(2021-11-29). Headlines for November 29, 2021. democracynow.org South Africa Blasts Travel Bans As Countries Race to Curb Spread of Omicron Variant, Federal Govt Sends Health Workers to Michigan, Which Leads U.S. COVID Surge, Jury Finds Ahmaud Arbery's Three White Killers Guilty of Murder, Shipwreck Kills 27 Refugees in Largest Recorded Tragedy in English Channel, Opposition Leader Xiomara Castro Claims Victory After Record Turnout in Honduras Election, Ukraine's Zelensky Says He is Target of Imminent Coup as Allies Warn of Possible Russian Invasion, High Death Toll Reported as Ethiopian Soldiers Press Offensive in Afar Region, Oil Well Rupture Leaves Niger Delta Residents Hu…
(2021-11-29). Omicron variant poses 'very high' global risk — WHO. rt.com 
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned countries to brace for the new Omicron Covid variant, urging them to boost vaccination for vulnerable groups. | The WHO released a technical brief on Omicron, which was classified as a variant of concern (VOC) on Friday. "The overall global risk related to the new VOC Omicron is assessed as very high," the brief said. | The agency described Omicron as a variant with a high number of mutations, some of which "may be associated with immune escape potential and higher transmissibility." At the same time, the WHO noted that there are "still considerable uncertainties"
(2021-11-29). Omicron strain reaches North America. rt.com 
Two cases of the Omicron strain have been confirmed in Canada, while President Biden is considering the US response to the heavily mutated Covid-19 variant, even as it remains unclear if it is more dangerous than other variants. | "Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria," the Ontario province government said in a statement on Sunday. | Read more | | Canada alread…
(2021-11-29). Autoworkers speak on COVID-19 dangers as case numbers surge across Michigan and US Midwest. wsws.org Autoworkers spoke to the WSWS about the threat posed by the rise in cases, even as the discovery of the Omicron variant underscores the impossibility of "living with the virus."
(2021-11-29). Scientists call for urgent action to save lives as Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads globally. wsws.org The rapid spread of the new variant has been greeted with passivity by governments around the world, which have rejected the closures of schools and nonessential businesses even as the current surge of the Delta variant has led to record COVID-19 cases.
(2021-11-29). Herd immunity policy creates explosion of COVID-19 infections in German nurseries and schools. wsws.org Although the number of official coronavirus deaths in Germany has exceeded 100,000, the infection figures are escalating and a new, dangerous variant (Omicron) of the virus is spreading, all the bourgeois parties refuse to take the necessary protective measures.
(2021-11-29). Travel Bans Due To Omicron To Affect South African Economy. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Premier of Western Cape Alain Winde said that travel bans on South Africa due to the new Omicron coronavirus variant will be "devastating" for the provincial economy as the local government is seeking for a recovery on its key tourism sector from COVID-19 impact. | RELATED: | The economy of Western Cape, South Africa's popular tourism destination that hosts the legislative capital Cape Town, relies on in…
(2021-11-29). Biden administration to America: Prepare to die from COVID-19. wsws.org Amid the deepening surge of the Delta variant in the US and the growing spread of the Omicron variant globally, White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci explicitly opposed a strategy aimed at eliminating and eradicating COVID-19.
(2021-11-29). US Scrambles To Take Actions Over Omicron's Chilling Effect. telesurenglish.net The newly-discovered Omicron variant of COVID-19 in South Africa has raised fears about the global trajectory of the pandemic, while some countries including the United States have raced to impose travel restrictions on southern African countries. | RELATED: | On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that his country will impose travel restrictions on eight African countries including South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe…
(2021-11-29). Health Justice Advocates Say Vaccine Equity, Not "Racist" Travel Bans, Will Stop the Omicron Variant. democracynow.org 
We go to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak with a leading health justice advocate about how scientists in the country have identified a new Omicron coronavirus variant, and the World Health Organization warns it could be more transmissible than previous variants. Against the advice of the WHO, several countries have closed their borders to foreign travelers. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa criticized the travel bans and called on wealthy nations to help poorer nations gain greater access to COVID vaccines. The bans are "actually quite racist," says Fatima Hassan, founder and director of Health Justice Ini…
(2021-11-29). Loss of Chance with Sarah Lambert QC and Dominic Ruck Keene. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In Episode 153, Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Sarah Lambert QC and Dominic Ruck Keene about loss of chance in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. The episode discusses the following cases: Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41. Gregg v Scott [2005] UKHL 2 Hotson v East Berkshire Area Health Authority [1987] AC 750 …
(2021-11-29). Over 50,000 Sri Lankan health workers strike for higher pay and allowances. wsws.org Last week's sick-leave strike was called by the Health Professionals Collective to dissipate health workers' anger, but the mass response demonstrates workers' determination to fight the government's social assault.
(2021-11-29). Video: 13 Year-old Canadian Girl Took the Covid-19 Vaccine. "Try Not to Cry, Her Heart Stopped and Now She is in Critical Condition" globalresearch.ca Forward Global Research articles. …
(2021-11-29). Selected Articles: The WHO and the Road Towards a Fake Medical Dystopia. globalresearch.ca 
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(2021-11-29). 2.5 Million Nurses Demand UN Probe Into 'Covid-19 Criminals' Blocking Patent Waiver. zcomm.org The European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Singapore "must be investigated for blocking a faster global vaccine rollout leading to the loss of countless lives."
(2021-11-29). Vaccines are not enough! Action must be taken to halt winter surge! wsws.org Educators and parents in Washington state demand urgent action to halt a massive surge of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths predicted for the winter months ahead.
(2021-11-29). President Maduro Accuses EU Electoral Mission of Espionage. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused the European Union (EU) electoral observation mission (EOM) of being spies who tried to tarnish the November 21 election. | "Who arrived?" asked Maduro. "Spies! They tried to stain the impeccable electoral process of Venezuela and they could not. A delegation of spies." | The president made the comments Sunday during a working meeting to present the weekly report on Venezuela's battle against COVID-19, broadcast on publicly owned Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). | The national leader drew attention to the number of delegates throughout the country who utilized "a…
(2021-11-29). Unnecessary and Complicated Transfers Are Spreading COVID in Federal Prisons. truthout.org 
When I began my interview with Brett Ellis, a federal prisoner at FCI Seagoville in Seagoville, Texas, he introduced himself by saying matter-of-factly, "I'm CONVICT-19, and I tested positive." | Perplexed and somewhat confused, I responded, "You mean COVID-19," to which he immediately corrected me, insisting, "No, CONVICT-19, that's what the marshals and the guards call me, and that was before I tested positive." He continued, "In fact, I'm only in prison for 19 days, so getting COVID was ab…
(2021-11-29). 'Issue of inequalities' for long COVID patients needs to be addressed. imperial.ac.uk The "big issue of inequalities" for long COVID patients who face ongoing symptoms and disability needs to be addressed, an expert has said.
(2021-11-29). Detroit schools reopen Monday as COVID-19 sweeps Michigan. wsws.org The state government headed by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer has abandoned any effort to fight the right-wing campaign against mask mandates and other executive orders which she issued in the course of 2020.
(2021-11-28). Biden's Attempt at Sending Message of Return to Normalcy Thwarted by New COVID Variant. sputniknews.com Polls suggest that the handling of the pandemic in the US is one of the main reasons for the ongoing decline in Biden's approval ratings, which have dropped from around 55% to roughly 41.7% in less than a year.
(2021-11-28). Keep borders open despite Covid variants, WHO pleads. rt.com 
The World Health Organization has encouraged countries to keep their borders open, despite fears about the Omicron variant of Covid-19, as South Africa denounces global travel restrictions that it has called "unjustified." | Avoiding shutting down borders, the WHO said, will prevent a "heavy burden on lives and livelihoods." | If restrictions are put in place, the organization warned, they should not be "unnecessarily invasive or intrusive." | .
(2021-11-28). Foreign tourists flock to South African airports in bid to urgently leave country. tass.com The new omicron strain of the novel coronavirus is spreading in South Africa…
(2021-11-28). Johnson government declares Britain "nowhere near" needing tough measures to combat Omicron variant. wsws.org The Johnson government and its chief advisors on SAGE are muzzling science and transforming public health policy into a macabre form of roulette.
(2021-11-28). Sputnik may be slightly more effective against omicron variant — US expert. tass.com "Adenoviral vaccines in general trigger a broader immune response than mRNA vaccines. But the difference may be very small," the expert said…
(2021-11-28). Instead of Travel Bans, Let's Defeat Omicron Variant With Global Vaccination. truthout.org 
There is global concern and widespread alarm at the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called Omicron. | The Although early days, Omicron appears to be able to reinfe…
(2021-11-28). As Omicron spreads in Europe, Paris commits to mass COVID-19 infections. wsws.org As infections reach new highs and the highly-mutated Omicron variant appears in Europe, the French government aims to let the virus spread.
(2021-11-28). Claves de la variante àìmicron del virus causante de la Covid-19. telesurtv.net La OMS declaró el viernes como una variante de preocupación la mutación identificada por vez primera en Sudáfrica.
(2021-11-28). COVID: Unclear if Variant Omicron More Transmissible or Severe. telesurenglish.net It is not yet clear whether the Omicron COVID-19 variant is more transmissible, or causes more severe disease compared to other variants including Delta, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. | RELATED: | WHO said it's not yet clear whether Omicron is more easily spread from person to person compared to other variants, even though the number of people testing positive has risen in South Africa where this…
(2021-11-28). Nature of the COVID Era Public Health Disaster in the USA: From All-cause Mortality and Socio-geo-economic and Climatic Data. globalresearch.ca
(2021-11-28). Peru: 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Affects at Least 90 People. telesurenglish.net Peru's Geophysical Institute (IGP) reported a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the northern Peruvian Amazon jungle. | RELATED: | National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci) director Miguel Yamasaki reported that the earthquake damaged 19 houses and two health centers. At least 90 people were affected, and two had injuries. | The IGP informed that the epicenter was registered 98 km east of Santa Maria de Nieva in the Condorcanqu…
(2021-11-28). How Gen Z Is Fighting Back Against Big Tech. zcomm.org Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they're logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future…
(2021-11-28). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.
(2021-11-28). Generation Z Is Forging Healthy Social Media Practices for the Benefit of All. truthout.org 
As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon found herself addicted, spending five hours a day on the apps, mostly Instagram. | "At an important developmental period in my life as a young female, as a young kid, in middle school, [I got] wound up in this world of likes, comments, very deeply quantifiable measures of my value, addictive algorithms, and the endless scroll," she says. | W…
(2021-11-28). Video: The Vaccine is More Dangerous than COVID-19: Dr. Peter McCullough. globalresearch.ca
(2021-11-28). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.
(2021-11-28). Rich Countries Blamed as New Covid Variant Sparks Global Alarm. zcomm.org "Allowing new variants to emerge and spread, 13 months into the vaccine era, is a policy choice by the rich world."
(2021-11-28). Invention of "The Covid Narrative": The PCR Test Sustains The Myth of a Global Pandemic. It Serves to "Maintain Fear" globalresearch.ca
(2021-11-28). Amid record deaths from COVID-19, Ukrainian president accuses Russia of planning a "coup" wsws.org Russia and Ukraine have been reporting record deaths as NATO and the US stoke a dangerous military crisis in the Black Sea.
(2021-11-28). The "Great Reset" or the "Great Pretext" … for Dystopia. globalresearch.ca First published by Consortium News, posted on Global Research on December 9, 2020 In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance. | By titling …
