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Scotland's anti-free speech law has passed, making it one of the West's most oppressive countries for speech

Didi Rankovic
Reclaim the Net
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC
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Scotland's highly controversial Hate Crime and Public Order Bill has passed with 82 votes in favor, 32 against, and four abstained.

The bill, that has been hotly contested by freedom of speech advocates, builds on the already existing legislation criminalizing what's termed as "stirring up" hatred against people based on race. But this time, Scotland has made it a crime to "stir up hatred against protected groups."

Reports say that few laws adopted by the Scottish Parliament in the 20 years of its existence have been more disputed. According to them, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf from the ruling SNP, who tabled the bill, had to make several concessions and introduce changes to the original draft in order to try to reassure those who think freedom of speech is now in serious jeopardy in Scotland.
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'Our kids have thrived': The Texas school district that never required masks or social distancing

Jason Allen
CBS DFW
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:14 UTC
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There were no social media posts, emails to parents or hastily scheduled school board meetings at the Peaster Independent School District after Governor Greg Abbott announced the end to state mask orders last week.

The rural school district in Parker County, northwest of Weatherford, never made masks an issue for students or staff this school year. Wear one, or don't.

It has not distanced students inside classroom. No one has been placed into a mandatory quarantine. Homecoming happened on schedule. The pancake dinner, fall festival, sports and concerts all took place as planned.

The result, according to Superintendent Lance Johnson, has been a higher enrollment and average daily attendance numbers ahead of last year.
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Germany may enforce ANOTHER lockdown amid claims of a 'third wave'


Channel News Asia
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:26 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Picture shows a "to let" advertisement of an estate agent at the windows of a given up store due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in downtown Essen, Germany, on Mar 11, 2021.
Intensive care doctors in Germany warned on Monday (Mar 15) that the country would need to make an "immediate return" to partial lockdown if it is to avoid stumbling into a dangerous third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

"From the data we currently have and with the spread of the British mutation, we would argue strongly to return immediately into a lockdown to avoid a strong third wave," Christian Karagiannidis, director of Germany's intensive care register, told broadcaster RBB.

"We won't gain much from staying open for the next one or two weeks, because that will quickly bring us to a high level and make it twice as hard to push the numbers down again," said Karagiannidis, who works for the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), which tracks intensive care capacities in German hospitals.

Comment: Previous lockdowns clearly didn't work in the way they thought they would, why would this time be any different? Note that many countries have barely been out of lockdown, because numerous restrictions, distancing and mask-wearing are still being enforced. Also, aren't doctors supposed to be aware of a cost-benefit analysis? Surely they realise that lockdowns can only go on for so long before any deluded perception of benefits are outweighed by the much more obvious damage being done? When will government reject the failed lockdown models?

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'Regular coronavirus booster vaccines are the future' UK's top genome expert warns

Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:00 UTC
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A nursing home worker in Seoul is shown last week receiving South Korea's first Covid-19 vaccination shot.
Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus's genomes told Reuters.

The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates around once every two weeks, slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines.

Sharon Peacock, who heads COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) which has sequenced nearly half of all the novel coronavirus genomes so far mapped globally, said international cooperation was needed in the "cat and mouse" battle with the virus.

Comment: Indeed, after a year of lockdown and a massive, experimental vaccination campaign, the immune systems of usually health people will be seriously compromised meaning that even normally innocuous viruses could pose a threat: British Covid modellers predict 'severe flu next winter because lockdowns prevented usual herd immunity'

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Two men charged in assault on police officer Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Joseph Weber
Just the News
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:11 UTC
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Two men have been arrested and charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. The men allegedly sprayed Sicknick with bear spray, but authorities have not determined whether the assault led to Sicknick's death.

The men charged have been identified a Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, of Morgantown, W.V., according to The Washington Post.

Sicknick purportedly collapsed in a command station after the riot.

The Post reports the men were arrested Sunday.

Comment: Allegedly the video evidence shows Tanios providing the 'bear' spray to Khater, who sprays three officers.

Authorities have still not released a cause of death for Sicknick. Why not?

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Multiple vaccine connected deaths in Italy leads to batch of AstraZeneca to be banned


Reuters
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:06 UTC
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The Netherlands has become the latest country to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Italy's northern region of Piedmont said on Sunday it would stop using a batch of AstraZeneca coronavirus shots after a teacher died following his vaccination on Saturday.

The region, around the northern city of Turin, had initially suspended all AstraZeneca vaccines in order to identify and isolate the batch from which the jab administered to the teacher, from the town of Biella, came.

The decision, following similar moves elsewhere in Europe, was precautionary and the region is awaiting the results of checks which will verify whether there is a connection between the death and the vaccination, the regional government said in an online statement.


Comment: This is just one of many deaths and illnesses that have led to AstraZeneca's experimental vaccine being banned or suspended in numerous countries throughout Europe: 8 EU countries SUSPEND AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine amid reports of fatal blood clots


Comment: The health minister claims the vaccines are safe and yet multiple countries are suspending their use? Note how professions created to serve and protect people, including but not limited to medicine and the police, are being corrupted by this manufactured crisis: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19

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Russian citizen fined for posting 'fake news' alleging 'health danger' from 5G towers as Moscow pilots new 'super fast' network


RT
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:41 UTC
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Installer Pavel Shchukin attaches a radio relay antenna for cellular communications on a tower in the village of Babarykino
A court in the remote Far Eastern Russian region of Chukotka has handed down a fine to a resident accused of spreading fake news online about 5G, a next-generation cellular network that promises faster connections for users.

The local regional prosecutor announced on Monday that "routine monitoring of the internet revealed that a resident of [the city of] Anadyr disseminated inaccurate information about the dangers of cellular communication devices in a public messenger group."

The capital of the sparsely-populated Chukotka region, Anadyr is home to 13,000 people and located over 6,000 kilometers from Moscow. The area is unlikely to be among the first to see 5G networks rolled out in Russia.

Comment: Dr. Moskowitz is not alone in his concerns over 5G technology:

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Police and rioters clash in west coast cities on anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death

Zachary Evans
National Review
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:32 UTC
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Federal law enforcement officers stand guard outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, U.S., July 29, 2020
Police clashed with rioters in Seattle and Los Angeles on Saturday night during demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor, an African-American resident of Louisville, Ky., in a police shooting.

Seattle police made a number of arrests during the clashes, as seen in footage captured by the Daily Caller. The police said 13 people were arrested on Saturday.

Rioters also vandalized businesses including a Starbucks, smashing the store's windows.

Comment: The U.S. east coast was not free of demonstrations either:
Hundreds of people gathered in New York City's Times Square to participate in a 'die-in' to remember her killing. Footage from RT's video agency Ruptly shows people lying on the ground, with some holding signs reading "Black Lives Matter" and "Abolish the police."


Elsewhere in the city, demonstrators carrying signs and chanting Taylor's name shut down the Brooklyn Bridge. Similar protests were held in Louisville, Seattle, and Portland.

Taylor, a 26-year-old medical worker, was shot and killed by Louisville police officers during a botched raid at her apartment.
Breonna Taylor has become the female George Floyd. A symbol that has been separated from the facts of her life and death.

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When will government reject the failed lockdown models?

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:15 UTC
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The crew at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) have done an analysis of excess mortality for 2020 across 32 countries to get a clearer picture of the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns. They used excess mortality instead of "Covid deaths", they explain, to avoid problems with recording and classification of deaths and include any impact of anti-Covid measures. They used age-adjusted mortality to take into account differences in the average age of populations. They compared 2020's figures to the average of the previous five years to give a percentage increase or excess during the pandemic year (they have made the tool they used to analyse the data publicly available).

Comment: Lockdowns were introduced as a desperate (but according to the PTB) effective measure - to limit the spread of the virus and to "flatten the curve." But Lockdowns have only succeeded in ramping up wide-spread fear and hysteria and psychological and emotional distress.

Many studies show that lockdowns have the opposite effect of their stated intention. Countries under lockdowns have far more mortality among the population than countries where no lockdowns were imposed. And lockdowns are ultimately far more deadly than the virus itself - which has a 99.8% survival rate.

But lockdowns are a great tool in the hands of the psychopathic elites and their aggressive agenda to introduce a global police state and tyrannical rule over normal people. That's what the "new normal" really is.

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Sweden: Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Stockholm as they take to the streets in defiance of Covid ban on gatherings

Chris Jewers
Daily Mail
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:13 UTC
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It was announced on Monday that the number of new Covid-19 cases being reported in Sweden has rose by ten per cent for the third week in a row - with intensive care units beginning to strain. Pictured: Someone holds a sign that reads 'media is the virus', alongside another anti-vaccination placcard

Comment: For many months Sweden was a model case for the world in demonstrating how unnecessary lockdowns were in addressing the virus. People lived normal lives and life went on as usual - in defiance of the totalitarian measures much of the West has taken.

But then something happened: Sweden got pressured to "get with the program". And now, sadly, this:


Hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police in Stockholm on Saturday as they took to the streets in defiance of Sweden's coronavirus ban on gatherings.

Swedish police dispersed opponents of coronavirus measures that came after the government - which initially took a hands-off approach to Covid-19 rules - tightened restrictions further as cases continue to rise.

The tighter measures come after Sweden this week reported a ten percent rise in the number of Covid-19 cases for a third week in a row, increasing fears that the country is in its third wave of the virus.

Police blocked a bridge in the centre of the city and said on their website they were in dialogue with organisers to persuade demonstrators to disperse. TV images showed police shoving some protesters, while the police said one officer had been slightly injured and taken to hospital.

Comment: See more on the recent horrible developments: But before Sweden went the way of the Totalitarian 'great reset' agenda they were handling the virus wonderfully - which must have drove those with an agenda nuts:

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