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Employees of the San Antonio Independent School District are not required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment after the Texas Supreme Court intervened on Thursday. No employees can be fired for not receiving the vaccine, and in the event anyone is fired, the Texas Attorney General’s office says they should call the office and let the AG’s staff know. The Texas Supreme Court issued a temporary stay, halting enforcement of San Antonio ISD’s mandate requiring that all employees receive both COVID-19 doses by Friday (Oct. 15). “No local entity is above state law,” Attorney General Ken...

Untold thousands of teachers, health care workers, first responders, airline workers and others have already resigned or been fired as a result vaccine mandates. Others are resisting in a public way. According to the New York Post, Chicago's police union has instructed members not to comply with mandates to fill out information on their vaccine status as part of a mandate or be put on unpaid leave. According to the New York Post: Chicago has the nation’s second-largest police department, consisting of about 13,000 cops, many of whom would not comply with the mandate, Catanzara [police union leader] threatened in...

“PLEASE PRAY FOR US!! WE ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE”. 16 AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR CHILDREN, PLUS A CANADIAN CITIZEN, ARE KIDNAPPED BY ARMED GANG MEMBERS IN HAITI AS ABDUCTEE SENDS A SECRET WHATSAPP MESSAGE DURING ABDUCTION. A group of Christian missionaries and their family members were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. The missionaries were abducted from a bus headed to the airport to drop off some members of the group before continuing to another destination in Haiti, a report by the New York Times stated, citing security officials from the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation. The...

A man who was 13 when he killed a four-year-old boy has been granted parole. Eric M Smith was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994, and jailed for nine years to life. A year earlier, he had lured Derrick Robie into the woods and struck him on the head with a rock in the New York village of Savona. Smith first became eligible for parole in 2002, but Derrick's parents Dale and Doreen Robie opposed each of his 11 attempts. On 5 October, he was successful and has been told he will be released as early as 17 November, the...

Justin Trudeau’s Communist crusade to destroy Canada from within. Greg Reese reports. Report...

DC Comics has ditched the mention of 'The American Way' from Superman's motto in favor of the superhero fighting for a 'better tomorrow.' The 83-year-old character's longstanding adage used to be 'Truth, Justice and the American Way'. But the publisher said that his new mission statement will be 'Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.' DC did not specifically address why they had ditched America from the slogan, but instead maintained that they were focused on 'evolving.' 'To better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman's incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a...

An “expert” whose work on cybersecurity has been cited by the NY Times and the Washington Post announced on Twitter that the unvaccinated should be denied life-saving hospital treatment because they are “not fit for life on earth.” Chris Vickery, who describes himself as a “data breach hunter” also brags about how his “findings have contributed to investigations conducted by the FTC, FBI, SEC, Secret Service, HHS, SSCI, and more.” During an unhinged Twitter rant, Vickery asserted that a time limit of December 1st should be put on people refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. “Set a date now. After...

I had no idea my organization is considered a federal contractor but apparently it is. Anyways, we have not be given any procedure to submit our religious or medical exemptions as of now. Time is ticking. Can any federal contractors share their stories? No need to say where you work. Thanks!

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg predicted on Sunday that supply chain issues facing the US will continue into 2022, but stressed that Congress potentially passing President Joe Biden's infrastructure proposal is the best way to help alleviate those problems. "Certainly a lot of the challenges that we've been experiencing this year will continue into next year. But there are both short-term and long-term steps that we can take to do something about it," Buttigieg told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "Look, part of what's happening isn't just the supply side, it's the demand side. Demand is off the...

Avi Loeb, bestselling author and the former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, penned an op-ed in Scientific American this week positing that the universe could have been formed in a lab by an “advanced technological civilization.”….

On Oct. 7, residents of Baldwin Cottage received an email from Josh Matos, the area coordinator for Multicultural and Identity-Based Communities. “I am reaching out to you to give you an update on the radiator project,” Matos wrote. “Starting tomorrow (Friday, 10/8) the contractors will be entering rooms between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. to install the radiators. This will mean that they will be in your room for a period of time to complete the work.” I had not been contacted about any sort of radiator installation before this email, so right away the word “update” stood out to...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Oct. 16. The city is filled to-night with a story brought here by Paymaster DAVIS, from Harper's Ferry. According to his statement, the rebels, some three thousand strong, attacked a body of our troops under Major GOULD, who were at Bolivar, a suburb of Harper's Ferry. They had been over the river for some time gathering wheat and foraging through the country. According to his report, the rebels were three times repulsed by our troops, consisting of Col. GEARY's Regiment and six companies of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment. The Paymaster gathered up his money and started for this...

Here’s some more bad news for President Joe Biden, whose administration insists everyone loves his multitrillion-dollar partisan social benefits and climate spending bills. A mere 25% of the public believes it will be “better off” if Biden’s $3.5 trillion social spending plan becomes law, according to polling data released this week by CNN . This is compared to the 32% of respondents who believe they would actually be worse off if the bills passed.

One should see both articles for the picture. Sep 23, 2021: 99.7% of Waterford adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19Summary: celebration and usual claims that it is mostly unvaccinated that get covid now. Oct 15, 2021: Waterford City South has highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in IrelandWaterford City South currently has the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in Ireland, according to the latest figures. The number of cases in the local electoral area between September 28th and October 11th was 281. The incidence rate per 100,000 people in the area is currently 1,250 - three times the national average, and equating...

A jury on Thursday found a Virginia man, accused of shooting his next-door neighbor, guilty of first-degree murder. Michael Hetle, a 52-year-old former police officer and NASA executive, shot 24-year-old Javon Prather seven times, a video of which was caught by a Ring doorbell camera, local news outlet WTOP reported. Hetle and Prather had feuded for years, arguing over mundane things like dog poop and loud music, according to local news outlets. Since 2016, Hetle has called the police to complain about barking dog noises coming from Prather's house, WTOP said. Before the jury, Hetle's attorney argued that he acted...

On this date in 1271, the Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren was taken away to be executed by his political foes … only to find them spooked off completing their mission by terrifying heavenly signs. He’s the founder of the still-extant school of Nichiren Buddhism, his name concatenating the words for Sun (Nichi) and Lotus (Ren) — for he centered his philosophy on the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren (English Wikipedia entry | Japanese) was a major, and controversial, teacher in the mid-13th century: attributing a series of devastating natural disasters in the 1250s to the enervated spiritual condition of the populace owing...

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Rising consumer price inflation is not going away. This, of course, is counter to the “transitory” argument made by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell earlier this year. Powell’s cohort, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, recently admitted inflation is not transitory. This admission comes with assurances the Fed will properly manage it. We have some reservations. The effects of rising consumer prices range far and wide. For one, the pinch rising prices put on consumers is extraordinarily disruptive. It acts like a hefty tax…eroding family budgets that are already stretched. In this ongoing stagflation, personal income gains lag far behind rising...

The global supply chain is in complete tatters. Tens of thousands of items and services are in short supply or can’t be found at all. This is leading to higher prices, a/k/a cost-push inflation, and a general decrease in the purchasing power of all fiat currencies, be it the US Dollar, the Japanese Yen or the Euro. The choice of items to include here could fill volumes. We picked things that often appear very obscure, such as ketchup or pallets and yet are staples of modern life. Pallets Wooden shipping pallets are required to transport almost anything imaginable including: paper...