We have an update today on yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament, which essentially waved through the Commission’s plans to roll out a vaccine passport scheme across the EU, which we covered yesterday. This is a guest post from a source within the EU.
In Brussels yesterday the European Parliament adopted a negotiating position on the Commission’s Digital Green Certificate proposal. 575 MEPs voted for a compromise text, with 80 against and 40 abstentions.
Voting took place remotely after three hours of speeches to a mostly empty chamber.
The Commission’s desire to create a universal system of health check points within the EU was apparent before the Plenary Session. During the debate it became increasingly clear that these checks will be taking place beyond Member State borders.
MEPs were resigned to passing the Regulation in order to “return to normal” even if it “puts Schengen at stake”.
Voter concerns that European society would be divided were occasionally relayed, usually as a prefix to a bald statement that the DGC would neither discriminate nor function as a pass for entry into Member States.
A handful of MEPs asked to examine the Proposal more critically.
With Parliament’s approval – and the three EU Institutions already in alignment – negotiations between Commission, Council and Parliament on the final text will be a mere formality.
We can expect the rubberstamp by June, ushering in a sophisticated and probably enduring system of health checks across Europe, enhanced by the draconian Passenger Locator Form, also on its way to becoming law.
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Thank you for this wonderful piece. I didn’t know about this guy and I’ve now found his channel. The Germans really had it bad in the pandemic. It was depressing to see how willingly they embraced tyranny and repression.
Merkel had been inflecting tyranny and repression on Germany for years, one should note. Which suggests that Germany is incapable of learning from history, and defaults to authoritarian regimes (at best)
Well, she grew up under Erich Honecker and others in the East, after all.
Her family was one of the rare cases of people voluntarily immigrating into the GDR.
The lesson these people learnt from history is We must always imitate what the democrats are currently pushing in the USA, preferably 150% of it as we need to prove our compliance harder than others. This obviously includes We must always blindly defer to the UN or any of its suborganisations.
A lesson I learnt from history is that this is pointless even when neither the US democrats nor the extended UN are currently pushing something that’s outright evil, which probably occasionally happens, although likely by accident only.
Interesting how the UN closed down the Trusteeship council in 1994 to help ex colonies become sovereign. Is all their work done or maybe sovereignty is a dirty word in the UN.
Yes, the British establishment is far more subtle in its employment of tyranny of its people.
Yes I’m surprised I haven’t heard of him, but they had many guests in The Court Of Public Opinion that he could’ve been interviewed. There were two German Doctors that I know of without remembering their names, one was dragged off the stage talking at an anti lockdown protest in London 2020, and the other Dr was the one who got Police raided during a Livestream. He died a few months later of what seems a heart attack though his distraught girlfriend thought he was somehow murdered in an online video shortly after it happened. It is hard to know the truth of his death, it’s possible he was murdered by the state but also his girlfriends emotions were running high so confusion set in. The death of Brandy Vaugan in the US is more suspicious to me.
Let’s face it, they have form when it comes to embracing tyranny and repression.
I have had a lot of German friends over the years, since acquiring a German pen-friend as a child in the early ’70s. They have all been very pleasant, welcoming people …. but they are all conformists.
Two particular German friends I currently have were both brought up in East Germany (but now live in the West). Despite experiencing East German Communism as children/ teenagers, so well-placed to recognise tyranny when they see it, they still meekly conformed to the Covid authoritarianism.
I like this phrase. I have a feeling many of us who read the DS can relate to experiencing “intellectual development…that the escalation of lockdown seemed to demand.”
The covid terror has forced many of us to think about things that we might never have and in doing so we can consider ourselves to be somewhat wiser.
The great shame is how many people have squandered the opportunity. If they hadn’t I am certain we could now be looking forward to a much brighter future.
I agree, I found myself focusing on entirely new things all of a sudden. Not entirely happy with what I know, but I’d rather know. Forewarned is forearmed as they used to say.
Jordan Petersen referred to it as the ‘Orienting Reflex’ a sudden alarm caused by a change in your surroundings, causing a full re-evaluation of core aspects of your thinking. A useful survival trait. This seems to fit nicely with how I felt.
He sounds really interesting – shame I can’t understand German. It’s frustrating he didn’t upload his You Tube videos with English subtitles – I can’t seem to find a way to translate them … if anyone knows how to do that, please do let us all know.
Search for “youtube translation subtitles”. Loads of gadgets on offer there – I haven’t tried any though, so no idea of it’s any good, or free to use.
Thank you JK for responding, by searching as you suggested I came across this video which explains how to do it on You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZz03myFuWA
Listen to the CJ Hopkins interview on YouTube. It starts off in German but then they converse in English.
Thank you so much – will look at that.
That was a good recommendation – enjoyed seeing C J Hopkins talk, having read his stuff on Off Guardian.
Thanks for this. Always good to have original material rather than recycled MSM articles. More of this please DS.
Yep. Gunnar was one of the beacons of hope and enlightenment during this madness in Germany, from the start.
Thank you for remembering and introducing him to the English speaking critical thinkers here.
Clemens Arvay (who later committed suicide because of the mobbing he had to endure) and Raphael Bonelli from Austria also come to mind as influential soft spoken German speaking intellectual leaders.
I think his piece and video that had the most influence, reached and moved a lot of people in Germany was ‘Ich mach da nicht mit.’- I won’t participate, which was launched on 1.4.21 in response to the intensification of the vaxx shaming campaign et.al., which most Germans enthusiastically embraced and participated in.
https://gunnarkaiser.substack.com/p/ich-mach-da-nicht-mit
https://gunnarkaiser.substack.com/p/ichmachdanichtmit
https://kaisertv.de/2021/04/15/ich-mach-da-nicht-mit-martin/
The text is specifically about ‘voluntary’ mass testing of pupils in the class room enforced by authority pressure and subsequent punishment of pupils with positive test results: Round them all up in the school yard and sent them into ‘voluntary home isolation’ from there despite this use of COVID tests was (at that time) both against their usage instructions (supposed to be used to confirm Sars-CoV2 infection of people with symptoms) and the recommendations of the RKI (which had stated that mass testing healthy people would just lead to loads of false positives).
Later on, this testing was legally mandated and the RKI changed its tune (as far as I know this) accordingly. That’s was when false positives disappeared from the official conversation and made way for false negatives: If the test result was positive, you’re 100% to have the lurgi and are a deathly risk to all people around you, however, if the result negative, this doesn’t mean anything at all. Please do another test NOW. Thankfully, the latter never really gained traction but that was not for want of trying by the pandemic mongers.
As a MetalHead without googling, I wonder what the German Industrial Metal Band Rammstein made of 2020, considering their edgy videos and reflection of history in their music. One of their older videos had English & German and was called ‘We’re all living in America’, how most countries are westernised.
That’s from 2020 (attached due to links to images usually getting messed up). I’m not aware of anyhing beyond that, though.
Dear dear!
RIP, Herr Kaiser, a star which blazed brightly and too briefly
” “there are wolves hiding in the grey flock”…..That could also be a reference to the Globalist power grab.