2022-12-09: News Headlines

____ (2022-12-09). 101-year-old Chinese COVID-19 patient cured after 5 days in hospital. ecns.cn Sitting in her wheelchair, a 101-year-old COVID-19 patient surnamed Li expressed her thanks to the medical staff who had cared for her over the previous five days.

____ (2022-12-09). Digital economy key in China-ASEAN cooperation. ecns.cn Digital economy in China and ASEAN countries has already pressed the accelerator button, which is becoming a key force to promote economic recovery and the healthy development of the global economy, said Zhang Yong, deputy director of the Cyber Communications Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China at a seminar on digital economy and smart cities on Wednesday.

____ (2022-12-09). Guidelines issued to help patients recover. ecns.cn Health authorities on Thursday issued two guidelines in tandem to help COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms recover at home and to properly monitor their health with test kits.

WSWS (2022-12-09). Another serious accident at Thyssenkrupp Steel following death of worker Refat Sàºleyman. wsws.org Two recent tragic workplace accidents illustrate how Germany's big corporations are seeking to drive up production and profits at the expense of workers lives and health.

WSWS (2022-12-09). At the behest of world capitalism, Chinese Communist Party opens China to COVID-19. wsws.org The demand for mass infection in China comes not from the Chinese people but from international finance capital.

TeleSUR, rzr, YSM (2022-12-09). FAO potenciará la agricultura familiar. telesurtv.net Se acordó que la agricultura familiar revierta los efectos de la Covid-19, el cambio climático y la inestabilidad del mercado mundial de alimentos.

The Global Research Team (2022-12-08). Join Our Campaigns, Become a Member of Global Research! globalresearch.ca The COVID-19 pandemic crisis coupled with the war in Ukraine has precipitated the world into a mesh of economic, social and environmental disruptions. And it is people worldwide who are the victims. | In our campaigns against the experimental COVID vaccines…

Fvorinoco (2022-12-08). Venezuela Tops List of Latin American Countries with Highest Inflation. orinocotribune.com Recent economic figures indicate that many Latin American countries will close the year with the highest inflation rates in decades. | Although, broadly speaking, the increase in the cost of living is attributed to the consequences of the war in Ukraine, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, both of which wrought problems in supply chains and wreaked havoc in the world's largest economies. The internal management of each country continues to be measured in month-by-month statistics by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). | In grouping the countries that register the highest inflation data, it becomes clear that only t…

Infobrics (2022-12-08). Indian and Chinese Drugmakers Eye More Active Expansion into Russian Market. infobrics.org Leading Indian and Chinese drugmakers are considering accelerating their expansion into the Russian market — in a move to fill vacant niches that appeared after the reduction of presence of Western pharmaceutical companies in recent months…

Matthew Brown (2022-12-08). Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild 'relatives'. peoplesworld.org FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. (AP) — Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation generations ago, wiped out by poisoning campaigns, disease and farm plows that turned open prairie where nomadic tribes once roamed into cropland and cattle pastures. Now with guidance from elders and outside wildlife …

____ (2022-12-08). Samsung chip plant in China expects output value to top 100 bln yuan in 2022. ecns.cn Samsung's chip plant in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, expects its 2022 output value to top 100 billion yuan (14.3 billion U.S. dollars) despite obstacles brought about by the COVID-19 epidemic.

____ (2022-12-08). Free flow of people, goods mandated. ecns.cn China's transport sector has adjusted epidemic control protocols to respond to optimized COVID-19 measures.

____ (2022-12-08). COVID testing and health code no longer required for people arriving in Beijing. ecns.cn Beijing will no longer require people who return to this city to show their negative nucleic acid testing results and health codes, said local health authorities at a press conference on Wednesday.

____ (2022-12-08). Masks, tests still key to ensuring hospitals run smoothly. ecns.cn Medical workers must be careful to wear protective equipment to minimize the risk of COVID-19 exposure, a senior health official said on Thursday.

Staff (2022-12-08). Leading Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa diagnosed with leukemia after lengthy delays in medical care. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner, writer and thinker Walid Daqqa is facing a serious deterioration in his health; on 7 December 2022, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that he was diagnosed with leukemia after medical examinations. The Palestinian prisoners' movement declared that the delay in identifying his condition is due to Israeli occupation medical negligence and a policy …

Tom Parker (2022-12-08). International Pandemic Treaty: WHO Meets to Impose Censorship of "Misinformation" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-12-08). Media's Crime Hype And Scapegoating Led To Crackdown On Unhoused People. popularresistance.org New York City, New York – For some time now, news media have been conflating crime, homelessness and mental illness, demonizing and dehumanizing people without homes while ignoring the structural causes leading people to sleep on subways and in other public spaces. With New York City Mayor Eric Adams' latest announcement that he would hospitalize, against their will, unhoused people with mental health conditions—even those deemed to pose no risk to others—in the name of "public safety," the local papers once again revealed a propensity to highlight official narratives and try to erase their own role i…

_____ (2022-12-08). The First Overdose Prevention Centers In US History Vote To Unionize. popularresistance.org New York City, New York – Workers at OnPoint NYC officially submitted their demand for voluntary union recognition on Thursday, December 8. The workers, who are demanding union recognition with the New England Joint Board of UNITE HERE, are calling their union OnPoint United. They are fighting for a wall-to-wall union, greater job security for employees, better healthcare, and a democratization of the workplace. | The unionizing workers recognize every worker's right to a union. In their union recognition letter, they write: | OnPoint NYC rightfully prides itself in having a workforce which is comprised of a wide…

____ (2022-12-08). Vaccine effective in lowering senior death rates, official says. ecns.cn Vaccinations have proved to be effective in reducing death rates caused by COVID-19 among the elderly, so China will ramp up its vaccination efforts among the vulnerable group…

Global Research News (2022-12-08). Selected Articles: 'Obsolete, Misguided': Critics Call Out Pfizer's Plan for Bivalent Booster for Kids Under 5. globalresearch.ca

Zachary Stieber (2022-12-08). Four Takeaways from Sen. Johnson's Panel on COVID-19 Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-12-08). Q&A: Latest optimized COVID-19 control policies. ecns.cn China further optimized its COVID-19 control policies in a 10-point notice released on Wednesday. Below are some of the key adjustments.

____ (2022-12-08). Guideline clarifies rules for homebound COVID-19 patients. ecns.cn Authorities on Thursday issued a guideline to help COVID-19 patients who exhibit mild symptoms such as fever and cough recover at home.

____ (2022-12-08). COVID-19 policy shift due to 'experience and confidence' in control measures. ecns.cn A negative result is still needed to enter nursing homes, welfare homes, medical institutions, childcare institutions and primary and secondary schools.

____ (2022-12-08). East China's Zhejiang leads enterprises abroad for global orders. ecns.cn As COVID-19 control measures are optimized across China, Zhejiang Province, one of the country's leading foreign trade contributors, will organize more than 10,000 enterprises in different sectors to participate in economic and trade activities abroad.

____ (2022-12-08). COVID-19 response further optimized with 10 new measures. ecns.cn China released a circular on further optimizing the COVID-19 response on Wednesday, announcing 10 prevention and control measures.

____ (2022-12-08). Restaurants will no longer check COVID test in Shanghai. ecns.cn Shanghai enclosed public places of entertainment and catering service will no longer check COVID test results starting Friday.

____ (2022-12-08). Shanghai Disney Resort reopens. ecns.cn Shanghai Disneyland reopened on Thursday as the COVID-19 pandemic control measures eased.

Emanuel Pastreich (2022-12-08). China's "Third Opium War". Covid-19 and the Opium Wars. The Alliance of Global Finance and IT Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-12-08). A glimpse into what Chinese workers think about COVID restrictions. wsws.org The social media posts by workers are not calling for "freedom" from the Zero-COVID policy but for housing, proper food and measures to stop the spread of COVID infections.

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-12-08). China anuncia flexibilización de medidas sanitarias anticovid. telesurtv.net La Comisión Nacional de Salud anunció las medidas en pos de resolver problemas en la prevención y el control.

TeleSUR, odr, YSM (2022-12-08). Reportan 469 nuevos casos de Covid-19 en República Dominicana. telesurtv.net Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, República Dominicana acumula 652.529 infectados y han muerto 4.384 personas.

____ (2022-12-07). More COVID curbs eased in Beijing, other cities. ecns.cn Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Tuesday warned Iran of the "consequences" of the arms supplies to Russia, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency reported.

____ (2022-12-07). Experts: Omicron has lower risk of causing severe illness. ecns.cn Chinese experts have recently stated that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has a lower chance of causing severe illness and death compared with the flu, hence China should continue to optimize its epidemic control policies to protect the vulnerable population.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-07). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

____ (2022-12-07). New COVID-19 rules are a response to new situation, expert says. ecns.cn Liang Wannian said during a news briefing that the launch of the new measures does not signal a complete relaxation of disease control policies, nor does it mean the government has grown passive toward the epidemic.

____ (2022-12-07). Localities nationwide make sustained efforts on COVID-19 response optimization. ecns.cn With an elevated capability for science-based and targeted epidemic response, localities across China have been making sustained efforts to optimize their COVID-19 prevention and control measures in a range of areas.

Maximillian Alvarez (2022-12-07). William Robinson: Global revolts in the age of COVID capitalism. therealnews.com Capitalism's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has come at the expense of the lives, health, and freedom of millions of poor and working people around the world. While corporations guzzle profits at every opportunity, governments have been ready to discipline workers to keep profits churning, and cooperation between capitalist states and the transnational capitalist class during COVID-19 has led to the erection of a global police state. What forms of resistance are taking shape around the globe to the emerging post-pandemic police state and a capitalist order dead set on destroying our shared planet and eve…

Mforinoco (2022-12-07). Zero-Covid and the China Protests: Look at the Bigger Picture. orinocotribune.com By Morning Star Nov 28, 2022 | Establishment media have seized on protests over Covid lockdowns to rehearse their favorite anti-China narratives. | Ever since the world's first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China. | Donald Trump cynically portrayed the pandemic as a Chinese weapon—"the worst attack we've ever had on our country… worse than Pearl Harbor." | Trump's ravings were seldom taken seriously even by US allies. But the resurrection of the "lab leak" conspiracy theory by the Joe Biden administration made it respectable, and the judgement of a World Health…

Olivia Rosane (2022-12-07). People in greener neighborhoods have vastly superior mental health, study finds. peoplesworld.org Yet another study has bolstered the connection between urban green space and mental health. Research led by ISGlobal, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, found that residents of the city had better markers for mental wellbeing when their living situations met certain criteria for access to greenery, yet fewer than 5 percent of city residents actually enjoyed that …

WSWS (2022-12-07). Soaring maternal mortality figures expose deplorable state of women's health care in America. wsws.org In 2020, the US maternal mortality rate was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal mortality among black women stood at an even more appalling rate of 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, exposing severe racial disparities in maternal health care in the US.

Emily Mangiaracina (2022-12-07). Video: Australian Doctor Finds Chips, 'Self-assembling' Structures Forming in Pfizer Vaccine Contents. globalresearch.ca

Peter Wilson (2022-12-07). $1 Billion Worth of Unused COVID Vaccines in Canada Will Expire by Year's End, Says Auditor General. globalresearch.ca

Prof Denis Rancourt (2022-12-07). Bombshell. India's "Shock" and Sudden Excess Mortality (April-July 2021), Caused by Covid Vaccine Rollout In its Early Stages? globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-12-07). Asymptomatic carriers, mild cases advised to quarantine at home. ecns.cn Asymptomatic carriers, mild cases of COVID-19 are advised to quarantine at home when conditions allow, according to authorities.

____ (2022-12-07). China releases new 10-point plan to optimize COVID response. ecns.cn China further adjusted and optimized its COVID response by releasing 10 new measures, including allowing asymptomatic carriers and mind COVID-19 patients and those who meet certain requirements to quarantine at home.

____ (2022-12-07). Travel searches soar in wake of new COVID-19 measures. ecns.cn The search volume for plane tickets on travel platform Ctrip immediately surged by 160 percent following the release of the adjusted COVID-19 measures released by the authorities on Wednesday.

____ (2022-12-07). China's approach to COVID response right, science-based and effective. ecns.cn

Patrick Delaney (2022-12-07). Dr. McCullough: mRNA from COVID Vax Transfers from Jabbed to Unjabbed, 'Changing Human Genome'. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2022-12-07). The Covid-19 Crisis, Justin Trudeau, The Freedom Convoy and "The Emergency Act" Fiasco. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-12-07). Al cierre del año, ni un solo descuido frente a la Covid-19. cubadebate.cu Este martes, desde el Palacio de la Revolución, el miembro del Buró Político y primer ministro, Manuel Marrero Cruz, chequeó el comportamiento de la Covid-19 y el dengue en el país, así como el avance de la recuperación en los territorios afectados por el paso del huracán Ian…

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