____ (2022-10-03). (W. E. Talk) Why is Xinjiang's Prosperity and Development the most Powerful Counterattack to the U.S. Political Conspiracy of "Containing China through Disrupting Xinjiang". ecns.cn The truth is always a "shredder" for lies. In fact, Xinjiang has always adhered to the people-centered development ideology and has been promoting the people-benefiting projects on employment, healthcare and education, so that the fruits of the development can better benefit its people.

____ (2022-10-03). Production, new orders increase in September. ecns.cn China's factory activity returned to expansionary territory in September as production and new orders increased, reflecting that the nation's economic recovery is gaining momentum amid a better COVID-19 situation domestically and intensified macroeconomic policy support, officials and experts said.

Labor Video Project (2022-10-03). Union Busting Kaiser Takes Hardline On NUHW Workers While Gov Newsom Is MIA. indybay.org Striking NUHW healthcare workers after 7 weeks on strike face a union busting attack by Kaiser executives and refusal of Governor Gavin Newsom and State Attorney General to enforce the law.

WSWS (2022-10-03). Ebola outbreak threatens to expand into densely populated Ugandan capital Kampala. wsws.org An outbreak of Ebola infections in Uganda's western-central districts has exploded since declared an outbreak in late September. Two healthcare workers have died among more than two dozen total deaths.

WSWS (2022-10-03). Minnesota Allina mental health workers begin 3-day strike: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with nurses! wsws.org The strategy being pursued by the SEIU at Allina Health is aimed at dividing the struggle of mental health workers from nurses and other sections of health care workers.

Safe Ag Safe Schools (2022-10-02). Cancer-Causing Pesticide exceeds State risk levels over the last decade at Monterey County. indybay.org Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th — the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County Ag Commissioner to reduce 1,3-D use and web-post warnings. | The news conference can be seen in its entirety at: https…

_____ (2022-10-02). Wang Yi: Making Every Effort For Peace And Development. popularresistance.org Delivering his September 24 speech, Wang began by noting that humanity was facing various challenges, including the continued resurfacing of the Covid-19 pandemic, uncertain global security, and fragile and unsteady global recovery. "The world has entered a new phase of turbulence and transformation…But we are also at a time full of hope. The world continues to move towards multipolarity…Around the world, the people's call for progress and cooperation is getting louder than ever before." | Posing the question of how to "ride on the trend of history to build a community with a shared future for mankind", he ex…

_____ (2022-10-02). Nurses At LGBTQ-Affirming Healthcare Provider Are Planning To Strike. popularresistance.org Unionized nurses at Howard Brown Health, a Chicago network of LGBTQ-affirming healthcare clinics, are set to go on strike Monday, Oct. 3 after what workers say are months of stalled contract bargaining negotiations. | The union is comprised of 30 nurses across 10 clinics, who are bargaining for their second contract, the first of which expired in August. The nurses' union, the Illinois Nurses Association, says that since June they have been negotiating with management on a weekly basis and have reached tentative agreements on more than 30 items, including staffing levels and a commitment to vaccinate workers agai…

JANET (2022-10-02). Cuba will continue to raise its voice to reject domination and hegemonism. iacenter.org September 29, 2022 Speech by Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, at the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 21, 2022 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez at U.N., Sept. 21. Delegates: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, as never before, the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order. Humanity never had this formidable scientific-technical potential nor this extraordinary capacity to generate wealth and well-being, and yet, never before has the world been so unequal and inequality so profound. Eight hundred and twenty-eight million people, 10% of…

____ (2022-10-02). Taiwan to cancel home quarantine requirement for arriving travelers. ecns.cn Starting on Oct. 13, travelers arriving in Taiwan will no longer be required to submit themselves to home quarantine and will instead undergo seven days of self-initiated prevention after arrival, the island's disease monitoring agency has announced.

Mark Steele (2022-10-02). Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas. globalresearch.ca

Zachary Stieber (2022-10-02). FDA Withholding Autopsy Results on People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tyler Vaivada, Maureen M Black, Robert E Black (2022-10-01). [Correspondence] A healthy future for children and adolescents — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We are greatly heartened by the positive response to our Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development.1—4 We are also cognisant of the suggestions that the Series could have highlighted some areas more emphatically. As in any synthesis covering the entire period of pre-conception, pregnancy, early infancy, middle childhood, and adolescence, we aimed for a high-level discourse and a parsimonious set of messages supporting integrated services across the life course. We encourage everyone to consider the Series and the linked Comment5 in their entirety because most of the areas highlighted…

Safe Ag Safe Schools (2022-10-02). Cancer-Causing Pesticide exceeds State risk levels over the last decade at Monterey County. indybay.org Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th — the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County Ag Commissioner to reduce 1,3-D use and web-post warnings. | The news conference can be seen in its entirety at: https…

Zachary Stieber (2022-10-02). FDA Withholding Autopsy Results on People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Mark Steele (2022-10-02). Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-10-02). Taiwan to cancel home quarantine requirement for arriving travelers. ecns.cn Starting on Oct. 13, travelers arriving in Taiwan will no longer be required to submit themselves to home quarantine and will instead undergo seven days of self-initiated prevention after arrival, the island's disease monitoring agency has announced.

Labor Video Project (2022-10-02). Union Busting Kaiser Takes Hardline On NUHW Workers While Gov Newsom Is MIA. indybay.org Striking NUHW healthcare workers after 7 weeks on strike face a union busting attack by Kaiser executives and refusal of Governor Gavin Newsom and State Attorney General to enforce the law.

San Francisco Public Library (2022-10-02). Sunday 10/30: Film: Plague at the Golden Gate Screening and Panel Discussion. indybay.org San Francisco Main Library | 100 Larkin St | San Francisco, CA 94102…

Warm Water Wellness (2022-10-01). State Attorney General Urged to Investigate Sutter Health's Use of CARES Act Money. indybay.org DALY CITY — San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa announced that he has sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta urging him to investigate Sutter Health's use of federal CARES Act dollars. The not-for-profit health care giant received $853 million in CARES Act funding, yet closed the Mack E. Mickelson therapy pool, the only warm water rehabilitation facility of its kind on the Peninsula. | "The federal CARES Act of 2020 was passed for the express purpose of keeping vital medical and community resources like the Mickelson therapy pool open during the COVID pandemic," Canepa said. "Yet despit…

WSWS (2022-10-01). Australia ends COVID isolation requirements: Business hails "freedom," medical experts warn of mass deaths. wsws.org The end of any infection control by the federal Labor government means that current COVID deaths, already at record levels, will be dwarfed by the mass casualties to come.

Talha Burki (2022-10-01). [World Report] Lasker Awards 2022. thelancet.com Scientists were honoured for work on integrins, the development of non-invasive tests for Down syndrome, and tracking COVID-19 infections. Talha Burki reports.

Ben Bartee (2022-10-01). The Rise of Public Health and 'Green' Police: Securitization Theory. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-10-01). Fall surge of COVID-19 begins across Northern Europe. wsws.org A new wave of COVID-19 infections is beginning to accelerate across Northern Europe. With the prediction of a severe flu season, combining these deadly pathogens will significantly affect the population's health.

Robert C Hughes, Martin Antonio, Rhiannon Osborne, Susannah H Mayhew, Andy Haines (2022-10-01). [Correspondence] A healthy future for children and adolescents. thelancet.com We congratulate the authors of the Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development, which is a vital initiative. Although the Series prominently includes social determinants of health and refers to social support, the insufficient emphasis on environmental determinants of child health is a crucial omission, especially in the context of the looming threat of climate breakdown.

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tyler Vaivada, Maureen M Black, Robert E Black (2022-10-01). [Correspondence] A healthy future for children and adolescents — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We are greatly heartened by the positive response to our Series on optimising child and adolescent health and development.1—4 We are also cognisant of the suggestions that the Series could have highlighted some areas more emphatically. As in any synthesis covering the entire period of pre-conception, pregnancy, early infancy, middle childhood, and adolescence, we aimed for a high-level discourse and a parsimonious set of messages supporting integrated services across the life course. We encourage everyone to consider the Series and the linked Comment5 in their entirety because most of the areas highlighted…

Aarathi Prasad (2022-10-01). [Perspectives] Rhea Boyd: paediatrician advocating for health equity. thelancet.com Rhea Boyd describes herself as a paediatrician, a public health advocate, and a scholar who works at a paediatric clinic, as the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children's Trust, and as a co-developer of The Conversation: Between Us About Us, a campaign that provides credible information about COVID-19 vaccines to Black and Latinx communities across the USA.

Rachel Simon-Kumar, Sonia Lewycka, Terryann C Clark, Theresa Fleming, Roshini Peiris-John (2022-10-01). [Articles] Flexible resources and experiences of racism among a multi-ethnic adolescent population in Aotearoa, New Zealand: an intersectional analysis of health and socioeconomic inequities using survey data. thelancet.com Indigenous and ethnic minority experiences of racism are heterogeneous. Structural flexible resources (wealth) and, more substantially, embodiment flexible resources (perceived Whiteness) mitigate individual experiences of racism. In multi-ethnic western societies, anti-racist interventions and policies must address both structural deprivation and associated intergenerational mobility and colourism (ie, implicit and explicit bias against non-White youth).

WSWS (2022-10-01). US pediatric hospitals face massive crisis due to COVID and other respiratory viruses. wsws.org The full reopening of K-12 schools with no masking or other mitigation measures in place has caused a surge of multiple respiratory viruses.

Richard M Mizelle (2022-10-01). [Perspectives] Biopower, racism, and yellow fever. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all of us to think anew about the power of disease and public health in our lives. The pandemic has influenced the world of politics and government, and reshaped regional built environments to accommodate the threat of disease. Historians of medicine are familiar with how the response to disease reveals a particular society's values and preferences—who it values and who can be disposed of. Achille Mbembe has called this "biopower": who are considered worthy of protection and whose lives are considered expendable.

Paula Toko King, Bridget Robson (2022-10-01). [Comment] Coloniality and racism impacts the health of young people. thelancet.com As Indigenous Māori health researchers, our vision is for all young people to thrive and flourish as our leaders of today and to live free from all forms of discrimination. Yet, in the nation state currently known as New Zealand, it is clear this experience is not shared by all. In The Lancet, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Sonia Lewycka, and colleagues1 examine experiences of racism and their effects in terms of socioeconomic inequities, interpersonal discrimination, and health inequities between and among the privileged majority and Indigenous Māori and ethnic minority young people in New Zealand.

Infobrics (2022-09-30). BRICS Nations Call for More Cooperation on Disaster Management. infobrics.org The BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have pledged to boost cooperation on disaster management against the backdrop of exacerbating climate change, increasingly frequent natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic…