups that currently prevails in Iraq. The US does not need to make any great effort to sow discord between the parties because …

Andrew Korybko (2020-04-29). "Belt and Road" Regionalization: Pakistan's Gwadar Port Opens Afghan Trade to the World. globalresearch.ca The successful opening of Gwadar Port to Afghanistan lays the basis for expanding this trade network to Central Asia and Russia via N-CPEC+, which sets a positive example for how BRI-led regionalization can rejuvenate globalization after the coronavirus is finally …

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. 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 (4/28/19). 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 …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-04-29). Pandemic Diplomacy: "The Gum on China's Shoe" globalresearch.ca "Australia is always there, making trouble. It is a bit like chewing gum stuck on the sole of China's shoes. Sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off." — Hu Xijin, Global Times editor, April 27, 2020….

Black Alliance for Peace (2020-04-29). COVID-19: 'It's the System, Stupid!' Black Alliance for Peace. globalresearch.ca The current disaster exists in large part because the U.S. healthcare system is the opposite of what is needed. It is fragmented, discriminatory and designed for corporate profits, not the well-being of the public. Even before the pandemic, the United …

imperial.ac.uk (2020-04-29). Three Imperial researchers elected Fellows of the Royal Society. imperial.ac.uk The Royal Society has granted fellowship to three scientists at Imperial College London.

Mike Robinson (2020-04-29). The British Military Information War Waged on Their Own Population. globalresearch.ca Last Wednesday, during the daily We've been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours …

Edward Curtin (2020-04-29). Death: "The Most Frightening Idea" or "A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch"? globalresearch.ca Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us has experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It is the ultimate unknown. It …

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