AG clarifies there won’t be curbs on unvaccinated unless epidemiologically justified  

After reports said government considering using restrictions to push more to get shots, Mandelblit stresses only health reasons are taken into account

26 December 2021, 

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit clarified Sunday that he has not approved restrictions on people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 where there is no epidemiological or health justification.

Mandelblit’s statement came after media reports claimed that the government has discussed curbs on those who don’t get the shots as a way to encourage inoculation amid fears that the highly infectious Omicron variant will swamp the country with coronavirus cases.

He noted that all restrictions that apply only to the unvaccinated require a medical professional opinion from the Health Ministry.

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December 27, 2021 | 11:34 am | 2 Comments »

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Difference is the genesis of bigotry  

The more homogeneous a society is, the less likely its citizens are to welcome foreigners.

By Rafael Castro, INN 

Mosque forbidden to non-muslims sign, Morocco

Mosque forbidden to non-muslims sign, MoroccoiStock

Countless studies are devoted to studying and advancing remedies to racism, homophobia, antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry. Most studies dig out complex historical, sociological and religious reasons for them.

Yet the bottom line is that hostility toward those who are different from us is hardwired into human nature. Although we can be drilled into stating that diversity is a positive value, our default reflex is to seek the company and support of people who are similar to us.

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December 27, 2021 | 8:55 am | 2 Comments »

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VAERS is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System  

What The VAERS Data Tells Us About Covid Jab Safety Jessica Rose, Ph.D.

VAERS is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System put in place in 1990. It is a voluntary reporting system that has been estimated to account for only 1% (see the Lazarus Report) of vaccine injuries. OpenVAERS is built from the HHS data available for download at vaers.hhs.gov.

The OpenVAERS Project allows browsing and searching of the reports without the need to compose an advanced search (more advanced searches can be done at medalerts.org or vaers.hhs.gov).

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December 27, 2021 | 7:51 am | Comments »

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Result in Antisemitism  

By Eileen F. Toplansky, AM THINKER

G. Tod Slone has written that “as a political ideology, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has proven time and again to be against freedom, reason, and truth.  Proponents of the ideology tend to be hypocrites and anti-white racists [.]”

In fact, DEI is also a pathway to anti-Semitism.  In a recent Heritage Foundation Report titled “Inclusion Delusion: The Anti-Semitism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff at Universities” the reader learns that:

university DEI staff are better understood as political activists with a narrow and often radical political agenda rather than promoters of welcoming and inclusive environments. Many DEI staff are particularly unwelcoming toward Jewish students who, like the vast majority of Jews worldwide, feel a strong connection to the state of Israel. The political activism of DEI staff may help explain the rising frequency of antisemitic incidents on college campuses as well as the association between college and graduate education and higher levels of antisemitic attitudes.

Rather than promoting diversity and inclusion, universities may be contributing to an increase in anti-Jewish hatred by expanding DEI staff and power.

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December 27, 2021 | 1:49 am | Comments »

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The UN Declares War on Israel  

By Victor Rosenthal

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
– Abba Eban

“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
“Who cares for you” said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The so-called “United Nations” has reached a new low in its descent from an idealistic organization dedicated to humanizing the behavior of nations, into a massive scam operation whose only consistent objective, aside from the enrichment of its employees, is the destruction of the Jewish state.
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December 26, 2021 | 4:39 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Covid fear factory is trembling  

By S.R. Piccoli, AM THINKER

Hard times are coming for vaccine fanatics and fear-mongering lockdown enthusiasts, or at least that’s what we can reasonably expect after reading the news coming out of South Africa and the U.K. about the Omicron variant. As a matter of fact, the data out of South Africa after five weeks of Omicron spread and out of the U.K. in the first full week after Omicron hit the country suggest that the new Covid-19 variant should be a cause for celebration and relief, not fear and alarm—yet that’s not the direction in which the American media and many politicians are heading.

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December 26, 2021 | 1:02 pm | Comments »

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An AUDIT IN FULTON, PA is coming  

By Patrick Bryne

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania overruled some Lefty Apparatchiks (Secretary of State and AG, both Dems), giving a greenlight to Fulton, County to look into machines it owns (via turning them over to the Pennsylvania State Senate). I use the story as a moment to deconstruct arguments made by some “government accountability” folk.

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December 26, 2021 | 3:38 am | 1 Comment »

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THE CHOICE IS OURS: What will it be?  

by Victor Sharpe

A timeless paean for peace, written millennia ago by the Biblical Jewish prophet Isaiah, appears on a wall across the street from the entrance to the building in New York City ironically housing that most unholy and unjust organization: the United Nations. The delegates from every part of the world walk by it but most see and understand it not. The words include:

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift-up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Isaiah 2:4.

On the other hand, Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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December 26, 2021 | 2:43 am | Comments »

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No Supply Issues With Ivermectin: Pharmaceutical Supplying PRINCIPLE Oxford Trial  

By Meiling Lee, EPOCH TIMES    

 

The New Jersey pharmaceutical company supplying ivermectin to a UK trial that was paused for a short period of time, says there are no supply issues with its pills.

Ivermectin is being investigated as part of the government-backed Platform Randomised Trial of Treatments in the Community for Epidemic and Pandemic Illnesses (PRINCIPLE) in the United Kingdom as a possible home treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The trial was put on hold due to “temporary supply issues” as reported by Medpage Today on Dec. 14.

Details were not provided on the cause of the supply issues. The trial’s joint chief investigator, professor Chris Butler, and the trial’s press team declined to comment and respond to a query asking when the supply issue is expected to be resolved.

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December 25, 2021 | 6:02 pm | 5 Comments »

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What Do We Do with the FBI Now?  

By John Green and Quentin Smith, AM THINKER

The events of the past five or six years have demonstrated to America that the FBI is no longer the unbiased law enforcement agency it once was.  Between the Hillary Clinton investigation-in-name-only, the Crossfire Hurricane hoax, the targeting of Americans as domestic terrorists, and playing three blind mice with the Biden graft machine, the bureau’s issues can’t be ignored any longer.  If we don’t take corrective action soon, the FBI will finish its transition from law enforcement to being a political functionary advancing the interests of one party.

There are only two options: rehabilitate the FBI, or eliminate it.  The current state is unacceptable in a functioning constitutional republic.  We need a credible and competent federal law enforcement capability.  Sadly, the FBI has lost its claim on both those things.

A company I once worked for ran afoul of equal opportunity employment regulations.  It was essentially placed on probation for a period of five years.  That probation came in the form of a consent decree — an agreement between the parties to resolve the problems, overseen by a court, and often verified by a court-appointed administrator.  It’s time for a consent decree between the FBI and the American people.
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December 25, 2021 | 5:37 pm | 5 Comments »

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Decades in the making, world’s most powerful telescope ever blasts off into space  

NASA’s James Webb telescope launches on daring quest to behold the first stars and scour the universe for hints of life

By MARCIA DUNN, TOI

In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (NASA via AP)
In this image released by NASA, Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (NASA via AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky.

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December 25, 2021 | 5:27 pm | 1 Comment »

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Lawsuit Reveals Fulton County 2020 Absentee Ballot Results Were Physically Impossible and Files Were Modified  

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There are a lot of questions surrounding the events in the State Farm Arena in Fulton County during Election 2020. All 148,318 absentee ballots were reportedly scanned in Fulton County’s ballot processing center at the Arena.

Those ballots processed in the Arena were supposed to be authenticated first. The voter logs were to be used to identify voters, and then the signatures would be verified. Separated from their envelopes, the ballots were then to be arranged in batches of 100. Each batch of ballots was then scanned using a Cannon DR-G2140 high-speed machine [as can be seen in the video from the Arena on Election night.] The image of every ballot was saved simultaneously.

The Fulton County clerk produced scanned images of absentee ballots as a result of a previous lawsuit. These images have been made public and are currently under review by a variety of individuals and groups. Read more…

December 25, 2021 | 1:59 am | 2 Comments »

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The empty suit at the head of the table  

What a damning Report Card

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett never held any real executive office, and he never had to implement his plans for beating the pandemic, applying sovereignty, or defeating Hamas.

 By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

The empty suit at the head of the table

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a primetime press conference about his COVID-19 policies Monday evening. It went poorly for him.

Channel 12 News reporter Ofer Hadad spoke for many Israelis when he said, “Mr. Prime Minister, on the one hand, you’re signaling urgency and fear, and on the other hand, confusion.

“You decide to require a Green Pass for entry into shopping malls, and then you do an about face. You call for children to get vaccinated and then we discover that the education minister is – at best – refusing to mobilize the school system to this end. You ask the citizens of Israel not to travel abroad. And then your family flies off to the Maldives. You’re confusing us.”

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December 24, 2021 | 3:12 pm | 40 Comments »

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The Soviet Union, Thirty Years Later  

Pres Reagan“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” he said. “We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

The moral struggle continues.

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

For years, if you opened the closet in the foyer of my Manhattan apartment, you’d encounter a pile of copies of the New York Times from the week in late December 1991 during which the Soviet Union breathed its last. I’ve never been in the habit of hanging on to old newspapers in which my byline didn’t appear, but that week, it seemed to me at the time, was the greatest historical turning point I’d ever experienced.

It was certainly the most astonishing. I remember a point, sometime in the late 1980s, when, during a visit to Washington, I expressed over lunch with American Spectator editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski what was then an almost universal cynicism about talk of a post-Communist Europe. “No,” said Wlady, who was far more plugged into these developments than most of us, “it’s really happening.”

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December 24, 2021 | 1:38 pm | 2 Comments »

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A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews  

By Melanie Phillips

Expulsion of the Jews from England,1290; detail from Rochester Chronicle,13th century.

Christian churches, seemingly deaf to baleful historical and theological echoes, have decided to mark Christmas 2021 by scapegoating the Jews.

In the last week, a preposterous campaign has been mounted by church leaders to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria.

An article in last weekend’s Sunday Times, written jointly by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum, warned about a crisis of Christian survival “in the Holy Land”.
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December 24, 2021 | 1:25 pm | 4 Comments »

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