ActionAid and Public Services International recently published a new report – The Care Contradiction – looking into how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs are impacting women workers. The report shows that although the IMF has recently come up with a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, its actions in the field of building gender justice essentially add up to throwing sand in the observers’ eyes.
IMF’s pinkwashing has multifold effects on women’s health
While influenza, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) and COVID-19 can be problematic and dangerous for certain high-risk individuals, the overall risks associated with them are negligible for most — but “fear-porn sells” and for Big Pharma, it sells more vaccines.
By Dr. Joseph Mercola via Most Revolutionary Act via thefreeonline
Story at a glance:
According to mainstream media, hospitalizations for respiratory infections are on the rise and “experts” warn of a potential “tripledemic” this winter, as people contract COVID-19, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
“The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] reports a 1% increase in new admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19 in the U.S.,” Yahoo! News reported at the end of October.
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The Algerian newspaper Al-Chourouk quoted the Special Envoy in charge of major international partnerships at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leila Zerrougui, as saying in a press statement:
We had the opportunity to participate in the recent summit of the BRICS group in China, in which Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was invited to participate, as this summit came out with openness to the inclusion of countries Another member of the group, we submitted our application and both Russia and China welcomed Algeria’s accession.
Zerrougui indicated that the rest of the BRICS countries are currently studying the Algeria file before deciding on it.
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EP Madrid (ECS).- Las autoridades de Argelia han presentado este lunes una solicitud formal para unirse a los BRICS, una organización de carácter económico-comercial integrada por Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica. Así lo ha confirmado ante los medios de comunicación la representante del Ministerio de Exteriores argelino encargada de las asociaciones internacionales, Leila Zarrougi, según recoge el portal […]
Argelia ha presentado este lunes una solicitud formal para unirse al BRICS
by @BradBlank_ November 2022 via thefreeonline
The Eradication Of Extreme Poverty In China.. Aug 2, 2021 The Greatest Anti-Poverty Achievement in History.
In recent years, but notably in the wake of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) 20th National Congress that just concluded at the end of October, Western writers have rushed to accuse Beijing of becoming anti-Western.
This is seen in several examples by Western writers, such as the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos or a quintessential China-blaming piece recently published by the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman.
In his article, titled “How China Lost America,” Friedman says that there are four trends in China that have soured the US-China relationship: market manipulation, hyper-nationalism, aggressive foreign policy and Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy.
But he does not elaborate these points to any convincible degree and fails to acknowledge the extent to which Washington’s own policies are to blame for China’s perceived turn from the West.
First of all, a lot of what is called intellectual property theft (which Friedman mentions in his piece) is just ordinary intellectual diffusion.
The FBI started an entire ‘China Initiative’ to investigate such instances in top US universities and companies – and it came up almost completely empty-handed to the point that it had to be shut down for devolving into a vehicle for anti-Asian racism.
This also doesn’t even acknowledge the extent of the US’ own market manipulation, namely through the sheer influence that its multinationals have in creating trade and economic policy, or its promiscuous use of unilateral sanctions.
The US also routinely violates its World Trade Organization (WTO) duties in its trade war against Beijing. The organization even allowed China to impose duties of $645 million worth of compensation for US trade malpractice in January.
For an American to call China hyper-nationalist is laughable.
The US is the most cartoonishly nationalistic country in the history of our species: children in most public schools are required to swear a ‘pledge of allegiance’ to the flag every morning, Americans only know one language on average and the American flag is draped everywhere in the country.
Chinese people are, on balance, much less chauvinistic and more open-minded.
Likewise, it’s hard to take insinuations of Beijing’s supposed “aggressive” foreign policy seriously either.
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One of the British Navy’s Vanguard-class nuclear submarines was forced to abort a “top secret mission” after it sustained fire damage, according to a Sunday article published by The Sun.
According to the outlet’s sources, it took the efforts of the entire 130-plus crew, including many who were off-duty, to put out an electrical fire aboard the HMS Victorious, which was carrying Trident 2 nuclear ICBMs at the time of the incident.
While the fire was reportedly contained relatively quickly, the emergency situation declared by the ship’s captain forced the ship to shoot to the surface at an undisclosed location in the North Atlantic to vent out toxic fumes.
A Navy source reportedly explained to The Sun that “every seagoing member of the Royal Navy is a qualified fire-fighter,” and that this ensured that British ships and submarines were able to quickly respond to such incidents without affecting operational outputs.
Nevertheless, the damage caused by the fire prompted the submarine’s captain to abandon an unspecified “top secret mission” and order the vessel to return to base at HMNB Clyde in Faslane, Scotland.
The Sun noted that the 30-year-old vessel, which originally cost over $3 billion, is one of the Royal Navy’s four non-stop nuclear deterrent patrols.
A Royal Navy spokesperson told the paper that the incident has not affected the continuous at-sea deterrent, but declined to provide any further details on submarine operations.
The Trump forces have spent billions of corporate dollars to rob the people of their means to fight for their basic rights, including the right to vote. They are stepping up propaganda, gerrymandering, and the disenfranchisement of citizens. They are trying to eliminate any peaceful paths to real economic and social justice. Through his actions […]
Elections 2022: No time to let up in the fight against fascism / by Jarvis Tyner
Source – off-guardian.org «…And they fought each other with even more ferocity because now even more was at stake. Instead of bringing words and fists to the fight they brought sticks and clubs and knives and began to kill each other because they were now cold and afraid. Meanwhile as the blood flowed, the two […]
STRANGE DAZE: The Tale Of Two Greedy Landlords
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