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Israel to ease entry for Palestinian-Americans, officials say

Jacob Magid
The Times of Israel
Sun, 26 Dec 2021 04:44 UTC
Ben Gurion Airport
© Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90Ben Gurion International Airport
Interior Ministry authorities have notified their US counterparts last week that Israel will ease restrictions on the entry of American citizens of Palestinian descent at Ben Gurion Airport, addressing a key stumbling block in Israel's effort to be included in the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP), a senior Israeli official confirmed to The Times of Israel.

While no official entry ban exists for Palestinian Americans at Ben Gurion Airport, in practice many are denied and others endure long, invasive security examinations by the Shin Bet security service upon arrival. The policy has left Palestinian Americans with little option but to travel to Amman and try to enter the West Bank through the Israeli-controlled Allenby Crossing.

US authorities have long raised the treatment of such travelers in negotiations with Israel over the latter's effort to be added to the VWP, which would allow Israeli citizens to enter the US without a visa.

Comment: The changes do not contain nor address Israeli quid pro quo for Palestinian Americans entering Israel (Palestine). Biden could at least extract this price for his acquiescence.

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Alexa told a child to try a dangerous stunt because that's what the search engine said

Lance Ulanoff
techradar.com
Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
child and alexa
© Shutterstock
It can be hard to keep children entertained in the week between Christmas and New Year's. So, it's not surprising that a 10-year-old in the UK turned to Amazon's Alexa digital assistant for some fresh ideas after her family finished their list of fun physical challenges.

In this case, according to a report from the BBC, Alexa found her what's known as "the penny challenge," a viral stunt where people plug a phone charger partially into a wall outlet and then touch a penny to the exposed prongs. Alexa apparently described to the young girl just how the challenge works.

Instead of following Alexa's guidance, the child's mother, Kristin Livdahl, who overheard the suggestion, shouted a quick, "No!" and the crisis was averted. However, Livdahl told the BBC that her daughter was too smart to follow that advice, anyway.

They also alerted Amazon, which has already updated Alexa so this kind of bad idea doesn't issue from the system's digital lips again.

In a statement given to the BBC, Amazon said,
"Customer trust is at the center of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers. As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it."
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Florida Surgeon General: Biden admin 'actively preventing the effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments' in US

Hank Berrien
Daily Wire
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:02 UTC
monoclonal antibody
On Tuesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladopo sent a searing letter to the Biden administration's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, accusing the Biden administration of "actively preventing the effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments in the U.S."

Ladopo pointed out that in August, Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis had "announced a rapid increase in the availability of monoclonal antibody therapy treatments across the state," adding, "In a matter of weeks, the state had 25 monoclonal antibody sites up and running - leading the nation in widespread early COVID-19 treatment availability."

"By mid-September, the State of Florida provided this life-saving treatment to nearly 100,000 patients," he continued. "These sites served 5,000 patients a day at the peak and nearly 30,000 per week. Florida pioneered monoclonal antibodies as a statewide solution to prevent severe illness and reduce the strain of COVID-19 on the state's hospital systems."
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Red Flag

Judge rules against soldiers' lawsuit challenging military vaccine mandate


RT
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:59 UTC
soldier vaccine
© Reuters / Carlo Allegri
A US federal judge has ruled against the Oklahoma government and a group of soldiers in a lawsuit challenging the military's vaccination requirements, denying a requested pause on the policy for National Guard troops in the state.

US District Judge Stephen Friot said he would not grant a temporary injunction against the mandate in a decision on Tuesday, arguing that the state's case was "without merit."

"The vaccine mandate to which the governor objects is ... intended to protect service members from the virus, which has, in less than two years, killed more Americans than have been killed in action in all of the wars the United States has ever fought," the judge said.
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Info

How convenient: Maxwell trial may be delayed due to Omicron fears, says Judge

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
The Post Millennial
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:11 UTC
ghislaine maxwell
Manhattan federal court Judge Alison Nathan said on Tuesday that the recent spike in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant could disrupt the trial of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

"We are seeing an astronomical spike in the number of COVID-positive cases in New York City over the last one to two weeks due to the Omicron variant," said Judge Nathan, according to the Wall Street Journal.

"And we now face a high and escalating risk that jurors or trial participants may need to quarantine, thus disrupting trial, putting at risk our ability to complete this trial."

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Video shows cops kick mom and child from NYC restaurant over vaccine mandate

Joe Tacopino
New York Post
Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:10 UTC
mother child ejected restaurant vaccine
© TwitterA mother and her child were forced to leave a restaurant, as officers from the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group can be seen surrounding the table during a protest at the Queens Centre Mall.
A video posted on social media shows a mother and her child being kicked out of a Queens Applebee's by a contingent of NYPD cops.

The officers from the NYPD's Strategic Response Group can be seen surrounding the table during a protest at the Queens Centre Mall on Dec 15.

"Unless you have vaccination cards, you have to exit the restaurant," an officer could be heard saying in the video.

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Propaganda

Is the Saker is a Covid propagandist?

Marko Marjanović
Anti-Empire
Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:39 UTC
covid coronavirus illustration graphic
Slavsquat has an interesting piece on what he deems "the Russophile media". The critique I have of it is that it mentions Saker, but the Birdman isn't and can never be a part of anything deemed "Russophile". Kremlinophile? Sure. Russophile? Not in a million years.

In a piece The Saker blog vs the anti-COVID crusaders (Saker rant) — which was laughably published with commenting disabled — Birdman wrote thus:
My bet is that in 1-2 years the anti-vaxx hysteria will die down again, and that the majority of those who now say "never! never! over my dead body!" will quietly get vaxxed, and the few who won't will have a self-inflicted and rather shitty life which, of course, is their right!
Take a deep breath and consider what is written here. Saker understands that efforts are underway to make the lives of the unvaccinated "shitty" and he furthermore expects these measures to stay in place for many years. He doesn't find any problem with this. In fact, he finds that those whose lives will be made "shitty" deserve it and only have themselves to blame. Their lives will be "shitty" but that will have been wholly "self-inflicted". Not only does he support the repression against the uninjected, he actually blames the uninjected for it and for all that it shall entail for them.

Now consider that in Russia 55 percent of the adult population is uninjected. (35 percent took the "vaccine" while it was still fully voluntary. Another 10 percent have followed involuntarily since coercion has started.) And consider also that the state in Russia is doing everything it can to make the lives of the unvaccinated "shitty". Also consider that in Russia, there are still nearly 900,000 surviving World War II veterans. Easily 600,000 of them are uninjected. (Russia does not publish the figure for vaccinations per age, but two months ago Sobyanin was whining that only one-third of those above 60 had subjected themselves to S protein+chimpvirus injections.)

Comment: The Saker, while adept in political analysis, won't go there when it comes to covid. Anyone who questions the narrative is, in his book, a "covid-dissident" or "anti-vaxxer".

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NPC

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
nurse covid ward
© 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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Biohazard

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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