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Nations impose UK travel bans over new variant

European nations have begun to apply travel bans with the UK after it reported a more infectious and "out of control" coronavirus variant.
Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium are all halting flights and travel. The measures vary and are initially generally short-term.
An EU meeting will be held on Monday morning to discuss a more co-ordinated response.
The new variant has spread quickly in London and south-east England.

Why do they care about this new variant of the Wuhan virus?
Even if we can't say it's deadlier than those previously found all around the world, it might mean it's growing either stronger or weaker than its parent virus. You see, they always fear the unknown.  

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the same mutation has also been detected in the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia.
Dr Catherine Smallwood, of WHO Europe, said that as of 20 December, the numbers in those countries were small, nine in Denmark and one each in the other two nations. But she said other countries had notified WHO of other variants "that also carry some of the genetic changes seen in the UK variant".

Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, also a former diplomat, once wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump where he mentioned the existence of the Covid-19 AND Covid-21. So is this the virus he was waiting for? Will it be named Covid-20 or Covid-21 at the end?

China tails US warship as it sails through Taiwan Strait

The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

[Such missions] deliberately raise the temperature of the Taiwan issue, as they fear calm in the Taiwan Strait, and send flirtatious glances to Taiwan independence forces, seriously jeopardizing peace and stability in the strait.

In Taipei, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said it monitored the Mustin’s movements, and that "the situation was as normal."
So what does China actually think about this patrols?
It's quite simple indeed. They just hate that US monitors their maritime agenda that includes provocations to scare the hell out of Taiwan, building artificial islands to claim new territories, and their valuable resources located under that sea. Nothing prevents the US or any other nation from navigating those waters but China already believes they're totally exclusive for China and nobody else. Besides they didn't expect the US Navy to keep visiting the place during the current pandemic.

UK faces Brexit limbo

The failure to meet the European parliament’s deadline means that ministers on the EU council representing the bloc’s capitals may need to “provisionally apply” a deal on 1 January to avoid a no-deal exit until parliament votes later in the month.
If the talks go much deeper into December, however, there may not be time for the EU capitals to translate and scrutinise the agreed text, leaving the UK to exit the transition period without new trade and security arrangements with Brussels.
Contingency measures would have to be agreed to bridge the gap before a deal could come into force, but such a scenario raises the danger of ports and security services being left in legal limbo.

For months Prime Minister Boris Johnson have mentioned that UK might get away with it even if there's no deal by the end of the year. Since they don't like EU's stand on fisheries among other conditions they pretend to impose the UK, the PM might think that the WTO rules are far better than giving up on UK's sovereignty. Personally, I seriously think they'd only succeed if they forget about the globalist agenda 2030.

British banks under pressure over £45m loans to firm with links to Myanmar military
Campaigners say the deals revealed in new report are a breach of firms’ human rights responsibilities

HSBC and Standard Chartered have loaned $60m (£44.5m) to Vietnamese telecom giant Viettel in the last four years, a period when the Myanmar military has been accused of committing war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. Viettel is a major investor in Mytel, a Myanmar mobile network that, since its launch in June 2018, has grown to become the second-biggest operator in the country with over 10 million users.
A Myanmar state-owned enterprise, Star High Co Ltd, a subsidiary of the military-operated Myanmar Economic Corporation, has a 28% stake in the network; Viettel’s international telecommunications investment subsidiary, Viettel Global JSC, controls 49%; and Myanmar National Telecom Holdings, representing a group of Myanmar companies, owns 23%. The shareholding structure, which confirms Mytel is a major revenue generator for the Myanmar military, is revealed in a report by the campaign group Justice For Myanmar (JFM).
The report, based on open-source material and a trove of documents that emerged when a Viettel subsidiary accidentally published online internal files relating to the company’s operations in Myanmar, reveals how Mytel has been upgrading the Myanmar military’s infrastructure, including the army’s network of fibre-optic cables.

Seriously, that's as immoral as financing Hezbollah or Antifa or the Muslim Brotherhood.

Israel starts Covid vaccine drive as Facebook groups taken down

‘Mendacious’ content removed on request of the Israeli health ministry as vaccination drive gets under way

The justice ministry said that, at its request, Facebook took down four groups at the weekend that had disseminated texts, photographs and videos with “deliberately mendacious content designed to mislead about coronavirus vaccines”.
Such “fake news” included arguments that vaccines would be used to plant government tracking chips in recipients’ bodies; to poison them; or to subject them to medical experimentation, the ministry said.
A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed that four Hebrew-language groups had been taken down as part of the company’s policy against spreading misinformation regarding the vaccines.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, Netanyahu, but the last part concerning the medical experimentation is true.
Nobody can deny that there's no guarantee people might not die after receiving the shot for drugs only got emergency approval. That's not the same as intensively testing the vaccines for a few years till they can certify that pretty much nobody would pass away after the inoculation. The very same fact that health workers should keep epinephrine and other drugs at hand to treat the severe symptoms of the vaccine proves my point. When you normally visited your doctor, you never expected the nurse to give you a deadly shot. You never watched them keep other bottles and needles at hand so why should we do it now? It's good to know there's a vaccine but they should seriously consider they should still test it for another half a year or so before feeling overconfident as to risk people's lives by causing unexpected emergencies at the hospitals, clinics or Walgreen's.

Hezbollah sees threat in US president's final days

Leaders fear Donald Trump and Israel will act against Iran and Hezbollah before Joe Biden’s arrival

In the organisation’s heartland, Hezbollah members are watching the clock – and the skies. Israeli jets have been streaking overhead for more than a month, and over the past few weeks the frequency of flights has sharply increased, as has security in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the nerve centre of the region’s most powerful militant group.
Leaders and senior members fear that Trump, his outgoing secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and Israel intend to use the weeks before Joe Biden’s inauguration to act decisively against Iran and Hezbollah before the new president takes a widely anticipated softer stance.

They’ve got their window and they want to finish what they started, said one . “But don’t worry, the Sayyid [the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah] is safe.”

It's quite ironic this come from a movement that has kidnapped and impoverished all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip forcing them to become its pawns alias cannon fodder unless they prefer to rebel and end up being beaten and tied to some vehicle only to be drag across the streets as a warning for other "dissidents". They even steal donations to feed their leaders and purchase new weapons.

Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court

President Trump still refuses to concede the outcome and continues to promote allegations that there was massive voter fraud

President Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse several cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to change the state’s mail ballot law before and after the 2020 presidential election.
The president’s campaign alleged in a statement that the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court’s changing of the law was a violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Bush v. Gore.
The petition cites a "related Pennsylvania case" where Justice Samuel Alito and two other justices observed the constitutionality of the state court's decision to extend the statutory deadline for receipt of mail ballots from 8 p.m. on Election Day to 5 p.m. three days later. 
The campaign team said the constitutionality of the court's decision had "national importance" and may violate the U.S. Constitution.

This isn't about justice but courage. If the SCOTUS keeps running away from its duty to properly analyze this claim, it would definitely demonstrate they fear somebody's retaliation. No matter who might have been involved in altering rules either by following the proper procedures before the 2020 elections or by committing a serious crime against democracy, ensuring nobody intervened in the last elections is critical, is a must. Not because someone pretends to end this process this December means everything's OK. They should study it first instead of acting as best friends of the Democratic Party.
Or is Daddy Soros via his Open Society gangsters gonna punish the Justices if they listen to the US President's complains?