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Biden administration reduced to begging businesses to adopt COVID vax mandates after court block

Steven Nelson and Callie Patteson
New York Post
Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:44 UTC
Karine Jean-Pierre
© Getty Images / Sarah SilbigerWhite House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre urges companies to get their employees vaccinated amid push back in the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate. Federal appeals court paused the rule that the Biden administration attempted to put in place for large workplaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A week after President Biden announced vaccine mandates for roughly 2/3 of the nation's private workforce, the White House on Monday was left asking large companies to adopt their own COVID-19 vaccine mandates after a federal appeals court paused the rule.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that the Biden administration believes it can still win the court battle, but said firms should create their own mandates in the meantime as 26 state attorneys general sue — and as even some Democrats, such as Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, object to the federal directives.

"We think people should not wait. We say do not wait to take actions that will keep your workplace safe. It is important and critical to do and waiting to get more people vaccinated will lead to more outbreaks and sickness," Jean-Pierre said at the daily White House press briefing.
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Dollar

UN-backed banker alliance announces "green" plan to transform the global financial system

Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
Mark Carney
Mark Carney
The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.

On Wednesday, an "industry-led and UN-convened" alliance of private banking and financial institutions announced plans at the COP26 conference to overhaul the role of global and regional financial institutions, including the World Bank and IMF, as part of a broader plan to "transform" the global financial system. The officially stated purpose of this proposed overhaul, per alliance members, is to promote the transition to a "net zero" economy. However, the group's proposed "reimagining" of international financial institutions, according to their recently published "progress report," would also move to merge these institutions with the private-banking interests that compose the alliance; create a new system of "global financial governance"; and erode national sovereignty among developing countries by forcing them to establish business environments deemed "friendly" to the interests of alliance members. In other words, the powerful banking interests that compose this group are pushing to recreate the entire global financial system for their benefit under the guise of promoting sustainability.
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Star of David

Israeli officials defend spyware technology to Biden, as activists condemn surveillance

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
NSO Group logo
© Facebook
The Israeli government is lobbying the Biden administration to remove sanctions it place last week on the Israeli technology firm NSO Group. The push comes amid calls for a deeper investigation into how the company's hacking technology ended up on the phones of Palestinian activists.

Analysts say that spyware developed by the NSO Group was found on the cellphones of six Palestinian activists, some of whom are connected to human rights groups that Israel has tagged as terrorist organizations. Mohammed al-Maskati, from the investigative group Frontline Defenders, found the spyware on one of the phones last month but researchers say the hacking began back in July of 2020.

Organizations like Frontline Defenders have been tracking the NSO Group's Pegasus technology for years. A recent investigation by the French nonprofit Forbidden Stories found that authoritarian governments used Pegasus to target over 180 journalists across more than 20 countries. Targets included the family of the late Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by Saudi agents in 2018.

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Arrow Down

The US moral superiority complex is accelerating its decline

Laura Ruggeri
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
Biden address
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Someone should tell the Biden team.

Soon after the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and Deep State insider, remarked "The reversals in Afghanistan are confounding for a Biden national security team that has rarely known personal failure (...) These are America's best and brightest, who came to the messy endgame of the Afghanistan war with spotless résumés."

Though his criticism of the national security team is understandably guarded, anyone taking a dispassionate look at the establishment liberals who are deemed America's "best and brightest" in Washington circles would reach the conclusion that they are stronger on slogans than substance, which leads to a disconnect between ideas and implementation, and lack overseas experience: there is only one career diplomat in a senior position on the National Security Council, the director for Africa.

Their ability to display ideological cohesion at the expense of a reflexive process of dialogical thinking is remarkable but not surprising: establishment liberals do see themselves as the centre of political enlightenment. If they appear vainglorious and self-righteous it is because they are part of a power structure that produces and perpetuates these character traits. Those who entertain the possibility of failure are side-lined as bearers of bad news, the centre-stage is reserved for those who project confidence and a sense of moral superiority. As to considering opposing viewpoints, that is entirely optional.
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Syringe

Russian lawmaker explains how country could make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory


RT
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:20 UTC
russia vaccination
© AFP / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA
One of Russia's top lawmakers has said that Moscow could sign off on a nationwide coronavirus vaccine mandate to slash the pandemic's rising death toll, but only if the plans were first voted through by the country's parliament.

Speaking to RIA Novosti on Wednesday, Andrey Klishas, the chairman of the Russian senate's committee on constitutional legislation said that requiring citizens to get Covid-19 jabs "does not contradict the constitution." However, he added, the Kremlin would not be able to simply issue a decree, and MPs would have to be given a vote on a federal law.

Klishas' comments come hours after one of the country's leading scientists backed mandatory immunization. Alexander Gintsburg, who led the team that developed Russia's pioneering Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, used an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta to state that it was "impossible to get rid of Covid-19 without vaccination."

Comment: See also:

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Briefcase

Attorneys general from 7 states file lawsuit challenging Biden's vaccine mandate

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:05 UTC
Joe Biden
© Getty Images
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III announced that a coalition of seven attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against "the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for private-sector employees."

Slatery III, along with attorneys general from Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, filed the petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
"The coalition asks the court to review the emergency temporary standard issued by the Biden Administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which requires the vaccination of tens of millions of citizens," the release states

"As we anticipated, the mandate asserts an unprecedented expansion of emergency regulatory powers by a federal agency," Slatery III said in the release.

"Its scope and breadth is only exceeded by its length (about 500 pages). It also fails to consider the many steps already taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by individuals, employers, and our state," the press release added.

Comment: Let's see if many other states will follow this lawsuit, or will they just bend their backs and go with the official Covid madness and experimental and dangerous vaccination program?

Will they be a part of the PTB's agenda to install totalitarian rule and enslave humanity or will more of them stand against the tyranny?

See also:

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Pirates

Does the US government really intend to make lying about Russia a crime? Only if it's the wrong kind of lie

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:56 UTC
michale sussman igor danchenko
Michael Sussmann (L), Igor Danchenko (C) Catherine Belton (R)
There are two kinds of lies about Russia.

Not white or black; neither the Big Lie nor the small one. Those are differences between what's true and what's false.

In our war-fighting world the real difference between lies is whom you tell your Russia lie to. This is according to the US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the indictments they have composed against Michael Sussmann (lead image, left) and Igor Danchenko (centre).

Their lies were told in aid of, and in hope of reward from Hillary Clinton. Among the rewards which one Russian, their Russian sub-source number 1, told them in exchange for his lies were Clinton's autograph and a promise "to take me off to the State Department [to handle] issues of the former USSR and then we'll see who is looking good and who is not."
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: The Truth Behind Eastern Europe's Migrant Crisis

Andrew Korybko
One World
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:06 UTC
migrants border poland belarus
© Ministry of Defense PolandMigrants swarm the Polish border with Belarus
These deeper strategic dimensions show just how complicated the Eastern European Migrant Crisis is.

Eastern Europe's Migrant Crisis has taken the continent by storm and unexpectedly become its top security concern. Poland accuses Belarus of waging "hybrid warfare" through "Weapons of Mass Migration" as an asymmetrical response to the West's regime change campaign against President Lukashenko since last year's elections. The Belarusian leader denies the accusations, as does Russia, which Warsaw also accused of supposedly being involved in its neighbor's "hybrid warfare" plot.

Tensions dramatically escalated on Monday after an unprecedentedly massive migrant caravan attempted to violently storm the Polish border, leading to claims from each country of the other violating those people's human rights and engaging in dangerous military provocations. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov laid the blame squarely at the West's feet for destroying Muslim countries and thus being the ultimate cause behind the migrant waves that periodically emanate from there.

He's right, but there's more to it than just that. RT reminded its audience that Lukashenko threatened over the summer to stop protecting the EU from smuggling (implied to also mean illegal immigration). This is a sensible stance from his perspective since there's no reason for this sanctioned country to continue investing its increasingly limited financial resources in ensuring its neighbor's security from such transnational non-state threats while they're literally trying to overthrow its government.
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Attention

'Sea level height based on aerobics' and other gibberish published in top science journals

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:48 UTC
Journals
© JoNova
Nature and Elsevier are agog and aghast that hundreds of junk papers filled with random word salad have been published in their esteemed journals.

It's as bad as it sounds — one retracted title was: "Sea level height based on big data of Internet of Things and aerobics teaching in coastal areas."

They are shocked that scammers who were "organised" and "sophisticated" found tricks to get published — wait for it — not just by hyping up, adjusting and exaggerating their cherry-picked papers and incompetent models, but with nothing more than fake e-mails "with 'univ' instead of 'uni' and '-ac.uk' instead of '.ac.uk'". That's right, the highest and most intellectual "peer review" journals in the world have such inadequate, nonexistent standards, that not only do they fail to weed out weak papers, they couldn't even defend themselves against randomized nonsense coming from fake professors with dodgy emails.

In other words, no one who matters even reads the papers before they are published.

Indeed, no one even read the titles...
Scammers impersonate guest editors to get sham papers published

Nature

Hundreds of articles published in peer-reviewed journals are being retracted after scammers exploited the processes for publishing special issues to get poor-quality papers — sometimes consisting of complete gibberish — into established journals. In some cases, fraudsters posed as scientists and offered to guest-edit issues that they then filled with sham papers.

Elsevier is withdrawing 165 articles currently in press and plans to retract 300 more that have been published as part of 6 special issues in one of its journals, and Springer Nature is retracting 62 articles published in a special issue of one journal. The retractions come after the publishers each issued expressions of concern earlier this year, covering hundreds of articles.
Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist who uncovered nonsense papers, was shocked:
...it is shocking to see such papers in journals from 'flagship' publishers and that "it is not only predatory journals that publish bullshit".
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Bad Guys

US Senate and House lawmakers snub China, arrive in Taiwan for 'diplomatic visit'

John Feng
Newsweek
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:39 UTC
US flight taiwan
© CHEN CHUN-YAO/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesFile: The a plane carrying then-Health Secretary Alex Azar lands at Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 9, 2020. Azar, a senior member of President Donald Trump's cabinet at the time, embarked on the highest-level visit to the island since Taipei and Washington broke off formal diplomatic ties in 1979.
A delegation comprising members of the Senate and House of Representatives landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening local time for the start of a low-profile diplomatic visit.

Joanne Ou, a spokesperson for the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry, told Newsweek that her department was providing "administrative assistance," with the trip having been coordinated by the Taipei branch of the American Institute in Taiwan — the de facto U.S. embassy on the island.

Enthusiastic plane spotters monitoring public flight-tracking data watched as a U.S. military C-40A took off from Manila and arrived at Songshan Airport in Taipei at around 6:30 p.m. local time. The plane took off shortly after, bound for Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

An unconfirmed passenger manifest carried by Taiwan-based Mirror Media said the group numbered 13, including four Republican senators and two representatives. Among them are Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and John Cornyn (R-TX) as well as accompanying staff, the online magazine reported.

Comment: It appears the US is itching to increase its antagonism with China. It was also recently reported the US has had a secret military presence in Taiwan since 2008, and that 40 of Taiwan's soldiers have been training with the US military in Gaum (which at least partially answers why the delegation made a stop in Gaum before reaching Taiwan).

See: US troops have been secretly stationed on Taiwan as far back as 2008, Pentagon data shows

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