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NEW BRUNSWICK – Dorothy Shephard offers a truly unique approach to public health policy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unlike every other Health Minister across Canada, Dorothy Shephard doesn’t believe that access to food is a basic human right, as outlined in pesky international treaties, such as the United Nations International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Besides, these are old treaties from before the pandemic.
Indeed, Minister Shephard public policy vision also appears to ignore the Guidance on Essential Services and Functions in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic, which designates food as part of Canada’s basic critical infrastructure, and therefore deemed “essential”.
That’s why she announced in early December 2021 that New Brunswick will be first province in Canada to allow grocery stores to ban the unvaccinated from purchasing food, in exchange for higher store capacities.
To be sure, as a leader in public health, Minister Shephard understands that private businesses might need some convincing to start starving their former customers – so why not introduce a 50% reduction in store capacity limits at the same time – just in case the grocers don’t immediately move to deny thousands of New Brunswickers food?
Minister Shephard, whose extensive public health policy experience includes writing romantic comedies novels, and being an owner/operator of a Benjamin Moore Colour Centre, is the first Canadian politician to understand that starving the unvaccinated is a bold approach to the pandemic, and clearly the best way to enhance public health and safety in New Brunswick.
https://ilikestarvingnewbrunswickers.ca/
#covid19 #Canada #NewBrunswick #bioterror #dictatorship #Health_Security_State
Unlike every other Health Minister across Canada, Dorothy Shephard doesn’t believe that access to food is a basic human right, as outlined in pesky international treaties, such as the United Nations International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Besides, these are old treaties from before the pandemic.
Indeed, Minister Shephard public policy vision also appears to ignore the Guidance on Essential Services and Functions in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic, which designates food as part of Canada’s basic critical infrastructure, and therefore deemed “essential”.
That’s why she announced in early December 2021 that New Brunswick will be first province in Canada to allow grocery stores to ban the unvaccinated from purchasing food, in exchange for higher store capacities.
To be sure, as a leader in public health, Minister Shephard understands that private businesses might need some convincing to start starving their former customers – so why not introduce a 50% reduction in store capacity limits at the same time – just in case the grocers don’t immediately move to deny thousands of New Brunswickers food?
Minister Shephard, whose extensive public health policy experience includes writing romantic comedies novels, and being an owner/operator of a Benjamin Moore Colour Centre, is the first Canadian politician to understand that starving the unvaccinated is a bold approach to the pandemic, and clearly the best way to enhance public health and safety in New Brunswick.
https://ilikestarvingnewbrunswickers.ca/
#covid19 #Canada #NewBrunswick #bioterror #dictatorship #Health_Security_State
Forwarded from DISASTER X (Maximilian Forte)
‘Beyond Chilling’: Homeland Security Seeks to Share Biometric Databanks With Foreign Countries
“The ramifications of a government — any government — having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling,” John Whitehead, attorney and author told The Defender.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is promoting “Enhanced Border Security Agreements” by offering access to the department’s vast biometric databanks to foreign states that agree to reciprocate, according to a July 22 Statewatch report.
A DHS document, “DHS International Biometric Information Sharing (IBIS) Program,” is effectively a “sales pitch” to potential “foreign partners,” Statewatch said.
According to the document, the IBIS Program provides “a scalable, reliable, and rapid bilateral biometric and biographic information sharing capability to support border security and immigration vetting.”
Biometric technologies work by identifying unique features in the biological traits of a person and comparing them with stored information to see if a person is who they say they are.
According to DHS, these traits — which could be physical, such as a fingerprint or iris pattern, or behavioral, such as voice patterns — are used for “automated recognition” of individuals.
Some human rights and civil liberties advocates raised concerns about the collection of people’s biometric information by the DHS, foreign governments and corporations.
“It’s not just the surveillance and the buying and selling of your data that is worrisome,“ John Whitehead, a civil liberties attorney and author told The Defender.
“The ramifications of a government — any government — having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling,” he said.
The soaring use of biometric technologies is about money and profits, Whitehead said....
The extensive surveillance of U.S. citizens — first revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, and the subject of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — still operates with no judicial and limited congressional oversight, according to a June 2021 report in The Washington Post.
While the NSA’s continued surveillance of citizens is problematic, Whitehead said he’s more concerned about today’s genetic “panopticon” — a digital prison of constant surveillance — in which “we’re all suspects in a DNA lineup, waiting to be matched with a crime.”
“In an age of overcriminalization, round-the-clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other,” Whitehead co-wrote in a July 27 article for the Rutherford Institute.
Corporations and governments around the world are rapidly investing in new technologies for identifying and tracking people, according to Global Newswire, which in June estimated the market to be worth just north of $49 billion in 2022 — and projected it will more than double, to $102 billion, by 2027....
According to Whitehead, a current for-profit surveillance capitalism scheme that threatens people’s privacy is made possible with individuals’ cooperation.
“All those disclaimers you scroll through without reading them, the ones written in minute font, only to quickly click on the ‘Agree’ button at the end so you can get to the next step — downloading software, opening up a social media account, adding a new app to your phone or computer — those signify your written consent to having your activities monitored, recorded and shared,” Whitehead said....
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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/homeland-security-share-biometric-databanks-foreign-countries/
#digitalID #WEF #surveillance #DHS #dictatorship #totalitarianism #capital #polecon
“The ramifications of a government — any government — having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling,” John Whitehead, attorney and author told The Defender.
EXTRACTS:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is promoting “Enhanced Border Security Agreements” by offering access to the department’s vast biometric databanks to foreign states that agree to reciprocate, according to a July 22 Statewatch report.
A DHS document, “DHS International Biometric Information Sharing (IBIS) Program,” is effectively a “sales pitch” to potential “foreign partners,” Statewatch said.
According to the document, the IBIS Program provides “a scalable, reliable, and rapid bilateral biometric and biographic information sharing capability to support border security and immigration vetting.”
Biometric technologies work by identifying unique features in the biological traits of a person and comparing them with stored information to see if a person is who they say they are.
According to DHS, these traits — which could be physical, such as a fingerprint or iris pattern, or behavioral, such as voice patterns — are used for “automated recognition” of individuals.
Some human rights and civil liberties advocates raised concerns about the collection of people’s biometric information by the DHS, foreign governments and corporations.
“It’s not just the surveillance and the buying and selling of your data that is worrisome,“ John Whitehead, a civil liberties attorney and author told The Defender.
“The ramifications of a government — any government — having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling,” he said.
The soaring use of biometric technologies is about money and profits, Whitehead said....
The extensive surveillance of U.S. citizens — first revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, and the subject of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — still operates with no judicial and limited congressional oversight, according to a June 2021 report in The Washington Post.
While the NSA’s continued surveillance of citizens is problematic, Whitehead said he’s more concerned about today’s genetic “panopticon” — a digital prison of constant surveillance — in which “we’re all suspects in a DNA lineup, waiting to be matched with a crime.”
“In an age of overcriminalization, round-the-clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other,” Whitehead co-wrote in a July 27 article for the Rutherford Institute.
Corporations and governments around the world are rapidly investing in new technologies for identifying and tracking people, according to Global Newswire, which in June estimated the market to be worth just north of $49 billion in 2022 — and projected it will more than double, to $102 billion, by 2027....
According to Whitehead, a current for-profit surveillance capitalism scheme that threatens people’s privacy is made possible with individuals’ cooperation.
“All those disclaimers you scroll through without reading them, the ones written in minute font, only to quickly click on the ‘Agree’ button at the end so you can get to the next step — downloading software, opening up a social media account, adding a new app to your phone or computer — those signify your written consent to having your activities monitored, recorded and shared,” Whitehead said....
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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/homeland-security-share-biometric-databanks-foreign-countries/
#digitalID #WEF #surveillance #DHS #dictatorship #totalitarianism #capital #polecon
Children's Health Defense
‘Beyond Chilling’: Homeland Security Seeks to Share Biometric Databanks With Foreign Countries
“The ramifications of a government — any government — having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling,” John Whitehead, attorney and author told The Defender.
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Federal court strikes down Biden admin’s online censorship collusion with Big Tech
The ruling limits Big Tech and the Biden administration's collusion to silence contrarian views.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals curtailed the ability of the federal government to work together with Big Tech companies to censor free speech.
The September 8 ruling forbids President Biden’s team from using companies such as Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, to act as a censor to advance his agenda and prevent speech that questions the safety and efficacy of COVID shots or raises concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election.
In one instance, a Biden staffer quickly convinced Instagram to remove an account that parodied Dr. Anthony Fauci. Plaintiffs included silenced contrarians, such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff....
The September 8 ruling resulted in a modified prohibition.
“Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech,” a new injunction against some Biden officials now states.
“That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making processes,” the injunction continues.
Those officials include the Surgeon General and the White House, which were guilty of “coercive” statements, according to the three-judge panel.
The ruling also cited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for encouraging social media censorship.
“In short, when the platforms acted, they did so in response to the FBI’s inherent authority and based on internal policies influenced by FBI officials,” the opinion stated. “Taking those facts together, we find the platforms’ decisions were significantly encouraged and coerced by the FBI.”...
“In an unprecedented, historic decision, the Fifth Circuit has recognized that the conduct of the White House, CDC, Surgeon General, and FBI violated Americans’ First Amendment rights,” attorney Jenin Younes stated. “The government cannot coerce or encourage social media companies to censor views it dislikes. This decision vindicates the Plaintiffs’ rights and protects the free speech of all Americans.”
“The New Civil Liberties Alliance celebrates this landmark victory for our clients, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Aaron Kheriaty, and Ms. Jill Hines,” the group stated. “At the government’s request, the Fifth Circuit stayed the order for 10 days to give the government time to petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“The Biden Administration’s years-long censorship campaign has suppressed perspectives contradicting government-approved views on hotly disputed topics like whether natural immunity to Covid-19 exists, Covid-19 vaccine concerns, the virus’s origins, and mask mandate efficacy,” the group stated.
“The vast, coordinated censorship campaign has silenced public voices including influential doctors and scientists. Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorff and Kheriaty, and Ms. Hines have all been blacklisted, shadow-banned, de-boosted, throttled, and censored on social media.” /
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/federal-court-strikes-down-biden-admins-online-censorship-collusion-with-big-tech/
#ThreeEleven #Biden #dictatorship #censorship #CDC #FDA #FBI #legality
The ruling limits Big Tech and the Biden administration's collusion to silence contrarian views.
EXTRACTS:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals curtailed the ability of the federal government to work together with Big Tech companies to censor free speech.
The September 8 ruling forbids President Biden’s team from using companies such as Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, to act as a censor to advance his agenda and prevent speech that questions the safety and efficacy of COVID shots or raises concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election.
In one instance, a Biden staffer quickly convinced Instagram to remove an account that parodied Dr. Anthony Fauci. Plaintiffs included silenced contrarians, such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff....
The September 8 ruling resulted in a modified prohibition.
“Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech,” a new injunction against some Biden officials now states.
“That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making processes,” the injunction continues.
Those officials include the Surgeon General and the White House, which were guilty of “coercive” statements, according to the three-judge panel.
The ruling also cited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for encouraging social media censorship.
“In short, when the platforms acted, they did so in response to the FBI’s inherent authority and based on internal policies influenced by FBI officials,” the opinion stated. “Taking those facts together, we find the platforms’ decisions were significantly encouraged and coerced by the FBI.”...
“In an unprecedented, historic decision, the Fifth Circuit has recognized that the conduct of the White House, CDC, Surgeon General, and FBI violated Americans’ First Amendment rights,” attorney Jenin Younes stated. “The government cannot coerce or encourage social media companies to censor views it dislikes. This decision vindicates the Plaintiffs’ rights and protects the free speech of all Americans.”
“The New Civil Liberties Alliance celebrates this landmark victory for our clients, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Aaron Kheriaty, and Ms. Jill Hines,” the group stated. “At the government’s request, the Fifth Circuit stayed the order for 10 days to give the government time to petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“The Biden Administration’s years-long censorship campaign has suppressed perspectives contradicting government-approved views on hotly disputed topics like whether natural immunity to Covid-19 exists, Covid-19 vaccine concerns, the virus’s origins, and mask mandate efficacy,” the group stated.
“The vast, coordinated censorship campaign has silenced public voices including influential doctors and scientists. Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorff and Kheriaty, and Ms. Hines have all been blacklisted, shadow-banned, de-boosted, throttled, and censored on social media.” /
CONTINUE HERE:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/federal-court-strikes-down-biden-admins-online-censorship-collusion-with-big-tech/
#ThreeEleven #Biden #dictatorship #censorship #CDC #FDA #FBI #legality
LifeSite
Federal court strikes down Biden admin's online censorship collusion with Big Tech - LifeSite
The ruling limits Big Tech and the Biden administration's collusion to silence contrarian views.
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