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A young Australian woman has claimed in a video interview that she was forcibly detained for two weeks in a Covid internment camp, despite not having the virus. Hayley Hodgson, 26, said she was seized by the authorities in Australia’s Northern Territory and forced to spend 14 days in the region’s notorious Howard Springs camp after a friend of hers tested positive. Police reportedly identified her via her scooter number plate as a ‘close contact’ and sent her to the camp. Miss Hodgson said that, though she was tested three times during her internment, the tests came up negative every...

Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention.. Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus. She’s just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences. It all began when a friend of hers tested positive. She recounts how investigators came to her home shortly afterwards,...

Radio Free Europe recently reported about forced abortions and other human rights abuses inside China’s “political re-education camps.” A woman named Gulzira Mogdin said she was forced to abort her unborn baby five months into her pregnancy while detained in one of the camps last year. “If you already have two children, they make you terminate your pregnancy,” Mogdin told RFE. “It’s tough. They took the child from the womb.” Mogdin is a Chinese citizen but also an ethnic minority, her ancestors being from Kazakhstan. A widow with two young children, she said she remarried a man in Kazakhstan in...

Actor George Takei argued that "in one core, horrifying way," the family separations occurring at the United States' southern border are "worse" than the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. "At least during the internment, when I was just 5 years old, I was not taken from my parents," he wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine that was published Tuesday. Takei, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry who was detained with his family at camps in Arkansas and California, wrote that there was a "hideous irony" in the comparison. "At least during the internment, my parents were...

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is mounting a defense of American Muslims, warning that failure to differentiate them from "Islamists" could lead to an "internment camp situation." Muslims in the U.S. are “no different than Catholics or Mormons,” Beck explained in an interview with CBS's Alex Wagner when asked about President Trump's revised travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries. “We could see some sort of internment camp situation. ... We could head someplace we’ve been before, and we don’t want to go again,” he said, referring to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

"Pete has never seen a microphone or a TV camera that he likes."- President Obama describing his new Chief of Staff. Peter Mikami Rouse doesn’t like the spot-light. The fame is for the narcissist electable dummies – the politicians, not for Pete. The elections are just razzle-dazzle. The elected newbie will go to the Capitol to be greeted by the real people of power: the Petes of the Congress, the unelected bureaucrats that know the ways of the force that turn the public servants into Washington insiders. Here is how Mr. Rouse met Mr. Obama: "… When Daschle lost,...

<p>LOS ANGELES- Yuji Ichioka, a University of California-Los Angeles historian who coined the term "Asian American" in the 1960s, has died at the age of 66, university officials said.</p> <p>Ichioka, who helped to found the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 1969, was considered one of the top U.S. specialists on Japanese American history. He died on Sept. 1 of cancer, the Los Angeles Times said on Saturday.</p>