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Death rate in England is lowest since records began 20 years ago

Sarah Knapton
Telegraph
Fri, 21 May 2021 11:55 UTC
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Just 851.2 people per 100,000 died last month - the lowest figure since the ONS started recording mortality rates in 2001
The proportion of people dying in England fell in April to its lowest level since records began, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

Just 851.2 people per 100,000 died last month - the lowest figure since the ONS started recording mortality rates in 2001. At the height of the first wave of the Covid pandemic last April, death rates were 1,859 per 100,000.


Comment: Note that above the 'first wave' and the increase in mortality also coincides with the first lockdown that actually began a few weeks before. This seems to confirm what SOTT cautioned against back in March 2020: that it is the lack of access to primary healthcare - not the coronavirus - will result in a surge in mortality.


The latest figures show that 38,899 people died in April - 6.1 per cent fewer than the five-year average.

Comment: As we can see above, the area of Bolton has seen a surge in vaccination rates in the the under-50s and in turn the area is experiencing an outbreak. This may confirm what Nobel Prize winner Professor Luc Montagnier warned about; that there is likely a direct correlation between vaccination, variants and outbreaks:

See also: Pfizer vaccine in Israel: Mortality rate 'hundreds of times greater in vaccinated young people'

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #34: Covid By Numbers

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CNN host celebrates Antifa violence, says those who oppose them are on the same side as Hitler

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 19 May 2021 20:34 UTC
W. Kamau Bell
Host of CNN's "United Shades of America," W. Kamau Bell, praised far-left extremist group Antifa in his latest segment and said those that are against the violent group are on the same side as Hitler and Mussolini.

"In 2020, many white Americans dealt with complicated feelings about the police for the first time," Bell asserted. "The right-wing saw that, and they [sic] did what they do: They pulled a bait-and-switch, and returned to an old boogeyman: Antifa."

Bell went on to slam conservatives for supporting the police instead of supporting left-wing extremist groups that he implied are fighting for "justice."

Comment: See also:

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High school teacher busted in sting after sending nude photos to 14-year-old

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 21 May 2021 06:23 UTC
Anthony Michael Peace
Anthony Michael Peace, 37 years old, was arrested on Wednesday after an almost month-long interaction online with an undercover detective he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.

Peace has now been charged with unlawful use of a communications device, use of computer services or devices to solicit illegal acts, and five further counts of transmission of illegal materials to a minor. He was arrested at Strawberry Crest High School, where he has been working as a history teacher.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the online interactions started on Mar. 29 2021, when Peace sent the first message on social media to the detective posing as a minor. The detective was part of an undercover sting operation specifically set up to catch adults seeking sex with minors.

Comment: See also:

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Israeli ultranationalists creating 'secret' online groups to organise violence

Sanya Burgess and Victoria Elms
Sky News
Thu, 20 May 2021 09:51 UTC
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An Israeli flag is carried by a member of the crowd celebrating after an Arab man was beaten in Bat Yam.
Extremists are creating covert virtual groups to organise and spread hate against Arab-Israelis, Sky News can reveal.

Ultranationalist Israelis are trying to hide their activities by creating private online groups where members must prove who they are in order to gain access.

One such group told its prospective members they were trying to block "police, Arabs and journalists" from tracking them.

Comment: Meanwhile, in the US:
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a Tuesday night incident in which diners at a California restaurant were attacked as a possible Jewish hate crime.

According to a local CBS affiliate news outlet, a group of Jewish men who were dining at a restaurant in Los Angeles' Beverly Grove neighborhood when they were allegedly attacked by multiple people waving pro-Palestinian flags.

The attackers reportedly arrived at the restaurant in a car and began to yell racial slurs at the men and throw bottles at them as they exited the vehicle.

One man, who was dining with the Jewish group, but is not Jewish, told CBSLA that he is a photographer who had met the group that night to plan a wedding.

The man also said he was pepper sprayed as he attempted to defend the group and was eventually taken to the hospital following the incident, the news outlet noted.

No arrests were made and no one involved sustained major injuries, LAPD told CBSLA.

The incident comes as Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to escalate and deadly violence in the region increases.

President Biden on Wednesday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects a "significant de-escalation" in the violence between Israel and Hamas to put the two sides "on the path to a ceasefire."


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House GOP report: Likely US engaged in 'dangerous' research in China, COVID escaped lab

John Solomon
Just the News
Wed, 19 May 2021 19:59 UTC
Devin Nunes
House Intelligence Committee Republicans reported Wednesday evening they believe the U.S. government has engaged in "dangerous scientific research with China" that lends increasing credibility to the theory that COVID-19 may have accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan as early as October 2019.

Led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the committee's ranking member, Republicans on the panel issued a 21-page report laying out "overwhelming" open-source evidence supporting the theory that the coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), including:
  • A U.S. State Department memo from January revealing that "several researchers at the Wuhan lab were sickened with COVID-19-like symptoms in fall 2019."
  • Media reports that there was no cell phone activity inside the WIV between Oct. 7, 2019 and Oct. 24, 2019, suggesting a possible shutdown or blackout at the facility.
  • Warnings from U.S. diplomats in China in 2017 that the Wuhan lab was "conducting dangerous research on coronaviruses without following necessary safety protocols, risking the accidental outbreak of a pandemic."
  • A recent scientific study concluding that COVID-19 has "several characteristics that, when taken together, are not easily explained by a natural zoonotic origin hypothesis."
  • China has a history of viral leaks from its research labs, including one in 2004 in Beijing tied to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, an earlier coronavirus known as SARs.

Comment: It's nice to see that the lab-leak hypothesis is starting to be taken seriously in the mainstream. People who were originally saying such were mocked and laughed at, smeared as conspiracy theorists or ignored. But the evidence that the virus was a product of human tinkering was always strong.

Meanwhile, Biden's CDC Director has seemingly given credence to the Wuhan lab leak theory. From RT:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky suggested that Covid-19 may have originated in a laboratory, acknowledging a lab leak as one among several possibilities during testimony to lawmakers.

Asked about how the Covid-19 pandemic began at a Wednesday hearing, Walensky initially said that while she lacks the data to comment, most known coronaviruses have an "animal origin." But pressed by Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) on "other possibilities," the agency head accepted that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory. "Certainly a lab-based origin is one possibility".

Republicans have taken particular interest in the lab-leak hypothesis, with party members on the House Intelligence Committee releasing a report on Wednesday claiming the theory is supported by "significant circumstantial evidence." The report also argues that experts "have failed to identify the original species that allegedly spread the virus to humans, which is critical to their zoonotic transfer theory."

The lab in Wuhan - the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected in December 2019 - is China's sole fully operational Biosafety Level-4 facility, making it one of only a few laboratories in China equipped to study the most dangerous pathogens.

Though the World Health Organization deemed the lab theory "extremely unlikely" in a report released in March, an open letter by 18 infectious disease experts published in the journal Science last week argued that "accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable [theories]."

Walensky is not the first US official - nor the first CDC director - to acknowledge the lab theory. In March, her predecessor Robert Redfield, who served under President Donald Trump, outright endorsed the idea in an interview with CNN, saying he believes it is the "most likely" explanation.
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Elderly, infirm woman convicted on extremism charges in Russia for being a Jehovah's Witness

Siberia.Realities
RFE/RL
Fri, 21 May 2021 09:29 UTC
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For decades, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been viewed with suspicion in Russia, where the dominant Orthodox Church is championed by President Vladimir Putin.
A 73-year-old Jehovah's Witness in Russia's Far Eastern Primorye region has been handed a four-year suspended sentence on extremism charges amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group that has been banned in the country since 2017.

On May 19, a district court in the town of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye found Lyudmila Shut, an elderly woman who can hardly move due to her medical condition, guilty of taking part in the activities of an "extremist organization."

In her final statement at the hearing, Shut denied taking part in the activities of any extremist groups.

Comment: Take the above story with a grain of salt considering it comes from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an outlet known for its pro-Western, anti-Russia bias.

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How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up "vaccine effectiveness"

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Tue, 18 May 2021 07:01 UTC
cdc headquarters
© Reuters / Tami Chappell
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for "Covid19" in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy "vaccines" are effective at preventing the alleged disease.

They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change).

The trick is in their reporting of what they call "breakthrough infections" - that is people who are fully "vaccinated" against Sars-Cov-2 infection, but get infected anyway.

Essentially, Covid19 has long been shown - to those willing to pay attention - to be an entirely created pandemic narrative built on two key factors:
  1. False-postive tests. The unreliable PCR test can be manipulated into reporting a high number of false-positives by altering the cycle threshold (CT value)
  2. Inflated Case-count. The incredibly broad definition of "Covid case", used all over the world, lists anyone who receives a positive test as a "Covid19 case", even if they never experienced any symptoms.

Comment: See also:

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Denmark on brink of returning to pre-Covid normality

Richard Milne
Financial Times
Tue, 18 May 2021 06:40 UTC
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People eat outside at a restaurant in Roskilde, Denmark, last month
Denmark will reopen almost completely on Friday and will phase out use of its domestic coronavirus passport and even face masks over the summer as it aims to be one of the first European countries to return fully to normal from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Denmark's political parties agreed on Tuesday that public-sector workplaces, universities, sports and music clubs, zoos, theme parks and saunas would open up again from Friday. Only nightclubs will remain closed, according to one opposition leader.

Countries across the EU have been gradually lifting coronavirus restrictions this week in the hope that accelerating vaccination programmes will allow a speedier return to normal life — although epidemiologists have warned that the shift may be coming too soon and progress could reverse.

Health minister Magnus Heunicke said Denmark was "in a very favourable place" in the pandemic despite a small rise in recent Covid-19 cases, and that its mass testing capabilities and the possibility of local lockdowns enabled it to push ahead with more reopening.

Comment: See also:

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Vaccinated people cannot 'do what they like', warns WHO

Michelle McGlynn
Irish Examiner
Tue, 18 May 2021 08:00 UTC
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Dr Margaret Harris from the WHO said those who are vaccinated still need to be careful to protect others.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is warning people they cannot do what they like - even if they are fully vaccinated.

Dr Margaret Harris from the WHO said those who are vaccinated still need to be careful to protect others.

The vaccine has been tested for and designed to stop severe disease and stop people from dying from the severe virus, the public health physician said.

"We don't know whether they stop transmission from person to person and that is important because people think 'I'm vaccinated, I can do what I like' and that is not the case," said Dr Harris.

"You have to keep up the public health and social measures just in case."

Comment: If you've been paying attention, there was never any intent for life to go 'back to normal' after the vaccine rollout, despite all the 'promises'. See also:

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Pelosi wants to boycott China Olympics over 'human rights violations' - but there's an Israel-shaped log in her eye

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 20 May 2021 01:51 UTC
IDF files shell at Gaza Strip
© Reuters/Baz Ratner
An Israeli military artillery unit fires a shell, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip May 16, 2021.
As US Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls to boycott China's 2022 Olympics over supposed 'human rights violations', she and others like her must confront their own hypocrisy toward Israel and others violating human rights on the US dime.

As widely alleged but unaccountable war criminals go, Israel has held quite the enviable position for years, with the US serving as essentially a low-paid mercenary "daddy," or bully-for-hire - one who can be called on to finish off from far away all fights Tel Aviv starts in its own neighborhood. Americans were cringingly reminded of this 'feature' earlier this month as our "best friend in the Middle East" ran out of pre-election stunts to pull and fired up the rocket launchers in massively disproportionate retaliation to Hamas attacks. Casualties, as usual, were almost universally on the Palestinian side, and many of them civilian, but the fireworks collected from the Hamas side were all that was needed to gin up a good portion of fear.

Over in the US, the utility balance was different. Pelosi and most other big-time government figures have seen nothing wrong re-running old episodes of Hamas bombing Israel whenever US support for the country looks as if it's starting to flag. Indeed, they have repeatedly attempted to side against the Constitution in order to enshrine their unflinching support for Israel in law, attempting to place its interests above the US Bill of Rights. Pelosi has been foremost among those pushing with all their might for outlawing attempts at any sort of centralized boycott - most notably the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement - never mind the First Amendment and the free speech it guarantees.
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