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California lawmakers are considering enacting a sweeping COVID-19 vaccination mandate that would require residents to show proof of vaccination to enter many businesses statewide — but it may not come until after the Gavin Newsom recall election. The Sacramento Bee obtained a leaked version of the legislation, which would require restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters, hotels, sports stadiums and more to screen patrons for proof of vaccination. Similar policies have been launched in San Francisco and New York City, but the California proposal would be the first statewide legislation. Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, is one of the leading...

People must resist the vaccine passports to hell. There is a hard push for it in Hawaii. The passports are there to deny people travel, food and life unless they take the shots that will eventurally kill you.The boosters will never end. Once people take the jabs then you have to get boosters every 6 months initially. Then it will be ever 3 months and then every month. Have you ever heard of a vaccine you have to take boosters for the rest of your life? Of course not. This is a gene theraputic. Theraputics are temporary and need boosters....

Update (1410ET): Joe Biden kept it relatively short Monday, refusing to take questions, but still somehow remembering to urge American parents to make sure their kids are masked-up whenever they leave the house...President Biden: "Make sure your child is masked when they leave home." pic.twitter.com/VpgnjTGzD7 — The Hill (@thehill) August 23, 2021...and to warn American adults who have so far refused to get the vaccine: if you were waiting for full FDA approval, that time has come.He added: "The moment you've been waiting for is here. It's time for you to go get your vaccination. And get it today. Today."Let...

On Tuesday, San José's City Council will hear Mayor Sam Liccardo's proposal to require proof of vaccination prior to entry of any event of 50 or more people at city facilities. This would include events at the Convention Center, San José’s historic theaters, Center of the Performing Arts, and SAP Center, among others.

The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, shall take such actions as are necessary to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID–19. The Secretary shall ensure there is an exception to the requirement described in such subsection for an individual who is ineligible or medically unable to be fully vaccinated against COVID–19. In this Act, the term fully vaccinated against COVID–19 means receiving all recommended doses of a...

Call this suicide by Democrat. We have suicide bombers in the White House. We have suicide bombers in our Governor’s mansions. Worst of all, we have suicide bombers directing the US economy. This is the Titanic. This is the Hindenburg. We are headed for disaster. Vaccine passports will lead to the destruction of capitalism and the US economy. Goodbye small business. Goodbye middle class. New York City now demands vaccine passports to go into any restaurant, bar, nightclub, gym, even retail stores. Los Angeles followed suit. So did San Francisco and New Orleans. How many more will follow? Las Vegas,...

In a new Yahoo Finance Twitter poll, over 31,000 users responded to the question, "Would you avoid going to a restaurant if proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for entry?" 80.3% of respondents answered "yes," whereas 19.7% responded "no."

Governments around the world are implementing vaccine mandates and vaccine passports with varying degrees of severity, but all of them are shooting for the endgame of universal human inoculation. Mainstream media and Big Tech “arbiters of truth” at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others are all in on the plan. They may not have all the details, but they know the basic tenets of their two responsibilities. First, they must amplify all pro-vaccine content. Then, they must suppress all anti-vaccine content. These two practices have brought the joie de vivre to authoritarians in Silicon Valley and in newsrooms across the nation....

H.R.4980 - To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and for other purposes.

No jab, no food. A video out of France shows irate shoppers being blocked from entering a supermarket by police because they don’t have COVID passports. The footage shows people with shopping carts being blocked from entering the grocery store by security guards. The guards then begin pushing one woman away as the confrontation becomes more heated. A number of police officers then begin manhandling the frustrated shoppers, presumably not too concerned in that moment about social distancing. The angry shoppers don’t appear to be anti-lockdown protesters because almost all of them are wearing face masks. “The entire world has...

SANTA FE – As cases swell and hospital beds fill up, New Mexico will reimpose a mask mandate for public indoor spaces and require hospital workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face the possibility of losing their jobs. Public, private and charter school employees also will face new requirements under public health orders issued Tuesday. Teachers and other school employees will have the option of either getting vaccinated or undergoing weekly coronavirus testing, matching a requirement already in place for state workers. And everyone will be required to wear a mask regardless of vaccination status. Meanwhile, the mask mandate...

A group of restaurants and other small businesses sued New York City and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday for requiring customers show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter many indoor establishments. De Blasio’s mandate is “arbitrary, irrational, unscientific, and unlawful,” the business owners said in the 18-page suit, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court. Plaintiffs noted that the mandate contains no exceptions for people who cannot get a vaccine or those who had COVID-19 and have recovered, as studies have shown they enjoy some protection against re-infection. It also does not allow customers to choose instead...

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Justin Begley.With renewed mask mandates and guidelines in place, our policymakers are showing Americans their abandonment of reason. In fact, we are currently living in an age where reason is no longer a virtue, but a vice. In our culture of confusion, elected policymakers, influenced by unelected government bureaucrats, have abandoned their duty to institute policies that actually help Americans, choosing instead to make policy performatively — that is, to impress (or appease) a small minority. They make policy, not on the basis of reason and scientific evidence, but on the basis of...

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate across New York City restaurants Tuesday has sparked an instant backlash, with business owners branding the move 'segregation' and confused customers finding themselves turned away from eateries. Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial 'Key to NYC' scheme officially kicked off August 17, marking the US's strictest rule to date which separates the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in day-to-day life. And it is restaurant servers and bar staff who must be the public enforcers of the mayor's new mandate. -snip- Mary Josephine Generoso, manager of pastry shop and diner Pasticceria Rocco in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn,...

American personnel destroyed the passports of some Afghans when they were getting rid of all sensitive materials at the US Embassy in Kabul in preparation for a full evacuation, according an update that Rep. Andy Kim’s office is sharing with people who request assistance with evacuations from Afghanistan. It is unclear why the passports were destroyed, but it is possible diplomats determined it would have been dangerous for the documents to fall into the hands of Taliban members, who could then target those Afghans. Not having a passport creates major complications for Afghans who are desperately and urgently trying to...

Critical Race Theory has finally been demonstrated in America, but those who promote CRT wouldn't dare use this ironclad example. Proponents of Critical Race Theory are often caught torturing the numbers to present statistics that match their premises. It’s challenging to demonstrate the effects of so-called “systemic racism” in America because the hard numbers simply do not match the rhetoric. But there is one issue in particular where the numbers do not lie, supporting their CRT claims. Systemic racism does exist in vaccine mandates and the numbers are undeniable. According to a preprint study published by the National Center for...

wo French mayors in Beziers and Hayange have called on police not to enforce vaccine passport controls in cafes or restaurants. Fabien Engelmann, mayor of Hayange and a member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), asked local police not to enforce the coronavirus health pass in the commune, arguing that the domestic vaccine passport was anti-freedom. “It is not the job of the municipal police, nor the national police, to carry out checks to determine whether or not they have the right to drink coffee or eat something,” Mr Engelmann said on Tuesday, according to Actu. “Some municipalities use...

....In recent weeks my thoughts have been roiled by a series of questions that now I feel compelled to put down in writing. These are root questions about the nature of what I am calling the Counter-Revolution ― an organized and growing network of people nationwide increasingly willing to push back against the revolutionary tide of Fascism and the “Woke” New Faith-Ideology. What is fascinating about the Counter-Revolution is the surprising political breadth of the people that have been brought together under its tent of opposition. Classic liberals, conservatives, and libertarians; social conservatives, rationalist humanists and atheists; Christians, Jews, Muslims,...

Shortly after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the new rules on Aug. 3, a sign appeared in the front window of Pasticceria Rocco, a pastry shop and diner in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: “We do not discriminate against any customer based on sex, gender, race, creed, age, vaccinated or unvaccinated. All customers who wish to patronize are welcome.” “For me, it’s not political — most of my customers are vaccinated,” said Mary Josephine Generoso, who manages the eatery. “It’s about civil liberties and freedoms. Now we have to be in a society where people can’t roam freely and enter my place...

The Marxists behind the regime and the deep state were working their ‘magic’ to turn our country into a socialist gulag with them in charge little by little, like the proverbial frog in the frying pan. Now, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re engaged in a full sprint toward tyranny. We’ve gone from “two weeks to slow the spread” of the virus to mandatory vaccines, but they’re not being imposed by the federal government, they’re being implemented by private companies and corporations as a ‘favor’ to the regime in exchange for not being further regulated — and without...