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Thousands of Argentine workers gathered in the capital’s Plaza de Mayo today to stand up for unity, sovereignty, respect for rights and democracy.

On Peronist Loyalty Day, members of numerous organizations expressed their support for the Frente de Todos (FdT) and condemned the September 1 assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández.

Participating groups included the Union Front for the National Model, the Federal Workers’ Current, La Cámpora, Popular Unity and Militant Peronism, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Founder Line, the Central de Trabajadores de Argentina (CTA) and the CTA Autonom, among others.

These entities issued a joint statement affirming that national unity “will last only if it is built with the people as the protagonist and essentially in search of the common good along the path of peace to the point of full conquest of the land must be based on social justice.” “.

Furthermore, they denounced the existence of a de facto corporate power, controlled by a few, that stands above the democratic system, evading the will of the people and thwarting their legitimate aspirations.

It acts violently to preserve its privileges by controlling vital sectors of the economy. It speculates and blackmails inside and outside our territory and uses the International Monetary Fund debt as an empire weapon in complicity with local groups, he adds.

It also condemns the manipulation of the mass media and the use of the judiciary to persecute and ostracize popular leaders.

The document calls for coordination between the state and trade unions and social organizations to combat poverty, inflation and speculation; create new jobs; strengthen the internal market and, among other things, promote tax reform.

During the act, CTA Secretary General and FdT MP Hugo Yasky warned of the dangers of neoliberalism, which is defended by the opposition alliance Together for Change and former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).

Those present shouted slogans like Néstor (Kirchner) lives! and Cristina President!

“That’s the feeling of this square and the vast majority of those who watch us from all corners of the country,” Yasky said.

For his part, Máximo Kirchner, MP and leader of the Justicialista party in the province of Buenos Aires, accused Macri of indebtedness and destruction of the state.

He didn’t have a government plan, he had a business plan. He broke something that the city had a hard time building. However, we cannot afford sadness, there must be hope. We will go ahead and offer a country project in 2023 that really represents Argentine society, he said. (LP)

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has the rare gift of opening Pandora’s boxes as if he were collecting them. He did this by fighting for his sovereignist option rather than hiding it under the rug.

He did it by turning his back on cockfighting. His balanced “tone” earned him the respect of many voters, PQ or not. Result: declared dead, in a few weeks the PQ almost doubled its support.

With 14.6% of the vote and 3 votes out of 125, the PQ is still set on ventilator. Hence their leader’s next challenge: to lead his party from survival to a more visible existence in the Quebec arena.

Since he does not yet know whether his party will be recognized as a faction in the National Assembly, the task promises to be difficult.

This existential challenge is reminiscent of a legendary phrase by Jacques Parizeau. In 1989, the then leader of the opposition, seeing at his press conference that no journalist was present, exclaimed: “I exist, so do I! »

Above all, Mr. Parizeau conveyed the extreme difficulties that opposition parties have in “existing” in the media. With a mini caucus of three, the PSPP has to row all the harder to attract a modicum of attention.

Multiple goals at the same time

However, the PQ leader seems to know how to do it. So he opens another Pandora’s box. As he had announced, he intends to offer His Majesty King Charles III. refuse to take the oath in order to be seated.

Whatever happens – the most important thing for the PQ is that at the end of the day their leader and caucus can sit together – suddenly the PSPP achieves several goals. First, the discussion he provokes allows him to occupy the stage while he debates an important symbol in Quebec politics.

It’s “perhaps not the most pressing debate,” he conceded last week, but it’s important to many Quebecers.

Second, the Secretary General of the National Assembly was forced to make a decision. In his response to the PSPP, he raises the possibility that a “law” in the same direction could be taken by elected officials.

Third, the PQ leader who takes the lead seeks cooperation with the other party leaders. Now that Pandora’s box is open, no one will be able to escape.

He specifically asked Prime Minister François Legault to “submit a motion stating that failure to take the oath to the king should not prevent a democratically elected MP from sitting” as soon as work resumes.

Free choice

In short, the PQ leader wants to ensure that not only do elected officials take an oath to the people of Quebec, but that one day they will have a free choice whether or not to take an oath to the king.

PSPP has also managed to bring out supporting artists. In a video, some, including Sébastien Ricard and Pascale Bussières, urge elected officials to stop taking oaths to the monarchy.

It goes without saying that this episode of the “goal oath” will not solve any of Quebec’s great emergencies. It won’t revitalize the healthcare system, but it proves that symbols matter in politics, too.

The episode also validates the PSPP’s ability to lead its party both constructively and strategically. If he perseveres, he will allow him not only to survive, but to exist.

The Biden administration has stopped paying for free Covid-19 tests to be shipped and expects to end free vaccines for Americans after Congress cut billions of dollars for such efforts from a government funding bill last month.

People familiar with the matter said the government’s Covid-19 task force would remain in place ahead of an expected surge in cases over the coming winter months. But the team will shift the focus from emergency response to longer-term problems, like boosting domestic manufacture of personal protective equipment, researching long-lived Covid and supporting genome sequencing to identify variants, the people said.

The changes come as Covid-19 cases rise in Europe, often a precursor to rising case numbers in the US, and the arsenal of available treatments for people infected with Covid-19 has dwindled as mutations it Variants allow you to evade them.

The White House had asked Congress for $22.4 billion for more Covid tests, vaccines and treatments.

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“Just because we ended the emergency phase of the pandemic doesn’t mean Covid is over,” said Eric Topol, executive vice president of Scripps Research, a medical research organization.

The administration had requested $22.4 billion from Congress and recently extended the pandemic’s status as a public health emergency. The White House said the money is needed to pay for more testing, vaccines – including the development of new next-generation vaccines – and treatments.

The money was not included in a bill pending government approval last month.

The White House has tried to show progress on fighting the vaccine after President Biden struggled with promises to bring the pandemic under control. Last month, Mr. Biden described the pandemic as over. The seven-day moving average of cases was about 41,000 on Oct. 9, compared with more than 800,000 in the seven days ended Jan. 15.

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“Because of Congressional inaction, we are going into this fall and winter without adequate testing,” Ashish Jha, the White House Covid-19 coordinator, said recently. “You can’t fight a deadly virus without resources.”

Republicans who opposed including the Covid funds in the spending account said there had not been a thorough accounting of how pandemic relief funds had been spent. According to USASpending.gov, which tracks information on federal spending, Congress had committed about $4.6 trillion by August.

“They received amazing amounts of money,” Senator Richard Burr (R., NC) said at a recent congressional hearing.

Funds for the federal government to purchase and supply Covid-19 vaccines are expected to run out early next year. The government is now looking at ways to ensure some 30 million uninsured people have access to future boosters, treatments and vaccines.

The new bivalent vaccine could be the first step in the development of annual Covid shots, which could follow a process similar to that used to update flu vaccines annually. Here’s what this process looks like and why applying it to Covid could be challenging. Figure: Ryan Trefes

The government is also in talks with various stakeholders such as vaccine manufacturers on how to make the transition from government procurement of vaccines to more traditional models such as insurance coverage for vaccinations or treatments.

The federal government has halted its program of providing free Covid-19 tests to people who ordered them online. In other places like long-term care facilities and rural health clinics, it continues to distribute free tests.

The Biden administration in January directed health insurers to reimburse people for up to eight tests per month per insured person or let them buy tests through their insurance for free.

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The government is also figuring out how to advance its efforts to develop a more durable next-generation Covid-19 vaccine without the funding boost. Without a vaccine to block both infection and transmission, the virus could continue to mutate to evade immunity. Members of the White House Covid-19 task force have said a nasal vaccine could be more effective because it targets immune responses where the virus first enters the body.

Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, said the National Institutes of Health will award grants totaling more than $60 million over three years to academic institutions to develop a broad coronavirus vaccine. However, more funding is needed to complete this work, said Dr. Fauci, who directs the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Some public health leaders and federal officials say the US is falling behind countries like China, which has introduced a vaccine that is inhaled through the nose and mouth.

“It’s a national security risk,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health in Rhode Island. “Other countries have looked at how the US is fighting.”

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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Tripoli on October 3, 2022. MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP

CHRONICLE – The October 3rd Turkish-Libyan deal on hydrocarbons is a strategic challenge for the EU.

On Monday, October 3, 2022, a senior Turkish ministerial delegation (foreign, energy and defense ministers) traveled to Tripoli, the Libyan capital whose calm has frequently been disturbed by fierce fighting between rivals since the Western overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011 militias.

For the Turks, the game was worth the candle. Libya’s interim government of Abdelhamid Dbeibah has signed an operational memorandum with them to prepare for oil and gas exploration of the rich continental shelf that connects the two countries beneath the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) activates the agreement in principle signed on November 27, 2019 in Ankara between Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan and Fayez al-Sarraj, the UN-recognized head of the Libyan government.

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The domino effect of “energy poverty” has begun. According to Facile.it, nearly 5 million Italians are behind on utility bills and mortgage payments, and administrators are already suffering. Suppliers protect themselves by imposing unlawful clauses to resist. Otherwise “we cannot extend your contract, find another provider”. Which, in a nutshell, means: provider of last resort, a kind of “citizenship bill” that ends up being paid through general tax without it being clear who can access it and who can’t. In vain, the Arera Sector Authority threatened to pursue practices of unilaterally terminating the contract for excessive charges, prohibited by article three of the (poorly) written provision in the DL Aid until last August. Alongside Ilva, a state-owned company backed by another public company like Eni, there are foundries and paper mills threatened with detachment, and hotels forced to sign sureties or guarantee deposits to avoid being binding in the dark remain in a very precious bank liquidity, as revealed by Il Giornale. Who knows if Nomisma Energia President Davide Tabarelli’s prediction won’t materialize: a “militarization” of energy consumption, especially now that Europe is threatening a 15 percent cut in gas consumption after Gazprom reiterated that “a price cap would mean the suspension.” would determine of supplies ». So who decides what gets cut and what doesn’t? “Or the future virtuous behavior of those who have already reduced their consumption today, as they have decided in Germany, could now be rewarded,” writes expert Edoardo Beltrame in his blog.

While an extension of the aid until December (costs 4.7 billion) is being discussed, many small and medium-sized companies are threatening to close or have already lowered the shutters. But the gas price drops to 131 euros per megawatt / hour because it is not needed now given the warm autumn and the dramatic drop in consumption. “Physiological data following the proposal to develop a new alternative index to the ttf,” says a trader operating on the notorious Dutch stock exchange. If there was speculation, it should have been stopped earlier, it’s too late now. «How do you tell Algeria and Norway that the TTF is no longer good? The single shopping platform that the EU wants would be a hostile act,” says Tabarelli.

The Caritas report confirms that one in ten Italians live in absolute poverty, including 1.4 million children. “An adjustment must be made to the citizenship income,” says Cei President Matteo Zuppi. On social media, chats are multiplying with the shout #iononpagolebollette and more and more people are protesting, as in Sicily. If the climate of hatred against the new executive merged with a seething South, there would be trouble. There is a pressure cooker that the mafia can detonate on command.

Cuba. Cuban Science, Technology and Environment Minister Elba Rosa Pérez began a visit to Argentina and will attend the Summit of Heads of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Sector, diplomatic sources confirmed on Monday.

Pérez was received by the Head of the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Argentine State, Daniel Filmus, and of the Environment and Sustainable Development Department, Juan Cabandié, with whom she held a fraternal meeting, according to the Ambassador of the Caribbean Nation, Pedro Pablo Prada.

He also spoke to the President of the South American country’s Scientific and Technical Research Council, Ana Franchi, and the head of the National Park Administration, Federico Granato.

The meeting of ministers and authorities of the CELAC area takes place on the 19th of this month and will look at the challenges and place of science in the transformation of the region.

Likewise, a report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on cooperation and integration is presented and the Buenos Aires Declaration is awaited, in which those present will work to consolidate initiatives that promote sustainable development of the continent.

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Underwater images have for the first time revealed the full extent of damage to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from an explosion in late September. Videos published by the Expressen newspaper on Tuesday showed that at least 50 meters of the pipeline had been destroyed or buried under the sea. Footage filmed at a depth of 80 meters on Monday showed, among other things, large cracks and bent metal.

Trond Larsen, a drone pilot for Norwegian company Blueye Robotics, told Expressen that only “extreme force can bend such thick metal this way.” There was also “a very big impact on the sea floor” around the pipeline, added Larsen, who directed the underwater drone for the recordings.