Fresh from banning people who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19 from entering liquor stores or cannabis shops, Canada’s Quebec province is unveiling a new health tax for the unjabbed. Premier Francois Legault vowed on Tuesday to enact the new financial penalty, saying those who refuse to get their first …
Read More »EMA in the dark over need for special Omicron jab
“There is no answer whether we will need to adapt vaccines,” the head of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Emer Cooke told a press briefing on Tuesday. While the agency has been prepared for the possibility that Covid-19 vaccines may need tweaking, there’s still not enough data to prove that …
Read More »Georgia may get looser Covid rules because locals have ‘special genetics’ – health chief
Speaking on Thursday, Ekaterine Tikaradze, remarked that “there is no country as special as Georgia in the world – we are unique, and based on that, we will have two green [Covid-19] passes.” One of these, she said, will last “indefinitely” for use domestically. According to the minister, Georgians, unlike …
Read More »Fox News contributors quit over Tucker Carlson’s Capitol riot special
Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, who joined Fox News in 2009 as regular contributors, announced they have cut ties with the network on Sunday. “Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis. But the voices of the responsible are being drowned …
Read More »2 US special ops trainees die during combat diving course, prompting safety concerns – reports
Staff Sergeant Micah Walker died during the Army’s Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC) exercise at Naval Air Station Key West in Florida in late July, followed by Staff Sergeant Paul Olmstead, who died on September 23 during a maritime assessment course, which must be passed before trainees are allowed into …
Read More »If Assange dies in UK prison it would mean he’d been ‘tortured to death,’ UN special rapporteur on torture tells RT
It would be a “tragedy” if Assange died in London’s Belmarsh maximum security prison due to his poor health, Melzer replied when asked about such an unsettling scenario by host Afshin Rattansi. The official said he had visited Assange behind bars in May 2019 together with a team of medical …
Read More »RT’s special coverage as Russian movie crew returns to Earth after first-ever space shoot
Actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko spent 12 days in space, where they filmed footage for an upcoming drama titled ‘The Challenge’. Peresild stars in it as a cardiac surgeon who is recruited to go to the International Space Station to perform an emergency procedure on an ailing cosmonaut. …
Read More »Netflix defends Chappelle comedy special from protests as employees plan walkout over ‘transphobic’ jokes
“We know that a number of you have been left angry, disappointed and hurt by our decision to put Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix,” Sarandos wrote in a company-wide email, according to Variety. Sarandos went on to say he understood the activists were concerned Chappelle’s jokes could somehow lead …
Read More »Kremlin says US & Russia agree Ukraine must give Donbass special autonomous status as Nuland hails productive meeting in Moscow
That’s according to Dmitry Kozak, the Kremlin’s deputy chief of staff, who spoke to the media after a meeting in Moscow with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland. Nuland is in Moscow for a three-day working visit and has already met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister …
Read More »Will Beijing be worried by the CIA setting up a special unit to focus solely on ‘the global challenge’ China poses?
America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced a new group that will focus solely on China and the strategic challenges posed by it. In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the new China Mission Center has been formed “to address the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic …
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