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British-flagged boat with at least 17 on board sinks off coast of Greek island


RT
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:59 UTC
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A British-flagged boat, reportedly carrying tourists, has sunk off the Greek island of Milos with a rescue operation involving several vessels and a navy helicopter dispatched to find the 17 passengers.

Speaking to channel ERT, Nikos Kokkalas, a spokesman of the Ministry of Shipping confirmed media reports that a vessel, believed to be a yacht, carrying 17 passengers sank on Thursday morning. All passengers are now safe.

According to ERT, Kokkalas said the passengers themselves had raised a distress signal and had time to put their life jackets on before the vessel sank. A speedboat was first at the scene and collected passengers from the sea.

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Eye 1

Australian capital Canberra goes into snap lockdown over ONE 'case' of Covid, first in more than a year


BBC
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:00 UTC
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© EPA
People have been queuing in shops as the lockdown approaches
The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year.

It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07:00 GMT).

The lockdown was called for the whole of the Australian Capital Territory - home to around 400,000 people - because authorities do not know how the infected person caught the virus.


Comment: Is that really a valid reason to lockdown nearly half a million people?


Comment: That less than a quarter of Australians are vaccinated likely reflects their skepticism towards the experimental injections themselves and the whole manufactured crisis; is that why the Australian establishment is taking such extreme measures against its people? Australia's MILITARY enforcing lockdown, helicopters soar overheard blaring warnings, gov't wants to inject 80% of population before border block lifted

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Echoes of Nazism - Governments' Vaccine Passports Spark Mass Disobedience



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Gold Seal

Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:53 UTC
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To paraphrase a famous quip from then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in a debate with his Republican opponent in 1992, "It's the vaccine, stupid!" The daily mainstream media and government narrative we are being inundated all over the world with is confusing to most, to put it mildly. So-called Delta or "Indian" variant is spreading like chicken pox we are told, but not what that "spreading" means. Unvaccinated are accused of spreading COVID-19 to those supposedly vaccinated. The USA, UK and EU are leading this confusing and deadly narrative.

Children are told by political appointees to get the jab despite official recommendation from WHO and national medical authorities such as STIKO in Germany to wait. PCR tests that define policy, but which do not tell anything about a person's having a specific virus, are treated as a "Gold Standard" of infection. Yet as of this writing not one lab has successfully isolated purified samples of the alleged SARS-CoV-2 virus said to cause the COVID-19 disease. How can PCR tests be calibrated if the claimed pathogen is not clear? If we take a step back it becomes clear that we are being subjected to a deliberate worldwide operation in cognitive dissonance whose intended consequences for the future of our civilization are not being told to us.
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Mr. Potato

California Gov. Newsom snaps in interview: 'Everybody outside this state is b----ing about this state'

Houston Keene
Fox News
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:55 UTC
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© Sacramento Bee/Twitter
Governor Newsom is interviewed by the Sacramento Bee
California Gov. Gavin Newsom snapped last week while talking to reporters, ranting that everyone outside the Golden State is "b----ing" about it.

Newsom, who is facing a closer-than-anticipated recall election, spoke to the Sacramento Bee in an interview last week in which he grew angry at critics of California.

Clips from interview have since gained steam online, where they have been making the rounds on social media.

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NPC

American Express CRT-style 'diversity training' tells employees capitalism is based on 'systemic racism' - reports


RT
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:50 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
A racial sensitivity seminar held by American Express reportedly told employees that capitalism is predicated on exploitation and "systemic racism," while white workers were urged to acknowledge their "unconscious" bigotry.

A trove of internal documents published by journalist Christopher Rufo on Wednesday purported to show a diversity training course put on by the financial services giant last year, largely centered on promoting "racial equity and progress."

Trafficking heavily in concepts such as "white privilege," "microaggressions" and "intersectionality," the course informs white staffers of their duty to be dedicated anti-racist "allies," which includes reflecting on their own inborn racism and deferring to people of color so as not to "speak over" them.
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Child abuse: Israel requires Covid tests for children aged three and up


France24
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:42 UTC
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Israel is to require Covid tests from next week for children as young as three to enter schools, swimming pools, hotels or gyms as infections surge despite extensive adult vaccinations.

Israel already required children aged 12 and over to show a Green Pass re-introduced late last month showing a person's vaccination and testing status and whether they had recovered from Covid.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said from next Wednesday the state would fund unlimited tests for children aged three to 11. The Magen David Adom emergency service said it had opened 120 rapid antigen testing centres nationwide.
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Eye 1

Censorship gone overboard: PayPal suspends account for buying 'Persian rug' MOUSEPAD made in UK, citing US sanctions on Iran


RT
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:34 UTC
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PayPal suspended a British user's account for allegedly violating US sanctions against Iran after they purchased a Persian rug-style mousepad that was made in England.

A Cambridge resident told the Guardian on Thursday that the US-based payment processing company had informed them they were potentially "violating international sanctions" by buying an English-made novelty rug on the handmade crafts store Etsy.

"My account was suspended and, in an email, which mistook me for the seller, it informed me I was advertising PayPal as a method of payment for items that may originate from Iran," the user claimed, adding that the company also warned them the account would be "terminated" unless they could provide evidence showing that the mousepad was made outside of Iran.
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Bizarro Earth

'He avoided double death?' Man killed by Covid was spared 'worse condition' because he was fully vaxxed, reassuring report claims


RT
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:30 UTC
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© REUTERS/Ammar Awad
As experts extol the life-preserving qualities of Covid jabs, a news story has claimed that the condition of a man who perished from the virus could have been worse had he not been vaxxed, kindling philosophical debate on Twitter.

The metaphysical social media chatter was triggered by national media coverage of the recent death of Texas native Patricio Elizondo, a diabetic who suffered from heart problems. After Elizondo fell ill in early August, his daughter suspected that he may be suffering from a resurgence of congestive heart failure. The 76-year-old was soon hospitalized after he began having difficulty breathing - a common symptom of heart failure, which can lead to fluid building up in the lungs causing shortness of breath.

But doctors said that a chest X-ray revealed that Elizondo had actually caught Covid. He passed away on August 3 due to lung damage caused by the virus, a cardiologist who treated Elizondo said.
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Eye 2

California burning: Former college professor arrested for setting fires near massive Dixie blaze


Zerohedge
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:20 UTC
Dr. Gary Maynard

Comment: As if the worst fire in California's history weren't already bad enough...!


A former college professor living out of his car is accused of setting fires near the area of the massive Dixie Fire in Northern California.

CBS Sacramento reports forty-seven-year-old Gary Stephen Maynard was arrested Saturday for setting fire to public land. He's accused of setting the Ranch Fire near the Mendocino National Forest.

US Forest Agents began investigating the former Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University criminal justice professor on July 20 when he was spotted by someone acting strangely near the Cascade Fire.

Court documents reveal a witness saw Maynard come out of the woods where one of the fires was sparked. They said the man was "mentally unstable."
"Witness 1 believed the man was mentally unstable, describing the man as, 'mumbling a lot and having bipolar-like behavior,'" the court documents detailed.
Investigators were quick to place a tracking device on Maynard's vehicle looking for answers for who or what sparked the Dixie Fire, the largest single wildfire in California history. They also found additional evidence he might have stoked more fires.
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Dollar Gold

Poly Network pleads for hackers to return assets after $611 million crypto heist — and they start to do so - UPDATE: Hacker explains it was for the lulz

Mike Murphy
Market Watch
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:37 UTC
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© Getty Images
Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Ether was reportedly stolen in the hack.
Hack of DeFi platform could be one of the largest crypto heists ever.

Hackers who stole more than $600 million in cryptocurrency from a protocol known as Poly Network have returned more than half of that sum, after Poly Network pleaded with the culprits to return their haul Tuesday.

"Dear hacker," an open letter from Poly Network read. "The amount of money you have hacked is one of the biggest in defi history. Law enforcement in any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursued. ... The money you stole are from tens of thousands of crypto community members, hence the people.

Comment: RT reports:
In an improvised Q&A session held through transaction notes, the attacker claimed they wanted to expose a vulnerability in the platform's contract calls to "beat any insiders or hackers." Calling the Poly Network a "decent system," the hacker explained that they did not want to divulge the "bug" to a project team because "anyone could be the traitor."

They claimed that "saving" the assets in a secure account was the "only solution." In subsequent messages, the attacker said that they were angry at the network for making them a scapegoat before they had a chance to explain themselves, and insisted that they had no intention to launder the coins. "That's always the plan! I'm not very interested in money," the attacker said, claiming they perpetrated the hack "for fun."


Claiming that their motivation was "to do something cool but not harmful," the hacker raised even more eyebrows by asking for donations in support of his stunt.

So far, the attacker has racked up around $3,500 - a far cry from the $613 million worth of tokens snatched from the platform.

Poly Network is a transnational decentralized finance platform that operates on the Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum and Polygon blockchains, connecting them in one cyber-spot so that they can cut out intermediaries, thus making coin transfers easier and cheaper.
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