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France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs approves of pointed message hailing EU flag ‘key to our sovereignty’
LIZ TRUSS’s French rival has approved a provocative post on social media hailing the EU flag as the “key to our sovereignty”.
Clement Beaune, France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, took to Twitter and “liked” a pro-EU post shared by a French businessman. The tweet features an image of the famous blue and gold EU flag along with the caption: “This flag is 75 years of peace.
“This flag is the key to our sovereignty. This flag is what allows an unprecedented recovery plan.”
The UK left the EU a year ago today in order to restore sovereignty and wrestle back control of money, laws and borders.
Mr Beaune has been a constant critic of Brexit Britain and most recently led the charge for French vessels to be able to fish in UK waters.
France officially took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU on January 1.
To mark the occasion, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was lit-up in EU blue on New Year’s Eve
In his New Year message, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “The year 2022 must be a turning point for Europe.”
He added: “You can count on my complete commitment to ensure that this period, which comes around every 13 years, is a time of progress for you”.
The EU presidency will give France the opportunity to shape the direction of the bloc.
It will also coincide with the French presidential elections in April – Mr Macron is yet to commit to running for a second term in office.
Earlier this month, Mr Macron outlined his vision for Europe and stressed his priority would be to reinforce sovereignty and highlighted the importance of stopping illegal migration.
He said: “If we have to sum up in one sentence the objective of this presidency… I would say that we must move from a Europe of cooperation within our borders to a Europe that is powerful in the world, fully sovereign, free of his choices and master of his destiny.”
Mr Macron added: “To prevent the right of asylum which was invented on the European continent and which is our honour from being misguided, we absolutely must find a Europe which knows how to protect its borders.”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is now leading Brexit talks with the EU following the shock departure of Lord David Frost as Brexit Minister last month.
Ms Truss will also be tasked with rebuilding strained ties between London and Paris following months of disputes over fishing licences.
Following the exit of Lord Frost, Mr Beaune called on the UK to “rebuild a climate of trust with France and the EU”.
France: Rapper Gims rails against people who wish him “Happy New Year” because this is not customary among Muslims
He doesn’t want to hear any more about it and sends a strong message to all Muslims.
“Please do not bother me with ‘happy year, new year’ etc “. Rapper Gims has made a statement that is likely to anger many people. The Congolese artist – who grew up and became known in France under the pseudonym Maître Gims – declared on Friday December the 31st that he no longer wanted his fans to congratulate him on the New Year or even on his birthday. The singer and composer announced this in videos he temporarily posted on his Instagram account. The recordings are no longer available, but the identitarian activist Damien Rieu has collected them and shared them on Twitter. In these videos, Gims addresses his followers, “I never replied to this, but you keep sending me them the whole of January and February. Muslims stop it.” He reminds in passing that it is Muslims who kindly congratulate him on the New Year and on his birthday. “Brothers, we don’t celebrate that (…) That is not part of our beliefs”.
The rapper, who lives in Morocco for most of the year, again stated that Muslims, of which he is one, do not celebrate New Year. “Did the Muslims celebrate New Year? No!” he said. The singer also claimed that he suffers when people wish him happy birthday: “It’s another step towards death.”
He then shouted, “Come on, let’s focus on our own things. Let’s stay strong with our values”. The man who rose to fame with the rap group Sexion d’Assaut also mentioned Eid celebrations, “During Eid, everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving is quiet, they don’t celebrate Eid. Christmas we respect, but those are not our celebrations”. Before pointing his finger at non-Christian people who celebrate Christmas anyway, he says: “When I see big Christmas trees at the Mustafas, the Bakaris, I see that people at home don’t really think about it there.” “Come on, we have to focus on that,” he ended his speech.
Noel Gallagher absolutely scorns Labour
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Faroe Islands: Tested, isolated, boosted group infected with Omicron
A private meeting among the vaccinated mutated into a super-spreader event demonstrating how Covid vaccines do not protect against infection.
It is a small island state in the North Atlantic with around 50 000 inhabitants: the Faroe Islands. At the beginning of December, no Omicron infections were recorded there. That changed when 33 caregivers got together for a private meeting. All of them had been boosted.
“In the following days, many of the participants developed clear Covid symptoms,” reported Report24. Despite having had the triple vaccination, the participants fell ill: “In the end, there was a total of 21 infected people. That corresponds to an infection rate of 63,6 percent.” All had had a negative Covid test 36 hours before the meeting. None of the people affected had to be treated in the hospital, because all of them – as is typical for Omicron – only showed mild symptoms.
“This once again impressively confirmed that the continuous series of booster vaccinations currently hailed as the “best protection against Omicron” in Germany do not actually have any noticeable effect, Report24 pointed out.
Similar results were also presented in a recently published study that included the case of the Faroe Islands. The authors concluded that current Corona vaccines do not work against this variant. “A striking feature of this variant is the large number of spike mutations that pose a threat to the efficacy of current Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines and antibody therapies. This concern is amplified by the findings from our study.”
So far we have seen everywhere that vaccinated people become infected with Omicron at a disproportionately high rate. Official data from the UK’s National Immunization Management System has shown for the first time that the unvaccinated were less often hospitalized with Omicron (25 percent) relative to their proportion of the population (30 percent).
In Norway and Denmark Omicron has spread among those who have been vaccinated several times, Report24 underscored. “In Denmark, even a vaccination quota of over 80 percent was not enough to save the country from becoming one of the European hotspots for the Omicron variant: In mid-December, 84 percent of those infected with the Omicron variant were jabbed twice, nine percent of them even vaccinated three times.”
In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute on page 14 in its current weekly report, revealed that 95,6 percent of those who had tested positive for the Omicron variant had been “fully vaccinated”. Some 27 percent had even had a booster shot. Only 186 of a total of 4 206 registered cases with known vaccination status were unvaccinated.
Many scientists see this variant as a possible end to the pandemic. Virologist Isabella Eckerle from Geneva University Hospital confirmed: “Omicron is so contagious that this virus could be our ticket to the endemic situation.” She said that immunity to Sars-CoV-2 would become “more and more resilient and broader” over time.
Katalin Karikó, co-inventor of the mRNA vaccine and Vice President of Biontech, agreed that Omicron could be a possible way out of the pandemic.
There’s no escape from Omicron
Polar researchers in remote Antarctica have meanwhile also fallen victim to Covid, despite taking strict health precautions, being fully vaccinated, and thousands of kilometres away from civilization.
Two thirds of the 25 staff based in Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught Covid, the Le Soir newspaper reported, proving there is no escape from the global pandemic.
The Omicron outbreak happened despite all staff passing multiple PCR tests, quarantining and living in one of the most remote places on earth. Before leaving for the station, they all underwent a PCR test in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa.
In South Africa, they quarantined for 10 days and took another PCR test. A further test was needed when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and a final one five days after that.
There are two emergency doctors at the polar station, which will not allow any new arrivals until the virus dissipates.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/01/01/faroe-islands-isolated-boosted-group-infected-with-omicron/
Coincidental or not, dropping criminal charges against Epstein’s prison guards sends a message to Ghislaine Maxwell the day after her conviction
By Thomas Lifson
Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of 5 of 6 criminal counts in her federal trial on charges arising from sex trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and unidentified other figures, believed to include rich and powerful men. Shortly after the trial’s end and Maxwell’s return to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, federal prosecutors on Thursday “asked a judge to dismiss claims against Tova Noel and Michael Thomas,” the two Bureau of Prisons guards who falsified records and slept on the job when Jeffrey Epstein allegedly committed suicide, “after both complied with the six-month deferred prosecution agreements they agreed to in May.”
So far as the public has been told, Ghislaine Maxwell has not offered any evidence against the other men who had illicit sex with the underage girls she procured for Epstein’s stable of sex slaves. If we are to believe that some of the rich, famous and powerful people known to have associated with Epstein in his various residences, including “Orgy Island” could be implicated by Maxwell in a plea bargain agreement to reduce her sentence, then she has every reason to fear for her safety in federal custody.
The message being sent by the light punishment for the prison guards whose negligence enabled Epstein’s death is pretty clear. If Maxwell were to “commit suicide” or “have an accident,” any guards implicated in negligence permitting such a death may face minimal consequences.
Oddly, none of the articles on the prison guards escaping serious punishment in the major media and press services that I examined specified the federal prosecutors agreeing to wrist slap. But since the federal trial took place in Manhattan, I have to assume they work for the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Cyrus Vance, Jr. a hereditary Democrat elite federal functionary.
I wish Ms. Maxwell a long life in federal custody. In my dreams, she would name names of those who participated in Epstein’s alleged orgies. I find the lack of interest by prosecutors and most media in identifying these presumed criminals to be quite telling.
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Ariz is Austria’s most punctual New Year’s baby
Here are some reader comments on the joyful event:
Professor1. Jänner 2022 um 10:58 Uhr
Thank Allah, finally beautiful traditional names again, which strengthen us in the hope that we will not be completely invaded by foreigners in the next 10 years 😀😀😀
Peter Lustig1. Jänner 2022 um 10:01 Uhr
Mehmet, Tarik and Ariz born at the beginning of the year.
Omar Haijawi is the head of the Austrian Secret Service.
Sumaya Musa is a politician for the Green Party.
Quite a diverse new world.
I like it.
https://exxpress.at/0-00-uhr-oesterreichs-puenktlichstes-neujahrsbaby-heisst-ariz/
Omicron and faulty tests severely disrupt trains in Italy
The website of Italy’s national rail operator posted warnings of severely disrupted services: “For the activities related to the organization of the services, changes in the timetable of the regional trains can be expected after controls provided by anti-Covid regulations,” noted Trenitalia and listed at least 16 regions affected by the serious problem.
Positive Corona test results have led Trenord to forcibly cancel journeys, so that large parts of the train traffic in Lombardy had to be rescheduled due to massive staff shortages. According to trade unions, staff shortages have become quite common regardless of Italy’s return to “normal” with the “green pass”.
Pandemic restrictions, which lead to a mad run on test centers in order to obtain “green passports”, have become an own goal for the government, according to Gospa News. They have given employees who would like to stay at home during the holidays the opportunity propose contact with an Omicron “infected person”, “infect” themselves and thus to go into quarantine.
As Gospa News reported, about 67 percent of new positive “cases” in Piedmont are asymptomatic. Moreover, rapid antigen Covid-19 tests do not accurately detect the Omicron variant.
In the meantime, the government appears to be blind an deaf to these facts: A new decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers will impose new restrictions on the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are not the problem, however, especially because various studies have highlighted that the vaccinated often have a viral load which could be 251 times higher than that of an infected person without the jab.
The government’s new guidelines, which are currently being transposed into formal legislation, include lifting of the quarantine for vaccinated persons who have been vaccinated for less than four months and for vaccinated persons with a “booster dose”.
They also plan the expansion of the Super Green Pass (2G) to almost all public spaces: Public transport, hotels, trade fairs, ski areas and many other leisure facilities while sport stadiums may not be occupied by more than 50 percent.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/01/01/omicron-and-faulty-tests-severely-disrupt-trains-in-italy/