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            <title>USA what a joke. Thanks to DOGE and Elon</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5513232</link>
            <description>I think we need something like DOGE in every country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[YOUTUBE]ALknbI_6-uE[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALknbI_6-uE' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALknbI_6-uE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, here are the points from the YouTube video transcript you provided:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*   President Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, to combat taxpayer dollar waste.&lt;br /&gt;*   Identified &amp;#036;22 billion from HHS for free housing and cars for illegal aliens.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in Lesotho.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;8 million for making mice transgender.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;20 million for the Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;1.9 billion to a recently created decarbonization of homes committee.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;14 million for social cohesion in Mali.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.&lt;br /&gt;*   &amp;#036;101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education.&lt;br /&gt;*   Hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud have been found, and the money has been taken back.&lt;br /&gt;*   The Government Accountability Office estimates annual fraud of over &amp;#036;500 billion.&lt;br /&gt;*   There are shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*   Government databases list millions of Social Security members with ages far exceeding normal lifespans, including:&lt;br /&gt;    *   4.7 million people aged 100-109&lt;br /&gt;    *   5.6 million people aged 110-119&lt;br /&gt;    *   4.7 million people aged 120-129&lt;br /&gt;    *   9 million people aged 130-139&lt;br /&gt;    *   5 million people aged 140-149&lt;br /&gt;    *   3 million people aged 150-159&lt;br /&gt;    *   Over 130,000 people aged over 160&lt;br /&gt;    *   1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229&lt;br /&gt;    *   One person between the age of 240 and 249&lt;br /&gt;    *   One person listed at 360 years of age&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*   By slashing fraud, waste, and theft, the administration aims to defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:18:22 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Is that a real Makcik or Hantu?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5157199</link>
            <description>So is this makcik or hantu?&lt;br /&gt;Crossing the road at 3 a.m. at secluded place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@hellokelantan/video/6972898570034760961?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.tiktok.com/@hellokelantan/video..._from_webapp=v1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[tiktok]6972898570034760961[/tiktok]</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:45:47 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>del</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5150983</link>
            <description>del</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 17:35:46 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>LGBT is Mental Disorder in China</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5149075</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Homosexuality Can Be Deemed &amp;#39;Mental Disorder&amp;#39; In China, Says New Court Ruling&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the Chinese Communist government previously decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the country&amp;#39;s official list of things deemed mental disorders in 2001, a major court decision in China this week has &amp;quot;shocked&amp;quot; various rights monitors by once again &lt;b&gt;classifying homosexuality as among &amp;quot;common psychosexual disorders.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to South China Morning Post, this latest ruling began with a legal dispute over a higher education textbook, namely the 2013 edition of Mental Health Education for College Students, published by Jinan University Press. A lawsuit filed by a student challenged the book given that it—&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...listed homosexuality under &amp;quot;common psychosexual disorders&amp;quot; – along with cross-dressing and fetishism. It stated that homosexuality &amp;quot;was believed to be a disruption of love and sex or perversion of the sex partner&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern province of Jiangsu upheld a ruling by a lower court that agreed with the textbook&amp;#39;s classification, allowing the book to remain in multiple university programs. The court dubbed it a legitimate &amp;quot;academic view&amp;quot; as part of the ruling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It ends a years&amp;#39; long legal saga the result of which is sure to come under fire from the World Health Organization – not to mention also some of the same progressives in the West who are often heard to defend China and the CCP on a range of issues. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New York Post reviewed the legal battle leading to this latest deeply controversial ruling as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China’s LGBTQ community has criticized the decision. Ou Jiayong, 24, who filed the lawsuit as a college student in 2017 to get the textbook’s publisher to pull its &amp;quot;poor-quality work&amp;quot; from circulation, called the ruling &amp;quot;random and baseless.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah Qiang, a spokesperson for PFLAG, a support group for the queer Chinese community and their families, accused the textbook’s editors and the courts of being out of touch with contemporary culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly it was only as late as 1990 that the WHO itself alongside the United Nations declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. And according to data from Bank of America, it is still considered &amp;#39;unlawful&amp;#39; in the criminal codes of up to one-third of nations across the globe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s BofA&amp;#39;s review of the data:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If LGBTQ+ were a nation, it would be the 4th largest economy in the world at US&amp;#036;3.9tn. Further, LGBT rights have transformed in the past 30 years: 1990 saw the UN declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, 46 countries have decriminalized homosexuality since 1990, 28 countries have legalized gay marriage as of 2020 and in 2019 the WHO declassified identifying as transgender as a &amp;quot;mental disorder&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, discrimination and exclusion still occur. 15 countries allow for death penalties or life imprisonment for homosexuality and a further 49 countries have prison sentences. Only 81 countries have some form of employment protection. Positively though, LGBTQ+ acceptance in the US is at record levels aided by growing openness and gender fluidity in younger generations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this also followed the landmark1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to have the &amp;#39;diagnosis of homosexuality&amp;#39;  removed as something which could be pathologized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/article/3123549/homosexuality-can-be-called-mental-disorder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;That&amp;#39;s why sometimes it is better to have some form of dictatorship. No need to please LGBTs and Women to get their votes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things we couldn&amp;#39;t do right because we have to please these folks and afraid that it might offend them.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 14:00:53 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Real Reason Why US Covid Dropped</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5148555</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for “Covid19” in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines” are effective at preventing the alleged disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trick is in their reporting of what they call “breakthrough infections” – that is people who are fully “vaccinated” against Sars-Cov-2 infection, but get infected anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essentially, Covid19 has long been shown – to those willing to pay attention – to be an entirely created pandemic narrative built on two key factors:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;False-positive tests. The unreliable PCR test can be manipulated into reporting a high number of false-positives by altering the cycle threshold (CT value)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflated Case-count. The incredibly broad definition of “Covid case”, used all over the world, lists anyone who receives a positive test as a “Covid19 case”, even if they never experienced any symptoms.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without these two policies, there would never have been an appreciable pandemic at all, and now the CDC has enacted two policy changes which means they no longer apply to vaccinated people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Firstly, they are lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected “breakthrough infections”.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the CDC’s instructions for state health authorities on handling “possible breakthrough infections” (uploaded to their website in late April):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For cases with a known RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) value, submit only specimens with Ct value ≤28 to CDC for sequencing. (Sequencing is not feasible with higher Ct values.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout the pandemic, CT values in excess of 35 have been the norm, with labs around the world going into the 40s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essentially labs were running as many cycles as necessary to achieve a positive result, despite experts warning that this was pointless (even Fauci himself said anything over 35 cycles is meaningless).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But NOW, and only for fully vaccinated people, the CDC will only accept samples achieved from 28 cycles or fewer. That can only be a deliberate decision in order to decrease the number of “breakthrough infections” being officially recorded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secondly, asymptomatic or mild infections will no longer be recorded as “covid cases”.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right. Even if a sample collected at the low CT value of 28 can be sequenced into the virus alleged to cause Covid19, the CDC will no longer be keeping records of breakthrough infections that don’t result in hospitalisation or death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From their website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause. This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance. Previous case counts, which were last updated on April 26, 2021, are available for reference only and will not be updated moving forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Just like that, being asymptomatic – or having only minor symptoms – will no longer count as a “Covid case” but only if you’ve been vaccinated.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CDC has put new policies in place which effectively created a tiered system of diagnosis. Meaning, from now on, unvaccinated people will find it much easier to be diagnosed with Covid19 than vaccinated people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Person A has not been vaccinated. They test positive for Covid using a PCR test at 40 cycles and, despite having no symptoms, they are officially a “covid case”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Person B has been vaccinated. They test positive at 28 cycles, and spend six weeks bedridden with a high fever. Because they never went into a hospital and didn’t die they are NOT a Covid case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Person C, who was also vaccinated, did die. After weeks in hospital with a high fever and respiratory problems. Only their positive PCR test was 29 cycles, so they’re not officially a Covid case either.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CDC is demonstrating the beauty of having a “disease” that can appear or disappear depending on how you measure it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be clear: If these new policies had been the global approach to “Covid” since December 2019, there would never have been a pandemic at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you apply them only to the vaccinated, but keep the old rules for the unvaccinated, the only possible result can be that the official records show “Covid” is much more prevalent among the latter than the former.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a policy designed to continuously inflate one number, and systematically minimise the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is that if not an obvious and deliberate act of deception?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/' target='_blank'&gt;https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the...-effectiveness/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TLDR: &lt;br /&gt;1.If vaccinated and kena covid, not counted as covid case. &lt;br /&gt;2. Decrease testing sensitivity, so less positive cases.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 13:27:28 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>BLM hantam Asian guy</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5125305</link>
            <description>[twt]https://twitter.com/AsianDawn4/status/1376406876921810946[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-blm-activist-charged-hate-crime-after-harassing-multiple-asian-americans' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle...asian-americans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the Comments:&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;quot;you won&amp;#39;t see this on CNN. MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS....NY Times Washinton Post....&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;quot;80 IQ beating on 160 IQ ,,,,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;- &amp;quot;The majority of attacks on Asians are from BLACKS...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:23:58 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Any Zero Commission Broker for US Options?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5098156</link>
            <description>Hi, I would like to find a brokerage to trade the US stock options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a little confused because some brokers only offer their service to US residents (Robinhood), some offer zero commission only to US residents. I am trying to find something like the Robinhood for Malaysians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s what I am looking for and would appreciate if anyone could share their brokers if it meets these 3 criteria:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Zero commission for Malaysian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Able to trade US options. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Is it possible to trade in odd lots (options)? One options lot is 100 units, is it possible to trade say 30 units?&lt;br /&gt;(Trading a full lot might be a little expensive for me)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you in advance.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Stock Exchange</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:18:37 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>BLM Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5095911</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;The Black Lives Matter movement, which fueled several violent protests across America last year, has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nomination was made by Petter Eide, a member of Norway’s parliament who considered the effort to be “a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice,” and brushed off questions regarding violent protests in the movement’s name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organized by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful,” Eide said. “Of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of either the police or counter-protestors.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which looked at 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations from four months of last year, found that 93 percent of the protests were mostly peaceful, yet photographs and videos captured by journalists across America depict a different image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While there have been numerous violent incidents involving the movement’s name, several innocent civilians and members of Congress have suffered from the cruelties of activists from within the movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last August, Black Lives Matter activists harassed diners seated on the patio of a Mexican restaurant and allegedly demanded they raise their fists.&lt;/b&gt; Other activists from the movement also surrounded Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and several women for several minutes on the streets of Washington, DC, as they attempted to leave a Republican National Convention event at the White House.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last September, released data from Princeton University showed that riots associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Norway-based Nobel Committee is expected to choose the winners of the award in November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/29/black-lives-matter-movement-nominated-nobel-peace-prize/' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/...el-peace-prize/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;- BLM received billions in donations. Their &amp;quot;peaceful&amp;quot; protesting left billions in property damage and death.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;- It shows just how corrupt the Nobel system is, when domestic terrorists are honored as peaceful protesters. Madness, complete madness.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:05:10 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Biden is Preparing For Deepstate War</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5093625</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:16pt;line-height:100%'&gt;A Large US Military Convoy Rolled Into Syria On 1st Day Of Biden Presidency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two separate reports from Middle East news sources at the end of this week strongly suggest that both Russia and the United States are building up their forces in war-torn Syria within the opening days of the Joe Biden administration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, Syrian state media is alleging a major US build-up and reinforcements sent to &amp;quot;illegitimate bases in Hasakah countryside&amp;quot;. The report in Syria&amp;#39;s SANA details:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;...that a convoy consisted of 40 trucks loaded with weapons and logistical materials, affiliated to the so-called international coalition have entered in Hasaka countryside via al-Walid illegitimate border crossing with north of Iraq, to reinforce illegitimate bases in the area.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Illustrative file image of US convoy in northeast Syria&lt;br /&gt;Damascus said further that&lt;b&gt; tons of US heavy equipment was observed going toward building up US positions at Conoco oil and gas field: &amp;quot;Over the past few days, helicopters affiliated to the so-called international coalition have transported logistical equipment and heavy military vehicles to Conoco oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor countryside, after turning it into military base to reinforce its presence and loot the Syrian resources,&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt; SANA wrote further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This comes at a moment Biden&amp;#39;s Syria policy and direction is still largely a big unknown - though it remains that his cabinet looks to include foreign policy hawks - particularly many of the same officials responsible for Obama&amp;#39;s both overt and covert interventions in Libya and Syria upon the start of the so-called &amp;#39;Arab Spring&amp;#39;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now President Biden is likely simply to continue Trump&amp;#39;s policy of keeping a contingent of American special forces troops stealing occupying Syria&amp;#39;s oil and gas fields.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile a separate story on the same day as the reported US convoy reinforcements says Russia too is busy building up its forces in an area near where Americans and Turkish patrols are occupying northeast Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Beirut-based Al Masdar News:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Russian Armed Forces sent more reinforcements and heavy military equipment to the Al-Qamishli Airport this week, as they strengthen their presence east of the Euphrates River.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the latest reports from the Al-Hasakah Governorate, the Russian Armed Forces deployed more troops to the frontlines with the Turkish military and their allied militants near the key town of Tal Tamr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is based on Russian military sources featuring footage of a Russian IL-76 cargo landing a Qamishli Airport which is the &amp;quot;second time in ten days that they have brought in more reinforcements and military equipment.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russian military cargo plan landing in northern Syria on Thursday:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia has also lately sent more ships to patrol off Syria&amp;#39;s Mediterranean coast, out of the naval base at Tartus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Likely this latest rush to ensure greater Russian &amp;#39;readiness&amp;#39; is based on the &amp;quot;unknowns&amp;quot; represented by the presidential transition in Washington. However, there&amp;#39;s little doubt Biden will keep up the severe sanctions which are currently crushing what&amp;#39;s left of the Syrian economy, with civilians bearing the brunt of suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel also appears to be ramping up its airstrikes inside Syria, claiming to be targeting Iranian positions amid concerns Biden will be &amp;quot;soft&amp;quot; on the Islamic Republic and so-called Iranian influence in Syria and Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-us-convoy-rolled-syria-1st-day-biden-presidency' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/larg...iden-presidency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;So basically the Deepstate(C*A) is in control again. They are going for news wars. Don&amp;#39;t blame Biden much, he is just a puppet and they cheated the election to get him elected. &lt;br /&gt;C*A controls the Media, Hollywood, Judges, Big Tech, politicians on both sides (creating the illusion of choice), and play the divide and conquer game. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:29:10 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Thousands test POSITIVE after receiving Pfizer</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5091846</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'&gt;Thousands of Israelis test POSITIVE for Covid-19 despite receiving Pfizer/BioNTech jab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;More than 12,400 people in Israel have tested positive for coronavirus after being vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab&lt;/b&gt;, including 69 who had received their second dose, the country&amp;#39;s Health Ministry said.&lt;br /&gt;Some 189,000 people were tested for Covid-19 after being vaccinated, with 6.6 percent getting a positive result, according to ministry data reported by Israeli outlets. The majority were apparently infected shortly after receiving the first jab of the two-part vaccine – a period when the inoculation isn&amp;#39;t expected to have kicked in yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, 1,410 people tested positive two weeks after their first injection, by which time partial immunity should have already taken effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, 69 patients became infected with the novel coronavirus despite already having been administered both shots of the vaccine, the ministry said. Israel began administering the second doses almost two weeks ago, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being the first to complete the course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pfizer has said that a spike in immunity occurs between Day 15 and Day 21 after the first jab, when the effectiveness of its vaccine increases from 52 to 89 percent. According to earlier trials, the protection offered by the vaccine reaches the 95 percent level a week after the second dose is administered, the pharma giant said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to vaccines, the results of clinical trials may differ from how the immunization performs in the field, where it&amp;#39;s administered to a much greater number of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday, Israel&amp;#39;s coronavirus tsar, Nachman Ash, reportedly complained to Israeli ministers about the insufficient protection provided by the first shot of the American vaccine. It turned out to be &amp;quot;less effective than we had thought&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;lower than Pfizer presented,&amp;quot; Ash said, as cited by Army Radio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the head of the infection unit at Sheba Medical Center – where Netanyahu got his jabs – told Israeli media that the Pfizer vaccine &amp;quot;works wonderfully&amp;quot; after two shots. According to Professor Gili Regev-Yohai, 102 of the medics at the center were tested a week after completing the vaccination course, and all but two of them showed antibody levels between six to 20 times higher than seven days earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel is leading the world in terms of pace of vaccination against the new coronavirus. Over the last months, some 2.15 million people received Pfizer/BioNTech jabs, with 300,000 already getting both shots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite already vaccinating more than 20 percent of its own population, Israel doesn&amp;#39;t seem as eager to share immunization with Palestinians in the occupied territories. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization expressed its &amp;quot;concerns&amp;quot; over unequal access to vaccines between Israelis and Palestinian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A WHO representative for Palestine said that the UN body has been in discussions with Israeli authorities on the possibility of allocating vaccines to the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Israeli Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein, has said her department may offer the Palestinian Authoritiy surplus doses after Israelis have received their jabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.rt.com/news/513139-israel-pfizer-vaccine-coronavirus/' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.rt.com/news/513139-israel-pfize...ne-coronavirus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:32:41 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Experts Call For Suspension Of Pfizer Vaccination</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5088785</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;Health Experts Call For Suspension Of Pfizer Vaccination Among Elderly After Norway Deaths&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update (1630ET): In what can only be described as a somewhat concerning turn of events, health experts from Wuhan, China, called on &lt;b&gt;Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer,&lt;/b&gt; especially among elderly people (following the surge in deaths in Norway described below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China&amp;#39;s Global Times reports Chinese experts said the death incident should be assessed cautiously to understand whether the death was caused by vaccines or other preexisting conditions of these individuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yang Zhanqiu, a virologist from Wuhan University, told the Global Times on Friday that the death incident, if proven to be caused by the vaccines, showed that the effect of the Pfizer vaccine and other mRNA vaccines is not as good as expected, as the main purpose of mRNA vaccines is to heal patients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Beijing-based immunologist, who requested anonymity, told the Global Times on Friday that &lt;b&gt;the world should suspend the use of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine represented by Pfizer, as this new technology has not proven safety in large-scale use or in preventing any infectious diseases.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Older people, especially those over 80, should not be recommended to receive any COVID-19 vaccine, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of which is a problem since it is the elderly who are at most risk (quite frankly at any real risk at all) and thus who need the protection the most. The Chinese health experts instead say that the most elderly and frail should be recommended to take medicines to improve their immune system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, one cannot help but note the irony of scientists from the source of the plague that has killed millions around the world and destroyed lives/economies almost everywhere, is now calling for the cessation of the process to protect against the plague.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*  *  *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we detailed earlier, Norway health authorities are reporting COVID-19 vaccine news of monumental importance at a moment the US is rushing to get an initial some 30 million doses into the arms of the elderly and those with chronic health conditions: sick patients over 80 are particularly at risk for devastating side effects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus for this vulnerable demographic which is currently first in line in North America, the &amp;quot;cure&amp;quot; could be worse than the disease. Bloomberg notes that it&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;the most cautious statement yet from a European health authority&amp;quot; regarding potential adverse vaccine health risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;For those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences,&amp;quot; the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via AP&lt;br /&gt;The health authority said further in its most blunt statement cautioning against a policy of a blanket promotion of the vaccine for all:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;For those who have a very short remaining life span anyway, the benefit of the vaccine may be marginal or irrelevant.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This comes after a handful of global cases, including an elderly patient in France, where a recipient died within hours of receiving their first-round of the vaccine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus far Norway says it has administered doses to up to 33,000 people, including the elderly, but are already finding it &amp;quot;too risky&amp;quot; for the terminally ill and people over 80 that are in frail condition. Given only 33,000 injected so far, the reported death count is already staggering and is causing officials to sound the alarm:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norwegian officials said 23 people had died in the country a short time after receiving their first dose of the vaccine. Of those deaths, 13 have so far been autopsied, with the results suggesting that common side effects may have contributed to severe reactions in frail, elderly people, according to the Norwegian Medicines Agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But despite the warnings being featured prominently at the end of this week in Bloomberg and multiple other mainstream publications, again we doubt this will do anything in terms of putting the brakes on the rushed vaccine rollout in the US where it&amp;#39;s precisely the elderly, frail, and those prone to persistent health conditions that are being urged on by state and federal policies to be first in line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Bloomberg had this to say of the most common vaccine brands in Norway and the West:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Representatives for Pfizer and BioNTech didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved late last year has been used most broadly, with a similar shot from Moderna Inc. approved earlier this month also now being administered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norway initiated its COVID-19 vaccinations last month on the heels of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine receiving approval by the European Medicines Agency. Norway&amp;#39;s infections are approaching 60,000 out of total population of 5.3 million, including over 500 deaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Many skeptics in Europe and the US still have severe reservations about the vaccines,&lt;/b&gt; even as big pharma and governments continually insist they are completely safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/norway-sounds-alarm-over-vaccine-risks-elderly-frail-after-23-deaths' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/norway-s...after-23-deaths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comments:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait a few months till they prove the vaccine is more deadly than the virus.&lt;br /&gt;99.8% survivability with Covid&lt;br /&gt;92 % survivability with the vaccine- or something like that figure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short term death is small, but wait a few months when the vaccine side effects kick in, more to come.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: I am merely conveying the message. I have no opinion or recommendation whatsoever regarding this matter.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:22:54 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Breaking: Leftist Cheat Election with Mere &amp;#036;100/h</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5088505</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='https://rumble.com/vcu9pv-fulton-county-election-fraud-captured-on-video-cleaner-audio..html' target='_blank'&gt;https://rumble.com/vcu9pv-fulton-county-ele...ner-audio..html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the video, basically they sold their country for &amp;#036;100/hour to do election fraud.&lt;br /&gt;These are left wing communist/BLM. They are known for hating their own country and sell out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was not able to upload Youtube or Steamable because sudah kena censorship. They control Youtube and mainstream media. So real fraud videos got censored. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look at the related videos on Rumble, there are many more evidences from different places. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://rumble.com/vb5hit-election-fraud-video.html' target='_blank'&gt;https://rumble.com/vb5hit-election-fraud-video.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://rumble.com/vbkmcf-georgia-election-fraud-video-1..html' target='_blank'&gt;https://rumble.com/vbkmcf-georgia-election-...d-video-1..html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 01:10:44 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>BLM activist leading charge at Capitol</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5088387</link>
            <description>[twt]https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1349865669383356419[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1349754196728442884[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/7T5o5J' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2021/01/15/7T5o5J.md.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/7T5Apn' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2021/01/15/7T5Apn.md.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically it is all planned. BLM/Antifa left wing staged the riot and put the blame on Trump that he incited violence. &lt;br /&gt;Trump got played. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:19:31 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Brainwashed Mom Asked Children to Worship Blacks</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5087593</link>
            <description>[twt]https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1347017757917790210[/twt]</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:01:34 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Goodbye To Free Speech in Murica</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5085131</link>
            <description>[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1347721948483227655' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/...721948483227655&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1347704866844631040' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1347704866844631040&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1347740872000102401' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1347740872000102401&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/Lancegooden/status/1347736329510133764' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/Lancegooden/status/1347736329510133764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1347728042433642497' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1...728042433642497&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://twitter.com/RepArmstrongND/status/1347747737211645952' target='_blank'&gt;https://twitter.com/RepArmstrongND/status/1...747737211645952&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social media, mainstream media, news channel and all media are controlled by a certain group of people. They want to stay in power by brainwashing the mass, controlling the narratives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BLM, Antifa or even Senators inciting violence, they didn&amp;#39;t block.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS:&lt;br /&gt;Everyone here claimed that Trump incite violence but failed to provide the proof.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is called NPC, whatever the fakenews said, people believe, even though they can&amp;#39;t provide the source.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:58:38 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Is this a proof of why Mask Don&amp;#39;t Work?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5083883</link>
            <description>[twt]https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1346131986939846656[/twt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='https://i.postimg.cc/WzYkDCGr/MASKS-DONT-WORK-001-min.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://pictr.com/image/7CJce2' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img src='https://pictr.com/images/2021/01/07/7CJce2.md.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:34:24 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Half Of Health Care Workers Refuse Vaccinations</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5081350</link>
            <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;California&amp;#39;s health workers are refusing to take the new COVID-19 vaccines - with over half of frontline workers at one hospital unwilling to take it, and between 20% and 50% of workers at other facilities who feel the same, according to the Los Angeles Times.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New York nurse Sandra Lindsay becomes the first person in the US to become vaccinated&lt;br /&gt;At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said. -LA Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, as the Times notes, vaccine doubts among healthcare workers have come as a surprise to researchers, &amp;#39;who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps they were spooked by a viral video of a Tennessee nurse passing out on camera roughly 10 minutes after receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine - which she says was due to an &amp;#39;over-reactive vagal response&amp;#39; and not related to the jab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;I’m choosing the risk — the risk of having COVID, or the risk of the unknown of the vaccine,&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt; said 31-year-old nurse April Lu of the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles, who added that she refused to take the vaccine because she wasn&amp;#39;t convinced of its safety for pregnant woman. Lu is six months pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I think I’m choosing the risk of COVID. I can control that and prevent it a little by wearing masks, although not 100% for sure,&amp;quot; she added. Lu isn&amp;#39;t alone, with several of her co-workers similarly refusing to take the vaccine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I feel people think, ‘I can still make it until this ends without getting the vaccine,’&amp;quot; she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The extent to which healthcare workers are refusing the vaccine is unclear, but reports of lower-than-expected participation rates are emerging around the country, raising concerns for epidemiologists who say the public health implications could be disastrous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 29% of healthcare workers were “vaccine hesitant,” a figure slightly higher than the percentage of the general population, 27%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Even the name, Operation Warp Speed, draws some concern for people about the rush to push it through,” said Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Health who has received the vaccine. Still, she urged her colleagues to do the same. -LA Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another healthcare worker, office assistant Nicholas Ruiz at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California says that while he interacts with nurses who deal with COVID-19 patients, he&amp;#39;s not taking the vaccine either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I feel like the perception of the public with healthcare workers is incorrect. They might think we’re all informed of all of this. They might think that because we work in this environment,&amp;quot; said Ruiz, adding &amp;quot;But I know there’s a lot of people that have the same mentality as the public where they’re still afraid of getting it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To try and convince health workers to take the jab, several hospitals are now showing employees instructional videos and interactive webinars showing staff happily getting vaccinated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Laguna Hospital and San Francisco, around 10% of the nursing staff have opted out of the vaccine. Meanwhile, UCLA health reports 7,300 personnel out of 37,000 had received it - with officials noting that &amp;quot;there may be vaccine hesitancy in our workforce.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We are not asking personnel to decide immediately whether to receive the vaccine. We want to give those offered vaccines adequate time to make a decision, and we hope that personnel will continue to understand that the benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks,&amp;quot; the hospital said in a statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/im-choosing-risk-getting-covid-over-half-health-care-workers-california-hospitals-refuse' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/im-choos...ospitals-refuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/healthcare-workers-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-access' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.latimes.com/california/story/20...-vaccine-access&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. And who knows better than health care professionals? Certainly not the media....gotta ask yourself why they are refusing to take it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:17:42 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Arrested for Sharing Video of ‘Empty’ Hospital</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5080681</link>
            <description>Police in England have arrested a woman in connection with a video of an allegedly “empty” hospital in Gloucestershire that was posted on social media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gloucestershire Constabulary police officers arrested the woman on Tuesday, on suspicion of a supposed “public order offence“.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 46-year-old woman has been bailed until January on the condition that she does not enter any NHS facility except for a health emergency or appointment, according to the local news outlet Gloucestershire  Live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In the video posted on social media, the woman is heard saying: “Where’s the second wave? Where’re all the people dying from the second wave?” as she wanders through the largely deserted corridors of the hospital.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We’ve just been locked down in Gloucestershire into Tier 3, for this? For an empty hospital, look at it, this is a disgrace,” the unnamed woman went on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“To be honest I didn’t expect it to be this quiet,” the woman said, adding: “I expected a few more people to be around.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“This is a disgrace. It is so dead. All the people in our country desperately waiting for treatment, cancer treatment heart disease, honestly this is making me so angry,” she concluded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;It is said to have been shared around 80,000 times on Facebook before being taken down, although sympathisers have uploaded fragments of the video to other platforms, such as Twitter.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a statement, the Gloucestershire Police said: “Following a number of reports in relation to a video filmed by a member of the public at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and posted online, officers arrested a 46-year-old woman yesterday (Tuesday 29 December) on suspicion of a public order offence.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The woman has been bailed to return to police on 21 January, with conditions that she cannot enter any NHS premises or the grounds of any such premises, unless in the case of an emergency or to attend a pre-arranged NHS appointment,” the police force added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The woman claims a “thug of an officer” tried to “drag me off” wearing only a nightgown and “twisted my hands behind my back in handcuffs”, although she was eventually allowed to get dressed. She added that she was held in a police cell until 11:30 p.m. before being released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to the arrest, London mayoral candidate David Kurten said: “A woman was arrested for filming this video of an empty hospital. This is not a crime. It is tyrannical to use the police to intimidate and harass whistleblowers.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/31/woman-arrested-for-filming-inside-empty-hospital-in-england/' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/31...tal-in-england/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do a simple experiment for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;1. Put on your precious mask&lt;br /&gt;2. Put on a pair of glasses&lt;br /&gt;3. Breathe&lt;br /&gt;If the glasses fog up, those are micro droplets of moisture from your breath spraying out into your environment. So the mask is doing NOTHING except making you look like a fool.</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:12:00 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Swiss &amp;amp; Israeli Died After Receiving COVID Vaccine</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5080436</link>
            <description>&lt;b&gt;After an Israeli man reportedly died just 2 hours after receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, authorities in the Swiss Canton of Lucerne said on Wednesday that one of the first people in the country to receive the vaccine has died, though whether his death had anything to do with the inoculation hasn&amp;#39;t yet been determined.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The canton has yet to release any additional details about the exact amount of time that passed between the inoculation and the man&amp;#39;s death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucerne was the site of the first vaccinations in Switzerland beginning last week, with a shot from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech given primarily to elderly people. Switzerland has received 107K vaccine doses, so far, and expects to get 250K per month starting next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We are aware of the case,&amp;quot; a spokesperson said, before adding that the death had been referred to Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic. Swissmedic didn&amp;#39;t comment further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine is the only vaccine approved, so far, in Switzerland. The EU has just started approving the jabs on an emergency-use basis, with the first injections starting earlier this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swiss-patient-dies-shortly-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-vaccine' target='_blank'&gt;https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swis...r-covid-vaccine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/09/04/un-forced-to-admit-gates-funded-vaccine-is-causing-polio-outbreak-in-africa/' target='_blank'&gt;https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/09/04/un-f...reak-in-africa/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This really should be one of the biggest public health scandals of the decade, but instead it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organisations involved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international vaccine initiative is actually causing a deadly outbreak of the very disease it was supposed to wipe-out.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;They use vaccine to halt reproduction, makes women hard to give birth. Population control. And many other side effects &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:00:21 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Major Study Finds Masks Don’t Reduce COVID-19</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5060293</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/major-study-finds-masks-dont-reduce-covid-19-infection-rates/' target='_blank'&gt;https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/major-...nfection-rates/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A high-quality, large-scale Danish study finds no evidence that wearing a face mask significantly minimizes people’s risk of contracting COVID-19. The randomized-control trial found no statistically significant difference in coronavirus infection rates between mask-wearers and non-mask-wearers. In fact, according to the data, mask usage may actually increase the likelihood of infection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use,” the authors summarized their results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While mask-wearing has been advertised by health officials all around the world, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Danish researchers found that there was no statistically significant difference between wearing a mask or not in preventing people from contracting COVID-19.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In the third post hoc analysis, which investigated constellations of patient characteristics, we did not find a subgroup where face masks were effective at conventional levels of statistical significance,” researchers found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The randomized-control trial, which is considered the “gold-standard” design for scientific research, had a large sample size of more than 6,000 people. Most studies conducted on various kinds of face masks against various coronaviruses are neither randomized, controlled trials nor conducted regarding the specific SARS-CoV-2 virus currently affecting the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This clinical trial was conducted from April through June in Denmark, a largely unmasked area with government recommendations only to social distance and wash hands frequently as the country began to reopen in May. Roughly half of the 6,024 participants, 4,862 of whom completed the study, were randomly assigned to wear surgical masks “outside the home among other persons together” while the other half continued to operate in public without a mask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a month, 42 of the mask-wearers in the study (1.8 percent) were infected with the virus while 53 of the non-mask-wearers (2.1. percent) were infected with the virus. Statistically, this is not a significant difference between the two groups, suggesting these infection differences were a product of chance, say the study authors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results,” the study states. “Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some have noted Denmark’s population at the time of the study was less than 2 percent infected, participants were in charge of reporting their own COVID-19 tests, and other limitations. Dr. Christine Laine, editor-in-chief of the Annals of Internal Medicine, where the study is published, told The New York Times the research shows masks “are not a magic bullet.” In an article, Laine and other editors defended the journal’s decision to publish the study despite pushback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“More irresponsible would be to not publish the results of carefully designed research because the findings were not as favorable or definitive as some may have hoped,” they wrote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mask study one of the largest of its kind ever completed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“These findings do offer evidence about the degree of protection mask wearers can anticipate in a setting where others are not wearing masks and where other public health measures, including social distancing, are in effect,” the study states, noting that the trial “did not test the role of masks in source control of SARS-CoV-2 infection.”</description>
            <author>duplicated</author>
            <category>Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:57:34 +0800</pubDate>
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