[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Brits must stay alert to the hidden symptoms of a potentially dangerous flu-like virus that has already caused chaos in China, experts warned today.
Cases of the infection human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have surged across northern Chinese provinces in recent days, mainly among children.
And MailOnline can reveal that the bug, which can prove fatal in the most vulnerable, is already on British shores - and rising in prevalence.
Latest UK data shows cases of the virus - responsible for packed hospital waiting rooms in China and eerily similar to the early days of Covid - have seen a 'marked increase' in recent weeks - slightly higher than at the same time last year.
UK cases of HMPV first emerged in 2001, with roughly just four cases per week detected by PCR tests in winter, on average.
But experts have today cautioned that a hidden rise may be underway, as the virus can lurk in the body for days before causing tell-tale symptoms, leaving people to spread it unknowingly.
However, they warned that the spike in cases 'should not cause undue concern'.
HMPV typically causes symptoms similar to the common cold, including a cough, runny nose or nasal congestion, a sore throat and fever that clear after around five days.
But more severe symptoms such as bronchitis, bronchiolitis and pneumonia can occur, with sufferers experiencing a shortness of breath, severe cough or wheezing.
Experts urged Brits to be cautious of flu-like symptoms over fears it could actually be HMPV.
Professor John Tregoning, an expert in vaccine immunology at Imperial College London, says that it has very similar symptoms - in children at least - to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms.
'It is part of the cocktail of winter viruses that we are exposed to and, like other viruses, it will transmit in coughs, sneezes and in droplets.
'Protecting yourself by being in well-ventilated spaces, covering your mouth when you cough and washing your hands will all help,' said Professor Tregoning
Similar to the advice related to Covid and RSV, those infected must 'rest, stay hydrated and try not to spread it to others', he added.
'If you do feel very unwell, go to your GP. As it is a virus, antibiotics won’t have any effect.'
Unlike Covid, there is no vaccine yet or specific antiviral treatment for HMPV and treatment primarily involves managing symptoms.
The view from India, as published by an Afghan news site.
[KhaamaPress] Britannia’s moral foundation faces its gravest challenge as the nation confronts the systematic exploitation of vulnerable children by Pak rape gangs, exposing failures across law enforcement, social services, and the political establishment.[1] What emerged first in Rotherham has revealed itself as a national scandal, with authorities consistently prioritizing political correctness over protecting young British girls. The scale is horrifying. In Rotherham alone, an independent inquiry identified 1,400 victims between 1997 and 2013. Similar patterns emerged in Rochdale, Telford, and other cities across Britannia. The victims, predominantly young white girls from vulnerable backgrounds, were systematically targeted, groomed, and exploited while authorities deliberately looked the other way to avoid accusations of racism.
Professor Alexis Jay’s 2014 review revealed the institutional paralysis that enabled these crimes.[2] Despite repeated reports from victims, law enforcement and social services consistently failed to take appropriate action. Girls as young as 11 came forward only to be dismissed or ignored by those charged with their protection. The authorities’ response wasn’t mere negligence but it was a conscious choice to sacrifice children’s safety at the altar of political correctness. Local political dynamics played a crucial role in perpetuating this crisis. Authorities in multiple jurisdictions demonstrated a consistent pattern of prioritizing perceived community relations over victim protection. The fear of being labeled racist led to reduced scrutiny and intervention, effectively creating an environment where Pak gangs could operate with impunity. This political cowardice came at a devastating human cost.
The statistics are quite shocking. In Telford, studies showed that one in 126 Moslem men were prosecuted between 1997 and 2017, while in Rotherham, the figure was one in 73. These numbers reveal an uncomfortable truth about the disproportionate involvement of British Pak men in these organized rape gangs, a fact that authorities long tried to suppress.[3] Law enforcement’s failure has been particularly enraging. The 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found widespread failures by police to properly document cases and pursue investigations. Officers often dismissed victims as lacking credibility or making lifestyle choices, revealing a problematic culture that prioritized political convenience over child protection. The West Yorkshire Police, among others, faced particular criticism for their systematic failures.
The Crown Prosecution Service’s handling of cases during critical periods raises serious questions about institutional complicity. Between 2008 and 2013, numerous opportunities for intervention were missed. The case of a Rochdale victim encountering her convicted abuser in a local store, despite his having lost a deportation appeal two years earlier, exemplifies the system’s complete failure in both prevention and justice. Recent social media discussions led by influential figures like JK Rowling and Elon Musk have highlighted the ongoing nature of these crimes and the continued failure to achieve justice.[4] Rowling’s insistence on calling them "rape gangs" rather than "grooming gangs" reflects growing public anger at the sanitization of these crimes. As she pointed out, calling them grooming gangs minimizes the horror of their actions. These were organized rape gangs that systematically targeted and destroyed young lives.[5]
The political establishment’s response remains inadequate. Despite recent initiatives, including a government taskforce that has made hundreds of arrests, many perpetrators remain free. The reluctance to confront this issue head-on, coupled with concerns about electoral implications in areas with large Pak populations, has hampered effective action. This political calculation continues to prioritize votes over victims. Immigration policies have proven woefully inadequate. The failure to deport convicted foreign nationals, even after losing appeals, has led to situations where victims must face their abusers in their own communities. This represents a double failure of the system. The first in protection, then in justice. The British state’s inability to remove foreign criminals who have committed these heinous crimes against British children represents a fundamental failure of illusory sovereignty.
The UK currently requires radical reform across multiple institutions. The police and social services need complete overhauls of their child protection protocols. The Crown Prosecution Service must reform its case handling procedures. Immigration enforcement must be strengthened, particularly regarding convicted offenders. Most importantly, politicianship must prioritize justice and victim protection over perceived community sensitivities. As Britannia grapples with this crisis, the human cost continues to mount. The victims, many now adults, carry the scars of both the abuse and the institutional betrayal that followed. Their stories stand as a testament to the devastating consequences of political correctness and institutional cowardice. The systematic rape of British children by predominantly Pak gangs, and the establishment’s willful blindness to it, represents one of the darkest chapters in modern British history. The legacy of these systematic failures continues to impact communities across Britannia. Only through comprehensive reform of law enforcement, social services, and immigration enforcement, coupled with honest confrontation of cultural issues within the Pak community, can the UK begin to address this crisis. The time for tiptoeing around uncomfortable truths is over. Britannia’s children deserve protection, and Britannia’s authorities must finally put their safety above all other considerations.
The Telegraph came out with another damning summing up, and Twitchy collected tweeted responses:
Elon Musk has been absolutely pounding the U.K. authorities, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, over the 'grooming gang' scandal and cover up, and he should.
It is an egregious example of not only government negligence, but of the woke mind virus taken to its fetid, logical conclusion.
In short, the U.K. authorities who could have put a stop to the gangs of Muslim migrants who systematically abused, raped, and groomed thousands of British girls didn't, because they didn't want to be seen as 'racist' and 'Islamophobic.'
Now The Telegraph has a damning story about how the coverup worked, and how those girls were not only denied justice, but often harassed and arrested by authorities:
🔴 The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society.
In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood’s child when she was just 14, and was pregnant when she was killed.
Her death was subsequently used to threaten other children. The Telford Inquiry found particularly brutal threats. When one victim aged 12 told her mother, and the mother called the police, 'there was about six or seven Asian men who came to my house. They threatened my mum saying they’ll petrol bomb my house if we don’t drop the charges.'
Yet in a pattern that would repeat itself, Telford’s authorities looked the other way. When an independent review was finally published in 2022, it found police officers described parts of the town as a 'no-go area', while witnesses set out multiple allegations of police corruption and favouritism towards the Pakistani community. Regardless of the reason, the inquiry found that “there was a nervousness about race… bordering on a reluctance to investigate crimes committed by what was described as the ‘Asian’ community'.
Similar concerns applied at the council, where anxieties over appearing racist saw safeguarding officers waving away concerns simply because the perpetrators were Asian. It was felt that some suspects were not investigated because it would have been 'politically incorrect'.
Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months for making a documentary and exposing Muslim grooming gangs in the UK.
Two Pakistanis assaulted and broke the nose of a female police officer, still free! pic.twitter.com/vAMjC66IM1
#5
The truth is that these Pakistanis aren't aberrant criminals, but normal people who are adhering to the legal and moral consensus of their community.
"At night, we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it," the Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture."
#6
Britain has some interesting ideas about protecting kids. People caught with CP there don’t serve jail time because they “didn’t perpetrate the abuse.” That type of idea is being introduced into America via California liberalism.
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Is this the part when security services threaten to arrest everyone at Khaama Press?
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
There is not a lot of information on this tragedy, either in Russian media or anti Russian/anti Soviet media, past or present. What I can piece together is that 53 children, the offspring of several unidentified dissidents, victims of Russian style vigilance, were either killed or exiled to Siberia during Stalin's reign and then died.
It appears that the tragedy was the result of stupid actions by the sanatorium's caretaker.
[ColonelCassad] Today I am reading the Christmas message of Metropolitan Konstantin of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, in which he lists all the achievements of the local diocese. And I came across this:
"And on the 70th anniversary of the fire that took the lives of 53 children of "enemies of the people", a church in honor of the infant martyrs of Bethlehem was founded at the site of the tragedy in the Ulmalakhti tract of the Pyatkyaranta district."
I wrote about this story a long time ago, here is my old post on Vkontakte. But I will repeat myself.
The propaganda "promotion" of this sad story began with a post from a Karelian liberal public page, which is run by Ms. Smirnova. She served in the governor's press service for many years, and then miraculously turned into a zealous oppositionist.
A post about a real tragedy. Moreover, all the publications repeat quotes from this short text, without any documentary evidence. So:
"In the town of Ulmalahti on the shore of Lake Yanisyarvi in the Pitkyaranta district in the post-war period there was an orphanage for young children of the repressed. They were from 3 to 7 years old...".
In fact, there is no information that this was a special home specifically for such children (near the Finnish border!!!). Moreover, after the war there were enough orphans, even especially gifted citizens should guess about this. Photos of this house from the 30s can easily be found on the Internet. It was built under the Finns, and at that time this building housed a Finnish sanatorium!
A sanatorium, you understand! So, this building was special, built in a good place, and not somewhere in a swamp. That is, in the difficult post-war time it was specially given over to the "children of enemies of the people"? If so, then this is a sign of the exceptional humanity of the Soviet government.
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"The caretaker Sirotinin locked the boarding school building together with the children and teachers at night to prevent escape. And then one night there was a fire."
Can a 5-year-old child escape at night? Where and why? Most likely, the stupid caretaker hung a lock solely to prevent theft. Moreover, it turns out that two teachers were among the dead. Why would they run? On the contrary, they would have prevented any child from escaping. Are you, gentlemen, logical?
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"The court sentenced the caretaker to 7 years in prison. Three years later, he was released and disappeared into the vast expanses of the Soviet Union."
That's right, he fell under the amnesty. The amnesty of 1956 is good, after all, these were innocent people imprisoned under Tirana who were freed. Or is it? Can anyone explain this logically?
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"The children and two teachers were buried next to the burnt-down orphanage. Local residents erected a simple monument on the mass grave and planted flowers there..."
And where is the story that after this, those who planted flowers on the grave of the "children of the enemies of the people" were taken to the terrible MGB? Well, if you completely ignore logic and common sense and go all the way, you need to write something like that! They didn't do a good job...
Although the last episode is further proof that in this terrible tragedy, which happened because of the stupidity of one person, ordinary children died, without any political overtones. That's why there is a monument and flowers.
But there are people who really want to cynically use this terrible story for political and propaganda purposes. They have completely lost their conscience...
(c) A. Stepanov
Well, how can you not expose the "bloody tyrant Stalin"...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the top contender to become Canada's new prime minister following Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... 's resignation on Monday.
Poilievre, 45, has a 92 percent chance of becoming Canada's next prime minister in October's elections, according to Polymarket.
As expected, Trudeau, 53, resigned on Monday, raising questions about who would take over the ruling Liberal Party, or if power could switch to the Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October.
In Canada's political system, the prime minister is not elected directly, but chosen by the members of the majority party in parliament — currently the left-leaning Liberals.
But as the Liberal party struggles in the polls, that could change in October's parliamentary elections. If the Conservatives obtain parliamentary majority, they will place their leader Poilievre as prime minister.
Trudeau will remain in power until his party selects a new leader, which they will need to do before general elections in the fall that polls forecast Conservatives winning.
It comes as US president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, threatening huge tariffs on its northern neighbor and even offering suggesting that Canada could become America's 51st state.
Poilievre has previously said Canada needs an immediate election and requires a prime minister who can face Trump from a position of strength.
#1
Trudeau’s plan is to keep Parliament on ice until the summer so that his resignation is an evolution in slow motion. Justin’s plan only works if he doesn’t need legislation passed for any purpose. Unfortunately for Justin, Trump’s first 100 days are going to include a blitz of seismic changes that will definitely involve immigration and the borders of both our neighbors. Justin stands little chance of milking out his PM time in his living room paging through old copies of Teen Beat.
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I don't think Trudeaukhen's idea of Teen Beat is a magazine..
[Global Delinquents] All In recent months, a remarkable development in the Empire’s decline has gone almost entirely unnoticed. The National Endowment for Democracy’s grant database has been removed from the web. Until recently, a searchable interface allowed visitors to view detailed records of Washington-funded NGOs, civil society groups, and media projects in particular countries - covering most of the world - the sums involved, and entities responsible for delivering these initiatives. This resource has now inexplicably vanished, and with it, enormous amounts of incontrovertible, self-incriminating evidence of destructive US skullduggery abroad.
Take for example NED grant records for Georgia, the site of recent repeated colour revolution efforts, at the forefront of which were Endowment-bankrolled organisations. While still accessible via internet archives, they were deleted during the summer. Today, visitors to associated URLs are redirected to a brief entry simply titled "Eurasia". The accompanying text describes in very broad terms the Endowment’s aims regionally and the total being spent, but the crucial questions of where and on what aren’t clarified. In a comic hypocrisy too, the blurb boldly states:
"The heart of NED’s work in the region is the need to maintain access to objective information for local populations. Across the region, government actors are attempting to limit the space for citizens to distribute information and communicate freely online."
[FoxNews] President Joe Biden is spitting in the face of average Americans. By honoring billionaire George Soros, putting 625 million acres in federal waters off limits for oil and gas exploration and commuting the sentences of reviled murderers, Biden is insulting the majority of the country, who voted to elect Donald Trump.
Americans voted for "Drill, baby, drill," energy independence and a revival of investment in our mammoth oil and gas reserves. They voted for tougher law enforcement, a secure border, and deportations of (especially) criminals and others in the U.S. illegally. They voted out people like Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon who put criminals ahead of citizens.
Republicans must warn the president: continue to defy the wishes of U.S. voters and we will destroy the last remaining vestiges of your legacy. We are prepared to claim that you are not mentally fit, that you are not and have not been running the country and that your last-minute diktats should therefore be overturned.
GOP legislators must tell the president that after he leaves the Oval Office he will be called before Congress to testify about his lame-duck policies, to reassure the country that it is he who decided to block energy investment, to protect Social Security workers from having to go to the office and to shovel unspent money authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act out the door, despite our towering $36 trillion in debt.
Imagine the scene: Biden, described by Special Counsel Robert Hur as an "elderly man with a poor memory," unable to answer even the simplest questions about offshore drilling or getting flustered when asked why he would honor the controversial George Soros. Biden getting testy as legislators demand his reasoning behind guaranteeing that 42,000 Social Security workers can remain at home indefinitely, thwarting the Trump team’s effort to make our government more accountable. Truly, it would be delicious.
#1
Much of what Biden is doing can be reversed with legislation. It will have to be included in one of the budgetary bills that is subject to reconciliation. I’m not sure that the House and Senate can do something like that without a bunch of betrayals added to the sandwich.
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Day One: New law banning wind farms with no sunset. Remove all California EPA crap so they live like the rest of us. Repeal the 1968 Gun Control act and 1986 FOPA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
