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Florida sues Biden, NASA over COVID vaccine mandates for federal contractors

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis • Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody
The state of Florida is suing President Biden, NASA and a number of officials and agencies within the Biden administration over its "unlawful" COVID-19 vaccine mandates requiring government contractors to get vaccinated, saying the rule interferes with Florida's employment policies and "threatens" the state's economy.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and Gov. Ron DeSantis filed the lawsuit, first obtained by Fox News, against Biden, NASA, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and officials within the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense over the mandates, which require all workers in the executive branch be vaccinated against COVID-19, and require federal contractors to mandate vaccinations and ensure workers are fully vaccinated by Dec. 8.

Florida's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the middle district of Florida's Tampa division Thursday morning, argues that NASA, and others
"frequently contracts with Florida, has current contractual relationships with Florida, and is and will continue to seek to impose the Biden administration's unlawful requirements to Florida. Because the government's unlawful vaccine requirement seeks to interfere with Florida's employment policies and threaten Florida with economic harm and the loss of federal contracts, the State seeks relief from this Court."

Vader

Amnesty International: Washington's dismal human rights record makes US promise not to torture Assange 'not worth paper they're written on'

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Placard in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is held outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Oct. 23, 2021
Amnesty International legal adviser Simon Crowther has slammed the US government's assurances it would not keep WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in solitary confinement, saying they're "not worth the paper they're written on."

During the second day of Washington's appeal in London's High Court to extradite Assange, Crowther warned that the assurances made by lawyers representing the US should not be trusted, pointing out that the country has a problem with respecting basic human rights.

Snakes in Suits

Australian officials refuse to release vaccination status of Victoria's 25 'Covid deaths'

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Victoria’s deputy chief health officer, Professor Ben Cowie, said the vaccination status of Covid deaths would not be released.
The Victorian health department has refused to release the vaccination status on the 25 coronavirus fatalities.

The spike in new deaths were reported on Thursday, which was the highest number of daily fatalities of the state's current Delta outbreak.


Comment: It's likely that if there is an increase in the excess death rate, as we've seen in numerous other countries - including Israel, Bali, Ukraine - it's likely due to the vaccine roll out, in addition to the lockdown restrictions.


When asked whether they were vaccinated, deputy chief health officer Ben Cowie said the data was available but "we're not going to be reporting on that".

Instead, he said 85 per cent of Victorians who tested positive to Covid-19 in the past seven days were not fully vaccinated.

Comment: Note that this is just the latest highly suspect attempt by the Australian government to conceal their workings from the people: Australian gov't wants SECRECY protections for Covid cabinet meetings


See also: RNA Vaccines, Obedience and Eugenics

And check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Documented Negative Effects of Covid Vaccines





Wolf

Coming into focus: Killary's secretive, Russiagate-peddling pair of super-lawyers

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Here are the prime movers of the false Trump-Russia theory that roiled U.S. politics for years: Clinton lawyers Michael Sussmann, left, and Marc Elias.
Some of Sussmann's role emerges in his recent indictment for lying to the FBI -- but more consequential acts are outlined below. And Elias's role in the Steele dossier was hidden through lies, "with sanctimony, for a year," as one journalist put it.

The indictment of Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to the FBI sheds new light on the pivotal role of Democratic operatives in the Russiagate affair. The emerging picture shows Sussmann and his Perkins Coie colleague Marc Elias, the chief counsel for Clinton's 2016 campaign, proceeding on parallel, coordinated tracks to solicit and spread disinformation tying Donald Trump to the Kremlin.

Comment: The unholy partnership spread in many directions:


Bizarro Earth

Danish PM faces impeachment for deleting ALL her messages over illegal & unnecessary slaughter of 15 million mink after claims they may spread Covid

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Denmark's controversial decision to cull all 15 million farmed mink to prevent the spread of mutated COVID-19 was ruled illegal and has since devolved into a blame game involving the nation's top politicians.

The prime minister now risks being brought before a national court after the so-called Minkgate, which is seen as one of Denmark's biggest political scandals in modern times.


All text messages from the days when Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen made the contentious decision to slaughter all the country's mink stock have been deleted, TV2 has reported.

The decision to kill 15 million mink to stop a mutated COVID variant for fear that it would intervene with the vaccination process sparked controversy, as it was found to be unconstitutional - Danish law doesn't support the killing of healthy animals. Subsequently, Prime Minister Frederiksen pointed to the-then food minister and party mate Mogens Jensen, who left his post over the affair.

Comment: After the Danish government failed to legislate a FORCED vaccination law, lied to the public in order to implement draconian and unjustified lockdowns, and then doubled jail time for lockdown protesters, it recently announced it no longer considers Covid to be a "socially critical disease" and intends to drop all restrictions; one wonders whether this move that would defy the establishment consensus for enforcing vaccine passports will have any effect on the PMs future:


Wolf

'Libertarian socialist' Noam Chomsky comes out in support of a two-tier society: Unvaxxed should be 'isolated'

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US leftist Noam Chomsky
Hitherto-revered US leftist Noam Chomsky's call for the unvaccinated to be 'isolated' from the rest of society, and his cold dismissal of concerns over how they would even get food, is deeply shocking. How the mighty have fallen.

The one good thing about the last 18 months is that it has exposed who were the genuine supporters of basic human freedoms and who were not. Goodness me, there've been quite a few surprises, haven't there?

If I had said to you back in 2019 that, under the guise of fighting a virus with an IFR of 0.096% states across the western world would impose the greatest peace-time restrictions on civil liberties ever seen, with people even prevented from attending the funerals of loved ones or visiting them when they were seriously ill in hospital, you'd have probably said 'I bet that socialist-libertarian Noam Chomsky will speak out strongly against it. I don't agree with everything he says, but he's always against tyranny and disproportionate government measures.'

Comment: As seen on Twitter: "Chomsky has lived long enough to become the villain he once opposed."

He has shown other gaps of awareness and humanity over the years. It's time for Chomsky to be removed from the pedestal too many liberals have placed him on:


MIB

Indian supreme court orders inquiry into state's use of Israeli Pegasus spyware that targeted political opponents, journalists, & activists

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A protest in July accusing Modi's government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists.
India's supreme court has ordered an independent inquiry into whether the government used the surveillance software Pegasus to spy illegally on journalists, activists and political opponents.

The decision on Wednesday to create an independent committee to investigate whether and how the Indian state had used the Israeli spyware tool was a significant victory for privacy campaigners after years of stonewalling by Narendra Modi's government.

The order was a response to cases lodged by several Indian journalists and activists, including some revealed by the Guardian and a consortium of reporting partners to have been victims of Pegasus - a cyber-weapon capable of hacking a target's smartphone, extracting its contents and turning on the device's microphone and camera.

Comment: It's highly likely that the information harvested was not just going to those in the Indian state but also to the ostensibly 'private' Israeli company that created the software, and, in turn, to the state of Israel and its secret services to be used whenever the opportunity might arise.

That politicians across the planet may be compromised has profound implications, and perhaps goes some way to explaining the otherwise inconsistent, nonsensical, deviant, and increasingly tyrannical rule that has infected governments:


Document

The Facebook Papers: A bulleted guide to the biggest revelations from troves of leaked documents

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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The pressure is rising for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Over a dozen news organizations reviewed Facebook documents leaked by a whistleblower.
  • The outlets published several reports Monday based on those documents, known as the Facebook Papers.
  • The topics include Facebook's fading popularity with teens and failures in addressing hate speech.
Seventeen US news organizations on Monday said they had reviewed leaked internal documents obtained by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen.

Their reports on the documents span a wide variety of issues at the company, including its fading popularity with teens, its ability to counter hate speech, and its treatment of politicians.

Some of the internal documents reviewed by the news organizations were previously reported on by The Wall Street Journal.

Here are some of the biggest takeaways from the bevy of reporting published Monday:

Comment: See also:


Cell Phone

Cloak and Dagger military intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push

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While vaccine passports have been marketed as a boon to public health, promising safety, privacy, and convenience for those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the pivotal role a shadowy military-intelligence organization is playing in the push to implement the system in digital form has raised serious civil liberties concerns.

Known as MITRE, the organization is a non-profit corporation led almost entirely by military-intelligence professionals and sustained by sizable contracts with the Department of Defense, FBI, and national security sector.

The effort "to expand QR code vaccine passports beyond states like California and New York" now revolves around a public-private partnership known as the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI). And the VCI has reserved an instrumental role in its coalition for MITRE.

Described by Forbes as a "cloak and dagger [research and development] shop" that is "the most important organization you've never heard of," MITRE has developed some of the most invasive surveillance technology in use by US spy agencies today. Among its most novel products is a system built for the FBI which captures individuals' fingerprints from images posted on social media sites.

MITRE's own COVID-19 umbrella coalition includes In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Palantir, a scandal-stained private spying firm.

Comment: Loffredo and Blumenthal outline the constructs supplied by particular intel services and government departments to digitize the future of humanity and secure absolute dominion. Given all that they described exist, of what else are we in ignorance?

See also (by these authors):
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism


Brick Wall

US tricked Ukraine into believing NATO would ride to rescue in case of war with Russia. How long can it keep up the act?

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
NATO membership for Ukraine may still be a distant dream, but the US is continuing to pretend otherwise to keep Kiev in the anti-Russian camp. The question is how long it will be before Ukrainians realize they've been conned.

Joined-up government is not one of America's strong points. While one arm of the system does one thing, the other arm does something different, often entirely contradictory to the first. At times, they even deliberately undermine each other. Different bits of the bureaucracy have different interests, and only the strongest of leaders can somehow push them all in the same direction.

So it was this week, when US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland visited Moscow in an effort to patch up relations with Washington. But while the State Department was seeking to ramp down the tension, the Department of Defense was doing the opposite.

Comment: Ukraine, in a trap of its own making, looks to the outside to solve its problems.