More Than Half of U.S. States Vow to Fight Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
September 15th, 2021Via: The Center Square:
Twenty-seven Republican governors or attorneys general have vowed to fight the latest executive order issued by President Joe Biden mandating that over 80 million private employees receive COVID vaccinations or undergo weekly testing, or their employer will be fined.
The executive order directs the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require private businesses with more than 100 employees mandate that their workers receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Noncompliance would result in fines of $14,000 per violation.
The governors who’ve expressed opposition include those from Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Related: NBA Won’t Impose Vaccine Requirement On Players After Union ‘Refused To Budge’
First Rivian R1T Pickup Bound for Customer Rolls Off Assembly Line
September 15th, 2021I’d like to see how it would hold up against WhistlinDiesel’s testing protocol *chortle*
Via: CNBC:
EV start-up Rivian is the first automaker to bring an electric pickup to the consumer market, beating Tesla, General Motors and others in what’s expected to be a hotly contested segment in the years ahead.
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on Tuesday tweeted that the company’s first R1T pickup for a customer drove off the assembly line in the morning at its plant in Normal, Illinois.
Tesla Cofounder JB Straubel Announces New 100 GWh Battery Material Factory in the U.S.
September 15th, 2021Via: Electrek:
The company describes the situation in a press release today:
Redwood will produce strategic battery materials in the US, supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials. We plan to transform the lithium-ion battery supply chain by offering large-scale sources of these domestic materials produced from as many recycled batteries as available and augmented with sustainably mined material. These two products re-use all of the lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt that we already recover from old batteries! These materials will be built from more and more recycled batteries every year but in the immediate future, we need to ramp EV production faster than the number of existing EVs will reach end of life and therefore, be available for recycling. This is the only way we can scale these critical building blocks to meet the US’s 2030 electrification goals.
To ramp up local production, Redwood announced today that they will build a new factory in North America to produce 100 GWh of cathode materials by 2025:
In order to achieve a sustainable energy and transportation future, we need to start now and expand our manufacturing base beyond what our current operations could support. By early 2022, Redwood will announce a site for our North American battery materials manufacturing facility and begin ramping production, aiming to produce 100 GWh/year of cathode active materials for one million electric vehicles by 2025. By 2030, we expect our production output to scale to 500 GWh/year of cathode active materials which would enable enough batteries to power five million electric vehicles or nearly half of the US’ annual vehicle production.
The company didn’t confirm where this new factory will be located apart from that it will be in North America.
Trump, Republicans Call Gen. Mark Milley ‘Treasonous’ for Calls with China
September 15th, 2021Via: USA Today:
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is facing outrage from lawmakers after a report that he assured China that the United States would not launch a nuclear strike in the last days of the Trump administration.
The bombshell revelations were reported in “Peril,” the latest book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodard. Woodward writes that in a pair of calls in 2020, Milley twice assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have called the move treasonous, accusing Milley of subverting the military chain-of-command calling for consequences.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., accused Milley of “treasonous” and “reckless behavior” and urged President Joe Biden to fire the top general.
“It is a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others. It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military,” Rubio wrote in an open letter to Biden.
Why Were Four Friends Killed and Left in a Wisconsin Cornfield?
September 15th, 2021Via: Mercury News:
Why did four friends from the Twin Cities lose their lives to gun violence with their bodies discovered in an abandoned vehicle in a cornfield in western Wisconsin?
“That is the mystery,” said Damone Presley Sr., whose daughter, Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, was killed. “Hopefully, through the investigation we’ll get that answered.”
Flug-Presley, 30, of Stillwater, was with her lifelong friend Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, of St. Paul. One of the men found dead in the vehicle, Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26, of St. Paul, was Sturm’s brother, Presley said. Loyace Foreman III, 35, of St. Paul, was Sturm’s boyfriend.
They had been at a bar in St. Paul on Saturday night. A farmer found the black SUV about 65 miles to the east in Dunn County, Wis., on Sunday.
Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said authorities believe they died less than 24 hours from the time they were found. He said there was no known connection between Dunn County and the four.
Former Pentagon UFO Official Luis Elizondo to Reveal “Shocking Details” in New Book
September 14th, 2021Tell us another one, Lue.
Via: The Hollywood Reporter:
The former head of the U.S. government’s secretive UFO program will pen a book for HarperCollins that includes “profound implications for humanity.”
Hot Mic Catches Israeli Health Minister Admitting Vaccine Passports Are About Coercion
September 13th, 2021Via: Summit News:
Unaware that he was on a hot mic and being broadcast live on a TV station, Israeli health minister Nitzan Horowitz admitted that vaccine passports were primarily about coercing skeptical people to get the vaccine.
“Imposing “green pass” rules on certain venues is needed only to pressure members of the public to get vaccinated, and not for medical reasons, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said on Sunday, ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting,” reports Jewish News Syndicate.
Michigan Health Care System Says Workers With Natural Immunity Don’t Need Vaccine
September 13th, 2021Is sanity starting to be allowed again?
Via: ZeroHedge:
Late last month, we first reported on a groundbreaking new study that appeared to “end the debate” on the subject of natural vs. vaccine-induced immunity. The study found that, when it comes to preventing serious infection with the delta variant, natural infection with a prior strain of COVID was as much as 13x more effective at preventing future infection than being fully vaccinated.
Though the research was initially ignored by the American medical establishment, on Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked during an interview with CNN how he would explain this to somebody who had been previously infected and is now reluctant to get the vaccine.
Dr. Fauci’s response: “I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that.”
Well, if he doesn’t have a good justification, then he’s going to have to find one soon. Because as the Biden Administration ups the pressure on employers to force their workers to choose between their jobs and the vaccine, Spectrum Health, an extensive hospital system in Western Michigan, has just declared that prior employees (including nurses, doctors, etc.) won’t be required to get the vaccine if they have already been infected.
The decision, which was made by the hospital system’s medical exemption committee, was first reported by the Detroit News. Individuals with a positive PCR or antigen test plus a positive antibody test from within the past thre emonths can claim the exemption.
UK: Plans for COVID “Vaccine” Passports Scrapped
September 12th, 2021Hmm…
Via: The Sun:
PLANS to introduce Covid vaccine passports have been SCRAPPED as Sajid Javid confirms people won’t need them to get into nightclubs and cinemas.
The Health Secretary revealed this morning that Covid jab passports won’t be introduced as a measure to fight the virus as we enter the winter months.
Transport Noise Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia
September 12th, 2021Via: Guardian:
Exposure to noise from road traffic and railways is associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.
Research has consistently linked transport noise to health conditions including heart disease, diabetes and obesity, but studies on transport noise and dementia were scarce and small, and findings inconsistent.
Now an “impressive” study involving two million adults, conducted over more than a decade, has concluded that people living in areas with transport noise face a higher risk of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in the BMJ.
