Denmark Launches COVID-19 Passports to Ease Foreign Travel

The downloadable sheet includes information in Danish, English and French and is intended for use abroad.

Denmark's government has launched coronavirus passports, which all adult residents can freely download from the national health website, TV2 reported.

The idea is to use the passports when travelling abroad as a token of their health and safety.

In order to obtain one, Danish citizens must first apply to be tested at the coronaprover.dk website. If the test comes back negative, they can subsequently download an official coronavirus certificate by logging into the country's national health website. The passport is only available for download if the test is negative and less than seven days old.

“In many places you might be required to document a negative COVID-19 test, and with the new COVID-19 passport, we now have a digital offering for Danes who need to be able to bring official documentation of a test on their journey,” Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said.

Children over the age of 15 will be able to log in and receive their passports themselves, whereas parents will secure passports for younger children.

Michael Svane, chief executive of the Confederation of Danish Transport, welcomed the move, suggesting that it will “certainly help Danes who have to travel with work or privately”.

“We are (living) in a time when, as a traveller, you encounter many obstacles. But the COVID-19 passport is easy to access and very easy to use,” Svane mused.

Denmark closed its borders to tourists in mid-March to curb the spread of coronavirus. Since then, however, it has opened again to travellers from several countries who meet more objective requirements. Among other things, the share of people infected must be below 20 per 100,000 inhabitants in the country.

Denmark currently requires Swedes living in the border regions of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge to produce negative tests before crossing the border into Denmark, unless they have a “worthy reason” to do so.

Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation warned against so-called “immunity passports”, which would allow people who have had COVID-19 and recovered to travel more safely, stressing that the extent of immunity is still within reasonable doubt. The idea also sparked ethical concerns, implying the advent of an “antibody elite”.

Nevertheless, several countries are in the process of creating such systems. Among others, Estonia is working on an “immunity passport”, while Chile is also planning a “release certificate”.

So far, Denmark has seen close to 13,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 609 fatalities.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007091079835362-denmark-launches-covid-19-passports-to-ease-foreign-travel/

MADE IN CHINA: Contractor indicted for defrauding US Navy about origin of armor & helmets

A grand jury indictment of a Virginia man whose company allegedly sold Chinese-made helmets and body armor to the government is challenging President Donald Trump’s claim the Pentagon gets only the best American-made goods.

Surveillance Equipment Group Inc. (SEG) CEO Arthur Morgan was charged with two counts of federal wire fraud this week, over some $660,000 worth of ballistic vests, helmets, riot gear, and other items his company sold to six federal agencies between September 2014 and August 2019.

Approximately 11 orders were placed with SEG Armor, the company’s division that Morgan managed from Lorton, Virginia. The Maryland grand jury alleges that Morgan, 67, falsely reported the goods were manufactured in the US or Hong Kong, while they were in fact imported from China.

The General Services Administration (GSA) requires all contractors to sell products only from “designated countries” under the Trade Agreements Act (TAA). China is not one of those countries.

In fact, the Trump administration has imposed substantial tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods as part of a push to renegotiate trade deals with Beijing, while ramping up a campaign of painting China as a security and economic espionage threat to the US.

A specific example brought up by federal prosecutors cites emails from Morgan to the US Navy that falsely claimed SEG had a factory in southern Virginia where the helmets were in production. Instead, the indictment alleges, they were made by “Chinese Company 1.” If convicted, Morgan faces up to 40 years in prison.

The Pentagon supposedly revised its contracting process to prevent just this kind of thing from happening, after a 2008 scandal when two Florida men attempted to sell Chinese and Albanian ammunition to fulfill a $300 million contract with the US-backed Afghan military.

https://www.rt.com/usa/494202-contractor-navy-armor-china/

Ghislaine Maxwell Has ‘Dead Woman’s Switch’ Secret Sex Tapes in Her Possession

Would expose Epstein’s powerful acquaintances.

Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly has secret sex tapes in her possession that would expose powerful Epstein acquaintances, giving her clout in any potential plea deal while also acting as a form of protection against being ‘suicided’.

That’s according to an unnamed former friend of Maxwell’s, who told the Daily Mail, “If Ghislaine goes down, she’s going to take the whole damn lot of them with her.”

“The secret stash of sex tapes I believe Ghislaine has squirreled away could end up being her get-out-of-jail card if the authorities are willing to trade,” said the insider. “She has copies of everything Epstein had. They could implicate some twisted movers and shakers.”

It’s now part of Jeffrey Epstein lore that the billionaire sex trafficker had his mansions festooned with cameras that recorded his influential friends having sex with underage girls, material that could later be used to blackmail them.

The compromat operation was widely speculated to be an intelligence program, possibly run by Mossad, for whom Epstein was reportedly recruited by Ghislaine’s late father Robert Maxwell.

When authorities raided Epstein’s New York home last year, they found a “vast trove” of pornographic photographs and digital video files of underage girls with handwritten descriptions such as “Young [Name] + [Name]”, “Misc nudes 1”, and “Girl pics nude”. The files were believed to include the names of the abusers who had sex with the girls.

Given that Epstein ‘committed suicide’ less than a month after reports indicated he was ready to name powerful players in an effort to secure himself a reduced sentence, it wouldn’t be a shock to learn that Maxwell was thinking along the same lines.

As we highlighted last week, a lawyer for one of Epstein’s accusers thinks that Ghislaine Maxwell could reveal a “bigger name” involved in Epstein’s pedophile network in order to secure a plea deal following her arrest.

“I’m sure that Ghislaine’s attorneys will try to make a deal where she speaks out about a bigger name to get reduced charges for herself,” said Lisa Bloom.

https://summit.news/2020/07/07/ghislaine-maxwell-has-dead-womans-switch-secret-sex-tapes-in-her-possession/

ISRAEL AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY

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