“The comparison to HIV/AIDS is incredibly instructive – even though HIV was hugely lethal and was primarily spread by people without symptoms, we did not attempt to quarantine or restrict in any way even people we knew had it. We did not insist on mass testing even in high-risk groups. Our public health authorities DISCOURAGED rather than encouraged panic.”
Pfizer says COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90 per cent
h/t Mauser
The producers of the film Rust had budgeted $7,913 to pay rookie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, compared to $650,000 for themselves and a $350,000 contingency fee in case anything went wrong, according to a preliminary budget.
The independent movie had a modest overall budget of just $7,279,305, according to a draft of the production budget dated September 8, which was revealed by the Hollywood Reporter.
Star and producer Alec Baldwin, who fired the accidental shot that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, derailing the production, was slated to earn $150,000 as the lead actor, and his production company, El Dorado, was taking a $100,000 fee.
There have been 13 more homicides in Toronto this year compared to last year’s total as police are investigating a string of shootings in the past month.
To date, there have been 74 homicides in the city, surpassing last year’s total of 61 for the entire year.
Toronto police released the latest figures on shooting and homicide rates in the city Friday morning and appealed to the public for help in providing any information that might help solve some outstanding cases.
Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas saw intense violence as local National Guard officers faced off with a migrant caravan moving north to Mexico City. Scuffles reportedly resulted in injuries on both sides.
The Mexican National Guard was deployed to Chiapas in recent days to halt a migrant caravan that set off on foot last month from the country’s southern border with Guatemala. Around 3,000 people are currently moving north to Mexico City in the hope of eventually reaching the US border.
#IdeaNoticias 💡 🗞️ 📰#Sociedad 🌇 🌆
Zafarrancho entre inmigrantes, agentes de la Guardia Nacional y agentes del Instituto Nacional de Migración #INM, en #Pijijiapan, #Chiapas, #Mexico 🇲🇽. pic.twitter.com/9Y2ddO0fIm— @ideainfo1💡🗞️📰🇲🇽😎 (@ideanoticias1) November 4, 2021
After Mexican cops shot dead a Cuban migrant on Sunday, watch the caravan defend itself today against a militarised National Guard in the state of #Chiapas. This is what resistance looks like comrades. Solidarity with the migrant caravan✊🏽
— GhostofDurruti (@RobTheRich0001) November 4, 2021
Testimony on Wednesday and Thursday from the Kenosha detective in charge of the investigation into shootings by Kyle Rittenhouse left more than a few questions unanswered about what evidence is missing from the trial.
Rittenhouse is being tried for killing two people and wounding a third on August 25, 2020, the third night of riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has pleaded self-defense for all three shootings.
School’s out for Greta! Thousands of children bunk off to join Thunberg at Glasgow ‘youth strike’ climate protest after Prince Charles BACKED them – despite minister warning their parents could be fined
Thousands of schoolchildren and their parents marched through Glasgow today in an extraordinary ‘Fridays For Future’ rally led by Greta Thunberg as they urged world leaders at COP26 to ‘act now’.
Prince Charles has lent his support to up to 10,000 protestors marching through the city this afternoon, as parents took their children out of school to join the event which was being addressed by the Swedish activist.
But Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has criticised young activists for travelling to the demonstration today – saying they should not be there in ‘school time’ and they faced handing their parents fines for truancy.
WASHINGTON — Thousands of intelligence officers could soon face dismissal for failing to comply with the U.S. government’s vaccine mandate, leading some Republican lawmakers to raise concerns about removing employees from agencies critical to national security.
Several intelligence agencies had at least 20% of their workforce unvaccinated as of late October, said U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Some agencies in the 18-member intelligence community had as much as 40% of their workforce unvaccinated, Stewart said, citing information the administration has provided to the committee but not released publicly. He declined to identify the agencies because full information on vaccination rates was classified.
“China has moved aggressively to weaponize space…” These were the words of U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall at the 36th Space Symposium on August 24.
“Both conventional deterrence and conventional operations depend on access to communications, intelligence, and other services provided by space-based systems. As a result, our strategic competitors have pursued and fielded a number of weapons systems in space designed to defeat or destroy America’s space-based military weapons systems and our ability to project power.”
Space has become crucial: so much of what happens there now affects life on earth.
Canadian Muslim terrorist with Canadian passport who spent two years in Syrian prison camps fights Ottawa to return home
… The woman was born in Somalia, arrived in Canada with her family in 1993 and became a citizen in 2004. She grew up in Toronto and later moved to Vancouver. Feeling depressed and lonely, she dropped her post-secondary studies to work at retail jobs.
In 2014, she left Canada for Turkey, soon travelling to Syria.
“Shortly thereafter, I realized that I had been manipulated into going to that country,” her affidavit says.
A video is going around showing President Biden nodding off during the opening speeches at COP26 — the United Nation’s latest big climate conference. As the speaker, perhaps having just flown in on one of the 400 private jets that filled the Glasgow skies, pleaded for “action to stop the destruction of this magnificent planet” and warned this “conference is one of the most important meetings in history,” Biden shut his eyes and fell asleep. Personally, I’d have rolled my eyes, not shut them, but it comes to the same thing. The proper response to this sort of apocalyptic hyperbole is to tune it out, especially when it’s a replay of the same inane rhetoric of the previous 25 such meetings.
KITCHENER – Neighbours are speaking out about the Port Dover man who was shot and killed by police on Wednesday.
The Special Investigations Unit said Toronto Police were executing a search warrant at a home on Port Ryerse Road around 12 p.m.
A 70-year-old man was shot and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
h/t Jaedo
Special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the bogus Steele dossier used by the FBI as a basis for the Trump-Russia investigation, further illustrates that Durham has his sights set on the Clinton campaign.
Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine agents of the Kremlin. Those allegations were compiled in the so-called Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants from a secret federal court.
The Igor Danchenko Indictment – It was all a fraud.
Retail giant Reitmans brought more than 100 shipments of clothing into Canada from a Chinese factory suspected of secretly using North Korean forced labour, a months-long CBC Marketplace investigation has found.
And they’re not alone.
YM Inc., which owns well-known brands such as Sirens, Stitches, Bluenotes and UrbanKids, also did business with the same factory, Dandong Huayang Textiles and Garment Co. Ltd., up until 2019. Although a smaller volume, the company imported clothing at least 21 times, according to U.S. shipping records.
The Liberal government’s proposal to force online platforms to monitor all user content and take down posts they judge to be illegal “will result in the blocking of legitimate content,” says Google.
Ontario reports 563 new COVID-19 cases; 5 new deaths
Ontario reported 563 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths on Friday, with all leading indicators of transmission now pointing slightly in the wrong direction.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 390, up from 383 yesterday and 355 one week ago.
Toronto COVID-19 infections on the rise after prolonged drop
Daily COVID-19 infections are once again on the rise — including among young children — after dropping for seven straight weeks.
Toronto’s seven-day average for new daily infections rose to 59 from 50 a week earlier, as of last Saturday according to newly updated data that reflects a provincewide uptick in new cases.
Amid a rising vaccination rate, the indicator had tumbled since early September from an average of 156 new daily cases in Toronto.
