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Report: New South African COVID-19 strain is the most mutated one yet

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:50 UTC

A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations — and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report.

The C.1.2 strain has been linked to "increased transmissibility" and is said to have mutated the most from the original virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Mirror reported.

The strain has a mutation rate of about 41.8 mutations per year, almost double the global mutation rate seen in any other existing variant of concern, according to experts at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform.

The number of C.1.2 genomes in South Africa has risen from 0.2 percent in May to 1.6 percent in June and 2 percent in July, according to scientists, who also have found 14 mutations in nearly 50 percent of the variants that had a C.1.2 sequence.

Comment: Here again is the misconception that the COVID vaccines offer protection. They don't. It is an unverified experiment.

Armed robbers take hostages in deadly bank raids in Brazil city

The Guardian
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:23 UTC

Bank robbers armed with explosives and high-powered rifles have plunged a Brazilian city into terror early Monday, taking civilians hostage and even putting some on their cars while making their escape.

Video shared on social media showed a booming shootout and men dressed in black marching hostages down a street in Araçatuba, 320 miles from São Paulo and home to almost 200,000 people.

After ransacking at least two bank branches, the criminals drove away with hostages on their cars' roofs, clinging on to keep from sliding off. At least three people were killed in the clash, including two civilians.

The brazen attack is the latest in a series of increasingly violent bank heists in Brazil. Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.

More than 20 heavily armed men carried out the robberies in Araçatuba, using 10 cars, said Álvaro Camilo, the executive secretary of Sao Paulo's military police. As the gang made their getaway, they also left a trail of explosive booby traps across the city. Camilo urged people not to leave their houses until the explosives have been found and deactivated.

US drone strike in Kabul reportedly killed 10 civilians

Sophie Mann
Just the News
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:05 UTC

After a long and hard day at work, Zemari Ahmadi drove to his home in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighbourhood just a few miles west of Kabul airport, when the ill-fated US drone attacked a vehicle, initially claimed by the US military that it was laden with bombs and driven a member of the Islamic State group.

As he pulled into the driveway about 4:30 pm (Kabul time), children — his own as well as those of his brothers and other relatives — swarmed around Zemari's Toyota Corolla car.

His 12-year-old son, Farzad, asked if he could park the car, to which Zemari obliged. He put Farzad in the driver's seat and then he switched over to the passenger side.

That's when, the family says, an "American missile", which was fired from a drone, drilled through the car, slammed into the ground and detonated, killing 10 people instantly.

Among the deceased include 40-year-old Zemari, an engineer and employed with a Japanese firm in Kabul, four kids — aged between 2 and 5 — and his 25-year-old nephew who was about to get married, Zemari's brother Emal said on Monday.

Comment: Just the News writes:

The Washington Post reported early Monday morning that a single extended family was the victims of a nearby strike that occurred as the family was returning to their home Sunday afternoon.

"Bodies were covered in blood and shrapnel, and some of the dead children were still inside the car," a neighbor told the outlet.

U.S. Central Command says the strike targeted an Islamic State vehicle bomb that posed an "imminent" threat to the Kabul airport. "We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul. It is unclear what may have happened, and we are investigating further. We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life," said Central Command in a statement.

Kabul airport comes under rocket fire as US Afghanistan evacuation enters final 48 hours

Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The Guardian
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:55 UTC

Several rockets were fired at Kabul airport on Monday, less than 48 hours before the United States is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Eyewitnesses said the rockets were launched from a car and were aimed towards the airport on Monday morning. It appears Salim Karwan, a neighbourhood adjacent to the airport, was hit in one of the blasts. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Smoke could be seen rising above buildings in the north of the city, where the Hamid Karzai international airport is located, and gunfire could be heard after the explosions.

Locals reported hearing the activation of airport's missile defence system, and pictures on social media showed shrapnel falling on to rooftops and the street, suggesting that at least one rocket had been intercepted.

Social media posts, which could not immediately be verified, also showed a vehicle in flames after being apparently struck by retaliatory fire.

In Washington, the White House issued a statement saying President Joe Biden was being briefed on "the rocket attack at Hamid Karzai international airport" in Kabul.

Comment: RT reports that IS-K claimed responsibility, claiming to have launched six unguided rockets (at least five of which were reported to have been intercepted by the airport's air defense systems).

Meanwhile on the border with Pakistan, two Pakistani soldiers were killed by militant fire from Afghan militants. The Pakistanis responded, allegedly killing 2-3 and wounding 3 or 4 others (according to their report). TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan) claimed responsibility but denied suffering any casualties.

'Peak End of Empire': Met Police SKEWERED for reportedly considering new 'woke gender-neutral uniform' for officers

RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:54 UTC

Scotland Yard has drawn ridicule for indulging in "woke political nonsense" after it emerged that the UK's largest police force is apparently set to conduct a review into whether to issue gender-neutral uniforms to its officers.

The Metropolitan Police is reportedly consulting its 30,000 officers on the current uniform. With the contract with its current uniform supplier set to expire in 2023, the force is said to be reviewing what changes need to be made when a new contract is signed.

According to The Sun, the Met might be violating the Equality Act (2010) by not providing separate uniforms for non-binary and gender-fluid officers. An officer, identified as 'Alex Blue', is quoted by the paper as stating that the lack of an alternative uniform would amount to "indirect discrimination."

Comment: UK police are becoming a parody of themselves. Are they trying to not be taken seriously? Because if so, it's working.

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Chase closes Gen. Mike Flynn's bank accounts, cancels credit cards; claims association "creates reputational risk"

Julian Conradson
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:17 UTC

Retired General Michael Flynn

Once again, JP Morgan Chase has used their massive institutional influence to carry out the radical left's bidding against conservatives and dissenters. By the middle of next month, Chase Bank will be closing the personal accounts and credit cards of Retired US General Michael Flynn.

The well respected and highly decorated combat veteran has been a target of the deep state and big tech from the beginning of Trump's presidency. He was dragged through the swamp in the Russian collusion delusion and had already been purged off of mainstream social media sites like Twitter, but that wasn't enough to silence him.

Comment: While Flynn may be a high-profile victim of a political purge, Chase Bank has been clearing its files of "undesirables" of all stripes for a while now.

Hipster climate change protesters dumped 120 TONS of garbage in London

Steve Watson
Summit News
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

Lecturing everyone else on 'saving the planet' while they can't even clean up their own mess

As police stand by and allow hipster 'protesters' under the 'Extinction Rebellion' banner to bring London to a standstill again, it has been revealed that during protests two years ago, the climate change obsessed extremists dumped 120 TONS of garbage on to the streets.

The London Telegraph notes that Nickie Aiken, Conservative MP for Cities of London and Westminster, cited a report pointing to the cleanup costing £50,000 in 2019.

The report notes:

The former leader of City of Westminster Council said: "The disruption to local people and businesses is immeasurable. I was told by the council that last time Extinction Rebellion were here for two weeks, they cleared 120 tons of rubbish left behind. That added £50,000 to their costs. This is local people's council tax."

An economic catastrophe is looming

Damien Grant
Stuff.co.nz
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 05:00 UTC

© Jason Leung/Unsplash
The Government has pulled many economic levers to keep the nation going through Covid-19, but how will it all end?

While we are focused on one crisis, another looms off-stage, waiting patiently for her opportunity to shine.

How long we will need to wait for the final aria I can't and won't predict, but to place our current peril into perspective, I'd like to take you for a trip down a memory-holed lane. Back to December 5, 1996. For reference, the Nasdaq on that day was 1287.

Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the US Federal Reserve, gave his now-famous speech, posing the question: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"

Comment: As we've seen with the globally coordinated coronavirus hysteria, it's probable that the next crash will be contrived or hijacked by these same nefarious forces with the intent to further their enforcement of the dystopian agenda:

Who's skipping the vaccine? The answer may surprise you

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
American Thinker
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

Big media has been in overdrive pushing COVID vaccinations, at least after Joe Biden was ensconced in the White House. Remember that when Donald Trump was still president, the vaccines were suspect, simply because Trump played a major role in their development and rollout.

Before the election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were vaccine-hesitant. Both cast doubt on the COVID vaccines, still in clinical trials last fall. Biden said, "I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don't trust Donald Trump." Did he believe Trump was cooking up the vaccines in the White House basement, the sole decision maker regarding approval, ignoring the pharmaceutical companies creating the vaccines, overseen, and ultimately approved by the FDA, not the president?

Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, cast similar doubt saying, "I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. I will not take his word for it." Again, it is the FDA, not the White House that is charged with approving vaccines.

Trump can say what he wants but if the regulatory authorities say otherwise, that's as far as it goes toward approval or usage. Look at hydroxychloroquine as an example.

In a hyper-politicized country, Americans tend to believe those with whom they identify politically. Hence those on the right supporting hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic and those on the left, like Fox News' Neil Cavuto, saying "it will kill you." If the future president and vice president were vaccine-hesitant, expect many Americans to adopt that view.

Chilling: Vaccinated Australians to be granted new 'freedom'; government sanctioned 'hour of recreation'

Steve Watson
Summit News
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC

In a chilling development, Australians in New South Wales, which includes the city of Sydney, are to be granted extra "freedom" if they are fully vaccinated, with residents allowed to "leave home for an hour of recreation on top of their exercise hour."

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Society's Child

Report: New South African COVID-19 strain is the most mutated one yet

Armed robbers take hostages in deadly bank raids in Brazil city

US drone strike in Kabul reportedly killed 10 civilians

Kabul airport comes under rocket fire as US Afghanistan evacuation enters final 48 hours

'Peak End of Empire': Met Police SKEWERED for reportedly considering new 'woke gender-neutral uniform' for officers

Chase closes Gen. Mike Flynn's bank accounts, cancels credit cards; claims association "creates reputational risk"

Hipster climate change protesters dumped 120 TONS of garbage in London

An economic catastrophe is looming

Who's skipping the vaccine? The answer may surprise you

Chilling: Vaccinated Australians to be granted new 'freedom'; government sanctioned 'hour of recreation'

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