Today's News: November 15, 2021

US reveals scale of ammunition shipments to Ukraine

RT – Washington has handed over 80 tons of ammunition to Ukraine’s armed forces as part of the latest in a series of deliveries under the terms of a multimillion-dollar ‘security assistance’ package brokered by US President Joe Biden.

The load arrived on Sunday, according to the American embassy in Kiev. Praising the handover of the munitions, diplomats took to Twitter to proclaim that “it is a demonstration of US commitment to the success of a stable, democratic and free Ukraine”.

According to the officials, “this was the fourth delivery within the framework of additional security assistance in the amount of $60 million [€52.4 million], which President Biden” granted to Kiev in August. The budget is reserved for weaponry and services provided by the US Department of Defense, as well as military education and training.

FBI raids on Project Veritas ‘could have serious consequences’

RT – The Justice Department’s recent raids on Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and multiple associates “could have serious consequences for press freedom,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has warned.

The ACLU addressed the O’Keefe situation on Sunday, criticizing both the Justice Department and the conservative outlet.

“Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all,” the organization wrote in their statement.

O’Keefe’s New York home, as well as those of multiple other current and former members of Project Veritas, were raided by the FBI last week. The raids were reportedly part of an investigation into a diary allegedly stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley and published shortly before the 2020 presidential election. The alleged diary contained details about drug abuse and other sordid information, though it has not been confirmed as authentic. Project Veritas was not the outlet to actually publish the diary and they turned it over to authorities.

In its comments, the ACLU said that unless the government has “good reason” to believe Veritas was behind any actual theft of material, “it should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures.”

First Amendment activists have blasted the FBI raids and the confiscation of journalists’ documents. A judge ordered a halt to the extraction of data from O’Keefe’s devices this week, pending a hearing on appointing a “special master” to oversee authorities’ actions in extracting data, to make sure they are only focused on information relevant to a criminal investigation.

Apple Making Taxpayers Pay for Rollout of Digital ID Card in Some States

Activist Post – Apple is making U.S. states foot part of the bill and provide customer support for its plan to turn iPhones into digital identification cards, according to confidential documents obtained by CNBC.

The company requires states to maintain the systems needed to issue and service credentials, hire project managers to respond to Apple inquiries, prominently market the new feature and push for its adoption with other government agencies, all at taxpayer expense, according to contracts signed by four states.

Apple announced in June that its users could soon store state-issued identification cards in the iPhone’s Wallet app, billing it as a more secure and convenient way for customers to provide credentials in a variety of in-person and remote settings. The feature, when combined with Apple’s biometric security measures like Face ID, could cut down on fraud.

Austria Orders Lockdown For The Unvaxx’d, Directs Police To Carry Out Spot-Checks

Activist Post – Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Sunday announced the country is placing millions of people who aren’t fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on lockdown starting Monday.

About 65 percent of the Central European nation’s population is vaccinated, according to government data. Under the measures revealed on Sunday, unvaccinated people are ordered to stay at home except for limited reasons.

The rules, the government said, will be enforced by police officers who will be out on the streets carrying out spot-checks on people who are in public. Unvaccinated people are already excluded from entertainment venues, bars, restaurants, and similar venues and businesses

“We are not taking this step lightly but it is necessary,” Schallenberg told a news conference announcing the new measures.

Schallenberg admitted that the government essentially “told one-third of the population: you will not leave your apartment any more apart from for certain reasons. That is a massive reduction in contacts between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.”

Judge Dismisses Weapons Charge Against Kyle Rittenhouse

Breitbart – Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled in favor of the defense’s request to have a firearms charge against Kyle Rittenhouse dismissed in Kenosha County Court on Monday morning.

On Friday, as Breitbart News reported, Judge Scroeder appeared skeptical of the weapons charge, saying that the Wisconsin statue was unclear about exceptions for those over 16 years old but under 18 years old if the gun were a long-barreled rifle.

However, the judge did not throw out the charge, partly because he could not remember whether the length of the rifle Rittenhouse used had been introduced into evidence.

On Monday, as lawyers for the prosecution and the defense argued over the final draft of the jury instructions, the defense again raised the issue of the weapons charge, noting that the gun had been measured in court and that the police detective on the witness stand had confirmed that it was not short-barreled.

Biden Gang Now Worried About the Border – The Border Between Russia and Ukraine

Gateway Pundit – FOX News reported over the weekend:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that Russia amassed nearly 100,000 troops near his country’s border as concerns over an invasion continue to mount.

Zelenskyy said that the action made it clear to the world “who really wants peace and who is concentrating nearly 100,000 soldiers at our border” during a video speech broadcast Wednesday on his website.

Russia has dismissed any suggestions of an attack as inflammatory, instead complaining about increased activity by NATO in the region, Reuters reported.

American officials consulted European allies on the situation, warning that Russia could attempt to invade the country in the near future.

This no doubt is of concern to Biden since his son was on the board of a Ukrainian oil company Burisma. Joe was worried about that relationship when he was Vice President. He was so concerned about a prosecutor investigating Burisma when Hunter Biden was on the board, that he threatened Ukraine and demanded they remove the prosecutor before Biden would allow $1 billion in aid to Ukraine. Biden later bragged about this criminal and corrupt action.

NULLIFICATION: Florida could withdraw from OSHA oversight due to overreaching COVID vaccine mandate

NaturalNews – The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is mulling over ways to sidestep the Joe Biden regime’s illegal Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine mandates.

One idea being thrown around is to withdraw the state from all oversight of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which has been tasked with enforcing the jab edicts.

“If the Department of Labor and OSHA are going to be weaponized as a way to hold hostage businesses throughout the state of Florida, no problem,” announced state House speaker Chris Sprowls during a recent press conference.

“We want a different plan.”

A special state congressional session has been set next week through November 19 to discuss the state’s options.

“We want out of OSHA,” Sprowls added. “We’ll submit our own regulatory authority and say goodbye to the federal government.”

In a separate prepared statement, Senate President Wilton Simpson added that the Biden rule is a joke that decimates everything for which OSHA supposedly stands as an agency.

“After 40 years in the private sector running businesses that depend on an in-person workforce, where significant safety risks have to be mitigated, I am shocked to see such an unconstitutional mockery of the important role of OSHA,” Simpson said.

John Deere dealerships unable to get tractor parts due to United Auto Workers’ ongoing strike

NaturalNews- A United Auto Workers (UAW) strike is causing delays for the delivery of tractor parts to John Deere dealerships all across America.

Replacement tractor parts are already hard to come by due to plandemic supply chain failures, and now this comes along to make matters worse.

More than 10,000 UAW members are refusing to work because John Deere does not want to pay them a higher wage, despite strong earnings. Upwards of 90 percent of union workers rejected a smaller offer from the company.

“It seems general membership feels emboldened by this current political movement of labor power,” told Victor Chen, a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, to CBS News.

“They’re pushing things further than the union leadership apparently wants to go. It’s a gamble, but the economic wind is against their backs, given widespread supply chain problems and the current worker shortage.”

As a result of all this, it is taking weeks rather than days to fulfill parts orders. And these parts orders are needed to pull in the harvest ahead of the coming winter cold.

Louisiana Court Temporarily Blocks Healthcare Vaccine Mandate

Newsmax – A Louisiana court is temporarily blocking a healthcare company from firing employees for being unvaccinated, NOLA.com reported Friday.

A three-judge panel in the state’s 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ochsner Health cannot impose the Oct. 29 deadline for employees receiving the COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs.

The ruling places a restraining order on the vaccine mandate until employee plaintiffs can get a hearing, according to the report.

“To get a temporary restraining order, you must convince the court when you file something that you have a substantial likelihood of success,” attorney for the healthcare staffers Jimmy Faircloth told NOLA.com. “This very important issue is a resounding wake-up call to all the employers in the state that have been hoodwinked into believing that you can do this.”

Still, Tulane Law School professor and attorney Joel Friedman told NOLA.com this ruling “just postpones the inevitable.”

“There’s no violation of any right to privacy here because the government has a compelling interest to require vaccinations under the circumstances to promote public health,” Friedman said.

“They want the judge to actually rule on the merits and give these people at least the hearings.”

Beto O’Rourke Announces Run for Texas Governor, Testing Democrats’ Strength

Mr. O’Rourke’s announcement on Monday sets the stage for a pitched political showdown over the future of the country’s largest Republican-led state.