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Ten states sue Biden administration over COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US health workers

Ahmed Aboulenein
National Post, Reuters
Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:48 UTC
Nurses prepare vaccines
© REUTERS/Radovan StoklasaNurses prepare the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at the University Hospital, in Nitra, Slovakia January 11, 2021.
Ten Republican state attorneys general sued on Wednesday to stop the Biden administration's requirement that millions of U.S. health workers get vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying it would worsen staff shortages.

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said last Thursday he will enforce the mandate starting Jan. 4.

"Placing this additional mandate on healthcare facilities and employees will exacerbate this problem and will likely lead some facilities - particularly those in underserved, rural areas - to close due to an inability to hire sufficient staff," Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a statement.

The lawsuit said the federal mandate intruded on states' police power and is unlawful under the Administrative Procedures Act because there was no comment period before its release.
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Schools swear they don't teach CRT. They're lying

Joe Setyon
In Defense of Liberty
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:01 UTC
critical race theory
Pundits and policymakers alike have made it a habit to deny that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in America's public schools. But an Indiana school administrator's revelations provide a good idea of what, exactly, the education establishment is really saying when it repeats this line to parents.

"When we tell you that our schools aren't teaching Critical Race Theory, that it's nowhere in our standards, that's misdirection," Tony Kinnett, who works as a science coach and administrator for Indiana's largest school district, said in a video posted to Twitter last week.

"We don't have the quotes and theories as state standards per se," he said. "We tell our teachers to treat our students differently based on color. We tell our students every problem is a result of 'white men' and that everything Western Civilization built is racist. Capitalism is a tool of white supremacy. Those are straight out of Kimberle Crenshaw's main points verbatim in 'Critical Race Theory: The [Key] Writings That Formed the Movement.' This is in math, history, science, English, the arts, and it's not slowing down."

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Star of David

More UK universities ban criticism of Israel - report


RT
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:03 UTC
pro-palestine protest
© Reuters / Andrew BoyersPro-Palestinian demonstrators attend a protest in Leicester. May 27, 2021.
Following threats of government sanctions, over 200 higher education providers in England have adopted a controversial definition of anti-Semitism that places limits on criticism of Israel, a report has found.

According to the Office for Students (OfS), a total of 216 post-secondary institutions in the country have signed up to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism over the past year.

The higher education regulator released figures on Wednesday that showed 95 universities have now adopted the IHRA definition - a significant increase from the 28 universities who had signed on as of September 2020, according to Union of Jewish Students (UJS) research.

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Star of David

Israel kicks off 'Covid war games'


RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:17 UTC
Israel Covid
© Getty Images / stellalevi; (inset) Getty Images / BlackJack3D
Israel has launched a national drill in a 'war games' format to assess its preparedness for an outbreak of a potential unknown new strain of Covid-19.

The simulation - dubbed the "Omega drill" - was announced on Twitter by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday. Bennett has regularly referred to the 'Omega strain' to describe the next viral mutation that has yet to be discovered.


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Boeing US worker vaccine exemption requests top 11,000; ULA could lose 15%

Eric M. Johnson
Reuters
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:13 UTC
Boeing
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The number of Boeing Co (BA.N) employees seeking a vaccine exemption on religious or medical grounds has reached more than 11,000 - or nearly 9% of its U.S. workforce - a level many times higher than executives initially estimated, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The widespread reluctance has left executives scrambling for a strategy that keeps employees safe and complies with President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for federal contractors, but avoids an exodus of engineering and factory labor, the people said.

The standoff comes as the U.S. planemaker tries to muscle through industrial and certification challenges on its 787, 777X and Starliner spacecraft programs, as well as depressed demand and supply-chain shortages.

Late last week, the White House pushed back to Jan. 4 its deadline for employees at federal contractors to be vaccinated or be tested regularly if they receive exemptions.

Boeing on Friday then delayed its deadline by about a month to Jan. 4 for employees to take a COVID-19 vaccine, or file an exemption on religious or medical grounds, according to industry sources and a company email seen by Reuters.

"Compliance remains a condition of employment," the internal email said.

Comment: For many, Biden's mandates just don't fly.

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Briefcase

Businesses sue over 'irreparable harm' from Biden jab mandate


RT
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:53 UTC
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© Reuters/Brian SnyderProtest in Bosto, Massachussetts • November 7, 2021
A group of businesses has followed Republican states in suing the Biden administration over its private-sector vaccine mandate. They claim that the "unconstitutional" mandate will result in lost jobs and empty shelves.

The coalition of businesses, which includes staffing companies, restaurant groups and religious organizations, urged the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to permanently block the vaccine mandate, which requires firms with more than 100 employees to force their staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to regular testing, with fines of up to $136,000 for noncompliance.

The businesses argue that if forced to lay off unvaccinated staff and spend money setting up human resources systems to monitor vaccine status and collect test results, "companies will not be able to hire the workers they need and will lose sales and customers because they cannot stock their shelves."

The Biden administration's mandate was issued through the Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), an organization that the businesses say has no power to issue such a mandate.

Comment: Biden's Flunky Justice: Administration overreach, dismiss the court and defy the law.

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Parents sue to oust chair of bathroom-assault school's board


RT
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:56 UTC
protest signs Loudoun
© Evelyn Hockstein
A school board meeting in scandal-hit Loudoun County, Virginia devolved into a shouting match after parents revealed they had obtained more than the necessary 2,000 signatures to remove the board's chair.

Parent group Fight for Schools has obtained several hundreds more signatures than required to remove Brenda Sheridan, the head of the Loudoun County school board. They filed suit on Tuesday to remove the offending official, who hails from the Sterling district, and threatened to remove several of her cronies as well.

Fight for Schools executive director Ian Prior declared in a statement on Tuesday:
"From violating open meetings law to ignoring the school board's code of conduct to neglecting to keep our children safe, all for her activist causes, Sheridan has been nothing short of a disaster as the so-called leader of Loudoun County Public Schools."

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Dominoes

Evergrande catastrophe: How collapse of China's real estate giant may start a new global crisis

John Ransom
RT
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:04 UTC
evergrande
© Reuters / TYRONE SIU
Bankruptcy proceedings have been issued in Germany against Evergrande, a Chinese real estate company which is now $300 billion in debt. Should it go under, there are potential repercussions for all the key global markets.

What is Evergrande?

Evergrande, which builds and manages apartments, is the second largest residential real estate company in China.

With 1,300 residential projects, some of which have come to a dead stop because of cash concerns, Evergrande poses the most serious single, controllable risk to the recovery of China's economic health, in part because it has debt of $300 billion - the largest amount of any private company in the world - that it can't repay.

Nearly two years of pandemic-related slowdowns in China have combined with organic and government-imposed obstacles to growth to create an unprecedented recession in the real estate market there, hurting companies like Evergrande.
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Best of the Web: Jordan Peterson slams COVID tyranny: 'F***ing leave me alone'

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:04 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© Hollie Adams / Newspix / Getty ImagesDr. Jordan Peterson
Speaking with Dave Rubin, famed Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson railed against government encroachment on personal rights in the COVID era, snapping, "Look, I got vaccinated, and people took me to task for that, and I thought, all right, I'll get the damn vaccine. Here's the deal, guys. I'll get the vaccine; you f***ing leave me alone!"

Prior to that, Peterson discussed how the West had moved toward becoming a totalitarian state after the COVID-19 pandemic started. He stated:

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Russian rights group issues more videos of alleged rape in prison


RFE/RL
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:00 UTC
chained up
The Russian human rights group Gulagu.net has released new videos purportedly showing instances of torture and rape in a prison hospital in the city of Saratov.

The group said the clips published on YouTube on November 9 had been recorded in the OTB-1 tuberculosis infirmary between July 2015 and September 2020.

The nine videos appear to show instances of anal and oral rape allegedly recorded in the infirmary. Seven of them have dates on them.

Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin, who resides in France, said that the men involved in raping and torturing the inmates were hired by the prison hospital as administrative managers and nurses.

Osechkin said they were supervised by the regional branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), a FSIN deputy director, and a top official of the regional directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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