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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.
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[Link] Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home
Read: 31/1/2022 www.cnn.com
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home.
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[Link] Australia urged to spend more on Covax program amid criticisms of ‘vaccine diplomacy’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia has distributed 18m doses of Covid-19 vaccine to neighbouring countries but is being urged to dedicate money and resources to Covax – the global vaccination mechanism – so that the world’s least-inoculated countries can access vaccines.
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[Link] Childless QAnon Influencer Ron Watkins Is Berating ‘Communist’ School Boards
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Of course schools are not teaching their kids to be racist or spreading “transexual propaganda,” whatever that means. Perhaps Watkins would know that if he had a child enrolled in an Arizona public school, which he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t have a child at all.
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[Link] ‘It’s really scary’: welfare recipients forced to attend in-person appointments despite Omicron surge
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
A woman with chronic illnesses and an immunocompromised partner and the single mother of a toddler are among those being told they’ll have their benefits cut if they don’t attend face-to-face job agency appointments, despite an unprecedented surge of Covid cases.
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[Link] Sky News claims Alan Jones’s misleading commentary balanced by covering daily Covid press conferences
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Sky News sought to justify misleading Covid commentary then-host Alan Jones put to air, saying it was balanced by coverage of the daily Covid press conferences, according to a letter sent to the broadcasting regulator.
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[Link] Calls for French minister to resign after announcing Covid protocol from Ibiza
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
France’s education minister is facing calls to resign after it emerged he had announced a strict Covid-testing protocol for schools shortly before the start of the January school term while he was on holiday in Ibiza.
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[Link] US Secret Service says $US100 billion stolen from COVID-19 relief funds
Read: 23/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US Secret Service says around $US100 billion ($139 billion) at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
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[Link] Normal Island: UK Loses It Over ‘Illegal’ Christmas Party at Boris Johnson’s House
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Work Christmas parties are usually just a bit of fun – a chance to drink on the company buck and catch your married colleague kissing the office manager.
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[Link] Trump Knew He Tested Positive For COVID-19 Before Debating Biden
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Then-President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before debating Joe Biden and almost a week before he publicly admitted he had the virus, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly revealed in his new book. Trump reportedly tested positive on Sept.
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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.
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[Link] WA Police officers who refuse vaccine will be stood down on full pay, union says
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The WA Police Union says about 20 officers are likely to be stood down for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before Wednesday's deadline, but they could continue to receive full pay for months.
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[Link] Bizarre Images of New Zealand Protesters Wearing Trump Masks Evoke Capitol Riot
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protestors gathered in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington on Tuesday, Nov. 9, blocking roads and rallying outside of the country’s Parliament to denounce state-enforced COVID-19 vaccination requirements and government lockdowns.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] Amazon intensifies 'severe' effort to discourage first-ever US warehouse union
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A push to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is running into tough opposition as the retail giant, whose profits have boomed during the coronavirus pandemic despite concerns over worker safety, has launched an aggressive anti-union drive.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Truck driver accused of spitting on and assaulting police at border checkpoint refused bail
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Brendan J Moore, 57, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a police officer and another worker, and resisting police.
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[Link] Brazil's Bolsonaro May Face ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charge Over COVID
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
A panel of Brazilian lawmakers recommended Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” due to his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has been one of the world’s most hard hit countries with over 600,000 dead since the pandemic began.
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] Illegal House Party During NZ Lockdown Pisses Off Just About Everyone
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
As Auckland approaches its eleventh consecutive week of lockdown, a viral house party filled with dry humping Instagram models has caused outrage.
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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.
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[Link] This Couple Caught COVID-19, So Authorities Drowned and Burned Their Dogs
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Pham Minh Hung and his wife had amassed a sizable menagerie—17 dogs and one cat, to be exact—pets that they considered their own children.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] ACT accuses Scott Morrison’s office of extensive media backgrounding on national cabinet
Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Andrew Barr has questioned the need for a federal bill protecting national cabinet secrecy and accused the prime minister’s office of extensive briefing of media about its deliberations.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Queensland police superintendent 'disappointed' by allegations officer snuck daughter over NSW border
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
An internal investigation has since begun into the incident and the officer has been stood down from official duties in the road policing unit in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall. The man's 20-year-old daughter was issued with a $4,135 fine last Wednesday and has been placed in hotel quarantine.
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[Link] Near death of anti-vaccine cardinal is an “irony of life,” says Pope Francis
Read: 20/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Pope Francis, well-known for his freewheeling conversations with journalists aboard the papal plane, yesterday called out COVID-19 vaccine resistance within church ranks as he flew home from Hungary and Slovakia. And he went straight to the top. Well, the irony of life...
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[Link] Anti-Maskers Exposed Themselves to COVID at Their Own Protest
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Everyone who attended an August 16 city council meeting in Independence, Missouri, where a proposed school mask mandate was voted down has potentially been exposed to COVID, the city said in a tweet Monday.
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[Link] A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Connally Junior High seventh-grade social studies teacher David McCormick, 59, died of COVID-19 on August 24, Connally ISD assistant superintendent Jill Bottelberghe told Fox News.
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a Total COVID Disaster—Again
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It turns out that when hundreds of thousands of people get together during a global pandemic, hospitals are going to suffer the consequences. And South Dakota is learning that for the second year in a row.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] The World Is a Mess, But the Juggalos Still Have Each Other
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Nothing could dim the spirit at this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos, as fiercely loyal ICP fans reunited in cathartic celebration. There are few subcultures that rely on their community more than Juggalos.
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[Link] Man who allegedly escaped hotel quarantine and went to SA pub arrested
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An investigation has found flaws in South Australia's medi-hotel security protocols, which allowed an international arrival to leave hotel quarantine for eight hours and attend a nearby pub and fast food outlet last week.
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[Link] Ron DeSantis Is Pretending Not to Know Florida Needs Emergency Ventilators
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Things have gotten so bad that this week, multiple outlets have reported that the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators to the state to help fight the surge. But Florida Gov.
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