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New COVID measures in Israel but first...
In Canada a curfew from 10pm to 5 am and other restrictions imposed in Quebec.
Restaurant dining rooms are closed, indoor gatherings of more than one family "bubble" are prohibited, houses of worship are closed except for funerals where only 25 people will be allowed.
The new measures take effect 5 pm tomorrow (New Year's Eve).
Premier Francois Legault says the measures are needed to protect the health care system amidst rising positive tests for COVID...GLOBAL NEWS CANADA...CBC NEWS CANADA
GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ URGING FASTER VACCINATIONS TO DEAL WITH COVID.
THAT IS PART OF HIS NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO GERMANS WHICH ALSO MENTIONS SWEEPING ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT LIE AHEAD RELATED TO CLIMATE POLICY...BNN BLOOMBERG
Tonight thousands protesting on the streets of Germany in Nuremburg (1300), Rosenheim (1000) and Chemnitz (800) against coerced vaccination.
This video from Chemnitz tonight...
A rally in support of the government's COVID regime staged by a thousand people in Dresden...(DPA Germany News Agency)
Protests opposing forced vaccination planned for Austria on New Year's Eve as authorities seek to discredit and control them. Vienna police hailing the seizure of fireworks today.
The story of the planned protests and efforts to counter them by police and political forces as interpreted by public broadcasting in Austria...NEWS AGENCIES-ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
DUTCH AUTHORITIES HAVE BANNED A PROTEST OPPOSING VACCINE PASSPORTS AND COERCION PLANNED FOR SUNDAY IN AMSTERDAM.
THE MAYOR, PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AND POLICE SAY THEY DOUBT THAT THE DEMONSTRATION CAN COME OFF PEACEFULLY BECAUSE SAYING THAT VIOLENT ELEMENTS WANT TO MIX INTO THE PROTEST...(NOS Netherlands)...
IN THE NETHERLANDS TODAY 1870 HOSPITALIZED, THE NUMBER YESTERDAY WAS 1978...(NOS Netherlands)
BREAKING NEWS: ISRAEL IMPOSES OUTDOOR MASK ORDER STARTS 4TH JAB FOR SOME
Masks will be required outdoors in Israel where any group of more than 50 people is gathered.
Israel's Health Ministry also approving the fourth COVID shots for population groups deemed vulnerable...YNET NEWS ISRAEL
Earlier a news story appeared suggesting Israel would move to the Swedish model and attempt to reach herd immunity from COVID through mass infection?
Channel 12 News in Israel said the government was considering its own version of such a policy...TIMES OF ISRAEL...(COMMENT) A planted distracting news story?...
Meanwhile in Australia a reset of the COVID response with health authorities warning the public to expect more cases.
Government decision making leading to looser definitions of "close contact" and a relaxing of quarantine requirements...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
With aboriginal rights protesters gathered in the area the door to Australia's Old Parliament House in Canberra was torched today.
Another blaze was set there last week.
Police moved demonstrators away from the building after the incident and the situation there said to be tense...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA...LIVE VIDEO STREAM 12/30/2021 CANBERRA OLD PARLIAMENT BUILDING
Breaking News: Hundreds of homes destroyed and thousands ordered to evacuate as fires rage near Denver...KUSA 9NEWS DENVER
THE BIDEN PUTIN CONVERSATION DESCRIBED AS 'QUITE CONSTRUCTIVE'
(UPDATED, EXPANDED)
"frank, meaningful and specific"-
KREMLIN AIDE DESCRIBES BIDEN-PUTIN PHONE CONVERSATION...TASS RUSSIA
The phone conversation between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin set for 3:30 pm Eastern US Time today started at 3:35 pm and lasted until 4:25 pm.
Putin is said to have told Biden that any "unprecedented sanctions" threatened by the US over a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean a complete severance of relations between the US and Russia...TASS RUSSIA...
The Kremlin putting out word that Biden told Putin the US will not deploy offensive weapons in Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA
Meanwhile military maneuvers in the Black Sea involving French and Ukrainian warships...TASS RUSSIA
A RECALL INVOLVING OVER 475,000 TESLA VEHICLES.
MOST OF THE RECALLS (356,309) INVOLVE REARVIEW CAMERAS AND OTHERS (119,009) INVOLVE FRONT HOOD ISSUES...THE INDEPENDENT UK
IRAN SAYS ITS LAUNCHED THREE RESEARCH SATELLITES INTO SPACE SIMULTANEOUSLY...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
FOUR SHOT DEAD DURING MASS PROTESTS AGAINST THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN SUDAN TODAY.
GOVERNMENT FORCES ALSO USING TEAR GAS AND STUN GRENADES IN THE FACE OF THOUSANDS ON THE STREETS...REUTERS (VIDEO EMBED)
Two former editors of Hong Kong's Stand News are charged with sedition...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
PHARMA GIANT TEVA FOUND LIABLE FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE OPIOID PROBLEM IN THE US.
A LOCAL JURY IN SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK MADE THE DETERMINATION.
DEMOCRAT NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE COMPANY WILL NOW MOVE TO A TRIAL WHICH WILL DETERMINE HOW MUCH THE COMPANY WILL HAVE TO PAY...ASSOCIATED PRESS-NEW ZEALAND HERALD
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SEEKING TO DROP CHARGES AGAINST TWO PRISON GUARDS ON DUTY WHEN JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIED IN AUGUST OF 2019.
ITS PART OF A DEAL REACHED BETWEEN THEM AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT...CNN
THE BBC SAYS THAT AN INTERVIEW WITH LEGAL SCHOLAR ALAN DERSHOWITZ FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S GHISLAINE MAXWELL TRIAL VERDICT:
"did not meet the BBC's editorial standards"
DERSHOWITZ WAS A LAWYER FOR MAXWELL'S LONGTIME ASSOCIATE JEFFREY EPSTEIN WHO WAS A CONVICTED CHILD SEX OFFENDER AND ACCUSED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER.
DERSHOWITZ HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE BY ONE OF EPSTEIN'S ACCUSERS A CHARGE HE VEHEMENTLY DENIES...BBC NEWS
The guilty verdict in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial has implications for the sexual abuse lawsuit filed against Prince Andrew by Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre has alleged abuse by the Duke of York that occurred after she met him in the company of Maxwell...TURCOPOLIER.COM BLOG-PAT LANG
The United States has appointed a special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights.
Rina Amiri named to the post with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying she will "work closely with me" towards a "peaceful, stable and secure" Afghanistan where Afghans can "live and thrive in political, economic and social inclusivity"...BERNAMA.COM NEWS MALAYSIA
The bird flu outbreak in Israel has spread.
The new outbreak at an organic farm in northern Israel where 5,550 chickens were infected...TIMES OF ISRAEL
WORLDOMETERS COVID NUMBERS FOR TODAY
More record breaking positive test numbers in multiple nations today. The total has climbed over 1.8 million worldwide today.
First in the US 565,987 new positive tests and 1,868,915 Worldwide.
Those numbers a week ago today 267,269 and 972,789.
In selected nations outside the US new positive tests...
France 206,243, the UK 189,213, Spain 161,688, Italy 126,888
Argentina 50,506, Turkey 39,681, Greece 35,580 and Portugal 28,659.
Australia 21,254, Russia 21,073, Ireland 20,554, Denmark 20,280, The Netherlands 14,778 and Poland 14,325.
Belgium 12,945, Switzerland 11,788, Finland 9,619 and Botswana a nation next to South Africa 7,027.
Germany 41,820 (Final Total).
Canada 39,840 (Final Total).
South Africa 12,978.
Israel 5,600.
In China today 207.
That's the way it really is Thursday December 30th, 2021 Day 654 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 654 of America and the World held hostage to COVID shots.
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