Florida Gov. DeSantis: ‘We Chose Freedom Over Fauci-ism, and We’re Better Off for It’
Daily Signal – Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a blistering critique of President Joe Biden and his authoritarian policies, warning Americans they need to fight against the radical left to preserve our freedom.
Speaking to roughly 800 supporters of The Heritage Foundation and its grassroots partner, Heritage Action for America, DeSantis took aim at Biden’s recently announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
The emergency rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires employers with 100 or more employees to make sure that those workers get the COVID-19 vaccine or submit to weekly testing.
“If the federal government can get away with this, they’re going to be able to get away with a lot more,” DeSantis, a Republican, warned in his Thursday speech. “Next year, maybe it’s something you care about, or two years from now. It’s important that we take a stand, and it’s important that we say, ‘No, no mandates, no restrictions. We’re not going to let you take away our freedom.’”
Loudoun County Teenager Pleads No Contest to Second Assault, to Face Sentencing in December
Epoch Times – A teenager in one of Virginia’s most populous counties on Monday pleaded no contest to assaulting a girl in a school bathroom last month. The same teen in October was found guilty of sexually assaulting a different girl at a different high school in Loudoun County in May. The no contest plea means the boy did not challenge the charges, which were felony abduction and misdemeanor sexual battery. The 15-year-old admitted to abducting a girl from a hallway inside Broad Run High School in Ashburn and forcing her into an empty classroom, where he touched her chest area, authorities said. The Epoch Times was told the hearing was closed to the press. The boy, who has not been named publicly, was reportedly in ankle chains at the court hearing and will stay locked up until next month.
6 Teens Hospitalized After Shooting at Colorado Park: Police
Epoch Times – Six teenagers were hospitalized after several people were shot at a park near a high school in Aurora, Colorado, officials said. All were expected to survive. The victims, who range in age from 14 to 18, are all students at Aurora Central High School, Aurora police chief Vanessa Wilson said. Multiple rounds of different calibers were found at the scene, and it is possible some rounds were fired by someone on foot, she said. The suspects in the shooting were at large, she said. Three patients from the shooting were taken to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, a diverse city east of Denver. They were in stable condition and have all been reunited with their families, spokesperson Caitlin Jenney said. The shooting occurred on Nome Street and 12th Avenue, located just north of Aurora Central High School.
Hospital System That Operates in 19 States Blocked From Firing Workers Over Vaccine: Oklahoma AG
Epoch Times – Oklahoma was granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Ascension Healthcare from terminating employees who were denied religious exemptions from the firm’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor had filed for a restraining order against the company’s requirement. On the night of Nov. 12, a Tulsa district judge granted the request, according to the O’Connor’s office. “This evening, the Tulsa District Court granted the State’s Application for Temporary Restraining Order in our case to keep Ascension Healthcare from carrying out its plan to fire employees who were unfairly denied religious exemptions from their nationwide COVID-19 vaccination mandate,” the Republican attorney general said in a statement. “This is a win for religious freedom and our office will continue to fight against unlawful religious discrimination.” Some Ascension employees who worked during the pandemic, he said, sought a religious exemption to the vaccine but were unfairly denied.
Pentagon Says It Has Authority to Require Oklahoma National Guard to Follow Vaccine Mandate
Epoch Times – The Pentagon on Monday said it has the authority to require members of the National Guard to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the Oklahoma National Guard’s newly appointed commander refused to impose a vaccine mandate ordered by the Defense Department. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “has the authorities he needs to require this vaccine across the force, including the National Guard.” Kirby later added during a news briefing that it is “a lawful order for National Guardsmen to receive the COVID vaccine.” “It is a lawful order,” he repeated. “Refusing to do that, absent an approved exemption, puts them in the same potential [for punishment] as active-duty members who refuse the vaccine.” The Defense Department in September said that all uniformed personnel must be vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)
Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Employees to Sue for $1 Million Over Mandated Vaccines
Epoch TImes – A recently introduced Oklahoma Senate bill may allow employees of government and private entities to file lawsuits against their employers for as much as $1 million over health problems associated with vaccines or other forms of medical treatment. State Sen. Rob Standridge, a Republican, said in a statement that Oklahoma employees would be able to sue their employers over medical issues connected to operations or treatment as a condition for employment. “If an employee is required to receive the vaccine or some other medical treatment as a condition of employment and it causes that person harm, our citizens need to know they’ll have some recourse that will provide them with meaningful relief,” he said. “That’s what my legislation will do.”
Beto O’Rourke Enters Race for Texas Governor
Epoch Times – Beto O’Rourke announced his run for Texas governor Monday, targeting the incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott who is seeking a third term. “I’m running to serve the people of Texas, and I want to make sure that we have a governor that serves everyone, helps to bring this state together to do the really big things before us and get past the small, divisive politics and policies of Greg Abbott,” O’Rourke said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “It is time for change.” Once a congressman, O’Rourke caught national attention when he almost unseated Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2018, losing by only a three percent margin. O’Rourke entered the 2020 presidential race, but he withdrew the bid before the primaries began. In a video released Monday on his campaign website, O’Rourke criticized Abbott’s “extremist policies around abortion, or permitless carry, or even in our schools,”
Judge Dismisses Weapons Charge in Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
Epoch Times – Judge Bruce Schroeder on Monday morning dismissed a misdemeanor weapons charge against Kyle Rittenhouse before closing arguments are slated to begin in his homicide trial. Rittenhouse had faced a charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, which carries a fine of up to $10,000 and a nine-month jail term. The teen still faces five felony counts, and if he’s convicted on the most serious charge, could face life in prison. His attorneys argued that Wisconsin’s statute had an exception, involving the barrel length of the rifle or shotgun, that could be read to clear Rittenhouse of the weapons charge. Prosecutors conceded during Monday’s court proceeding that Rittenhouse’s rifle wasn’t short-barrelled. Schroeder then dismissed the charge. Earlier, the judge had dismissed the defense’s effort to toss the charge. But on Monday, Schroeder argued that the statute was poorly written “I have big problems with this statute
Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Surrenders to FBI, Later Released on Own Recognizance
Epoch Times – Former President Donald Trump adviser Steven Bannon surrendered to federal agents on charges of contempt of Congress on Nov. 15. The arraignment for Bannon on contempt to Congress charges was postponed until Nov. 18. He was released on his own recognizance ahead of the next hearing. For the time being, Bannon will have to live at his stated address, surrender his U.S. passport, not travel outside of Washington without notifying the court, and submit to other court-ordered requirements. When Bannon surrendered to federal law enforcement agents at an FBI field office in Washington, he was mobbed by members of the media. “We’re taking down the Biden regime,” he told reporters on the scene. “I want you guys to stay focused, stay on message. Remember signal, not noise. “I don’t want anybody to take your eye off the ball of what we do every day.”
COVID Jab Is Far More Dangerous Than Advertised
Mercola – According to a September 2021 analysis, based on conservative, best-case scenarios, the COVID shots have killed five times more seniors (65+) than the infection.
In younger people and children, the risk associated with the COVID shot, compared to the risk of COVID-19, is bound to be even more pronounced.
Data show higher vaccination rates do not translate into lower COVID-19 case rates.
The COVID shots are an epic failure. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports having more than 30,000 spontaneous reports of either hospitalizations and/or deaths among the fully vaccinated; data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sh
300,000 vaccinated CMS recipients have been hospitalized with breakthrough infections; 60% of seniors over age 65 hospitalized for COVID-19 have been vaccinated.
50% of reported deaths after COVID-19 “vaccination” occur within 24 hours; 80% occur within the first week. According to one report, 86% of deaths have no other explanation aside from a vaccine adverse event. A Scandinavian study concluded about 40% of post-jab deaths among seniors in assisted living homes are directly due to the injection.
Texas Lawmaker Leaves Democratic Party, Joins GOP
Epoch Times – Texas Rep. Ryan Guillen, a Democrat, announced Monday he’s joining the Republican Party. Guillen said he grew up among Democrats and has always been a Democrat lawmaker, but he felt it was time to change parties. “Many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C. are not our values, are not the values of most Texans, certainly not the values of South Texans. The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry, and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in south Texas,” he told a press conference in Floresville, near San Antonio. Guillen said he’s voted for years to protect the Second Amendment and unborn babies, and has long been against tax increases. He also wants the U.S.–Mexico border secured. “
Sharyl Attkisson: Vaccine Mandates Are the Ultimate Showdown
Mercola – In a “Full Measure” report, host and investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson described the unprecedented injection mandates that are dividing America.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order that would require executive branch federal employees and federal contractors to get a COVID-19 shot by December 8, 2021; with the deadline approaching, 11 U.S. states sued the federal government in order to block the mandate, calling it an unlawful, unconstitutional violation of federal procurement law.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called the mandate an “abuse of power” that would only worsen labor shortages and supply chain woes, further hindering economic recovery.
The mandates make no exceptions for people with natural immunity even though it’s been shown that natural immunity may protect you significantly better than an injection.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson stated there’s no logical rationale for the mandate since vaccinated individuals can still get infected and transmit the disease.
Pfizer’s revenue is up 134% from last year, and it expects to bring in $36 billion by the end of 2021, and that’s just for its COVID-19 shots; all in, the company is expecting 2021 revenue of between $81 billion and $82 billion
US Won’t Join Pacific Trade Partnership but Will Pursue New ‘More Robust’ Framework: Commerce Secretary
Epoch Times – Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told TV Tokyo in an interview on Nov. 15 that the United States will not join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) but will instead seek to form a separate, potentially “even more robust” economic framework. Raimondo told the outlet that while the CPTPP pact “is not something that America would be part of at this time,” she said the United States is looking to form a framework with Japan and other nations that “could be even more robust in some ways than the traditional free trade agreement,” as per Nikkei Asia. The Commerce Secretary made the remarks while on a trip to Japan, where she met with Japanese government and business leaders in Tokyo, with discussions focused on bilateral engagements, fostering ties between U.S. and Japanese private sectors, and increasing supply chain resiliency. “
Give black employees ‘day or two off’ after Rittenhouse verdict, activist says
RT – A liberal Portland, Oregon activist has prompted a discussion after asking employers to give a “day or two off” to black employees after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, regardless of the jury’s decision.
“Employers, consider giving your Black employees a day or two off after the Rittenhouse verdict,” Gregory McKelvey tweeted this week, adding that it was going to be “hard” for black employees to work and they shouldn’t be “expected to.”
‘Most vaccinated’ place on earth cancels Christmas
RT – Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, Gibraltar has canceled official Christmas events and “strongly” discouraged people from hosting private gatherings for four weeks. Gibraltar’s entire eligible population is vaccinated.
The government of Gibraltar recently announced that “official Christmas parties, official receptions and similar gatherings” have been canceled, and advised the public to avoid social events and parties for the next four weeks. Outdoor spaces are recommended over indoor ones, touching and hugging is discouraged, and mask wearing is advised.
School board to pay thousands of dollars sum to settle with anti-woke, Christian teacher
WND – The school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, has agreed to a permanent injunction and to pay $20,000 to settle claims brought by teacher Tanner Cross, who was punished by officials for expressing his Christian worldview in a public meeting.
An announcement Monday from Alliance Defending Freedom said the injunction permanently prohibits the Loudoun County School Board from retaliating against Cross for expressing “his constitutionally protected views on the board’s transgender policy.”
The agreement is a permanent resolution of protection obtained by Cross earlier when a county circuit court granted his request for preliminary relief against retaliation, which was affirmed by the state Supreme Court.
He had publicly objected at a public school-board meeting to then then-proposed Policy 8040, which forces teachers to violate their beliefs by requiring them to address “transgender and gender-expansive” students by their chosen pronouns rather than the ones consistent with their biological sex.
The board also agreed to remove any reference to the suspension it imposed on Cross from his personnel file and pay $20,000 toward legal fees.
The overall case, however, continues, as history teacher Monica Gill and English teacher Kim Wright were added as clients alongside Cross, and their claims against the board remain.
Big Pharma exec: COVID shots are ‘gene therapy’ … not vaccines!
WND – Many skeptics have contended that the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots are not “vaccines” but rather a form of gene therapy that poses untold risks by altering a recipient’s DNA.
The federal government and health-care experts have denied that claim. But the president of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division is on record describing the mRNA shots as “cell and gene therapy” and acknowledging public wariness of the technology.
Bayer executive Stefan Oelrich, LifeSiteNews reported, made the statement at the World Health Summit, which took place in Berlin Oct. 24-26, drawing 6,000 people from 120 countries.
Oelrich said his company is “really taking that leap” to drive innovation “in cell and gene therapies.”
“Ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy,” he said.
“I always like to say: If we had surveyed two years ago in the public – ‘would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?’ – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate,” Oelrich said.
UK Supermarkets Lining Store Shelves With “Decoys” To Hide Supply Shortage
Activist Post – It only took WSJ three weeks to catch up with us on a story we reported about supermarkets lining empty shelves with meaningless items to appear as full as possible.
WSJ reports UK shoppers have noticed supermarkets are using signs, moving products, and employed a whole suite of other tactics to create the illusion there are no physical gaps on shelves.
One example has been stacking crates of products, including sodas, beer, and other drinks, in front of empty shelves usually lined with prepackaged meals. Other boxes filled with chocolate candy have been stacked high to mask the reality fresh vegetables are out of stock.
Co-operative Group Limited, a British food retailer, stocked refrigerated displays with condiments to ensure customers wouldn’t see empty racks.
“We’ve been impacted by some patchy disruption to our deliveries,” a spokesperson for Co-op said. “Our teams are always trying to make sure our stores look as attractive as possible and sometimes managers come up with creative ways of making sure shelves are full.”
A combination of Brexit, supply chain woes, and the energy crisis in Europe has sparked product shortages as demand remains robust. In a recent poll, 17% of UK consumers said they couldn’t purchase essential food items, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
For grocers, fronting merchandise which means they’re bringing everything to the front to make the store look as packed as possible, is necessary to prevent a run. The psychological effect of empty shelves on the consumer creates panic buying – something grocers want to avoid. Other supermarkets have been lining shelves with cardboard “dummies,” including empty prepackaged sandwich boxes.
A second HIV patient may have been ‘cured’ of infection without stem cell treatment, in extremely rare case
CNN – Researchers say they have found a second patient whose body seemingly had rid itself of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS — supporting hope that it may be possible someday to find a way to cure more people of the virus.
The patient has received no regular treatment for her infection but is a rare “elite controller” of the virus who, eight years after she was first diagnosed, shows no signs of active infection and shows no signs of intact virus in her body, researchers reported Monday. This has only been reported once before.
The international team of scientists reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine that the patient, originally from the city of Esperanza, Argentina, showed no evidence of intact HIV in large numbers of her cells, suggesting that she may have naturally achieved what they describe as a “sterilizing cure” of HIV infection.
The 30-year-old woman in the new study is only the second patient who has been described as achieving this sterilizing cure without help from stem cell transplantation or other treatment. The other patient who has been described as achieving this was a 67-year-old woman named Loreen Willenberg.
“A sterilizing cure for HIV has previously only been observed in two patients who received a highly toxic bone marrow transplant. Our study shows that such a cure can also be reached during natural infection — in the absence of bone marrow transplants (or any type of treatment at all),” Dr. Xu Yu, of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, who was an author of the study, wrote in an email to CNN on Monday.
“Examples of such a cure that develops naturally suggest that current efforts to find a cure for HIV infection are not elusive, and that the prospects of getting to an ‘AIDS-free generation’ may ultimately be successful,” Yu wrote.
Yu, Dr. Natalia Laufer in Argentina, and their colleagues analyzed blood samples collected from the 30-year-old HIV patient between 2017 and 2020. She had a baby in March 2020, allowing scientists to collect placental tissue, as well.
Pfizer signs deal to allow broader global access to its Covid-19 antiviral pill
CNN – Pfizer said Tuesday it signed a licensing agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental Covid-19 pill.
The agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, a United Nations-backed public health organization, would allow generic manufacturers to make the pill widely available in 95 low- and middle-income countries covering 53% of the world’s population, the company said.
The pill, known as PF-07321332 or Paxlovid, is to be given in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir.
Earlier this month Pfizer announced topline results from its trial saying that an interim analysis — done before the trial was scheduled to end — showed an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death from Covid-19 among people given the drug within the first three days of symptom onset.
“Pfizer will not receive royalties on sales in low-income countries and will further waive royalties on sales in all countries covered by the agreement while COVID-19 remains classified as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization,” Pfizer said in the statement.
A Texas doctor who defended ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 and criticized vaccine mandates has been suspended
Business Insider – The Houston Methodist Hospital has suspended the privileges of Dr. Mary Bowden.
On Twitter, she repeatedly defended the antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.
Bowden is the latest doctor to face disciplinary measures after going against COVID-19 guidelines.
Kindergarten Students in Connecticut Learn about Being Transgender in Line with ‘Social Justice Standards’
Yahoo – Elementary school students in West Hartford, Conn. public schools are being forced to undergo “social emotional learning through an equity lens” as district officials have reportedly told parents they may not opt-out of the curriculum, which aims to teach students a set of “social justice standards.”
Parents from the district contacted the non-profit Parents Defending Education to share concerns over materials being used to teach elementary students about group identities, including transgender content being taught to kindergarten students.
One parent raised a red flag about When Aidan Became a Brother, a book being taught to fourth grade students that the parent described as “full on gender theory” which is teaching students that the sex you’re assigned at birth is “wrong.”
“When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl’s room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing,” the description of the book reads. “After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life.”
When Aidan’s parents announce they’re having a second child, Aidan “wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning” including choosing the best name and picking out the right decor and clothes. The book asks what “making things right” actually means.
Another fourth-grade mentor text is a book about pronouns called They She HE Me; Free to Be!
The lessons are supposed to teach students in kindergarten through fifth grade about social justice standards including identity, diversity, justice and action.
The “identity” standard includes texts that teach students about transgender people and the use of preferred pronouns, including the inclusive singular “they.”
A mentor text for kindergarten students is Introducing Teddy which tells the story about a character and his teddy, Thomas. Thomas says, “I’ve always known that I’m a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas.” Another text for the kindergarten age group is Let’s Talk About Race.
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