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Fears arise that lambda COVID-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines

Lee Brown
New York Post
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 01:24 UTC

Scientists fear that a highly contagious new COVID-19 variant that is ravaging Peru may be resistant to vaccines.

The lambda mutation, or C.37, appears to have emerged in Peru last August — and is being blamed for the country having the highest pandemic death rate in the world.

The concerning strain has since spread to around 30 countries, mostly in Latin America — but also as far as the UK, which has recorded at least eight cases, according to government figures. There are no known cases of the lambda strain in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Peru, lambda has accounted for 81 percent of new infections tested for variants since April, according to the World Health Organization. The South American nation currently has by far the highest mortality rate in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

© Diego Ramos/AFP/Getty Images
Masked health workers cross Camana River to inoculate elderly with Pfizer-BioNTech
Arequipa, Peru • July 2, 2021

Comment: Another variant brings on the scare publicity. Fear makes anything real. Will this one pan out?

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Israel wants to demolish 100 homes to build a settler park

Middle East Monitor
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:58 UTC

© Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli security forces confront Palestinians gathering outside the Israeli Central Court in east Jerusalem on June 10, 2021, during a protest over Israel's planned evictions of Palestinian families from homes in the eastern sector's Silwan district

The Israeli-run municipality of Jerusalem has called for the eviction of 100 Palestinian families from their homes under the pretext that they were built without permits, Shehab news agency reported on Sunday. Once the families are evicted, said local media, they will be demolished to make way for the construction of a "biblical park" for use by illegal settlers.

According to Arieh King, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, the municipality proposed to the Palestinian residents that they can be moved elsewhere, but they refused. "God gave us this land, and who are we to give this land to somebody else? The law is the law. Any illegal building should be demolished in Jerusalem."

Bustan neighbourhood, he confirmed, is going to be demolished for "a park, public buildings, street lights, everything." As a leader in the settler movement, King planning for more settlers to move to occupied Jerusalem in order to ensure that "it is the eternal Jewish capital".

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Second teen girl sentenced in deadly Uber Eats carjacking in D.C.

Brittany Bernstein
National Review
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:51 UTC

A 14-year-old girl who pleaded guilty in connection with the killing of an Uber Eats driver during a botched carjacking in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to juvenile detention on Tuesday.

The girl was 13 when she and another teen girl tried to carjack Mohammad Anwar, 66, in March. The now 14-year-old will be released from custody when she turns 21, according to FOX 5 Washington, D.C.

The girls allegedly assaulted Anwar, a Pakistani immigrant and grandfather, with a Taser near the Navy Yard metro station. Video of the attack shows Anwar hanging on to the car as the suspects drove the vehicle, ultimately crashing and flipping it over on a nearby street.

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4 injured in indiscriminate knife attack in Greece, man later arrested

Euronews
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:04 UTC

© AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis,
FILE PHOTO: A Greek municipal police officer pictured on patrol in the capital city, Athens.

Four people were hurt in a knife attack in Athens on Wednesday and a suspect was arrested after he called the police, Greek authorities said.

Police said the attack occurred in a suburb of the capital when a man wounded passersby apparently indiscriminately with a large knife outside a grocery store.

Comment: In the past few years, all over the planet seemingly random attacks, often with knives, are on the rise; below is just a small selection of incidents:

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Raytheon's gone woke: Nuclear missile-maker segregates employees, teaches critical race theory - documents

RT
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:05 UTC

© REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol / File
Raytheon Technologies stand at the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, France, June 21, 2019.

US military contractor Raytheon Technologies, which just got a $2 billion nuclear cruise missile deal, also operates a 'diversity' campaign that segregates employees by race, rejects equality, and even advocates "white spaces."

On Tuesday, researcher Christopher Rufo published screenshots of documents he obtained from inside Raytheon, with details of their "anti-racist" campaign. Dubbed 'Stronger Together' - same as Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign slogan - it was reportedly launched by CEO Greg Hayes last year, amid the riots following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

Comment: There is one miniscule bright spot in the midst of all the insanity. Organizations which eschew hiring and promotion on merit in favor of some imaginary set of tick-box qualifications, eventually totter and fail due to their institutionalized incompetence.

From Political Ponerology:

The achievement of absolute domination by pathocrats in the government of a country cannot be permanent since large sectors of the society become disaffected by such rule and eventually find some way of toppling it. This is part of the historical cycle, easily discerned when history is read from a
ponerological point of view. Pathocracy at the summit of governmental organization also does not constitute the entire picture of the "mature phenomenon". Such a system of government has nowhere to go but down.

In a pathocracy, all leadership positions, (down to village headman and community cooperative managers, not to mention the directors of police units, and special services police personnel, and activists in the pathocratic party) must be filled by individuals with corresponding psychological deviations, which are inherited as a rule. However, such people constitute a very small percentage of the population and this makes them more valuable to the pathocrats. Their intellectual level or professional skills cannot be taken into account, since people representing superior abilities are even harder to find. After such a system has lasted several years, one hundred percent of all the cases of essential psychopathy are involved in pathocratic activity; they are considered the most loyal, even though some of them were formerly involved on the other side in some way.

Under such conditions, no area of social life can develop normally, whether in economics, culture, science, technology, administration, etc. Pathocracy progressively paralyzes everything. Normal people must develop a level of patience beyond the ken of anyone living in a normal man's system just in order to explain what to do and how to do it to some obtuse mediocrity of a psychological deviant who has been placed in charge of some project that he cannot even understand, much less manage. This special kind of pedagogy - instructing deviants while avoiding their wrath - requires a great deal of time and effort, but it would otherwise not be possible to maintain tolerable living conditions and necessary achievements in the economic area or intellectual life of a society. Even with such efforts,
pathocracy progressively intrudes everywhere and dulls everything.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' outrageous 'racist' tenure tantrum shows the true colors of the journalist behind NYT's 1619 Project

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:50 UTC

Pulitzer-winning fabulist Nikole Hannah-Jones has joined Howard University's faculty after accusing the University of North Carolina, which bent over backwards to hire her, of racism, tarnishing journalism (again) in the process.

After over a month of slagging off UNC as racist for not immediately offering her a tenured position, Hannah-Jones has announced she will take a faculty role at historically black university Howard, where she will found a so-called 'Center for Journalism and Democracy' - another irony in a resumé that's not short of them already.

Hannah-Jones shot to prominence for all the wrong reasons with her work on the New York Times' 1619 Project, which erroneously claims the US was founded based on slavery in 1619 and essentially insists that everything since the nation's establishment has been designed to keep institutional racism in place.

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Israel orders demolition of Palestinian homes in West Bank village of Hamsa Al-Fawqa

Middle East Monitor
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:08 UTC

Israeli occupation bulldozers began demolishing civilian facilities in Khirbet Hamsa al-Fouqa in the northern Jordan Valley on July 7, 2021

Israeli authorities today ordered the demolition of Palestinian homes in the village of Hamsa Al-Fawqa in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Moataz Basharat, a senior official who monitors Israeli settlement activities, said occupation forces stormed Hamsa Al-Fawqa village and have so far demolished and confiscated three houses. The demolition process is ongoing.

Comment: The declaration of "military firing zones" is the Israeli government's perversion of a clause in the Geneva Convention's Article 49 and the Hague Regulations, which prohibits the seizing of an occupied peoples' property and the transfer of civilians to occupied territory.

The Hague Regulations prohibit the confiscation of private property. The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the destruction of private or state property, "except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations".

What is the "absolute necessity" in uprooting the majority of an agricultural village for military purposes? There's no fighting going on. Past instances have shown that the IDF will turn over the land to the Jewish National Fund, who will then allocate it to more illegal settlers such as this bunch, just arrived on June 2.

Israeli hypocrisy seems to know no limits.

Looters ransack Bagram Airbase after US sneaks out in middle of night

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:30 UTC

The United States has wound down its 'forever war' in Afghanistan by essentially sneaking off from its largest base there in the middle of the night, reportedly without so much as informing the local Afghan commander.

The somewhat shocking method of departure which immediately left Bagram a "ghost base" - as some are already calling it - was bluntly described by Associated Press as follows: "The U.S. left Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base's new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans' departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said."

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Twitter loses liability protection for user-created posts in India after failing to delete content

RT
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:40 UTC

Twitter will no longer be exempt from liability arising from posts by users in India, after the platform failed to delete posts deemed illegal within a timeframe set by the country's new IT laws.

In a ruling filed on Monday, the US microblogging site lost the immunity that prevents it from being held liable for content posted by its users. The decision was made on the premise that Twitter is not respecting India's "law of the land."

The decision comes after a complaint over defamatory tweets that were not removed in time. In accordance with India's IT laws, social media sites are required to delete content that is deemed harmful or in breach of guidelines within 36 hours of a complaint being issued, and can face legal repercussions if this is not adhered to.

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French court orders Twitter to reveal anti-hate speech efforts

International Business Times
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:08 UTC

© AFP / Lionel BONAVENTURE
French anti-discrimination groups took Twitter to court last year, accusing it of 'long-term and persistent' failures in blocking hateful comments.

A French court on Tuesday ordered Twitter to give activists full access to all of its documents relating to its efforts to fight racism, sexism and other forms of hate speech on the social network.

Six anti-discrimination groups had taken Twitter to court in France last year, accusing the US social media giant of "long-term and persistent" failures in blocking hateful comments from the site.

The Paris court ordered Twitter to grant the campaign groups full access to all documents relating to the company's efforts to combat hate speech since May 2020. The ruling applies to Twitter's global operation, not just France.

Comment: It's quite telling that one half of Twitter users are complaining of censorship while the other half are begging for more.

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Demore

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DeliciousTears

"No" should be sufficient reason.

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Society's Child

Fears arise that lambda COVID-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines

Israel wants to demolish 100 homes to build a settler park

Second teen girl sentenced in deadly Uber Eats carjacking in D.C.

4 injured in indiscriminate knife attack in Greece, man later arrested

Raytheon's gone woke: Nuclear missile-maker segregates employees, teaches critical race theory - documents

Nikole Hannah-Jones' outrageous 'racist' tenure tantrum shows the true colors of the journalist behind NYT's 1619 Project

Israel orders demolition of Palestinian homes in West Bank village of Hamsa Al-Fawqa

Looters ransack Bagram Airbase after US sneaks out in middle of night

Twitter loses liability protection for user-created posts in India after failing to delete content

French court orders Twitter to reveal anti-hate speech efforts

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