Ten sitting days between next week and August 2022. Is this the laziest government ever?==

The prime minister scoffs at 'Canberra games' but he's the one playing them over timing of the next federal election.

The Morrison government hasn’t had a comfortable few days in Parliament. Fortunately it won’t be spending much time there in coming months.

The proposed parliamentary calendar for 2022 released yesterday leaves the possibility of just 10 sitting days between the end of this week and August, provided the government calls an election for May. So federal Parliament will sit for just seven days in February. Then, after a three-week hiatus, it will return in late March, with a budget proposed for the 29th. Then it’s election mode.

A poll must be called before May 21, and after months of tea leaf reading the calendar is the firmest evidence that Prime Minister Scott Morrison will go in May, effectively ruling out sittings in May and June.

If he calls a May election, the Senate will sit just five times between the start of the year and August. It means election promises like a federal integrity commission (delayed indefinitely — somehow Labor’s fault), and a religious discrimination bill (deferred to a joint committee with the Liberals divided) might not be legislated before the polls.

A ‘work-shy government’

Even accounting for those sittings, the 46th Parliament will wind up being the least active in terms of sitting days since the 33rd Parliament, which lasted just a year and a half because of an early election in 1984. That lack of activity is in part because COVID-19 led to sittings being suspended in 2020. Not every comparable country did this. While Canada suspended some sittings, the UK never fully shut down Parliament, moving instead to hybrid virtual sittings.

Labor says the lack of action is a sign of the Morrison government’s parliamentary laziness. Speaking to the Nine network this morning, former opposition leader Bill Shorten said Australia had a “work-shy government”.

“If an unemployed person on Centrelink only had to do as few job interviews as Mr Morrison expects LNP parliamentarians to attend work in Parliament, the person on Centrelink would be breached and kicked off the dole,” he said.

Former Victorian Supreme Court judge Stephen Charles said the lack of sitting days had serious implications for government accountability: “The Parliament is there so that the electorate can see and hear what is taking place in government. That it’s sitting for only ten days is disgraceful.”

Of course, we could have even fewer than 10 sitting days if Morrison calls a March election in late January. He won’t yet commit to an election date, but Labor is prepared for the possibility of a March poll.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/11/30/parliament-10-sitting-days-before-election/

“This Isn’t Science or Medicine, It’s a Political Decision.” – Dr. and Col. Lawrence Sellin on Current Treatments for COVID

Yesterday retired Colonel and PhD. Lawrence Sellin shared an article at TGP where he claimed the ‘smoking gun’ related to the origin of COVID is related to the coronavirus itself and the cover-up surrounding it. Col. Sellin then discussed this article on the radio.

Below is the article presented by PhD. Sellin with evidence supporting the fact that COVID was developed and released in China.

Dr. Sellin then shared on The Joe Hoft Show on RealTalk933.com his article and other thoughts surrounding COVID-19. Here are some comments from that discussion with Dr. Sellin.

He was astounded when the US Intelligence community said they had no idea where COVID came from. “When it’s crystal clear it was made in a laboratory in China. I think they were basically told to do that because if you said it was made in a laboratory in China they would have to do something about it.”

“There are elements within the virus that it’s clear that the virus didn’t come from nature.”

“To me, the smoking guns, in this case, have to do with the people who were involved themselves, and particularly Peter Daszak of the Ecohealth Alliance, who works very close with the ‘bat woman’ Zheng Li Shi.

In response to Dr. Navarro’s comments that Dr. Fauci committed the world’s greatest lie of omission sitting next to President Trump and not telling the President that he worked with China on coronavirus research, Dr. Sellin shared: “If we had known very early on how this particular virus was created in China, we would have known something about in particular how the mutations were developing. Because it almost seems as if, I can’t prove this right now, it seems as if the furin cleavage site was developed to mutate…you actually created a virus that would mutate and become more dangerous over time.

The new variant from South Africa requires an entirely new vaccine.

We shouldn’t wait for people to go to the hospital to treat them.

This isn’t science or medicine, it’s a political decision.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/isnt-science-medicine-political-decision-dr-col-lawrence-sellin-current-treatments-covid/

Marine Corps hasn’t approved any religious vaccine exemption requests of 2,400+ it received

The U.S. Marine Corps has received more than 2,400 requests for a religious exemption to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and it hasn’t approved any of them.

On Monday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported the Marine Corps received a total of 2,441 requests for religious exemptions to the vaccine mandates, of which they have processed 1,902 requests and approved none. This is the first time the service has provided specific figures on the number of members who had requested religious waivers since the various military branches began moving towards a vaccine mandate in August.

The Marine Corps’ non-existent approval rate for religious exemption requests comes as the service’s vaccination deadline passed on Sunday, Nov. 28.

The Marine Corps has also received vaccination exemption requests on medical and administrative grounds. The service has granted temporary medical and administrative exemptions to more than 700 Marines and 14 permanent exemptions for medical and administrative reasons.

About 95 percent of the Marine Corps’ active-duty members have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the lowest vaccination rate of any of the U.S. military branches.

If the remaining five percent — around 11,000 — of active Marines continue to refuse the vaccine altogether and could be kicked out of the service. As of Nov. 24, the Marine Corps has another 10,980 partially vaccinated troops, who also face separation if they don’t eventually become fully vaccinated.

Marine Times reported on Nov. 18, only about 75 percent of the Marine Corps Reserve has been recorded as partially or fully vaccinated, though they have until Dec. 28 to be fully vaccinated.

To date, 75 U.S. military service members have died from COVID-19-related illness, out of a total of 253,989 COVID-19 cases among service members since the start of the pandemic — a military-wide case fatality rate of .029 percent. By comparison, the U.S. has recorded more than 48.1 million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, and over 777,000 deaths, for a nationwide case fatality rate of about 1.6 percent. The U.S. nationwide case fatality rate from COVID-19 is about 55.7 times that of the fatality rate among U.S. military service members alone.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/11/marine-corps-hasnt-approved-any-religious-vaccine-exemption-requests-of-2400-it-received/

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Media Group Including CNN, ABC, NYT and WaPo File Legal Brief JOINING Steve Bannon’s Bid to Unseal Documents from DOJ in Contempt of Congress Case

The Department of Justice on Monday refused Steve Bannon’s request for transparency and his right to unseal documents from the DOJ regarding the sham J-6 Committee investigation.

The DOJ called this an attempt by Steve Bannon to “try the case in the media” by making all documents and material public so the American people can be informed and make up their own mind on the merits of the case. But the regime does not want this. After all, how is the regime supposed to control the narrative if the truth gets out?

Steve Bannon is charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with Liz Cheney’s garbage Jan. 6 Committee.

But on Tuesday several major US media outlets filed a legal brief in support of Bannon and his attempts to be transparent with the American public.

The Daily Mail reported:

A coalition of major media companies has filed a legal brief in support of former Trump chief White House strategist Steven Bannon as he fights a proposed protective order in court that would keep him from publicizing Jan. 6th documents and information.

The media group – which includes CNN, ABC, NBC, plus the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the parent company of the Wall Street Journal – filed a motion to intervene as Bannon’s fights the government’s proposed order as part of his contempt of Congress case.

The order would severely limit what Bannon can do with the trove of information that the feds must share as part of the normal discovery process and have already begun handing over. According to a prior government filing, this includes more than 1,000 pages of witness testimony, grand jury material, and even emails from staff for the House Jan. 6th Committee investigating the Capitol riot.

The press group argues that the government’s proposed order would violate the First Amendment – and takes on the government’s own contention that allowing Bannon to use the materials would result in pretrial publicity that could taint the jury pool.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/media-group-including-cnn-abc-nyt-wapo-file-legal-brief-joining-steve-bannons-bid-unseal-documents-doj-contempt-congress-case/

Fully Vaccinated Patients Show Mild Symptoms after Omicron Infection in Botswana — Non-Vaccinated Show No Symptoms at All

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the South African Medical Association debunked the hysteria over the Omicron COVID variant.

According to Angelique Coetzee, the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association who first raised the alarm of the new COVID variant, says the new variant known as the ‘Omicron’ causes “unusual but mild symptoms.”

On Monday, the Assistant Minister of Health and Wellness testified during a parliament hearing that not one of the Omicron variant cases identified needs oxygen support and hospitalization.

According to Assistant Minister Sethomo Lelatisitswe, Botswana has still 15 ‘Omicron’ variant cases, 3 of the patients showed mild symptoms while the rest did not. Of those 15 cases, 11 were vaccinated, while those 4 unvaccinated did not show symptoms at all, Lelatisitswe said.

The country recorded 19 cases of ‘Omicron’ variants in total. Four of those cases were foreign nationals on a diplomatic mission and left the country after their diagnosis.

Here is an excerpt of the assistant minister’s statement from the parliament meeting:

Mr Speaker, as part of their routine genomic surveillance of SARS-COV-2, our local scientists detected this variant on four foreign nationals who had visited Botswana on a diplomatic mission earlier this month. At the conclusion of their mission in Botswana, the quartet tested positive for COVID-19 after conducting their pre-travel tests. Their COVID-19 variant was confirmed as B 1. 1. 529 on 24 November 2021, and has now been renamed Omicron.

Mr Speaker, following this development, contact tracing was immediately conducted and all contacts tested negative for the COVID-19. Further assessments and analysis of other positive COVID-19 samples have up to now produced 15 more cases of the new Omicron variant. This means that to date Botswana has recorded a total of 19 cases of the new variant. We continue to expand contact tracing to ensure that we do not leave any potential case undetected.

Mr Speaker, fourteen (14) of the nineteen (19) cases were reported in the Greater Gaborone DHMT area, four (4) are from the Serowe/Palapye DHMT area, while Kgatleng DHMT reported one (1) case. All cases reported by the Serowe/Palapye DHMT are truck drivers who were detected at a point of entry (Martins Drift), as part of COVID-19 screening strategy for arrivals. The case reported by Kgatleng DHMT was of an individual who resides in South Africa and had visited his family in Botswana, and tested as pre-travel test requirement. Given this short characterization, it appears to us that most of the 19 cases so far detected in Botswana are imported cases.

According to the latest update from the local news Mmgi, “the country’s COVID-19 cases however remain low with an update from the government this evening showing 602 active cases as at November 26. The country has thus far fully vaccinated 33.3 percent of adults, with 60.2 percent having received their first dose.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/revealed-fully-vaccinated-patients-show-mild-symptoms-omicron-infection-botswana-non-vaccinated-show-no-symptoms/

US Officials Say Israel Was Behind Recent Cyberattack in Iran

The attribution came ahead of renewed nuclear deal negotiations

Citing unnamed US military officials, The New York Times reported Saturday that Israel was responsible for a recent cyberattack against civilian infrastructure in Iran that targeted gas stations.

The report said Israel was behind an October 26th hack of Iran’s fuel distribution system that caused gas pumps to stop working across the country. Gas pumps displayed a digital message telling customers to blame the problem on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran provides a certain amount of subsidized fuel to each citizen for a discounted price, and the report said it took the Oil Ministry two weeks to get the system back up and running. The idea was to get Iranians angry at the government and to create unrest, but it never materialized.

It’s unclear if the cyberattack was as disruptive as the Times report said, as Israel is known for using leaks to the media to exaggerate the power it has inside Iran. The report also cited unnamed Israeli officials who claimed Iranians hacked an Israeli dating site and a medical facility in response. The officials said the hackers posted the personal details of millions of Israelis to social media.

Israel is often suspected of carrying out cyberattacks against Iran on top of its frequent attacks against Iran’s civilian nuclear program. But the US usually keeps quiet on these operations. The acknowledgment by US officials came just before the US and Iran resumed negotiations to revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, and could have been an attempt to increase the pressure ahead of the talks.

When the Biden administration started its first round of talks with Iran back in April, Israel carried out a covert attack against Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. By not condemning the attack, the US gave it a tacit endorsement. Quietly backing Israel’s operations against Iran appears to be a negotiations tactic for the Biden administration.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/11/29/us-officials-say-israel-was-behind-recent-cyberattack-in-iran/

Health Minister Greg Hunt to quit politics

Health Minister Greg Hunt is expected to announce he will quit politics after 20 years in a bombshell announcement.

Health Minister Greg Hunt is expected to announce he will leave politics, the Australian Financial Review has reported.

It is reported he will announce that he will not recontest his Victorian seat of Flinders after nearly 20 years since first being elected to parliament.

Mr Hunt, who is expected to make the announcement on Thursday, will remain as Health Minister until the election.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was asked about the reports his colleague was retiring on Wednesday.

“I will wait to see but details of Greg Hunt’s comment you have referred to,” he said.

“Greg is my closest friend in this place.

“We are very dear friends and he has been an outstanding Health Minister through this crisis.

“The fact that Australia has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and the fact that we have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world is in due to no small part to the incredible work that all health professionals have done across Australia, and Greg as the Health Minister on this once-in-a-century pandemic has been outstanding.

“I will leave any further comments to see exactly what statements you are referring to.”

Mr Hunt was asked by David Speers, the host of ABC’s Insiders, on November 14 whether he would be running again.

Hunt responded: “pre-selected and running”.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/health-minister-greg-hunt-to-quit-politics/news-story/ca9f6c767e2a1685e548cabbb8c6629e

Leading Cardiologist Says Researchers Are Refusing to Publish Supporting Study Results That Show Covid Vaccine’s Link To Massive Increase In Heart Attacks Because They’re Afraid to “Lose Research Money”

Throughout the existence of the scientific process, replicating results has always been a necessary component in order to gain a scientific consensus and gauge the accuracy of the results of whatever test or calculations were conducted, but when the supposedly trustworthy experts find something in the results that doesn’t fit the approved narrative – leading them to bury the information – the credibility of the scientific establishment goes completely out the window.

Well, according to one world-renowned cardiologist out of the UK, that is exactly what is happening right now.

A recently released study that was presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions Meeting claims the risk of developing acute coronary syndrome (ACS) – a potentially life-threatening condition that leads to an increased risk of heart issues – increases significantly in patients who receive the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Researchers found that the risk of developing heart diseases increases from 11% to 25% in patients who receive the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna using the new mRNA technology.

The study – titled “mRNA COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning” – was presented by renowned cardiologist Steven Gundry at the AHA annual conference on November 8, 2021, and was published in the AHA medical journal Circulation.

The study concludes that the mRNA vaccines “dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle,” which researchers say is likely to account for the increased number of adverse cardiac or vascular events and side effects such as thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and others in patients post-vaccination.

From the study:

“These changes resulted in an increase of the PULS score from 11% 5 yr ACS (acute coronary syndrome) risk to 25% 5 yr ACS risk.

At the time of this report, these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac.We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”

This is not the only study to have found this result, but it is the only one to have been released.

Esteemed British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra went on GB News to blow the whistle about how he had been contacted by another researcher from a prestigious British Institution who told him that research done by his department has found similar results, saying they too had found a link between the inflammation of coronary arteries and the experimental mRNA vaccines during their own imaging studies.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/ready-must-watch-leading-cardiologist-says-researchers-refusing-publish-supporting-study-results-show-covid-vaccines-link-massive-increase-heart-attacks-afraid/