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A British fashion model based in Cyprus suffered a blood clot and died days after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Paphos, a health official said Monday.

Stephanie Dubois, 39, had no underlying health conditions according to health officials at the hospital in the capital Nicosia, where she was hospitalized on May 14 after having breathing issues, reported The Times, a U.K. national newspaper.

Dubois—who was living in the Tsada, a village just outside Paphos, for the past five months—had a "serious thrombotic episode" after receiving the first dose of the vaccine on May 6, The Times reported.

The Cyprus Mail, a local newspaper, reported the fashion model suffered a brain hemorrhage and was in a coma before she died Saturday afternoon.

Her death will be investigated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said a Cypriot health service spokesperson, Charalambos Charilaou, The Times reported.

In a May 6 Facebook post, Dubois revealed she had received the first dose of the vaccine, noting: "And now I feel horrendous…pizza and bed for me."

On a Facebook post on the morning of May 14, she wrote: "Woke up feeling fine and then within an hour I had fully body shakes, all my joints seized and I was struggling to breathe and was cold to the bone with a persistent headache and dizziness.

"I was convinced I'd come down with Covid! Mum and dad came to look after me and took me for a Covid test, which thankfully was negative…but it still doesn't explain what the problem is.

"Now, after an IV, I'm off to get full blood work done to see if we can figure out what the problem is," Dubois wrote in the post.

In a later Facebook post on May 14, the fashion model wrote: "I have had my bloods done and there is definitely something off as my white blood cell count is high, but they don't know what it is causing it.

"Maybe I'm having a prolonged reaction to my Covid jab last week, or maybe those side effects affected my immune system and I've caught something else in the process.

"I am completely drained, no energy and my whole body hurts with sore and weak joints… but it is better than it was this morning. This morning really scared me to be honest," she wrote in the post.

By May 19, Dubois was reported to have gone into a coma and "was not expected to come out of it," according to a friend, Andrew Powers, The Times reported.

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Hillary Clinton has addressed the QAnon conspiracy that she takes part in Satanic rituals that involve drinking the blood of tortured children. She made the comments during a spin-off show centered around Sacha Baron Cohen's 2020 Borat movie

In an episode of the six-part documentary series Debunking Borat, released Tuesday on Amazon Prime, the former secretary of state and first lady plays a recorded message for Jim Russell and Jerry Holleman, the two men who featured in last year's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm spreading false claims about the coronavirus and Clinton.

During the film, Russell and Holleman allow Cohen's character to stay at their cabin during the pandemic.

The pair then tell Borat why they think the Democrats and the Clintons are "evil," with Russell adding: "Mostly they torture these kids, it gets their adrenaline flowing in their body, then they take that out of their adrenal glands, and then they drink their blood and that."

The claim is linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory that there is a cabal of high-profile satanic pedophiles who torture and kill children in order harvest adrenochrome from them.

QAnon supporters believe that the genuine chemical produced by the oxidation of adrenaline is some sort of magical elixir that the Satanic pedophiles crave, despite there being no evidence of it having any medical benefits.

Clinton has been heavily associated with this complete falsehood for a number of years, with the suggestion that Democrats are involved in a secret pedophile ring prompting the debunked "Pizzagate" theory that went viral in 2016.

The so-called "frazzledrip" conspiracy theory, which has been spread by QAnon supporters since 2018, also falsely claims there exists a video of Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin torturing and murdering a young girl and drinking her blood, with Clinton wearing the skin of the girl's face as a mask.

The final episode of Debunking Borat shows Clinton condemns the "painfully false" QAnon theories in a message for Russell and Holleman while urging unity across the country.

"I know you've heard a few things about me that you'd like to believe. And I know that you're not alone," Clinton said.

"It's hurtful. I'll be really honest with you. It's hurtful not just to me and my family, but to my friends and other people to know that this is not just false, but sometimes painfully false.

"So just as one American to another, I hope that we can start trying to find some common ground again and overcome all those forces trying to divide us and put us into little boxes apart from each other," Clinton adds.

"Because wouldn't it be great to kind of come together, instead of drift apart? I hope that's possible. Thank you."

The episode ends with Russell turning to Holleman to explain: "I just can't stand her."

Cohen thanked Clinton, as well as Russell and Holleman, for appearing in the new spin-off shows while tweeting out the trailer.

"And thanks for clarifying that you don't drink the blood of children—an ugly lie spread by social media and rooted in antisemitism and misogyny," Cohen wrote.

The QAnon conspiracy theories around the drinking of children's blood is heavily linked to the antisemitic "blood libel" falsehoods that have existed for hundreds of years, claiming that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes.

During the Borat spin-off episode, which is titled "Hillary Clinton and Blood Libel," Kathryn Olmsted, professor of history at the University of California, explains: "These conspiracy theorists make a leap from the undeniable to the unbelievable.

"People make the leap to the unbelievable because it reinforces their political values. They say 'I've always hated the Clintons, now I know why. It's not only that I dislike them personally, or disagree with their policies, but Hillary Clinton is killing children.'"

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It’s never been a better time to believe in UFOs. Barack Obama talked last week about inexplicable footage of unidentified aerial phenomena, and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote about his trip to Area 51 in a recent op-ed. In June, American intelligence agencies are set to release an unclassified report on what the government knows about UFOs.

For “ufologists,” long mocked as tinfoil hat-wearers obsessed with little green men, some measure of vindication may finally be at hand. But for many UFO enthusiasts on the right, this new round of UFO disclosures is nothing to cheer about. Instead, they’re claiming the new videos of possible UFO sightings are meant to distract people from Donald Trump’s baseless voter fraud allegations and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic.

“There’s no doubt that this mainstream UFO disclosure push is offering a convenient distraction for the Deep State to turn our attention away from important issues like the Scamdemic and the election fraud getting exposed,” Jordan Sather, a UFO and QAnon conspiracy theorist, complained on social media network Telegram on May 19.

Sather, who has griped that interest in UFOs has just become a way for left-wing “social justice warriors” to “virtue signal,” typifies the response. At a moment when longtime UFO promoters are soaking in the mainstreaming of UFO discussion, many conspiracy theorists on the right instead see the sinister hand of a global cabal at play.

Conspiracy theory hub InfoWars often posts articles about UFOs. But more recently, InfoWars has started to see the prospect of extraterrestrial revelations as a deep state plot. In an April video, InfoWars staffer Greg Reese posited that the UFOs were being faked using technology from inventor Nikola Tesla and the Nazis, with the ultimate goal of faking an alien invasion to enslave humanity in “the most dire false flag imaginable.”

In QAnon-heavy language about a nefarious “cabal” and a “Great Awakening,” Reese claimed that the new UFO videos were meant to convince people, wrongly, that the aliens are real, before vaporizing much of humanity with energy weapons.

“We know the cabal has the will to do this, and it seems they have the means as well,” Reese said.

The claims that an evil cabal is behind the new wave of interest in UFOs reflects the growing overlap between the UFO “disclosure” community and other conspiracy theory movements, especially QAnon. Believing in UFOs means buying into what Syracuse University professor Michael Barkun, an expert on conspiracy theories, has dubbed “stigmatized knowledge”— embracing a universe of ideas that’s been dismissed by the mainstream. People who have already embraced one form of stigmatized knowledge often find it easy to sign on for another, according to Barkun—going from New Age healing crystals to UFOs, or from anti-vaccine activism to QAnon.

Ufologist Steven Greer, for example, has claimed that other UFO promoters were assassinated by intelligence agents to prevent them from telling the truth about UFOs. But with the prospect of some genuine disclosures in the offing, Greer has decided that whatever comes from the government now is in fact a trick meant to hide the genuine facts about UFOs.

“QAnon promoters gain an audience by claiming that they have access to information that the mainstream media doesn’t,” View told The Daily Beast. “When major outlets report on their pet topic, such as UFOs, it’s actually damaging to their brand because their audience has been trained to distrust everything that comes from the mainstream media.”

The idea that UFO revelations are being used to distract people has also been embraced by white nationalists in the United States. One cartoon that’s become a popular meme on extremist Telegrams channels shows slack-jawed UFO believers excited to see aliens who urge Earthlings to unite behind a single world government. Behind the scenes, though, the cartoon reveals that the aliens are the creation of a projector operated by a man wearing a blue United Nations helmet.

The UFO-as-distraction theory has also gained more mainstream traction on the pro-Trump right. On May 19, Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted that the UFO footage was a diversion meant to draw attention away from, among other things, the controversial, Republican-led recount of presidential election ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County.

“They want you talking about aliens because they don’t want you talking about Maricopa,” Robinson wrote. “They want you talking about UFO’s because they don’t want you talking about stagflation, the collapse of the dollar, the crisis on the border, and Biden’s mental health.”

Biden 'mumbles incoherently' in latest awkward blunder

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Elliot Page continues to share milestones from his journey as a transgender man.

The "Umbrella Academy" star, 34, posted a shirtless photo Monday on Instagram to document his first time swimming in men's swim trunks. The photo is the first shirtless image of himself Page has shared since revealing he underwent top surgery, a procedure to remove one's breast tissue.

In the photo, the Oscar-nominated "Juno" star grins from ear to ear while standing in a swimming pool wearing a dark-colored ball cap and red swim trunks.

"Trans bb’s first swim trunks," Page captioned the shot, adding the hashtags #transjoy and #transisbeautiful.

The actor's photo garnered more than a million likes in less than two hours. His famous friends popped into the comments of his post to share their support.

"Hot," wrote pop star Miley Cyrus, who added a red heart emoji.

"look a dat handsome boi," wrote "Broad City" star Ilana Glazer.

Many fans noted how happy Page looked in the new picture, including one who wrote, "LOOK AT THAT SMILE. WE LOVE YOU."

Meanwhile, others thanked the star for being so candid about his transition.

One parent wrote, "Thank you for being a role model and inspiration for my 13-yr-old transgender son."

Page came out as transgender in an emotional Instagram post in December. Since then, the actor has opened up about how it feels to “fully become” himself.

In an interview with Time magazine in March, Page said he felt "true excitement and deep gratitude to have made it to this point in my life." However, he said, the elation came with some "fear and anxiety" about the way trans people are treated.

“What I was anticipating was a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia,” he said. “That’s ­essentially what happened.”

Page said ever since he was a child, he "felt like a boy," and could never "recognize" himself.

“For a long time I could not even look at a photo of myself," said the actor.

Then in 2020, with a slowed-down work schedule and more time to himself because of the coronavirus pandemic, something shifted inside Page.

“I had a lot of time on my own to really focus on things that I think, in so many ways, unconsciously, I was avoiding,” said Page, who in January filed for divorce from his wife, Emma Portner. “I was finally able to embrace being transgender and letting myself fully become who I am.”

Related: The 34-year-old actor was visibly moved when he talked about his transition with Oprah Winfrey.

Page also talked to Oprah Winfrey in April about why he decided to be so public about his journey.

"For me, in this time we’re in right now and especially with this horrible backlash we’re seeing towards trans people, particularly trans youth, it really felt imperative to do so.”

When Winfrey asked what part of his transition had brought him the most joy, Page said, "It's the little things … getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am.'

"And I'm not having the moment where I'm panicked," he added.

As tears welled in his eyes, the actor continued.

"I'm not having all these little moments that used to be … just being in a T-shirt," he said, adding, "It's being able to touch my chest and feel comfortable in my body, probably for the first time."

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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing an alleged previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report Sunday, claimed three researchers working for the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were hospitalized with coronavirus-like symptoms in November 2019.

Other anonymous sources in the WSJ report alleged the U.S. has quietly amassed even more evidence that supports the theory of the Chinese coronavirus originating at the Chinese virology lab. The virus began infecting people in Wuhan city in late 2019, multiple studies have concluded; no evidence exists of prior infections by the virus anywhere else before those identified in Wuhan.

The Trump State Department published a fact sheet claiming, similarly, that several Wuhan researchers became ill in fall 2019, several weeks before Chinese officials confirmed the first coronavirus cases in the city, but the newly obtained intelligence report allegedly contains more details on the same topic. The WSJ did not publish the alleged report itself, merely paraphrasing it.

“The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both [Chinese coronavirus] and seasonal illnesses,” the January 15, 2021, State Department fact sheet said.

The alleged report disclosed by the WSJ on Sunday, claimed to be based in part on information “provided by an international partner,” specified that three WIV researchers became sick enough to require hospitalization in November 2019.

“The information that we had coming from the various sources was of exquisite quality. It was very precise. What it didn’t tell you was exactly why they got sick,” one of the WSJ’s anonymous sources said.

The WSJ quoted former State Department official David Asher observing in March that “three people in highly protected circumstances in a level three laboratory working on coronaviruses” simultaneously requiring hospitalization for a respiratory infection that had nothing to do with their work at the WIV seems like a very unlikely coincidence.

On the other hand, skeptics of the theory that the Chinese coronavirus leaked from the WIV say three hospitalizations does not constitute “smoking gun” proof, especially since people who get sick in China are allegedly prone to immediately seeking treatment at a hospital, given the nature of the communist-run healthcare system.

The WSJ noted that the Biden administration, while accusing its predecessor of attempting to “spin” the information, has not denied any of the information in the public fact sheet. The Biden State Department refused to comment on “purported intelligence matters” when Fox News asked about the WSJ report Monday.

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Left-wing songwriter and singer Richard Marx shared his disdain for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in a social media post on Sunday, telling his 302k Twitter followers he would love to hug Rene Bouche, Paul’s neighbor who attacked him. Marx said he’d buy Bouche “as many drinks as he can consume.”

“I’ll say it again: If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume,” the Grammy award-winning 1980s pop star said.

The Right Here Waiting for You singer is referencing Paul’s neighbor Rene Boucher, who was sentenced to 30 days in jail after attacking Paul in 2017, claiming to have been triggered by the Kentucky senator stacking debris near his property line in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Paul, who suffered broken ribs and underwent surgery to remove part of his lung as a result of the attack, was awarded $580,000 in damages as a result of his lawsuit.

Marx is not the only high-profile figure to exude a tone of admiration for Paul’s attacker. During Paul’s Republican National Convention speech last year, left-wing actress Bette Midler asked, “Where’s [Rand Paul’s] neighbor when we need him?”

Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), did not censor her opinions on the matter, suggesting last year that Paul’s neighbor was “right.”

This is far from the first time Marx has expressed controversial political opinions, once suggesting he would rather have a dead serial killer as president than Trump.

“At this point, I’d rather have Jeffrey Dahmer over Donald Trump,” the singer said in an interview with Variety.

Hundreds Of Non-Citizens Were Accidentally Registered To Vote": GOP Rep Warns Against Dems' HR1 Law

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Byrne—one of several wealthy conspiracy theorists who crowded around Trump in the final days of his presidency, advising him to simply seize power as he was abandoned by his political allies—has been on the road for months at rallies promoting a hoax that Joe Biden, election tech manufacturers, and China or another foreign power schemed to steal the 2020 elections. But his generosity has reached a limit, according to the Daily Beast. Now Byrne wants his audience to chip in $5 a month each to see paywalled content about his travails across the country to pull the wool from the sheeple’s eyes.

Byrne is following the lead of MyPillow gremlin Mike Lindell, another pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, in insisting that unstoppable revelations are around the corner while quietly siphoning funds from the gullible. In recent weeks, Lindell launched Frank Speech, a site he described as a social media network to contest the dominance of Twitter and YouTube but in reality, is mostly a series of conspiracy livestreams boxed in by pillow ads. Byrne has skipped trying to build his own site and is instead using Locals, the Daily Beast reported, which is a sort of Patreon knockoff primarily used by streamers and pundits popular among right-wingers—pundits like Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld, former Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard, and Dilbert creator turned self-declared “master wizard” Scott Adams. Locals is run by Dave Rubin, a former commentator for progressive network The Young Turks who now styles himself as a MAGA-friendly exile from the “regressive left.”

Note that Byrne’s net worth is not a matter of public record, but Overstock.com is valued at over $3 billion. When Byrne resigned in 2019 after news broke of his relationship with accused Russian spy Maria Butina, according to the Daily Beast, he sold his remaining stock in the company to the tune of $90 million. One could surmise it is unlikely Byrne is really scraping for funds.

The vast majority of the comments on Byrne’s two Telegram channels, one of which has over 127,000 subscribers and the other nearly 63,000, appeared to be from true believers who didn’t mind throwing the millionaire some change. Many could be described as exhilarated at the opportunity. Yet at least some of his audience was split, sensing something was off about the request. One user wrote, “It feels like everything you say now is behind a paywall.” Another added, “So many scams and we are learning to approach with caution.”

“I do not spend I dime on farbucks”, one wrote. “Or scamozon. Ever. I simply do not believe that the public should have to pay for information. That’s it.”

“well, do you beleive in this country & what Patrick is doing,” one user questioned a complainer. The other user responded, “I do, but being forced to pay for it doesn’t seem very patriotic.”

Others in Byrne’s Telegram channel didn’t mind chipping in but grew suspicious of the number of separate election conspiracy channels on Locals and the site’s efforts to keep content within its walled garden: “If it grew like Telegram has, the math is not that complicated. Multiple monthly subscriptions would add up quickly, and it turns people away. Account deleted. Also, no ability to share links… basically limiting important distribution. Locals is counterproductive to force multiplying news about election fraud developments.”

Byrne told the Daily Beast that all of the funds are going to fight the so-called “soft coup” against Trump and that he has personally spent $5.5 million investigating the elections (and $45 million “investigating corruption” in general since around 2006). The site noted that much of the content uploaded to Byrne’s Locals page appears to be re-uploads from elsewhere, often in lower quality, such as footage of a Michigan press conference he reposted using a “snowflake” filter.

When he’s not urging people to sign up for recurring charges to their credit cards, Byrne is keeping busy continuing the election fraud grift in other ways, such as promoting fake ballot recounts designed to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. ABC News reported he is one of the individuals bankrolling a fanciful “audit” of election results in Arizona run by a firm called Cyber Ninjas that has been plagued with reports of security lapses, deliberate partisanship, and massive incompetence. It’s supported by Republicans in the state Senate despite the impossibility of the recount reversing Biden’s victory there in 2020.

Byrne claims to have donated half a million to the effort and is raising millions more via his website, the America Project. That organization is reportedly handling background checks and non-disclosure agreements for audit volunteers.

[The Daily Beast]

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