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Former Moscow nightclub king found dead in US


RT
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:09 UTC
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© FacebookDan Rapoport, millionaire founder of Moscow's SOHO Club was found dead in Washington, DC
Wife of millionaire Dan Rapoport confirms the death of the financier who founded the prestigious SOHO Rooms nightclub

Latvian-born millionaire Dan Rapoport, known for founding Moscow's exclusive SOHO Rooms nightclub, has been found dead in Washington DC, his wife Alena confirmed on Wednesday.

While she did not provide any details of his death, she denied earlier reports that the 52-year-old businessman had committed suicide.

On Tuesday, journalist Yuniya Pugacheva announced on her Telegram channel that Rapoport had killed himself, but not before apparently letting his dog out into a park along with some money and a suicide note attached. The journalist also claimed she had seen Rapoport in a London bar in May surrounded by young women and suggested that his wife had left him.
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After initially blaming Palestinians, Israel admits to airstrike that killed 5 children in Gaza

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Middle East EyeGaza children killed August 7, 2022
The Israeli army has admitted to conducting the airstrike that killed five Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip earlier this month, after initially blaming their deaths on a misfire from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.

The airstrike occurred on August 7th, the last day of a three-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, dubbed by the Israeli military as "Operation Breaking Dawn."

The strike targeted the al-Faluja cemetery in the town of Jabalia, and struck five children while they were visiting the grave of their grandfather. The youngest victim of the strike was just three-years-old.

Nathmi Karsh, 15, Hamed Nejm, 16, Mohammad Nejm, 16, Jamil Ihab Nejm, 13, and Jamil Najim al-Din Nejm, 3, were all killed in the strike. The Nejm boys were all cousins, and Nathmi Karsh was their close family friend and neighbor.

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Israel blames Gaza rocket misfire for child deaths

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Border crisis hits home in DC, so Mayor Bowser finally cares

Chad Wolf
Fox News
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 05:00 UTC
Bowser
© Reuters/Brian SnyderWashington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
For the past 18 months, our nation has experienced a historic crisis at the southern border fueled by the Biden administration's immigration policies allowing millions of illegal aliens into the country. Texas and Arizona are ground zero for this border crisis and, over the past 17 months, have been pleading with the federal government to address the record number of illegal aliens and amounts of deadly fentanyl flooding into their communities.

The federal government's response has been derelict. President Joe Biden and his supposed border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to visit the border. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues a deliberate disinformation campaign by stating that the "border is closed, the border is secure." Apparently, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser didn't get the party line memo, as even she recently begged the Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard to address the "humanitarian crisis" in her city and her insistence that D.C. taxpayers not foot the bill.

I offer my congratulations to the first big city mayor to finally recognize that the disaster at the border does not end at the border states, and I say — "welcome to the fight." But it raises a larger question — where has the mayor of the nation's capital and other big city mayors been on this issue the last year and a half?

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More illegal immigrants en route from Texas to Muriel Bowser's D.C.

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UK to launch 'emergency alert system', may also include public health and terror attack warnings

Tom Symonds
BBC
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:39 UTC
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© PAThe alerts could have been used during the 2022 summer heatwaves which saw these homes on the outskirts of London destroyed in wildfires
An emergency warning system, allowing alerts about severe weather and other life-threatening events to be sent to mobile phones, will go live in October in England, Scotland and Wales.

The Cabinet Office says the technology will alert up to 85% of the population.

The messages will be sent automatically to any smartphone which is switched on, although it is possible to opt out by changing a mobile phone setting.

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Finland to sharply cut Russian tourist visas amid outcry over Ukraine war


RFE/RL
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto
© BelapanFinnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Russian tourist visas would be cut to 10 percent of current volumes as of September 1.
Finland said it will cut the number of Russian tourist visas it issues by 90 percent due to rising discontent over the war in Ukraine.

The decision, announced on August 16 by Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, is the latest in a series of moves by the country in direct response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters in Helsinki, Haavisto said Russian tourist visas would be cut to 10 percent of current volumes as of September 1.

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Chaos at Shanghai Ikea after store attempted to lock down over COVID threat

Isabel van Brugen
Newsweek
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:07 UTC
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Videos circulating on social media Sunday show the moment chaos ensued at an Ikea store in Shanghai, China, after authorities ordered it to shut down over a COVID-19 scare.

Shoppers rushed for the exits as health authorities attempted to lock down the building after learning that someone who had been in contact with a COVID-19 patient had visited.

In one video, an announcement can be heard inside the store saying authorities asked for an immediate shutdown and to stop people from entering or exiting.

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UK's Royal Air Force 'pauses job offers for white men' to meet 'impossible' diversity targets

Deborah Haynes
Sky News
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:57 UTC
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An RAF spokesperson has disputed the allegations.
The alleged move has prompted the head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) - herself a senior female officer - to resign in recent days in protest.

The head of RAF recruitment has resigned in protest at an "effective pause" on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities, defence sources have claimed.

The senior female officer apparently handed in her notice in recent days amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the sources said.
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The horrendous damage of censorship

Todd Hayen
OffGuardian
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 06:31 UTC
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There has always been a hunger for new discoveries and revelations of the truth, but often, in the past, it took great effort to get past the "agenda" — there has always been one.

Think of the Daniel Ellsberg exposure of The Pentagon Papers as well as many pieces coming out of Viet Nam during the '60s by a group of idealist journalists covering the war there. None of these were popular publications with the editors (or the powers that be), and had their difficulty getting published, but they were not altogether censored.

Then jump a few decades ahead and think of Julian Assange, still being held against his will for his revealing publications in WikiLeaks on war crimes committed by the United States. And we certainly must not forget the courageous work of Edward Snowden who exposed illegal CIA surveillance in the summer of 2013 having The Guardian, in the UK, and The Washington Post, in the US, publish his story.

Again, although unusual considering today's climate that his story was published in two particularly prominent instruments of the state, Snowden himself was declared an alleged traitor by the US and has dodged extradition to this day. The screws tightened as the years rolled by — now so tight practically nothing gets through.
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A deeper dive into the CDC reversal

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
Sun, 14 Aug 2022 06:22 UTC
man in pandemic suit
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years. The source is the MMWR report of August 11, 2022. The title alone shows just how deeply the about-face was buried: Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022.

The authors: "the CDC Emergency Response Team" consisting of "Greta M. Massetti, PhD; Brendan R. Jackson, MD; John T. Brooks, MD; Cria G. Perrine, PhD; Erica Reott, MPH; Aron J. Hall, DVM; Debra Lubar, PhD;; Ian T. Williams, PhD; Matthew D. Ritchey, DPT; Pragna Patel, MD; Leandris C. Liburd, PhD; Barbara E. Mahon, MD."

It would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall in the brainstorming sessions that led to this little treatise. The wording was chosen very carefully, not to say anything false outright, much less admit any errors of the past, but to imply that it was only possible to say these things now.
"As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate globally, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post-COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death. These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity."
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The mask mire

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan
trusttheevidence.substack.com
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 05:51 UTC
N95 mask
Some of us started reviewing the evidence of the effects of physical interventions on the spread of viral respiratory infection two decades ago. The Cochrane review, now in its fourth update, concludes there is still uncertainty about the effects of face masks.

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"Physical interventions" include hand washing, distancing, disinfection and barriers, including all types of masks.

SARS-CoV-2 had not been identified when we did the last update (published in November 2020), so we reviewed what physical interventions did to affect the spread of influenza and influenza-like illness. Most identify these two as "Flu". We have already shown the lack of knowledge that accompanies this microbiological simplification.

Influenza-like illness is a syndrome made up of a constellation of signs and symptoms: fever, cough, runny nose, malaise, fatigue and so on, with which everyone is familiar. It is a multiagent syndrome caused by scores of known viruses (including seasonal coronaviruses) and many more which are unknown; Influenza (which cannot be distinguished clinically from the rest of influenza-like) illness is caused by two specific viruses (Influenza A and B) that can be diagnosed only after a laboratory test.

Before the pandemic, clinical trials in widely different settings and using different types of masks show no clear-cut effect against Influenza-like illnesses and influenza.
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