An interesting development has been brought to light. The LAUSD finally and reluctantly rescinds their v a c c i n e mandate, pressured by judges’ repeatedly expressed concerns about rationale since the shots don’t work to prevent infection or transmission.
As reported by Teachers for Choice, Leslie Manookian of Health Freedom Defense Fund was a guest with Michael Kane hosting CHD TVs “Good morning CHD“. She noted that likely LAUSD attorney Connie Michaels advised her clients to rescind the mandate and then argue the case is moot, to avoid losing the case. Same as we are seeing in New York in state and federal cases in support of medical and religious freedom.
None of these cases are moot, as teachers, healthcare workers and NYC workers are still facing discrimination, and a multitude of obstacles from getting their jobs, seniority and employment benefits back, not to mention lost income.
Leslie laid out the importance of the LAUSD case as follows:
The SCOTUS Jacobson v. Massachusetts case 197 U.S. 11 (1905) has been wildly misconstrued to justify authoritarian overreach.
In Jacobson, SCOTUS held that in extreme circumstances, such as a smallpox outbreak with a death rate of 30- 40%, a jurisdiction might mandate a safe and effective v a c c i n e or allow a fine to be paid by those who declined the v a c c i n e.
Jacobson never imposed you could plunge a needle in the arm of anyone who was opposed to being v a c c i nated, or use such a mandate as a condition of employment.
Case law that says you have the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment: Washington v. Harper 494 U.S. 210 (1990) case on behalf of prisoners who didn’t want to take psychiatric drugs. SCOTUS: “You have a liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment”. There is a growing body of case law supporting the right to refuse medical treatment that might extend or save your life, that you have a zone of privacy around you in which the state cannot intrude. More recent case law says you have the right to bodily autonomy and the right to decide what you put in your body, and to decide whether or not to accept life saving or life extending medical treatment. This stuff cannot be forced upon you, nor can the state intrude into your privacy.
“It seems to us that [attorney] Connie Michaels and LAUSD got it backwards. HFDF asserts the right to bodily autonomy for any and all medical treatments. Surely, then, the state must prove that a vaccine works if it seeks to justify mandating its use. Otherwise, where is the limit on state power?”
As can be seen here, no one threatened to take away Jacobson’s livelihood. He was fined, and that was it.
(Jacobson at the time was ordered to pay a $5 fine for his refusal to vaccinate his son. With an inflation rate of 31.09 in 2023, that amounts to $155.45).
Squashing spotted lanternflies isn’t always easy. Maybe that’s obvious. Maybe you’ve tried it, after encountering kill-on-sight orders. The dotted, mothlike bugs tend to hop, after all, sometimes narrowly escaping the (almost) perfectly timed thud of a sneaker. So when you get one, you celebrate.
“See ’em? SQUISH ’EM!” reads one tweet, complete with a trophy photo of two bug carcasses stuffed inside tiny glass jars. “I KILLED A SPOTTED LANTERNFLY!!!” another exclaims. And another: “I can honestly say that’s the biggest adrenaline rush I’ve had all 2020.”
Haters have organized “squishathons” and spotted-lanternfly-killing pub crawls. “It’s kind of a crusade,” according to Brad Line, who lives in Pennsylvania. He developed an app called Squishr, which ranks users’ spotted-lanternfly kills, complete with gory photos as evidence, on a national leaderboard.
The motive for attacks of such self-congratulatory glee—and such careful viciousness—is supposed to be a dire environmental prognosis, our belief that the spotted lanternfly is a threat to Mother Nature herself. The bug’s wide-ranging appetite for at least 103 different plants worldwide, according to the latest research, has perhaps contributed to its reputation as an indiscriminate life-drainer. “If you see thousands of these very large insects feeding on your tree, then the first thought you’re going to have is That tree is not going to survive this,” Brian Walsh, a Penn State Extension educator, told me. Yet in the eight years since the bugs first made American backyards their home, some of the most shocking damage has come not from spotted lanternflies themselves, but from overzealous (and very human) attempts to stop them.
The bugs were first found in the United States in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 2014, after supposedly hitching a ride as a bundle of eggs from China via a shipment of stone. Spotted-lanternfly infestations have since been documented in 11 states, but are centralized in the stretch of Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to New York. Female spotted lanternflies can pop out 30 to 50 potential offspring packed tightly into an egg mass smaller than a human thumb. A single tree can host more than 12,000 of the grown sap-suckers across one week.
When the lanternflies showed up here, the “really problematic” proclivity for grapes and stone-fruit crops they had already demonstrated in South Korea alarmed researchers, according to Emelie Swackhamer, who educates locals on the invasive bug for Penn State Extension. Even after Korean vineyards were sprayed with pesticides, spotted lanternflies were reported to “rapidly repopulate,” swarming in from adjacent wooded areas. They can devastate grape crops by feeding on sap and excreting a substance called honeydew, which causes black-mold growth, Kelli Hoover, a Penn State entomologist who studies the insect, told me. So worries were, in part, justified: A 2020 study found that among a sampling of Pennsylvanian vineyards, higher densities of spotted lanternflies were linked with a decrease in fruit production and overall vine health. Hoover has heard of entire vineyards succumbing to spotted-lanternfly-induced stress.
“It is the most unusual insect I’ve ever studied,” she said. “It’s probably the hardest to do research on”—in part because of its voracious appetite. Scientists have been able to raise another invasive bug, the Asian long-horned beetle, on maple branches, logs, and even an “artificial diet,” Hoover told me. Spotted lanternflies survive on potted trees—if they’re swapped out every few weeks. And even then, they don’t thrive like they would in nature. Researchers still don’t have a grasp of key facts, such as exactly how far spotted lanternflies can travel in their life span, or key defenses, such as how best to trap them.
So, sure, the spotted lanternfly isn’t really a bug you’d want to cozy up to. But maybe its critics have all been a little hasty to judge so hard.
Take, for example, economic impact. In 2019, a report from Penn State projected that spotted-lanternfly-related damage in total could cost Pennsylvania more than $324 million annually if the bugs continued to spread. But Erin Otto, a national-policy manager in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, cautions that, so far, “damage to vineyards in Pennsylvania has been scattered and inconsistent.” She would need to see more research before putting a dollar amount to the totality of harm.
The zeal, though, can go too far—especially among those at wit’s end. In 2018, while working as a landscaper, Walsh, of Penn State Extension, fielded a request to check out a tree that was, apparently, well on its way to death-by-spotted-lanternfly. At his new client’s home, Walsh found an oak in poor health; branches on the lower fourth of the tree had yellowing leaves. Notably absent—at least in any alarming number—were spotted lanternflies.
After a round of questions (what attempt had the tree’s owner made at combatting the bugs?) and a telling observation (splotches of dead grass beneath the tree’s canopy), Walsh came to a sinking realization: His client had done the damage herself. Instead of using an insecticide, she’d mistakenly sprayed an herbicide called glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as high as she could reach.
“People can get very bent out of shape,” Walsh said, “and declare all-out war” on the lanternflies. He’s heard of Pennsylvanians running propane torches up and down the trunks of their trees; he’s heard of people dousing plant life with kerosene, engine-starting fluid, and oven cleaner to deal with the pesky bugs. Initially, Walsh told me, there was confusion as to whether common pesticides could legally be used to kill spotted lanternflies in the state (because the critters weren’t listed on any labels). Turns out, they can.
“There’s a lot of irresponsible behavior to try and manage these guys,” Anne Johnson said. “I’ve seen people say, ‘Oh, I use a can of hairspray and I light it on fire,’ and I’m like, ‘Um, that’s going to do way more damage than these guys did.’”
It’s easier to garner support for any cause—bug genocide included—with a rallying cry. In the case of the spotted lanternfly, the label “invasive species” has been enough to work people into a frenzy.
In the beginning, there was a glimmer of hope that stomping out spotted lanternflies—literally—might stifle their spread. The past few years, many in the invasive bug’s orbit have resigned themselves to a different vision of the future. “We’re going to have to learn to live with them,” Hoover said.
After spotted lanternflies were first found in Staten Island, New York, in the summer of 2020, a new generation of do-gooder bug-squishers was born. But some back in Pennsylvania are losing steam. “The fatigue sets in after a couple years,” Line said. People start feeling “this kind of hopelessness that Well, there’s nothing we can do.”
Really, no one person can control the world in this way; the spread of non-native species seems, at this point, like a fact of life. And yet the anxiety persists, most recently swirling around the joro spider, the latest Asian bug to make news for its impending sprawl up the East Coast. This time, Americans are being told the “invasive” arachnid is unlikely to cause any harm at all—on the contrary, it might even keep other pests in check. We don’t need to lift a finger or stomp our feet. Can we resist the squish?
Abigail Gruskin is a journalist based in New York City, where she reports on local politics and cultural trends.
“Well me am sitting quietly thinking about stuff, what am i thinking about really? well here it is, who makes up this shit like the lions gate scam, think about it since the calendar we use was made up their has been loads of 8 8 dates during this time, if all the bullshit about it was true we would either be a super race of loving people or ascended to some other place for sure, this crap is just like the 2012 stuff but we get it every year now, just think about it for a moment and be honest with your self, if we had a dna upgrade every year at this time the above would have really manifested for sure, the only way to change the world and our lives is to act, not follow some madcap idea we do not create our own and collective reality and its all in the hands of some other energy other than our own, get real get loving and then changes will take place, dont give your power away: you are your own power, one love baba”
Thanks guys, for at least attempting to call attention to violence against women, and trans folks. Do you think this will help? Or resolve anything? Are you going to pat yourselves on your surely sore backs afterwards, elevate your blistered feet on the salon table and return to business as usual the next day?
John Rappoport wrote a brilliant parody on the subject, though please ignore the expected judgmental banter on Fox.
Ho’oponopono is something I am so grateful to have run into when my kids were little. As the world turns, in constant flux, more dysfunction is visible as media gladly seems to focus on what is deemed worthy of destruction or improvement. What would happen if we were to take 100% response-ability for everything we encounter and observe?
When we see the lines thicken in the skies above as geoengineering is bound to do for the purpose of weather modification, (which humanity never was asked to weigh in on) we can use Ho’oponopono and watch the lines being erased before they turn into clouds. Yes, it can be that powerful. Don’t take my word for it. It is something to experience for yourself.
In swoops Kelsey and the Universe with her rendition of Ho’oponopono, to remind us of why this is so incredibly helpful and effective. Do allow yourself to feel into it, your heart and soul will thank you, and you may shed some, or a lot of tears. I sure do too.
Someone just asked: what is your experience beyond belief? It echoed flashbacks within me of entire pods of wild dolphins I have seen (and joyfully interacted with) leaping in and out of the pristine waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Their teachings inspire me as a doula of both birth and rebirth. I support these multidimensional transitions with people who are on their way in, and on their way out of the vessels we embody in the physical realm.
It is wise not to blindly believe in anything anyone says without evidence. I wouldn’t ever want to interfere with what you are here to learn, so use discernment to take only what resonates.
My experience is one of many lifetimes. In this lifetime alone I receive messages when birth or rebirth in and out of the physical realm is immanent. I help people connect to the supernatural to ease these transitions and learn to surrender to the power within through relaxed states, so that adrenaline is kept in check for a drug free painless experience, only peaking when all systems are ready and harmonized. Instead of pain, there is only pressure informing the body how to relax through it and yield. As I have experienced this myself I can teach others who are seeking to learn, in as far as they are willing.
It is in judgment and beliefs surrounding this judgment that we experience pain during transitions our bodies are designed to facilitate. Fear is particularly at the root of these beliefs: False Evidence Appearing Real in most instances. A balanced ego is kept in check with the job to recognize the other acronym: Fuck Everything And Run, basically to only respond in actual, life threatening situations. It is the still, small voice within that allows us to discern for ourselves what is going on, and which response is appropriate.
I experience the supernatural as real, interactive and the only actual fixed phenomenon in Divine perfection. An eternal student, I learned a lot from my dolphin friends (telepathy among other things) and continue to learn from the many life forms that continue to flourish on this planet. Animals come to me eager to communicate. Trees continue to teach me a lot through their networks of communication, especially about life cycles and natural rythms, as do bodies of water which are conduits of communication, holding and reflecting power of emotions when we embrace them as messengers and take them to heart.
The bodies of water in my neighborhood taught me patience as water always finds a way. It can cut through anything. On one of many walks in my natural surroundings, I could feel the pressure building after months of drought, caused among other things by people who interfered and rerouted the streams in my neighborhood to prevent flooding.
Melting snow turned into powerful currents of water, cascading and rushing forward. Under the road I could feel the currents and the pressure building for a newly restored balance.
A chant welled up in me so I chanted a while. Then I asked Water if there was a way for the people in my neighborhood coexist without harm to anyone’s habitat as the indigenous water keepers have done for many lifetimes. I apologized to the water for this foolishness of disrepect to the vital element of water. The elementals said: “Thank you”, then laughed, “We can assure you that feeling sorry for the waters is an unnecessary judgment. As you know Water has the intelligence to be in the mode of allowance. Earth’s self healing frequencies are already at work to rerout the waters closer to their original Blueprint”. I smiled and thanked the elementals for this profound gift of wisdom and reassurance.
Only days later the road right next to the driveway in my front yard cracked open, quite a few feet apart, with water rushing through it into the spring fed lake this road was built around. Crews (human, from the town) came in to create a vessel for the water to continue flowing through that section before fixing the road. I was impressed with their thorough and expedient work!
In my experience it’s a marvelous adventure to be alive and bear witness even (and especially now) as warring factions are pressuring humanity with ever increasing pressure, to awaken to their sovereign power within, beyond fight or flight, to the Love we are in essence that connects us all. It is in this power of Love we truly can co-exist and care for one another in ways we each allow, in harmony of the free will of each individual and the Divine Will of each I AM Presence as personal expressions of the Divine 💜
So I overhear a conversation in the Netflix series “Love”. People are sitting around the dinner table. Three couples, one single woman. The couples are talking about kids and everything kids related. The conversation goes on about preschools, and how the progressive ones are so hard to get in, and so expensive. Letting kids run around barefoot outdoors at such a school, with chickens. “$20,000 tuition to have the kids get parasites“, one dad jokes. Enter the “new norm” after exemption repeal bills in several states robbed children who attend school/daycare and their parents of their healthcare choices: pinworms in America’s children are now considered common. It’s a perfect moment for the script to turn to v@~cci nation. “You guys v@~ccin8 don’t you?”
“Yeah of course we do! But of course the kids still all get whooping cough because we have too many selfish parents who don’t v@~ccin8!”
The single woman interrupts the completely illogical conversation, because she feels left out, unable to relate. Thank goodness for this, because we don’t want it explored in a tv show that there are perfectly valid reasons to not buy into the mythical v@ ccin8 everyone theory. Critical thought would quickly recognize “it only works when everyone does it” to mean it doesn’t work. Period. If it did, the ones who v@~ccin8ed would be protected.
The pubmed studies that haven’t been scrubbed by Dr. Google all mention asymptomatic spread practically in the same breath as lowering the expectation to v@~cc1nes not preventing infection or transmission. Where else have we heard this? Oh yeah, it was promised with the roll out of Operation Warp Speed by Herr Dr. Fauci himself.
It’s at least encouraging more people are increasingly less trusting of government sanctioned wishy washy “science” with tyrannical public “health” edicts leading to disastrous outcomes we are seeing all around us. Thankfully there are many remedies gifted to us by Mother Nature. Homeopathic as well.
NY Judge strikes down COVID shot mandate for healthcare workers
Yesterday New York Supreme Court Justice Gerard Neri struck down a New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulation that forced all healthcare workers to get COVID shots as a condition of employment. No shot, no job.
In a scathing decision, the Court described New York State’s arguments that it has the authority to impose a vaccine mandate while at the same time admitting that the vaccine does not stop transmission of the disease it is claimed to prevent as “Orwellian.” The Court also described other arguments made by the State as an “absurdity.”
The case was filed by Children’s Health Defense for a group of New York healthcare workers. Sujata Gibson is lead attorney. An appeal by the State is likely.
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The mandate was originally imposed by a New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulation forced through under Governor Andrew Cuomo.
A key argument the Court found persuasive is that the DOH, and by extension the Governor, simply does not have the legal authority to impose vaccine mandates. Earlier cases have found that power is limited to acts of legislation, and action by County Boards of Health, not regulations issued by a state agency. The Court said, “DOH blatantly violated the boundaries of its authority as set forth by the legislature.”
The Court also relied on the State’s admission that COVID shots do not stop transmission of the disease, stating, “Petitioners argue that there is no rational basis for the Mandate when Respondent DOH acknowledges the mandated vaccine fails to accomplish its stated goal, i.e., prevent the spread of COVID-19 (Court’s emphasis).” That admission by DOH led the Court to say,“In true Orwellian fashion, [New York State] acknowledge then-current COVID-19 shots do not prevent transmission.”
DOH argued that the requirement that healthcare workers get “fully vaccinated” means whatever the department decides it means. The Court, however, found, “a term which is defined at the whim of an entity, subject to change without a moment’s notice, contains all the hallmarks of ‘absurdity’ and is no definition at all.”
In summation the Court found, “the Mandate is arbitrary and capricious.” And ruled, “the Mandate 10 NYCRR Sec. 2.61, as being beyond the scope of Respondents’ (DOH) authority and is therefore null and void and of no effect, so that the Respondents, their agents, officers and employees are prohibited from implementing or enforcing the Mandate is GRANTED.”
This ruling follows a string of Federal and New York Court State decisions voiding mandates imposed by executive action. Yet in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams clings to the mandates used to fire thousands of city workers, and students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York are still required to get COVID shots to attend according to rules issued by their respective Boards of Trustees despite the State’s acknowledgement that the shot does not stop the transmission of COVID. These policies are beyond absurd and are no doubt motivated by reasons other than concerns for public health.
Siempre Juntos ~ Laura Pierre Louis (Fine Art America)
Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the Capitol shut to the public on Tuesday specifically to exclude vaccine rights activist during her first State-of the-State Address as an elected Governor. The Governor did not say why the Capitol was closed but the Albany Times Union surmised, “The decision was likely driven by those protesting vaccines, however.”
A coalition of organizations, including the Autism Action Network, hosted a lobbying day of Tuesday for the first time since 2021 when Governor Cuomo imposed a requirement for proof of COVID shots or a negative PCR test to enter the Capitol and Legislative Office Building. Hochul extended the order when she took office but supposedly lifted it last fall.
The Legislative Office Building, however, where the vast majority of State Senators and Assemblymembers work, was conducting business like the rest of the sane world. Hundreds of meetings were held. Doors were open, people walking in and out without the need for medical documents, nary a mask in sight, with a few notable exceptions. Some legislators locked their doors, required proof of COVID shots and masks, or would only meet outside their offices.
Besides showing that these legislators know nothing about COVID it demostrates they still buy into the hysteria that the majority of rational people have managed to move beyond.
A few things they do not seem to know:
COVID shots do not stop transmission, Natural immunity from getting COVID and recovering is more effective than shots Almost everybody, shot or no shot, has had COVID already Masks do not prevent the transmission of COVID They have no respect for medical privacy They have no ability to make rational risk assessment decisions.
These people make medical decisions for us all. They [purportedly] have more say over what happens to the bodies of our children than parents do.
Please contact the offices of these legislators by telephone and social media and politely help educate them.
Governor Kathy Hochul
(518) 474-8390
@GovKathy Hochul
Assemblymember Joanne Simon (Democrat/Working Families Party, Brooklyn Heights) Joanne Simon is a co-sponsor of every bill that diminishes or eliminates parent’s right to control, or even know about, medical procedures that are done to their children including A9963 which allows a minor of any age to be given any medical procedure or product including surgery, A3192 that allows 14 year-olds to be given any vaccine, and A822 that allows vaccines and preventive drugs for sexually-transmitted diseases for children of any age. (These bill numbers are for the last session, new numbers will be issued to these bills in the next few weeks if they are re-introduced.)
Two separate Simon constituents who requested meetings were told that proof of vaccination and a mask are required to meet in person with Simon otherwise meetings would have to be by Zoom. One constituent pressed the issue and was told she could meet in person, but she had to wear a mask.
(718) 246-4889, (518) 455-5426
@JoAnneSimonBK52
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz (Democrat-Riverdale, Bronx) Dinowitz is the vaccine industry’s leading shill in the Assembly. He wrote the repeal of the religious exemption for K-12 students and has current bills that would require COVID shots for K-12 education, eliminate religious exemptions for employment and college, and mandate flu shots for k-12 education among others.
He had the sign posted on his office door with the text,
“If you would like to enter please call (518) 455-4437. Proof of vaccination and mask required.”
Dinowitz has a record of using obscene gestures and several witnesses said he did it again on Tuesday when returning from the Capitol to his office in the LOB after the Governor’s speech.
Assemblymember Sarahana Shresta (Democratic Socialist-Working Families Party, New Paltz) Shrestha is a newly-elected Democrat Socialist who avoided saying anything about COVID during her campaign and refused to meet with constituents who wanted to speak about COVID. Leading up to the Lobbying Day Shreshta didn’t even respond to requests for meetings. Constituents repeatedly went to her office on Tuesday and eventually a staffer agreed to talk, but outside the office and he wore a mask. Shreshta was in her office at the time hiding. The persistent constituents eventually persuaded the staffer to ask Shreshta to come out. When she did Shreshta also wore a mask and she let them know that she fully supports mandatory COVID shots. Odd how a Socialist favors the exact same policies as a capitalist giant like Pfizer.
The above linked video report is in Dutch. In summary: ▪︎Excessive documentation is required to even qualify according to staff at this local food bank in Amsterdam. It takes months for the impossible pile of documentation to be considered for approval. People who are waiting for approval also come to their neighborhood foodbank, and staff members pay from their own wallets so as to not have to send these neighbors home hungry. ▪︎Among people who stand in line (in the freezing cold and often in the rain, once a week) are people who work full time (remember “essential workers” caring for people who need assistance, yes people like that too!) and can no longer afford their rent & utilities, (personal note: thanks to the shit show with corporate NGO prompted EU & UN figureheads promoting war in Ukraine against Russia with 0 attempts at conflict resolution and diplomacy, we can see who foots the bill with the gas price hikes). ▪︎Each person gets what is allotted for them, little choice in the matter, and every weekly ration will cover four days, for the number of people as reported in their household, according to people standing in line for many hours. One person, a single mother who works full time, said she had to weigh the cost of missing these hours at work not getting paid vs. the break in having to pay for food. She shuts down the heat at night and on days her young daughter is with her other parent. ▪︎One man who used to live in poverty as a kid, learned about the foodbank from his son who worked at the foodbank. It was his birthday and he was shocked to see the long lines on social media. So he showed up, appeared to skip ahead and then turned around to give every person who stood in line €20 cash to spend as they wish. ▪︎People in the neighborhood also contributed money to create Christmas Packages for everyone with extra edible treats for the holidays.
In the Netherlands of all places… one of the wealthiest in per capita income among EU nations
If you work full time, and are unable to keep up with price hikes in rent and utilities:
Have you considered paying what you can afford and sending this payment with a note: “this is the maximum I can afford”? You never were asked to consent to these price hikes. Have you ever considered you may have the law on your side in these issues, as long as you continue to pay what you reasonably can?
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