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Take A Rare Glimpse Inside China’s Zero-Covid Madhouse
Published
11 months agoon
Zero Hedge

The western world has been given a rare, intimate look inside the confines of a Chinese Covid-19 concentration camp, after Financial Times Shanghai correspondent Thomas Hale was ensnared by the President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid regime.
It’s not that Hale had tested positive. Merely being designated as a “close contact” was enough to sentence him to 10 days of confinement on a secret island camp identified only as “P7.”
Hale provides a primer on framework of China’s system works:
“PCR testing in China is an almost daily ritual and testing booths are common on many street corners.They look vaguely like food stalls, except they’re larger and cube-shaped and a worker inside sits behind Plexiglas cut with two arm holes.
They are merely the surface machinery of a vast monitoring system. China’s digital Covid pass resembles track-and-trace programmes elsewhere, except it’s mandatory and it works. Using Alipay or WeChat, the country’s two major apps, a QR code is linked to each person’s most recent test results. The code must be scanned to get in anywhere, thereby tracking your location. Green means you can enter; red means you have a problem.”
Research: Countries That Sought ‘Zero-COVID’ Lockdowns Have The Least Immunity
Hale’s journey into Covid madness started with an innocent outing at a Shanghai bar. Apparently, someone who’d also been at the bar tested positive. Via the tracking system, the authorities knew Hale had been there too.
Hale had “won” some kind of terrible lottery: On the day he was in the bar, there were only 18 cases in all of Shanghai that day — a city of 26 million people.
A few days after his bar outing, authorities called to confirm he’d been at the bar. The next day, a caller from the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention alerted him that authorities were on their way. Hale was about to be “taken away” — an expression Chinese use when describing the phenomenon.
Next, a hotel staffer called to say he couldn’t leave, and that the hotel was in lockdown due to his mere presence in it. Then came the men in hazmat suits, who escorted him down a deserted hallway to a staff elevator and out through the cordoned-off hotel entrance. He was directed to board a small bus driven by another man in a hazmat suit.
Hale joined the other condemned passengers — none of whom had actually tested positive. His hopes that he’d be taken to a quarantine hotel were dashed. A drive of more than an hour ended on a small road in the middle of a field, with several large buses queued up ahead of his.
The driver got out, locked the bus behind him and wandered off. A fellow passenger was surprised to hear that Hale was from the UK: “They brought you here? With a foreign passport?” Hours of waiting on the increasingly chilly bus went by, until it finally moved again at 2 am.
As he was trudging along to his assigned quarters, a fellow detainee pointed to three rows of wire above the perimeter fences, beyond which were only tall trees.
Hale’s new home was a box similar to a shipping container, elevated by short stilts. His and every door was monitored by a camera. There was no hot water.
“Inside my 196-sq-ft cabin there were two single beds, a kettle, an air-conditioning unit, a desk, a chair, a bowl, two small cloths, one bar of soap, an unopened duvet, a small pillow, a toothbrush, one tube of toothpaste and a roll-up mattress roughly the thickness of an oven glove
The floor was covered in dust and grime. The whole place shook when you walked around, which I soon stopped noticing. The window was barred, though you could still lean out. There was no shower.
…The bed was made of an iron frame and six planks of wood, and the mattress was so thin you had to lie completely flat. The bed frame, meanwhile, was impossible to lean against.”
He was pleasantly surprised, however, to find the internet connection was 24 times speedier than what he had at his hotel. Like Hale, the camp staff were prohibited from leaving or receiving deliveries there. A worker said he earned the equivalent of about $32 a day.
Hale tried to see if his status as a foreign journalist might spring him from detention. The worker he approached with that question was baffled by the mere premise…but we can’t blame Hale for trying.
Hale describes key aspects of daily life in Covid detention:
- Every morning, he was awakened by a “lawnmower-like noise,” as an industrial-grade machine sprayed the cabin windows and front steps with disinfectant
- Around 9 am, two workers came to administer PCR tests. A positive result would have meant being taken to a different type of detention
- Meals were delivered at 8 am, noon and 5 pm
- Hale pursued a strict routine of language study, writing, exercise, music, online chess, and then reading or watching Amazon Prime entertainment
The routine served him well. Over time, he noticed his neighbors stopped eating breakfast, while some could be heard pacing their shaky boxes at night.
He did endure some psychological discomfort, in the form of not knowing when he’d get out. He was originally told seven days but it ended up being 10.
Upon his release and return to civilization, Hale savored the hot water of the hotel’s shower and the softness of its bed.When he went out for a celebratory meal, however, he faltered — pacing the street as he contemplated the fact that entering China’s contact-tracing matrix brought the peril of a return to confinement.
He settled on takeout from a steak restaurant, where an employee said there’d be no need for his code to be swiped — if he ordered takeout.
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Check out Hale’s full tale at the Financial Times (subscription required)
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Canadian Speaker Of The House QUITS Following Nazi Scandal
Anthony Rota falls on his sword as Trudeau refused to take any responsibility
Published
17 hours agoon
27 September, 2023Steve Watson

The Canadian Speaker of the House has resigned following the incident where a 98-year-old SS solider was cheered and honoured in Parliament, with Prime Minter Justin Trudeau refusing to take any responsibility, despite meeting with the Ukrainian Nazi beforehand.
As we noted earlier this week, Anthony Rota apologised for the scandal, but it wasn’t enough.
Trudeau through Rota under the bus:
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told parliament that “Canadians are sick and tired of a prime minister who never takes responsibility for things that happen under his watch,” adding “he always finds someone else to throw under the bus,” and asking the Speaker of the House “are you that person?”
Pierre Poilievre rips Trudeau after a Nazi was honored in the House of Commons:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 25, 2023
"Canadians are sick and tired of a Prime Minister who never takes responsibility for things that happen under his watch." pic.twitter.com/H5h6HNKKGW
Turns out he is:
Speaker Anthony Rota RESIGNS following Nazi veteran debacle:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 26, 2023
"I reiterate my profound regret for my error in recognizing an individual in the House during the joint address to Parliament of President Zelensky." pic.twitter.com/vXRloA4y7j
“It’s with a heavy heart that I rise to inform members of my resignation as Speaker for the House of Commons,” Rota stated, adding “I reiterate my profound regret for my error in recognizing an individual in the House during the joint address to Parliament of President Zelensky.”
Rota further stated “that public recognition has caused pain to individuals and communities including the Jewish community in Canada and around the world, in addition to survivors of Nazi atrocities in Poland, among other nations.”
It seemingly didn’t matter that Trudeau personally met with the Nazi before the celebration in Parliament:
It has come out today that Justin Trudeau personally met with and honoured a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (a Nazi division).
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) September 24, 2023
Liberals then arranged for this Nazi veteran to be recognized on the floor of the House of Commons during the visit of the… https://t.co/9JFUEqsdW8
Pierre Poilievre grills the Liberals over Trudeau vetting the Ukrainian Nazi who was honoured in the House of Commons, and whether he will apologize.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 25, 2023
As Trudeau skipped Question Period, Karina Gould replies and asks her colleagues not to politicize the incident. pic.twitter.com/GZRL5pnynn
Justin Trudeau is now blaming the fact that he and Zelenskyy honored a literal Nazi with a standing ovation before parliament on “Russian Disinformation”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 25, 2023
pic.twitter.com/JjLMNmGrlf
Trudeau didn’t show up in Parliament and his underlings attempted, but failed, to get all records of the Nazi scandal erased from history:
After Karina Gould fails to get unanimous consent to have recognition of a Ukrainian Nazi struck from the record, Conservative MP Marty Morantz is eventually able to explain opposition:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 25, 2023
"It goes without saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." pic.twitter.com/7PTTLLWvvC
Spectator writer Brendan O’Neill notes that “This is the same Trudeau who fantasises that Nazism lurks everywhere. Who gleefully brands his critics as ‘far right’. Who has damned everyone from parents worried about LGBTQ education to truckers concerned about vaccine mandates as footsoldiers of a 1930s-style populism.”
Brendan O'Neill | Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot
— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) September 27, 2023
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose.
That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Hunka.https://t.co/RS7idoPjI3
“Welcome to Woke Canada, where moms and pops who would rather their kid wasn’t transitioned behind their backs are far right, while a literal former SS fighter gets a fulsome round of applause,” he adds.
O’Neill continues, “you don’t need a PhD in European history to think that a Ukrainian military man who fought against the Ruskies in the 1940s was probably linked with the Nazis,” adding “The cluelessness is off the scale.”
He concludes that “The Hunka scandal is a perfect snapshot of the liberal elite’s weird and delirious obsession with the far right. They marshall the horrors of the 1940s to condemn their critics in the here and now, as if every trucker protest and parental uprising were a harbinger of a new Fourth Reich. Yet when face to face with someone who was involved in the horrors of the 1940s, they smile and fawn.”
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Incredible: After Celebrating An Actual Nazi In Parliament, Trudeau Complains About ‘Russian Propaganda’
“I think it’s going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda”
Published
2 days agoon
26 September, 2023Steve Watson

Despite the fact that he met with and then invited a former SS soldier into his parliament, where the 98-year-old Nazi was given a standing ovation, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained about “Russian propaganda” and “Russian disinformation” Monday.
Here’s the backstory from yesterday:
Fact-Check Fails – Memo to Ukrainian President Zelinskyy and Canada’s Parliament and Prime Minister: If you don’t want people thinking you’re anti-Semites, do a background check to make sure you’re not giving a standing ovation to a former Nazi soldier.https://t.co/mTqeoPtk4k
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 25, 2023
Trudeau was asked about the situation by reporters and commented, “Obviously it’s extremely upsetting that this happened,” before immediately blaming the Speaker of the House, noting “The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized. This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians, I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish community across the country, celebrating, commemorating Yom Kippur today.”
He then pivoted to Russia, stating “I think it’s going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine.”
Incredible.
Watch:
Trudeau after getting busted honoring a Nazi:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 25, 2023
“I think it’s going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation…”
pic.twitter.com/sgGJHaQh0F
Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told parliament that “Canadians are sick and tired of a prime minister who never takes responsibility for things that happen under his watch,” adding “he always finds someone else to throw under the bus,” and asking the Speaker of the House “are you that person?”
Pierre Poilievre rips Trudeau after a Nazi was honored in the House of Commons:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 25, 2023
"Canadians are sick and tired of a Prime Minister who never takes responsibility for things that happen under his watch." pic.twitter.com/H5h6HNKKGW
Poilievre demanded that Trudeau personally apologize, describing the situation as “an appalling error in judgment on the part of Justin Trudeau, whose personal protocol office is responsible for arranging and vetting all guests and programming for state visits of this kind.”
“It was impossible for any parliamentarian in the room (other than Mr. Trudeau) to know of this dark past,” Poilievre added of the SS veteran.
It has come out today that Justin Trudeau personally met with and honoured a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (a Nazi division).
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) September 24, 2023
Liberals then arranged for this Nazi veteran to be recognized on the floor of the House of Commons during the visit of the… https://t.co/9JFUEqsdW8
Meanwhile, comedian Rob Schneider hit out at Trudeau, and said he has cancelled his upcoming dates in Canada in protest:
I just canceled my trip to Canada.
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) September 25, 2023
I just can’t…
It’s beyond the pale.
Trudeau’s tyranny against peaceful trucker protesters seems insignificant to this despicable and outrageous act of honoring of one of ADOLF HITLER’S NAZI SS Soldiers by the Canadian Parliament.
No words… https://t.co/ZEVwZjOPse
Don’t you stupid f#cking Canadians know THIS ASSH@LE fought for the NAZIS?! Not what we call Nazis today. Like, the REAL Nazis! This guy fought for Hitler! Not like what we call people Hitler today. THEE Hitler! Like in actual Adolf Hitler.#DumbTwats https://t.co/lsZSC34RZv
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) September 24, 2023
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Biden Regime Poised to Allow Israelis to Travel to U.S. Without Visa, Despite Escalating Human Rights Abuses
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26 September, 2023Chris Menahan | Information Liberation

The Biden regime is poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the US without a US visa, despite Israel’s escalating human rights abuses against Christians in the Holy Land and the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
The Biden administration is poised to admit Israel this week into an exclusive club that will allow its citizens to travel to the United States without a U.S. visa despite Washington’s ongoing concerns about the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinian Americans.
U.S. officials say an announcement of Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver Program is planned for late in the week, just before the end of the federal budget year on Saturday, which is the deadline for Israel’s admission without having to requalify for eligibility next year.
The Department of Homeland Security administers the program, which currently allows citizens of 40 mostly European and Asian countries to travel to the U.S. for three months without visas.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to make the announcement Thursday, shortly after receiving a recommendation from Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel be admitted, according to five officials familiar with the matter who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because the decision has not yet been publicly announced.
Christian leaders in the Holy Land spoke out earlier this year about how Christians are being viciously persecuted, attacked, spat on and abused in Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right regime with authorities doing little to nothing to hold their abusers to account.
lsraeli colonial settlers verbally abuse two nuns and spit at them in occupied Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/xGoy5oT008
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) April 13, 2023
Just two weeks ago, video went viral showing a mob of Israeli children kicking and cursing a group of Christian missionaries with their parents’ full support.
"You daughter of a b*tch!"
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) September 12, 2023
"You're going to get hurt!"
Shocking video going viral on social media shows a large group of Jewish children cursing and assaulting two Christian female missionaries in Israel with their parents' full support. pic.twitter.com/3pVVn7EouX
Though Biden calls himself a Zionist, he’s long touted his opposition to Israel expanding settlements in the West Bank as a show of independence.
Nonetheless, Netanyahu spit in his face earlier this year by approving a major expansion of new settlements in the West Bank.
Israel banned congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesotafrom entering their country in 2019 and bans US citizens from entering if they’re supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement (BDS).
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen claimed Monday on Twitter/X that Israel’s entry to the Visa Waiver Program is a done deal.
“Great news for the citizens of Israel ahead of the new year – as we promised, this coming November we will enter the visa exemption program for the USA,” Cohen said. “Anyone who wishes can fill out a form online, pay $21 and receive an entry visa within 72 hours. This is a great achievement that testifies to the close relations between Israel and our great ally the USA. I thank US President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken for their support during the process, and especially the friends of the outgoing ambassador Tom Neides who promoted the issue here in Israel.”
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