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Australia's biggest city toughens harsh stay-at-home lockdown orders


Breitbart
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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Australia's biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the "most concerning day of the pandemic" so far.

After months of pursuing a "Covid Zero" strategy, Australia has been struggling to bring a resurgence of coronavirus cases under control, with more than 10 million people under lockdown in its two largest cities and the capital Canberra.

Residents of Sydney, going into an eighth week under stay-at-home orders, will now face heftier fines for flouting rules or lying to contact tracers, with current restrictions proving insufficient to stop the spread.

Comment: Meanwhile, in Iran (from the Guardian):
Iran says it will impose a six-day-long "general lockdown" in cities across the country after being hit by what it describes as its fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, state media has reported.

The lockdown includes all bazaars, markets and public offices, as well as movie theatres, gyms and restaurants in all Iranian cities. It will begin on Monday and will last through to Saturday.

The national coronavirus taskforce, which issued the decision, also ordered a travel ban between all Iranian cities from Sunday to Friday.
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So far, authorities have avoided imposing heavy handed rules on a population badly equipped to bear them. Iran, which has had the worst virus outbreak in the region, is reeling from a series of crises: tough US sanctions, global isolation, a heat wave, the worst blackouts in recent memory and ongoing protests over water and electricity shortages.

Iran'ssupreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, in January slammed shut any possibility of vaccines made in the US or UK entering the country, calling them "forbidden".

For now, the majority of Iranians receiving vaccines rely on foreign-made shots. A health ministry spokesperson said Iran could import western vaccines "as long as they're not produced in the US or Britain".


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MSNBC's Joy Reid riles up conservatives after she claims US 'religious right' dreams of Taliban-like 'theocracy'


RT
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 23:46 UTC
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© Reuters
Afghans who fled their homes in northern provinces as Taliban forces approached are shown taking shelter in a Kabul park earlier this week.
MSNBC host Joy Reid was blasted for using the tragedy unfolding for those Afghan women and girls who were raised on Western values to demonize US Christian conservatives, likening them to the Taliban.

Reacting on Saturday to a Twitter post from BBC anchor Yalda Hakim reporting that women in Taliban-controlled Herat were turned away from their offices and university, Reid called the news "the real-life Handmaid's Tale." She added, "[It's] a true cautionary tale for the US, which has our own far religious right dreaming of a theocracy that would impose a particular brand of Christianity, drive women from the workforce and solely into childbirth, and control all politics."

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'At least' 63 people on Martha's Vineyard are COVID positive after Obama birthday party

Nick Monroe
The Post Millennial
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:39 UTC
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While it can't be said for sure that the big celebration hosted by the Obamas was a superspreader event, reports indicate an uptick of pandemic cases as of this week.

According to the Daily Mail, there's been 63 reported positive cases for COVID on Martha's Vineyard since former President Obama's birthday celebration last weekend.

However it's currently unclear whether or not these cases were directly related to the festivities.

Comment: While it could be true that the Obama birthday bash was a super-spreader event, this isn't the egregious part - it's the fact that the elites continue to force the plebs into social distancing and masking while they roam free, doing as they wish. The elite's know what the rest of us (who are paying attention) know - that Covid is not a deadly plague anymore than the flu is.

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Bill Maher defends Matt Damon, rips the 'woke police'

David Hookstead
Daily Caller
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 10:44 UTC
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Bill Maher had another incredible segment Friday night on his show.

The legendary comedian and HBO star discussed the latest attempt to cancel Matt Damon because "The Bourne Identity" actor recently admitted to stopping using a gay slur, and later clarified that he never personally used it.

Yet, that wasn't enough to satisfy the woke mob coming for his head. Once again, Maher had possibly the most refreshing and honest take on the internet.

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Why the Left can't meme

Ed West
UnHerd
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Posted by u/Drungeon on Reddit, of course
'Woke comedy' will never compete with the despair of the online Right.

"No great movement designed to change the world can bear sarcasm or mockery, because they are a rust that corrodes everything it touches." So wrote the Czech writer Milan Kundera in his novel The Joke.

Humour has long been a magic ingredient in unlocking political change. In the medieval court, jesters had an almost unique privilege in being able to tell the monarch what he didn't want to hear, and were often tasked with presenting bad news. In totalitarian regimes humour was a daily act of undermining the regime, to the extent that on Stalin's death 200,000 of the Gulag's 2.5m population were there for telling jokes.

Comment: Making and sharing memes has become a way to rebel against the insidious dominant progressive culture that lacks all sense or reason. It's the new litmus test of who actually "gets it".

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A bill has been introduced in Congress that would ban tens of millions of Americans from flying

Michael Snyder
End Of The American Dream
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:44 UTC
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Before this pandemic, it would have been unimaginable for Congress to consider a bill that would ban tens of millions of Americans from flying. But now everything has changed. A new bill has been introduced that would specifically ban all unvaccinated individuals from ever flying again. When I first heard about this, I thought that it couldn't possibly be true. But it is true. The following comes from the description of H.R. 4980 that has been posted on Congress.gov...
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and for other purposes.
The full text of the bill has not been received by Congress.gov yet, and so we don't know the specifics of the proposed law.

But what we do know is that it would ban you from any flight "that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States" if you have not been "fully vaccinated".

So if you have only had one injection, you would be banned too.
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Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services: Sex-change for minors is child abuse

Paul Bois
Breitbart
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:27 UTC
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Esteban Felix/AP Photo
Sex reassignment surgery for minors is child abuse, according to a ruling by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). The ruling comes one week after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asked the agency to investigate the issue.

In a letter to Gov. Abbott's office, DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters declared that "genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender transitioning through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse." Masters wrote:
Genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse. This surgical procedure physically alters a child's genitalia for non-medical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children's bodies. Generally, children in the care and custody of a parent lack the legal capacity to consent to surgical treatments, making them more vulnerable.
Masters further added that sex reassignment surgery for minors may only be appropriate in certain cases, such as a:
...child whose body parts have been affected by illness or trauma; who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, such as the presence of both ovarian and testicular tissue; or who does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined through genetic testing.

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Why won't the US medical establishment "believe women"? Covid-19 vaccines do not warn about menstrual disruption

Marcie Smith Parenti
The Grayzone
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:49 UTC
Amid rising reports of vaccine-related menstrual disruptions, the CDC and FDA are dismissing women's concerns and denying them information while corporate media pathologizes them in sexist fashion.

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This August 11, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) overhauled its COVID-19 vaccine guidance for pregnant women, now "urging" them to accept their shots.

Just 23% of pregnant women in the US have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Only something like 11.1% have been fully vaccinated.

The CDC is seeking to drive these numbers up, but it is not doing the one thing that would, perhaps more than anything else, assuage the "hesitations" of these so-called "anti-vaxxers": investigate and explain widespread reports of menstrual disruption post-Covid 19 vaccine - and, if necessary, add a warning about it.

Why?

I have five female friends who, after receiving Covid-19 vaccines, experienced disruption to their menstrual cycles. Their symptoms have included hemorrhagic bleeding lasting more than a month; heavy intermittent bleeding for four months; passing golf-ball size clots of blood; and extreme cramping, serious enough to land one friend in the ER.
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'It was just disbelief': Parent files complaint against Atlanta elementary school after learning the principal segregated students based on race

Niara Savage
Atlanta Black Star
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Principal Briscoe
© Screenshot/WSBT TV
Principal Sharyn Briscoe accused of student segregation at Mary Lin Elementary school
An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.

In the discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, parent Kila Posey claims the principal at Mary Lin Elementary School, a K-5 school in the Atlanta Public Schools system, put a segregation policy in place because she thought it was best for all students.

"We've lost sleep like trying to figure out why would a person do this," Posey told local TV news station WSB. Posey and her attorney Sharese Shields believe the policy is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Posey found out last year that the elementary school would be putting Black students in two different classrooms with two different teachers and white students into six classrooms with six different teachers.
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NJ inmate freed early due to COVID charged with murdering teen 2 days later

Lee Brown
New York Post
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:12 UTC
Jerry Crawford
© Cumberland County Jail
Jerry Crawford was serving time for burglary and has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough.
A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with murdering a teenager just two days after his release.

Jerry Crawford, 25, was serving time for burglary when he was let out on "public health emergency credits" to parole supervision on Nov. 4, prison officials confirmed to NJ.com Wednesday.

He has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough, 18, who was gunned down in Bridgeton on Nov. 6 — just two days after Crawford got out of South Woods State Prison, the outlet said.

Comment: Senator Michael Testa summed up the insanity of the situation quite well:
"While Governor Murphy was jamming nursing homes with sick COVID patients, he was emptying jails to protect prisoners," Testa added. "It's a level of insanity and hypocrisy that's almost beyond belief. Governor Murphy owes New Jersey an apology for the 8,000 nursing home deaths he caused and the criminals he freed who are driving his death toll even higher."
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