Totalitarianism 2.0

Is the "right circumstances" to take the vaccine?

Tennis star Novak Djokovic could return to Australia sooner than anticipated following his deportation, the country's prime minister says.

The top men's player was deported on Sunday after losing a visa battle that centred on the fact he is unvaccinated.

Under Australia's immigration laws, Djokovic, 34, cannot be granted another visa for three years.

But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he could be allowed entry sooner under the "right circumstances".

www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60019806

Novak Djokovic has arrived in Serbia after being deported from Australia.

The top men's tennis player was deported after losing a visa battle that centred on the fact he is unvaccinated.

Supporters gathered at the airport in Belgrade, waving the national flag and chanting "we love Novak".

"This is a shame what they did to Novak in Australia," one supporter said. "This is a shame what the world has come to."

"I myself am vaccinated, double-jabbed, but I think no-one should be forced to do something... he was judged and sentenced for his freedom of choice," he added.

www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60025236

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally admits that he attended the "bring your own booze party" in the garden of No 10 Downing Street during the first lockdown!
 

The Prime Minister is now trying to defend himself with the excuse that he did not know the rules, which his government has imposed on the people!

Boris Johnson has "categorically" denied he was warned a drinks party in the No 10 garden risked breaking lockdown rules.

"Nobody warned me that it was against the rules," the prime minister said, adding: "I would have remembered that.

"Former aide Dominic Cummings says he warned Mr Johnson at the time, and has accused him of misleading MPs about it.

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. . . Dominic Cummings, who was still working in Downing Street at the time of the drinks party on 20 May 2020, claimed the PM had waved aside his warnings.

Mr Cummings said the idea that a senior aide - the PM's Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds - would not have checked with Mr Johnson, after he was warned his invitation to drinks in the Number 10 garden broke the rules, "is not credible".

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 He [the Prime Minister] was, of course, the person in charge, who decided how we all had to limit our behaviour during the pandemic, so this line of defence opens him up to new attacks.

Did he understand the rules? Should he have needed someone to point out a breach?

Even if he thought this was a work event, is that enough? - because work events were also prohibited in May 2020.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60039868

Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is trying to gain popularity by announcing the end of forcing people to wear face masks.
Boris Johnson stated that the government will continue to suggest facial coverings, but will FINALLY “trust the judgment of the British people and no longer criminalize anyone who chooses not to wear one.”

The restrictions introduced to curb the Omicron wave are being scrapped in England.

Mandatory face coverings, Covid passes and working-from-home guidance - the so-called Plan B - are all going.

www.bbc.com/news/health-60059761

Prime Minister or mafia boss?

A senior Tory has accused the government of trying to "blackmail" its own MPs against plotting to remove Boris Johnson.

William Wragg, one of those calling on the PM to resign, said rebels had faced "pressures and intimidation" from ministers.

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Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called the c;laims "shocking" and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused Mr Johnson of "acting more like a mafia boss than a prime minister".

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But in a sign of worsening relations between Mr Johnson and his backbenchers, Mr Wragg launched a stinging attack on the way the government has handled dissent among Tory MPs.Speaking at a Commons committee that he chairs, the MP for Hazel Grove accused government whips - MPs in charge of discipline - of threatening those suspected of plotting with the removal of government investment in their constituencies.

He also said he had received reports of government ministers, advisers and staff at No 10 "encouraging the publication of stories in the press seeking to embarrass" those suspected of lacking confidence in the PM.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60068612

Censorship by Facebook

Former Republican congressman Ron Paul says he's been blocked by Facebook from managing his account over repeated violations of the social media giant's "community standards."- - -The post included a screenshot of his Facebook page, which had the message informing him of his limited functionality. Paul wrote in a second Twitter post that the only thing he put on Facebook Monday was "my weekly 'Texas Straight Talk' column, which I have published every week since 1976."

www.newsweek.com/ron-paul-blocked-accessing-facebook-page-over-violating-community-standards-1560639