‘Whakapapa’ – the spirit of togetherness England national team hopes will subdue ‘tribal elders’, win it Euro 2024
Beyond the soundbites and the management jargon that attracted derision in some quarters, there was an important message. It was about creating a different culture around the team and trying to restore that long-lost sense of identity.
Pig and haram: To turn off Muslims, US Army cast Chinese vaccines as derived from pork, therefore forbidden
By 2010, the military began using social media tools, leveraging phony accounts to spread messages of sympathetic local voices – themselves often secretly paid by the United States government. As time passed, a growing web of military and intelligence contractors built online news websites to pump US-approved narratives into foreign countries.
Ping pong: How China’s scramble to link US Army to the origin and spread of Covid stirred US propaganda machine
Health workers and the government struggled to get Filipinos vaccinated against Covid-19, despite mobile sites like this one, operating in May 2021 in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. At that time, the Philippines had one of the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. The primary vaccine available then was Sinovac. Credit: Reuters
As Covid killed millions US secret services – CIA and FBI – ran an anti-vaccine propaganda to discredit China
The US military launched a clandestine program amid the Covid crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
New studies show Covid vaccines cause heavy flows during menstruation, prolong the cycles
Evidence also suggests that during the menstrual cycle phase a woman is in at the time of vaccination may play a role in how vaccination affects menstruation, the researchers said. Assessing the effects of Covid-19 vaccination on menstrual cycles is important because the menstrual cycle is a significant indicator of women’s health, and research suggests there is a major gap in understanding, they said.
Bloody Feast of Sacrifice: How Gaza war turned usually joyous Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday into misery
Muslims around the world will celebrate the four-day Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, early in the week. It commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Ismail, as recounted in the Quran. In the Jewish and Christian traditions, Abraham is called to sacrifice his other son, Isaac.
WFP to refugees in Kenya: We provide free food, free water, free health and education, so you should accept cut food rations
The cuts to both food and vouchers were imposed with little warning, people in Dadaab – Kenya’s largest refugee settlement – complained. They also came on the heels of heavy flooding in April, which displaced 20,000 people and drove up prices in local markets, deepening everyone’s despair.
Asthma omena therepy: Patients flock Hyderabad city in India to swallow live sardines as medicine
Legend has it that in 1845 a wandering saint presented a secret formula of miracle herbs to Veeranna Goud, a man living in the old city of Hyderabad, and instructed him to give it to asthma patients for free. Since then, Goud’s descendants, known as the Bathini family, have preserved the tradition and kept the herbal formula under wraps, shared only among male descendants.
Food slaves: Since AGRA’s launch, African biodiversity has been severely lost, farmers tricked into dumping nutrient-dense, drought-resistant crops
In 1999, Monsanto’s CEO Robert Shapiro bragged that the company planned to control “three of the largest industries in the world – agriculture, food and health – that now operate as separate businesses. But there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration.” Today these chemical manufacturers control a huge percentage of the world’s food supply.
Elite Chinese scientists reveal how they engage in fraud cheat to keep jobs as they have ‘no choice’
In 2015, the Chinese government introduced the Double First-Class Initiative to establish “world-class” universities and disciplines. Universities selected for inclusion in the programme receive extra funding, whereas those that perform poorly risk being delisted, says Wang.
