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The prosecutor in the case of a British woman's murder told a London jury Wednesday that the police officer who kidnapped, raped, and killed his victim had made a fraudulent, premeditated arrest under the guise of lockdown enforcement. Sarah Everard, who was walking home from a friend's house in defiance of lockdown regulations... went missing March 3 while walking home from a dinner at a friend's home. Her burned body was found a week later in the woods outside of London. Everard's death triggered protests against gender-based violence and police brutality in London. During a vigil held for Everard, British...

Revolt grows after unruly protests. The Police Commissioner of New South Wales has refused to enforce the state’s vaccine passport mandate, revealing that officers will not be checking people’s vaccination status in restaurants, clubs or bars. The government is preparing to pass a mandate that will ban all unvaccinated people from gaining entry to numerous venues up until at least December 1st in a repeat of the segregation scheme that has been adopted in numerous western countries. However, after questions began to swirl about whether businesses would be forced to impose the measures on customers, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller...

Affluent westerners are so taken with the way their lockdowns are “saving lives,” that they ignore completely the costs those lockdowns impose on those less wealthy than they are. In America, these policies have been an economic hardship for innumerable. In the Third World, the destruction has been infinitely worse, with Madagascar as a microcosm of that disaster. For the upper-class Americans who have made a life out of manufacturing public opinion, the question of whether to respond to the Covid pandemic by shutting down most schools, churches, and small businesses for the better part of two years can be...

State governments have released reopening roadmaps and are on their way to vaccinating us to freedom, and while the thought of a return to the great Australian summer has provided a morale boost, the knowledge of all the days we have lost to lockdowns this year remains difficult to scrub from our minds. Among my peers of twentysomethings, there is a sense we have been robbed of an uncomfortable enough chunk of what is meant to be the best time of our lives.

Though he was all for the government ordering an economy-wide shutdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus, infectious disease genius Dr. Anthony Fauci is concerned that Republican objections to the Democrats' spending binge"could lead to a government shutdown that would worsen the pandemic." "The shutdown ordered in 2020 targeted only nonessential businesses," Fauci said. "Society could and did survive the casualties taken by this sector of the economy. In fact, it could be argued that the elimination of these small fry businesses actually helped reshape the whole production and distribution processes into a more consolidated and efficient mode. Relying...

‘Just the psychological pressure these kids are facing, they don’t have that ability to really fight for themselves, so that’s why we, as parents, I feel like we don’t have any other choice,’ says father Mike Bell.A group of parents in northeastern Indiana has reached their breaking point with government officials turning deaf ears to their children’s suffering under irrational and scientifically unfounded COVID rules with no clear end point.After spending months trying to work with local officials to get their kids’ lives “back to normal,” only to have their school board allegedly break its own rules to mandate masks...

While speaking about the vaccination rates in New South Wales, Australian chief health officer Kerry Chant expressed optimism that they’d soon reach a 90 percent vaccination rate for the 16 and over population. Even still, however, she quickly poured cold water on the idea of life returning to normal ever again. "We will not be going back to pre-COVID levels. We are always going to have to be mindful that COVID exists," she said. "We're going to have to engage with booster shots, we're going to have to engage with advice from time to time when we see outbreaks. We're...

During his lengthy Sunday appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked about a host of issues. He was briefly asked by host Margaret Brennan about his country's strict lockdowns in the face of the Wuhan coronavirus, which he defended. As Brennan reminded the prime minister, "Australia is one of the few Western democracies that has really put in place some very, very strict COVID protocols. You shut down your borders 18 months ago," before going on to ask him "when will they reopen? Are you going to have vaccine passports? When will Australians be...

The birthplace of Australian Rules football is Melbourne. Yesterday the Norm Smith curse was broken when Melbourne football club its first premiership in 57 years. The Grand Final was against another Melbourne based team, The Western Bulldogs. But the grand final was held on the other side of the country in Perth because of the world's longest lockdowns in Melbourne. In the thirdv uarter, the Bulldogs were three goals ahead, then Melbourne kicked 16 of the last 17 goals to win. It was one of the most emphatic victories in the club's history but Melbourne supporters in Melbourne are imprisoned...

The problem has been going on for six years, Dr. Gary Davidson says.. An emergency room physician from Alberta has claimed that the hospital capacity crisis in his province was “created,” is nothing new, and is not from COVID-19 patients. “We have a crisis, and we have a crisis because we have no staff, because our staff quit, because they’re burned out, they’re not burnt out from COVID,” said Dr. Gary Davidson who works as an emergency doctor in Red Deer. “So, it has nothing to do with COVID, it’s been going on for six years, and it was created.”...

Singapore — The Multi-ministry Task Force (MTF) assigned to tackle the pandemic held a press conference on Friday afternoon (Sept 24) to announce that restrictions will be imposed afresh amid the surge in new infections.The uptick may be expected to last for a while, said Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.Singapore saw on Thursday the largest number of new cases to date, with 1,504 people testing positive for Covid. The Ministry of Health (MOH) warned that if the current trajectory of cases continues, a new daily count of 3,200 cases may be expected by next week.“WE DO NOT EXPECT NUMBERS TO COME...

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."