Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. “Jab or jail”
In the US, judges have started making getting vaccinated a condition of bail.
Brandon Rutherford, a 21-year-old from Cincinnatti, was given a suspended sentence for possession of fentanyl, but the sentence came with a rider – he must get “vaccinated” against Covid19 in the next 60 days, or he will be sent to prison for eighteen months.
This is not the first time this has happened.
Last month another judge in Ohio made a similar ruling, offering a convicted defendant a choice between five years probation, or one year and a vaccine. Whilst in Louisiana, judges are offering to cut community service sentences in exchange for people getting the vaccines.
A reminder that inducing the use of an experimental medical procedure, through either intimidation or coercion, is a breach of the Nuremberg Code on Medical Experimentation.
2. The Return of the Taliban
This is today’s big breaking story – Afghanistan is falling to the Taliban. Kabul will likely be theirs by the end of the day. The US and UK are closing their embassies down. It’s a disaster!
Biden has ordered 5000 troops to Kabul to aid the drawdown. Then a few hours later he ordered 1000 more.
In the UK, Boris Johnson is being accused of “abandoning Afghanistan to its fate”
The old lines about “mistakes” and “miscalculation” are being trotted out all over the place. Ignoring the reality – that Afghanistan was not a mistake:
No one is talking about the US’s “Over the Horizon” plan to launch drone strikes on Afghanistan from bases in UAE et al. No one is talking about the thousands and thousands of “private security contractors” likely to remain in Afghanistan after the US army “officially departs”.
And, of course, no one is talking about the fact the Taliban’s advance is being done with American weapons and vehicles which were “abandoned” at Bagram airbase, and “accidentally” fell into the hands of the “enemy” when they “accidentally” liberated 5000 Taliban “prisoners”.
3. “Screw your freedom”
The Governator is back. Arnie was never noted for his subtlety, and his interview this week was no exception, railing against people who don’t wear masks as “schmucks” and adding:
There is a virus here — it kills people, and the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about ‘Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’ No, screw your freedom.”
Clearly, “screw your freedom” has been the prevailing attitude of almost every government in the world for most of the last twenty months, but they’ve generally been reticent to be quite so direct.
Indeed, one questions the wisdom of putting “Screw you freedom” in a headline in America, where you’re likely to alienate a LOT of people by talking that way. Austrian politicians arguing against personal freedom usually doesn’t end well.
BONUS: Bizarre take of the week
A man died “from Covid”, despite being fully vaccinated, but “it could have been worse” if he had been unvaccinated. At least, according to The Hill.
It really is cult-like at this point. Where the vaccine has become some religious rite. Dying while vaccinated is better than dying unvaccinated, like dying having confessed and been absolved of your sins, or being buried on consecrated ground. Total insanity.
It’s not all bad…
This weeks analgesic dose of good news comes from Europe.
From France, where anti Covid pass protest swept the nation for the fifth straight weekend:
And from Spain, where the Andalusian High Court has ruled “Covid passes” illegal, finding that:
the measure requiring patrons to show proof of being free from the virus affected the right to privacy and the principle of non-discrimination
Legal challenges to the insane rules, coupled with mass non-compliance. That’s the way forward.
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Where will the CIA now invade and occupy?
I was discussing that very thing with a friend and we concluded they will move back to coke and fenytal.
China and Burma have very old opiate producers and distributers that might expand.
Problem with China and Burma is those places are no go zones for the CIA. They will still be in drug business but only as a franchisee… The real money and power will rest not in Langley but instead Beijing.
The CIA and their NGO minions are desperately trying to foment a color revolution in Myanmar and have been for some time, likewise less successfully here in Thailand.
Are we already past the color revolution in the USA?
The color revolution already happened in the USA. Were you asleep?
I just said that.
They tried implementing Globohomo in Burma, but they ain’t havin’ it.
That’s the plan. The new financial capitols will be London again and Shanghai. NYC did it’s work well for 100 years.
Still not one mention of the new “beeaaaautiful embassy”.
$700 MILLION down the drain on that one alone.
A bit of hope.. The Liberals in Nova Scotia have LOST the provincial election. They had promised to introduce a COVID pass if elected. Polls leading up to election had them winning or neck and neck with Conservatives..
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/progressive-conservatives-win-nova-scotia-election-unclear-if-they-will-form-majority-1.5550988
hopefully a harbinger for federal election next month…
OK Rin,shit is getting serious there.
I can loan you some rakes if that will help!
Maybe just maybe some sanity is about to return here.
Wrong. The fundamentals have not changed. You are up to your armpits in the enemy you accept or embrace. You will have to change X 1,000,000. Hope is the strategy of good Christians, and completely stupid. The last five minutes of this video are not as compelling as the educational physical suffering you will receive if you do not die first am0ng y0ur loved ones. Great minds think alike.
This may shock you Doug but the only thing of substance that has changed is wrapper in the shit sandwich being made.
Doug is afraid of dying and what lies beyond, it is as simple as that.
Perhaps there is a bit of hope.
I will add my little bit of hope for you.
Just a little thought put into my head by a very wise and well informed little birdie. Most professionals in the med field are either missing or glossing over the Fact that billions now have the same altered genetic code in control of their immune response system. Remember never let a good crisis go to waste.
And it begins…
>>> I don’t have an evil bone in my body…
Good to know. You should be in charge, then….
“Dying while vaccinated is better than dying unvaccinated, like dying having confessed and been absolved of your sins, or being buried on consecrated ground. Total insanity.”
It’s the equivalent of being baptized to these lunatics.
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/news/in-us-catholic-charities-welcomes-incoming-afghan-refugees-arlington-catholic-herald/
Catholic Charities affirms the inherent dignity bestowed on every human person, including immigrants and refugees, no matter the circumstances that compel a person to begin a new life in our community.
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/our-vision-and-ministry/immigration-refugee-services/
Of course Satanists care about dignity. Why wouldn’t they? I will never believe Roman Catholics are Christians.
Maybe, but that was the face of Christianity until what 1600?
When you’re born into it, it’s like being a fish in water. Most religions are like that and thus the dogma needs to be overcome with intellect.
DS
Catholic Charities makes hundreds of million$ from the fed gov taking care of refugees.
It’s big biz for big religion.
The refugee crisis
As Christians, we have a key role to play in the upcoming months and years, highlighting the ongoing plight of refugees and displaced people. We must affirm the case for a human response to the crisis, which recognises that we are all made for goodness, and that the human dignity of refugees is intimately connected to our own.
https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-work/our-work-worldwide/the-refugee-crisis/
In the face of the large number of refugees currently displaced, our Christian understanding that we all have a common identity in God is as important as ever. We have a key role to play in highlighting the ongoing plight of refugees and displaced people and must affirm a human response to the crisis.
The Nationality and Borders Bill (2021)
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Prayers for the Global Compact on Refugees
Our benevolent leaders act as if it were more cost effective to permanently relocate refugees to Minneapolis and San Antonio, that to send aid to them at a point culturally and geographically near their original homes.
But I guess cost and effectiveness are beside the point, aren’t they?
As per usual, they, the powerful and compassionate, make the promises… and we the rabble pay the price.
As the humanitarian crisis develops in Afghanistan, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service continues to do everything we can to support our Afghan allies in the United States and abroad. LIRS has compiled a list of 5 different things you can do to help us support Afghans here in the U.S. and those still in Afghanistan:
1️⃣ Act – Volunteer to help with services like airport pick-ups, apartment set-ups, bringing meals, etc for our new neighbors: https://lirsconnect.org/get_involved/action_center/siv
2️⃣ Donate – Give to our Neighbors in Need Fund to help provide food, housing assistance, clothing, and other basic needs for our Afghan friends: https://secure2.convio.net/lirs/site/Donation2?df_id=4081&4081.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T/
3️⃣ Advocate – Send a message to President Biden saying you support a full evacuation of our allies still Afghanistan: https://www.votervoice.net/LIRS/campaigns/85410/respond
4️⃣ Pray – Lift up your hearts in prayer for our Afghan neighbors here and those awaiting rescue in Afghanistan (find Christian and interfaith prayers in link below)
5️⃣ Teach – Read and/or share our resources about SIV recipients to learn about the stories of the people behind the headlines (find resources at link below)
Learn more at LIRS’s Help Our Allies webpage: https://www.lirs.org/help-our-afghan-allies/
https://gslcwi.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-update-from-lutheran-immigration-and-refugee-service/
Apostates like that are worse than demon worshipers.
Yes they are minions of Satan, whether they know it or not.
The deteriorating situation in Afghanistan is a humanitarian crisis that has left upwards of 550,000 Afghans internally displaced in the country since the beginning of the year, in addition to 2.9 million Afghans already internally displaced at the end of 2020. Episcopal Migration Ministries, the refugee resettlement and migration ministry of The Episcopal Church, is currently working in partnership with the U.S. government to assist Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders with resettlement and direct services through a network of 12 affiliates across the U.S.
As the United States faces the challenges of evacuating Afghan allies, the administration and Congress have taken some steps to assist with these efforts. President Biden signed an bipartisan emergency supplemental budget bill that established more funding and added 8,000 visas for Afghan nationals eligible for the Special Immigrant Visa program, which allows certain individuals who served with U.S. forces and their families to immigrate to the United States. The U.S. State Department announced on August 2 a Priority 2 (P-2) designation that allows certain Afghan nationals and their family members who do not meet the requirements of the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program to arrive to the United States as refugees. Nevertheless, significant challenges remain for evacuating our allies that requires additional measures needed to ensure no one is left behind. For instance, 18,000 Afghan allies and 53,000 family members rem…
https://episcopalmigrationministries.org/afghan-allies/
How Christians Can Help Refugees and Displaced People
In 2020, the UN Refugee Agency reported that nearly 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide. As Christians, we are called to welcome and love the strangers in our midst. We are called to care for those who have been persecuted. Yet when the need is so great, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Here are some tangible ways that you can help refugees and displaced people.
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Funding the Refugee Program
MRS/USCCB Position
MRS/USCCB engages with the federal appropriations process to obtain the maximum amount of funding needed to support the U.S. refugee program, which provides both overseas assistance and resettlement services to refugees. Each year, MRS/USCCB advocates for funding levels that maximize the number of refugees assisted overseas and resettled in the United States, and that provide resettlement agencies sufficient resources to serve refugees in a comprehensive manner. In order to continue to be a world leader in humanitarian protection and to adequately welcome those refugees who we admit to the U.S. each year, it is essential that we robustly fund overseas refugee protection and the admission of refugees to the United States.
In addition to government funding, Migration and Refugee Services accepts donations from private individuals to provide services that are not covered by government grants through the National Catholic Fund for Migration and Refugee Services and Passing on Hope.
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Donate now to the National Catholic Fund for Migration and Refugee Services.
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How the Refugee Program Works
The U.S. refugee program is operated by three federal agencies – the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) of the U.S. State Department; the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the asylum division of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Through PRM, the Department of State works in close conjunction with international organizations, such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), to provide life-sustaining assistance to refugees in countries of asylum. The Department also works closely with international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify and admit a relatively small number of refugees into the United States through its refugee admissions program.
ORR is charged with resettling and integrating refugees and other entrants in the United States. ORR’s mission has grown to include assisting numerous other vulnerable populations in the United States, including victims of trafficking and torture, Cuban/Haitian Entrants, Indochinese Parolees, Iraqi and Afghani Special Immigrants, and unaccompanied children.
USCIS of DHS provides the adjudicators needed to interview refugees considered for admission to the United States and to ascertain whether their persecution claims are consistent with U.S. refugee law.This function is funded by application fees paid by immigrants applying for other visas.MRS/USCCB has advocated that Congress appropriate funds for this function to supplement the fees, so that funding shortfalls do not occur.
How the Budget Process Works
Each year, the President submits a budget to Congress by the first Monday in February for the following fiscal year.This budget request is formulated over a period of months with help from the Office of Management and Budget, and it includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies.The budget proposal includes substantial supporting information to justify the necessity and value of the budget provisions, and each federal and independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation to Congress on its own funding requests.
After the budget request is submitted, congressional committees submit their “views and estimates” of spending and revenues within their respective jurisdictions to the House and Senate Committees on the Budget, who then use this information to develop budget resolutions.These resolutions are essentially agreements between the House and Senate concerning the overall size of the federal budget, and the general composition of the budget in terms of functional categories.Budget resolutions are submitted to their respective floors for consideration and adoption by April 15.Once both houses pass the resolution, Representatives and Senators negotiate a conference report to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions.
Direct spending refers to spending enacted by law, but not dependent on an annual or periodic appropriations bill.Discretionary spending requires annual appropriations bills, which must be enacted prior to the beginning of each fiscal year (October 1).After the budget resolution passes, the 12 appropriations subcommittees in each chamber set funding levels for individual government programs and write up detailed instructions for the agencies that oversee them.If this action does not happen by that time, which is a common occurrence, Congress must provide interim funding for the programs in question through a “continuing resolution”.
MRS/USCCB advocates for increased and improved funding for refugees at every step of the budget process.Though the President’s budget request is not submitted until February of the prior fiscal year (February 2011 for the fiscal year 2012 budget cycle), MRS/USCCB meets each year with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in late summer in order to share our views on PRM’s and ORR’s funding needs and challenges as OMB begins their consideration of the U.S. budget for the next relevant fiscal year. Prior to this meeting, information is gathered from all available sources in order to make informed recommendations on the funding levels for the various line items within these budgets for the fiscal year in question.
https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/migrants-refugees-and-travelers/fundingtherefugeeprogram
The bastardization of Christianity in all its devilish glory.
thx for the point-counter point opportunity…gimp
I’m not reading all that propaganda, but thanks. You as smooth as Bret Weinstein.
Propaganda? How so? All those adherents of the Church of Paul (Saul) aren’t at the forefront of mass immigration?
The books by Paul are not accorded the same authority as the Gospels for very good reasons.
Gotta go with the Taliban on that one.
Maybe next time for the US “insurgents”.
A million armed men will not be deterred.
A few hundred could bring the country to its knees. So lets see what happens.
“screw your freedom” has been the prevailing attitude of almost every government in the world for most of the last twenty months”
all of our lives it appears if you look closely, not to quibble about it
I starting to wonder why I haven’t just retired, like I am not about to feel like Charlie Brown in a couple of months or less.
Not all heroes wear capes.
I will not shed one tear when the ethnic cleansings come.
Of course, it may be you and yours who are cleansed.
May be. I will take that chance over feminism any day.
We all will be targets.
CiA’s new theme song: going back to cali to cali. Cali cartel mehbeh lol.
All the apparatchiks better take heed of the mujahideen: yet another superpower fell to stone age modernity.
There is something to be said about outdated mindsets: it is always about mindset. When yoh committ your mind to winning at all costs you win or die trying. That is the difference and that is why the U.S. will never win a war again. At least not with the corrupt pussies voting in corrupt pussies.
ZFG, out.
P.S. Chaos Three-Five will not be forgotten.
Jab or jail? NEITHER!