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State government policies about vaccine requirements (vaccine passports) Last updated: August 20, 2021 This article tracks state government legislation and executive orders related to COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination requirements. Proof-of-vaccination requirements are business or government requirements that people prove they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. State governments have enacted various rules around the use of proof-of-vaccination requirements in their states, such as banning proof-of-vaccination requirements in some circumstances or implementing policies—sometimes called vaccine passports—that allow vaccinated people to bypass COVID-19 restrictions or engage in activities unavailable to unvaccinated people. Twenty  states, all with  Republican  governors, prohibit proof-of-vaccination requirements. In  eleven  states, governors banned proof-of-vaccination requirements through executive orders. In  nine  states, legislators passed laws banning proof-of-vaccination requirem

Never Forget Linking Our Recent Past to the Present – Genocide in Slow Motion Complements of Rudi Hänsel and Heinrich Wohlmeyer By  Peter Koenig We are rapidly approaching the crossroads of no return. If and when we pass it either asleep, or thinking it will blow over – it’s going to be too late. Too late meaning – we are at the point of no return. We are many, they are few. We can beat them. But we must be fully conscious of what’s going on – and be absolutely non-complacent. Complacency is the demise of everything. We must be convinced in solidarity and  We Shall Overcome! Source: Global Research The Post-Partisan Emporium's Purpose and Standards   This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise.   Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contr

The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates Are those who oppose a ban on cars or a radical reduction in speed limits sociopaths, given the huge number of people they are knowingly consigning to death or maiming? Glenn Greenwald 15 min ago 12 Gerald Josseph Trujillo Martinez watches a video on his tablet while his mother Ana Gabriela Martinez teaches a class inside their home in Matamoros, Mexico on May 25, 2021 (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images) In virtually every realm of public policy , Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so not because they are psychopaths but because they are rational: they assess that those deaths that will inevitably result from the policies they support are worth it in exchange for the benefits those policies provide. This rational cost-benefit analysis, even when not expressed in such explicit or crude terms, is foundational to public policy d

There’s a bad smell coming from medical research Science is one of mankind's greatest achievements -- but it is carried out by scientists by Michael Cook Aug 25, 2021 / 3 mins  /   7 BIGSTOCK The middle of the Covid-19 pandemic is not an auspicious moment to cast doubt upon the reliability of scientific research. However, writing in a BMJ blog, Richard Smith , who was editor of the prestigious medical journal The BMJ until 2004, launched a withering attack, saying that the system is riddled with fraudulent studies. “It may be time to move from assuming that research has been honestly conducted and reported to assuming it to be untrustworthy until there is some evidence to the contrary,” he says. Dr Smith does not mention the pandemic, but it would come as no surprise if Covid-19 research did not have its own problems. A s

How much do cattle contribute to greenhouse gases? To begin with, in regards to accounting for enteric emissions (“cow burps”), most people use global stats. So even if you use 2006 Long Shadow as a reference, and actually read that document, a large portion of that 18% was attributed to land use change specifically in Brazil at peak deforestation rates from 1998 to 2004. If I recall correctly 57% of the GHG’s attributed to cattle were from South America. This report was also just for OECD countries. 2013 Long Shadow scaled the number back some to 14.5% still using 2004-2005 Amazon deforestation rates. Again a global number that still used different Life Cycle Analysis [LCA] methods for different sectors. More recently the authors of the UN FAO Long Shadow Report, Anne Mottet and Henning Steinfeld, also wrote this 2017 article,  Cars or livestock: which contribute more to climate change?  This article noted that that they used different methodologies for doing Life Cycle Analysis for d