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Ontario hits pause on plan to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions as it mandates vaccine policies for some high-risk settings

Chris Fox
CP24
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:15 UTC
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© THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan DenetteHealth-care workers get ready to test a person at a pop-up COVID-19 assessment centre at the Angela James Arena during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto May 19, 2021.
The Ontario government has put its plans to lift all remaining public health restrictions on hold as its top public health official warns of a "difficult fall and winter" ahead.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon as he outlined Ontario's plan to make vaccination policies mandatory for some high-risk settings and to begin administering third doses to those at highest risk of severe complications from COVID-19.

The news comes after Moore suggested last week that Ontario was "seven to 10 days" away from reaching the vaccination milestones that would allow it to exit its Roadmap to Reopen and lift virtually all remaining public health restrictions, including capacity limits and limits on gathering sizes but excluding indoor masking.

Ontario's rolling seven-day average of new cases has risen 54 per cent since then and there are increasing concerns that Ontario's hospitals could soon see another influx of COVID-19 patients, predominantly involving unvaccinated individuals.

Comment: See also: Canada: Federal government to require vaccinations for all federal public servants, air and train passengers

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Horror as Kabul falls to a regime more liberal than Australia's


Anti-Empire
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:47 UTC
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The Taliban are so horrible they aren’t even clamping down on funerals if they exceed 10 people!
Horror! Afghanistan has been overrun by a regime so barbarous and cruel that under its rule people are allowed to step outside without a passport, may even enter government offices, museums, and stores without said passport, and where — gasp (!) — men may walk outside without face coverings!

This is simply too barbaric to even contemplate! Why can't the Taliban be more like us?? It's time to enter the 21st century, fellas!

On the other hand, the Taliban do at least ban concerts, cinemas and night clubs so there is still hope they may yet join the civilized world and offer progressive governance, with more clampdowns on anything that makes life worth living, just as the West has done for the past year and a half. Fingers crossed!

The dystopian life under the Taliban:

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Propaganda

Best of the Web: The BBC are a disgrace

Iain Davis
In This Together
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 06:47 UTC
BBC sign
Recently the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 received a call from John in Manchester who Vine and the BBC labelled as an "antivaxxer." John's conversation with Vine was revealing.

Not necessarily for the content, although John made some good points, but because it exposed the BBC for what they are: an agenda driven propaganda organisation.

Similar calls from Bristol based Nigel Jones to BBC Sounds' Any Answers and a caller from Sussex to Sarah Gorrel's BBC Radio Sussex phone in, exposed exactly the same bias from the BBC. This isn't one or two talking heads going off script. It is corporate policy.

In all three cases, any questioning of the COVID 19 vaccines by the callers was met with the same response. Belligerent denial, logical fallacies, a refusal to rationally debate the evidence and, relatively swiftly, cutting them off.

The BBC aren't alone of course. The MSM, as a whole, is a cohesive propaganda organisation. When Dr Zoe Williams started talking about vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia on Good Morning Britain she too was shut down. The ITV presenters hastily instructed to announce another weather report, as if this were a scheduling necessity

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Pirates

Mastercard faces biggest UK class-action lawsuit

Lucy Burton
The Telegraph
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:15 UTC
Mastercard
© Shutterstock46 million consumers are seeking £14bn in damages over payment fees after Mastercard lost bid to block claim
Millions of British consumers have been given the green light to proceed with a landmark £14bn case against Mastercard over its fees in a decision that paves the way for the UK's first mass consumer claim.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that Walter Merricks, the former financial ombudsman, can represent some 46m consumers in what will become the UK's first class action claim of its kind and could see almost every adult in the UK land a £300 payout.

Mr Merricks has for years alleged that Mastercard's interchange fees breached EU competition law by forcing consumers to pay higher prices to businesses that accept Mastercard over a 16-year period, between 1992 and 2008.

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Belgian Formula 1 chief dead in suspected murder-suicide

Matthew Sullivan
News.com.au
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:40 UTC
Maillet
© SuppliedThe world of motorsports is mourning the shock death of Spa-Francorchamps CEO Nathalie Maillet.
The world of motorsports is mourning the shock death of Spa-Francorchamps CEO Nathalie Maillet.Source:Supplied

The F1 world is in mourning after Nathalie Maillet, the CEO of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, was allegedly killed in a reported murder-suicide.

The 51-year-old was found dead alongside her husband and another woman at her home in the town of Gouvy in the Luxembourg province of Belgium on Sunday morning local time.

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Syringe

Study: Fully vaccinated people with 'breakthrough' COVID Delta infections carry as much virus as the unvaccinated

Tucker Reals
CBS News
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:18 UTC
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A study by University of Oxford scientists has found that people who contract the Delta variant of COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated carry a similar amount of the coronavirus as those who catch the disease and have not been inoculated. The researchers stressed that vaccination still offers good protection against catching the disease in the first place, and protects against getting seriously ill with it.

The survey of real-world U.K. data indicates, however, that vaccinated people with "breakthrough" infections could still pose a significant infection risk to those who have not been vaccinated.

"With Delta, infections occurring following two vaccinations had similar peak viral burden to those in unvaccinated individuals," the study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, concludes. Viral "burden" or viral load refers to how much coronavirus-infected people carry and thus "shed," or release into the environment around them, where it can potentially infect others.
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Catalan court ends Barcelona's nightly Covid curfew after rejecting government's attempt to lower criteria


RT
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:44 UTC
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© Getty Images / Miquel Benitez
The Catalan High Court ended the Covid curfew in Barcelona on Thursday, denying the government's attempt to lower the incidence rate required to enforce the measure and extend the restriction in the region's capital.

The Catalan government had petitioned the court to extend the curfews currently in place in 148 municipalities, lowering the incidence rate required to apply the measure from 400 cases per 100,000 in the past seven days to just 250 infections per 100,000. However, magistrates ruled the previous rate must be maintained, only authorizing extensions in 19 municipalities.
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Prince Andrew a 'person of interest' for prosecutors in Epstein investigation, report says

Graeme Massie
The Independent
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:38 UTC
Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew is a "person of interest" for prosecutors in the Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein investigation, a report says.

Officials in the United States want to interview the Queen's son about his friendship with the late sex offender as they investigate potential co-conspirators, according to Reuters.

Andrew, 61, is viewed as at least a potential witness in the investigation, sources told the news outlet. It comes just a week after an alleged victim of Epstein sued Andrew in a US court for alleged sex abuse.
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White liberals lowering education standards to 'help' black students are actually condemning them to be failures

David Matthews
RT
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:02 UTC
Kate Brown
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesOregon Governor Kate Brown
Democrat Oregon governor Kate Brown has signed a bill that removes the need for graduating high school students to be proficient in reading, writing and maths. The objective: to help 'students of colour.' Yeah, right.

Call me old-fashioned, but in my day 'helping' students - of ANY colour - meant giving them a decent education, not treating them like lab rats in a massive social engineering experiment.

Putting her John Hancock on Senate Bill 744 on July 14, the 61-year-old gubernator neither issued a press release about the new legislation nor marked the occasion with a ceremony. Hmm... Instead, according to the Oregonian newspaper, the bill passed into law on the QT, and wasn't even entered into a legislative database until two weeks after its signing, which is highly unusual, as bills are typically recorded on the same day that they're signed.

Comment: As Governor Brown exemplifies: America is being diminished, devalued, dismantled and dehumanized from the inside out.

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Washington Post accused of providing PR to Taliban after arguing group incites less violence than Trump on Twitter


RT
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:46 UTC
WaPo
© AFP/Eric Baradat
The Washington Post has come under fire after publishing an article insinuating that the Taliban hasn't been banned from Twitter like former President Donald Trump because it incites less violence in its carefully worded posts.

The headline hails the Taliban's "sophisticated social media practices that rarely violate the rules." In the article, reporters Craig Timberg and Cristiano Lima wrote that the Taliban has
"used strikingly sophisticated social media tactics to build political momentum" and "make a public case that they're ready to lead a modern nation state after nearly 20 years of war."
The reporters also argue that the Taliban - who they described as "a group that espouses ancient" and "traditional moral codes" - has been using messaging on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter that
"challenges the West's dominant image of the group as intolerant, vicious and bent on revenge, while staying within the evolving boundaries of taste"
- a tone that some found oddly sympathetic to the terrorist group, prompting some to accuse the newspaper of aiding those PR efforts. The Post continued:
"The tactics overall show such a high degree of skill that analysts believe at least one public relations firm is advising the Taliban."

Comment: The Post reporters back-slapped all the way to print.

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