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Russian deputy PM: Vaccine certificates should be as important as passports


RT
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:09 UTC
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A certificate of vaccination against Covid-19 should become a document with the same level of importance as a person's passport, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister said on Friday, noting that not enough citizens have been innoculated.

Speaking to reporters, Tatyana Golikova stressed the need for Russians to get vaccinated as the country looks to achieve herd immunity. Her comments came just a day after Russia's Covid-19 Operational HQ revealed that it is preparing to make a QR code confirming vaccination compulsory for long-distance public transport and entering cafes and shops.

Russia has set a target of vaccinating 80% of all adults, but, according to RIA Novosti, only 34.5% are fully inoculated. The number of people getting jabbed has been increasing in recent weeks, however.

Comment: Russia is set to vote on a draft law that would see a rise in draconian restrictions. RT reports:
Russia could be set to introduce some of the toughest Covid restrictions in the world, including a sweeping QR-code mandate for adults, if a draft law is passed by the country's parliament.

The proposed law would require QR-code Covid passes to enter stores, cultural venues and cafes until June 1, 2022 - but would not come into effect until February.

"Realizing that our citizens need to be given the necessary time to get vaccinated and draw up the necessary documents, for those who do not have them, the bill establishes a transitional period. The full use of certificates would enter into force on February 1, 2022," Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said on Friday.

Until then, unvaccinated citizens would have an alternative way to enter venues by showing a negative PCR test, but only having severe medical conditions would enable one to bypass the mandate starting from February.

The QR-code pass would be required for many public places as well as public transportation, but not for grocery stores, shops that sell necessities, and pharmacies.

The passes will also be required for travel by rail and for long-distance and international flights. Until the law takes effect, rail operators and air carriers can require proof of a negative PCR test.


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Moscow threatens an 'asymmetrical' response to West's 'unfriendly' acts


RT
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:02 UTC
Russian Foreign Ministry
© Reuters / Maxim ShemetovPigeons fly in front of the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia.
Moscow will respond to ongoing hostile moves by the West in a "reciprocal manner," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, warning that an "asymmetrical" response may also be on the cards.

Speaking at a press conference after meeting his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Friday, Lavrov cautioned the West on forthcoming consequences to its "unfriendly moves."

"We reaffirmed our intention to continue to show an exceptionally restrained approach, not to create problems artificially, but we will, of course, react to the unfriendly steps that the West is taking," the top diplomat said. "We will act in a reciprocal manner, and if necessary, also asymmetrically."
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Former Barclays CEO reportedly exchanged 1,200 emails with Jeffrey Epstein

Will Feuer
New York Post
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:32 UTC
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© Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFormer Barclays CEO Jes Staley, left, and disgraced financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, exchanged more than 1,200 emails, according to a report from the Financial Times. Staley's lawyer says the email messages were innocuous.
Jes Staley — the former CEO of Barclays who resigned last week following an investigation into his ties to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — reportedly exchanged some 1,200 emails with the perverted moneyman over a four-year period.

Some of those emails included mysterious terms such as "snow white" that have yet to be explained, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the correspondence between Staley and Epstein. Epstein killed himself in 2019.

The volume of correspondence and the unexplained references shed new light on the nature of the relationship between Staley and Epstein.

The emails, according to the Financial Times, were sent between 2008 and 2012, during which time Staley rose from head of JPMorgan Chase's asset-management unit to CEO of the investment banking division. Staley did not become CEO of Barclays until 2015.

Many of the messages in the tranche of emails were matter-of-fact, the report said.
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China's 6th Plenum Communique paves way for guiding role of "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era"


China Media Project
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:00 UTC
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The Communique emerging from this week's 6th Plenum is just an appetizer offering a taste of the heftier historical resolution to be expected in coming days.
The Sixth Plenum has finished, culminating with the release yesterday, November 11, of the much-awaited Communique, an appetizer offering a taste of the heftier document to be expected in coming days. Surprises could yet arrive with the release of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on the Major Achievements and Historical Experiences of the Party's Hundred-Year Struggle, the third resolution on history since the founding of the CCP. But as we await the full resolution, and detailed observations from the many experts picking through the communique, let us run quickly through the essentials.

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UK tabloid cheers US hypersonic nukes in Germany, shows mushroom cloud over Moscow


RT
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:08 UTC
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UK papers are hyping the revival of a Cold War-era US artillery unit in Germany, supposed to be armed with 'Dark Eagle' hypersonic missiles that will be able reach Moscow in mere minutes, once they are developed.

'Dark Eagle has landed' proclaimed The Sun on Wednesday, originally reporting that the new US missiles could "blitz Russia" in just six minutes - before revising that to "21 minutes and 30 seconds" - along with a graphic showing Moscow being vaporized in a mushroom cloud.

The US did in fact reactivate the 56th Artillery Command at a ceremony in Germany earlier this week. The unit had been inactive since 1991. However, the fine print in The Sun article, as well as other British papers, notes that the command may have hypersonic missile capability when this technology is "fully developed and deployed," supposedly sometime in 2023, according to the Pentagon.

Comment: Whilst it's unlikely that nukes will ever be allowed to be used, considering recent events, it certainly seems as though the situation is heating up: Britain to deploy troops to Poland to 'help with construction of border wall', Russia sends troops to Belarus for war games

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Kamala Harris mocked for using French accent in Paris

Wendell Husebo
Breitbart
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:59 UTC
Kamala Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris was mocked Wednesday for using a French accent while speaking to scientists in France.

"With us in government, we campaign with 'The Plan,'" Harris said waving her arms about as she toured the Pasteur Institute in the capital, as Breitbart News reported. "Uppercase T, Uppercase P. 'The Plan.'"


Comment: Who committed the bigger faux pas: Kamala adopting a French accent for seemingly no reason, or Biden breaking wind in front of the Duchess of Cornwall?

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Latvia BANS unvaccinated MPs from voting and suspends pay, proof of recovery from Covid also accepted


Euronews
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:56 UTC
Latvia
© REUTERS/Janis LaizansPeople queue up outside a mass vaccination centre as Latvia opens walk in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination scheme in Riga, Latvia, April 16, 2021.
Latvian MPs who have not been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 will have their pay suspended and no longer be able to take part in parliamentary votes.

MPs approved the measure in a vote on Friday with 62 votes in favour in the 100-seat parliament.

"From November 15, an MP will be entitled to participate in the work of the Saeima [Latvia's Parliament] only if he or she has presented an interoperable COVID-19 certificate confirming the fact of vaccination or illness," the statement from the parliament press office states.


Comment: It's an important detail that those who have recovered from the coronavirus are included, because it may mean that Latvia's government at last acknowledges and accepts natural immunity; at least for MPs, it's not clear whether normal members of society enjoy the same recognition.

The Washington Post adds that the ban does not apply to MPs with "a clinical university hospital specialist recommending postponing vaccination for a certain period of time, together with a negative COVID-19 test."

Obviously, that anyone is being made to comply with these orders over a relatively harmless virus is hardly a shining example of democracy, but, as we've seen with the draconian restrictions elsewhere, the situation could be much worse.


Comment: Over in England, the vaccine mandate is being applied to healthcare workers, 123,000 of which have just been threatened with the sack if they don't take the jab, and superior, natural immunity is not recognized, meanwhile its MPs aren't even subject to the mask enforcement.

See also: Russia set to make Covid-19 vaccination QR codes compulsory for use of public transport

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US appeals court rejects Biden's vaccine mandate


RT
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 02:16 UTC
Joe Biden
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A US federal appeals court has again ruled against President Joe Biden's national vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more workers, shredding the policy as "staggeringly overbroad" and an abuse of "extraordinary power."

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stark rebuke to Biden's vaccine requirement for larger American companies in a ruling on Friday, stating that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - the federal agency tapped to enforce the mandate - was not created to "make sweeping pronouncements on matters of public health affecting every member of society in the profoundest of ways."

"The mandate is staggeringly overbroad," Judge Kurt Engelhardt said, noting that it does not take into account the diversity of workplaces across the country, nor the fact that Covid-19 "is more dangerous to some employees than to other employees." As an example, he compared a hypothetical 28-year-old truck driver who works in isolation to a "62-year-old prison janitor" employed in more cramped conditions.

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Dutch PM announces strict new Covid measures


RT
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:29 UTC
Prime Minister Mark Rutte
© REUTERS/Louiza VradiNetherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, Greece
Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced a raft of new Covid-19 restrictions, including limiting home visits and banning spectators at sporting events, for the next three weeks to help curb the spread of the virus.

Beginning immediately, only four visitors over the age of 13 will be allowed inside a home at one time, while bars and restaurants and non-essential stores will begin closing earlier. Social-distancing orders are being reimposed as of Saturday.

Spectators at public happenings such as sporting events will also be banned for the coming weeks, though theaters and cinemas will remain open.

Rutte acknowledged in his announcement on Friday evening that it was a "very unpleasant message" with "far-reaching decisions."
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History Will Grind Out the Truth

Victor Davis Hanson
Real Clear Politics
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
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"History will figure that out on its own." That is what Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) recently replied to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In a heated congressional exchange, Fauci derided the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was due to the leak of a dangerous virus, engineered in the Chinese Wuhan virology lab -- and in part funded by U.S. health agencies, on the prompt of Fauci himself.

Fauci offered arguments from authority by citing his own expertise, as well as that of "card-carrying" specialists.

But in truth, there is little evidence that any animal species has been found infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or a close relative that causes COVID-19 or a similar illness.

Many federal health experts increasingly believe the virus was manmade. A number argue that it was likely a product of gain-of-function research that was funded in part by a U.S. government grant.

Others concede that Fauci and Dr. Peter Daszak--who was involved in gain-of-function research, often in cooperation with the Chinese--were not candid about the full extent of their ties to the Wuhan lab. But despite Chinese resistance to releasing pertinent data, history eventually will sort the truth out--as it does with most controversies of the moment.
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