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Hong Kong to enact China-style 'covid-19' health code system

Peter Lee
Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:00 UTC
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© GovHKThe government had issued various wristbands for monitoring people under quarantine. Covid-19: ; electronic bracelets for those in home isolation Authorities in Henan, China have been accused of exploiting the health code system to suppress protests, but the health chief said red codes would not be enabled for "no reason."
Hong Kong will implement real-name registration for the contact-tracing LeaveHomeSafe app and China-style health codes to "identify" those infected or undergoing quarantine, the new health chief Lo Chung-mau said on Monday.

Lo also announced that, starting Friday, those undergoing home isolation due to being infected will be required to wear an electronic bracelet to ensure they will not leave their home.

Speaking at the routine Covid-19 briefing on Monday afternoon, Lo told reporters that the purpose of requiring users to register their real names on LeaveHomeSafe was to "identify confirmed cases and people required to undergo quarantine," and "not to track them."

Comment: It's clear that the draconian, fruitless, and even dangerous, attempts at 'zero-covid' failed in China; it's also reasonable to suppose that China's establishment knows that the coronavirus was cooked up in a US lab. And so, with this in mind, it's reasonable to speculate that this 'health code' system is being created and tested for other reasons; reasons which, considering the rapidly deteriorating state of the planet - particularly in the West - will likely become clear soon enough:

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Texas wind power is failing right when the state needs it most

Brian Eckhouse, Brian K. Sullivan
Bloomberg
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:27 UTC
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© Eddie Seal/BloombergWind turbines in Sarita, Texas
Wind power -- a key source of electricity in Texas -- is being sidelined just when the Lone Star State needs it most, with turbines generating less than a 10th of what they're capable of.

A scorching heat wave is pushing the Texas grid to the brink. Power demand is surging as people crank up air conditioners. But meanwhile, wind speeds have fallen to extremely low levels, and that means the state's fleet of turbines is at just 8% of their potential output.

Texas may be America's oil and gas hub, but it's also long been the country's biggest wind-power state. The renewable energy source has become highly politicized: Some critics blamed frozen wind turbines for the Texas grid's failure during a deadly winter storm last year, even though disruptions at plants powered by natural gas were the bigger culprit.

Texas grid operators had accurately forecast that wind output would be low Monday, yet it points to a broader struggle facing the world as it transitions to cleaner energy sources. While countries across the globe are generating more electricity from intermittent wind and solar sources, large-scale, battery storage is still in its ascendancy. That leaves major grids more fragile and vulnerable to shock.
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American Airlines passengers told to get off the plane they just boarded after 5-hour delay because the crew had to go off duty

Sam Tabahriti
Yahoo News
Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:24 UTC
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© Stefani Reynolds/Getty ImagesFlight delays and cancellations continue to disrupt passengers' travel plans.
An American Airlines passenger said she had to get off the plane she had just boarded after a five-hour delay because the pilots had run out of flying time.

Sheila Gray had arrived at Charlotte on Saturday after returning from Rome and was trying to get home to Boston. She told Insider: "All I wanted was to get home to my bed. I had been up for 24 hours at this point and the deplaning was just the straw that broke the camel's back."

During the layover at Charlotte, her flight was delayed numerous times because "the plane was in a hanger being repaired," the gate agent told her. Once the plane was ready, just 20 minutes after boarding the pilot asked all passengers to leave the aircraft because "the crew has timed out and couldn't fly. We all deplaned and started scrambling to see if we could find other flights."
"People were angry and yelling at the gate agents. One irate gentleman in the gate area was later escorted off the plane after we reboarded. I did not hear him causing a commotion on the plane but had seen him after we were taken off the plane."
Replacement pilots were found and the original cabin were also able to fly, it transpired.
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Starbucks to close 16 US stores due to crime, rampant drug use

Ariel Zilber
New York Post
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:08 UTC
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© SOPA Images/LightRocket via GettStarbucks will close 16 stores this month in response to a rise in crime and drug use by customers and outsiders.
Starbucks is shuttering 16 store locations nationwide after store managers reported a surge in drug use among customers and outsiders as well as an increase in crime in certain areas.

Six Starbucks locations will be closed in the company's hometown of Seattle and six more will be shuttered in the Los Angeles metro area.

Two Starbucks restaurants will cease operating in Portland, Ore., while one store each will close in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Store managers have complained to company executives that employees have not felt safe amid a surge of assaults, thefts and drug use in and around each location.

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South Africa bar shootings: Four killed in KwaZulu-Natal on same night as 15 die in Soweto


The Guardian
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:15 UTC
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© Shiraaz Moahmed/APNineteen people have been killed in two bar shootings at the weekend, one in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and the other in the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg.
Police investigating if attacks linked, citing similarities as gunmen in both cases said to have fired at people 'randomly'.

Four people have been killed and eight wounded in a bar in eastern South Africa after two men fired indiscriminately at customers, police said, on the same night as a bar shooting in Soweto left 15 dead.

Police were trying to verify if the attacks were linked, they said, noting their similarity.
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John McEnroe says it's "ridiculous" that the US won't let Novak Djokovic play in the US Open because he's unvaccinated

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:52 UTC
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U.S. tennis legend John McEnroe has led calls for President Joe Biden to ease the "ridiculous" Covid ban on unvaccinated people entering the country to allow Novak Djokovic to compete at the U.S. open and aim for a record-equalling 22nd Grand Slam title. The Telegraph has the story.
A four-set victory over Nick Kyrgios sealed Djokovic's seventh Wimbledon title to again move just one behind Rafael Nadal's overall record of 22 Grand Slams but, after his infamous exile from Australia earlier this year, his fate again now rests on a country's Covid laws.

Djokovic's coach, Goran Ivanisevic, hailed Djokovic's "heroic" ability to transform a "shit year" following the extraordinary low of being deported from Australia and McEnroe is now urging the American government to let him play the hard-court season and then next month's U.S. Open.

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Dutch farmers form 'freedom convoys' to protest government's strict environmental rules

Emma Colton
Fox News
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:16 UTC
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© VINCENT JANNINK/ANP/AFP via Getty ImagesFarmers gather with their vehicles next to a Germany/Netherlands border sign during a protest on the A1 highway, near Rijssen, on June 29, 2022, against the Dutch Government's nitrogen plans.
Famed musician Mick Jagger gave the protesters a shout out during a concert.

Farmers in the Netherlands have formed their own version of Canada's "Freedom Convoy," blocking highways with tractors, setting bales of hay on fire and taking other actions to protest the government's recent goal to cut emissions that could force some farms to shutter.

"Where is our prime minister? This country is on fire and the farmers are standing up to the government," a spokesman for the protests said while standing on top of a hay bale in the town of Eerbeek last week, the Guardian reported.


Comment: Sounds like the Dutch prime minister is pulling a Trudeau.


Comment: It's not acceptable to cut off the livelihood of thousands of farmers to conform to a questionable ideological position, Mr. Rutte.

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Best of the Web: Highland Park gunman admitted to firing on parade crowd and contemplated attack in Madison, Wisconsin, officials say

Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna and Dakin Andone
CNN
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:33 UTC
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The gunman in Monday's massacre at a Fourth of July parade in the Illinois city of Highland Park admitted he carried out the attack, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.

Robert E. Crimo III, 21, told authorities in a voluntary statement that he "looked down his sights, aimed and opened fire" on paradegoers, emptying two 30-round magazines before loading his weapon with a third and firing again, Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Ben Dillon alleged during a virtual bail hearing.

A judge ordered Crimo, who appeared at the hearing wearing black, to be held without bail on seven charges of first-degree murder. A conviction would result in a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, but more charges could be filed in the future, Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart said.

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'Do not transition your kids': California teen tells her heartbreaking story in support of DeSantis plan

Greg Wilson
The Daily Wire
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:01 UTC
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Seventeen-year-old Chloe Cole, who de-transitioned after chemical and surgical treatments in a fruitless effort to become male, said Florida officials. The radical gender theory sweeping the nation can have dangerous and even deadly consequences on kids.

Chloe, who at age 13 took puberty blockers and two years later had a double mastectomy, which "irreversibly and painfully" damaged her body, said she now is unlikely to ever be a mother and faces a heightened risk of cancer. Her testimony came during a public hearing on whether Florida should reimburse people for what advocates call "gender-affirming care."

"No child should have to experience what I have," the California teen told the rapt hearing, which included state Medicaid and Board of Medicine officials.

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Ukraine: The civilians of Donetsk city are remorselessly shelled & killed while the West looks away

Aearnur
Substack
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:14 UTC
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The depth of the completely one-sided approach toward Russia in western elite circles such as that within the political and media spheres can best be measured by the level of support, come what may, for those opposing it.

Currently this is evidenced by an absolute zero level of response regarding the blatant shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk City which has been ongoing for over a week now. There are no military targets to speak of there as the troops of the Donetsk People's Republic are fighting on the front lines elsewhere.

Having watched intently during the worst years of the bombardment of the civilian population there during 2014 and 2015 when there was an identical lack of response from western mass media this has come as no surprise to me.

It should surprise those however who still have a modicum of respect for and belief in the humanity of those within western political and mainstream media circles. The complete lack of coverage either by tweet, speech, article or TV programme when civilians of all ages are actively targeted and killed should shock any decent person out of their comfortable concepts regarding these sources.

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