Lebanon goes extreme lockdown, will have 24-hour curfew for almost a MONTH

Timour Azhari
MSN
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:11 UTC

Comment: There are numerous 'exceptions' to the rule, but the very concept is totalitarian no matter how you spin it.

Lebanon has extended a hard lockdown by two weeks amid record-breaking numbers of COVID-related deaths and an unabated surge in the number of new cases that have stretched the country's healthcare system to its limits.

Meanwhile, a top health official has announced plans for a roll-out of vaccinations in the crisis-hit country that he said would see some three million of the country's inhabitants - roughly half the population - receive the jab by the end of the year.

Assem Araji, the head of Lebanon's parliamentary health committee, announced that the first batch of doses from United States-based Pfizer would arrive in the first week of February and that priority would be given to healthcare workers and those over the age of 74.

Lebanon has struggled to bring a COVID outbreak under control since the August port explosion that killed 200, injured more than 6,000 and destroyed large parts of Beirut, including several hospitals.

Anti-lockdown protesters in Denmark burn effigy of PM, brawl with police

RT
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:00 UTC

Crowds of black-clad protesters have taken to the streets, launching fireworks, torching an effigy of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and clashing with cops.

Hundreds of black-clad protesters clashed with police on the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday night, shooting fireworks at the officers and getting batons in return. Violent demonstrations have become a weekly occurrence in the Danish capital, where lockdown measures were extended at the beginning of the year and where the government recently clamped down further on the size of gatherings permitted.

The group, calling themselves the 'Men in Black', torched an effigy of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. By the end of the night, at least five people were arrested, Copenhagen police said on Twitter.

Comment: This is happening in a lot of places around the world. The people are sick and tired of their rights being trampled on by the authorities.

Ben Swann interviews Gad Saad: Dems want a war on 'domestic terror'

ISE Media
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:15 UTC

Now that the Neo-Liberal order has taken control of all branches of the Federal Government, media, big tech and academia, the new push for is a "war on domestic terror". Plus, there is now talk of "deprogramming" Trump supporters. I speak with Gad Saad, author of "The Parasitic Mind" about how to overcome this. Saad explains that 10's of millions of Americans must now channel their "inner honey badger."

Internet goes ballistic after Jimmy Dore interviews a 'Boogaloo Boi': Are they pro-LGBTQ anti-war activists, or right-wing extremists?

RT
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:44 UTC

Jimmy Dore has found himself at the center of an ideological internet feud after the left-wing pundit suggested that progressives share many common causes with the Boogaloo movement, often denounced as a far-right militia.

The popular political commentator and comedian interviewed a self-described "Boogaloo Boi," Magnus Panvidya, after seeing a video of the gun-toting radical denouncing US wars and corporate power during a speech in front of the Michigan State Capitol.

Noting that he couldn't find anything in the speech that he disagreed with, Dore explained that he decided to invite Panvidya onto his show to "explore his beliefs further."

Panvidya described himself as an anarchist who had a long history of environmental activism, rejecting the claim that the Boogaloo Bois were white supremacists or right-wing extremists.

Comment: It seems Facebook has pegged the Boogaloos as right-wing:

Facebook bans hundreds of 'boogaloo' accounts citing- without examples- 'real-world violence' while ANTIFA linked accounts are left alone

Lockdown protests rage in 25 cities across The Netherlands - Police fight back with water cannons, beatings and mass arrests

RT
Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:52 UTC

© Reuters / Eva Plevier
A police officer holds a dog during a protest against Covid-19 restrictions in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on January 24, 2021.

Some 240 people have been arrested as unrest spread to at least 10 municipalities across the Netherlands, with riot police using water cannons, batons, dogs and horses to break up unauthorized anti-lockdown gatherings and riots.

Police faced off with curfew-defying crowds in The Hague, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Venlo, Stein, Roermond, Oosterhout, Breda and elsewhere across the nation for the second day in a row on Sunday.

At least 190 people, including minors, were detained in Amsterdam alone, where some 1,500 protesters gathered at the central Museum Square, according to local media.

Comment: There are reports that protests have erupted again this evening against the curfew.

Throughout the West we're seeing the police willingly become the enforcers of the government's tyrannical lockdown measures:

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Covid By Numbers

Update 26 January 2021

The protests continued for a third night.

Psychologists accuse UK government of using 'unethical' fear tactics on people to enforce lockdown

Lucy Johnston
Express
Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:42 UTC

'If you go out... people will die"

A group of 47 psychologists has claimed this amounts to a strategic decision "to inflate the fear levels of the British public", which it states is "ethically murky" and has left people too afraid to leave their homes for medical appointments. Led by former NHS consultant psychologist Dr Gary Sidley, the experts have written to the British Psychological Society (BPS) claiming the strategy is "morally questionable."

In response the government has vehemently denied using covert techniques, saying it's public information campaigns have been "transparent" and necessary to set out "clear instructions" on how the spread of the virus can be delayed.

It has admitted to communicating public information campaigns 17 per week on average during the peak of the pandemic in order to reach an estimated 95 per cent of adults.

Comment: The coordinated psychological warfare is widespread, here's Canada's Christmas contribution:

Amazon demands IN-PERSON VOTING for employees' union election 'because mail-in ballots raise risk of fraud'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:00 UTC

Comment: Oh really?!?

In a Thursday filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Seattle-based online retail giant formally requested that a group of Alabama warehouse trying to form a union be required to vote in person, rather than by mail, according to Bloomberg. The company also requested a postponement of the vote so the NLRB can reconsider its earlier ruling which gives workers the next two months to vote by mail.

A group of workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse filed paperwork in November for an election to decide whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a rare step for workers at a company whose U.S. workforce isn't unionized. The NLRB, which oversees union votes, earlier this month said the vote would be conducted by mail, citing standards set up during the pandemic to keep workers and staffers safe. -Bloomberg

Amazon objected to the NLRB's decision - saying they had 'unfairly dismissed the company's argument' that its facility is safer than the surrounding Jefferson County, which hit a 20% COVID-19 positive test rate earlier this month. The company argues that in-person voting would have "fully minimized any risk of transmission," and that the NLRB's decision on mail-in votes was "based on speculation and conjecture, and without ever balancing the purported risk of virus spread against the public policy that 'strongly favors' allowing employees to vote in person."

Comment: So suddenly mail-in voting is prone to fraud and coercion? The ease with which these people speak out of both sides of their mouths is absolutely jaw-dropping!

See also:

Alexei Navalny & Russia-baiting: Biden brings back business as usual

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:24 UTC

Joe Biden enters the White House with an entourage of faces very familiar to OffGuardian, and many of those readers who have been with us since the beginning.

Glassy-eyed Jen Psaki is once again taking the White House press briefings. Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland is going to be secretary of state, and Samantha Power is hoisted back onto a platform from which she can berate the rest of the world for not following America's "moral example" by bombing Syria back to the stone age.

It was the machinations of these people - along with Biden as VP, John Kerry as Secretary of State and of course Barack Obama leading the charge - that lead to the coup in Ukraine, the war in Donbass and - indirectly - the creation of this website. For it was our comments on the Guardian telling this truth that got everyone here banned, multiple times.

So, for us, pointing out cold-war style propaganda is like slipping back into a comfy pair of shoes.

Planning the first battle in Biden's America: MAGA vs. The GOP

Andrew Korybko
OneWorld
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:29 UTC

A new party?

Multiple preexisting socio-political fault lines are rapidly rising to the surface in Biden's America, but among the few examples of friction that might actually be to the country's ultimate benefit will arguably be the one between the Trump-inspired "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement and the Republicans (the "Grand Old Party", GOP), as the former has the chance to politically smash the latter by simultaneously founding a third party in parallel with putting immense pressure upon their counterpart's leadership from within in an attempt to take wrest control of the party if successful.

MAGA's Split From The GOP

Biden's America is rapidly bringing multiple preexisting socio-political fault lines to the surface, but this might actually be to the country's ultimate benefit if the friction between the Trump-inspired "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement and the Republicans (the "Grand Old Party", GOP) becomes the first battle defining this new era. MAGA has the chance to politically smash the GOP by simultaneously founding a third party in parallel with putting immense pressure upon their counterparts' leadership from within in an attempt to wrest control of the party if successful. Former President Trump's unexpected decision to throw in the towel and give up fighting what he vehemently believed was the unprecedented electoral and voter fraud that resulted in current President Biden's certification by the Electoral College and influenced the storming of the US Capitol on the same day earlier this month provoked an irreparable rift between MAGA and the GOP. Many of the former now want nothing to do with the latter.

'Catastrophically wrong': German court declares regional lockdown UNCONSTITUTIONAL in major decision

RT
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:49 UTC

A German district court has declared a strict lockdown imposed by the government of the central state of Thuringia last spring unconstitutional, as it acquitted a person accused of violating it.

A trivial case about a man violating strict German lockdown rules by celebrating a birthday with his friends has ended up in a decision the German media described as "politically explosive." A district court in the city of Weimar did not just acquit the defendant but also stated that the authorities themselves breached Germany's basic law.

Thuringia's spring lockdown was a "catastrophically wrong political decision with dramatic consequences for almost all areas of people's lives," the court said, justifying its decision. It particularly condemned a restriction limiting private gatherings to the members of one household and one person outside of it.

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Lebanon goes extreme lockdown, will have 24-hour curfew for almost a MONTH

Anti-lockdown protesters in Denmark burn effigy of PM, brawl with police

Ben Swann interviews Gad Saad: Dems want a war on 'domestic terror'

Internet goes ballistic after Jimmy Dore interviews a 'Boogaloo Boi': Are they pro-LGBTQ anti-war activists, or right-wing extremists?

Lockdown protests rage in 25 cities across The Netherlands - Police fight back with water cannons, beatings and mass arrests

Psychologists accuse UK government of using 'unethical' fear tactics on people to enforce lockdown

Amazon demands IN-PERSON VOTING for employees' union election 'because mail-in ballots raise risk of fraud'

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