(UPDATING AND EXPANDING WHEN ABLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)
"Omicron tidal wave"
One part of the dramatic pitch tonight from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as previously announced coronavirus restrictions come into force in the UK.
Johnson announced that third dose "booster shots" for all those 18 and older are now being ramped up with the use of the military and the target date for the "booster shot" campaign moved forward a month to the beginning of January...BBC NEWS
"Just this week two middle school classmates in England died from Omicron"
That's the claim of Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who said today that two British schoolchildren had died of the Omicron variant.
Israel's Channel 12 reports its investigated the matter and found no evidence that this had occurred...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...
The Israeli Prime Minister also warned today that unless COVID vaccination rates rise in Israel there will be a lockdown.
Some of Naftali Bennett's statements:
"Right now our immunization rate is horrible"
"If we do not take immediate and difficult steps now, we will reach a lockdown".
Bennett wants more Israels to get third shot "boosters" to slow the spread of the Omicron variant...
TIMES OF ISRAEL
"The vaccination of children is a necessity"
The message of French Premier Jean Castex.
Castex cites his own experience testing positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks. He traces his own COVID experience to his 11-year old daughter...RTBF BELGIUM (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROMPT)
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WORLDWIDE PROTESTS OPPOSING VACCINE PASSPORTS AND COERCED VACCINATION
SECOND DAY OF PROTEST IN AUSTRIA AGAINST COERCED VACCINATION AND VACCINE PASSPORTS
More demonstrations in six state capital cities of Austria today opposing coerced vaccination and vaccine passports.
The government wants all Austrians with very few exceptions 14 and older jabbed by March.
The unjabbed face stiff fines in the thousands of dollars.
These rallies and marches follow yesterday's massive demonstration in Vienna that drew at least 44-thousand protesters according to official estimate in a country where the population is only nine million people.
That is equivalent to 1,628,000 protesters in Washington DC based on the size of the US population.
Today in Graz, Austria 17-thousand protesters estimated by police...
Nine thousand protested in Bregenz, six thousand in Innsbruck and 4,500 in Salzburg according to police.
One thousand protested in Linz and 600 in St.Polten...ORF AUSTRIA (ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROMPT)
PROTEST IN CZECH REPUBLIC
FOUR THOUSAND DEMONSTRATED TODAY IN PRAGUE THE CAPITAL OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AGAINST THE VACCINE PASSPORT AND VACCINE MANDATES THERE...VIDEO LINK
At Noontime today across Australia protests in all major cities against vaccine passports and vaccine coercion.
"Reclaim The Line" representing the professions impacted by orders to get the jab or lose your job including law enforcement, education, firefighters and health care among others.
This was the scene in Melbourne where a march and rally were held attended by thousands...
And picture of thousands protesting in Sydney as well...
In Valencia Spain Saturday night thousands rallied against the vaccine passport shouting "Libertad"...
An unauthorized protest called "rioting" by police tonight in Leipzig, Germany following the police use of force against a protest opposing vaccine coercion this morning...(DPA News Agency Germany)
Protest demonstrations across Germany this weekend in opposition to vaccine passports and coerced vaccination.
Police broke up a protest in Frankfurt but 10-thousand demonstrated in Hamburg according to the German news agency DPA...
500 protested in Trier and 760 in Schwerin, Germany Saturday...(DPA News Agency)
This protest also held in Berlin Saturday afternoon outside the Reichstag....
This video from Aachen shows a protest rally there where 400 to 500 people were reported in attendance...
(UPDATED) AN ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR IN THE NETHERLANDS WITH AUTHORITIES CLAIMING SECURITY THREATS FROM GROUPS POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
A PROTEST DEMONSTRATION BROKEN UP IN THE PORT CITY OF IJMUIDEN JUST WEST OF AMSTERDAM TODAY BY POLICE MOBILE UNITS.
EXTRA POLICE DEPLOYED IN THE HAGUE AT THE CENTER OF DUTCH GOVERNMENT AND IN HILVERSUM WHERE DUTCH PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS HEADQUARTERED...(NOS NETHERLANDS)
More than 100 feared dead after tornadoes ripped through several US states Friday night.
US President Joe Biden calling for an investigation of this weekend's tornado disaster by the Environmental Protection Agency to link it to "climate change"...AL JAZEERA QATAR
The New York Times reported today that a US Army covert unit tasked with fighting Islamic State repeatedly killed civilians in Syria.
The Talon Anvil unit operated in Syria from 2014 to 2019...TIMES OF ISRAEL
JULIAN ASSANGE STROKE IN PRISON
(UPDATED)
WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE SUFFERED A STROKE DURING THE HIGH COURT HEARING THAT RESULTED IN A DECISION HE SHOULD BE EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES.
HIS FIANCE SAID THE STROKE OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 27TH.
ASSANGE WANTED BY THE UNITED STATES OVER HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE RELEASE OF CLASSIFIED US DOCUMENTS THAT REVEALED DETAILS OF ACTIONS BY THE US MILITARY THAT HARMED CIVILIANS DURING THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ...TASS RUSSIA...
"Why is an unconvicted man being kept in these conditions?"
ASKS JOURNALIST PETER HITCHENS IN THE UK.
ASSANGE HELD AT THE HIGH SECURITY BELMARSH PRISON IN LONDON USED FOR TERRORISM PRISONERS AMONG OTHER THINGS...PETER HITCHENS TWITTER
THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS THAT THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION MEANT THE COLLAPSE OF HISTORICAL RUSSIA AND THAT WAS A TRAGEDY...TASS RUSSIA
In the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia today a low turnout today and a massive victory in the results for opponents of independence from France.
The independence supporters boycotted the vote saying a fair election could not be held due to the COVID situation in the territory.
This was the third time an independence referendum has been held in recent years in New Caledonia...(BFM-TV France)
IT'S BEEN REVEALED THIS WEEKEND THAT ISRAEL LAUNCHED TWO ATTACKS ON IRAN EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THE NEW YORK TIMES STORY SPEAKS OF ISRAEL CONSULTING WITH THE US ABOUT THE ATTACKS.
ONE OF THE ATTACKS IN JUNE ON A FACTORY BUILDING CENTRIFUGES AND THE OTHER IN SEPTEMBER ON A MISSILE BASE.
THE STORY ALSO NOTES THE FEAR OF ISRAEL THAT THE US HAS A SECRET CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION WITH IRAN.
IT ALSO REPORTS ON THE DIFFERENCES IN OPINION BETWEEN THE US AND ISRAEL OVER THE USE OF FORCE AGAINST IRAN'S NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan describing social media as a 'threat to today's democracy'.
Erdogan's government is pushing legislation to criminalize "fake news" and "disinformation" online but opposition forces see his move as one aimed at shutting down free speech in Turkey...ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chris Wallace leaving Fox News as host of "Fox News Sunday" and moving to CNN to join a new streaming service called CNN+...CNN
WORLDOMETERS COVID STATS TODAY
In the US 38,784 new positive tests and 435,946 Worldwide.
Those numbers a week ago today 35,065 and 424,130.
In selected nations outside the US new positive tests the UK 48,854, France 43,848, South Africa 37,875, Germany 29,633, Russia 29,929 and Poland 19,452.
Italy 19,215, Turkey 17,956, The Netherlands 16,588, Vietnam 14,638 and the Czech Republic 9,080.
Canada 3,496.
Israel 443.
That's the way it really is Sunday December 12th, 2021 Day 636 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 636 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots.
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