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Florida will pay for parents to transfer kids to new schools if they become targets of 'Covid-19 harassment'

Mairead McArdle
The Daily Wire
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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The emergency rule comes in response to Governor Ron DeSantis' executive order.

Florida will pay for parents to transfer their children to a new school if the students experience "Covid-19 harassment" over face mask requirements, according to a new rule from the Florida Board of Education.

Parents may apply for a voucher to transfer their kids to a private school in "instances where a child has been subjected to COVID-19 harassment." The state said it "will provide parents another means to protect the health and education of their child by moving their child to another school," according to the rule.

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Store owner gets in heated exchange with transgender woman over offensive sign

Emily Crane
New York Post
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:33 UTC
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Councilwoman Tiesa Meskis and Don Sucher had a heated exchange of words over an offensive sign on Sucher’s store.
The owner of a Washington state Star Wars memorabilia store got caught on video having a shouting match with a transgender politician who confronted him over a sign in his window that said "If you are born with a d-k you are not a chick," according to a report.

Tiesa Meskis, a councilwoman in the town of Aberdeen, stormed into the Sucher & Sons Star Wars Shop and had words with owner Don Sucher on Wednesday over the handwritten message that he posted, according to King 5 TV.

"Trans women are women," Meskis can be seen yelling in the video as she stands face-to-face with Sucher.

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France implements Macron's Covid pass despite protests

Florian Soenen with Sabine Wibaux
International Business Times
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 04:21 UTC
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Protesters in the southern French city of Toulon rally against the health pass, on August 7, 2021.
France on Monday began enforcing a Covid pass championed by President Emmanuel Macron in cafes, restaurants and trains, a tightening of rules the government hopes will boost vaccinations but which has prompted weeks of angry protests.

The pass, already needed for the last three weeks to go to a cinema, attend a concert or visit a museum, will be needed to partake in usually routine aspects of life in France such as sipping a coffee in a cafe or travelling on an inter-city train.

Almost a quarter of a million rallied nationwide on Saturday against the extension of the pass, the biggest in four consecutive weekends of protests, but Macron has shown little patience with the demonstrators' concerns over vaccination or alleged erosion of civil liberties.

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Devastating new data from PHE shows vaccine effectiveness down to 17% and no reduction in infectiousness - but mortality cut by 77%

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 23:51 UTC
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Public Health England yesterday released their latest technical briefing on the variants of concern, number 20, and it has some illuminating data.

It provides us with the infection, hospitalisation and death rates for the Delta variant, broken down by vaccination status and age. This allows us to do a calculation of the real-world vaccine effectiveness in the over-50s during the Delta surge, albeit a rough one without any adjustments.

The latest report has data up to August 2nd. If we substract from these values the data in Briefing 17 (up to June 21st) then we get the data covering the period June 22nd to August 2nd, which broadly corresponds to the bulk of the Delta surge in the U.K. The vaccine rollout to the over-50s was basically complete by this point, having stabilised according to PHE at around 88% double vaccinated and 10% unvaccinated (the other two per cent remaining single vaccinated, perhaps due to a bad reaction to the first dose).

In this period the PHE data tells us there were 2,464 Delta cases in the unvaccinated over-50s and 17,926 in the fully vaccinated over-50s. From this we can estimate the vaccine effectiveness against infection in the over-50s during the Delta surge as 17% (1-[(17,926/88%)/(2,464/10%)]). This confirms using additional data the estimate I made last week.
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Freedom in the coming time of madness

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
creators.com
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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Sadly, we are approaching a time in America during which our elected public officials will assault the liberties we have hired them to protect. Whatever the cause, the government will soon blame its failures to contain a virus on a small portion of the population and then impose restrictions on the inalienable rights of all of us.

We cannot permit this to happen again.

During the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln thought it expedient to silence those in the northern states who challenged his wartime decisions by incarcerating them in military prisons, he was rebuked afterward by a unanimous Supreme Court. The essence of the rebuke was that no matter the state of difficulties — whether war or pestilence — the Constitution protects our natural rights, and its provisions are to be upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, in good times and in bad.

Whether COVID-19 is coming back or not, our central planners have panicked. We do not have a free market in the U.S. in the delivery of health care; rather, we have thousands of pages of statutes, regulations and controls at the federal, state and local levels.

Those controls were revealed as manifestly deficient the last time around. The feds were so protective of their control of health care — an area of governance that the Supreme Court has ruled is nowhere delegated to them in the Constitution and, but for their power to tax those who defy them, is nonexistent — that they insisted that only the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta could be trusted to test for the virus.
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Well over 230,000 protested against mandatory injections and coronavirus IDs in France on Saturday


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 19:41 UTC
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More than 230,000 people took part in protests against sanitary passes throughout France on Saturday, 17,000 of which were in Paris, BFMTV reported citing the country's Interior Ministry.


Comment: Since the number in attendance is based on a statement from the Interior Ministry, we can be confident that the protests, now in their 4th consecutive week, were likely orders of magnitude larger. Based on organisers information and the footage coming out of even the smallest towns, some locals guesstimate that the number of protesters on Saturday was well over 2 million.


Some 237,000 people took to the streets in Paris and other French cities to protest against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for the medical staff and sanitary passes, according to the news. The most numerous of the rallies, with about 17,000 participants, began at the Pont de Neuilly subway station in Paris after 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT).

Comment: Even though the Interior Ministry admits attendance numbers are growing with each week, the protesters are still largely being ignored by the establishment and misrepresented by the media (as was the case with the Europe-wide Yellow Vest movement) but, this Monday, firefighter and nurse unions intend to go on strike, declaring the mandatory vaccines and IDs to be "unconstitutional", which is likely to draw more attention to the issue.

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Cuba legalizes small and medium enterprises in boost for private sector


France 24
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:36 UTC
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© YAMIL LAGE AFP/File
FILE PHOTO: The Cuban government has approved a law authorizing the creation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a major shift in the communist-ruled country
The Cuban government on Friday approved a law authorizing the creation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a major shift in the communist-ruled country where state-owned companies are the norm.

The change comes nearly a month after thousands of Cubans flocked to the streets decrying dictatorship and complaining of hunger in the largest demonstrations since the revolution that brought the late Fidel Castro to power in 1959.

At least one person died and hundreds were arrested in the unusual mass protests, which the government claimed were provoked by the United States.


Comment: The claim has merit, because the US is infamous for utilizing protests as cover for regime change operations, moreover, Russia explicitly accused the US of doing just that: Russia accuses US of 'staging' anti-government protests in Cuba; Washington must now 'end hypocrisy' of economic blockade


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Poll: two-thirds of Americans say they'll put on masks when sick post-pandemic

Mychael Schnell
The Hill
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 09:04 UTC
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© Susana Veera/Reuters/KJN
The 'comfy' covid clothing...
Two-thirds of Americans say they will continue to wear masks when sick and dress in comfortable clothing more often once the pandemic ends, according to a new poll.

The poll, conducted by The Washington Post and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, found that 67 percent of Americans plan to wear masks when sick after the pandemic ends, with 31 percent saying they do not plan on doing do.

Sixty-six percent of those polled said they will wear comfortable clothing more often after the threat of COVID-19 ends, with 31 percent saying they will not.

The poll comes as cases of the coronavirus skyrocket amid a new wave of cases of the delta variant, which is highly contagious. Outbreaks have raised new questions about just when the United States will really move beyond the pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden's chief medical adviser, warned on Wednesday that the U.S. could see up to 200,000 COVID-19 cases a day in the fall.

Comment: Herd immunity apparently doesn't outweigh herd mentality...if in fact the herd has a mentality. They listen to Fauci.

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Time's up: Virginia Roberts may sue Prince Andrew in US court, her lawyer announces

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 09:36 UTC
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© ADP 2021/John Thys
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Virginia Roberts has repeatedly claimed that the now-deсeased convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein procured her for Prince Andrew for sexual services when she was a teen. The second son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has consistently denied the allegations.

Virginia Roberts may file a multi-million-pound civil action against Prince Andrew in New York before the end of this week, her lawyer told the Daily Mail on Sunday. David Boies said the lawsuit "would be based on her [Roberts] being lent out to Prince Andrew for sex by [late convicted sex trafficker] Jeffrey Epstein and [her] being under 18".

Additionally, Boies pointed out that the legal action would include charges of "improper sexual violations, physical and emotional distress" and that the suit would also contain a claim for damages.

"To use a common phrase here in the United States, 'Time's up'", the lawyer said.

He warned that should the Duke ignore the lawsuit, it would go to trial without him and the court could deal with a default judgment. The amount of damages would then be outlined, and "that judgment could be enforced any place in the world", according to Boies.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison removes two-billion-year-old ROCK because 'racism'

Alex Anas Ahmed
The Post Millennial
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:04 UTC
University of Wisconsin-Madison rock racism

University of Wisconsin-Madison banishes its racist rock
The former Chamberlin Rock was a painful symbol of racism, so the University of Wisconsin-Madison removed it from the property. The rock has sat on Observatory Hill since 1925, where it was referenced by a derogatory nickname that was commonly used to refer to any large, dark rock.

Last November, students testified that the rock was a daily reminder of past and present injustices faced by students of colour. Chancellor Rebecca Blank accepted the recommendation. The Wisconsin Black Student Union, in partnership with the Native American student organization Wunk Sheek, endorsed its removal, according to WNews.

Comment: For anyone wondering what the offensive name was:
Chamberlin Rock, named for former university president and geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, was at least once referred to as a "n — — -head" rock in a 1925 Wisconsin State Journal story. University historians have not found any other time that the slur was used.

But the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus during that time. And the recent rediscovery of that long-ago news article prompted a reevaluation of an object that not only helped tell the story of the state's geologic history but also served as a daily reminder of a more recent troubling past.
So, a single offensive reference, from nearly one hundred years ago, is enough to force the expensive removal of a university icon, as well as the plaque honoring Chamberlin. More social justice lunacy.

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