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CDC issues 'urgent' advisory calling on 'pregnant people' to take Covid jabs


RT
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:41 UTC
pregnant woman Covid vaccine
© Reuters / Hannah BeierA pregnant woman receives a Covid vaccine at a pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.
The US' top health agency has issued an "urgent" alert imploring "pregnant people" to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, pointing to a recent record surge in deaths among those with child and possible birth defects linked to the virus.

A Wednesday statement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "strongly" urged vaccinations for pregnant women - or in the agency's gender-neutral phrasing, "people who are pregnant" - in order to prevent "adverse pregnancy outcomes" caused by Covid-19.

"Pregnancy can be both a special time and also a stressful time - and pregnancy during a pandemic is an added concern for families. I strongly encourage those who are pregnant or considering pregnancy to talk with their healthcare provider about the protective benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine to keep their babies and themselves safe," said CDC head Rochelle Walensky.

Comment: Nonsensical gender-neutral language aside, there are actual issues to be concerned over:

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Syringe

Texas nurse goes on trial for capital murder after allegedly intentionally injecting air into patients' arteries


RT
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:46 UTC
Davis
© File/Smith County Jail/APWilliam George Davis
A former nurse has gone on trial for the murder of four patients at a Texas hospital in 2017, with the prosecution claiming he purposefully injected air into the arteries of people recovering from heart surgery.

On Tuesday, William George Davis, 37, of Hallsville, attended the first day of his trial, where he stands accused of murdering four people. The prosecutor called him "a serial killer" who, in the hospital, had found the perfect place to hide.

It is alleged that the former East Texas nurse slipped into the patients' rooms, injected them with air, and left before any other night staff noticed what he was doing. According to court documents, four people died after experiencing "seizure-like symptoms." Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putnam told jurors during opening statements:
"No one expects this is going to happen to them - certainly not in a hospital ... We're going to ask you to find him guilty of capital murder, because that's what he did."
The four patients were recovering from heart surgery at the Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.
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Footprints

Moscow's Communists leave city parliament meeting in protest as party continues crusade against elections it believes were stolen

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:17 UTC
Protest rally
© Reuters/Evgenia NovozheninaOpposition rally to protest results of parliamentary election
September 25, 2021
The first sitting of Moscow's city parliament, since this month's elections, was interrupted on Wednesday when the chamber's Communist Party faction simultaneously left in protest over the alleged rigging of electronic votes.

The session, held remotely, took an unusual turn when all Communists staged a walkout from the online meeting. Nikolai Zubrilin, the head of the group in the Moscow parliament, said:
"The Communist Party faction in the Moscow City Duma... does not recognize the results of the elections in the city of Moscow in single-mandate districts to the State Duma. We do not recognize the results of electronic voting... In protest, we are leaving the meeting."
The Communist MPs then departed.

Comment: Note the picture: The signage is English, not Russian.

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Video

This ad attacking Ron DeSantis is one of the most unintentionally hilarious I've ever seen

Jesse James
Not the Bee
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:56 UTC
DeSantis/masked woman
© UnknownFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Oh my goodness this video is amazing. A work of art. A master-class in self-ownership.

Yes yes, it's absolutely "terrifying" that a governor wouldn't force little kids to wear masks all day every day, or force people to close their businesses and lock down in their homes and not visit their family. Simply "dystopian" to allow freedom of any sort and not have the government dictate our every move.

How is this video real?

Could have EASILY been made by our friends at The Babylon Bee!

"Don't breathe in" ... what is wrong with these people and why do they love fear so much???

Comment: Spoiler alert: It is not funny. It is a threat.

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Passport

Covid Scotland: Vaccine passports may 'backfire' and discourage vaccination, committee told

Elsa Maishman
The Scotsman
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC
Covid passport
© Getty Images
The scheme was originally set to begin from Friday, but this week the Scottish Government announced a "grace period" until October 18, during which time the regulations will not be enforced.

From then on, people will be required to prove receipt of two doses of Covid-19 vaccine before entering certain large venues, including nightclubs.

But Professor John Drury, a social psychologist at Sussex University, warned the Covid-19 recovery committee on Thursday the plan may reduce vaccine take-up in some groups, the opposite of the goal outlined by Covid-19 recovery secretary John Swinney.

Prof Drury was previously involved in a systematic review of the possible social impacts of vaccine certificates, and gave evidence drawing on this and more recent reports.

Comment: Nightclubs in Scotland filed a legal challenge over the vaccine passports, which was struck down:
Scotland's vaccine passport system will launch as planned in large venues after a judge rejected a legal challenge put forward by nightclubs seeking to delay the measure from coming into force.

Announcing the verdict on Thursday, Lord David Burns ruled against the petitioners' statements that the system was "disproportionate, irrational or unreasonable" or an infringement on human rights.

Instead, the judge said the scheme fell under what the government could acceptably implement as a response to the pandemic and that it was "an attempt to address the legitimate issues identified in a balanced way".
The global trend is clearly moving in the direction of vaccine passports or mandated vaccines, however, as we have seen over the past weeks, there is also growing pushback.

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Info

Shaq rejects celebrity status: 'These people are out of their freaking mind'

Ryan Gaydos
Fox News
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:51 UTC
Shaquile O’Neal
© Turner SportsShaquile O’Neal
Shaquille O'Neal is done.

The four-time NBA champion and one of the greatest basketball players of all time renounced his celebrity status in an interview with the New York Post. The 7-foot-1 former Los Angeles Lakers superstar, who is also one of the most recognizable athletes, is done with the glitz and glamour.

"These celebrities are going freaking crazy and I don't want to be one. I denounce my celebrity-ness today. I'm done with it," he told the New York Post on Friday.

"I don't want to be in that category. Celebrities are crazy, they really are. Don't call me that anymore. These people are out of their freaking mind with how they treat people, what they do, what they say. That's never been me. I never want to be looked at like that."

Comment: The original interview further reveals why Shaq doesn't want to be associate with celebrities:
"I came from nothing," he said. "But, just because I made it doesn't mean I'm bigger than you, smarter than you — just because I have more money doesn't mean I'm better than you. I've never been that way and I never will be that way. So I don't want to be in that category of people.

"When they talk about Shaq, what do you say? 'He's a nice guy.' Because what else can you be? You're either nice or you're the A-word, and I definitely won't be looked at as the A-word," he said.

"I want people to say, 'Bro, he's nice. He didn't have an entourage. His people didn't take my phone because I took a picture and threw it.'"
Shaq may have some strange and wrong opinions. But society would do well to take after him in valuing the virtues of kindness, generosity, and humility more than status, money, and one's image.

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Black Magic

New York hospitals sack their unvaxxed employees as police state's jaws snap shut: From 'healthcare heroes' to 2nd-class zeroes

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:23 UTC
new york protest vaccine mandate
© Reuters / Andrew KellyProtest against vaccine mandates in NYC
New York has begun firing and suspending healthcare workers who refuse to get inoculated with the experimental Covid-19 shot, proving the mandate from the state that once praised its 'frontline heroes' is really just about power.

Monday was the deadline for New York's healthcare workers to receive their first vaccine dose, and the state's facade of blissful obedience has already begun to crack. While New York City Health + Hospitals head Dr. Mitchell Katz has reported that just 5% of city nurses were unvaccinated (and presumably kicked to the curb), the number across the state is significantly higher - 16%, according to Governor Kathy Hochul, who spoke on Saturday of potentially filling the staffing void with National Guard service members or out-of-state medical workers as she declared yet another statewide disaster emergency.
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Handcuffs

Wayne Couzens 'used police ID and handcuffs to kidnap Sarah Everard'

Vikram Dodd and Haroon Siddique
The Guardian
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC
sarah everard
© Family Handout/CPS/PASarah Everard’s mother, Susan, told the court she remained ‘tormented’ at the thought of what her 33-year-old daughter endured.
Sentencing hearing told that Met officer 'hunted for a female to rape', as footage shows him staging a false arrest of his victim.

Wayne Couzens used his police warrant card and handcuffs to lure Sarah Everard off the street before strangling her with his police belt and burning her body, depriving her family of the chance to say a final goodbye, a court has heard.

Video footage released on Wednesday showed Couzens, then a serving Metropolitan police officer, staging a false arrest of Everard as she returned from a friend's house in south London in March during a period of coronavirus lockdown measures.

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Info

Campaigner's new book lays bare the battle between feminists and the trans lobby that demands natal males access women-only spaces

Damian Wilson
RT
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:23 UTC
feminism for women julie bindel book cover
© thejuliebindel.com'Feminism for Women' (2021) by Julie Bindel.
Julie Bindel's Feminism for Women resets the narrative on a women's movement recently driven off course by transgender activists who skew the reality of prostitution, porn and male violence against females.

When I asked what she had learned at school one day last week, my 12-year old daughter told me they had been talking about feminism and the #MeToo movement. I didn't dare ask any more at the risk of straying into an enemy minefield.

But I doubt that Julie Bindel's "Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation" is on the reading list at her school. Which is a shame, because Bindel's take on feminism in her new book is a refreshing reminder of what drives genuine campaigners like her. As the title suggests, it attempts to reset the narrative that has come to consume feminism's true goals.

Comment: It sounds like the book is probably so steeped in identity politics as to be unreadable, however, the feminist's gripe with trans women pushing women out of the picture is legitimate.

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Bad Guys

CIA's purported plans to abduct & kill Assange shows lengths US will go to attack press freedom - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief to RT


RT
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:48 UTC
WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson
WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told RT the revelations about alleged CIA plans to kidnap and kill Julian Assange show how far US agencies are willing to go to "crack down" on journalists exposing its "dark secrets".

Speaking to RT's Afshin Rattanshi on his show Going Underground, Hrafnsson said the CIA's effort to "craft a new definition" for WikiLeaks had meant that the group would be considered "hostile agents" - which, he added, was "basically a licence to kill".

According to a bombshell Yahoo News report on Sunday, the CIA had sought to define Assange and other journalists as "information brokers" - a process that culminated in former Director Mike Pompeo infamously designating WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service" so as to allow the agency to conduct "offensive counterintelligence" activities on the group.

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