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Australia's unemployment benefits will be among worst in developed world once lockdown supplement cut

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:30 UTC
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© William West/AFP via Getty ImagesThe government plans to push ahead with a $300 cut to the supplement on 25 September, reducing the base rate of benefits to about $1,115 a fortnight.
A low-paid Australian worker laid off during the pandemic will receive the third lowest unemployment benefit in the OECD when the coronavirus supplement is reduced, according to expert analysis.

Despite mass unemployment and an extended stage-four lockdown in Melbourne, the federal government plans to push ahead with a $300 cut to the supplement on 25 September, reducing the base rate of benefits to about $815 a fortnight.

ANU social security expert Prof Peter Whiteford said that by one key measure Australia's jobseeker payment and commonwealth rent assistance would drop below all OECD nations except Greece and New Zealand.


Comment: Notably New Zealand's leadership have threatened particularly tyrannical measures on their citizens since the lockdowns began.


Comment: And it just so happens that Australia's authorities have recently been trialing out some of the most tyrannical control measures we've seen since the lockdowns began:

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SOTT Focus: The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:28 UTC
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© Getty Images / Octavio Jones
In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was 'akin to a severe flu' and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE.

When you strip everything else out, the reason for lockdown comes from a single figure: one percent. This was the prediction that Covid, if left unchecked, would kill around one percent of us.

You may not think that percentage is enormous, but one percent of the population of the world is 70 million people - and that's a lot. It would mean 3.2 million Americans dead, and 670,000 Britons.

But where did this one percent figure come from? You may find this hard to believe, but this figure emerged by mistake. A pretty major thing to make a mistake about, but that's what happened.
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Journalists' social-media snark about urban safety is grotesque gaslighting

Karol Markowicz
New York Post
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 01:36 UTC
NYC times square
© Christopher Sadowski
American cities are in trouble. In the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns and rising crime and disorder, residents are fleeing urban areas, particularly New York City. The continuing looting and riots, especially, have sown feelings of deep insecurity. But some journalistic elites refuse to see reality — and are happy to mock those of us worried about recent trends.

"I went for a belated NYC run this morning and am sorry to report that I saw very few black-clad anarchists," New York Times columnist Paul Krugman sarcastically wrote in a multi-part tweet thread. He added: "Also, the city is not yet in flames." Because you see, Krugman's anecdotal claims trump what you see on the news every night.

Crime is out of control in Gotham. A two-week window this summer saw 205 percent more gunfire incidents than the same period last year. With four months left to go, the city has already surpassed last year's shootings total.

But fact is, the troubles are contained in only certain areas. Of course, Krugman isn't threatened. The blood isn't staining sidewalks in the kind of hood the Nobelist calls home. Look at any Monday morning story about weekend violence. This weekend, it happened in The Bronx, Greenpoint, Rockaway.
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Australian Govt's OWN WEBSITE admits Covid tests are totally unreliable

David James
OffGuardian
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 05:49 UTC
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Imagine going to a doctor suspecting you may have a serious illness and being told that there are 2 tests available. With the first test, a swab, they do not know, should you record a positive result, whether or not you have the disease. With the second test, a blood test, they know for certain that the test is of no value in detecting the disease.

Would a patient find that situation satisfactory? Obviously not.

Yet that is exactly what the Australian government is admitting is the situation with its coronavirus testing. It is on the Therapeutics Goods Administration web site for "health professionals":
"The extent to which a positive PCR result correlates with the infectious state of an individual is still being determined."
And:
"There is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests."
[We also have a screenshot, just in case they take the info down - ed.]

Comment: See also:

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Mom and dad of five are shot dead 'by teen gunman who robbed them of $3,000' after they responded to online ad selling car

Kate Dennett
Daily Mail
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:43 UTC
Joseph Roland
The couple (above) had arranged to meet Kyree Brown in Southlands Mall car park at 11pm after arranging to a buy a 2017 Toyota Rav4 through online website letgo
An 18-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a couple who were shot during a phony car sale that was arranged online, police say.

Joseph Roland, 39, and his wife Jossline Roland, 40, leave behind five children after they were shot dead outside an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, while trying to buy an SUV.

The couple were carrying $3,000 in cash to pay for the RAV4 that was advertised by Kyree Brown on app Letgo when he allegedly shot them dead and took the money after meeting them at 11pm on August 14.

Brown has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly admitting to shooting the parents, the Denver Post reported.
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Airborne Spanish police berate beachgoers over Covid-19 triggering bleak comparisons online: 'Hitler would be proud'


RT
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:57 UTC
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© Twitter / @N_TrastamaraHelicopters patrolling Spain's beaches for covid infractions
Spain's Civil Guard has confirmed that it will now deploy helicopters and other vehicles to remind tourists of growing coronavirus restrictions, amid concerns online that the government is becoming increasingly authoritarian.

Footage has been shared widely online showing Spanish police barking instructions at beach goers in Mallorca from a helicopter.

Some commentators described the video as "creepy," as others decried the huge waste of police resources to harass a practically empty beach while the streets of Palma are filled with people "not wearing masks, smoking, not distancing while the police do nothing."

Comment: Spain's civilians look as if they are reaching their limit:



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London: Natural History Museum to review potentially 'offensive' Charles Darwin collection and those of other contributors

Craig Simpson
The Telegraph
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:00 UTC
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© PicasaCharles Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, UK
The Natural History Museum will become the latest institution to review it's collections after an audit warned its Charles Darwin exhibitions could be seen as "offensive".

An internal review, sanctioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, has led to an audit into some rooms, statues, and collected items that could potentially cause offence.

It warns that collections which some may find "problematic" could include specimens gathered by Darwin, whose voyage to the Galapagos Island on HMS Beagle was cited by a curator as one of Britain's many "colonialist scientific expeditions".

Museum bosses are now desperately seeking to address what some staff believe are "legacies of colonies, slavery and empire" by potentially renaming, relabelling, or removing these traces in the institution.

The executive board told staff in documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph that "in light of Black Lives Matter and the recent anti-racist demonstrations around the world" the museum would undertake a review of existing room names and "whether any statues (or collections) or could potentially cause offence". One of the institution's directors said in internal documents that new action taken to address these issues would alter "the use and display of our collections and public spaces".

Comment: If we don't learn the lessons from history...if we take away all references to our collective journey be they good or bad...if how we are only allowed to reflect on the past as weighted to this or that societal whim, then we have lost all context, all messages from our history, all clues in moving forward. This diabolical mindset is a rape of our consciousness to institute a false reset of human understanding for unfathomable purposes.

How others reacted to this insanity:






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Hong Kong police tackle 12yo girl during protest against election delay, national security law - 'minimum force'

Rachel Wong
Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:30 UTC
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© Joshua Kwan/United Social Press
The Hong Kong Police Force has defended tackling a 12-year-old girl during a pro-democracy demonstration after a clip went viral of the incident. Police on Facebook said that the girl was attempting to flee during a stop-and-search action on Sunday in Mong Kok and they had used the "minimum necessary force" in subduing her.

The girl - who gave her first name as Pamela - told i-Cable that she and her elder brother lived on Waterloo Road in the area. They visited Yau Ma Tei to buy art supplies for class but could not pass through due to a police cordon, she said.


In a HKUST Radio News Reporting Team clip, she was seen running away from police on Sai Yeung Choi Street South. However, a riot police officer knocked her to the ground as other officers shouted: "Stand still." Three officers then restrained the girl.

The force later wrote on Facebook that they were concerned about youngsters participating in prohibited group gatherings and that the officer used the "minimum necessary force" to subdue her: "During the interaction, she suddenly ran away in a suspicious manner. Officers therefore chased and subdued her with [the] use of minimum necessary force," the post on Sunday read. "Police were concerned about youngsters participating in prohibited group gathering. Their presence at the chaotic protest scenes also endangers their own personal safety."

The police issued penalty ticket to Pamela, her elder brother and a passer-by, accusing them of violating the Covid-19 ban on group gatherings of more than two people.
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Canadian Brainwashing Corporation touts compliance over science

John CA Manley
Off Guardian
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
guy with a sign
© Unknown
The CBC (the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation) published an article about Saturday's lockdown protest in Ottawa. It heralds with this ironic deck: "Online misinformation about pandemic safety measures thriving."
Ironic, because CBC's website has been one of the most abhorrent purveyor of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 "pandemic."

The article demonstrates the CBC's lack of journalistic integrity by describing the protesters as "venting their frustrations over science-backed measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19."

Notice how they said "science-backed" instead of "evidence-based"? Science-backed could simply mean a scientist with a theory. It's a careful choice of words considering that the evidence shows that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, and "safety" measures are ineffective and far from safe.

Furthermore, why would it make people more safe if we "slow the spread," as they say? Clearly, hospitals in Canada are nowhere near maximum capacity. COVID patients are not overflowing into emergency tent clinics.

According to Health Canada only 2,335 people in a country of 37 million were admitted to ICU. Which is an interesting number, considering that we (apparently) have had 9,120 deaths from COVID-19. That means that 75% of those who died from COVID never received the coveted care we are being forced to social distance for.
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Wealthy, white NYC college student, 20, among eight arrested for rioting, vandalism


The Daily Mail
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:01 UTC
rich undergraduate arrested BLM protest
© FacebookClara Kraebber, 20, was among those arrested after a vandalism spree on Friday in the Flatiron District. She is an undergraduate at Rice and comes from a wealthy Upper East Side family
Arrested for 'causing $100,000 worth of damage to businesses in Manhattan during BLM rampage'

A wealthy college student is among the eight people arrested on rioting charges after participants in a Black Lives Matter protest went on a rampage in Manhattan, causing some $100,000 in damage to businesses.

Clara Kraebber, 20, was among those arrested after the vandalism spree on Friday in the Flatiron District, where demonstrators were protesting over the death of Daniel Prude in upstate Rochester.

All were charged with rioting, and some were additionally charged with weapons and burglary tool possession.

Comment: The New York Post adds:
[..] Kraebber has joined in street protests for years before allegedly taking part in Friday night's march.

She is now facing a maximum of four years in prison on her top charge of first-degree riot.

"We don't have much political power right now, being youths, but this is something we can do," she told the New York Times in 2014, explaining why she joined a Manhattan rally on behalf of Ferguson, Missouri, police-shooting casualty Michael Brown.

She was a 14-year-old student at the elite Hunter College High School at the time.

Now she is a history undergrad at Rice University in Houston, according to her Facebook page — where the most recent photo, from June, shows her grinning from ear to ear while holding a goat.

As a member of the Rice Young Democrats, she helped work on Beto O'Rourke's failed 2018 bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz. She donated $121 to the Rice Young Democrats PAC.

"Does Beto make you feel this way too??? THEN GO VOTE!!!" she captioned a Facebook photo showing her looking up, earnestly, at the candidate.
And there you have it. Ms. Kraebber has been the subject of the multi-decade program of radical identity politics indoctrination that infests elite higher education. And now she will (possibly) bear the brunt of its consequences. More reportage on the riot:



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