(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH 11 PM EASTERN US TIME PLEASE NOTE THAT PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA 12 NOON SATURDAY, 10 PM EASTERN US TIME MAY LEAD TO SPECIAL COVERAGE-POST ALONGSIDE THIS SUMMARY)
THE SPECIAL COVERAGE POST FOR AUSTRALIAN PROTESTS LAUNCHED HERE...BREAKING NEWS AUSTRALIAN PROTESTS
(LATE UPDATE) A PHALANX OF VICTORIA POLICE SEEN IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OF MELBOURNE LATE SATURDAY MORNING LOCAL TIME ALSO A CROWD OF PROTESTERS IN THE STREETS...VIDEO CLIP
POLICE IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA PLEDGE HEFTY FINES FOR ANYONE PROTESTING THE LOCKDOWN THERE.
THE PROTEST PLANNED FOR MID-DAY SATURDAY (12 NOON) WHICH WILL BE 10 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY IN THE UNITED STATES.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DEMONSTRATORS FROM REACHING THE CENTER OF THE CITY.....ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Facebook targeting accounts linked to opponents of coronavirus restrictions in Germany.
The tech giant removing accounts advocating Health Freedom in Germany saying they are causing:
"co-ordinated social harm"...
AAP-THE NEW DAILY AUSTRALIA
The founder of Reignite Democracy Australia Monica Smit remains imprisoned in Greater Melbourne Australia under restrictive bail conditions.
She was arrested and accused of 'incitement' just hours after massive "silent" protests were held by thousands of people across Australia on August 31st.
Word now that her appeal of the free speech denying bail conditions will be heard by the Supreme Court in the state of Victoria next Wednesday September 22nd...VIDEO UPDATE ON MONICA SMIT FROM HER MOTHER LISE (EMBEDDED)....
MEANWHILE POLICE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA STAGING A RAID WITH TACTICAL GEAR AND ARRESTING A MAN ON FIREARMS CHARGES.
A GROUP CALLED THE COMMONWEATH LAW ASSEMBLY WAS MEETING WHEN THE POLICE RAIDERS SWOOPED DOWN ON THEM.
AUTHORITIES CLAIM THE GROUP WAS BECOMING "ERRATIC AND DANGEROUS".
A LAWYER FOR THE MAN ARRESTED, PETER HAUGHTON, SAID HE IS NOT ACCUSED OF INCITING ANY VIOLENCE. THE AUTHORITIES HOLDING HAUGHTON INDEFINITELY...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
A FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION PANEL MEETING TO CONSIDER APPROVAL FOR THIRD DOSE BOOSTER SHOTS USING THE PFIZER VACCINE TODAY BUT NOT REPORTED UNDERWAY AS OF MID-DAY FRIDAY.
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS POSTED THIS BRIEF ITEM AT 917 AM EASTERN US TIME THIS MORNING SAYING THE FDA'S DELIBERATIONS ARE DELAYED...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
THE DISCUSSION OCCURRED LATER IN THE DAY THE DECISION OF THE FDA PANEL 16-3 AGAINST RECOMMENDING BOOSTER SHOTS FOR THE GENERAL US POPULATION.
THIS DECISION APPLIES TO THE PFIZER VACCINE.
BUT THE PANEL RECOMMENDS THEM FOR THOSE OVER THE AGE OF 65 AND OTHER AT HIGH RISK.
THE FDA WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION...THE HILL
COVID TESTING FACILITIES SWAMPED IN ISRAEL FOLLOWING A SHUTDOWN FOR THE YOM KIPPUR HOLIDAY..
THE POSITIVE TEST RATE ON THURSDAY NIGHT WAS 6.33 PERCENT.
SO FAR 65 PERCENT OF ISRAEL'S TOTAL POPULATION HAS RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE DOSE OF VACCINE AND 32 PERCENT HAVE RECEIVED THREE DOSES....TIMES OF ISRAEL
More coronavirus news later in the summary....
"Our hearts are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election"
That's the part of the message posted by President Trump on social media who also said that the treatment of those arrested is proving there is a "two-tiered system of justice". Trump believes that in the end:
"JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!"....
GAB SOCIALMEDIA...
MEANWHILE FENCING UP AROUND THE US CAPITOL THIS WEEK WITH THE CLAIM THAT THERE IS ARE THREATS SURROUNDING A PROTEST RALLY NEAR THE CAPITOL TOMORROW.
THE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF THOSE IMPRISONED SINCE JANUARY 6TH...REUTERS-METRO US...
PRESIDENT TRUMP WRITING GEORGIA SECRETARY OF STATE REPUBLICAN BRAD RAFFENSPERGER ASKING THAT HE DECERTIFY THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
IN HIS LETTER TRUMP SAYS IN PART:
"Large scale Voter Fraud continues to be reported in Georgia. Enclosed is a report of 43,000 Absentee Ballot Votes counted in DeKalb County that violated the Chain of Custody rules.."...
DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA
The US border crossing with Mexico in Del Rio, Texas closed today with traffic being rerouted to another crossing at Eagle Pass.
Its all because of a large group of migrants under a bridge said to number more than 10,000...SPUTNIK NEWS RUSSIA
THE US CENTRAL COMMAND IS ADMITTING THAT AN AUGUST 29TH DRONE STRIKE IN KABUL ORIGINALLY SAID TO HAVE TARGETED AND KILLED AN OPERATIVE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE TERRORIST GROUP ACTUALLY KILLED AN AID WORKER AND NINE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY...BBC NEWS
"the hasty withdrawal--if not more like a downright escape-by US and NATO troops from the country"
That's the characterization of recent events in Afghanistan by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Putin speaking by video link to a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Council in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan.
Putin called on members of the group that links China with Russia and Central Asian countries to work towards an 'inclusive...peace process' among Afghans and to block the export of 'terrorism, drug trafficking and religious extremism' from Afghanistan....TASS RUSSIA
More US troops and military aircraft headed to Australia under the new AUKUS pact announced this week involving Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Australia's Defense Minister Peter Dutton says that Australian military forces will be working more closely the US military under the pact...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
France recalling its ambassadors to Australia and the United States over the new AUKUS security pact.....BBC NEWS...
The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said tonight that he acted at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron...(BFM-TV France)
Yesterday a gala celebration at the French ambassador's residence in Washington planned for tonight was cancelled.
The celebration of the 1781 Battle of Yorktown in which French forces helped Americans to defeat the British during the Revolutionary War will not be commemorated as France smarts from the new alliance announced with the British and Australians this week.
That new alliance cancels plans for French technology to be used for Australia's submarine fleet.
Instead US technology will help Australia to build a fleet of nuclear powered submarines....(BFM-TV France)
CANADAIAN POLITICS: POLLS SHOWING CONTINUING UPTICK FOR THE PEOPLES PARTY OF CANADA....
(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS, UPDATED)
The Thursday polling in Canada from three major pollsters Nanos (7.5 percent), EKOS (8.5 percent) and Mainstreet Research (8.8 percent) all show rising support for the Peoples Party of Canada (PPC).
That averages the party out to 8.26 percent as of Thursday in the popular vote according to the polls.
These polls were the first to include sampling of opinion following the new coronavirus restrictions including vaccine passports announced by the "Conservative" Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney.
Both Kenney and the Conservative Party of Canada leader Erin O'Toole have endorsed vaccine passports while PPC leader and former Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier opposes them.
Mr. Bernier, who is campaigning in Alberta today, is the only major political party leader in Canada who is not vaccinated...
MAXIME BERNIER-PEOPLES PARTY OF CANADA LEADER TWITTER
(UPDATED-TRUMP COMMENT) HERE IN THE UNITED STATES A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN WHO VOTED TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP EARLIER THIS YEAR DECIDING NOT TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION NEXT YEAR.
REPRESENTIVE ANTHONY GONZALEZ OF OHIO SAYS HIS FAMILY FIGURED IN HIS DECISION AS WELL THE NOTION THAT THE POLITICAL CLIMATE IN THE US IS 'TOXIC'...BUSINESS INSIDER...PRESIDENT TRUMP ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAID TODAY "1 DOWN 9 TO GO"
In Los Angeles a jury convicting Robert Durst of first-degree murder in the 2000 killing of Susan Berman.
Durst was the subject of a series on HBO called "The Jinx"...CNN
IN THE NETHERLANDS TWO CABINET MINISTERS RESIGNING. THE FIRST WAS FOREIGN MINISTER SIGRID KAAG.
SHE HAD BEEN CENSURED BY PARLIAMENT FOR BEING SLOW TO REACT TO THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER AND ALLOWING PEOPLE WHO HAD HELPED DUTCH SOLDIERS TO FLEE THE COUNTRY...BBC NEWS...
LATER TODAY WORD THAT DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTER ANK BIJLEVED, ALSO CENSURED BY PARLIAMENT, WAS CALLING IT QUITS...THE GUARDIAN UK
The world's elite business and political leaders planning a return to Davos, Switzerland next January.
The World Economic Forum moved to Singapore this year over coronavirus concerns...FINANCIAL TIMES
The United Nations will not require proof of vaccination for the upcoming General Assembly session but rely on the 'honor system'.
That's the latest word from General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid who had earlier indicated proof of vaccination would be needed because of New York City's vaccine regulations...TASS RUSSIA
Natural immunity versus vaccine immunity when it comes to COVID, which is better. Research in Israel points to the former being more helpful....REIGNITE DEMOCRACY AUSTRALIA
WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN THE USA TODAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS 157,925 AND WORLDWIDE 565,233.
THOSE NUMBERS A WEEK AGO TODAY 171,125 AND 592,182.
CORONAVIRUS STATS VIA WORLDOMETERS FOR SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD TODAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS INDIA 35,367, BRAZIL 33,519, THE UK 32,651, TURKEY 27,692, THE PHILIPPINES 20,336, RUSSIA 19,905 AND IRAN 17,605.
MALAYSIA 17,577, THAILAND 14,555 AND VIETNAM 11,521.
CANADA 5,097.
ISRAEL 3,040.
That's the way it really is Friday September 17th, 2021 Day 550 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 550 of America and the World held hostage.
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