Canadian Government Tells Kids They'll Be On Santa's 'Naughty List' Without COVID Vaccine, Masks

It's the end of 2022 and the world is still witnessing new heights of Covid absurdity and fear-mongering authoritarianism coming from government figures.

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has issued a new public health announcement for the Christmas holidays, which comes in the form of a 2-minute interview with "Mrs. Clause" from the "North Pole". In it, children are warned that they could be on Santa's "naughty list" if they don't get the Covid-19 vaccine and mask up. Adults too are told that they won't make the "nice list" if they don't have their boosters.

Dr. Tam begins the video with the "good news" that the vast majority of Canadians have made the nice list this year after having been vaccinated.

And "Mrs. Claus" responds: "It just warms my heart to see everyone in Canada, especially kids, working so hard to keep the holidays safe…" The suggestion is that the minority of citizens who remain unvaccinated or without their boosters are "naughty".

Mrs. Claus then informs the children that she and Santa are "both up do date with our vaccinations, including Covid boosters and flu shots." This is the holiday image Canada wants to convey to impressionable young children - that coronavirus now threatens the mythical North Pole, apparently.

From there the Christmas message goes into the kind of guilt-tripping rhetoric we've all come to expect from the Canadian government, and its top health official who is the equivalent of Dr. Fauci.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/canadian-government-tells-kids-theyll-be-santas-naughty-list-without-covid-vaccine-masks

California county bans landlords from conducting criminal background checks

The California Apartment Association was critical of the measure.

California's Alameda County has banned landlords from conducting criminal background checks on their would-be tenants as part of an effort to curtail discrimination in private sector housing.

In a unanimous 4-0 vote, Alameda County's Board of Supervisors passed the measure this week, Fox News reported. Situated just outside of the San Francisco area, the county has experienced a rapid rise in both homelessness and the cost of housing.

The plan applies to both public and private landlords and also prohibits advertising that would discourage individuals with a criminal history from applying.

The California Apartment Association was critical of the measure, telling the outlet that "[r]ather than focus on building affordable homes and lifting its eviction moratorium, the county is wasting time by adopting new limits on a landlord's ability to protect the rights of their tenants and provide quality housing."

California in general has experienced a tremendous rise in its homeless population, brought on by a number of factors, not the least of which is the skyrocketing cost of living. Newly elected Los Angels Mayor Karen Bass, on her first day in office, declared a state of emergency to address the city's homeless crisis. An estimated 40,000 individuals are living on the streets in that municipality alone.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/california-county-bans-landlords-conducting-criminal-background-checks

=German intel employee accused of spying for Russia==

Authorities in Berlin have arrested a suspect for allegedly sharing state secrets, committing treason

German authorities have arrested an employee of the country’s foreign intelligence service (BND) on accusations that he was spying for Russia by leaking state secrets to Moscow.

The man, identified as a German national by the name of Carsten L., has been arrested on suspicion of committing treason, the federal prosecutors office in Berlin said on Thursday in a statement. Investigators searched his apartment, his workplace and those of another person. The BND conducted related searches at two of its offices.

Carsten L. appeared before a judge in the Federal Court of Justice on Thursday and was ordered to be jailed pending trial. According to the warrant for his arrest, he is employed by the BND and gave information obtained during the course of his duties this year to a Russian intelligence service. The information in question meets the definition of a state secret under German law, prosecutors said.

BND chief Bruno Kahl said details of the treason investigation won’t be made public because Russia could try to use such information to harm Germany.

The arrest of Carsten L. comes just three days after the Austrian Interior Ministry announced that it had identified a 39-year-old Greek citizen whom it suspected of spying for Russia. The man faces up to five years in prison if convicted.

The last time a German intelligence service employee was charged with treason was in 2014, when a man identified as Markus R. was accused of selling state secrets to the US CIA. Those secrets allegedly included personal details on more than 3,000 BND employees. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2016.

German officials have been on heightened alert for spying activity on behalf of Russia amid the Ukraine crisis, which has pitted NATO members against Moscow through international sanctions and military aid to Kiev. Berlin expelled 40 Russian diplomats in April, accusing them of being spies. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the allegations unacceptable and responded by expelling 40 German diplomats from Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/568773-german-intel-staffer-accused-of-spying-for-russia/