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Macau orders all 680,000 residents to be Covid tested after just four cases detected, follows 16 'virus-free' months


Hong Kong Free Press
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 07:46 UTC
Macau
© Wilson Loo Kok Wee via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
Macau.
Macau ordered compulsory coronavirus testing for all residents on Wednesday after a family of four was found to be carrying the Delta variant, breaking the city's record of over 16 months virus-free.


Comment: The CDC recently revealed that 3 out of 4 cases of the Delta variant were in the vaccinated.


Over the next three days authorities plan to test all 680,000 residents at 41 testing centres, the government said.

The testing is one of a host of new measures announced after the gambling hub recorded 491 days without a single local infection.

Comment: RT reports that China is reimposing restrictions on "non-emergency and non-essential" overseas travel following the detection of just 71 cases:
On Wednesday, China recorded 71 domestic Covid cases - the highest number since January. Officials in a number of cities have implemented mass testing and enforced local lockdown to prevent the virus from spreading rapidly. Chinese officials said they traced the outbreak back to passengers on a flight from Moscow that then spread to cleaners in Nanjing and into the local community.

With around 500 domestic Covid cases total having been reported in China since mid-July, a range of domestic restrictions have been reintroduced in some areas, including closing transport hubs and issuing stay-at-home orders to prevent a widespread outbreak that could threaten to overwhelm medical facilities.

As restrictions were imposed, China Railway began offering full refunds for any tickets purchased prior to August 4 to help discourage mobility, telling those who must travel to take proper anti-virus precautions. Similarly, China's civil aviation authority has demanded that domestic airlines provide complete refunds for any flights between Wednesday and the end of the month to "cope with the COVID-19 prevention and control measures." Would-be passengers who decide not to travel can avail of the refund at any point before the plane takes off, according to the agency.


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Bad Guys

One rule for us... Google co-founder allowed to enter New Zealand while others, including citizens, were blocked

Steve Watson
Summit News
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:43 UTC
Google Co-founder Larry Page
© EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images
Billionaire Google Co-founder Larry Page, who has been isolating from the rest of the world by buying remote Fijian islands, was granted access to enter New Zealand, while practically everyone else was barred from entering the country, it has emerged.

Page reportedly sought medical treatment for his twelve year old son earlier this year in the country's capital Aukland.

While even New Zealand citizens and permanent residents of the country were barred from entering without facing a raft of restrictions, including spending two weeks at a government quarantine facility, Page was allowed to just walk right in.

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Iran sentences German human rights advocate to 10 years in prison over 'propaganda'


dw.com
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Nahid Taghavi
© Privat
Nahid Taghavi
A German-Iranian woman was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, charged with participating in "the management of an illegal group and propaganda activities against the regime," according to HRANA news agency.

Nahid Taghavi was arrested at her Tehran apartment in October 2020 and has been held at Tehran's Evin prison since. She was known to be an advocate for human rights in Iran, in particular for women's rights and freedom of expression, according to the human rights group IGFM. The 66-year-old was handed a prison sentence of 10 years and eight months.

Her daughter Mariam Claren confirmed the sentence in a post on Twitter.
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Pair of Russian SATANISTS confess to murdering, dismembering & cannibalizing victims as part of sick ritual, local media reports


RT
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:38 UTC
Russian SATANISTS
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Two Satan-worshippers have reportedly been detained by Russian cops after they confessed to committing grisly murders out in the remote woodlands of the country's Far North before apparently cutting up and even eating the corpses.

News site Mash splashed the gruesome details on Thursday, naming the occult-loving duo as Andrey Tregubenko and Olga Bolshakova, living in the capital, Moscow. They had apparently been initially called in for questioning by police on drugs charges, before making the gory admission that they were responsible for the deaths of two young people in the forests of Karelia, which borders Finland, Sweden and Norway.
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Boston mayor compares NYC's vaccine mandate to slavery, birtherism

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC
Boston Mayor Kim Janey
The mayor of Boston said the city won't be following New York's lead requiring proof of vaccination at many indoor businesses, claiming the move is reminiscent of "slavery" and birtherism.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey — the first woman and black Bostonian to hold the office — said "there's a long history" in the United States of people "needing to show their papers" when asked Tuesday about the mandate unveiled earlier in the day by Mayor Bill de Blasio that requires proof of vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms starting on Sept. 13.

"During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as, you know, what the immigrant population has to go through here, we've heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense," Janey told WCVB. "Here, we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities."
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Bad Guys

Twitter partners with big media to combat 'misinformation'

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:18 UTC
twitter Jack Dorsey
© Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
Twitter is partnering with Reuters and the Associated Press in a new scheme to combat alleged "misinformation," following in Facebook's footsteps by outsourcing part of the company's "fact-checking" to corporate media organizations.

The goal, according to Twitter, is to help the company feed "reliable content" to its users, although the news organizations will not be involved in removing alleged "misinformation" from the platform, a role that remains the purview of Twitter's powerful Trust & Safety team.

According to Twitter, the partnership with AP and Reuters is aimed at "ensuring that credible information is available in real time around key conversations as they emerge on Twitter, especially where facts are in dispute or when Twitter's Curation team doesn't have the specific expertise or access to a high enough volume of reputable reporting on Twitter."

Comment: The continued push for total control of information is making these guys look pretty desperate. The only problem is that the very control and resistance they have to the truth getting out is also what causes people with remaining functioning neurons to get an inkling of what is going on.

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China seals off city as 'dozens' of coronavirus cases detected, largest outbreak in a year


Independent.ie
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:50 UTC
china mask subway
© AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
People wearing face masks to help protect against COVID-19 walk through a subway station during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.
China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic has escalated with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.

Since the initial outbreak was tamed last year, China's people had lived virtually free of the virus, with strict border controls and local distancing and quarantine measures stamping out scattered flare-ups.


Comment: Sweden didn't lockdown at all, and, like China, has fared much better than the majority of countries that did, such as the UK.


Now the country is on high alert as an outbreak connected to the international airport in the eastern city of Nanjing touched at least 17 provinces.

China reported 71 new cases of Covid-19 from local transmission on Wednesday, more than half of them in coastal Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)



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NPC

Ya think? Bill Gates opens up about divorce, says it was a 'mistake' to meet Epstein

Jesse O'Neill
New York Post
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:58 UTC
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
© Reuters
Bill Gates called his divorce a “very sad milestone.”
Bill Gates opened up about his recent divorce to Melinda French Gates in an interview on Wednesday and said his relationship to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was a "mistake."

The Microsoft founder told CNN's Anderson Cooper that his split with Melinda was a "very sad milestone," and a source of "personal sadness."

Gates told the anchor that he and his ex-wife will continue their philanthropy work together, citing her "incredible strengths" in furthering the missions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Melinda has said she will try to work with Bill on the foundation for at least two more years.

Comment:

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If you let COVID-19 fearmongers bridle you again, you learned nothing from the last year

Elle Reynolds
The Federalist
Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:53 UTC
wear a face mask, mask required sign, Multnomah County mask guidline
© MultCo Communications / Flickr
Here we go again.

The Biden administration on Thursday suggested they're considering demanding new lockdowns, business shutdowns, and school closures. Using the COVID-19 Delta variant as justification, the Biden administration's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reversed itself on Tuesday and told Americans that vaccination won't save them from having to wear a mask again.

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Family

Slap in the face for motherhood as World Breastfeeding Week prioritizes trans women's 'chestfeeding' over the safety of young moms

Damian Wilson
RT
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:11 UTC
Trans parents Racquelle Tramell and Liam Johnson
© Getty Images / Barcroft Media
FILE PHOTO. Trans parents Racquelle Tramell and Liam Johnson with their one-year-old daughter Aspen, in Michigan, USA on 6 March 2017.
Woke activists in UK and Australia infiltrate support groups and insist female counselors must provide support for trans 'mothers', ignoring the idea that male sexual arousal could be driving the activity.

Nothing quite celebrates motherhood like kicking off World Breastfeeding Week with the sacking of a bunch of female counselors for refusing to engage with trans women 'chestfeeders'.

But that's exactly what happened in Australia where three of the seven breastfeeding counselors recently suspended from the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) for balking at offering support to male-born 'new moms' on nursing babies have now been handed their marching orders. Perfect timing at the start of an internationally recognized week from August 1 to 7 dedicated to the benefits of breastfeeding. Trans activists 3, Born-women 0.

The problem is that anyone working in the mothers' support field who dares voice gender critical views is bullied, coerced and cajoled into adopting the ideology, and if that fails, they're cancelled. Simple. What's even more problematic is that those who are silenced - women - are those with the most skin in the game.

Comment: Pushing "trans rights" frequently and invariably comes at the expense of women. We cannot indulge the delusional fantasies of a few without causing problem for the many.

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