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Mayor wants New York to eat a 'plant-based centered life'


RT
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:00 UTC
New York City Mayor Eric Adams
© Getty Images / Alex WongNew York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the 90th Winter Meeting of USCM on January 20, 2022 in Washington DC.
Mayor Eric Adams said the vegan phrase a whopping six times in a single minute

New York City Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly stated that he eats a "plant-based centered life" during a press conference on Monday, during which he also signaled his desire to make other New Yorkers vegan too.

Following reports that the supposedly vegan mayor had been spotted eating fish at restaurants, Adams was asked on Monday how often he eats fish and whether he eats any other animal proteins too.

Comment: The vegan diet is not a proper diet for anyone. And when health comes into question, it can only make it worse. We have seen many similar cases over the years.

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Judge orders truckers' horns silenced for 10 days

Blair Crawford
Ottawa Citizen
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:49 UTC
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© Tony Caldwell /PostmediaA man covers his ears while passing honking trucks parked on Wellington Street this week.
The judge says, "Silence!"

Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean granted a temporary 10-day injunction Monday, banning the horn honking and air horn blowing that has echoed through downtown Ottawa since demonstrators arrived in the city on Jan. 28. The ongoing noisy protest has interfered with "citizens' right to quiet," he said.

"People have a right to protest various things in various ways," McLean said. But he agreed with lawyer Paul Champ that the incessant noise could cause long-term and irreparable hearing damage.

"Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought," McLean noted wryly, even allowing for the "potential artistic merit" of the truckers' creative use of patterns and beats.

The injunction takes effect immediately. McLean also rejected the demonstrators' request to blow their horns for five minutes once a day at 5 p.m.

Comment: So what happens if they honk their horns anyway? They're already arresting people for trying to support them.

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Deaths 9% below average - When will the government declare the pandemic over?

Will Jones
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 11:58 UTC
covid deaths chart
Deaths in the most recent week for which data are available were 9.3% below the five-year average in England and Wales, prompting questions of why in such a mild winter the Government is being slow to join countries like Denmark in reclassifying COVID-19, repealing pandemic laws and lifting the state of emergency.

Figures from the ONS released today show that in the week ending January 28th 2022, there were 1,269 fewer deaths registered in England and Wales compared to the five-year average, which is 9.3% lower. This figure uses data from 2016-19 and 2021 as the five-year average, missing out 2020 as a pandemic year. However, deaths in January 2021 were very high, so this skews the five-year average upwards. Nonetheless, compared with the 2015 to 2019 five-year average, deaths in England and Wales were still 2.8% below average (359 fewer deaths).

The figures also show that almost a third of Covid deaths in the most recent week did not have COVID-19 recorded as underlying cause on the death certificate. Of the 1,385 deaths involving COVID-19, 71.2% (986 deaths) had Covid recorded as the underlying cause of death (compared with 72.9% in the previous week). This means 28.8% of deaths officially counted as Covid deaths were registered as from another underlying cause.

Reflecting the low mortality, excess deaths in hospitals and care homes were running well below average, at 17.9% and 20.1% below respectively. However, deaths in private homes continue to run high, being 17.8% (557 deaths) above the five-year average. While some of this may be displacement from hospitals and care homes, with people continuing to avoid them, the full circumstances around this ongoing issue need to be properly investigated.
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Illinois school board members try to walk out on Bosnian immigrant warning against tyranny; he continues to standing ovation

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:42 UTC
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© Virgina Kruta/Daily WireBosnian immigrant and parent warns against creeping tyranny of covid mandates at Illinois school board meeting February 7, 2022
"I'm telling you, if you do not stop complying, you will lose everything that you have. Stop complying."

At least two school board members from a district in Illinois attempted to walk out on a Bosnian immigrant speaking against the district's decision to keep in place a mask mandate for students and staff, despite a recent ruling from an Illinois circuit judge approving a temporary restraining order on the policy.

The man, an immigrant from Bosnia, was speaking about his family's experience fleeing genocide for America. While he was warning about creeping authoritarianism, which he said started with a clamp down on speech, video shows commotion among parents and the board.

According to Daily Wire reporter Virginia Kruta, who has children in the district and attended the meeting; video evidence; and local reporting, two school board members got up to leave the meeting, allegedly to cut off the father and start a "closed session." After parents erupted, the school board president reportedly told the board members to sit back down.
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'Shambolic' Covid PCR testing rules meant one in three who isolated were never contagious

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:30 UTC
test site
© NHSCovid-19 Testing Lab, UK NHS
Many forced to quarantine did not need to because threshold for positive tests was set very low. Up to a third of people who tested positive for coronavirus by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests were not contagious and did not need to self-isolate, a new study suggests.

Research led by academics from the University of Oxford found that many laboratories are setting the positivity bar very low, meaning they are picking up people who are "a danger to no one".

PCR tests work by cycling swab samples through different temperatures to trigger replication, which releases a chemical showing that the virus is present. The fewer cycles that are needed to detect the chemical, the greater the viral load and the more likely someone is infected.

There is no definitive cycle threshold level for positivity. However, a review by the University of Oxford found that 30 was a good cut-off, because the virus was unlikely to replicate after that - particularly in asymptomatic people. Other groups have suggested around 32 to 33.

However, Freedom of Information requests made by members of the public and compiled by the University of Oxford show that NHS trusts are using vastly different cut-off thresholds, with little regulation from the Government. Some are as low as 25, while others are as high as 45. The figures also show that between 23 and 37 per cent of people who were told they were positive had a cycle threshold value above 30. For one in 20, it was higher than 40.

Comment: Absent a process to standardize and coordinate the testing parameters, millions of lives were affected - true damage level unknown. How was this missed?

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AP investigation: Women's prison fostered culture of abuse

Michael Balsamo, Michael R. Sisak
AP News
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Prison California
© Ben Margo/APThe Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California
Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.

Prisoners and workers at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, even have a name for it: "The rape club."

An Associated Press investigation has found a permissive and toxic culture at the Bay Area lockup, enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.

The AP obtained internal federal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from inmates, interviewed current and former prison employees and inmates and reviewed thousands of pages of court records from criminal and civil cases involving Dublin prison staff.

Together, they detail how inmates' allegations against members of the mostly male staff were ignored or set aside, how prisoners could be sent to solitary confinement for reporting abuse and how officials in charge of preventing and investigating sexual misconduct were themselves accused of abusing inmates or neglecting their concerns.

Comment: There is nothing 'correctional' about or within these facilities.

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'Net-zero' promises from major corporations fall short, climate groups say

Patrick Galey
NBC News
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:03 UTC
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© capaccio.com/thejapanesetimes/KJNTarget and Result
An analysis of the climate pledges of 25 of the world's largest companies found that they avoid meaningful and immediate greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Major global corporations are using false or misleading net-zero announcements, according to a new assessment from two climate watchdogs of the action planned by industry leaders.

The analysis of the climate pledges of 25 of the world's largest companies, many of which are household names, suggests the pledges will only amount to future emissions reductions of some 40 percent on aggregate — a far cry from the total decarbonization needed by midcentury to stave off the most dire consequences of global heating.

It identifies an apparently systematic effort from big corporations to exaggerate their climate action through "greenwashing tricks, using loopholes and omitting data," something that experts said calls into question the credibility of net-zero plans that don't center on rapid emissions reductions.


Comment: Would we rather have fanatics and bureaucracy 'in charge of the climate' or a tree?

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Food prices approach record highs, threatening the world's poorest

Ana Swanson
New York Times
Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
corn harvest
© Alyssa Schukar/NYTimesCorn harvest in Knox County, Nebraska
Food prices have skyrocketed globally because of disruptions in the global supply chain, adverse weather and rising energy prices, increases that are imposing a heavy burden on poorer people around the world and threatening to stoke social unrest.

The increases have affected items as varied as grains, vegetable oils, butter, pasta, beef and coffee. They come as farmers around the globe face an array of challenges, including drought and ice storms that have ruined crops, rising prices for fertilizer and fuel, and pandemic-related labor shortages and supply chain disruptions that make it difficult to get products to market.

A global index released on Thursday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization showed food prices in January climbed to their highest level since 2011, when skyrocketing costs contributed to political uprisings in Egypt and Libya. The price of meat, dairy and cereals trended upward from December, while the price of oils reached the highest level since the index's tracking began in 1990.
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Student sues UK's 'wokest' university over 'bullying' by transgender activists

James Beal
The Times
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:35 UTC
Raquel Rosario-Sánchez
Raquel Rosario-Sánchez says she was harassed by campaigners over her involvement with the campaigning group Woman’s Place UK
A PhD student has taken her university to court over claims it failed to stop trans campaigners bullying and harassing her.

Raquel Rosario-Sánchez launched a civil action against Bristol University, saying bosses did not tackle transgender activists who subjected her to a two-year "hate campaign".

She said she was targeted for attending feminist meetings that opposed allowing men who identify as women into female-only spaces such as toilets and domestic violence refuges.

Rosario-Sánchez also claims she was told by diversity chiefs at Bristol, dubbed Britain's "wokest" university, that the term "maternity" was now "problematic" and "exclusionary".
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Johnson & Johnson stops Covid-19 vaccine production

Rebecca Robbins, Stephanie Nolen, Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland
NY Times
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:27 UTC
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Johnson & Johnson's easy-to-deliver Covid-19 shot is the vaccine of choice for much of the developing world.

Yet the American company, which has already fallen far behind on its deliveries to poorer countries, late last year quietly shut down the only plant making usable batches of the vaccine, according to people familiar with the decision.

The facility, in the Dutch city of Leiden, has instead been making an experimental but potentially more profitable vaccine to protect against an unrelated virus.

The halt is temporary — the Leiden plant is expected to start churning out the Covid vaccine again after a pause of a few months — and it is not clear whether it has had an impact on vaccine supplies yet, thanks to stockpiles.
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