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The effects of cancer delays during the Covid-19 shutdown

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Cancer is the leading cause of deaths globally. In 2020, there were just over 19 million cases and 10 million deaths worldwide.

Reduction in modifiable risk factors such as stopping smoking and early identification through screening can considerably reduce the burden of cancer. However, access to diagnostics and timely referral for treatment can radically improve outcomes. The consequences for people with cancer can be devastating if access to effective therapies is delayed.

Specific symptoms such as persistent cough, change in bowel habit, unexplained weight loss suggests cancer. In primary care, we call these 'red flags'. We use these red flag symptoms to identify high-risk individuals, ensuring they access early diagnostics and treatment to improve their overall chances of survival.

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Zero deaths reported in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday

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England recorded zero Covid deaths for the fifth time since the Government started collecting figures on Monday. Zero deaths were also recorded in Wales and Northern Ireland, with just one person having died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid in Scotland. Sky News has more.
The one U.K. death is less than the six confirmed yesterday and the three last Monday - while the number of positive cases is up from 3,240 and 2,439 respectively...

Another 120,243 people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine, taking the total to 39,379,411. And Sunday saw 204,282 second jabs administered, meaning 25,537,133 people have had both shots.

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Remains of more than 200 children found at site of Canadian indigenous school

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More than 200 pairs of children’s shoes have been placed on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to pay tribute to those buried at the school site
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday it 's not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.

Trudeau's comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site — institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.

Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in British Columbia said the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were confirmed this month with the help of ground-penetrating radar. She described the discovery as "an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented" at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, the largest such school in the country.

Comment: Unfortunate thing that it was, it is really not any surprise. As such, all the political virtue signaling is just ridiculous.


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Hunter Biden's laptop keeps damning Joe, but most media just ignore it

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Hunter Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House May 22, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Hunter Biden's laptop continues to yield damning information that shows his dad, President Joe Biden, played a significant and knowing role in his son's sleazy influence-peddling. And while the media efforts to pretend these revelations are nothing but "Russian disinformation" have ceased, The Post's scoops still get ignored by outlets that would be all over them if they were about the Trump family.

The latest, of course, is the photographic evidence that then-Veep Joe attended an April 16, 2015, dinner with shady Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh "businessmen" and even posed for photos with the unseemly guests.

To put some face-saving cover on the event in the private "Garden Room" at Café Milano, a posh Georgetown eatery ("Where the world's most powerful people go," run its promos), Hunter billed it as "ostensibly to discuss food security," as he emailed one guest, and invited several officials from the World Food Program.

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The myth of the 'asymptomatic spreader' dealt another blow this week

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Since the pandemic crisis began in early 2020, government and public health officials have been adamant that any difficult measures taken were all being done in order to 'control the spread of the virus' or 'stop the disease.' Thus, a litany of so-called non-pharmaceutical interventions, and also pharmaceutical interventions - were deemed by the consensus to be essential measures in fighting the spread of what was being characterized as an asymptomatic disease.

Over a year later, a few industrious 'public health' mavens have summoned the courage to actually test this fundamental assumption. Recently in the UK, officials have staged and monitored nine large-scale events, including an FA Cup final football match, and the Brit Awards - both of which were exempt from the usual COVID rules. The results of this test should be hailed as good news, but for those heavily invested in the narrative, it's nothing short of a meltdown: little to no coronavirus "cases" turned up.

Officials managed to scrape together just 15 alleged "cases" or "infections" (deemed as such merely from a single 'positive test') out of some 60,000 total attendees.

The result of this experiment has dealt a crushing blow to the central myth upon which the entire COVID-19 'global pandemic' crisis has been built - namely the myth of the asymptomatic spread, and the much-maligned notorious "super-spreader" events.

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The prison colony remains: Federal court rejects challenge to Australia's outbound travel ban

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A court challenge to Australia’s ban on outbound travel due to Covid has been dismissed.
The rightwing thinktank Libertyworks has lost its federal court challenge to Australia's outbound travel ban.

On Tuesday the full federal court unanimously rejected Libertyworks' bid to overturn the Covid-19 restriction, which had argued that the health minister, Greg Hunt, has no power to impose a blanket rule stopping citizens from leaving the country.

Justices Anna Katzmann, Michael Wigney and Thomas Thawley dismissed the application and ordered Libertyworks to pay the commonwealth's costs.

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RT reports from the thick of war in Central African Republic as Russian instructors aim to help local troops bring lasting peace

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After a decade of fighting warlords and lawlessness, the Central African Republic is building up a capable military to achieve long-desired peace - and Russian instructors, exclusively interviewed by RT, are key to that mission.

A bloody civil war has been raging in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2012. The country, which gained independence from France in 1960, has had a tumultuous history of various factions seeking to usurp power, and the violence in the resource-rich nation has dragged on well into the 21st century. When the CAR's president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, requested Moscow's assistance in 2018, his government had control over just a small part of the country's territory, while the rest was claimed by warlords and their gangs.

With the approval of the UN Security Council, Moscow began sending light weapons and instructors to train the army. The outside backing was a game changer, as the authorities in Bangui now say that 90% of the country answers to them.

Comment: More from anti-Russian propaganda outlet RFE/RL:
A military vehicle struck a land mine in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), killing at least two police officers and three Russian paramilitaries helping government forces battle rebel groups in the war-torn country.

"Three Russian allies and two Central African police officers were killed," government spokesman Ange Maxime Kazagui told AFP on May 30.

Five members of the local security forces were also wounded in the attack, which occurred on May 28 in the west of the country on a road between Barberati and Bouar.

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Numerous witnesses and NGOs say the instructors are in fact paramilitaries from the Vagner Group, a Russian military contractor with ties to the government, who are actively participating alongside Rwandan special forces and UN peacekeepers in the fight against rebels.

A UN report in Marchexpressed concern about Russian paramilitaries participating in human rights abuses alongside C.A.R. government forces, and in some cases UN peacekeepers. The alleged abuses include mass summary executions, forced displacement of the civilian population, and indiscriminate targeting of civilian facilities.



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Mexico report suggests child sex abuse ring at some schools

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A study published by a children's rights group in Mexico Monday suggests there has been a disturbing pattern at as many as 18 schools and childcare centers where multiple adult employees allegedly collaborated among themselves and used eerily similar tactics and practices to sexually abuse pupils between the ages of three and seven.

In one case uncovered in 2018, 11 adults at one pre-school allegedly abused 49 children aged between 3 and 5, by inserting water-filled syringes into their bodily orifices, a practice found over and over in other cases.

The "11 offenders are accused of committing the abuse in a coordinated fashion," according to the report by the civic group Center for The Defense of Children's Rights. Children were forced to watch adults performing sexual acts or touch or abuse other kids. In many cases, the similar use of disguises or specific staging of the abuse suggested a broader pattern.

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'Bad joke': Female olympian slams IOC for including trans athlete

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Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.
Belgian Olympic weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, who was born a woman, is blasting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing a transgender athlete born a man to compete as a woman in the coming world games in Tokyo.

The IOC has approved transgender New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard who "transitioned" from male to female in 2012. Hubbard was on track to compete at a previous Olympics until suffering an injury.

But Belgian Olympian Vanbellinghen is not at all happy with the decision, calling Hubbard's inclusion a "bad joke."

Comment: It is indeed a bad joke. After Hubbard no doubt dominates the competition at the Tokyo Olympics, all countries will undoubtedly get trans athletes to compete as women in the following Olympics. Then in one fell swoop, biological women will no longer have the opportunity to compete in the Olympics as the women's categories will be dominated by sub-standard male athletes who don't have the skill to compete as men and so have declared themselves women. Men's and women's categories in sports were put in place due to the biological advantage men have. Ideology doesn't change that.

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Black homeless man assaults Asian woman in New York attack, may be charged with hate crime

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An unhinged man randomly slugged an Asian woman in the face, knocking her to the ground, in a brazen attack outside a Chinatown restaurant on Monday, police said.

Surveillance video posted on Twitter by Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, whose district covers Chinatown, captured the horrifying daytime assault on Bayard Street, near Mott Street.

The 55-year-old victim can be seen walking by the Kong Sihk Tong café around 6:15 p.m. — when a man in an orange hoodie and denim jacket whacks her unprovoked.

The woman falls backward onto the pavement, and the attacker begins ranting as two people dining outside sit in stunned silence, the footage shows.