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Covid vaccine certificates could lead to 'global identity document' used for all aspects of life, human rights NGO warns

Larnaca International Airport, in Larnaca, Cyprus
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The passport control point at Larnaca International Airport, in Larnaca, Cyprus June 9, 2020.
Covid-19 vaccination programs being launched around the world open the door to new forms of identification that could lead to greater government control over daily life, Privacy International has cautioned in a new report.

In its analysis, the UK-based human rights group said that vaccination cards and "immunity" passports being issued by some governments could pave the way for "digital identity schemes" and other forms of ID.

While countries like the UK insist that such documents are simply used to keep a record of vaccinations and remind people when they need to receive a second dose of the drug, Privacy International detailed how the seemingly benign cards, which on their face appear "necessary," could evolve into something quite different.

Comment: They are using this false pandemic to gain more control over the population. These vaccines are being pushed through with 'emergency authorization', despite the governments not knowing whether they're safe or effective.

Vaccine certificates will enable them totalitarian control over the population with a perfect excuse that it is all just to protect us from the "deadly" virus and from individuals who are refusing vaccines and are "socially irresponsible" in spreading the dreadful disease.


NPC

Wokestradamus? Parody Twitter account 'Titania McGrath' perfectly predicted the latest social justice battles

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A woman protests against 'toxic masculinity' on the streets of Zurich, Switzerland, June 14, 2020
In a bizarre case of life imitating art, a parody Twitter account making fun of the woke movement ended up predicting exactly what that movement would do. Does the line between satire and reality even exist any more?

'Titania McGrath' doesn't exist, and is a creation of Spiked columnist Andrew Doyle. Yet her Twitter account, which parodies and ridicules modern society's obsession with political correctness, has fooled the unaware before, even earning a ban from Twitter after a biting send-up of critical theory in which she argued doctors were "bullying and dehumanizing" sick people - i.e. "those who do not conform to their perceptions of "'wellness'" - and thus medical science should be banned as an oppressive, cisnormative, patriarchal construct.

While her satirical posts often imitated the most ridiculous declarations of the woke, they were never meant to be taken as an instruction manual. Yet, she now says that's exactly what happened, crediting herself with the ideas that progressive organizations and media outlets apparently embraced well after her tweets describing them - and this time it might not even be satire.

Comment: See also:


Syringe

Harmful? FDA now investigating after multiple allergic reactions to Pfizer COVID vaccine reported across US

A top FDA official says the 'culprit' behind the reaction may have been identified
Covid19 Vaccine
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday they are investigating after multiple allergic reactions were reported in people who had just received Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.

The new development comes just days after the Pfizer vaccine began to be administered nationwide.

Comment:

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Bad Guys

2020: The Year we Sold Our Liberties For a Medical Tyranny

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This is the third of five end-of-year articles looking at various aspects of our new Covidian State in 2020 (Parts 1 and 2 here and here). These pieces are also due to be published on the excellent Conservative Woman website from 27-31 December.

This year has seen what looks like the birth of a new religion. Let us call it Covidianity. It has its Prophets (eg. Neil Ferguson); its Priesthood of experts (eg. Whitty and Vallance); its own Soteriology (eg. The Vaccine of Salvation); its evangelists (eg. Piers Morgan); its own eschatology (eg. The New Normal); and of course its heretics (anyone questioning the data or the narrative).

Not everyone who has adopted the bizarre practices of Covidianity is a Covidian. Many have been cowed into it somewhat unwillingly; many have been bamboozled into it somewhat unwittingly; and many others just do not seem to have thought through what is being done to them, much less whether it is right, necessary and proportionate. But there are definitely true Covidians, and you can recognise them by their insistence that all bow down to their cult, and that those who refuse should be shamed.

In one sense, this religion has come upon us at warp speed. There we all were, going about our business at the start of the year, not particularly suspecting that there would be anything particularly out of the ordinary in 2020, and suddenly, wham! Yet in another sense, many of the ingredients were already in place long before this year, and they were simply brought together in one large melting pot to produce a toxic brew of fear, hysteria and irrationality on a truly epic scale.

Those ingredients include: A society that had abandoned belief in the Triune God and hadn't quite managed to find a replacement to fill the void; a society obsessed with Safetyism, and the general sterilisation of life; a society glued to the Propaganda Box in the corner of the room with millions hanging on the every word that proceeds from it as if it were the very Oracle of God; and a society that had, by and large, utterly forgotten what freedom actually means.

Bizarro Earth

Pensioner who toured schools with world's largest Smurf toy collection exposed as sick child rapist

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The retired lorry driver visited schools with his bizarre collection
A SICK pensioner who had the world's largest collection of toy Smurfs and called himself 'Papa Smurf' has been exposed as a child rapist.

Robin White, 65, travelled around schools displaying his collection of 11,500 Smurf dolls and memorabilia.

The twisted collector has now been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16.

The retired lorry driver, who has travelled the country showing off his collection in his van, was uncovered as a vile paedophile after the victim reported his crimes.

Comment: See also: About time: France detains modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry - UPDATE: Brunel charged with rape


Question

Will Tommy Tuberville back Mo Brooks in overturning Electoral College decision?

McConnell and others
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., poses with newly elected Republican senators, from left, Sen.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Sen.-elect Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Sen.-elect Roger Marshall, R-Kan., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks' pursuit to overturn the presidential election results by tossing out Electoral College votes in key battleground states will require at least one Senator to be successful when the new Congress convenes on January 6.

Veteran Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky have been named by national media outlets as possible allies. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said he was undecided on the matter Wednesday.

And another name floated in recent days: Senate-elect Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.

But unlike Cruz, Paul and Hawley - among others - Tuberville is a rookie senator who will be sworn into office on January 3, a mere three days before Congress meets to ratify the Electoral College's decision on Monday that awarded the presidency to Joe Biden.

If Tuberville is the sole senator backing Brooks, it would also place the former Auburn University head football coach at odds with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who congratulated Biden on Monday and - according to national news accounts - is warning fellow Republicans not to challenge the election results.

Stan McDonald, Tuberville's campaign chairman, during an interview on WVNN-radio in Huntsville on Tuesday, said:
"I think that he (Tuberville) and Ted Cruz are the two best candidates to do this. I don't know yet if or when he will do this. He's very seriously considering it."
Tuberville is in Georgia this week and was unavailable for comment.

Comment: Other sources are reporting the new senator could surprise us and make that bold move:
Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) indicated in a video that surfaced Thursday that that he thinks the Senate should support a challenge to the results of the Electoral College, which certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory this week.

Tuberville suggested he would back a challenge Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has vowed to bring against the vote. If a senator joins Brooks, it would require the House and Senate to debate and then vote on the issue.

"You see what's coming. You've been reading about it in the House. We're going to have to do it in the Senate," Tuberville said in the video taken by liberal activist Lauren Windsor at a rally for Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) in Georgia.

At the very least, Senator Tuberville seems willing to hit the ground running to start his tenure in the Senate. Not many have such convictions - be it early or even late in the game. Perhaps it takes a rookie to address the major flaws in the fabric of the nation and shows the rest of the bums in Congress how its done before political aphasia and mind-think arm-twisting kicks in. We shall see.


Attention

Suspicious? Dominion warned memory cards might need to be prematurely removed from voting machines

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Memory card fits into the side of the machine, allowing the card to infect the machine.
Dominion Voting Systems issued a warning to Georgia officials prior to the 2020 election that memory cards might need to be removed from vote tabulation machines prior to the end of the election to deal with a limitation in its system, according to records obtained by Just the News through an open-records request.

Officials acknowledged Thursday at least 36 memory cards had to be prematurely removed from vote tabulating machines in the Atlanta area that had reached counting limits. The cards were stored in a locked cabinet until polls closed, officials said.

Dominion, which has fiercely defended its technology since Election Day, issued the "customer advisory" on Oct. 26, according to a "bulletin" sent to county election officials from Georgia Elections Division Director Chris Harvey. The memo was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from Just the News to Fulton County, home to Atlanta, Georgia's largest city.

"Dominion Voting released a customer advisory yesterday stating that when an ImageCast Precinct (ICP) Tabulator reaches approximately 10,000 ballots cast for a single election, a message will appear that reads, 'Maximum Ballot Capacity Reached'," Harvey wrote in the memo.

Comment: Why did Georgia choose to limit the votes per card to 3/5ths the recommended tabulator capacity? Why did it not have a secure method of tracking those cards, given some were absent the final count? The anomalies in this election are still on the rise.

See also: File GABulletinDominionVotingMemCards.pdf


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Maricopa County Board of Supervisors refuses to comply with subpoenas to turn over Dominion voting machines for audit

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Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting
The Maricopa Board of Supervisors has voted 4-1 to refuse to comply with legislative subpoenas to turn over Dominion voting machines for a forensic audit. Instead of supporting transparency and making sure there was a free and fair election, they will be filing a complaint in Superior Court.

Subpoenas were issued for the machines by the Arizona Senate Judiciary earlier this week. "The goal is to verify the machines did what they are supposed to do," Senate President Karen Fann said. The subpoenas had set a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday.

Mr. Potato

WaPo-CNN pundit Zakaria losing it: Projection-laden rant claims Russia 'hacked our minds'

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Zakaria was among the pundits who told Americans for years that President Donald Trump is a 'Russian agent'.
The alleged hack of US government computers, for which the US media blame Russia without evidence, served as a pretext for Fareed Zakaria to first declare that it's all President Donald Trump's fault, then go full Russiagate.

"Russia hasn't just hacked our computer systems. It's hacked our minds," the Washington Post columnist and CNN host argued on Friday, blithely unaware of the irony. For if the article is a reflection of Zakaria's mind, then it definitely has been hacked - by Russiagate, anyway.

The piece isn't really about the SolarWinds hack, which Zakaria himself notes was merely "widely attributed to Russia" - by the media, starting with the Post, rather than the US government - but treats that as an established fact anyway. Rather, he uses that to quickly pivot to a "model" of how Russian propaganda supposedly works, which then finally leads into his real point: Orange Man Bad.

Handcuffs

About time: France detains modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry - UPDATE: Brunel charged with rape

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Ghislaine Maxwell with Jean Luc Brunel
French police are questioning the boss of a modelling agency suspected of supplying underage girls to the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was arrested by police at Charles de Gaulle airport before boarding a plane to Dakar on Wednesday, French officials said.

Paris prosecutors told journalists Brunel was being quizzed as part of an investigation opened last year into the alleged rape and sexual assault of minors, sexual harassment, and human trafficking of underage girls for sexual exploitation.

Agence France-Presse reported Brunel's lawyer had not responded to requests for a comment.

Comment: See also: UPDATE 18/12/2020: Jean-Luc Brunel has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 years old
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested on Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was preparing to take a flight to Senegal.

The Paris prosecutor announced in a statement on Saturday that a magistrate had laid the charges on Friday at the end of Brunel's custody period. It said Brunel was not handed any human trafficking charges, which was one of the main lines of inquiry.

The magistrate decided that there was not enough evidence to rule on that count, but he was not acquitted and could be charged in the future if anything new emerges. Brunel was remanded in custody.

Brunel is being investigated as part of a broad French inquiry into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by Epstein and his circle. A number of women have identified themselves as alleged victims and spoken to police since the investigation began in August last year, the same month in which Epstein killed himself in jail.