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As the European Union announced its "Digital Green Certificate" that would allow those who are fully vaccinated to travel freely across the bloc, DeSantis cautioned against so-called "vaccine passports."
"I just want to make very clear in Florida, we are not doing any vaccine passports. All those experts said that it was a bad idea. I think it's a bad idea and so that will not happen. And so folks should get vaccinated, if they want to, we'll obviously provide that, but under no circumstances will the state be asking you to show proof of vaccination, and I don't think private companies should be doing that either," the governor said Thursday.
Best of the Web: Snow falls on coldest day in Fallas, Spain since 1939 - temperature drops OVER 20ºC in 24 hours
Temperatures inland fell over 20ºC in 24 hours, resulting in snowfall in parts of Alicante region. Alcoi recorded temperatures just above freezing.
l'Alcoià and El Comtat reported snowfall, with a dusting of the white stuff across the area as well as in the regions mountains.
In an update issued by meteorological agency Aemet, they went on to say that the last time temperatures fell so fast was back in 1939.
Best of the Web: Unsurprising: Former president of drag queen story hour foundation and children's court judge arrested on seven counts of child porn
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.
Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.
Comment: Anyone who thinks it's appropriate to expose children to a sexualized subculture is sick, so it's rather unsurprising to have that confirmed. It's just tragic that it takes someone being caught red-handed to make people aware of this fact.
See also:
- FBI raids home of Biden campaign surrogate, Netflix 'Cheer' star, after underage sex allegation - UPDATE: Arrested, charged for child pornDisney World employees among 16 men arrested in child pornography sting
- 'Education' or 'child abuse'? Wife of ex-Clinton adviser tells parents to WATCH PORN WITH KIDS, igniting internet while MSM promotes her
- 'Kid looks traumatized': Viral TikTok video showing drag queen dancing for little girl enrages Twitter
- X-rated drag queen called 'Flowjob' visits primary school sparking backlash
- Telling it like it is: Drag Queen destroys Drag Queen Story Hour and woke culture
Best of the Web: Florida governor Ron DeSantis: 'Don't trust the elites. They got Covid completely wrong'
© MediaPunch/Associated PressSpring-break crowds on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale last Sunday.
The Covid-19 pandemic represented a test of elites in the U.S., from public-health experts to the corporate media. The results have been disappointing. Policy makers who bucked the elites and challenged the narrative have been proven right to do so.
To begin with, highly publicized epidemiological models were as consequential as they were wrong. The model produced by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London — which erroneously forecast millions of non-nursing home Covid deaths in the U.S. — sparked panic among public-health elites and served as the pretext for lockdowns throughout the U.S. and Great Britain. The lockdowns failed to stop the virus but did a great deal of societal damage along the way — damage that a more targeted approach, seeking to reduce total harms, would have been able to avoid (and did, in places like Sweden and Florida).
Similarly, models predicting massive shortages of hospital beds helped to precipitate the disastrous policy — enacted by states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan — to send contagious, Covid-positive hospital patients back to nursing homes. States like Florida that rejected the models and adopted policies to protect nursing-home residents had comparatively lower nursing-home mortality rates as a result.
Best of the Web: WHO insiders blow the whistle on total immunity of Bill Gates Through GAVI - Global Vaccine Alliance
© Reuters / Jason LeeGates, shown speaking last year at an event in Beijing, says Covid-19 vaccines must be made available globally.
Lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and lawyer Dr. Justus P. Hoffmann interviewing Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger and Dr.Silvia Behrendt on total immunity of Bill Gates through GAVI - world vaccine alliance/
A cut from Corona investigative committee Nr. 41
WHO Information Notice for IVD Users 2020/05
The entire video of Corona investigative committee Nr. 41: https://www.bitchute.com/video/HRzK56BcrKjQ/
© GettyA demonstrator wearing a face mask and holding a sign takes part in a rally to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence, near Chinatown in Los Angeles, California
The same dynamics seems to be unfolding with the current spike in anti-Asian hate crimes. In a New York Times article, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos argued that both the wave of anti-Asian and anti-Latino hate crimes reflect the racism of white Americans. He noted, 'A common racist attack against the Latino community — and now increasingly, Asian Americans — is the demand, "Go back to your own country!"' Nancy Pelosi also links this spike to white supremacist views.
White supremacists should be vigorously combatted. However, most victimized groups live in central cities where there are few white supremacists. Members of the Asian, Latino and LGBTQ communities may have much more to fear from young alienated black men whose pent up anger spills over into destructive, violent behaviors.
Comment: See also:
- Obama & Dems claim massage parlor shootings 'anti-Asian hate crime' & 'white supremacy', despite having no evidence to support that motive
- The rise in non-crime 'hate incidents' has sparked a climate of fear where serious offences against minorities go unreported
- It does not matter how "woke" you are - It will never be enough for the aggrieved race activists
- Chinese-American parents condemn Critical Race Theory as a "hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud"
Comment: Key quote from this discussion: "Confusion is a design feature of this system. The Chinese govt loves that both its own people and Westerners believe that they are in possession of an all-seeing 'panopticon', when in fact they aren't. That you believe so helps it serve as a deterrent to crime."
Best of the Web: Record number of asteroids observed flying past Earth in 2020 - Despite lockdowns interrupting surveys
© Detlev van Ravensway/SPLThe near-Earth asteroid Apophis (artist’s impression) will fly within 40,000 kilometres of the planet in 2029 — much closer than it came this month.
Last week's fly-by gave scientists a chance to test the worldwide planetary defence system, in which astronomers quickly assess the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth as they follow its path across the night sky. "It's a fire drill with a real asteroid," says Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who coordinated the observing campaign.
The Apophis fly-by highlights how much astronomers have learnt about near-Earth asteroids — and how much they still have to learn. Since 1998, when NASA kicked off the biggest search for near-Earth asteroids, scientists have detected more than 25,000 of them. And 2020 turned out to be a record year for discoveries. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting many of the surveys, astronomers catalogued 2,958 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids over the course of the year (see 'Space rocks').
Comment: Oh yes indeed, there is lots of learning and lots of fun ahead of us.
As usual, scientific reporting on the space threat is penned in the continuous present. These discoveries are not making astronomers more conscious of the billiard-ball nature of the Solar System; it's making them conscious that the Solar System is DYNAMIC. It was more stable; now it is less so, as asteroids pour into the inner System.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
War, rumors of war, corrupt governments run by psychopaths, phony terrorism, burgeoning police states...but is that all we have to worry about? What if there was something to put it all in context? Or rather, what if there is something else we are missing, something that is beyond the control of even the political and corporate elites; something that is unconsciously driving them to attempt to herd the global population to an ever finer order of control...
Best of the Web: Border insecurity: US to house 3,000 immigrant teens at convention center - biggest immigrant wave in 20 years
Comment: Who built the cages, Joe? And who practically signalled to these new arrivals to 'come on in!' when he got 'elected'??
© Reuters / Adrees LatifChild migrants take shelter from the rain in the back of a US Border Patrol vehicle on Sunday after crossing the border into Texas.
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will be used for up to 90 days beginning as early as this week, according to written notification sent to members of the Dallas City Council on Monday. Federal agencies will use the facility to house boys ages 15 to 17, according to the memo, which describes the soon-to-open site as a "decompression center."
U.S. Health and Human Services is rushing to open facilities across the country to house immigrant children who are otherwise being held by the U.S. Border Patrol, which is generally supposed to detain children for no more than three days. The Border Patrol is holding children longer because there is next to no space in the HHS system, similar to the last major increase in migration two years ago.
A tent facility operated by the Border Patrol in Donna, some 165 miles (265 kilometers) south of Dallas, is holding more than 1,000 children and teenagers, some as young as 4. Lawyers who inspect immigrant detention facilities under a court settlement say they interviewed children who reported being held in packed conditions in the tent, with some sleeping on the floor and others not able to shower for five days.
Comment: It's not just unaccompanied kids, at least according to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans. According to him, some foreign nationals on the "terror watchlist" having been attempting to cross the border.
Four foreign nationals, whose names match those on the terror watch list, have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. via the southern border since October, a congressional aide familiar with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information told Fox News.Terrorists crossing the border has been a Republican talking point for some years now, but much nothing has come of it aside from anecdotes like those above.
That information shows that three migrants from Yemen and one from Serbia were picked up at the southern border by U.S. Border Patrol since the beginning of the fiscal year in October.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Monday, during a visit to the border, that Border Patrol agents had been warning lawmakers about foreign nationals on the terror watch list getting in.
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McCarthy said migrants were coming from Yemen, China, Sri Lanka and Iran. Border Patrol agents arrested 11 Iranian citizens in Arizona last month.
Rep. John Katko, the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, recounted a similar conversation with a Border Patrol official.
"And he said some of them are on the list. And I said list? And he said, 'yeah, the terror watch list.' And I was stunned and I've never heard that before," he said on "America's Newsroom."
With the mounting crisis of numbers on the border, the Biden administration has attempted to ban Border Patrol agents from speaking with the media, with a verbal, unofficial 'gag order':
Those who are allowed to speak can only use "approved messaging," the Washington Examiner reported, while NBC said that even local reporters in border areas are referred to CBP's Washington office for answers to their questions.
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