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The agency has demanded a massive expansion of facial recognition data collection at airports, land ports, and seaports, measures the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of over a dozen other advocacy groups have condemned as wildly and unnecessarily intrusive, discriminatory and illegal in an objection filed on Monday.  …

“There is zero evidence that the new coronavirus variant increases severity of the disease,” the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program Chief Mike Ryan told at a press conference on Monday, citing data received from British scientists. The risks faced by the people that catch this particular strain of the virus are …

In the document approved by Pope Francis on 17 December, the doctrinal congregation said that all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used, “with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion.” The Catholic Church approves the use …

Authorities in Novovoronezh were filmed using a crane to pull up the figure and load it into a truck on Monday. Named ‘Alenka’, it had been unveiled only the day before, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the village first founded on the site.  However, the installation found few …

Let me set the scene. The world (we are told) is in the grip of a deadly plague. Health services (we are told) are on the brink of collapse. And just when you think things cannot get any worse, the horrific news comes down from on high that our invisible …

The statement that the new strain of Covid-19 is 70 percent more contagious is nothing, but a claim made by politicians so far, Christian Drosten, the head of the virology department at the Berlin’s Charite center — one of Europe’s largest university hospitals — told the German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. …

Did anyone actually believe that Russia would escape a major US election season without a ceremonial tarring and feathering by the media? It’s almost as though frantic journalists, unable to sell the ‘Trump Beats Biden with Kremlin Collusion’ narrative, have dreamt up this latest work of pulp fiction to keep …

Biden was vaccinated in a photo-op at a hospital in Delaware on Monday afternoon, as his wife Jill looked on. The first vaccinations in the US began last week, with healthcare workers considered the highest priority. Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams also …

As the dread sunk in following Boris Johnson’s announcement at 4pm on Saturday that London and large parts of the southeast of England would be placed under Tier 4 of the pandemic lockdown’s draconian measures I felt an irrational urge to pack the family in the car and flee to …

The lengthy Daily Mail article, published December 20, reinforced the established, idolatrous fable of his life and death, while also adding significant new strands to the narrative. While prior mainstream apologias attributed his untimely demise primarily to an online “disinformation campaign,” without attempting to tackle the riddle of how a …