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Welsh govt takes heat over 'bonkers' woke idea


RT
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:47 UTC
The Senedd Building in Cardiff
© AFP / Geoff CaddickThe Senedd Building in Cardiff, which houses the Welsh Parliament. March 24, 2020.
'Woke' Welsh government style guide prohibits civil servants using a number of "banned words" including several references to 'disability'.

The Welsh government has been criticized for a "bonkers misuse of public money" after it drew up a style guide that instructed civil servants to avoid using certain "banned words" in order to communicate without causing offense.

The compilation of politically correct words was included in a revised guidance document released last week. The official A-Z guide told the country's roughly 32,400 public servants to avoid using such terms as "able-bodied," "BAME" (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) and even "Brexit."

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One in three Covid patients may have caught virus in hospital — making lockdown 'difficult to justify'

Hayley Dixon and Ben Butcher
The Telegraph
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC
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© Victoria Jones/PA WireA nurse on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, London
Up to one in three Covid patients may have caught the illness in hospital, official figures show - amid warnings over any use of data to justify new lockdown restrictions.

At the peak this week, 31 per cent of Covid patients included in the NHS' daily admission figures for London had already been in the hospital for more than a week before testing positive, suggesting transmission occurred on the ward.

Separate figures show that of more than 6,000 patients in hospitals across England who have tested positive for coronavirus, 29 per cent of them are primarily being treated by doctors for other conditions.

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Barcelona star Aguero breaks down as he confirms retirement at 33 with heart problem (VIDEO)


RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:01 UTC
Sergio Aguero
© Twitter / BarcelonaSergio Aguero is retiring because of a heart problem.
Argentina icon Sergio Aguero has held a tearful press conference confirming his retirement from football after he was hospitalized while complaining of chest pain and dizziness during a Liga game for Barcelona in October.

The former Manchester City and Atletico Madrid star, who signed for Barca on a free transfer in May, was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia through a battery of medical tests following the worrying end to his appearance against Alaves.

Barca announced soon afterwards that he would be absent from team affairs for three months while his cardiac health was evaluated.

After rumors that Aguero would be forced to call time on his career, the 33-year-old spoke live on Barcelona's channels from their Camp Nou home about what he described as a "very difficult moment".

Comment: We wonder if Aguero himself is aware that his health and career is permanently ruined by the authorities that forced all footballers to accept the dangerous mRNA vaccine, or is he not allowed to speak about it publicly?

There is plenty of evidence that these vaccines can cause myocarditis and pericardytis in young males.

Since the mass vaccination campaign started, an enormous number of sports stars collapsed on the field with cardiovascular problems.The common thing for all of them is that they were all vaccinated with mRNA vaccines against Covid.

Will somebody dare to publicly ask the questions and stop the madness, or will the young sports stars continue to drop like flies and nobody will be held responsible for that?

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Europe locks up amid Covid-19 surge


RT
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:07 UTC
Paris Gare de Lyon
© REUTERS / Christian HartmannA woman stands in front of the main entrance of Paris Gare de Lyon railway station.
Countries across Europe are imposing restrictions on social life during the holiday season in response to a growing number of Covid-19 cases. The authorities fear hospitals could be overwhelmed by Omicron-variant patients.


Comment: How about they stop panicking, especially since you are a third less likely to catch Covid this Christmas than last Christmas and 80% less likely to die from it.


French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Monday a series of new measures aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19. These will come into force on January 3 and remain in place for at least three weeks.

The maximum size of mass gatherings will be limited to 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 outdoors, with a complete ban on standing concerts. A mask mandate will be reintroduced in city centers. Consumption of food and drinks in cinemas, theaters, and sports venues, and during long-distance travel on public transport, will not be allowed.

Companies that can allow employees to work remotely will have to do so for at least three days a week, the government said.
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Tied up naked and starving for 3 days - ex-Palestinian prisoner on Israeli jail


RT
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:48 UTC
Abdul-Khaliq Burnat
© Abdul-Khaliq Burnat
Prisoner advocacy groups say female Palestinians face a wide range of human rights violations in Israeli jails.

Earlier in December, three female Palestinian prisoners - Shorooq Douyat, Marah Bakir, and Muna Kaadan - were brutalized and thrown into solitary confinement, according to Palestinian Prisoners' Club, an organization representing political prisoners.

Charlotte Kates, a coordinator for Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network told me that "most Palestinian female prisoners are held in Damon Jail, a notoriously ill maintained prison, formally a stable for animals."

In her words, Israeli guards in Damon Prison near the city of Haifa had been raiding women's cells for several days and "physically abused women."
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Myanmar massacre: Two 'Save the Children' staff among the dead


The Guardian
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:12 UTC
Torched vehicles
© APSmoke and flames billow from vehicles in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar
Save the Children has confirmed that two of its staff were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre blamed on junta troops that left the charred remains of dozens of people on a highway in eastern Myanmar.

Anti-junta fighters said they found more than 30 bodies, including women and children, on a highway in Kayah state where pro-democracy rebels have been fighting the military. Save the Children later said two of its staff members had been caught up in the incident and were missing.

Myanmar has been in chaos since the coup in February, with more than 1,300 people killed in a crackdown by security forces, according to a local monitoring group. Self-proclaimed people's defence forces have sprung up across the country to fight the junta, and drawn the military into a bloody stalemate of clashes and reprisals.

On Tuesday Save the Children confirmed the two men were "among at least 35 people, including women and children, who were killed".

Comment: More response to this horrible Christmas Eve massacre:
"Save the Children condemns this attack as a breach of International Humanitarian Law. We are horrified at the violence carried out against innocent civilians and our staff, who are dedicated humanitarians, supporting millions of children in need across Myanmar. Investigations into the nature of the incident are continuing but attacks against aid workers cannot be tolerated," said Chief Executive Inger Ashing.


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Israel testing fourth Pfizer COVID vaccine shot


CBS News
Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:35 UTC
prep for fourth
© Unknown
An Israeli hospital launched a clinical trial Monday on the impact of a fourth shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, as the health ministry weighs a national fourth jab rollout.

The study being conducted by Sheba Medical Center involves 150 volunteers from the hospital's staff, who are at least four months removed from their third vaccine shot and have signs of waning antibodies.

The director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit at Sheba, Gili Regev-Yochay, said the study would assess the potential antibody boost from a fourth shot, any adverse effects and whether an additional booster reduces the risk of infection.

Participants will be monitored for six months, she added.

Israeli health ministry spokeswoman Gal Rotem Golan told AFP that the ministry had approved the trial to "check the efficacy" of the fourth shot.
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Staff shortages could force schools in England to send some pupils home

Richard Adams
The Guardian
Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:59 UTC
Classroom
© David Jones/PAClassroom space to be prioritized
Severe staff shortages could undermine the government's efforts to keep pupils in schools, with headteachers in England saying that they may be forced to send some children home if they cannot muster enough staff.

Despite a pledge by Boris Johnson to avoid a repeat of January 2021, when the government insisted schools would remain open only for them to be closed after an abrupt U-turn, school leaders are warning that the rapid spread of the Omicron variant could lead to mass absences for teachers and other members of staff when schools reopen for the new year.

Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told the BBC that staff absences had been at "unsustainable" levels at some schools, with up to 25% of staff off in the week leading up to the Christmas break.
"We don't know what next week will look like. We're not catastrophising that but we are saying we must have a sense of realism around this."
Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said it would be "naive" to think Omicron would not have an impact on schools when they reopen.
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Mainstream news outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021


New York Post, AP
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:23 UTC
mainstream news
© APThe metrics are ugly for many television, digital and print news organizations: after record-setting engagement numbers in 2020, many people are cutting back on news consumption.
The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover.

Various metrics illustrate the dwindling popularity of news content.

Cable news networks were the main form of evening entertainment for millions of Americans last year. In 2021, weekday prime-time viewership dropped 38% at CNN, 34% at Fox News Channel and 25% at MSNBC, according to the Nielsen company.

The decline was less steep but still significant at broadcast television evening newscasts: 12% at ABC's "World News Tonight" and the "CBS Evening News;" 14% at NBC's "Nightly News," Nielsen said.

The Trump era saw explosive subscriber growth for some digital news sites like The New York Times and Washington Post. Yet readers aren't spending as much time there; Comscore said the number of unique visitors to the Post's site was down 44% in November compared to November 2020, and down 34% at the Times.
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The anti-woke rapper that scares the left

Matthew Kadish
RT
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC
Tom MacDonald
© YouTube / Tom MacDonaldTom MacDonald - "Straight White Male".
Cultural revolutionaries come in all shapes and sizes. Be they musicians, painters, filmmakers, or novelists, the one thing they have in common is that their message has such resonance that it can actually re-shape society by influencing the hearts and minds of all those exposed to it.

The last time America went through a widespread cultural revolution was in the 1960s, with the rise of the counter-culture movement which saw a dramatic shift from traditional establishment values and norms to ones spearheaded by hippies who were anti-war, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, pro-women's rights, and all about free-love, recreational drugs, and raging against everything propped up by the white male patriarchy.

But now, close to 60 years after the rise of that movement, the counter-culture revolutionaries have become the establishment, with those rebellious hippies now in high positions within government, industry, and entertainment. And in such an environment where the 'woke' are in charge, the most rebellious thing one can do is be to the right of Karl Marx - both culturally and politically.

Enter Tom MacDonald, the 'new breed' of cultural revolutionary whose success is scaring the left.

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