South Africa drops quarantine for asymptomatic Covid cases

The South African Ministry of Health has announced that it has suspended all quarantine measures for asymptomatic Covid-19 cases with immediate effect, official broadcaster SABC News reported. This applies to both the unvaccinated and vaccinated people.

In addition, contact tracking will be discontinued – except in cases of so-called cluster outbreaks.

According to a statement by the ministry, people with a positive Corona test but without symptoms would no longer be obliged to self-isolate.

There is also no longer the obligation to submit a negative Corona test before resuming work after an isolation period of eight days. All infected people should be able to return to work after eight to ten days without presenting a test.

The majority of new cases are incidentally in the Western Cape, which is also the most vaccinated province. Overall, South Africa has a low vaccination rate of around 20 percent.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/12/26/south-africa-drops-quarantine-for-asymptomatic-covid-cases/

British politician: ‘We broke your immune system with these mRNA shots, and now there’s nothing you can do about Omicron’

https://vladtepesblog.com/2021/12/25/british-politician-we-broke-your-immune-system-with-these-mrna-shots-and-now-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-omicron/

The EU’s judicial imperialism

Recent rulings from Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal have stipulated that national law can take precedence over EU law, raising tensions with Brussels and prompting the EU’s move toward legal action. The European Commission on Wednesday announced it was starting an infringement procedure against Poland “for undermining EU law and the independence of its national judiciary.”

It means that the European Commission does not want compromise, it wants capitulation. It is demanding more and more and has been creating new fronts and conflicts. Its goal is to turn Poland, and later other countries — with the exception of the strongest ones which direct it — into actual colonies of EU institutions.

Now, the Commission has targeted the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. It has done so because the Tribunal has been building a “constitutional shield” meant to prevent the externally inspired anarchy in the judiciary and protect Poland against the European Court of justice (ECJ) judicial imperialism.

According to the Commission, the Polish Tribunal “no longer meets the requirements of an independent and impartial court established by law, as demanded by the EU treaty.”

How could it fulfill these requirements if it has been making the decisions that it has?

Everything that the EU does not like, that is an obstacle to it, “does not meet the requirements.” If it is not obstacle and abides to clear and hidden instructions, then it is legal European and of exemplary.

It is hard to not get the impression that the Commission, irritated by the independence of the Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (which has an obligation to defend sovereignty!), is exacting its revenge. It wants to give a harsh lesson to all of Europe, which is about ensuring that no one else will reach for the constitutional shield. The victim is meant to be silent and has no right to defend themselves.

Yet, there is also something else in the Commission’s decision: the correct assertion that the Tribunal plays an absolutely crucial role in the Polish state system. This is how it was designed during the last days of communism in Poland in the 1980s. It was meant to be a third chamber of parliament, able to block any deeper attempts at reforming the country. This is why the Poland’s tribunal court received such powerful authority.

When the court fell out of the hands of Poland’s liberal establishment, its fringe turned against its previous bearers. The Tribunal is more effective at changing how the country works than parliament, which is always at risk of a presidential veto, which is why the Tribunal is a key bulwark in the fight for independence.

Now, the heaviest artillery has been drawn up against Poland.

Our own weapons are of a smaller caliber. This is why Poles cannot be intimidated if they want to win. This is what Brussels is hoping, by believing that Poles will finally want to be left alone, even at the cost of their independence.

So, Poles must fight — on the constitutional battleground and every other. The Polish right cannot give up Poland’s independence, even if it means paying a very high price for it.

https://rmx.news/poland/the-eus-judicial-imperialism/

Arab attacker to London Jewish man: ‘I want to find a Jew to kill’

A Jewish man was brutally attacked in a London, UK supermarket by an assailant who threatened to “find a Jew to kill.”

London police are looking for a suspect who can be seen on CCTV footage they have released, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

The attack took place in West Hampstead in north London at 7:20 p.m. on December 2, during Hanukkah, but is only now being made public by police who are actively searching for the assailant.

The victim was attacked as he was on his way home from work and leaving a West Hampstead subway station.

The suspect was initially vandalizing a public menorah when he accosted the victim, demanding to know if he was Jewish.

He told him, “I want to find a Jew to kill.”

The victim immediately called the police, but was told that the incident would not be given high priority. He subsequently took shelter in a Marks and Spencer store.

The alleged attacker put on a face mask and followed him, screaming: “You are Jewish. I am going to kill you.”

The attacker flew into a rage and began punching the victim repeatedly, including in the head.

He yelled at him: “I am not leaving until you are dead.”

The Jewish man tried to run away but the assailant followed him, shouting in Arabic that “I will kill you now, you Jew” while implying he was in possession of a knife.

The suspect made a cutthroat gesture across his neck and then left the store.

“This was an extremely nasty antisemitic assault that involved threats of serious violence,” said the Community Security Trust in a Twitter post. “We have been supporting the victim and working with [the police] since the incident.”

Stephen Silverman, Director of investigations and enforcement at Campaign Against Antisemitism, told the Chronicle: “The delayed response of the police, despite the close proximity of a police station just up the road, is deeply concerning, and the result is that a man who apparently wants to kill Jews is now at liberty.”

He added: “This is the most heinous of a considerable number of antisemitic crimes that we have reported over the course of Hanukkah. The sad truth is that our nation’s capital is not nearly as safe as it should be for Jewish people who wish to celebrate a festival or, in this case, simply go about their daily lives.”

The London Metropolitan Police responded in a statement.

“We are aware of comments made in relation to this incident, specifically on the police response time and the prioritization of the call,” they said. “Each call to the police is graded based on the information available at the time and in this case, the suspect no longer being in the area meant it did not require the highest priority response.”

They explained that “officers are still allocated to attend non-priority calls to gather evidence and commence investigations but the target time for a response is slightly longer.”

Noting that “a second call was received at during which the caller confirmed the suspect had returned,” they said that call was “graded as a priority requiring an immediate response and officers were dispatched to the scene.”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319222

After the cross of Notre-Dame de la Garde on the New Year’s card of Marseille’s city hall was erased by the Islamist-Stalinist city government, the opposition protests

Photo © Capture d’écran Twitter @valerieboyer13

The New Year’s card proposed by the city of Marseille shocked the conservative opposition a few days before the New Year. The reason: in the photo, the cross of the Basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde was removed from its dome, France 3 reported in an article published on Thursday December the 23rd. This detail caught the attention of numerous local politicians, such as Valérie Boyer, who addressed the city council on Twitter. The Les Républicains (LR) senator of the Bouches-du-Rhône department reacted not without irony: “Thank you to the city administration for being so attached to our traditions, our roots and our identity. After the disappearance of Merry Christmas (which has been replaced by Happy Feast), we learn that Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde has no cross. The Virgin Mary could be next?”.

The same opinion was expressed by Yves Moraine, former president of the LR group in the city council of the city. On the same social network, he addressed the mayor of the Mediterranean city, Benoît Payan, directly to find out the reasons for this decision: “Mr Mayor, the dome of Notre Dame de la Garde is crowned by a cross, why remove it?” Then resentment was also expressed in Paris, where a number of politicians of the political right in turn expressed their incomprehension.

This is particularly true of former minister Nadine Morano, who took the opportunity to castigate the “Marseille Spring” coalition at the head of the city administration. On Twitter, she called this majority “anti-France” after discovering the controversial greeting card. “They are destroyers of our civilisation, our culture and our Christian roots,” she deplored. This view was apparently shared by Gilbert Collard, former deputy for the Gard department, who expressed his anger at the “small-minded and Stalinist exterminators of our history”.

For its part, the city administration stressed to France 3 that the New Year’s card for 2022 was in fact nothing new. Audrey Gatian, the deputy mayor in charge of roads and parking, explained that this photo had been on display at city hall “[for] years”. She then shared that it was mainly a “stylised view of [Marseille], with the towers out of order, for example”. She concluded on regional radio: “This photo has been in use for years by MPs, even by Madame Boyer herself! This story is taking on ridiculous proportions…”.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/regions/provence-alpes-cote-dazur/bouches-du-rhone/marseille/politique/marseille-la-croix-de-notre-dame-de-la-garde-effacee-sur-la-carte-de-voeux-de-la-mairie-lopposition-sinsurge/

Omicron is the final straw

By Deane Waldman

Thomas Hobbes is credited with originating the “final straw” aphorism during a theological debate in the late 1600s. Speaking of the additive effects of many small causes, “the last feather may be said to break the Horses back.”  This became “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” referring to a final small action that caused an effect out of proportion to this one straw if prior straws are not considered.

The omicron variant of COVID-19 is the final straw that has destroyed any vestige of public credibility in the Democrat party. 

While 73 percent of new COVID cases are omicron, only one American has died with this variant. That man had underlying pre-existing medical issues and was in the high-risk group. Furthermore, we only know he died with the viral antigen present. Autopsy results have not been released to explain whether he died with or because of the virus.

Next fact comes from South Africa where omicron was first reported. Their experience, admittedly short-term, shows that omicron is behaving predictably. As COVID adapts, from alpha to omicron and thus presumably 13 mutations, the virus becomes more contagious but less dangerous medically. In other words, omicron is not a significant medical hazard. So, when President Biden warns of a winter of “illness and death,” don’t believe him.

The credibility of the Biden administration is completely gone, destroyed by its own hands, through deceit, underhanded tricks to shut down medical debate, overt power grabs, and worst by far, suppression of constitutional freedoms. A New York Post poll (12/15/21) that concluded “nearly two-thirds of Americans doubt they can trust Biden.” 

While progressives are temporarily in control of the Democrat party, the White House, and both houses of Congress, they are trying to remake the U.S. along socialist lines. The dictatorial handling of COVID is consistent with a totalitarian approach: ignore or remake the constitution, reject the rule of law, and restore tyranny.

With parents around the nation loudly rejecting CRT; with workers asserting their right to choose even when risking their pensions; with local groups voting for “constitutional” leadership; by SEALS refusing orders to vaccinate; and 900,000 people publicly repudiating Washington’s false COVID narrative by signing the Great Barrington Declaration, Americans at the grassroots level Just Say no to progressive-Democrat-socialist-communist policies.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/omicron_is_the_final_straw_.html

Ireland: Not a Welcoming Environment for Jews

The Irish Parliament, on the night of May 25, 2021, staged a “legal Kristallnacht” against the nation of Israel. Following an avalanche of vituperative anti-Israel and anti-Semitic diatribes by members of the Dáil Éireann (lower house of Parliament), its members voted unanimously to discuss a motion on whether or not Ireland should support BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) legislation to try to strangle Israel economically. Ostensibly, the BDS movement’s goal is to shift world opinion to declare that Jewish settlements in the historically-named areas of Judea and Samaria are supposedly illegal seizures of Palestinian Arab land. In truth, the principal and outspoken objective of Palestinian organizers of the BDS movement is the destruction of Israel.

Disturbingly, the May 25 motion was fully supported by at least two of Ireland’s leading NGOs sponsored by the Irish Catholic Church: Sadaka and Trócaire. Pro-BDS Sadaka, in particular, makes no pretense about being bitterly opposed to Israel. Even more shocking was that fully a third of Irish members of parliament of voted to expel Israeli diplomats from Ireland. Sein Fein (“Ourselves Alone”), a democratic socialist party and that won the most votes in Ireland’s 2020 parliamentary elections, has been spearheading the increasingly anti-Israel orientation of Ireland’s foreign policy.

Ireland, by virtue that it stands alone in its official state-to-state condemnatory initiatives against Israel’s policies “in the territories,” is, according to Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, perceived as supposedly the most anti-Israeli state in the European Union. Other EU states may often be critical of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians — for instance Sweden, Belgium, and Luxembourg. When Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn hosted a convocation of several EU states who were considering granting diplomatic recognition to a supposed “state of Palestine,” Sweden, Belgium, and Ireland were a few of the states that sent representatives to this meeting.

Unfortunately, there has been virtually no push-back from Ireland’s general public or civil society institutions. This lack of support for Israel is distressing, as much of the pro-Palestinian rhetoric and criticism of Israel is not only unjust but has been morphed into blatant anti-Semitism by some political and cultural Irish public figures. One legislator, Catherine Connolly, raised the anti-Semitic theme of “Jewish Supremacy” analogous to the world Jewish conspiracy trope found in the fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic document. The chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, Maurice Cohen, pointed out that Connolly’s performance strayed into classical anti-Semitic language.

There is understandably some sympathetic sentiment among the Irish people for the plight of Palestinians, as there is also among Israelis, saddened to see people suffer unnecessarily under a brutal and corrupt Palestinian leadership, which has full autonomy over much the territory under dispute. The Palestinians long ago agreed, in the Oslo Accords of 1993, to settle those disputes by direct negotiation, not by external fiat. One Palestinian shopkeeper in Dublin suggests that there is a shared feeling with the Irish of having fought against colonialism and oppression. Yet there is little evidence that the bulk of the Irish citizenry support this prejudicial assault on Israel, much less, the poisonous anti-Jewish rhetoric.

All Israelis — about 20% of whom are Muslims, along with Christians and Druze — have identical rights under the law. Israeli Arabs can vote, have political parties and prominent job opportunities, and are members of Israel’s parliament. Confusion likely arises because the people known as Palestinians are not Israelis. They are Arabs who fled what is now Israel when armies of five Arab countries — Egypt, Syria, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq — attacked Israel on May 15, 1948, the day the British Mandate over Palestine ended. These countries were hoping to destroy the new state of Israel in its crib. When, after Israel’s unexpected victory, the Arabs who had fled wished to return, they were refused as fifth-columnists: people who had shown sympathy or support for the enemy. The Arabs who had fled suddenly found themselves without a home, displaced. These are the people who later called themselves Palestinians. The Arabs who stayed in Israel during the war are full-fledged Israeli citizens, and have exactly the same rights and legal protection as Jews, although there is always room for improvement in everyone’s standard of living. The one exception is that Arabs are not required to serve in the Israeli military; in the event of possible conflicts with Arab states, Israelis did not want brother fighting brother. Many Israeli Arabs have nevertheless been voluntarily joining the military in record numbers, often despite harsh criticismfrom other Arabs.

In Ireland, Jew-hatred does not well up from the general public but seems clearly driven from the top down. These Goebbels-like attacks on Israel include salvos from several Sinn Fein members of parliament. One of them, Martin Browne, represents Tipperary and claims, falsely, that Israel created ISIS. Another, Matt Carthy representing Cavan-Monahan, has stated that Israel is the worst human rights offender on earth — presumably dwarfing China, North Korea, Venezuela and Iran.

Others include People Before Profit Party members Gino Kenny and Brid Smith, representing districts in Dublin, who have called for the expulsion from Ireland of Israel’s Ambassador. Leading Irish novelist Sally Rooney refused an offer by Israeli publisher Modan to translate her latest book into Hebrew, expressing support for the BDS movement.

The behind-the-scenes launch pad for much of this anti-Semitic rhetoric might be the outsized influence enjoyed by Ireland’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Cultural Centre (ICC) The ICC is the religious, political, and financial wellspring of Islam in Ireland. Another impetus for the appearance of Jew-hate in the Irish parliament is the full-time activism of pro-Palestinian propagandists on Ireland’s college campuses. This campus activism is spearheaded by Palestinian students who have granted scholarships to study in Ireland [1] These students and sympathetic teachers recruit Irish natives [2] to form chapters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) that operate on and off college grounds. The chairwoman of the IPSC is Fatin al Tamimi, a Palestinian who emigrated to Ireland three decades ago. There are IPSC chapters in most of Ireland’s large cities. Then there are the faculty-assisted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters on the campus of several universities. SJP university chapters are in Dublin’s Trinity College, the National University of Ireland (NUI) of Maynooth in County Kildare, and County Galway’s NUI chapter in Galway City,[3] all of which support the BDS movement, as does the Union of Students in Ireland.

There also exists an apparent tacit alliance of convenience between pro-Palestinian politicians, academics and Sinn Fein leftists with right wing, racist Holocaust deniers and proponents of anti-Semitic tropes such as Rothschild financial manipulators and Christ-killers.[4]

There are about 2,500 Jews in Ireland, with census reports indicating that from 2011 to 2016, the Jewish population rose by nearly 30%. Although the number of Irish Jews may be on the rise, the political influence of Irish Jewry is waning. The last elected Jew in Ireland the former Irish Attorney General Alan Shatter was drummed out of office in 2014 following the Irish media’s broadcast of unsubstantiated charges of political corruption against him. Although Shatter has been subsequently exonerated, his case lends evidence that anti-Semitism is alive and well in Ireland. The exhaustive examination of the just released report compiled by David Collier, entitled “Ireland Antisemitism Report,” details classic examples of widespread Jew-hatred among politicians, academics and Palestinian students on the grounds of several Irish universities.

Under the rubric of developing a “social justice” foreign policy profile for Ireland, some of Ireland’s anti-Israel critics may have helped ignite a vicious anti-Semitic campaign that is poisoning what was once a most welcoming Irish society for Jews.

[1] “Ireland Anti-Semitism Report” by David Collier. October 2021. P.54.
[2] Ibid. p. 54 and p.57.
[3] Ibid, p. 56,60, and 62
[4] Ibid. p.66.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18011/ireland-antisemitism

German health minister’s strange behaviour creates social media stir

The clownish German health minister has been attracting attention with his strange behavior again. Most recently it was at the federal press conference in Berlin.

Karl Lauterbach does not look very healthy, and especially his mental state is cause for concern. At the federal press conference on December 22, he appeared to suffer from a brief lapse. When a journalist asks him a question, he suddenly inexplicably slumps over.

RT-DE captured Lauterbach’s collapse.

Worrying data from Germany showing how vaccines do not work and rather contribute to disease, may be a reason for the government’s efforts to blame the Omicron variant for their own failure in foisting a faulty product on their population.

Despite good news from South Africa, Lauterbach continues to claim the Omicron virus variant “dwarfs everything that we have seen so far in the pandemic”. He has urgently called for the booster vaccinations to be accelerated while the Federal Government’s Expert Council has warned of the “collapse of the entire critical infrastructure”.

But a study by South African’s largest private health insurer, Discovery Health, showed that the number of natural deaths is significantly lower than in previous waves.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/12/25/german-health-minister-strange-behaviour-creates-social-media-stir/