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Watch protesters storm French island's capitol over vaccine mandates


RT
Sat, 25 Dec 2021 05:28 UTC
Activists
© AFP/ Benedicte JourdierActivists protest at Regional Council in Basse-Terre, on French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, December 23, 2021
A group of demonstrators in the French territory of Guadeloupe have stormed the island's legislative chamber, holding an extended protest over a series of Covid-19 vaccine requirements imposed by the government.

The protest kicked off on Thursday and extended into the next day, with activists seen hoisting banners and chanting slogans denouncing the pandemic measures after pushing their way into the legislature.

Following the incursion on Thursday - which at some points got heated, with activists destroying a Christmas tree in the building's lobby - regional president Ary Chalus said he had agreed to meet with 10 protest leaders, though only after denouncing the "invasion of the chamber" as an act of "intimidation and unworthy violence." It's unclear whether the meeting took place, or if any agreements were made to amend the controversial policies fueling the protests.

Comment: Pushing back is gaining momentum.

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Surge in COVID cases cancels Christmas services in US churches large and small


Just the News
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:42 UTC
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St. John the Divine Episcopal Cathedral
Churches across the U.S. have cancelled their traditional Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services amid the surge of coronavirus cases, disappointing churchgoers for the second straight year.

The Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C., cancelled its popular in-person Lessons and Carols service Thursday night and all Christmas services.

"Unfortunately, as the omicron variant takes hold across the world, our city seems to be leading the nation in infections," the Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, the cathedral's dean, said in an open letter Thursday. "As a result, we have made the sad but necessary decision to shift all Christmas services online and close the building to worshippers and visitors."
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Judge tosses out challenge to Las Vegas school masking mandate

Sam Metz
SF Gate
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:24 UTC
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey has ruled that Nevada parents have no say in rules affecting their school-age children.
A federal judge has refused to block the mask mandate imposed by school administrators in the Las Vegas area, dismissing a lawsuit that two parents filed claiming the requirement infringed on their right to make decisions for their kids.

In the lawsuit, the parents argued the mandates violated their right to make medical decisions for their children and argued against the process by which the Clark County School District adopted the policy.

The ruling comes as schools and businesses prepare for another variant-fueled surge and fights over coronavirus measures in schools continue to provoke spirited responses from parents and teachers on both sides of the issue.

Comment: Local paper Pahrump Valley Times reports:
Citing the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, plaintiffs argued that forcing their children to wear masks in school violated their rights as parents, including the right to make medical choices for their children, and said they were unconstitutionally excluded from "the decision-making medical process" behind the mask policies.

"But these perceived wrongs don't violate any constitutional rights," Dorsey wrote, noting that the Constitution "does not require an opportunity to participate in the decision-making process for such broadly applicable policies." Parents' rights, she said, do not "include the prerogative to dictate school health and safety policies."

Her 22-page ruling also dismisses plaintiffs' claim that there is no scientific evidence to support mask mandates, noting plaintiffs' counsel in court "denied the existence of a pandemic, though the World Health Organization, the White House, and the United States Supreme Court have all consistently acknowledged it."

Dorsey compared the state mask mandate to state laws on seat belt and helmet use, smoking bans, and shirt-and shoes-requirements in public places. She found similarities and precedents in the 1905 Massachusetts case, where the Supreme Court upheld the state's smallpox vaccine mandate, and in COVID-era mask mandate challenges arising in California and elsewhere that courts similarly rejected.

The prior rulings "compel the conclusion that the right to parent as one sees fit does not entitle parents to undermine local public-health efforts during a global pandemic by refusing to have their children comply with a school mask requirement, particularly when they've affirmatively chosen that option over the maskless, distance-learning alternative that (the Clark County Schools) also made available," Dorsey wrote.
So all the media attention as to the uselessness of masks is down the memory-hole. These people are morons. Or many they aren't?

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Bet on it: Israeli army rule allowing shooting of stone-throwers will be applied to Palestinians, not Jews

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:31 UTC
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© Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFPMasked Jewish settlers attack Palestinian olive farmers from the village of Hawara on fields near the settlement of Yitzhar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
From now on, Israel Defense Force militants may fire on Palestinians who have thrown stones or firebombs even when they no longer pose any danger. Or, in the IDF parlance, when they're escaping. These changes in the IDF's Rules of Engagement (RoE) were exposed by Roee Sharon of Channel 13 on Sunday (Hebrew). This change requires three comments.

First of all, the timing. Sharon notes that the RoE were changed within the last few weeks - but the IDF allowed the publishing of the information only on Sunday. Why? Because of the crisis in the illegal outpost of Homesh, situated on the land of the village of Burqa, near Nablus. Following the killing of a settler, Yehuda Dimentman, and a wave of settler violence, hundreds of settlers attempted to reach the outpost, and clashed with the army, wounding one soldier by running him over (Hebrew).

The army knows it will likely have to remove the outpost soon, so it bribes the settlers: Here, you see, we made shooting Palestinians easier!

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Parents outraged after brazen teacher calls them 'bigots' in Dr. Seuss-style poem

Tyler O'Neil
New York Post
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:25 UTC
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© Twitter / @libsoftiktok
Parents in the Austin, Texas, area expressed outrage after a technology teacher read a Dr. Seuss-style poem mocking "evangelicals" and parents who have expressed concerns about books they call pornographic.

Krista Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. 16.

"Everyone in Leander liked reading a lot/ but some evangelicals in Leader did not," Tyler begins. "These kooks hated reading, the whole reading season./ Please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason./ It could be perhaps critical thinking causes fright./ It could be their heads aren't screwed on just right./ But whatever the reason, their brains or their fright,/ they can't follow policy in plain black and white."

Comment: See also: School board attempts to silence parent reading out pedo porn books from its own library

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China punishes dozens of Xi'an officials, city on lockdown after recording just 250 Covid cases in recent weeks


Bangkok Post
Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:45 UTC
china lockdown covid hazmat
Xi'an reported another 49 cases on Friday, bringing the total outbreak to more than 250 in recent weeks
Dozens of officials have been punished over a virus outbreak in the locked-down city of Xi'an, China's disciplinary body said Friday -- the latest state reprimands under Beijing's strict zero-Covid approach.

China, where the coronavirus was first detected in late 2019, is on high alert for new infections as it prepares to hold the Winter Olympics in February in the capital Beijing.


Comment: Covid was actually detected in multiple countries by late 2019. And it probably originated in the US: RNA Vaccines, Obedience and Eugenics


The world's most populous nation has reduced cases to a minimum thanks to a zero-Covid strategy of tight border restrictions, lengthy quarantines and targeted lockdowns.


Comment: It also, unlike much of the rest of the planet, has not been counting asymptomatic cases, as cases at all.


Comment: It's rather odd that, just as China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention admitted that its unattainable, zero-Covid approach has actually made the situation worse, the country continues to enforce it all the same: China risks 'colossal Covid-19 outbreak' by opening up, inadequate study finds

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever



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North Carolina police chief placed on leave after helping officers skirt COVID-19 regulations

Olafimihan Oshin
The Hill
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 21:35 UTC
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Oakboro, N.C. police chief TJ Smith
An Oakboro, N.C. police chief was placed on unpaid for reportedly telling officers how to skirt COVID-19 regulations, CBS affiliate WBTV reported.

Oakboro Town Administrator Doug Burgess informed Smith of his punishment via letter, writing that the chief violated the town's personnel policy which prohibits acts of fraud, endangering the property of others and serving a conflicting interest.

Burgess said in the letter that Smith told fellow colleagues to attend a "clinic" where they could obtain COVID-19 vaccination cards without getting the actual vaccine, according to WBTV.

Comment: It's more likely the men under his command were expressing doubts about the safety of the jab (any thinking person would by now), and worried about the low chances of being able claim religious or health exemptions in North Carolina.

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Best of the Web: Two-thirds of new UK Covid hospital patients only tested positive AFTER being admitted, evidence still accumulating that Omicron is mild


The Daily Mail
Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:57 UTC
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© AFP / Dimitar DILKOFF
Two-thirds of new Covid hospital patients in England were actually admitted for a different ailment, MailOnline's analysis of NHS data suggests - as a growing number of studies show Omicron is much milder than Delta.

In the two weeks to December 21, hospitals in England recorded 563 new coronavirus inpatients — the majority of which are believed to be Omicron now that the variant is the country's dominant stain.

But just 197 (35 per cent) were being primarily treated for Covid, with the remaining 366 (65 per cent) only testing positive after being admitted for something else.
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Health Minister complains of hate mail over allowing grocery stores to allow vaccine passports

Harley Sims
True North
Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Dorothy Shephard
© unknownCanadian Health Minister Dorothy Shephard
Days after reversing a decision that allowed grocery stores to ban unvaccinated Canadians, New Brunswick health minister Dorothy Shephard is saying some of the mail she received over the policy "crossed the line."

In an interview with the Times & Transcript, Shephard describes receiving a "huge onslaught" of the material, including hundreds of emails. "I think I have a thick skin," Shephard says. "It doesn't change the fact that some of these emails have crossed the line."

The Department of Health confirmed that particularly threatening examples have been sent to the Department of Justice and Public Safety for assessment. The RCMP would not confirm whether it was investigating. One of the emails accuses Shephard of "literally causing people to starve to death this winter," while another advises her to "sleep with one eye open." "People like you always get what's coming to you," another states. The writer goes on to wish Shephard "a slow and painful death."

Shephard did not mention the number of emails she had received in total, nor the proportion of the pushback she deemed legitimate. True North reached out to Shephard's office but received no response.
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Christmas travelers stranded as omicron forces cancellation of thousands of flights

Wilson Wong, Chantal Da Silva
NBC News
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:51 UTC
Grounded flights
© UnknownTravel ban restrictions ground flights for Christmas travellers
Jaclyn Stanton was excited to reunite with her parents for the first time since February 2020, when she last saw them before the Covid-19 pandemic began. Stanton said she and her husband were expecting to board their flight on Christmas morning from Chicago to Sacramento, California, where her family lives. But on Thursday night, she got a text alert from United Airlines informing her their flight had been canceled.

"It's a bit of a bummer," said Stanton, 36, on Friday. "It was a bit of a gut punch last night."

Stanton is one of thousands of would-be travelers who were hoping to make it home for Christmas this year but were left stranded as airlines around the world canceled thousands of flights amid the spread of the omicron variant.

Global airlines had collectively canceled more than 3,700 flights for Christmas Eve and Christmas day, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware. Of those canceled, more than 1,000 had been scheduled within, into or out of the U.S.

Several major airlines, including United, Delta and Alaska, said they were forced to cancel hundreds of Christmas Eve flights after the omicron variant infected their employees and crew members.

On Friday, United cut a total of 192 flights; Delta, 264; and Alaska, 16, according to Flight Aware.

"The nationwide spike in omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation," United Airlines said in a statement. The company said it would rebook as many travelers as possible.


Comment: Right on cue. The new face on shutdowns and tyranny is 'Omicron'. Be it defiance or sense, some airlines did not buy into this ploy.

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