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A trio of Australian police officers visited a man claiming they are doing "welfare checks" to ask residents if they plan on participating in the ongoing protests against COVID-19 mitigation efforts. The man in this video was asked if he has plans or if he knows anyone who has plans to protest and if he has participated in protests in the past.

When Cardinal George Pell was thrown in jail for over 400 days by a verdict which Australia's High Court overturned 7 to nil, the lack of Christian outrage at the injustice appalled me. Pell's staunchest public defender was atheist conservative commentator Andrew Bolt. Now, as lockdowns torture Australians with isolation, loss of employment and failing businesses, I look to Prime Minister Morrison to stand up to the state governments which can only destroy freedom with fear. Morrison is a very committed revivalist Christian. He is calling on states to ease lockdowns as vaccination coverage increases. Victoria appears to be determined...

In his maiden speech (first speech) to parliament in 2008, current Australian Prime Minister (PM) responded to the modern stigmatisation of socially active Christian faith by saying, "Australia is not a secular country - it is a free country." That freedom is now under attack from lockdowns imposed by state governments which don't see, as ScoMo does and Donald Trump does ("Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it." 5 October 2020) that people and nations have to learn to live with the Coronavirus. Most importantly I ask ScoMo to use the resources of his office to address...

Thousands of residents in Melbourne, Australia protested against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns over the weekend and into Monday and Tuesday. Large crowds have been captured on video demonstrating, clashing with police and even chasing away police vehicles.Melbourne, which is in the Australian state of Victoria, has strict lockdown measures in place that require people to stay home unless shopping for essential goods and services, caregiving, authorized work by permit, exercise or limited outdoor interactions in limited groups. Melbourne is Australia’s second-most-populous city.One Twitter user tweeted video of crowds of people chasing away several police vehicles. “This is melbourne right...

Before we start the election preview in Canada it will be worth noting we are not going to have the complete picture of Canada's vote on election night Monday. Elections Canada estimating more than one million mail-in ballots that will be added to the totals beginning Tuesday. Massive COVID spending by Canada's federal government has driven its national debt over the one trillion dollar mark the inflation monster looming in the shadows already being felt in vastly higher housing prices. Foreign investment being blamed for the housing cost "bubble" with politicians pledging ot do something about it in this year's...

For the second straight year, the COVID-19 pandemic will be playing tricks with area children, not treating them, as two Hudson Valley communities have already been forced to cancel Halloween events. In Westchester, the Tarrytown Halloween parade has preemptively been canceled due to the new rise in COVID-19 infections, while in Rockland, Nyack is following suit out of an abundance of caution. With the Delta COVID-19 variant becoming the dominant strain - representing more than 90 percent of all new infections - of the virus, local officials are moving proactively to cancel some events in an effort to help curb...

Australia was once a magnet for Hollywood filmmakers hoping to escape America's Covid crisis. But the country's filmmaking Golden Age has come to an end, as productions jump ship due to Australia's strict lockdowns and border closures. According to industry bible Variety, Australia's appeal has 'waned' among Hollywood producers in recent months due to the country's low vaccination rate and the uncontrollable spread of the Delta variant. While filming is technically considered 'essential work' in Australia, many productions have struggled to navigate complicated health regulations and border closures.

BEIJING — China tightened lockdowns and increased orders for mass testing in cities along its east coast Wednesday amid the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. Checks have been set up in toll stations around the city of Putian in Fujian province, with a dozen of them closed entirely. The nearby cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou have also restricted travel as the delta variant spreads through the region. The National Health Commission on Wednesday said an additional 50 cases had been diagnosed in various parts of Fujian, most of them in the Putian region. Since the start of the pandemic, first...

In Australia some figures suggest that the suicide rate has doubled because of lockdowns but precise information is hard to get. It's such a taboo. More women are dying of breast cancer. Other cancers are not being treated. If over focus on Covid means other diseases don't get attention, will that cause more deaths than Covid? "Death and Lockdowns | City Journal" https://www.city-journal.org/death-and-lockdowns The point is why don't we know how many people lockdowns kill? Emotionally, economically and in other ways? As POTUS 45 said, " Don't let the virus dominate you."

The Biden administration on Thursday announced sweeping new mandates. The new mandates require that all employers with more than one hundred workers require workers to be vaccinated or to test for the virus weekly. The mandates also require covid vaccinations for the 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid. Moreover, vaccines are mandated for all employees of the federal government’s executive branch, and for all contractors who do business with the federal government. There is no option to test out in these cases. The new mandates extend an earlier mandate from this summer which required...

They can’t arrest everyone! Freedom wins when the people band together to fight totalitarian lockdowns and ridiculous freedom-killing mandates. Citizens in Sydney Australia have had enough and today hundreds, or maybe even thousands have decided to live again as free people, in defiance of their government’s suffocating covid mandates. Freedom! The Lockdown has ended through civil disobedience.

The Masked Ball of Cowardice How did we get here? This is how. snippet. Lockdowns,” the mass quarantine of both sick and healthy people, have never before been used for disease mitigation in the modern Western world. Previously, the strategy had been systematically ruled out by the pandemic plans of the World Health Organization (WHO) and by health experts of every developed nation. Mass lockdowns of entire countries as a technique for fighting disease sprung into the world’s consciousness on the order of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who fomented a global propaganda offensive targeting...

Dr. Kerry Chant, Australia's public health chief, explained that her country's "harsh COVID restrictions constitute a basic trial run of the New World Order." So far the restrictions include virtual home arrest, compulsory mask wearing, intensive government surveillance of everyone, rewards for informing on disobedient friends, neighbors, and family members, mandatory vaccinations, vaccine passports, and barring those without passports from engaging in any commerce. Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned "resistance is futile. We know who is naughty and who is nice and will treat them accordingly. Those who obey the rules will be granted a modest amount of personal freedom. Those...

Tens of thousands of people, including many DJs and musicians, took to the streets in the Netherlands on Saturday over coronavirus restrictions on nightlife. The Netherlands had allowed music festivals to go on and nightclubs to repoen in July. But the government reimposed restrictions on nightlife shortly after lifting them as COVID cases soared. The protest movement, which has rallied under the slogan “Unmute Us,” held demonstrations in Amsterdam and other major cities. Protesters danced next to a truck in the Dutch capital with the slogan “Give Us Back Our Safe Spaces” while another rallygoer held a banner that read...

2021’s mild summer has another victim: the humble potato chip. As if the 2021 winter couldn’t get any worse, it’s now hitting us in the chip pocket. Because of 2021’s constant rainfall and general poor weather, Switzerland’s potato harvest is disappointing. When combined with a 30 percent increase in demand due to people sitting at home eating chips rather than going to restaurants, a chip shortage looms in Switzerland. Chips manufacturers do not have enough potatoes — and will need to import at least 20,000 tonnes from abroad. […] “Climate change can generally endanger the availability of agricultural raw materials,”...

Rules for thee but not for me.. While locked down Australians are being told they shouldn’t even talk to their neighbors, Prime Minister Scott Morrison reportedly took a private jet to visit his family in Sydney and then failed to quarantine upon returning to Canberra. “After receiving an ‘essential work exemption, Mr Morrison flew over Father’s Day weekend to Sydney in New South Wales on Saturday, before returning on Monday morning to Canberra. Critics say he made the trip to see his family, something fellow Australians were prevented from doing,” reports the Telegraph. Both Sydney and Canberra are under draconian...

Australian health chief Dr. Kerry Chant says that COVID will be with us “forever” and people will have to “get used to” taking endless booster vaccines. The New South Wales Chief Health Officer made the alarming comments during a recent press conference. “We need to get used to being vaccinated with COVID vaccines for the future … I can’t see COVID is not going to be with us forever,” said Chant said during a press conference last week. “As a public health doctor we always want to have diseases go, to be totally eliminated, but that is not on the...

Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, sharply criticized Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin, saying that "like Trump, he refuses to support vaccine and mask mandates. He wants to preserve the right of people to decide for themselves whether to wear a mask or get vaccinated." Youngkin didn't deny McAuliffe's accusations, saying "I personally am vaccinated. I recommend that others get vaccinated. But I draw the line at ordering people to take a medicine that they don't want to take. One of things that makes America great is the freedom to choose. It is the job of every...

All dissent must be banished.. Forbes deleted an article written by an education expert who asserted that forcing schoolchildren to wear face masks was causing psychological trauma after the piece began to go viral. The article (archived here) was written by Zak Ringelstein, who has a a PhD in education from Columbia University and founded Zigadoo, an educational and development app aimed at helping children. Ringelstein explains how he worked hard to remove standardized testing from schools but that this was derailed when the pandemic began, a process that “transformed the American public education system into something unrecognizable: a system...

Zoom, the software many had never heard of prior to COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed, surged nearly 400 percent last year. But as many industries return to being in person — and competition flourishes due to other businesses offering services accompanied by other features — it took a more than 15 percent tumble on Tuesday. This is a good thing. Amid societal decay and economic turmoil, Chinese-American billionaire Eric Yuan’s company made a killing. Although shares fell, the stock recorded an astounding $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in its history, beating analyst estimates. But as...