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Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) paper

“Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality and Vitamin D: An Indonesian Study,” preprint posted on April 30, 2020 in SSRN: Social Science Resource Network. Retraction date unknown. (Hat tip to HealthNerd)

"When controlling for age, sex, and comorbidity, Vitamin D status is strongly associated with COVID-19 mortality."

"Majority of the COVID-19 cases with insufficient and deficient Vitamin D status died.
The odds of death was higher in older and male cases with pre-existing condition and below normal Vitamin D levels."

https://emerginnova.com/patterns-of-covid19-mortality-and-vitamin-d-an-indonesian-study/

https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/

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Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality and Vitamin D: An Indonesian Study - Emerginnova

This is a retrospective cohort study which included two cohorts of 780 cases with laboratory-confirmed infection of SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia.

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Sylvia J

Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2022-08-18/rushdie-stabbing-freedom-assange/

The #outrage of liberal voices to the #hideous #attack on #SalmanRushdie stands in #contrast to their #silence on the #hideous #treatment of #JulianAssange. Why? Because Assange holds a #mirror up to them. #Protest the #stabbing of #Salman #Rushdie by all means. But don’t forget to protest even more loudly the #silencing and #disappearing of #Julian #Assange.

#jonathancook #ny #stabbing #truth #freedom #us #uk #journalism #weareallassange #freespeech #truthteller #freeassange #nilsmelzer

Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom

The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he’s bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.

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Le Viêt Aujourd'hui

Journalist Do Cong Duong dies in prison in Vietnam

In response to news reports that Vietnamese journalist Do Cong Duong, who was imprisoned on anti-state charges, died on August 2, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement :

“CPJ is deeply saddened by reports of imprisoned Vietnamese journalist Do Cong Duong’s death from an underlying illness,” said Shawn W. Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Vietnam must launch a thorough and independent investigation into Duong’s death and bring any prison authorities found to have deliberately withheld medicines or timely treatments from Duong to full justice. His death tragically underscores why Vietnam must stop jailing journalists.”

Duong was healthy before his arrest but contracted multiple diseases while in prison, and authorities declined timely access to medical treatment, despite repeated requests from family, according to news reports. The journalist’s cause of death has not been released.

Duong was serving an eight-year sentence on charges of “disturbing public order” and “abusing democratic freedoms” in the Nghe An province Detention Center No. 6, according to a post by The 88 Project, an advocacy group that monitors the status of Vietnamese political prisoners.

He was detained on January 24, 2018, while filming and photographing state authorities evicting residents at the Tu Son commune in Bac Ninh province, according to news reports. Duong covered land rights and corruption on his “Tieng Dan TV” program, where he live-streamed video discussions on Facebook, according to The 88 Project.

CPJ emailed the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security for comment on Duong’s death but did not receive any replies. CPJ was unable to find contact information for his family members.

Vietnam was the world’s fourth worst jailer of journalists, with at least 23 members of the press, including Duong, behind bars for their work at the time of CPJ’s 2021 prison census.

Committee to Protect Journalists – August 12, 2022

#human-rights #journalism #prison #vietnam

Originally posted at: https://vietnam-aujourdhui.info/2022/08/13/journalist-do-cong-duong-dies-in-prison-in-vietnam/

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Farhad A

Helen Thomaa, one of the greatest reporters in US modern history, Bush was so afraid of her, they put her in the back of the WH press conferences before they simply canceled her pass

Sadly, her honest and raser sharp thing was hated by both Democrats and Republicans.

She surely missed n the time where reporters are nothing but stenographer of people in power.

#Journalism #Quote #Politics #Israel

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Bert Ernste

‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert

The Guardian

Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist.

The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. (...)

As he makes clear in his uncompromising depiction of the coming climatic catastrophe, we have – for far too long – ignored explicit warnings that rising carbon emissions are dangerously heating the Earth. Now we are going to pay the price for our complacency in the form of storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves that will easily surpass current extremes.

The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. (...) “A child born in 2020 will face a far more hostile world that its grandparents did,” McGuire insists.

In this respect, the volcanologist, who was also a member of the UK government’s Natural Hazard Working Group, takes an extreme position. Most other climate experts still maintain we have time left. (...)

Such claims are dismissed by McGuire. “I know a lot of people working in climate science who say one thing in public but a very different thing in private. In confidence, they are all much more scared about the future we face, but they won’t admit that in public. I call this climate appeasement and I believe it only makes things worse. The world needs to know how bad things are going to get before we can hope to start to tackle the crisis.” (...)

[I]t is already a different world out there,” he adds. “Soon it will be unrecognisable to every one of us.” (...)

“It turns out the climate is changing for the worse far quicker than predicted by early climate models. That’s something that was never expected.” (...)

At the Cop26 climate meeting in Glasgow last year, it was agreed that every effort should be made to try to limit that rise to 1.5C, although to achieve such a goal, it was calculated that global carbon emissions will have to be reduced by 45% by 2030.

“In the real world, that is not going to happen,” says McGuire. “Instead, we are on course for close to a 14% rise in emissions by that date – which will almost certainly see us shatter the 1.5C guardrail in less than a decade.”

And we should be in no doubt about the consequences. Anything above 1.5C will see a world plagued by intense summer heat, extreme drought, devastating floods, reduced crop yields, rapidly melting ice sheets and surging sea levels. (...)

From this perspective it is clear we can do little to avoid the coming climate breakdown. Instead we need to adapt to the hothouse world that lies ahead and to start taking action to try to stop a bleak situation deteriorating even further, McGuire says. (...)

As to the reason for the world’s tragically tardy response, McGuire blames a “conspiracy of ignorance, inertia, poor governance, and obfuscation and lies by climate change deniers that has ensured that we have sleepwalked to within less than half a degree of the dangerous 1.5C climate change guardrail. Soon, barring some sort of miracle, we will crash through it.” (...)

McGuire stresses that if carbon emissions can be cut substantially in the near future, and if we start to adapt to a much hotter world today, a truly calamitous and unsustainable future can be avoided. . (...)

Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide by Bill McGuire is published by Icon Books, £9.99

Complete article

> See also: Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis (Media Lens)

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Record high temperatures and extreme weather events are being recorded around the world. Photograph: Ian Logan/Getty Images.

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Sylvia J

Converge on Canberra for Assange

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/29/watch-australian-politicians-on-fire-for-assange/

#Australian #Politicians on #Fire for #Assange

#australia #rally #parliament #canberra #political #albanese #uk #us #music #julianassange #wikileaks #journalism #freespeech #freepress #freeassange #truth #MaryKostakidis * #AndrewWilke * #PeterWhish-Wilson * #BridgetArcher * #MoniqueRyan * #DavidShoebridge * #JordanSteele-John * #JulianHill * #ChristinLambang-Foyne * #AmnestyInternational * #GabrielShipton * #SueWareham * #Doctors-for-Assange * #JamesRicketson #dropthecharges #fightforfuture #weareallassange

WATCH: Australian Politicians on Fire For Assange

At a rally before the Parliament building in Canberra on Thursday, Australian politicians decried the British and U.S. governments' persecution of Australian journalist Julian Assange, the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, and demanded that he be...

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Sylvia J

Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world

https://www.mintpressnews.com/interview-john-pilger-assange-courageous-embodiment-struggle-oppressive-forces-world/281576/

#JulianAssange is the #courageous embodiment of a #struggle against the #darkest, most #oppressive forces in our #world; and people of #principle, young and old, should #oppose it as best they can; or one day it may touch their lives, and worse.
The pursuit of #Julian is a measure of his #achievements. He informed #millions about the #deceptions of #governments too many trusted; he #respected their #right-to-know. It was a remarkable #public-service.

#johnpilger #interview #wikileaks #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #uk #us #propaganda #journalism #democratic #rights #albanese #australia #dropthecharges #weareallassange

An Interview With John Pilger: “Assange Is the Courageous Embodiment of a Struggle Against the Most Oppressive Forces in Our World”

Renowned Australian investigative journalist John Pilger warns that the “US is close to getting its hands on” the courageous WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange., interview, John Pilger, Julian Assange,

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#Ukraine #NATO #journalism #NarrativeControl

https://twitter.com/ANoroozee/status/1550423156921454592

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David Dewain

CounterVortex Episode 131: Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine

In Episode 131 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg calls out the ironically named Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) for openly defending Russian disinformation. FAIR serially portrays the 2014 Maidan Revolution s a US-backed, Nazi-tainted, unconstitutional "coup." FAIR commentators Luca Goldmansour, Gregory Shupak and Bryce Greene are all guilty of this. They do not bother to consult voices of Ukrainian civil society—academics, media watchdogs and human rights groups—that refute this notion. Glomming onto the notorious Nuland phone call to dismiss a grassroots pro-democracy uprising as a Washington "regime change" intrigue reveals chauvinistic contempt for the Ukrainians. And hyping the supposed "Nazi" threat in Ukraine (while ignoring the Nazi-nostalgist and neo-fascist elements on the Russian side) abets Putin's ultra-cynical propaganda stratagem of fascist pseudo-anti-fascism. Rather than calling out Fox News for its propaganda service to Putin, FAIR instead joins them. How did a supposed progressive media watchdog become a de facto arm of Kremlin war propaganda?

Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-752167240 or via Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/countervortex

#countervortex #journalism #propaganda #FAIR #Ukraine #Russia #fascism #Kremlin #anti-war #AntiFascism

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Bert Ernste

This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather

George Monbiot (The Guardian)

Dangerous heat will become the norm, even in the UK. Systems need to urgently change – and the silence needs to be broken.

Can we talk about it now? I mean the subject most of the media and most of the political class has been avoiding for so long. You know, the only subject that ultimately counts – the survival of life on Earth. Everyone knows, however carefully they avoid the topic, that, beside it, all the topics filling the front pages and obsessing the pundits are dust. (...)

This is not a passive silence. It is an active silence, a fierce commitment to distraction and irrelevance in the face of an existential crisis. (...) But while the people who dominate the means of communication frantically avoid the subject, the planet speaks, in a roar becoming impossible to ignore. (...)

We have seen nothing yet. (...)

We do not deserve this. The billionaire press and the politicians it promotes may deserve each other, but none of us deserves either group. They are constructing a world between them in which we have not elected to live, in which we may not be able to live. (...)

They do so on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, animal farming, finance, construction firms, car manufacturers and airline companies, but also on behalf of something bigger than any of those interests: the power of incumbency. (...)

Over the past few years, I’ve begun to see that mainstream environmental movements have made a terrible mistake. (...) It goes something like this. There is too little time and the ask is too big to try to change the system. People aren’t ready for it. We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. (...)

But while they have been playing patience, power has been playing poker. The radical right insurgency has swept all before it, crushing the administrative state, destroying public protections, capturing the courts, the electoral system and the infrastructure of government, shutting down the right to protest and the right to live. While we persuaded ourselves that there is no time for system change, they proved us wrong by changing everything. (...)

Only a demand for system change, directly confronting the power driving us to planetary destruction, has the potential to match the scale of the problem and to inspire and mobilise the millions of people required to generate effective action. (...)

There was never time for incrementalism. Far from being a shortcut to the change we want to see, it is a morass in which ambition sinks. (...)

Some of us know what we want: private sufficiency, public luxury, doughnut economics, participatory democracy and an ecological civilisation. (...)

So let’s break our own silence. Let’s stop lying to ourselves and others by pretending that small measures deliver major change. (...)

But a major question remains. Given that we have left it so late, can we reach the social tipping point before we hit the environmental tipping point?

Complete article

> See also: Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis (Media Lens)

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The dangerous heat England is suffering at the moment is already becoming normal in southern Europe.’ A firefighter tackles a wild fire in Gironde, France, 17 July 2022. Photograph: Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images.

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