Australian Woman Recounts Harrowing Experience of Being Held in COVID-19 Quarantine Camp
The official description of these jails is here:
https://coronavirus.nt.gov.au/travel/quarantine/mandatory-supervised-quarantine
It appears that everyone entering the NT has to undergo imprisonment in them. A good reason to stay away from the NTHayley Hodgson, a 26-year-old Australian woman, recounted her two-week confinement in a COVID-19 quarantine camp in an interview Thursday.
Hodgson told UnHerd that she was ordered to quarantine at the Centres for National Resilience in Howard Springs, Darwin, after one of her friends tested positive for COVID-19.
“Police officers blocked my driveway,” she said. “I walked out and I said, ‘What’s going on? Are you guys testing me for COVID? What’s happening?’ They said, ‘No, you’re getting taken away. And you have no choice. You’re going to Howard Springs.’”
Hodgson said the officers told her that they had received orders from “higher up” to take her to the facility and that she was not permitted to “self-isolate” at home.
The officers told Hodgson that if she didn’t voluntarily go with them, they’d put her “in the back of the [police] van,” she said.
Once she arrived at the facility, Hodgson was told she would have to stay there for two weeks, according to Unherd. She was reportedly tested three times throughout her confinement, and each time she tested negative for the virus.
While inside the facility, Hodgson said she had very little contact with others and was treated poorly by the staff.
“They don’t come and say anything. They don’t check up; they don’t do anything. You get delivered your meals once a day. And you are just left,” she said.
At one point, staff reportedly offered to sedate Hodgson with Valium to calm her down after she complained about the camp’s conditions. Hodgson said she lost her job during her stay and was never informed of any rights she had or put in contact with a lawyer.
Howard Springs is one of two “mandatory supervised quarantine facilities” in the Northern Territory, according to a government website.
While in quarantine, a person must “stay in the person’s allocated room, including on any veranda space allocated to the room, unless permitted by an [authorized] officer,” according to the website.
There is another report on these camps here:
https://www.westernjournal.com/three-covid-detainees-escape-quarantine-camp-arrested-foot-chase/
*************************************************‘Our Money Has No Value’: Frustration Rises in Turkey at Lira Crisis
This is where Biden is taking the USA
Lines outside bread stores and gas stations; farmers defaulting on loans; impromptu street demonstrations. The signs of economic distress in Turkey are all too clear as the lira continues a dizzying slide.
Sporadic protests have broken out around Turkey and the opposition parties have called for a series of rallies to demand a change of government after the lira crashed sharply last week. The latest week of turmoil follows months of worsening economic conditions for Turkish citizens. The currency has lost more than 45 percent of its value this year, and nearly 20 percent in the last week, continuing its downward trend on Tuesday.
Economists have tied the currency crisis to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s direct interference in monetary policy and his determination to lower interest rates.
The latest crash in the currency came after Mr. Erdogan gave a speech last week outlining his determination to keep rates low as a way of promoting economic growth. He reaffirmed his opposition to raising rates again in comments to reporters aboard his plane as he returned from a visit to Turkmenistan on Monday.
“I have never defended raising interest rates, I don’t now and will not defend it,” he told the reporters. “I will never compromise on this issue.”
There are rumblings of public dissent, unusual for a country where only officially sanctioned demonstrations are permitted and the main television channels and newspapers follow the government line.
Scores of people have been detained for joining street protests. The police detained 70 people in several districts of Istanbul last Wednesday who were protesting the government’s management of the economy, after a record drop in the lira the day before.
The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions issued a blunt statement on Wednesday. “That’s enough. We want to make ends meet,” it read. “Unemployment, high living costs, price increases, and bills are breaking our backs.”
Shortages are emerging, including in imported medicines and medical equipment, and even at bakeries, Mr. Yesilada, the analyst, said. A loaf of bread still sells at 2.5 liras, or about 20 cents, but bakeries are complaining that their costs are closer to 4 liras a loaf, he said. “Soon they are going to shut down bakeries and then we are going to have bread riots,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-inflation-lira.html
*********************************************The roots of inflation go far beyond the supply chain
We keep hearing that supply-chain disruptions are causing the “temporary” price inflation that has become the hot topic of conversation. All sorts of public enemies are being blamed for the disruptions, including, according to President Biden, those who are manipulating the markets and price gouging. The politicians, meanwhile, are pressuring the ports to frantically intensify their cargo handling and promising that the newly passed trillion-dollar infrastructure spending will get the supply chain rolling again.
That’s not the real story though. While supply-chain problems are pushing up prices by creating an imbalance between what people produce and what they want to consume, inflation has causes that go far beyond this issue.
Since 2007 the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, has created $8 trillion (equal to the GDP of one-and-a-half Japans) out of thin air. Of course, for that increase in the monetary base to cause price inflation, other factors need to be present (and not be present): Namely, people need to spend that money and the production of goods and services must not grow fast enough to neutralize those new dollars.
In recent years, reeling from the 2008 financial crisis and decades of profligacy, people and corporations (and the banks themselves) have opted for prudence. Sure, some of the created money was channeled to assets that saw their prices rise, but what is commonly known as inflation was moderate.
All that was needed for this to change was for the “animal spirits” to come back to life. Now they have — and the result is that prices went up 6.2 percent on an annual basis in October. Although labor shortages have helped push wages up too, people are getting poorer because wages have gone up at a slower pace than prices (no more than 5 percent).
If we add to this the fact that the 10-year Treasury is yielding around 1.5 percent, you can imagine what this inflation means for the millions who have their current or future money in pension funds, the Social Security trust fund, or insurance companies, which invest in that “risk-free” asset to protect the value of their assets.
Supply-chain disruptions indeed exist. But these were not sudden natural catastrophes. They were the result of politicians reacting to the pandemic by drastically tying the hands of producers and of those who move products from one place to another. Even so, the imbalances in many of the areas of the economy would have occurred sooner or later without the pandemic.
In the energy sector, this is all too evident. It’s a sensitive area today since gasoline prices, which have gone up by more than 60 percent, have politicians strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage (and howling against “price gouging”). Non-OPEC countries have seen their oil reserves come down significantly because of underinvestment in traditional sources of energy, and shale oil wells are becoming depleted at a faster rate than new high-grade reserves are coming online. Since for several years much emphasis has been on clean renewable energy, oil companies (including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, and Total) have not been able to invest sufficiently in traditional sources of energy to maintain their reserve levels and production although the demand for energy, principally from emerging countries, has exploded. Oil and gas prices, therefore, would have gone up with or without a pandemic — in the era of inflation we are now entering, all the more so.
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This is but one example of how various areas of the economy present imbalances partly driven by recent political decisions. But underlying everything is the frantic creation of money that is now coming onto a market in which production cannot keep up with demand.
To make matters worse, for all their posturing the politicians have a vested interest in keeping inflation going. The reason is simply the almost $30 trillion debt. Imagine what would happen to the servicing of that debt if the authorities let interest rates go up significantly! They can’t. Diluting the debt requires major inflation. It’s been like that since kings debased gold coins to help pay for wars.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/582395-the-roots-of-inflation-go-far-beyond-the-supply-chain
***********************************************Stowaway Story: Desperate Migrant Nearly Freezes to Death to Reach ‘Racist’ USA
A 26-year-old Guatemalan man stowed away in the wheel well of an airplane in a desperate bid to enter the U.S. Would he do that to get into a country brimming with white supremacists and built on systemic racism?
The American Airlines flight from Guatemala City, Guatemala, touched down in Miami on Saturday, according to WTVJ-TV.
Willard Shepard, a WTVJ investigator and pilot, said that according to flight data, the temperature in the wheel well dropped by about 100 degrees during the flight.
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“So this person was in there a time period probably about two hours, where they were subjected to subzero temperatures,” Shepard said.
In other words, the stowaway is very lucky to be alive. An immigration attorney said he will be detained by the Department of Homeland Security and may face an expedited order of removal.
Since 1947, 129 people have tried to stow away on commercial aircraft, according to WTVJ. Of those 129 desperate souls, approximately 100 of them died. Those are really bad odds.
With leftists constantly depicting the U.S. as an irredeemably racist country, why would anyone come here, especially with a 78 percent chance of dying?
Rep. Ilhan Omar and other members of Congress going so far as to liken the U.S. to terrorists should scare away all immigrants, legal and illegal alike, right?
Who on earth would want to live in this terrible place? No matter how bad the countries are from which immigrants are fleeing, it must be worse here. They’d have to be masochists to subject themselves to such hell.
There were roughly 14.5 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. as of January, according to Breitbart. That’s a lot of masochists.
And they just keep coming. Over 1.5 million illegals have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year.
Nearly one-third of the migrant women surveyed in a 2017 report from Doctors Without Borders said they had been sexually abused during their journey to the U.S. An incredible 68 percent of all migrants reported that they had been victims of violence while making their way here.
If what the leftists say about this country is true, it’s only going to get worse for the poor souls who have managed to cross the border. They are now at the mercy of savage white supremacists.
So why do they keep coming?
Because what the left says about America is a lie, and the whole world knows it.
The radical left hates America. Leftists applaud open borders because they hope to overwhelm the system in the chaos caused by a flood of illegal aliens, some of whom are criminals of the worst kind.
This stowaway risked it all for a chance to pursue the American dream. He doesn’t hate America. He knows he has a better chance here than anywhere on earth.
Illegal aliens are coming here in droves because the Biden administration, for nefarious reasons of its own, is encouraging them to do so.
Many of these desperate people are fleeing socialism and will fight with everything they have for freedom.
I wonder if the radical left has figured that into its plans.
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