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Kroger to take away paid Covid benefits, add insurance surcharges for unvaccinated employees

Melissa Repko
CNBC
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:56 UTC
Vaccine
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev
Kroger said Tuesday that it will take away paid leave for unvaccinated employees who get Covid-19 and require some of them to pay a monthly health insurance surcharge starting next year.

The country's largest supermarket operator sent a companywide memo announcing the changes, which take effect Jan. 1. A company spokeswoman said the new policies are intended to encourage staff to get the Covid vaccines, adding it will continue to offer a $100 incentive to all employees who become fully vaccinated.

"As we prepare to navigate the next phase of the pandemic, we are modifying policies to encourage safe behaviors including vaccination," she said in a statement.

Starting next year, salaried, nonunion employees who are unvaccinated and enrolled in the company's health insurance plan must pay a monthly $50 surcharge, the company spokeswoman said. But employees who are fully vaccinated are eligible for paid Covid leave, if they get a breakthrough case.

Comment: See also: Will the segregation of the jabbed and unjabbed be the next stage of the tyrannical 'New Normal'?

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California mayor seeks return of police powers after discovering city is cesspool


RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:45 UTC
San Francisco
© Reuters / Shannon StapletonPeople walk around the Tenderloin district amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Francisco, California, U.S. April 1, 2020
The mayor of San Francisco has vowed to crack down on crime terrorizing poor neighborhoods, promising extra funding and more power for police while urging prosecutors not to let criminals get away with just a slap on the wrist.

Responding to recent high-profile cases of robberies and break-ins in the city that have "become far too normal and cannot continue to be tolerated," San Francisco Mayor London Breed vowed to "take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement" and "less tolerant of all the bull... that has destroyed our city" moving forward.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Breed announced that the city would seek to return surveillance powers to law enforcement that were removed in 2019. She also said "emergency police funding" would be secured to tackle long-standing issues, especially in the Tenderloin neighborhood, notorious for its problems with homelessness, drugs, and high crime rates.
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In Facebook's 'virtual universe' opinion substitutes for fact

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:33 UTC
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Facebook likes to present its fact-checkers as impartial arbiters of squeaky-clean truth. The reality, however, shows they are no more bound by the constraints of certainty and infallibility than the users they monitor.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook, adores facts. He adores facts so much that he has employed a veritable army of workers who pour over millions of posts in a moral battle against those who would defile facts. Yet as more people are discovering, not all facts are created equal in the fever swamp known as social media, where Meta is a major monster to contend with.

Just ask veteran journalist John Stossel, whose lawsuit against the platform for defamation has revealed some inconvenient truths that Facebook would rather fact-checkers ignore.
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'Lockdown by stealth': Pubs lose ALL Christmas bookings 'overnight' in wave of cancellations sparked by Omicron fears and mixed messages

Rory Tingle
Daily Mail
Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:23 UTC
Waterloo station
© Stephen Lock/ i-ImagesA near empty Waterloo station at 7am today as commuters stayed at home after Boris Johnson's work from home guidance frustrated City bosses
Pubs have lost 'all their Christmas bookings virtually overnight', hospitality bosses said today - as the boss of Wetherspoons lashed out at ministers for pursuing 'lockdown by stealth'.

Bosses said government warnings about the threat of Omicron and new working from home guidance had persuaded many punters that it wasn't worth going ahead with their festive gatherings.

One London hotel told MailOnline it was expecting £100,000 worth of losses from cancelled events, rooms and covers - and said many staff were fearing for their jobs given the extent the industry relies on a lucrative Christmas period.

In a trading update, Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin warned government restrictions could push it into a loss in the first six months of the year.

'For reasons best known to themselves, perhaps in order to encourage more vaccinations, the UK government and its advisers are creating an entirely different and more frightening impression of the variant, which appears to be at odds with the South African experience,' he said.

The nation was heading towards 'a lockdown by stealth', he added.
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Crime stats are racist, real estate wizards argue


RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:01 UTC
Antioch California
© WikipediaSuburban homes in Antioch, California, April 201
Two of America's largest real estate search engines have removed neighborhood crime data from their websites. While prospective buyers use this data to find safe addresses to live in, the companies involved say it's racist.

Until this week, buyers searching for a new home on Realtor.com could look at any number of informative map layers about their prospective new neighborhoods, from availability of public transport to public school ratings, or a heat map showing reported crimes.

However, in a company update posted on Monday, Realtor CEO David Doctorow announced that the crime statistics layer has been removed, in an effort to "level the playing field" and "reimagine how we integrate safety data." These crime statistics, Doctorow continued, "unfairly penalize communities of color."

Comment: Notice it is the 'chief growth officer' who is pushing this fake reality on Redfin. Their agenda doesn't likely have anything to do with any supposed racism in crime statistics. It has to do with growth and selling homes. Since people don't want to live in high crime areas, they are removing that information so they can sell more properties in those areas while using the current fad of woke capitalism to do it.

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Senior Cardinal warns elites ushering in "total control surveillance state" through COVID

Steve Watson
Summit News
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller,
Declares that globalists want to create "a new man in their own image and likeness, that has nothing to do with democracy."

A senior German Cardinal has warned that the likes of Bill Gates, George Soros and Davos Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab are using the coronavirus pandemic to force the world under "total control" of globalist "super-rich elites."

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, who also serves as a high ranking judge at the Vatican court, made the comments during an interview with Austria's St. Boniface Institute.

Mueller urged that "People, who sit on the throne of their wealth," are seizing an "opportunity to push through their agenda."

The Cardinal added that the pandemic has led to "chaos" and "turmoil" in part due to elites wanting to "snatch an opportunity to bring people in line" via a global "surveillance state".

Mueller also stated that globalists are making efforts to bring "a new man" into the world, created "in their own image and likeness," warning "That has nothing to do with democracy."

Comment: While its heartening to see individuals in positions of religious authority calling out the inhuman global agenda being rolled out, it would be nice to see figures from other spheres of life (not to mention other religions) also doing their part in bringing awareness to the monstrous plans we see rolling out before us.

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Kentucky candle factory bosses threatened to fire workers who asked to leave as tornado sirens warned of record breaking & deadly storm approaching, say workers

Richard Luscombe
The Guardian
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:41 UTC
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© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe remains of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory.
Workers at a Kentucky candle factory have said they pleaded with managers to be allowed to leave as a deadly tornado barreled towards them last weekend - but say they were told they would be fired if they left their posts.

The barrage of tornadoes that tore through Kentucky and surrounding states killed a dozen children, including a two-month-old infant, Governor Andy Beshear said on Tuesday. A total of 74 people died in Kentucky, with the oldest victim at 98 years old. Eight people have yet to be identified. More than 18,000 homes remained without power on Tuesday.

Beshear said the storms produced "the strongest set of tornadoes that we have ever seen in Kentucky and what we believe will probably be one of the most devastating tornado events in US history".

The fatalities included eight at a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, that was reduced to rubble. Deaths at the candle factory were initially feared to be much higher, but a company spokesman said on Monday that the remaining 102 workers on duty at the time are alive and have been accounted for.

Comment: See also: Record-breaking tornado outbreak hits US: At least 3-dozen tornadoes form, including monster that dragged 4 states - At least 100 killed - UPDATES

And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: How Psychopaths Infect and Destroy Hierarchies of Competence



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Canada likely to announce new non-essential travel guidance due to Omicron variant


WKBW
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:13 UTC
US Canada border Peace Bridge
© AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes, FileIn this March 18, 2020, file photo, vehicles wait in line to cross into Canada at the Peace Bridge Plaza in Buffalo, N.Y. On Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, the Canadian government said that passengers must have a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days before they arrive in the country.
The Canadian government could soon implement new travel measures due to the Omicron variant, according to CTV News and CBC News.

The reports say Canada's government is expected to make an announcement on Wednesday regarding new non-essential international travel recommendations.

According to the reports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government officials met Tuesday and discussed restrictions, including the implementation of testing at airports for everyone coming back to Canada, regardless of where they would be arriving from.

Comment: Another 'devastating' border closure due to the terrifying omicron variant that, according to reports, is milder than its predecessors. The clown show continues.

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Syringe

Supreme Court rejects religious challenge to NY vaccine mandate

Jessica Chasmar
Fox News
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 10:41 UTC
supreme court justices
© APIn this April 23, 2021, file photo members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington.
Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a New York regulation that requires health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine without any religious exemptions.

The vaccine mandate for health care workers, which went into effect in August, allows only for medical exemptions but not religious ones. The Supreme Court turned away two applications from doctors and nurses in the state for injunctive relief to allow religious exemptions while litigation continues in the lower courts over the mandate's constitutionality.

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Ambulance

'Not fitting their narrative': Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack

Dana Kennedy
New York Post
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:39 UTC
waukesha darrell brooks
© NY Post photo compositeDarrell Brooks (far right) allegedly plowed through the town of Waukesha, killing six people including 8-year-old Jackson Sparks (in black shirt) during a Christmas parade. Now, townsfolk including Sharon Millard (top left) feel they will never be the same, even as the media's interest has drifted away from Brooks and his motives.
For her whole life, 67-year-old Sharon Millard was so shy, she used to ask her identical twin sister to go on dates in her place in high school.

But ever since Nov. 21, when Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed into dozens of people at the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring up to 60 others, Millard has felt compelled to speak about the atrocity she witnessed.

One of the people killed was Millard's fellow "Dancing Granny," 79-year-old Virginia "Ginny" Sorenson, who was tossed up in the air like a rag doll by Brooks' SUV, police say.

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