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Denmark to end lockdown & Covid 'digital pass', no longer considers Covid-19 "a socially critical disease"

Roskilde
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The return to normality has been gradual, but now digital proof of having been vaccinated is no longer required when entering night clubs. People sit outside a restaurant for outdoor service in Roskilde Denmark
After 548 days with restrictions to limit the spread of Covid-19, Denmark's high vaccination rate has enabled the Scandinavian country to lift all domestic restrictions.

The return to normality has been gradual, but now the digital pass — a proof of having been vaccinated — is no longer required when entering night clubs, making it the last virus safeguard to fall.


Comment: Meanwhile, over in the UK, they're just about to start enforcing Covid IDs for nightclubs, despite similarly high rates of uptake following an equally coercive and scandal-ridden roll out: Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October for large events, stated goal is to 'encourage' young people to be injected


More than 80% of people above the age of 12 have had two vaccinations.

Comment: Lest we forget that, back in November of 2020, Denmark was one of the first countries to threaten mandatory and even forced injection, and it only backed down following nationwide protests. Prior to that, on the unfounded notion that mink could spread coronavirus, it illegally slaughtered millions of them, destroying a national industry and creating a serious biohazard in the regions where they were dumped. It also rejected mask mandates based on its own studies that showed that they were ineffective, only later to enforce them, and then scrap them again. It's government also railroaded its health authority into condoning lockdowns, eventually downgrading it from a regulatory to an advisory role, in order to remove any further influence it may have on policy.

Taken together, whilst it appears to be a positive development that they're dropping the lockdown restrictions, and it's shows that no science is driving the continuation of the lockdowns elsewhere, there's no guarantee that the nefarious forces pushing this agenda won't snap their fingers and have Denmark slap its people back into lockdown: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)




Brick Wall

'High-risk activity': Ardern advises hospital visitors against sex with patients during Covid

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Jacinda Ardern (pictured) has amused fans after breaking from her typically unflappable demeanour during Thursday's Covid press conference when asked about a sexual escapade in Auckland Hospital.
New Zealand prime minister's face shows full range of emotions after being asked about Auckland patient's liaison that health chief called a 'high-risk activity'.

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern may have kept her cool through a global pandemic, but a question about a patient and a visitor having sex at an Auckland hospital had the typically unflappable leader struggling to contain her expressions.

Ardern and the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield were giving their daily Covid-19 press conference, when a reporter asked them whether an allegation involving a patient and visitor who had "sexual relations" at Auckland hospital was considered a "high-risk activity, in the current climate".

Comment: Apparently it's not enough that the government is telling you where you can go, who you can see and what you can do. They want to regulate where and when you can have sex, too.

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Info

AOC mocked by conservatives after Texas abortion ban argument

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Texas Gov. Abbott “deeply ignorant,” questioning whether he is “familiar with a menstruating person’s body.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being criticized for her use of the term "menstruating persons" as she lashed out at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his new six-week abortion ban.

The far-left New York congresswoman called Abbott "deeply ignorant" on Tuesday over the Lone Star State's new law that prohibits almost all abortions after the six-week mark — including pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest.

"I don't know if he is familiar with a menstruating person's body. In fact, I do know that he's not familiar with a female or menstruating person's body because if he did, he would know that you don't have six weeks," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Comment: Much like Trudeau's creative use of language, AOC is simply not going to be taken seriously if she insists on using language in this way. Ideological virtue signalling does nothing but eliminate vast swaths of your potential audience - the message simply gets lost in the noise.

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Attention

Fauci never lies? CNN, NYT, WaPo & other MSM outlets IGNORE report showing US funded coronavirus research in Wuhan before pandemic

Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as he testifies on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, US on July 20, 2021.
America's biggest media outlets refused to cover the news this week that the US funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology years before the Covid-19 pandemic - a fact Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied.

More than 900 documents were obtained by The Intercept, following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) that revealed the NIH gave millions of dollars in grants to the US NGO EcoHealth Alliance. Nearly $600,000 was used at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at least partially "to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans."

"Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments," The Intercept reported, publishing quotes from several people concerned about the relation between the research and the health crisis affecting the world today.

The grant used to research bat coronaviruses was active between 2014 and 2019. Former president Donald Trump shut down a decision to renew the funding in 2020, after Covid-19 became a global pandemic.

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Megaphone

'China should send warships inside US territorial waters' in retaliation for another US incursion into South China Sea, says Chinese news outlet run by top Chinese diplomat

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A nuclear-powered submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea, April 12, 2018.
The Global Times called on People's Liberation Army Navy warships to travel to "U.S. military bases in the Asia-Pacific and the U.S. allies' coastlines to conduct close-in reconnaissance operations and declare freedom of navigation." The editorial added that "the U.S. will definitely see the PLA show up at its doorstep in the not-too-distant future."

This isn't simple ranting. The Global Times operates under Central Foreign Affairs Commission Director Yang Jiechi. Its words represent a credible threat.


Comment: As it is, it's not exactly a 'credible threat', because the US has proven that it's reckless, China has shown it is very measuresd in its responses. And so it's more likely that this outlet - which is not an official diplomatic source, despite its boss - is simply playing the US at its own game of hot-air and belligerence.


Why is China so furious?

Comment: Despite this incident being mostly a war of words, overall, it would appear that the situation is heating up:


Light Saber

Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction fully completed

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The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a joint venture between Russia's Gazprom and five European partners, aims to carry Russian natural gas to Germany across the Baltic Sea.The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has come to an end, Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Friday.

"At a morning operational meeting [...], the chairman of Gazprom's Management Board, Alexey Miller, said that this morning at 08.45 Moscow time [05:45 GMT] construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline had been fully completed," Gazprom announced on its Telegram channel.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova emphasised that stopping Nord Stream 2 is "impossible", warning against placing obstacles in front of the project. According to her, the terms of how Nord Stream 2 begins to conduct business will depend on the German regulator commercial supplies will depend on a German regulator's position.

Comment: Despite nearing the point that the gas is ready to be pumped, it's unlikely that the US will give up on its attempts to sabotage Nord Stream 2 and all that it entails:


Putin

Putin to BRICS leaders: Western countries created a mess in Afghanistan but now entire world must deal with the consequences

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the BRICS summit via a video link in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2021
The US and its allies have withdrawn from Afghanistan but now the whole international community has to deal with the possible consequences from the ensuing fallout, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday afternoon.

Speaking to a video conference of the BRICS economic international group, Putin said the crisis in Afghanistan results from an attempt to impose foreign ideas in a country where they won't be accepted.

"I have said many times that the current crisis in Afghanistan is a direct consequence of irresponsible attempts to impose alien values from outside and the desire to build so-called democratic structures by political engineering, which takes into account neither historical nor national characteristics of other nations," Putin said, accusing the US and its allies of "ignoring the traditions that other countries live by."

Comment: Russia, ever pragmatic, understands that though they may not approve of the Taliban or its ideology, it is in charge of a country right on their borders. Dialogue is always better than a shooting war.


Arrow Down

The ACLU, prior to COVID, denounced mandates and coercive measures to fight pandemics

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Protest for medical freedom and health choice in Minnesota.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) surprised even many of its harshest critics this week when it strongly defended coercive programs and other mandates from the state in the name of fighting COVID.
"Far from compromising them, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties," its Twitter account announced, adding that "vaccine requirements also safeguard those whose work involves regular exposure to the public."
If you were surprised to see the ACLU heralding the civil liberties imperatives of "vaccine mandates" and "vaccine requirements" — whereby the government coerces adults to inject medicine into their own bodies that they do not want — the New York Times op-ed which the group promoted, written by two of its senior lawyers, was even more extreme. The article begins with this rhetorical question: "Do vaccine mandates violate civil liberties?" Noting that "some who have refused vaccination claim as much," the ACLU lawyers say: "we disagree." The op-ed then examines various civil liberties objections to mandates and state coercion — little things like, you know, bodily autonomy and freedom to choose — and the ACLU officials then invoke one authoritarian cliche after the next ("these rights are not absolute") to sweep aside such civil liberties concerns:
[W]hen it comes to Covid-19, all considerations point in the same direction. . . . In fact, far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties. . . . .

[Many claim that] vaccines are a justifiable intrusion on autonomy and bodily integrity. That may sound ominous, because we all have the fundamental right to bodily integrity and to make our own health care decisions. But these rights are not absolute. They do not include the right to inflict harm on others. . . . While vaccine mandates are not always permissible, they rarely run afoul of civil liberties when they involve highly infectious and devastating diseases like Covid-19. . . .

While limited exceptions are necessary, most people can be required to be vaccinated. . . . . Where a vaccine is not medically contraindicated, however, avoiding a deadly threat to the public health typically outweighs personal autonomy and individual freedom.

Comment: The obvious: Mandates and civil liberties for all cannot coexist together. Enter reality split.


Footprints

White House tells 11 Trump-appointed military service academy board officials to resign or be fired...some push back!

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US President Joe Biden
The Biden administration on Wednesday told 11 officials appointed by former President Trump to military service academy boards of visitors that they must either resign or be fired by the end of the day.

Some of the appointees include former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, former senior counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, and former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, CNN reported.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in a briefing on Wednesday that
"The President's objective is what any president's objective is -- to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them and who are aligned with your values. And so yes, that was an ask that was made.

"I will let others evaluate whether they think Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and others were qualified, or not political, to serve on these boards, but the President's qualification requirements are not your party registration, they are whether you're qualified to serve and whether you're aligned with the values of this administration."

Propaganda

Rolling Stone COVID-19 debacle is indicative of a larger problem in media

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The news media have disgraced themselves. Again.

Rolling Stone magazine published, and then heavily amended, a viral report this weekend alleging gunshot victims in Oklahoma have been put on the back burner as "horse dewormer overdoses" have "overwhelmed" hospitals in rural areas.

The story is complete nonsense, of course, but this apparently doesn't matter to the broader press, especially insofar as the coronavirus pandemic is concerned. The facts aren't the point. It's all about the narrative. Point and laugh at Rolling Stone all you want, but its failure this weekend is indicative of a far greater, systemic sickness in the news business.

Tales of overrun Oklahoma hospitals appeared first in the pages of the Tulsa World. Oklahoma City-based NBC affiliate KFOR then pushed a similar story. The network affiliate ran the following on-air headline during its report, reading, "PATIENTS OVERDOSING ON IVERMECTIN BACKING UP HOSPITALS, AMBULANCES."


Comment: Data is not hard to find, should just about anybody seek it:
Ivermectin summary
bar graph Ivermectin