India part 2 - The mutating narrative
More Indian Variant psyops: Covid Dead float in Ganges?
India part 2 - The mutating narrative
More Indian Variant psyops: Covid Dead float in Ganges?
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"The threat posed by China is at one level military, as evidenced by its proactive pursuit of territorial claims in South Asia, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea. At another, it is economic and technological.
China is a pivotal player in global supply chains, most visible today in its major role as a vaccine supplier, a major investor of surplus capital globally through the Belt and Road Initiative, and a rapidly rising technological power. It is this broader aspect of global order that the Quad aims to address, as is clear from two of the joint statement’s specifics, which focus on the establishment of working groups on vaccine development and critical technologies. Both these efforts seek to constrain China’s central position in the global system, but also to develop a world order that is broad-based and inclusive. The third working group being set up is on climate change, an area in which China is a cooperative player and not a competitor, and thus downplays the notion that the Quad is simply an instrument of containment. Together, the three initiatives are designed to create an environment that encourages China to be a positive player and persuades other states to shed their hesitancy toward the Quad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Quad has come of age and will remain an important pillar of stability in the region.
"Our agenda today — covering areas like vaccines, climate change and emerging technologies — makes the Quad a force for global good. I see this positive vision as an extension of India’s ancient philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, which regards the world as one family," said the PM at the first-ever Quad summit. |
The Quad initiative
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Arms sales; Done with India under the smokescreen of Covid?
 A US military plane takes off for India from Travis Air Force Base in California with 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators, one million N-95 masks and one million Covid-19 rapid diagnostics kits donated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). On Thursday India reported 3,645 deaths over the past 24 hours, while confirming new cases hit a new global record with more than 379,000. The official numbers are widely believed to be far below the reality. |
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 "The proposed sale “will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to strengthen the U.S.-Indian strategic relationship and to improve the security of a major defensive partner, which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace, and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia region,” according to the DSCA notification." |
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China has vowed to encourage its private companies to help India
in its battle against a drastic surge in Covid-19cas es which has seen repeated daily global records of new infections and local media reports that patients are dying because of a lack of oxygen supplies.
Wang Xiaojian, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in India, said the country had the firm support of China’s government and its people in the fight against the pandemic. “We will encourage and guide Chinese companies to actively cooperate with India to facilitate acquiring medical supplies, and provide support and help according to India’s need,” he said, in an embassy statement on Monday night.
In separate remarks, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said China and India were in communication over the pandemic response, and that Beijing would provide materials, if requested by New Delhi. He also called on India’s fellow members of the Quad security alliance – Australia, the United States and Japan – to help the stricken country.
“I hope these nations can jointly provide India and related countries with support and assistance within their capacity to fight the epidemic, and fulfil their due international responsibilities and obligations,” Wang said.
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30.04.2021 [excerpted]
Scientists are examining whether a new "double mutant" coronavirus variant is driving India's current outbreak.
The variant, called B.1.617 and described as a "super mutation," was initially detected in India and has now been found in at least 17 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO has said preliminary modeling based on genetic sequencing showed that B.1.617 could be more transmissible.
Nepal COVID cases rise
Nepal, with a population of over 24 million people, shares a border with five northern Indian states: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim.
In February, Nepal's COVID infection rate was hovering around a manageable 150 to 200 new cases daily.
Bangladesh closes borders, Pakistan on alert
Similarly, sparks from India's pandemic wildfire seem to have landed in Bangladesh to the east. Authorities there have restricted the movement of people by shutting down borders for two weeks.
Bangladesh's National Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 also recommended that the borders not reopen until the situation in India improves.
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after all the Psyops in the news - India is "hiding the crisis"
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While undercounting disease is a longstanding problem in India, the assault on press freedom is far more recent. Since Modi came into power in 2015, the freedom of India’s expansive media culture has dramatically shrunk, according to sources including Reporters Without Borders. In the last few years, the government has sued or prosecuted several news organizations and journalists, citing defamation or other even more dubious rationales. Controversial laws such as the 2000 Information Technology Act allow for what seem like increasingly frequent, and grossly arbitrary and politically motivated, crackdowns on freedom of speech and press.
Indian journalists tell me they are often asked to self-censor their reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as what they say on social media, for fear of inciting the ire of the government. Many were understandably incensed last week when the Indian central government reportedly made Twitter and Facebook remove posts critical of the government’s Covid measures. Meanwhile, India continues to be one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists to work, and more than 165 journalists have allegedly died of Covid-19 while covering the crisis itself. (Last month Kakoli Bhattacharya, an Indian journalist who worked as a news assistant for the Guardian, died of Covid.) In the absence of trustworthy Covid information from their own government, Indians are mostly reliant on social media and foreign reporting for the story of what’s actually happening.
The result is a public health nightmare for India – and also, I fear, for the global community, which, just as many countries are breathing a sigh of relief, could face another Covid wave that includes new variants. We can learn from other epidemics what that might look like: India was one of the last countries to eradicate polio, and is one of 15 countries that still have a significant number of people with leprosy. India also has the third largest HIV/Aids epidemic in the world. India’s struggles with diseases that have been eradicated or largely ameliorated elsewhere leaves a backdoor for global public health threats and costs billions of dollars in disease burden. These health crises also harm international travel, trade, and other economic indicators, creating new challenges not only for India but for its allies, as well.
India likes to tout itself as the world’s largest democracy – and use that moral authority to protect its standing in the global economy and the international diplomatic community. But with a dark curtain separating the reality of the country’s Covid-19 crisis from the rest of the world, India’s standing and authority are at risk. If the country continues to choose political expediency over transparency in the days to come, the people of India, scrambling to protect their families, are the first victims, but far from the last. |
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"This new version of the coronavirus contains changes to the region of the spike protein that human antibodies target to fight the virus. One of these changes, known as an escape mutation, allows it to slip past some the most effective weapons we have against it -- including natural antibodies made in response to past infections and vaccines, as well as some lab-created antibody treatments."
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A relatively unknown Covid-19 variant that was first discovered on a flight from Tanzania to Angola is now considered the world’s most mutated Coronavirus strain.
The variant carries around 34 mutations, including a so-called ‘escape mutation’ according to findings that were shared in a pre-print research report and reported on by various media.
The ‘escape mutation’, or E484K change, enables the variant to evade or resist antibodies, meaning that people who have had Covid in the past could become sick again.
Less stable than presumed
The strain was first discovered after three passengers who travelled on a plane from Tanzania to Angola tested positive in February.
According to professor William Haseltine, who worked for years at Harvard University, the variant is "cause for concern” because of the relatively high number of mutations.
More interestingly, he pointed in The Sun that the new mutation did not originate on the B1 strain, where, so far, all other variants had derived from.
"These mutations could increase the concentration of the virus in infected people, which may help prolong the infection and increase transmissibility,” Haseltine reportedly said.
"The [Angolan] variant demonstrates the enormous versatility of this virus,” he added. "Originally, many expected this virus to be relatively stable but it is showing to us with this variant and others, that this is not actually the case.”
Brazilian variant
The findings come only weeks after a more deadly and infectious variant has popped up in Brazil, where researchers confirmed that a new variant of the Coronavirus turns out to be a combination of 18 different mutations, including the strains commonly known as the Brazil, British and South African variants.
Researchers in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte said that the new variant is a mixture of nearly two dozen previously known mutations, according to local media reports in the South American country.
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"But numerous seroprevalence surveys, which use blood tests to identify whether people have antibodies from prior infection with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), point to a significant underestimation of African countries’ COVID burden. Undercounting could increase the risk of the disease spreading widely, hinder vaccine rollout and uptake, and ultimately threaten global efforts to control the pandemic, experts warn. Wherever the virus is circulating—especially in regions with little access to vaccines—new mutations are likely to arise, and it is crucial to identify them quickly." |
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Johannesburg: Fourteen crew members of a cargo ship that sailed to Durban from India have tested positive for COVID-19, South Africa's Transnet National Port Authority has said.
A spokesperson from Transnet said the cause of a chief engineer's death aboard the ship was heart attack and not COVID-19.
The 14 were among the entire crew that was tested after the ship arrived in Durban on Sunday. They are now all in isolation as authorities start a track and trace initiative for all those who might have been in contact with them.
"The vessel is currently on quarantine. No one is allowed to leave or enter the vessel, and the company responsible for anyone who worked on board is to track and trace all employees who interacted with the subject vessel," Transnet said on Tuesday.
A senior port official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told a news portal that at least 200 port employees had been working on the vessel since Sunday evening, manually offloading about 3,000 tonnes of rice.
"The rice came in 50 kg bags. We are a bit concerned because a lot of people have boarded that vessel since Sunday," the source said. |
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EU to create Rapid reaction anti Terror Hitsquad
to be use Domestically & abroad?
If Independent groups gain traction over the health dictatorship...
will the Military be used to remove them from office?
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EU defence ministers will begin discussing Thursday a proposal to create a 5,000-strong joint military force capable of deploying rapidly to crisis zones, a senior EU official said.
The plan -- backed by at least 14 of the bloc's 27 member states -- is aimed at bolstering the EU's military capabilities as part of a review of its overall strategy to be agreed in 2022.
"What we would like to do now, because many countries have supported this idea, is to try to see if we can have 5,000 military personnel -- a land component, air component, possibly also maritime component -- who will train and make exercises in advance," the official said Wednesday.
"What we have in mind is... to be able to deploy quickly this response force if for instance you have a legitimate government in a specific country which is afraid of a possible takeover by a terrorist group."
The proposal -- set to be debated at the first in-person meeting of the bloc's defence ministers in a year -- comes as some member states push for the EU to develop its joint military might.
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The 14 member states backing the proposal so far are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain, the official said.
The effort is not the first by the bloc to create a rapid reaction force.
The EU set up a system of "battle groups" in 2007, but none of the 1,500-strong forces were ever deployed amid political and funding wrangling within the bloc.
The official said that the battle groups could form a "nucleus" for the future force, but insisted that discussions were only just beginning.
"What we need now is to build a consensus on this idea," the official said.
Debate has raged for decades over what role Brussels should play on defence, and EU member nations -- most of which are also NATO allies -- have often been reluctant to agree moves to integrate military capabilities.
Ambitions on common defence have gathered steam in recent years.
The departure of Britain from the bloc saw the EU lose some military and diplomatic heft, but also removed from the Brussels conversation a fierce opponent of anything that might lead to a European army.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell -- who has called for the bloc to show more muscle -- will also push Thursday for an EU training mission to be sent to help the army of violence-wracked Mozambique, the official said.
The mission could be deployed in the second half of this year and see equipment given to the Mozambique as it battles jihadists in the north of the country, the official said.
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Is this what happened in Tanzania?
WEF Singapore meeting cancelled?
"Regretfully, the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination rollout, and the uncertainty around new variants combine to make it impossible to realize a global meeting with business, government, and civil society leaders from all over the world at the scale which was planned,"
said the organization in a statement released on Monday.
UK YAHOO news
I'd see that as a general sign the majority of restrictions will return
"Initially touted as a COVID haven and one of the safest places to be during the pandemic, the country has moved back under strict COVID restrictions due to a sudden surge in unlinked community-transmitted cases carrying the deadly B1617 variant."
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read that again
"THE DEADLY b1617 VARIANT"
FROM CHANNEL NEWS ASIA 6 DAYS AGO: Indian Variant Sweeps South Asia
ARE VARIANTS DRIVING THE SURGE IN CASES?
It's hard to say.
"Prominent US disease modeller Chris Murray, from the University of Washington, said the sheer magnitude of infections in India in a short period of time suggests an "escape variant" may be overpowering any prior immunity from natural infections in those populations.
"That makes it most likely that it’s B1617," he said. But Murray cautioned that gene sequencing data on the coronavirus in India is sparse, and that many cases are also being driven by the UK and South African variants."
MODELLING & HEARSAY
CASES NOT DEATHS
HOW IS IT DEADLY?
and on it goes...the Indian Variant psyop is a dangerous viral meme - I hate to think how many Asian Brits are getting abuse and the brunt of Nazi nimby pricks because of it...
The Britain First / EDL mob will no doubt be using it
as an excuse to spread anti-immigration / anti multicultural divide and rule hatred; all under secret Whitehall deep state dirty tricks guidance no doubt
"Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the UK had borders "about as secure as a sieve" and accused Matt Hancock of ignoring a warning a month ago."
Independant 17th May 2021
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[Typical racist opportunism]
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it's easy to spot the "fear of foreigners" psyop here, if it's politically expedient these assholes will use it on any side of the house...On an Island Nation like the UK this "nasty foregner Psyop" is on rinse and repeat.
I worry that the Indian Covid Variant will be used to generate race based divide and rule and "agent provocateur" local trouble stirred up to split the biosecurity state opposition movement.
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The rise of the new variant has caused tensions in Whitehall about whether the prime minister hesitated to put India on the red list because of plans to visit Delhi on April 25 to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal with Indias prime minister, Narendra Modi.
Pakistan and Bangladesh were put on the red list on April 2, a measure that came into force on April 9. Three weeks later on April 19, Mr Johnson cancelled the trip and India was put on the red list.
Analysis of Civil Aviation Authority figures suggests that 900 people arrived daily from India between April 2 and April 23.
A source who attended a Whitehall war gaming exercise on Thursday told the Sunday Times: Its very clear that we should have closed the border to India earlier and that Boris did not do so because he didnt want to offend Modi.
Downing Street denied relations with India played a role in the red list decision.
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Mon, 17 May 2021,
Coronavirus cases involving the Indian variant have nearly doubled in the space of four days, health secretary Matt Hancock has said.
Hancock told MPs on Monday there are now 2,323 confirmed cases involving the B.1.617.2 variant.
This is up 1,010 from the 1,313 infections announced by Public Health England on Thursday.
Hancock said that of the 2,323 cases, 483 have been seen in Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen where its now the dominant strain of the virus.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said COVID-19 hospitalisations in Blackburn are "stable" with eight people being treated, while there are 19 in hospital in Bolton.
He said the majority of these people are eligible for a vaccine but havent yet had one.
"This shows the new variant is not tending to penetrate into older, vaccinated groups and it underlines again the importance of getting the jab especially but not only amongst the vulnerable age groups.
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Urging people to get a jab, he said: "To anyone who feels hesitant... just look at what is happening in Bolton Hospital where the majority of people in hospital with coronavirus were eligible for the jab but have chosen not yet to have the jab and have ended up in hospital some of them in intensive care.
"Vaccines save lives, they protect you, they protect your loved ones and they will help us all get out of this pandemic."
Hancock added there are now 86 local authority areas where there are five or more confirmed cases of the variant.
Meanwhile, informing MPs of the latest scientific assessment on the variant, he said:
"The early evidence suggests that B.1.617.2 is more transmissible than the previously dominant [Kent] variant. We do not yet know to what extent it is more transmissible.
"While we also don't have the complete picture on the impact of the vaccine, the early laboratory data from Oxford University corroborates the evidence from Bolton Hospital and the initial observational data from India that vaccines are effective against this variant."
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 Human Rights Watch said that "political parties and groups... have latched onto the COVID-19 crisis to advance anti-immigrant, white supremacist, ultra-nationalist, antisemitic, and xenophobic conspiracy theories that demonize refugees, foreigners, prominent individuals, and political leaders". |
 "Heralded as freedom day, 21 June has been a date circled in the diary by businesses, families and communities alike a moment when coronavirus restrictions in England are expected to finally end, hopefully in a blaze of summer sunshine. But new data has revealed that the variant of concern first detected in India, known as B.1.617.2, has continued to spread across England, with samples containing the variant now found from Cornwall to Canterbury, Bury to Bromley." |
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cites credited research to suggest
the emergency is FAKE
