Daily Archives: February 13, 2022

2022-02-13: News Headlines

William Briggs (2022-02-13). The United States, war on two fronts and loss of empire. greenleft.org.au The propaganda war against China and Russia got a whole lot worse in the past week. The very real danger of war either in our region, or in Europe, was made abundantly clear, argues William Briggs.

Gérard Delépine (2022-02-13). High Recorded Mortality in Countries Categorized as "Covid-19 Vaccine Champions". The Vaccinated Suffer from Increased Risk of Mortality. globalresearch.ca This "health strategy" based on false simulations, lies, promises never kept, propaganda and the fear campaign has become unbearable. In turn it has been followed by the extortion of consent to be vaccinated, by outright blackmail.

Michael Harris (2022-02-13). Why have we never heard of Black Marines serving at Iwo Jima? indybay.org 2022 California Black History Month, we began to focus on equitable and inclusive services for California Black Veterans. | Some have chosen to double down on controlling the narrative while denying and reducing earned Veteran benefits. | President Biden's Executive Order #13985 can't get to California fast enough…

_____ (2022-02-12). Front Line In New Cold War On China. popularresistance.org With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized China over the 2022 Winter Olympics. | Britain's major newspaper the Financial Times openly declared, "Beijing Winter Olympics: the new front line in the US-China cold war." | China expert Carl Zha joins Multipolarista to pick apart the propaganda and explain what's really happening.

Editor2 (2022-02-12). 'Freedom Convoy': A Dangerous Movement for the Working Class, but Useful for the Ruling Class. orinocotribune.com By Communist Party of Canada — Feb 4, 2022 | The Communist Party of Canada views the "Freedom Convoy" as a public expression of the increasingly organized and assertive far right. The clear links between the organizers of the convoy and far-right networks indicate that this is not a spontaneous working-class demonstration. On the contrary, it is part of a global phenomenon: the rise and mainstreaming of the far right, which is demonstrated by the strong support (ideologically and financially) from the US far right and circles close to Donald Trump and the Jan. 6thinsurrection. The convoy is filled with Nazi…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-12). Canada: Multi-Ethnic Protesters, Ottawa Residents, Challenge Mainstream Media and Counter-Revolutionary — COINTELPRO Left Claims of Racism. libya360.wordpress.com Jamil Jivani Jamil Jivani Stop Calling the Truckers Racist. Many Black Canadians Support Them! In fact, appropriate for the month of February, the trucker convoy is actually a Black history moment. Liberal politicians and mainstream media corporations want you to believe that the trucker convoy in Ottawa is racist. The first line of attack on…

Staff (2022-02-12). Russia issues warning to US. rt.com Another round of negotiations between Moscow and Washington on Ukraine has been held ahead of crucial talks | Another round of Russia-US negotiations on the Ukraine crisis, on Saturday, saw Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warn his American counterpart, Antony Blinken against a "propaganda campaign" over an alleged plan by Moscow to attack Ukraine. | Both foreign and defense ministers of the two countries held phone conversations over "security issues of mutual interest," ahead of crucial talks between the presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, in the evening. | According to a statement f…

RECOVERY Collaborative Group (2022-02-12). [Articles] Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial. thelancet.com In patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, the monoclonal antibody combination of casirivimab and imdevimab reduced 28-day mortality in patients who were seronegative (and therefore had not mounted their own humoral immune response) at baseline but not in those who were seropositive at baseline.

Staff (2022-02-12). AI could already be 'slightly conscious', expert claims. rt.com Other experts are skeptical, accusing the OpenAI researcher of "trolling" | The co-founder of a San Francisco-based AI research laboratory claimed in a Twitter post this week that "today's largest neural networks" could already be "slightly conscious." | Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI did not clarify what system or systems he was referring to, or how exactly he defines "slightly conscious." | It is possible he was referring to OpenAI's GPT-3 — an advanced language processing system developed for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words. | Sutskever's cryptic tweet quickly engendered a deb…

Staff (2022-02-12). Explosion in eastern Ukraine — reports. rt.com The news comes amid heightened tensions between NATO and Russia | Several unverified reports on social media and in local media have claimed that a large bang could be heard in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. Some alleged eyewitnesses said they felt a "shockwave." | Denis Pushilin, the top official in the region, told RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan that the blast occurred in the area controlled by Kiev and that, in his opinion, the situation is "under control" so far. He added that the explosion appeared to come from what he described as a "

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