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Anonymous ID: 826c68 Aug. 31, 2021, 6:22 a.m. No.95263   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5308 >>5332

Scientists Warn About New Hyper-Infectious South African Variant (ZeroHedge)

 

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BY TYLER DURDEN

TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 07:00 AM

Scientists in South Africa have identified a new variant that "has all of the signatures of immune escape" and very well could be the source of the next variant-driven wave of COVID cases around the world.

 

The variant, known a C.1.2 - it isn't important enough yet to deserve a Greek-letter shorthand - was first identified in May in the provinces of Mpumalanga and Gauteng, where Johannesburg and SA's capital, Pretoria, are located. As of Aug. 13, the variant has been found in six of South Africa’s nine provinces as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritius, Portugal and Switzerland. Even New Zealand has reported a case of the variant in its most recent outbreak, per Bloomberg.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/scientists-warn-about-new-hyper-infectious-south-african-variant

 

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CDC Advisory Panel Hints It Won't Back Biden's Booster Jab Plan (zeroHedge)

 

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TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 08:40 AM

Shares of BioNTech, Moderna and Pfizer will be closely watched on Tuesday after the CDC's advisory panel, the ACIP, remained circumspect about the need for a booster dose of the vaccine in the US, leaving the door open for the agency to scuttle the Biden Administration's push for booster jabs.

 

 

While Israel is the world leader in terms of the largest percentage of the population to have received a third "booster" dose, other countries, including Turkey, have started doling them out, too. And despite the WHO's pleas for western nations not to be too greedy with their jabs, the Biden Administration has repeatedly announced that it's working on approvals for booster jabs eight months after the second dose.

 

 

Pfizer, BioNTech Shot Recommended by CDC Advisory Panel

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-advisory-panel-hints-it-wont-back-bidens-booster-jab-plan

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Cocaine Production Soars In Colombia As Oil Industry Crumbles (ZeroHedge)

 

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TUESDAY, AUG 31, 2021 - 06:30 AM

Authored by Matthew Smith via OilPrice.com,

 

Conflict-torn Colombia’s economically crucial oil industry continues to labor under the pressure of an array of threats.

 

 

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After being severely impacted by the pandemic oil output in the Andean country fell to its lowest level in over a decade, to an average of 694,151 barrels per day during June 2021.

 

Heightened political turmoil leading to nationwide anti-government demonstrations, including community blockades of major roads, forced onshore drillers to shutter operations causing production to plunge. While the protests and blockades ended by mid-July 2021 tensions remain high driven by a surge in violence, lawlessness and poverty since Ivan Duque won the presidency in 2018. Much of that can be attributed to his failure to implement the 2016 peace accord with Colombia’s largest armed group the Marxist FARC.

 

On all accounts, 2021 is shaping up to be Colombia’s most violent year in a decade. Massacres have surged as have the murders of civil society leaders and ex-FARC combatants. Legal impunity has soared since Duque was sworn into Colombia’s top office in August 2018.

 

According to the United Nations (Spanish), Colombia’s cocaine production during 2020 surged to a record high of 1,228 metric tons or roughly eight percent more than a year earlier. That volume is also significantly greater than all the cocaine produced in Colombia when the Medellin Cartel was at the peak of its power during the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, it is the vast profits generated by producing and smuggling cocaine that are fueling Colombia’s decades-long low-level multiparty asymmetric conflict and high levels of violence in rural zones. Many of the remote areas which are coca-growing hotspots and subject to considerable violence are also rich in petroleum. It is the lead of the coca plant which contains the alkaloid cocaine, one of the world’s most profitable illicit substances.

 

Among the most violent and lawless regions is Catatumbo, which spans the eastern Colombian department of Norte de Santander and includes western Venezuela. Catatumbo is one of the most prolific coca cultivating areas in Colombia. For this reason, the region is at the center of a long-running conflict between various non-state armed actors including remnants of the leftist EPL guerillas, the ELN, former FARC combatants and paramilitaries.

 

Those groups are all vying for control of Catatumbo’s lucrative coca growing fields and smuggling routes into Venezuela, where the petrostate’s near-collapse makes it an ideal jumping-off point for shipping cocaine to the U.S. and Europe. The non-state armed groups operating in Catatumbo have greater control and influence than Colombia’s security forces.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cocaine-production-soars-colombia-oil-industry-crumbles

 

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