Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-13: News Headlines

Mark Niu (2022-04-13). How artificial intelligence helps students learn. america.cgtn.com It's been a challenging time for schools and students around the world. Many studies have shown a drop in test scores during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. But some educators believe there may be a new tool ready to help rejuvenate …

Benjamin Norton (2022-04-13). Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets. multipolarista.com 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.

Adler-Milstein J, Chen J, Dhaliwal G. (2022-04-12). Supporting Diagnosis With Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply We agree with Drs Bousquet and Coulet that worthwhile artificial intelligence wayfinding systems should avoid alert fatigue, support and not preempt clinician judgment, and operate variably in the foreground or background, depending on the clinical context.

Bousquet C, Coulet A. (2022-04-12). Supporting Diagnosis With Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent Viewpoint proposed to support diagnosis with next-generation artificial intelligence that not only predicts diagnosis but also accompanies physicians on their journey. The wayfinding metaphor poses interesting research questions about the best way to represent the map from an ergonomic point of view, but it also calls into question the volume of interventions of the system and its level of autonomy. A high volume of alerts accompanied clinical decision support systems for prescription and laboratory ordering. The strategy of alerting physicians initially seemed relevant and necessary to hel…

Fight Back (2022-04-12). Commentary: Regime change in Pakistan. fightbacknews.org On April 10, in Islamabad, Pakistan the Supreme Court upheld a vote of no confidence to remove Imran Khan of the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from power. The opposition parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) voted in favor of no confidence. 174 votes were in favor for no confidence, two more than 172 vote mark that needed for this to be passed. | Previously, on March 1, the heads of 22 diplomatic missions, including those of EU member states, released a joint letter urging Pakistan to support a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia&#…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). NATO's Secret Nazi Armies. libya360.wordpress.com Asa Winstanle Italian special forces in training. NATO's Operation Gladio was responsible for untold suffering over decades. (BBC) How the CIA and MI6 created Operation Gladio, a Cold War terror network riddled with Nazis. Part one of a new series. Last month NATO's Twitter account posted a photo of a Ukrainian soldier and saluted her…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). The Alliance of MI6, the CIA and the Bandéristes. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan After having shown that the war in Ukraine was prepared by the Straussians and triggered on February 17 by Kiev's attack on the Donbass, Thierry Meyssan returns to the secret history that links the Anglo-Saxons to the Banderites since the fall of the Third Reich. He sounds the alarm: we have not been…

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2022-04-12: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-04-12). Commentary: Regime change in Pakistan. fightbacknews.org On April 10, in Islamabad, Pakistan the Supreme Court upheld a vote of no confidence to remove Imran Khan of the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from power. The opposition parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) voted in favor of no confidence. 174 votes were in favor for no confidence, two more than 172 vote mark that needed for this to be passed. | Previously, on March 1, the heads of 22 diplomatic missions, including those of EU member states, released a joint letter urging Pakistan to support a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia&#…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-11). Progressive voices demand Assange's release on third year of his imprisonment. peoplesdispatch.org As his extradition to the United States looms large, Julian Assange completed three years of imprisonment in the United Kingdom on Monday, April 11. Held in a high security prison complex in Belmarsh in the outskirts of London, the Wikileaks founder has been in prison since 2019 when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London by the police. | Marking the anniversary, Assange's supporters held vigils in London and around the world. Last month, on March 14, the UK Supreme Court rejected Assange's request to appeal against his extradition sanctioned by the High Court in London, making his extradition ver…

_____ (2022-04-11). Global Progressive Leaders Urge Biden to Drop US Charges Against Assange. commondreams.org Progressive advocates, intellectuals, and former heads of state tell the U.S. president that dropping charges against the WikiLeaks founder would "send a strong message" in support of press freedom.

Ann Brown (2022-04-11). Remembering When Cherokee Nation Removed Racist Jim Crow-Like Language Limiting Black Citizenship Rights 'By Blood'. moguldom.com The Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court ruled to remove the words "by blood" from its constitution and other legal doctrines in February 2021, calling them "a relic of painful and ugly, racial past" comparable to the lingering effects of racist Jim Crow laws on Black Americans. A sovereign tribal government, the Cherokee Nation's people established a …

AFJ, PFAW, more (2022-04-11). Friday 4/8: Celebration Rally for First Black Woman Justice to SCOTUS. indybay.org Livestream of celebration rally at steps of U.S. Supreme Court…

Berry Craig (2022-04-11). Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton proves his race-baiting credentials at Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation. peoplesworld.org A wave of smiles and hugs spread across the otherwise somber crowd last Thursday afternoon at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. News had broken, it seemed mainly via iPhone, that the Senate had confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. I got the news on my iPhone …

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