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Canada dispatches: Alberta lifting of COVID restrictions prompts public protests

Ian Profiri
Jurist
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:05 UTC
Hinshaw/Kenny/Shandro
© Toronto Star/Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/KJN
Doctor Deena Hinshaw • Premier Jason Kenney and Minister of Health Tyler Shandro
Alberta's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw made a series of announcements last week regarding the western Canadian province's COVID-19 strategy.

On July 29, the Alberta government rescinded mandatory isolation periods for those that have come into contact with an individual who is known to have COVID-19.

Starting Aug 16, isolation periods following a positive test result will no longer be mandatory, and support for hotel isolation upon entering Canada will no longer be available.

Alberta will become the only jurisdiction in the North America not to have mandatory isolation periods for those known to be infected with the virus.

Opposition to the move has been swift. Protests occurred in Edmonton and Calgary. Doctors and nurses vented their frustration over the lifting of the restrictions and the general lack of support over the course of the pandemic on social media. Medical experts in Ontario and Manitoba voiced concerns over Alberta's decision, recommending that their provinces decline to follow Alberta's lead and emphasized that provinces need to have a coordinated approach to ensure further disasters don't occur. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called lifting the restrictions "the height of insanity."


Comment: Overviews and political posturing? More scare than care? Not indicated are detailed assessments to back up or thwart 'politically driven medical decisions'.

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Taliban won't readily cut ties with anti-China ETIM

FM Shakil
Asia Times
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Uighur fighters
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Ethnic Uighur fighters with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
China and Pakistan are pressuring the Taliban to make a clean break with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terror groups, many of which have sanctuaries in the northeastern and southwestern parts of Afghanistan.

That pressure is building as certain of the groups launch new assaults on Chinese interests in neighboring Pakistan, including the US$60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project that Beijing seeks to extend to Afghanistan for greater Central Asian connectivity.

China sees the ETIM in particular as a "direct threat to its national security", Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a Taliban delegation at a recent meeting. The militant group bent on destabilizing China's western Xinjiang region is also a threat to China's interests in Pakistan.

Beijing's request to the Taliban came after a joint China-Pakistan investigation showed ETIM and TTP colluded in a July 14 bus bomb attack that killed nine Chinese engineers working on the CPEC-related Dasu hydropower dam project in Pakistan's upper Kohistan region. The attack, which used explosive-laden cars to ram into the bus which sent it hurtling down the side of a mountain, also killed two Pakistani security officials and two others.

The ETIM, comprised of ethnic Uighurs and categorized by the UN and others as a terror organization, is committed mostly to destabilizing China's Xinjiang region, which it has said it aims to turn into an independent state known as "East Turkestan."
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Briefcase

Feds agree to hand over warrants in legal challenge to $85M seizure of safe deposit boxes

Greg Piper
Just the News
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 11:14 UTC
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Already facing skepticism from a federal judge for keeping $85 million in assets from a raid without charging safe deposit box renters, the feds have agreed to turn over the warrants used against an alleged front for money laundering and drug trafficking.

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi approved a joint proposal by prosecutors, renter Michelle Gerlis and the libertarian Reason magazine to provide "all warrants and affidavits" related to the March 22 raid of U.S. Private Vaults (USPV) in Los Angeles.

The only allowed redactions are information the government "believes is a residential address," vehicle license or registration numbers, and the government's basis for believing USPV co-owner Michael Poliak "resides at a particular address."

The agreement preempts an Aug. 9 hearing on Gerlis's motion to unseal the "evidentiary" warrant the feds "purported to rely on" in the raid and more than a slice of the affidavit.

She had noted the government has "openly discussed its investigation and prosecution in multiple public filings," showing it has "no countervailing interest at all" against her Fourth Amendment right to see the warrant and affidavit.
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Eye 2

Biden one-ups Obama's tan suit while claiming 350 million Americans (more than the entire population), have already been vaccinated


Not the Bee
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 19:16 UTC
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© DiscloseTV/Twitter
Creepy Joe attempts the Obama vibe
Apparently, according to the direct admission of the president himself, the entire nation has already gotten the Rona vaccine!

First of all, we gotta talk about the suit. After all, the media tells me that Obama's biggest scandal was that he wore a tan suit once to a press briefing.


I personally love Biden's tie. It's a lovely shade of reptilian green!!

You gotta love how spectacularly wrong on numbers Joe tends to be. After all, we couldn't possibly have vaccinated 350 million people since 150 million have been killed by gun violence!

Classic Joe!
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Taliban capture second Afghan provincial capital in two days

Akhtar Mohammad Makoii
The Guardian
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:36 UTC
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© Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
Smoke rises during fighting in Sheberghan.
The Taliban have captured a second provincial capital in Afghanistan, a day after they took over the south-western financial hub of Zaranj, as the insurgent group continued to advance in urban parts of the country.

Taliban fighters armed with heavy weapons overran the strategic city of Sheberghan, the capital of the northern Jawzjan province, on Saturday afternoon. The city was considered a stronghold of the notorious Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is believed to be in Kabul after returning to Afghanistan this week following medical treatment in Turkey.

"It's more than 10 days that the city of Sheberghan is under Taliban attack, but they started their major assault at around 4am this morning and the city fell at around 1pm," Babur Eshchi, the head of the local provincial council, said by phone from an undisclosed region in the province.

Comment: As one can see from SouthFront's sitrep map, the Taliban are methodically gaining control of Afghanistan's borders to countries that are at least not unsympathetic to their cause. It can only be hoped that Russia, China, and perhaps Iran, will act as a moderating influence.

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Appalling: Psaki brags that her kindergarten-aged child can 'wear a mask all day'

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 16:26 UTC
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki
White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted on Friday that there are no adverse emotional, academic, or psychological effects to wearing masks no matter how young the wearer and no matter how long the mask stays on.

Fox News reporter Peter Doocy mentioned at the White House press briefing that an expert "says that his concern is about harmful emotional, academic and psychological effects of putting kindergartners in masks for hours at a time."

Comment: Forcing children into masks is tantamount to child abuse, physically, mentally and emotionally. Study after study has shown this:

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Arrow Up

Sen. Rand Paul: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again. Choose freedom

Sen. Rand Paul
Fox News
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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Resist.

They can't arrest us all. They can't keep all your kids home from school. They can't keep every government building closed - although I've got a long list of ones they should.

We don't have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.

Comment: Rand Paul is the most high profile American Senator willing to stand up to the petty tyrants and their attempts to enforce ridiculously draconian measures on the populace. Hopefully he has the support (and protection) behind him to continue his important work.

See also:

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Network

India & China finally disengage at Ladakh border after 15 month "sensitive face-off"

Snehesh Alex Philip
ThePrint.in
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:12 UTC
Ladakh

FILE PHOTO: Indian soldiers in Ladakh. The development comes days after 12th round of corps-commander-level talks between India & China, which were held on 31 July on Chinese side of the LAC. 6 August, 2021
India and China have completed troop disengagement from the Gogra area of eastern Ladakh, after 15 months of a "sensitive face-off", the Army announced Friday.

The disengagement process, which includes removal of all temporary structures and other allied infrastructure by both sides, and restoration of landform to "pre-stand-off period", was carried out over two days, that is 4 and 5 August, the Army said in a statement.

"As per the agreement, both sides have ceased forward deployments in this area in a phased, coordinated and verified manner... The troops of both sides are now in their respective permanent bases," the Army added.

Comment: Whilst the situation is resolved at the border region, India recently deployed war ships to the South China Sea claiming it to be part of of it's 'Act East' policy.

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Gold Coins

US regulators want the 'crypto' out of cryptocurrency - because that will help them use it to control your every move

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:51 UTC
cryptocurrencies
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has demanded more authority over trading, lending and selling cryptocurrency, unable in its jealous rage to grasp that crypto exists because it's a safe haven from a venal banking system.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler cited "investor protection" as the reason the commission should have carte blanche to take the "crypto" out of "cryptocurrency" in a speech to fellow finance bigwigs on Tuesday, describing the sector as "like the Wild West" as he urged Congress to rein it in.

But Gensler, a former Goldman Sachs partner and later advisor to the US Treasury, either knows nothing about the industry in which he has worked for most of his life or is (more likely) playing dumb. If anything, it's the Wild West casino capitalism of investment banking that has wrecked the US economy repeatedly, and seems poised to do so again.
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Bad Guys

France, Italy set to roll out COVID-19 health passes

Katabella Roberts
The Epoch Times
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 21:31 UTC
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© Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
Unvaccinated citizens of France and Italy are set to face tighter restrictions after officials ruled in favor of COVID-19 health passes for those attempting to enter restaurants, bars, and hospitals, as well as travel.

In France, the country's top constitutional authority on Aug. 5 agreed with most aspects of a new law that requires citizens to carry a special COVID-19 health pass from next week onwards.

A health pass is only given to those who have been fully vaccinated, recently recovered from an infection, or recently tested negative from the virus.

The new restrictions mean residents will only be allowed to access cafes, restaurants, and, in some cases, hospitals, if they show the health pass.

While the pass has been in effect in France since July 21 for cultural and recreational venues, including cinemas, concert halls, and theme parks with capacity for more than 50 people, the new law vastly extends its application.

The Constitutional Council also ruled Thursday that the passes would be required for long-distance travel by train, plane, or bus, The Associated Press reported.

It also approved a ruling that health care workers should be vaccinated against the virus by Sept. 15 and hospital visitors will also require a health pass.

Comment: Since Covid is here to stay and we just have to "learn to live with it," as officials have been saying recently, so will these measures. Welcome to the new normal.

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