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Melbourne discovers just 20 cases of Covid, city of 5 million put into lockdown for another week

RT
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:20 UTC

Australian authorities have announced Melbourne's lockdown will be extended by another week, with its 5 million people subject to the longer restrictions after 20 new Covid-19 cases were recorded.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the week-long extension of Melbourne's lockdown on Wednesday, just a day before restrictions were due to be lifted in Australia's second-most populous city.

Comment: One could be forgiven for thinking that this repeating pattern of reimposing restrictions just as they're about to be lifted, or saying that the restrictions will completely lifted only to retain a number of the harsh measures, is, for some in power, a psychological game.

Andrews instead announced that "we cannot afford to open up and let this variant run free - we need to get in front of this, just like we have done before," referring to the presence of the Delta strain of coronavirus responsible for the recent spike in infections.

China to ban karaoke songs with 'illegal content' that endangers national unity

The Guardian
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 03:19 UTC

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China's nearly 50,000 venues will be encouraged to provide 'healthy' songs rather than those threatening territorial integrity or religious policies

China will establish a blacklist of karaoke songs to ban those containing "illegal content" from karaoke venues across the country starting from 1 October, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The ministry said banned content would include that which endangers national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity, violates state religious policies by propagating cults or superstitions, or which encourages illegal activities such as gambling and drugs.

Comment: It seems that, for now, it won't be enforceable, but China's government is open about the fact that it is against certain, deleterious cultural trends. Meanwhile, in the US, Twitter is known to host sexual abuse videos, Youtube celebrates vulgar songs that achieve billions of views, and all the tech giants in league with the government censor various content, including factually based coronavirus information and voices exposing vote rigging in the 2020 US election:

China court upholds death sentence against Canadian who tried to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine

Helen Davidson
The Guardian
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:45 UTC

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Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg has had his appeal against the death sentence rejected by a court in China.

A Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg.

Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. He has maintained his innocence. In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years but after he appealed a retrial was ordered and the Dalian intermediate people's court instead ordered his execution.

His case is one of at least two involving Canadian detainees expected to hear a result as early as Tuesday, in what observers and foreign governments have labeled "hostage diplomacy" by Chinese authorities over an ongoing extradition hearing in Canada for a Huawei executive wanted in the US.

Comment: Sentencing a drug smuggler in line with a country's laws is hardly 'hostage diplomacy'. Note that The Guardian failed to mention Schellenberg's crime in its headline, when it's actually rather critical to the story, and were this offence to have been committed in a country in the West, it's highly likely that Schellenberg would be considered as little more than yet another drugs smuggler, and he may be looking at life in prison.

It remains to be seen whether the death penalty will go ahead, but it is the law of the land in China - and similarly harsh laws exist throughout Asia - and it's the punishment one risks when breaking it.

Gov Newsom to order mandatory COVID testing or vaccinations for teachers

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:23 UTC

Hours after both San Francisco and Oakland officials announced mandatory vaccinations or weekly testing for teachers, Gov. Gavin Newsom was traveling to the East Bay to expand the mandate to all school employees within California, according to published reports.

Politico and the Los Angeles Times both reported that the announcement would be coming on Wednesday while Newsom pays a visit to the Oakland Unified School District which began 2021-2022 classes on Monday.

California would be the first state in the country to issue a such a mandate amid a surge in delta variant COVID cases and schools reopening to wide scale in-class instruction for the first time since March 2020. At the nearby Pleasanton Unified School District, officials said they were prepared for such an announcement. Patrick Gannon, spokesperson for the district, said:

"It's not something that is entirely unexpected to us. We have spent the last year and a half providing opportunities for both our staff and our students to get vaccinated if they were able to."

School employees will join state workers and healthcare workers who had previously been required for vaccinations or weekly testing.

Comment: Mass exodus from California has suddenly taken on new meaning.

Here's what else Newsom had to say:

Half of the state's population is now under mask mandates and recommendations regardless of vaccination status. The statewide positivity rate has risen from 0.7% last month before the state fully reopened its economy to 5.3% on Sunday.

At his press conference, Newsom specifically called out conservative figures whom he said have shared misinformation undermining the vaccine.
"We are exhausted, respectfully exhausted by the ideological prism that too many Americans are living under. We are exhausted by the Ron Johnsons, and the Tucker Carlsons. We are exhausted by the Marjorie Taylor Greenes. We are exhausted by the right-wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine and its efficacy and safety. We are exhausted by the politicization of this pandemic."

Newsom is in for a rude (and exhausting) surprise.

The astonishing hubris of a global experimental vaccine

Larry Sanger
larrysanger.org
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

It is an objective, indisputable fact: never in the history of the world has there been a global push to administer an experimental medicine to all of humanity, billions of us, at the same time.

I want you to stop and reflect on that. Imagine the hubris it required both to carry out this plan and to propagandize the world to carry it out.

"Hubris?" you ask. "What do you mean?"

The Covid vaccines are experimental. The FDA has not approved them. Most vaccines require years to test and approve, in no small part because we want to make sure they don't have dangerous long-term side effects, which they can have; the CDC has published a list of problems with selected approved vaccines. Many experimental vaccines never make it out of the experimental phase. CNN made similar points back when Trump was, wrongheadedly (I thought so at the time) pushing for rapid approval of the Covid vaccines. Of course, the mercurial news organization hastened to forget all that when the Biden administration decided rapid vaccine deployment was a good idea. They shouldn't have: for all the good they certainly have done, physicians warn us that vaccines can be dangerous for some, and experimental vaccines are, naturally, even more so.

Comment: Authoritarian followers do as they are told. That so many have acquiesced speaks volumes for the effectiveness of slow and unrelenting programming. It is, for all intents and nefarious purposes, a choice.

This is nuts: Moderna and Pfizer intentionally lost the clinical trial control group testing efficacy and safety

Sundance
The Last Refuge
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

This is not just scientific madness, it appears to be very intentional and purposeful.

The Moderna and Pfizer vaccine tests were conducted, as customary, with a control group; a group within the trial who were given a placebo and not the test vaccine. However, during the trial -and after the untested vaccines were given emergency use authorization- the vaccine companies conducting the trial decided to break protocol and notify the control group they were not vaccinated. Almost all the control group were then given the vaccine.

Purposefully dissolving the placebo group violates the scientific purpose to test whether the vaccine has any efficacy; any actual benefit and/or safety issues. Without a control group there is nothing to compare the vaccinated group against. According to NPR, the doctors lost the control group in the Johnson County Clinicial Trial (Lexena, Kansas) on purpose:

Quiet rebellion: One Covid vaccination or screening center vandalized in France PER DAY on average since mid-July

RT
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:02 UTC

France's Ministry of the Interior found that one Covid vaccination or screening center has been vandalized per day on average since mid-July, with around 20 such sites across the country attacked, local media reported on Tuesday.

Information gathered from the Ministry of the Interior shows that there have been 20 attacks on vaccination hubs and Covid testing centers nationwide from July 14 to August 9.

A vaccination center in Landes, southwestern France was reportedly defaced on July 19, with vandals writing 'Nazis' and 'collaborators', alongside dozens of swastikas. Meanwhile, the word 'genocide' was painted on the floor of another hub in Vendôme just over a week later.

Comment: Macron's government is plowing ahead with vaccine and lockdown policies despite the clear will of the citizenry. How long before they blow up in his face? The French are not a patient people.

The elite Beltway pedigree of Jan. 6th's Officer 'Redneck'

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 18:14 UTC

The only question now is which book publisher will give Fanone a multimillion-dollar advance.

Officer Michael Fanone plays the part well.

He speaks with what most Americans would consider a rural drawl. He wears flannel shirts during CNN interviews and photo shoots. Large tattoos bedazzle his neck and arms; he has a beard. In a swooning front-cover profile for Time magazine, Fanone told Molly Ball he considers himself to be one of the "rednecks" who voted for Donald Trump.

But a few overlooked yet eye-popping details in Ball's piece undermine Fanone's public persona as the besieged D.C. undercover narcotics officer who donned an official uniform for the first time in 10 years to help rescue his colleagues from bloodthirsty Trump "insurrectionists" on January 6. Fanone has been on a nonstop publicity tour for seven months, stalking Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and confronting his police union for its lack of support.

Comment: There are some who have compared the the Jan 6th 'riot' to the Reichstag fire; a trumped up pretext for implementing sweeping political change, with the requisite show trials and silencing of potential witnesses.

Ben Shapiro masterfully breaks down critical race theory on real time with Bill Maher

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC

Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro masterfully dismantled Critical Race Theory in just sixty-five seconds during his appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Saturday, breaking down the concept, which those on the left are trying to integrate into K-12 curriculum, in a concise explanation.

Shapiro was asked about Critical Race Theory during the "Real Time" panel, where he faced off with MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance. In an apparent effort to avoid being accused of "redefining" the concept of CRT, Shapiro took the audience through the theory, which he studied in law school.

Comment: James Lindsay hit the nail on the head in his article on Critical Race Theory:

It is against liberalism and the liberal order upon which Western societies are founded, and it rejects both equality and neutral principles of constitutional law (these were the backbone of both the abolitionist movement that ended slavery and the Civil Rights Movement). It also rejects legal reasoning and Enlightenment rationalism. This makes Critical Race Theory unreasonable, illiberal, against equality, and anti-American, by definition.

[...]

They begin with the assumption of racism and look to find it.

See this excellent video for more information:

'Everyone who can be vaccinated, should be vaccinated': Macron warns pandemic will remain as Delta makes situation 'delicate'

RT
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:27 UTC

The French president has called on all people to get jabbed as he spoke of his concern about the trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic in France as the increasing prevalence of the Delta variant drives up hospitalizations.

Speaking on Wednesday at the opening of the Health Defense Council, French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his aim that all French people who can get the vaccine, elect to do so.

The president's call came amid what he described as a "more than delicate health situation" in France, largely due to the increasing prevalence of the Delta variant.

Comment: See also:

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Society's Child

Melbourne discovers just 20 cases of Covid, city of 5 million put into lockdown for another week

China to ban karaoke songs with 'illegal content' that endangers national unity

China court upholds death sentence against Canadian who tried to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine

Gov Newsom to order mandatory COVID testing or vaccinations for teachers

The astonishing hubris of a global experimental vaccine

This is nuts: Moderna and Pfizer intentionally lost the clinical trial control group testing efficacy and safety

Quiet rebellion: One Covid vaccination or screening center vandalized in France PER DAY on average since mid-July

The elite Beltway pedigree of Jan. 6th's Officer 'Redneck'

Ben Shapiro masterfully breaks down critical race theory on real time with Bill Maher

'Everyone who can be vaccinated, should be vaccinated': Macron warns pandemic will remain as Delta makes situation 'delicate'

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