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Government report warns against Moderna for young men

By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa December 7, 2021

A report by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) warns against the use of the Moderna vaccine for boys and men between the ages of 12 and 29 due to the risk of heart inflammation.

In Canada, over four million people have already received a shot of the Moderna vaccine.

As first revealed by Blacklock’s Reporter, NACI stated in an Updated Recommendation that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is preferred over the Moderna shot due to data on myocarditis/pericarditis coming out of countries like Israel.

The reported rates of myocarditis among males aged 18 to 29 after the second vaccine dose were 15.9 per 100,000 for the Moderna vaccine and 2.6 per 100,000 for the Pfizer,” the NACI wrote.

This amounts to a risk of myocarditis six times higher for Moderna. The report also states that “(i)ndividuals aged 12 to 29 years who have already received the Moderna 100mcg vaccine do not need to be concerned, as the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis with this vaccine is rare and events usually occur within a week following vaccination.”

According to the Public Health Agency (PHAC), there have been 1,376 reported cases of myocarditis, most often in 27-year-old males.

“For individuals aged 12 to 29 receiving a COVID-19 vaccine primary series the use of Pfizer-BioNtech is preferred to Moderna to start or continue.”

NACI also stated that the affected group should wait eight weeks between Pfizer doses to lower the risk of cardiac inflammation.

“A longer interval between doses is associated with higher vaccine effectiveness and potentially lowers risk of myocarditis,” the Committee wrote.

They added that the risk of recurrence of myocarditis following additional (third and more) doses of COVID-19 vaccines was unknown. “Very few cases of revaccination in these individuals have been described in published studies” their report read.

On recovery rates, the Committee cited US data that shows that those who did experience heart inflammation recovered in 91% of cases after three months.

To date, PHAC has reported 27,747 “adverse events” of Canada’s 30.2 million COVID-19 vaccinations, 6,443 of which were considered to be serious.

https://tnc.news/2021/12/07/government-report-warns-against-moderna-for-young-men/

Captain and Crew Found Drunk After Russian Cargo Ship Almost Grounds in Poland

Mike Schuler

December 6, 2021

A Russian cargo ship has been detained in Poland after coming dangerously close to grounding and authorities found the captain and three of its crew members drunk.

According to Poland’s Maritime Office, the incident took place overnight Friday (December 3 to 4) when the Russian-flagged ship, identified as the Ruslana, left the designated shipping lanes in Gdansk Bay and did not respond to calls.

The movement of the vessel was being tracked by the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) in Zatoka which alerted the Maritime Department of Border Guard that the ship was in danger of grounding.

A team from the Maritime Search and Rescue Service was sent to the scene, eventually establishing contact with the vessel “after some time.”

The ship was directed to an anchorage where Border Guard confirmed that captain and three crew members were intoxicated.

An inspector from Port State Inspectorate of the Gdynia Maritime Office boarded the ship and issued a note on detention. The police have also been notified.

The 2007-built Ruslana a Russian-flagged bulk carrier measuring 120-meters-long and 7,750 deadweight tonnes.

The track of the MV Ruslana, according to the Polish Maritime Office:

https://gcaptain.com/captain-and-crew-found-drunk-after-russian-cargo-ship-almost-grounds-in-poland/

General Research #109174 >>>/qresearch/15156623

Crowley Commits to Net-Zero GHG Emissions By 2050

Mike Schuler

December 7, 2021

U.S.-based shipping company Crowley has committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across by 2050 across its entire business. To track progress and promote visibility into its emissions reductions, Crowley will be linking up with tech giant Salesforce to develop a maritime-specific GHG monitoring and modeling platform.

In order to reach its target, Crowley estimates that it will need to reduce overall emissions by 4.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, or the equivalent of removing more than 900,000 cars from the road every year. The company says the commitment is “aligned with the latest climate science to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”

“Crowley is on a mission to become the most sustainable and innovative maritime and logistics company in the Americas,” said Tom Crowley, chairman and CEO. “Working together with our customers, suppliers, policymakers and others across our value chain, we can meet the climate crisis head on.”

As part of its goal, Crowley says it’s creating partnerships across the industry with government and non-governmental organizations to collaboratively achieve decarbonization and climate action, including the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition, which is focused on the North American maritime value chain, and the World Shipping Council focusing on the global container shipping industry.

“Crowley’s value chain accounts for over 80% of our emissions across the enterprise. Collaboration with customers and partners is key to our mutual success reaching net-zero emissions using science-based standards,” said Alisa Praskovich, vice president of sustainability. “By creating mutual accountability, we will spur innovation through the open sharing of ideas.”

The company says reducing GHG emissions is “a mission critical issue to Crowley’s stakeholders,” based on results from a recent materiality assessment and survey. “With a net zero commitment across all three scopes, the company will operationalize its emissions reduction,” the company said.

“First and foremost, achieving net-zero emissions is the right thing to do for our planet and deeply aligns with Crowley’s purpose. It is our responsibility as a leader to anticipate evolving stakeholder and customer expectations,” said Ray Fitzgerald, chief operating officer.

To promote visibility into its total emissions footprint, Crowley is engaging with Salesforce to co-develop a greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and modeling platform that will provide benchmarking, transparency and customized disclosures.

“We’re proud to be supporting Crowley, our first-to-market customer in the maritime industry, in their sustainability journey to track and reduce their carbon footprint with Salesforce Sustainability Cloud,” said Ari Alexander, GM of Salesforce Sustainability Cloud. “With Sustainability Cloud, Crowley can now have a 360 view of its carbon footprint, with automated dashboards that provide real-time, actionable insights so they can take meaningful climate action across their supply chain.”

Other activities to date include introducing an all-electric tugboat and development of alternative energy vessels and offshore wind services. Crowley has formed a New Energy division that will provide offshore wind services in the U.S. and is developing a program that will allow customers to select more sustainable fuels.

In the coming months, Crowley anticipates submitting its long-and short-term emission reduction goals to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and is set to release an enterprise-wide sustainability roadmap and complete its inaugural sustainability report in 2022.

[I checked out that "science based" target initiative link in the article. Website addy is:

https://sciencebasedtargets.org/

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General Research #109174 >>>/qresearch/15156715

A ‘Chilling Factor’ for Victims: Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Drops Anonymous Accusers’ Real Names in Court

Adam Horowitz, who previously has represented Epstein accusers, says these apparent mistakes could discourage future whistleblowers from coming forward

ANDREA MARKS - DECEMBER 7, 2021

Last week in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, defense attorney Jeff Pagliuca made a show of remembering to respect an alleged victim’s request for anonymity. He had just begun discussing the first accuser, known only by the pseudonym “Jane” while cross-examining Jeffrey Epstein’s former estate staff member Juan Alessi. Judge Alison Nathan broke in with a reminder to not say Jane’s real name out loud. Pagliuca told the judge not to worry. “I have it blacked out on all my copies,” he said, referring to the documents in front of him. Nathan replied that she was also providing the reminder for the benefit of Alessi, who was less familiar with the process. Then Pagliuca read from the document in front of him and promptly spoke Jane’s real first name out loud.

Today, he did it again. In open court, he uttered the real last name of Carolyn, the third of four accusers to testify for the state, who tearfully recounted testimony of being abused by Epstein and Maxwell starting when she was 14, and whom counsel had agreed to refer to by her first name only. Prosecutors immediately complained to the judge.

Attorney Adam Horowitz, who represented eight Epstein victims in a Florida civil suit around 2009, thinks that’s one occasion too many to be a slip of the tongue. “It’s one of those things where the first time maybe it’s a mistake,” he says. “The second time, there’s a pattern now that something is being done purposefully, which is disturbing, because there’s a court order that he’s not allowed to use the name.” (Pagliuca did not immediately respond for comment; we will update if he does.)

Horowitz says that if the revelation of the alleged victims’ names is an intentional attempt to expose or embarrass them, it isn’t working. “Thankfully, no major media outlets have reported the name,” he says. “So it’s not an effective strategy.” But total secrecy isn’t the biggest concern. After all, Jane’s provided enough detail about her career and upbringing that it isn’t impossible to suss out her identity — the issue is the betrayal of trust of alleged victims who have agreed to cooperate with the prosecution of an alleged sex-trafficker by telling a jury, a courtroom, and overflow rooms full of invisible strangers the painful details of what they claim happened to them.

To Horowitz, that broken agreement could have troubling ramifications. “As a lawyer, what I’m concerned about is the chilling factor, where victims and whistleblowers decide they’re not going to come forward because a defense lawyer might out their names,” Horowitz says. “We rely on whistleblowers and other victims to come forward; sometimes they provide helpful evidence. How many victims might stay silent because they hear about this?”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-accuser-real-name-court-1268232/

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CORRECTION

post >>15156715 is NOT from General Research but rather from Australia #19

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Australia #19 >>>/qresearch/15156743

Qld Covid-19: ‘First in the world’ Omicron variant discovered in state

Queensland health authorities have discovered a new version of the Omicron variant sweeping the world.

James Hall - December 8, 2021

Health authorities in Queensland have declared a “first in the world” strain of the Omicron variant has been discovered as leaders continue to mull over a response to the evolving pandemic.

National cabinet will meet on Friday to co-ordinate responses to the new Covid-19 variant as mystery surrounds the potency of the strain.

Queensland will fling its borders open to interstate travellers on Monday, but Health Minister Yvette D’Ath warned the discovery was further evidence policies would need to be flexible.

Queensland recorded no new community cases on Wednesday but two Omicron infections previously detected in hotel quarantine in Cairns and Brisbane had been reclassified following the scientific development.

Victoria also recorded its first case of Omicron on Wednesday.

The new variant was detected in a traveller who arrived in southeast Queensland from South Africa, which Ms D’Ath said had been named by the World Health Organisation as “Omicron-like”.

“I want to give a huge thank you to our forensic scientific services,” she said.

“It is their work with the international committee that has led to the international committee reclassifying Omicron into two lineages and we have both of them here in Queensland.”

“This is a new variant,” the Health Minister told reporters on Wednesday morning.

“Remember, it’s only been days since this has become an issue for Australia and other countries.

“And now, today, we are standing here announcing a new version of Omicron and it’s a first in the world.”

Acting chief health officer Peter Aitken described the discovery as “amazing work” which would improve testing capabilities and the identification of more destructive variants.

“They have picked up the differences here, worked through it in a methodical and scientific approach, and recognised there are differences between the full and normal Omicron classification.

“The important part is that those two sub-lineages — one has the S-gene dropout, which we’ve talked about and is the normal means of screening for Omicron, and this other strain doesn’t have the S-gene dropout.

“It’s going to lead to improvements in people recognising the potential spread of Omicron in all communities.”

Dr Aitken said it was too early to determine the severity of the Omicron variants but warned the virus was becoming more easily transmissible.

“We don’t know enough about it as far as clinical severity, vaccine effectiveness,” the acting top doctor said.

“What we do know is that Omicron is more infectious and more transmissible.

“We now have Omicron and Omicron-like — it's a reminder to us all that as we open our borders this doesn’t mean that the Covid journey has finished, in many ways to Covid journey is just starting.”

The case in Cairns who arrived from Nigeria has the other strain of Omicron, with all passengers who shared the flight now deemed close contacts.

Those who have received both doses of the vaccine and with evidence of a negative test from within 72 hours of entry will be welcomed into Queensland from interstate hot spots on December 13.

More than 79 per cent of Queenslanders have received both doses of the Covid-19 jabs, while 87.5 had received a single dose.

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/qld-covid19-first-in-the-world-omicron-variant-discovered-in-state/news-story/bfec80e7b119ae8993064bb773fb211c

General Research #19174 >>>/qresearch/15156783

Colombia's police confirm death of rebel dissident leader in Venezuela

Hernan Dario Velasquez, known as El Paisa, is a former member of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. He and several other well-known commanders said in 2019 they were rearming and forming a faction called Segunda Marquetalia.

Velasquez once led the FARC's feared Teofilo Forero unit and stood accused of massacres, kidnappings and large-scale attacks like the bombing of the exclusive El Nogal club in Bogota in 2003, when 39 people died and 200 were injured.

December 7, 2021

https://news.yahoo.com/colombias-police-confirm-death-rebel-172403129.html

Who are the Farc?

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc, after the initials in Spanish) are Colombia's largest rebel group.

They were founded in 1964 as the armed wing of the Communist Party and follow a Marxist-Leninist ideology.

24 November 2016

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36605769

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