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“I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination” ... Following a 30 second bit on SNL where he branded big pharma as a ‘cartel’ forcing it’s drugs on people with government consent, actor Woody Harrelson has further spoken out against COVID mandates. In an interview with the New York Times, Harrelson warned that America is no longer a free country, branding COVID protocols as “rather absurd.” ... When asked what was “absurd about the COVID protocols,” Harrelson replied, “The fact that they’re still going on!” “I don’t think that anybody should have the right...

The court ruled to forcibly vaccinate Holocaust survivor Inna Zhvanetskaya and then commit her to a psychiatric ward. A court in the German city of Stuttgart, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, is seeking to force COVID-19 vaccinations for an 85-year-old Jewish composer and a Holocaust survivor, sparking outrage among German journalists and one Jewish community leader. A regional court has overruled the decision. Austrian-based German-language website Report24 first reported on Tuesday of the case of Holocaust survivor Inna Zhvanetskaya. She was born in Ukraine in 1937. Holger Fischer, the attorney for Zhvanetskaya, said on his Telegram account on Thursday that...

Germany’s lockdown-loving health minister still wants compulsory vaccination to be implemented despite parliament not supporting the measure. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is reportedly still hoping to legally force everyone over the age of 18 in the European Union member-state to get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus. This is despite the fact that there is now a significant lack of support for such forced vax measures in the country, with politicians in the thought-policing nation now looking at implementing different methods to tackle the disease. In an interview posted by public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Lauterbach made clear that his dream scenario...

If Canadian authorities intend to crack down on the Alberta and or Ottawa protests if the local, provincial and federal governments continue to impose COVID controls like vaccine passports, vaccine and testing mandates what will Canadians opposed to them do? The Alberta protest can be seen and heard from the United States some of it taking place within two thousand feet of the state of Montana... The Australian Protest In Canberra: Intimidation From Police The story of the COVID tyranny protest tomorrow in Australia's capital will begin before this post ends but for now the story of today's protest (Wednesday...

Prof. Yehuda Adler not encouraged by recent forecasts predicting pandemic will soon begin to ebb as he believes Israel is still not out of the woods with mounting cases stretching the healthcare system's resources thin. Public and media discourse about abolishing the COVID-19 Green Pass gummed up Israel's vaccination campaign, a leading physician said on Monday as the country struggles to contain a mounting coronavirus outbreak stoked by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. "From the moment (abolishing the Green Pass) became the talk of the day, the vaccination drive collapsed. Children are almost not getting vaccinated at all" Prof. Yehuda...

A few days before the first consultations on mandatory coronavirus vaccination in the German Bundestag, the plans of the proponents are taking shape. The deputy SPD party chairman Dirk Wiese, who together with other deputies of the 'traffic light coalition' of SPD, Greens and FDP prepares cornerstones of a vaccination obligation from the age of 18, recently gave details: The vaccination obligation should be limited to about one to two years, apply to no more than three vaccinations and be enforced via fines...

Unvaccinated people could be paid a visit by Covid jab teams hoping to get more people protected from the virus, according to reports. Government Ministers are set to be considering a plan where door-to-door visits would be made in areas with low uptake of the vaccine, as another way to tackle soaring infection rates. The tactic would also help encourage people who may want to get jabbed but who don't have easy access to vaccine centres. A Cabinet Minister told the Mail on Sunday: "I think anything that encourages the vaccine-hesitant is sensible. "The mood in the country is hardening...

Vienna's State Police President Gerhard Purstl draws a positive balance after Saturday's demonstrations in Vienna-even though people at a stand rally had broken through police barriers and marched unannounced through the city center "The goal of the corona measures opponents, that demonstrations with several thousand people get into the city center and paralyze business activities, we have thwarted by our tactics," said state police president Gerhard Purstl...

Comment And Analysis On Australia, New Zealand Political Developments The federal government in Australia, the Liberal-National coalition of Liberal Party Prime Minister Scott Morrison and National Party Deputy Prime Minster Barnaby Joyce, was clearly complicit in the coercion to vaccinate Australians. Mr. Morrison, along with other prominent Liberals including Treasurer Senator Josh Frydenberg, spread the "gospel" of "vaccination will make you free". In recent weeks though Morrison, considered a "Conservative" and "Christian" linked to the mega-church Hillsong based in Sydney, is changing his narrative criticizing restrictive proposals like the one being advanced by Victoria Labor Party Premier Dan Andrews to...

On Wednesday, an Ohio judge ordered a man to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation. During the sentencing hearing for 21-year-old Brandon Rutherford, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Wagner ordered Rutherford to provide proof of getting the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of his Community Control following his recent drug conviction. According to Cincinnati-based station WCPO, Rutherford appeared at his hearing wearing a face mask due to the COVID-19 numbers climbing. Wagner then asked him if he was vaccinated and planned on getting vaccinated. Rutherford answered no to both questions. As a result, Wagner...

Ronald Reagan nailed it long ago when he aptly said that the most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Here in 2021, an announcement by Joe Biden brings that statement to chilling new heights of fear and dread. Starting tomorrow, the Biden administration will be sending out ‘government officials’ to the homes of unvaccinated Americans to pressure them into receiving the Mark…ummm, wait, I mean receiving the COVID-19 vaccine jab. This is where we are people, just as we told you from the beginning it was going to go. Now...

We all knew this was coming. In order to justify the forced vaccination of children, the powers that be would somehow have to overturn 15 months of observations that COVID is less a threat to children than the flu and that unvaccinated children are less at risk than vaccinated adults (100 times less at risk than seniors), even if we are to believe Pfizer's efficacy data. CDC director reports spike in teen hospitalizations, urges parents to vaccinate kids over 12," was the headline at the Hill on Friday, reporting on the CDC's new study of hospitalizations. Naturally, it caught my...

...The Baytown nurse is one of 117 healthcare workers now suing Houston Methodist. The lawsuit claims it’s illegal to force employees to participate in a vaccine clinical trial. Bridges said they have a hearing in federal court this week. “If we can win that battle, we won’t be fired. If we don’t and they win, we will get terminated, but it will go to the Supreme Court as a wrongful termination lawsuit. We will fight this until the bitter end,” she said. Bridges started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the group’s legal representation. Dr. Marc Boom, CEO and...

No one’s freedom provides the right to endanger others. That is the point of the adage that my right to swing my fist ends at another person’s nose. The government always has the power to impose restrictions on behavior to protect other people from harm, including to stop the spread of a communicable disease. Yet these basic principles are forgotten by those who opposed a mask mandate and who now are trying to prohibit vaccine passports. Indeed, the government can and should require that everyone be vaccinated against COVID. There is no constitutional right to refuse to wear a mask...

The White House is working on a COVID-19 vaccine passport initiative that could be required for travel, sporting events and even eating out, reports The Washington Post. The report comes as major U.S. airlines and nearly 30 travel and labor groups are pushing President Joe Biden to develop a standardized, government-backed credential to "accelerate safe economic activity and recovery." "The U.S. must be a leader in this development," the groups wrote in a letter to COVID-19 Recovery Team Coordinator Jeff Zients on Monday. "The current diverse and fragmented digital health credentials used to implement different countries' air travel testing requirements...

California's measles outbreak has climbed to 91 confirmed cases, prompting a vicious attack from USA Today contributor Alex Berezow against "anti-vaxxers." He blames them for the epidemic that CDC officials say was introduced at the Disneyland theme park by a person infected with measles overseas. Berezow's knee-jerk reaction is to declare, "Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail." He erroneously maintains that measles could not spread in a fully vaccinated society and discredits as "ludicrous" concerns regarding the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Claiming there is a "mountain of data" proving otherwise, his one and only...

An Australian principal objects to being press-ganged into a scheme to vaccinate schoolgirls against the HPV virus. In the early 1990s an Australian medical research team headed by Dr Ian Frazer at the University of Queensland made an amazing breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Dr Frazer's team created a vaccine for one of the most aggressive cancers amongst women. We are now all familiar with it as Gardasil, the name given it by Merck, the drug company behind the project. Final trials of Gardasil show it to be 100 per cent effective against the most common strains of human...

A federally generated "model" health bill critics say gives governors absolute power in the event of a "health emergency" is steadily progressing through the states, say health and legislative monitoring organizations who are tracking its progress. According to its most recent analysis, the American Legislative Exchange Council – which has been tracking the bill's progress – said most states have either passed or are considering passing the "Model State Emergency Health Powers Act." Sue Blevins, a spokeswoman with the Institute for Health Freedom, agreed, noting that an analysis by her group found a total of 19 states so far have...