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  1. By acknowledging the #journalism is rotted from the core by paid corporate journalists #sanewashing If paid: there is possible conflict of interest In #science: it is mandatory to declare such interests in each paper - otherwise it is a reason for paper #retraction #withdrawal It's a deep issue

  2. A quotation from Gracian

    Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.
     
    [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack

  3. A quotation from Gracian

    Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.
     
    [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack

  4. A quotation from Gracian

    Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.
     
    [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack

  5. A quotation from Gracian

    Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.
     
    [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack

  6. A quotation from Brecht

    Truly, I live in dark times!
    The guileless word is folly. A smooth forehead
    Suggests insensitivity. The man who laughs
    Has simply not yet had
    The terrible news.

    What kind of times are they, when
    A talk about trees is almost a crime
    Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
    That man there calmly crossing the street
    Is already perhaps beyond the reach of his friends
    Who are in need?
     
    [Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten!
    Das arglose Wort ist töricht. Eine glatte Stirn
    Deutet auf Unempfindlichkeit hin. Der Lachende
    Hat die furchtbare Nachricht
    Nur noch nicht empfangen.

    Was sind das für Zeiten, wo
    Ein Gespräch über Bäume fast ein Verbrechen ist
    Weil es ein Schweigen über so viele Untaten einschließt!
    Der dort ruhig über die Straße geht
    Ist wohl nicht mehr erreichbar für seine Freunde
    Die in Not sind?]

    Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
    Poem (1938 ca.), “To Those Born Later [An die Nachgeborenen],” sec. 1, Svendborger Gedichte (1939) [tr. Willet / Manheim / Fried (1976)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/brecht-berthold/8219…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brecht #bertoltbrecht #badtimes #complicity #darkness #horror #ignorance #retreat #silence #terror #withdrawal

  7. What the U.S.’ Withdrawal from the WHO Means for Public Health – TIME

    Jan 22, 2026 11:08 AM PT

    The U.S. Has Pulled Out of the WHO. Here’s What That Means for Public Health

    by Alice Park, Senior Correspondent

    Getty Images

    The U.S. was one of the first countries to join the World Health Organization (WHO) when it was created in 1948 as part of the United Nations. But on Jan. 22, 2026, it officially withdrew from the global health group.

    The U.S. has historically been the largest funder to the WHO, through both its assessed and voluntary contributions, so the departure is poised to disrupt both global and domestic health. “This is one of the most penny-wise and billion-dollar-foolish moves,” says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

    Here’s what to know.

    Is the U.S. officially out of the WHO?

    The WHO’s charter does not contain a clause allowing member states to withdraw. But in agreeing to join decades ago, the U.S. Congress included an option to leave the organization as long as the U.S. gave a year’s notice and met its financial obligations by paying its dues in full.

    The first condition appears to have been met: A year ago, President Donald Trump gave notice that the U.S. would withdraw. But the U.S. has not paid its outstanding dues—including from the final year of the Biden Administration.

    The WHO’s principal legal officer Steven Solomon said during a press briefing on Jan. 13 that the matter will be discussed by the organization’s executive board, which is scheduled to meet in February, and those talks could extend to the General Assembly that meets in May. “We look forward to member states discussing this,” he said. “Because these questions of withdrawal—questions of the conditions, the promise, and agreement reached between the U.S. and World Health Assembly [of the WHO]—these are issues reserved for member states, and not issues WHO staff can decide.”

    Will the U.S. be prevented from working with the WHO?

    Dr. Tedros Ghebreysus, WHO Director-General, has said he is open to accepting the U.S. back as a member and hopes it will reconsider the decision to withdraw.

    “WHO has signaled—very intentionally, I think—that they want to continue to work with the U.S.,” says Dr. Judd Walson, chair of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The flag of the United States continues to fly outside the WHO building [in Geneva], and that’s not a mistake. It’s a very intentional signal that they welcome us to re-engage.”

    Read More: Bill Gates: I’m Still Optimistic About Global Health

    Osterholm says researchers will likely continue to stay in touch with their global-health colleagues, but on an individual level that lacks the coordination and clout of federal-level participation. The yearly update of the flu vaccine is a good example. “The flu world has always been very close globally,” he says. “I am quite convinced that there will be unofficial information-sharing among this group. The question is, at what point does that information have to be official in order for companies to take action deciding which vaccine strains they are going to use?”

    Walson sits on a few WHO committees and says he asked his colleagues there whether the U.S. decision changed his ability to participate. “They said absolutely not—that as a U.S. citizen, I still have the capacity to participate in the workings of the WHO. And there are scientists and technical experts engaging to continue to maintain our access [to the WHO] at the individual level. Clearly we have lost the coordination of all of these activities, but we will still have some engagement.”

    Solomon echoed that intention. “While there is an open question when and how withdrawal happens, there is not an open question about what the constitution says about WHO’s overall mission. The constitution sets out the objective for the organization, of health for all people, wherever they live and without discrimination.”

    What will change now that the U.S. is no longer a member of the WHO?

    One of the first things that could change for U.S. scientists is their access to databases that are important for monitoring infectious diseases like influenza, as well as emerging threats that could affect the health of Americans, such as COVID. While many of these data sources are public, and U.S. scientists will continue to access them, they might not have as much insight into how the raw data were collected and processed, says Walson. That could be important for understanding how to interpret the information and for getting a head start on potentially dangerous outbreaks of new infectious diseases. 

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: What the U.S.’ Withdrawal from the WHO Means for Public Health | TIME

    Tags: America, Education, Health, History, Libraries, Opinion, Pubic Health, Resistance, Science, Time, Time Magazine, Trump, Trump Administration, United States, WHO, Withdrawal, Withdraws, World Health, World Health Organization, YouTube
    #America #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Opinion #PubicHealth #Resistance #Science #Time #TimeMagazine #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #WHO #Withdrawal #Withdraws #WorldHealth #WorldHealthOrganization #YouTube
  8. EPFO launches UPI PF withdrawal for instant fund access. Skip lengthy claims! Get your Provident Fund money directly to your bank account. Learn more and prepare for this boost to ease of living. english.mathrubhumi.com/news/m #EPFO #UPI #PF #withdrawal #ProvidentFund

  9. What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development – UN News

    UN News

    Global perspective Human stories

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    Parched earth in Iraq (file)

    What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development © WMO/Abbas Raad

    9 January 2026 UN Affairs

    The United States’ intention to withdraw from a host of UN bodies announced this week targets programmes and initiatives focusing on a wide range of crucial areas, including the climate crisis, trade, gender and development.

    When UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric briefed correspondents in New York on Thursday following the release of the White House Memorandum, he insisted that the Organization will continue to carry out its mandates from Member States “with determination.”

    Wednesday’s memorandum states that the US administration is “ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law.” 

    Several of the bodies listed in the memo are funded principally or partially by the regular UN budget, implying that voluntary funding will be impacted, although central funding will continue.

    However, the White House notes that its funding review of international organisations “remains ongoing,” and it is currently unclear what the impact of the announcement will be. 

    Here’s a breakdown of the 31 UN entities mentioned in the memorandum, and how they are making a positive difference to people, communities and nations, worldwide.

    African affairs

    UN News/Laura Quiñones

    Climate and Environment

    Coordination

    Development

    • UN Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat): Promotes sustainable towns and cities and provides technical and policy advice for the improvement of living conditions and the reduction of urban poverty
    UN News

    Education Cannot Wait ensures more children receive an education (file)

    Education and training

    • UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR): Provides training and capacity-building for individuals, organisations, and countries (especially developing nations) on areas like diplomacy, sustainable development, climate change and crisis management
    • UN System Staff College: Equips UN personnel with learning, training and advisory services to ensure a capable, adaptable and collaborative UN workforce
    • UN University: The UN’s global think tank and postgraduate teaching organisation conducts research and provides policy advice on pressing global issues
    • Education Cannot Wait: The UN global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, to ensure that children and youth affected by conflict, displacement, and disasters have access to safe, quality education

    Gender

    © UNFPA/Noriko Hayashi – Angolan health clinic (file 2025)

    Health

    • UN Population Fund (UNFPA): Promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, promotes gender equality and collates population data for development, helping to reduce maternal mortality and expand access to family planning

    International Law

    • International Law Commission: Mandates the development and codification of international law by drafting legal instruments and clarifying principles; fostering the rule of law, and supporting peaceful relations among states
    • International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: Carries out essential functions of the former International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, completing ongoing cases, protecting witnesses and preserving archives, ensuring accountability for serious international crimes
    © UNISFA – Peacebuilding training in Abyei (file)

    Reducing conflict and violence

    UN News/Daniel Dickinson

    Trade and the Economy

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development | UN News

    #development #FeedingHungry #Isolationism #NewYork #Organizations #Trade #UNBodies #UNNews #UnitedNations #UnitedStates #Withdrawal #WithdrawingFromWorld #WorldFunding
  10. What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development – UN News

    UN News

    Global perspective Human stories

    Audio and Subscription

    Parched earth in Iraq (file)

    What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development © WMO/Abbas Raad

    9 January 2026 UN Affairs

    The United States’ intention to withdraw from a host of UN bodies announced this week targets programmes and initiatives focusing on a wide range of crucial areas, including the climate crisis, trade, gender and development.

    When UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric briefed correspondents in New York on Thursday following the release of the White House Memorandum, he insisted that the Organization will continue to carry out its mandates from Member States “with determination.”

    Wednesday’s memorandum states that the US administration is “ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law.” 

    Several of the bodies listed in the memo are funded principally or partially by the regular UN budget, implying that voluntary funding will be impacted, although central funding will continue.

    However, the White House notes that its funding review of international organisations “remains ongoing,” and it is currently unclear what the impact of the announcement will be. 

    Here’s a breakdown of the 31 UN entities mentioned in the memorandum, and how they are making a positive difference to people, communities and nations, worldwide.

    African affairs

    UN News/Laura Quiñones

    Climate and Environment

    Coordination

    Development

    • UN Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat): Promotes sustainable towns and cities and provides technical and policy advice for the improvement of living conditions and the reduction of urban poverty
    UN News

    Education Cannot Wait ensures more children receive an education (file)

    Education and training

    • UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR): Provides training and capacity-building for individuals, organisations, and countries (especially developing nations) on areas like diplomacy, sustainable development, climate change and crisis management
    • UN System Staff College: Equips UN personnel with learning, training and advisory services to ensure a capable, adaptable and collaborative UN workforce
    • UN University: The UN’s global think tank and postgraduate teaching organisation conducts research and provides policy advice on pressing global issues
    • Education Cannot Wait: The UN global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, to ensure that children and youth affected by conflict, displacement, and disasters have access to safe, quality education

    Gender

    © UNFPA/Noriko Hayashi – Angolan health clinic (file 2025)

    Health

    • UN Population Fund (UNFPA): Promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, promotes gender equality and collates population data for development, helping to reduce maternal mortality and expand access to family planning

    International Law

    • International Law Commission: Mandates the development and codification of international law by drafting legal instruments and clarifying principles; fostering the rule of law, and supporting peaceful relations among states
    • International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: Carries out essential functions of the former International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, completing ongoing cases, protecting witnesses and preserving archives, ensuring accountability for serious international crimes
    © UNISFA – Peacebuilding training in Abyei (file)

    Reducing conflict and violence

    UN News/Daniel Dickinson

    Trade and the Economy

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development | UN News

    #development #FeedingHungry #Isolationism #NewYork #Organizations #Trade #UNBodies #UNNews #UnitedNations #UnitedStates #Withdrawal #WithdrawingFromWorld #WorldFunding
  11. The new facility, which functions similarly to an ATM withdrawal, has been developed in partnership with the National Payments Corporation of India english.mathrubhumi.com/news/m #epfo #atm #npci #withdrawal

  12. FYI the US is not withdrawing from 66 "International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties" - this is a dishonest framing by the Trump administration. Most of the entities listed in the memorandum of 7 Jan 2026 are only commissions, coordination mechanisms and sub-organs of international organizations. A few of them are quite important (e.g. International Law Commission) and many do good work, but most of them are not international organizations.

    For example, you have the United Nations (the international organization) which has an organ called the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) , which created a commission called the "Economic Commission for Africa". The US is only withdrawing from the commission (and 3 other regional commissions), not ECOSOC or the UN as a whole.

    Why does this matter? There are not that many international organizations in the world and withdrawing is a major step with long-term consequences. By contrast there are many, many thousands of mechanisms, commissions and sub-organs. Withdrawing from 66 of these will certainly do some damage, in particular because the withdrawal focuses on entities working on climate change, democracy, the rule of law, disarmament, peace and humanitarian issues. However, this is an entirely different impact on the international order than withdrawing from the UN or the WTO, for example.

    #UnitedNations #Withdrawal #Memorandum #WhiteHouse #Trump

  13. Tuesday, December 16, 2025

    Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows -- Ukraine claims first Sea Baby underwater drone strike on Russian submarine -- 75% of Ukrainians reject peace plan requiring withdrawal from Donbas, poll finds -- Encircled Russian troops in Kupiansk resupplied with flags, not food, official says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  14. Tuesday, December 16, 2025

    Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows -- Ukraine claims first Sea Baby underwater drone strike on Russian submarine -- 75% of Ukrainians reject peace plan requiring withdrawal from Donbas, poll finds -- Encircled Russian troops in Kupiansk resupplied with flags, not food, official says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  15. Tuesday, December 16, 2025

    Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows -- Ukraine claims first Sea Baby underwater drone strike on Russian submarine -- 75% of Ukrainians reject peace plan requiring withdrawal from Donbas, poll finds -- Encircled Russian troops in Kupiansk resupplied with flags, not food, official says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  16. Tuesday, December 16, 2025

    Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows -- Ukraine claims first Sea Baby underwater drone strike on Russian submarine -- 75% of Ukrainians reject peace plan requiring withdrawal from Donbas, poll finds -- Encircled Russian troops in Kupiansk resupplied with flags, not food, official says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  17. Tuesday, December 16, 2025

    Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows -- Ukraine claims first Sea Baby underwater drone strike on Russian submarine -- 75% of Ukrainians reject peace plan requiring withdrawal from Donbas, poll finds -- Encircled Russian troops in Kupiansk resupplied with flags, not food, official says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  18. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days. We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 11 “Zest” (1930)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/801…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #contemplation #curiosity #diversion #engagement #happiness #interests #introversion #introvert #pastimes #solitude #withdrawal #selffocus

  19. ‘Sacrificed on altar of political expediency’: nominee on withdrawal during critical water talks

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A veteran water expert from Arizona says the Trump administration withdrew his nomination to lead the federal…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #altar #arizona #bureau #coloradoriverbasin #cooke #june #nomination #nominee #politicalexpediency #state #theWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration #watermanagement #watersupply #whitehouse #Withdrawal
    europesays.com/2426133/

  20. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    At a certain level of wretchedness a kind of spectral indifference takes over, and you see human beings as ghostly presences. Those closest to you are often no more than vague shadowy forms, barely distinct from life’s nebulous background and easily reabsorbed by the invisible.
     
    [À un certain degré de misère, on est gagné par une sorte d’indifférence spectrale, et l’on voit les êtres comme des larves. Vos plus proches ne sont souvent pour vous que de vagues formes de l’ombre, à peine distinctes du fond nébuleux de la vie et facilement remêlées à l’invisible.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76374/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #depression #detachment #ghosts #isolation #misery #poverty #shadows #unreality #withdrawal #wretchedness

  21. #israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #truce / #bufferzone / #agreement / #withdrawal / #violence / #uno

    „Top UN officials in Lebanon are calling for compliance with the ongoing ceasefire after reports that Israeli forces killed 15 people, including a Lebanese soldier, along the buffer zone with Israel, which Israel was due to withdraw from on Sunday under the agreement.“

    news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1

  22. @CityHoosier

    Because it's #addiction

    All the rage we see now about the #tiktokban is just addicts coming off a high into #withdrawal

    All of their "high minded" reasons are flimsy #whataboutism. #Tiktok needs to die. #Meta should be next- that meta isn't dead too is no reason to delay tiktok's execution, except for that empty whataboutism

    The #manipulation now (apart from the regular manipulation via the #app) is to posit #Trump as some sort of hero saving their favorite #opiate of the masses

  23. I lost accurate count, but I'm now about 10 days into the Prozac withdrawal. Apart from the persistent sleep issues, I'm feeling pretty decent.

    I still have a couple of weeks to go before it's completely out of my system, but the hard part is over.

    I am still microdosing the psilocybin 2-3x per week and will continue this to treat the depression which will inevitably return, although hopefully diminished.

    One day at a time. :)

    #Prozac
    #withdrawal