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General Electric Suspends Vaccine Requirement After Supreme Court RulingGeneral Electric, one of America’s largest employers, announced on Friday that it has suspended its coronavirus vaccine or test requirement for its employees after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses this week. “The maker of jet engines, wind turbines and medical scanners confirmed the decision Friday via email,” Bloomberg News reported. “GE is the first major company to announce a halt after the court’s decision Thursday to block the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s push to boost Covid-19 vaccinations.”

The latest official Public Health data suggests that the Omicron Covid-19 variant is no worse than the common cold among the unvaccinated population but seems to be affecting the triple vaccinated population much more severely with the latest figures confirming that the vaccinated population have accounted for 8 in every 10 cases, 7 in every 10 hospitalisations, and 8 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths since the 20th November 2021 despite the booster jab campaign.Public Health Scotland (PHS) publish a weekly Covid-19 statistical report containing figures on Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status.On the 22nd December PHS published the...

Senior journalist Kamaal Khan died after suffering a massive heart attack on Friday. He breathed his last at his Butler Colony residence in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow. Khan was 61. A recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award, and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Award, Khan was working as Executive Editor with leading news channel NDTV. "Today, a devastating, irreplaceable loss for the NDTV family, the heart of our Lucknow bureau, veteran journalist Kamal Khan died unexpectedly this morning. Kamal's reportage over the last decades stood out for its perceptiveness, integrity & the way he delivered hard truths with poetic dexterity. Most of all,...

A pilot shortage has led Delta Air Lines Inc. and American Airlines Group to slash regional flights around the country, prolonging travel pains that first emerged during Christmas Eve. Bloomberg reports Delta will slash a quarter of its flights through the first half of this year. American is expected to drop 580 March flights at its wholly-owned Piedmont Airlines and a number of flights at its regional partners SkyWest Inc. and Mesa Air Group Inc.The shortage is not just because pilots call out sick for COVID-19 as the omicron variant spreads rapidly. There is a lingering pandemic effect of thousands...

For the first time, New South Wales (NSW) has seen more fully vaccinated patients hospitalised with COVID-19 compared to the number of unvaccinated patients as the Omicron outbreak continues to edge toward its peak.Data published by the NSW government’s COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit has revealed that as of Jan. 9, 68.9 percent of COVID-19 patients aged 12 and over in hospitals had two doses of the vaccine, with 28.8 percent unvaccinated.The number of double-dose vaccinated patients in intensive care units (ICUs) also surpassed those of the unvaccinated, with 50.3 percent of the vaccinated presenting to ICU with COVID-19, more than...

According to reports, some women in Scotland have had their NHS IVF treatment delayed because they are unvaccinated.Professor Sir Gregor Smith, Scotland’s chief medical officer, advised that from the 7th of January fertility treatment would be deferred for the unvaccinated.Smith wrote: “Following clinical concerns raised by the lead Clinicians in the NHS Assisted Conception Units in Scotland, consideration of the evidence of increased levels of morbidity and risk of severe illness amongst unvaccinated pregnant women… I recommend a temporary deferral of fertility treatment for patients who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19.“We are now seeing an exponential rise in cases...

The Marine Corps is the first U.S. military branch to grant religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, nearly two months after the vaccination deadline for active-duty Marines.The Marines approved two requests for religious accommodation from the mandate, the branch said in a statement on Thursday.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the mandate in August 2021, but every branch had resisted granting religious accommodations, sparking lawsuits and allegations that the military was violating federal law by discriminating against religious troops.The lack of approvals prompted a federal judge earlier this month to block the mandate for a group of Navy personnel,...

Maine health care workers opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take the same position a Texas federal court recently took on the Department of Defense’s obligation to approve religious exemptions for active duty veterans.In a brief filed on Jan. 11 on behalf of 2,000 health workers in the Pine Tree state, the national civil liberties organization Liberty Counsel argued that it is discriminatory for hospitals to grant medical exemptions, but not religious ones, to health care workers opposed to taking the COVID jab. “The folks that are getting medical exemptions comparably pose the...

Health departments in several states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they are looking into a steep surge in the mortality rate for people aged 18 to 49 in 2021—a majority of which are not linked to COVID-19.Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 compared to the same period in 2018–2019, before the pandemic, according to an analysis by The Epoch Times of death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The agency doesn’t yet have full 2021 figures, as death certificate data has a...

Denying natural immunity in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) vaccine mandates is “unprecedented in modern history,” a prominent public health expert said.Dr. Scott Atlas, a former White House COVID-19 Task Force adviser during the Trump administration, made the remarks after the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decide to uphold the CMS vaccine mandates in a Thursday ruling.He told The Epoch Times that the ruling is “another serious denial of scientific fact” specifically mentioning the denial of natural immunity in CMS vaccine mandates.“Our continued denial of superior protection in recovered individuals, with or without vaccination, compared to vaccinated individuals...

A ground-breaking scientific study has found that countries recording the fewest COVID-19 deaths in 2020 before vaccinations, experienced “hundreds or thousands of percentage increases in total deaths” after COVID-19 vaccinations were introduced.The study conducted by K. Beattie, of the University of Alberta, found that 89.84% of the 145 countries experienced a negative impact after COVID-19 vaccinations were made available.This led to the conclusion that “The statistically significant and overwhelmingly positive causal impact after vaccine deployment [..] on the total deaths and total cases per million should be highly worrisome for policymakers (source).Interestingly, it has been said that this study was...

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A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the controversial absentee ballot drop boxes widely used in the 2020 election are not allowed under state law; a decision that could dramatically impact voting in the swing state’s midterm elections — not to mention the 2024 presidential election — if the judge’s ruling stands.As reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren, after hearing three hours of arguments, determined state law allows absentee ballots to be returned in person or by mail — but not in a ballot drop box.🚨BREAKING: A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the absentee...

August 14, 1936 Rainey Bethea, executed August 14, 1936 at Owensboro, Kentucky, was the last public execution in America. He was publicly hanged for rape on August 14, 1936 in a parking lot in Owensboro, Kentucky (to avoid damage to the courthouse lawn by thousands of people who were expected to attend).

Several years ago, there was a war in Big Ice Cream. Some manufacturers were selling a product that carried the label of ice cream, but according to some others within the industry, did not rise to the standard and definition of ice cream. This led to an unfair advantage for some, who used cheap ingredients to circumvent the cost of those expensive things like cream. After much discussion, the FDA (yes, that FDA) issued a rule which defined what Ice Cream was and what could carry the name on the label, and what was later defined as “frozen dairy dessert.”...

Thanks to the United States Supreme Court’s epic hit, Dementia Joe’s OSHA vaccine mandate has been struck down. But even as far back as December, the handwriting was on the wall. After the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the preliminary injunction on the OSHA mandate back in November, companies like General Electric and Union Pacific decided to put a pause on their push to force-vaccinate employees. Others have since followed suit.From NBC News:A growing number of health care systems and other companies, including Amtrak and General Electric, are suspending mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19.The move...

A former White House adviser to former President Obama pled guilty to wire fraud on Friday in connection to an alleged scheme to steal $218,000 from a school network that he helped create. “Seth Andrew, a former White House advisor, admitted today to devising a scheme to steal from the very same schools he helped create," Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "Andrew now faces time in federal prison for abusing his position and robbing those he promised to help.”

The powerful American nuclear submarine of the Virginia class named USS New Mexico has approached Russia’s territorial waters. USS New Mexico is a powerful US nuclear submarine carrying Tomahawk cruise missiles that has been discovered in northern Norway and is believed to be on its way to Russia’s territorial waters The purpose of the appearance of this nuclear submarine is not clear yet, but analysts say it is related to negotiations between the US and Russia on Ukraine. It is not excluded that Russia will send anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft to “monitor” US nuclear submarines when they approach their territorial waters....

PASSAIC, N.J. — A fire at a New Jersey chemical plant with flames and smoke visible for miles in the night sky Friday has spread to multiple buildings, threatening to reach the plant’s chemical storage area, authorities said. Passaic Mayor Hector Lora told Northjersey.com that popping and small explosions within the fire at Qualco Inc. indicated it was getting closer to the chemicals, as residents were being evacuated from surrounding areas and told to keep their windows closed in at least one nearby municipality.

Former Oathkeeper John D. Shirley joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the reasons why he left the organization ahead of the January 6th, 2021, protest on Capitol Hill Segment...