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Author: Blazingcatfur
Omicron: bleak New Year or beginning of the end for the pandemic?
Scientists are cautiously optimistic that the variant may be a sign the virus is losing its power, despite the high infection figures
Once again, Britain is experiencing a festive season hit by waves of Covid-19 infections. Last year, Christmas and New Year were spoiled by the appearance of the Alpha variant. This time, it is Omicron that has sent case numbers soaring. Christmas cancellations have swept through Britain’s restaurants, pubs and clubs and left the country on the brink of another bleak New Year as the NHS warns once more that it is facing the threat of being overwhelmed by spiralling numbers of seriously ill patients.
The scenario has raised fears that this now represents the shape of Christmases to come. Social restrictions and lockdown threats could become our normal festive fare.
Are we living in the Matrix?
Meet the very clever people who think our world is a simulation
With the release of the fourth Matrix film this week, the idea behind the original movie is once again being talked about. The notion that the “real world” is a computer-generated simulation was considered pure science fiction when the original film was released in 1999, but philosophers have long argued that there are good arguments to suggest we could very well be.
Harvard and others nixing standardized tests reinforce privilege and harm minorities
One of the major characteristics of 21st-century America is its transformation into a hierarchical society in which privileged families occupy the upper strata, and there’s comparatively little room for those at the hierarchy’s bottom to move up.
It’s always been that way to a degree, of course, and it used to be much worse. But starting with the rise of “objective” college entrance exams, the gates of opportunity opened much wider.
Hatred for the Christian Cross
Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt mauled a young Christian woman, Mary, to death after they saw her cross.
Also in Egypt, Ayman, 17, a Christian student, was strangled and beaten to death by his teacher and fellow students for refusing to obey the teacher’s demand that he cover his cross. When the school’s principal was informed of the attack, he ignored it and “continued to sip his tea.”
Almost 40% of women employees in Correctional Service survey say they don’t feel mentally or emotionally safe at work
OTTAWA – Nearly 40 per cent of respondents to Correctional Service Canada’s latest survey of women employees say they don’t feel mentally or emotionally safe at work and nearly one third report being the victim of harassment or violence because of their gender while on the job within the last five years.
The perpetrators of the harassment or violence is most likely to be a co-worker in a position of authority (55 per cent cent), according to the results of CSC’s 2021 National Employment Equity Survey of Women Employees.
Afghanistan: Taliban clamp down on women’s taxi use
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Sunday gave new guidance to taxi drivers, advising them against taking fares from women who do not follow a strict Islamic dress code by wearing the hijab, or Islamic headscarf.
The Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice also told drivers they should not take women who wish to travel more than 72 kilometers (45 miles) without a male relative as a chaperone.
As Omicron spreads, almost 80% Canadians won’t travel this holiday season: poll
A majority of Canadians will not be travelling over the holiday period, according to a new poll, as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant continues to drive a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases at home and abroad.
In a survey published Thursday by RedFlagDeals.com, 79 per cent said they don’t plan to travel by plane during the 2021 holiday season. But almost 22 per cent said they would.
What will Christmas look like next year?
Texas teen, 18, who was bailed the day after ‘shooting and injuring three people at his school’ is re-arrested ‘after testing positive for illicit substance’
A Texas teenager who was released on bond the day after he was arrested for shooting three people at his high school has found himself back behind bars.
Timothy Simpkins, 18, was arrested on Thursday after a court-ordered urinalysis returned a positive result for an ‘illicit substance,’ according to FOX News.
It did not specify what type of ‘illicit substance’ Simpkins allegedly used, but under the terms of his $25,000 bond he was prohibited from using drugs and alcohol.
Former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan: Joe Biden Let 600,000 Migrants Illegally Enter Without Testing or Vaccine Mandate
Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said on Thursday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that the Biden administration exempts migrants crossing the southern border from coronavirus testing and vaccine mandates while imposing such decrees on Americans.
Is China going to be able to deal with Omicron?
The Omicron variant could have been called the Xi variant if the World Health Organization hadn’t decided to skip a couple letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatizing a common name. But with the Chinese Olympics coming up, it’s fair to ask how China is going to be able to deal with Omicron.
Hollywood Ignores Woke Bombs, Keeps Pushing Activist Agenda
Hollywood knows how to send a message, but it sure can be slow reading them.
The industry cranked out a volley of anti-war movies during President George W. Bush’s presidency. The movies slammed the Iraq War, the president and even the U.S. soldiers fighting overseas.
Each bombed at the box office, some in spectacular fashion.
‘Aliens in bedroom’: UFO sightings on the rise in Northern Ireland
From mysterious discs over Slemish Mountain in County Antrim to strange images spotted on CCTV, unexplained sightings increased in Northern Ireland again last year.
Police received eight sightings in Northern Ireland during 2021, an increase from six such reports in 2020 and four in 2019.
Recent COVID Surges Debunk Deceitful Partisan Narratives
Writing in the Wall Street Journal late last week, Karol Markowicz noted, “Covid is suddenly funny and cool now that all the right people are getting it.”
Sadly, there’s truth in that claim.
Trudeau’s call for a ‘united front’ against the ChiCom Slave State is all about protecting the financial interests of Canada’s Quisling China Class
Canada calls for ‘united front’ against China
In an interview with Global News aired on Saturday, Trudeau said that Western countries must “do a better job of working together and standing strong so that China can’t… play the angles and divide us one against the other.”
“There’s been a bit of competition, amongst friends, because we are capitalist democracies… especially given the extraordinary economic opportunity of the rising Chinese middle class,” he said, all but admitting that economic benefits outweigh the West’s publicly stated concerns about China’s alleged human rights abuses and “coercive” behavior.