Comment: Sky News detailed responses to Djokovic deportation from the Serbian president and Djokovic's family:

Behaviour towards Novak 'scandalous', says family

Djokovic's family have reacted for the first time since the decision to deport him was finalised.

Their statement said: "We are very disappointed with the decision of the Federal Court and the fact that Novak has to leave Australia.

"This was not just about sport, and playing in the first Grand Slam of the season, which Novak has dominated for a decade, but also politics and all the interests that prevailed in this case.

"Despite the scandalous behaviour towards Novak, we believed that sport would win.

"We believed that the fact confirmed by the court would be respected - that Novak has a valid visa, that justice will be served and that no 'public interests' will be an excuse for the decision made.

"What we all need to do, and first of all us as his family, is to give him support now more than ever.

"We will be here to share the blows he received, to help him regain his energy, his faith in this sport, above all in fair play, which was completely absent here.

"We are proud of him and the strength he showed and the fight he led with dignity.

"We believe that he will come out of this situation stronger and that time will show what he has indisputably always confirmed so far, and that is that he is a great champion and a man."

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'Australian authorities humiliated themselves' - Serbian president

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said he's already spoken to his countryman.

"I spoke to Djokovic and told him we cannot wait to see him," Mr Vucic told reporters.

The president said there had been a "witch hunt" against Djokovic and criticised the way he was treated.

"I think the Australian authorities humiliated themselves with these kind of procedures pressing against Novak Djokovic, 10 days of torturing him and after all, the terrible media campaign that was launched by them and by many others in the West was really something very terrible," he said.

"And we wait for our Novak here. He is the world champion, but he is our champion. And of course, he's in our hearts."

Scott Morrison said he would consider ending Djokovic's three-year ban into Australia early, given the right circumstances...

But he has left the door open for Djokovic to compete at next year's Australian Open, despite the tennis star facing an automatic three-year ban from entering the country.

"I'm not going to pre-condition any of that or say anything that would not enable the minister to make the various calls he has to make," Mr Morrison told 2GB radio on Monday.

"It does go over a three-year period, but there is the opportunity for (a person) to return in the right circumstances, and that will be considered at the time."

Mr Vucic expressed disappointment at the ruling, and accused the Australian government of "harassing" Djokovic.

The Serbian Tennis Association said the "farce is over" and "politics has beaten sports" with Australia's decision to deport Djokovic.

What would be classed as the "right circumstances"; if he was vaccinated?

His former coach Boris Becker wrote an op-ed for the Daily Mail, titled "Novak Djokovic is like family to me but he is making a BIG mistake in not getting vaccinated... it is a decision that threatens his chance to cement himself as the GREATEST player of all time".

Here are some excerpts:

I did not have the chance to speak to Novak but I would urge him to get vaccinated — although whether he would listen is another matter. I also accept that as someone in my fifties I look at my health in a different way from those in their twenties and thirties who feel more invincible.

I have had conversations with my own children who are in that bracket, eventually persuading them to have the jab. Will Novak take that step? I am not sure that he will.

He is incredibly strong-willed, with very firm beliefs. If he does not, then in 10 years he will look back on it and realise he made a mistake.

It is not just about Australia. The fact is that we are living in a different world and he is going to find it very hard to live the life of a professional tennis player travelling around without the vaccination.

Those are the rules, whether one likes them or not, and you have to accept it. Maybe one day we will get back to a more normal situation, but at 34 he does not have much time left to pursue his goals.

He has an extreme diet and an extreme lifestyle to give himself the best chance, and ultimately you have to say he has made the right decisions because the results show it.

This is why the PTB fear him! If he has consistently made choices for this health and wellbeing that have paid off, then you can bet he made an informed decision about the covid vaccination. The PTB cannot have their narrative questioned. Given the alarming increase in mortality rates particularly in young males after taking the covid vaccine, it's no wonder he is staying well away.

We only have to look at the long list of athletes that have dropped dead or who have incurred life-altering conditions after taking the vaccine to see that for those in professional sports, it's not a good idea. Reports suggest that at least one player has already dropped out of the Australian Open due to breathing problems. And it's not just the players, Pedro Martinez & Federico Delbonis rushed to the aid of a ballboy who collapsed.

Comment: The author has tacked her own (thoughtful) take on the 'Build Back Better' scheme onto Neil's monologue, which simply takes note of the similarity of language used by leaders to malign dissidents against their schemes as 'less-than-human'.

Regarding hidden motivations for these schemes, the author is - in our opinion - correct about climate change being the larger motivating factor for elites.

The true horror of the situation, however, is that, just as the 'war against the virus' is fanciful because governments cannot affect the trajectories of airborne respiratory viruses, neither can they affect climate change.

Part of the illusion is that they have sold people a misleading version of climate change. What's really coming down the pipe is sudden, catastrophic change, which governments are powerless to stop or even mitigate.

The entire scheme, therefore - Covid-as-trigger, vaccinations-for-control, 'saving the planet' by transforming civilization's infrastructure - is a global exercise in deluding people, keeping them asleep in the false belief that 'governments have this in hand'.

They do not, and they will flee when the sh*t hits the fan...

Comment: Another way of putting this is: China's economy (as measured by GDP) grew by a staggering 8.1% in 2021.

That's the highest rate of growth for the Chinese economy since 2011.

Here's the question this begs: if 'the world' is 'suffering the consequences of supply chain issues brought on by Covid/lockdowns', why isn't China?

It's still clearly doing business - record business! - somewhere, so... is it only the West undergoing shortages? And if so, can that really be China's 'fault'?

Comment: It seems that both China and Russia see that the West is becoming increasingly desperate, and dangerous, and that the time to make serious moves to neutralise them as best they can has arrived:

• Pepe Escobar: Exit Nord Stream 2, enter Power of Siberia 2
• Russian decree unlocks the stranglehold of the Ukrainian economic sanctions on Donbass region
• Pepe Escobar: This is how the US does 'dialogue'

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'

Comment: Spaceweather.com further reports:

The shockwave was recorded as a sudden uptick in air pressure as far away as Alaska, Belize and multiple locations in Florida. The global wave is expected to converge on southern Algeria, giving an especially strong signal there.

High-altitude balloon and satellite measurements indicate that the exhaust plume has reached the stratosphere, as high as 60,000 feet.

Here's footage showing the eruption's global shockwave: