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  3. A 22-year-old Iranian girl, identified as Mahsa Amini, has gone into a coma after being severely beaten in her head by the Islamic Republic’s “morality” police.

    The Islamic Republic’s police told Iranian media that Amini suffered a heart attack while detained by morality police, denying reports that she had been beaten.

    Iran International has learned that Amini was not feeling well and had symptoms similar to concussion when she was taken to the Vozara detention center, where the morality police take all those arrested across the capital Tehran.

    https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209151297

  4. A young female police officer suffered a life-changing stab wound to her arm as she tackled a knifeman in London’s Leicester Square.

    A male officer was stabbed three times in the neck and once in the chest, but should make a full recovery,

    The pair spotted an armed man was spotted close to the theatre district this morning.He needed to be tasered to bring him to the ground, but the two officers received stab wounds in the tussle.

    Police said the families of the officers involved have been informed. The incident is not being treated as terror-related.

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/two-police-officers-stabbed-tackling-knifeman-in-leicester-square/

    • europravda – Germany takes control of 3 Russian-owned oil refineries

      Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country to ensure energy security before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year, officials said Friday.

      • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA – Russian oil giant Rosneft put under German trusteeship – Preserving while disconnecting

        Berlin has put the German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft under trusteeship.

        That means a federal regulator is taking control of one of the nation’s critical refineries in the eastern town of Schwedt — which is served by the Russian oil-pipeline Druzhba.

        The German-government said growing concerns from banks, insurers and suppliers about the refinery’s future forced it to act now.

        Berlin is vowing to find non-Russian sources of oil for the refinery.

        That announcement about Rosneft is part of a larger balancing-act in Berlin as it tries to preserve critical energy-infrastructure while disconnecting from the Russian supply that keeps it going.

        Another example is the natural-gas company Uniper.

        It was the largest importer of Russian gas, but is now struggling as Russian deliveries fall away.

        Now the German government is considering stronger measures to keep it afloat.

    • Kadri Simson – Unfortunately, the Summer has not offered a break from the energy crisis!

      Today we are presenting an emergency proposal for a targeted and time-limited intervention to address high energy prices.

      We need to take this step, to prevent a worsening of the outlook and protect citizens and business from the effects of spiking prices.

      Gas flows from Russia have further dropped since July. The manipulation of supplies is tightening the market and pushing gas prices to new records.

      These tensions are having a ripple effect on the electricity market. This has been made worse by other challenges, including an extraordinarily hot and dry summer that gives us a taste of the impact of climate change.

      As a result, electricity prices are at unsustainable levels. This is hurting our people and industry.

      Norway, not Russia, is the biggest gas supplier to the EU today. …

    • EU’s Simson Sees Broad Support for Energy Proposals

      Kadri Simson believes there is broad support for the commission’s proposals to curb demand and tax windfall profits.

    • CNN – Russian sanctions slow to bite as US officials admit frustrations over pace of pain in Moscow

      Senior US officials tell CNN they are disappointed US-led sanctions haven’t had a bigger impact so far on the Russian economy and are now predicting that the harshest effects probably won’t materialize until early next year at the earliest.

      The hope had been that the sanctions would quickly choke off Russia’s war machine in Ukraine, making it difficult for the Kremlin to sustain its efforts on the battlefield — and perhaps even turn public opinion against the invasion when day-to-day life in Russian society became uncomfortable.

      But the Russian economy has proven far more resilient than many top Biden administration officials had expected when they set out to punish the country in February, thanks largely to record-setting revenues it has reaped in the spring and summer from soaring energy prices. In the first 100 days of the war, Russia earned a record 93 billion euros in revenue by exporting oil, gas and coal, according to the Finnish Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

      Russia’s economy still shrunk by about 4% between April and June as compared to the same period last year. But that’s nowhere near the 15% decline that some had expected earlier in the year.
      “We were expecting that things like SWIFT and all the blocking sanctions on Russia’s banks would totally crater the Russian economy and that basically, by now going into September, we’d be dealing with an economically much more weakened Russia than the one that we are dealing with,” said one senior US official, referring to the US and European decision to cut some Russian banks off from the SWIFT international banking system.

      Another senior US official echoed that, telling CNN that many in the administration had hoped to see the Russian economy suffering more by now, given the unprecedented severity of the coordinated western sanctions.

      A separate senior administration official cautioned CNN, however, that the officials crafting the sanctions in the months leading up to the war always believed that the steepest impacts would not necessarily be immediate.

      “I think we’ve had, from the beginning, a view that when Russia invaded Ukraine and we imposed the sanctions, they were going to be, in all likelihood, a mid-to-long term sanctions regime,” the official said. “That is because we wanted to keep pressure on Russia over the long term as it waged war on Ukraine, and we wanted to degrade Russia’s economic and industrial capabilities. So we’ve always seen this as a long term game.”

      The official acknowledged that while there were some “up-front shocks” to the Russian economy, like when the ruble plunged, Russia was able to rally quickly thanks to its energy revenues. Still, this official and western intelligence officials told CNN that they assess that in the long-term, Russia’s economy will suffer enormously — both from the cost of the war itself and from western efforts to cut it off from global trade.

      “There’s going to be long-term damage done to the Russian economy and to generations of Russians as a result of this,” CIA Director Bill Burns told a cybersecurity conference last week. “Russia is going to pay a very heavy price, I think, over a long period of time.”

      Slow to target Russian energy

      The disconnect between early expectations and reality appears to stem from the fact that many US and western officials underestimated the sky-high revenues Russia would initially reap from rising oil prices, and the willingness of countries like China and India to continue buying Russian oil.

      And despite being one of the largest oil producers in the world, Saudi Arabia has also begun buying Russian crude — albeit at a discount — for use in its power plants, freeing up its own oil to sell to other countries, an administration official confirmed to CNN.

      “The United States underestimated it, and we were slow in actually starting to think about deploying sanctions against Russia energy interests,” said Jason Blazakis, a sanctions expert who served as the State Department’s Director of the Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office from 2008-2018.

      “I think they made that calculation that these sanctions would have heat and hurt the Russian economy very quickly, in ways they clearly misunderstood and overestimated,” Blazakis said. “The sanctions certainly have made the Russian economy smaller, but not to the extent people had hoped. And certainly not to the point where the Russians were brought to the bargaining table.”

      When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Europe’s continued dependence on Russian oil and gas imports meant the west was unwilling to immediately sanction Russian energy interests. The US sanctioned executives from major Russian banks, like Gazprombank, but waived sanctions on the bank itself and allowed energy payments to the Russians to continue.

      “We had been warning Europe for years before the invasion about the need to get away from Russian energy, and they just weren’t willing to do it until it was too late,” said one of the senior US officials.
      Russia has now weaponized its gas supplies, shutting off flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline — and Europe is bracing for a potential recession as a result of the energy crisis.

      As one response to the energy revenues problem, the European Union agreed over the summer to ban all imports of Russian crude coming in by sea. US officials — concerned that such a ban could cause oil prices to skyrocket even more and bolster Russian revenue for the supplies it does continue to sell — have lobbied for the imposition of a cap on the price of Russian oil.

      The EU agreed to a cap in principle earlier this month, but it is still unclear how the measure will be enforced.

      Signs of strain

      Despite those concerns, US and European officials seem to broadly agree that the boon to the Russian economy stemming from high oil prices is not sustainable in the medium-to-long term, and that the Russian economy could start feeling the worst effects of the sanctions in the first half of 2023.

      Some believe the downturn could come sooner, by the end of this year. Export controls have also largely choked off Russia’s ability to manufacture new technology and weapons, and Russia has recently turned to Iran and North Korea for equipment like drones and ammunition.

      “We expected the decline might be a little harsher, but they’re masking it,” said a source familiar with western intelligence, explaining that western officials believe the Russians are manipulating statistics and being “held up for now” by high energy prices.

      “They can hold on and maintain current government spending levels for probably the next two years,” the source added. “They’ll be running a deficit. But it’s really going to hit society towards the end of the year when it’s not possible to pay people working for companies that have shut down and don’t have stockpiled reserves.”

      Another European official echoed that sentiment, telling CNN that intelligence suggests that Russian officials are concerned about how they will sustain the labor market as companies begin going bankrupt.
      “This is we always thought that there would be an upfront shock to the Russian economy, Russia would then work to mitigate that, but then there would then be these ongoing drags on the economy and on industrial production, which we are now very much seeing,” the senior administration official told CNN.
      “I think with the price cap, we have a very effective path forward to address, you know, the one area where they were kind of able to get some excess benefit because of the higher oil prices,” the official added.

      Limited options

      Putin spent years amassing hundreds of billions in foreign currency reserves, and Russia’s Central Bank has benefited from a talented central banker who has managed to implement workarounds to keep the ruble afloat, officials say.

      But all that is doing is creating the appearance of stability, officials said, as western sanctions degrade key sectors of Russia’s economy — particularly the technological sector — and GDP continues to shrink. Much of the money Russia holds in foreign banks, moreover, has been frozen since Russia’s invasion.

      “There is an argument out there that says sanctions failed because they are making cash from oil,” said one senior administration official. “But they’re making a lot less than they would have a year ago, and Russian oil now makes up nearly the entirety of the Russian economy because of the sanctions imposed already on the other sectors, which are working.”

      The European official agreed. “The main thing that has kept Putin’s regime floating is the high oil price,” the official said. “Everything else is freezing or frozen already.”

      As time goes on, Russian oil production will also decline, the US official predicted, largely because of increased foreign divestiture. Foreign companies have for decades helped maintain Russian oil fields and keep the energy sector efficient — something that Russian companies will struggle to replicate, the US believes.

      Russia may turn to China for additional economic assistance in counteracting sanctions. Putin met with his counterpart, President Xi Jinping, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan this week.

      But although China has made legal purchases and offered rhetorical support for Russia, it has so far done nothing to run afoul of western sanctions. And there is no evidence that it is covertly providing any kind of direct assistance to Russia’s war efforts.

      There are also practical limits to the short-term assistance China can provide. The natural gas pipelines to Asia “can’t carry nearly the volume” needed to make up for cutting off sales to Europe for another five years, according to the source familiar with western intelligence.

      Export controls choking Russian weapons manufacturing

      US and western officials have also sought to use targeted sanctions and export controls as a way to cut Russia off from the technological components it needs to build weapons — items like semiconductors, microchips, aircraft parts and lithium-type batteries.

      It is “definitely” working, said the source familiar with western intelligence . US and western officials told CNN that Russia in recent months has been forced to rely on much older weapons and equipment stocks as it has continued to suffer losses on the battlefield that it appears unable to replace.

      In one striking example, Russia has been observed using T-64 tanks, a Soviet-era battle tank first introduced in the 1960s.

      According to an August report from British defense think tank RUSI, more than 450 foreign-made components had been found in Russian weapons systems recovered in Ukraine, emphasizing the depth of the Russian military’s dependence on western technology — and hinting at a potential weakness.
      “Since the controls were put in place, global exports of semiconductors to Russia from all sources have declined by almost 90 percent, leaving Russian companies without the chips they need for a wide variety of goods, including weapons like precision guided missiles and tanks,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on June 29.

      Raimondo has also said that US-led sanctions have forced Russia to use chips from dishwashers and other domestic appliances in some of their military equipment.

      The export controls have not stopped Russia from purchasing weapons and equipment from pariah countries like Iran and North Korea, however. As CNN has previously reported, Russia purchased weapons-capable drones from Iran over the summer, and is also in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.

      Label of last resort

      There is also one potentially powerful tool to further degrade Russia’s economy that the US has decided to leave on the table: designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Biden said “no” earlier this month when asked whether his administration would do so.

      “To me, that’s the thing we are missing,” Blazakis said. He noted that the label would broaden the aperture of countries subject to secondary sanctions for doing business with Russia, and lead to more companies de-risking, or terminating, their operations inside Russia.

      “Ukraine is one thing,” Blazakis said, “but doing business and having your actual brick and mortar operation in a country that is a state sponsor of terror — that invites reputational risks that go beyond I think what we’re seeing right now.”

      https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/16/politics/russia-sanctions-ukraine-slow-economic-pain/index.html

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      CNN – Ex-CIA director predicts ‘terrible, painful retreat’ for Russia

      David Petraeus tells CNN’s Jim Sciutto that he thinks Ukraine’s counteroffensive has placed Russia in a “disastrous situation.”

    • reuters – U.S. announces new $600 mln arms package for Ukraine

      WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced a new $600 million arms package to help the Ukrainian military battle Russia, according to a White House memo sent to the State Department on Thursday.

      Biden authorized the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to sanction the transfer of excess weapons from U.S. stocks.

      The package includes High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), night vision goggles, claymore mines, mine clearing equipment, 105mm artillery rounds and 155mm precision guided artillery rounds, the Pentagon said.

      The White House memo also mentioned the money will be used for military education and training.

      Washington has sent about $15.1 billion dollars in security assistance to the Kiev government since Russia’s invasion.

      “To meet Ukraine’s evolving battlefield requirements, the United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with key capabilities,” the Pentagon said.

      https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-announces-new-600-million-arms-package-ukraine-2022-09-15/

    • POLITICO – Russian interference dossier wreaks havoc in Italian election

      Diplomatic cable sent to US embassies warned that Kremlin cash had been funnelled to sympathetic parties around the world.

      […]the diplomatic cable from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent to embassies this week.

      […]Coming less than two weeks before the September 25 election, the suspicion of Russian influence could damage the chances of the right-wing or populist parties that have historically had close ties to Russia, or those politicians who have parroted propaganda favorable to Putin.

      […]Asked about the cable in a U.S. State Department briefing on Tuesday, spokesman Ned Price described Russia’s “election meddling” as “an effort to chip away at the ability of people around the world to choose the government that they see best fit to represent them, to represent their interests, to represent their values.”

      https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-interference-dossier-wreaks-havoc-in-italian-election/

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      Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni and League leader Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that they haver never accepted money from Moscow after a furore over a US intelligence report on Russian funding of foreign political parties hit the campaign for Italy’s September 25 general election.

      According to the report, Russia has given over $300 million to foreign parties, officials and politicians in more than 20 countries since 2014.

      “All our forms of financing are verifiable,” Meloni, who is favourite to be Italy’s next premier with the FdI tipped to be the driving force of a landslide victory for the centre-right coalition, told Radio 24.
      “I am certain that Brothers of Italy does not take foreign money”.
      Salvini said the same.

      […] “It is strange that these fake-news reports always arrive 10 days before a vote.
      “Investigations have been open for years and nothing has ever been found because there is nothing to find”.

      Meloni said that she was suing daily newspaper La Repubblica and former US Ambassador to NATO Paul Volker over an interview in which he talked about alleged Russian support of some Italian parties.
      https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2022/09/14/never-took-money-from-russia-say-meloni-salvini_38c826b5-86e4-4fef-add5-1358ead974bd.html
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      BBC – Energy crisis: Could Italy’s next government drop Russian sanctions?

      Polls suggest a coalition led by the far-right is likely to win, with some of its members talking about dropping sanctions against Russia, because of the energy crisis.

    • MSNBC – Fascism Is On The Rise In Europe, Not Just In The U.S.

      Italy is bracing for its first far-right leader since Mussolini — and that’s just the beginning of what’s now a global problem.

      Author and professor Jason Stanley and foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal

    • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA – Germany’s armed forces must become the best-equipped military force in Europe, says Scholz

      Putin’s Russia poses the greatest current threat to NATO,

      Scholz told German military leaders that they should accept that Russia will define itself as an adversary to the European Union, the US and Nato – for the foreseeable future.

    • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA – Putin threatens to pull out of grain deal ahead of meeting Turkey’s Erdogan

      It’s now been more than two months since grain exports from Ukraine restarted, under a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. But Russia’s Vladimir Putin says the agreement is failing.

      Putin is meeting Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan today and is expected to demand changes. Already another flashpoint is looming – fertilizer.

      Russia is one of the world’s biggest producers of fertilizer, and its exports have been affected by the war. Putin is threatening to pull out of the deal, saying it isn’t fair for Russia or poor countries.

  7. A public disciplinary hearing continued Thursday for an Ottawa Police constable who allegedly accessed police database to get private information in the deaths of nine infant and child cases.

    Cases where she had no investigative role or responsibility in.

    Const. Helen Grus is facing one charge of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act. The virtual disciplinary hearing is being led by retired police Supt. Chris Renwick.

    According to police documents, police allege between June 2020 and January 2022, Grus acted in a “disorderly manner” when Grus “self-initiated an unauthorized project” and accessed private information from nine child or infant death cases. Police say Grus did not record her involvement or findings in the file.

    RELATED STORIES
    Ottawa police officer accused of donating to ‘Freedom Convoy’ faces misconduct charge

    Grus is also facing allegations of interference when police say in January 2022, she allegedly contacted the father of a deceased baby to ask the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mother. Police say Grus did not tell the lead detective in the case and did not have authorization.

  8. ‘I’m mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate claims’: Nigerian academic slams Carnegie Mellon professor for saying Queen ignited Nigerian Civil War – calling it ‘propaganda and pseudo history’
    Reno Omokri, a Nigerian author and priest, wrote in an op-ed that Ujo Anya must not understand Nigerian history, nor the role the Queen played in British government
    Anya, a linguistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has attacked the late monarch for what she claimed was her role in the Nigerian Civil War
    She has suggested that the Queen was directly responsible for the war, which led to the death of millions
    Anya has since doubled down on the claim, saying in a podcast Wednesday night that Her Majesty, who died last week at the age of 96, wore a crown made of ‘blood diamonds’
    But Omokri said she is using the Queen as a scapegoat as the royal played only a ceremonial role in British government and was not involved in the UK government’s decision to arm the Nigerian government
    He added that the Nigerian people need to start taking responsibility for the historic in-fighting

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11216597/Nigerian-academic-slams-Carnegie-Mellon-professor-saying-Queen-ignited-Nigerian-Civil-War.html

  10. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged publicly for the first time that the agency gave false information about its COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring.

    Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, said in a letter made public on Sept. 12 that the CDC did not analyze certain types of adverse event reports at all in 2021, despite the agency previously saying it started in February 2021.

    https://thinkcivics.com/cdc-drops-bombshell-admits-agency-gave-false-vaccine-information/

    • SEPTMEBER 16 2022 – EUROPEAN MEDECINE AGENCY –

      EMA recommends standard marketing authorisations for Comirnaty and Spikevax COVID-19 vaccines

      EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended converting the conditional marketing authorisations of the COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty (BioNTech/Pfizer’s vaccine) and Spikevax (Moderna’s vaccine) into standard marketing authorisations. These no longer need to be renewed annually. All other obligations for the companies remain in place.

      Both vaccines were granted a conditional marketing authorisation at the time of their authorisation1. This imposed obligations on the companies to submit results from the ongoing clinical trials and to provide additional data on the pharmaceutical quality of the vaccine in light of the planned manufacturing scale-up.

      These trials and additional studies, including observational studies, have provided reassuring data on key aspects such as how well the vaccines prevent severe COVID-19. In addition, the companies have provided all requested additional data on the pharmaceutical quality of the vaccines.

      Taking into account the totality of the available efficacy and safety data resulting from the large utilisation of these vaccines, the specific obligations are no longer considered key to the benefit-risk (of the products), which has cleared the way to move from a conditional to a standard marketing authorisation.

      Conditional marketing authorisations are reviewed annually. The CHMP recommended their conversion to standard marketing authorisations as an outcome of the second annual renewal procedure. This recommendation covers all existing and upcoming adapted Comirnaty and Spikevax vaccines, including the recently-approved adapted Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.1, Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4/5 and Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron BA.1.

      As for any medicine, Comirnaty and Spikevax continue to be closely monitored. EMA will continue to assess any new data promptly and take action to protect patients as needed.

      Notes
      1The conditional marketing authorisations were granted based on i) a positive benefit-risk balance, ii) the fact that the vaccines addressed an unmet medical and were to be used in the context of a public health emergency, and iii) the likelihood that the applicants would be able to provide more comprehensive clinical and quality data post-authorisation, which were deemed necessary considering the vaccines’ novel mode of action and their very large anticipated use.

      https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-standard-marketing-authorisations-comirnaty-spikevax-covid-19-vaccines

    • SEPTMEBER 16 2022 – EUROPEAN MEDECINE AGENCY –

      […]

      COVID-19 update

      Since the CHMP meeting in July, several recommendations related to COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics were made.

      Authorising use of Nuvaxovid as a booster dose for adults who have had Nuvaxovid, an mRNA vaccine or an adenoviral vector vaccine as their primary vaccination. (The recommendation was made on 1 September 2022)

      Authorising two vaccines adapted to provide broader protection against COVID-19. Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.1 and Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron BA.1 are for use in people aged 12 years and above who have received at least primary vaccination against COVID-19. For more information, see the news announcement. (The recommendation was made on 1 September 2022)
      COVID-19 recommendations adopted during the present meeting of the CHMP:

      Authorising the adapted bivalent vaccine Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4-5 for use in people aged 12 years and above who have received at least a primary course of vaccination against COVID-19. This vaccine is an adapted version of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty and targets the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in addition to the original strain of SARS-CoV-2. For more information, see the news announcement .

      Converting the conditional marketing authorisations of the COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty and Spikevax into standard marketing authorisations. CHMP considered that the additional studies conducted by the companies as part of their post-authorisation obligations have provided ample information on the vaccines’ protection against COVID-19, as well as their quality and safety. For more information, see the news announcement.

      Approving a new manufacturing site in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany, for COVID-19 Vaccine Valneva.

      Authorising booster doses of Comirnaty for children from 5 to 11 years of age .

      Extending the use of COVID-19 therapeutic Evusheld for the treatment of adults and adolescents with COVID-19 who do not require supplemental oxygen.

      Extending the use of COVID-19 therapeutic Veklury in two paediatric populations:
      Paediatric patients (of at least 4 weeks of age and weighing at least 3 kg) with pneumonia requiring supplemental oxygen or other non-invasive ventilation at the start of treatment.

      Paediatric patients (weighing at least 40 kg) who do not require supplemental oxygen and who are at increased risk of progressing to severe COVID-19.

      Safety update
      At its extraordinary meeting, on 2 September 2022, the CHMP endorsed the recommendation of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) and recommended that medicines containing high-dose nomegestrol (3.75 – 5 mg) or high-dose chlormadinone (5 – 10 mg) should be used at the lowest effective dose and for the shortest duration possible, and only when other interventions are not appropriate. In addition, low- and high-dose nomegestrol- or chlormadinone-containing medicines must not be used by patients who have, or have had, meningioma. For more information, see the news announcement .

      https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/meeting-highlights-committee-medicinal-products-human-use-chmp-12-15-september-2022

    • EUROPEAN MEDECINE AGENCY- EMA

      Pfizer mRNA vaccine COMIRNATY

      AUTHORISED

      This medicine is authorised for use in the European Union.

      Comirnaty is a vaccine for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in people aged 5 years and older.

      Comirnaty contains tozinameran, a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule with instructions for producing a protein from the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

      Comirnaty is also available as two adapted vaccines:

      Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.1 contains tozinameran and riltozinameran, another mRNA molecule with instructions for producing a protein from the Omicron BA.1 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2.

      Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4-5 contains tozinameran and famtozinameran, another mRNA molecule with instructions for producing a protein from the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.

      The adapted vaccines are only used in people aged 12 years and older who have received at least a primary vaccination course against COVID-19.

      Comirnaty and its adapted vaccines do not contain the virus itself and cannot cause COVID-19.

      MORE :

      https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/comirnaty

    • reuters – Take whatever COVID booster you can get, says head of EU drugs watchdog

      FRANKFURT/LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – People in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster is available to them in the coming months, Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said in a Reuters Next Newsmaker interview ahead of an expected autumn rise in infections.

      Apart from the original COVID vaccines, the EMA has endorsed a number of Omicron-adapted vaccines in recent weeks.

      “The approach that we’ve taken in Europe is to have a plurality of options because we recognize that the needs in different member states may be different,” she said, suggesting that countries will likely kick off their campaigns at different times or combine their rollouts with flu shots.

      People may have the opportunity to choose their booster, Cooke said, “but really, a lot depends on what’s available in your jurisdiction.”

      “My message is have confidence in whatever vaccines are offered to you,” she added.

      In an interview with weekly WirtschaftsWoche on Friday, the head of the German association of family doctors, Ulrich Weigeldt, criticised the approval of two different types of variant-adapted vaccines.

      “Patients are confused and have a lot of questions about the new vaccines,” he was quoted as saying.

      The EU drug regulator initially cleared so-called bivalent shots directed at the BA.1 version of Omicron and the original virus first detected in China, developed by Moderna (MRNA.O) and the team of Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE).

      Then on Monday, the EMA recommended a COVID-19 booster designed to combat the currently circulating Omicron BA.4/5 subvariants.

      The go-ahead for the BA.4/5 shot was based on lab analysis while testing on humans continues, as well as on results from tests of BA.1 vaccines in people which allowed for encouraging conclusions to be drawn for the BA.4/5 vaccine, the EMA has said.

      In contrast, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration insisted it was only interested in vaccines targeting BA.4/5. In recent weeks, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna secured U.S. authorization for those.

      There are worries that uptake of the latest boosters could be limited, as people have become less worried about the disease, thanks in large part to the success of the first generation of shots.

      Experts also worry that the public may be suffering from vaccine fatigue and less likely to seek boosters, which could be a fourth or fifth COVID shot for some.

      According to data compiled by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) the adoption of boosters has fallen dramatically.

      The uptake of the first booster was 83.9% and 64.8% among those aged 60 years and over and 18 to 59 year olds respectively, but for the second booster that dropped to 15.1% and 7.8% respectively, according to the ECDC.

      END IN SIGHT

      The COVID-causing virus, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed nearly 6.5 million people and infected 606 million, roiling global economies and overwhelming healthcare systems.

      On Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested that the end of COVID was in sight, although “we are not there yet.”

      Weekly deaths have dropped to around 2,800 in Europe following a summer surge that led to more than 6,000 deaths per week in the region, driven by the highly infectious Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, according to WHO data.

      There is always a risk of a new variant around the corner, Cooke said, adding that how things go this autumn/winter will help determine what pattern, if any, future boosters will take.

      https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/take-whatever-covid-vaccine-you-can-get-says-head-eu-drugs-watchdog-2022-09-14/

  11. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

    Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of my Administration to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing towards innovative solutions in health, climate change, energy, food security, agriculture, supply chain resilience, and national and economic security. Central to this policy and its outcomes are principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that enable access to technologies, processes, and products in a manner that benefits all Americans and the global community and that maintains United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness.

    Biotechnology harnesses the power of biology to create new services and products, which provide opportunities to grow the United States economy and workforce and improve the quality of our lives and the environment. The economic activity derived from biotechnology and biomanufacturing is referred to as “the bioeconomy.” The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vital role of biotechnology and biomanufacturing in developing and

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/09/12/executive-order-on-advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american-bioeconomy/

  12. NY Post’s Miranda Devine Says Facebook Is Increasingly Reporting Private Messages By Users To FBI

  14. europravda – Earth on the brink of passing climate ‘tipping points’ if global warming continues at current rate

    Global emissions need to be urgently cut to prevent us from heading down the path of runaway climate change.

  15. THAT WAS QUICK: Buses Arrive at Martha’s Vineyard and DEPORT Illegals Off the Island (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 16, 2022 at 9:35am
    408 Comments

    On Wednesday, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes carrying illegal immigrants to the island of Martha’s Vineyard, an exclusive elite liberal community that prides itself on its tolerance and sanctuary status.

    Rather than fly the illegals in the dead of night hidden from public view like Joe Biden, Governor DeSantis flew the migrants to the leftist enclave in broad daylight.

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    Democrats were furious that Governor DeSantis would pull off such a “stunt”! How dare he expose the liberal left for their disgusting hypocrisy!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/quick-buses-arrive-marthas-vineyard-deport-illegals-off-island/

    • Migrants Sent to Martha’s Vineyard To Be Transferred to Military Base

      THE MASSACHUSETTS government announced Friday that it will transfer to Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC) 50 migrants sent untimely Wednesday night by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the island of Martha’s Vineyard.

      The Governor’s Office said on Friday that the transfer will be voluntary and thanked the local authorities of Martha’s Vineyard who mobilized to receive the immigrants.

      The government did not detail how the transfer to the base, which is located on touristy Cape Cod, a cape on the Massachusetts mainland in the northeastern United States, will be handled.

      The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is coordinating efforts between state and local officials to ensure access to food, shelter and essential services for these men, women and children.

      The MA Governor also plans to activate up to 125 members of the state’s National Guard as part of the relief effort.

      DeSantis, a Republican, sent two planes Wednesday night with mostly Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Island in Duke County.

      The Dukes County Emergency Management Association said residents and authorities arranged temporary housing for the migrants.

      DeSantis has joined the initiative of his Texas counterpart, Gregg Abbot, to send hundreds of migrants to states with Democratic governments, as an expression of his opposition to the immigration policy of President Joe Biden’s administration.

      https://elamerican.com/migrants-marthas-vineyard-transferred-military-base/

  16. Ontario High School Teacher Seen Wearing Massive Prosthetic Bust to Teach

    Photos and videos out of a Canadian High School are going viral as they show a male teacher wearing what appears to be large, prosthetic breasts in full view of young students.

    Shocking media first began to circulate on Twitter earlier this week, with multiple accounts sharing a mobile phone video and stills of a shop teacher demonstrating how to use a circular saw.

    The teacher is seen wearing an extremely prominent prosthetic bust, one which clearly outlines the nipples through his tight shirt. He is also donning a bright blonde wig and short-shorts.

    Multiple photos and videos have surfaced of the same individual instructing young students, and in all of them he is wearing the oversized bust.

    The media has been confirmed as originating from Oakville Trafalgar High School in Oakville, Ontario.

    The man seen in the photos and videos is a Manufacturing Technology instructor who allegedly began identifying as a woman last year. The teacher now goes by the name Kayla Lemieux.

    “The kids here most definitely don’t think its normal… but realistically we can’t say anything,” one student said on Twitter, “Last year, the teacher was a man. I don’t think the school can fire him.”

    Lemieux is listed within the faculty directory on the OTHS website. His official school e-mail address is also connected to a Google account which has a photo visually verifying his identity.

    https://reduxx.info/ontario-high-school-teacher-seen-wearing-massive-prosthetic-bust-to-teach/

    • German Lady Wants A Nose Job To Look More ‘African’

      ( 6 min 53 )

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      Mike Beier 2 years ago

      As a German, i feel the deep need to apologize to all african and to all english speaking fellows. This women keeps popping up regularly in german tv...Nobody knows, whats wrong with her.
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    • MARTINA BIG on YT :

      https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinaBig/videos

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      Martina Big / Malaika Kubwa – Masai village

      I got along so well with the Masai, that they took me in their tribe, with a big, festive ceremony 🙂 After the common tribal dance the men slaughtered a goat.

      This is for the Masai the highlight of the ceremony and says that I’m now a tribal member. Following the men grilled the goat

      I think it’s great that the Masai have preserved their traditional culture.

      I’m very happy to be a Masai now

  17. Dem Election Plan: Lie, Cheat, Steal, Intimidate & Silence while Economy Implodes
    By Greg Hunter On September 16, 2022 In Weekly News Wrap-Ups 37

    USAWatchdog.com (WNW 547 9.16.22)

    It’s clear to me that the Deep State Democrat Party has zero to offer voters. Killing babies, taking your guns, offering unlimited war funding for Ukraine and driving you into poverty is not a vote-getting platform, but that is their platform. This is why the Dem election plan appears to be: lie, cheat, steal, intimidate (with the FBI and DOJ) and silence any opposition or critic. Can it work? No! But the desperate Dems are trying it anyway because it’s all they’ve got. Whether it’s raiding President Trump’s home or taking pillow man Mike Lindell’s phone while serving a search warrant at a fast food joint, that’s the plan in plain sight.”

    This weird political theater is happening all because they know the real Biden approval numbers that the public does not get to see. The AP just came out with a new poll that says Biden’s numbers are on the rise. I say this is a continuing Biden-psyop that is total bull crap. They are trying to give Biden some coattails for the upcoming midterm election, and I think the lying legacy media (LLM) are lying to do it. It ain’t going to work. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer is already throwing in the towel on the House and says Nancy is not going to retain the majority. Maybe this is why Pelosi wants an ambassador job from the Biden handlers. The real approval number is 12% for sleepy Joe. Again, the public never sees this number, but everybody in the know knows it.

    The stock market tanked 1,500 points this week

    https://usawatchdog.com/dem-election-plan-lie-cheat-steal-intimidate-silence-while-economy-implodes/

  18. Famine In The Uyghur Lands: Accident Or Accelerating Genocide?
    By Daily Caller News Foundation September 15, 2022

    The East Turkestan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) held a Sunday protest in Washington calling on the Chinese government to stop the famine in East Turkestan (China’s Xinjiang Province), a result of the lockdown in the region. In response to the pressure – possibly local or international – for the first time Ghulja and Korla city governments have taken responsibility for the mistakes of the lockdown measures. However, they accused grassroots cadres (Communist Party managerial staff) of being dishonest and not accurately reporting the situation in a timely manner.

    The Uyghurs, who had long been silent on social media and only expressed their grievances using symbolic gestures and pictures, began voicing their opposition for the first time since the lockdown was implemented in East Turkistan, especially in the last 10 days.

    Consider some of the most recent social media posts about the starvation:

    “All four [of] my children got sick. All of them

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/09/15/famine-in-the-uyghur-lands-accident-or-accelerating-genocide/

  19. SEPTEMBER 16 2022 – IRAQ – KARBALA – ARBAEEN 2022

    …the largest annual pilgrimage in the Muslim world, with up to 40 million pilgrims

  20. zero hedge – Biden Asks Congress To End Social Media Immunity At WH Summit Due To “Hate-Fueled Violence”

    At a summit at the White House on Thursday to address “hate-fueled violence,” President Joe Biden denounced white supremacists and urged lawmakers in Congress to end special immunity for social media companies.

    […]The Biden administration on Thursday announced what appears to be a plethora of initiatives from the public and private sectors to address hate-motivated violence.

    […]“White supremacists will not have the last word,” Biden said,

    […] This included a $1 billion investment to be pushed by a group of philanthropists called “New Pluralists” to have funders support a 10-year effort to “build a culture of respect, belonging and collaboration in communities and organizations across America” and “stand behind the essential work of courageous uniters, healers, and bridgers.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-asks-congress-end-social-media-immunity-wh-summit-due-hate-fueled-violence

    MORE :

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-asks-congress-to-end-social-media-immunity-denounces-white-supremacy-at-wh-summit-on-hate-fueled-violence_4734570.html

    Biden: ‘white supremacists will not have the last word’

    Biden has vowed to combat the ‘venom and violence’ of white supremacy in the US

  21. New movie honors the enslavers

    Viola Davis stars in a new movie, The Woman King, which depicts an all-woman military unit in the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    The movie targets two key markets: women and blacks.

    The film is well received. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 93% rating among film critics and 99% among audiences.
    The site said, “The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar-winner Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for….”

    https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/09/new-movie-honors-enslavers.html

  22. Defender Children’s Health Defense VARES Report up to September 9, 2022.
    please keep in mind that historically VARES Reports are approximately 1%.

    Adverse Reactions 1,407,409
    Deaths 30,935
    Serious Adverse Reactions 257,227 – strokes, heart attacks, Guillian Barre Syndrome, myocarditis, pericarditis, blood clots, POTs disease, blindness…….

    Babies 6 months -5 adverse reactions 3,730
    Strokes, heart problems, blood clothes, myocarditis, pericarditis, seizures, death

    5-11 13,985
    Myocarditis, pericarditis, strokes clots, seizures, death……

    12-17 13,985
    Myocarditis, pericarditis, clots, strokes, POTS, deaths……

    5,300 errors in vaccine dose delivery in children alone reported prior to the authorization of new bivalent booster shots.

    Errors – administering wrong dose or wrong product for a recipient’s age using undiluted vaccine when dilution was needed or administering a vaccine past its expiration date.

    Toddlers were given 10 x the amount of vaccine they were meant to receive.

    Now nurses are referring to Remdesiver as “remember deaths deliverer”.