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Germany ironically herds sheep in drive to encourage vaccination


Source
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:22 UTC
sheep vaccination
© APSheep and goats stand together in Schneverdingen, Germany, as they form an approximately 100 meters large syringe to promote vaccinations against COVID-19, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
Tasty bits of bread did the trick for about 700 sheep and goats to join Germany's drive to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The animals were arranged on Monday into the shape of a roughly 100-meter (330-foot) syringe in a field at Schneverdingen, south of Hamburg.

Shepherd Wiebke Schmidt-Kochan spent several days practicing with her animals, news agency dpa reported. But she said in the end, it wasn't difficult to work things out — she laid out pieces of bread in the shape of the syringe, which the sheep and goats gobbled up when they were let out into the field.

Organizer Hanspeter Etzold said the action was aimed at people who are still hesitating to get vaccinated.

"Sheep are such likeable animals — maybe they can get the message over better," he said.
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Fire

One in three Americans say violence against government sometimes justified: poll

Monique Beals
The Hill
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:11 UTC
portland protest ICE building fire
Protest that ends with setting fire to ICE building in Portland
One in three Americans said it could sometimes be "justified for citizens to take violent action against the government" in a new poll, up significantly from previous years.

The poll from The Washington Post-University of Maryland published Saturday found that 40 percent of Republicans said violent actions could be justified, compared to 23 percent of Democrats and 41 percent of independents.

Overall, 62 percent of respondents said violence was never justified, and four percent either had no opinion or answered "justified" but "said in a follow-up question that they did not think violence was justified."

Comment: The mass understanding of violence at the Jan. 6th protests is sorely lacking, as usual. Another poll could be conducted to see how many Americans think violence is okay when it is directed at communities and businesses under the guise of protest.

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No 'one-size-fits-all' solution when it comes to imposing vaccine mandates at work: experts

Paola Loriggio
The Canadian Free Press
Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:59 UTC
Covid Vaccine
© PA
A year after COVID-19 vaccines first arrived in Canada, employers and workers in the country's most populous province are getting a clearer picture of when and what kind of immunization mandates can be enforced in the workplace, legal experts said following recent rulings on the issue.

However, Ontarians shouldn't expect a black-and-white, across-the-board answer on whether such policies - which in some cases involve firing non-compliant staff - can always be imposed, the experts said.

A series of recent decisions has shown labour arbitrators are considering the specifics of each workplace and policy in determining whether the mandates can be imposed in a unionized setting, said Michael Cleveland, a lawyer with the firm Miller Thomson.

"There's not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution," he said in a recent interview.
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Briefcase

Elizabeth Holmes trial: Theranos founder guilty on four fraud counts

Kari Paul
The Guardian
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC
Elizabeth holmes
Theranos and 34-year-old Holmes ran “an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology, business, and financial performance,” according to the SEC.
The jury delivered the verdict after announcing they were deadlocked on three of the 11 charges faced by Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile trial that captivated Silicon Valley and chronicled the missteps of the now-defunct blood testing startup.

The jury found Holmes guilty of several charges - including conspiracy to defraud investors - following a dramatic day in which jurors said they remained deadlocked on three of the criminal counts she faced.

Comment: Breitbart adds:
At Theranos' height, Holmes had amassed a fortune of $4.5 billion on paper and was lionized as a visionary in glowing media coverage that included a famous cover story in Forbes magazine and a profile in the New Yorker.

Federal prosecutors argued that Holmes used this positive media coverage to lure the investors she is now convicted of defrauding.

Holmes' rise to power was abetted by glowing media coverage and bolstered by the reputations of the board of directors she assembled.

Theranos' board members were a who's who of political and military power players. Their numbers included former U.S. Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, former Navy admiral Gary Roughead, and former Defense Secretary and four-star general James Mattis, all of whom sang Holmes' praises before her fall from grace.

As Carreyrou explained in his book Bad Blood, these board members were "men with sterling, larger-than-life reputations who gave Theranos a stamp of legitimacy. The common denominator between all of them was that, like Shultz, they were fellows at [Stanford University's] Hoover Institution."

The vote of confidence and effusive praise from these men boosted Holmes' credibility with Fortune magazine writer Roger Parloff, who wrote the first major media profile of Holmes.

During the trial, federal prosecutors depicted Holmes as a charlatan obsessed with fame and fortune. Holmes, who took the witness stand in her own defense for seven days, cast herself as a visionary trailblazer in male-dominated Silicon Valley who was emotionally and sexually abused by her former lover and business partner, Sunny Balwani.

The fraud-friendly business ethos of Silicon Valley was also put on trial in the Holmes' case, which cast Theranos as emblematic of the "fake it 'til you make it" attitude that defined the rise of big tech companies like Google, Netflix, Facebook, and Apple. In fact, Holmes idolized Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to the point of imitating Jobs' trademark black turtle necks, as she did in her famous Fortune magazine cover image.
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Bizarro Earth

10,000 of the UK's Iraq war veterans discharged due to mental health problems over last 20 years


Press TV
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:43 UTC
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The file photo shows Clinton Langston (R), British army’s most senior clergyman, speaking with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
The British army's most senior clergyman has lamented his participation in the military invasion of Iraq, saying mental scars from the war zone have left him in "the valley of the shadow of death" for years even after returning from the Arab country.

Clinton Langston made the revelation in a report published by the Daily Mail on Saturday as more than 10,000 British troops involved in the Iraq war have been discharged due to mental health problems over the past 20 years.

Official figures show that another 500 quit last year after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other disorders.

Comment: Tony Blair, the Prime Minister that promoted the lies that dragged the UK into the US-led war on Iraq has just been awarded 'the highest ranking Knighthood' for his 'services' to the country. Tellingly, a significant proportion of the population are aware of Blair's leading role in the deception, and a petition to remove this 'honour' has already garnered 570,000+ signatures; however this is likely not representative of just how widely Blair is despised in the UK, and beyond.

The war on Iraq, according to conservative estimates, killed over 1 million people, devastating the lives of a great many more, and it contributed to the destabilisation of the region that helped facilitate further wars on the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

It's perhaps no surprise that, these days, Blair has adopted a new role promoting our own era's war of terror, the contrived coronavirus crisis, and in turn his own institute has received ample funding from The Gates Foundation. Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?



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Pirates

Sign of the times: Car part thefts quadruple across US


RT
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:26 UTC
catalytic coverter being installed
© Global Look Press / Janerik HenrikssonThefts of catalytic converters are on the rise, due to the precious metals used in their manufacture
Thieves rip out catalytic converters for the precious metals within

A growing number of thieves have been stealing catalytic converters off cars amid the troubled US economy. They contain an array of precious metals, which fetch hundreds of dollars at the scrapyard, but can be dangerous to remove.

A catalytic converter can fetch as much as $300 thanks to the precious metals inside - platinum, palladium, and rhodium - whose value has skyrocketed over the past two years. While the cost of replacing the $1,000 emissions-controlling devices is usually covered by insurance, it puts the car owner on the sidelines while they wait for the part to arrive. Supply chain shortages mean the wait could be as long as six weeks.
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Megaphone

Thousands protest harsh new lockdown restrictions in Amsterdam, riot police sent in


Euronews
Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:33 UTC
Amsterdam protest
Thousands of protestors assembled in Amsterdam, Jan. 2, 2022.
Thousands of people in the Netherlands defied a ban on assembling and demonstrated Sunday against the Dutch government's coronavirus lockdown measures, gathering on a central square before marching toward a park in Amsterdam.


Comment: Clearly these 'bans on assembly' have nothing to do with health, because millions of people across the planet have attended lockdown protests and there has been no spike in illness of any kind. Which leads to the inevitable conclusion that they're actually a power grab that is intended to outlaw all protest, and to legalise the repression by the authorities: UK govt stuffs "stunningly draconian" anti-protest powers into new 'policing' bill, rushes it through parliament


A small group of demonstrators briefly clashed with riot police as officers worked to clear the crowd from Museum Square based on an order from Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. Reporters at the scene saw at least one person being detained.

The local government had outlawed the protest, saying police had indications some demonstrators might be planning to attend "prepared for violence."

The municipality later issued an emergency order for people to leave the square, and riot police marched across the grass to clear the area, sending the demonstrators into nearby streets.

Comment: Protests against lockdowns continue throughout much of locked-down Europe, and police everywhere continue to enforce the nonsensical and tyrannical restrictions:

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See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: New Year, Same 'New Normal': Mass Formation Psychosis & Crowd Psychology




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Books

Pennsylvania governor vetoes Republican bill to post school course materials online


CBS Pittsburgh
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:40 UTC
Tom Wolf
© Fox NewsTom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have required school districts to post information about textbooks, course material and state academic standards online.

The Democratic governor said the legislation "politicizes what is being taught in our schools" and that state regulations already require public schools to provide similar material upon request.

Comment: The governor is ignoring parents' long-standing, legitimate concerns over the content of their children's classroom materials







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Star of David

Israeli military to roll out all-women combat platoon


RT
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:08 UTC
Women soldiers
© AFP/Jack GuezIsraeli soldiers from the mixed-gender Lions of the Jordan battalion.
The women-only unit is being set up for female recruits who have religious qualms about serving alongside men.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly creating a new women-only combat unit for religious female soldiers who want to serve on the frontlines but have "modesty" concerns about being in close quarters with male troops.

Beginning in March, the military will assign conscripts from women enlisting for combat roles into the new platoon, which will be established within an existing, mixed-gender border defense unit, according to the Times of Israel. The IDF said the move to allow more women to serve in fighting units was based on practical considerations and not a "social agenda," according to the Times.

The heads of religious seminaries, where many female high school graduates study before undertaking national service, reportedly told the IDF that their students had a "strong desire" to serve in combat roles, but were unable to reconcile this with their observance of "strict modesty laws." Women who are considered religious are allowed to choose to perform their national service in a civilian vocation, the paper reported.

Comment: The more something is dissed, the more it is demanded.

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Handcuffs

Five missing teenage girls found, 30 sex offenders arrested in New Orleans

Sam Raskin
New York Post
Sun, 02 Jan 2022 08:45 UTC
NO Police cars
© Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A law enforcement operation in the New Orleans area led to the discovery of five missing teenagers and 30 sex offender arrests, authorities announced.

The US Marshals Service revealed in a press release that in an annual multi-agency initiative dubbed "Operation Boo Dat," conducted between mid-October and Dec. 24, 17 of the arrests were of those accused of felony sex offender registration violations. All five of the found teenagers were girls ranging between the ages of 14 and 17, according to the news release.

US Marshals said Monday that among the arrests were one of a man wanted for raping 12-year-old girl victim in an abandoned home on the West Bank of New Orleans. Another man was arrested for an alleged sexual assault of 14-year-old girl in June in San Patricio County, Texas, according to the US Marshals.
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