Month: December 2020

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According to a source close to the White House Admin @realDonaldTrump @POTUS has ordered most of his WH staff to leave DC area and clear out.

Something big is about to go down in DC.

— SteelKRAKEN! Ann Vandersteel (@annvandersteel) December 17, 2020

Many of the changes have happened to the virus’s spike protein, which it uses to latch onto human cells and cause illness.

This is significant because most Covid-19 vaccines being developed, including the Pfizer jab that has already begun to be rolled out in the UK, are effective by targeting this protein.

It is feared this could stop people becoming immune to coronavirus if they have been infected with a different strain than the vaccine can protect them against.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/new-covid-19-strain-features-23177387

Cyclone Yasa, a top category five storm expected to bring winds of up to 250 km per hour (155 miles per hour) and torrential rain, made landfall over Bua province on the northern island of Vanua Levu at about 6 p.m. local time (0600 GMT).

“The impact for this super storm is more or less the entire country,” Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said in a video posted on Facebook. He told the country’s near 1 million population to find safe shelter ahead of a 14-hour nationwide curfew beginning 4 p.m. (0400 GMT).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-storm-fiji/fiji-declares-state-of-natural-disaster-as-powerful-cyclone-hits-idUSKBN28R09P?il=0

Reports of a near disaster due to lack of communication between Moscow and Washington over routine military drills have been greatly exaggerated.

A missile alarm went off at a US base in Germany on Saturday, during a drill run by Russian strategic nuclear forces. This was breathlessly reported by CNN, quoting unnamed sources, as a frighteningly close shave with Armageddon.

According to CNN’s sources, the warning, triggered at Ramstein Air Base (the largest US Air Force base in Europe), and “resulted in several minutes of uncertainty and alarm until an all-clear was sounded.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509928-russia-us-nuclear-war/

Cases of a “brain-eating amoeba” reported across the southern US have begun spreading northward via the country’s freshwater systems, in a worrying development for health officials already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a new study, the single-celled, brain-eating amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri) has been relentlessly spreading northward over the past four decades. 

https://www.rt.com/usa/509929-deadly-brain-eating-amoeba-spreading/

Ontario is reporting 2,139 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The provincial death toll since the start of the pandemic has topped 4,000.

Locally, there are 780 new cases in Toronto, 528 in Peel, 148 in York Region, 143 in Durham and 111 in Windsor-Essex County. 

There are 2,043 more resolved cases and nearly 49,200 tests completed.

Ontario reports over 2,000 cases for 2nd day, death toll tops 4,000

President Trump told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday that it’s “too soon to give up” on the election, after the Kentucky Republican congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden on his win for the first time.

The president retweeted a news story about Trump allies criticizing Mr. McConnell for congratulating Mr. Biden.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/16/donald-trump-tells-mitch-mcconnell-too-soon-give-e/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push

Britain’s Armed Forces Memorial is a silent, haunting place.

Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice.

The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they “died in operational theatre or were targeted by terrorists”.

On the day I was there, a stonemason was adding new names to those who have died in some 50 operations across the world during what is known as “peacetime”. Malaya, Ireland, Kenya, Hong Kong, Libya, Iraq, Palestine and many more, including secret operations, such as Indochina.

Not a year has passed since peace was declared in 1945 that Britain has not sent military forces to fight the wars of empire. 

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509733-john-pilger-virus-covid-war/