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THE US SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS ON JANUARY 7TH REGARDING CHALLENGES TO BIDEN ADMINISTRATION COVID VACCINE MANDATES.
THE COURT ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IT'S TAKING UP THE CASES INVOLVING COVID SHOT MANDATES FOR BUSINESSES WITH MORE THAN 100 EMPLOYEES AND FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS AT FEDERALLY FUNDED FACILITIES...FOX NEWS
"Friden, Freiheit, No Diktatur!"
"Peace, Freedom No Dictatorship"
The shout this evening in Munich, Germany thousands walking in the streets after being denied the right to hold a protest rally against forced vaccination.
500 police mobilized to stop some 3000 people and they were not successful in their attempts...VIDEO LINK
"We don't see that doubling or increase that we had seen right in the beginning.
Maybe it will be a different picture in the rest of the world, but for now the caseloads in the hospitals are very low"
That is the Omicron picture in South Africa where the Omicron variant of COVID began.
It's offered by South African Medical Association President Dr. Angelique Coetzee. She was interviewed by Israeli public broadcaster KAN...TIMES OF ISRAEL
"No country can boost its way out of the pandemic"
The head of the World Health Organization says that the vaccine booster campaigns now going on in many nations will likely prolong the coronavirus problem in the world.
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus says the booster shot campaigns divert vaccine supplies away from countries with poor vaccine coverage.
He says taking vaccine away from other countries allows COVID to mutate in those parts of the world and spread back into the countries with high vaccine coverage in mutated form...THE GUARDIAN UK
VACCINE MESSAGING: MORE JABS OF CURRENT FORMULATIONS FOR NOW, NEW FORMULATIONS NEEDED TO DEAL WITH OMICRON
IMPORTANT MESSAGING FROM HEALTH OFFICIALS IN VARIOUS NATIONS TODAY REGARDING VACCINES AND THE OMICRON VARIANT.
NEW VACCINE FORMULATIONS ARE SAID TO BE NEEDED TO DEAL WITH OMICRON AND THEY WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL APRIL OR MAY OF NEXT YEAR.
IN THE INTERIM AS MUCH USE AS POSSIBLE OF THE CURRENT VACCINE FORMULATIONS IS BEING PROMOTED
GERMAN HEALTH MINISTER KARL LAUTERBACH SAID TODAY THAT 80 MILLION NEW DOSES ARE ON ORDER FROM BIONTECH, THE PARTNER IN THE PFIZER VACCINE...(NOS Netherlands)
They called it Israel's first "Omicron death" but it turns out it wasn't. An elderly man who died yesterday is now said to have actually had the "Delta variant"...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
ISRAEL'S CORONAVIRUS CABINET DECIDING ON A SET OF RESTRICTIONS INCLUDING WIDESPREAD USE OF THE VACCINE PASSPORT IN SHOPPING AREAS.
THERE WILL BE CAPACITY LIMITS IN SOME SHOPPING AREAS AS WELL.
IT WAS DECIDED TO HAVE ONLINE LEARNING IN SITUATIONS WHERE STUDENTS IN CLASSES ARE LESS THAN 70 PERCENT VACCINATED...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
FRENCH GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN GABRIEL ATTAL SAYS THERE WILL NO NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS ANNOUNCED BEFORE CHRISTMAS, BUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL RE-EVALUATE THE SITUATION ON MONDAY...(BFM-TV France)
New mask rules imposed in Australia's Queensland state by Labor Party Premier Anastacia Palasczuk.
Masks must be worn in cinemas and theaters. Workers in the hospitality industry also ordered to use the muzzle...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
In the Netherlands there have been over 17-thousand reports to a side effects center regarding menstrual disorders following COVID vaccinations...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
More COVID news near the end of the summary...
(Updated-Trial Break) At the Ghislaine Maxwell trial jurors continued deliberations today asking to review transcripts of more witnesses.
This is in addition to the testimony of two witnesses requested yesterday...THE IRISH INDEPENDENT...
The trial is now on hiatus for Christmas and deliberations will resume Monday...CNN
RUSSIA AND THE US HAVE AGREED TO SECURITY TALKS EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR...NEWS AGENCIES-DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY
RUSSIA SAYS IT ASSASSINATED A TERRORIST LEADER IN SYRIA LINKED TO TERRORISM IN RUSSIA'S REGION OF CHECHNYA...TASS RUSSIA
US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER JAKE SULLIVAN IN ISRAEL WITH OTHER US OFFICIALS. SULLIVAN DESCRIBING HIS TALKS WITH ISRAEL AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO:
"sit together and develop a common strategy, a common outlook"
SULLIVAN'S VISIT COMES AS NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN IN VIENNA HAVE REACHED A CRITICAL POINT...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
The "Washington Post" reports that the wife of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had Israeli-made spyware placed on her phone.
Hanan Elatr was being interrogated at an airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates when this happened.
The NSO Group's Pegasus software was being used by a United Arab Emirates client.
NSO has denied its software was used to attack phones belonging to Khashoggi or Elatr...THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
POLITICS IN THE US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS SAID THIS WEEK HE WILL HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 6TH, NOW THE WORD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IS THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WILL HAVE A STATEMENT ON JANUARY 6TH...US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
"You have two sides of it...sort of a spy deal going on...somebody that's exposing real corruption"
President Trump discussing his thought process in making the call on pardons for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Trump opted not to pardon either last January in the days before he left the White House...RUSSIA TODAY
Turkey says it's arrested a US diplomat based in Lebanon. The diplomat accused of selling a passport to a Syrian national for ten thousand dollars...THE HILL
The President of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed is winning in the civil war with Tigrayan rebels. The rebels retreating back into Tigray from other regions of Ethiopia they previously occupied...BLOOMBERG-JAPAN TIMES
PROSECUTORS IN THE NETHERLANDS WANT LIFE SENTENCES FOR FOUR RUSSIAN MEN BEING TRIED IN ABSTENTIA FOR THE DOWNING OF MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH 17 OVER EASTERN UKRAINE IN 2014...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
More COVID news....
The tech giant Intel putting employees who won't comply with its vaccine mandate on unpaid leave starting January 4th...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
A LOCKDOWN STARTING THURSDAY IN THE HUGE CHINESE CITY OF XI'AN. 13 MILLION PEOPLE MUST STAY HOME AND ONLY LEAVE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.
ONLY ONE PERSON PERMITTED TO SHOP FROM EACH HOUSEHOLD EVERY TWO DAYS.
CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN THE PROCESS OF COVID TESTING ALL CITY RESIDENTS...
IN THE US THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FORMALLY APPROVING A PILL TO TREAT COVID-19.
HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS 12 AND OLDER WHO WEIGH AT LEAST 88 POUNDS QUALIFY TO RECEIVE THE PILL DESIGNED TO TREAT SYMPTOMS OF COVID...CNN
COVID NUMBERS FOR TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS
(UPDATED)
The trend is upwards big numbers in some nations today numbers setting records in some of those countries.
In the US today 227,605 new positive tests and 885,052 Worldwide.
In the US New York with 27,299, Florida with 20,194, Illinois 16,581, Ohio 12,685, California 12,034, Texas 11,337 and New Jersey 11,006.
Here in Pennsylvania 9,838 with 1,287 of those new positive tests here in York County, Pennsylvania with 542 in Adams County to the west and 766 in next county westward Franklin.
All three counties border Maryland and are home to commuters from the Baltimore-Washington DC area.
Those numbers a week ago today 136,590 and 707,768.
In selected nations outside the US new positive tests the UK 106,122, France 84,272, Spain 60,041, Germany 45,858 (Final Total) and Italy 36,293.
Russia 25,264, South Africa 21,098, Turkey 19,095, Poland 18,021, Vietnam 16,555, The Netherlands 13,344 and The Czech Republic 11,825.
Argentina 11,121, Portugal 8,937, South Korea 7,450, Ukraine 6,363, Ireland 6,307 and Switzerland 5,992.
Canada 14,465 (Final Total).
Israel 1,127 (Final Total).
That's the way it really is Wednesday December 22nd, 2021 Day 646 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 649 of America and the World held hostage.
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