MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Danish newspaper apologizes for mindlessly parroting government narrative.
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Čtvrteční výslech mi docela stačil, abych byla upřímná. Strávila jsem na něm několik hodin až do noci. Něčím podobným už bych projít nechtěla. Tím spíš, když vůbec není jisté, že by se podařilo rozhodnutí zvrátit. Musela bych požádat o jiná víza a týden čekat zavřená v hotelu bez tréninku. I kdybych uspěla, čekal by mě pak po dvou dnech zápas, což mi nedává moc smysl.
Eskorta. Výslech. Připadala jsem si jako v akčním filmu, líčí Voráčová
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Novak Djokovic Saga Causes Refunds to Outstrip Ticket Sales at Australian Open.
Related: Scott Morrison pleads with backpackers and foreign students to return to Australia as country faces workforce shortages. “The Prime Minister is hopeful the return of the two cohorts will help fill critical workforce shortages in industries such as healthcare, aged care, hospitality and agriculture.”
Maybe turning your continent into a prison camp was bad marketing.
A female tennis player from the Czech Republic is among three people connected to the Australian Open to have their visas cancelled.
The ABC can reveal Renata Voráčová, who has already played in a warm-up tournament in Melbourne, is being detained in the same immigration hotel as Serbian star Novak Djokovic.
She was detained by Australian Border Force officials yesterday and taken to the Park Hotel in Carlton. Djokovic was detained after his arrival late on Wednesday night.
Australian Border Force cancels tennis player Renata Voráčová's visa ahead of Australian Open
Czech tennis player Renata Voracova left Australia after visa issues
This is an end’: Serbia revokes Rio Tinto’s lithium mine licences
ROGER SIMON: Djokovic Actually the Big Winner in Australia—and So Are We.
Australia’s schizoid and sadistic treatment of Djokovic became just another symbol of this multi-national mess. But it could mark its opera bouffe apotheosis.
That is why I agree with Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club, a Sydney resident and old friend of mine, that a tremendous backlash is brewing in Oz and, I would certainly add, here in the United States as well, once COVID is over.
And, as I wrote earlier and many others have surmised, the Omicron variant is heralding that end, behaving as most viruses do at the end of a pandemic, weakening as it becomes more communicative. Soon enough it will be another irritation we must face, but rarely a fatal one.
The problem engendered by this is that much of the leadership in Sydney and Washington will be very reluctant to let go of it.
We see that all around us, particularly in the Biden administration where they cling to COVID-19 just as Obama claimed conservatives clung to their guns and religion, only more so.
Resistance, however, is building. What will be its watchword? Who will be the first to say “Mr. Biden, tear off that mask!”
Fernandez put the situation this way: “Already the signs of political disillusion are plain to see, from Joe Biden’s collapse in the polls, the SCOTUS rejection of his vaccine mandate, Boris Johnson’s slipping hold on power to Novak Djokovic’s amazing one-man stand against Australia’s vaccine visa policy: a worldwide storm is brewing and it will break over the political scene in 2022.”
Related: Australian Government Admits Letting Djokovic Stay Would’ve Undermined COVID Police State.