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U.S.-based multinational financial institution JPMorgan Chase & Co. has announced it will lift its ban on hiring individuals due to their unvaccinated status against COVID-19. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg News, JPMorgan said it will also end mandatory testing for unvaccinated employees by April 4, and the company's mask mandate will become voluntary for both vaccinated and unvaccinated staff. JPMorgan’s memo also noted that the company’s New York City employees are still required to follow the city’s vaccination requirements. The mandate will be required unless the city lifts its vaccine order, according to Bloomberg News. “Across the U.S., as...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a career of great offensive nights, this was Kyrie Irving’s greatest. The Nets star’s mesmerizing 60 points were a career-high and a franchise record, while matching an NBA season-best. Those 60 points also led the Nets to their fourth consecutive win, a 150-108 rout of the Magic, as Irving was showered with cheers and serenaded with chants of “Kyrie! Kyrie!” from the Amway Center crowd of 15,282. The irony of the Magic crowd reveling in Irving’s magic while he still can’t play on his home court at Barclays Center wasn’t lost on the Nets. Now Irving...

A military medical officer testified in court last week that she was ordered by a superior not to discuss her findings regarding the DoD’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) during the hearing. DMED provides web-based access to active military personnel and medical event data. On March 10, Liberty Counsel, the law firm representing thirty members of the military who are fighting the military vaccine mandate, returned to federal court to defend the preliminary injunction Judge Steven Merryday granted two military plaintiffs that allowed them to skirt the military vaccine mandate. The Department of Defense (DoD) asked the judge to set...

Tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Wednesday he will not be competing in the Indian Wells Open or Miami Open, citing his unvaccinated status in face of rules by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on requiring vaccines for noncitizens to enter the United States.“While I was automatically listed in the [Indian Wells Open] and [Miami Open] draw I knew it would be unlikely I’d be able to travel,” he wrote. “The CDC has confirmed that regulations won’t be changing so I won’t be able to play in the US. Good luck to those playing in these great tournaments.”In...

Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) chief Francis Collins, who was also recently appointed as President Joe Biden’s new science advisor, expressed support for vaccine mandates, emphasizing that people’s employment should be threatened.Leaked audio obtained by The Daily Wire appeared to shatter Collins’ political neutrality, revealing that he not only had a deeply held conviction about the persuasive power of vaccine mandates but also had a particular dislike for former President Donald Trump. The audio originated from an Institute of Politics event on October 26 of last year, which was hosted by Christianity Today theologian Russell Moore at the University...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has an odd way of trying to lure tourists. At a Friday press conference in Times Square, the mayor made a direct call to travelers to return to the city – which he then declared was “so boring.” “It is time for us to enjoy our city again. All of these ‘nos, nos, nos.’ We’ve become a city of ‘nos.’ I want to become a city of excitement,” Adams said while announcing the citywide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for most indoor spaces would officially be lifted on Monday. So does that mean Adams didn’t ‘enjoy’...

A New Zealand high court has ended the government’s vaccine mandate, ruling that the order represented a “gross violation of human rights.” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was left reeling after the court determined that forcing New Zealanders to take vaccines is a breach of the Bill of Rights. The landmark ruling now means that the police and New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) cannot be fired for refusing to get vaccinated. Legal experts cheered the move, noting that the case will now be used to overthrow all of Ardern’s illegal mandates in New Zealand. Justice Francis Cooke ruled that ordering frontline...

On Monday the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Navy's request to reinstate the U.S. Navy's COVID-19 vaccine requirement. In November, dozens of U.S. Navy SEALs claimed they were wrongfully denied COVID vaccination exemptions on religious grounds. The suit, which lists 35 unnamed service members, argues that that the Defense Department's mandate violates their First Amendment rights. While the percentage of vaccinated active duty personnel in each service is at 95 percent or higher, the number of unvaccinated personnel is close to 30,000. The Navy itself has previously said that it has not granted an exemption to any...

In U.S. Navy Seals 1-26 v. Biden, (5th Cir., Feb. 28, 2022), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant the Navy a partial stay of an injunction issued by a Texas federal district court protecting 35 special warfare personnel who object on religious grounds to complying with the military's COVID vaccine mandate. The court said in part: Defendants have not demonstrated “paramount interests” that justify vaccinating these 35 Plaintiffs against COVID-19 in violation of their religious beliefs. They insist that “given the small units and remote locations in which special-operations forces typically operate, military commanders have determined...

resident Biden has declared victory over COVID. Congress should take him at his word and defund all of the vaccine and mask mandates now. Just two weeks ago, Congress received 25 million emails urging them to defund the vaccine mandates in the Continuing Resolution to fund the government. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to do the job by voting 46-47 against a Senator Mike Lee vaccine mandate defund amendment and 44–49 against a separate amendment to defund mask requirements by Senator Ted Cruz. The vaccine mandate defund amendment lost because four GOP Senators, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, James Inhofe and Richard...

"The Government continues to refuse to speak to protesters on the basis they are engaged in illegal activities, yet history shows Government engaged proactively with the Mongrel Mob and the Taliban. Today police moved to clear the streets around the main parliament lawn centre of the protest-indiscriminately using pepper spray in ways that are illegal, many dressed in riot gear." Convoy 2022 NZ Protest Groups News Release Wednesday 3/2/2022 The New Zealand Police began their "operation" to end the Freedom Camp protest near Parliament at 6 am Wednesday morning March 2nd, 12 Noon on March 1st in the Eastern US....

Do you remember the good old days when the leading pharmaceutical companies that were producing the vaccines were rushing through their clinical trials at the behest of the federal government and asking for emergency FDA approval of the vaccines for children ages five through twelve? And do you remember how any parents (including the ones who were vaccinated themselves) who were hesitant about having their young children get the shots until there was more data available were pilloried as being anti-vaxxers and “part of the problem?” Ah… good times. Sadly, a new study conducted in New York that measured the...

The sound of a helicopter overhead at the Freedom Camp in Wellington, New Zealand as police, protesters and the mainstream media mass in and around the barricades. As daylight Wednesday approaches police vans carrying reinforcements have been seen in the city. Plenty of rumours the suggestion that tear gas is about to be used. Sirens are being heard everywhere. The New Zealand Herald reports large groups of police in the hundreds marching in the streets..,.

"As tens of thousands marched across the nation on Saturday, and as the Parliament protest hits the three-week mark since the occupation began, many are asking when on earth will this end?> Protests are disruptive, and they're inconvenient to many. That's their very nature" The Freedom And Rights Coalition Media Release Monday 2/28/2022 As the protest continues in the capital city of Wellington with protest camps in other major cities and smaller communities across New Zealand a deadline was set for Tuesday morning at 10 am... Police Removed Shower Block in Wellington Camp Overnight That's what The New Zealand Herald...

The COVID mandate protests seem stronger and more entrenched than ever in New Zealand as Monday begins Down Under. COVID infection is spreading rapidly among the country's heavily vaccinated population hampering the ability of police and the government to suppress protest... 10000 plus people involved in COVID mandate protest this weekend in a country with a population of only five million 1/68 of the US population... The police did not mention that their blockade of the camp prevents the service truck from cleaning out the portable toilet in the camp. But "Kiwi Innovation" has come into play in Wellington a...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that a dramatic drop in coronavirus infections could lead to the lifting of vaccine mandates on restaurants, bars and theaters as soon as March 7. His announcement came shortly after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her own plans to lift the state's mask mandate on schools, effective Wednesday. "I'm happy to hear it, if we can get away with it scientifically because I think, boy, we've got to restart New York all the way," resident Tom Fountain told CBS2's Thalia Perez. Adams said the city would also lift the mask mandate on about...

Protests are planned Saturday across Australia with continuing opposition to vaccine passports, vaccine mandates and other restrictive and discriminatory COVID policies. The Freedom Camp or Freedom Village in New Zealand's capital Wellington is now approaching its third week anniversary... Saturday New Zealand Protests Nationwide Protests Call For COVID Mandates To End And video of the protest in Auckland, New Zealand the protesters used part of the Harbour Bridge and crossed it everything fine folks... Protesters in Auckland had a number of signs: End Mandates Stop Vax Apartheid No Discrimination... Swelling Protest Numbers In Wellington, Tensions With Police... The Australian Protests...

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s mandate for large private businesses to require workers to get vaccinated, the decision didn’t let federal workers off the hook.Now, members of the largest union representing federal workers are challenging the mandate in court, and the decision has the potential to put limits on when presidents can issue executive orders in the future.Under the umbrella of the 700,000-member American Federation of Government Employees, the following unions have filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2018, representing all union,...

"As riot police moved from Lambton Quay to a Bunny St. blockade, several officers barged into camping areas and pulled some children out, along with the adults caring for them" The New Zealand Herald Reports On A Police Operation To Stengthen Concrete Barricades At The Freedom Camp Protest In Wellington 2/24/2022... The Freedom And Rights Coalition plans 92 family-friendly protets across New Zealand with the police fearful of one on the Sky Harbor Bridge in Auckland the country's largest city proclaiming in advance the illegality of such a protest. The TFRC is associated with Brian Tamaki who is the founder...

In the popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the fictional authoritarian government begins its reign of terror by cutting off women's access to money and to the financial system generally. Monday night, Canada’s House of Commons voted to extend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s self-declared emergency powers and endorsed the use of such power in real life. The entirety of its government is now complicit in the demise of Canadian freedom. Beginning February 14, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) to suppress protests by Canadian...