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Tearful ethics professor delivers emotional ‘lesson’ on vaccine mandates before being placed on leave

An ethics professor in Canada gave what could be her final lesson at the university she has been employed at for the past 20 years. The lesson was regarding vaccine mandates. The professor’s employer has implemented mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, which she believes is unethical. 

Dr. Julie Ponesse is an ethics professor at Ontario’s Huron University College, which is affiliated with Western University. Ponesse, who holds a Ph.D. in ethics, delivered an emotional message about vaccine mandates in a video that has since gone viral. 

“Today, I’m going to teach you a short lesson on a universally accepted ethics of coercing people into medical procedures,” Ponesse said into the camera. “I’ll be the example.”

“My employer has just mandated that I must get a vaccine for COVID-19,” the professor said. “If I want to keep working at my job as a professor, I have to take this vaccine.”

“Here’s my conundrum. My school employs me to be an authority on the subject of ethics. I hold a Ph.D. in ethics and ancient philosophy and I’m here to tell you, it’s ethically wrong to coerce someone to take a vaccine,” she said. “If it happens to you, you don’t have to do it. If you don’t want a COVID vaccine, don’t take one. End of discussion. It’s your own business.”

“But that’s not the approach of the University of Western Ontario, which has suddenly required that I be vaccinated immediately, or not report for work,” she continued. 

“I am facing imminent dismissal after 20 years on the job,” Ponesse said for not wanting to get the COVID-19 vaccine. 

The professor explained that she is not an anti-vaxxer, and that she has had “plenty of vaccines in my life.” 

Ponesse noted she doesn’t work in a “high-risk environment.” 

“I’m a teacher. I’m a university professor. My job is to teach how to think critically; to ask questions that might expose a false argument,” she stated. 

Ponesse questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines, “Nobody is promising that I won’t get COVID, or transmit COVID if I get the vaccine.” 

“I’m entitled to make choices about what does and what does not enter my body regardless of my reasons,” she said. 

“This is my first and potentially my last lesson of the year,” Ponesse said as her voice cracked after getting emotional. “In the spirit of Socrates, who was executed for asking questions, this lesson will consist of only one question.”

The professor asked her students, “When a person has done the same job to the satisfaction of her employer for 20 years, is it right, or is it wrong to suddenly demand that they submit to an unnecessary medical procedure in order to keep their job?”

“The employee is not allowed to ask questions,” the professor said. “She may only submit to the procedure or be fired. To my first-year students, is this right or is this wrong?” 

Ponesse ended the video as she broke down into tears, and put her face in her hands. 

Ponesse was condemned for calling the vaccines “experimental” and questioning the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccinations. 

Arthur Caplan, the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, told the Toronto Star, “I think she is flat out wrong and it’s not just a difference in opinion about morals, some of her facts are just incorrect. She’s impugning the vaccine, calling it experimental, those are just not true assertions.”

The National Post disputed the professor’s claims: 

Health authorities in Canada, and many other countries, approved the vaccines for emergency use after confirming their safety and efficacy. Almost three quarters of Canadians have received one dose of an approved vaccine — Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca — and more than 67 percent are fully vaccinated. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in August 2021. Preliminary studies have found that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are about 90 percent effective against COVID-19 and the vast majority of cases are now among the unvaccinated.

Ponesse emailed her department head on Tuesday to inform him that she would not get the COVID-19 vaccine, wear a face mask while teaching, or submit to coronavirus testing. 

“It was within, I think, half an hour of sending that email that I received an email from my dean stating that I would be dismissed and put on temporary paid leave,” Ponesse told the National Post.

The email reportedly informed the professor that she “will be placed on a temporary paid leave and you will not be allowed to attend campus.” 

Huron requires mandatory vaccination on campus, except for people who have received an exemption, but they must take a COVID-19 test twice a week.

“There is no testing option for those who choose not to be vaccinated,” the Huron website states. “Those without proof of vaccination or an exemption will not be permitted on campus.”

Ponesse explained that she is not seeking an exemption, “I want to be very clear in rejecting it in principle, I don’t think we ever should have been in the place where we’re looking at the situation of mandates, so I’m not just seeking an exemption to one, I’m challenging the very foundation of the idea.”

Ponesse did receive support from People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, who called the administrators at Western University “fascist a**holes.”

The video has been removed from YouTube for violating community guidelines.

California Recall: Polling Center Tells Some Republicans They ‘Already Voted’

Some self-identified Republicans claim they arrived at their polling center to cast their ballots in the California recall election only to be told they had “already voted.”

“At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not,” reported KTLA.

Estelle Bender, 88, said poll workers informed her she and several friends of hers had already voted. She also allegedly witness another man arguing with a poll worker over the same issue.

“What happened today and how shocked are you?” a reporter asked Bender.

“Very. I went to El Camino High School to vote. Got there at 10:30. Gave her this [ballot] and she scanned and said ‘you voted,’ and I said, ‘no, I haven’t,” Bender told KTLA.

“She said this has been happening all morning,” Bender further alleged. “The man next to me was arguing the same thing,”

Bender filled out a provisional ballot and left feeling “really angry.”

“I saw two women walking toward me as I left and I said, ‘don’t be surprised if they tell you’ve already voted, and she said, ‘They’ve already done that. If I voted, how did I vote?”

According to Bender, the people she knew affected by the issue were “self-identified Republicans,” which gave her cause for suspicion.

“I asked the couple of young women that I talked to and I said, ‘Are you by any chance Republicans?’ And she said ‘yes’ and I said, ‘So am I,’” asserted Bender.

Watch below:

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said equipment was “replaced” at the polling center and that provisional ballots are a “failsafe option” for these kinds of glitches.”

“The voters who experienced this issue were offered and provided provisional ballots –  the failsafe option to ensure no one has turned away from voting,” the statement said.

“Provisional ballots are regular ballots and once the eligibility of the voter is verified, they are processed and counted. After troubleshooting the issue, the equipment at the locations was replaced and voting continued.”

62 percent of Self-Identified Christians Do Not Believe the Holy Spirit Is Real

A new study from the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University found that of about 176 million Christians who identify as Christian, more than half of them do not believe that the Holy Spirit exists.

The study from the Arizona college was recently released as part of the American Worldview Inventory, an annual survey that looks at the worldview of U.S. adults.

According to the study, a majority of America’s self-identified Christians, including those who identify as evangelicals, believe that God is all-powerful, all-knowing and the Creator of the universe.

However, more than half of that do not believe in some notable biblical teachings, such as the existence of the Holy Spirit, and only about 6 percent hold a biblical worldview, The Christian Post reports.

A majority also said that they believe that all religious faiths are of equal value and that people are “basically good” and can use those “acts of goodness” to earn their way into Heaven.

“Too often, it seems, people who are simply religious, or regular churchgoers, or perhaps people who want a certain reputation or image embrace the label ‘Christian,’ regardless of their spiritual life and intentions,” George Barna, the lead researcher at the Cultural Research Center, said in a statement. “‘Christian’ has become somewhat of a generic term rather than a name that reflects a deep commitment to passionately pursuing and being like Jesus Christ.”

Some 62 percent of self-identified, born-again Christians said the Holy Spirit is not a real, living being but a “symbol” of God’s power, presence and purity.

“As the groundbreaking American Worldview Inventory surveys have demonstrated, just 6 percent of U.S. adults possess a biblical worldview. Labeled ‘Integrated Disciples’ for their demonstrated ability to assimilate their beliefs into their lifestyle, this group consistently — albeit imperfectly — comes closest to reflecting biblical principles into their opinions, beliefs, behaviors, and preferences,” Barna explained.

Overwhelmingly, 99 percent of the group said they believe the Bible is the “accurate and reliable words of God.”

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Dr. Paul Joins Ingraham to Discuss Recent US Drone Strike – September 10, 2021

Biden experiences another one of his ‘little lapses’

Joe Biden Committed a War Crime by Drone Striking Civilian Aid Worker, Not ISIS, Evidence Reveals.

Analysis has revealed that Joe Biden’s last minute effort to salvage credibility during the Afghanistan withdrawal included a heinous war crime which murdered aid worker civilians, not the ISIS-K terrorists the Biden regime claimed.

On August 28th, Major General Hank Taylor told reporters during a press briefing that an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism operation killed “two high profile” ISIS-K targets.

The move was lauded by America’s corporate news media, even as doubts as to the veracity of the claims were raised in the immediate aftermath.

Now, analysis from the New York Times reveals the driver of the vehicle targeted, Zemari Ahmadi, was in fact a long-time worker for a U.S. aid group. He appeared to be carrying water, not explosives.

The Times further alleges while the U.S. military accepts responsibility for collateral damage in the form of three civilians, it was likelier 10 who died, including seven children.

A timeline of events pieced together from more than a dozen of the driver’s family members as well as colleagues reveals the following:

  • Mr. Ahmadi had worked as an electrical engineer for Nutrition and Education International, a California-based aid group;
  • On the morning of the Biden-backed atrocity, Ahmadi’s boss called him at 8:45 a.m and asked him to pick up his laptop;
  • Mr. Ahmadi left at around 9 a.m. in a white Toyota Corolla belonging to his employer. This is when surveillance began;
  • An MQ-9 Reaper drone tracked Ahmadi around Kabul, as he picked up breakfast and went to his office;
  • Around 2:30pm, Ahmadi began filling canisters with water, to distribute them as aid;
  • Mr. Ahmadi commuted home around 4pm;
  • As he arrived home at 4:50pm, the U.S. drone fired a Hellfire missile at him, murdering him and his family members.

Shortly after the strike, U.S. military leaders insisted only ISIS combatants had been killed, and that a secondary explosion proved there were explosives in the vehicle. An on-the-ground investigation has now disproven any claims of a secondary explosion, meaning Biden’s U.S. military not only committed a war crime, but attempted to cover it up with a lie.

Ahmadi’s relatives said 10 members of their family, including seven kids, were killed: Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Mr. Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; three of Romal’s children, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.

A New York Times reporter visited home of Ahmadi’s in-country boss, who has a pending resettlement case in the United States.

“We have nothing to do with terrorism or ISIS,” he said. “We love America. We want to go there.”

The Geneva Convention defines a war crime as:

  • Wilful killing;
  • Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
  • Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
  • Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.

It further defines violations as:

  • Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
  • Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
  • Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
  • Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
  • Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives.

By almost any commonly accepted measure, it appears President Biden ordered a war crime attack in order to save face during his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis Slams Joe Biden Over Vaccine Mandate

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) criticized Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and vowed to fight against it. DeSantis attended a veteran event on Friday, where he called Biden out for issuing unconstitutional edicts against Americans and suggested millions would lose their jobs.

DeSantis went on to say, “I think we should be protecting people’s jobs, not trying to kick people out of work right now.”

The governor also criticized Biden for failing to take responsibility for his actions.

“Clearly, we have a president acting outside the bounds of the Constitution and the state of Florida,” he asserted. “Me as governor, I’m going to have the legislature involved as well.”

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said she was also prepared to take action against the mandate.

Army Football Players Run Onto The Field Carrying American Flags On The Anniversary Of 9/11

Army football players made an incredible entrance Saturday against Western Kentucky.

On the 20-year anniversary of 9/11, the Black Knights rushed onto the field carrying American flags, and it’s a sight every single American should see.

Watch the incredible video below.

That entrance is without a doubt one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a very long time, and I’m damn proud it went down at West Point on the anniversary of 9/11.

Lots of people seem down on America these days. It feels like we’ve lost our edge and we’ve lost the belief that we’re the greatest country ever.

On the 20-year anniversary of the terror attack that changed the world, we could use a reminder of our greatness.

I’d say that Army players rushing onto the field carrying flags is a shot of patriotism straight to the heart.

Props to Army for giving Americans everywhere something to cheer about.

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