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Lockdowns killed more Canadians under 65 than COVID-19: Statscan

Harrison Faulkner
True North
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 07:09 UTC
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The consequences of government-enforced lockdowns killed more Canadians under the age of 65 than the COVID-19 virus itself, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

In a report titled Provisional death counts and excess mortality, the government agency reviewed the number of deaths between January 2020 to April 2021 and concluded that 5,535 Canadians under the age of 65 died because of "indirect consequences" due to the pandemic.

Over the same time period, 1380 Canadians in the same age group died because of COVID-19 itself.

"Beyond deaths attributed to the disease itself, the pandemic could also have indirect consequences leading to an increase or decrease in the number of deaths due to various factors, including delayed medical procedures, increased substance use, or a decline in deaths attributable to other causes, such as influenza," the report says.


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Best of the Web: Remember the plot to kidnap MI Gov. Whitmer that the FBI foiled? Yeah, the FBI apparently helped hatch it

Harris Rigby
Not The Bee
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:30 UTC
Gretchen Whitmer
Remember a while back when it hit the news that the FBI busted up a ring of people who were looking to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown insanity? Buzzfeed News has just published a lengthy story examining the plot and what led up to the bust.

The piece is framed as this big exposé on right-wing domestic terrorism culminating in the plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.

The only problem? Yeah, it looks like it might have been a setup from the start.

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Now, remember, this is from left-wing Buzzfeed. Not some conservative news outlet or Alex Jones conspiracist network.

Here is the important conclusion from the Buzzfeed story that, for some reason, they don't see as a very important issue.

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EU drugs regulator lists rare neurological disorder as potential side effect of Janssen's Covid jab


RT
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:09 UTC
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© Reuters/Shannon StapletonJanssen Pharmaceutical Co. of Johnson&Johnson
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has listed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) as a very rare side effect of the Janssen Covid vaccine after examining 108 cases and one death worldwide from among recipients of the jab.

GRBS is a rare neurological disorder caused by the body's immune system damaging nerve cells, causing paralysis in the most severely affected cases. Most people afflicted by the illness fully recover from it.

The EMA said on Thursday that its safety committee, the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), established from the evidence provided and cases reported to date that there is a causal relationship between the Janssen Covid vaccine and GBS, although it is a very rare side effect.

Comment: A note from the Food and Drug Administration:
On February 27, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the third vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On April 23, 2021, the FDA amended the EUA to include information about a very rare and serious type of blood clot in people who receive the vaccine. The EUA allows the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.
See what the Healthcare Providers administering the vaccine are aware of before administering the jab:
The Department of Health and Human Services correspondence in updates to the EUA Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine
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J&J's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine reviewed by EU's medicines agency over rare nerve disorder after US reports one death

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Best of the Web: UK food supply chains 'on the edge of failing', meat industry warns

James Davey, Kanishka Singh
Reuters
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:06 UTC

Comment: And those supply chains were brought to this 'edge' by our governments' actions. There is no shortage of food in the UK...


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© Reuters/Henry NichollsEmpty shelves as meat supplies dwindle in London
Britain's food supply chains are "right on the edge of failing" as absence related to COVID-19 has aggravated a critical shortage of labour, a meat industry body said on Wednesday.

The British Meat Processors' Association (BMPA) said the shortage of skills was so critical, some plants had reported vacancies of 10% to 16% of permanent positions, discounting the impact of the pandemic. BMPA CEO Nick Allen said:
"On top of the underlying worker shortage, we're also hearing from some members that between 5% and 10% of their workforce have been 'pinged' by the (health service) app and asked to self-isolate."
The shortage of workers affected the meat products that require more labour to produce, he said, meaning those lines would be the first to be cut.

On Monday, England's car plants, railways, supermarkets and pubs warned the government that the COVID-19 tracing app, which has told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate, was wrecking the recovery and pushing supply chains to the brink of collapse.

Alerts, or "pings", from the official app telling anyone identified as a contact of someone with the disease to self-isolate for 10 days have also disrupted schools and the healthcare system.

Comment: Shortages are the next control mechanism. It won't matter how healthy we are. So, is this down to sheer incompetence, or is there intention behind this?

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Websites of airlines, banks tech companies back online after brief global outage


Reuters
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:32 UTC
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© Ikon Images/AP
Several airlines, banks and technology websites were coming back online on Thursday afternoon after a brief outage, the third such widespread incident noted in just a span of two months, raising alarms across social media.

Websites of Delta Air Lines, Costco Wholesale Corp, American Express and Home Depot were down, displaying domain name system (DNS) service errors.

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies had given an alert on its "Edge DNS" service incident, noting a "partial outage" on its website. "We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations," it said later in a tweet.

Oracle Corp said it was monitoring the global issue related to a cloud-based DNS solution provider impacting access to many internet resources, including its own cloud services.

DNS is a service that translates readable domain names to machine readable IP addresses, connecting it to a server and delivering the requested page on the user's phone or laptop.

Comment: Additional information determined the outage was linked to Akamai:
The disruption lasted up to an hour and was caused by a bug in the domain name system (DNS) service, which allows web addresses to take users to their destinations, that was triggered during a software update, Akamai said.

Services resumed after rolling back the update, Akamai added, and confirmed the disruption was not due to a cyberattack. "We are reviewing our software update process to prevent future disruptions."

Thousands of users reported issues with websites of Airbnb, Home Depot, Expedia and Charles Schwab.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, said users reported issues with 48 services, mostly within the United States.


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Rights groups take police racial profiling case to French Supreme Court


France 24
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:11 UTC
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France’s first class-action lawsuit is aimed at forcing the government to tackle systemic discrimination by the police.
Leading rights organisations and grassroots groups took France's first class-action lawsuit targeting the police to the highest administrative authority on Thursday, aiming to fix what they contend is a culture of systemic discrimination in identity checks.

The 220-page file, chock full of examples of racial profiling by French police, was delivered to the Council of State, the ultimate arbiter on the use of power by authorities. It was compiled by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Open Society Justice Initiative and three grassroots organisations that work with youth.

The NGOs allege that French police target Black people and people of Arab descent in choosing who to stop and check. Police officers who corroborate such accounts are among people cited in the file.

Comment: The French police are in a bind, as they must deal with the tensions engendered by Macron's ham-fisted immigration policy, which has seen the country overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, mostly from the Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan. French citizens are feeling pushed out of their own country. The situation is guaranteed to produce violence, as it is easy relatively easy to identify 'the other'.
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© Nick EdwardsParis streets, 2016
The migrants themselves are not helping, with their refusal to integrate into the countries they have more or less barged into:
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Two Muslim women wear Isis flags on French streets.
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AstraZeneca vaccines being dumped over 'lack of patients', GP in Australia reports

Melinda Hayter
ABC
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:22 UTC
AstraZeneca
© Reuters/Gareth FullerRiverina GP Dr Rachel Fikkers says some AstraZeneca vials are going to waste, when patients are not available.
A southern New South Wales doctor has confirmed COVID vaccinations have been disposed of, because of a lack of available patients.

Dr Rachael Fikkers works at the Wagga Wagga-based Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Corporation (RivMed) and said the service started providing the AstraZeneca vaccination in early May.

She said up until last Thursday, the service had administered just over 300 AstraZeneca doses, more than 100 of them — second shots.

Comment: Nearly half of the planet from Australia to the US are choosing to not suffer the vaccines, even with the spectre of losing the few remaining freedoms they have left. It's particularly telling that even healthcare professionals are amongst those opting out:

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Anti-riot squads, paramilitary forces fortify Delhi as farmers to protest near parliament

Advitya Bahl
Sputnik
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:39 UTC
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© AP Photo / Altaf Qadri
Since November 2020, thousands of farmers have been protesting on the roads leading to Delhi in the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The agitated farmers are demanding a complete rollback of three agricultural laws passed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in September 2020.

The Delhi Police have set up anti-riot squads and called in paramilitary forces in view of a protest by farmers against three agriculture laws during the ongoing monsoon session of the Indian Parliament, officials said on Thursday.

At least 2,500 Delhi police officers along with 3,000 paramilitary personnel will remain deployed at the Singhu border, one of the main protest sites, Delhi Police Public Relations Officer Chinmoy Biswal told Sputnik.

"Heavy barricading has been done at the borders and all routes leading to Delhi are under surveillance and being monitored round the clock. We are also using drones to keep watch from the aerial view", the officer said.
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A third of young US Jews see Israel as genocidal, poll finds

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Jewish Americans view Israel as an apartheid state
© Leah Millis ReutersSignificant numbers of Jewish Americans view Israel as an apartheid state that commits genocide, according to a recent survey.
Efforts by Israel and its lobby to equate criticism of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people with anti-Jewish bigotry are in overdrive.

Yet a new poll indicates that this campaign has failed even with the vast majority of Jewish American voters.

The survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by supporters of the Democratic Party, contains several eye-catching findings.

A quarter of Jewish American voters agree that Israel is an apartheid state - a number that shoots up to 38 percent among those under age 40.

Twenty-two percent of Jewish voters overall agree that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, a figure that rises to an astonishing 33 percent among the younger group.

Moreover, Israel's treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the US, according to 34 percent of Jewish voters surveyed. That figure exceeds two in five among those aged under 40.

These findings are likely to dismay lobby group leaders who have long fretted about the erosion of support for Israel among Jewish Americans, particularly younger ones.
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Poll: Majority of Americans want investigations into BLM and Antifa riots, NOT capitol infiltration

Steve Watson
Summit News
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:32 UTC
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© Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
A new Rasmussen poll reveals that a majority of voters in the U.S. want Congress to carry out investigations into mass rioting in cities in the Summer of 2020 by BLM and Antifa groups, while significantly less are supportive of an investigation into the Capitol infiltration on January 6th 2021.

The poll finds that two thirds (66%) of voters want the costly Black Lives Matter related riots investigated, while only 49% of voters agree that a January 6th investigation should be a priority.

Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly called for a "9/11 style" commission to be created to oversee an investigation into the Capitol infiltration, terminology which has angered families of the victims of the 2001 terror attacks.

Comment: This is hardly surprising considering the number of American's whose lives were affected by the riots as opposed to those affected by the January 6th infiltration. No matter what the news says, most Americans know who the bad guys are.

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