(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING AT 11 PM EASTERN US TIME WITH SPECIAL POST POSSIBLE FRIDAY EVENING ON PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND)
VACCINE PASSPORTS, COERCED VACCINATIONS AND COVID RESTRICTIONS IN GENERAL OPPOSED AS PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA WHERE ITS NOW SATURDAY...
SPECIAL PROTEST POST FOR SATURDAY IN AUSTRALIA...SPECIAL REPORT: PROTEST DOWN UNDER
Eleven people arrested in Greece today after they made a citizens arrest of a school principal over COVID restrictions.
The group took the principal to a police station saying that he had violated Greece's Constitution but the police ended up arresting them.
The spin on this story from a Greek newspaper...EKATHIMERINI GREECE
NY Governor Democrat Kathy Hochul announcing an indoor mask order.
This order for all indoor public places except in places where proof of vaccination is required.
It will be in effect from next Monday until January 15th...ABC 7 NEW YORK
HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA THE SUPREME COURT VACATING A SCHOOL MASK ORDER ISSUED BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR TOM WOLF.
THE COURT AGREED WITH A LOWER COURT RULING THAT STATE OFFICIALS LACKED THE AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE THE ORDER...PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Protest in Germany tonight opposing vaccine passports and coerced vaccination.
Demonstrators on the streets in Dresden and other parts of the German state of Saxony in violation of government orders limiting protest to ten people at fixed locations...DPA NEWS AGENCY-RTL GERMANY (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROMPT) ...
Earlier today the German parliament (Bundestag) approving legislation to force staff of hospitals and nursing homes to be either vaccinated or have proof of COVID recovery by mid-March.
The legislation also authorizes the 16 German states to close bars and restaurants and ban large events based on the number of COVID cases reported...(NOS Netherlands)
German state security investigating after slogans were sprayed on the parliamentary constituency office of the new Social Democrat Health Minister Karl Lauterbach last night.
Slogans included "hands off our children", "ministers of illness" and "murderers"...ORF AUSTRIA (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROMPT)
IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC LEGISLATION HAS PASSED TO MAKE VACCINATION MANDATORY FOR EVERYONE OVER 60 YEARS OLD.
ITS A LAST ACT OF ON OUTGOING GOVERNMENT THAT MAY BE REVERSED BY THE NEW ONE...ORF AUSTRIA (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROMPT)
(Updated- Comment) RESEARCHERS AT ISRAEL'S HEBREW UNIVERSITY SAY THE "FIFTH WAVE" OF COVID IS ALEADY IN ISRAEL AND SUPPORT KEEPING BEN GURION AIRPORT CLOSED AS WELL AS STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF CURRENT VACCINE PASSPORT ("GREEN PASS") RULES.
THEY ALSO WANT MORE ENFORCEMENT OF MASK RULES AND ARE POINTING TO SCHOOLS IN ISRAEL SAYING COVID CASES ARE RISING THERE.
(Comment) THAT PITCH REGARDING COVID SPREAD IN SCHOOLS MAY BE MESSAGING DESIGNED TO INCREASE THE RATE OF VACCINATION AMONG CHILDREN...
...TIMES OF ISRAEL
And the pitch from the BBC today, a pitch that you need a "booster shot" of COVID vax to increase your chances of not catching the "Omicron Variant".
The third jab said by British scientists to give you a 75 percent chance of not catching Omicron...BBC NEWS
THE US GOVERNMENT HAS WON ITS APPEAL IN THE BRITISH HIGH COURT OVER THE EXTRADITION OF WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE TO THE US.
HIGH COURT JUDGE TIMOTHY HOLROYDE SENDING THE MATTER TO A LOWER COURT TO BE SENT TO HOME SECRETARY PRITTI PATEL FOR A FINAL DECISION ON EXTRADITION...
ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
BREAKING NEWS: TORNADOES IN MIDWEST US
Two are dead, five injured when a tornado struck a nursing home in northeast Arkansas tonight...KFVS CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI...
Also tonight word of a partial collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois...
KFVS CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI
WPSD-TV PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
WHAS LOUISVILLE
(UPDATED-CASUALTIES) IN SOUTHERN LEBANON TONIGHT AN EXPLOSION AT A WEAPONS DEPOT. THE DEPOT ASSOCIATED WITH PALESTINIAN HAMAS GROUP THAT RULES GAZA...REUTERS-HAARETZ ISRAEL...
FATALITIES AND INJURIES ARE REPORTED AT THE EXPLOSION SITE IN A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP...AL JAZEERA QATAR
A top State Department official visited Venezuela this week and met detained Americans.
Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens made the trip visiting with detained CITGO oil executives and other American nationals held by the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro...CNN
The United States announcing sanctions related to International Human Rights Day today.
Individuals targeted include Chinese nationals involved in China's rule over the Xinjiang region populated by Uyghur Muslims.
Leaders of the Myanmar military government were also targeted along with the citizens of other countries involved in human rights abuses.
Some government and business entities also targeted with sanctions...RADIO FREE ASIA
Russia says that a Ukrainian warship acted in a provocative manner near a bridge connecting Russia with Crimea.
The incident Thursday afternoon in the Kerch Strait the vessel turning back following Russian commands to do so...TASS RUSSIA...
Ukraine says its warship did not enter any restricted zones...TASS RUSSIA
BOTH ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN REPORTED CLASHES ALONG THEIR TENSE AND DISPUTED BORDER TODAY.
ARMENIA SAYS ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED AND OTHERS WOUNDED IN THE FIGHTING...TASS RUSSIA
THE LEGISLATION RAISING THE NATION'S DEBT CEILING MOVED THROUGH THE US SENATE THURSDAY NIGHT FOR JOE BIDEN'S SIGNATURE TODAY.
IT WAS APPROVED 59-35 TEN REPUBLICANS JOINING THE DEMOCRATS INCLUDING MINORITY LEADER SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL OF KENTUCKY...REUTERS-METRO US
THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THAT JOE BIDEN WANTS OPTIONS FOR 'ADDITIONAL MEASURES' TO BE TAKEN IF THE CURRENT TALKS INVOLVING IRAN, CHINA, RUSSIA AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FAIL.
THOSE TALKS AIMED AT RESTARTING THE 2015 JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP PULLED THE US OUT OF...NEWS WIRES-TIMES OF ISRAEL
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL APPROVING LEGISLATION TO ALLOW NON-US CITIZENS TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS...NEWSWEEK
(UPDATED WITH DETAILS) FROM THE US SUPREME COURT AN 8-1 RULING ON THE NOVEL TEXAS ABORTION LAW.
THE RULING KEEPS THE LAW INTACT BUT ALLOWS THE ABORTION INDUSTRY TO CHALLENGE IT IN A CASE NOW AT THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT LEVEL.
THAT TEXAS LAW ENABLES INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS TO USE LAWSUITS TO STOP ABORTIONS IN THE STATE.
DETAILS ON THE RULING THE ONE OPPONENT ON ALLOWING THE PRO-ABORTION CHALLENGES TO MOVE FORWARD JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS.
CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS AND THREE JUSTICES CONSIDERED "LIBERALS" OFFERING AN OPINION SAYING THE TEXAS LAW OVERTURNS THE PRO-ABORTION ROE VS. WADE DECISION OF 1973...THE HILL
THE PROSECUTION WRAPPED UP ITS CASE AT THE GHISLAINE MAXWELL TRIAL TODAY.
THE FORMER ASSOCIATE OF THE LATE JEFFREY EPSTEIN FACING EIGHT FEDERAL CHARGES OF RECRUTING AND GROOMING UNDERAGE GIRLS FOR SEXUAL ABUSE BY EPSTEIN...THE NATIONAL-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Israel's State Comptroller says his office is looking into claims that female prison guards were "pimped out" to convicted Palestinian terrorists in a maximum security prison.
Matanyahu Englman told an audience at Ariel University that the female soldiers descriptions of what happened to them "should ring warning bells".
One female soldier alleged sexual assault in 2018 but a probe was dropped due to a lack of evidence.
Israel's Attorney General has been asked to open a probe into the matter...TIMES OF ISRAEL
POLITICAL TURMOIL IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC WITH PRESIDENT MILOS ZEMAN REFUSING TO APPROVE A CABINET PICK IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
ZEMAN GIVING A THUMBS DOWN FOR JAN LIPAVSKY. LIPAVSKY NOMINATED FOR FOREIGN MINISTER IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER PETR FIALA...POLITICO EU
THE GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND PLANNING LEGISLATION NEXT YEAR TO PHASE OUT SMOKING IN THE COUNTRY.
THE PROPOSED LAW WOULD BAN CIGARETTE SALES TO ANYONE BORN AFTER 2008...BBC NEWS
IN THE US A 6.8 PERCENT RISE IN CONSUMER PRICES LAST MONTH.
THAT'S THE HIGHEST RATE OF INFLATION SINCE 1982...CNBC
Michael Nesmith, singer and songwriter for the 1960's group "The Monkees", dead at the age of 78. He died of natural causes...
Four time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser dead at the age of 82...
More COVID news...
A Russian medical mission is on its way to South Africa...TASS RUSSIA
COVID STATS FOR TODAY VIA WORLDOMETERS
In the US 136,839 new positive tests and 608,254 Worldwide.
The numbers a week ago today 147,434 and 688,114.
In selected countries outside the US Germany 58,969 (Final Total), the UK 58,194, Russia 30,873 and Poland 24,991.
Italy 20,497, Turkey 18,561, the Netherlands 17,471, Spain 17,012 and Belgium 16,029.
Vietnam 14,839, the Czech Republic 14,229, Ukraine 11,327, South Korea 7,022, Slovakia 6,620 and Denmark 6,599.
Canada 4,692.
Israel 426.
And that's the way it really is Friday December 10th, 2021 Day 634 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 634 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots.
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