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More than 400 people arrested at anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne

Elias Visontay
The Guardian
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:02 UTC
Police use OC spray on protesters
© Erik Anderson/AAP
Police use OC spray on protesters during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on Tuesday. More than 400 people were arrested. Photograph:
Victoria police say protesters disregarded the directions of the chief health officer by gathering for a mass rally

A policewoman was taken to hospital after she was injured when officers shut down a large anti-lockdown rally and arrested more than 400 protesters in Melbourne's CBD.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Victorian parliament on Tuesday to oppose the state government's strict Covid-19 lockdowns in Melbourne that were eased last week, holding up signs that read "Tell the Truth", "Not Happy Dan", "Masks Don't Work" and "Corona Hoax 1984".

A Victoria police spokeswoman told Guardian Australia the force "was disappointed to arrest a large number of protestors who again showed disregard for the safety of the broader community and the directions of the chief health officer".

Restrictions in Melbourne currently allow for protests of groups up to 10 people within 25km of a home while wearing a mask. But police said they arrested 404 people after forming a large circle around the group to contain the protest just after midday.

Comment: Good on the people of Australia for assembling and speaking out against the government's draconian measures.

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Tyrannical nutjob Gretchen Whitmer orders restaurants to collect customers' information amid COVID-19 'surges' in Michigan

Craig Mauger and Beth LeBlanc
The Detroit News
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:26 UTC
Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan restaurants will have to begin tracking the names and numbers of customers in case of COVID-19 outbreaks starting Monday under a policy announced Thursday as the state experiences surges in cases of the virus.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services unveiled orders that limit non-residential indoor gatherings without fixed seating to 50 people — the limit was 500 — and restrict individual table sizes at restaurants to six people.

The health department's order on Thursday came on a day when Michigan set a daily case record at 3,675, along with 41 more deaths. That's the most new confirmed cases in a single day during the seven-month pandemic for the state.


Comment: Depending on who and how these numbers are being counted of course.


The coronavirus trends in Michigan are "incredibly concerning," said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the state's chief medical executive. As of Wednesday, the state reported 1,348 adults with COVID-19 in hospitals, three times the 405 adults with COVID-19 in hospitals one month ago.
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Pakistani girls' school stages mock BEHEADING as cleric vows vengeance on France for 'insulting the Prophet'


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:40 UTC
pakistani girls school mock beheading
© Facebook / Jamia Syeda Hafsa
A girls' religious school in Islamabad staged a mock beheading in front of its young students as a cleric preached that Muslims would exact vengeance on France - and on the West in general - for "insulting" Prophet Mohammed.

A woman in full face veil uses a scimitar to behead an effigy in front of hundreds of assembled students, many holding signs sporting protest slogans, in video posted to the official Facebook account of Jamia Syeda Hafsa, a Pakistani girls' seminary, last week.
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65% of college students say rioting and looting is 'justified,' new poll finds

Brad Polumbo
Foundation for Economic Education
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
blm protest signs
© CC 2.0 By Life Matters via Pexels
What the poll really conveys is that many of today's young people neither understand nor respect the importance of property rights in a free society.

More rioting and looting broke out in American cities this week. This time, it was Philadelphia consumed by violence after a police shooting.

According to ABC News, at least 30 police officers have been injured in the violent unrest, while dozens of people have been arrested for rioting or vandalism. Mobs have descended on Walmart and rushed out carrying TVs, while other agitators ransacked Footlocker for new sneakers. The full number of businesses ravaged by the destruction is increasing and still being tallied.

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Canadian police probe 'suspicious' fires that destroyed two churches located just 10 minutes apart


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:05 UTC
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© Twitter / OPP West Region
Provincial police in Canada's Ontario have launched a probe into twin fires that destroyed churches in two neighboring towns on the same night.

Emergency crews responded to a fire inside the historical South Caradoc United Church in the community of Strathroy-Caradoc in southwestern Ontario at around 12:30am on Sunday. However, they were too late to save the historic structure.

"It was fully involved by the time we arrived," Joop Devoest, deputy fire chief of Strathroy-Caradoc Fire Department, told local media.

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Red Flag

National Guard troops arrive in multiple US cities ahead of election night chaos

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:00 UTC
national guard target philly

Guard troops in a Humvee outside a Target in Philadelphia.
In preparation for any emergencies, including widespread social unrest following election results on Tuesday night, the National Guard has been deployed in several states.

Fears of election night chaos have gripped state governments for the last month, forcing Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts on Monday to "activate" 1,000 Massachusetts National Guard members.

And in Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown, for the second time in two months, declared a state of emergency for the Portland metro area, citing potential social unrest surrounding the election.

Comment: Get the popcorn ready, folks!

See also: States mull deploying National Guard amid worries about Election Day unrest

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Death by lockdown

Jeffrey A. Tucker
American Institute for Economic Research
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:23 UTC
casket
On March 28 - very early in the pandemic - AIER published an article that I felt at the time received far too little attention. "Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown" by economists Audrey and Thomas Duncan cited empirical literature on the human toll of economic devastation.

This article forecasted more than 100,000 excess deaths due to drug overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, homicide, and untreated depression - all a result not of the virus but of policies of mandatory human separation, economic downturn, business and school closures, closed medical services, and general depression that comes with a loss of freedom and choice.

These two economists demonstrated that as bad as a virus is, policies that wreck normal social functioning will cause massive and completely unnecessary suffering and death. Because the article was so well-cited, with references to all the available literature, I thought it would make a difference. But after it appeared, it was crickets. I was amazed. Here you have a beautiful piece of research that perfectly forecasted the nightmare being created by politicians and their advisers and it made no dent in the national narrative.

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Bullseye

Ryanair boss blasts government lockdowns as 'FAILURE' after air traffic plummets 80%


RT
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:00 UTC
plane
© Reuters / Phil Noble
European carrier Ryanair said on Monday it will operate a "significantly reduced flying schedule" in the next six months compared to its original expectations due to Covid-related restrictions tightening across Europe.

The UK government announced last week a second lockdown for England starting on November 5. France and Germany are also introducing second nationwide lockdowns. Many other European governments have increased restrictions over the past few days.

"The WHO (World Health Organization) themselves confirmed that lockdowns should be the last option, lockdowns are essentially a failure," Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair told CNBC.

He added: "If we had more aggressive test and tracing provision, or as (UK Prime Minister) Boris Johnson promised world class testing and tracing, which clearly we don't have in the UK, we could and would have avoided a second lockdown."
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Control Panel

Archbishop warns Trump about "The Great Reset" and tyranny of globalism

Neenah Payne
Activist Post
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Klaus Schwab
Carlo Maria Vigano, Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana, Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America wrote President Trump on June 7. Trump praises Italian archbishop who urges him to fight 'deep state' protests. On October 25, he sent him the Open Letter shown further below warning about the plans of The World Economic Forum for The Great Reset discussed further below.

Abp. Viganò warns Trump about 'Great Reset' plot to 'subdue humanity,' destroy freedom in a 6-minite October 29 video which says. "His Excellency has written another open letter to President Trump about the 'global conspiracy against God and humanity.' 'It is you, dear President, who are 'the one who opposes' the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness,' His Excellency writes. 'Place your trust in the Lord.'"

Viganò Warns Trump of GLOBAL-GREAT-RESET: Deep Church and Katechon is a 47-minute video that was live streamed on October 30.


Comment: See also: Archbishop Breaks Ranks to Support Trump: 'Covid-19 Emergency And Riots an Infernal Deception by Children of Darkness'

Notice that Vigano says he's in very good health near the start of the video before he discusses the New World Order and the "deep church".



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A contagion of hatred and hysteria: Oxford epidemiologist Prof. Sunetra Gupta tells how she's been intimidated and shamed for addressing lockdown with Great Barrington Declaration

Sunetra Gupta
Daily Mail
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:30 UTC
Sunetra Gupta

Professor Sunetra Gupta (pictured) said at the heart of their proposal is the recognition that mass lockdowns cause enormous damage for the poorest and disadvantaged
Lockdown is a blunt, indiscriminate policy that forces the poorest and most vulnerable people to bear the brunt of the fight against coronavirus. As an infectious diseases epidemiologist, I believe there has to be a better way.

That is why, earlier this month, with two other international scientists, I co-authored a proposal for an alternative approach — one that shields those most at risk while enabling the rest of the population to resume their ordinary lives to some extent.

I expected debate and disagreement about our ideas, published as the Great Barrington Declaration.

As a scientist, I would welcome that. After all, science progresses through its ideas and counter-ideas.

But I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not just from members of the public online but from journalists and academics, has horrified me.

I am not a politician. The hurly-burly of political life and being in the eye of the media do not appeal to me at all.

I am first and foremost a scientist; one who is far more comfortable sitting in my office or laboratory than in front of a television camera.

Comment: The Covidcult resorts to insults, intimidation and attacks because that is all they are capable of doing; being brainwashed, lied to and propagandized into believing the Big Lies about Covid-19 - they have lost all reason and cannot be tasked to consider any perspectives that challenge their now hard-wired authoritarian mind-sets.

Kudos to Prof. Gupta and those in the public eye who are brave enough to speak out on this destructive status quo.

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