Covid: Vaccination will be required to fly, says Qantas chief

 

International air travellers will in future need to prove they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to board Qantas flights, the airline says.

The Australian flag carrier's boss, Alan Joyce, said the move would be "a necessity" when vaccines are available.

"I think that's going to be a common thing talking to my colleagues in other airlines around the globe," he said.

 

 

Australia shut down its international borders early in the pandemic and required those returning to quarantine.

The country has more recently relied on lockdowns, widespread testing and aggressive contact tracing to push daily infections nationwide close to zero.

In an interview with Australia's Nine Network on Monday, Mr Joyce said Qantas was looking at ways of changing its terms and conditions for international travellers as the industry, which has been hit hard by travel restrictions, looks at ways of moving forward.

"We will ask people to have a vaccination before they can get on the aircraft... for international visitors coming out and people leaving the country we think that's a necessity," he told the broadcaster.

 

 

In August, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was likely that any successful vaccine would become "as mandatory as you could possibly make it".

"There are always exemptions for any vaccine on medical grounds, but that should be the only basis," he told radio station 3AW.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55048438 

 

 

Non-profit organizations feed the nation’s veterans

 

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UPDATED 10:49 AM PT – Monday, November 23, 2020

With an estimated 2.1 million veteran families struggling to put food on the table, non-profit organizations throughout the country are working this holiday season to feed the one’s who served us.

The Vietnam Vets of America Chapter 1044 has devoted the past decade to providing for their fellow veterans in Wilson County, Tennessee.

“Vietnam vets were not treated very well when they came back, just trying to help other veterans that don’t go through what we went through,” said Mike Myer, the chapter’s president. “All our members are Vietnam veterans.”

 

 

Every Thanksgiving and Christmas these vets unite to serve local veteran families in any way they can, primarily by providing donated food. The organization plans to donate 65 food boxes with enough supplies to last struggling families two weeks.

While the Vietnam veteran’s of Wilson County are making a dent within their own community, they can’t fix the growing problem sprawling across the nation.

Fortunately, there are many organization devoted to providing food for veteran families. One of the largest non-profit’s serving military families, Feed Our Vets, aid’s veteran’s in 39 states with most being in New York.

“A lot of organizations are feeding vets during the holidays or certain holidays during the year,” said Rich Synek, founder of Feed Our Vets.”..But no one on a widespread, nobody widespread throughout the U.S. is doing it.”

Each Feed Our Vets food box includes 21 meals with an average value of over $220. The organization serves thousand’s of families with over 90 percent of their clients returning monthly.

Even though the organization’s are in high demand, many of them say not enough veteran families are requesting for help.

 

https://www.oann.com/non-profit-organizations-feed-the-nations-veterans/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Irish open-air cellist strikes coronavirus lockdown chord

 

When the Republic of Ireland went into coronavirus lockdown in March, musician Patrick Dexter began posting online videos of himself playing the cello.

Since then, the open-air recitals, shot outside his picturesque cottage in Mayo on the rural west coast, have been viewed millions of times.

Patrick has also received messages from people all over the world, including Irish expatriates yearning for their homeland during the pandemic.

First Lady Melania Trump receives White House Christmas tree

 

 

 

First Lady Melania Trump will receive the White House Christmas tree on Monday.

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“Since 1966, the arrival of the White House Christmas Tree has become an iconic holiday tradition,” the first lady said in a tweet on Sunday. “This year’s tree, a lovely 18 1/2 foot Fraser Fir from Dan and Bryan Trees of West Virginia.”

The Importance of Fellowship…

posted by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse

It’s hard to believe the image below was originally shared on our pages and discussed almost a decade ago.  There was just something about the shift in messaging from the totalitarian left that sounded an internal alarm amid those who were focused on the open dismissal of liberty and freedom that resounded from the drumbeat of the Obama era:

“Fundamental change” was a looming catch phrase many just seemed to ignore.  And here we are… divided by a network of seemingly intoxicating systems; many purposefully driven by the modern dynamic of social media, steering a tribal outcome we are only now just beginning to fathom. Ultimately what the collective weight of progressiveness is putting upon us is isolation.  There are so many historic references to this strategic sentiment it is disconcerting to review with hindsight.

I am not a sage, but we saw this coming…. we just didn’t know the entry vector that would be used to accomplish the final stages of diminished freedom and individual liberty.  As we look at the current COVID-19 mandates and dictates one cannot easily dismiss the weaponized use of a virus to attain division under the guise of “social distancing.”

When we initially asked the question: “where would you choose to live“, we had no idea a virus would be purposeful to enhance the objectives of social engineering, isolation and ultimately, painfully, oppression.  Oblivious to the grand design, we allowed a seemingly disparate network of big tech companies to control communication.  The COVID aspect now generates in the physical world exactly the same distance created in the digital world.

In/around July it was obvious in my travels we were on the precipice of a disconnect from human interaction that would numb our psyche to what ultimately matters, fellowship.

Not only are various governmental agencies forcing the separation of people from their community networks, we are also seeing faith-based organizations, churches, buying into the fear.  Even in areas where churches are not forcibly shut down, many are seeing a structural shift where some faith leaders are willingly ostracizing their community under the guise of various COVID alarms.  This is not good…. not good at all.

Fellowship is the essential ingredient to a purposeful life.  How and why we interact with each-other is how and why we recharge our core humanity.  To see faith leaders willing to separate from the function of fellowship is alarming.  However, as individuals we must not allow this foreboding sense to become the normal expectation.

Throughout history large armies have been defeated through the process of division.  It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies including congregations.  It is puzzling how leadership cannot see the danger in social and spiritual distance when the bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.

Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living.  However, the distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.

The influence of social media is already troublesome, physically distancing from human engagement only worsens the impact.  There is no digital replacement for the true fellowship of humanity on a personal level.

Ultimately it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.

We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment… Do not lose that.  Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.

With local, state and now federal leaders moving beyond the workplace distance; and beyond the community distance; and beyond the church distance; and now entering your home to tell you the importance of separating yourself from your family during a time of year when that very assembly is the core of your support network… you must evaluate these arbitrary decrees very deliberately.

Evaluate very closely what you are willing to give up.  Perhaps we are in this position today because we didn’t sit still enough and contemplate the real priorities in our lives.

Our liberty is inherent.

Our freedom is inherent.

The removal of both requires consent.

I choose not to disconnect.

I choose purpose.

I choose my own humanity.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

[…] I asked a gentleman for the location to a convenience store to purchase some mints to chew throughout the day.  I was directed to a specific store.

When I made my purchase, the mask on the other side of the counter was as sad as many that day, but I felt compelled to ask how she was doing.  The typical “been better” was the return.  However, as I started to walk away… I turned back: “what’s wrong”?

For the next few minutes I listened as I met a mom of four kids who was 15 days from a COVID-based eviction.  There was really no-one to blame; and worse, for her no-where to turn.  She was looking for housing grants to avoid the most painful decision in her short 30-year-life.

You see, there was a reason why I went into that store that afternoon, at least that’s what I told her; and there was a reason why she was there.  In part with your support, and after putting all other tasks in the appropriately unimportant place they deserved, WE (yes, you and me) together found a solution and provided the resources she needed.   Starfish dude strikes again… this time with His help and your help.

It would have been very easy to walk out and accept that simple: “been better”. Heck, I think of all the times I have done that before…. but not this time.  This time something nagged about it…. and so I turned around and found tears, fellowship – and mints.

The next day another stroll, a little lost, and a veteran on the street… I can’t tell you his story because that’s for another day… but it is just as important and just as profound.  As I walked away from him many minutes later he yelled at me: “HEY DUDE”.  I turned my unmasked smile back in his direction only to have him say: “we need more people like you in charge”…  Thumbs up, and I continued my travels.

Which is really the point of writing all this.  Our nation needs more people like you, right now.  Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we fight.  Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again.

God knows we need it.

Discuss The Danger of Big Tech Amid The Current Controlled Speech Dynamic

House intelligence committee ranking member Devin Nunes discusses the danger of Big Tech controlling the public speech platforms.   “Big tech and corporate media played an outsized role in the 2020 election, says California Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes. And based on how the Biden team is responding to evidence of election irregularities and potential fraud, former Vice President Biden does not seem confident in victory, Nunes says.

To actually get their ideas out to Americans, Nunes says conservatives should move to social media alternatives such as Parler and Rumble, ones that prioritize free speech and open discourse.” 

If Biden Can Take Power by Fraud, Our Republic Has Abolished Itself

Blatant election-rigging leaves Republicans few options.

Andrew Cuff for American Greatness

As Michael Anton and others predicted months before Election Day, media and tech companies have launched a full-scale attack on our democratic process by rushing to name Joe Biden president-elect prematurely and to silence dissent. Even the supposedly conservative Fox News has resorted to outright censorship of legitimate challenges to this narrative.

Everyone who stayed up to watch the news on election night remembers Trump’s massive, double-digit lead in the swing states. They also remember the media’s bizarre dawdling to call any of Trump’s obvious victories—Florida, Texas, even Alaska. 

For Biden, however, outlets were disgracefully quick to call states where his victory was not clear at all. Many went to sleep wondering if something was afoot—a media driven “reality” meant to conceal what had really happened. Others who stayed up remember several crucial swing states simultaneously announcing a sudden pause in the counting of ballots.

A few states attempted to explain their holdup. In Georgia, officials claimed that “a pipe burst”; though open records requests and text messages later revealed it was only a “slow leak” that should not have affected counting. 

Although television anchors reported an Election Night pause in Michigan, the spokesperson for Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson warned Americans not to believe their lying eyes: “At no point has the counting process stopped since it began at 7 a.m. yesterday morning,” she told PolitiFact. 

But according to poll watchers’ testimony, both can be true, albeit in a perverse sense: the “paused” states did announce a pause in order to send Republican poll watchers home, but then continued counting through the night. 

Georgia’s GOP Chairman David Shafer affirmed this mischief on November 9: “Fulton County elections officials told the media and our observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on election night only to continue counting ballots in secret until 1:00 a.m,” a fact that “no one disputes.”

When we awoke on November 4, we discovered that vote counts had mysteriously flipped, and Biden was soaring into the lead. Some pundits tried to explain the phenomenon by assuring us that the votes counted late at night were mail-in ballots, which Biden was expected to win by a comfortable margin. But without independent verification of these late-night votes, including signature match, it would be impossible to prevent “vote laundering,” or the secret inclusion of just enough fraudulent or illegal mail-in ballots with legal ones during the unobserved counting that continued in Democrat-controlled precincts. Indeed, eyewitnesses testifying to this very crime have now come forward. Not every whistleblower or affidavit is credible, but the mysterious circumstances on election night demand that sworn accounts of what happened be taken seriously in court, at the very least.

Americans who watched these strange events unfold on their television screens couldn’t recall ever witnessing sweeping, coordinated “pauses” in only Democrat-controlled swing states during previous elections. But officials including Federal Elections Commissioner Trey Trainor realized what was happening. “I do believe that there is voter fraud taking place in these places,” he said on November 6. 

By now, the election has displayed numerous “tells” that our own State Department uses to highlight fraudulent vote tabulation in countries like Iran and Ukraine: statistical anomalies, blocking and obscuring official observers, procedural irregularities such as stopping vote counts, suspicious software “glitches,” and social media blackouts when citizens raise the alarm.

This may be part of the reason that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters on November 10, perhaps facetiously, that there would be “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” He addressed one question about fraud directly: “We have a legal process . . . we must count every legal vote; we must make sure that every vote that was unlawful not be counted—that dilutes your vote.”

Thankfully, litigation, hand-recounts, and even federal investigations of fraud are all underway—a process that other countries with questionable elections like Syria don’t have. But if proof of systematic meddling is uncovered, Americans must still rely on the justice system to act on this proof, and the media to ensure the rightful winner is declared.

It might be terrifying to admit, but American democracy depends on authorities who have lost the public trust: unbiased state and city officials to ensure procedural fairness, unbiased election workers to ensure vote integrity, unbiased judges to enforce that integrity, and unbiased media to inform the American people about the other three. Who will audit the auditors? To examine one test case, the Georgia GOP has already raised alarms that the promised audit in their state does not meet crucial evidentiary criteria. Will something be done?

This election represents the ultimate test of our system and its resilience in a partisan age. If partisans can seize levers of power that impact election results, and they’ve shown they’ll stop at nothing in their revanchism, why engage in elections at all? 

And what other recourse, short of revolution, can right the situation? 

Prior to the election, there was already widespread agreement that the vote-by-mail fiasco was orchestrated and authorized extralegally by Democrats—over Republicans’ objections—in states like Pennsylvania. A judge ruled on November 12 that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked statutory authority to extend the mail-in deadline, and ballots arriving after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 must be tossed out.

But will Democrats accept this ruling, or appeal it? Will every other instance of legislative and procedural election meddling be addressed in court before the election certification deadline? And how will other judges rule on these cases? In a high-stakes climate of suspicion, both sides will fight tooth and nail over the results. 

R. Reno, conservative editor of First Things, has tried to reassure his readers of the resilience of American democracy: “If [President Trump’s] lawsuits are without merit, they will be dismissed, in some cases by Republican-appointed judges. This process of review and adjudication adds legitimacy to the election’s final outcome.” But Reno has spent a career pointing out the fallibility of court decisions high and low on social issues, including decisions by Republican-appointed judges. Does he now think they are infallible exclusively in election-related cases?

Even if courts rule on cases that affect vote tallies, the partisan fight could continue past certification, on into the Electoral College. State legislatures appoint electors based on their state’s popular vote—but they don’t have to. Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution allows for extreme cases of electoral failure that would permit legislatures to appoint delegates “in such manner as they direct.” At first, state legislative leaders shied away from talk of electoral failure, but after evidence of fraud began to mount, Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Michigan have now insisted that a full audit be conducted before they will certify electors.

The above merely scratches the surface of America’s democratic dilemma. When a sharply divided country meets to decide its next leader, there must be some level of trust that both sides will engage in the process fairly. After the events of November 3, that trust simply does not exist—and the only way it can be restored is through transparency and vote security that eliminates the possibility of fraud.

If Republicans concede the fraught 2020 election to Joe Biden—as it seems, for now, they will not—election reforms of this kind will never be enacted. The coordinated actions of federal law enforcement and intelligence services, the media, corporations, and assorted “resistance” bureaucrats against President Trump in the last four years have taught us just how deep the rabbit hole of corruption and criminality goes—and how powerful the administrative state and its corporate allies have become.

If the Democrats get away with fraud this time, no future election will stop them.

Death of the resistant Noëlla Rouget, the deportee who had her executioner pardoned

 By standing up against the Nazis, from the beginning of the Occupation, Noëlla Rouget, who died on Sunday November 22 in Geneva at the age of 100, will have fought less an enemy than inhumanity. And that, this braced will to make goodness triumph, this visceral need to overcome hatred by forgiveness, this stubborn refusal to avenge the blood spilled by another spilled blood, his comrades of the Resistance will only understand it with difficulty when , twenty years after the end of the war, she will plead before the judges to save the head of her executioner.

 

Noëlla, born Peaudeau in Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) on December 25, 1919, was brought up in a fervent Catholic faith. In Angers, where the family moved very early on, the war interrupted all their plans for the future. In 1941, having become a teacher, she joined the resistance, as a liaison officer, within the Gaullian movement “Honor and Fatherland”, then the Buckmaster Alexandre Privet network, set up by the British spy services. At the heart of these dark years, she became engaged to Adrien Tigeot, also a teacher and also resistance member, within the National Front network, of communist obedience.

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While the marriage banns have just been published, Adrien was arrested on June 7, 1943. Then, it was Noëlla’s turn to be apprehended at her home on June 21. One of the Gestapo men in charge of the task is a Frenchman, Jacques Vasseur, a zealous collaborator who has climbed up the repressive hierarchy. Between 1942 and 1944, he was responsible for 430 arrests, 310 deportations and 230 deaths, shot or dead in concentration camps.

 

 

In this endless list of victims is Adrien Tigeot, who is tortured and then shot on December 13, 1943. Noëlla, she is imprisoned in Angers then transferred to Compiègne and finally deported to the Ravensbrück camp, by the convoy of January 31, 1944. She survives during fourteen months in the concentration camp hell and binds in particular with Geneviève de Gaulle, the niece of the general. When she was released on April 5, 1945, Noëlla weighed only 32 kg and suffered from tuberculosis abscess. But his faith in God and in men came out of the test intact. Returning to Angers, she discovers a magnificent note, written by Adrien just before passing in front of the firing squad, telling her again her love and begging her to start her life again.

Superhuman leniency

Cared for in a Swiss sanatorium, Noëlla married a local man in 1947. She moved to Geneva. She has two children and believes she has rebuilt her life when the past resurfaces in the early sixties. Jacques Vasseur, who fainted during the Liberation, was arrested by chance in November 1962, in the North, while he had been hiding in his mother’s attic for seventeen years. The trial opens before the State Security Court in Paris on October 20, 1965. The survivors march past and overwhelm Vasseur, whose denial and spinelessness are unbearable to the witnesses. He is condemned to the guillotine.

 

 

Read in the archives of the “World”: Many resistance fighters will testify against Jacques Vasseur But the former member of the Gestapo of Angers took the party to deny everything

But, in the name of her faith and her disgust with the death penalty, Noëlla Rouget protests against this sentence. She pleads with all her might before the court the cause of the one who was nevertheless the architect of her misfortune and the person responsible for the execution of her fiancé. In vain. She then begged General de Gaulle to grant Vasseur’s pardon and obtained it in February 1966, the sentence being commuted to life imprisonment. This superhuman leniency is not understood by his comrades of the Resistance, locked in their pain. She earned her harsh reproaches to which she replied in a letter. “By what right to judge a man if, placed today in our turn in a position of strength, we behave as he did yesterday”, she wrote to her brothers and sisters in arms.

Noëlla Rouget goes even further. For years, hoping for her redemption, she embarked on an epistolary exchange with Jacques Vasseur. Asymmetric correspondence where one seeks the spark of the soul and the other only complains about its fate. At the end of the 1970s, however, the resistance member joined a campaign for the enlargement of the last imprisoned collaborators, in order to close this page of history. Released in 1983, Jacques Vasseur will never give a sign of life to Noëlla Rouget again. He died in Germany in 2009, without ever having expressed the slightest remorse. Until her last days, Noëlla Rouget, carried by her unshakeable faith, will not remove any bitterness or doubt about human nature from this setback.

 

https://thecanadian.news/2020/11/22/death-of-the-resistant-noella-rouget-the-deportee-who-had-her-executioner-pardoned/ 

 

 

 

 

CNN Skips Fact-Checking To Run With Nurse’s Unverified Story About COVID Patients ‘Last Dying Words’

Jordan Davidson reporting for The Federalist

A little under a week ago, CNN interviewed a South Dakota emergency room nurse who claimed that patients dying of COVID-19 in “overrun” hospitals in her area are spending their last moments in denial that they have the virus.

“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real.’ And when they should be … Facetiming their families, they’re filled with anger and hatred,” Jodi Doering told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota. 

“Every hospital, every nurse, every doctor in this state is seeing the same things. These people get sick in the same way you treat them in the same way. They die in the same way,” she added, criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for politicizing the virus.

Her story, however, doesn’t fully line up with data tracking COVID-19 deaths in the hospital where she works, or even her region of the state.

Doering was first invited onto the mainstream media network after her Twitter thread describing her supposed experience working as a nurse in the age of COVID-19.

According to Doering’s thread, some patients at her hospital who were infected with the virus don’t believe it is real.

“The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real,” she wrote. “The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is … going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm.” 

Doering’s words and CNN interview were shared widely by Democrats and journalists alike, some claiming that disinformation from Republicans and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was contributing to the spread of COVID-19.

Since her post went viral, news outlets like the Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, and Huffpost picked up the story without much variation, leaving the fact-checking of Doering’s on-air statements up to other outlets who pointed out irregularities in her story and questioning why it was contextualized or verified by CNN.

While COVID-19 cases in South Dakota continue to rise, one Wired reporter wrote that after touching base with “a number of hospitals in the same part of South Dakota to ask emergency room nurses if they’d noticed the same, disturbing phenomenon,” other nurses, even some at one of the medical centers where Doering works, denied ever interacting with a patient as the viral nurse described in her interview.

“No one else has gotten that statement back from a patient, specifically,” Kim Rieger, a spokeswoman for the Huron Regional Medical Center told National Review. “Nor have they heard of that happening here. Not to call her a liar, because she provides care here as well as other hospitals, so it could have happened at another hospital.”

The Wired reporting also notes that the same medical center where Huron reportedly works only had six total COVID-19 deaths, the county housing the medical center had seen 22 deaths, and Doering’s county had only seen one death, making the narrative depicted in the CNN interview seem exaggerated and misleading.

“It’s certainly possible that the other facilities where Doering works have seen a higher number of fatalities; she may indeed have watched a great many patients die, as so many frontline workers have,” the article notes. “But when all we have is one person’s story, it’s hard to know exactly what it means.”