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Michigan state passes controversial bill to microchip humans voluntarily 'to protect their privacy'

GreatGameIndia
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:26 UTC

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill to microchip humans voluntarily in the state under the guise of protecting their privacy. The Microchip Protection Act would allow Michigan employers to use microchipping of their workers with their consent. However, research has shown that RFID transponders causes cancer.

The plan to microchip humans is sponsored by Rep. Bronna Kahle under the guise of protecting the privacy of workers. The stated objective of the bill is that it will protect the privacy rights of Michigan workers and promote further growth for job providers as it relates to microchipping - a cutting-edge technology on the rise that increases workplace efficiency.

"With the way technology has increased over the years and as it continues to grow, it's important Michigan job providers balance the interests of the company with their employees' expectations of privacy."

"Microchipping has been brought up in many conversations as companies across the country are exploring cost-effective ways to increase workplace efficiency. While these miniature devices are on the rise, so are the calls of workers to have their privacy protected."

Rep. Bronna Kahle, the Republican who sponsored the bill, said in a press statement.

Several casinos ban indoor smoking citing COVID-19 concerns

Ed Silverstein
casino.org
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:36 UTC

Multiple Pennsylvania gaming properties are now smoke-free after recent directives from state regulators to improve worker and player health.

Among them is The Meadows Racetrack & Casino, located in Washington, which announced on social media that smoking was "phased out in the casino" and it reopened Saturday (July 4) morning "as a 100% smoke free facility."

The decision was made after an order from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and the Pennsylvania Department of Health, according to WPXI, a local TV station.

Another Pennsylvania TV station, WGAL, reported that Hollywood Casino, located in Grantville, also banned smoking. It also follows a decision by the Department of Health and Gaming Control Board.

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Donald Trump responds to calls to tear down monuments with creation of 'National Garden' of statues

Tal Axelrod
The Hill
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

© REUTERS/Tom Brenner
South Dakota's U.S. Independence Day Mount Rushmore fireworks are launched during celebrations at Mt. Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota, U.S., July 3, 2020.

The White House unveiled an executive order Friday evening to create a "National Garden of American Heroes" that will feature statues of prominent Americans.

The executive order, which President Trump announced during a Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore, comes as the nation grapples with calls to tear down Confederate statues across the country and address other racist iconography.

"These statues are silent teachers in solid form of stone and metal. They preserve the memory of our American story and stir in us a spirit of responsibility for the chapters yet unwritten. These works of art call forth gratitude for the accomplishments and sacrifices of our exceptional fellow citizens who, despite their flaws, placed their virtues, their talents, and their lives in the service of our Nation," reads the executive order, which was disseminated by the White House.

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'Must protect our history': Trump announces creation of 'National Garden of American Heroes' monument park
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The announcement was not without its detractors, of course, including neoconservative luminary and rabid Iraq War booster Bill Kristol, who suggested such a memorial park already exists in the form of the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, where thousands of American combat veterans are buried across 624 acres. Cost also became a point of contention, with critics arguing the money would be better spent elsewhere.

Best-selling children's author Gillian Philip is sacked after adding hashtag 'I stand with JK Rowling' to her Twitter handle

Nick Craven
Daily Mail
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 02:19 UTC

Gillian Philip (pictured), a best-selling children's author, has been sacked after putting out a tweet with the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling, amid the Harry Potter author's transgender row.

A bestselling children's author has been sacked after expressing support for fellow writer J. K. Rowling in the bitter row over transgender rights.

In the latest example of 'cancel culture', novelist Gillian Philip was last week jettisoned from her role writing titles for a major publishing company.

It came after the writer, who has penned a popular series of books for eight-to-12-year-olds, added the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling to her Twitter handle.

Comment: Who would have guessed that in 2020, someone would lose their job for agreeing with the sentiment that only women menstruate. If anyone ever needed evidence that human culture is devolving, this would add nicely.

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Lockdown lunacy 2.0: Second wave? Not even close

J.B. Handley
jbhandleyblog.com
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:56 UTC

Why did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place? Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to "flatten the curve" so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care? At that point, at least, back in early March, people were behaving rationally. They accepted that you can't eradicate a virus, so let's postpone things enough to handle it. The fact is, we have done that, and so much more. The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a "second wave" and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it's not a second wave. The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs, and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said, this is really the only graph you need to see, it's the CDC's data, over time, of deaths from COVID-19 here in the U.S., and the trend line is unmistakable:

If virologists were driving policy about COVID-19 rather than public health officials, we'd all be Sweden right now, which means life would effectively be back to normal. The only thing our lockdowns have done at this point is prolong the agony a little bit, and encouraged Governors to make up more useless rules. Sweden's health minister understood that the only chance to beat COVID-19 was to get the Swedish population to a Herd Immunity Threshold against COVID-19, and that's exactly what they have done, so let me start there.

Wacky Hollywood: Tim Robbins blasts ICE as 'SS' in charge of 'ethnic cleansing'

RT
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 21:24 UTC

© REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Mike Segar
ICE officers in Paramount, California/Tim Robbins at Bernie Sanders rally in Hanover, New Hampshire

'Shawshank Redemption' star Tim Robbins has compared US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Nazis, and claimed the agency's goal is to target people of color and give America an "ethnic cleansing."

"ICE are massively funded, militarized police whose function is to deport people of color. Ethnic cleansing in America," tweeted the actor in reaction to a story about President Donald Trump designating ICE a "security agency" in an effort to protect the identities of its employees.

"Now they are a massively funded, militarized SECRET police (SS) that don't have to identify themselves or answer to anyone. What could go wrong?" according to Robbins.

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'I am running for president of the United States': Kanye West says he's joining presidential race, wins backing from Elon Musk

RT
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 01:36 UTC

American rapper Kanye West, who has in the past been eviscerated by the left over his vocal support for US President Donald Trump, has said he's launching his own presidential bid.

"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION," West wrote, breaking the news to nearly 30 million followers on Twitter on Saturday evening.

Comment: He should run in 2024 as the Republican candidate so he doesn't have go up against Trump!

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'F**ktheFourth' trending on Twitter as liberals & conservatives lock horns over Independence Day celebrations

RT
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:03 UTC

© REUTERS/Bing Guan
People queue for dine-in service outside the Baja Beach Bar in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California.

The stark contrast between liberals and conservatives reacting to the Fourth of July on social media magnifies the deep cultural wedge in the US, with the left calling the holiday a "sham" and the right mourning what once was.

While Independence Day is typically a time for celebration in the US, it's taken a different turn this year amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.

The hashtag "F**ktheFourth" is trending on Twitter, with the "u" in the curse word cleverly switched out with a "v."

Wokeness: The return of Medieval madness

Dominic Frisby
Sp!ked
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

How much of what went on in the Middle Ages and early-modern periods do we look back on with abhorrence and a certain amount of perplexity? Burning witches at the stake, lynch mobs, self-flagellation - what possessed people to do such things, we wonder.

But take a step back, look about and you see many of these practices are still flourishing today, though they go by different names.

Here are just some of them.

Let's start with excommunication. Excommunication meant so much more than being banned from taking communion. It involved you being shunned, shamed, spiritually condemned, even banished. Only through some kind of heavy penance - often a very public, lengthy and humiliating contrition - could you and your reputation be redeemed.

Excommunication became a powerful political weapon. It was dished out to enemies of the faith to destroy their legitimacy. Often it was used as a punishment for sins as minor as uttering the wrong opinion.

Comment: "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it", and for all high civilizations that have gone before us the result was a cataclysmic collapse and a return to the simple life - for the lucky few that survived:

Climate journalists' treatment of Mike Shellenberger proves they've ditched reporting and become the climate-blasphemy police

Guy Birchall
RT
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:01 UTC

The bad-faith tactics employed by two Australian reporters on separate newspapers that were designed to smear the climate dissenter shows the environmental press is little more than the provisional wing of Extinction Rebellion.

It's a well-worn trope these days that environmentalism has come to fill the God-shaped hole left in many a Western heart. They have their child saints (Greta), their wise old sages (Sir David Attenborough), their sacred texts ('The Uninhabitable Earth') and, obviously, they're predicting the end of the world. But what really brings out their zealotry is the way they treat apostates. Take the recent case of Mr Mike Shellenberger.

Shellenberger is a well-known American green campaigner with previously impeccable lefty credentials guaranteed to get him invited to all the right drinks parties. He was Time 2008 Hero of the Environment and was so left-wing, he even spent time living in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinistas.

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Society's Child

Michigan state passes controversial bill to microchip humans voluntarily 'to protect their privacy'

Several casinos ban indoor smoking citing COVID-19 concerns

Donald Trump responds to calls to tear down monuments with creation of 'National Garden' of statues

Best-selling children's author Gillian Philip is sacked after adding hashtag 'I stand with JK Rowling' to her Twitter handle

Lockdown lunacy 2.0: Second wave? Not even close

Wacky Hollywood: Tim Robbins blasts ICE as 'SS' in charge of 'ethnic cleansing'

'I am running for president of the United States': Kanye West says he's joining presidential race, wins backing from Elon Musk

'F**ktheFourth' trending on Twitter as liberals & conservatives lock horns over Independence Day celebrations

Wokeness: The return of Medieval madness

Climate journalists' treatment of Mike Shellenberger proves they've ditched reporting and become the climate-blasphemy police

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