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Heroes, Villains, and Numbskulls of 2021 – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on January 1, 2022

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/laurence-m-vance/heroes-villains-and-numbskulls-of-2021/

By Laurence M. Vance

I see that Elon Musk was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Others have made lists of the best and worst people, sports teams, movies, songs, TV show, hairstyles, books, or video games of 2021. I have my own list. It is the heroes, villains, and numbskulls of 2021. Since the main issue of the year was the Covid-19 “pandemic,” my list is heavily skewed toward that subject.

Heroes

  • Governor Ron DeSantis
  • Dr. Scott Atlas
  • Dr. Peter McCullough
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  • Any state, entity, or group that has sued the Biden administration
  • Every employee who quit his job or got fired for refusing to get the vaccine
  • Sellers of “Let’s Go Brandon” merchandise
  • Wearers of “Let’s Go Brandon” merchandise
  • The Southwest pilot who said “Let’s Go Brandon”
  • The spectators who chant “Let’s Go Brandon” at sporting events
  • Pastor John MacArthur
  • Representative Thomas Massie
  • Senator Rand Paul
  • Signers of the Great Barrington Declaration
  • Employers who did not force their employees to wear masks
  • Business owners who refused to close their places of business
  • Employers who did not mandate that their employees get the vaccine
  • Employers who refused to install plexiglass shields
  • Everyone who refused to get the vaccine
  • Everyone who refused to wear a mask
  • Parents who refused to let their children get the vaccine
  • Every employee who refused to disclose his vaccination status

Villains

  • Anthony Fauci
  • Joe Biden
  • Kamela Harris
  • The Biden administration
  • Rochelle Walensky
  • The CDC
  • The WHO
  • Moderna
  • Pfizer
  • Governor Gavin Newsom
  • Former governor Andrew Cuomo
  • Every other Democratic governor
  • Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot
  • Nancy Pelosi
  • Every other Democratic member of Congress except Joe Manchin
  • Every doctor, nurse, and health care professional who bought into the government’s Covid propaganda
  • Every governor, mayor, county commissioner, and city council member who decreed or voted to institute a curfew, lockdown, capacity limitation, unessential business closure, indoor dining ban, plexiglass shield mandate, mask mandate, or vaccine mandate
  • CNN, ABC, NPR, NBC, CBS, and every other news outlet promoting masks and the vaccine
  • Big tech companies that shut down dissent about masks and the vaccine
  • Every school administrator and official who mandated mask wearing, the vaccine, remote learning, limited social gatherings, and cancellation of sporting events
  • Churches that mandated mask wearing
  • Churches that banned hugging, handshaking, and singing
  • Churches that shifted back to online-only services because of concerns about the omicron variant
  • Family members who refused to be around other family members who were not vaccinated
  • Pediatricians who recommend the vaccine for children
  • Every business that required temperature checks for employees or patrons to enter
  • Every employer that mandated that its employees wear a mask to work
  • Every employer that mandated that its employees get the vaccine or else
  • Every employer that fired employees for refusing to get the vaccine
  • Every employer that refused to accept vaccine religious or medical exemptions
  • Every restaurant that refused entry to people without a mask
  • Every doctor’s office and hospital that required a Covid test before they would see someone
  • Conservative personalities who did the government’s bidding by pushing the vaccine
  • Government officials who told people to wear masks in their home
  • Donald “Warp Speed” Trump (who supports the vaccine [and the booster] and never ceases to take credit for its availability)

Numbskulls

  • Everyone who voted for Joe Biden
  • Everyone who wears a mask in his car
  • Everyone who wears a mask while walking his dog
  • Everyone who wears a mask between bites of food
  • Everyone who wears a mask for protection against Covid but smokes cigarettes
  • Everyone who wears a mask while exercising
  • Everyone who wears a face shield
  • Everyone who wears two masks
  • Everyone who wears a mask and a face shield
  • Everyone who wears a mask when he doesn’t have to
  • Everyone who promoted social distancing
  • Everyone who said that the vaccine saved millions of lives
  • Everyone who pulled up their mask when someone got within six feet of them on a sidewalk or store aisle
  • Everyone who had a bad reaction to the first dose of the vaccine and then got a second dose
  • Pastors who still have their ridiculous Covid protocols up on their church website even though they no longer follow them
  • CDC libertarians who were for restrictions, masks, and the vaccine before they were against them
  • CDC libertarians who denounce vaccine mandates but never hesitate in the same breath to say how great and necessary the vaccine is
  • Parents who put a mask on their children when they don’t have to
  • Parents who took their children to get the vaccine
  • Conservatives and libertarians who publicly announce their vaccination status
  • Everyone who cancelled Christmas celebrations because of concerns about the omicron variant
  • The guy I saw on an airplane who wore two masks and a face shield

There is another class of people that don’t fit into any of the above categories that deserve our sympathy or our pity:

  • Restaurant wait staff, store clerks, and office workers who are forced by their employers to wear masks
  • Employees who reluctantly got the vaccine because they were afraid of losing their jobs
  • Everyone whom the government and the news media scared out of their wits about the dangers of Covid
  • Children whom their parents forced to get the vaccine
  • Children who were talked into getting vaccinated without their parents knowing about it
  • Every employee who got the vaccine only because he was told that if he did so he could take off his mask but now has to again wear a mask
  • Everyone who flies on a plane or takes public transportation and is forced to wear a mask by the Biden administration
  • Everyone in prison or a nursing home who was forced to take the vaccine
  • Everyone who lives in a blue city or state and is not able to move

The heroes, villains, and numbskulls of 2021 were the same heroes, villains, and numbskulls of 2020. Let’s hope they are not the same in 2022.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!…sort of Watch “Killjoy Fauci: ‘No Hugging Or Kissing On New Year’s!'” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

Fauci is again in front of the camera, hectoring people to stay home on New Year’s – and whatever they do, DON’T hug each other to greet the New Year. What’s wrong with this guy? Also today – is Biden purposely withholding a proven Covid treatment? Florida’s Surgeon General says so. And…is a massive purge of Marines who have religious objections to the vaccine a way to “honor the troops”? Every single request has been denied. Fraud?

https://youtu.be/qa1298yMgUI

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TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest | The Libertarian Institute

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

How about we do something novel in the new year? Let’s stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let’s forget about “the country” and the rest of the world. Let’s individually pursue happiness.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tgif-pursue-happiness/

by Sheldon Richman

How about we do something novel in the new year? Let’s stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let’s forget about “the country” and the rest of the world. Let’s individually pursue happiness.

All I’m saying is that it’s finally time for the politicians, bureaucrats, and know-it-all intelligentsia, left or right, to get out of the way and let us set our own agendas.

Too self-centered? Well, too bad. Much evil results from people failing to mind their own business. But what I have in mind does not involve wishing other people ill or seeing life as a zero-sum game in which you can win only if others lose. On the contrary, we benefit from other people’s, including distant strangers’, good fortune because at the very least it opens up opportunities for mutual gains from trade. (“The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market,” the wise Adam Smith pointed out some time ago.) In reality, it opens up so much more.

There’s little chance this sort of world would result in what is often stigmatized as “selfishness.” The vast majority of us understand that truly caring about oneself necessarily means caring about other people in a variety of proper ways. In fact, the person who claims to care only about himself actually cares little even about himself. That’s why mutually beneficial social arrangements have been bottom-up affairs. As Thomas Paine recognized in The Rights of Man:

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their law; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

Yet the policy elite and much of the ideological left and right don’t want us to understand this. They have other plans for us. They always do, don’t they? So they can’t let us get it into our heads that their agendas are illiberal impositions.

The ruling establishment and its mouthpiece media try to keep us agitated by a variety of threats. As Ted Galen Carpenter notes,

In recent years, U.S. executive branch officials and members of Congress from both political parties have routinely portrayed Russia or China (and frequently both countries) as existential threats to the United States. It also is becoming increasingly common to find news articles or opinion pieces that adopt the same theme. Moreover, a significant number of politicians and analysts put smaller powers, especially Iran and North Korea, and even non-state actors, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, in that category. The concerted campaign on the part of opinion-shaping elites to hype the danger from such sources is leaving an indelible mark on public attitudes. Many Americans now believe that their country faces multiple, horrifying threats.

More sober reflection should cause the public to conclude that the dangers are greatly exaggerated, and that the individuals, agencies, and organizations that foster such hysteria are not doing the country any favors. (“Paranoid Superpower: Threat Inflation is the American Way.”)

Do the real or imagined threats to Ukraine or Taiwan really represent existential threats to the world including the American people?

Then there’s the so-called climate emergency, which doesn’t exist. After more than 40 years of the most ridiculously bad predictions of the imminent catastrophe, it’s time for those who still take the doomsday scenarios seriously to realize that “Wolf!” has been cried too many times. The same goes for other “crises,” like the ones supposedly presented by immigrants, global free trade, and the allegedly rampant racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and the assortment of imagined phobias.

We can also tell the “woke” left and the national conservative right that we have our own lives to live, thank you very much. And, no, we don’t have too much freedom, no matter what they may think. They can include us out of their culture wars.

The point of freedom is to be left unimpeded in our own individual and voluntary cooperative pursuits. It will forever be remarkable that the Declaration of Independence specified “the pursuit of happiness” in its examples of unalienable rights. Let’s never forget it.

Meanwhile, Happy New Year!

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Watch “Talking About Stoicism 155 A Stoic New Year” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

You can try.

https://youtu.be/RV0-SnwV-pA

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American Pravda: AIDS and the Revival of the Duesberg Hypothesis, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

So they would now grow extremely suspicious when they learned that a low-mortality Covid virus was being treated by the widespread use of experimental new vaccines that had completely circumvented the usual testing process through a set of emergency waivers. After absorbing the remarkable contents of Kennedy’s important book, I think these are not unreasonable concerns to have.

https://www.unz.com/runz/aids-and-the-revival-of-the-duesberg-hypothesis/

Ron Unz

Last month I happened to read Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new book The Real Anthony Fauci, which had almost immediately become a #1 Amazon bestseller.

I was quite impressed with a great deal of the material presented, which sharply criticized our pharmaceutical industry and its close allies in the public health bureaucracy. But what completely shocked me was that nearly half the text—some 200 pages—was devoted to presenting and promoting the astonishing claim that everything we have been told about HIV/AIDS for more than 35 years probably constituted a hoax. This latter issue became a central focus of my own review.

Yet according to the information provided in Kennedy’s #1 Amazon bestseller, this well-known and solidly-established picture, which I had never seriously questioned, is almost entirely false and fraudulent, essentially amounting to a medical media hoax. Instead of being responsible for AIDS, the HIV virus is probably harmless and had nothing to do with the disease. But when individuals were found to be infected with HIV, they were subjected to the early, extremely lucrative AIDS drugs, which were actually lethal and often killed them. The earliest AIDS cases had mostly been caused by very heavy use of particular illegal drugs, and the HIV virus had been misdiagnosed as being responsible. But since Fauci and the profit-hungry drug companies soon built enormous empires upon that misdiagnosis, for more than 35 years they have fought very hard to maintain and protect it, exerting all their influence to suppress the truth in the media while destroying the careers of any honest researchers who challenged that fraud. Meanwhile, AIDS in Africa was something entirely different, probably caused mostly by malnutrition or other local conditions.

I found Kennedy’s account as shocking as anything I have ever encountered.

Under normal circumstances, I would have been extremely reluctant to embrace such seemingly outlandish claims, but the credibility of some of the adherents was difficult to disregard.

However, the first endorsement on the back cover is from Prof. Luc Montagnier, the medical researcher who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the HIV virus in 1984, and he writes: “Tragically for humanity, there are many, many untruths emanating from Fauci and his minions. RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.” Moreover, we are told that as far back as the San Francisco International AIDS Conference of June 1990, Montagnier had publicly declared “the HIV virus is harmless and passive, a benign virus.”

Perhaps this Nobel Laureate endorsed the book for other reasons and perhaps the meaning of his striking 1990 statement has been misconstrued. But surely the opinion of the researcher who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the HIV virus should not be totally ignored in assessing its possible role.

As Kennedy explains, three additional science Nobel Laureates have also expressed similar public skepticism for the conventional HIV/AIDS narrative, one of them being Kary Mullis, the renowned creator of the revolutionary PCR test.

Despite the book’s tremendous success, it was initially ignored by the mainstream media. That silence was finally broken a month after publication, when the Associated Press released a 4,000 word hit-piece harshly attacking the author and his controversial bestseller.

Yet as I noted in my own response, that lengthy denunciation had entirely avoided the subject of HIV/AIDS, which surely constituted the most outrageous and explosive portion of Kennedy’s material. Six AP journalists and researchers had spent at least ten days producing the article, so their total silence on that topic struck me as extremely suspicious. If almost half of Kennedy’s book argued that HIV/AIDS was a medical media hoax and his harshest critics refused to challenge him on that score, any fair-minded reader must surely begin to suspect that at least some of the author’s remarkable claims were probably correct.

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How to Avoid Depressions? Foster Saving and Investment | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

Contrary to the popular thinking, economic depressions are not caused by a strong decline in the money stock, but are rather the result of the depleted pool of savings. This depletion emerges because of the previous loose monetary policies. A tighter monetary stance arrests the depletion of the pool of savings, thereby laying the foundation for an economic recovery.

https://mises.org/wire/how-avoid-depressions-foster-saving-and-investment

Frank Shostak

In his writings, the leader of the monetarist school of thinking, Milton Friedman, blamed central bank policies for causing the Great Depression of 1930s. According to Friedman, the Federal Reserve failed to pump enough reserves into the banking system to prevent a collapse of the money stock. Because of this, Friedman held, the M1 money stock, which stood at $26.34 billion on March 1930, fell to $19 billion by April 1933—a decline of 27.9 percent.1

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According to Friedman, as a result of the collapse in the money stock, economic growth also dropped off. By July 1932, industrial production had fallen by over 31 percent year on year (see chart). Also, year on year the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had plunged. By October 1932, the CPI had declined by 10.7 percent (see chart).

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A closer examination of the historical data shows that the Fed was actually pursuing very easy monetary policy in its attempt to revive the economy.2

The Fed’s holdings of US government securities depict the extent of monetary injections. In October 1929, holdings of US government securities stood at $165 million. By December 1932, these holdings had surged to $2.432 billion—an increase of 1,374 percent (see chart).

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Also, the three-month Treasury bill rate fell from almost 1.50 percent on April 1931 to 0.4 percent by July 1931 (see chart).

Another indication of the Fed’s loose monetary stance was the widening differential between the yield rates on the ten-year Treasury bond and the three-month Treasury bill. The differential increased from 0.04 percent in January 1930 to 2.80 percent by September 1931 (see chart; an upward-sloping yield curve indicates a loose monetary stance).

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The sharp fall in the money stock during 1930–33 does not indicate that the Federal Reserve did not try to pump money. Instead, the decline in the money stock came because of the shrinking pool of savings brought about by the previous loose monetary policies of the Fed.

The yield curve between 1920 and 1924 reveals this easy stance by the Fed: the yield spread increased from –0.67 percent in October 1920 to 2 percent by August 1924.

The reversal of this stance by the Fed, which saw the yield spread decline from 2 percent in August 1924 to –1.45 percent by May 1929, finally burst the monetary bubble (see chart).

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In addition to this, at some periods the monetary injections were nothing short of massive, contradicting Friedman’s claim. For instance, the yearly growth rate of M1 increased from –12.6 percent in September 1921 to 11 percent by January 1923, and then from –0.4 percent in February 1924 the yearly growth rate accelerated to 9.8 percent by February 1925. Such large monetary pumping amounted to a massive exchange of nothing for something.

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The New York Times Explains That Mask Wearing Helps To ‘Rewire’ Children – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

No one should be wearing a mask. Face mask wearing is simply harmful to you and those around you. It is bad for you. It is especially bad for the sick. It is especially bad for the elderly. It is especially bad for children. That is what the best science of the last two years shows, and that is the direction that we must push the narrative around masks — the direction of the truth. Masks harm you. The harm may even be irreversible. So, stop feeding into the lie by wearing one or by allowing one to be worn around you.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/allan-stevo/the-new-york-times-explains-that-mask-wearing-helps-to-rewire-children/

By Allan Stevo

Pro tip: Google and The New York Times have a business arrangement that makes subscription-free reading easier. If you don’t want to prop up this once great newspaper by buying a New York Times subscription, then do this: Whenever you hit a New York Times paywall, you can just copy and paste the URL into a Google search and click on the top return in order to view that New York Times article for free. 

Shouldn’t I Feel Bad Doing That? 

You should feel no shame in doing this. The New York Times has spent years in total decline into mere propaganda rag for the uniparty establishment and deserves no propping up. May the Gray Lady die a swift and quiet death so that she can at least go back, even if only in  the memory of man, to be known for the generally noble efforts that once took place within those pages, pages that once great men and women wrote for.

Though the institution has doubtlessly been fraught with foibles and scandals over its history, this exemplary list of writers includes the brilliant free market mind Henry Hazlitt. Hazlitt was once an editor for The New York Times and frequent writer of the unsigned editorials that represented the official opinions of the Times editorial board. Though efforts to reform and prevent this decline of The New York Times have taken place, the paper has moved so far away from truthful coverage and honest debate that Hazlitt would no longer be allowed past security in that building today.

Though some New Yorkers are renown for the provincial style of blindness that allows one to look around a rat infested city covered in grime, garbage, and now desolation, and uncritically call everything in New York “the best,” I write this praise of the once great New York Times as a Midwesterner who was once an avid reader of the Sunday pages of this once excellent publication, and recognize what a loss it is for American society that it has descended so far into the abyss.

Please Forgive The Delay, But The Egregious Nature Of This Piece Still Deserves Addressing 

I’ve been working on my next book (Face Masks Hurt Kids is due for release soon) since August, which means I have failed to comment on some of the more egregious topics of the face mask debate since that time. The New York Times opinion piece “Actually, Wearing a Mask Can Help Your Child Learn,” by Judith Danovitch would be one of them. Danovitch’s piece was published in mid-August 2021 as courageous parents near and far were increasingly standing up for their children at school board meetings in droves. The article deserves far more criticism than it has, to date, received.

Greater than 50% of the 757-word article belittles the wise and natural concerns of parents that masks are harmful and perhaps even dangerous for their children. That is unfortunate, for we already live in an era that seeks to be so discouraging of good parental behavior that additional discouragement is unheeded and redundant. A good aspect of the article is that Danovitch speaks a great deal of truth in the article, she just twists it in such an unethical and manipulative way that it is very difficult to recognize that truth. In the next few minutes, I am going to try to twist her words back into shape here so that the truth is clearer, and it is easier to read between the lines.

To give you a sense of who the writer is, let us begin by pointing to the ethics of a mother who eagerly plays mad scientist with her child.

This Biography From A Professional May Shock You 

In what I will admit is an ad hominem intended to illustrate this writer’s poor ethics around boundaries, Dr. Danovitch considers her child to be “her favorite research subject,” as stated in her biography below.

“Judith Danovitch, Ph.D. grew up in New York speaking English, Spanish, and Hebrew. After earning degrees from Harvard and Yale, she became a psychology professor. She teaches child development courses and studies how children think and learn. Her favorite research subject is her own child, who is bilingual in English and Hebrew.”

Children are awesome to observe and learn from. Children are not appropriate to do research on. When research must be conducted, it must be done with the most significant ethical considerations. Children cannot give their informed consent. Parents must. To make a parent both lead researcher and unconflicted provider of informed consent is nearly impossible. One must be placed before the other. In the case of Danovitch, as one can see from the biography, the role of researcher appears to be the role she places in first position.

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Biden’s Staring into the Abyss—and So Are We – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on December 31, 2021

Still, it is hard to believe Putin is bluffing when he says that if Ukraine is invited to become a full member of NATO, Russia will see to it that the consummation never comes to pass.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/patrick-j-buchanan/bidens-staring-into-the-abyss-and-so-are-we/

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm.”

Staring ahead on New Year’s Eve, at what appear to be the coming storms of 2022, this once-hopeful country is going to have to fall back on its reserves.

What storms?

Suddenly, the omicron variant of the coronavirus is sweeping the nation, shutting schools, shops, restaurants and bars that were only lately reopened. In this last week of 2021, new infections twice set records.

Is a fifth wave of the pandemic arriving, just two years after the first wave hit in March 2020?

What is hopeful here?

While the numbers of infected are exploding and deaths are rising anew, the omicron variant appears to be less severe and less lethal than the delta variant — and possibly less enduring.

From the medical community one hears the hope that the omicron variant could displace the delta and, as has happened in South Africa, burn itself out.

Still, if the present rate of infections and deaths continues, we could have a virus-related million American deaths by spring.

A second storm is economic, with inflation now running at 6.8%, the highest rate since the last days of Jimmy Carter and first days of Ronald Reagan.

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Patrick J. Buchanan is co-founder and editor of The American Conservative. He is also the author of Where the Right Went Wrong, and Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. His latest book is Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever See his website.

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WATCH: Dozens of NYPD Remove Child Without Vaccine Passport from Restaurant | The Libertarian Institute

Posted by M. C. on December 30, 2021

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/watch-dozens-of-nypd-remove-child-without-vaccine-passport-from-restaurant/

by Matt Agorist

As TFTP reported, earlier this month, New York mayor Bill de Blasio expanded the already-tyrannical “Key to NYC” program which imposed a vaccination mandate for workers and customers at indoor dining, fitness, entertainment and performance venues. Anyone who wished to enter a public place would first be required to give that place a glimpse into their personal medical records by providing proof that they had taken a covid-19 vaccination.

Beginning last week, this discriminatory and unscientific practice was expanded to include children, ages 5-11, who are now also forced to show proof of vaccination to enter public places. Now, as the video below shows, that chicken has come home to roost.

“New York City will not give a single inch in the fight against COVID-19. Vaccination is the way out of this pandemic, and these are bold, first-in-the-nation measures to encourage New Yorkers to keep themselves and their communities safe,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “From workplace mandates, to $100 incentives, to mobile and at-home vaccination offerings, no place in the nation has done more to end the COVID era. And if you have not taken this step yet: there’s no better day than today to stand up for your city.”

Apparently, Bill hasn’t been looking at the data and reading the headlines from across the planet showing that places even with 100% vaccination rates are experiencing massive surges in COVID-19—including New York City which currently accounts for 10% of all reported cases in the entire country—despite their construction of a covid police state.

Nevertheless, the government is carrying out the tyrannical mandate and now cops are going after children. In the video below, a little boy is traumatized as cops swarm him and his mother in a New York restaurant for trying to eat dinner without showing papers.

It wasn’t just one or two cops who responded to the scene. Over a dozen cops were dispatched to deal with an innocent little boy and his mother who dared to grab a bite to eat without publicly displaying their personal medical history.

Just two years ago, a scene like this would have shocked the world. If a mother and child were swarmed by a dozen armed agents of the state and kicked out of a restaurant for failure to make public their medical history, news agencies worldwide would have run this story.

Now, however, this is common place in the land of covid dystopia. As you watch the video below, pay attention to the woman filming. She continuously asks the cops if this is what they signed up for.

“Is this what you signed up for? Is this what justice looks like to you? Is this what you dreamed of when you wanted to be a cop?”

Obviously, these officers couldn’t care less about what actual justice looks like. They are merely “doing their jobs,” and blindly carrying out the orders handed down from the tyrant class.

If you support treating people this way for their personal medical choices, you deserve the hellish police state that will inevitably ensue. The pro-vaccine passport camp thinks they are safe right now because police are enforcing what they want.

Sadly, however, their ignorance of history leaves them oblivious to the fact that government never relinquishes power and freedoms are never returned once surrendered. It is only a matter of time before the ones who advocate such authoritarian segregation fall victim to the very policies they cheered for when it benefitted them. You’ve been warned.

What a lovely new world we are living in when you go out for a meal and a squad of police barge in, persecute a little boy then demand to see everyone else’s papers. This is the vax passport world so many are begging for. #NotAboutAVirus #NOVAXPASSPORTS pic.twitter.com/ZQFnybs4ly

— Cyn Clagar (@cynclagar) December 27, 2021

This article was originally featured at The Free Thought Project

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NDAA Includes Provisions Blocking Biden From Closing Gitmo – News From Antiwar.com

Posted by M. C. on December 30, 2021

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/12/29/ndaa-includes-provisions-blocking-biden-from-closing-gitmo/

by Dave DeCamp

The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that President Biden signed on Monday includes amendments that block him from taking steps to close the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The bill extends amendments that were in previous NDAA’s that block the White House from using funds to transfer or release Gitmo detainees into the US or other countries. The bill also blocks the use of funds to close the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay altogether.

After signing the bill, Biden released a statement denouncing the restrictions. “Unfortunately, section 1032 of the Act continues to bar the use of funds to transfer Guantánamo Bay detainees to the custody or effective control of certain foreign countries, and section 1033 of the Act bars the use of funds to transfer Guantánamo Bay detainees into the United States unless certain conditions are met,” the statement said.

Biden said the provisions “unduly impair the ability of the executive branch to determine when and where to prosecute Guantánamo Bay detainees and where to send them upon release.” Despite his objections, Biden still signed the massive $777.7 billion NDAA that authorized about $25 billion more than he requested from Congress.

Biden has pledged to close Gitmo, but the same promise was also made by President Obama. There are currently 39 detainees in the prison, and only 11 have been formally charged with crimes. Gitmo costs about $540 million to operate each year, meaning the US government spends over $13 million for each prisoner.

In July, Biden transferred former detainee Abdul Latif Nasser to his home country of Morrocco. Nasser was held since 2002 on no charges and was cleared for release five years ago. Like other Gitmo inmates, Nasser faced torture and other abuses during his time at the US military prison.

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