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Dr. Anthony Fauci - who offshored banned gain-of-function research to make bat coronaviruses more transmissible to humans - has been accused by Congressional investigators of having 'prompted' the fabrication of a paper by a cadre of scientists aimed at disproving the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.On February 1, 2020, Fauci and his boss, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and at least eleven other scientists participated in a conference call during which several of them warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China - may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.Three days after the call, four participants from the call...

Good News Friday: 02/24/23 by Editor | Feb 24, 2023 | Newsletter | 0 comments Dear Patriots, It has been a tough week but there are some glimmers of sanity and goodness in a deluge of grim news. While we were pleased to see that Speaker McCarthy released the 41,000 hours of J-6 video, we were not thrilled that it was given to Fox New host,Tucker Carlson. This evidence, in our opinion, should have been released to the public to watch and dig through. We can not trust the corporate interests at Fox News to be open about this material...

Robert Laycock was helping renovate a home in a Sydney harbourside suburb when he found rare memorabilia from a 1920s physical culture performance hidden beneath the floor — and several old mortar shells. While the explosive discovery brought out the bomb squad and put a temporary stop to the renovation, it was the unearthing of a Bjelke-Petersen School (BJP) of Physical Culture program from 1924 that drew lasting attention. "It looked like it had just been discarded under the floor in an old area," Mr Laycock said. "It was covered up in the sand and it was very dry under...

An Australian woman has sparked a wave of internet backlash after posting a photo of herself on an American Airlines flight complaining about having to sit beside two "obese people." Sydney Watson, an Australia-American conservative political commentator, took to Twitter to share her experience while on a three-hour American airline flight. Sydney Watson complained to American Airlines about being 'wedged between two obese people.' "I am currently — literally — WEDGED between two OBESE people on my flight," Watson tweeted. "This is absolutely NOT acceptable or okay. If fat people want to be fat, fine. But it is something else...

Huge lines have been spotted forming every morning outside of a bank in Sydney’s CBD - and it could point to a worrying issue overseas. Lengthy lines outside a Sydney bank have come as an eerie warning about what is unfolding in China, where hundreds of thousands of customers have been left unable to withdraw their own money. Dozens of members of the public have been spotted forming a long line every day outside the Haymarket branch of the Bank of China in the CBD. The scene attracted the attention of curious bystanders on Tuesday, one of which shared an...

Australia’s energy minister asked Sydney and the New South Wales (eastern part of the country) residents to turn off lights and energy-intensive appliances in the evening to prevent power blackouts due to an ongoing energy crunch, The Independent reports. The federal energy minister, Chris Bowen, asked residents in a televised address to turn off energy-intensive devices between “6 to 8 [pm]” to mitigate risks of a spike in power during peak hours. He pointed to several offline coal-fired plants because of maintenance and unexpected issues. Reuters notes that 65% of eastern Australia’s power is generated by coal, but more than...

A swimmer was killed by a shark in a vicious attack filmed by horrified beachgoers Wednesday near Sydney, video shows. Police said they recovered human remains in the water after emergency crews responded to reports of a great white shark attack at Buchan Point in Malabar about 4:30 p.m. local time. In the terrifying scene captured by a beachgoer, the shark could be seen thrashing around as the waves turned bright red from the victim’s blood. “Someone just got eaten by a shark!” a man yelled in the video, adding that the shark was a “big great white.” “That’s insane.”...

A lab in Australia's most populated state told about 400 people that they had tested negative for COVID-19 when in fact they had tested positive for the virus. The SydPath laboratory in New South Wales mistakenly told 400 people infected with the coronavirus that they had tested negative, St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia said on Sunday.

Hairdressers, gyms, cafés and bars reopened on Monday in Sydney, Australia after more than 70 percent of its population was vaccinated. Initial plans for Sydney's reopening said that the city would resume more normal activities after 70 percent of the population aged 16 and older were vaccinated, according to The Associated Press. As of Monday, over 90 percent of the population have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 73.5 percent were fully vaccinated, the AP noted.

Dom Perrottet@Dom_Perrottet We're moving forward with our staged NSW reopening. A few adjustments to Monday's 70% relaxations and further easing once we hit 80% double vaccinated.

Australia offers a cautionary tale of how an open and free society will quickly become dystopian because of fear.In a tweet that has gone viral, someone asked what the world’s largest prison looks like from space. The answer was a map of Australia. It seems a farfetched claim at first. But seeing the draconian restrictions the Australian government has put in place due to COVID-19, the tweet makes perfect sense.Before March 2020, Australia was often celebrated as a role model of liberal democracy, with free elections, a free press, an independent judiciary, a functioning political system, and a market-based economy....

Police officials are reviewing a staff party held at a western Sydney station in July while the city was under strict lockdown to determine if public health orders were breached. On Friday more than a dozen employees at Mount Druitt Police Area Command gathered together in a brightly decorated common room to share buffet platters of food. Pictures from the event posted online show staff around a party table at the station, located in one of the 12 Covid-hit LGAs of concern, as they celebrate Wear It Purple Day to support the LGBTQIA+ community. 'Happy Wear it Purple Day. Follow...

While rest of the population is ordered not to talk to each other. While Australians were told they shouldn’t even talk to each other under COVID lockdown rules, police officials in Sydney held an office party to celebrate the LGBT community. Yes, really. Mount Druitt Police Area Command posted images to Facebook showing over a dozen employees gathered in close proximity to recognize Wear It Purple Day. The pictures showed the room had been decorated with LGBT flags as the employees prepared to tuck in to a buffet. “Mt Druitt is located in the City of Blacktown LGA – an...

NSW Health has switched to recording patients as dying 'with' instead of 'from' Covid as it acknowledges not all of the country's 933 deaths were directly linked to the deadly virus. Dr Jeremy McAnulty made the admission during Sunday's Covid briefing as the state recorded 1,218 new cases of coronavirus. Six people died with Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday bringing the total death toll of this outbreak to 89 death since June 16. Dr McAnulty said the change in language was because it was 'very difficult to know' whether someone with Covid died from the virus,...

Our new Sydney team spoke to usually law-abiding residents of NSW to find out why they are willing to protest regardless of the threat of heavy fines and prosecution. Australians are getting desperate.

SYDNEY — A lockdown in Australia’s largest city was extended through September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors. New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period, the fourth consecutive day of tallies exceeding 600. Sydney has been locked down since late June after the more contagious delta variant was detected in a limousine driver who became infected while transporting a US cargo aircrew from Sydney Airport. Since then, 65 people have died from COVID-19 in New South...

A Sydney, Australia family says their 12-year-old daughter was pepper-sprayed while two other family members were arrested for not following face-mask rules during a shopping trip. Video at link.

SYDNEY, Aug 18 – Sydney’s Delta outbreak has not peaked and residents must brace for more deaths, authorities said on Wednesday, as Australia’s largest city continued to break records for new daily infections despite a nearly two-month lockdown. “We haven’t seen the worst of it and the way that we stop this is by everybody staying at home,” New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney, the state capital. NSW reported its biggest daily rise of 633 new cases, including 545 in Sydney, eclipsing the state’s previous daily high of 478 hit on Monday. Sixty people have...

CANBERRA/SYDNEY, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Australia's biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday as troops and police set up roadblocks to limit the movement of people, while Melbourne faced a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of lockdown. Sydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia's third COVID-19 wave that threatens to push the country's A$2 trillion ($1.5 trillion) economy into its second recession in as many years. New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said seven people in Sydney had died from COVID-19 in the...

Residents of Sydney and its home state of New South Wales will now face fines of up to $3,700 for violating coronavirus stay-at-home orders, which were extended Saturday following a record number of daily COVID-19 infections in the area. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a news conference that fines for stay-at-home order breaches had been increased from 1,000 Australian dollars, about $737, to $5,000 Australian dollars, or $3,700, according to Reuters. While local authorities had been considering easing some restrictions by the time Sydney’s nine-week lockdown was scheduled to end Aug. 28, limits on activities are likely...