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Here’s Why We Can’t Rush a COVID-19 Vaccine
Patrick Boyle | Association of American Medical Colleges - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Vaccines have saved humanity from countless scourges, including measles, polio, and smallpox. But the process of producing a safe, effective vaccine is necessarily painstaking, as the risk of harm is real.
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Christmas: Israel Bombs Gaza Strip while Protests Continue in West Bank
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
25 Dec 2020 – Israeli jets have bombarded several civilian targets in At Tuffah neighborhood today, including the Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Al-Dorra Hospital for Children, and Al Bureij refugee camp. Loud explosions were heard and f-16s were reportedly spotted.
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I Am Guilty of Violating the Espionage Act
Laura Poitras | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020 – The Justice Department is setting a dangerous precedent that threatens reporters — and the truth. Journalism is not a crime!
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Going Underground | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – John Pilger discusses the devastating impact of Covid-19 in the UK, rising poverty and militarism, the Western logic for the new Cold War with China, the victory of Joe Biden over Donald Trump, why not much will change in the White House, the Yemen War, the survival of Venezuela despite crippling international sanctions, mainstream journalism vs. real journalism–and more.
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Can You Hear the People Sing? Global Responses to the Pandemic
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
For many, the Covid 19 pandemic took loved ones and livelihoods away without discrimination. Yet for others, the confinement was a period in which some felt a sense that things could be better if all worked together. This is a rich collection of poems with reflections and observations. [Camilla Reeve (Ed.) London: Palewell Press, 2020]
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Peace and Peacefulness: Reaching for the Stars
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
I recall being rather bemused more than 25 years ago when a meditation practice was premised on the confidence that if enough people meditated for a few minutes each day on the reality of a peaceful world it would bend the arc of history toward peace. I know that spiritual attentiveness has wider implications but I find no evidence that links connect my meditation with the policies and actions of performers in ongoing world dramas.
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Trump Pardons Blackwater Contractors Jailed for Massacre of Iraq Civilians
Michael Safi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
23 Dec 2020 – Donald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
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Is Iran Closer to Avenging the Murder of Its Two Prominent Leaders?
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Tehran has taken every opportunity to demonstrate its scientific and technological skills but unwilling to exploit any of it needlessly. It is not a Third World country struggling to develop. It is a major military power of West Asia. It builds missiles, a prowess the US is trying to end. The late Fakhrizadeh has the distinction of being compared to Oppenheimer the father of the nuclear bomb. It is a civilisation of some five thousand years.
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Christmas Greetings
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Let s love Nature
Snow falls
Sun shines
Ya Mariam al Bikr – يا مريم البكر (Music Video of the Week)
Fairouz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
A beautiful hymn with images from Ehden in Northern Lebanon. Ehden is Syriac Aramaic for “Eden”, Paradise. It is mentioned in the Bible that the earthly paradise was in this place.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
The unbounded idea includes sharing surplus, moving resources from where they are not needed to where they are needed, following the ancient principle Pope Francis is repeating every day: our property belongs not only to us but also to those we can help with our surplus. It is about peace by peaceful means; education, ethics, and practical applications; more than about playing hardball with people who choose to live by a different philosophy.
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2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, tipped portside by year end 2020 with major popular victories, including reversal of the coup in Bolivia and the constitutional referendum in Chile.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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OMG
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
“God, is it true that for you a thousand years is like a minute?”
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Coronavirus Global Data: 81,1M+ Infected; 1,7M+ Deceased; 57,3M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
As of 28 Dec 2020 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 187
Total Cases: 81,193,597
Deaths: 1,773,080
Recovered: 57,337,077
Cases Closed: 59,110,157
Active: 22,083,440
George Galloway: The Brexit Deal Is Done. We Are Now Free to Build a New Britain…If We Want It
George Galloway | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Free to decide who can live here and who must leave. Free to say FU to EU demands to sanction others. Free to make friends with the capriciously chosen enemies of both Washington and Brussels – usually the same in any case. We are free to trade on any terms we like with the suns rising in the east. Free to refuse to go quietly into the sunset in the west.
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What Time Is It in Lockdown?
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Here where I dwell in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice has just occurred. The darkest day of the year in a dark year. A few days ago was also the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which is interesting to those who like the musical Hair and believe their fates lie in the stars and not in themselves.
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The Bill Gates Multi Billion Dollar Briberies of…
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
… Academia, Big Vaccine, Big Pharma, WHO, the NIH/CDC/Fauci and the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Thanks to Dr Betty Martini for the great chart below that illustrates just a part of Bill Gates’ unjust economic influence over the global over-vaccination agendas of so many government agencies, academic institutions, and Big Pharma.
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Does Science Come from Spirituality or Is It Made by Man?
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Spirituality is the study of the totality of reality, whereas science is the study of a subset of that reality. If we consider total reality as a big circle, then physical reality is a small circle within that big circle and science studies that physical reality.
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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, but Is Europe Finally Taking Notice?
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – A long and cruel siege, constant Israeli attacks resulting in the killing of countless civilians, destruction of homes and infrastructure, extreme poverty, and trauma remain the daily bread of Palestinians in Gaza.
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People’s Differences — Dress Code
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – All over the world there are differences between people. These are related to their racial and religious backgrounds, languages spoken, educational achievements, economic prosperity, etc. In addition, there are vast differences in the ways people dress.
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“Russian Hacking”: NATO PsyOp Revealed
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
December 2020 – The “Russian hacking” NATO psyop has finally been solved. The Trump-Russia collusion claims, the “Skripal poisoning incident” and the more recent “Navalny poisoning incident” – has been a US and NATO psychological operation aimed at containing a resurgent Russia. The “Russian hacking” psyop initiated in 2014 when the USA forced a regime change in Ukraine as Russia retook control of the Crimean Peninsula.
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Jews across the Globe Applaud Statement by Palestinian and Arab Academics, Journalists, and Intellectuals
Open Letter/Various | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – We, Jewish groups and individuals from across the globe, applaud the recent powerful statement and set of principles signed by 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists, and intellectuals regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed.
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The Revolutionary Humanism of Frantz Fanon
Peter Hudis | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
The philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary militant Frantz Fanon was a key figure in the struggle against European colonialism. Fanon’s innovative thinking on racism and its relationship to class oppression still speaks vividly to the present.
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Contesting Aspects of COVID-19
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
To Inform, Educate, Create Dialogue: The Flip Side of the Discourse/Narrative–not on the streets but confined to human dwellings.
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Masks Can Be Murder
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (retired) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – In cities and states across the United States, politicians mandate that their fellow citizens wear masks. There is a lot of good evidence and reason to believe that this policy is a key causal factor in a nationwide explosion in violent crime and murders.
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Landmark Study Highlights Health Threats of 5G on People + Planet
Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 -The New Hampshire Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology heard from 13 experts in epidemiology, occupational health, toxicology, physics and engineering, plus one wireless industry expert. All except the industry rep agreed RF radiation coming from wireless devices affects humans, animals, insects and plants.
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Christmas 2020
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
25 Dec 2020 – Despite the difficulties we tried to enjoy the night of 24 December 2020 at the nativity square. We are not just contending with colonial occupation but also a pandemic. The Palestinian Jesus (yes he was born in a country then called Palestine and has been called Palestine for four millennia) went on to challenge the occupation of his time and the hypocrisy of the local and foreign “leaders”.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – On July 21st, The New York Times ran a front-page article highlighting the revival of the Committee on the Present Danger, a Cold War organization that called for greater military spending to meet the Soviet threat, but whose focus is now on China. Joe Biden told Foreign Affairs that the U.S. needed to get tough with China calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “thug” who “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 73 per cent of Americans had an unfavourable view of China.
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(Italiano) “L’effondrement”, la serie francese che mette in scena il collasso della società
Daniel Ruiz | Scienza & Pace Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
L’effondrement, ossia il collasso, è una serie TV francese che si ispira alle tesi derivate dal recente concetto di “collassologia”: lo studio interdisciplinare dei rischi legati al collasso della civiltà industriale. Il termine “collassologia” (in ing. Collapsology) è stato coniato da Pablo Servigne e Raphaël Stevens nel loro libro Come tutto può collassare (2015). Tuttavia, il modello scientifico della distruzione antropogenica della biosfera è datato al 1973, con I limiti dello sviluppo scritto dal Club di Roma.
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What Went Right in 2020: The Top 20 Good News Stories of the Year
Lucy Purdy | Positive News magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – It’s been a year like no other. As challenging as 2020 has been, the past 12 months have also seen big wins for the environment, society and culture, human rights – and even health. Read on for 20 stories of progress that got hidden behind the headlines in 2020.
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The Lobby behind Italy’s Opening to GMOs
Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
On December 22, a parliamentary process in favor of GMOs and new breeding techniques has begun at the Italian Chamber’s Agricultural Commission. A very risky path, since it could lead to the cultivation of GMOs without any public or scientific debate. Such a decision could prove “irreversible.”
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(Português) Mais um Estudo Desbanca Mito da Necessidade de Proteína Animal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
20 dez 2020 – Pesquisadores concluíram que proteína não animal proporciona as mesmas taxas de síntese de proteínas miofibrilares em adultos com mais de 60 anos.
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Christmas, Pandemic in the Holy Land
Samia Khoury – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
The Little Town of Bethlehem is not celebrating
It was the first to be hit by a virus so invading
Tourists carried it during a flourishing season
Causing a complete lockdown of all the region
John Le Carré (19 Oct 1931 – 12 Dec 2020): Spy Novelist and “Inside-Outside” Man
Stefan Steinberg | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels and former intelligence agent. He died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century.
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Madmen and Economists
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Economists (with a few notable exceptions) have long behaved as though growth were synonymous with economic health. If the gross national product of a country increases steadily by 4 percent per year, most economists express approval and say that the economy is healthy. If the economy could be made to grow still faster (they maintain), it would be still healthier.
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Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.
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Child Labor
Tonni Aktar | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – Gray eyes, depressed faces and tender hands seek love in the heart of the earth. Poor children and street children understand what the urge for livelihood is, what hunger means. In developing countries like Bangladesh, the rate of child labor is very high. This number has also increased significantly in Covid-19.
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America’s Longest War: An Afghan’s Perspective
Mustafa Ariaie | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
26 Dec 2020 – How the U.S. has imposed puppet leaders in Afghanistan who have allied with the Taliban, advocated ethnic cleansing, and betrayed their people. The U.S. troop presence and covert training of corrupt Afghan security forces have been major factors contributing to the growth of terrorism in Afghanistan.
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Nelson Mandela
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
In 1998, President Nelson Mandela of South Africa invited the local top executive of British Petroleum for a breakfast meeting at his home.
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The Dystopian Western World
Paul Craig Roberts - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020 – As the second decade of the 21st century comes to an end, democracy and free speech no longer exist in the Western World. In all its respects, Western civilization no longer exists. The West is living the worst of Orwell’s 1984 and Raspail’s Camp of the Saints.
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Winter Solstice 21 December: “The Day of the Longest Night . . .”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
I write in awe and reverence of Time! I write with respect for ancients pursuing mastery and control of Time’s mysterious cycles, determining life and lives. On “The Day of the Longest Night,” today calendarized as December 21, uncertainty of light’s return once brought chants, prayers, and sacrifices. Shrines, columns, and monuments were erected to map the past… So, let it be written . . . so, let it be sung . . . So let us honor, Time!
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(norsk-Norwegian) Nedrusting må begynne hjemme
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Vi ruster opp og bruker nærmere 100 milliarder bare på F-35-jagerfly. USAs og våre militære ledere anser Russland som en potensiell fiende. Den erfarne forskeren Richard Falk mener at global nedrustning neppe er mulig å få til før USA avruster sin egen, tungt bevæpnede befolkning.
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Jabberfear: Indoctrination, Fear-of-the-Jab, and Vaccination Passports?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
21 Dec 2020 – There is now a rapidly emerging confluence of dynamics associated with the pandemic–usefully caricatured as a jabberplex. These include:
* extreme pressure to accede to a singular mainstream perspective — without any space for doubt, or the right to freedom of opinion in that regard. (…)
Unlearned Lessons from World War I: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
That spontaneous event, the Christmas Truce of 1914, was expressed in a variety of ways at a multitude of locations all along the 600 miles of trenches that stretched across France, but it was an event that would never again be duplicated in the history of warfare.
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Agent Blue Haunts Vietnam War Vets
Mike Tharp | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – This US-manufactured defoliant used in the Vietnam War has no half life: its poison keeps on poisoning forever.
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Claims of Antisemitism Conceal a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror across Europe
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020 – The perverse secular priorities of European culture now place the sanctity of a militarised state, Israel, above the sanctity of a religion with a billion followers.
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Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is at Our Throats
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Today the world spends roughly 1,800,000,000,000 US dollars on armaments, almost 2 trillion. This vast river of money, almost too great to be imagined, flows into the pockets of arms manufacturers, and is used by them to control governments, which in turn vote for bloated military budgets and aggressive foreign policies which provoke the endless crises and conflicts that are necessary to justify the diversion of such vast sums of money from urgently-needed social goals into the bottomless pit of war.
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It’s Time to Find Our Common Ground and Fight the Real Deep State
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Big Oil, King Coal, Big Chemical, Big Tech and Big Pharma are titans of a Deep State cartel that is driving our country down the road to plutocracy and environmental apocalypse. We must unite to fight them — and not each other. For decades, the Rockefeller family owned some 80% of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Today, the Rockefeller Empire — in tandem with JP Morgan Chase — continues to own half the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.
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Palestine Legal: Please Support & Donate
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – Palestine Legal’s work is necessary not only for those of us involved in work for Palestinian human rights, but for anyone who believes in preserving space for open political debate and upholding our rights to protest, which are sacred elements of any genuine constitutional democracy. Needless to say, Palestine Legal’s work will remain urgently necessary under the next U.S. administration.
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(русский – Russian) Коррумпированная наука и власть элиты: «Техно-рабство» Covid-19 и «Великая перезагрузка»
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Альтернативная информация о COVID-19
– TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Вам нравится верить, что ученые изучают доказательства — будь то в отношении Covid-19 или чего-то еще — и предоставляют высококачественные знания, которые можно использовать для руководства при формировании государственной политики, чтобы они лучше служили интересам обычных людей? К сожалению, это утверждение — просто пропаганда неосторожных.
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Will China Run the World? Should It?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Responses to interview questions from Javad Heiran-Nia on ‘World Order in the Time of COVID-19,’ with emphasis on China & United States, especially as reflected in the restructuring of the world economy. The underlying issue is whether the Chinese or U.S. approach to global policy and world order will gain the upper hand, and at what costs to humanity.
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Washington-DC Mayor, Please Veto the Psychologically Harmful ‘Minor Vaccine Consent Bill’
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – Open Letter to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. I have grave concerns about the physical and psychological dangers of Bill B23–0171.3, the Minor Vaccine Consent Bill, which permits children 11 and older to consent to vaccines without their parents’ knowledge or consent. I hope the information below inspires you to veto this bill with a clear conscience.
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COVID-19 Vaccines: Get the Facts
Mayo Clinic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – Looking to get the facts about the new COVID-19 vaccines? Here’s what you need to know about the different vaccines and the benefits of getting vaccinated.
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The Assange Prosecution: A Haunting Reminder of What Happened in My Espionage Act Case
Jeffrey Sterling | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA whistleblower, responds to how his case has been invoked by prosecutors to help them win the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition.
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(Italiano) Siamo nel 2020, l’anno del coronavirus. Che cosa vorresti fare?
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
L’anno 2020 volge al termine, memorabile per i suoi incessanti riflettori sul coronavirus. Riflettendo sugli ultimi 12 mesi, immaginate cosa potreste fare se foste in una posizione di grande potere e influenza. Gli scenari offerti sono due, i quali hanno diversi obiettivi di fondo. Lo Scenario Global PowerElite, orientato a proteggere i diritti dei super-ricchi per continuare ad accumulare sempre più ricchezze. L’altro è lo Scenario One Earth Family, volto a garantire che ogni essere umano possa vivere in dignità e armonia con la terra. Inizierò io questo esercizio; poi toccherà a te.
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Teaching Evolution in Schools: What Science Explains and What Explains Science
Chaitanya Charan das | The Spiritual Scientist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools.
Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.
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Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
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The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Just when it seemed that Joe Biden’s coming administration couldn’t be more of a horror show, he’s likely to appoint another monster from the deep, violent know-it-all Samantha Power to head the US Agency for International Development; a perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire.
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#ForceTheVote: The Debate on Medicare for All That Is Dividing the American Left
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
A debate is currently trending amongst the American political left: a new strategy to force a vote on Medicare for All in the House of Representatives. The main argument proposed by the #ForceTheVote movement is that the present sociopolitical context is the right moment for a vote on Medicare for All. The US is in the middle of a deadly pandemic where over 324K have died of Covid-19, some 15 million have lost their health care coverage, and many more are on the brink of homelessness.
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Spy Companies Using Channel Islands to Track Phones around the World
Crofton Black | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Surveillance firms can track the location of mobile phone users, intercept their messages and calls and access their sensitive data, thanks to vulnerabilities in how phone networks communicate with each other, our story shows. Experts told us the Channel Islands are an easy route in. We found evidence of surveillance attempts in more than 60 countries.
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The SolarWinds Hack Is Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen Before
Josephine Wolff | Future Tense/Slate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign has apparently targeted a dizzying number of government and private organizations: the State, Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Energy departments; Microsoft; the cybersecurity firm FireEye; the National Institutes of Health; and the city network of Austin, Texas, just to name a few. It launched in the spring of this year, and it will likely last for years.
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Community Champions Law to Castrate Pedophiles in Nigerian State
Nosmot Gbadamosi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Despite criticism from rights groups, families of young rape victims in Kaduna state say they support the new law.
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The Wisdom of Johan Galtung, Father of Peace and Conflict Studies
True Heroes Films - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
True Heroes Films – 5 min. with Galtung
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A Pandemic of ‘Russian Hacking’
Ray McGovern and Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
19 Dec 2020 – The hyperbolic, evidence-free media reports on the “fresh outbreak” of the Russian-hacking disease seems an obvious attempt by intelligence to handcuff President-elect Joe Biden into a strong anti-Russian posture. Neither the actor, nor the motive, nor the damage done is known for certain in this latest scare story.
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Benjamin Franklin was a British-American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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Dietrich Fischer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Government spokesman announcing a new tax regulation:
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Daniel Ruiz, PhD | Scienza & Pace Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – The Collapse is a French television series inspired by the theses of the new academic subject of Collapsology, the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of the industrial civilization. The word Collapsology was coined by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens in their essay: How Everything Can Collapse (2015). But the scientific modelling of the anthropogenic destruction of the biosphere dates back to 1972 with The Limits to Growth of the Club of Rome.
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Forests and Climate Change in Canada
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | Pilgrims - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
‘Carbon sink’ is a phenomenon similar to what one may describe as nature’s breathing – the forests/trees absorb CO2 from atmosphere and release Oxygen; however, during forest fires or decay, this process is reversed. A forest then starts lowering its carbon sink capacity, emitting a large amount of stored carbon sending it billowing into the air.
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Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns
Tina Gerhardt | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island. The move poses serious concerns, both with regard to the environment and human rights.
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Climate Chaos amidst the Pandemic: 5 Years after Paris
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed to avert global climate chaos. World leaders, though, are primarily focused on COVID-19 with over 1.6 million people worldwide dead and over 74 million reported. These twin crises demand a global, collective coordinated response, with equitable, free distribution of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, and a vigorous, just green recovery.
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Trump Is Spending the Last Days of His Presidency on a Literal Killing Spree
Austin Sarat | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – In disregard for political precedent or basic humanity, Trump is turning the anger and resentment which burnishes his brand into a virtually unprecedented string of fast-tracked federal executions before Biden takes office.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
This Modern World – Life in the Stupidverse
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(Italiano) partigianiditalia.it Una nuova fonte per la storia della Resistenza italiana
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
19 Dic 2020 – Archivi, storie, memorie. Identità. Il nuovo portale www.partigianiditalia.beniculturali.it, attivo dal 15 dicembre 2020, è il luogo virtuale e reale dove ritrovare le storie anche personali delle partigiane e dei partigiani d’Italia.
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Biden’s Cabinet Selections: What’s at Stake?
Marc Pilisuk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
17 Dec 2020 – Many of the democratic voters who helped sweep Biden into office are concerned with what will happen during his tenure. The concerns break down into whether Biden who has long been a player in policies that have contributed to inequality, favored a corporate and banking sector and engaged in costly militarism will be significantly changed.
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How U.S. Government Paid-Off Its Super-Rich in Order to Pass Its Coronavirus-Relief Laws
Eric Zuesse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On December 14th, two excellent news-reports were belatedly published about some of the massive corruption that was behind the initial U.S. federal coronavirus-relief law, the CARES Act, and about U.S. Senators of both Parties now intending to include such corruption in the next one. In an aristocracy, everything is just a racket. Even a covid-19 relief bill is.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Look at and listen in to three spheres of contemporary Western society: politics, research and media. The word “peace” and related words, such as the UN Charter norm of “making peace by peaceful means”, nonviolence, negotiations, have disappeared. And with the words, the discourse. And with the discourse the interest, the education and expertise, the focus, the awareness, and the strategies.
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The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know?
Mark Taliano | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – We know that the PCR tests being used are not “fit for purpose”, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was very clear about this.
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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think
Graeme Wood and David A. Spiegel | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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Taxes All the Way
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
All of us are taxed in one way or another
There is the Income Tax even if you hardly earn
There is the Sales Tax if you buy anything
Desert Locust ‘Re-Invasion’ Threatens Millions across Horn of Africa
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – New Desert Locust swarms are forming in the Horn of Africa, threatening agricultural livelihoods and the food security of millions of people, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today-
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USA at Crossroads: Presidential Election and the Clash of Democracy
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – “We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
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The Biodiversity Paradigm: Building Resilience for Human and Environmental Health
Ruchi Shroff & Carla Ramos Cortés | Springer Link – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
11 Nov 2020 – It is a well-established fact that biodiversity is pivotal to human and planetary health. This paper looks through an ecological sciences perspective at the interconnections and interrelations between human health and Earth’s health. But regardless of the wide recognition of the benefits of biodiversity, we are seeing a political and economic landscape which actively runs contrary to and further erodes diversity in favor of the globalized industrial food system, seed uniformity and further centralization through false tech solutions.
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The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – John Bellamy Foster talks about the paths great ecosocialist thinkers traveled, the most prominent debates in Marxist ecological thought, and the urgent need to transcend the conditions that threaten our planet.
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How Gulf States Became Business Partners in Israel’s Occupation
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – Since signing the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Bahrain have been actively colluding with Israel’s settler movement and military authorities.
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The Great Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
20 Dec 2020 – The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that we are losing control as a nation and as a species. Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office.
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Christmas Truce of 1914, World War I – For Sharing, For Peace
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Peace at the war front on Christmas day during World War I. A real story. An inspiration. Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion, it commemorates the extraordinary events of Christmas Day, 1914, when the guns fell silent and two armies met in no-man’s land, sharing gifts – and even playing football together.
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Leading Scholars’ Consensus Was Clear: Neither ICJ nor ICC on Their Own Will Deliver Rohingyas from Hell
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
On 15 December 2020, a group of leading scholars and experts from Canada, USA, and Ireland involved in the global campaign to end Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas held a legal roundtable, jointly organised by the Free Rohingya Coalition and FORSEA.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Francesco Parrino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Piano Cover: A Christmas Song – Merry Christmas to you.
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Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich from Water Scarcity
Nick Martin | The New Republic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
9 Dec 2020 – The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.
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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid–It Is War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission.
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Major Japan Life Insurers Shun Investing in Nuke Weapon-Linked Firms
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
13 Dec 2020 – Four major Japanese life insurers do not invest in or extend loans to producers of nuclear weapons or companies related to them, as part of their efforts toward socially responsible investing. They manage a combined US$ 1.45 trillion in assets.
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Israel’s Isolation of Palestinian Child Prisoners Amounts to Torture
Defense for Children International-Palestine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Israeli authorities routinely detain Palestinian children in isolation solely for interrogation purposes, a practice that amounts to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, says the 73-page report, “Isolated and Alone: Palestinian children held in solitary confinement by Israeli authorities for interrogation,” released today.
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Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
As of 21 Dec 2020 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 184
Total Cases: 77,223,121
Deaths: 1,700,679
Recovered: 54,129,897
Cases Closed: 55,830,576
Active: 21,717,206
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads for Children
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be USA’s Exit Strategy from Its Longest War
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CHD Article on Beneficiaries of COVID Pandemic Accepted by Peer-Reviewed Journal
Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – An article by Children’s Health Defense on how the pandemic facilitated a financial, tech, biopharmaceutical and military-intelligence push for centralized, technocratic control has been accepted by the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research.
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New World Order? Oligarchs Discuss How Legal System Could Use Brain Mapping against You
Joseph Mercola, M.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
12 Sep 2020 – If brain mapping becomes mainstream, it could have major implications for the legal system. Even if a person chooses not to confess, their brain could be tapped to do it for them.
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PCR Test for Coronavirus Questioned by Prominent Scientists
Barbara Cáceres | National Vaccine Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – 22 scientists with specialties in microbiology, virology, molecular genetics and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology and other science fields, found “severe errors” in design and methodology of the RT-PCR which “render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless.”
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