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Biden to announce vaccine requirement for all federal workers

Peter Sullivan
The Hill
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:49 UTC
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US President Biden's finger on the syringe.
President Biden will announce a requirement that all federal workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a source familiar with the plans.

The action goes a step further than what Biden announced earlier this summer, when federal workers had the option of being tested regularly instead of getting vaccinated.

The tightening vaccine requirement for federal workers comes as the Biden administration is stepping up its encouragement of vaccine mandates in the private sector as well.

Biden will announce the move as part of a speech later Thursday announcing a six-part plan to get the delta variant under control.

Comment: Biden needs deflection from his Afghanistan debacle even if it means denying federal workers their right to choose.

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Chess

What message do repeatedly downed Israeli missiles in Syria send to Tel Aviv and Washington?

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:50 UTC
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A ZR Buk-M2E missile
Three announcements made on 20, 22, and 25 July by the Russian Ministry of Defence about the successful interception of Israeli missiles in Syrian airspace have prompted a heated debate among Middle Eastern and Western observers. Why have the briefings by the Russian Centre for Reconciliation produced so much fuss?

On 29 July, The Times of Israel commented on the downing of Israeli missiles in Syria, suggesting that "Russia might be testing" Naftali Bennett's new Israeli government which came to power on 13 June, and adding that there's "no reason for panic".

However, Israel Hayom warned that Moscow may very soon "clip Israel's wings" in the Arab Republic. The media outlet pinned the blame for the supposed shift on the new Bennett government, arguing that it "is seen as weak, inexperienced, and lacking in intellectual depth" in contrast to the preceding administration under Benjamin Netanyahu.

Comment: Russian and Iranian patience may yet again win the day.

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Mr. Potato

Good luck with that: Biden to require COVID-19 vaccines, tests for millions of private workers

Nathaniel Weixel
The Hill
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:44 UTC
President Joe Biden | Vaccinated soldier

President Joe Biden | Vaccinated soldier
President Biden will announce a new rule Thursday to require all private employers with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccines or weekly testing.

A senior administration official said the rule will be issued from the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration "in the coming weeks," and the implementation timeline will likely mirror the roughly 90 day window other private sector employers, like Tyson Foods and United Airlines, have required.

The requirement could impact nearly 80 million workers, the administration official said, and if a business fails to comply with the rule they could face fines up to $14,000 per violation.

The administration will also require those same companies to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated.

Comment: Opposition has been swift, with Mike Pence leading off for the Republicans:
Pence took particular issue with Biden's tone in his Thursday speech, in which the Democrat told Americans still not inoculated against Covid-19 that his administration's patience with them was "wearing thin."

"To have the president of the United States say that he's been patient, but his patience is wearing thin, that's not how the American people expect to be spoken to by our elected leaders," Pence said Friday on Fox & Friends.

The Biden vaccine plan, Pence said, is "unlike anything I have ever heard from an American president."

Biden argued in his Thursday announcement that his plan was "not about freedom or personal choice."

"It's exactly about freedom," he said, adding that Biden and other elected officials "scolding" the American public was "not the American way - and I expect the response they are going to get across the country will prove that."
Pence was soon followed by fellow Republicans:
"This is absolutely unconstitutional," tweeted Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky). "OSHA has no more authority to enforce this (there's no statutory authorization) than CDC had to issue the eviction moratorium. Which is to say they both have ZERO authority to do these things. Congress makes the laws in a constitutional republic."

"Those businesses should openly rebel against any such rule," said his colleague Chip Roy (R-Texas).

Commenting on the mandate for federal workers, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington) argued the "authoritarian Biden-Harris administration" is ignoring science and "using fear, control, and mandates" to undermine confidence in vaccines.


"He's demented," tweeted Blake Masters, a GOP candidate for the US Senate in Arizona, calling the mandate "a wildly disproportionate response... just about power and control."

Tennessee Republican Robby Starbuck, who is running for Congress in 2022, said it was "time to resist," and urged GOP legislators, mayors, governors and attorneys general to do so. "Biden's overreach cannot go unchecked. Now is the time to fight for our voters, freedoms and America," he tweeted.

Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, who is running for the US Senate in Ohio, called the mandates "morally reprehensible" and dubbed Biden a "geriatric tyrant" who talks about millions of Americans "as if they're nothing more than vermin to be ruled by him and his friends."

"Do not comply," Vance urged Americans, calling for mass civil disobedience.


"This isn't a fight against vaccines. This is a fight for whether we have America, or we don't," tweeted conservative pundit Tony Katz.

Pundit Candace Owens engaged in a flight of fancy, wondering what would happen if all federal employees "refused to play ball with Dictator Biden" and went on strike. Much of the federal bureaucracy, however, is sympathetic to the Democrats.


The Republican Party also promised legal action.
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced on Thursday that the RNC will sue the Biden administration for its "unconstitutional" COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

"Joe Biden told Americans when he was elected that he would not impose vaccine mandates. He lied. Now small businesses, workers, and families across the country will pay the price," McDaniel said in a statement.

"Like many Americans, I am pro-vaccine and anti-mandate. Many small businesses and workers do not have the money or legal resources to fight Biden's unconstitutional actions and authoritarian decrees, but when his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties."
Conservative states and organizations are pledging to defy the illegal mandate:





while others point out the real reasons:




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Putin

Putin accelerates a grand strategy of win-win cooperation at Eastern Economic Forum

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Eastern Economic Forum
One can only hope that wiser forces among the nations of the west (and those among the global south trying to foolishly operate within two opposing worlds) will recognize which future is worth living in, Matt Ehret writes.

The battle lines for the future of humanity were made explicitly clear during this week's Eastern Economic Forum held in Vladivostok under the theme of "Opportunities for the Far East in a World Under Transformation".

President Putin set the tone of the event by noting:
"The strategic vector for the development of the Far East is towards a new economy, those areas for economic, scientific and technological development that shape the future, set long-term trends in entire industries, countries, and regions of the world. Here a broad range of opportunities for international cooperation opens up as well as the chance to really look at the development of the traditional sectors and branches of the economy.
Over the course of the three day event, 380 agreements totalling 3.5 trillion rubles were signed vectored around a long term growth strategy for Russia's underdeveloped North East which. These agreements bring together dozens of nations and private interests into a new long term strategic framework that is not only opening up one of the last undeveloped frontiers on Earth, but which also ties Moscow's destiny ever more firmly into the Asian Pacific. This is no surprise since China's growth model has set the tone for an alternative political-economic order and Russia's relationship with that new order is among the highest priorities for anyone in Russia committed to survival.

Comment: Quite the contrast in comparison to the policies and agendas of the World Economic Forum eh?

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Eye 1

Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October for large events, stated goal is to 'encourage' young people to be injected


BBC
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:42 UTC
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People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.

The vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.


Comment: This is the SNP that was mired in scandal recently: Salmond inquiry: Scotland's former First Minister details 'malicious plan' launched against him by current FM's husband & former SNP allies


Some businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.

The proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Eye 2

German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware


DW
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:46 UTC
Pegasus phone spyware

NSO makes Pegasus spyware favored by governments and intelligence agencies worldwide
Sources have confirmed media reports that federal criminal police purchased and used the controversial Israeli surveillance spyware despite lawyers' objections.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) bought notorious Pegasus spyware from the Israeli firm NSO in 2019, it was revealed Tuesday.

The federal government informed the Interior Committee of the Bundestag of the purchase in a closed-doors session, parliament sources said. That confirmed earlier reports published in German newspaper Die Zeit.

The software was procured under "the utmost secrecy," according to Die Zeit, despite the hesitations of lawyers as the surveillance tool can do much more than German privacy laws permit.

However, the version purchased by the BKA had certain functions blocked to prevent abuse, security circles told the paper ­ — although it is unclear how that works on a practical level.

The revelations were a result of joint research by Die Zeit as well as daily Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.

Comment: The controversial Pegasus software represents a tool in the hands of the PTB to spy on targeted persons around the world. Germany is not the only country that has the software. Many world governments and intelligence agencies are using the same technology.

The same or similar software is probably used to blackmail corrupt political elites in many countries and eliminate opponents who can see the dark reality and publicly speak about it. It Is a powerful technology used to shape our reality and our perception.

Just look at the latest Covid circus and notice how almost all governments perform their roles of obedient puppets in the global installation of tyrannical Nazi control over humanity.

See also:

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China returns to 'full Covid': Millions are again under lockdown 'because of the delta variant'

Jane Li
QZ
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:12 UTC

Comment: This article is a month old, but it summarizes the state-of-play with 'handling the Covid pandemic' in China, whose government has 'fallen into lockstep' with the West since June this year. For most, this development is 'obvious' because they believe China has been the fount of all things draconian since January 2020.

But in fact, life there returned to normal in the summer of 2020. We wrote at the time that this was likely due to Chinese authorities initially going on 'full bioterror alert' when they discovered that SARS-CoV-2 was man-made, but then dialling back the panic when they realized how benign it was.

But a year later, that has all changed. Now the Chinese government has adopted the fundamentally anti-scientific 'Zero Covid policy' of some Western countries, to the point of tamping down its economic output to 'save lives'. The narratives the CCP is telling its people are now practically identical to those of the Western Order. All have fallen into confluence...


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Jab 'em, stab 'em, poke 'em and prod 'em. China's Covid-19 'countermeasures' are now in 'totalitarian harmony' with Western ones
Since March last year, China's new Covid-19 infections have remained low after the government controlled the pandemic by sealing the country's borders and imposed strict lockdowns. But in recent months, the country began to see small-scale outbreaks driven by the delta variant.

In May, the southern city of Guangzhou saw China's first Covid-19 outbreak caused by that variant, which scientists say is more easily transmitted than other strains of the virus, and may cause more severe illness.


Comment: It doesn't.


While most recent outbreaks were quickly confined to the region where they started, that has not been the case with the new outbreak that originated last month in Nanjing in eastern China. Though the numbers of new infections are low, state-run media have called the outbreak China's most serious since the early days of the pandemic because of the number of provinces affected. China reported 328 local cases in July, nearly equal to the number of cases reported in the previous five months, and cases have been confirmed in at least two dozen cities.

Comment: Indeed, that last narrative is also exactly what Western governments are using.

In response to Zhang Wenhong's tepid call for 'totalitarianism-lite', state media is doubling down on the country's official Zero Covid policy. Bloomberg reports:
Right now it's nearly taboo in China to even suggest a different approach. In a commentary published over the weekend by a health news app run by the official People's Daily newspaper, former health minister Gao Qiang called for stronger measures to keep the virus out of China while blasting the U.S., U.K. and other countries for easing too early.

"Their sole reliance on vaccination and pursuit of the so-called 'co-existence with the virus' have led to a resurgence of the virus," he wrote. "This is a misstep in Covid decision-making caused by the deficiencies in their political mechanism and the result of upholding individualism."
Right! So Western leaders aren't strict enough on their people because they are too weak in the face of pushback from citizens and their queer concerns for 'individual rights'.

Another non-sensical Global Times editorial on August 1st concluded:
...in addition to our humanitarian achievements, our ultimate success will include the fact that China will be able to develop faster than the UK and the West that can afford much higher death toll, and that we will clearly outperform them in terms of moral and practical achievements.
So they're spinning this as a 'geopolitical win'. Which it most certainly is not. It's 'geopolitical capture', if anything. China is fully under the thumb of who or whatever is controlling this global operation.

This month, the Chinese government has reported that it's unhappy to see that just two-thirds of its population is 'fully vaccinated'... while at the same time it too is changing its definition of 'fully vaccinated' to intoduce 'booster shots'.

Meanwhile, 'Chinese ports choke over zero tolerance Covid-19 policy', and 'China's factory inflation hits 13-year high as materials costs soar'...

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Attention

Under the shadow of Damocles' Sword

Julius Ruechel
juliusruechel.com
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:51 UTC
Covid Canada
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This post is an update on Constable Adrienne Gilvesy's fight against the Toronto Police Services' mandatory vaccination requirement. As a follow-up to the letter she sent on August 28th, which I recently published on my website (An Example of Courageous Pushback For Those Facing Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace), she has now filed an official misconduct complaint with the Toronto Police Service Professional Standards Unit against her Chief of Police, Chief James Ramer, for various provincial and criminal code offences.

If found guilty, Chief Ramer could face time in prison. And, theoretically, so could any other superior with whom she lodges her complaints if they knowingly allow a criminal injustice to continue. "Just doing my job" is not a legal defense. "Just turning a blind eye" also doesn't stand up in court when it's their job to investigate a problem. Once the complaint is filed, those with the responsibility to investigate that complaint are drawn into this fight. She is forcing everyone off the sidelines by making them decide which side of the legal line they want to stand on. This is as real as it gets.

I have reproduced her complaint for you below. But first I'd like to take a moment to explain the enormous implications of what she is doing. If enough people follow in her footsteps, NOW, to build momentum behind what she is doing, she is creating a spark that has the potential to trigger a massive institutional crisis that pits the lower levels of our institutions against the upper crust.

Simply by using all the legal tools available to her to defend her rights, and by refusing to back down, she is challenging the very core of the supportive pillars holding up this tyranny. A tyranny cannot survive without the support of its institutions. Tyranny collapses without minions.

As more people launch lawsuits and file official complaints, as Constable Gilvesy has done, employers who impose these mandates on their employees are placing themselves in legal peril. Her battle is happening at the heart of the Toronto Police Services, but the lessons of her actions apply equally to any institution, corporation, or business that is imposing these vaccine mandates on its employees.
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Bizarro Earth

Hungary blasts 'arrogant' Brussels threats to penalize Poland for judicial reform, accuses EU of empire-building


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:46 UTC
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European Union and Polish flags flutter (FILE PHOTO)
The Hungarian government has lambasted the European Commission's decision to fine Poland over judicial reforms, claiming the move is both "scandalous and arrogant" and reflective of Brussels' empire-building.

Late on Wednesday evening, Justice Minister Judit Varga said Hungary would "broadly endorse" Poland in solidarity against the European Commission's decision to penalize Warsaw over judicial reforms.

"By this scandalous and arrogant move, the Commission has crossed a line that we previously thought it would never do," Varga wrote on her Facebook page, adding that Budapest would examine how it could be involved in proceedings at the European Court of Justice.

Comment: It would appear that the EU is looking to take Poland and Hungary to task for attempting to assert that their own society and culture should take priority over that of the goals of the liberal behemoth:

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Broom

JUST the FACTS: Coronavirus in Australia, by the Numbers

Luke Massey
The Spectator Australia
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:58 UTC
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Symbolic? Prime Minister Scott Morrison wears a covid facemask with the Australian flag displayed upside down.
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting methods and timeframes etc. A key source of information for this article is the Australian Government Department of Health Coronavirus (COVID-19) case numbers and statistics website, which is updated daily and presents the statistics as a snapshot at a particular point in time. Information from this source used in this article was taken from 7 September 2021. For comparison purposes some reported and referenced raw data has been extrapolated to calculate averages and percentages.

Covid facts

Australia has a population of approximately 25,806,000.

The average life expectancy in Australia is 82.8.

As at October 2020 the average age of death from Covid in Australia was approximately 85 and the median age at death approximately 86.

The overall case fatality rate (CFR) for Covid in Australia is approximately1.6% (1053 out of 63,604) (as at 7 September 2021). This is very similar to the CFR in other developed countries including the USA, UK, France and Spain.
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