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Ex-defence minister told to 'burn' secret Iraq war memo


RT
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:55 UTC
Hoon/Blair
© Yui Mok/PA/Scott Barbour/Getty Images/KJNGeoff Hoon and Tony Blair
During Tony Blair's time in office, Downing Street allegedly ordered former defence secretary Geoff Hoon to burn a secret memo that questioned the legality of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Hoon makes the bombshell claim in a new memoir.

In disclosures that have boosted ongoing attempts to strip the former prime minister of his recently conferred knighthood, Hoon reportedly revealed that Blair's chief of staff Jonathan Powell had instructed him "in no uncertain terms" to destroy the legal document.

When reports of the allegation first surfaced in 2015, they were dismissed by Blair as "nonsense." But Hoon has resurrected the claim in a tell-all book, titled 'See How They Run', according to the Daily Mail. The paper said Hoon has provided details of a "cover-up" at Downing Street.

The former Labour minister said he was sent a copy of the "very long and very detailed legal opinion," written by then-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, "under conditions of considerable secrecy" and told he should "not discuss its contents with anyone else."

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Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the pandemic and 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'

Chris Jewers
Daily Mail
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 07:46 UTC
Tyra Krause
© Nikolai Linares/Ritzau ScanpixTyra Grove Krause
A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'.

Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant.

This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months.
Daily confirmed graph
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Despite early fears that Omicron could prolong the pandemic due to its increased level of infection, Ms Krause said it actually could spell the end of the pandemic. According to the study:
'Omicron is here to stay, and it will provide some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it's over, we're in a better place than we were before.'
But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring, the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without having serious symptoms. As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the population.

Comment: The plandemic was created and implemented for specific consequences. Predictions are therefore useless as they are also part of the plan. Notice the talking point double-down:
A leading vaccine scientist and the driving force behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has said the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us - even as the Omicron variant continues to ravage the UK.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, chief investigator of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine trials and director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, helped develop the AstraZeneca vaccine in 2020.

Speaking a year on from the first time AstraZeneca was administered to a member of the public, Prof Pollard told The Telegraph: "The worst is absolutely behind us. We just need to get through the winter."

Asked about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's current handling of the crisis, with his relatively light restrictions across England, Prof Pollard said:
"(It) seems to be working so far. The system isn't falling over. But it's finely balanced. We can't fully answer whether he's got it right for some time."
In the 12 months since AstraZeneca was injected into Brian Pinker, 82, a dialysis patient at Oxford's Churchill hospital, nine billion COVID doses, including AstraZeneca, have been given worldwide.

In the UK alone, 90% of over-12s have had their first vaccine and more than 80% have had two doses, while 33 million boosters have been given. But Prof Pollard warned that giving boosters to people every six months was "not sustainable" and fourth jabs should not be offered until there is more evidence.

He said there was no point in trying to stop all infections and that "at some point, society has to open up", despite the ongoing threat from Omicron.
"At some point, society has to open up. When we do open, there will be a period with a bump in infections, which is why winter is probably not the best time. But that's a decision for the policy makers, not the scientists. Our approach has to switch, to rely on the vaccines and the boosters. The greatest risk is still the unvaccinated."
In a separate interview with Sky News, Prof Pollard said it is too early to say whether future coronavirus variants will be milder than those that emerged earlier in the pandemic. He said:
"I don't think we can be sure at this moment that future versions of coronavirus, the sons and daughters of Omicron, will be causing mild disease. I think we do need more time to evaluate that, to understand why Omicron seems to be causing milder disease."
Prof Pollard also said anti-vaccine misinformation had been a "different sort of virus" during the pandemic that had cost lives.
"There's no doubt that anything that makes anybody uncertain or hesitant about being vaccinated, particularly for those who are in vulnerable groups, puts their life at risk. There's no doubt people have died because of vaccine misinformation."



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His comments come as chief executive of the NHS Confederation Matthew Taylor warned:
"Although the data around Omicron is looking positive, it's not yet reliable and won't be until this seasonal period is truly over. It is only five weeks since we first heard of this new variant, and it is only now starting to affect more older and more vulnerable people. Uncertainty abounds. For example, as far as I can tell, we have absolutely no idea whether Omicron is more or less likely than earlier variants to add to the huge numbers of people dealing with Long covid."
On Sunday, the prime minister warned it would be "absolute folly" to say the pandemic is over - but said Omicron "is plainly milder" than other variants.

Despite a huge increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, Mr Johnson said the UK is in a better position than most other countries due to the "very, very high level of vaccination".

However, he said despite Omicron being "plainly milder" than other variants, the NHS is under pressure due to its high transmissibility - and the public must do everything they can to help relieve that pressure by following plan B measures.

Plan B measures are set to be reviewed when MPs return to parliament on Wednesday.
The chairperson of the JCVI, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, says the 'critical next step' is learning how to live with the virus:


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Mayo Clinic fires 700 workers who failed to comply with Covid vaccine mandate

Chantal Da Silva
NBC News
Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:09 UTC
Mayo Clinic
© Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty ImagesMayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
The Mayo Clinic fired roughly 700 employees who failed to comply with the nonprofit medical center's mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy. Workers had been given until Monday to get their first dose of a vaccine or obtain a medical or religious exemption to the rule. They were also expected not to delay on receiving a second dose if they had already gotten the first jab.

Hundreds of employees failed to meet those requirements and were let go, the Mayo Clinic said in a statement shared with NBC News on Wednesday. The clinic said of its staff, which consists of around 73,000 workers:
"Nearly 99 percent of employees across all Mayo Clinic locations complied with Mayo's required Covid-19 vaccination program by the Jan. 3 deadline."
The Mayo Clinic said approximately 1 percent of its staff, or around 700 people, would be "released from employment." The clinic added that the majority of medical or religious exemption requests made by workers were granted.
"While Mayo Clinic is saddened to lose valuable employees, we need to take all steps necessary to keep our patients, workforce, visitors and communities safe.

"If individuals released from employment choose to get vaccinated at a later date, the opportunity exists for them to apply and return to Mayo Clinic for future job openings."
The Mayo Clinic has faced some backlash over its policy, with 38 lawmakers signing a letter to the hospital last month asking it to ax the rule.
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Black Magic

Dems whipping up J6 hysteria to avoid accountability for rigging the 2020 election

Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 20:05 UTC
Election fraud
© Unknown
The 2020 presidential election was unlike any in American history.

Hundreds of laws and processes were changed in the months leading up to the election, sometimes legally and sometimes not, creating chaos, confusion, and uncertainty. Tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg, one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, spent $419 million — nearly as much as the federal government itself — to interfere in the government's management of the election in key states.

Powerful tech oligarchs and corrupt propaganda press conspired to keep indisputably important news stories, such as allegations of corruption regarding the Biden family business, hidden from voters in the weeks prior to voting. Information operations were routinely manufactured about President Trump in the closing months of the campaign, including the false claim that Russians paid bounties for dead American soldiers and Trump didn't care, and that Trump had called dead American soldiers losers. Both were disputed by dozens of on-the-record sources.
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Italy to require all residents 50 and older to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or potentially face monthly penalties


RT
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC
vaccine pass
© Getty Images / Alena Paulus
Italy's government has issued a decree requiring that everyone 50 years old and up be vaccinated against Covid-19, exempting only those who have recently recovered from the virus or who can't take the shots for medical reasons.

The Council of Ministers unanimously approved the new mandate on Wednesday after weighing various possible measures to reduce the strain on hospitals amid the rapid strain of Covid-19's Omicron variant. The order is effective from February 15 and is set to continue through at least June 15.

Those who "stubbornly" refuse to comply will face a possible monthly fine of €100, according to Italian media reports. The stiffer penalty comes in addition to €600 to €1,500 fines imposed last year for workers who decline to be immunized. People who've previously been infected with Covid-19 will only be exempted, based on their natural immunity, if their bout with the virus occurred within the past six months.
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Best of the Web: Steppe on Fire: Kazakhstan's color revolution

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:27 UTC
kazakhstan
© Strategic Culture
Maidan in Almaty? Oh yeah. But it's complicated.

So is that much fear and loathing all about gas? Not really.

Kazakhstan was rocked into chaos virtually overnight, in principle, because of the doubling of prices for liquefied gas, which reached the (Russian) equivalent of 20 rubles per liter (compare it to an average of 30 rubles in Russia itself).

That was the spark for nationwide protests spanning every latitude from top business hub Almaty to the Caspian Sea ports of Aktau and Atyrau and even the capital Nur-Sultan, formerly Astana.

The central government was forced to roll back the gas price to the equivalent of 8 rubles a liter. Yet that only prompted the next stage of the protests, demanding lower food prices, an end of the vaccination campaign, a lower retirement age for mothers with many children and - last but not least - regime change, complete with its own slogan: Shal, ket! ("Down with the old man.")

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Stefanik rips Pelosi on eve of Jan. 6 anniversary: Speaker 'bears responsibility' for riot

Ashley Oliver
Breitbart
Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:29 UTC
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© Jacquelyn Martin; Inset, Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesRep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) Inset: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asserted on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shared blame for the riot that occurred on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Stefanik, who serves as House GOP Conference chair, released a statement on the eve of the Capitol breach's anniversary, thanking law enforcement for their work to control the riotous behavior but condemning Pelosi for ultimately being the one "responsible" for leaving the Capitol prone to attack.

The New York Republican called it "unacceptable" that despite Pelosi's nine-person investigatory committee — comprising seven Democrats and two of the most outspoken Never Trump Republicans in Congress, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — persisting with its probe into the riot, "one year later the American people still do not have answers as to why the Capitol was left so vulnerable."

Comment: The Democrats defending Pelosi are lying through their teeth, and they know it. If she wasn't the mastermind behind the trap (because that's what it was, a giant entrapment plot), she was certainly deep in it.

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Multiculturalism as tool of the psychorium

The Evolved Psyche
The Circulation of Elites
Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:28 UTC
multiculturalism, motte and bailey
Welcome back from the holidays, everyone. And The Circulation of Elites is back on the job! Just a short post, to gradually ease you back into the groove. I thought a good place to start with the new year was to pick up where we left off in the old year: the psychorium.

As I discussed in the earlier post, one of the methods for generating the psychorium is the rhetorical strategy of the motte and bailey. This strategy is evident in the wielding of the concept of multiculturalism. Critics of multiculturalism are greeted with a retreat into the more easily defended motte, where the assertion is defended that the concept is nothing more than an appeal for a compassionate multiethnic society. However, when neither the clinically normal, nor non-ideologically possessed, are looking so closely the concept's promoters flood back over the bailey, where the term's real meaning is revealed. For, down in the bailey, multiculturalism is revealed not as the expression of a multiethnic society, as such societies have existed all through history. Instead, upon closer examination, multiculturalism turns out to be a social engineering agenda, of the managerial class, framed so as to legitimize the invasive powers of the administrative state.

This cleverly framed agenda operates on multiple levels. First, since a cohesive, well integrated society would experience little justification for the invasive social engineering and bureaucratic paternalism of the managerial class' administrative state, an intervention that promotes, and subsidizes, perceptions of differing ethic identities and interests mitigates the dangers to that agenda which effective assimilation would pose. Additionally, once this intervention (pretty much) inevitably gives rise to ethnic conflict, and the generation of ethnically serve-serving grievances, these sociological and/or historical contestations can be framed as the social ills that require the social engineering intervention of the administrative state's bureaucratic paternalism, and thereby legitimizes the raison d'être of the managerial class and its distinctive form of rationalized rule.1

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Biden lies (again) that COVID-19 is 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' as vaxxed are catching, spreading Omicron

Andrew White
National File
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:58 UTC
biden lie pandemic unvaccinated
© Fox NewsNo shame, or no clue?
Once again, Joe Biden again shared vaccine misinformation by claiming that COVID-19 is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" despite vaccinated individuals in the United States and abroad continuing to spread the virus.

As many vaccinated people continue to be infected with coronavirus, this week President Joe Biden falsely claimed that COVID-19 is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."

Unfortunately for Biden, his claims that the COVID-19 vaccines somehow prevent vaccinated individuals from contracting or spreading the virus are verifiably false, and have been refuted by several studies, reports, and even Biden's own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky.

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French lawmakers approve 'vaccine passes'


RT
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:47 UTC
French National Assembly, Assemblée Nationale, French vaccine pass
© AFP / BERTRAND GUAYFrance's Prime Minister Jean Castex (C) speaks during a session at the French National Assembly in Paris, on January 5, 2022.
France's National Assembly has passed a bill which, if approved by Senate next week, would make vaccination against Covid a must for those wishing to eat out, visit cultural venues, and travel across the country.

Following several days of fierce debate in the lower chamber of the French Parliament, early on Thursday morning lawmakers finally gave the green light to a piece of legislation that sets out to address the spread of Covid in the country. 214 MPs voted for, 93 against, and 27 abstained.

Among the measures featured in the bill is the introduction of so-called 'vaccine passes', to replace the existing 'health passes' which people have to present in order to be able to visit cafes, bars, and restaurants, as well as cinemas, museums, and interregional public transport. Under the current rules, people who have either recovered from Covid within the past six months or have been vaccinated are eligible to receive a health pass. There is another avenue still open under this system: a negative PCR or antigen test gives access to a health pass which is valid for 24 hours.

A vaccine pass would, however, be different; as the name suggests, it would no longer be given in exchange for negative test results, and would be issued only to those who have recently recovered or been fully vaccinated against Covid.

The rules would apply to everyone over 12, bar those with medical exemptions.

Comment: The incremental creep of tyranny is reaching its final stages. What happens when such a "small minority" of 5 million people still refuse to get the vaccine even in the face of the restrictions? Can the French economy withstand such a blow should those people be barred from dining out, traveling, shopping, and possibly even working?

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