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Arizona governor quietly bans all public worker vaccination mandates

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© Arizona Republic/poolArizona Governor Doug Ducey
In an unannounced executive order regarding enhanced monitoring of COVID-19 metrics, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey banned public employers from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.

The order, signed Wednesday, primarily reactivates the state's "enhanced surveillance advisory," which requires most hospitals to provide consistent updates on ventilators, ICU beds, inpatient beds, ED beds, number of patients pending transfer out of hospitalization, as well as more detailed COVID-19 patient data.

One line stands out:
"No person shall be required by this state, or any city, town or county, to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine but a health care institution licensed pursuant to A.R.S. Title 36, Chapter 4 may require the institution's employees to be vaccinated."
The governor's office was not available for comment on the addition Thursday afternoon.

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Californians are ignoring Gavin Newsom's statewide mask mandate

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© AP/Marcio Jose SanchezCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom
Californians are ignoring Gov. Gavin Newsom's statewide mask mandate, which went into effect Wednesday for most indoor spaces, and is meant to prevent a winter surge of coronavirus cases associated with the new Omicron variant of coronavirus.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this week, Newsom exempted San Francisco — where he used to be mayor of the city — and the surrounding counties, because of the high vaccination rate in the region. But others are just ignoring the mandate.

The Sacramento Bee reported that no one can figure out who is responsible for enforcing the mask mandate.
When asked about the lack of enforcement mechanism for the mandate, which went into effect Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he "has faith" in Californians to follow it, but didn't provide specifics on what would happen if they didn't.

"I have more faith than you do in the capacity of people to do the right thing. That's the response," Newsom told a reporter during a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday. "I think people are more capable once they're given the 'why' and the 'what' to apply themselves...and I think a lot of people will self-enforce and do the right thing."

Local government officials say the state hasn't given any guidance on enforcement, and some local authorities say they won't enforce the state's order at all.

Comment: Shock and flaw tactics are losing momentum...even in California. Newsom can no longer cry 'wolf'.


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QR codes in Russia? Not worth it.

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© Anton Novoderzhkin / TASSRussia's State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin
A draft bill on introducing vaccine proof on public transport was removed from the Russian State Duma's agenda. Here's why.

Draft legislation on introducing QR-code vaccine proof for accessing planes and trains in Russia will not go to the floor of the State Duma, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on Telegram late in the evening on December 12. This abrupt announcement came just two days before lawmakers were expected to vote on the bill, which had already been sent to regional legislative assemblies for feedback. Despite public protests opposing the legislation, three quarters of Russia's regions approved the proposal. So why was the draft law shelved at the last minute? Here's what Meduza found out.

On November 24, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asked his Telegram followers to share their thoughts on proposed legislation that would make QR-code vaccine passports mandatory for accessing many public places and intercity transit across Russia. In response, he was flooded with around 700,000 comments — most of them negative.

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Nick Sandmann announces settlement of defamation lawsuit with NBCUniversal

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Nicholas Sandman being confronted by faux native activist and agitator Nathan Phillips
Former Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann said Friday that he has reached a settlement in his defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal.

"At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement. The terms are confidential," tweeted Mr. Sandmann.

In May 2019, he sued NBCUniversal for $275 million, alleging that the media company "unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school student."

Comment: It's satifying to see the propaganda outfits get their comeuppance once in a while. Up next, Kyle Rittenhouse.


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Ya think? Latest poll finds UK public do not want another lockdown

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© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File PhotoFILE PHOTO: A woman holds a placard during an anti-lockdown protest near the Houses of Parliament, London, Britain, June 14, 2021.
Guido can't remember the last time a poll on Covid saw the public really reject any proposed restrictions on civil liberties, however a new one in today's Times demonstrates just that. According to a poll of 1,714 people between the 14th and 15th, the arrival in Omicron saw very little movement on the public's opposition to:Shutting pubs and restaurants: 60% opposition
  • Shutting non-essential shops: 65% opposition
  • Banning indoor meetings with people from other households: 62%
  • Banning indoor meeting people from other households on Christmas Day: 68%
  • Pubs, bars and restaurants not being allowed to open on New Year's Eve: 53%

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UPenn parents demand NCAA address dominance of trans swimmer Lia Thomas breaking women's records

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© Instagram / FacebookThomas competed as Will before becoming Lia.
Parents of swimmers at the University of Pennsylvania are demanding the NCAA address the dominance of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas breaking records in women's competitions.

A group of parents of 10 swimmers argued Thomas has an unfair advantage over female swimmers, according to a letter sent to the NCAA last week obtained by the Daily Mail.

"At stake here is the integrity of women's sports. The precedent being set — one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete," the letter said. "It is the responsibility of the NCAA to address the matter with an official statement."

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Blatant propaganda: G7 countries warn Omicron 'biggest threat to global public health'

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© Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesEU countries are facing a wave from both the Delta and Omicron variants, as they head into the winter holidays.
Health ministers from the world's seven richest democracies agreed Thursday that the Omicron coronavirus variant that is surging across Europe and other parts of the world is the "biggest threat to global public health."

Working together and sharing information will be "crucial" in responding to the rapidly growing Omicron wave, G7 health ministers agreed in the final meeting of the U.K.'s G7 presidency.

The U.K. recorded more than 88,000 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, with Omicron cases driving the surge. The country has now registered more than 49,000 cases of Omicron total, while in Denmark, a country with a population of around 6 million and another Omicron hotspot, more than 9,000 Omicron cases have now been recorded.

Comment: They are lying to our faces. A former Biden COVID-19 adviser is saying a 'viral blizzard' about to hit the US; while Biden himself is predicting a 'winter of death' for unvaxxed. Yet from this article on CNN about 900 Covid cases at Cornell University:
"Virtually every case of the Omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot," said Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina in a statement.
But don't let that stop you from getting on the infinite booster treadmill.

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Ghislaine Maxwell's team calls 'false memories' expert to undermine accusers' claims

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© REUTERSGhislaine Maxwell's lawyer Bobbi Sternheim questioned "false memories" expert psychologist Elizabeth Loftus on the stand.
A psychologist and expert on "false memories" who has testified or consulted in high-profile trials — including Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby's — was called to the stand in Ghislaine Maxwell's case by her defense lawyers Thursday as part of their attempts to undermine her accusers' testimony.

Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, was questioned by Maxwell attorney Bobbi Sternheim, about how a person's memories can be influenced or constructed.

"Emotion is no guarantee that you're dealing with an authentic memory," she told the jury.

Comment: More from Business Insider:
Earlier this year, around 150 women accusing Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse accepted money from a victims' compensation fund.

The disgraced financier killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. For his accusers, the $125 million distributed from the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program gave a sense of closure that the criminal justice system couldn't.

In accepting money from the program, the accusers had to sign a release form, a copy of which has been obtained by Insider.

The language in the release required the women to drop any existing lawsuits against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate who multiple women have accused of sexually abusing them and of trafficking them to Epstein. The release also forbids accusers who accepted compensation from ever filing a lawsuit against Maxwell in the future.
So why would they have paid these girls off if their memories were "false"?


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Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

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Dear Mark Zuckerberg,

We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world's oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the "fact checking" being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta.

In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia's trial sites.

The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ's usual high level editorial oversight and review.[1]

But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about "Missing context ... Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people." Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share "false information" might have their posts moved lower in Facebook's News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were "partly false."

Comment: Welcome to the club, BMJ. Although, Facebook admits 'fact checks' are nothing more than opinion in court, good luck trying to get them to change their stance. Social media censorship has been part of the plan for awhile.


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Rex Murphy: How the 'cancel culture' mob's attempt to silence Jordan Peterson backfired

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© Jordan PetersonJordan Peterson, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
Cancel culture is a misnomer for the ages. If it is anything, it is first surely not a culture, but its very opposite and antithesis. An anti-culture, or a movement to suffocate and injure real culture.

Like many other pernicious practices, it comes out of the horrid womb of woke politics. Its mode of operation is simple and, alas, well known. When it was a mere toddler its operations were localized. Mainly it was kept behind the ivy-darkened walls of the modern university, nursed by all the laboured and ersatz "disciplines" of the various and hollow studies departments. It emerged from the fallow field of identity politics and found ready home in all the morbid "isms" of our time, and the shower of every multiplying "phobias." I won't list them. You know what they are, but all orbit around Planet Politically Correct, and all are empty.

The earliest demonstrations of the anti-intellectual cancel culture phenomenon usually revolved around bands of precious students ganging up to stop some speaker coming to a campus, under the ludicrous accusation that the particular speaker would "create an unsafe space." That he or she would threaten to destabilize the hyper-ripe sensibilities of the various "marginalized" groups, force their "erasure" and buttress "hegemonic discourse and cis-heteronormative privilege," this latter a piece of arcana known only to those who write and say such things. I have yet to meet a "cis-het" and it causes me no grief I have not.

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