Originally General Research #17470 >>13800961

'Egg on their face': Media backpedals on Wuhan lab leak theory; journalists try to blame Trump

The mainstream media did some major backpedaling this week on the potential origin of the coronavirus. After months of brushing off the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory, left-wing journalists now admit that they are taking the Wuhan lab leak theory seriously, even after they said the theory was "debunked" months ago. Backtracking journalists are blaming former President Donald Trump and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for the media previously dismissing the now-feasible lab leak theory.

"I think a lot of people have egg on their face," ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl told Martha Raddatz on Sunday. "This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, [and President] Donald Trump, and look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them."

"Because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control, and because he was, you know, making a frankly racist appeal talking about 'kung-flu,' and the 'China virus,' his notion … he said flatly this came from that lab, was widely dismissed … but now serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry," Karl said on ABC's "This Week."

ABC's Jon Karl on Wuhan lab leak theory: "I think a lot of people have egg on their face….Some things may be true… https://t.co/BHuaHzRGn4

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911)1622403928.0

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman also tried to blame Trump and Pompeo for the media's failure to take the lab leak theory seriously.

"I think it is important to remember that part of the issue is when this was first being reported on and discussed back a few months after the pandemic had begun, was that then President Trump and Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, suggested they've seen evidence that this was formed in a lab and they also suggested that it was not released on purpose," Haberman said on CNN last week. "But they refused to release the evidence showing what it was and so because of that made this instantly political."

Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake wrote an article titled, "The vexing 'lab leak' theory on China and the coronavirus," which blamed Trump for the media's immediate dismissal of the lab leak theory.

"Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited," Blake wrote. "That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting."

Last week, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler posted an article titled, "How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible." The article stated, "The Trump administration's messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims."

However, a year earlier, Kessler told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Twitter, "It is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab."

@GlennKesslerWP You should probably revisit this one. https://t.co/QpZu5eNAQT

— Stephen L. Miller (@Stephen L. Miller)1621948199.0

https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-trump

Originally General Research #17482 >>13809957

Nicola DELAYS Scotland's roadmap: Sturgeon heaps pressure on Boris by putting the brakes on Scottish unlocking as scientists demand he puts June 21 freedom day back a MONTH to contain Indian variant 'volcano'

Nicola Sturgeon has delayed Scotland's unlocking to 'err on the side of caution' heaping pressure on the PM

Boris Johnson is urged by scientists to delay decision on whether to fully lift lockdown in three weeks' time

British Medical Association warns UK is at 'pivotal moment' in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic

Scientists have urged the Prime Minister to stick to his word that he would be guided by 'data not dates'

Two-week targeted and enhanced testing programme for asymptomatic people begins in Canterbury, Kent

Nicola Sturgeon heaped pressure on Boris Johnson today by putting the brakes on Scotland's unlocking as scientists warned he will have to 'carry the can' for a 'bad decision' to press ahead with June 21 'freedom day'.

As the UK recorded no new deaths for the first time in 10 months, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that vaccinations do appear to be 'weakening' the link between cases and serious illness, and she hoped that in future the virus can be dealt with in a 'less restrictive' way.

But she warned that we are 'still not quite there yet' and must 'err on the caution' until more of the population has had both jabs - saying that some areas of Scotland will not go down to the lowest level of restrictions next week as planned.

Ms Sturgeon insisted that a tentative approach now would mean there is more chance of 'staying' on the path to a full unlocking.

The intervention came as the PM was assailed by a queue of experts warning against the full unlocking - with Prof Adam Finn among those entreating him to recognise that the UK is still 'vulnerable' and the 'job is not done'.

Prof Ravi Gupta, a member of the government's Nervtag advisory panel, suggested the timetable should be pushed back 'at least a few weeks, probably a month' so more data are available and schools have started summer holidays.

The British Medical Association insisted the battle against the disease is at a 'pivotal moment' and Mr Johnson must stick to his promise of being guided by 'data not dates'. One consultant respiratory physician referred to 'mini Covid volcanoes' erupting at hospitals around the country, which are threatening to 'explode'.

However, others have said it is still too early to be sure what can happen, with the government not committed to making any final choices until June 14.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9639067/Coronavirus-UK-Scientists-demand-RETHINK-June-21-Freedom-Day.html

Originally Canada #20 >>13835103

Why Is There Such Reluctance To Discuss Natural Immunity?

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-there-such-reluctance-discuss-natural-immunity

If you’re among those of us who aren’t tribally invested in Covid politics but would like good information about when life will resume as normal, chances are you’re interested in herd immunity. You’re likely not interested in having to rely on the Internet Archive for good information on herd immunity. Alas, it’s become a go-to place for retrieving, as it were, previously published information on herd immunity that became inconvenient post-vaccine and then virtually Memory-Holed.

Over the past 15 months, the litany of Experts’ True Facts and Science regarding various aspects of SARS-CoV-2 has changed more often than the starting lineup of a bad minor league ball club. Covid-19 is spread by droplets, especially from asymptomatic people, until one day it was airborne all along and people who weren’t sick in all likelihood weren’t even sick. Stay at home, you’re safer indoors, even stay away from parks and beaches; well, actually, outdoors is the place to be. Masks don’t work against viruses and are actually unhealthy to wear if you’re not sick, then suddenly they did work and without one you might as well be shooting people. Everyone knows and PolitiFact verified that the virus couldn’t have been created in the prominent infectious disease lab doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in bats coincidentally at Covid Ground Zero until, one day, PolitiFact had to retract the entire “Pants on Fire!” article. And so forth.

Unfortunately, information about herd immunity has also not been immune to this kind of meddling. Until recent months, people readily understood that active immunity came about either by natural immunity or vaccine-induced immunity. Natural immunity comes from battling and defeating an actual infection, then having your immune system primed for the rest of your life to fight it off if it ever shows up again. This immunity is achieved at a sometimes very high personal price.

Vaccine-induced immunity is to prime your immune system with a weaker, non-threatening form of the invading infection, so that it’s ready to fight off the real thing should you ever encounter it, and without your having first to risk severe illness or death.

Those interested in herd immunity in itself likely don’t have a moral or political preference for one form of immunity to the exclusion of the other. Immunity is immunity, regardless of whether a particular person has it naturally or by a vaccine. All immunity contributes to herd immunity.

Others, however, are much less circumspect. They seem to have forgotten the ultimate goal of the public campaign for people to receive vaccination against Covid-19. It’s not to be vaccinated; it’s to have immunity. People with natural immunity — i.e., people whose immune systems have faced Covid-19 and won — don’t need a vaccine.

They do, however, need to be considered in any good-faith discussion of herd immunity. There are two prongs to herd immunity, as we used to all know, and those with natural immunity are the prong that’s being ignored. It’s not just mere oversight, however. Fostering such ignorance can lead to several bad outcomes:

People with natural immunity could be kept from employment, education, travel, normal commerce, and who knows what other things if they don’t submit to a vaccine they don’t need in order to fulfill a head count that confuses a means with the end

The nation could already be at herd immunity while governors and health bureaucrats continue to exert extreme emergency powers, harming people’s liberties and livelihoods

People already terrified of Covid — including especially those who’ve already had it — would continue to live in fear, avoiding human interaction and worrying beyond all reason

People could come to distrust even sound advice from experts about important matters, as they witness and grow to expect how what “the experts” counsel diverges from what they know to be wise counsel while it conforms to and amplifies the temporary needs of the political class

>>13857847

Spamming all the threads again with Fulford nonsense?

You need a better hobby

>>13863492

>Experts have said it is now evident the UK is at the start of a third wave and things would only escalate if June 12 went ahead.

Who are these "experts?"

Who isolated the original strain, when and where?

Originally Canada #20 >>13859528

Manitoba chief microbiologist: 56% of positive COVID ‘cases’ are not infectious

Dr. Jared Bullard, who is the head of Cadham Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg, admitted that PCR test results do not verify infectiousness for COVID-19, and were never intended to be used to diagnose respiratory illnesses.

WINNIPEG, June 8, 2021 (JCCF) – The Justice Centre represents churches and individuals who are challenging government lockdown restrictions in the Court of Queen’s Bench as unjustified violations of the Charter freedoms to associate, worship, and assemble peacefully. The hearing commenced on May 3, 2021 and is continuing this week.

The onus is on the Manitoba Government to justify its restrictions on Charter rights and freedoms as being reasonable, necessary and beneficial.

One of the crucial issues in this trial is the operation and reliability of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test that is used by governments across Canada, including the Manitoba Government, to diagnose COVID and measure its spread.

The Westphalian Times explains PCR tests as follows:

The current COVID testing is based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) – “a fast and inexpensive technique used to ‘amplify’ – copy – small segments of DNA.” Many internationally recognized experts on virology and PCR testing are questioning if the tests have been made overly sensitive and many positives are the result of long dead and no longer contagious virus or even contamination in labs. PCR testing was invented to find genetic viral material in a sample and has not traditionally been used as the sole method for identifying people suffering from a viral or bacterial disease.

COVID testing is typically performed using a nasopharyngeal swab, a 6-inch long swab inserted deep into the nostril. The swab is rotated for a while and then it is sent to a lab where a PCR test will dramatically amplify the amount of genetic material captured and then compare it to the DNA or RNA of a particular segment of the COVID virus (reference RNA).

To get enough genetic material to test, the PCR process increases the genetic material present by copying it and then copying it again, over and over. Each of these increasing steps is called a “cycle” and the genetic material in the solution is reacted against the reference DNA to determine a positive. If the sample contains a large amount of COVID virus it will react positive after only a few cycles, while a sample with small amounts of genetic material will require more cycles to amplify enough genetic material to get a positive result.

Since the PCR test amplifies traces of COVID-19 through cycles, a lower number of cycles needed to get a positive suggests the presence of a higher viral load for the person being tested and therefore a higher contagion potential.

The number of cycling required to identify viral material in a given sample is called the cycle threshold (Ct).

The Justice Centre’s expert medical witnesses, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, world-famous epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine from Stanford University, and Dr. Thomas Warren, infectious disease specialist and medical microbiologist, both provided evidence that the PCR test is unreliable in determining whether a person is infectious with the actual COVID-19 disease.

Chief Microbiologist and Laboratory Specialist Dr. Jared Bullard is a witness for the Manitoba government in this hearing. Questioned under oath by Justice Centre lawyers on Monday May 10, Dr. Bullard acknowledged that the PCR test has significant limitations. The head of Cadham Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg, Dr. Bullard admitted that PCR test results do not verify infectiousness, and were never intended to be used to diagnose respiratory illnesses.

More:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/manitoba-chief-microbiologist-56-of-positive-covid-cases-are-not-infectious

Originally Canada #20 >>13870320

Medical Advisors to CDC: ‘Higher Than Expected’ Number of Cases of Heart Problems in Young Adults and Adolescents Following Covid Vaccination

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/medical-advisors-cdc-higher-expected-number-cases-heart-problems-young-adults-adolescents-following-covid-vaccination/

Last month it was reported the Centers for Disease Control was investigating potential heart problems in young adults and adolescents following Covid-19 vaccination.

The CDC said the mRNA ‘vaccines’ produced by Pfizer-BioNTech are ‘potentially’ causing the problem.

The FDA authorized the Pfizer gene therapy jabs for children as young as 12 earlier this month and now there are reports of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) in teens.

The reports of myocarditis in teens is more common in males and typically occurs after the second dose of the jab.

Vaccine advisors to the CDC are now saying there are a “higher-than-expected” number of cases of heart problems in young adults following Covid vaccination.

Of course the CDC is pushing back and said benefits from Covid-19 vaccination outweigh the risks “including risk of myocarditis or pericarditis.”

CNN reported:

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there has been a higher-than-expected number of cases of a heart ailment among young people, most often males, who’ve recently received their second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

The advisers’ statement, posted June 1 on the CDC website, strikes a different note from their statement about two weeks earlier, which said that the rates of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — were not higher among vaccinated people than among unvaccinated people. 

The June 1 report by a work group of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices states that within 30 days of receiving the second dose of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, “there was a higher number of observed than expected myocarditis/pericarditis cases in 16-24-year-olds.”

Dr. Cole recently sounded the alarm on Covid jabs during a radio interview.

“We’ve seen more deaths from this shot than all vaccines in the last 20 years combined — and that’s just in the first 4 to 5 months,” the Idaho doctor said during an appearance on Rose Unplugged 1320 WJAS.

Originally General Research #17587 >>13893724

Footage Reveals Live Bats In Wuhan Lab Despite Denials.

Despite Wuhan Institute of Virology and its U.S. taxpayer-funded collaborators such as EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak insisting the controversial lab didn’t work with live bats, new footage reveals researchers working the animal.

The footage aired on Sharri Markson’s Sky News program and reveals bats in cages at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and researchers catching and feeding the mammal. In one instance, a bat is seen hanging off the hat of a researcher from the Wuhan lab.

The evidence follows Daszak – whose organization funneled money from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to partner with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – insisting otherwise.

“This is a widely circulated conspiracy theory. This piece describes work I’m the lead on & labs I’ve collaborated w/ for 15 yrs. They DO NOT have live or dead bats in them,” Daszak, who also served as a World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 investigator, tweeted.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/footage-reveals-live-bats-in-wuhan-lab/

Originally General Research #17589 >>13894830

Facebook 'fact-checkers' could be politically biased themselves, admits the tech giant's vice-president Nick Clegg

Former Deputy PM made admission to EU officials in November during talks about how tech giant was tackling misinformation flooding its site

Facebook announced fact-checking measures in 2016 amid claims its failure to remove misleading content helped to swing that year's US Presidential election in favour of Donald Trump

The measures, which allow users to alert Facebook to content they believed to be fake, was applauded by many - but critics decried the intervention, warning Facebook would rely on Left-wing fact-checkers

In recent weeks huge controversy has surrounded its decision to censor stories claiming Covid-19 could have been man-made and leaked from a Wuhan lab

Facebook vice-president Nick Clegg has admitted the company's fact-checkers – employed to root out alleged 'fake news' from its social-media platforms – could be biased and pursuing their own political agendas, according to a European Commission document obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

The former Deputy Prime Minister made the admission to EU officials in November during talks about how the tech giant was tackling misinformation flooding its site.

Facebook announced fact-checking measures in 2016 amid claims that its failure to remove misleading content helped to swing that year's US Presidential election in favour of Donald Trump.

The measures, which allow users to alert Facebook to content they believed to be fake, was applauded by many.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9679631/Facebook-fact-checkers-politically-biased-Nick-Clegg-admits.html

Originally Canada #20 >>13901728

COVID vaccine makers have a disturbing track record of criminal and civil liability

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccine-makers-disturbing-track-record-of-criminal-and-civil-liability

Vaccine manufacturers have a history of ‘aggressive marketing of inappropriate drugs, kickbacks to doctors, claims of testing drugs on children without proper consent,’ and more.

June 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Politicians and corporate CEOs offering clever incentives to encourage people to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccines tend not to talk about the vaccine companies’ troubling history of illegal business practices including fraudulent marketing, patent infringement, and failing to notify consumers about toxic ingredients.

Between 1991 and 2017, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca — three vaccine makers whose COVID vaccines are widely used across the world — have together paid out a total of $8.62 billion to resolve civil and criminal allegations in 67 state and federal settlements. Moderna, a relative newcomer, has come under scrutiny for secrecy about its funding and the results of its clinical trials. The fraught legal history of the corporations tends to grant legitimacy to the skepticism many feel about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines they have produced.

In a December 2020 report published by U.K.-based social justice organization Global Justice Now, Director Nick Dearden and Dr. James Angel wrote that “the current pharmaceutical model is actually deeply flawed, delivering outcomes which are poor value for money for the public sector, which exacerbate global inequality and which are driven by the objective to make sky-high returns to shareholders, not a healthier population.”

The report by Global Justice Now, which has criticized the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “unaccountably skewing the direction of international development,” went on to describe the pharmaceutical model as one which grants incentives for “the most appalling behaviour including aggressive marketing of inappropriate drugs, kickbacks to doctors, claims of testing drugs on children without proper consent, massive price hikes on essential medicines, profiteering, blocking competition, and secrecy … Some of this behaviour has given rise to serious legal challenges and even some of the largest fines in history.”Continue…

Time to start thinking about a title for the next bread

Originally Australia #16 >>13907925

Wuhan bat video shows much of pandemic origin information was ‘Chinese disinformation’

Sky News Australia

Jun 15, 2021

Sky News host Sharri Markson says exclusive footage she revealed which proves live bats were kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology shows much of what the world has been told about the origin of the pandemic was “Chinese disinformation”.

Ms Markson told Fox News in the interview that Beijing’s disinformation was then “propagated” by many who were “compromised”.

“It shows that much of what we’ve been told about the origin of the pandemic from the very beginning was Chinese disinformation which was then propagated by many people who had been working in conjunction with the Wuhan Institute of Virology who are compromised, who had extreme conflicts of interest,” she said.

Ms Markson scorched the WHO team which visited Wuhan earlier this year to investigate the origin of the pandemic.

“People like Peter Daszak insisted that it was a conspiracy theory – he used the term in a tweet from December 2020 – that it was a conspiracy theory to say that there were bats in the lab,” she said.

“He’s an official WHO, World Health Organisation, investigator who went into Wuhan to supposedly investigate the origins of the virus earlier this year and it was completely false.

“This new footage shows that there were bets being kept in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and it’s something Peter Daszak has had to admit, has had to correct just this month.

“There’s so much that he didn’t and the WHO team didn’t ask when they went into Wuhan.”

Ms Markson said the WHO team failed to even ask what happened to a colossal database of coronaviruses at the lab.

“They didn’t ask if there were bats at the laboratory, they didn’t ask where the virus database was, this is such a crucial thing, the virus database with some 15,000 or 17,000 bat samples suddenly disappeared from the internet in September 2019 just prior to the outbreak of COVID-19,” she said.

“People like Peter Daszak who went into to supposedly investigate this were riddled with conflicts.

“Anthony Fauci, as well, should not be advising the president on the origin of coronavirus given it was his organisation that funnelled money through a subgrant through to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“He can issue all the denials that he likes. The scientific papers say that they were funded with NIH.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-_Y1zmLCME

>>13931228

Q Research Scotland #5: Humanity Rising Edition

I like it!

From UK #39 >>13932433

Nearly half a MILLION Covid vaccination appointments missed in Scotland

Dan Vevers

17 Jun 2021

NEARLY half a million Covid jab appointments have been missed since February, shock stats reveal.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) data showed some 484,582 vaccination appointments have not been attended, including 446,366 first doses and 38,216 second doses.

And while the overall no-show rate for first dose jabs in Scotland is 14.1 per cent, it rises to nearly a third of Scots in the 30-39 age bracket - a rate of 31.4 per cent.

Some 146,822 people didn’t attend appointments from a total of 467,437 in the age group booked in up to June 13. This doesn’t include cancelled or rescheduled jags.

It follows concerns many in the cohort may have missed their blue envelopes offering them a jab due to moving addresses, while those aged 18 to 29 have been able to register for vaccination online.

And it comes after recent reports of high levels of no-shows at vaccine centres like the SSE Hydro in Glasgow and the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh.

In its weekly Covid report, Public Health Scotland said the Did Not Attend stats are “not a measure of the number of people not vaccinated” - as some may have been jabbed already, for example, by attending a drop-in-clinic.

It added: “Reasons for DNA are not available.”

The no-show rate falls to 23.2 per cent for the over-40s and just 13 per cent for the over-50s.

But the DNA percentage rises to 24.5 per cent for Scots living in the most deprived areas - compared to 13.1 per cent in the least deprived.

In addition to the no-shows, a total of 569,075 first dose appointments have been cancelled since February, while the figure is 270,090 for second doses.

However, PHS noted: "Cancelled appointments are generally instances where the appointment has been rescheduled."

The Did Not Attend stats do not include appointments arranged by GPs, the over-80s, or appointments in Highland or island health boards, which are managed differently.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7269959/half-million-covid-vaccination-appointments-missed/

Originally Canada #21 >>13956433

World Health Organization Says Do Not Give Children Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/world-health-organization-says-do-not-give-children-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-shots

In America, national, state, and local governments are pulling out all the stops to advance giving experimental coronavirus shots to children down to the age of 12.

Up next, babies and children up to age 11.

The shots are “safe and effective,” the propagandists proclaim.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a different approach. The WHO says do not vaccinate children, at least not yet.

At its website, the WHO offers this advice regarding giving experimental coronavirus vaccines, some of which are not even vaccines under the normal meaning of the term, to children:

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.

However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.

Choose accordingly.

>>13958538

Canada is on the trail of the Fulford

Fulford/Rockefeller Bun

>>13958194 Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 1 (video)

>>13958206 Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 2 (video)

>>13958220 Letter Of Apology To David Rockefeller

>>13958262 Benjamin Fulford – Who is he working for?

>>13958269 George Taylor Fulford

>>13982539

Canada #21 >>13958220

Letter Of Apology To David Rockefeller

https://rense.com/general82/dwfe.htm

Canada #21 >>13958262

Benjamin Fulford – Who is he working for?

https://rabble.ca/babble/media/benjamin-fulford-who-he-working

Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JB9Pnr4oEU

Fulford & Rockefeller: The Japan Interview part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCKBLpU16I

Originally Canada #21 >>13988090

Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU"

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-told-repeal-law-banning-lgbt-promotion-children-or-else-leave-eu

EU leadership is now fanatically dictating that Hungary and its 'defiant' prime minister Vickor Orban must bow the knee to the Pride Flag or else "must leave" the European Union.

Quoting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, The Telegraph describes massive pushback against a new Hungarian law which seeks to prevent the public promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism in front of children and minors:

Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, said Hungary either "must leave" the EU or repeal the law, which bans TV shows and other content seen as championing LGBT lifestyles for the under-18s.

However, some eastern European governments refused to join 17 of the bloc’s 27 countries in a rare joint statement condemning a fellow member state.

Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán, AFP via Getty Images

Other EU leaders, like European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, have been claiming that the law actively discriminates against LGBT people.

However, defenders of the Hungarian law have pointed out it puts decision-making on presenting these issues to children in the hands of parents and family members. Orban himself, for example, said the law and policy is fundamentally about "defending the rights of the kids and the parents" and is not about discrimination.

Orban said this week at the summit: “Homosexuality was punished, and I fought for their freedom and their rights,” concluding that "I am defending the rights of the homosexual guys. But this law is not about that."

But the EU summit which met this is acting as if it's a declaration of war on human rights, and is vowing to respond accordingly:

Western leaders have said they will bring Hungary "to its knees" over a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools at a bitter EU summit on Thursday.Continue…

Originally UK #40 >>13991629

No Whites: BBC Offers Position for ‘Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse Candidates’

The BBC has barred white people from applying for a trainee position in Glasgow, in the latest example of anti-white discrimination from Britain’s publicly-funded broadcaster.

A job advert posted by Creative Access — a firm that seeks to increase minority representation in the media and the arts — said that the BBC’s Science Unit in Glasgow was seeking applicants for a one-year, £17,810 per year trainee production management assistant position.

Creative Access said the position was “only open to black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates,” according to the Mail on Sunday.

The digital campaign manager for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, Joe Ventre said: “BBC bosses shouldn’t be supporting race-based recruiting with taxpayers’ money. Taking an approach like this further undermines confidence in the Corporation and their use of licence fee payers’ cash.”

While positive discrimination was made illegal under the Equality Act of 2010, there is a loophole for ‘positive action’ to discriminate on the basis of race or gender for trainee and internship roles within companies.

The cooperation between the BBC and Creative Access in prohibiting white applicants has been longstanding, with Breitbart London reporting in 2016 that the firm advertised for four positions for the public broadcaster for “Black, Asian and non-white minority ethnic backgrounds”.

A spokesman for the BBC said: “The BBC is a welcoming, inclusive organisation committed to representing and reflecting our audiences.

We support a scheme organised by Creative Access, an independent organisation dedicated to increasing diversity in the creative industries, which provides development roles, fully in line with the Equality Act.”

In February, the BBC announced their Diversity And Inclusion Plan for 2021-23, which committed to working towards implementing race and gender quotas in its workforce. The plan called for women to comprise fifty per cent of positions, 20 per cent for black and other ethnic minorities, and twelve per cent for disabled people.

The recently installed director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie said at the time: “We must – from top to bottom – represent the audiences we serve. We have made some big improvements, but we want and need to go further.

“This plan will ensure we are modern, progressive, welcoming organisation where our staff are supported to deliver outstanding creative work and background is no barrier.

“Having the right mix of people, ideas and experiences at the BBC will mean we continue to provide world-class content for everybody.”

The BBC’s main rival, ITV, has also been found to have employed similar anti-white hiring schemes for its former flagship political discussion programme, Peston on Sunday.

The British government itself has also supported Creative Access, providing £4 million in taxpayer money to the firm in 2014, to fund training for “traditionally underrepresented employees and freelancers working in the creative industries including black, Asian and minority ethnic groups”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/21/whites-need-not-apply-bbc-offers-trainee-position-for-black-asian-and-ethnically-diverse-candidates/

Originally Canada #21 >>14017172

WEF

Why we need a global framework to regulate harm online

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/global-framework-regulate-harmful-online-content/

Digital platforms used by billions of people around the world are being misused to cause harm and endanger people.

Urgent areas of concern, including child exploitation, highlight fundamental deficiencies in the current digital media ecosystem.

A new report by the World Economic Forum examines these issues and how we can address them to improve online safety.

The pandemic highlighted the importance of online safety, as many aspects of our lives, including work, education, and entertainment became fully virtual. With more than 4.7 billion internet users globally, decisions about what content people should be able to create, see, and share online had (and continues to have) significant implications for people across the world. A new report by the World Economic Forum, Advancing Digital Safety: A Framework to Align Global Action, explores the fundamental issues that needs to be addressed:

How should the safety of digital platforms be assessed?

What is the responsibility of the private and public sectors in governing safety online?

How can industry‑wide progress be measured?

While many parts of the world are now moving along a recovery path out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some major barriers remain to emerge from this crisis with safer societies online and offline. By analysing the following three urgent areas of harm we can start to better understand the interaction between goals of privacy, free expression, innovation, profitability, responsibility, and safety.

Health misinformationContinue

Originally Canada #21 >>14021463

‘Huge red flag’: Medical researchers bury data showing 82% miscarriage rate in vaccinated women

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/huge-red-flag-medical-researchers-bury-data-showing-82-miscarriage-rate-in-vaccinated-women

'The evidence is actually there in the NEJM study, but completely misrepresented in the way the data was presented in general,' Dr Carmen Wheatley shared with LifeSiteNews.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, June 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A medical journal discovered that 82% of women who took an mRNA vaccine in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy had a miscarriage — and then it then buried the data.

In mid-June the New England Journal of Medicine published a study called “Preliminary FIndings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons” by Tom T. Shimabukuro and others from the Center of Disease Control’s “v-safe COVID-10 Pregnancy Registry Team.” The team wrote that there were “no obvious safety signals among pregnant [women] who received Covid-19 vaccines” even though it published a table which showed that 82% of women in the study who were injected with either the Pfizer or the Moderna vaccine during early pregnancy lost their babies. More prominent in their study was a claim that only 13.9% of all “completed pregnancies” had ended in miscarriage — but this figure included the women who were not vaccinated until they were in the second half of their pregnancies.

The significance of the buried information was not lost on British oncologist Dr. Carmen Wheatley, who shared her information with LifeSiteNews. Having at first found the conclusions of the study’s abstract “reassuring,” Wheatley went on to discover "Table 4” and the fine print under it.

“The researchers inexplicably subsumed the first trimester spontaneous abortions — before, and including, 20 weeks — into the completed pregnancy/losses as a whole—104 [miscarriages] out of 827 pregnancies,” she wrote to two leading British doctors, Dr. Peter Rabey, the medical director of the UK’s Channel Island of Guernsey, and Dr. Nicola Brink, Guernsey’s director of Public Health.

“However, since the aim was to discover whether Covid vaccination had any adverse effects in the different trimesters, the NEJM papers’ authors should have deducted the 700 women who were not actually vaccinated until the third trimester from the total 827, leaving only those vaccinated in the first 20 weeks, i.e. 127 women to figure in that part of Table 4.”

Wheatley pointed out that the “real rate” of spontaneous miscarriages among women vaccinated in the first 20 weeks of their pregnancy was not 12.6% but 82% because 104 of these 127 pregnancies were lost. She highlighted the “small print” in the study that stated that a “total of 700 participants (84.6) received their first eligible dose in the third trimester” and that a “total of 96 of 104 spontaneous abortions (92.3%) occurred before 13 weeks of gestation.”

“So the evidence is actually there in the NEJM study, but completely misrepresented in the way the data was presented in general,” Wheatley stated.

The oncologist went on to say that the first trimester norm for miscarriages without vaccination, before COVID-19 began to spread, was reportedly between 10 to 26%. The incidence of 82% of pregnancies of women vaccinated in their first 20 weeks ending in miscarriage was thus “a more than 3-fold increased incidence of spontaneous abortions directly linked to the mRNA vaccines,” Wheatley wrote.

“So, yes, there is a huge red flag [against] vaccinating pregnant women here.” Continue…

Originally UK #40 >>14020330

Oxfam slammed over ‘whiteness’ survey, claims anti-white racism doesn’t exist

Employees of Oxfam have expressed their outrage at a recent survey the charity distributed to its staff on racial justice in which it claimed that “racism is a power construct created by white nations for the benefit of white people”, making white employees feel victimised for the colour of their skin.

The organisation was accused of creating a hostile working environment for its 88 per cent of white employees in the UK, telling them that the colour of their skin gives them a “unique privilege” and that they are a part of a “power construct” which has been based on “viewing white people as superior”.

“We understand whiteness as the overaching preservation of power and domination for the benefit of white people and ultimately that which white supremacy served to protect”, the survey read, which proceeded to call on more work on “decolonisation”. It added that the charity “does not recognise reverse racism”.

One female employee told The Times that the survey made her feel like she had to “apologise for being a white woman” adding: “I don’t want to be sub categorised as either a white supremacist of a full on racist”.

Another staff member who works in an Oxfam charity shop told the newspaper that she felt “under attack for being white, English and voting Leave”.

A third simply asked: “Why are they presuming their workers, who are working for a humanitarian charity, are racists and bigots?”

Social media users expressed their anger at the charity’s woke decline on Wednesday with one donor to the organisation saying: “Oxfam slagging off white people. I am white and I have given to Oxfam all my adult life, until today that is. Absolutely sickened by this racism!”

Another accused the charity of pushing “more outright racism dressed up as progressiveness. Shocking! Anyone normal, i.e not bought into this idiocy needs to boycott this travesty of an organisation.”

Conservative MP Pauline Latham, who sits on the Commons’ international development committee accused the charity of embracing “critical race theory” are defining “whiteness and blackness in stark, oppositional terms that are unintuitive to most people”.

In response, the charity told The Times: “Oxfam is working hard to become an anti-racist organisation and this survey is an important part of ensuring that we live up to our values.”

https://foxhole.news/2021/06/30/oxfam-slammed-over-whiteness-survey-claims-anti-white-racism-doesnt-exist/

>>14024577

Anon, "charities" have been a "racket" for a long time. They get away with it like the Clinton Foundation because most times no one wants to see.

When they are exposed, by anons, beyond doubt, they truly will not be able to walk the streets.

The World will know, and anons will tell them and show the proof with the dots connected.

That is why shills have intensified, Truth is going to come out.

Keep digging! I will note take and bake as long as I can as best as I can and call for help if needed to replace me.

They do NOT get away with this, and they get exposed to everyone on the planet so there is no place to hide. Anons will see to that. 8kun or somewhere else, anons won't stop, I've learned that.

Originally Canada #21 >>14072834

CDC manipulated study data to show the Covid-19 Vaccines are safe for Pregnant Women when in reality 4 in 5 suffered a miscarriage

https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/06/cdc-manipulated-study-data-to-show-the-covid-19-vaccines-are-safe-for-pregnant-women-when-in-reality-4-in-5-suffered-a-miscarriage/

Data has been manipulated by scientists carrying out a real-world study for the CDC to show that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe for use during pregnancy, however an analysis of the actual findings shows that 4 out of 5 pregnant women vaccinated suffered a miscarriage.

The study entitled ‘Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons’, has been published on the New England Journal of Medicine. From December 14, 2020, to February 28, 2021, data from the “v-safe after vaccination health checker” surveillance system, the v-safe pregnancy registry, and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was used to characterise the initial safety of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in pregnant persons.

The authors conclusion of the study is as follows –

‘Preliminary findings did not show obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. However, more longitudinal follow-up, including follow-up of large numbers of women vaccinated earlier in pregnancy, is necessary to inform maternal, pregnancy, and infant outcomes.’

The authors of the study, which include the ‘CDC v-safe COVID-19 Pregnancy Registry Team’ were able to conclude this due to way they presented their findings which were as follows –

‘Among 827 participants who had a completed pregnancy, the pregnancy resulted in a live birth in 712 (86.1%), in a spontaneous abortion in 104 (12.6%), in stillbirth in 1 (0.1%), and in other outcomes (induced abortion and ectopic pregnancy) in 10 (1.2%).’

The authors of the study also made the following claim based on the above numbers –

Although not directly comparable, calculated proportions of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in persons vaccinated against Covid-19 who had a completed pregnancy were similar to incidences reported in studies involving pregnant women that were conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, when reading the small print of table 4, in which they claim just 104 / 12.6% of 827 completed pregnancies resulted in miscarriage (spontaneous abortion), we can see that the numbers they have presented are extremely misleading.

This is because of the 827 completed pregnancies, 700 / 86% of the women had received a dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine during the third trimester of pregnancy. The third trimester of pregnancy is from week 27 – 40, and it is therefore impossible to suffer a miscarriage due to the fact they are considered as occurring prior to week 20 of a pregnancy.

This means just 127 women received either the Pfizer or Moderna Covid-19 vaccine during the first / second trimester, with 104 of the woman sadly losing their baby.

Therefore the rate of incidence of miscarriage is 82%, not 12.6% as presented in the findings of the study.

It is impossible for anyone vaccinated during the third trimester to suffer a miscarriage in respect of the parameters set in the study. A pregnancy loss in this case would be considered a still birth, occurring after week 20 of pregnancy.

The authors of this study have manipulated the data to show that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe for use during pregnancy. The actual findings show that they are far from it. Their actions are now having dire consequences for women throughout the United Kingdom.

As of the 23rd June 2021 a total of 289 women have reported the loss of their baby due to the Covid-19 vaccines. However, the actual number could be eye-wateringly higher due to only 1% – 10% of adverse reactions being reported to the scheme.

153 reports of miscarriage, 1 report of a premature baby sadly dying, 5 reports of foetal death, and 4 reports of stillbirth have been reported as adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine.

113 reports of miscarriage, 1 report of foetal death, and 2 reports of stillbirth have been reported as adverse reactions to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

7 reports of miscarriage have been reported as adverse reactions to the recently emergency approved Moderna vaccine.

If this isn’t a blatant crime against humanity, then we don’t know what is.

Originally Canada #22 >>14086352

New Wuhan linked emails show nine grants from Fauci’s NIAID to EcoHealth for bat coronavirus research

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-wuhan-linked-emails-show-nine-grants-from-faucis-niaid-to-ecohealth-for-bat-coronavirus-research

'These documents are of world-wide interest, as they suggest that the Wuhan lab had major bio-safety issues and the American government was carefully monitoring its activities from a national security perspective even while funding it,' said Judicial Watch President.

WASHINGTON D.C., July 9, 2021 (Judicial Watch) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 301 pages of emails and other records from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014. These new records reveal that NIAID gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab itself.

These records also include an email from the Vice Director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces.

Additionally, a World Health Day announcement lists “successful activities” of the U.S.-China collaboration that included “detailed surveillance throughout China and in other countries on the emergence of coronaviruses” and NIH’s receipt of influenza samples from China to “assess risks associated with emerging variants for pandemic and zoonotic threat.”

The records further show that, in 2018, Dr. Ping Chen, the NIAID Representative in China, learned of a “type of new flu vaccine using nano-technology from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology,” and discovered that the Chinese had blocked all Internet links to reports on the new technology. This led Chen to write an urgent “night note” to U.S. Government officials. The note said, “The intranasal nano-vaccine can target broad-spectrum flu viruses and induces robust immune responses.”

The documents also include a picture of the Wuhan facility building taken by Dr. Chen.

The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-00696)). The lawsuit specifically sought records about NIH grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The agency is only processing 300 pages records per month, which means it will take until the end of November for the records to be fully reviewed and released under FOIA.

The nine grants to EcoHealth Alliance include the following: Continue…

Originally Canada #22 >>14099825

Not Making Headlines: New Study Shows Children in UK Have 99.995% Chance of Surviving COVID-19

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/lies-since-joe-bidens-inauguration-cdc-recording-flu-hospitalizations-covid-cases/

Maybe we’d trust them more if they stopped all the lying.

Dr. Fauci, the CDC and the Biden administration continue to push for parents to get their children vaccinated for the coronavirus.

This is despite the fact that children have a 99.995% chance of surviving the virus.

Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya joined Cortez and Pelligrino on Friday night to discuss the Biden administration’s insistence to vaccinate every child in the US for the dangerous and unpredictable COVID-19 vaccine.

During the discussion, Steve Cortez brought up a recent study in the UK that found that only 6 children out of the nearly half a million COVID infections died from the disease. 19 other deaths were children with pre-existing conditions.

And yet the CDC and Biden administration insist on vaccinating children from a disease to them that is less lethal than the flu or drowning.

This is a stunning study.

Why would authorities push facemasks and vaccines on children for the coronavirus when it is next to impossible for kids to die from this disease?

>>14142156

Is Glasgow the only place those are showing up?

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https://twitter.com/ATLEASTDIETRYN/status/1416956729493921793

George Soros And Bill Gates’ Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 Million

Billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are part of a consortium set to buy Mologic, a U.K.-based maker of Covid tests, in an effort to increase access to “affordable state-of-the-art medical technology” around the world, according to a statement released Monday.

The Soros Economic Development Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the launch of a new initiative, Global Access Health (GAH), aiming to strengthen the global rollout saving medical technology and the subsequent acquisition of Mologic Ltd, best known today for the deep-nostril technology used to deliver rapid Covid-19 tests. The technology can also be used to test for dengue, bilharzia and river blindness.

The rapid so-called lateral flow tests offer an early-warning screening for Covid-19 and have been used around the world as an aid to help reopen shops, bars, sporting events and workplaces by giving an early warning result for people who may have no symptoms but are still infectious and can give the virus to others. In the U.K., lateral flow Covid tests need to be confirmed by a second test before Covid-19 is officially diagnosed.

The GAH consortium, which includes Soros’ and Gates’ philanthropic arms, will invest “at least” $41 million in this deal, according to the statement.

‘Unique Transaction’

Soros and Gates are part of the billionaire community looking to direct their philanthropic efforts to the so-called global south, referring broadly to the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania that many fear will be left behind as the more affluent West accelerates its program of vaccinations, testing and biosecure bubbles in the years ahead. Sean Hinton, the CEO of the Soros fund, said in a statement that the pandemic has “painfully demonstrated the fundamental inequities” in global public health, adding that this “unique transaction” has brought philanthropic funds and investors together to address the issue.

George Soros Speaks At Carnegie Endowment

Roxana Bonnell, a public health expert from Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which claims to be the world’s largest private funder of human rights and social justice advocacy groups, said, “As we have seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, access to testing is absolutely essential when it comes to containing the spread of contagious disease—an issue that ultimately affects us all.”

Mologic Flow

Mologic was founded in 2003 as a for-profit medical research and innovation laboratory by CEO Mark Davis and his father, Paul Davis, who is Mologic’s chief scientific officer. Paul Davis is also known as the inventor of another world-famous medical technology: the Clearblue pregnancy test, which first launched in 1988. The pregnancy test was the world’s first commercial application of lateral flow technology, the company claims.

Mologic has worked with Gates’ philanthropic arm in the past. In 2016, Mologic established the Center for Advanced Rapid Diagnostics (CARD) with the backing of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on lowering the cost of rapid-delivery healthcare.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/07/19/george-soros-and-bill-gates-backed-consortium-to-buy-uk-maker-of-covid-lateral-flow-tests-for-41-million/?sh=5c8ea2b72687

General Research #17932 >>14174603

At Least 31,500 Websites Down On Major DNS Failure

Update (1237ET): More than 31,500 websites are down worldwide as a massive DNS failure originated a little after 1100ET. Oracle shines more light on what sparked the outage. It says:

Identified - We are monitoring a global issue related to Akamai edge DNS that is impacting access to many internet resources, including Oracle cloud properties. Resources within the Oracle cloud are continuing to run and are not impacted by this event.

At least 30,000 websites are down worldwide. There appears to be a major DNS, or Domain Name System failure that began shortly after 1100ET. DNS acts as the phone directory of the internet, translating names of websites into IP addresses.

Some of the major websites experiencing issues and outages include PlayStation Network, Fidelity, FedEx, Steam, UPS, Airbnb, Home Depot, and Amazon, according to Downdector.

There's no word if the issues or outages are interconnected, but it certainly raises an eyebrow that something under the surface is happening.

For instance, Fidelity is experiencing issues and outages across major metro areas in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states and other cities across the country.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/least-24000-websites-down-dns-issues-arise