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Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police winning a temporary restraining order from a local judge over Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine order.
The ruling only applies to police union members and does not include requirements for reporting and COVID testing.
The dispute between the mayor and union moved into arbitration by the ruling...ABC 7 CHICAGO
NEW ZEALAND CRACKDOWN ON COVID PROTEST AS VACCINATION AND COVID CASES RISE IN THE COUNTRY
(UPDATED)
Authorities in New Zealand targeting those involved in organizing and or speaking at bi-weekly protests opposing lockdowns in the country's largest city Auckland.
A 36-year old man arrested and charged. The unidentified man will be in court tomorrow.
He was arrested after previous protests and was the emcee of the Saturday protest.
Police say their probe of last Saturday's protest the largest yet continues with more arrests likely
Some five thousand people participated according to police in a city whose population is about 1.7 million people and The Freedom and Rights Coalition New Zealand said some 50,000 protested nationwide last Saturday.
TV ONE NEW ZEALAND
THE FREEDOM AND RIGHTS COALITION NEW ZEALAND
Other protests across New Zealand over the weekend included this one in the capital of Wellington involving a traditional Maori dance "Haka" this dance being a "Haka for Freedom"...VIDEO LINK...
Today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern moving to slightly ease the lockdown in Auckland a week from Tuesday.
New Zealand is now 75.1 percent fully vaccinated and 88.2 percent partially vaccinated today it recorded its highest yet number of positive COVID tests 166.
(Information from the New Zealand Herald also used in this story)
MORE THAN 30 THOUSAND PEOPLE LOCKED INTO SHANGHAI'S DISNEYWORLD OVER ONE COVID CASE. EVERYONE TESTED FOR COVID THEN SENT HOME FOR MANDATORY QUARANTINE....SPUTNIK NEWS RUSSIA
A top Russian security official writes of a "negative attitude" towards COVID vaccination an "attitude...formed under the influence of ignorant and anti-vaccine propaganda".
Dmitry Medvedev is Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council...TASS RUSSIA
US SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON TEXAS ABORTION LAW
In an expedited appeals process the US Supreme Court heard arguments on the new unconventional abortion law in Texas today.
The law restricts abortion by empowering citizens to use litigation (lawsuits) instead of using governmental power.
Five Supreme Court justices, all labeled as "Conservative" by the mainstream media, allowed the law to to remain in force while the appeal is heard and a ruling is pending.
In the hearing today one of those five justices Amy Coney Barrett questioning a lawyer about the unusual structure of the law. Another of the five, Brett Kavanaugh, also raising questions about the law's exploitation of a loophole that he suggested needs to be closed.
Kavanaugh bringing up the notion of a similar law being passed by a state against firearms sales.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas questioned about whether one would have to be directly injured to have standing to file a lawsuit under the Texas law....
REUTERS-THE JERUSALEM POST
"one minute to midnight"
That's how British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sees the climate situation in the world.
Leaders from some 100 nations gathering in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP 26 conference...BBC NEWS
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN USING "CLIMATE" AS AN ISSUE TO TAKE A SWIPE AT RUSSIA AND CHINA.
BIDEN CLAIMING THOSE NATIONS 'BASICALLY DIDN'T SHOW UP' ON COMMITTING TO ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE...CBS NEWS
OTHER MATTERS BEING DISCUSSED IN GLASGOW BY WORLD LEADERS THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NAFTALI BENNETT SITTING DOWN WITH AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON.
BENNETT CALLING ON MORRISON TO DESIGNATE THE IRANIAN BACKED HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT IN LEBANON AS A TERRORIST GROUP...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL, THE GULF ARAB COUNTRIES ANF THE UNITED STATES APPLYING PRESSURE ON FINANCIALLY BELEAGURED LEBANON IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN ANTI-IRAN STRATEGY.
"I don't think, I know"
French President Emmanuel Macron taking aim at Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling him a liar over the scuttled submarine deal worth 90 billion dollars.
Australia instead opting for US submarines when it joined the AUKUS security alliance recently with the US and UK...AFP FRANCE-NDTV INDIA...
Mr. Morrison rejecting the comments of the French president....ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia calling on the people of his country to take up arms. Abiy Ahmed leading a war against rebels in the Tigray region.
The rebels making gains on the battlefield in recent days....BBC NEWS
POLITICS IN THE USA-OFF YEAR ELECTION SEEN AS BIDEN REFERENDUM
Tomorrow voters making their choices for state and local offices like judges or school boards among other things.
Two races for Governor one in Virginia getting a lot of attention as the electorate may be sending a message to Joe Biden by giving the Republicans an upset win...VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S ELECTION PREVIEW
Barclay's Bank CEO Jes Staley leaving following a probe into his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker.
Staley is contesting the finding of bank regulators which found his relationship with Epstein was closer than he had indicated to the bank's board of directors.
Staley's connections with Epstein date back to his days at JP Morgan and they continued until 2015....BBC NEWS....
And today a federal judge ruled that alleged victims can testify anonymously at the upcoming trial of former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The judge has also ruled the prosecutors can refer to those testifying as "victim" and "minor"...THE GUARDIAN UK
And the dispute over control of Canada's largest wireless and cable provider in court.
The two factions seeking control of Rogers argued before a judge today.
The judge will rule on which faction actually controls the company.
Edward Rogers on one side while his mother and two of his sisters are on the other...CBC NEWS CANADA
IN THE US TODAY ACCORDING TO WORLDOMERS 45,934 NEW POSITIVE TESTS FOR COVID-19 AND 339,928 WORLDWIDE.
THOSE NUMBERS A WEEK AGO TODAY 47,861 AND 328,157.
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN SELECTED NATIONS VIA WORLDOMETERS TODAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS RUSSIA 40,402, THE UK 40,077, TURKEY 28,678 AND UKRAINE 13,936
GERMANY 11,317 AND HUNGARY 11,211.
CANADA 2,980.
ISRAEL 506.
That's the way it really is Monday November 1st, 2021, Day 595 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 595 of America and the World held hostage to vaccination.
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