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Canadian military officer calls for a probe into a ground zero 'Covid' outbreak at Wuhan forces games TWO MONTHS before world was alerted

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The long-serving officer, who cannot be named as he is still in the forces, was among the scores of athletes who fell sick with a debilitating illness after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019. Pictured: The Canadian delegation
A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the 'Ground Zero' of Covid two months before China officially acknowledged the virus has demanded an investigation into the suspicious outbreak of illness there.

The long-serving officer, who cannot be named as he is still in the forces, was among the scores of athletes who fell sick with a debilitating illness after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019.

He said foreign competitors found the city of 11 million people 'like a ghost town', and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team that a quarantine section was set up on their military flight back home.

Comment: That's a rather definitive statement at the end! What evidence is there that the Chinese are simply trying to divert attention from their own mistakes by drawing attention to the possibility that the US troops brought the virus, rather than pointing to the very real possibility of its US origins? Given the completely ignored connections to Fort Detrick, it seems likely that China is onto something.

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FBI remembers 73 officers who died in the line of duty in 2021

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© BPDBaltimore Officer Keona Holley, who was shot in an apparent ambush on Dec. 16 and died on Christmas Eve.
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday remembered 73 officers who were killed in the line of duty last year.

"As we reflect on 2021, let's honor the memories of those who lost their lives protecting others," Wray wrote in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. "Let's commit to making communities safer, finding ways to improve interactions between law enforcement and those they serve, holding everyone to the high standards befitting men and women in uniform, and valuing those who do their jobs with honor. "


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Fully vaccinated Australians in hospital for covid-19 surpass unvaccinated

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© Lisa Maree Williams/Getty ImagesA medical team takes a suspected COVID-19 patient in to the isolation ward in the Red zone of the Emergency Department at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia on Jun. 4, 2020.
For the first time, New South Wales (NSW) has seen more fully vaccinated patients hospitalised with COVID-19 compared to the number of unvaccinated patients as the Omicron outbreak continues to edge toward its peak.

Data published by the NSW government's COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit has revealed that as of Jan. 9, 68.9 percent of COVID-19 patients aged 12 and over in hospitals had two doses of the vaccine, with 28.8 percent unvaccinated.

The number of double-dose vaccinated patients in intensive care units (ICUs) also surpassed those of the unvaccinated, with 50.3 percent of the vaccinated presenting to ICU with COVID-19, more than the 49.1 percent who are unvaccinated.

However, based on the data presented, unvaccinated individuals appear to be six times more likely to be hospitalised and nearly 13 times more likely to be sent to ICU than those who are fully vaccinated.

This is considering that the number of unvaccinated patients appears to be over-represented in the figures โ€” 7.3 percent of the NSW population aged 12 and over at the time were unvaccinated, but they made up half of the COVID-19 ICU patients in the NSW Health system. At present, Australia does not permit alternative treatments, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which are available and used in other countries.

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Canada: Unvaccinated father loses right to see his child

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© Getty ImagesAlthough nearly 90% of Quebec residents are vaccinated, they make up nearly a third of all hospital cases
A Canadian father who has not been vaccinated against Covid has temporarily lost the right to see his 12-year-old child.

A judge ruled his visits would not be in the child's "best interest".

It followed a request by the father to extend his visiting time during the holidays.

The judgement is the first depriving a parent of access rights on immunisation grounds, a family law expert told Le Devoir newspaper.

The judge's decision, made at the end of last month in Quebec province, suspends the father's visitation rights until February, unless he decides to get vaccinated.

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Marine Corps grants two religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine, first for any service

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© Brendan McDermid/ReutersUS Marines
The Marine Corps has granted two service members a permanent religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the first military branch to do so, the service announced Thursday in a regular update.

The Corps says that, to date, it has received 3,350 requests for religious exemption to the mandate and processed 3,212. The two exemptions announced Thursday are the first for vaccines that the service has granted in at least the last 10 years. None of the other branches of the military has granted any religious exemptions for COVID-19 to date.

The Marine Corps did not provide any details on the circumstances surrounding the two exemptions or how they differed from any of the other requests it has received. A statement from Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Andrew Wood cited privacy considerations in declining to provide more specifics.

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Whitmer administration significantly undercounted Michigan nursing home COVID deaths, state auditor finds

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© Reuters/Rebecca Cook.Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration undercounted the COVID-19 deaths in the state's long-term care facilities by 30%, according to a state auditor general report reviewed by Fox News. The report, which is expected to be publicly released on Monday, is likely to renew criticism of the Democratic governor's performance during the pandemic.

Michigan state Rep. Steven Johnson, a Republican, told Fox News Digital in a Thursday phone call that Whitmer is
"well known for her executive order to place COVID-positive patients into nursing homes. And when we were looking into this to see just how deadly that policy was, the nursing home death numbers we received from the department weren't including everything."
Johnson confirmed the number in the report was 30%.
"There are some serious questions that have to be asked. It does appear the people of Michigan were misled as to just how many nursing home deaths there were" due to Whitmer's policies. Seeing that it's actually 30% higher is quite significant โ€” we're talking about thousands of lives that were not initially included in the department's count."

Comment: It is also possible deaths attributed to Covid were overcounted - as 'the virus' received blame at the exclusion of co-morbidities. The devil is in the diagnosis. Bring on the investigation.

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Soros-backed Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on 4 felonies

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© Larry French/Getty Images for BET NetworksBaltimore Stateโ€™s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury of 4 felonies related to her purchase of a home in Florida.

Mosby was among the first law enforcement officials supported by left-wing billionaire George Soros in his quest to remake the criminal justice system in the United States.

Federal prosecutors allege that Mosby lied to falsely obtain a withdrawal from her savings account based on a policy related to the coronavirus pandemic. She is also accused of lying on a mortgage application for the home purchase.

Comment: Mosby appears to have been diligent at carrying out the Soros agenda of going soft on crime, but hard on those attempting to enforce the law.


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Europe's gas storage half-empty in record time, refusing long-term supply contracts with Russia despite soaring costs

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On Christmas eve, Gazprom, the Russian state-owned natural gas giant, tweeted a rather unfestive message: Gas inventories in Europe were depleting quickly. Since then, Gazprom has been reminding the world of the trend every few days. "It should be noted that gas reserves in Europe's UGS [underground gas storages] are currently at their lowest for the season in the long history of observation," it tweeted again earlier this week.

Gazprom is right. On Thursday, Gas Infrastructure Europe, an industry association, announced that European gas inventories had dropped below the key 50% mark of total capacity, down to 49.33% as of Jan. 12. It's the earliest the half-empty mark has ever been reached, beating the previous record by seven days. Typically, Europe's gas inventories don't fall to half until about early-to-mid February. During some mild winters, the inventories don't sink below midpoint until early March.

The biggest ally of Europe in the gas crisis has so far been the weather. Only a month ago, many feared the 50% level would be breached on New Year's day. Unseasonal temperatures cut consumption and helped to avoid that scenario. The arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargos also alleviated the crunch. Some big energy consumers โ€” like fertilizer companies, glass manufacturers and aluminum and zinc smelters โ€” also shut down production.


Comment: One wonders just how low reserves would be if industry hadn't been shut down, and what the knock on effects of shutting them down will have on critical industries, trade and agriculture? It's not as though Europe has the luxury of losing that production and revenue.


Comment: Europe's puppet politicians might get lucky and this winter may continue to be relatively, unseasonably mild, however recent years have shown that severe frosts are still possible past April, so it's hardly a time to be celebrating. However it seems, whatever happens, it's not a high priority concern for Europe's establishment who are hellbent on attending to another agenda: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kazakhstan on Fire: Why US vs Russia 'Great Game' Could Spark Global Economic Collapse




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Sanity returning? French court strikes down Paris mask mandate despite increased Omicron cases

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© BloombergDemonstrators gather in Paris on January 8, 2022 to protest against a proposed law that would impose tight COVID-19 vaccination-pass rules.
A French tribunal on Thursday suspended an outdoor mask mandate in Paris, even as the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to rampage across France.

The suspension was first reported by French news agency AFP.

Amid rising cases of COVID, the French Interior Ministry's Paris Prefecture had enacted the mandate at the end of December. It required all persons operating in public in France to wear a mask, even when outside.

Comment: Macron's tough-guy stance isn't having the effect he'd hoped:


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Who's sweating now? Ghislaine Maxwell ends fight to keep John Doe names under seal

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© Sven Nackstrand/AFPGhislaine Maxwell
A whole lot of John Does are likely more nervous this morning.

At issue? Virginia Giuffre's request to unseal documents that name names in her since-settled civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, which led to a lengthy and ongoing open-records battle.

In December of last year, a Manhattan jury in Maxwell's trial returned guilty verdicts in five of the six charges against her after six days of deliberations. Maxwell faced federal charges that included conspiracy, violations of the Mann Act, and sex trafficking a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante and now-convicted accomplice, related to what prosecutors described as Epstein's "Pyramid scheme" of sexual abuse of minor girls.

Depending on what lies underneath the redactions, the unsealed information could make waves inside the same courthouse, and around the world.

Comment: Will there finally be some justice for the victims of Epstein's and Maxwell's predation?