Drone footage of Greece’s second-largest island shows path of destruction wrought by massive wildfires — Damned Report
August 9, 2021
Monday August 9, 2021
ANNOUNCEMENT
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GREECE
Drone footage of Greece’s second-largest island shows path of destruction wrought by massive wildfires
Greece continued to battle major wildfires on Saturday, with the flames coming dangerously close to the capital, Athens, and cutting the country’s second-largest island, Evia, in half, leaving the sea as the only escape route.
By RT
WAR ON CARBON!
Time nearly up to stop climate catastrophe - Sharma
Despite his warning, the Tory climate chief does not rule out future fossil fuel projects in the UK
By Francesca Gillet, BBC News
UN to reveal landmark climate report findings
The report will be a "massive wake-up call" to governments to cut emissions
By BBC
Earth is warming faster than previously thought, scientists say, and the time to slash greenhouse gas emissions is now
As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing to cut our reliance on fossil fuels and avoid catastrophic changes that would transform life as we know it.
By Angela Fritz and Rachel Ramirez, CNN
CVD PASSPORTS
Fake Covid Vaccination Cards Are on the Rise in the U.S., Europe
As Covid-19 vaccine mandates proliferate in the U.S. and Europe, so are swindlers selling bogus vaccination certificates.
By Eric Sylvers, Wall Street Journal
Vaccine Passports likely to arrive in Australia before the end of the year
Australia is set to further its curtailing of civil liberties.
By Ken Macon, Reclaim the Net
Pubs Could Be Forced to Reintroduce Social Distancing During ‘Covid Surges’ if They Don’t Check Vaccine Passports
Rather than forcing hospitality venues to check vaccine passports later this year, the Government is considering giving pubs and restaurants a ‘choice’: check the vaccination status of customers or reintroduce social distancing (that is, massively reduce profits) during ‘Covid surges’.
By Michael Curzon, The Daily Skeptic
The Covid Witch-Hunts
Can this really be happening? Can the people of my native land really be refusing entry at pub doors to friends and neighbours who have not agreed to receive a particular medical treatment? I’ve been gone for over a decade – have things really changed that much?
By Dr Sinéad Murphy, The Daily Skeptic
CVD-19
If You Study Hundreds of Bat Viruses at BSL-2, “Your Luck May Eventually Run Out”, Says Coronavirus Expert
Back on 14th May, 18 scientists wrote a letter to Science calling for a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Among their number was a gentleman named Ralph Baric, one of the world’s leading coronavirus experts.
By Noah Carl, The Daily Skeptic
US averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South.
By Terry Spencer and Kelli Kennedy, AP
Covid PCR costs can be excessive and exploitative, says Javid
The Health Secretary calls on a watchdog to investigate “exploitative” firms overcharging holidaymakers for Covid tests
BBC News
Quarantine-free travel from France to UK resumes
France moved from its own amber-plus category on to the amber list, which means children and fully vaccinated passengers do not have to quarantine on their return, although unvaccinated travellers still have to self-isolate at home for 10 days.
By Joseph Lee, BBC News
U.K. Health Department plan for return to office working put on hold
The Department of Health and Social Care is not exatly leading by example when it comes to ending work from home rules, having scrapped its timetable requiring civil servants to be in offices for up to eight days a month from September.
By Aubrey Allegretti, The Guardian
Minister wants to slash wages of civil servants not in office
A Cabinet minister has suggested that civil servants who refuse to return to the office should be paid less than those back at their desks
The Daily Mail
Will Covid turn into the common cold?
There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Delta variant may be the virus’s end point
By Paul Hunter, Spectator
Workers ignore Sunak’s ‘back to the office’ call
Staff are embracing the ‘remote working revolution’, but economists warn that a slow return to city centres will hurt our economic recovery
By Tom Rees and Russell Lynch, Telegraph
Companies Thought They Had Plans for Fall. Now They Are Scrapping Them
The return to the office isn’t just being slowed in the U.K. Fears over the Delta variant has U.S. managers revamping schedules, with bosses delaying office reopenings and canceling events
By Chip Cutter, Wall Street Journal
PROMO
Money = Power = Time
We’ve all heard that “money is power.” Another popular one is, “time is money”. But what does the depth of these statements really mean?
By Dax Hill, Jianchor
MASKS
‘All within rules’: UK govt defends Foreign Sec Raab for meeting Princess Anne maskless & not quarantining after trip to France
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has come under fire for skipping self-isolation after returning from Paris and hanging out with Princess Anne instead. The government has said the official did not break any regulations.
By RT
Two thirds of Americans will continue to mask up if they are sick, even post-Covid pandemic – poll
Over 60% of Americans say they will continue masking up if they feel sick, even post-Covid 19 pandemic, and over 40% say they will don face coverings in crowded spaces going forward, according to a new poll.
By RT
VACKSINES
CDC Study on 12- to 17-Year-Olds Who Got Pfizer Vaccine: 397 Reports of Heart Inflammation, 14 Deaths
A study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed 9,246 adverse events reported among adolescents aged 12 to 17, including 863 serious events, 14 deaths and 397 reports of myocarditis.
By Megan Redshaw, Children Health Defense
Fauci warns of ‘worse variant’ that ‘could impact the vaccinated’ if Covid-19 is allowed to keep mutating in unvaxxed population
In his latest bid to promote Covid-19 jabs, White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci upped his pandemic warnings and cautioned vaccinated individuals about an even “worse variant” that could come after Delta.
By RT
RUSSIA-AFGHANISTAN
Russian bombers & Spetsnaz train in Afghan border drills with Uzbekistan & Tajikistan, as Taliban advances
Russian troops and hardware, deployed this week close to the Afghan border, took part in Uzbek-Russian military drills and trilateral exercises in neighboring Tajikistan, as the Taliban continued its offensive in Afghanistan.
DRONES
America needs to listen to the anguished operators of our flying death robots
The Pentagon saw drone warfare as a way to exert power without risking U.S. lives. They forget about the conscience of the people who ran them.
By Will Bunch Philadelphia Inquirer