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First US Covid death occurred a month before everyone thought, January 9th 2020

Lou Yardley
Yahoo
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:40 UTC
Lovell Brown
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A family photo of Kevin Brown, left, and his mother Lovell Brown, who died of COVID-19 on January 9, 2020, is framed at her family’s home in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Kansas great-grandmother Lovell "Cookie" Brown died on Jan. 9, 2020. Originally, her death certificate cited "chronic obstructive lung disease," but it has since been updated to include COVID-19, making her the first official coronavirus death in the U.S.

The Mercury News reports that Brown's family only learned of the amendment to her death certificate this week. Previously, the first recorded COVID death in the U.S. was Feb. 6, 2020.

Peaches Foster, Brown's daughter, had wondered for a while if her mother had died from COVID. It was confirmed this week when she read "COVID-19 pneumonia" on her mother's revised death certificate — she "burst into tears," reports The Mercury News. It's still unclear where or how Brown may have contracted the virus.

Comment: Whether she died with Covid or because of Covid would probably need further investigation, because we know medics have been wrongly attributing flu cases as coronavirus cases. But, the data does show that it emerged in Italy by at least September 2019, and it's 'officially' acknowledge to have been in the US by at least December 2019.

Notably, the Fort Detrick lab, where the virus is suspected of having leaked from, was shutdown in July 2019. Soon after the closure, in August 2019, it was reported that in the US "a large-scale 'influenza' killed more than 10,000 people". Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Taliban special forces bring abrupt end to women's protest


Independent
Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
women march
© Hoshang Hashimi/AFP
Women's march for equal rights in Kabul, Afghanistan • September 3, 2021
Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers.

Also on Saturday, the chief of Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, which has an outsized influence on the Taliban, made a surprise visit to Kabul.

Taliban fighters quickly captured most of Afghanistan last month and celebrated the departure of the last U.S. forces after 20 years of war. The insurgent group must now govern a war-ravaged country that is heavily reliant on international aid.

The women's march — the second in as many days in Kabul — began peacefully. Demonstrators laid a wreath outside Afghanistan's Defense Ministry to honor Afghan soldiers who died fighting the Taliban before marching on to the presidential palace. "We are here to gain human rights in Afghanistan," said 20-year-old protester Maryam Naiby. "I love my country. I will always be here."

As the protesters' shouts grew louder, several Taliban officials waded into the crowd to ask what they wanted to say.

Flanked by fellow demonstrators, Sudaba Kabiri, a 24-year-old university student, told her Taliban interlocutor that Islam's Prophet gave women rights and they wanted theirs. The Taliban official promised women would be given their rights but the women, all in their early 20s, were skeptical.

As the demonstrators reached the presidential palace, a dozen Taliban special forces ran into the crowd, firing in the air and sending demonstrators fleeing. Kabiri, who spoke to The Associated Press, said they also fired tear gas.

Comment: As female empowerment protests push the Taliban to honor new rights - they may see it as a form of Western meddling.
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'Afghanistan Women Fighting On'
Organizers and activists told local media that the militants blocked them from marching to the Afghan presidential palace and dispersed the rally using tear gas and batons. They said several women were detained and at least one protester was injured when a Taliban member hit her on the head.

Videos from the protest show how women started to cough and covered their mouths as they confronted armed men in military gear blocking their path. One woman was seen taking a loudspeaker away from a man who appeared to urge protesters to leave.


Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told the Etilaatroz news website that organizers had failed to coordinate the protest with the militants, but did not comment on the reports of violence against protesters.

Last week, the militants advised women not to leave their homes for their own safety, saying that some fighters were not yet trained to treat women with respect and could harass them on the streets. At the same time, images of women displayed on storefronts and in other public places in Kabul were vandalized or painted over shortly after the Taliban seized the capital on August 15.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said last month that the treatment of women and girls by the Taliban will be "a fundamental red line" in the way the organization views the group's rule.
See also: Taliban want an 'inclusive' Afghanistan, British army chief claims

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'Women Rule!' California governor delivers unhinged speech ahead of recall vote


RT
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 16:20 UTC
Newsom
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California Governor Gavin Newsom
California Governor Gavin Newsom has called in big-name Washington players in a bid to rally his liberal base ahead of a recall election.

Californians will go to the polls in just over a week to vote on recalling Newsom from the Governor's Mansion in Sacramento over his handling of taxes, housing costs, homelessness and Covid-19. Should Newsom be recalled, Larry Elder, a black conservative talk show host and supporter of former President Donald Trump, is leading a pack of more than 40 candidates looking to replace the Democratic governor.

Newsom isn't going down without a fight, and in recent weeks he's pumped out millions of dollars worth of attack ads against Elder and his closest rivals, and leaned on his Washington connections to rally his liberal base. Sen. Elizabeth Warren stumped for Newsom in Los Angeles on Saturday, but her message - that Elder would roll back the state's pro-LGBT, pro-abortion policies ​​- was overshadowed by Newsom's own demeanor.


Comment: Clips of Newsom's speech were dissected on Twitter, with his critics deducing that the governor seemed a bit panicked:
More is at stake: As mentioned in the article, a Larry Elder win replacing Dianne Feinstein would return the Senate to the Republicans.

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Virus czar calls to begin readying for eventual 4th vaccine dose


The Times of Israel
Sat, 04 Sep 2021 06:38 UTC
Zarka
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Coronavirus czar Professor Salman Zarka
Israel's national coronavirus czar on Saturday called for the country to begin making preparations to eventually administer fourth doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

"Given that that the virus is here and will continue to be here, we also need to prepare for a fourth injection," Salman Zarka told Kan public radio. He did not specify when fourth vaccine shots could eventually be administered.

Zarka also said that the next booster shot may be modified to better protect against new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, such as the highly infectious Delta strain.

"This is our life from now on, in waves," he said.

Zarka made similar comments in an interview with The Times of Israel last month:
"It seems that if we learn the lessons from the fourth wave, we must consider the [possibility of subsequent] waves with the new variants, such as the new one from South America. And thinking about this and the waning of the vaccines and the antibodies, it seems every few months — it could be once a year or five or six months — we'll need another shot."
Zarka said that he expects that by late 2021 or early 2022, Israel will be giving shots that are especially adapted to cope better with variants.

Comment: The ongoing 'vaccine' protocol provides four things: Camouflage, depopulation, profits and control.
There may be no such thing as "fully vaccinated" for Covid-19, Israel, one of the highest-vaccinated countries in the world, is finding out. The nation is now preparing to roll out a fourth shot in its Covid vaccination series.

Our World in Data, a research group run from Oxford University, reports that although Israel has over a 60% "fully vaccinated" rate, it is now leading the world in daily new confirmed cases per million.

confirmed cases chart
Thus, the vaccinations fail to stop transmission, and have become a conduit for variants, such as the "Delta variant." Although the Covid shots wear off over time, however, the data are clear that they lower the likelihood of death and hospitalization from the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

Meanwhile, Israel's Health Ministry has announced that vaccine passports will expire 6 months after an individual's 2nd or 3rd dose, Dr. David Samadi said on Saturday. It sets up a situation where Covid-19 'vaccination,' contact tracing, and booster shots every 6-8 months for the foreseeable future become a way of life in the tiny Middle Eastern nation.
A virus left alone will eventually peter out without mutation as herd immunity rises to the challenge. Ask Mother Nature.

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Texas abortion providers receive narrow win from state judge over heartbeat bill

Natalia Mittelstadt
Just the News
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:53 UTC
Abort law sign
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On Friday, a Texas judge temporarily blocked a pro-life group from enforcing Texas's new heartbeat bill, which bans abortions after a child's heartbeat is detected at six weeks, against Planned Parenthood.

The ruling by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble (D) prevented Texas Right to Life from suing Planned Parenthood clinic workers and abortion providers under the new Texas abortion law that took effect on Wednesday, The Hill reported. Gamble wrote in her ruling:
"The Court finds that S.B. 8 creates a probable, irreparable, and imminent injury in the interim for which plaintiffs and their physicians, staff and patients throughout Texas have no adequate remedy at law if plaintiffs, their physicians, and staff are subjected to private enforcement lawsuits against them under S.B. 8."
The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an emergency appeal from abortion providers in a 5-4 decision to block enforcement of the Texas law.

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Judge blocks Tennessee governor's order allowing students to opt out of mask mandates

Lexi Lonas
The Hill
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:23 UTC
Gov Bill Lee
© Robin Rudd/Chattanooga Times Free Press/AP
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
A federal judge on Friday blocked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's (R) executive order allowing students to opt out of school mask mandates.

U.S. District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman ruled in favor of two students and issued a temporary restraining order against the governor's order in Shelby County. Lipman wrote in the ruling:
"Plaintiffs have identified ways that they have been excluded from participating in school programs and activities, including from physical education classes, and socializing with their peers when within the school buildings and at lunch."
The two students who brought the court case against the executive order are ones who are more vulnerable to the coronavirus due to medical conditions.

The judge concluded the plaintiffs proved their exclusion from some activities in school is due to "their extreme medical vulnerabilities - in other words, due to their disabilities."


Comment: Obviously this court hasn't the wherewithal to separate fact from fantasy, nor can it be proven from whom the students may have procured coronavirus.

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US struggling to identify many of 100k+ Afghans it evacuated from Kabul: Child brides & terrorist ties?


RT
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 16:56 UTC
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© US Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancillal
Evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 30, 2021.
As the US began to identify and vet 100,000-plus Afghans evacuated in the Kabul airlift, diplomats sought guidance on claims of sex trafficking of underage girls, while at least 100 people were flagged for possible extremism.

President Joe Biden had declared the Kabul airlift an "extraordinary" success, pointing to 124,000 people extracted from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover. Fewer than 6,000 were US citizens, however, and most of the Afghans who made it onto the evacuation flights were not the translators who worked with NATO troops or local employees of Western NGOs - many of them remained in Kabul and are currently in hiding.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Friday that the administration was "still figuring out" who all the evacuees were, but claimed up to 80% of them were "at-risk" Afghans.

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Amazon's dreadful new movie 'Cinderella' is woke, feminist nonsense meant to indoctrinate young girls

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 15:37 UTC
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© Amazon Studios
'Cinderella' (2021) Dir: Kay Cannon
In wokelandia, girlboss Cinderella obliterates the patriarchy by choosing her career over love, and the flaccid prince lets his sister take the throne. Why? Because women can have it all and men - obviously - are utterly useless.

Amazon Studios' new movie Cinderella, written and directed by Kay Cannon, is a jukebox musical that sets out to upend the old-fashioned fairytale by injecting a powerful dose of girl power into its traditionalist veins.

Starring pop singer Camilla Cabello, this woke re-telling - now streaming on Amazon Prime - might have been considered ideologically edgy in 1956, but is a bland, flat concoction that looks as unappealing as it sounds.
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MSM ignores report on Biden's compromising call with Afghan president

Jackson Richman
Mediaite
Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:10 UTC
biden afghan president Ashraf Ghani
© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House, in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2021.
Reuters reported this week that in a July phone call President Joe Biden urged then-Afghan president Ashraf Ghani to project that the fight against the Taliban was going well, "whether it is true or not."

"I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban," said Biden, according to Reuters, which reviewed a transcript and recording of the call. "And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture."
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'Social Control Masquerading as Sensitivity': Tucker Carlson Slams CDC's New Language Guide

Bryan Hernandez
Daily caller
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Tucker Carlson CDC
Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) new language guide, calling it "all political" and an attempt "to strip people of their individual identity."

The CDC published new "health equity" guidelines aimed at spreading "inclusive communication" and "non-stigmatizing language."

"The point is to dehumanize and segregate millions of people into arbitrary categories in the name of empowering them," Carlson said. "Aldous Huxley caught on to this a long time [ago]. 'To be able to destroy with good conscience. To be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior righteous indignation — this is the height of psychological luxury,' which is deep and true in this case."

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