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NYC suffers from shortage of firefighters and EMS stemming from vaccine mandate

Nick Gilbertson
Breitbart
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
NYC fire department FDNY
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People walk past the FDNY Engine Co. 216 station house on October 29, 2021 in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City.
New York City is suffering from a shortage of firefighters and EMS personnel on the eve of the November 1 deadline, which requires city workers have at least one dosage of a COVID vaccine, according to reports.

A report from the New York Post said 26 companies of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) citywide were "shuttered" on Saturday as a result of the city's vaccine mandate, per city officials.

"As of 7:30am this morning, 26 @FDNY companies are closed including 5 in my district due to @NYCMayor locking out unvaccinated firefighters," Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI, Brooklyn) tweeted on October 30. "If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it's on Bill de Blasio and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!"

Comment: They're already trying to spin this as not being abnormal, or having nothing to do with the vax mandates, but when the city is burning, citizens will know where to place the blame.

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Airplane

American Airlines cancels more than 600 flights on Sunday, more than 1500 in three days

Pete Muntean and Ramishah Maruf
CNN
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 19:00 UTC
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American Airlines canceled another 634 flights on Sunday, more than 12% of its total operations for the day, the company said Sunday.

The airline has now canceled more than 1,500 flights since Friday, as it deals with weather issues and staffing shortages that started last week.

"With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up out of their regular flight sequences," American said in a statement to CNN on Saturday.

Comment: Sound familiar? Could more be going on behind the scenes than is being reported?

See: Rebellion? Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blames 'bad weather' - Meanwhile pilots file court order against Biden's vax mandate

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Syringe

Court blocks hospital system from forcing Christian doctors, nurses to get COVID vaccine


LifeNews
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:47 UTC
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Today, at the conclusion of an emergency hearing, a federal District Court of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order against NorthShore University HealthSystem on behalf of 14 health care workers who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. The court said the plaintiffs are likely to prevail on Title VII and the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act.

The court set November 16 for a preliminary injunction hearing. In the meantime, Liberty Counsel will file a brief with the court for conditional class status to extend the relief for the entire class of health care workers.

As of last Friday, NorthShore had already started purging employees with sincere religious objections to its "Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy," by removing many of those employees from the November work schedule, including those whose appeals were still pending.

Comment: It looks like a similar thing just happened in Louisiana. From The Gateway Pundit:
The Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday against Ochsner Hospital and for all hospitals statewide from firing employees who refuse to get vaccinated while the mandate's legality is in court.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport ruled in favor of Shreveport nurses just a day before Ochsner Health's Friday deadline for its 32,000 employees to get vaccinated or face termination. The hospital enacted a mandatory vaccination policy back in August where employees should be vaccinated or an exemption by Oct. 29 and refusal will result in dismissal.

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Here are the copies of the Order from the Second Circuit Court of Appeal reversing the trial court, and the original petition. This is sent to us by Atty. David Dalia, member of the Frontline Doctors Attorney Alliance.

Hayes, Et Al v University Health Shreveport, LLC DBA Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, LLC Etc., 54-445-Cw, 10... by Jim Hoft on Scribd
In both cases, these measures are temporary, so it remains to be seen whether or not mandatory vaccinations are abolished in any context in the future. We live in hope.

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Bullseye

Bill Maher: Despite some not wanting to 'Give up' on COVID, 'It's over' - 'We shouldn't fire people who have natural immunity'

Ian Hanchett
Breitbart
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
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On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher stated, "I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It's over." And that vaccinated people shouldn't have to wear masks, and "We shouldn't fire people who have natural immunity because they don't get the vaccine."

Maher said, "I'm not sure what the latest Dr. Fauci thing was on Halloween, he's change[d] his mind a lot but I think it was go and do it. I hope so. Because it certainly has been my position since the beginning of this, just resume living. I mean, come on, the 15 of 100,000, that's where we are cases in California, 15 cases per 100,000 people, I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It's over. There's always going to be a variant, you shouldn't have to wear masks."

He added, "[A]lso, vaccine, mask, pick one. You've got to pick. You can't make me mask if I've had the vaccine."

Comment: Bill Maher continues along his trajectory of being amazingly on-point on some subjects while being nothing but a typical MSM stooge on others. This is a good example of the former. While we can hope that he's just slow on the uptake on the big picture, there's a very good chance he'll never get there. But as long as he's dropping the occasional good nugget, we'll be happy.

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Bad Guys

Man stabbed, 16 others hurt as attacker starts fire on Tokyo train


Japan Times
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:05 UTC
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A 24-year-old man disguised as "Batman's Joker" has been identified as the suspect in the Tokyo attack, October 31, 2021
A knife-wielding man in fancy dress started a fire on a Keio Line train in Tokyo on Sunday night, leaving 17 people injured, one seriously, authorities said, as revelers were heading to the city center for Halloween.

Police arrested the 24-year-old man, who identified himself as Kyota Hattori, at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder. A male passenger in his 70s was in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest as the train was moving around 8 p.m.

Hattori was quoted by investigators as saying he "wanted to kill people and be given the death penalty," and hoped to do so if he killed two or more people. He also told them he had scattered lighter fluid.

Comment: More from the Daily Mail:
It was also reported hydrochloric acid was thrown during the attack, which occurred on the Keio express line bound for Shinjuku, the world's busiest rail station.

The Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were injured, including three seriously.

Not all of them were stabbed and most of the injuries were not serious, officials added.

A man believed to be in his 60s was unconscious and in critical condition after being stabbed, according to media.

Nippon Television reported that the suspect told police he used an earlier train stabbing case as an example.

NHK said witnesses told police that the attacker was wearing a bright outfit - a green shirt, a blue suit and a purple coat which resembled that of the Joker from the Batman comics.

Tokyo police officials said the attack happened inside the Keio train near the Kokuryo station.

The attacker carried out the act without showing any emotion, a female passenger said.

'He held a knife and started spreading liquid,' she said.

'He was committing this act without showing any emotion, just mechanically. I think that brought fear to everyone.'

Kyodo reported that the suspect had told investigators he 'wanted to kill people and be given the death penalty'. He also told them he had spread lighter fluid in the train.

One video uploaded on Twitter showed a steady stream of people running away from a train car where, seconds later, a blaze lit up.

Another video showed passengers rushing to squeeze out of the train's windows and onto the platform where the train had made an emergency stop.

'I thought it was a Halloween stunt,' one witness told the Yomiuri newspaper, recalling the moment he saw other passengers running in a panic towards his train car.

'Then, I saw a man walking this way, slowly waving a long knife.'

The witness described how there was blood on the knife, he said.


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Bad Guys

Unvaccinated San Francisco police officer says they are being 'discarded like a piece of trash'

Ilene Eng
The Epoch Times
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:30 UTC
San Francisco Police Officers Association
© Jessica Christian/SF Examiner
The main entrance of the San Francisco Police Officers Association.
Several dozen San Francisco police officers who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 have been placed on leave, a police union leader told NTD Television.

Tony Montoya, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, told NTD that there are 41 unvaccinated officers on paid administrative leave. Another 40 are on disability or Family and Medical leave and have yet to report their vaccination status.

San Francisco previously allowed its city employees to submit exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine. They were approved.

Later, however, the Department of Public Health issued a health order requiring all city employees to be vaccinated by Oct. 13 or be relieved of their duties.

Comment: There are greener pastures for the shunned:

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Fire

Explosion in Mexico destroys at least 30 buildings, leaves 1 dead, 15 injured

Christine Theodorou
ABC
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:16 UTC
Puebla
© Imelda Medina/Reuters
Firefighters walk along a railroad at an area affected by the explosion of a gas leak caused by a pipeline theft, in the San Pablo Xochimehuacan neighborhood in Puebla, Mexico, October 31, 2021.
Authorities are still searching for people under the collapsed buildings.

A large explosion attributed to a gas leak in east-central Mexico's Puebla state has left at least one dead, 15 injured and damaged between 30 to 50 buildings, local government authorities are reporting.

Search and rescue crews are working to find people who could be trapped under collapsed buildings.

Around 1:34 a.m. local time, a gas leak was reported and around 2,000 people within 1 kilometer of the leak were evacuated, Puebla State Government officials said at a press conference Sunday.

Comment: It remains to be seen what caused the explosion, but it's one of many that have happened thus far this year, and all over the globe: See also: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions

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Black Cat

Critical Race Theory poison: 6yo Loudoun County student asks mother if she was born evil because she is white

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:18 UTC
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A concerned parent addresses the Loundoun County School Board over what her 6 yo daughter is being taught
A mother told the Loudoun County school board she removed her children from their public schools after her six-year-old daughter asked her if she was born evil because she is white.

Critical Race Theory investigator Christopher F. Rufo tweeted a video of the Loudoun County mother addressing the school board.

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NPC

Southwest on defense as hysteric AP reporter claims she was almost 'removed' from flight after pilot signed off with 'Let's Go Brandon'


RT
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:04 UTC
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© REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 plane is seen at LAX in Los Angeles
Critics are calling for the firing of an unidentified pilot after he allegedly signed off when speaking to his passengers, including a reporter, by saying, "Let's Go, Brandon," a phrase commonly used to insult President Joe Biden.

In Saturday tweets, Associated Press reporter Colleen Long said she was on the Southwest flight from Houston, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and claimed she was almost "removed" after trying to ask the pilot about using the phrase.

"That feeling when you're trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing you're working on over the loudspeaker and you have to try to get him comment but then almost get removed from plane," Long tweeted, along with a story by her digging into the "let's go, Brandon" phrase, which has become common at sporting events and among Biden critics.

Comment: Matt Tiabbi nails the absurdity (not to mention the hypocrisy) of it all:
Is it really possible that these people don't get they're being trolled? Part of the joke of "Let's Go Brandon," of course, is that you couldn't go five minutes during the last administration without hearing someone in pearls or a bowtie screaming "Fuck Trump!" I don't remember Rangappa pumping out "Osama de Niro" tweets after this celebrated Tony Awards appearance:


The bigger part of the "Let's Go Brandon!" gag is that such outbursts during the Trump years were not only not condemned, they were celebrated, as pundits and reporters for the first time told us directly profane insults of presidents were okay. "Robert de Niro's Comments at the Tony Awards Go Viral," was CNN's bemused take, in a story quoting artist Ferrari Shepard saying, "Robert de Niro is my favorite rapper."


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Gold Coins

Venezuelans turn to gold nuggets as the local currency implodes

Joseph T. Salerno
Mises Institute
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Gold miner
© Getty Images
The Venezuelan government recently lopped off six zeros from its hyperinflating currency, the bolivar. The highest denomination currency note of 1 million bolivars, worth less than $0.25, was replaced by a one-bolivar note. At the same time, a 100-bolivar note, worth about $25.00, was introduced as the new highest denomination of the bolivar. The currency conversion was designed to spare the government the embarrassment of having to issue a 100-million bolivar note to enable people to purchases everyday items without having to carry around bundles of notes, given that the price of a loaf of bread had risen to 7 million old bolivars. Of course, the arbitrary scaling down of the denomination of the currency will not slow inflation, because the new currency notes can be printed just as cheaply as the old. The bolivar has already lost 73 percent of its value in 2021 alone and the IMF estimates the annual inflation rate will reach 5,500 percent by the end of 2021.

It is not surprising that all but the poorest Venezuelans have abandoned the bolivar as a medium of exchange, let alone a store of value or unit of account. US dollars are the exchange medium of choice in Caracas and other large cities, while the Colombian peso dominates along the Colombian border, particularly in the regional city of San Cristobal. The Brazilian real is current along the southern border with Brazil and the euro and cryptocurrencies have also found niche uses.
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