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  • Charges dropped against restaurant that refused to shut down or use vaccine passports during COVID lockdowns

    11/18/2023 12:46:44 PM PST · by Twotone · 27 replies
    The Blaze ^ | November 16, 2023 | Andrew Chapados
    A restaurant that refused to shut down during COVID-19 restrictions and didn't require documentation of vaccination had its charges dropped after finally getting its day in court. The crown dropped charges against Jesse Johnson, owner of Without Papers Pizza, after just 10 minutes of action in the courtroom, Media Bezirgan reported. The Calgary, Canada, business faced shutdowns and charges from the Alberta provincial government after it refused to close while also declining to participate in Canada's vaccine passport program, which required two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to eat indoors at restaurants. "These bastards, they literally tried to break me...
  • Americans Are Essential — Not Their Government

    10/30/2023 4:41:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 30 Oct, 2023 | J.B. Shurk
    The House has a new speaker, and now attention returns to whether a government “shutdown” can be averted before November 17. If only the American people could place the federal government in lockdown just as the unaccountable bureaucracy did to them during COVID’s oppressive hysteria. (So much for the people being in charge, eh?) In response to our unmanageable debt problem, there is an online meme that is spreading faster than Biden’s human trafficking business at the border: Government Shutdown — Fifteen Days to Flatten the Curve. Sounds like a good plan. Shut ’er down, and we’ll see where we...
  • Does Trump's Shutdown Decision Disqualify a Future Presidency?

    08/05/2023 6:12:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 58 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/05/2023 | Manic Contrarian
    So, I’m having a friendly debate with somebody about this “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” post by Mr. Trump…My friend, a retired police officer, is a great guy, salt of the earth, etc. He thinks it’s an understandable representation of Trump’s frustration. And maybe it is. But the question remains, did Trump’s attorneys have the chance to see that post before he pushed “send”? Did anybody above the age of 14? Does anybody honestly think had his attorneys seen it, they’d have said, “Yes, Mr. President, we think that’s a really swell post; put that jazz...
  • Oregon county lost $1 billion in 2020 as residents fled crime, homelessness: 'It's like Portland died'

    08/04/2023 6:43:10 AM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 3, 2023 | Andrew Mark Miller
    Portland lost 6th-most residents in United States over past year.. Multnomah County, where Portland, Oregon, is located, reportedly lost more than $1 billion in income between 2020 and 2021 as a result of residents fleeing the state amid surging crime, homelessness and safety concerns... 14,257 tax filers and their dependents left Multnomah County during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 and took a record $1 billion of income with them. The data showed that higher earners were more likely to leave since their jobs could be done remotely during coronavirus shutdowns, and the average income of people leaving...
  • EXC: DeSantis Hired Radical Left, Open Border, Anti-Gun, LGBT & Abortion Activist

    07/24/2023 4:37:54 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 41 replies
    Ron DeSantis appointed the radically pro-lockdown, Never-Trump Democrat, Dave Kerner as Interim Executive Director of Florida’s Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in January this year, ignoring a petition by more than one thousand Floridians who opposed the appointment on the grounds that his policies contravened freedom in the sunshine state, The National Pulse can reveal.Kerner, 39, is a former Democratic Member of the Florida House of Representatives with a radical legislative record, including voting to force churches to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, voting against a bill to ban Floridian taxpayer money from funding abortions, voting against a bill to allow...
  • EXC: DeSantis Wouldn’t Fire Florida’s Own Fauci During COVID – Dr. Alonso

    07/18/2023 10:27:25 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 46 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 07/17/2023 | JAKE WELCH
    Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci. “Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got...
  • Lockdowns: the Self-Inflicted Disaster

    07/07/2023 9:33:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    City Journal ^ | Jul 06 2023 | John Tierney
    Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.. Long before Covid struck, economists detected a deadly pattern in the impact of natural disasters: if the executive branch of government used the emergency to claim sweeping new powers over the citizenry, more people died than would have if government powers had remained constrained. It’s now clear that the Covid pandemic is the deadliest confirmation yet of that pattern. Governments around the world seized unprecedented powers during the pandemic. The result was an unprecedented disaster, as recently demonstrated by two exhaustive analyses of the lockdowns’...
  • Fauci say, Ronnie do

    05/26/2023 7:13:02 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 41 replies
    Twitter ^ | 8:53 AM · May 26, 2023 | MAGA War Room
    Fauci say, Ronnie do https://t.co/gpPSDwEaHw pic.twitter.com/lHeI0F8kGQ— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) May 26, 2023
  • Di Leo: The Pandemic, and Crimes Against Humanity

    05/23/2023 9:17:57 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 5 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | May 23, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo
    In all likelihood, we have all been the victim of slights, of transgressions, even of high crimes like robbery or physical abuse at some point in our lives. How do we deal with that? Do we allow it to eat at our soul, ruining our lives forever? Do we plot revenge? Or do we learn from it, put it behind us, and move on? In our personal lives, this is a question handled differently – by philosophy, by religion, by psychology; our approach is shaped by our cultures, by our families, neighborhoods, and by our studies. No matter what path...
  • COVID shutdowns were just the beginning. Climate lockdowns are next

    04/15/2023 5:12:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 67 replies
    Life Site News ^ | Apr 14, 2023 | Norman Fenton
    Apart from the extreme limitations on personal freedom and travel, this means either a colder, hungrier population or massive depopulation. Two days ago I posted what I thought would be quite an innocuous twitter thread about the implications of the U.K. government’s target of “net zero” by 2050. Reminder of what ‘net zero’ really means. ... Key points: all airports except Heathrow, Belfast & Glasgow to close by 2030. NO FLYING at all by 2050. No new petrol/diesel cars by 2030; by 2050 road use restricted to 60% of today’s level. 2. Food, heating and energy restricted to 60% of...
  • How Fanatics Took Over the World

    11/16/2021 2:24:53 PM PST · by george76 · 11 replies
    Brownstone Institute ^ | NOVEMBER 15, 2021 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
    Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from a man named Dr. Rajeev Venkayya. He is the head of a vaccine company but introduced himself as former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation. Now I was listening. I did not know it then, but I’ve since learned from Michael Lewis’s (mostly terrible) book The Premonition that Venkayya was, in fact, the founding father of lockdowns. While working for George W. Bush’s White House in 2005, he headed a bioterrorism study group. From his perch of influence –...
  • Three Years Later: Reflections on Colorado’s Covid Response

    03/09/2023 7:40:45 AM PST · by george76 · 18 replies
    Free State Colorado ^ | MARCH 8, 2023 | Brandon Wark
    Three years after the March 2020 shutdowns, the legacy of Covid-era policies are still haunting Colorado. History will show the Covid policies pushed by the Governor, State Health Officials, and the Federal Government not only failed to achieve their goals, but caused tremendous harm. Communities suffered, businesses failed, and many individuals were pushed over the edge. Drug overdoses, suicide, domestic violence and record crime are the legacy of the State’s Covid policies. It must not be forgotten how destructive these policies were. And the names of those responsible must be remembered. Sadly, after three years, politicians and state health officials...
  • What Is Crimson Contagion?

    12/27/2022 3:23:22 PM PST · by lightman · 22 replies
    epoch times ^ | 27 December A.D. 2022 | Jeffrey Tucker
    The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors. The idea of school shutdowns, business closures, plus mandatory remote work and other restrictions have previously seemed inconceivable. It was especially remarkable to have such an “all-of-government” response to a virus that we already knew posed a threat mainly to the elderly and infirm. Issues like public-health precedent, American legal tradition, and medical knowledge about dealing with respiratory viruses, not to mention natural immunity and collateral damage of lockdowns, were all thrown out the window. Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s book “The...
  • Fauci: ‘Tough to Say’ if We Advised States to Stay Closed for Too Long, ‘Arguable’ Whether Shutdowns Should Have Been Longer or Shorter

    12/10/2022 12:11:47 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/10/2022 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that “it’s tough to say” if federal guidance to close down for the coronavirus pandemic went on for too long in light of states like Florida that opened up before the federal government recommended and did relatively fine. Host Judy Woodruff asked, “We’ve heard people say, in particular, that you and others who were in charge of getting the word out to the American people sent the message that we needed to keep things closed for too long and that there were states like Florida that opened...
  • Fauci: COVID Shutdowns Did Not ‘Forever Irreparably’ Damage Anyone

    08/23/2022 6:49:59 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 59 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/23/2023 | Pam Key
    Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World” that the COVID shutdowns did not “forever irreparably” damage anyone. Cavuto said, “In retrospect, Doctor, do you regret that it went too far, whatever your original intentions were, and it’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback here, but that it went too far, that, particularly for kids who couldn’t go to school, except remotely, that it’s forever damaged them?”
  • New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

    06/18/2021 12:14:52 PM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    Foundation for Economic Education. ^ | June 17, 2021 | Brad Polumbo
    The picture painted is one of working-class destruction.. Founding father and the second president of the United States John Adams once said that “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” What he meant was that objective, raw numbers don’t lie—and this remains true hundreds of years later. We just got yet another example. A new data analysis from Harvard University, Brown University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation calculates how different employment levels have been impacted during the pandemic...
  • The ‘Dam Is Broken’ After Court Rules Oceana Grill Can Seek Damages for COVID Shutdowns. ( New Orleans )

    06/19/2022 4:04:44 PM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    Vox Media ^ | Jun 17, 2022 | Clair Lorell
    The ruling on Wednesday is the first win in appellate court for a restaurant seeking business interruption insurance losses.. Oceana Grill, Bourbon Street’s tourist-centric restaurant loved by New Orleans hotel concierges, has won the country’s first victory in appellate court for an insured business seeking damages related to COVID-19 shutdown losses. A split Louisiana court found the policy’s definition of “direct physical loss or damage” ambiguous, ruling in favor of the restaurant on Wednesday, June 15. Cajun Conti, the company that owns Oceana Grill, among other French Quarter tourist haunts, sued Lloyd’s of London on March 20, 2020 — the...
  • Why Is Walensky Refusing to Answer this Senator’s Questions? . ( Ron Johnson )

    03/07/2022 12:08:12 PM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Sharyl Attkisson .. Brownstone Institute ^ | MARCH 6, 2022 | Sharyl Attkisson
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has taken a lead throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to hold public health officials and agencies accountable if they’ve failed to provide accurate and timely information to the public for whom they work. From masks, vaccines, and school shutdowns, to the origination of Covid-19, Johnson has been asking critical questions. However, he says he has received very few answers. According to Johnson, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky is one of the public health officials who has been non-compliant with his requests. To date, Johnson says he has made eight specific requests, directly of Walensky,...
  • Denmark to lift Covid curbs in return to 'life as we knew it'

    01/26/2022 9:19:14 PM PST · by conservative98 · 7 replies
    New Straits Times ^ | January 26, 2022 @ 9:36pm | By AFP
    COPENHAGEN: Denmark will remove virtually all Covid restrictions from next Tuesday despite record infections, counting on a high vaccination rate to cope with the milder Omicron variant, the government said. "We are saying farewell to the restrictions and welcome to life as we knew it before corona," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a press conference on Wednesday. Denmark is set to become the first European Union country to lift domestic curbs [cut] the government decided that coronavirus should no longer be considered a threatening disease for society." That means the de facto lifting of all domestic restrictions, including the use...
  • Teachers’ Unions Across the Country Demand School Shutdowns over Low-Risk Omicron

    01/05/2022 11:14:03 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/05/2021 | BRECCAN F. THIES
    Teachers’ unions across the country are demanding that schools shut down in favor of virtual learning amid concerns over the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus. Virtual learning has proven detrimental to the educations, social development, and mental health of children.