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Germany: Bosses can't ask about employees' coronavirus vaccination status


DW
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:27 UTC
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The German government was set to pass a new workplace coronavirus hygiene ordinance on Wednesday but rejected the suggestion to give employers legal ground to ask their workers whether they have been vaccinated. Even as other countries mandate vaccinations for certain professions, Germany has avoided forcing anyone to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Germans hold their privacy laws dear, and employers are limited in what they are allowed to ask. So far, questions regarding personal health information, including vaccination status, are not permitted under German law. But with many employees heading back into their workplaces after months of working from home, the relevance of their vaccination status has led some lawmakers to push for a temporary change in the law.

However, Wednesday's ordinance is not set to include such a measure, instead forcing employers to inform workers about the risks of a COVID-19 infection and the options for getting vaccinated. Workplaces must also allow employees to take time off if they have a vaccination appointment.
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Multi-state agency Europol conducts mammoth drug bust in Spain, makes 107 arrests & seizes 51 cannabis farms


RT
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:06 UTC
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Europol has released video footage of a huge raid involving hundreds of police, both on foot and in choppers, breaking up an Albanian drug ring across Spain and seizing thousands of cannabis plants as well as cash and vehicles.

The pan-European law-enforcement agency made 107 arrests, discovered 51 cannabis farms and seized 25,000 cannabis plants, in a massive coordinated raid carried out at 42 locations across Spain.

The agency said the operation took down an 'Albanian clan' running an industrial cannabis operation across Europe. Albanian, Spanish and German authorities were involved in the bust.

The video depicts dozens of police infiltrating an array of warehouses at dawn. Inside, they find mattresses and temporary sleeping setups, as well as an extraordinary quantity of cannabis plants.
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Census 2022: People in Scotland able to self-identify their sex in Scottish census

Alexander Britton
The Scotsman
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:01 UTC
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© Andrew Milligan
In next year's census in Scotland, people will be able to self-identify their sex, according to official guidance
Scots will not be required to give the same sex as that recorded on their birth certificate and a voluntary question on trans status will follow allowing people to identify as non-binary.

National Records of Scotland said people do not need a gender recognition certificate to identify as a different gender.

The guidance, issued on Tuesday, said: "If you are transgender the answer you give can be different from what is on your birth certificate. You do not need a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

"If you are non-binary or you are not sure how to answer, you could use the sex registered on your official documents, such as your passport.

"A voluntary question about trans status or history will follow if you are aged 16 or over. You can respond as non-binary in that question."
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Secret texts show US military officials lamenting leaving Americans behind in Kabul evacuation chaos

Susan Katz Keating and John Solomon
Just the News
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:40 UTC
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tap dances around question of US citizens still left in Afghanistan after evacuation operation
"We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," Army colonel wrote in a frantic series of texts that detail how a group of Americans were rejected at airport as rescue flight awaited.

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success," while his Pentagon portrayed a prosaic, workaday process to repatriate Americans still stranded in the war-torn country.

But text messages between U.S. military commanders and private citizens mounting last-minute rescues tell a far different story, one in which pleading American citizens were frantically left behind at the Kabul airport gate this past weekend to face an uncertain fate under Taliban rule while U.S. officials sought to spread the blame between high-ranking generals and the State Department
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Victoria premier extends statewide lockdown, again, as Aussie police granted power to covertly HACK citizens' phones & alter data


RT
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:39 UTC
Melbourne lockdown police
© AFP / William West
Police arrest a protester during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on August 21, 2021 as the city experiences its sixth lockdown
Victoria's premier has announced that a statewide lockdown will remain in place until most residents are vaccinated, just days after Australia adopted new legislation giving sweeping surveillance and spy powers to police.

Draconian measures covering the entire southeast Australian state will only start to be eased once 70% of the population receives at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, Premier Dan Andrews decreed on Wednesday. The government said it hoped to reach this target on or around September 23.

In a written statement, Andrews claimed that lifting restrictions would "overrun" the state's healthcare system. With a population of around 6.6 million, Victoria currently has less than 60 Covid hospitalizations.

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Nearly 200 Americans estimated to remain in Afghanistan after US withdrawal

Morgan Chalfant
The Hill
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC
CH-47 Chinook Afghanistan
© AP Photo / Department of Defense
Between 100 and 200 Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan remain in the country following the final U.S. military withdrawal and evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

U.S. Central Command leader Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie told reporters during a briefing Monday afternoon in Washington that the Americans who wanted to leave and who were not evacuated number in the "very low hundreds."

Speaking on Monday evening, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the number of Americans remaining is less than 200.

"We believe there are still a small number of Americans, under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave. We're trying to determine exactly how many," Blinken said.

McKenzie said that no Americans were evacuated on the final five flights out of Kabul's international airport, where the U.S. evacuation mission was located.
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Taliban hold mock 'funeral' for NATO, take Black Hawk helicopter for joyrides, and show off loot at Kabul airport after US retreat


RT
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:28 UTC
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© Reuters / ZHMAN TV
Crowd carries makeshift coffins draped in NATO, US and UK flags during a pretend funeral on a street in Khost, Afghanistan August 31, 2021.
After nearly 20 years of fighting against the US in Afghanistan, the victorious Taliban posed with captured American gear at the Kabul airport, held a mock funeral for NATO in Khost, and flew a Black Hawk helicopter over Kandahar.

The last US troops left the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday, just before the clock struck midnight local time. On Tuesday morning, Taliban fighters strolled through the airport they now controlled, littered with debris, posing for photos with the captured vehicles, aircraft and equipment.

Taliban leaders reviewed a "special forces" unit, equipped with weapons and gear captured from the US-trained Afghan army, on the Kabul runway.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?



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'BURN IN HELL': Families of slain troops RAGE at Biden as Facebook suspends grieving mother after angry posts aimed at president


RT
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:07 UTC
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© AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster
Joe Biden pauses with Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the remains of fallen US troops arrive at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
Several parents of the US Marines killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul have vented their anger at President Joe Biden, with Facebook intervening to censor one mother's rant.

Biden traveled to Dover Air Force Base in his home state of Delaware on Sunday to pay respect to the 13 slain American service members arriving back from Afghanistan in flag-draped coffins. The reception from some parents, however, was hostile.

The meeting "didn't go well," Mark Schmitz, father of 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday. Biden "talked a bit more about his own son than he did my son, and that didn't sit well with me," Schmitz added, referring to Biden's well-reported habit of bringing up his own late son while empathizing with the families of fallen veterans.

Comment: Biden is not winning any popularity contests at the moment (was he ever?), as even the press that formerly worshiped his every move has apparently turned on him.

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Florida diner owner posts sign telling Biden backers to eat elsewhere

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:35 UTC
angie ugarte diner owner florida
© FOX 35
DeBary Diner owner Angie Ugarte is not welcoming Biden supporters.
The owner of a Florida diner is telling President Biden supporters they're personae non grata in the wake of the suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members in Afghanistan.

A sign posted in the window of the DeBary Diner flatly tells would-be customers to turn around if they back Biden and his administration following Thursday's attack by ISIS-K at the Kabul airport, WOFL reported.

"If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere," the blunt notice reads.

Comment: Considering how long many Americans have been questioning the current President's fitness for office, the Afghanistan blunder may be the final nail in his coffin.

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American Humane group says US left military dogs behind in Afghanistan UPDATE: Fake news?

Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:42 UTC
afghanistan military service dogs
© DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images
The American Humane society slammed Biden for leaving the contract dogs behind in Afghanistan.
An animal rights group slammed the Biden administration after the US military was accused of leaving its contract dogs behind in Afghanistan before pulling out of Kabul — but the military hit back, blasting the reports as "erroneous."

"I am devastated by reports that the American government is pulling out of Kabul and leaving behind brave U.S. military contract working dogs to be tortured and killed at the hand of our enemies," American Humane president and CEO Robin Ganzert said in a statement.

"These brave dogs do the same dangerous, lifesaving work as our military working dogs, and deserved a far better fate than the one to which they have been condemned."

Comment:
More from Military.com:
Kabul Small Animal Rescue was founded by an American, Charlotte Maxwell-Jones, in 2018; the group helped U.S. troops bring home cats and dogs they had befriended while deployed to Afghanistan. The Taliban ordered Maxwell-Jones to leave the country after it took over earlier this month, and she scrambled to get her employees, their family members and up to 250 animals out as well, Stars and Stripes reported.

The Pentagon said that Maxwell-Jones brought the dogs to the airport in kennels and asked troops to get them on military evacuation flights.

The military denied her request because of customs prohibitions and the need to reserve all space on flights for people needing evacuation. Maxwell-Jones then tried to charter a civilian aircraft to pick the dogs up, but the plane never arrived, according to the Pentagon.

It added that troops moved the dogs from the runway to a compound that had been used by the former Afghan army. Service members then let the animals out into an enclosed area, where they remained when the final U.S. flights departed. Maxwell-Jones stayed with the dogs to try to get them onto a later flight, officials said.

Sunday afternoon, before the final U.S. departure, the animal rescue group tweeted photos of some of the dogs it was trying to help, with the hashtag #OperationHercules. The post went viral. About an hour later, the group posted on Twitter again, urging people to stop tweeting at the State Department and U.S. Central Command and saying its team was handling the situation. The group's last full tweet came Monday afternoon and urged followers to "PLEASE LET THE PROCESS WORK."

But by Tuesday, photos of the canines continued to rocket across social media, along with claims they were abandoned working dogs, prompting the Pentagon to issue a denial.


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