Daily Archives: February 4, 2022

2022-02-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-04). Growing student opposition to reopening of Australian universities amid COVID surge. wsws.org University students have taken to social media to express their concern over the profit-driven campaign to force students back onto campus amid a surge of the pandemic.

WorkWeek (2022-02-04). WorkWeek Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling & Texas Professor Fired For Tweets. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on police attack on KPFA journalist Frank Sterling, the firing of a Texas professor for tweets and a solidarity rally for 5,000 striking Clover Dairy workers in South Africa.

Staff (2022-02-04). Super-mutant HIV strain discovered in Europe. rt.com The new variant is said to be more transmissible and dangerous | A new highly transmissible and dangerous HIV variant has been discovered in the Netherlands, confirming scientists' worst expectations. | An international collaborative study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute, identified 109 cases of the new 'virulent subtype B' (VB) variant after analyzing more than 6,700 positive samples. | The research revealed significant genome differences between the VB strain and other HIV variants. | "Individuals with the VB variant had a viral load (the level of the virus in the blood…

Dana Sanchez (2022-02-03). Meta (Facebook), Paypal, Spotify Bomb After Earnings Report: Is America's Tech Bubble Over? moguldom.com Forget the tech bubble. U.S. stocks are in a superbubble and it won't end well, according to Jeremy Grantham, an influential voice on Wall Street who predicted the last two U.S. superbubbles. "If an ordinary bubble involves an irrationally exuberant gain in the price of some asset, a superbubble is when the cost of several …

Joyce Chediac (2022-02-03). Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care. liberationnews.org In the last few days actors Danny Di Vito and Susan Sarandon have tweeted support for Peltier and demanded his release…

WorkWeek (2022-02-03). WorkWeek Police Attack On KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling &Texas Professor Fired For Tweets. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the attack on police attack on KPFA journalist Frank Sterling, the firing of a Texas professor for tweets and a solidarity rally for 5,000 striking Clover Dairy workers in South Africa.

It's Going Down (2022-02-03). This Is America #159: Building Tenant Power in the PNW and Prisoner Hunger Strikes in the Bay Area. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, February 2nd, 2022. Ice, snow, & rainfall + slumlord management = Constant ceiling leaks. Tenants at Tecton-managed buildings in King County sent us these videos. Completely unacceptable. To add insult to injury, the tenants got ignored or yelled at when calling the emergency hotline. So useless! pic.twitter.com/fZ1sLeCWXL — Puget Sound…

Staff (2022-02-03). Hackers steal over $320mn in major crypto heist. rt.com The fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has been increasingly targeted by cyber criminals | One of the most popular bridges linking the Ethereum and Solana blockchains became a victim of a hack attack on Wednesday resulting in a crypto theft worth more than $320 million. | Developers representing Wormhole confirmed the exploit on its Twitter account, saying the network bridge is currently down while the team investigates a potential exploit. The official website says that the portal is temporarily unavailable. | Wormhole is a protocol that lets users move their tokens and NFTs between Solana and E…

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