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People's Rights in Oregon urging support today for the Mazatlan Restaurant in Bend. Owners feeling the heat from the Oregon Liquor Control Board and agent Randy Hancock. People being urged to show up in support of the restaurant with their signs and if they are able go in to patronize the business...PEOPLES RIGHTS OREGON
THE HOME OFFICE OF A WASHINGTON STATE OFFICIAL WHO'S BEEN GOING AFTER BUSINESSES IN THE STATE FOR VIOLATING COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS THE SITE OF A PROTEST THIS AFTERNOON...VIDEO LINK
A LOCKDOWN IN EFFECT FOR SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA'S NORTHERN BEACHES AREA UNTIL WEDNESDAY AT MIDNIGHT BECAUSE OF AN OUTBREAK OF THE CORONAVIRUS...ABC AUSTRALIA
Poland going into a national lockdown from December 28th to January 17th. The lockdown being called a "national quarantine". The New Year's Day period will be a total ban on any movement inside the country. Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk comparing the edict to martial law under Communism in Poland in 1981...REMIX NEWS
THE US SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE OUT WITH A REPORT SAYING THAT BOEING IMPROPERLY COACHED TEST PILOTS DURING THE RECERTIFICATION PROCESS FOR ITS 737 MAX AIRCRAFT EARLIER THIS YEAR...THE GUARDIAN UK
More details are emerging about a cyber attack on US government agencies. The attack being said to have originated from Russian government actors is more widespread than originally thought we are being told...BBC NEWS
MORE DECLASSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE RUSSIA COLLUSION ALLEGATIONS THAT LED TO A SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATING PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN. THE STEELE DOSSIER CIRCULATED TO JOURNALIST CARL BERNSTEIN OF WATERGATE FAME BY THE LATE SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN....BREITBART
The US is closing its last two consulates in Russia due to limits imposed by Russia on the number of diplomats allowed in them...THE HILL
A French modeling agent and former associate of convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker the late Jeffrey Epstein taken into custody this week by French authorities. Jean Luc-Brunel was the subject of an investigation started when accusations surfaced in connection the accusations against Epstein.
Brunel accused of rape, sexual assault of minors and human trafficking along with criminal conspiracy. He was at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris when police took him into custody Brunel about to take a plane to Senegal...CNN
Federal prosecutors going after 21 people including current and former university students for involvement in an interstate drug ring. The drug trafficking said to have involved fraternities at schools in North Carolina... BBC NEWS
THE US ADDING DOZENS OF CHINESE FIRMS INCLUDING ITS LEADING COMPUTER CHIP MAKER, SMIC, TO A SPECIAL TRADE RESTRICTION LIST. COMMERCE SECRETARY WILBUR ROSS SAYS THE US WILL NOT ALLOW ITS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO BE USED TO BUILD THE MILITARY STRENGTH OF "AN INCREASINGLY BELLIGERENT ADVERSARY"...THE HILL
Russia will be banned from the next two Olympic games and from international competition for the next two years. That's the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sports that lessens the severity of the ban proposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Russian athletes can still compete without their nation's flag or anthem...NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
POLICE IN SEATTLE HAVE ARRESTED 21 PEOPLE AS AN OPERATION BEGAN TO CLEAR A HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT AND BARRICADES SET UP IN CAL ANDERSON PARK. A NEARBY VACANT HOUSE HAS BEEN OCCUPIED BY PROTESTERS...SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
A settlement in a lawsuit brought by the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle against a media company in the UK over pictures taken of her and her son Archie in a Canadian park....ABC NEWS
THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION APPROVING THE MODERNA COVID-19 VACCINE FOR USE IN INDIVIDUALS 18 AND OVER IN THE UNITED STATES, ITS THE SECOND VACCINE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS TO BE APPROVED IN THE US.
LATE TONIGHT WORD THAT THE FDA IS INVESTIGATING "AROUND FIVE" ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO THE PFIZER BIONTECH CORONAVIRUS VACCINE...REUTERS-GLOBAL NEWS CANADA
Appearing before a banner that said:
"Safe and Effective"
Vice-President Mike Pence received the COVID-19 vaccine today. Joining him for receive the vaccine his wife Karen and US Surgeon General Jerome Adams...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS (EMBEDDED VIDEO: INJECTIONS AT (9:30 INTO VIDEO)
COVID-19 statistics for the USA today via Worldometers showing 254,680 new positive tests with 10,394,286 recoveries now reported. Leading states California with 49,070, Texas with 16,588 and Florida with 13,000.
Other states include New York with 12,542, Tennessee with 10,541, North Carolina with 8,444, Alabama with 5,348 and Alaska with 487. The US Military reporting 4,119.
Worldwide 716,922 new cases reported with the US leading the nations. Other nations include Russia with 28,552, Poland with 11,013, South Africa with 8,725 and Argentina with 7,002.
And that's the way it really is Friday December 18th, 2020, Day 278 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19 as measured here in Pennsylvania.
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