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Hong Kong Hamstercide!

Hong Kong to kill 2,000 small animals after hamsters blamed for COVID-19 outbreak in closed-off city

Authorities in Hong Kong will euthanize some 2,000 hamsters and other small animals after a minor COVID-19 outbreak was linked to a pet shop in the city.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said preliminary testing had returned positive results for a number of animals at the Little Boss pet shop in Causeway Bay, after a 23-year-old employee tested positive for the Delta variant Sunday.

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US faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models say

The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March.

The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching nearly 1,700 on Jan. 17 — still below the peak of 3,300 in January 2021. COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents started rising slightly two weeks ago, although still at a rate 10 times less than last year before most residents were vaccinated.

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NYT: Scientists Studying Privilege, Inequality in Animal Kingdom

Scientists, the experts we rely on to tell us how to live our lives, have been studying privilege and inequality among squirrels and other animals, according to the New York Times.

It all began as a conversation among behavioral ecologists at UCLA: “They saw how COVID-19 was highlighting health disparities and other inequalities around the world,” the Times reports. “The scientists began to wonder if they could learn more about inequality by studying it in animals.”

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Liberals move to have tax payers fully fund propaganda organ

Liberals move to ‘modernize’ CBC, making public broadcaster less reliant on advertising

A year after CBC president Catherine Tait defended the public broadcaster’s foray into sponsored content in front of the country’s broadcast regulator, the Liberal government has set its sights on moving the CBC away from the advertising business.

The Liberals have promised $400 million over four years to make the CBC less reliant on advertising, and are aiming to ensure the public broadcaster’s programming is more distinct from its private sector competition.

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Father of UCLA student, 24, stabbed to death by homeless man chokes up as he slams woke politicians for ‘bestowing favor on people who rob others of their rights’

The father of slain UCLA student Brianna Kupfer has revealed that his 24-year-old daughter was not supposed to be working on the day she was stabbed in cold-blood inside a high-end furniture store – and he laid some blame for her death on politicians and their skewed priorities.

‘I blame what’s endemic in our society right now, is that everybody seems to be oriented on giving back rights and bestowing favor on people that rob others of their rights,’ Todd Kupfer told Fox News.

Kupfer said he is not blaming any politicians by name, but he argued that their job is ‘to make communities better, to make people care more, not to tear down communities by exposing them to people that are falling out the bottom, that really don’t care about other human beings and just think they can do whatever they like in our society.’

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Joly warns Russia of post Ukraine invasion repercussions amongst other vague ramblings

Canada condemns Russian troop movements near Ukraine, mulls weapons supplies to Kyiv

“Canada is deeply concerned with the military build-up done by Russia at the Ukrainian borders and we’re extremely concerned also with the destabilising activities in and around Ukraine,” Joly said.

“We are united in our support to Ukraine and of course any incursion into Ukraine will result in serious consequences including very severe, coordinated sanctions on the part of allies.”

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The Biden Administration’s ‘Diplomacy’ with the Iranian Regime

The Biden administration is perpetuating the idea that the White House is relying on “diplomacy” in dealing with the Iranian regime. However, the Biden administration’s “diplomacy” with Iran seems nothing but capitulations to the ruling mullahs.

As part of its “diplomacy”, the White House first told the Iranian leaders not only that it is willing to lift nuclear-related sanctions, but also that it is considering lifting non-nuclear related sanctions. This was followed by the first concession toward Iran’s proxy militia group, the Houthis. Even as the evidence — including a report by the United Nations — showed that the Iranian regime was delivering sophisticated weapons to the Houthis in Yemen, the Biden administration suspended some of the anti-terrorism sanctions on the Houthis that the Trump administration had imposed. Soon after, the Biden administration revoked the designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist group.

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FBI Investigating Chinese Funding Of California Plane Maker: REPORT

Federal authorities are investigating Chinese investment in a California-based plane maker after shareholders alleged that the firm’s technology was being transferred to China, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The FBI and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) have launched separate reviews of Chinese investment in small plane manufacturer Icon Aircraft Inc., according to the WSJ, which cited company documents and people familiar with the matter. The authorities are investigating allegations that technology from the company with military applications was transferred to China.

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Fourth COVID vaccine still doesn’t stop Omicron, new Israeli study shows

Even a fourth shot of a COVID-19 vaccine is “not good enough” to prevent Omicron, according to a preliminary study in Israel.

Sheba Hospital last month tested a fourth shot given to more than 270 medical workers, with 154 getting the Pfizer jab and 120 receiving Moderna.

The researchers revealed Monday that both groups showed a “slightly higher” increase in antibodies than after the third shot — but still not enough to prevent Omicron, the latest variant responsible for the vast majority of infections around the world.

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Family Of Slain Gunsmith Rodger Kotanko Launches Wrongful Death Suit Against Toronto Police

SIMCOE, Ontario, Jan. 18, 2022 /CNW/ – The family of Rodger Kotanko believes the gunsmith did not have to die. In a civil suit filed against Toronto police, the family alleges police unlawfully executed a search warrant and used excessive force when they shot and killed the 70-year-old in a military-style take down at his home outside Port Dover on November 3, 2021.

“The Kotanko family is holding Toronto police to account, so this doesn’t happen to someone else,” said Michael Smitiuch of Smitiuch Injury Law PC, the lawyer representing the Kotanko family. “Rodger Kotanko wasn’t able to defend himself, or his reputation, but his family will.”

H/T Jaedo Drax

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Talent agency drops Lara Logan for comparing Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor

Journalist Lara Logan was dropped by United Talent Agency for comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who performed cruel experiments on Jews during the Holocaust.

The agency said it cut ties with Logan after she made the “highly offensive” and “unacceptable” comments during a November appearance on Fox News, according to United Talent Agency Chief Communications Officer Seth Oster.

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Study Shows False-Positive Results in Over 40 Percent of Positive Rapid Tests

A new study reveals that more than 40 percent of positive results in rapid antigen tests are false, findings that come at a time when provinces are increasingly relying on the rapid tests to form COVID-19 response strategies.

The study, conducted by the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, was published in the JAMA peer-reviewed journal on Jan. 7, 2022. The researchers studied the results of roughly 900,000 rapid antigen tests taken in over 530 workplaces across Canada between Jan. 11 and Oct. 13, 2021.

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Predicting 2022 – The Year of the Tiger – Part II

The year of the Tiger, 2022, is shaping up to be a year of escalating tension between the world’s two major superpowers. It will be go big or go home.

Not only will the U.S. go big against China, but it is likely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will see 2022 as an opportunity to go big against the U.S. The target will be Taiwan.

For the CCP, the most important domestic and international goal is reclaiming and integrating Taiwan into the political, economic and military sphere of China. In 2022, we will see the CCP taking the first major offensive steps to move this process forward. The existing long-term framework will be challenged in a way not seen before, including possible kinetic military action against Taiwan.

America picked a bad time to elect Joe Biden president.

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