Monthly Archives: December 2020

2020-12-14: News Headlines

John Pilger (2020-12-14). John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War. mintpressnews.com In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Britain has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defense spending.

Vanessa Beeley (2020-12-14). Evasions and Cover-ups by Western Governments over Funding of Terrorist Groups in Syria Start to Unravel. dissidentvoice.org Evidence of Dutch and British funding for extremists who've beheaded children & carried out ethnic-cleansing grows by the day. Yet most of the mainstream media — including the BBC — still try to keep this truth silent. Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of …

David Skripac (2020-12-13). COVID-19: A Fabricated Second "Tidal Wave" of Poverty and Injustice. globalresearch.ca Here we are at the end of a year filled with upheaval, facing yet another round of lockdowns, this time ostensibly intended to fight off a supposed "second wave of COVID-19." | In the foreground, we have the completely co-opted mainstream …

Ralph Nader (2020-12-12). Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It. commondreams.org Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

_____ (2020-12-12). Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship. popularresistance.org YouTube, whose corporate owner Google is arguably the most powerful company on earth, is now deleting user videos which claim the US election was fraudulent. | YouTube's official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say. | At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone's health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19. | At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as…

Qiao Collective (2020-12-12). Qiao Collective on challenging U.S. aggression on China, the role of the Western left. mronline.org On the domestic front, the U.S. propaganda machine mostly works instead to position China as this great, menacing oriental Other. We've seen this during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump's rhetoric about the "China virus" and in Biden's attempts at one-upmanship.

WSWS (2020-12-12). US aviation officials push to resume normal air traffic operations while coronavirus spreads. wsws.org The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has slowly resumed pre-pandemic air traffic controller schedules as airlines increase flights.

Annery G Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Pete G Kovatsis, Agnes I Hunyady, Patrick N Olomu, Bingqing Zhang, Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, Adolfo Gonzalez, Siri Kanmanthreddy, Jorge A Gálvez, Amber M Franz, James Peyton, Raymond Park, Edgar E Kiss, David Sommerfield, Heather Griffis, Akira Nishisaki, Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg, Vinay M Nadkarni, Francis X McGowan, John E Fiadjoe, PeDI Collaborative investigators (2020-12-12). [Articles] First-attempt success rate of video laryngoscopy in small infants (VISI): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. thelancet.com Among anaesthetised infants, using video laryngoscopy with a standard blade improves the first-attempt success rate and reduces complications.

teleSUR, ce (2020-12-12). French Police Round Up Protesters, Mainstream Media Ignores. telesurenglish.net French citizens held another day of large-scale protests in Paris against the global security bill, which limits the dissemination of images in which police officers can be personally identified, among other things. | RELATED: | Parisian police repressed the march, making several arrests, reportedly to prevent the formation of the so-called "black blocks" of protesters. | Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that…

Project Censored (2020-12-09). Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth discuss the New Project Censored Book. projectcensored.org Today on the Project Censored Show Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth discuss the new Project Censored book, and explain its analytical approach. Project Censored's new annual volume, "State of…

2020-12-14: Social Media Postees

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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid. It Is War
John Pilger | zcomm.org | 2020-12-14
Britain has no enemies other than those within who betray the trust of its ordinary people, its nurses and doctors, its carers, elderly, homeless and youth, as successive neo-liberal governments have done, Conservative and Labour…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-most-lethal-vi…

John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-14
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Britain has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defense spending.
mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-lethal-vir…

Evasions and Cover-ups by Western Governments over Funding of Terrorist Groups in Syria Start to Unravel
Vanessa Beeley | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-14
Evidence of Dutch and British funding for extremists who've beheaded children & carried out ethnic-cleansing grows by the day. Yet most of the mainstream media — including the BBC — still try to keep this truth silent. Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/evasions-and-…

Coronavirus Fact-Check #9: Is the Vaccine Safe?
Kit Knightly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
There are dozens of articles all over the mainstream reassuring us that the brand new Sars-Cov-2 vaccine is safe. In the UK the vaccine rolled out is being hailed as "V Day", in a shameless attempt to draw a …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-fact-check…

COVID-19: A Fabricated Second "Tidal Wave" of Poverty and Injustice
David Skripac | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-13
Here we are at the end of a year filled with upheaval, facing yet another round of lockdowns, this time ostensibly intended to fight off a supposed "second wave of COVID-19." | In the foreground, we have the completely co-opted mainstream …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-fabricated-se…

Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/12/12/go-vot…

[Articles] First-attempt success rate of video laryngoscopy in small infants (VISI): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial
Annery G Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Pete G Kovatsis, Agnes I Hunyady, Patrick N Olomu, Bingqing Zhang, Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, Adolfo Gonzalez, Siri Kanmanthreddy, Jorge A Gálvez, Amber M Franz, James Peyton, Raymond Park, Edgar E Kiss, David Sommerfield, Heather Griffis, Akira Nishisaki, Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg, Vinay M Nadkarni, Francis X McGowan, John E Fiadjoe, PeDI Collaborative investigators | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
Among anaesthetised infants, using video laryngoscopy with a standard blade improves the first-attempt success rate and reduces complications.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32532-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Qiao Collective on challenging U.S. aggression on China, the role of the Western left
Qiao Collective | mronline.org | 2020-12-12
On the domestic front, the U.S. propaganda machine mostly works instead to position China as this great, menacing oriental Other. We've seen this during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump's rhetoric about the "China virus" and in Biden's attempts at one-upmanship.
mronline.org/2020/12/12/qiao-collective-…

US aviation officials push to resume normal air traffic operations while coronavirus spreads
wsws.org | 2020-12-12
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has slowly resumed pre-pandemic air traffic controller schedules as airlines increase flights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/12/airc…

French Police Round Up Protesters, Mainstream Media Ignores
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-12
French citizens held another day of large-scale protests in Paris against the global security bill, which limits the dissemination of images in which police officers can be personally identified, among other things. | RELATED: | Six People Arrested in Brazil Over the Death of Joao Silveira | Parisian police repressed the march, making several arrests, reportedly to prevent the formation of the so-called "black blocks" of protesters. | Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that…
telesurenglish.net/news/french-police-ro…

Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
YouTube, whose corporate owner Google is arguably the most powerful company on earth, is now deleting user videos which claim the US election was fraudulent. | YouTube's official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say. | At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone's health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19. | At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as…
popularresistance.org/yet-another-major-…

Biden Must Restore Citizenship for Black and Brown People
Manar Waheed | aclu.org | 2020-12-11
President Trump's relentless destruction of our immigration system is well documented. However, the myriad ways in which he attacked and targeted Black and Brown people seeking immigration benefits or citizenship, and even U.S. citizens is less discussed. , , There have been three substantial attacks on citizenship for Black and Brown immigrants: | Indefinite delays of immigration benefits, including citizenship, through the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), which has targeted Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries since 2008;Blocking the expedited path to citizenship fo…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/biden-mu…

Pharma Controlled FDA Panel Recommends Approval for Controversial Pfizer COVID Vaccine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11