Despite concerns about ‘vaccine fatigue’ CDC recommends extra Covid boosters, including for some infants
Vaccine effectiveness data is relative, meaning it’s a measure of how much more protection a vaccinated person has than an unvaccinated one, she said. Therefore, “what we think is happening” is that unvaccinated people were getting natural immunity during that time, giving them more robust immunity and skewing the baseline for comparison.
‘Crimes against humanity’: Pfizer knew its Covid vaccine killed, poisoned mother’s milk, ovaries, testes but compromised mainstream media to hide the truth
The “Pfizer Papers” analysts found over 42,000 case reports detailing 158,893 adverse events reported to Pfizer in the first three months following the December 2020 EUA. To process the large volume of reports, the company added 600 additional employees, the documents showed, with plans to hire a total of 1,800 people by June 2021.
‘Take back the states’: Far-right sheriffs ready to disrupt the US election if Trump loses to Harris
Today, one in four sworn law enforcement officers in the US report to a sheriff. In addition to running county jails, sheriffs and their deputies make approximately 20 percent of all arrests in the nation, according to one estimate, translating to around two million arrests every year.
Cybercrime data shows Russia, China and Iran are ‘voting’ in US election, officials move fast to expose them
A presidential candidate’s phone is hacked. A fake video falsely shows ballots burned in Pennsylvania. National security officials warn that US adversaries may incite violent protests after Election Day. These developments – all revealed in the past week – show how Russia, China and Iran have increased the pace of...
See-no-wrong, hear-no-wrong billionaire Elon Musk says Trump opponents are the real threat to democracy
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has committed more than $70 million to boost Trump in the election and, at events on behalf of his super PAC, has encouraged supporters to embrace voting early. Still, echoing some of Trump’s misgivings about the method, Musk raised his own doubts about the process. He said that, in the future, mail ballots should not be accepted, calling them a strange anomaly that got popularised during the Covid-19 pandemic and raising the prospect of fraud.
Taliban morality law: New code stipulates length of men’s facial hair, considers woman’s voice ‘intimate part of the body’
Without doubt, the part of the law that has received the most media attention is Article 13, which stipulates that a woman’s voice – when engaged in singing, reciting, and reading in public – is considered awrah, or an intimate part of the body. It goes on to say that a woman should “cover” her voice when out in public.
Taliban’s new morality law has sparked fears Afghanistan is returning to the repressive and abusive rule of the 1990s
The 35 amendments to the Law on Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice include prohibitions on everything from men’s haircuts that are deemed to be against shari’a to storing any visual representations of living beings on mobile phones.
UN official wants world attention switched to ‘forgotten crisis in Sudan’ as hundreds are killed in renewed fighting
Global attention has been shifted to the Middle East since the militant group Hamas launched its attack on southern Israel in October last year, triggering a war that has killed about 42,000 people in Gaza. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza does not differentiate between militants and civilians but say more than half of the dead were women and children.
Israel’s military says its jets hit Iran’s missile manufacturing facilities and surface-to-air missile arrays
Arab states situated between Israel and Iran have been particularly worried that use of their airspace could prompt retaliation against them. Jordanian television quoted a source in the country’s armed forces as saying no military planes had been allowed through its airspace. A Saudi official also said that Saudi airspace had not been used for the strike.
After murdering their parents and being handed life sentences, Menendez brothers birthed prison reforms the US is now replicating
The Menendez brothers’ work is ongoing, with the ultimate goal of transforming the prison yard “from an oppressive concrete and gravel slab into a normalised park-like campus setting surrounded by a majestic landscape mural,” according to the project’s website.
