The president of Mexico has vowed to open an investigation into reports that members of the previous government had bought Israeli spying software and had used it to spy on the country's current socialist leader, among others.

In a speech on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador labeled allegations that the previous administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto spied on him and his associates as "shameful."

"They had sophisticated equipment to listen to all phone calls, not only from the person who was the target, but from everyone around them," he claimed, adding that it wasn't just him they allegedly spied on, but his wife, children, doctor and dozens more.

The Guardian reported that as many as 50 of Lopez Obrador's closest allies were targeted by the previous administration, which was the first purchaser of the Pegasus software.

The news outlet said that the data it received showed the phone numbers of priests, victims of state-sponsored crimes and the children of high-profile figures among those targeted by the spyware, challenging NSO's claims that the technology was only used to fight serious crime and terrorism.

Amazon has pulled the plug on infrastructure and other services that it offered to Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group.The tech and retail giant announced on Monday that it had deactivated cloud computing accounts linked to NSO Group. The Israeli company reportedly used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to operate the spyware programs that it marketed to governments around the world.

It's believed that the digital surveillance software - which is reportedly capable of accessing and recording texts, videos, photos and web activity, and can even log passwords used on the device - may have been used by foreign governments to target as many as 50,000 people, including business executives, religious figures, academics, NGO workers, presidents and prime ministers.

"When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts," an AWS spokesperson said.

NSO Group disputed that AWS had shut down its accounts, prompting Amazon to double down.

"We shut down the infrastructure referenced in this report that was confirmed to be supporting the reported hacking activity, in accordance with our terms of use," a spokesperson for the company reiterated.

Amnesty's analysis of 67 smartphones allegedly targeted by Pegasus found evidence of successful infection on 23 devices and signs of attempted infiltration on 14 others. The NGO also claimed that NSO's malware sent information "to a service fronted by Amazon CloudFront, suggesting NSO Group has switched to using AWS services in recent months."

Citizen Lab, a group at Toronto University that has been tracking Pegasus for years, said in a peer review of Amnesty's finding that it had "independently observed NSO Group begin to make extensive use of Amazon services including CloudFront in 2021." CloudFront is an Amazon service that allows clients to securely deliver data using high transfer speeds.

Amazon was less proactive when media reports revealed in May 2020 that the Israeli firm may have used Amazon infrastructure to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims.

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Healthcare workers should wear stickers showing their Covid vaccination status, head of Switzerland's Green Liberal Party suggests

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Healthcare workers at La Tour Hospital in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, November 26, 2020.

Swiss politicians have begun to explore ways to "incentivize" vaccine uptake, citing a decrease in the number of people lining up for the shot. Around 43% of Switzerland's population is fully vaccinated, while 52% have received at least one dose of the drug. However, it appears the other half of the country is not in any rush to roll up its sleeves.

The desperate attempts to 'incentivize' vaccination that we're seeing across the planet reflects people's mistrust over the vaccines, and it also shows that, despite well over a year of fearmongering, they realise that Covid-19 is not a 'deadly pandemic' at all.

Juerg Grossen, president of the Green Liberals, told local media that while compulsory vaccination may not be feasible, other methods can be used in an attempt to reduce Covid-19 transmission, particularly in the country's hospitals. According to local news outlet nau.ch, Grossen thinks that people working in hospitals, nursing homes, and similar facilities should be labeled differently based on their vaccination status - perhaps with a "sticker." He argued that such a scheme would make sense in public institutions where individuals may be at risk of infection.

Wearing a sticker won't reduce transmission, so the intention is to foment ill feeling and division in the hopes that this may coerce the unvaccinated into risking their health by joining the vaccine trials.

Although in favor of making healthcare workers show their vaccination status, he said he was opposed to forcing them to get the shot, insisting that coercion is "not exactly the Swiss way." The lawmaker also warned that making Covid vaccination a requirement to work in the health sector would have devastating consequences.

"If all the unvaccinated in the healthcare sector have to quit work - then good night," Grossen said, suggesting that a large number of medical workers in the country remain unjabbed.

It's telling that even healthcare workers are resisting the experimental jabs.

His opposition to compulsory vaccination was echoed by other Swiss politicians, who had their own ideas about how to increase enthusiasm for the public inoculation campaign.

Ruth Humbel, president of the Federal Assembly's Health Commission, told local media that a compulsory vaccination policy similar to the one introduced in neighboring France would "not be enforceable." Instead, she suggested that those who choose to remain unvaccinated should be treated differently by the healthcare system should there be another "wave" of the virus.

Indeed Macron and his backers were brazen enough to threaten mandatory vaccination, and as a result the country is in uproar. The Swiss politicians suggestion of an apartheid medical system will likely illicit a similar response: French president Macron declares medical apartheid: Issues globalist control measures to force EVERYONE into accepting Covid vaccine

"If the hospitals were again used, the unvaccinated Covid patient would have to stand back," she said.

With France set to introduce a highly divisive scheme requiring proof of vaccination or negative Covid status for many routine activities, neighboring Switzerland has begun to debate the merits of adopting similarly aggressive measures. The country already has a digital Covid certificate system, but it's only required in certain situations, such as in order to attend a large concert. Grossen has suggested that the health ID should become mandatory for smaller venues in order to push more of his countrymen to get vaccinated, particularly young people.

Over the past several months, some activists in the UK, US, and elsewhere who have protested against coercive vaccination programs and other Covid measures have been spotted wearing Star of David patches and other markings as a way to highlight the discriminatory nature of such policies. The practice has been widely criticized as extreme.

UK govt announces booster shots coming, vaccines will be MANDATORY for nightclubs

Monday marked the long-anticipated reopening of England's bars and clubs, and the dropping of most of the coronavirus restrictions that had been in place since last year. However, the government will soon make vaccination mandatory to enter these establishments, Zahawi announced on Monday.

"Vaccination holds the key for doing the things we love," he told Parliament. "We plan to make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather. Proof of a negative test will no longer be sufficient."

What happened to natural immunity? These unscientific and draconian moves reveal that there is an insidious, greater agenda afoot, that has little to do with protecting people's health and 'following the science'.

By September, Zahawi stated, every adult in the UK will have been given the opportunity to get fully vaccinated.

Zahawi had a different opinion on so-called 'vaccine passports' only a few months ago. Back in February he called such passes "discriminatory," and told the BBC: "That's not how we do things. We do them by consent."

In a BBC appearance shortly after Zahawi's speech, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the vaccination-only policy official, repeating the minister's words verbatim.

With the efficacy of vaccines against the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus being questioned in some countries, Zahawi also told lawmakers that the government is drawing up plans to administer vaccine booster shots. Trials for such shots are already underway, and before his resignation last month, then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that a nationwide programme of booster jabs will likely be rolled out in autumn.

For the moment, children will be exempt from vaccination unless they suffer from pre-existing conditions, Zahawi said on Monday.

There's no solid data that children with preexisting conditions would be better off vaccinated. Moreover, young people in particular have been shown to suffer certain side effects from the vaccines that pose more of a threat to health many times more than the coronavirus: Dr. Yeadon warns: Children 50 TIMES more likely to die from covid vaccine than from virus

"We will be offering even more vulnerable people the protection that a vaccine brings and we will all be safer as a result," he said, after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation released new guidance stating that only children with severe neurodisabilities, Down's syndrome, immunosuppression, and profound and multiple learning disabilities will be given the jab.

UK & US condemn broader 'Chinese hacking'

In a statement on Monday, Norway's Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said that an investigation into an attack on the national parliament's email system on March 10 concluded that the attack "was carried out from China."

She said that several of Norway's allies, the European Union and Microsoft had also confirmed the findings of the country's intelligence services. The attacks had targeted a security hole in Microsoft's Exchange software, the minister said.

"This is a serious incident which has hit our most important democratic institution," she noted.

Eriksen Soereide said the Chinese ambassador to Norway had been summoned to discuss the issue, adding that she hoped Beijing would take the matter very seriously. "Chinese authorities must prevent such attacks from taking place," she stated.

Probably in the knowledge that cyberwarfare is becoming a preferred avenue of attack by the warmongers, China is taking steps to protect its cyber infrastructure: China to tighten rules for firms listed overseas as part of cybersecurity campaign

The minister's comments came as the UK, US, Canada and the EU accused China and its Ministry of State Security of a global cyber hacking campaign linked with an earlier attack on Microsoft.

"The cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange Server by Chinese state-backed groups was a reckless but familiar pattern of behavior," said British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in a statement on Monday.

In March, Microsoft announced that a cyber breach had affected tens of thousands computers worldwide. The firm blamed "a group assessed to be state-sponsored and operating out of China."

The Chinese government is yet to respond to Monday's accusations, but has previously denied Microsoft's claims of involvement.

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