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Texas high school teacher charged after locking COVID-positive 13-year-old child in trunk to 'quarantine'

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:42 UTC
Sarah Beam
A Texas mother has been charged with child endangerment after she locked her 13-year-old child in the trunk of her car after the child tested positive for COVID-19.

Sarah Beam was charged with endangering a child by the Cypress-Fairbanks Police Department. A warrant has been issued for her arrest, according to NBC 2.

Beam reportedly pulled into a drive-thru COVID testing site in Harris County, Texas, when an officer heard a noise coming from her trunk.

Comment: File this under 'evidence that people's minds are disintegrating'.

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4th person dies in hepatitis A outbreak traced to Virginia restaurants


Food Safety News
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:00 UTC
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A fourth person has died in a hepatitis A outbreak traced to Famous Anthony's restaurants in Roanoke Valley in Virginia.

Larry Vest died on Christmas after fighting the liver disease for months. His wife Diane, who was also infected, died in the fall of 2021.

More than 50 people were infected with the hepatitis A virus in relation to an infected employee who worked at three Famous Anthony's locations at Grandin Road Extension, Williamson Road and Crystal Spring Avenue, according to public health officials. Infected people may not show symptoms for up to two weeks while they are contagious.

James Hamlin, a Roanoke County man, died Oct. 8. The name of the other person who died has not been released. About 30 people have been so sick from the virus that they had to be admitted to hospitals.

Comment: Considering that this outbreak seems to be a relatively rare situation, and there are likely other ways to prevent it, it's concerning that 'vaccinating employees' is so readily mooted as an option. Working on this logic, employees in numerous fields could be vaccinated against all kinds of diseases as a 'preventative measure'.

It's likely that the contrived coronavirus crisis has significantly contributed to normalising this kind of coercion. However, it's also true that the last 21-odd months have exposed just how compromised and corrupted some areas of healthcare has become due to the influence exerted by the pharmaceutical industry:

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'Nationalists are on the rise': How protests in Kazakhstan turned violent & why Russia feels it can't stay silent

Dmitry Plotnikov
RT
Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:17 UTC
kazakhstan police car fire
© AP Photo/Vladimir TretyakovA police car on fire during clashes with protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
Central Asian security, access to space, and ethnic Russians among reasons why Moscow can't ignore unrest in the former Soviet nation.

What's behind the current violent unrest in Kazakhstan and why is political stability in this huge former Soviet republic of such great importance to Russia?

Events in Kazakhstan are unfolding at breakneck speed, with the situation changing on an hourly basis. Initially, it seemed that protests against soaring energy prices would not turn into anything more serious. Since then, however, the country has asked for help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led military bloc, and its soldiers have engaged in fierce street battles with armed marauders.

Kazakhstan has always been viewed as one of the most stable post-Soviet countries, with the transition of power from its first president to his successor, managed by the local elites, initially seen as smooth and efficient. However, today the country is perhaps facing its toughest challenge since it became independent 30 years ago. RT has analyzed the reasons behind the unrest in Kazakhstan.

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At least 18 police officers and military servicemen have been killed in clashes in Kazakhstan, amid what the authorities are calling a "counter-terrorist" operation. No details on civilian casualties have officially been revealed.

The updated figure was published by Kazakstan's interior ministry late on Thursday. Nearly 750 law enforcement have received various injuries in the ongoing unrest, it claimed.

Only figures related to police and military casualties were made public, with no official information on killed or injured protesters, rioters, or what the Kazakh authorities are calling "terrorist gangs" available.

However, security officials had earlier described "dozens of attackers" having been eliminated in two separate attacks on the police HQ in the city of Almaty. Known as "the southern capital" in Kazakhstan, the country's largest metropolis has become a hotspot of protests, which then escalated into rioting, arson and looting of administrative buildings, businesses and shopping centers.

A UN official on Thursday alleged that a large number have been wounded during the unrest. "Almost 1,000 people have reportedly been injured in the protests" the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a statement on Thursday, which urged all the parties in Kazakhstan to "refrain from violence and to seek a peaceful resolution of grievances." The OHCHR did not elaborate on their sources for the number cited.
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Rip it up: the vaccine passport experiment needs to end

Kate Andrews
The Spectator
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 06:46 UTC
vaccine passport torn up
Flying anywhere right now is difficult, but for those of us who are jabbed, it is at least possible. So just after Christmas I set off for America to see my family in Connecticut, armed with the NHS app technology which we were once assured would never be used as a vaccine passport. It's now precisely that.

I tapped my phone to summon my travel credentials en route to Heathrow, but to my astonishment my vaccination status wasn't there: 'No Covid-19 records found.' My 'passport' had been suspended.

My crime, it turned out, was to have caught Omicron in mid-December. I'd had a positive result on a lateral flow test and, following the guidance at the time, several days later had taken a PCR test to confirm it. By the time I was travelling, I had recovered and was comfortably out of isolation. But the app disagreed.

'You have had a positive PCR test result,' it said. 'You must wait ten days after a positive PCR test before you can either get an NHS Covid pass or start using an existing one again.' This did not line up with the official rules. Anyone infected with Covid can now stop isolating after seven days, as long as they test negative twice. I was on day 12.
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Chris Hedges: The execution of Julian Assange

Chris Hedges
RT
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:49 UTC
Julian Assange Supporters
© Reuters/Henry NichollsSupporters of Julian Assange hold aloft placards and unfurl a banner outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK, December 10, 2021.
He exposed empire as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, its callous disregard for human life, its rampant corruption, and its innumerable war crimes. But, as history shows, empires kill those who inflict deep wounds.

Let us name Julian Assange's executioners. Joe Biden. Boris Johnson. Scott Morrison. Theresa May. Lenin Moreno. Donald Trump. Barack Obama. Mike Pompeo. Hillary Clinton. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett and Lord Justice Timothy Victor Holroyde. Crown Prosecutors James Lewis QC, Clair Dobbin QC and Joel Smith. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser. Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia Gordon Kromberg. William Burns, the director of the CIA. Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5.

Let us acknowledge that the goal of these executioners, who discussed kidnapping and assassinating Assange, has always been his annihilation. That Assange, who is in precarious physical and psychological health, and who suffered a stroke during court video proceedings on October 27, has been condemned to death should not come as a surprise. The 10 years he has been detained, seven in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and nearly three in the high-security Belmarsh prison, were accompanied by a lack of sunlight and exercise, and unrelenting threats, pressure, anxiety and stress. "His eyes were out of sync, his right eyelid would not close, his memory was blurry," his fiancée Stella Moris said of the stroke.

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Is there a way to prevent psychopaths from getting into positions of power?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Nosferatu
Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy to hyper-focus on collectivist ideologies as the source of our problems and forget that these ideologies do not function in a vacuum; they cannot wreak havoc by themselves, they need psychopathic people directing them to do real damage.

There is something about collectivism that lends itself to projection and hypocrisy (collectivism is organization by FORCE instead of being voluntary). I suppose when your political ideology becomes your religion it's easy to turn into a zealot. And while zealots find power in their single-mindedness and their cultism they also tend to lack any self-awareness. They literally go insane with devotion to their cause to the point that they lose track of whether or not their cause is fair and just. Their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and disjointed and every person they run into that does not share their views is immediately seen as a heretical enemy that needs to be exposed or destroyed.
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Sex, lies and trade deals: how a businessman bribed half the US navy

David Haggith
RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:35 UTC
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"Manilla, 2007. The chauffeured Mercedes crawled south for half an hour in the interminable traffic - the turbid waters of Manilla Bay on the right. The middle-aged men packed inside the cars were in an exuberant mood ... Leonard Glenn Francis was taking out the senior commanders of the US 7th Fleet. These were the most powerful navy officers in Asia, and they controlled the movements of around sixty ships and submarines, 150 aircraft, and 20,000 sailors in a huge operational area, stretching from Hawaii to India ..."

"The men moved quickly through an air-conditioned lobby and through a curtain at the back. On the other side, Filipino women - many just students - sat in rows in a kind of fish bowl, identifiable not by their names but by the numbers attached to their skimpy outfits ... Always the ... big boss or Lion King to these navy officers, Leonard dominated the action ..."

"The afterparty was in the $4,000-a-night McArthur Suite at the Manilla Hotel ... It was General Douglas McArthur's home and operational command during World War II. The men piled into the Spanish-Mission-style room with wooden ceiling beams, marble tiles, an ornate chandelier and heavily draped curtains. Leonard ... stocked the suite with $10,000 bottles of Dom Perignon ... The two-bedroom suite was filled with McArthur memorabilia. In the suite's study, two ornately carved wooden chairs - the only objects to survive the Battle of Manilla, stood in front of a desk ... One of the men, quite drunk by now, opened a case on the desk containing a replica of McArthur's famous corn-cob pipe and grabbed a woman."
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FDA ordered to speed up release of approval data for COVID-19 vaccine

Edmund DeMarche
Fox News
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:32 UTC
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© Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The Food and Drug Administration was ordered by a federal judge Thursday to release tens of thousands of more pages a month about the data used in its approval process for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

Public Health and Medical Professionals sued the FDA under a Freedom of Information Act that demanded more transparency, Reuters reported last month.

The FDA — citing staffing issues — agreed to release 12,000 pages by the end of January and a "minimum" of 500 pages a month going forward, the report said. The group found that number unacceptable and said there are more than 400,000 pages of data needed, which could mean it may be 2097 before all the documents are made public.
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Have we reached the point where Big Tech censorship is simply accepted?

Norm Lewis
RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:24 UTC
Marjorie Taylor Greene
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire/REX/ShutterstockRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
The most shocking thing about Twitter's ban of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the first national US politician since Donald Trump to be de-platformed, was the lack of outcry about Big Tech's self-appointed role as the arbiters of truth.

Shockingly, the permanent suspension of hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter and her temporary suspension from Facebook does not appear to shock us anymore.

What is at stake here is far more critical than one congresswoman spreading nonsense on social media. The precedent set a year ago, where unaccountable Big Tech simply banned an elected president from the public square, has morphed into a new reality: unaccountable tech barons have become the judge and jury of political debate and what is true or not in society.

The dangers of this reality cannot be stressed enough. Whatever one thinks of Greene or her bonkers views on Covid-19 vaccinations or the QAnon conspiracy theory, the censoring of her opinions from the public realm - particularly by private social media companies - is far worse, for two related reasons.
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Launch date for Trump's 'TRUTH Social' app revealed


RT
Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:22 UTC
Trump
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.jpgFormer US President Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump's 'TRUTH Social' app is due to be released on February 21, according to a listing on the Apple App Store, paving the way for the venture to launch on Presidents' Day.

The social media platform, developed by the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is available to pre-order and will go live in the latter half of February, according to The Guardian.

Similar to Twitter, the site will give users the ability to follow one another, discuss trending topics, and post a message called a 'truth'. Reposting another user's post will be called a 're-truth' (similar to a retweet on Twitter), according to The Verge.

A February launch for Trump's alternative social platform would come roughly 13 months after the former president was booted off Facebook and Twitter.
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