U.S. Capitol Fence Goes Back Up As Police, National Guard Prepare For ‘Justice For J6’ Rally

The agency also has asked for security support from the National Guard and received authorization to deputize law enforcement officers from other agencies, if needed.


Update – Far-right groups tell supporters planned Washington rally is a government ‘trap’

Extremist groups and prominent rightwing figures are warning supporters not to attend a far-right rally in support of the people arrested for participating in the 6 January Capitol attack, calling the event a “false flag” and a “trap”.

Capitol police are bracing for potential violence at the “Justice for J6” protest rally, which is taking place in Washington DC on Saturday, and security fencing has gone up once more around the Capitol building.

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Australians erupt after PM takes advantage of COVID double standards to see family while millions remain in lockdown: ‘What a disgrace of a leader’

Morrison traveled to New South Wales over the weekend in a private jet to visit family on Australian Father’s Day even as millions in the country remained in lockdown and were unable to visit out-of-state family members, the New York Times reported.

The prime minister spent time in Sydney before returning to Canberra to partake in a national security meeting, an action which critics immediately labeled as an example of double standards.

Yet instead of owning up to the blunder, Morrison defended the move in an interview published Tuesday, telling Sky News that while he understood people’s frustration, his trip did not violate any lockdown rules.

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UNTOUCHABLE TRANNIES: LGBT exempt from Australia’s covid lockdown tyranny while cis-gendered must obey

As Australians suffer under the heavy boot of another government-imposed total lockdown, the Mount Druitt Police Area Command in Sydney held a “Wear It Purple Day” pride event in celebration of the Cult of LGBT.

Circulating photos show law enforcement officials densely packed inside a building in direct violation of their own orders not to congregate. They ate cake and cupcakes and partied it up while the people were confined to their homes under threat of punishment.

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Australian Authorities to “Lock Out” Unvaccinated From Being Able to Participate in the Economy

Premier Dan Andrews made the announcement during a press conference where he told citizens, who remain under a draconian lockdown and a 9pm-5am curfew, that the unvaccinated will be kept under such restrictions indefinitely.

“There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated,” Andrews said. “We’re going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be.”

h/t Mauser98

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Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty

In a bid to keep the coronavirus out of the country, Australia’s federal and state governments imposed draconian restrictions on its citizens. Prime Minister Scott Morrison knows that the burden is too heavy. “This is not a sustainable way to live in this country,” he recently declared. One prominent civil libertarian summed up the rules by lamenting, “We’ve never seen anything like this in our lifetimes.”

Up to now one of Earth’s freest societies, Australia has become a hermit continent. How long can a country maintain emergency restrictions on its citizens’ lives while still calling itself a liberal democracy?

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Victoria’s lockdown is set to be extended by at least a week despite group of rebel MPs pushing Dan Andrews to lift tough restrictions – as a string of new Covid-19 exposure sites are listed in Melbourne

Victoria’s sixth lockdown is set to be extended by at least a week as a group of MPs push for Dan Andrews to concede a zero-Covid target is unrealistic and lift some of the harsher restrictions.

Senior ministers told the Herald Sun residents and businesses should hold little hope of coming out of the scheduled lockdown-lift on September 2, given the rate at which the virus is spreading.

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