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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

European Vax Passport Protests Get Zero Coverage in the States

By —— January 27, 2022

When you combine stateside chaos with media control you get the perfect storm of misdirection.  Just like a common magician, your eyes are led to the left, while the sneaky stuff is conducted on the right.  Today’s news coverage is all about Ukraine, Omicron, vaccine mandates, supply chain issues, inflation, and unemployment.  They cover school shutdowns, mandatory masks, and rampant crime on the street.  “Where is this all heading?” we ask.  A recent report from Fox’s Tucker Carlson, interviewing Dutch legal expert Eva Vlaardingerbroek, points out what’s already happening in Europe – plans are falling neatly in place for absolute control of all citizens – soon to be heading to the United States.

Under the guise of public health, the Europeans have set up systems to track the movements, spending, health and social correctness scores of every citizen.  How can this possibly go wrong?  The system is already fully implemented across most of China........To Read More...


Friday, January 28, 2022

Vax Passports: The Panzer Tank of the COVID-19 Blitzkrieg

By Todd Butterfield

The COVID-19 digital vax pass is the Panzer tank of the next wave of the global public health Blitzkrieg.  If a person complies and gets their COVID-19 shots, they get a personal QR code. They can show this code on their smart phone to participate in society.  This plan is being rolled out around the world and has spread from Israel to Europe to Australia, and now has been established in the most strategic U.S. cities including Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  Some people with a whole lot of power are now seizing a whole lot more power in the name of public health.    

In Israel it has been used the longest.  They call it the Green Pass, also translated as “Green Mark.”  Israel first used it back in the spring and reinstated it in August. Under this program, your smart phone shows your Green Mark QR code to validate that you’re up to date on your Pfizer COVID shots.  With the pass, you’re allowed to be served at a restaurant; you can enter a library or the community pool; you can visit your elderly mom at the nursing home.  Some employers require it. Until recently in Israel, if you got your two Pfizer COVID-19 shots, your QR code would be activated.  But starting Oct. 3, shots received over six months ago, voided the passport. The 3rd shot, the booster, was required. This applies to everyone ages twelve and up.

There is an important guidance for COVID-19 vax passports that the World Health Organization published at the end of August 2021.  The title of this guidance is Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidance on Digital Documentation of Covid-19 Certificates. This “Guidance” provides direction to countries as they issue digital COVID-19 vax passes, so that all these will meet common standards and potentially function together.

Guess who paid for the work?  Under the acknowledgements, it says that the work was funded by Bill Gates’ foundation and four other funders. ...........To Read More...


Monday, August 9, 2021

The Anarcho-Tyranny Mandate

As long as Democrats can dream of new ways to punish their enemies while rewarding criminals and illegal aliens, they will push for these threats against basic American freedom. 

By Paul Bradford  August 7, 2021

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed a vaccine mandate this week. “If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” the mayor told reporters. “It’s time.” The new order requires New Yorkers to show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms, theaters, and other indoor venues. It’s not yet clear how city officials plan to enforce the rule, but the mayor wants to send a clear message the city will punish the unvaxxed far more than it punishes criminals.

The same city that wants to bar unvaxxed people from restaurants and gyms also releases dangerous criminals without bail and refuses to prosecute prostitutes and Black Lives Matter rioters. You may face jail time if you try to enter a restaurant without showing your papers, but you won’t face jail time if you throw a rock through the restaurant’s window to protest racial injustice. 

This is anarcho-tyranny, and it’s now live in New York City and across much of America. The vaccination passport comes at a time when our own government coddles criminals and opens our borders to illegal aliens. The anarcho-tyranny isn’t enacted out of stupidity or some temporary lapse in reason. It’s intentional. Democrats want to punish middle Americans and bestow favors on their own constituents. The anarcho-tyranny mandate does just that.............To Read More....


Thursday, July 1, 2021

Leftists Really Are Nuts

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Friday, June 4, 2021

Governor Cuomo’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Passport Program

 
At the end of March 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he was launching the nation’s only Vaccine Passport Program. In order to gain entry to venues that host large-scale events, including sports stadiums and concert halls, people must scan proof that they have had a COVID-19 vaccine or recently tested negative for the virus. Medium-sized venues—for instance, those that host performing arts or catered events—can operate at increased capacity if they require patrons to submit such evidence. Although the Governor repeats the word “voluntary” ad nauseum when describing the program, New Yorkers should not be fooled. The Program is anything but voluntary: New Yorkers are deprived of their basic constitutional rights if they do not participate.

Initially, the Governor does not have the authority to instate the Vaccine Passport Program. Weeks before the program commenced, the New York legislature rescinded the emergency powers it had granted the Governor a year prior authorizing him to unilaterally issue directives to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Noting that the state had entered the “possibly waning days of the pandemic,” the Legislature explained that “it is time to restore the pre-pandemic balance of power of the governor and legislature.” But in typical Cuomo fashion, the Governor circumvented the constitutional separation of powers and imposed invasive directives on the people of New York with zero legislative oversight.

The Program would not pass constitutional muster even if the Governor had implemented it through the proper channels. Both the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I § 9 of New York’s Constitution guarantee individuals the right to assemble. Cuomo reframes that right as a privilege, demonstrating an utter lack of regard for constitutional rights, which are not fair-weather privileges to be bestowed and confiscated at the Governor’s discretion.

Various statements make it more evident that the Governor lacks basic knowledge of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights. He has declared, for instance, “if you’re unvaccinated, that’s your choice, but you can’t go into the Radio City Music Hall with vaccinated people” and that “if you are vaccinated, there are more opportunities for you. You’re going to see venues opening up with vaccinated sections and unvaccinated sections. And you’re going to have more of a chance to participate in activities and resume life.” No matter how many times the Governor reiterates that the program is “voluntary,” these remarks constitute further evidence that the Vaccine Passport Program is the antithesis of what it purports to be.

Cuomo’s dystopian program also infringes upon New Yorkers’ rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment of the federal constitution and Article I § 12 of the state constitution. Numerous courts have recognized that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their medical records, meaning that the Governor cannot compel them to divulge such information in order to participate in public life. And while the Governor has claimed that the Vaccine Passport Program “has nothing to do with government,” the state is obviously coercing businesses into implementing the program and using private actors to do what it cannot. That makes this state action, implicating the Fourth Amendment and state equivalent.

The Governor appears unaware of or unconcerned with the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines have been approved only pursuant to an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). In granting authorization for emergency use, the FDA concluded that the known benefits outweigh the known risks after a few months of clinical trials. The standard is much higher for medical products to receive full FDA approval. In order to obtain such approval, a vaccine must be rigorously tested and monitored for an extended time period. Crucially, the EUA statute mandates that potential recipients be informed of the risks and benefits and that they have the option to accept or refuse the treatment. The coercive nature of Cuomo’s Vaccine Passport Program unequivocally flies in the face of the language and spirit of the EUA statute. The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution establishes that federal laws are “supreme” and preempt conflicting state laws. Since the Vaccine Passport Program contravenes the federal EUA statute, it does not withstand constitutional scrutiny.

Governor Cuomo’s authoritarian tendencies have been on full display for the past 15 months, and nothing exemplifies that reality more than his Vaccine Passport Program. The Governor is under the mistaken impression that he can control the lives and personal health decisions of millions of New Yorkers and that the best way to do so is coercing them into receiving a vaccine. In the long run, though, these measures are likely to backfire, as they almost certainly will manifest in a breakdown in trust between the public and authorities. But Cuomo is far too power-hungry to consider the implications of his actions—fostering opposition to public health efforts and expediting the derogation of our core civil liberties. So far, New Yorkers are letting him get away with it.

Reprinted from the New Civil Liberties Alliance

Jenin Younes

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Jenin Younes is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law.

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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Vaccine Passports, Bio-political Warfare, and Total Control

by | Apr 13, 2021

What’s all this talk about vaccine passports when both Joe “Stumbles” Biden and Tony “The Enforcer” Fauci solemnly tell us that no such thing will happen when we know it’s what they really want? Who can trust Joe Biden anymore when his lies are followed by more lies? Who’s really pushing for a vaccine passport anyway? And, who’s paying for the propaganda campaign to convince Americans indeed, and all the Western world, of the “Commons Project” that won’t allow us to travel internationally without evidence of being biochemically protected?  

Well, expect the idea to be pushed on Americans anyway. Think of it as the “666” prophecy from scripture coming to fruition, another plank in the New World Order design for a One World Government. Who could possibly work something like this out without being exposed? Well, It’s the World Economic Forum (WEF), the “Bilderberg” society of billionaires and rich foreign potentates who meet every other year or so in Davos, Switzerland to plot out their world takeover “nonsense.

President Trump attended his first year in office, heard what they had to say and when it was his turn to speak, told ’em he wasn’t one of ’em. He made it clear to the world that he was having no part in it and that it was his duty to Make America Great and keep it that way. 

Trump praised the spirit of nationalism, told those assembled the parameters of his goals for America, including energy independence, correction of lopsided trade deals that cost America billions of dollars and stem the flow of American give away funds to countries who didn’t like America but took our money anyway. Effectively, President Trump sealed his doom right there as the following four years of the Democrat (Communist) Party’s attacks demonstrated............To Read More....

 

 

Cuomo’s Vaccine Passports and the IBM Connection

April 14, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog

Are you a New Yorker who wants to live a normal life? Move to Florida.

And if you can’t do that, get an Excelsior Pass. ‘Excelsior’ means ‘higher’ in Latin and is New York’s motto. It’s probably not the best motto for a broken state tiptoeing toward bankruptcy. And it’s an even worse name for a vaccine passport that allows businesses to discriminate.

A day after April Fools’ Day, the Excelsior Pass launched in New York to enable businesses to determine whom they can refuse service to by employing IBM’s Digital Health Pass.

IBM describes its vaccine passport as “voluntary” and will allow New Yorkers “the ability to voluntarily share their health status on their own terms”, but there’s nothing voluntary about forcing people to use a passport carrying private health information in order to live their lives.

There’s nothing less voluntary than that.

Digital passports are big business and a few weeks ago IBM closed on a multimillion dollar contract for a German vaccine passport and is in the second phase of a contract with UK's NIH socialized medicine setup with potentially millions at stake. There’s no official contract in New York which is just “testing” IBM’s vaccine passport technology, but the existence of the trial alone would help the tech giant secure international and national vaccine passport contracts.

News stories have claimed that New York has “fully subsidized” the vaccine passport, but have no details of the financing. The lack of basic information about this arrangement is unsettling.

IBM’s Excelsior Pass has been aggressively pushed by New York’s Governor’s Cuomo. Major sports arenas were being allowed to reopen, even while Cuomo was falsely blaming Jewish weddings for the spread of the virus, and some of those arenas are “testing” the passport.

Cuomo has repeatedly described the vaccine passport as crucial for reopening New York.

“The innovative Excelsior Pass is another tool in our new toolbox to fight the virus while allowing more sectors of the economy to reopen safely,” the scandal-ridden governor insisted.

But before Governor Andrew Cuomo was known for sexually harassing his subordinates, the mass murder of the elderly in nursing homes, or for somehow scoring a book deal that rewarded him with $86 for every copy sold, he was known for shady deals and economic arrangements.

Long before the pandemic, there were bets being taken in Albany over which scandal would be the likeliest to take Cuomo down and send him off to make hand sanitizer for the state in prison.

IBM had a key role in one of the arrangements that at one time seemed likely to bring him down.

In 2018, Cuomo aide Alain Kaloyeros, a Lebanese immigrant dubbed by the New York Times as the "Architect of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion Project", was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for rigging $850 million worth of contracts to Cuomo's donors and political allies.

Kaloyeros had regularly appeared at Cuomo press conferences and the governor had referred to him as his economic guru. The judge who threw the book at him had described him as “the Apple in Cuomo’s eyes”.

Percoco, a top Cuomo aide and close friend, whom the governor had compared to a brother, was sentenced to six years in prison for taking $300,000 in bribes.

All of this sleaze and slime was well known and settled by the time the pandemic arrived and the media decided to spin Cuomo’s disastrous mishandling of the virus as brilliant political leadership, while suggesting that he might have a future as a presidential candidate.

The media not only knew who Cuomo was, they had previously reported on all of this.

The Buffalo Billion Project didn’t make national headlines, but a key part of it had involved Cuomo claiming that IBM would bring 500 IT jobs to Buffalo, an economically depressed upstate city, backed by $55 million in state spending. All it would take is some construction work.

The 500 IT jobs that were supposed to pay over $70,000 a year were as imaginary as Cuomo's leadership. Instead IBM outsourced some dead end minimum-wage call center jobs to subcontractors. Worse still, IBM got a $57 million New York contract to outsource state IT work.

All of this came out to a $110,000 subsidy per job.

That same year, IBM was reported to have laid off or outsourced 4,000 jobs despite $1 billion in subsidies.

The original announcement came with some ass-kissing from Kaloyeros, boasting that "Governor Cuomo's blueprint for job creation and economic growth through targeted, high-tech investment has delivered another victory for all of New York... We look forward to yet another successful partnership with International Business Machines.”

Ginni Rometty, then the CEO of IBM, had declared that, "IBM is excited to partner with the State of New York and the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering."

The CEO of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering was Kaloyeros.

Rometty stepped down last year, but sat on Cuomo’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Telehealth.

This sort of story has kept repeating itself in New York. In 2019, there was yet another announcement of a $300 million state subsidy for a supposed $2 billion expansion.

And it’s not just Cuomo.

At the end of March, Senator Schumer announced a "historic collaboration" involving IBM that "positions Upstate New York for even more semiconductor manufacturing jobs", backed by federal funding. That’s after a year in which IBM laid off workers in New York once again.

Over a decade ago, IBM employed 130,000 Americans. These days, it employs less than 100,000 Americans, but has 130,000 employees in India. In a 2016 op-ed, Rometty claimed that, "we have thousands of open positions at any given moment, and we intend to hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States."

These claims are impossible to measure because IBM has refused to disclose its American job numbers since 2010, and refuses to often even identify the size of its layoffs, but there’s no apparent evidence of such growth by IBM in the United States. IBM’s latest layoffs last year have been reported by the Wall Street Journal using its sources as being in the thousands.

One estimate suggests IBM killed 20,000 American jobs in the last decade for employees over the age of 40, and moved those jobs over to India while violating age discrimination laws.

IBM’s new focus on hiring millennials and firing older workers was partly blamed on Rometty.

New York politicians have been mostly uninterested in these claims while writing more checks and promising another boom in IBM jobs that never actually materializes, but does end up helping out Cuomo’s donors.

IBM claims that its vaccine passport can be trusted, and that personal data is safe with its setup, yet the tech giant provides curiously little information about its arrangement with New York.

The Excelsior Pass is the first major vaccine passport field test in America. It is a system that will inescapably discriminate by personal health, disability, race, and other criteria. It’s an arrangement between a scandal-ridden governor and a company that has played a role in at least one of his major scandals for which no information, except press releases, is available.

Both Cuomo and IBM have inculcated a paranoid culture of secrecy about the most basic details of their operations, while barraging the media with endless press releases.

The public deserves to know the details of Cuomo’s vaccine passport deal. Cuomo and IBM want to control the movements of millions of New Yorkers, but they don’t seem to want New Yorkers to know anything about the arrangement for this vaccine passport pilot program.

The Excelsior Pass will shape the future of vaccine passports in America. That’s why it’s important to know everything about it. And yet the same media that refused to ask any of the tough questions about Cuomo’s mishandling of the pandemic, is now eager to report on his sexual harassment scandals, but still won’t ask any real questions about his vaccine passport.
 
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles.

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Monday, April 5, 2021

Vaccine Passports to Hell

Jeff Crouere Jeff Crouere | Apr 04, 2021
 
The latest CDC report shows that approximately 162 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered. This number is increasing steadily every day. These results show that millions of Americans are not reluctant to take the vaccine.   Despite the impressive distribution statistics, there is not universal support for the vaccine. On almost every major issue in the country there is diversity of opinion and this is certainly true for a topic as controversial as the COVID-19 vaccine.

A recent poll discovered that 41 percent of Republicans will not get the coronavirus vaccine. These results mimic other polls that have been taken in recent weeks. Unfortunately, these Republicans, along with millions of other Americans who refuse the vaccine, might face a severe infringement of their freedoms.  It seems that vaccine passports are being encouraged by the Biden administration and are being developed by their ideological partners in academia and corporate America.

On Friday, Cornell University President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff issued a statement that all students returning to the “Ithaca, Geneva, and Cornell Tech campuses for the fall semester” will be required to have a COVID-19 “vaccination.”  This announcement follows a similar statement issued by Rutgers University last week. In the days ahead, many other universities will surely issue similar vaccine requirements for the fall semester.

The vaccine requirements will not be limited to colleges and universities. Soon, the leading corporations in the country may require a vaccine for their employees to work in office settings. Such vaccine passports may also be required to fly or to attend special events such as concerts and athletic contests.   The concept of vaccine passports should horrify Americans, regardless of their personal stance on the issue. As Americans, we should have the freedom to either take the vaccine or not...........To Read More...

 

 

Sunday, April 4, 2021

COVID-19 Quick Takes—Part Five

April 5, 2021 By Michael D. Shaw @ HealthNewsDigest

We report again on the continuing saga. What will ever flatten the curve on the constant flow of developments in the strange world of COVID-19? In March, 2020, did you think that we’d still be talking about it now?

1.     The vaccine passport—If one were to only consider science, logic, and right reason, the notion of a vaccine passport would at least require a stronger basis than an Emergency Use Authorization. After all, there is scant data that a fully vaccinated person cannot still spread the virus, not to mention that a fully vaccinated person can also still contract the disease. Indeed, that’s the justification presented for why vaccinated folks still have to mask and practice social distancing. Bear in mind that the only real claim for the vaccines is that if you do get COVID-19, your symptoms will likely be milder.

As it is, there are now reports of “breakthrough cases” of COVID-19, occurring in vaccinated individuals. Most of these cases were mild, although eight people were hospitalized and there are two potential cases where the patients died. The deceased were over 80, and had underlying health issues. (Does that sound familiar?) Breakthrough cases were also reported in Hawaii, and presumably will be cropping up elsewhere.

However, drunk with the power they could unleash with the lockdowns, the very same tin-pot dictators are now ready to impose these passports. How fitting that the beleaguered governor of New York, responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of nursing home residents, now hopes to earn back his bona fides with an even more autocratic action. At the very least, there is a big problem here with the security of medical data, and—as has been the posture of officialdom throughout the entire COVID-19 debacle—no further information is being given about this matter.

In the case of NY State’s passport, the app is being built by IBM, who will only say that the security is based on blockchain, which is nonsense. Blockchain is used to allow public verification of transactions, but it is a cool-sounding buzzword, so they went with it.

Unfortunately, the security concerns go far beyond your medical data. According to Dr. Naomi Wolf, founder and CEO of Daily Clout, the passport violates people’s liberty.

“I am not overstating this. I can’t say it forcefully enough. This is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned. Vaccine passports sound like a fine thing if you don’t understand what these platforms can do…”

“It’s not about the vaccine. It’s not about the virus. It’s about your data. And once this rolls out you don’t have a choice about being part of the system. What people have to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all. What that means is that it can be merged with your PayPal account, with your digital currency; Microsoft is already talking about merging it with payment plans. Your networks can be sucked up. It geolocates you wherever you go. Your credit history can be included. All of your medical history can be included.”

In other words, if you like China’s Social Credit system, you will love vaccine passports. But given the alacrity with which millions of users gave away their personal information for a free Facebook account, one wonders how much resistance the passports will actually get.

2.     Antibody dependent enhancement—ADE occurs when the antibodies generated during an immune response recognize and bind to a pathogen, but they are unable to prevent infection. Instead, these antibodies act as a Trojan Horse, allowing the pathogen to get into cells and create a paradoxical effect. Unfortunately, ADE can be caused by vaccines. A recent case involved more than 800,000 Philippine kids who received a Dengue Fever vaccine. Dozens of deaths have been blamed on the vaccine.

As to SARS-CoV-2, there are conflicting animal study results. This one has caused concern, since it focused on SARS therapies.

ADE with the current COVID-19 vaccines has been dismissed by some experts, owing to their targeting of the spike protein. Yet, one of the effects of ADE (Cytokine storm) has been implicated in the still unexplained deaths of young and otherwise healthy vaccine recipients.

More elucidation from the public health authorities would be appreciated, but will probably not be forthcoming.


Vaccine Verification: Hitler Would Be So Proud

04/02/2021 by Source: IntellectualConservative

A Holocaust may never occur here. But the monitoring has already begun.  Vaccine Verification on a Smartphone? It would give Big Tech – and by default, the Government – something NAZI Germany would have salivated over: The ability to track their citizens’ movements and associates.  And if they – for any reason – wanted more on you, they would have it: Phone conversations, texts, e-mails, Websites visited, activity on Social Media…anything.  This gives them their Final Data Solution…to identify their “enemies.”

Don’t be naïve. There is no other legitimate reason to put such a verification system in-place. 

We are talking about a virus with a 99% survival rate. The people who have already gotten the shot have little to worry about – they are vaccinated.  So what legitimate reason would there be?   COVID literally is only a contributing factor in nearly 100% of associated deaths. Those who passed had underlying health issues: cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, obesity or were simply old.


This isn’t the Black Plague.

Guess What? There are legitimate reasons for Americans NOT to be vaccinated: A Doctor may determine there are allergies or other underlying health issues. Plus, factor dependent, he may want you to avoid the shot; then, if you get COVID, your natural defenses increase against the virus.  If the Radical Left continues to attack our Freedoms, they will find-out the true number of Conservatives in this country..........To Read More....

 

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Coronavirus in an Alternate, Rational Universe: What Might Have Been

March 31, 2021 Dr. Michael Hurd

In a rational and free society, the reaction to coronavirus would not have been hysterical or tyrannical. People would have been left free to decide for themselves how to avoid getting this virus. All would have been fine — at least as fine as it has been, with none of the economic and social upheaval and decline. Of course, Donald Trump would likely still be President, and the country would not be under the stranglehold of an emerging one-party dictatorship, including the obliteration of the Bill of Rights itself.............. To Read More