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In the face of a massive show of force by militarized police, "Freedom Day" protesters again on the streets of Melbourne Australia where its Saturday. The protest in opposition to the strict lockdown imposed in Australia's second largest city in the name of the coronavirus.
Police pulling people from the crowd and arresting them......VIDEO LINK
A two week nationwide coronavirus lockdown is being envisioned by cabinet ministers in Israel with a final decision expected at Sunday's cabinet meeting.......YNET NEWS....The lockdown could also mean no airline flights in or out of Israel for two weeks.....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
In Canada a university professor telling his students in-class exams aren't mandatory because of:
"the COVID fake emergency"...CBC NEWS
DOWNTOWN PORTLAND SKYLINE FRIDAY 947 AM LOCAL TIME
One million acres burned (1,500 plus square miles) and tens of thousands ordered to evacuate in Oregon in the face of massive wildfires. Thousands of structures have been destroyed.......OREGONLIVE
Seven now confirmed dead with 60 believed missing in Oregon and feared dead. Wildfires across the Western states with both Washington Governor Jay Inslee and California Governor Gavin Newsom making comments in recent days and hours blaming the fires on "climate change".
A man in southern Oregon is accused of arson in connection with a fire that caused serious damage in several towns......OREGON LIVE
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler issuing a directive to the city's police to stop using tear gas at protests in the city.......MAXINE BERNSTEIN OREGON LIVE TWITTER.....Also Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson filing suit against the District Attorney in Portland. The federal lawsuit accuses Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt of selectively prosecuting Gibson and another man, Russell Schultz, for rioting based on their conservative beliefs......OREGON LIVE
In Minneaolis today a preliminary hearing for the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Chauvin accused of murdering George Floyd after he put his knee on Floyd's neck back in May. Prosecutors said Chauvin had used neck and other restraints seven times before with four of those incidents being examples of excessive force......ASSOCIATED PRESS TWIN CITIES PIONEER-PRESS
India and China say they have reached an understanding over a border dispute which resulted in deadly skirmishes recently. The understanding coming on the sidelines of an international conference in Moscow.....BBC NEWS
Microsoft says that hackers tied to China, Russia and Iran are interfering in the 2020 presidential election in the United States.....BBC NEWS
IRAN SAYS IT DROVE OFF AN INTRUDING US AIRCRAFT AND DRONES DURING IRANIAN MILITARY EXERCISES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AREA......ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY IRAN
"We believe that testing the combat use of strategic aircraft in close proximity to the Russian border is a hostile and provocative action"
Those comments today in Moscow to foreign military attaches from the Commander and Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces Sergei Surovikin. Surovikin speaking about the recent approach of four US B-52H bombers to the Russian border over the Black Sea.......TASS
BAHRAIN FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. PRESIDENT TRUMP PROCLAIMING THE DECISION AS "MAKING PEACE" WITH ISRAEL......
A FORMER FEDERAL JUDGE APPOINTED BY THE TRIAL JUDGE IN THE CASE OF GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN IS TRYING TO STOP DISMISSAL OF CHARGES AGAINST FLYNN BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THE "RUSSIA COLLUSION" INVESTIGATION AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS 2016 CAMPAIGN.
JOHN GLEESON FILING HIS ARGUMENTS IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY......FOX NEWS
A wrongful death lawsuit filed in the US this week by the family of British man killed in an accident. Harry Dunn's family seeking damages from Anne Sacoolas the wife of a US diplomat-intelligence officer. She was driving a car that struck Harry Dunn. The US government refusing to extradite Sacoolas to face criminal charges in the UK. Sacoolas's lawyers have commented following the filing of the suit.....BBC NEWS
Top executives including the CEO of the mining giant Rio Tinto are leaving the company. Their departure follows the destruction of Aboriginal heritage sites in Australia by the mining giant earlier this year......ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
In Peru legislators deciding to move forward with impeachment of the country's president. Martin Vizcarra is accused of misusing public money and trying to cover it up. The vote 65-36. Vizcarra accusing legislators of staging a coup......BBC NEWS
THE WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY SOME 46,600 NEW CASES REPORTED LED BY TEXAS WITH 4,485, CALIFORNIA WITH 3,967 AND FLORIDA WITH 3,650. NUMBERS FROM OTHER STATES INCLUDE ILLINOIS WITH 2,312, OHIO WITH 1,272, INDIANA WITH 1,262, ARKANSAS WITH 1,107 AND PENNSYLVANIA WITH 1,009.
WORLDWIDE TODAY THE TOTAL 310,706 LED BY INDIA WITH 97,654. OTHER COUNTRIES INCLUDE BRAZIL WITH 44,215, ARGENTINA 11,507, FRANCE 9,406, THE UNITED KINGDOM 3,539, ISRAEL 3,038 AND CANADA WITH 702.
The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News today on its blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 9/11/2020
That's the way it really is Friday September 11th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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