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Rights group claims Amazon denied sick leave to workers who later died

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© Alan Berner / The Seattle TimesThe multilevel Kent warehouse covers more than 850,000 square feet. Much of the work is highly automated.
Two Amazon employees reportedly died within hours of each other at the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama last month after being denied sick leave, according to workers' rights group More Perfect Union.

The two workers allegedly died on November 28 and 29, within hours of each other, with one passing away at the facility and another after receiving medical attention.

Isaiah Thomas, an Amazon worker, said that one of the victims suffered a stroke and "died on the job" after asking HR if he could go home. According to claims made in an interview published by More Perfect Union, the worker who later passed away was told that he could "either go home and lose your job" or "stay here and keep working."

Comment: Amazon's blind commitment to its 'metrics' leaves out any compassion for those who make them possible. Workers are denied proper rest periods, told to work through severe weather and unreliable schedules, among other abuses. Nearly all efforts to establish bargaining groups have been sabotaged in the most underhanded way possible.


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More Marines discharged over vaccine refusal, total stands at 169 so far

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The Marine Corps discharged 66 Marines in the past week for refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine as mandated by the military, outpacing the other services at discipline related to the shots.

The latest Corps actions, which came as COVID-19 cases surged across the country as a result of the omicron variant, brought the total number of Marines booted out of the service for vaccine refusal to 169.

"The speed with which the disease transmits among individuals has increased risk to our Marines and the Marine Corps' mission," the Marine Corps said in a statement, even as the percentage of those at least partially vaccinated remained at 95%, the same as last week.

Comment: There is dissension throughout the different military branches.


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Runner urges women to speak out after 'losing FIVE times to transgender athletes'

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© Instagram / madi_kenyonCross-country and track runner Madison Kenyan is a campaigner for fairness in women’s sports
A female American college athlete has described the experience of being beaten by "biological males" as "extremely deflating", urging women in the state where a transitioned swimmer has broken records not to be afraid to talk.

Idaho track athlete Madison Kenyon went to court when the state's Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which bans trans women from competing in women's sports, faced a legal challenge.

Now 20, Kenyon said she was first beaten by a transgender rival as a 14-year-old, and is imploring fellow athletes to express their opinions in Pennsylvania, where Lia Thomas - formerly a biological male competitor called Will - has been breaking records in the pool.

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Epstein flight logs, showing detailed passenger lists have been entered into evidence at Maxwell trial

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
Endlessly scrutinized, studied and speculated over for years, flight records from Jeffrey Epstein's private airplanes have been the subject of debate, conjecture, litigation, and conspiracy theory. The trial of his accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell added unprecedented context and nearly 120 pages of only lightly-redacted handwritten paperwork released publicly on Sunday.

Documenting flights from between 1991 through the beginning of 2006, the logs offer more perspective about the cadre of politicians, musicians, models, and financiers who took to the skies on Epstein's plane. Prosecutors submitted three versions into court, lifting redactions twice at the defense's request before releasing the final, public version.

Each page of the logs is signed at the lower lefthand corner by David Rodgers, who served as Epstein's chief pilot for more than a decade and was called by the government to testify against Maxwell. Like Epstein's other pilot Lawrence Visoski, Rodgers recalled Maxwell as Epstein's "No. 2."

Comment: Law and Crime lead off with the juiciest names in Epstein's logs, Trump and Clinton, but then treatment of each takes a slippery turn. Trump family flights (a total of five, including one where he was not present) are carefully detailed. Trump likened them once to 'hitching a ride' to a place they needed to be. They were all domestic in nature and all very early in Trump's acquaintance with Epstein. Trump later banned him from Mar-a-lago Bill Clinton on the other hand, is merely stated to have taken "several flights", "some internationally", a slimy gloss-over of the at least 26 trips the Clinton took with Epstein, with many of them to the infamous Little St. John "pedophile island". Epstein was also a regular visitor to the Clinton White House. Why is L&C skating over those facts? Dershowitz is another creep that L&C goes easy on. But why drag artist Itzak Perlman into the mess? The two trips were clearly on point for Perlman, and were most likely Epstein burnishing his 'philanthropist' cred.

Very underhanded on L&C's part.


Fire

Major blaze following explosion "inside" ExxonMobil plant in Texas, America's second largest refinery

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Residents of Baytown, Texas, had a rough night after their homes were shaken by a massive blast at an ExxonMobil refinery early on Thursday. The explosion caused a major fire and left at least four people injured.

Locals reported that their houses were "shaking" from the blast and their entire apartments "rumbled" from the incident that occurred in the early hours of Thursday. "Just had [a] big enough boom that [the] house shook & everything inside the house rattled," one person wrote on Twitter.

Comment: Depending on the extent of the damage, this incident could significantly reduce supplies, at a time when oil and energy prices are already soaring: Other explosions and fires in the news recently: See also: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions


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"Mafiosi!": 40 healthcare workers interrupt medical assembly in protest against expansion of vaccine mandates in Italy

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About forty doctors broke into the Pineta palace hotel, effectively interrupting the assembly of the Order of Doctors of Rome. Once inside, with their masks strictly lowered, they shouted at the speakers who were at that moment busy discussing the institution's budget during the members' assembly.

The raid by doctors No vax

Several words addressed to them by the No Vax doctors: "Shame, shame!" and also "Ignorant, ignorant!", as well as "Mafiosi". In the end, the militants opposed to the vaccine managed to interrupt the meeting of the doctors of the capital. To try to calm the minds, the police also had to intervene. The aggression comes just at a time when the government is considering extending the vaccination compulsory for other professional categories, especially for workers who are in close contact with the public. The assembly of members of the Order of Surgeons and Dentists of the province of Rome had been convened today for the approval of the budget for 2022. In the face of the brawl, the President, dr. Antonio Magi, prevented it from running smoothly and therefore postponed it to a later date.

Comment: A pushback from the medical profession does appear to be brewing, particularly in light of the 'mild' omicron variant that is being used to justify further harmful, and even deadly, lockdown restrictions, but whether it will be significant enough to expose the hypocrisy and lies of this manufactured crisis remains to be seen: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever




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Trans people should be able to self-declare their legal gender, MPs recommend

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The Government has been urged to de-medicalise the process of gender recognition and allowing trans people to self-declare their legal gender.
But women's rights campaigners warn that this could jeopardise single-sex spaces, which are protected under the law .

Trans people should be able to self-declare their legal gender, MPs have recommended despite warnings of impact it will have on single sex spaces.

A new report from the Women and Equalities Committee has found that the process by which people can legally transition is "unfair and overly medicalised".

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Jabs 4 Jesus? Refusing vaccination goes against Christianity, says Archbishop

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine goes against the Christian faith, claiming that turning down the jab violates the principle of "loving thy neighbour".

The Most Reverend Justin Welby, the top bishop in the Church of England, said that getting vaccinated is a "moral issue" which should supersede personal desires or rights.

"It's not about me and my rights to choose, it's about how I love my neighbour. Vaccination reduces my chances — doesn't eliminate — but it reduces my chances of getting ill and reducing my chances of getting ill, reduces my chances of infecting others," Welby told ITV news on Tuesday evening.

Comment: When the leaders of your official religion start espousing dictates that run counter to your values (and the values or your faith), maybe it's time to start a more personal religious practice. Church officials do not stand between the individual and God.

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CDC grappling with data gaps in COVID-19 tracking

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have encountered numerous difficulties in their attempts to track domestic data on COVID-19 cases and transmissions, forcing U.S. experts to rely on data from other countries, Politico reports.

Dan Jernigan, deputy director of the CDC's Public Health Science and Surveillance office, said in an interview with Politico that the agency has yet to receive additional funding that would help improve their data collection.

"It will be very important that we identify ways to have sustainable support for these non-categorical activities like data modernization," Jernigan said. "That's something that we look to our partners in Congress to identify how best to support the ongoing need for maintaining a good data infrastructure."

Comment: The question is, is the terrible data collection methods of the CDC on purpose? The less data is out there, the less likely the fraud will be uncovered.

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Putin

Transgender controversy poses threat to sports - Putin

Vladimir Putin
© Evgenia Novozhenina / ReutersVladimir Putin has discussed the controversy around transgender athletes.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has likened the emergence of transgender athletes to Covid and warned that women's sport is under threat from males who transition and take part in female competition.

The row over transgender athletes has been one of the key controversies in sport in 2021, including at the Tokyo Olympics, where weightlifter Laurel Hubbard - who went through puberty as a man - competed in the women's light heavyweight category.

Dozens of bills have been put forward in the US aimed at outlawing transgender athletes from competing against school and college athletes who were born as women.

Most recently, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas broke records in female races at the University of Pennsylvania, leading to allegations that she had boasted about how easy her achievement was and reports that parents have pleaded to leaders for a change in the rules.

Comment: In the present, Vladimir Putin is the only world leader that publicly speaks about the gender fluidity and transgender sportist nonsense that as he says is spreading like a cancer in the society. If we don't use our common sense and stop it, it will destroy every aspect of our lives.

Many professional athletes supported the traditional approach of Vladimir Putin.
2006 ice dancing Olympic gold medalist Tatiana Navka said she "absolutely agreed" with Putin.
"It will be an unfair sport if a man competes with women," the two-time world champion told RIA. "Then all men will wear skirts and say that they are women. I really would not want this to be the case in figure skating."
On the other side Richard Budgett, the IOC's medical and science director, backed Laurel Hubbard the weightlifter who transitioned as an adult and competed at the Tokyo Olympics for New Zealand by saying that "everyone agrees transgender women are women."

Legendary figure skating coach Tatiana Tarasova evidently disagrees with those assertions. "I am in solidarity with Putin," she told the outlet.
"They can change anything they want but women have to compete with women, men with men.

"You can call yourself a girl but if you were a man, then there is nothing to be ashamed of. Men have another completely [different type of] power."
Hubbard was eliminated at the first time of asking at the Games, where Canada footballer Quinn became the first transgender athlete to win an Olympic medal.

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