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Pistol

Palestinian official assassinated in Lebanon just hours after Gaza truce

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© AFPArmed men walk the streets of Ain al-Hioweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon
A Palestinian security official was shot dead late on Monday in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, three Palestinian security officials said, just hours after a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.

Saeed Alaeddine was an officer in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, in charge of liaising between the group and Lebanese security. He was killed by a gunman, who fired at him while he was praying at a friend's house in the camp, said senior Fatah official Mounir Makdah.

An unknown gunman shot him several times, and Alaeddine was rushed to hospital, where he died. The perpetrator fled the scene and details on his identity and motive were not immediately clear.

An AFP correspondent heard more gunshots in the camp after Alaeddine's killing.

Recycle

Creative workaround: Indian companies swapping dollar for Asian currencies to buy Russian coal

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© REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/FileCompanies have been flocking to borrow from banks on the mainland because of their rock-bottom interest rates but most of the loans are for use on the mainland, in Hong Kong or bilateral dealings
Indian companies are using Asian currencies more often to pay for Russian coal imports, according to customs documents and industry sources, avoiding the U.S. dollar and cutting the risk of breaching Western sanctions against Moscow.

Reuters previously reported on a large Indian coal deal involving the Chinese yuan, but the customs data underline how non-dollar settlements are becoming commonplace.

India has aggressively stepped up purchases of Russian oil and coal since the war in Ukraine began, helping to cushion Moscow from the effects of sanctions and allowing New Delhi to secure raw materials at discounts compared to supplies from other countries.

Black Cat

Germany 'updates' vax pass rules: Requires a jab within 3 months to be 'fully vaccinated'

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Germany has once again redefined the "fully vaccinated" criteria to qualify for its vax pass
Along with redefining the meaning of 'fully vaccinated', the German app will feature a colour-coded system to denote whether a user can be granted an exemption from reimposed mask mandates this fall and winter.

The German government will be upgrading its contact tracing and vaccine passport app to feature a colour-coded system to show whether a user has received a COVID-19 vaccine in the last three months.

The app, called the Corona-Warn-App, will use one colour for users who add proof showing that they have received a COVID vaccine within the past three months and another colour for those with vaccine records older than three months.

Comment: Notice how the time frames are becoming shorter and shorter: And yet: Repeated Covid boosters not a viable strategy: WHO


Hammer

Trump says his attorneys weren't allowed 'anywhere near' FBI raid

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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted the FBI for allegedly refusing to let his attorneys watch the raid at his Mar-a-Lago estate and make sure that agents were not "planting" evidence.

Trump, 76, said Wednesday in a message on his social media platform Truth Social that the FBI and other federal government officials wouldn't let anyone from his staff, including his attorneys, "anywhere near the areas" that were being examined during Monday's raid at his palatial home.

"Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting,'" the former president wrote. "Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out?"

Snakes in Suits

IRS pulls job post detailing how new accounting agents may use 'deadly force' after backlash

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The Internal Revenue Service just deleted a job posting page from its website detailing duties for prospective new agents, including using "deadly force if necessary" during tax audits.

The job description states:
As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes. Special Agents are duly sworn law enforcement officers who are trained to "follow the money." No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government.
The "major duties" included in the IRS Special Agent (SA) job description require a willingness to "carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary."

Dominoes

Denmark ends vaccination for under-50s as it shifts to treating covid like flu

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Denmark's policy towards vaccination in the autumn of 2022 will focus on the over-50s. The under-50s will only get a booster if a doctor recommends it. With respect to pregnant women getting vaccinated a decision has yet to be made. The policy is available in English here; below I have printed some selected highlights.

As regards people who've had a first or second dose, there's some gentle persuasion to continue with additional doses but this is primarily targeted at the over-40s and people with pre-existing health issues.

Children will not be vaccinated except with the specific approval of a doctor.

Briefcase

Tavistock gender clinic 'to be sued by 1,000 families'

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© GUY SMALLMAN/GETTY IMAGESNHS England is shutting the Tavistock gender clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review
The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers.

Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway.

They are accusing the gender identity development service [GIDS] at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust of multiple failures in its duty of care.

This includes allegations it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects and adopted an "unquestioning, affirmative approach" to children identifying as transgender.

Health

Denmark bans COVID vaccine for youth under 18

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Denmark has announced that people under the age of 18 are no longer allowed to get the COVID vaccine.

Those wanting their first shot were cut off after July 1, and no one in the age group — aside from those who are considered "high risk" and have a doctor's note — will be allowed to get a second shot after September 1.

"Children and adolescents only very rarely become seriously ill from COVID-19 with the omicron variant. Therefore, from July 1, 2022, it will no longer be possible for children and adolescents under the age of 18 to get the 1st [shot], and from September 1, 2022, it will no longer be possible to get the 2nd [shot]," reads a government statement. [translated from Danish]

Comment: COVID mortality statistics showed that healthy kids DO NOT need an experimental jab that has no long-term safety trials, good on Denmark for trying to put a stop to them. See also:


Quenelle

Serbian farmers set up road blocks, warn of protests on the capital if demands not met

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Farmers from Vojvodina, Mačva, Stig and other parts of Serbia are organizing a protest ride today in order to draw attention to the pressing problems of agricultural producers that the state does not want to solve. Farmers who gathered at the pump on the road between Stara Pazova and Indjija started a protest drive towards Batajnica.

"Until now, farmers have not entered Belgrade with tractors and protested in the capital, every government has so far managed to avoid and prevent that." We are one step closer to that. If the Government of Serbia does not fulfill the demands of the farmers, the next destination is Belgrade - the Parliament", said Aleksandra Jovanović Ćuta, deputy of the coalition "Moramo Zajedno" and co-president of the Zajedno party.

By the way, earlier, the farmers started a protest drive in a convoy of tractors from the pump on the road between Stara Pazova and Inđija to Batajnica.

Comment: See also: Not just the Dutch: Farmers everywhere fight for survival against climate change activism


Arrow Up

Africa's sole Covid vaccine plant shuts down due to lack of orders, less than a fifth of people have been injected

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© Emmanuel Croset/AFP via Getty ImagesA man in Johannesburg administers doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 8, 2021, in South Africa. Demand for vaccines in South Africa is extremely low, leading to the country's Aspen Pharmacare halting vaccine manufacturing.
South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will stop making COVID-19 vaccines from the end of this month due to a lack of orders, a senior executive said, further undermining Africa's already meager capacity to produce doses.

Aspen currently produces vaccines for Johnson & Johnson. In March, it struck a deal to produce, price and sell its own-brand version of the shot for African markets.

That deal was considered a game-changer for a continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts. But while only a fifth of adults in Africa are fully vaccinated, according to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, demand for shots have failed to materialize.


Comment: Evidently Covid isn't considered a problem that necessitates getting an experimental injection for, and this has probably become even clearer now that 2 years have passed, and tens of thousands of deadly side effects have been reported.


Comment: Even in the heavily propagandised and injection-mandated West, from Australia to the US, large numbers of stock were dumped due to low uptake; it's also highly likely that hysteria, mismanagement, and outright fraud, contributed to vast amounts being trashed: