A Curious Definition of Selfishness

A Curious Definition of Selfishness
By Steve Berger August 13, 2021 “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies” Groucho Marx “ Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither” Thomas Jefferson The chorus of vilification intensifies by the day, blaring out from mainstream media, disapproving family and friends, corporate myrmidons of the public health narrative: This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, the unvaccinated are putting everyone at risk and preventing us from going back to our former freedoms, they are selfish and reckless, etc.… Read the rest

Service Members Can Request Religious Exemptions for Mandated Vaccines. Here’s How.

Service Members Can Request Religious Exemptions for Mandated Vaccines. Here’s How.
The military has a 4-step formal process for requesting a religious exemption. If the exemption is denied, there is also a process for overturning the decision. By  Pam Long   The Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction 1300.17, “Religious Liberties in the Military Services,” conveys support for religious beliefs in the following statement: “In accordance with Section 533(a)(1) of Public Law 112-239, as amended, the DOD components will accommodate individual expressions of sincerely held beliefs (conscience, moral principles or religious beliefs) which do not have an adverse impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, good order and discipline, or health and safety.… Read the rest

“Now Youse Can’t Leave”

“Now Youse Can’t Leave”
BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, AUG 11, 2021 – 09:20 PM A mere few months ago any mention in public discourse of Covid passports was written off by the mainstream media as but the ravings of “conspiracy theorists” consigned to remote corners of the internet making supposedly far-fetched slippery slope arguments. On Wednesday CNBC now writes, “As the rampant delta variant of Covid threatens the post-pandemic travel and tourism rebound, there’s growing acceptance of so-called vaccine passports among a one-hesitant U.S.… Read the rest

HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers

HHS Becomes Latest Federal Agency to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Workers
Posted by Jack Phillips | Aug 12, 2021 | Epoch Times   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday said that it will require all of its frontline health care workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to agency Secretary Xavier Becerra. HHS is now the third federal agency to require its employees to receive the vaccine, joining the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.… Read the rest

‘They Can’t Arrest All of Us’ – Rand Paul Calls For Resistance to Covid Tyranny

‘They Can’t Arrest All of Us’ – Rand Paul Calls For Resistance to Covid Tyranny
August 10, 2021 Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project Waking Times In a rather daring move, Senator Rand Paul released a video this week calling on Americans to resist any further tyranny by the government in regard to COVID-19. In his nearly 4-minute rant, Paul noted that if enough Americans resist the largely ineffective but extraordinarily tyrannical lockdown measures being rolled out again that it would be too much for the “petty tyrants and bureaucrats” to handle — thereby forcing them to drop the measures.… Read the rest

Pushback challenges vaccination requirements at US colleges

Pushback challenges vaccination requirements at US colleges
The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against the coronavirus while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates By TOM DAVIES Associated Press August 3, 2021, 11:00 AM The Breakdown: US meets President Joe Biden’s vaccine goal INDIANAPOLIS — The quickly approaching fall semester has America’s colleges under pressure to decide how far they should go to guard their campuses against COVID-19 while navigating legal and political questions and rising infection rates.… Read the rest

WHO director predicts 100 million additional cases worldwide

WHO director predicts 100 million additional cases worldwide
By  Brittany Shammas, Adam Taylor, Adela Suliman and Bryan Pietsch   August 11, 2021 at 6:07 p.m. EDT World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested Wednesday that unless things change, the world could see 100 million more cases of covid-19 by the early months of next year. “At the current trajectory, we could pass 300 million cases early next year,” he said during a media briefing.… Read the rest

Door-To-Door Vaccine Campaigns Underway

Door-To-Door Vaccine Campaigns Underway
“We need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.” – Pres. Biden, July 6, 2021 Teams are now going door to door in New York, Los Angeles, and Puerto Rico to enforce Biden’s vaccine rule Puerto Rico: Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House KAISER HEALTH NEWS, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO — Abigail Matos-Pagán entered a bright-blue house in Mayagüez earlier this summer and was met by Beatriz Gastón, who quietly led the way to her mother’s small room.… Read the rest

Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
BY LI HAI August 11, 2021 U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption from the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said. “There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective about using a religious exemption,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a press briefing on Aug.… Read the rest

California mandates COVID-19 vaccines or testing for all teachers, staff

California mandates COVID-19 vaccines or testing for all teachers, staff
BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL – 08/11/21 12:09 PM EDT California on Wednesday became the first state to require all teachers and staff in every school district be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing. Under the new requirement, all staff – teachers, custodial staff, bus drivers and anyone else who works in schools – will need to submit proof of vaccination or submit to weekly testing, Gov. … Read the rest