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2022-04-16: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2022-04-16). No Extradition Of Julian Assange! Rally At US Justice Dept Washington DC. indybay.org Supporters of Julian Assange rallied at the US Department of Justice in Washington DC on April 11, 2022 to demand an end to the extradition process of Julian Assange and his immediate freedom.

Sachin Kheterpal, Karandeep Singh, Eric J Topol (2022-04-16). [Perspectives] Digitising the prediction and management of sepsis. thelancet.com Despite advances in critical care, sepsis is a major source of patient suffering and mortality worldwide, with nearly 50 million cases and 11 million deaths each year. Early recognition is crucial to successful treatment of sepsis with anti-infectives, intravenous fluids, and circulatory support, and researchers have long sought to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify patients showing early signs of the condition. But the development of AI-based sepsis prediction has been complex and hindered by shortcomings—eg, one algorithm, trained between 2008 and 2010, showed substantial deterioration in perfor…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-16). Mayo Clinic Health System breaks ground on new hospital in La Crosse. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org LA CROSSE, Wis. ‚Äï Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse has broken ground on its new six-floor, 70-bed hospital. During a special ceremony, Mayo Clinic Health System leaders expressed gratitude for the hard work of the dedicated staff and the community's support of the organization. "This may be the beginning of a construction project, but I see it as the culmination of years of really phenomenal work by our staff," said Paul Mueller, M.D.,…

Aaron Maté (2022-04-15). US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': fmr. NATO adviser. thegrayzone.com Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the roots of the Ukraine-Russia war and its growing dangers. As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbor. Guest: Jacques Baud. Former intelligence officer with the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service who has served in …

_____ (2022-04-15). The Triumph Of A Pedagogy Of The Oppressed In Progress. popularresistance.org It is very interesting and important how Francia has learned to be respectful and coherent in echoing the voices of the people, instead of the phony politicking to which we are used to. The enormous growth in her political narrative is not only due to her beautiful and natural intelligence, (not in vain blessed by [the Orisha] Orunmila). It's also fundamentally due thanks to her life experience as a Being who has suffered all the forms of oppression, against which she rosed up in rebellion, allowing her a capacity for listening and transcending words in action and deeds, resonating in those of us who come from th…

Marie Kelly (2022-04-15). Gross negligence in for-profit prison health care. workers.org By law, people in prison have a right to get the health care they need. In the late 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court decision Estelle v Gamble set the standard for medical rights of prisoners. But prison authorities are being criminally negligent in not providing adequate health care to incarcerated . . . |

Editor (2022-04-15). Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets. mronline.org The Washington Post—owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts—has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.

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