Vaccine Mandates Decimating Police Forces Across U.S.
October 25th, 2021Via: The Daily Signal:
As crime rates surge, so are vaccine mandates — and resistance by police to those mandates.
That means major cities across the United States risk losing one-third or more of their police forces, hesitant about getting the COVID-19 shot.
In Chicago, more than 4,500 employees of the Chicago Police Department — about one-third of both officers and civilian employees — refused to disclose their vaccine status. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city’s Fraternal Order of Police are in a political standoff.
Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said last week, “It’s safe to say that the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50% or less for this weekend coming up.”
A real disruption also soon could hit Los Angeles, where the city’s vaccine mandate deadline is in December. Last month, employees of the Los Angeles Police Department filed a federal lawsuit opposing the city’s vaccine mandate.
Likewise, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told The Associated Press earlier this month, “I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5[%], 10% of my workforce overnight.” He added that he won’t enforce the county-level mandate.
“It’s impossible to know how long this potentially lasts. We could see extreme shortages,” Jason Johnson, a former deputy commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, now president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told The Daily Signal. “Are cities going to enforce this mandate? There is greater risk to public safety by enforcing the mandate than not enforcing the mandate.”
Scientists Have Found a Way to Harden Wood to Make a Knife That Rivals Steel
October 24th, 2021I find this fascinating, but the demonstration videos are so ridiculous that they could only come from a university laboratory. My middle son, who was nine years old at the time, fabricated more effective wooden knives, and if you’ve ever built anything with a hammer and nails, the following demonstration is hilarious and must see.
Via: CBC:
Scientists have developed a process that allows them to manipulate wood to make it denser and harder than the natural product. They used the resulting material to make items like wooden knives and nails that rival traditional steel.
Teng Li, a materials scientist and mechanical engineer from the University of Maryland, told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald that he and his colleagues made the wooden knife to demonstrate the new process they developed.
“Surprisingly, our wooden knife is actually three times sharper than the typical stainless steel dinner table knife,” he said. “It can achieve its purpose of cutting medium well-done steak very nicely without breaking.”
Their findings were published this month in the journal Matter.
Li added that the knife can be sharpened when it becomes dull, and even survive the dishwasher.
Drug Companies Don’t Fund The Media! Stop Asking
October 24th, 2021Via: Awaken with JP:
Biden Delays Release of Secret JFK Assassination Files
October 23rd, 2021Wait for it…
Via: Washington Examiner:
President Joe Biden ordered yet another delay in the release of secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy yet to see the light of day more than 50 years after his death.
A White House memo, signed by Biden, said “[t]emporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”
The order comes in response to the archivist of the United States recommending the president “temporarily certify the continued withholding of all of the information certified in 2018” and “direct two public releases of the information that has” ultimately “been determined to be appropriate for release to the public,” with one interim release on Dec. 15 and one more comprehensive release in late 2022, according to the memo.
Former President Donald Trump ordered in 2018 that documentation still under wraps stay redacted for national security reasons, with a deadline of Oct. 26, 2021. His administration said the decision was made at the behest of the intelligence community.
This time around, delays associated with the coronavirus pandemic were to blame for the recommendation to put off the release.
CDC Director: U.S. May Change Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” as Boosters Roll Out
October 22nd, 2021
Via: Axios:
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday the U.S. “may need to update” its definition for what it means to have full vaccination against COVID.
The big picture: The CDC and the FDA have officially approved boosters with every authorized vaccine in the U.S. for people who meet specific requirements. Walensky explained that since not everyone is eligible for a booster, the definition has not been changed “yet.”
NIH Admits Funding Gain-Of-Function COVID Experiments; Gives EcoHealth Five Days To Report Data
October 22nd, 2021Via: ZeroHedge:
A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that the US-funded so-called “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China – and that the US nonprofit which conducted it, EcoHealth Alliance – led by the controversial Peter Daszak, “failed to report” that they had created a chimeric bat coronavirus which could infect humans.
In a letter addressed to Rep. James Comer (R-KY), NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak cites a “limited experiment” to determine whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” According to the letter, humanized mice infected with the modified bat virus “became sicker” than those exposed to an unmodified version of the same bat coronavirus.
Daszak failed to report this finding, and has been given five days to submit “any and all unpublished data from the experiments and work conducted” under the NIH grant.
Shoplifters Steal $25,000 Worth of Merchandise Per Day From San Francisco Target, Company Closing Store
October 22nd, 2021A couple of weeks ago, I tried to buy a can of CRC LanoCote from my local Mitre10. It wasn’t on the shelf, so I asked one of the employees about it. He looked on the computer, “Says we have six in stock.” He went to the shelf with me to help me find it.
“Looks like they’ve been stolen.”
“Stolen?!” I asked.
“Yep, happens all the time with this stuff.”
Via: California Globe:
Now, in a Globe exclusive, San Francisco Police Department has revealed that the iconic Target on Mission Street between Third and Fourth Streets will be shutting its doors before the end of the year.
“This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.”
What Happens if the World’s Key Metal Exchange Has No Metal?
October 22nd, 2021Via: Bloomberg:
What happens when the London Metal Exchange runs out of metal? That’s the question the exchange is urgently trying to address for its flagship copper contract, which sets the global price for one of the world’s most important commodities.
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The problem stems from the LME’s physical nature: anyone holding a contract to expiry becomes the owner of a package of metal in an LME warehouse. On the other hand, anyone who has sold one must deliver the metal when the contract expires.
But with available copper inventories at LME warehouses falling below 20,000 tons — less than China’s factories consume in one day — traders are grappling with the possibility that there simply won’t be metal available to deliver.
81 Research Studies Confirm Natural Immunity to COVID ‘Equal’ or ‘Superior’ to Vaccine Immunity
October 21st, 2021Via: The Defender:
We should not force COVID vaccines on anyone when the evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity is equal to or more robust and superior to existing vaccines. Instead, we should respect the right of the bodily integrity of individuals to decide for themselves.
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This follow-up chart is the most updated and comprehensive library list of 81 of the highest-quality, complete, most robust scientific studies and evidence reports/position statements on natural immunity as compared to the COVID-19 vaccine-induced immunity and allows you to draw your own conclusion.
Nebraska AG Says Doctors Can Legally Prescribe Ivermectin, HCQ for COVID
October 21st, 2021Via: The Defender:
Few subjects have been more controversial than ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine — two long-established, inexpensive medications widely and successfully used in many parts of the world for the prevention and treatment of COVID.
By contrast, the use of both medications against COVID has been largely suppressed in the U.S, where doctors have been threatened and punished for prescribing them.
On Oct. 15, Nebraska Attorney General (AG) Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion that Nebraska healthcare providers can legally prescribe off-label medications like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID, so long as they obtain informed consent from the patient.
