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Hong Kong's largest teachers' union to disband following pressure from gov't and Chinese state media
The HKPTU, with over 95,000 members, was the city's largest teachers' union, representing over 90 per cent of the profession. It comes after the Education Bureau announced its decision to scrap all links with the union on July 31 - hours after the group came under fire in Chinese state media.
The state-run People's Daily and news wire Xinhua slammed the union as a "poisonous tumour" that must be "eradicated." A Hong Kong government spokesperson then accused it of "dragging schools into politics," making reference to their organisation of a teacher's strike during the city's 2014 Umbrella Movement and the publication of teaching materials promoting civil disobedience.

Personnel from the Australian Defence Force and New South Wales patrol the streets looking for people daring to breathe
With more than five million residents of Australia's biggest city now in lockdown for more than six weeks, Sydney reported 343 new infections in an outbreak stoked by the spread of the highly transmissible Delta strain of COVID-19, up 66 from the day before and topping the last one-day peak set on Saturday.
Tougher policing in the most-affected areas has divided Sydney and stoked resentment in some of Australia's most migrant-heavy neighbourhoods.

A photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows convicted murderer David Weidert on Jan. 18, 2017.
Newsom took no action last Friday on the state parole board's latest decision granting parole to David Weidert, his office said Monday, meaning that Weidert, 58, is now eligible for release.
Weidert received a life sentence for killing 20-year-old Fresno-area resident Michael Morganti in 1980 to cover up a $500 burglary.
Newsom blocked Weidert's parole last year, saying then that he "currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time." Then-Gov. Jerry Brown similarly reversed release recommendations for Weidert in 2016 and 2018.
At some point though, the truth was bound to seep out and it appears as though the levy is about to break on the truth of the "break-through" cases.

Sexual harassment charges have finally chased NY Governor Andrew Cuomo from office
By turns defiant and chastened, the 63-year-old Democrat emphatically denied intentionally mistreating women and called the attacks on him politically motivated. But he said that fighting back in this "too hot" political climate would subject the state to months of turmoil.
"The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing," Cuomo said in a televised address.
Vyacheslav Baltsevich, the head of the Council of Fathers for the Sverdlovsk Region, centred around Russia's fourth-largest city Ekaterinburg, made the request on Tuesday. According to him, organizers of the 'Salute' camp hosted an event branded "Reverse Day," in which boys dressed up in girls' clothes and vice versa. The activist alleges that those who didn't want to participate were "harassed and ridiculed" into taking part and filmed on a camera phone.
Comment: It sounds like Mr. Morokov has a sense of proportion. Good luck to him in navigating the tricky local waters.
Fast-forward to August 2, 2021, and Forbes announces, "No Vax, No Service: Here's Where Bars and Restaurants Across U.S. Are Requiring Proof of Vaccination."1
There has been no shortage of adoration poured on President Biden and members of his administration by the sympathetic US mainstream media. One of the most recent examples of the genre is its gushing ode to Psaki, published this week.
Comment: Comparing this puff piece on Psaki to the inaugural Vogue Scandanavian issue featuring Greta Thunberg who called out the fashion industry for contributing to climate change while being on the cover for a leading fashion industry magazine, we're not quite sure which is more pathetically propagandistic.
The Democrat-media complex continues to cajole the public into believing Joe Biden is a legitimate president, but Americans are not turning the page on the stolen election.
As the maligned Georgia governor took the stage at an event hosted by the Georgia Republican Party on Saturday, he was ferociously booed by the crowd.
Comment: Kemp's obstinency to any meaningful investigation, despite overwhelming evidence might lead one to believe that he knows the PTB will have his back. Certainly the behavior his closest associates and of the courts indicates it.
- Georgia Judiciary Committee votes on election fraud report: Enough evidence to decertify Biden 'win'
- Georgia sheriffs to President Trump: 'Mr. President, at no cost, we stand ready to vigorously investigate voter fraud across this state'
- Raffensperger's team leaks President Trump's Saturday call to fake news WaPo — tells you everything about the dirty Georgia leadership
- What's he hiding? Georgia's Secretary of State Raffensperger petitions court - prefers state not be forced to hand over ballots for audit
- Sidney Powell lawsuit: 30 allegations that would invalidate Georgia election results
- Georgia judge dismisses Sidney Powell's election fraud lawsuit
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Roman Silantyev, the deputy chairman of the Russian Ministry of Justice's advisory council on religion, said that people should be aware of the risks. "The likelihood of becoming a victim of satanists is small, but it is not zero, 20 to 30 people a year can become their victims," he said.
According to him, the groups usually evade detection by hunting down homeless people and those without a fixed abode, ensnaring them for occult ceremonies. "Gangs of Satanists, who were engaged in ritual murders, have repeatedly been identified in Nevinnomyssk, Rybinsk, in the Tula region. Unfortunately, this is a sad norm of our life, Satanists have existed before, and they will continue to exist," the specialist added.













Comment: It's good that he's gone, but for the wrong reasons. He's been #MeToo'd, but that isn't the real reason the system turned on one of its own.