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Best of the Web: Scottish newspaper pitches Covid-19 'internment camps'


RT
Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:53 UTC
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© Facebook / The Daily Record / screenshotA Scottish tabloid asks its readers if they support Covid-19 "internment camps" similar to those implemented in Australia.
A Scottish paper asked readers whether the nation should follow Australia's lead in locking up people who may be infected with the virus.

Scotland's largest newspaper has floated the idea of creating internment camps to forcibly detain residents who have tested positive for Covid-19 or who are "suspected" of being infected.

The Daily Record tabloid questioned its Facebook followers about the policy on Tuesday, noting that "Australians are being detained in Covid internment camps for 14 days if they test positive or are suspected positive." The outlet then asked: "Should we follow their lead?"

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Unvaccinated to be banned from booze and marijuana in Canada - media


RT
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:44 UTC
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Quebec province is reportedly poised to require proof of Covid-19 jab to access liquor stores and cannabis shops.

If taking away jobs and large gatherings isn't enough to coerce some people into getting vaccinated against Covid-19, cutting them off from hard liquor and marijuana might do the trick. Canada's Quebec province may soon find out.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault's administration is expected to announce a new requirement for proof of vaccination at liquor stores and cannabis outlets later this week, the Journal de Montreal reported on Tuesday. Minor details of the latest mandate, such as whether to require the passport at entrances or cash registers, are still being ironed out, the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources.

Comment: There is no logical justification for barring the unvaccinated from activities that have no effect on spreading the virus (even theoretically, in this case). This is bald-faced coercion and the enforcement of an apartheid state, plain and simple. Of all the provinces in Canada, who would have thought it would be Quebec that would turn out to be the most fascistic?

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China locks down city of 1.2M after three virus cases


MedicalXpress
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
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© AFP/Getty ImagesLockdown measures for three cases coronavirus
More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in the country's latest mass lockdown.

Beijing has pursued a "zero COVID" approach with tight border restrictions and targeted lockdowns since the virus first emerged. But the strategy has come under pressure with a series of recent local outbreaks and with just a month to go until the Winter Olympics.

Yuzhou, a city with a population of around 1.17 million people in Henan province, announced that from Monday night all citizens were required to stay home to control the spread of the virus. The announcement was triggered by the discovery of three cases in the last couple of days.

People in the central area "must not go out", according to a statement posted Monday, while all communities will set up "sentinels and gates to strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures". The city had already announced that it was halting bus and taxi services and closing shopping malls, museums and tourist attractions.
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Manhattan DA closes probe into nursing home deaths without charging Cuomo: attorney

Michael Lee
Fox News
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Cuomo
© AP/Richard Drew1Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
The Manhattan district attorney's office is closing its investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of nursing home COVID-19 deaths without bringing charges against Cuomo, according to the former governor's attorney.

Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor who had been hired to represent Cuomo, said Monday:
"I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes. I was told that after a thorough investigation — as we have said all along — there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken."
The investigation was opened after a report last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the state's Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%.

Comment: Accountability means there are no 'unclear' roles or denial of responsibilities. Cuomo overstepped his authority, made deadly decisions and lied about them. There should be consequences.

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2022: Public schools continue to shed students as homeschooling surges

Susan Berry
Breitbart
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
mom/boy
© Ted S. Warren/APHome schooling
One of the defining educational issues of 2021 has been the decision by many parents to reevaluate their means of educating their children, and more are opting to remove them from government-run schools in favor of other alternatives, including homeschooling, which has shown a significant surge.

In its December report on data showing a migration of students from public schools, NPR describes the change as "troubling":
We compiled the latest headcount data directly from more than 600 districts in 23 states and Washington, D.C., including statewide data from Massachusetts, Georgia and Alabama. We found that very few districts, especially larger ones, have returned to pre-pandemic numbers. Most are now posting a second straight year of declines.
Among the school districts losing students is New York City, where enrollment dropped by about 38,000 students during the 2020-2021 academic year, with an additional loss of 13,000 in the current school year. In Los Angeles, the data shows the district lost 17,000 in the last academic year, and about 9,000 this year. Chicago Public Schools encountered an enrollment drop of 14,000 in 2020-2021, and an additional 10,000 this year.
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Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases

Larry Celona, Tamar Lapin, Tina Moore, Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding
New York Post
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:59 UTC
Alvin Bragg
© Craig Ruttle/APAlvin Bragg made clear his mission is to reduce the number of defendants locked up pretrial.
Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn't even want to lock up the bad guys?

Manhattan's new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals and to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday.

In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office "will not seek a carceral sentence" except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.

"This rule may be excepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic analysis of the facts, criminal history, victim's input (particularly in cases of violence or trauma), and any other information available," the memo reads.

Comment: The results of such kinds of 'criminal justice reform' have been painfully clear.

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CDC: Omicron now 95 percent of new US COVID-19 cases

Peter Sullivan
The Hill
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:37 UTC
Omicron
© CC0 / geralt / PixabayOmicron
The omicron variant accounted for 95.4 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases diagnosed during the week ending on Jan. 1, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The new data shows how quickly the highly transmissible variant has taken over, displacing the previously dominant delta variant. Just two weeks earlier, in the week ending Dec. 18, omicron accounted for only 38 percent of U.S. cases, the CDC said.

The omicron variant has fueled a massive spike in cases, to over 400,000 per day nationwide, but there is mounting evidence that the variant, on average, causes less severe disease than previous variants.

Comment: What isn't making the round in news as much as it should is that Omicron is actually building natural immunity to other variants. As it passes through populations and we see drops in cases, all such 'success' will likely be given to vaccines and continued boosters rather than the natural immunity boost from Omicron.

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Almost 50% of trans inmates in US federal custody for sex offences

Ana Slatz
4W
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:58 UTC
prison inmate
Data obtained from the Bureau of Prisons has revealed that almost 50% of trans-identified male inmates are in custody for sex offences, compared to just 11% of the general male population.

The shocking revelation comes after documents were acquired through a Freedom of Information request filed with the Bureau of Prisons by Amanda Stulman, the Director of the USA branch of Keep Prisons Single Sex. Stulman obtained the documents on December 14, 2021 - several weeks after submitting the request.

The breakdown of trans-identified criminals was sectioned into two categories - one for male-to-female transgenders and one for female-to-male. According to the document, 48.47% of biological male inmates identifying as women are in federal custody for sex offences, compared to just 4.71% of biological females identifying as men, and 11.2% of the non-transgender male population of federal inmates in general.

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Key suspect in assassination of Haitian President arrested in Miami

Peter Beaumont
The Guardian
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC
Jovenel Moïse
Jovenel Moïse was killed in an attack on his private home in July last year.
A suspected member of the group involved in the assassination of Haiti's president, Jovenel Moïse, has been arrested by US authorities after he was detained while transiting through Panama following his deportation from Jamaica to Colombia.

Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, a former member of the Colombian military, is accused by Haitian authorities of being part of a mercenary group that tortured and killed Moïse and wounded his wife, Martine, during an attack on Moïse's private home in July.

Palacios has admitted in a media interview being in Moïse's bedroom during the assault in which the president died, but has denied being involved in the killing.

He entered Jamaica illegally and was detained in prison after his arrest in October while the courts considered an application from Haiti for his extradition.

Comment: It's notable that just after the Haitian president was assassinated by foreign mercenaries, the US media began calling for US intervention:

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Australia's meat industry warns food shortages imminent due to lockdown's forced isolation restrictions

Chris Maher
7News
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:23 UTC
meat shop supermarket
© Kilito Chan/Getty ImagesAustralians are being warned there could be meat shortages within two weeks. File image.
Australians are being warned there could be meat shortages within two weeks unless meat workers are being given priority rapid antigen testing.

The meat industry says it's now an emergency, with hundreds of workers forced into COVID isolation.

In some supermarkets, meat shelves are completely bare, emptied by a perfect storm of holiday shortages and the COVID effect.

The big grocery chains such as Woolworths and Coles say the stock is often there - the problem is getting it into stores, because COVID is causing high absentee rates among retail staff and distribution workers.


Comment: It bears repeating: Covid is not responsible, they admit as much, these people isolating aren't even sick, this is solely due to the nonsensical, and tyrannical, government enforced restrictions.


Comment: Similar supply issues and shortages have been looming across much of the planet, and for much the same reason, lockdown restrictions. What has also become clear is that these backlogs have a much greater impact than just immediate food shortages, they ripple through the supply chain causing farmers to go out of business, or scale back operations because healthy animals are culled and sent to the dump, and in turn this means that there's even less to go around the following year.

It's likely that the situation will be much worse than simply '12 months of supply chain issues', because governments are making little effort to resolve the problems - that, less we forget began during the lockdowns of 2020 - and crop failures, livestock outbreaks, inflation and government mismanagement of agriculture have yet to be taken into account: For more on the issue, check out SOTT radio's:


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